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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1919
Page
1
Popham Beach eyes a great season as cottages demand rises and Bath seeks a hotel. Shipping Board plans 125 ships and ten drydocks, possibly benefiting Bath with a new dry dock, while Bath and Maine towns revive after wartime.
Hundreds attend the Bath opera house Friday morning for junior high graduation exercises. Miss Margaret Adams leads staff as 142 pupils graduate with music by the junior high orchestra directed by Ruth Martin.
Resident Sanitarian Chester H. Kingsley states six smallpox and eight scarlet fever cases exist in the city. He urges vaccination against smallpox and asks the public to report suspected scarlet fever to help prevent an epidemic during summer travel.
Over 300 members of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers Iron Shipbuilders and Helpers of America met Wednesday night in the armory to hear a report on last week's conferences about yard differences. Joseph McCormick and others spoke as the group discussed a possible conference between government examiner Oramandel L Preble and Texas Steamship Co general manager George B Drake to achieve a speedy settlement. The session lasted about an hour.
The Bath built Ferris type steamer Columbine launched in July for the Emergency Fleet Corporation and based in Portland harbor since September will embark on her first voyage to Norfolk Virginia to load coal for Copenhagen. Capt A L Hodgdon of Boothbay Harbor will command with Maine officers and crew. The ship moved from Bath to Ligonia for machinery and has since occupied various harbors awaiting orders. Shipping board plans Ferris type ships built or equipped at Portland plants to depart by August 15.
Mr. and Mrs. George Davey of 33 Edward Street marked their tenth wedding anniversary with a gathering of friends. Mr. Davey, a timekeeper at The Texas Steamship Co. plant, arrived in December. Mrs. Davey came in April from Quincy, Massachusetts. The couple has built a wide circle of friends since moving to Bath.
Locals report limited pea abundance but families already enjoy fresh harvests. Fred W. Barron savors his first garden mess, J A Thwing from Woolwich shares and sells peas at one dollar per peck. Officials plan to remove a historic elm on Water Street to widen the sidewalk, a loss noted by tree lovers.
The Boston Transcript lauds Bath Maine for building a municipal health department during wartime shipyard growth. It notes swift action by Mayor J Edward Drake and Dr C S Kingsley, with Emergency Fleet Corp aid, six hundred annual complaints, and new sewers, clinics, and air of civic health. Influenza response spurred emergency funds and hospitals, while Bath prepares to sustain health services with its own officer after federal support ends.
Members of Co. IL of the 3rd Maine infantry returned Saturday to Bath after a week at Camp Keyes for an officers and non commissioned officers school in Augusta. They travel by trolley and arrive at 12 15. Miss Leota Jacobson of Colby College arrives for the summer in Bath. Caldwell M. Jacobson, recently discharged from the Royal Flying Corps, is in Montreal teaching in public schools.
A Runnegance youngster miraculously escaped injury after being run over by a passing automobile Saturday. The car owner is unknown and no plate number was found. Local officers warn drivers to use caution on the worn bridge planking while awaiting funding for replanking, with a timber barrier planned along the middle to direct traffic to the stronger sides.
Supreme Court Justice John A. Morrill presided in Bath on June 14 over Morse et al versus Oliver and Oliver versus Morse et al. He denied dissolving the injunction in the first case and limited it to the pasturing season, while granting a preliminary injunction in the second to restrain cattle from roaming the private road. Both actions set for later hearings on permanency.
The Sabino summer season has started with nearly every cottage occupied. Capt. and Mrs. Perey and the Grinnells are at their cottages near the town. Clarence Johnson bought and renovated the Greenleaf Jog cabin into a fi bungalow and is hosting guests as work nears completion.
Mrs. Mary A Harrington died suddenly Tuesday night at 468 High Street aged 80. Born in Grand River Prince Edward Island she had lived in Trath 36 years and was a member of Wesley M E church. Survived by three children two sons Daniel F and James W MacRuchanan and three grandchildren George Cora and Ruth Buchanan. Services will be private Thursday at four with burial in Woolwich.
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