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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1910
Page
2
Local observers urge towns to fund guide posts amid travel growth and legal penalties for neglect. Bath’s veteran shipbuilder Gardiner Deering to start a schooner project, signaling employment and industry revival. debate over Panama canal materials and American shipping protection continues as Congress weighs water routes regulation.
The opening of April will see work commence upon two new schooners on the Kennebec with a strong chance of additional builds. Gardiner G. Deering announced his firm will begin a four master similar to their past successful ships, and Frank B. Bowker & Son of Phippsburg will start a schooner at their yard with timber already ordered.
James B. Lemont of West Bath received a shock while exiting a customer’s house on Oak Street. A milk quart tore from his hand and flew across the street. He suffered a fall and will be bedridden after the midmorning incident.
The article lists Monday's election results with a continuation note. Voted to fund Chestnut Street sidewalk to Alexander Four Corners. B. F. Curtis elected tax collector at two mills. The town must receive the entire payment by February 1, 1971.
The annual town meeting drew a small crowd while electing a long slate of officers including Moderator J B Fullerton and Clerk B D Farnham. Also named were selectmen assessors and overseers of the poor Asa C Hathorn OO C Nutting and J E Fullerton. others covered roads ferries schools and finances. The second section promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla as a life guard against diseases in March.
At a Bath probate court in Sagadahoc on the second Tuesday of March 1910 Blair guardian of Robert Bhatt and Russell Blair requests publication of his first guardianship account. A hearing is set for the first Wednesday in April at nine o clock to show cause why the account should not be allowed. Also included are an insurance company balance sheet showing admitted assets 1 871 781.48 liabilities 1 780 048.25 and a Bath agent listing John K Knowlton with a Bath address.
A column contrasting a man with farming experience and his wife who would handle general housework for a six member family. The ad requests reference and directs responses to P O box 5 Bath Maine.
Frederick B E Chapman of Cambridge Mass as administrator of Elizabeth K Chapman requests license to sell the Bath estate to pay debts and admin expenses totaling 500. The court orders notice by publication in Bath Independent for interested parties to appear on the second Tuesday of April 1410 to show cause.
Ledger style listing of admitted assets, liabilities, and surpluses for multiple insurers including General Accident Fire and Life Assurance and Old Colony Insurance, with agent names in Bath and Portland areas. Figures cover assets, liabilities, premiums, and surplus totals, dated 1912 to 1936 ranges, reflecting financial positions and agent details.
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