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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1915
Page
6
The Independent reports heavy rains drowning Legard's calf and flooding the railroad yard turning the depot into an island. Rivers overflow sidewalks while lights fail. The piece also follows social notes about travel, visits, and local residents during summer, with mentions of various people and gatherings.
Mrs. Eliza B Marble visits at Popham Beach with Mrs. Frank A Small. Miss Lydia Baxter returns to Mere Point after visiting Miss Carrie Shaw at Foster's Point. Mrs. Harry E Litchfield and her son Leonard travel for a three week visit with her sister Mrs. David Kidd formerly of Bath.
Professor and Mrs Edward Carter and their children, long residents of Petersham Massachusetts, will relocate in the fall and establish residence in Washington District of Columbia.
A daughter arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Edward O. Cutler on the Pacific coast and has been named Anna in honor of its mother.
Mrs Alice Minnie Herts Heniger spoke at the Cosmopolitan clubhouse Wednesday evening and is enjoying an outing at Camp Songo Bay of Naples. She lectures on the Children’s Educational Theater founded in 1902 which has trained 3 200 participants in 450 performances. New York shows were priced at ten cents a ticket.
Rev and Mrs Gould J Browne of the New Church spend the month at Birch Point. They arrived Monday to arrange the Boy Scout camp setup including cook tent dining tent and headquarters tent shipments from national headquarters in New York. The Brownes reside in a tent and tested its waterproof qualities Monday.
Mr and Mrs Charles P Wetherbee left Saturday for a Lake Winnepesaukie vacation on an island with full comforts and mainland access by motorboat sailboat and canoe They began by car toward Portland but had to turn back due to flood at the Willows west of Blind Crossing water too high to safely pass by auto.
Principal and Mrs Charles L Smith left Tuesday for Castine to attend the annual session of the Castine Conference and school of instruction for superintendents and secondary principals. Supt and Mrs Flood are also attending the convention.
A postcard from Donald Sewall in Port Said states he expects to sail June 9 from Athens on the Athenian to New York. Sewall has spent three years in the office of Arnold Cheney & Co. at Zanzibar, Africa.
Mrs Ella Howard and her daughters Marian and Catherine of New York visited Judge and Mrs Keegan and left for Squirrel Island to spend the summer. Mr Howard, on the editorial staff of the New York World, will join later for his annual visit.
Sewall Percy enjoyed trips this week in A. A. Percys car while Percys wife and Mrs. Percy spent a week at the Arnold cottage Popham. Mrs Sanford L Fogg returned to Augusta after a two week outing at Bay Point. A granddaughter named Edith was born to Mrs Charles Durand and her husband at Myra Rices home.
Miss Ellen Turner travels to Small Point to tutor for Hon. Harold M. Sewall. Mrs. Frank A. Small hosts Miss Mildred Nichols for a Sunday and Monday stay at Popham with the family.
Mrs. George B. Moody visited Popham and registered at Hotel Riverside. Miss Annie Torrey left Tuesday for Boston to pursue a summer course and will spend August between Bath and Popham. Mrs. John Horton of Five Islands was a visitor in town Wednesday.
Mrs. F. M. Briggs travels to Cambridge for a two weeks stay with her daughter Mrs. Roger A. Johnson. Dr. Johnson teaches mathematics at the Western Reserve University and will instruct at the Harvard Summer School this summer. They plan a visit to Bath before returning home.
Edward Hennessy spent the weekend at Popham as a guest of his mother Mrs M J Hennessy. Miss Gertrude Dillon finishes nurse training at Jefferson Hospital Philadelphia this fall after three years of study.
Rev. and Mrs. A. F. Duniels of East Orange Mass opened their summer home at Popham. They were accompanied to the beach by his mother. Master Cuthbert Wilson enjoys an outing at Popham as a guest of Master Haviland Torrey.
A daughter weighing 61 percent pounds was born on Saturday to Mr. and Mrs. FE O Cutler of Long Beach California and named Anna Percy Cutler. Mrs. Cutler was formerly Miss Percy of this city. Mr Cutler serves as General Manager of Sprague Shipbuilding Co.
Mr and Mrs Edward H Gove of this city plan a summer visit with Mrs Gove's sister on Green Street and later visit niece Miss Anna L Palmer returning from California. Gove left Bath soon headed for Philadelphia milk business years ago and Nassau ventures preceded Bath schemes including ice bakery stores and high street property. He later formed a hooks and eyes factory and owns the Old Ladies Home site. Mrs Gove is sister to the late Palmer brothers Asa Henry and Gershom and her son Hartley Palmer is a thermometer tubes manufacturer.
