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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1933
Page
5
William A. Furber, longtime member and former chairman of the Board of Education, will not run again though urged by supporters. The article notes a proposed city charter change could shift terms, with a transition that sets new four year cycles beginning in 1934 and aligns terms to January 1934 for exiting members.
Ninety thousand dollars in public bequests are named in the will of Mrs Emma H Moses widow of Galen C Moses which will be presented before Judge Glidden in the February session of Sagadahoc probate court Tuesday The real estate at 1009 Washington street corner of Grove Street is left to her cousin Miss Clarissa McIlwain formerly of Philadelphia The will dated Jan 21 this year shortly before her death Jan 27 named executors Hon Rupert H Baxter and Alden G Smith It is reported there were more than a score of public bequests Principal legacies include 15000 to Bath City Hospital and to YMCA 10000 to Bowdoin College and Congregational Conference and Missionary Society of Maine 5000 to American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Old Folks Home Old Ladies Home and others.
City council met briefly and approved roll of accounts. Mayor Small announced a temporary loan bid from National Shawmut Bank of Boston at 1.415 percent, the lowest rate yet, saving about 3600 in interest this year. another bid stood at 1.65 percent. Judge Keegan reported December arrests and city income share of 66.95. Burial lot permits granted to Willis F. Drummond and John E. Kelley. City election set for March 6 with polls 10 am to 7 pm. absent councilmen noted.
The lighthouse tender Hickory will be launched at 12:15 PM Thursday from Bath Iron Works marking the plant’s first 1933 launch and first craft since reopening in 1927. The single screw triple expansion engine will yield about 500 horsepower and a top speed near 12 knots. Mrs Thomas P Fowler will christen the vessel, with President and Mrs William S Newell hosting a luncheon at 1080 Washington Street after the launch.
William B. Jack superintendent of Portland public schools delivered an engaging talk on general education at the Maine Progressive Union annual meeting in the Cosmopolitan club house. He urged tuning education to individual talents and future life readiness, contrasting past and present schooling and stressing a world view.
A Antwerp steamer will arrive in Bath within a fort night to unload about 900 tons of acid phosphate for Sagadahoc Fertilizer Co. The material will be loaded on trucks and moved to Bowdoinham. Bath becomes the distribution point for the plant's 10 000 ton capacity.
Augustus Field Beard, longtime Central church pastor in Bath and elder statesman among Congregational and Christian churches, turns 100 this May 11. The centennial birthday is honored by 16 leaders including Paul Cravath and Yale President Angell for Beard’s work advancing human brotherhood and educational opportunities for Negroes. He is invited to deliver a centennial sermon in Norwalk and to speak on a national NBC broadcast.
At City Hall the Bath Taxpayers Association elected Hon. Joseph Torrey president and officers including Oliver Moses and Joseph McCole. About 120 members joined at 25 cents each as speakers urged budget cuts and better city department organization. By laws were adopted creating a 14 member executive committee and annual terms.
Pictures show severe damage along the river bank at Popham Beach from the January 27 28 storm with high surf and tides undermining cottages on the east shore. The cottage owned by Hiram T Strained is pictured as it was righted and leased for next summer. Also shown is the Summer home of Dr and Mrs E M Fuller of Bath.
Frank Smith, a West Bath milk dealer, escaped death when his Hudson skidded on ice on a Berry's Mills hill. He leapt to safety as the car toppled onto rocks and flipped into a cove, sustaining cuts and bruises from the landing. The accident occurred Wednesday morning. recovery and shore extraction were anticipated later.
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