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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1908
Page
5
Bath city notes show a busy cultural and political week with a regular council meeting upcoming and taxes debated. Community groups, clubs, and churches report socials, fundraising dinners, and lodge activities while local athletes prepare for a high school game and civic projects advance in Bath and Bowdoinham.
A large group of Maine merchants met in Lewiston city hall to organize a statewide body. Officers elected include S. E. Whitcomb as president and A. M. Penley as first vice president, with about 100 members and a projected 500 by May 1. Bath hosts next convention after unanimous invitation.
South Strong reports the death of George E. McCleary aged 84 an early settler of the town He leaves four children Edward McCleary formerly of this city and foreman pattern-maker at Torrey Roller Bushing works Nellie McCleary of Beverley Mass former local teacher Arthur McCleary of Phillips and Fred McCleary of South Strong Mrs McCleary died four weeks earlier
A catalog of new volumes including Pompeii August Man Life of the Homeric Age by Thomas Day Seymour Comrade John Merwin Webster Poetical Works by William B Yates Loves of Pelleas and Etarre Zona Gale Development of Shakespeare as a Dramatist George P Baker Jesus Christ and the Civilization of Today Joseph A Leighton Text of Shakespeare Thomas R Lounsbury France of Today Barrett Wendell Congo and the Coasts of Africa Richard Harding Davis Brasses of England Herbert W Macklin Seville Albert F Calvert Cozy Lion Frances H Burnett.
Major William R. Kimball received a batch of postal cards from Francisco Valmana of Marianoa Cuba showing scenes around Havana. The two met during the Spanish American War when Kimball served as captain of an artillery battery in Havana and have remained close friends. The ecard scenes pleased him, reflecting familiar places from his service. Monthly meeting of the school board Monday evening.
The article traces Valentine Day cards from home made verses in the 18th century to mass manufactured tokens by 1800, notes the shift to lace and embossed designs, and highlights Frank H. Baer’s private collection of hundreds of old valentines, dating to the late 18th century, as a world-class archive.
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