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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1912
Page
4
Records from a Bath merchant reveal names of individuals listed as debtors or creditors in 1794. The article links these names to broader stories about the town’s early commerce and social ties.
Editor recites store trade in Bath with names and details, plus maritime and family history. It covers a Connecticut Yankee trader, Cushings of Hingham lineage, land gifts along North Street, Parker Island, and Capt John Parker born 1705. It notes Parker’s double house with flankers, a slave community, Parker’s two marriages, and burial at Dromore Cemetery.
Bowdoin College coach Frederick Wiggin releases a spring schedule featuring games against Brown, Rhode Island State, Maine Central, Exeter, St Ansel’s, Dartmouth, Middlebury, Vermont, Tufts, Harvard, Colby, Maine, and Bates across April to June. Also notes water main repairs in West Bath, icy Center street hill, a merchants meeting postponed due to the president’s absence.
Wilbur C Oliver, Bath Republican mayoralty candidate, has led a long career as galvanizing entrepreneur and public official. Born 1860 at Parker Head, he left school for work, fished from Gloucester, and built a Bath business empire on Water and Vine streets. His political rise includes multiple terms on Bath city council and as head of the Ward Two Republican city committee.
About 100 Democrats gathered at Bath City Hall to renominate Frank A. Small for Mayor and to nominate ward tickets. Speakers praised the incumbent mayor, discussed tax changes, unpaid bills, and a new plan to assign bills to each administration, as the party prepared ward slates across seven wards. Republican caucus in Alameda nominated Wilbur C. Oliver for Mayor amid strong turnout and enthusiasm.
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