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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1898
Page
6
In Cotillion Hall a Bath High School Athletic Association dance fundraiser opened a series of events with ice and cake served at intermission. Proceeds will help cover expenses for the Maine Interscholastic Meet in Waterville in June including travel for the B. H. S. Athletic team.
The Bowdoin regiment of fair wheel women return in stylish outfits and plans for a charity concert. Miss Ethel Hyde organizes a present lineup of songs she heard in New York. The event, set for next Wednesday in Cotillion hall, aims to raise funds for a worthy cause.
A Bath page brims with local hues from spring social notes. Tom Alley declares a kiss, Bath girls charm with whimsy, and boys from Brunswick share no trains. Charles Davenport marks 89 with roses from the Old Ladies Home. Col Oliver Payne sails from New York toward Bath as world trips loom. Yacht Neckan plans a Portland to Bath cruise while Miss Hyde prepares Melba’s Barber of Beville songs for next Wednesday.
W F Lakin former Bath boy now with Newport News Gen Electric Co returns home for a few months. Lieut H M Royden with troops at Augusta visited Bath during Coburn Cadets camp and made many friends. Miss Jennie Whitmore returns from Boston. Miss Hoover hosted a luncheon at the Dyke homestead. Mayor Torrey and Mrs. Torrey left Thursday with Mrs. Torrey visiting Boston and the Mayor proceeding to New York.
General Passenger Agent Boothby reports to the INDEPENDENT that fewer than five hundred men will be sent home Saturday while the First Regiment two companies of the Second Regiment and the Battery of Heavy Artillery remain in camp on Sunday. Parade will be as good as last week with earlier start to suit excursionists.
A pageant scene unfolds as senators in patriotic dress visit Our Corner Grocery. A yellow dog with black and yellow ribbons attracts children while townspeople discuss tulip beds infested by red and gray beetles. The group debates railroads, street safety, and corporate influence before adjourning for war news at the Independent Den.
In 1784 a Loyalist Major contemplated moving to Nova Scotia but was land poor. The Kennebec tale recounts a church in decay by 1791 and Loyalists like William Gardiner and Nathaniel Gardiner. John Jones, the king's surveyor at Pownalboro, plotted a bold capture of Col. Cushing, then hid near the Kennebec front now owned by a Baltimore ice firm. the letter describes a late night confrontation.
The Independent relayed the Foresters visit held Thursday in Sagadahoc Court with hunting and flag decor. Grand officers listed, including Doolittle Brunswick and Boulay Waterville, plus committees appointed and officers elected for the next year. The Grand Court was installed by Geo. McMunn of Bangor with Herald T. Holmes of Lewiston.
The Bath market displays summer greens with spinach and beet greens at 75 cents per bushel and radishes at 50 cents. Rhubarb dips to 2 cents per pound while potatoes are scarce at 1 dollar per bushel. Eggs run 11 to 12 cents, beef between 8 and 12 cents a side, spring lamb 23 cents, and spring chickens 25 cents a pound. New cabbages from the south begin arriving and new beets cost 1.50 per dozen. DIED. In this city on May 11, the infant daughter of Frank A. and Harriet A. Barker aged one day.
The document records a financial statement sworn by W D Mussenden as cashier, with totals listed and a notary public oath dated May 13, 1898. It notes Bath's bank hours, including Saturday noon closure, and lists directors M T Donnell G C Moses Augustus Palmer.
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