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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1921
Page
8
Horticultural editor Be. F. Rockwell outlines practical guidance for starting and maintaining raspberry, blackberry, and dewberry patches. He covers site selection, spacing, soil prep, plant care, varieties, and extending the harvest season with cane fruits in a home garden.
The celebrated duchesse, famed as America's sweetest singer from Baltimore, visits Bath for a rare concert praised by metropolitan papers. The Red Cross event benefits from her appearance, arranged through a personal friendship with Mme Emma Barnes de Gogorza. Attendance includes guests from Lewiston and surrounding towns eager for fine music.
An auto struck a truck loaded with logs left unattended on a hilltop on State highway near East Brunswick and Colon Crowley. The Buick touring car, driven by Crowley, crushed the right front door and damaged a headlight. Crowley, Franklin of the Boston Shoe Store, Gene Reno, and Walter Rice were present. the truck reportedly had no lights.
Fred Page presents a preserved 1838 issue of The Telescope, Bath Maine, No 23 Vol 1, four pages with quaint ads. It notes steam packet Huntress sailing Boston to Bath and Gardiner, Davis Hatch boot and hat dealer, and Davis Tate ancestor of Bath merchants now run in the same location. The yellowed issue survives as a souvenir from Bath's early days.
Mr and Mrs Bertrand A Lenfest of Brooklyn announce the engagement of their daughter Ruth A Lenfest to William W Dennison of Bath. Dennison, a Bath man, worked in Hyde Windlass Co and Bath Tron Works and is a Colonial Club member. Ruth Lenfest has recent hospital night supervision duties in Bath and is Adelphi and Postgrad Hospital educated. Dennison will soon move to New York to work for United American Steamship Lines. Jennie Harvey hosts large crowd at season closing Monday night assembly with dancers. series will continue at hall per management.
President Allan Spear led a lively Colonial club meeting in Bath on Monday night. Members discussed a May ball event featuring Sultan of Sulu, plus a proposed bylaw raising dues by 50 cents monthly. New members admitted. some transfers and resignations noted. The club planned entertainment and a Big Meadow Inn banquet for January 20 remains in the plans.
The Duchesse de Riehelieu, sister of Capt Frederick May Wise known for the Chateau Thierry remark, will host a Red Cross concert Thursday night. Wise, who led Marines in action and earned a decoration, was noted for urging retreat to be stopped with the famous line.
Miss Lena Morotto daughter of Mike Morotto of Center street returns from a nine year stay in Italy aboard the Cretic. She speaks no English yet bright and eager to learn, plans to attend St Mary’s parochial school to speed language acquisition.
Knights of the Golden Eagle held a dancing party at Music Hall Lincoln with a Golden Cross drill team led by T. M. Larsen performing 21 formations including the K.G.E. cross and wheel. Drill members listed included P. I. Bartlett J. W. Larrabee R. J. Dyer and others. Perkins Orchestra provided music.
Two Center street shops sit empty as The Victory lunch relocates to Sabattus. The pool room premises have been cleared after the proprietor was fined for gambling recently, with remaining equipment hauled away on trucks to Portland.
A Maine wide China Famine effort runs this week led by James I Ames of Bath and including Sagadahoc county chair. The state aims to raise 31000 in the county and 2540 121 for Bath. Towns listed with specific quotas reflect a broad fundraising drive to aid 50 lakh starving Chinese people. The campaign urges personal sacrifice with “Give a Pal in China” as the guiding motto and invites residents to donate the value of meals or other daily expenses to the famine fund.
The Bath comimandery 1025 held a recreational contest closing Friday night with many members and guests attending. Captains Mrs. Sarah Garcelon and Mrs. Lou Baker drew praise for leading their teams. Judges included Gilbert R. Smith, Mrs. Morse, and Eugene Niles. The event ended with dances, Garcelon’s team declared winner, and a supper promised by Baker’s team. Mrs. Garcelon received a boudoir cap for pianist Gertrude Stewart. Margaret Pratt received a bouquet.
Posters announce the Colonial club musical comedy Sultan of Sulu to be staged May 10 and 11 at Columbia theater. Rehearsals have continued for over six weeks with an expert director and staff. George Ade wrote the words, promising a very funny show with fine costumes and attractive set pieces.
Jesse W. Sampson of 4 Court Street has purchased the Diamond Spring Water Co comprising the Diamond and Crystal springs on West Center Street near Kelley Field with bottles and equipment. He will start deliveries by motor truck to serve Bath city residents seeking spring water, after cleaning the springs and confirming water purity.
Thomas W. Leydon, formerly of Showdoin College, is promoted to head the intermediate department at Friends School Baltimore. He succeeds Dr. William R. Flowers, newly named principal of Eastern High School. A Baltimore Sun photo praises Leydon, while Mrs. Leydon and son Thomas Jr arrive for a visit with her parents on Linden Street. Mr. Leydon plans to join in June for a month-long stay.
The plant will observe Saturday half holidays starting tomorrow with a whistle at noon and pay for workers. Telephone girls plan a dance in the armory May 20. Morse High School graduation is set for June 15 and schools close June 17.
