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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1915
Page
4
A page from Bath's past surfaces in a collection found by Fred Page on High Street. The digits and notes include a 1802 pocketbook, 1830 receipts, tax-like ledgers, and a 19th century Amica Societas parchment for Joshua Page, Bath’s long time educator.
The Hyde Guards of Bath practice more than uniforms and rifles. Training emphasizes gun nery, ballistics, and range calculations for a 6 inch disappearing gun at Fort Williams. They study target position, weather, pressure, wind, and tide with a $5000 mood position finder and other US supplied gear. The unit boasted the best coast artillery target practice in the United States last year.
John B Gowell son of F H Gowell chief engineer on the Ferdinando Gorges wed Miss Jeanette Chase of Bangor in Bangor. Gowell is second engineer on the Camden of Eastern Steamship Corp and will reside in Bangor this summer. Andrew Merrill and crew sound for a sewer line and break a short iron bar in rock. Reverend T N Kewley spoke at Winslow Wednesday evening January 27, 1861. Captain Joseph Stockbridge father of Mrs Joshua Page, Lafayette veteran, met Lafayette in Portland in 1824 and was kissed by the Marquis. Original Master Page souvenirs will be offered to the Sagadahoc Historical Society.
A Department of Agriculture survey identifies Central California Tennessee Maryland Delaware Southern Louisiana North and South Carolina Virginia and the Ozarks as the eight major strawberry districts in 1914. California shipped 2 312 carloads, Tennessee 1 571.5, and the total market moved 14 533.2 carloads nationwide with December to March activity from Central Florida and March from Southern Texas and Southern California. The report notes significant northern production and a telegraph market news service to aid distribution.
City Council budget details funding for Memorial Day Police protection printing and advertising public library library aid and tax school department salaries books and fuel highway and sewer costs including repairs, walks, gravelling, snow care, sewers and salaries with various line items and totals shown.
The Sagadahoc Probate Court May session, led by Judge Lowell, issued administrations for Edward J. Millay estate in Bowdoinham to Edwin M. Graves and for Abbie P. Deering in Bath. Wills proved and executors named include Emma B. Scott, Sarah E. Pierpont, William T. Hall Jr, Aphia T. Foster, Eliza H. Costello. Guardians appointed for Mary Whitmore of Bowdoinham and Charles Doyle of Bowdoin.
Nominees named for the Bowdoin Alumni Association board of overseers filling the vacancy after Joseph Williamson's death and for four Alumni Council seats. Overseer candidates include Melvin Holway, William Emery, Eben Freeman, and James Doherty. Council nominees are Harry Andrews, Howard Ives, George Wheeler, Joseph Roberts, William Thomas, Preston Keyes, Charles Hastings, and Frederick Oil Accounts.
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