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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1908
Page
2
A Bath reader notes the Boothbay boat arrived in Bath earlier this season than ever before, signaling evolving records as ships adapt to modern engines. The piece urges municipal action to equip a fire boat with pumps to boost flood and fire protection along the narrow waterfront. It also discusses recent storm damage and telephone line outages, plus waste wood from mil salvage becoming fuel.
The Bath records over ten to twelve years are reviewed to assess if finances were run in a business like way and compared with twenty years ago. The Kennebec Journal cites Bath bond sales that outperformed Augusta through advertising and highest bidder sales. The piece notes crowded south end schools, a possible new school house, and urges Bath Merchants Association to drive civic progress and harness tidal advantages for industrial growth.
The Independent notes a prominent Bathman proposing a stock company to grow potatoes on Brunswick Plains. The soil is praised as ideal and a large, profitable crop is anticipated. Merchants and counties are coordinating to form a regional agricultural effort, with the Maine Retail Merchants Association expanding outreach. Bath Iron Works is praised for being chosen to build the new Lake submarine for the U S Navy, signaling growth in Bath's shipbuilding.
February meeting in Bath reviews the Poor Department audit, calls for tighter controls, and approves transfers and appropriations. Horace W. Ward reports 166 deaths in the year to Jan 31 1908 with 63 buried locally. Council approves library credit actions, school fund adjustments, and a Crescent street land use agreement with Maine Central.
Letters from women in Gardiner Maine and Chicago Illinois praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for curing female troubles without surgery. The ad cites patients with tumors and inflammation who avoided operations and attributes success to the remedy made from roots and herbs. Mrs Pinkham invites sick women to write for advice from Lynn Massachusetts.
The council reads and passes a request to render a year end expenditures statement by February 12 1908 and authorize the City Treasurer to refund tax deed 1905 on Abby C Hawley property sold to Harlow H Rogers of Boston charged to Tax Sales The report of the City Treasurer Rogers to February 5 1908 is read and accepted A petition by H A Duncan and fourteen others seeks naming the street over Wesley Lane Wesley Street due to the long standing name Continued on Page Seven.
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