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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1933
Page
8
July 13 1893 report notes Capt Poole’s house on Green street prepared for plasterers. Fred H Kimball returns from Boston business trip aboard the boat. Steam drill works on lodge site east of the custom house.
July 14 1893 Acadia lodge K of P conferred degrees on several candidates last night. Fred Drake and Will Thompson returned from camping at Swan Island. Rosa Brown sails tonight for three weeks in Boston and New York. Brick partitions in Columbia block stores raised two feet. Smoke on Sasanoa Bluffs traced to rubbish fire. A condenser and heater arrived at the power station and pipemen to begin work next week. The 125 horse power.
Mrs W F Rowe and family from Waltham visit relatives in the city. Miss Beatrice Sampson of Washington returns home after weeks here. Mrs Lucy Campbell of Sawyers Island comes back from Bath friends. Orville Todd recovering well at Maine General Hospital after a broken arm. William T Bonney leaves Iron Works for Lewiston. Bath Gas and Electric Co receives engine and boiler from Watson & Stillman. Summer cottagers arrive by boat Nahanada. Sedgwick Post hosts Chelsea Post 26 Aug 10 visitors with band and parade. Mackerel catch poor. crews seek better luck on St Lawrence banks. Pipe work to connect Bath and Brunswick progresses. Front street paving crew grows. circus day nears. Telegraph wires raised over railroad. Ambrose Roberts visits from Squirrel Island. Captain Hardy injured knee. departs down river Monday. Bath Iron Works votes to shut down for circus. Moulton’s shop also closes. Gen. Hyde returns from Ellsworth with Senator Hale. Epworth League to host lawn party at C F Holbrook’s. Beacons of Two-day Institute speakers include Bertha Hudson and Elizabeth Firth. Albert E Hayes and Mabel W Young wed in Sanford. Maine Cleaners and Dyers to meet Augusta on code bill including 40 hour week and child labor limits.
A busy July scene in Bath notes vacationing locals and arrivals including Walter Tuttle and others. The Bath Street Railway car No 1 arrives on freight with a new painted finish from Lewis & Fowler. Circus week promises great business as Portland’s elephants tour with E S B Co steamers planning island excursions.
On July 18 1893 Blackstone and Smith of Portland dispatched masons to the town to begin 작업 on the opera house.
In the eighth inning at Kelley Field Bath faced Lenox Shoe Co. of Auburn. Monk Cloutier on a late play at home plate vanished the ball as Thayer stretched for a tag. The ball appeared to melt into air then returned to Cloutier’s possession from his armpit after a wild dash to the bench.
The July 1 outlook estimates New England apple production at 7.62 million bushels, 23 percent below last year and 13 percent under the five year average. Dry weather limited disease but caused heavy local drops. Washington, Oregon, Idaho also show declines. Nationally, the US apple crop is projected at 150 million bushels, down from 202 million in 1931 and 141 million in 1932 after June losses.
Transfers over the last two weeks include Bath Dorothy Muench to Nellie C. Marston Ruby E. Stinson to Walter E. Taylor and more in Phippshore Richmond Topsham West Bath Woolwich and Philips area. A separate note mentions a dilapidated robin mystery band linked to a 1932 case in Wollaston Mass referenced by F Burton Whitman Jr.
In Sagadahoc County Probate Court at Bath on July 11 1933 Lillian G. Plummer Executrix of Edward C. Plummers estate presented her first and final account and petition for distribution The court ordered notice by publication in the Bath Independent for three weeks inviting interested parties to show cause at the Bath court on the first Tuesday of August at 9 oclock in the forenoon to approve or disallow the account. Names listed include Charles W Betts and Jean W Betts grandchildren. Cora L Roberts nephew. Scott H Albee Hampton Va. attestations by register of probate William F Dunham and Walter S Glidden judge of probate.
Capt. John F. Wright, 77, longtime ferryboat captain of the Hockomock at Bath, died Monday at his Lee Street home in Wiscasset. A Woolwich native, he commanded the Echo tug and piloted the Bowdoin on its maiden river trip. He was an elder Odd Fellow and survived by wife Clara, son Frederick, daughter Fret Dunn, three grandchildren and siblings. Funeral held Wednesday at his home with Rev. Ernest Spinney officiating.
Clarence Edsel Hewett died July 9 at his Greenridge home. Born May 1853 in South Livermore, he was the oldest son of Asa and Amanda Hewett and married Mary Moody in Town, leaving five sons. Surviving are five sons, his sister Mrs Nellie Hewitt Bonney of 402 Middle Street, and brothers Arthur A of Livermore Dana of Logan Kan and Alfred A of Needham Mass.
Levi C. Preble 59 a lifelong Bath resident and iron moulder died Sunday at the City farm where he had been ill for a year. Funeral services were Tuesday at 2 pm at Fred S. Curtis funeral home 105 Center Street Rev Charles M Tubbs of Grace Church officiated Burial was in Maple Grove.
Fifty boys and girls depart Thursday under Salvation Army auspices for Miles Summer camp at Christmas Cove for two weeks. Though Samuel A. Miles is deceased, his will funds the camp for needy children. Capt Miller invites them to meet at Salvation Army hall Wednesday at 1 PM then go to Dr H B Duce for examination. Children bring play clothes towels soap and a toothbrush. Rotary club handles transport.
A bulletin from the American Game Association urges anglers to wet hands or keep the fish submerged when removing hooks and releasing small fish. It notes dry handling damages the slime coat, raising disease risk, and cites barbless hooks to ease release.
A fragment notes that giving slack line helps prevent the hook from pulling free when landing a large fish, a lesson many fishermen have learned with frustration during attempts to land big catches.
Robert Towle of Topsham was kicked in the mouth by a steer while loading cattle near Bowdoinham, needing stitches after a trip to a Brunswick doctor. Auburn school officials announced May that Auburn girls will fill openings created by new West and North Auburn schools, with no board meeting needed. The board will not consider a petition to retain Miss Sara Staples as North Auburn teacher.
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