North end traffic would feed into Cain's dock as Mechanic Trojant and Milan streets see planks replaced with ashes and stone curb to reduce ash tracking. City intends to flush all sewers yearly, a step the new highways and sewers board deems vital but hinges on funding.
Strike of marine engineers and firemen along the Atlantic coast opens jobs for Sagadahoc county men. Earl Tart of Paverhill Mass, representing interests including the U S Shipping Board, is at Kings Tavern hiring engineers firemen oilers water tenders cooks and wireless operators. He will report engaged men for pay and daily reporting, then visit Phippsburg and Walker Head village, a hamlet famed for producing sailors.
The first meeting of Bath Masons in the McLellan house at Garden and Washington streets elected officers for the Masonic Building Association. Walter B. Glidden is president, Samuel Rogers vice president, William A. Furber treasurer, N Gratz Jackson secretary, with directors including Dr Clarence A Peaslee and J Edward Drake. Plans for the new temple were submitted by Cedric T Reynolds and specifications and construction contract are to be completed and awarded soon.
A University of Maine horticulture newsletter urges Maine orchardists that demand for choice Maine fruit will rise after a March freeze caused heavy damage to South and Midwest orchards. CLP notes Maine had no fruit bud injury while conditions in many states from the Rockies to the Atlantic were nearly wiped out.
Mr and Mrs Maurice C Smith of Providence are guests at King Tavern in Bath where Smith born here recalls Front and Eli streets and his old home at 51 Elm Street near the First Baptist church His ancestor Elkana Ingalls Sprague once ran a Bath general store Smith elder of M Smith Co rubber stamps and office supplies plans to retire to Bath Mrs Marguerite Robert hospital supervisor learns of the New England nurses convention in Concord New Hampshire May 10 11 Bath expected to be represented attendees should contact Miss Ida A Nutter Portsmouth NH for hotel and meeting details
Mrs Annie Stone Stanweed, former Brunswick resident, donated two old leather buckets inscribed with TS28 to the Niagara Engine company before she leaves for Honolulu. The hand tub bearing the buckets was shown in a brief ceremony outside the engine house. The town’s Niagara No. 3, a button tub built in 1, weighs 3800 pounds and has 10 inch cylinder, 5 inch stroke, 2 inch leading hose, and 4 inch suction. Since its purchase, it has competed in 87 masters, earning over 6500 in prize money plus trophies, with Gardiner Sept 14, 19SS as a highlight.
The Pomona Grange meeting featured a pantomime In Sleighing Time by local members, with songs behind the scenes and a reading on The Marks of a Thoroughbred. Discussions covered labor saving tools for housewives, saving Mother reading, and remarks from State Master W J Thompson on cooperative success. Census tallies, attendance, and a motto praising kindness led to a final address, with plans for a May 25 meeting at Dro more grange in Phippsburg.
Recent transfers listed by registry official Hiram T. Stevens include Clifford Belanger to Jessie H Young on Perley Street in Bath. Stanley to Prudentia Blake noted, and Joseph Roche to Nathan Coffin. In Bowdoin, James Mul...
At 70 years old a man suffered headaches dizziness and indigestion due to chronic constipation. After taking Fruit-a-tives for three months his bowels became regular and other ailments disappeared. Frank A. Hale reports benefits and prices are listed for the product from Frut-atives Limited in Ogdensburg, New York.
A scanned listing records numerous property deals involving individuals and firms across various locales. Notable names include Edwin Carpenter Anil Mary Teaittes Telict Mi Mailer Joba Pb Wins Selene and Ralph Uink Litt. References mention Woolwich Adiee Ge Stinson and other property transfers and buyers with many unclear fragments.
Residents flocked to Sabino Colony over the weekend to open cottages for the season. The Ditin, Smiley, and Kittredge cottages welcomed guests including Marion Datu, Elizabeth McGrath, Worres, Gibbons, Smiley, and Johnson families. Bob Small and Mrs Pooler were among those opening North and South end log cabins.
Miss June Christine Robinson 16 daughter of Trenry W Robinson of Secuerville died April 26 after years of illness. She was a niece of Mrs John Eloworth of Bath and a frequent visitor here with her grandparents May and Mrs Daniel Maclmes of Mechanic Street. Her mother Ada MacTunes formerly Bath girl died 11 years ago.
Mrs Matilda Delisle 75 wife of Jos eph Preuisle died at home on TS Russell street after a brief illness from complications. Born in Canada daughter of David Matton she came to Bath about 26 years ago. She was a member of St Marys Catholic Church and the Sodality. She leaves her husband a daughter Mrs Lewis Avery of Bath two brothers Victor Matton of Norway Cyril Matton of Berlin Noah three sisters and three grandchildren with one great granddaughter.
Secretary Volz of the YMC UAL reports Bath Volley Ball players could not travel to Augusta Saturday because a team member was ill. The event was to be on the Milliken tennis court with a planned supper, and Augusta Y men had arranged a cordial welcome. Walter Day of Wyda Windlass Co. spent Sunday at his Kennebunkport home.
Fred A. Curtis as executor presents final account of Mary J. Moore of Phippsboro Sagadahoe County. Court orders publication in Bath Independent for three weeks and a Probate Court hearing on May 10, 1921 at nine o clock to show cause why final account should not be allowed. Judge James S. Lowell.
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