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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1911
Page
7
City politics heat up as campaign runs through February with municipal election a week away. Reports cover Steamer Moosehead launch readiness, local school holidays, Morse High basketball victory, and the Bath fire in Brunswick. Community events include lectures, theatre trains, library additions, and civic meetings across Bath, Brunswick, Sagadahoc towns.
The Sagadahoc Pomona met with Sagadahoc Grange in Bowdoin Center on a clear day. H. J. Whitney chaired the session with Welcome by C. O. Purinton and varied program including music by the choir and a paper by E. E. Baker. discussions on reciprocity and social duties followed with remarks by J. H. Blanchard and P. C. Barker.
A. J. Hagan attends the automobile show in Portland. W. F. Mitchells visit Brunswick to see son W. H. Mitchell. Mrs Abbie Brann of Gardiner visits sister Mrs J. H. Mayo. J. B. Lemont and L. H. Curtis travel between Bowdoin Center Bath and New Meadows cottage. C. H. Bates and son visit Jenks J. Mitchell in Beachmont. J. E. Mayor attends Silsby Bailey wedding in Bath. Walter T. Brown tours Portland with A. G. Fisher. Josie Winter returns from Lewiston after Shriners Ball and visits F. W. Winter’s home.
At the Armory last evening Dr. Clarence A. Peaslee was nominated for mayor. Ward caucuses Tuesday night listed for each ward: alderman and councilmen, plus school committee members, including Elmer F. Campbell and Harold C. Roberts in Ward One and others across Wards Two through Seven.
Thomas A. McDonald of Clifton New Jersey, after twenty years studying hydraulics, met citizens yesterday to discuss his plan to develop power from tidal rise and fall.
A speaker recalls a sequence of dramatic injuries from a hotel fire and explosions, leaving them bald and slowed by accidents. Despite pain, comfort comes from accident insurance covering medical and related costs as they navigate streets in a slow carriage. The verse ends with a punchy claim that the General pays the bills.
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