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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1900
Page
7
Brunswick items cover local events from Old Home visitors to Bowdoin gym work and a large Bath crowd for a delayed Carnegie launch. Notes include street life on Maine Street, a 90 to 60 degree swing, a brigades and camps, maritime travel records, and civic notices with officers, pensions, and club gatherings.
George Stover clerks at Pejepscot National Bank during Charles Giveen’s vacation. Mere Point residents captured a bushel of canners while fishing. James Eastman was thrown from his team and broken his arm, treated by Dr. Lancaster. Phillip Coffin to Vermont for Baxter Bros Co as time keeper. Modern Woodmen of America to hold grand log rolling at the Park next Thursday with dancing in the Casino. Bowdoin manager H L Berry in town arranging games with Harvard Yale and other colleges. New depot grounds place sewer and hydrant on private property, and a town passageway to Union street closed after 30 years, causing inconvenience.
Real estate transfer records show Sarah J. Rich of Harpawell selling property to Charles A. Prince of Brunswick for $1 and other considerations, with the parcel located in Brunswick. Separately, Dr. F E Johnson plans to close his Brunswick drug business and expand manufacturing of Peerless Headache Powders and Liniment.
The notices show marriage intentions for Francis A Hamlin and Gertie Wilkie of Yala City Cal and Joseph Binchette with Lida Riedeaux of Brunswick. Co K just returned from Augusta and held a camp muster with Maj Chas Collins of Portland winning Lieut Colonel by 19 votes to 15 for Maj W O Peterson of Brunswick. Captain W O C Goodwin of Brunswick placed second in the regimental rifle championship with 79. The new K Co’s first muster left the men a bit tired.
The Talk of the Day notes a test of sobriety using the line The skunk got on the stump The stump said the skunk stunk but the skunk said the stump stunk. A Bath woman clipped it for her husband who while sober stumbled over it, but the next night, after drinking, spoke it perfectly without a break.
A hot Saturday game at Whittier Field saw the Old Timers vs Brunswicks reach 11 to 10 after seven innings before play was stopped for refreshments. Frank Jaques pitched for the Old Timers while Bobby Boothaker started for Brunswick, with G M Wheeler directing.
Miss Myrtle Barnes visits her uncle in Pittsfield and Miss Mae Stanwood visits Augusta. A long list notes many residents and visitors from Bath, Portland, Malden, Bangor, and Boston visiting Brunswick area towns and relatives at Mere Point, Five Islands, and Boothbay last week and this week.
William Moody died early Monday after a day when no illness was reported. Son of W. Moody he previously worked in the ice business with his father and ran a Frankfurt stand at the Park last year. He leaves a wife and an adopted daughter. He was 35.
Saturday afternoon August 4 Wilfred Caron known as the French Flyer attempted to beat the Mere Point bicycle record of 20 minutes 40 seconds set years earlier by H. J. Hayes of Hillside. On a rough road he finished in 21 minutes 20 seconds. Hayes set the mark with favorable wind and track, while conditions were unfavorable for Caron.
A village corporation held a special meeting in the court room on Monday with I P Booker elected moderator. The panel approved extending the sewer system about 300 feet on College Street to enable access for the new D K E clubhouse, with Dr Whittier presenting the resolutions. J M Chandler sent a Strand magazine photograph of a Varney burying ground gravestone noting a girl’s death from consuming 19 percussion caps.
On the Bowdoin campus the grounds are busy with torn walks and new gas lines and pipes being laid to various buildings. Large boilers arrived this week to support the heating system. Work crews are rapidly finishing the new D K E club house just beyond.
Captain Snow and Wilbur Reynolda returned from a hunt for Captain Kidd's gold on Jewell's Island to report no sign of the treasure. Some speculate spirits removed the gold, but Snow remains convinced it remains at Jewell's Island.
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