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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1915
Page
6
Regular Genesta Chapter meetings, hospital staff changes, and a Maine optometrists gathering mark a busy Bath week. Reports note street ice hazards and horse care costs, naval and yacht club news, and a Bath subway incident with two Newport men among those detained.
Local items note Fred Coombs purchasing a new horse at Winnegance and various society events in Bath. Meetings cover hospital incorporators, church ladies’ aid groups, a Colonial basketball practice, and a Homefront era cultural slide of activities at Y M C A and Bailey School industries. A Bath Driving Club ice track race and Maine Automobile Association officers are reported, alongside a serious Brockton accident affecting a Bath resident’s sister.
The column covers a YMCA practice game, Deering auto plates, a union sermon, coastal forts spending near Portland estimated at 1.5 million, bowling league results, a federal tax exemption ruling for Boston & Albany, a late night street altercation, Bowdoin relay plans for several meets, Sagadahoc legislators committees, Bath Modern Woodmen installation, and camp activities with officers named and events outlined.
Miss Jane H. Shaw daughter of James and Margaret Shaw died Friday at her Elm street home after a short illness. At 80 she was one of the state’s oldest retired telegraph operators and recalled news of assassinations in three presidents. From Brunswick to Bath she received Lincoln Garfield and McKinley news, and worked with her brother Daniel C. Shaw at the Western Union. A Winter Street Church member, she lived with her sister Ellen T. Shaw and was widely known among Bath’s business community.
John Clements aged 77 died Thursday at his son’s home 728 Washington St after thirteen years as an invalid from a shipyard accident. A native of Prince Edward Island he came to Bath thirty years ago and was a respected, hardworking citizen. Survived by his widow four daughters Mrs John Callan Mrs E S Dunton Mrs Annie Frazier and Miss Helen Clements and two sons John J Clements and Robert. Funeral at St Marys Church this morning at 8 30.
Several workers reported laid off at the Kittery Navy Yard. A Bath confectioner admitted candy theft from a jar alleging law forbids exposing confections for sale without cover. Morse High’s basketball team traveled to Freeport with the girls to face Portland High this afternoon. Hyde Widlass Co shipped a 0000 pound propeller fan to New York with an express car aiding shipment from Bath to avoid extra transfers in Portland. A late night church incident near Pentecostal services prompted comment on strict enforcement of laws protecting worship. City Weigher Gilmore noted hay loads of 3300 pounds recently carried by the Hockomock, while Reed Mains often brings bigger loads. a 4800 pound Bath-from-Yarmouth load stands as the largest observed. Rev. and Mrs. Browne visited. he preached farewell as Lebanon Baptist pastor last Sunday and starts at Richmond tomorrow. H. J. Harvey of Auburn invited Acadia Lodge to compete in the third rank degree work at the April 19 jubilee, hoping to win a cup. theft of last year’s cup from Castle Hall remains unrecovered. Acadia Lodge installation likely January 28 and may be public.
Lawrence J. Hart of Bath, junior at Bowdoin College, ranked in the top ten strongest men based on recent physical examinations announced by Dr. Frank N. Whittier. The report notes Hart’s notable strength among peers as part of campus athletic rankings.
A Boston paper recently stated that only Pilgrims Winslow and Standish had coats of arms among those who landed at Plymouth Rock aboard the Mayflower. Descendants of these two Pilgrims were among Boston’s earliest residents and remain with linear lines in the city today.
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