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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1916
Page
11
The Maine State Board of Charities and Corrections report praises general conditions at Bath Military and Naval Asylum. It urges the matron take charge of all children’s records in proper files and recommends a new staff member to focus on admissions, child returns, and family placement under supervision.
Mrs Augustus C Hughston of New York City, organizer and speaker for the National American Woman's Suffrage Association, visited Saturday and planned a fall program. She has organized leagues in Portland Brunswick Augusta Gardiner Water ville Houston Calais Caribou Presque Isle Farmington Dover Foxcroft Bangor Belfast Castine Auburn Lewiston and Rockland and spoke last Thursday at Oakland Park to a large crowd.
For 33 years G. B. Malcolm of Haywood Bros Wakefield Mass has spent a week with sister Mrs Charles Williams while on his annual Rockweed Cottage outing at New Meadows with Wakefield businessmen S E Ryder Otto Johnson A W Achorn E C Richardson Conant Ruth and F A Marshall. He has not missed his summer vacation in Bath during tenure with Haywood Bros Co.
Fred D. Cressey of 144 Water Street suffers a left hand wound from a piece of iron and expects a quick return to work. H. D. Bacon Jr. recovers from a nail injury to the left foot. George Farrin of Hyde Windlass Co. sustains an eye burn after a steel chip strike.
Madame Blanche d Aubigne Bieler daughter of the French historian d Aubigne and wife of Prof Bieler of Toronto University will address Winter Street Church next Sunday morning on The Soul of France. She travels at her own expense to aid wartime efforts and will also speak at the Cosmopolitan Club in the afternoon.
Community mourns as Herbert Rice William Foley Ar ur Thistle Eugene Worrey Frank eckson Parker Worrey Thomas Spicer Bernard Oyle Ralph Pattee Willis Holk Robert Sturtevant Joseph ernard pass away Sunday afternoon at New Meadows. A notable moment was the woodchuck capture during the afternoon.
A long list of Bath residents and visitors is noted, including Edna Pepper returning from Portsmouth New Hampshire and Grace Lightbody calling on Mechanic Falls friends. Many attendees travel to Monhegan Boothbay Harbor and Bar Harbor, with several Bath residents visiting or returning from trips to Boston Reading Mass Savannah Ga and Westport.
Local jottings report a Bath car trip to Portland in 59 minutes and a mix of community happenings. Mentioned are churchgoers, shipments of a 2800 pound windlass gear to Detroit, a Bath team game in Wiscasset, hay hauling figures, a Beverly visit, an auction sale at Rich's Mountain, juror selections, and varied social visits and travel.
A sequence of social notes lists visitors and guests around Brunswick and surrounding towns. Names include Miss Pauline Clinto in Roslindale, Miss Ina Lougee in Laconia, Miss Yvonne Caron at Bay Point, and many others visiting relatives, attending entertainments, or returning from vacations in Bath, Brunswick, North Anson, and Boston.
Miss Gertrude Cotten visits relatives in Boston and others spend weekends at Portland Christmas Cove Popham Westport and Kennebec Point. Teachers resign and area families plan August outings at Riggsville Lakeside Alton Bay and Day's Ferry fund events.
Six year old Jeanette Leonard daughter of Mr and Mrs J Augustus Leonard of 726 Middle Street died Saturday at the Ear and Eye Infirmary Portland after an operation for an abscess on the thigh bone. Her father Leon ard traveled to Portland Thursday and returned Friday then learned of her critical condition early that morning. The child was their only offspring and deeply loved by neighbors and family, with heartfelt sympathy offered to the bereaved parents.
John M. Leydon 52 died Saturday night at Bath City Hospital after a paralytic shock. A Bath native and former piano worker, he had recently worked at Bath Iron Works. He never married and is survived by three brothers Thomas of Bath William P of Pawtucket R I L Michael of Somerville and a sister Mrs Hayden of Hartford. Funeral was held Wednesday at 8 50 a m from St Marys Church.
Dr. E. C. Hebbard reported a large river fish at the head of Swan Island last Monday. Witnesses estimate 12 to 20 feet in length and argue whether the creature was a shark or a sturgeon. Citizens urge caution and a wide berth, noting the fish is too large to keep as a pet.
At the adjourned annual meeting in Elmhurst, Bath Iron Works, Limited reelected President John S. Hyde Vice President Charles P. Wetherbee Treasurer H H McCarthy Clerk and Secretary Joseph M Trott. John McInnes and John H Hyde named directors with John H Hyde elected assistant to President Hyde.
Paul J. Koughan, a Bath youth, serves with Battery A First Artillery New Jersey in Douglas Arizona. He left Bowdoin Commencement to report for duty in New Jersey, noting that life on Arizona’s hot sands differs from a previous summer on the New Meadows River.
In rugged woods work the lumbermen value a reliable stomach and liver tonic. The old fashioned remedy from L. F. Medicine Co. claims to aid stomach bowels and liver, sold for 35 cents with samples available by mail from Portland, Maine.
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