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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1921
Page
1
Ad rate terms listed for advance periods including one year six months and four months. Rates shown as 1.60 and 60e with typographical errors. The notice records the paper as second class matter June 19 1409 in Bath Maine under the Mareh Bs designation.
A lengthy letter to The Tidependent argues heavy trucks threaten rural Maine roads, urging remedies as towns with weak tax bases struggle to fund road maintenance. It notes railroads spent 349.5 million on equipment in 1920 and warns of truck-driven damage on soft dirt roads while rail transport recovers from wartime control. It also touches on gambling, thrift, and Hoover's plea to raise 33 million dollars to aid European children.
A winter storm did not spoil the second assembly for Red Cross and hospital benefit. The Armory seat fill, Myrna Avery orchestra played, patrons Mrs. Fred T. Kimball Mrs. William J D Sewall and Miss Mary L Turpin attended, and punch was served. Carroll Watson chaired the committee grateful for patronage. The event will raise funds for hospital activities. a third assembly is planned for February 4.
The board of fire escape inspectors orders removal of inflammable decorations from dance halls after inspections by Chester H. McCabe. Several school buildings’ fire escapes were inspected with numerous changes ordered, and the Board of Education is expected to comply promptly. Other public buildings have been visited and directed to make improvements.
Supt Lewis of the local division announces a special car will leave Sagadahock square Saturday noon about 12 15 for Bath Iron Works and Hyde Windlass Co employees who do not work Saturday afternoons. The run is at the request of workers along the Bath to Brunswick route. One or two camps swept from Arrowshire during the recent gale reach Upper Hell Gate.
Woolwich Day Ferry hosts a Saturday evening entertainment and supper to raise money for a new desk and metrolla. The item supports community schooling as local figures travel and visit towns, with multiple residents returning from trips and hosting gatherings at area churches and homes.
Secre tary ThE Wood releases official averages and standings for the Associate Bowling league after the first round ending Jan 14. Reynolds leads with a 9.3 average, Hodge second at 9.3, while the Eagles top team with 6 915 pinfall and American Legion second with 6 001 pinfall.
Morse High basketball has played six games, scoring 161 points while conceding more than opponents. They have won all but one, including a 28 to 33 loss to University of Maine Rovers. If pace holds, they project over 1,200 points in a 20 game season and face tough matches ahead versus Westbrook Sem, Cong, Bangor, and Coburn Classical.
The Patten Free Library adopts Dawes Decimal Classification with Cutter tables, aided by the United States Catalog, Book Review Digest, and Booklist. Miss Mae Gilman runs the new Children’s Department, hosting displays of American figures, pictures, and etiquette books as 80 youngsters visit after school. Morse girls beat Greeley 39 to 18 as Captain Eleanor Witham nets a Morse record 18 baskets.
Morse High School turned in a dominant performance to defeat Kent’s Hill in a one sided basketball contest. The visitors played cleanly and showed they are game sports in any circumstances.
Morse girls crushed Greeley Institute 39 to 7 in the first home game of the season. They outplayed the visitors in every phase and showed marked improvement since the Rockland defeat. Miss Porter of Greeley, a standout, was named to the All Maine girls team last season.
Reynolds anchored the Texas squad in a four string league match against Masters, Texas winning 1144 to 1031. Reynolds averaged 108 with a 443 series, and the first string tally of 618 marked a strong team effort against the Washington club’s 425 record.
Large catches of smelt were taken on the ice across the river last week with James Kerr leading at 71 pounds from Day's Eddy and Charles Smart at 50 pounds. Young Curley and Edward Savage reported 4 to 50 pounds from Arrowsie camp while Pearl Dunbar and Edward McLellan added baskets totaling 11 and 18 pounds. Fewer fishermen fished Arrowsie this year, more camped on Whiskeag ice or Winnegance creek, with bait prices high from 25 to 40 cents. Suckers are born every minute, and the Scribe notes how bait fish are prepared by beating alive ones to increase blood flow.
Bath has surpassed the $1000 milestone in the relief fund for starving European children with $1025 raised so far at tent headquarters. County contributions from Bowdoinham and Bowdoin, plus Richmond, total additional small sums, while Maine’s 1920 corporation fees reached $85,109.
The Patten Library Association formed in Bath in 1847 by George F Patten and John Patten with 132 subscribers. Key figures included Dr Israel Putnam, RE S J Nealley, and various presidents. In 1852 they acquired King’s library for 300 dollars, and in 1890 Galen C Moses funded the park site and library building, opened January 1, 1901, as a public library for Bath.
Smelt Town on the Cammy Ground suffered extensive damage from a Friday storm. More than 20 smelt camps were swept away as ice broke and drifted, leaving houses stranded on ice and some afloat. George Roderick reported the scene noting no camp owners fished at the time. the once thriving smelting camp was wiped out.
Arthur G. Gilmore of Bath and Miss Keta Shea of Winslow wed at the Congregational parsonage in Winslow in a double ring ceremony conducted by Rev. O E Barnard. Attendants were Mrs Russell Getehell and Mrs Ernest Taylor. The couple plan to reside in Winslow after Mr Gilmore continues work in local mills following recent Bath Iron Works and Waterville cotton mill employment.
Samuel Belanger, Albert Corliss, William Sturtevant, Frank Farrin, John Higgins, Horace Morse and Jimi Wold of Bath Rifle association met at W. H. Smith & Sons on Front street last night to plan making the group a member of the National Rifle Association. The meeting focused on steps to join and align with the national body.
A year ago on January 11 the ice on the Se basticook river stood 20 inches thick. By December 25 nearly every town family had harvested ice for the winter, but now the river ice measures eight inches or less and none has begun cutting.
Leading debutante event of the week, the Chilton club reception for Camilla Sewall featured a house party with out of town guests including Miss Adeline Oxnard and Miss Dora Parker. Guests wore elegant gowns, greenery and roses decorated the club, and ushers included Loyall Sewall and several Sewall brothers.
Miss Maud A. Reilly of Tanger, former Bath public health nurse, has been appointed to the Waterville position. She substituted for Miss June Rideout during Simmons College training, later worked privately near New Harbor, and served in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps. Reilly will assume duties in Waterville soon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Reilly.
Wilbur C Oliver II hosted an afternoon gathering at 704 Washington Street for his eighth birthday. Guests played games and won prizes in a peanut hunt and donkey game. Refreshments and cake followed as the children stayed late.
An automobile bearing license 10.392 Me 1821 jumped the road east of Hillside Sunday afternoon, cutting through a telegraph pole and stopping several feet beyond. The Chalmers car, driven by Julius Bellows of Lisbon Falls, sustained heavy front damage but no injuries to occupants.
City Clerk Albert J. Grassy handles pension applications from veterans of the Civil and Spanish wars, widows of veterans, and other relatives. A large number in the city receive pensions tied to these wars, indicating ongoing processions of beneficiary claims this season.
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