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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1922
Page
6
Residents recall the Alameda floor famed for polo and events before the Bath opera house era. Joseph B. McCutcheon bought and stored portions after demolition and relaid some at his Winnegance residence, noting it remains a fine floor.
Bath men visiting California endure unusual cold and snow with jokes about the weather. Fred D. Hill deputy cashier, Harry B. Sawyer, and Oscar Rogers meet a former Bath boy as they lantern a new oil stove and snow shovel venture. The scene notes San Bernardino on a 22 to 25 degree day with snowfall.
Master Allan Maxwell entertained eight friends Saturday at his grandparents home 19 Tallman street celebrating his fourth birthday. Attendees included Margaret Burke Constance O Donnell Winona MacDonald Howard Holmes Gordon Harrington Laurence MacDonald Harry MacDonald and Francis O Donnell. Refreshments were served and games enjoyed with Luella MacDonald and Elsie Carter assisting.
Highway and Sewer Board held its monthly meeting Tuesday night. Eleven men are employed in the department. Wednesday the road machine crew broke drifts on principal streets and cleaned gutters in preparation for thawing weather. Sidewalks around town are being sanded as needed.
Arcadia club met Monday night at Winter street church in the men room with attendees including Misses Dorothy Jewett Ruth Skillings Winifred Kennerson Jeannette Francis Ruth Keyes Anna Hill Marion Black Ivelyn Lightbody Mariam Cooper Emma Harvey Madelyn Coombs Harriet Pratt Priscilla Hodge.
The Governor and Council tightened Contingent Fund controls and allocated 1921 grants for state needs. Reports detail ground work at the State House park, a landscape bill, bridge repairs in Arrowsie, road grants advanced to create work, and emergency spending for dependent children, Mothers Pensions, tuberculosis testing, and state sanitariums.
The Bangor News reports Frank A. Owen and his son David, former Bath theater managers, have bought George King’s Strand Theater interest. Owen, Goldsmith, and Abe L. Goldsmith assume management today. The Strand will be the town’s sole theater, enhanced by a new Strand building and a top screen from the Orono Theater.
Miss Mary Lemont and Master Joseph Lemont hosted ninety friends for a birthday party at their parents home on Washington street. The event featured games music singing and dancing with three birthday cakes a peanut hunt won by Lemont McInnis a donkey game by Leonard Tibbetts and a hobby prize for Mary Lemont.
The text extols honey as the oldest and most honorable sweet food with a pedigree older than the pyramids. It notes Pythagoras urged longevity with a recipe to eat nothing on bread but honey.
Japanese is described as easy to pronounce with many words ending in vowels and consonants presenting little difficulty. The text notes Japanese as one of the world’s easiest languages to articulate.
Lloyds Register reports 1921 launchings totaled 4,341,379 gross tons, down from 5,861,666 in 1920. United States fell by 1,470,000 tons, Britain dropped by 500,000, while other nations rose 467,000 tons. Germany posted first postwar figures at 509,004 gross tons, marking a new record for its prewar high.
Fred L. Andrews of the Hyde Wind Lass Co. is on a business trip to Boston and New York. Miss Agnes Fields of Hardings was a Monday guest of Mrs. Marjorie Cavanaugh on Park Street. Julius Berg of the Torrey Roller Bushing Co. recovering from a severe illness. Miss Ruth Ledyard weekend in Gorham with Miss Alice Hartnett. Casper Hartlett to Portsmouth to take a job as picture operator at the Colonial Theatre. Miss Vera Brown hosted the Unity guild at 60 Oak Street Tuesday night. Mrs. C. W. Lowell hosted the Monday Evening Club at Ledford Street with hot crackers and cocoa. Mrs. Fred Kittredge returned home after visiting daughter Mrs. Richard Hastings in Portland. Edna I. Cressey returned to Bridgewater, Mass., for her grandfather James Knight's funeral. Mrs. C. S. Gray of Southport visiting daughters on Bailey Street. Mrs. Fremont B. Giles of Boothbay visiting. Mrs. William J. Kimball, president of the Orphans' Home Association, went to Augusta for state purchasing agents session. Louise R. Staples of the Home attends.
A Bath professional man noted Thursday morning that most visitors to his office appear to be in the coal business. When asked why, he replied that everyone leaves the door open, making it nearly impossible to keep the place warm.
Arthur G. Staples of The Lewiston Journal notes in Just Talks on Common Themes how Bowdoinham and Bath Maine offered amused examples of names tied to trades or traits. He recalls T. Tyler the tailor, station agent Robert Carr, Sheriff Millee K Millay, and other townsfolk whose names echoed occupations or roles, provoking reflection on how early names reflected work or prowess.
Athenian comic poet Aristophanes faced a distressing hiccup at a banquet. Doctor Eryximachus prescribed breath holding and throat gargling, then tickling the nose with a feather, which triggered sneezing and ended the hiccup.
Samuel R. Preble, a Bath native and former Bowdoin College photographer, built a renowned career across Chicago, St. Louis, the Midwest, and Waterville. His Main Street studio in Waterville preserves a long photography lineage from Simon Wing and Charles Carleton. A hunter and trap shooter, he won Maine’s individual trap title twice with the Waterville Gun Club and supplied school and college portraits across Maine, including Colby College.
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