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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1909
Page
5
Thanksgiving approaches as readers note cool weather and a switch from football to basketball. Local and regional items cover hotel closures, ship and crane work, bank building progress, and upcoming games at Bowdoin Annapolis and Bath Iron Works. Community events include dances, memorial services, and a long running Winnegance Thanksgiving shooting match.
In Bowdoin Bowdoinham Richmond Harpswell and Woolwich farmers show potatoes can profit in Sagadahoe county. A Bathman suggests forming a company to raise a large potato acreage with stock at about ten dollars per share and aims for six percent returns. Brunswick’s success is offered as a model to expand Bath’s potato farming.
Outside friends of the pastor bought Notes and Letters of Travel at a Winter Street sale. A New England supper drew a large upstairs crowd despite the foul night. The supper committee included Mrs. C. Fred Curtis and several volunteers, with many waitresses assisting. The first day brought $138 and the event continued Thursday, praised as among the best by Winter Street ladies.
The Bath school board proposes appointing a local historian to collect and preserve the city's history. The plan, drawn from a legislative act, envisions a town history and geography compiled by the superintendent and a elected citizen, with copies sent to the Maine State Library.
Brunswick residents claim Bath must fund the bridge and its approaches across the New Meadows while West Bath begins an eastern approach. Courts allegedly require Bath to shoulder the bridge and the present highway approaches. City schools close Wednesday for the rest of next week. Bowdoin-Maine football game in Brunswick raised about $1000 in receipts.
Deacon Percy Morse of Phippsburg died November 12 at age 90. Born on the Small Point family estate, he was the eldest son of Dea Elijah Morse and Nancy Morrison and grandson of Revolutionary soldier Daniel Morse. He married Rebecca Wallace and had five children, with Catherine dying young. Morse long worked in milling and timbering, later moving to Pownal and then back to coast life with his son Elbridge. A deacon in the Free Baptist church, his character was marked by gentleness, charity, and reliability, and he was beloved by neighbors and family. He and his wife Rebecca enjoyed a long, tranquil retirement and awaited life beyond. Funeral data from Worcester, Massachusetts, notes his death on November 17, 1909.
The Colonial club opened its yearly tournament this week with games set to be completed by February 6. Monday night events include pool matches William Powers versus E. E. Dinsmore and Sam Arnold versus Ralph H. Dunton, billiards J. McCole against A. B. Coombs, Dr. R. H Donnell versus William S. Shorey, with cribbage starting next week. Street railway rails will be laid on Oak street Front to Commercial to the Eastern Steamship wharf for freight use, removing a long running nuisance on Front street.
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