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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1917
Page
6
Local items include L. L. Burnham of the Bath box factory traveling to Portland on business. Bath school maams plan marriage, coal and oats received, a barge from Elizabethport unloads 1200 tons of hard coal for Gibbons Co. and more.
Local notes report Genesta Sewing Circle meeting with Mrs. Charles Oliver at 8 Mechanic Street and Annie Lynch in Sisters Hospital Waterville with brother George W. Lynch the Coburn House chef in Skowhegan.
J A Legro and William D Coombs make small visits to Boston and Lisbon Falls while Miss Florence Walton dies in Gloucester. Grain and groceries move in Virginia freight, the shipping industry grows, and local officials announce school bond plans and civic appointments.
Miss Emma M Walton died Sunday at 3:30 AM in Addison Gilbert Hospital Gloucester Massachusetts after a seven week illness with pneumonia and consumption. Born in South Portland she taught at Morse High School in Maine and Gloucester High School before dying at 28 leaving father Henry B Walton two sisters and a stepmother. Services were at Trinity Congregational Church Gloucester and burial at Mount Pleasant Cemetery Willard.
John Malia died Sunday morning at Bath City Hospital from injuries suffered Saturday at Bath Iron Works near a coal pile. A Bath native and steam hoisting engineer, he was named son of the late Anthony Malia and survived by brother Thomas. Funeral services were held Tuesday at St Marys Church.
Otis S. Trafton of Westbrook is on a business visit in town. Charles Temple delivered a load from Small Point on Monday. A St Patrick's Day dance with Jones's orchestra is set for tonight at the KYC. The tug Neptune arrived from Boston Wednesday and departed with the new barge Northern No 7. Mrs. Fred Crocker returned to Woolwich from Bath Hospital and will undergo another operation later. Harold Purington returned to Portland after visiting Judge A. J. Dunton. Mrs. Purington will return Wednesday. February vital statistics for the city show 20 births 11 marriages and 24 deaths. County figures note fuel and lights costs at 443.95 and salary and clerk hire at 8082 for the year ending 1916. Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Sprague Jr left for Coulee Washington, where two uncles in Coulee are prominent businessmen. A postponed larceny case against Andrew Henry Adams was not prosecuted and he was jailed on $1000 bond. Charles Baker, former Swift driver, is now Bangor manager for an Eastern Maine car brand. A North End resident turned dry beans from his garden into a pantry staple to cope with high prices. Bar Harbor residents fund a coast mission boat Sunbeam to gain a dentist for outer islands. Dr. William H. Perry of Cambridge will likely begin in June. The Texaco Club held a Tuesday whist social with prizes awarded. The National League for Women’s Service drilled at the Armory, stressing no military role for women and clarifying its mission.
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