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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1925
Page
8
Forty years ago in Bath reports a schooner frame purchase by Morse brothers and coal cargo plans for Sewalls new ship. It notes Foye Co. opening auction rooms, real estate transfers, local visits, and civic events including fire muster prizes, medal exhibitions, deliveries, and various Bath residents’ movements and letters.
Grapes plentiful and cheap this fall and lobsters again in the market. The close time expired Wednesday. Twenty four vessels have been corned since last spring on the Marine railway. Miss Wolston's dancing school for juveniles opens at the City Hall tomorrow.
The boiler for the steam heating apparatus is now in position at the Court House. Collector Hyde's residence has received heating equipment from the Goss Marine Iron Works. The doomed steamer Meteor was noted in dispatches.
Oct 5 1885 note: W P Hodgkins builds a 50 ton fishing schooner at his South End yard. A Sher man Taber gold medal from Maranacook Junior single scull race is on display at A G Page Jr jewelry store. Miss Georgia Cayvan, managed by Daniel Frohman, will star at Park Theatre Boston for a week in May Blossom. The Bath Light Infantry, newly reorganized, will be mustered in tomorrow evening by Capt H K Stetson. officer election set for Sunday 7.
Polo rages at the Alameda afternoons as champions of 85 and their enthusiaste friends play hotly contested games between 4 and 6. Many fine plays are made before an audience would awaken echoes of applause. These practice games teach our boys how to win league medals.
October 6 1885 reports a basement to attic blaze on Vine street near Front Bath destroying Mr William Hennessey and Mrs Frank Pollard belongings. Firemen arrived by 4 am and aid from neighbors helped quench the flames by mid morning. insurer J H Humphreys covers 800 dollars. Wrecking attempt to raise tug Mary Lee near Small Point failed after several trials. Also noted are polo crowd placards urging civility and planned opening of W P Kimball’s Bath store at 2 pm tomorrow.
Two man jobs like operating a fanning mill required a crank turns and a grain feeder. Electric motors now substitute for crank men, allowing one person to run many devices. Motors can be mounted or portable with pulleys to fit different machines, saving a man hour per hour of operation.
Capt Walter Mallett of Topsham reflects on a life at sea from his sun porch. He recalls sailing ships and the romance of the voyage, his Dirigo being seized in England with barley, and his later retirement after navigations to Japan and across Cape Horn. His wife also logged many Horn crossings.
The Fall meeting of the State DAR was held at the Hall of Representatives in Augusta with reports and business in the morning. Governor Brewster and Mrs Anthony Wayne Cook, president general of the National DAR, spoke in the afternoon. A reception followed at the Blaine Mansion honoring Mrs Cook with Augusta and Governor Brewster’s kin involved.
Postmaster Owen announced 13 spelling corrections for Palestinian place names to appease locals. New forms include Zikhron Ya'aqov for Zieron Jacob and Safed for Safad, with officials citing philological accuracy and better phonetics under Turkish-era translations as the motive.
About 50 members and friends gathered in the vestry for a Wednesday evening party. Two teams split by gender, boys peeling onions and girls writing baseball essays. Winners were John Sheldon, Edna Hallowell, Lauriston Trott, and Irene Coombs.
A historical report shows gross income of 4,095,287.69 with depreciation accrual and maintenance expenditures of 651,190.18. It lists interest on funded and unfunded debt, guaranteed dividends on subsidiary stock, and preferred stock dividends totaling 1,955,113.17 and 1,056,864.43 respectively, ending with a balance of 218,981.28. Walter Avy Man urges readers to keep Central Maine Power preferred and buy more.
Sagadahoc Grangers receive a loud ovation at Lewiston as the Androscoggin Pomona Grange marks its 40th anniversary. Morning and evening sessions feature the fifth and sixth degrees, with state officers presiding and strong applause from witnesses.
The first six months of 1925 saw 17,716,709 motor vehicles registered in the United States, up 13.0 percent from the same period in 1924. Alabama leads with 53.6 percent growth, followed by Florida, Oklahoma, and Mississippi. Total registrations include 15,519,647 passenger cars, 2,114,750 trucks, and 82,312 taxis and hire vehicles, with gross receipts of $226,809,709 in fees and licenses. Maine alone records about 126,200 registrations for the period.
Maine fair dates include Oct 13 15 in Sagadahoc Topsham with E C Patten and Oct 8 in Greene Town Greene with Mrs L Coburn Nov 17 19 Maine State Pomological Society Portland with E I White and Androscoggin Poultry Assn Lewiston with W E Briggs Dec 8 11 Maine State Poultry Assn Portland with Chester T Adams Dec 15 18 Bangor Poultry Assoc Bangor with H F Mongovan Dec 29 Jan 1 South Berwick Poultry Assn South Berwick with FAS Thomas plus social visit of Mrs Mary Ripley Merriman of North Hampton NH and Mr and Mrs Merton Payson of Windham.
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