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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1925
Page
2
Duncan McIntosh of Woolwich argues a state milk law defining Grade A milk is flawed. He contends the act allows selling other milk from same dairy and cites farm examples to call for referenda this fall. He warns the statute could force some dairies to quit milk selling.
Personal notes recount exchanges and visits among residents in Wiscasset and nearby areas. Mentions Foster Perkins, Monies W. S. Wilson’s family, Gerrich and Gerrmeh families, Dr and Mrs Langden, and others. References travel, illnesses, and social calls with scattered street and street-ends details amid a stream of names and locations.
Miss Ruth Holbrook visits Portland for a few days. Albert Perkins of Westport visits town on Saturday. Mr and Mrs Harry Horne and son Chester travel to Five Islands for summer. Florence Seymour stays at Bay Point with Mrs Currefi A Deering. George Legard leaves Courttreet for the Feery house on Vine Street. Gordon F Wreble of Oak Street attends Sumner School at Farmington. James M Farland of Arrowsic recovers from pocupenia at City Hospital. Mr and Mrs Thomas York of Brun Wick visit his brother William York. Mrs York. Pete Evan and son Philip return from Southport after a week at the Das View hotel. Mrs Thomas Gibbens hosts a supper party with auction at her Wast- Myteptreet home. Mrs Belle Weal wins first prize, a pair of phetee king Al Meerton. Sou thief of the division in Maine Department of Agriculture. Former Westlands, Wakeleetes biewitcher of the Augusta area noted Monday night. Names connected to a press notice for Nelson. Mr Sale receives 145 votes for his opponent, Mrs Frank Hyesl of Vrunewek Road arrives from Hartford with her daughter and relatives visiting. Mrs Peed die, a poet of Massachusetts and Connecticut, visiting for a few weeks. Mr Fitzgerald returns from Boston with his son Arthur. Lieut Kunard J. Fitzgerald at New London Naval Base. Brother Dr Paul Fitzgerald of Dover, Del returning from England aboard the ship Lesitation. John Fitzgerald and family plan a reunion at Fitzgerald home in five days.
A steady stream of guests arrives at West Bath summer cottages along the New Meadows River. Notables include Miss Jane G. Bunker of Brooklyn opening Ashawaug camp for girls, families from Bath and Augusta vacationing at various cottages, Red Cross workers meeting for a knitting session, and local residents joining attendance at Chautauqua events and summer schools.
Francis Duprey and Genevieve Duprey travel to Old Orchard to see their uncle Fred Merrill. Several families and individuals relocate or visit for the season, including Mrs. Carleton and daughter Petty to Clinton Conn, Miss Eulah Mitchell back to Portland, and Mrs. Eva Bishop and daughter Winifred to East Brunswick. Other notes include Mrs. Henry W. Owen moving to Mere camp in Popham Beach, guests at George P L Davenport’s, and social visits among Bath and Newark residents with auction entertainment hosted by Edna Pepper.
Central Maine railroad timetable shifts alter Bath schedule with earlier forenoon departures and new Boston express at 12.40 while the New York express remains 7.50. Several arrivals and connections move, including Portland Brunswick service and Sunday trains, with revised timings for Lewiston and Rockland routes.
Miss Laura Simpson Clisby daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Clisby and Archibald Grey Campbell son of Mr and Mrs William B Campbell of Boothbay Harbor wed at the bride’s home with Rev Charles Sumner Holton officiating. The double ring ceremony featured a white satin gown and valley lilies. Guests from Augusta Somerville Hyde Park and Bath attended as the couple plan a wedding trip to Eastport then home to Boothbay Harbor at the Hotel Commodore.
A large congregation filled the Chautauqua tent in Bath for Sunday services led by Rev. George Wilson Scudder and Rev. Charles E. Brooks with J A Swetnam. Dr. Charles S. Medbury of Des Moines spoke on loy alty to the Church, and gifts for local guarantors totaled 1412.
Mrs Georgie Walker and daughter Maxine leave for Farmington Normal School for a six week summer course. Several visitors from Portland, Damariscotta, and Wiscasset arrive for visits. Various residents attend camps, summer schools, and family gatherings. Reverend Chester R. Duncan will preach at South church and Sagadahoe Ferry with the same Salvation theme.
The Weymouth house at the Mills formerly Chisholm’s Inn was sold to Gardiner parties and will be reopened as a hotel. Prof. L A Bailey, Union superintendent of schools, was re elected Saturday. Dorr Woodward and family occupy the Week’s cottage for the summer. Mr Rooney returns to his Dresden home for the season. Miss Eulela Pray re elected assistant at Bridge academy. Miss Alice Taylor resigns as commercial teacher. Prof Wilmot B Mitchell of Bowdoin college visited town. Mr and Mrs McCarty and family drive to Winthrop with son to stay at Y M C A camp. Kathleen and John prepare for a Wop ham Beach trip. Divorces granted by Justice Arthur Chapman include Harry L Andros of Portland from Edith B E Andros of Brunswick. marriage noted June 8 190s.
