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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1918
Page
8
The MacMahan season features naval publicity praise for Allied forces, summer cottage activations across multiple owners, and notable guests. Harvard and Yale entrants join the roster while the Summer Girl launches boost MacMahan operations.
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State and local assessors met in Bath to review Sagadahoc county valuations with Clerk F H Sterling, aiming for statewide fair taxation. Bath’s valuation rose to 10,032,000 from 7,148,000, reflecting ongoing increases that shift burden toward wealthier individuals and corporations.
The board discussed securing guaranteed coal or both hard and soft varieties to prevent school closures during winter shortages. Teachers changes include Miss Maud Murphy at Morse High and Alzie Lane returning to science. A committee will design a military training plan for Morse High and the Junior High. Sanitary upgrades are planned for Morse High and other buildings. Summer repairs to classrooms and facilities continue citywide.
Cap t. Frank N. Eliot formerly of the 26th New Brunswick Battalion died Tuesday after pleurisy. He had been invalided home last year from France after shell shock and had since helped train American officers in Bath. His April 18 Colonial Club talk urged Liberty Bond support as the war’s fastest path to victory.
Elmer F Brown and Helen Talbot of Bath chose to marry Tuesday night. City Clerk Grassy performed the ceremony at his home at 14 Walker Street after being asked while busy with city council business. The couple will reside in Bath.
Mrs. C. L. O. Smith and Miss Julia Watson hosted an informal tea at their Middle street home Tuesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Smith from Akron, Ohio, visited Mrs. Smith and met friends including Mrs. Langdon Simons who sang, with guests such as Mrs. F. H. Percy and Mrs. Leonard Norsworthy in attendance.
Charles Fickett of Bowdoinham was arrested and tried in Bath for cruelty to a sick unfit horse. Found guilty, he was fined $5 and $19 costs by Judge Kee gan. Ralph O. Daley represented Fickett and Charles D. Newell prosecuted.
John D. Beals of The Texas Steamship Co. is greeted warmly by friends after several weeks absence in New York City where he recovered from scarlet fever.
Mr and Mrs Thomas P Black Mr and Mrs John Black and Miss Madelyn Cooper of Allston Mass leave for Southport to stay until Sunday at the Black cottage. The old Jackson block shop elevator has been removed and more than a ton of metal was taken away by the owners of the build.
Notices issued at Bath Sagadahoc probate court in July 1918 call all interested parties to appear August 6 and August 1 to contest licenses and accounts for estates of Severine LeBlanc Arabella Reed Frank Morse Grant Gifford and others. Publications run in Bath Independent for three weeks.
In the July term probate court Judge James 8 Lowell and Register Dunham passed on administration, guardians, accounts, inventories and bonds. It names estates from Bath Bowdoinham and Richmond with guardians and executors appointed and final accounts approved.
The Ladies' Aid met at Mrs. Alfred Clifford's and plans summer church Red Cross work. Ernest Doughty drives an Overland roadster. Ernest Clifford left for Camp Devens with other draftees. The Hendersons of Bowdoin and Walter Reed families visited the Davises. Miss Mercy Holbrook leaves for Philadelphia war relief after eight years in Portland. Twelve men mowed cemetery lots and cleared brush. Alfred Storer injured his arm at Garnett pier and broke a toe by a log incident. Brodrick family from Waltham returns for a fifth season at Beechwood cottage. Chief Petty Officer Christopher Shannon on five days' furlough from Newport. Doughty family arrives for summer farming. S. C. Mulcahy reports 1000 feet of sheathing for city offices to be installed in city hall.
Governor Carl E. Milliken argues for strict food conservation noting Russia’s defeat stemmed from shortages and urging complete abstinence from wheat in households with adequate income. He emphasizes patriotic duties and the need to preserve munitions, ships, and food for the Allies.
At Tuesday night’s Sasanoa tribe of Red Men meeting, officers were chosen including Sachem L E Bucky senior sagamore Alden Denham junior sagamore Francis W Ham prophet Preston Farrar chief of records Joseph Melzard collector of wampum Levi Thompson keeper of wampum R P Hig. Installation in two weeks will name subordinate officers as members rally for a new uniform rank and charter list nears completion. Arthur Whalen of South street visited Boothbay Harbor with friends.
Mrs. Alice Heller of Christopher Illinois reports four years of irregularities weakness and nervousness followed by treatment with Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound She says she is no longer nervous regular and in excellent health and believes the compound will cure any female trouble The Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Massachusetts offers guidance to readers with similar ailments.
In Sagadahoc County Bath Probate Court on June 11 1918 orders hearings. The Bath Independent notes a July 9 1918 session for Emma Coombs estate inheritance tax assessment and distribution petitions filed by executor Arthur J. Dunton. Annie B. Oliver widow seeks allowance for Anson M. Oliver estate from Phippsburg. Judge’s stamp dated June 20 1918.
In Sagadahoc County probate, the executors George W Heselton of Gardiner and Henry W Howard of Bath are ordered to present their first administration account. The hearing will be held in Bath on the second Tuesday of July at 9:00 AM to show cause why the account should not be approved.
The subscriber announces he is administrator of Martha W. Patten's estate of Tham. All persons with claims against the estate must present them for settlement. All debts should be paid promptly. March 5, 1918. Ralph J. Patten.
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