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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1956
Page
8
Forty years ago in Bath a progress report covers Bath Water District price talks with Maing Water Co, new arrivals from Baltimore, ship and railway work, school funds and pennants, and local society updates. The items mention Lieut Campman, Captain Prescott, Morse high school achievements, and plans for trolley extension to Sewall shipyard.
Jan 27 1916 notes Hon Harold M Sewall praising the territory now part of the New England Shipbuilding Co yards for more wooden vessel tonnage than anywhere on earth. Also covers ongoing projects at Bowker schooner yard and Sewalls works plus local meetings and social events in Bath Maine.
The Fort McKinley post basketball squad meets the Colonial club this evening, noting a crucial distinction: this is a post team rather than a company team, a factor shaping the contest.
Thursday Harold Boyd and his white rabbit dog bagged the sixth rabbit in a week, while other local notes report the Fisher house demolition on Front Street and sports events in progress at the gym including the Wassitt basketball series between Auburn teams.
Alonzo Parks returns from Greenville Junction where he is building the Coburn Steamboat Co. new queen of the Moosehead fleet. The craft will launch in spring due to ice. Parks also contracts two more boats. Morse Bros. ship eight long spars from Oregon to Bowker yard in Phippsburg Center. Local war relief ships 410 compresses 170 gauze dressings 30 drains 10 body binders 340 bandages and one knit wrister pair sent to New York. Rockland Colonial club to stage H M S Pinafore to clear last season’s baseball debt.
In Bath 1916 politics loom with March city election and June state primary set, while westward rivers thaw and a fishing boat resumes activity. The sloop Iris brings 800 weight of brim cod and shad from Boothbay as civic changes unfold at Bath Iron Works and local institutions report health and social notes.
At 6 10 pm a gasoline pump at Howard Coal Co on Commercial Street caught fire and was extinguished with a booster line and chemical spray. Recall followed at 6 35 pm. At 7 47 pm firefighters responded to a chimney fire at 33 Bluff Road. no service was required and recall was at 8 05 pm.
The Bath Country Club maintains basic dues at 10.00 with an option to prepay advanced green fees or use the Pay As You Play system without maximums this year. A 1.00 greens fee applies to those with a 10.00 membership. A pond and redesigned pumping system will ensure water, aiding play through the summer. A new hot water system and renovated men’s showers are planned. dining room operations remain undecided due to volume. Weather permitting, course readiness is aimed for late April with an official opening around April 28, 1956.
Harrington, a Morse High School 1935 graduate from Bath, has led Phippsburg's Board of Selectmen for a decade and serves as chairman. Employed in Bath Iron Works shipfitting, he is master of Bodwell Grange, married with four sons. This is his first bid outside town government.
Seventeen individuals including Tarpy Schulten James W Temple Marcus King Arthur W Gediman Ivan A Trueworthy Bernard E Varnum Donald Emero John Allen Kenneth N Francisco Howard Frye and Mr and Mrs Donald Leavitt are listed as members of the Board of Directors in the community document.
Bath Runaways fled but traveled in a different direction. The boy was picked up by State police in Wiscasset and returned to his home in Woolwich. Woolwich Mutual Fire Insurance Company records dated December 31, 1985 list assets and liabilities with net cash assets of 7.03.
Political notes continue from Page Two noting Mark W. Harrington of Phippsburg as a potential candidate for selectman. Additional competition may emerge from Topsham and Richmond prior to June as observers anticipate further entries.
Dr. Jay B. Hubbell of Duke University argued that Pocahontas saving Captain John Smith would have altered American history. He said a true tale might have linked the couple to Washington Kenny and Lee, but historians disagree and America lacks an Aeneid.
Michigan fur trapping yields nearly a million dollars yearly from mink muskrat raccoon badger and other pelts. Muskrat pelts fetch about one dollar, mink around twenty dollars per pelt, and roughly 15 000 trappers buy licenses annually while farmers and their sons trap after school.
Baltimore’s glue factory makes tapioca based adhesive used on about 23 billion stamps annually. The powder blend includes small amounts of hydrochloric acid and tapioca flour sent to Washington for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to apply. The motto proclaims “Licked by all yet licked by none.”
Ocala weather notes show the downtown station runs up to 12 degrees warmer than the northern outskirts. The weather bureau sends the outskirts’ readings, while the chamber of commerce urges switching to downtown readings, including for winter. asking what to do for summer.
Sagadahoc County Probate records name Gertrude A Lagasse guardian of Roland Ro Lagasse Sr of West Bath. Guardian appointment dated January 3 1956 and bond filed January 12 1956. Arthur J Dunton Judge of Probate certifies true copy of original order.
Municipal Court in Bath fined Elmer Doughty West Bath ten dollars and costs five point seven zero for a licensing count and James Koehling ten dollars and costs eight point seven zero after a brief hearing. Robert Wilson Bruns wick pleaded guilty to possession of more than a half bushel of quahogs without a dealer license and paid ten dollars plus five point seven zero costs. Frank R Gray Bangor failed to appear on a charge of not displaying a P U C plate while transporting property for hire on Route 201 at Topsham.
Julius A. Wood escaped serious injury after his car ran off Route 66 in Lincoln and overturned in Brainerd's branch, striking a sign and ending upright on its wheels. The incident was described as containing only cuts.
A diaper service driver left 40 infant diapers on a doorstep in Canton Ohio. Someone stole the diapers from the porch before official pickup, prompting concern over property crime targeting infant supplies.
Probate notices list estates: Mattie K Bachelder Bath. Margaret F Frye Bath. Lawrence R Vail Georgetown. Ralph D Warren Beth. Walter E Taylor Bath. John H Blaisdell Hyth. Actions include final accounts and petitions for probate, letters testamentary or administration, and executrix named. Court date set for February next at ten o’clock in the forenoon.
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