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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1924
Page
2
The report notes subdued activity from Maine to California with a hopeful mood that conditions may improve this fall. Dealers cite cautious buying and a hoped for conservative government as needed for revival, while crop and steel sectors show mixed signals and early signs of stabilization.
A reader argues the tariff does not unduly burden farmers who buy many items on the free list. The piece catalogs farm essentials exempt from tax such as plows, harrows, threshing machines, wagons, cream separators, barbed wire, leather goods, kerosene, gasoline, and farm fertilizers including potash and nitrate.
President Coolidge directs the Attorney General to file against major oil firms for a gasoline conspiracy and monopoly. The action targets primary and secondary defendants alleged to have kept gasoline prices high, with prosecutors seeking relief for consumers if charges prove true.
Bath business leaders gathered at the common council room on Thursday to hear a plan from Bath elitrgens for building a new hotel without a controlling company. Officials praised the fair, businesslike offer and pledged to answer all questions while urging careful consideration to bring a hotel to completion this season. Citizens anticipate benefits from tourism and future state revenue as Maine summer camps attract youth and families.
Shells from George Timmond's field at Dimitriscotta are moved for road surface on the Walker place. Caleb Kirstow unearthed a conical pottery fragment like the top of a wine glass, with iron pyrite bits in the baked clay, plus bone and deer antler fragments.
Ellen FB Clifford 65 postmistress of North Edgecomb died by hanging at her home Friday morning. The Boothbay Harbor to Wiscasset stage driver found the office closed and town residents located her body. Widow of Fred W Clifford former North Edgecomb general store proprietor, she had suffered nervous troubles and despondency is believed to be the cause.
Bowdoin College president Kenneth M. Sills announced a gift of 3500 from Mrs Helen Phirtley Jenkins of New York City to fund the Bowdoin Institute of Literature to be held next May in conjunction with the Longfellow Hiawthorne centennial. The donation was made through the Phartley Corporation of Hartford Conn in memory of her daughter Helen Phartley Geer. Mrs Jenkins, a noted philanthropist, has supported Columbia University buildings and endowed its Teachers College School of Nursing.
Tar is being applied on state highways from Westbrook to Standish Corner and Sebago Lake various routes. Other stretches include Poland Spring Hotel to Oxford, Bangor to Bar Harbor, Hampden near 84 percent mile, Caribou to Vresque Isle and Easton, Augusta to Belgrade bituminous road, and Hallowell segments near Farmingdale line. A daughter born June 21 to Mr and Mrs Elwood Hathorn is named Norma Helen Hathorn.
Mars W C Martin of Dallas voices a threefold aim economic social and educational at the American Country Life Association convention. She calls for organized efforts to improve rural life and cooperation between farm homes and communities to solve household and sanitation problems and boost marketing efforts.
A compact calendar of Morse High activities from October through June. Mentors and issues of the Mentor yearbook, freshman reception, student council reform, football teams, music groups, honors lists, contests, Y M C A reopening, drama productions, band and orchestra, debatings and mass meetings, track and field, basketball, baseball practice and games, graduation plans, and school events including dances and prize stories.
The navy is phasing hammocks out for bunks as sailors embrace improved berthing. About a thousand bunks are being installed at the Puget Sound navy yard in Oklahoma, with plans to equip American vessels. Destroyers already use bunks due to space constraints.
Equestrians in London are reverting to the side saddle as riding astride strains dancing. A prominent riding master says the side saddle adds grace and security. Girls from ten to twenty years old are being encouraged to ride astride.
Special arrangements provide four conference halls with sensitive microphones and about 200 seats fitted with ear pieces to aid deaf attendees. A. W. Treadway of Boston visited Bath on Thursday.
In Washington D C the National Geographic society will hold two afternoon geography conferences for educators attending the National Education association meeting July 1 and July 3. Tolph A Graves of Georgetown will discuss The Romance of Geographic Explorations with slides and motion pictures detailing expeditions, volcanoes, earthquakes, glaciers, and notable discoveries from Chaco Canyon to Tehuacan and beyond.
Territorial Senator Frank A. Aldrich lauds the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines as the farthest north higher learning institution. He commends President Charles E. Bunnell and the 53 enrolled students, noting the college aims to attract students from every Alaska high school.
