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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1953
Page
8
Fortnightly Bath column collects civic notes from July 1913. Topics include Winnegance mail station potential, Bath Military and Naval Orphan Asylum trustees, submarine repair in Kennebec River, Y M C A committee formation, Bath Iron Works shifts, and social events at Cosmopolitan club and yacht gatherings.
On July 16 1913 the County Commissioners and two expert bridge men surveyed Merrymeet Bay to study recon struction options for Sag a special September election. They will prepare plans and estimates for an iron bridge and a concrete structure and publish them well before the poll. Mrs Frank E Southard and her daughter Frances departed afterward.
The road once named a federal highway between Portland and Bath was inspected yesterday by the new state highway commissioner and state and national officials. Wesley church Sunday school plans a July picnic next Saturday at Sabine with automobile support. Col E C Plummer departed for Washington DC on the New York Express to advocate Merchant Marine interests.
Two liquor packages were turned over to Sheriff Oliver this morning by Judge Keegan of the Munich Court and added to the county building’s strong room stock. The ideal expired today. Two claimants for the liquor surfaced, but testimony introduced...
July 18 1913 word arrived that the City of Bangor of the Kennebec Division was seriously damaged by fire while at its Boston wharf. The loss burdens the Eastern Steamship Co as heavy travel persists on the Kennebec route. Plans call for Rockland to run four trips weekly and a special boat will connect from Boothbay to Boston.
A city delegation will attend events here, with E R Wit and George P Larra among travelers on the City of Rockland for a weekend trip. Florence Rand of the Times begins an annual vacation, while Mr and Mrs Edward B Smith plan an automobile tour through the White Mountains returning Monday. Burt at the New Columbia schedules a three act vaudeville lineup next week. W J Baker builds a 180 by 33 foot lighter for Portland Harbor, powered by two Steeple engines, the largest in South Portland.
The State Master and State Lecturer of the Maine Grange were mentioned. Miss Edna Marr Harri et Henderson and Vivian Lemont passed away yesterday at Five Islands. W A Bickford of Boston, formerly of the Times composing room, is father to a three weeks old boy and works in the linotype department of the American Press Association in Boston.
Forty and Eight Day was observed at Pine Tree Camp For Crippled Children in Rome Sunday. Voiture 1399 arrived with an ice cream and candy train, while the Ameri can Legion Band performed a hang-up concert. Two aluminum boats with Forty and Eight insignia were presented to campers by Fort y and Eight voyageurs, with honors to Pri Voiture 1399 and Past Grand Chef de Gare Ervin L. Curtis.
Bath Iron Works physician Dr Edward L Kinder Jr departs for 18 months of service with the U S Naval Reserve. Dr Kinder will be replaced temporarily by Dr Niles L Perkins Jr, a Bowdoin College and Tufts Medical School graduate with Navy service, who will hold the BIW production post during Kinder’s absence.
A pamphlet titled Bath, Maine City of Ships compiled by Miss Anne Kimball of the Red House maps Bath's maritime importance. Copies were given to 35 exchange students and attendees of a New England naval engineers meeting in Bath. Local Rotary members distribute the pamphlet. The note adds that Britain's population increased by about a million in the last 22 years.
Wills filed and executors named for estates in Bowdoinham Bath and West Bath. Administrators appointed for Ruth Lucile Hintzen. inventories and accounts filed for Minnie Bacon Emma Dunning Mary Geary and others. Bonds posted for Ruth Hintzen and guardians for Jean Steen Mary Steen and Bessie Hunt.
Michigan State football coach Biggie Munn scored 104 percent in five high school track meets while at North High in Minneapolis.
The probate order directs publication in Bath Independent to inform interested parties of hearings on August first for wills and petitions to probate multiple estates. Executors include Harold C Robinson Marion Dean Shaw Elna A McCabe John E Gowen Edith Bowker and others with final accounts and distributions listed for several Bath area decedents. Arthur Dunton, Probate Judge, attests with Lillian H. Heal as Register.
The article recounts Sebasco's early days with Bermane arrivals 800 km away and Kennebec river musters, portages to New Meadows at Winneganee, and clashes with tribes. It notes 1600s settlers fleeing Puritan Boston, sassafras trade, and the first Summer people influx in the 1890s driven by an ice industry. It mentions Freeman H. Merritt, Cushman, Malaga Island legends via Mr. Eaton, Bowdoin and Tufts alumni, and about 3000 Indian children in government schools.
A dense sequence of probate notices and estate actions from Bath and surrounding areas. Executors administrators guardians and petitioners are named for multiple estates including Ruth Lucile Bineyee Roy Moulton Edith M Cornish and Mary Geary with licenses to sell real estate and final accounts noted.
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