Movie Plays and Players in Bath Independent
The Bath Independent previews its weekly department on movie stars and the performers who light up the screen. It offers gossip and insights about beloved actors and the films they headline.
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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1919
Page
8
The Bath Independent previews its weekly department on movie stars and the performers who light up the screen. It offers gossip and insights about beloved actors and the films they headline.
Shirley Mason joins Fox galaxy weighing little yet full of pep as William Fox forecasts big things. Virginia Caldwell rises from Folies to lead role. Nazimova visits Hollywood for a screen adaptation of Wylie. updates cover Bessie Barriscale, Niles Welch, and plans for The Luck of Geraldine Laird and Wings of the Morning. Studio notes on production timelines, camera tech, and December Sunshine Comedies.
Sagadahock Veteran Firemen plan to bring an expert to Bath to inspect their hand engine and determine why stream output is limited. The engineer will visit Portland early next year and spend days in Bath advising on alterations or demonstrations. Delegates Joseph Melzard and Ernest Russell were chosen for the New England convention.
Travelers recount Richmond's Island settlement starting 1628 with Walter Bagnall’s wealth drive, Indian conflict, and a 1855 gold find. Captured legacy includes Rev. Robert Jordan’s era, Episcopal ties, a family lineage, and a font once used for baptisms now in Portland.
Joseph Duval of Brunswick petitions Cumberland county probate court to change his name to Joseph Dorval claiming Dorval is the correct original surname. The petition notes Duval believes Dorval is the proper name and requests a legal change.
In Boston the Land Veteran Firemen's Association plans its annual officer election on December 31. A dramatic incident on Center street hill involved a two horse jigger carrying a granite monument base weighing tons. The team slid on the slippery road but the driver avoided disaster by dexterous handling of the reins, stopping near a sidewalk where a wheel was snubbed and the base adjourned. The base, slated for removal from Oak Grove to another Bath family lot, was damaged but the runaway was checked.
Schooner Edith McIntyre built in Bath in 1883 and 96 tons, once owned by James W. Parker of Portland, has been sold to a Boston brokerage on private terms. Executrix Minnie V. Malcolm issues notices for Victoria Butler estate, calling creditors to present claims and debts to be settled. Bath National Bank and First National Bank of Bath announce annual stockholder meetings for director elections in 1920. Bath Trust Company schedules its annual meeting for director election on January 13, 1920.
The 1919 Massachusetts election results show Governor Coolidge winning with broad support from workers in cities like Lowell and across industrial towns. Bolshevist ideas and I W Wism are said to have failed to gain traction among American labor, proving conservatism and orderly government favored by working people.
Fragmentary lines claim American workers spoke out and defeated a movement described as the red hand of anarchy in Massachusetts. The garbled text suggests a political struggle with implied victory for workers or a labor-aligned group.
Citizens who enjoyed summer Sunday nights at the city park suggest Bath host a winter concert by the town band. They seek a chance to hear the new organization perform this season.
The American tugboat departed Saturday morning from Bath after launching two steel scows recently constructed at the Bath plant. The ceremony marked a new phase for Texas Steamship as the vessels head to sea.
Daniel F. Koughan head of the history department at Portland high school and a Bath boy has resigned to take a position at Newton Technical high school in Newton Massachusetts with an advanced salary.
Public auction notices for unpaid 1919 taxes on real estate in Woolwich Arrowsic and Bath list numerous parcels with owner names and valuations. The town tax collector schedules sales at Town Hall on the first Monday of February 1920 at 9 a.m. to recover due amounts and charges.
For Lands Sitnatea in Tops Town in 1919 unpaid taxes with interest and charges will be sold at public auction at Town Hall on the first Monday in February 1920 at nine o’clock a.m. Taxpayers and owners listed include David Thompson lot and Buckler Parlope, Lisbon road parcels, Forrayih estate, Annie Reed, Liborn family, and others as detailed in the notice.
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