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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1884
Page
4
A watercolor of Bultehs of Bath style items fills a column, with maritime notes from Oak Grove to Arrowsie bridge. Sailors, shipyards, and local politics mix with weather, markets, taxes, and social remarks as readers catch up on the week’s happenings in Bath and nearby towns.
The article recalls a July 1854 Know Nothing era incident where Know Nothing times were overtaken by Catholics and a mob. It notes a Southern wreckers’ salvage dispute over the schooner Chas HL Walston with owners favoring a $853,000 offer against the salvage claim of $10,000. It mentions lobster laws in force, Greek victory at the Bijou, and various 19th century local curiosities including a Portland football score and Bath weather effects on hens.
At Sawyer's painting rooms the first of the week a mirror frame regilding revealed a rectangular glass with a bar at the top. The glass shows Liberty as a rooster on a hogshead amid bales and barrels, symbolizing commerce. Mercury’s winged hat and snake indicate progress and wisdom of the new republic. the mirror, about 100 years old, is an heirloom of Mrs. Lizzie Paris.
A vintage joke recalls a tax assessor who owned half of a vessel with a non assessor partner and saw his share assessed cheaper. The other owner, upon learning the facts, mocked the situation with a Sioux jig and a humorous vow to scalp the affair. The piece lightly lampoons assessors as overworked and underpaid, implying many would do the same.
The Eastman family welcomed twins on Sunday at 9 15 am. A baby boy weighing 9 pounds 12 ounces and a baby girl weighing 4 pounds join the household. Both are reported doing well.
Geo Burns, a sailor, rowed George Lincoln to the sea with Nellie Graham for his kit. A loose deck board flew up, Burns fell into the water, and George Lincoln pulled him out to save his life. The humane society may comment on the incident.
Today the M. C. I. directors plan a noon visit to Teamecky Lakes. Members Marty and Frank Houghton Thomas Dillon J. M. Taylor Frank Hawthorne Ed Kimball Hiram Welch and J. F. Hayden will deliver a message and return shortly.
A Bath society note recounts arrivals and departures, visits from Boston and Portland, engagements, and local gatherings. It lists families and individuals such as Miss Allie Clark B. HL. S., Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lemont, J. J. Kimball, Fred Wimball, and Will Torrey, noting trips to Boston, Bath, and Augusta, plus planned weddings and receptions.
Mr Abner McFadden of Boston who runs a studio at 6 Winter Street left a batch of finely executed cabinet photographs of Blaine and Cleveland from sittings in Augusta and Albany. Blaine praised the likenesses and ordered thirteen dozen. The Bath boy again scores with a strong photographic order.
Woolwich residents joined a Boothbay outing with Lisbon and Lisbon Falls Odd Fellows visiting Wiwarna at Ocean Point. Cumberland and Yarmouth groups sail to Boothbay and the Islands next Friday. Sheridan Guards Lewiston plan a Saturday trip to the Islands. An excursion from Wiscasset and Boothbay to Round Pond in Bristol is set for Tuesday. A sail from Boothbay and the Islands to Popham occurred yesterday.
Fragmentary report states Harold TP Bibber aboard a dory near Cape Sable after July 27, 600 miles from Bath. Gloucester crew says he was well, asleep when boarded by a boat from the fish, receiving Boston baked beans before rescue or further action.
Arcana railway strike action continues as workers vote 82 25 daily rate after first 82 75. In town all caulkers except bosses join a union with BR Henderson as president and Mo We Reed as vice president. Ship Building Co. proposal of 2 50 is rejected.
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