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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1910
Page
9
Palm Sunday and Easter notices frame Bath events as merchants plan March meeting Monday. Inauguration of Mayor John S Hyde and new city offices set for Monday. Lectures, church services, and civic gatherings fill the week with Palm Sunday rites and a mass meeting by H W Arnold on The Invisible Battle.
Dear Editor reports a surge of brown-tail moth nests in Harpswell and nearby Woolwich. ROSCOE F. WALLACE notes over 90 nests from a single tree and four hundred nests from another grove, with trees in Trufant’s grove bearing about 200 nests.
Warren E Allen of 73 Pine Street Bath claims the title of oldest blacksmith in the city and Sagadahoc County and one of Maine's oldest. Born July 24 1828 in Bowdoin he later sailed to California three times before settling in Bath where he worked in shipyards and has long attended Wesley Methodist church. He is widowed with three daughters and has lived a life of abstinence from tobacco and liquor.
Warm evenings bring the first spring hunting for muskrats in Winnegance marshes and nearby spots. Prices rise from 15-25 cents to about 50 cents for good skins, with a Woolwich dealer predicting first class furs at 1.00. Coon skins run 1.75 to 4.00 depending on quality. other local furs are not at peak. Grace church observes a three hour Good Friday service from noon to three.
In Sagadahoc County Maine the Probate Court in Bath held two petitions for probate with notices ordered. Margaret So y N CN and Jennie May Bishop petition to admit wills and appoint executors, with hearings set for April 50, 1910, and notices to interested parties via Bath Independent.
William F. Spear is appointed administrator of the estate of Heatherly Spear late of Bowdoinham Sagadahoc County deceased. He requests all creditors to present their claims and all debtors to pay promptly as required by law. January 11 1910.
Daniel S. Jaques announces appointment as executor of Benjamin Merriman's will of Bowdoin Sagadahoc County. Creditors must present demands for settlement and all debts should be paid promptly with Bowdoin Mo date March 5 1910.
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