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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1919
Page
3
Bath residents enjoy a busy week with club meetings and visits. Mrs John Hunt retired as Social Circle president from Corliss Street church. new officers elected include Mrs Chester Plant and Mrs Carol Deering. The Bath Iron Works connected community members share news of travels, marriages, births, and local honors.
A son was born January 9 to Mr. and Mrs. Randall Avery at 27 Liberty Street.
Judge John J. Keegan chairman of the local draft board and special inspector for Provost Marshal Presson was sent to Calais to inspect the records of the Washington county board.
Stanley Barrows, Bath Iron Works inspector under naval constructor John A. Lord, transfers to New York Shipbuilding Co. in Camden New Jersey and departs with Mrs. Barrows for the new post.
City officials debate civil service reform for Bath Police Depart ment to end partisan influence. A special committee names plans for an emergency act, plus measures to fund city operations and honor veterans.
City council and aldermen reach agreement to eliminate reference to the Lewiston act in a proposed police commission reorganization. A conference committee will draft an emergency act supervised by Mayor Drake for later legislature introduction. Health officials urged milk bottle sales and improved waste practices. Several Sewall family members win sewer access rights across their Maine Central land.
Capt and Mrs Ernest L Nash of the schooner Frank M Deering are in the city for a few days as guests of Mr and Mrs Harry G Deering. Nash has many Bath friends from when his schooner was built here. Deering sails to Africa, Nash staying home. Frederick J Laughlin of Portland, uncle of Mrs Herbert Mallard, has been named a trustee of the State School for Boys by Gov Milliken to fill a vacancy. He is a Cumberland County bar member and served three terms on the common council from ward 5.
Mrs. G A Pinkham of 261 Front Street reports a letter from her son Priv Albert Pinkham Co M 26th Infantry stating he has been ill but not describing the illness and that he has fought in four battles without being wounded. Alonzo W Smith of Portland dies at 76 after long service on the park board including 25 years as commissioner and 7 in retirement. Mrs Robert B Hatch hosts tea for her friend Mrs Edward Bonelli of Boston at Washington Street home.
George W Heselton of Gardiner appears in probate court to connect with the John Trainor estate. The proceedings concern a business connection and settling of assets in the Probate Court.
Robert Hennigan of the U. S. A. arrived from Rockland on Thursday afternoon for a short leave, according to local notes.
City updates list visits by Loring Philbrook and officials in Washington, military and school news, sleighing and ice work, library hours, and local incidents. Notables include John N. Taylor ill with influenza, Bernard Hennessy returning from overseas, and John B Brown discharged from naval reserve.
Lieut. Commander William A. Richardson U S N and Mrs Richardson depart Bath Thursday for Annapolis where Commander Richardson has been appointed to the Naval Academy He had been awaiting command of the torpedo boat destroyer Buchanan recently launched from Bath Iron Works Ltd but received transfer orders Wednesday night The couple made many friends during their Bath stay.
Constable Edwin L. Emmons plans action against boys who coast on Sundays citing profanity and loud talk. After numerous complaints, Chestnut street hill coasters faced police plans to seize sleds on second offenses and bring violators before Judge Keegan. Regulations will apply citywide, not just Chestnut street.
Celia Tilton across from Mrs H O Stinson arrives to care for Mrs Don aldson who is slowly recovering from a severe influenza attack at her Sutton Massachusetts home.
The 25 by 40 foot building once a tool house at the Coombs spar yard and later owned by Maxwell and Reed, now belonging to Daniel Bishop, will be moved this week to a site near the Bishop office and converted into a hardware store. The Diffin crew handles the move. More than 1000 mineral specimens gathered by the late Thomas F. Lamb have been bought by George W. Flint for the Boston Society of Natural History, including Tops ham beryl crystals regarded as among the finest in any collection.
A plea requests a dedicated criminal recording file at Bath police station to store portraits and literature for reference and matching photographs of strangers. The current haphazard system has caused losses of these likenesses and materials.
Firemen call for inspections of all restaurant ranges and bases, citing examples where ranges rest on wood floors and asbestos paper fails to stop heat transfer. A separate incident notes Miss Annie Hodgdon breaking both bones in her right arm after a fall near the post office, treated at home and by a physician. In a night-time fire at John W Ballou homestead, Combination 4 used two large chemical tanks to control a blaze with no water.
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