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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1916
Page
7
Local items report J B Hersey and wife opening White Rocks cottage for summer in Jamaica Plain guests at Georgetown Center and nearby towns. Socials, renovations, travel, church news and baptist sermon reflections fill the column with names, places and moves among Georgetown Center Riggsville Bath and Robin Hood’s Cove.
Capt L S Wiley buys a Dodge car. Mrs Ernest Haskell of Ashdale visits New York. Mrs Harry Record of Buckfield visits her parents. Romeo Mains of Springvale visits town. Boston guests Pierce and Jones attend a Friday wedding. Howard Webber returns from Rumford for the weekend. Rev R W Kenyon and wife plan a Summer at Squirrel Island. Mitchells go to Fryeburg for the Howard family reunion. Rev S A Evans conducts funeral services for Frank Heath in Sowdenham. Masonic burial. W A Hogan of Boston visits. works at E F Graves Co in Hanover Street. Miss Mary Flaherty leaves for Woburn, Mass to graduate. John J Plaher and H Pratt accompany. Rozets store man returns from Damariscotta. plumbing at Dodge homestead. Walter Dingley injures foot stepping on a rusty nail at Rogers shop. George McQuarrie returns from Noank for the weekend. Work includes a five-masted schooner and a Yaft of repair. Margaret Mahaney goes to Roxbury to attend grammar school graduation. nephew Frank McQuaid graduates. Mahaney plans to go to Squirrel Island later this week.
The article urges faith in God to run life’s race with essentials such as joy, contempt for worldly burdens, and endurance to the end. It notes summer arrivals at Georgetown Center including Mrs. Louis A. Thompson and Hazel, who spent winter in Bath with Hazel’s school, plus Albert O. Marr returning to Everett and later visiting. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Todd and baby Louise of Sherman Mills are guests of D. H. Todd in West Georgetown, their first visit in two years welcomed by the family.
Rev J House and family moved from Mrs Addie Lane house last week. The government buoy boat anchored Tuesday night in Canidy's Harbor. Mrs Lyman Alexander visited Brunswick this week. John Johnson paints A J Harris boat Columbia for summer parties. The sloop Iceland with Capt Frank Green waited for bait Wednesday. Kinnan Coombs rents his Bethel Point house to summer parties and stays with daughter Mrs Edward Holbrook.
Despite bad weather, a large crowd attended the Universalist Church for a christening ceremony. The service featured the christening of Lewis Blackmer and Lois Crawford Swett, Cynthia Merrill Rogers, Daniel Elmore Hall, Henry Martin, Edwin Trull, and Helen Turtevant Powers.
Burt M. Dyer acting department commander issues orders for the 13th annual encampment of the United Spanish War Veterans Department of Maine to convene in Portland on June 24 1916. Committees named for credentials resolutions auditing. camps to elect delegates and alternates. department officers and past commanders to attend. expected visitors include leaders from Missouri and Massachusetts.
Attorney General Pattangall holds that once a person deposits two thousand dollars in a savings bank they exhaust the right to reserve any interest for themselves in that deposit. He cites Section 19 Chapter 48 of the Revised Statutes and says a man with a 2000 deposit and an account payable to either or survivor has a direct and indirect interest in the funds. The bank may not accept a second deposit under these terms.
Frank J. and Phillip Murphy left on a Tuesday train for Carmel Maine after receiving a late Monday telegram. The homestead was destroyed by fire and their nearly eighty year old mother was seriously ill.
In Bangor the statement from Col. Frederick H Parkhurst congratulates Milliken on appearing to win the Republican gubernatorial nomination. Parkhurst urges unity and vows to support the party’s decisive September victory and the broader November goal. He also extends congratulations to Milliken on the honor of the nomination.
Mrs. Charles P. Wetherbee travels in Boston while George W. Slavin returns from Augusta on business. Celia Solivch departs for a brief Boston visit. Mrs. Alice Cormers visits her mother on Chestnut Street. Helene Haraden takes a job at Hazard Shoe in Gardiner. Mrs. John Small of Bath visits relatives in Portland. James B. Eagan, now Boston resident, visits Bath. Arthur Turner party from Somerville enjoys Foster's Point outing. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Caughey open Lookoff cottage at Bay Point for season. Mae O'Brien and Katherine Edgecomb vacation in Boston. W. R. Sandison and Walter Rivenour visit Bath. Sandison is timekeeper at a steel mill. Harold Larrabee and family from Barre stay a month at East Harpswell. Larrabee heads Montpelier and Barre lights and power. George O. Stetson and family return to Bath after seven years in Portland to visit relatives. Stetson will work in Bath Iron Works plate department.
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