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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1950
Page
5
March 22 1910 reports H Conley will open a Center street specialty shop with copper fixtures and a wide display including hosiery knit underwear petticoats shirt waists cotton dresses ribbons and handkerchiefs. Mrs Conley and assistants Carrie Smith Bernice Potter to staff.
Charles D Clarke joins the cemetery board and Mrs Rice is named assistant assessor in Bath Maine. The mayor and city council receive praise for officer selections while Oscar Rogers and Charles S Brown are lauded for fiscal efficiency. City Marshal Fred McFadden is arrested at Park Alleys after a bowling dispute and Helen Martin hosts a 25 guest gathering.
E M Wing of the Stoke House farm ordered an E M F touring car from Bath Auto and Gas Engine Co yesterday. It will be delivered next month, and Wing plans a garage. he believes the automobile will prove useful to the farmer.
Frank S Shaw of Mackay & Co arrives in the city for a few days visit with his parents. His brother Charles P Shaw recently accepted an accounting position with Crum & Foster in New York. Mrs T S Gibbons hosts a whist party in honor of Mrs Fred C Scribner of Portland. Bowling challenges issued by P Farrar and Minott for next Monday at Park Alleys. Street improvements praised on Front Street and Lincoln Street work underway.
Plans completed to convert the mayor's stable into a modern garage with a 15 foot diameter steel turntable and wash stand. Main floor raised, granolithic surface, natural wood walls and ceilings, room size 26 by 39 feet. Work started this week with the garage to be ready for use by the first day of all. Valmore D Hinckley holds an 1828 Aetna policy issued to John B Swanton and son, Bath in Lincoln County.
J Rupert Wing leaves A M Franks cigar store and will begin work next Monday at Bath Hardware Co after two years in Swanton Jameson store. Dr J O Lincoln leases offices in Bath National Bank block and plans to move next week. Gallant brothers launch new six horsepower launch named Gen Phil by M J Sheridan with Thomas McDonough and Andrews Gallant as sponsors for lobster and cod fishing use. Charles G Hart, Bath native in heater and boiler work, unveils a smokeless gas burner claimed to revolutionize gas water heaters. Oaklands fire warden notes the burner is smokeless and simple to operate.
Bath people share tales of success and mischief from the season. Hart’s Bath friends celebrate a local triumph. University of Maine students Skaie and Ballou plan roles for the sophomore hop with Thompson aiding. Harry McLean faces a gold brick mix up after a fake Easter treasure. Elizabeth Dean and Alice Waters plan a Boston visit and drive an auto she’ll buy. Wetherbee tours South, while Hon. and Mrs. Shaw return from Panama and South America.
An OCR fragment recounts the Kennebec massacre tale, naming the Denny clerk entry, listing the captured family members ages, and detailing brutal acts. It describes the infant spared claim, the girl Sarah Fling’s wound, the Guder boy’s death, infant mistreatment, scalps raised, and a later burial near Day's Ferry. It notes a Preble family monument erected circa 1903–1905 and mentions Captain Hamden planning escape with his daughter before further details end.
A Maine history note recounts the Kennebec captives from the colonial era, including Mary and her sisters who were ransomed by soldiers from Georgetown. It tells of a Boston transport arrival, a lost tablecloth, and a search in 4761 for remaining captives. Mrs. Preble’s granddaughter’s home Windswept, now 150 years old, sits above the river where the family lived. A D.A.R. marker honors the family graves from that fate-filled time.
Workmen completed the roof lowering of Attorney Harold J Rubin’s High street house, formerly Major William R Kimball’s, by nine feet using jacks and four cribs. The two and a half story dwelling was reduced to one floor of the main 22 by 40 foot section while interior walls were rebuilt and finish work replaced.
Greenhouses on North Street and Lincoln Street prepare six year Palm Sunday open houses with blooming Easter flowers. Daylong previews run 10 am to 4 pm at Bath Florist Shop displays. Featured items include a life size wax bride, six foot Easter egg, and varied container arrangements.
Robert Jones reported a theft of a portable radio and a shirt from his room while he slept. He traced the items to a boarding house operator who had purchased them in good faith, only to have the radio and shirt stolen again by the prior thief just before Jones arrived.
Court of Probate at Bath in Sagadahoc County orders publication for three weeks in Bath Independent. Hearings set for second Tuesday of April at ten o clock for estates of Charles T. Jackson and Florence J. Soule with executrix Harriet C. Hill and administrator applicant Charles A. Soule. Arthur J. Dunton, Judge of Probate.
A new approach to marketing turkeys emphasizes a half bird including giblets and heart and gizzard. It promises shorter cooking times per pound and is gaining favor among small families.
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