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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1926
Page
4
In a chaotic Colonial tournament report, Bug Chasers defeated Loud Speakers amid a noisy crowd. The page lists numerous games and players across billiards, darts, and card events with scattered results and notes on theatre fashion from Paris.
Gill Browne’s car leapt its running board as he clung to the vehicle. It crossed Sedgley’s Jot and rolled into the Baptist parsonage yard with no injuries or damage to the car. Nearby residents, services, and town updates fill the day as community life continues.
The article notes a gopher chewed the telephone cable between Zelzah and the San Fernando exchange, severing connections after rains and grounding wires. It mentions thrift programs in Czechoslovakia and a new student hostel dedication in Montevideo sponsored by local intellectuals.
Classified notice outlines three line ads at ten cents per line ten line minimum charge twenty cents. Provides submission deadline Tuesday nights and mentions yarns including Leathers for Hand Britting and Rug Yarns. Mentions Concord Worsted Mills West Concord New Hampshire.
Justice Philbrook introduces a written ballot method for foremen and outlines juror conduct. The docket shows 4274 to 4276 entries including Horatio Baker petition and division of marshes in Arrowsic. Divorces are few. alienation of affections cases fill the docket with Rich mond, Burns and Longfellow named among witnesses and parties.
Firefighting from Bath Lewiston and Freeport rushed to a three story wooden Tondreau block on Maine Street near IXth Ward hall. The blaze began around 11:15 PM in a grocer shop and spread to the roof, prompting water streams a inch and a quarter in diameter to combat the flames. Damages were estimated near $100,000 as crews reported a dramatic fire scene and wires failed to trigger early alarms.
Fire at an unidentified Bath building destroyed the block with damages estimated above fifty thousand dollars. The first floor housed Tondreau Brothers Grocery and several offices while the upper floors held medical practitioners and the Knights of Columbus. Firefighters from Bath and Brunswick battled the blaze, with a damaged wall to be removed for rebuilding.
Miss Edythe Kalee of Jackson Heights wed Frank VP Duley of Manhattan at the Church of St. Joan of Arc with Rev. Ward G. Meehan officiating. Bride wears navy georgette. bridesmaid Miss Betty Gilmore. best man Frank Dodd. The couple honeymoon ten days in Atlantic City and plan to reside in Jackson Heights. Duley is a Butler store manager. Mrs Duley is a Portland native and trained nurse.
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