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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1910
Page
7
City chat notes a early winter forecast with snow and ice forming, talks of the food fair, a Thanksgiving gun season, and local bets on election results. Bath Brunswick and Woolwich items include road work, new telephone directories, apple shipments, fishing, trolleys, and a Brunswick knitting mill fire loss.
The Bath Iron Works won contracts to build two torpedo boat destroyers after bids opened in Washington. The company bid $654,500 for boats following government or builder designs. The award means at least 18 months of work for Bath’s yard with immediate material orders and work starting toward spring, lifting local prospects.
James Purington Winnegance plans winter repairs and an addition to his boat house. E H Morse’s boat to be repaired. Sewing circle met with Mrs Clara Adams. Eugene Knight’s buildings shingled with help from his Westport father. Scott Morse injured in Bath Iron Works torpedo-boat destroyer construction but survived without broken bones. John G Morse & Sons sawed logs for D A Merry who will use tamber for future building work. Mildred Bowle of Parker Head visited aunt Mrs Walter Morse.
In West Bath the woods hum with dogs chasing foxes and rabbits while a lone gunner appears far behind. Smelt fishing on the river has slowed with small catches and few fish overall. Most river launches sit idle for winter. only those used by fishermen and local business remain active. Mr and Mrs Fred W Larrabee will stay home Sunday as he finishes work for the fall and plans to return soon.
In the adjourned November term Probate Court Judge Lowell transacted business including administrations granted for the estates of William T. Salie Bowdoinham and Catherine E. McNeil Bath others. wills admitted for Mary A. Fiske Bath. accounts allowed for Etta M. Doughty Emma C. Dunning John H. Morse and Margaret Scott. inventories returned for several estates including Francis A. Clapp and Frazier Wood with guardians and executors named.
Miss Thalia Bailey, a pupil of Woolwich, returns to Gray's Business College in Portland with her mother. Jeslie Soule of Lincoln Academy enjoys a short vacation at home in Montsweax. Mrs. Leroy Morse and son Brad ford visit Sagadahoc Ferry with relatives as Morse lands a new post on the Central Vermont Railway.
District Superintendent Phelan leads two Methodist services in town tomorrow. He preaches at Nequasset Church in the forenoon and at the North Church in the afternoon.
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