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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1913
Page
8
The Central Congregational church in Bath closes for August. Reports include social dances in Twezsi Hall Woolwich and a Kennebec Yacht Club social benefit. Also notes on steamboat activity, tug boiler work, and local youth events.
Mr Butler returned home after a week in Washington. Mrs John E Robinson is critically ill at home. Adams, once a Maine resident, now a Colorado Nebraska rancher, is building a cottage on the old parsonage site. The Willing Workers plan a supper and sale in Grange Hall on August 14. A Mission Band will organize Friday afternoon August 4. Rails day is anticipated for August 17 with church services and Bible School. Rev H Cain preaches August 3 at 3:45, with Miss Alice May Douglas to speak at 8. A mid week prayer service and choir practice are planned. Central Dow reports “Number Please.” Camp Boothbay team recently played local nine. Orphanage Home reports several Mumps cases. A “Keep Off” sign stands on the Meecel. W G Small buys Farnsworth from M G Shaw Lumber Co. and will add a third in a river fleet, with Capt A H Hogan in command.
Georgetown defeated Five Islands 18 to 1 as Cummings pitched and Stewart, Percy, and Quincey starred in a lopsided win. The York area recap notes the Bangor steamboat tale as a historical aside linking Boston and Maine sailing days with a Turkish Navy stint.
The speed boat Black Fox owned by E. J. Stewart of Boston backfired near Long Island while returning from Arrowsic, forcing Stewart and his son Theodore to swim to shore. They were saved by Miss Rogers of Auburn who witnessed the incident from a Long Island cottage. A sewer contract from Washington Street to the river was awarded to John E. Palmer of Boston, bond posted for 2660, to be completed by October 1. Bath Iron Works laid the keel of the torpedo boat destroyer McDougal.
Local items in Riggsville report W Nutter finishing chores for Moses Rows on the Wilton Campbell farm last Saturday. Annie Nutter visited Addie Lowert. Miss Stella Colby returned from two pleasant weeks with Miss Jessie Eaton in Lynn. many neighbors attend to haying and carpentry tasks across several farms. A flood of postal prayer cards prompts admonitions to trash them. a picnic for Military and Naval Asylum children at Lake Grove Auburn is noted, plus Maryland Governor Goldsborough plans a November 4 U S Senate election, the first under the popular vote provision.
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