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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1931
Page
10
Forty years ago Bath items report masquerade at Gahan's hall and Alameda rink opening for roller skating. Editor Shorey leaves for Bridgton. Christmas parcels delivered by American Express. Turkeys sell out. moonlight ride planned. Sedgwick Relief Corps fair Feb 16 17 18. Shipping news, marriages, and a street ice hazard incident.
December 27 1890 notes a polo team organized with a forthcoming game. I A Harris clerks at Halletts during holiday trade. Frank Guthrie returns from Waltham for a short vacation. A brass band to be formed in the city. Wilbur G Cahill home after a week with a severe cold. Acadia lodge K of P to install officers next Thursday evening. Small boys earn spending money shoveling snow. Frank Luce hosts a Tiddledy Winks party. Shipyard men clear snow. Chandler the barber shaken but walking. Street Commissioner Williams keeps sidewalks clear with a large crew.
December 30 1890 reports a Bath Foresters gathering at Good Templar hall while cold weather halts plastering on South End buildings. Ice covers the Kennebec and two marriages are registered, with various local trades active including Woolwich smelters and an iron foundry ladle innovation.
Charles Raymond Higgins 62 of Bath died suddenly from heart trouble December 20 at his winter home in Frostproof Florida. Funeral services were held December 22 with 12 bearers from the Shrine and Rotary. He was a renowned photographer for J. C. Higgins & Son and later of Green Moors Inn. Survived by Rose M. Higgins his wife, a daughter Mrs. Norman Rand of Portsmouth, three grandchildren, a sister Mrs. E C Stiness of Providence. Services for Bath friends to be held in spring.
Mrs Jane Parker Morse 83 widow of Capt George William Morse of Bath died suddenly December 23 at her daughter Mrs Maurice Miller's Edgewood Rhode Island home. Born Winneganee November 19 1847 to Alden Morse and Louisa Lee Morse she spent years at sea with her husband and lived in Edgewood the last 23 years. Funeral private at 198 Grand Avenue followed by committal service at Oak Grove. She leaves two brothers in law one nephew and two sisters in law all of Bath.
The funeral for Mrs Bertha Wetherbee Earnshaw wife of Charles Earnshaw and sister of Charles P Wetherbee of Bath was Sunday at 2 30 pm at her Weston Massachusetts home 45 Hill Top Road after a long illness. Burial was private in Harvard Massachusetts. A Wellesley graduate she had visited Bath and dined with the Wetherbees on Thanksgiving. She is survived by two sons Mr and Mrs Wetherbee who joined relatives in Massachusetts for the holidays.
The Sunday school concert at Wesley M. E. Church drew a full house. The program featured songs such as Christmas Bells by the Sunshine Club and a piano duet by Roberta and Margaret Gordon, plus recitations, solos, and a Christmas memory exercise by the junior room children.
The Y M C A City Basketball league held its fourth meeting with Edwin Andrews presiding. Melvin Comeau reported officials and timers. two new officials, Trask for the Independents and Breton for Hyde Windlass, were certified. A full report on scorers and timers is expected by December 30 with a schedule printing plan ready before the next gathering.
Thomas Dowling of Bath narrowly escaped serious harm Saturday afternoon while traveling from Portland to Bath in a Buick coupe. His car sideswiped a sedan driven by Frank Blair of North Vassalboro near Mill Creek Hill Falmouth, then left the road and struck a pole after about 100 feet in a ditch. Dowling sustained minor cuts and bruises, while Blair and two children in his car were unharmed. police investigation was pending. The article also recounts a separate Augusta abroad trip tale ending in a $200 jewelry purchase for a daughter’s ear ring made from a bejeweled ring found by a mother and later sold to a jeweler.
Evangelist Gram preached at the Masonic Temple on Sunday night about the investigative judgment now in session. He outlined how the righteous are written in the Lamb's book of life and the book of remembrance, while the wicked are blotted out. The talk stressed faithful endurance and the millennial judgment as key to salvation.
Bath National Bank will hold its annual stockholders meeting at 40 Front St Bath Maine on Tuesday January 13 1931 at 2 PM for election of Directors and other legal business. Bath Maine December 11 1930 F D Hill cashier.
Public auction planned for February 1 1931 at nine o clock in the forenoon at the Town House of Woolwich to sell taxable real estate of non resident owners for 1930, including Frank C Jepson land and buildings and several other parcels. notices list owners and descriptions with values and boundaries. The sale aims to recover taxes interest and charges unpaid after July 18 1930.
The town of West Bath Sagadahoc announces unpaid 1930 real estate taxes held by non residents. Taxes with interest and charges may be collected or the tax liens of sufficient value sold at public auction at the town house on the first Monday in February 1931 at nine oclock A M. Names include Willian F Abbott John Fitzgerald Mrs Annie Perry Reubin Rich heirs Lillian Snow Scoats Bett Swett heirs Victor Testa and Fred 8 Brawn Tax values range from 50 to 750 dollars with various lot descriptions and boundaries.
A notice proclaims a subject of tremendous importance and urges attendance with the line Everyone will be glad for having heard this subject. The phrasing emphasizes a compelling religious presentation and calls readers to listen.
In municipal court Judge John J. Keegan ruled for the defendant Maurice Glazier of Richmond against Earl B. Preble over a $37.50 claim. Glazier said he hired Preble in March 1928 to sell Studebaker cars on a five percent commission with a $30 weekly drawing against commissions, claiming a shortfall of $37.50. Preble testified he was hired as a straight $30 weekly salary, not drawing against commissions, and that earnings depended on sales reaching a five percent level.
Testimony centered on a $30 weekly salary and a check endorsed by Preble showing on account. Preble claimed he did not notice the note when accepting the check. State Highway police witness testified for Preble, while Glazier’s lawyer suggested an appeal to the January Superior Court term and the possibility of collecting a third week’s salary from Glazier.
Mrs Walter B Warren of West Newton Massachusetts announced the engagement of her daughter Eleanor to Vincent S Jones of Utica New York at a dinner and dance for a close friend Eleanor Warren is a May School Boston graduate Jones is a Hamilton College 1928 alumnus who studied at Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences The wedding date was not announced Also noted is that Switzerland now has nearly 3600 hotels
Unpaid real estate taxes for non resident owners in Bath Maine for 1930 are due. If unpaid by the due date, taxes plus interest and charges may be sold at public auction on the first Monday in February 1931 at 9 o clock in the morning at the Collector of Taxes office in Bath. Ralph K Hall Collector of Taxes for 1930.
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