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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1919
Page
7
Rivalry grows between married and single men in Bath as Morse Field hosts several friendly baseball games. Local residents and visitors attend. multiple families and townspeople are listed with their outings, visits, and social events in a dense local scene.
The North Street open sewer is being tied to the main line, a slow task that requires digging through crushed rock to install a connecting manhole. The project will divert house sewers into a field trench and connect east of the current cross, while an open sewer will handle surface water and remain unused by new connections. A chemical toilet initiative by Mayor Louis Gagne is being tested for Tent City, with Koustine toilets from Buffalo proposed if satisfactory.
Mr Gagne praises sanitary toilets but laments sewer layout. He notes pipes do not extend to his houses and urges open drain north of the street to be closed, hoping for improved sewer provision within another year for Tented City.
The Watson, Frye & Co. Ltd plant is nearly finished with only the south access roadway incomplete. Fire bricks lie outside awaiting furnace installation as coke is unloaded, a traveling crane is ready, and scrap iron awaits melting. Carpenters finish the Front street office with olive green stained woodwork.
Patrons on the Sunday night Rockland to Bath and Westward train criticize the limited number of coaches. With rising summer traffic, passengers reach Newcastle and Damariscotta crowded. some stand in aisles and at times 23 people rode in the baggage car. More cars are expected to be added from Rockland. Many riders come from Rockland and nearby stations returning from weekend visits to local plants.
The city clerk's office issued about 15 hunting licenses with a 25 cent resident fee. One resident said he applied early to shoot crows on his farm, noting the affordable price and prompt service.
The Islander steamer, once a familiar Bath to Kennebec riverine sight, now runs between Newark and Bayonne New Jersey to carry about 400 workers. It is remembered for speed and fine lines, once a pride and beauty among Bath steamboat sailors.
Hope fades for the three masted schooner Bayard Hopkins which sailed from Norfolk in January for San Domingo coal laden and has not been heard from. Its six crew members are believed to have gone down with the vessel. A second schooner J. E. du Bignon, also from Norfolk to Buenos Aires, is three months overdue. Hopkins built by New England Ship Building Co. 212 net tons 118 feet long 30 feet beam nine feet deep.
John A Lord of Pearl Street, a U S N naval constructor at Bath Iron Works, completed a ten foot tender for his power launch as a birthday present for his son John A Lord Jr. Work spanned six weeks and the boat, with knees cut from nearby woods, was built mostly at home by father and son for six people.
Fred Greenleaf six died Monday at City hospital from injuries after being run over by a team weeks earlier. Son of Fred and Verlie Colby Greenleaf of Westport he leaves brothers and sisters. Burial planned at Westport Thursday.
Bath Company U A E P plans a Thursday field day with wives invited for the first time. Attendees depart at 7 15 AM for Portland to Preble House HQ, sail two hours to Casto Bay islands, clambake on Long Island at 3, then sports and prizes, theater at Keith's, with railway fare and dinner paid. Bath Co to meet Wednesday night to initiate candidates.
Robert Bowers a MIT student summers at Texas Steamship Co and friend of Richard Wells a UMaine grad killed when the transport Ticonderoga was torpedoed in the North Sea after America's entry into the War. A lifeboat of survivors was dragged by the submarine before a knife cut freed them and they were saved by a destroyer. Guy Emro Texaco 145 first mate visited home from Vortland. A schooner will haul 125 tons of salt cod from Five Islands to Boston.
Henry T. Wing visits Boston while J. Austin Wheeler returns from Gar diner. Mrs. Charles Oliver and son Carl vacation at Belgrade Lakes. Mrs. Wellington A. Moore motored with Mrs. Adams to Portland area. Clarence Miller shows a new Dort from Depot Square. Nurse Vearl Hickey visits St John home. Charles Wetherbee sails to New York on business. Christine Klippell catches two pound trout in Echo lake during North Conway vacation. Alice Hatch passes Bath en route home from Kennebunk and North Perwick. An Essex sedan arrives for Hon. Harold M. Sewall via Depot Square garage. Randall Leonard and daughter Dorothy return from Boston trip. John Parris' party motor boats down river. Houghton Sewall visits from Redlands with wife. Sewalls plan Small Point visits. Young Sewall oversees Redlands orange groves. Margaret Burns, now in Lawrenceville, N J, visits MacMahan island and Popham Beach.
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