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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1899
Page
6
A light verse describes a well groomed maiden and a hoped for wedding to be announced. Local society items follow with Miss Sadie Watson visiting in New Jersey and Bath news of doctors, gatherings, and a humorous hat mishap, plus social club notes and a furniture collection feature.
Bath area social columns highlight family lineages from the Larrabees and Sampsons, Bowdoin ties, high street pool club meetings, local editors and entertainers, travels of business and church figures, and charitable sewing initiatives. Notables include J W Kelley, John Hyde, Mae Taylor, Kennebec Yacht Club, and Frank Munsey Bowdoinham native. Community events cover club gatherings, dinners, vacations, and church society activities.
Rev. Charles A. Jessup assistant rector of Old St Pauls Episcopal in Baltimore accepts call to serve as rector of St Luke's Episcopal Church in Atlanta Ga. He will not leave St Pauls before Easter and was recommended by Rev Wylis Rede. Jessup educated at St Stephen's College and General Theological Seminary in New York. He previously led the Cathedral in Garden City L I and has many friends in Baltimore.
A stylish booklet of verse titled The Legend of Seguin by Rollin Corey features voices of sea, Indians, pirates and beauties. The Bath connection notes George, a former Bedford Street resident, as inspiration for Maine themed poems. other locals and visitors are briefly mentioned with movements between Medford Bermuda San Francisco and Bath.
A satirical note by Capt. Wyllys Gannett reviews local advertisements in the Green Un. He mocks 50 percent discounts at the Peoples Clothier and other shop promos on furnaces, lime, cement, and coal stocks. He mentions Bath’s mayoralty and Brunswick Libby Company as examples.
Local column from Bath reports Eva Gray visiting cousin Marion Lewis and others in town. Residents from Winflet and Fremont travel, salesmen from Portland call on merchants, and Leander Berry visits Cambridge for his ill son Walter. The Enterprise freighted cargo for H. G. Rowe Co. A piano goes to Johnnie Berry. Easter rehearsals underway with Lizzie Rowe as organist and Edith Lewis aiding. The Ladies Aid met. A. O. F. held no supper. receipts 6.15. Nahanada back on route. Patchwork fever fills town. men buy fabric by the pound. Ship News: Sunbeam’s Capt Byron Campbell under doctor care. Harold Berry ready for spring coasting. Ben Harris undergoing repairs. Hiram Oliver visiting Bath relatives. Bert Cutting’s team upset near Winnegance. horse ran to Dromore, driver walked.
The January issue praises James P. Webber's supernatural story Le Reveur about a Paris Dreamer whose reveries mirror a second resident of Paris. The tale ends with the Dreamer killed by the other, mirroring a real death that night. The piece lauds its naturalistic handling of the uncanny. Also notes a Sted and Blue piece and local literary contributions.
In Woolwich on March 10 aged 89 Albert Trott has died. The notice records his age and location with brief obituary details.
A broad, brisk column recounts city scenes and people from Melrose to Bath, mixing gossip, jokes, and notices. It notes names like Will Barry, Tom Dike, Fremont Hogan, and references to local firms, trains, laundries, and a Bath man’s injury. It closes with Brunswick vs Bath budgeting and a Knox and Lincoln line remark.
Probate Court grants administration for Arthur A. Adams estate to Francis Adams and lists accounts allowed for other estates including Thos P Bloom and Nahum Frye. Inventories for Mary E Frye and Willard T Wilson estates filed. Judge Hall improving in Richmond. Seth Kellett rescued after falling from timber yard pile. no serious injury. City death rate for the month noted as remarkably low with only one death since February 27.
GrEEN UN reports Genl Hyde accepting or considering a GOP nomination. The letter From Genl THos W HypE thanks Sagadahoe Republicans for support, pledges honorable campaign and service to the district and state if elected, and expresses appreciation for confidence shown.
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