Mrs. Merline Thompson traveled to Poland Spring on Wednesday to serve as riding instructor at Camp Navajo for the summer. She was joined by her parents Mr and Mrs Harry L Thompson and Charlotte Rauser, and they returned in the afternoon. Mr and Mrs Plarkson RE Bowie also returned from a visit in New York.
Lists of students by class year with highest honors and honors designations at Morse High School. Names include Munsey, June Parks, Harry Pinson, Ephraim Pooler, several Trotts, Spaulding, Williams, and many others across post graduate to freshmen levels.
State assessors from Sagadahoc county join Bath officials at the courthouse for the annual conference. Officials will present valuation books to compare one year’s figures and explain increases or decreases.
The funeral of Lemuel Franklin Stinson was held Sunday afternoon at his home on Bailey Neck road Woolwich. Rev Edwin Dodge Hardin of Winter Street church Bath officiated. Bearers were John Carter Cyrus H Gilmore Frank Bailey and William Hanson. Burial followed in Riverside cemetery Days Ferry.
The first meeting of creditors before Referee in Bankruptcy William T. Hall was held Friday at two. Attendees included Michael Pecci and Edward W. Bridgham for the bankrupt, and Walter Hidden for Bath Trust Co. Ralph Dale for petitioning creditors was absent. The Referee continued the meeting to Friday July 3 at the same time and place to allow more time to arrange details of the proposed composition.
A woman phoning The Independent explained she boarded a Ford sedan owned by Harry Bridge of Bridge Merrill Co by mistake. The vehicle she used was later found to be several yards behind the Bridge car, prompting an apology.
Motorists along the Bath to Thunswick route report several young partridges seen near the Chapel and Cooks Corner, indicating local wildlife activity in the highway vicinity.
Dr. Walter E B Rowe returns from Augusta where he joined the State Board of Dental Examiners. Board members include Dr. Archer Jordan Auburn Dr. George W Mackay Millinocket Dr. Henry Gilman Portland and Dr. Fred Kh Maxfield Bangor. They examined 10 candidates to practice dentistry in Maine and one woman for dental hygiene. Clerks from Bath Department Store and Butler's Specialty Store dined at Hotel Phoenix Tuesday night with Mrs. Mary Rodick Miss Emma Morse Miss Mildred Marion Bowie Miss Willa Frederickson Miss Bernadette Collins Miss Bessie Clark and Mrs. Lillian Wright in attendance.
Miss Nan Trask departed Tuesday for Packard camps near Winthrop to spend the summer season.
Rev Samuel J Hersum 86 a famed Seventh Day Adventist evangelist in Maine died at his home 19 Valley road on June 24 He was born in Belgrade son of James and Mary D Hersum educated there and at Advent College South Lancaster Mass He worked in Portland Richmond Washington DC and Newfoundland where he built a church He retired five years ago and later moved to Bath He is survived by his wife Mrs Hersum a son Charles Hersum of Haverhill Mass and was the last of a 10 child family
Lemuel Franklin Stinson 68 lifelong Woolwich resident died at home after a seven month illness. A joiner by trade, he served as deacon of the Congregational church at Nequesset. He is survived by his wife four sons Everson John Arthur and William, a daughter Ruth Doyle and a sister Jane Stinson.
Mrs Lulu I Miller 64 widow of Granville W Miller of Bath died Monday morning at 8 20 at her home 22 Center street after a stroke three weeks earlier Born in Lisbon she moved to Bath over 50 years ago and lived here since She was a member of First Baptist church Lowell Temple DP S and the auxiliary to T W Hyde camp S of W Survived by three sons Winfield L Miller of Kittery Vernon W and Leonard V Miller of Bath one grandson Leonard V Miller of Bath one brother Delmer Smith Bath and cousin Mrs Kate Sheld Freeport Funeral arrangements pending
Mrs. Margaret Gertrude Ansert 36 wife of Arthur M. Ansert died Tuesday at 12.05 AM at 53 Chestnut Street after three years of invalidism bedbound since Thanksgiving. Born in Chicago she lived in Bath 17 years and was a Queen Esther Rebekah lodge and Golden Cross member. Survived by husband five children parents two sisters in Chicago and one in Ithaca New York.
The article argues that productive farm hours rise when non productive labor is cut and labor saving machinery is used. Electric power transforms barn work from grindstones to grinding, fanning mills, and house chores like pumping and washing. Electric light improves living conditions and efficiency for farming families. It also notes Bath residents reacting to Santa Barbara earthquake damage. The Arlington hotel, beloved by eastern visitors, was brick built and once run by John J Herman, a Bath native and friend of William J O’Brien, who met him in California years ago.
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