Lieutenant Puleston is visiting for a few days, staying with Lieutenant C. W. Early, inspector of machinery at the B I W.
Mrs. Elizabeth Roberts of Gorham and Mrs. Harry Palmer of Fort Hill visit to attend the funeral of Gershom H. Palmer who died in Wellington Ohio.
Secretary of Agriculture and Civil Service Commission approval lead to Ed ward E. Carter of Bath being reinstated in the Forest Service as forest inspector at 2800 dollars per year. Carter, a Harvard forestry expert, previously served as field assistant and later as assistant forester before resigning in 1910.
A Wednesday evening reception at the Beacon Street parsonage honored Rev. and Mrs. G. C. Stanley of Putnam Connecticut. The informal gathering drew many longtime parish members and refreshments were served.
Mr and Mrs D T Dougherty travel from Boston to join the Rexall Special, a 9000 mile U S tour for the thirteenth annual United Drug Co convention. The party travels through eighteen states and Canadian territories aboard steel Pullman cars with dining and baggage service, with a Los Angeles side trip for the San Diego exposition and the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco July 19 to 25. Return is plotted for August 5 via Portland Seattle Vancouver and Banff Hot Springs.
Putnam Conn residents Rev G C Stanley former Beacon St Church pastor and his wife left for home by car yesterday after trains were cancelled. They had planned to reach Ogunquit by night and had been guests of Dorcas Guild the preceding day enjoying a sail and picnic despite stormy weather.
Miss Esther Jones daughter of Sergeant Jones returns home after graduating this year from the Boston Conservatory of Music. She traveled on the Virginia to Popham Beach and will stay at the Jones cottage Thursday afternoon.
Mr and Mrs Joseph M Trott visit Boston briefly while others enjoy summer getaways. H H Donnell open their Bay Point cottage. Warden family guests of Hon John S Hyde. Furber family at Williams Cove cottage. Mitchell family at Happy Nook with Rafe Lombard’s cottage. Louis Johnson of Lynn and George P Davenport host guests. A July dinner at John A Morse’s farm includes E M Fuller, B F Barker, C R Higgins, E C Stiness, Kimball, Emery Chase, Horace and Leon Morse. Peas from Morse garden served on the Trent.
The Cosmotopolitan Club under Miss Margaret Foster plans a repeat of a farce and minstrel show after strong demand. Performers would be greeted by a large audience again.
Warren P. Oliver of Tewksbury Massachusetts was in the city Thursday returning from a visit to his former home in Georgetown.
Dr. William E. Buck, house officer the past year at Massachusetts State Hospital, visits his wife Mrs. Buck and her parents Capt. and Mrs. Chaney. They will move to Chelmsford, Massachusetts, for the doctor to enter general practice. Buck is son of Engineer Buck of the Bar Harbor Express between Portland and Bangor.
The review lauds Holman Day's Landloper The Romance of the Man on Foot as a handsome illustrated volume from Harper and Brothers. It follows Farr, a reformed tramp, as he aids the poor, exposes water monopolies, and becomes a philanthropist and political force, ending with a governor’s nomination and cleaner water laws.
A severe midsummer storm battered Bath and surrounding areas, flooding the valley from Maine Central station to Johnny Low's Valley. Three feet of water forced stock from stables to upper floors, damaged cellars, and halted Knox & Lincoln and railroad service with losses around $100,000 statewide and about $10,000 locally. Police aided beleaguered pedestrians in rubber boots. Train traffic delayed until Friday afternoon.
Mrs. L. C. Blackwood of Boston arrived Wednesday to visit her father Rufus Lombard in West Bath. Mr. Blackwood is on a trip to the Pacific coast with a private party of excursionists.
Woolwich residents report visitors such as Miss Emma Barnes and Miss Sarah Bagley in Bath. Local families welcome a daughter for Mr. and Mrs. George Ames and share trips along the Sagadahoc Ferry. Ice cream sellers prosper in Woolwich with several shops and stands. Community programs include musical offerings at Day's Ferry Congregational Church and YMCA events, plus Path Finder Girls performances and church gatherings. A Belfry project at the Butler summer home aims for six months of steady attendance, and Montsweag Church hosts a visiting party with special music and a cornet solo.
Whitefield resident Wesley Pushard visits his mother at Sunnyside Farms while Mrs. Pushard watches the Boston boat. Pigs move from Sunnyside Farm to Dresden and Bowdoinham buyers. A village sale at W. D. Blair’s features notable ice cream. Weather and logging chatter frame a busy, if uncertain, farming week in North Woolwich.
A vendor in a red cross uniform on the city hall corner criticized a passerby’s claim that the world owes everyone a living. He said the world owes each man a living, but loafers should go out and collect it.
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