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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1933
Page
8
Forty years ago in Bath various local notes include Lizzie Neal's return from Wiscasset and Albert Totman vacationing at Garnet House. updates on Elm street top covering, Y M C A block growth, court street house progress, and steamship Castine trials. Kennebec Steamboat Co. reports record business despite summer gloom.
Street sweepers prep for street railway opening. Street sprinkler and engine crew active. Visitors from Waltham and Boothbay return after failed launch. Ice cream festival at Beacon Street vestry and city hall vault lock repairs. Bath Iron Works expansion and streetcar incidents followed by dances and excursions with noted officials and sailors. Public notices and local travel by steamer Armeria and steam ferries.
On Lemont street extension a sidewalk is being built. Rev O W Folsom returned from a two week vacation at Squirrel Island. Annie Getchell and Edna Morse spend a week at the Morse cottage Cox Head. R W Peckham of Pawnee Bill's Wild West Show was in the city and will appear here in September. Vena and Emma Shearman returned to Boston after two weeks with Margie Frye at Hotel Rockledge Popham. Spin See G C Moses visited Gardiner to view the pulp mill he is involved with, as work proceeds. H H Gragin Boston agent for Westinghouse Company returned home after inspecting the new road project. Winfield R Jordan injured drilling a trench on Thompson's hill, losing use of his right arm. a sledge hammer head struck his arm and his wound, treated by Dr E M Fuller, is healing.
Dr. Bibber's horse caused excitement as it bolted from Washington street toward home then crossed railway tracks narrowly avoiding a train. It collided with a milk wagon on School Street, scattering milk, then halted in the park pond area where bystanders restrained it. The vehicle suffered only a broken whiffle tree and wheel. Castine sails to Portsmouth for readiness and a possible trial trip, with hopes the boat matches or exceeds the Machias.
Morse High School will field football this fall only if it raises funds. Coach Alden G. Smith announced the team needs at least 200 dollars, with 300 dollars preferred, to finance the 1933 season. A canvass begins after September 1, with substantial early support from local business leaders.
A fragmented OCR line hints at a brief noting a deficient sum to cover financing for a sport program. No further readable details identify the organization, location, or exact amount involved.
Rhetorical questions probe spiritual life, inner laws from the gospels, and integrating faith into studies, recreation, business, politics, philosophy, and religion. The text shifts to probate notices from Sagadahoc Maine, detailing estate administration and guardianship with required public notices and land descriptions.
Sagadahoc County probate records show Grace Lennon Abel Harris Doris Dyer Humphreys of Bath representing heirs of Henry M Heald in Phippsburg. Descriptions cover multiple lots and marsh parcels conveyed over decades from 1847 to 1901 with references to Hill and Dickinson estates and adjacent tracts.
On August 1 1933 Edward McLaughlin of Plymouth Massachusetts was appointed guardian of Thomas McLaughlin deceased of Bath Maine by the Sagadahoc Probate Court and Edward W Bridgham of Bath his agent. Conservator Charles C Low of Bath presented final account for allowance with a court hearing set for September 6 1933. Bath Independent printed notice.
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