Moro fishermen report extensive new pearl beds in the China sea off Palawan north coast, per Dr. W. T. Wade of the Cubion leper colony. More fishermen control the beds, with boats dotting Palawan waters. Previously, beds were south of Palawan in the Sulu sea and most divers were Japanese.
Local residents warned to spare a bluish green beetle described as a parasite with a mission. It supposedly preys on more destructive beetles and is reportedly helping trees by aiding spraying efforts around the city.
Mrs Herbert Worrey led her Sunday school class to Gowell’s Grove in Woolwich Friday morning for a picnic with games and lunches. The party included Mrs Fred Irish Mrs Arthur Whitten and Edward Whitten along with girls Amy Irish Isabelle Burns Lillian Cutler Bessie Staples Florence Chellis Mabel Whitten Denniss Margaret Christine Higgins Abbie Youland with a fine time and cheerful reports of the day.
Maine Central reports exceptionally heavy travel all day Saturday as tourists move eastward. The New York train arrives in two sections with two car loads of travelers stopping in Bath.
Miss Edith Howard of Boston has opened her cottage at MacMahan for the Summer season, inviting residents and visitors to enjoy the coastal retreat.
The Colonial home at 7 North Street Bath Maine once owned by Mme Fauna Kames and Emilio de Gogorza opens as Kamesholm inn on July first. Luncheon and dinner for travelers, overnight rooms, and elegant interiors in amethyst and silver await guests between Boston and Bar Harbor. Mrs Mary M Parker and daughter Joyce assist, signaling Bath’s new high class inn.
The Navy announced that three Cramp shipyard built light cruisers will serve as flagships as part of an eight cruiser reorganization. Richmond will lead one division under Rear Admiral Magruder, Marblehead heads the other division, and Concord will command the destroyer squadrons. Trenton Wichmond Memphis assignments follow shakedown and launch dates.
Class of 1924 Morse High returns from a Massachusetts class trip. Eight cars led by Ralph Dunton and Clinton Wilson travel June 22, with stops including Greenfield Wittsfield Northampton and Deerfield. The last car arrives next morning after deciding to rest at the Mohawk Trail.
Rain forced the Kirst Baptist Brotherhood strawberry festival indoors at 1207 Washington street, Worrey home. Guests praised Mrs. Worrey and her daughter Bernice along with Mrs. Roxe Murphy and Mrs. Freeman Crosby for organizing the event that served strawberries with cream cake rolls and coffee for the men's group fundraiser.
The court cites high tensions between counsel and police, delaying a decision until July 7 at 10 in the forenoon. Dr and Mrs Carl Perey of Boston depart New York for a two month North Cape trip. Dr Perey is the son of Dr FLOB Perey of Brookline, Massachusetts.
Notices of postal inspectors weighing all parcel post and other mail for postage due to underpaid rates. Heavy newspapers and printed matter often sent at parcel post rates. warnings to firms and the public to ensure correct postage to avoid delays and losses. Also describes fossil relics discovery in the Gobi desert and notes on a 1924 expedition by the American Museum of Natural History.
Roy Chapman Andrews leads the American Museum of Natural History party sailing for Mongolia to search the Gobi Desert for early human remains and the Garden of Eden era. The 15 scientist team will excavate up to five years to locate hominid fossils as Andrews seeks the true birthplace of man.
At a conference on Christian politics in England delegates debated imperialism with Rev TL Hogarth urging rejection as selfish. Discussion questioned Westminster Abbey monuments and past statesmen like Lord Salisbury. The meeting, led by UC Simpson, passed a resolution to urge abolishing capital punishment.
Joseph Defensix eleven and Joseph Huard eleven, both Brunswick residents, drowned in the Androscoggin river Friday night after Defensix slipped into the water. Huard reached to help but the swift current pulled them away. searchers grappled for the bodies at midnight.
The study notes a wartime peak in 1920 Denmark with 5506 marriages per 1000, mirroring Sweden’s 1920 peak of 12 marriages per 10000, and Norway’s 1918 high at 13 per 1000. Since then industrial downturn and inactivity have dampened marriage rates, Norway dropping below others in European marriage percentage.
Bath City Hospital Nurse's Alumni Association will sale homemade candy for Hospital Day on July 4 with help from West Bath Grange women. Grange members welcome inquiries and can contact Mrs. David Rich or Mrs. Willian Brown for details.
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