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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1917
Page
6
Surgeon General Gorgas approves height standards unchanged while expanding weight allowances across height bands. New chest reduction permitted for tall men with no chest disease. Defective teeth ok if artificial dentures restore mastication. otherwise delay enrollment for dental work.
A volunteer Bath Opera House orchestra under Gaudreau and Huse performed for Fort Popham soldiers and summer residents. The concert featured Sousa and Carl Hessell pieces with all numbers encored and cigars and lemonade provided by local merchants.
Mrs. AT Cc Oliver and Mrs. Armon Perry chaperone a group of girls enjoying a house party this week at the Hawley cottage, Popham Beach. The attendees include Marion I Oliver, Lucy Small, Bernice Clifford, Marie Perry, Venus Marco, Hazel Bates, and Winnefred Owens from Lewiston.
Maine State Department of Health will inspect all resort hotels over the next two months. An expert will survey and assess conditions, then issue recommendations to improve sanitary standards. Cooperation with local health boards is planned to ensure remedies by next season.
At the Army Y M C A meeting the executive committee selected J Edward Drake as chairman and with R P Ham as secretary and R H Baxter as treasurer. E W Hyde was chosen listing committee chairman and Baxter Sewall and Drake formed an initial gifts committee. Potential team captains include E W Hyde F H Thompson Joseph Carvill and others who may choose assistants.
Bath Maine will attempt today to raise 1000 dollars for the Salvation Army ambulance fund. Teams led by Dorothy Nichols Dorothy Sewall Louise Harriman Lani Sewall and Sophia Mikelsky will sell buttons to support the campaign. If successful, one ambulance to serve in France will bear the inscription Salvation Army Bath Me.
The pastor Rev. T N Kewley received a vacation until Sept 2. Dr J E C Sawyer will fill next Sunday while Aug 26 services are omitted. Dorcas Guild met with Mrs Fred Bowie. Epworth League, led by new president O E Hooper, maintains summer interest and monthly socials led by Craft Bowie Douglas and H Edson. Thursday meetings paused for remainder of month. Dorcas Guild plans a large clam bake on church field this month as a major summer event.
The Wiscasset Band gave a large concert Monday evening at Bath Lodge of Elks Home to support Old Home Week in Wiscasset. Alderman C A Peaslee spoke briefly. Bath crowds planned to attend. Band members volunteered their services and received hearty applause. luncheon followed at Bath Lodge. Joseph Cass takes a two week vacation at Small Point.
Phippsburg notes describe camp life near the fort, local visits, and residents' movements. Mentions James Thompson, J O Wyman, L L Waite, Henry Dearborn, Walter Chase, Edmund Briggs, Leon Eaton, Susan Percival Nichols, Henry Lowell, and others. Reports on steamer Virginia passenger lists, a Red Cross poster rollout, a Small Point death, and community entertainments and races.
Stephen B Small, a Revolutionary descendant and lifelong farmer from Phippsburg, died August ninth at age 73. He never married and was the last of his family. His funeral August eleventh featured Rev Morace F Holton of St Louis praising his independence, honesty, and kindness. Friends from Camp Wynburg honored him with a cross and evergreen wreath on the casket.
A Pentecostal church prayer meeting was delayed by a gas meter wreck caused by burglars entering through a window. The janitor found the meter damaged as thieves searched the coin box, with unknown amount taken. Funeral and pallbearers listed. interment held at the same cemetery. local residents noted visitors arriving from out of town.
Miss Rhapstock of Kenosha Wisconsin testifies after thirty-nine years of catarrh she found relief following a year of Fruit-a-tives starting in 1914. She credits the remedy for cure and other benefits and notes prices and availability from Fruit-atives Limited Ogdensburg New York.
Isaac H. Rideout directs 20 men and two teams grading the grounds at the Old Folks Home. Nearly 3000 yards of sods are needed for lawns and borders along the driveways.
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