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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1913
Page
8
March 1 column notes election Monday probate court Tuesday spring nearing Easter in three weeks. Mentions maple syrup time, town meeting, weather, club meetings, races at Lily Pond, sleighing count, Hyde Guards officers, D A R meeting in Augusta, Morse High vs Cony High basketball, and local industrial talks on a marine railway for Bath.
Sagadahoc Pomona meeting at Sagadahoe Grange hall last Wednesday included pro tems and officers with focus on a proposed state bill to distribute school money by actual attendance rather than valuation. Attendees endorsed the plan, sent a petition to Augusta, and noted related conferences and local discussions on rural schooling and Grange duties.
Governor Haines named D D Woodbury of South Portland as Commissioner of Sea and Shore Fisheries, despite Abner Johnson of Phippsburg being a strong local contender in Sagadahoc County. Woodbury’s selection, a dark horse choice, surprised many observers.
The feldspar industry at Georgetown lower Kennebec quarry has drawn attention. Nearby residents in Phippsburg report out of town parties hold an option on land near the river mouth, paying down this week to bind a bargain. The claim is a large feldspar deposit may exist and the buyers plan a quarry operation.
At the Dromore Grange meeting last Tuesday evening resolutions endorsed a bill before the Legislature to change school money distribution. Each town would receive a percentage based on attending students and school year length. Campbell and Bessie Dickinson were named to draft a memorial resolutions for Samuel H. Bowker. Next Tuesday’s program includes music, Bible reading, local history talks, road and church topics, a town meeting story, recitations, music, wood-sawing, social and pie supper.
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