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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1919
Page
4
City Clerk Grassy reports 1918 births marriages and deaths higher than 1917. Births up 6, marriages up 18, deaths up sharply due to the October influenza outbreak. A table compares 1917 and 1918 figures, noting potential late reports. Also notes a legal pickerel sale rule restricting sales to legally caught fish.
The Board of Education voted to extend school days to recover time lost to influenza. Morse high and junior high will strengthen English with Miss Harriet Johnson teaching new courses and spelling efforts. Manual training resumes with Clifford Duskin in charge of drills and pay set at 1299 dollars. Calisthenics and military drills proceed in the YMCA gymnasium and Morse assembly hall. Morning and afternoon hours extend to 930 to 1450 and 130 to 345 respectively.
The new coal shed of the People's Ferry Co is stocked with 250 tons of soft coal. Hockomock steamer rides alongside the chart to load coal, saving trackage. Local notes record visits, deaths, and town news including Mrs Seddon of Nequasset and other Bath area residents.
The funeral for Irving Buker US Army, at his parents' home on Trufant Street, was conducted by Rev. FE Hilton Post of Beacon Street Methodist Episcopal Church. Attendees included Chester Colby and Irving Nathaniel Stover. A detachment from Company L Maine, led by Capt. Merton O Weber, escorted the body to Oak Grove for burial with a flag covered casket and firing detail.
The funeral for Jacob Jacobson is Tuesday afternoon at 72 Court Street with Rev David L Wilson officiating and Knights Templar bearing duties. Burial occurs at Oak Grove with bearers from Bath Works and escort members listed. Miss Mary J Schottler dies in Boothbay and funeral details follow.
Bowdoinham organizes a Red Cross relief society led by president C. H. McEwin to provide local aid for sickness and other needs. Membership is voluntary with no dues, and contributions are welcome. The next meeting is scheduled for Monday at the K of P hall.
Mrs. Mary E. Danforth widow of James Danforth aged 89 died Tuesday at her High Street home after about a week of illness. She was born in Bath to Samel and Sarah Higgins and is survived by a granddaughter Mrs. Davis Miller and a grandson Silas Bryant.
Dorothy R Crocker daughter of Gardiner E and Lena Crocker died Wednesday at her parents home 515 Middle Street from pneumonia. She was two years and one month old and survived by several brothers and sisters.
An old Bath duck shooter recounts a day with Charles Ward, Prince of the Bay, as eight gray ducks lay on their backs in the Topsham shore grass. When fired upon the whole flock vanished midflight, leaving the hunters puzzled about the birds’ sudden liftoff. Meanwhile Jarge Mahony heads to Kennebec with 1450 tons of stove coal for Howard Coal Co.
A Richmond man calling himself Richmond Farmer in the Lewiston Journal argues that 19 adjoining farms yield little stumpage value and low wages. He describes high costs for stove wood, crop labor, and hay, with farmers earning modest daily incomes and facing poor markets and weather impacts.
A brief notice praises Gill Brown of the town and his impressive horse Our Colonel with a remarkable 208 percent figure noted in the lines.
Word confirms parents of Bath soldiers in the 303d field artillery that the unit is to be sent home in about six weeks from France. Named Bath members include John Murphy Amory McLellan Charles Hall and Harry Miller. Five loads of hay from Woolwich were sold for 30 dollars a ton.
List of Cumberland County divorce libels includes Frank Farnsworth vs Anna Farnsworth of Portland alleging cruelty desertion and seeking child custody. Alice Cotton of Brunswick sues Charles Cotton of Rumford for non support intoxication cruelty and unfaithfulness seeking custody of three children and alimony. Cassie Perrault of Brunswick sues Edward Perrault of Norway alleging non support and intoxication seeking custody of four children.
Captain Merton O. Webber urged a new and enlarged armory after complaining the current drill floor is too small for Co L of the 3d Maine infantry. He called for funds from the state or city or joint efforts to provide a modern armory with a large drill floor.
Milton W Chadbourne, Boston superintendent of painters for L P Soule Son Co at housing project 13 North End, received a meerschaum pipe as a New Year gift from his associates. Arthur Gray presented it in the paint shop. Crew remarks reflected gratitude and the crew expects three more months to finish the houses.
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