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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1911
Page
12
The Independent notes Maine boards of trade hold fairs that fund treasuries for boards and lure manufacturers. Bath could adopt a grange and merchants’ fair with city country support to draw hundreds from surrounding towns, possibly buying buildings and boosting local industry.
James W. Davis of Phippsburg was walking to his job at John G. Morse & Sona’s portable mill along the Basin road when a large moose charged from the woods striking at him. The animal had been sighted previously in West Bath and upper Phippsburg. Hyde Windlass Co. plans a strong exhibit at the Boston motor boat show.
Leslie Oliver earns an engineer license and joins the Morgan Line steamer Momus between New York and Galveston. Parker Head’s Frank Daley becomes third engineer on the Tremont sailing New York to Panama. Howard Wyman moves to a better post on the Georgia bound for Providence. Captain Frank Sheffield improved after confinement. Zilottie Locke funeral at Wesley Methodist Bath with pallbearers named.
Deputy Sheriff Ballou is recovering at Bath City Hospital and should be out of danger soon. The water works committee and board of health visited Nequas set Thursday to inspect the city's water source and will present their report at next Wednesday's city government meeting. Philip P. Cole of North Street spoke at Bowdoin College on the Panama Canal fortification issue, siding with the negative in the debate.
Today Morse High students organize a tag day fundraiser to raise money for a trip to Washington. Nightly events and student organizers promote the effort to local residents and parents.互动
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