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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1921
Page
5
Wilbur C. Oliver urges city bond issuance totaling 100000 to fund street repairs this year. He says six percent interest would provide immediate work for Bath residents out of employment, with city streets improved and local families supported. He favors hiring only Bath men with families and offers to share tax impact.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar J. Ford returned Sunday morning from a several day outing in Massachusetts. They left Tuesday on the steamer City of Rockland and came back the same way with their car. In Boston they visited Quincy relatives and then Plymouth for the ten centenary exercises. Mrs. Barch is descended from John Carver and Peregrine White through her father's line.
The article notes the dog days began on an irregular schedule with July 24 to August 2 in some almanacs and August 1 in others. It predicts cool starts with rain, hot humid August days with showers, and a cool spell around August 18 to 23, with warm weather otherwise.
A Bowdoinham school board meeting discussed hiring for the high school and vacancies in the grades amid rumors of the high school closing. The board dismissed the rumor as unfounded and urged students to finish their courses, with seniors advised to rejoin if needed. The item also lists local social and travel notes and a death in Bowdoinham.
Maurice Blaisdell eight year old son of Mrs Ruth Blaisdell of Parker Head is hospitalized after a dynamite cap exploded while he was playing at home. The blast damaged his forehead and mangled several fingers. He had placed the cap in a bureau drawer then used a screw driver and air rifle on it. A quick ambulance ride to City hospital in Bath followed as doctors treated his wounds.
A Bath businessman defending Sheriff Wilbur C Oliver's plan to issue 50000 in bonds to improve roads and hire men argues the program would quickly fund relief efforts through wages. He contends employment benefits both the unemployed and the city by building roads and reducing aid costs.
The Bath YWHA held a Tuesday lawn party at Mrs. Morris Cohen’s White Street home. Proceeds fund Bath delegates to the New England YWHA and YMHA convention in Hartford, September 2 to 5. Ice cream cake candy and punch on sale, dancing in the garage, and a fish pond drew attendees.
Henry O Thayer reports the completed correction tablet at the Ebenezer Wreble grave memorial in Woolwich near the Narrows. The small tablet formally confirms Harnden’s block house location in Woolwich, near the old ferry, following years of corroborating evidence and prior errors.
A large sale of horses at Topsham fair grounds drew 50 plus mustangs or Tex as ponies with many sold well. The town notes local visitors, trades, and social events including fishing, preaching, haying, bridge repairs, and community gatherings with various residents and visitors mentioned.
The three masted Bath schooner Leora M Thurlow was lost off Yucat on July 12 after previously sinking in the November 27 1808 storm at Vineyard Haven during a Portland Boston voyage. Captain Dennis M Roberts perished in the rigging. Elbridge F Wright of Bath raised the schooner and later commanded her. The Wrights and Elbridge R Wright endured a blizzard crossing the country, narrowly missing an earlier steamship connection.
Wesley and Beacon street Sunday schools organize a joint picnic at Thomas Point New Meadows river with transportation from Sagadahoe square. Activities include two tents for dressing rooms swimming steam clams races and a tug of war between the two schools. Notable committee members are Beacon street George Perry Weston Bonney Parker Worrey and Marion Bowie and Wesley representatives E A Farrar Galen D Watson Mrs Harry E Thompson Walter Day Ena Bucknam. Sewall hill on Washington street has been improved with gravel and coarse sand.
Mitchell Davis of Brunswick and Harry Wallis of Springfield Mass were arrested in Lewiston after 20 gallons of alcohol and eight quarts of gin were found in an Essex car. Davis bailed. Wallis held. Both arraigned as police bound them over for the grand jury.
West Bath notes list guests at the Brown home including Murphy of Bath and Miss Lucy Gerrish visiting with her parents Mr and Mrs Fred C Gerrish. Also mentioned are Ella F Freeman and Flora M Freeman of New York City staying with their brother Deputy Collector of Customs Frederick W Freeman and his wife.
Loss of appetite is common from impure blood affecting digestion. Hood's Sarsaparilla is promoted as restoring appetite, attributed to a physician's prescription. Take Hood's Pills as a gentle laxative if needed.
A July 20 1921 letter from E B Crosby treasurer of the Kennebec Navigation Co invites Maj. William R Kimball and the State Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home inmates plus attendants to a boat excursion on the Boothbay Harbor line. The trip would depart Bath at 10 am with day selection advised to avoid Boston boat arrivals for better comfort and space.
The article urges Bath to fix the stretch from McCutcheon's hill foot on High street to the Merry house at West Bath Ine. It notes nine major mud puddles and many holes between McCutcheon's hill and Coombs' store at Winnegance with the hills southward in poor condition. A few days of road machine work and trucking would improve passability.
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