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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1916
Page
8
Reports from Bath and nearby areas cover the ice conditions at Silver Lake and Popham Beach, a liquor search at 150 Commercial St., and Captain Brewer taking command of the Emily Ff Northam to coal vessels. Mayors, yard improvements, and aviation training plans show broad community activity and economic shifts.
The Bath scene reports barge movements downriver, club meetings, a basketball win for Portland Athletic Club over Wassitts, a whist party, a Pollyanna sociable, and a 30 to 19 Wassitts victory in Auburn. Also covered are a Bath wedding reception, a judge substituting in a divorce case, governor Brumbaugh's Philadelphia wedding, a fishing-ice free river, impending lectures by Taft, and dredging petitions for the Kennebec River.
The steamer Nahanada made a oplehat trip to Arrowsic on Saturday to break up the drift that had swung off the flats and blocked the channel now in use. The Hyde Windlass team held the Epicures to one point in a Park League game last Friday and Daley led in high single with 96 while Martin took high three string honors with 263. Bath notes include four Dartmouth graduates and local clergy. Easter date given as April 23, with notes on related calendar data.
The note extols lumbermen’s need for strong meals and rest to stay productive. It praises L. F. Atwood’s medicine as invaluable for guarding against stomach upset biliousness and headaches in remote camps. The ad-style snippet urges readers to request free samples by mail.
Popnam Beach reports confirm the Fall River team trip to Maine on February 8 is cancelled. Nahanada faced heavy ice and had to backstop multiple times near Arrowsic bridge before breaking through. Miss Kimball’s Y M C A class attracts Bath children enjoying exercises. Fortnightly Club plans a February 9 drama at Music Hall with Alice Whalen and Virginia Cowles. Fred W. Brown opens a Modern market on Center Street with new fixtures. George Holbrook leads meat cutting, Marie Brown cashier. Bermuda coal shipments rise as three schooners loaded at Norfolk for $4 per ton. Alonzo Parks, home from Greenville Junction, advances Coburn Steam Boat Co. fleet plans and notes unusually mild winter. ice out anticipated early spring barring a cold spell.
Weekend visits and travels unfold as residents from Moree to Portland and Lewiston are listed. Pneumonia recovery at City Hospital is noted for Joseph Mullaney. A new baby arrives at the Staples home in Plum Lane, Bath, with William Staples employed at Bath Iron Works. Dr. W. E. Rowe attends Maine Dental Examiners meeting after recent appointment by Governor Curtis.
The Murray Club met Monday evening with Miss Margaret Foster in attendance. Middle St. Alton Reed of the Howard Coal Co. office has been nominated Notary Public by Governor Curtis. The city fire alarm sounded clearly from Five Islands and the all out alarm amid northwest wind. Junkman John Davis buys and cleans metal in the Jackson blockshop. Henry W. Howard purchases lumber there. Capt. David Kent, formerly of the Adelaide T. Carlton, will command the schooner Brigadier this season in the coasting trade. Capt. Churchill departed New York due to illness.
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