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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1912
Page
6
Freeman C Bowker finished the Sebasco Estates post office project installing 200 lock boxes a money order and general delivery window making it a modern facility. He plans a large studio and repairs at Ernest Haskell’s West Point summer home. He also backs eliminating the Blind crossing.
Maine court orders a June 14 1912 public meeting at the Town House Phippsburg to designate a state road under Chapter 112 Public Laws 1907. Notice to be published in Bath Baid Independent and Enterprise and posted in two public places at least five days before the meeting.
The assessors completed tax listing and the collector will distribute bills with a 3 percent discount for payments made by September 1. The town sets a 22 mill tax rate, five mills lower than last year, amid reduced appropriations and higher valuation. Local society notes include visits by Edward and Mrs. Steward, Miss Ina Morgan elected superintendent, and various town news from Riggsville and Bath communities.
Mrs Willis Brewer and baby of Southport visit her parents Mr and Mrs George Roward. The S Hurricane annual meeting in Warren featured sessions by clergy from Bath Camden Portland and Thomaston on efficiency in church work with addresses by Monusley Linevoln Gardiner Guld Evans and Woodwell. The program included welcomes devotionals and discussions on benevolence and the apportionment plan with Rev R Carey and Rev O W Folsom delivering talks.
The Bath Board of Assessors set this year’s tax rate at twenty three mills unchanged from last year. The overlay allowance remains two thousand six hundred dollars. President John S. Hyde proposed a voluntary valuation increase of fifty five thousand dollars, yielding an extra twelve hundred dollars in tax.
Clarence LeClair and a Lewiston friend stay with Abram Higgins in West Bowdoin for a few days. Statie Allen sails to Matinicus for the summer. Ethel Holbrook of Richmond visits town. Evone Fournier returns from Lewiston due to illness. Mrs. Abram Higgins visits her daughter in Lewiston. Mrs. Lincoln Wheeler is very ill.
The June 1 program includes Song Page 11 Grange Essay Addie Purington piano solo Sadie Armstrong pantomime The Irish Washwoman Joanna Hodgkins Question What is true loyalty to our order Opened by Owen Rogers Tableau Flag Day Regular Kennebec Yacht Club meeting Mondays to plan July Fourth cruise New post office boxes start next Monday Corridor renovation finished in dead white and mahogany Bowdoin and Bates Ivy Day game 1 5 innings Bowdoin 5 Bates 4 Capt and Mrs B M Plummer arrive from Philadelphia in a Mercedes 48 road conditions fair Mrs J Pierpont Rea to visit for summer with sister Miss Annie Morse former resident in town who spent six years in Pasadena with daughter Adelaide Rea Worcester
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