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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1919
Page
5
A listed roster details numerous individual donors with gifts up to 100 and many five dollar contributions. The article notes additional non cash donations including Bath Iron Works and J Mulligan Co. plus contractor KF W Carlton profit estimate and a total cash subscription around 1100 dollars.
Archibald Miller Jr funeral held Sunday at nine at his parents’ Granite Street home. A large Morse high school junior class delegation attended with a lavish floral display. Rev. Ernest M. Holman conducted prayers. Body taken to Everett Mass for burial at Woodlawn. Six class mates served as bearers.
An elderly Bowdoin man died Sunday night leaving wife two sons George and Henry Gillespie and daughters Mrs Daniel Coombs and Mrs Leonora Croskey. Funeral set for Thursday at 10 a.m. at the home.
William E. Belanger Jr., 21, pleaded guilty to assault and battery of Everett O. Mitchell after a Center street disturbance. Mitchell, a former police patrol driver turned private chauffeur, appeared with black eyes. Belanger received a $50 fine plus $8.50 costs or four months in jail.
Bath Rotary club named a committee Dr. Langdon T. Snipe Dr. Clarence A. Peaslee and Dr. Warren E. Kershner to compile an inventory of items needed to furnish a room at City Hospital. A telegram from Secretary Harry T. Passmore regarding Vermont rotary links was read. Seventy two members were present and enjoyed Landlord Jackson's luncheon menu.
A Tuesday night Colonial club smoker drew a large crowd with a mix of local and professional talent. The program featured Lewiston jazz orchestra, a Colonial octette led by Walter Murtaugh, comedians, a magician, and minstrel-style acts. A buffet luncheon followed, with the event run by the entertainment committee led by Harold L. Thompson.
A Bath school survey was authorized after a Monday night conference of the Board of Education, the fire engineers board, and a Chamber of Commerce committee. Supt. Charles Lester Smith will confer with state schools chief Dr. Augustus O. Thomas on assessing pupil numbers building conditions and remedies.
Fred Ts Teeling purchased a modern finished house with a large rear lot through the Joseph Charles Footer agent at 19 Dum mer street court. He is moving in this week and asks that telephone calls be directed to the E S Crosby Co office until his own line is installed.
Thomas E F Steed of Portland from the United States Treasury Savings Divisions is in town for a few days to promote thrift and War Savings stamps. He toured major industrial plants where thrift clubs showed strong cooperation.
Pale, weak and nervous readers are urged to try Peptiron iron tonic claimed to restore health. The product blends iron and manganese with wax celery pepsin and acts as medicine and food for blood and nerves aiding anemia and neurasthenia. A customer testimonial from Sarah F. Germond of Philmont New York notes improvement in nervousness.
Past Masters night at Solareas featured all lodge chairs filled as Master Mason degree was conferred on a candidate. A supper followed and the annual meeting date was announced for December 1.
Mrs Bertha Moulton returns Friday from Auburn visit. Eastern Star women attend Mt. Carmel chapter inspection in Richmond. Clinton Fish leaves for New York after six years, first visit back. Thomas Gillespie dies aged 86. funeral at 10 with Rev. Powers. Box social for Junior Red Cross at Bishop school. Tenor of local visits and mileage across Brunswick, Lisbon, Portland, and Lewiston. notices on illnesses, hospital, and Masonic events. For sale seven items include eight cylinder Cadillac touring car and chestnut mare six years old.
Bath may receive some new one man Birney type cars for the Androscoggin and Kennebec Railroad. Lewiston and Auburn are expected to receive most of the cars, with Bath supplying spares to ease congestion. The Public Utilities commission discussed notes to finance 12 Birney cars built by the Wa son Manufacturing Co. of Springfield Mass. The cars will be green with gold stripe and numbered 218 220 222 224 226 228 230 282 234 236 2388 240. Payment involves 16 650 cash plus 36 notes totaling 72 908 13.
Miss Myrtle Robertson died at Highland View hospital Amherst Nova Scotia after a two week typhoid illness. She was night supervisor at Highland View and a Bath City Hospital graduate last March. Funeral at 165 East Pleasant Street conducted by Rev P A Walker with interment in Highland cemetery. She is survived by her mother a brother Donald and two sisters Hilda and Ellen.
Charles Laskey 67 formerly of Bath and a Bath Iron Works machinist for 22 years died at his son’s home in South Weymouth after years of ill health. Funeral was Saturday. He leaves his wife a son George W Laskey chief engineer on a Philadelphia to Southern ports steamer, a brother F A Laskey of Boston and a sister Mrs M J Diffin of Bath.
The marriage unites Capt George S. Cooper U S N commander of the New Orleans district and Miss Louise H Lowell, sister Aramede Lowell wife of Capt Zachariah Madison U S N, with ties to the Oak Street mansion now a Texas clubhouse. Also notes wartime HQ in Philadelphia andRelated items include a windmill sale and job ads for coat makers in Bowdoinham.
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