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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1913
Page
8
Seven Days Doings reports Bath locals preparing for fall granges and a bustling Carnival week with big business. Ruth Law flies at Empire Beach, while steamers Charlmange Tower and Lansing arrive for Bath repairs, and a magnetic lighthouse of local misfortune and a vanished joinder of events.
Funeral services for Colonel Edwin M Fuller retired were held at his Washington street home with National Guard representation and Masonic rites. Burial and later notices follow as obituaries mention his career from Tufts to Maine Medical School, and service from 1900s through 1912.
Yesterday afternoon a blaze consumed the Sam Oasis House on Mouse Island. The older building, valued after repairs at about $20,000, was owned by R. H. Richards of Boothbay Harbor and run by his son-in-law Fred Dodge. Guests and boarders were present. some saved belongings as the fire, aided by high heat and lack of firefighting facilities, reduced the house to ashes.
Rev and Mrs Eugene M Trafton and family depart Friday for Springvale to visit daughter Mrs Edward Trafton. Miss Frances Emery vacationing at home in West Georgetown. Clayton Rowe of Five Islands visits grandmother Mrs A E Rowe in the Cove. Mrs Walter Reid guests of Mrs O M Kingsbury. Mrs Edward Bartlett of Medford boards with Mrs Eugene Oliver in West Georgetown. Capt and Mrs Fred Hinckley of Bath at their summer home. Capt Ed Hinckley mentioned.
The notice lists committees for a church event with names including Deacon and Mrs. Soule, Mr. and Mrs. McKenney, Mrs. Ellen Bailey, Lydia White, Sumner Bailey, and others. Other panels cover Invitation and Attendance, Entertainment, Music, and Bible School Work with numerous local members named.
In this city on August 7 10 Martha A widow of Hartley Jackson aged 41 In Georgetown August 12 Joseph Radd Titged TV Vocars unreaithes Aged 46 years a widow of Virdedl Wotcett and 46 years old also noted Died in this notice
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