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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1937
Page
8
Bath Daily Times column recalls Bath residents and visitors in July 1907 including John Place at Maranacook, Miss Exeile clerking for Dr Percy, Mamie Duffy visiting Bangor, commerce clerk McGrath in Gardiner, Diversi to Concord, Pranks bicycle, and local trades like P J Parks leases. Reports note a Brunswick cotton mill strike, a gold hunting case watch found, and Bath figures at Five Islands, Popham Beach, and Squirrel Island.
July 30, 1897 Eugene Snow and son Carl and Al bert Carr return from a two weeks fishing along the coast. Sam Wakefield Harry Skinner Misses Chellie and Fannie Wakefield Clara Williams Mabel Howland and Alice Blassand camping at Camp Lone Goose Montsweag Bay. Telegram from Saranac Lake N Y reports the death of Mrs Hattie B wife of Charles W Morse.
Mrs Rufus Crockett is critically ill Harry Knight camps at Birch Point Thomas Passmore returns from Portland George E Hughes at MacMahan Island Henry R Tarbox returns home for a two week vacation Arthur S Hyde plans a Squirrel Island excursion Miss Jennie Harvey hosts a Cotillion Hall dancing party The tug Knickerbocker sails to Washington with the schooner Madeline Cooney towing 1100 tons of ice Ice laden weasels bound for Washington incomplete details about Capitol ice shortage and Knickerbocker’s dispatch on the Chesapeake.
Dr Jan P Byhouwer of Hislland sketches Bath area scenery during a Maine vacation with his family. He creates over 30 pencil and India ink studies of local sites from The Basin to Arrowsie Bridge and Montsweag Brook. The Byhower family departs September 7 for their Holland home aboard the Staten Dam.
Walter T. Dingley of Chelsea shows in town a copy of the Eastern Repository from May 21 1805 and a Bath Fire Society rule book dated March 3 1803. The rules require joining cost of one dollar and ownership of two leather buckets and two raven duck bars. Buckets must be marked or owners fined 25 cents. Members listed include William King later Maine governor Caleb Lincoln Edward H Page James and Josias Sewall and David Shaw.
John W. Jam Randolph celebrated his 87th birthday at home on Kinderhook Street. A large amphibian plane landed at Aupidta State Airport en route from Lake Winnepesaukee to Mase Lake New Hampshire, piloted by Andy Cannon with his son Hugh and co-pilot Nelson Collins. Cannon said he flew to Augusta to obtain a state flying license.
Miss Loretta Riley a well known dressmaker and former milliner died early Saturday at Memorial hospital after nearly two years of ill health. Born in Portland she was adopted in childhood by Joseph and Ann Bushway and moved to Bath 41 years ago living at 627 Washington street. Two near relatives survive. Prayers were held Monday at 10:30 am at Arthur F Mayo funeral residence 819 High street.
Mrs Edward R McCabe and Mrs Estelle McCabe returned to their Marshall avenue home after a ten day stay in Brookline Massachusetts where Miss McCabe underwent an operation at Deaconess hospital.
The Maine State Liquor Commission accepts John P. Carey Jr.s resignation effective Aug 10 1937 to devote full time to private law practice. Carey served since formation of the commission and previously with the Beer Commission, drafting influential digests of liquor laws and advising on legality and procedure.
The Agricultural Conservation program pays three dollars per acre for improving woodlands and an additional three dollars per acre for pruning pine woodlots with a saw. With county committee approval, thinning to create about 100 potential timber trees per acre is advised, limited to pines up to eight inches in diameter. Demonstration sites exist in Sagadahoc county including Prescott Farm in Woolwich and Bowdoinham plots, open for inspection to show pruning outcomes.
John Decoven Berry of Brunswick selected as Typical Yankee by Yankee magazine from Dublin New Hampshire. Editor notes old-time Yankee traits and features a silhouette likeness by Mrs John Winchell of Brunswick. Caption reads A Look of Race and honors Berry’s character and manners.
The striped bass has reappeared in Maine waters and a New England coast study expands from Connecticut. Daniel Merriman urges fishermen to record capture date locality and exact length, seal four scales, and mail data to the Connecticut State Board of Fisheries and Game for conservation research.
Eighteen boats competed on Saturday at Winnegance Bay with two Bath entrants achieving class wins. Beach Comber owned by Raymond Small took First Class honors along with Shardie owned by J Edward Drake Jr winning Third Class. race results list times for each class and boat.
Thousands of fourth stage lobsters hatched and reared at the Boothbay Harbor federal hatchery were released along the coast beds. Commissioner Rodney E Feyler says the work is practical and worthwhile and a state hatchery is planned with $20 000 funding. The project, in collaboration with the Massachusetts Bureau of Marine Fisheries and the Connecticut Rhode Island plans, aims to save costs and expand soon.
Preparations for the 18th Twin County Farm Bureau field day at the E H Waterman Farm Sabattus on Tuesday August 17 progress well. Waterman operates farms across four counties and plans demonstrations on plowing sweet corn stalks to curb corn borers and on silage effects on milk flow. He notes improved pastures andwide Extension Work topics including dairy herd effort and farm records with plans for ventilation and safety bull pen.
Maine agriculture official Frank P. Washburn said the 1937 corn crop will be rather light in acreage. He noted two weeks of hot weather aided growth after a poor start due to heavy rainfall and predicted harvesting and canning would begin around mid August. He also warned Maine's northern potatoes need rain to avoid further reductions.
The schooner Achernar of New York will be launched August 24 from Parker yards at Hulls Cove Bar Harbor. Designer and builder Lindsay F Fowler of New York and Bar Harbor, son of Dr and Mrs Robert H Fowler of Boston, is a Harvard man trained in naval architecture at MIT. Fowler and Mrs Fowler plan to sail the vessel in various waters of the globe after ten months of construction.
In Sagadahoc County a mortgage foreclosure sale is set for August 18 1937 at 10 a.m. on the premises in Bath. The judgment was for 117.26 debt plus 11.20 costs, issued by the Sagadahoc Superior Court in Rockland against Lewis L Richards and Edna A Richards of Bath. The property is a lot with buildings on South Street Bath described by metes and bounds. Sheriff Charles W Messenger announces the sale.
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