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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1914
Page
6
The account compares the contested engagement with England showing greater damage to the American ship despite more guns and men. It cites a skilled American crew under an able captain versus a braver but less skilled opposing force. Captain Stephen Decatur arrived in New York to an ovation aboard the victor.
The October School Board meeting profiled routine actions including holiday for Topsham Fair on Oct 14 and closure Oct 29-30 for teachers convention in Portland. The board accepted appointments at Bailey School of Industry and Morse High coaching offer by John Fitzgerald, granted a shorthand club room, and urged sanitary facilities at South Street Primary. A note praised building committee work while a youth theft case emerged from the Home boys.
Local items from Bath include Tung Seguin towed to sea aboard Sunbeam and Francis M Sherman Clark starting duties at Anderson pharmacy. Epworth League held a box supper at Miss Annie Wylie’s home in West Bath. Torrey of Boston visits Cox's Head cottage for rest. A Long Beach fire is blamed on sawdust or hunters’ embers. Municipal Court heard a Phippsburg assault case. Clifford McCollett was ordered to pay costs. Rally day planned at Wesley M E Church with a long Sunday school program. A Bath citizen urges backing new industries to boost economy and population. Henry W Howard, fixture in Bath business for 30 years, noted for varied ventures and long workdays. Hood's Sarsaparilla advertised for treating scrofula and consumption common in October.
Charles Harriman works on High Street shingles. The Ladies Missionary Society met with Mrs. Winnie Noble. A new granolithic sidewalk goes in before the Hooker place. Motorboat Vestal visits from Popham for river trips. George Mitchell and William Elliot shoot ducks on the Bay. Captain Beals moves sand to Hyde Windlass. Support rises to paint People's Baptist Church. New cottage departures as Meadow residents depart. Captain Moody tows hay and flour to Cecil Mon. World series bulletins at Columbia Theatre matinees. Cotton balls from Alabama shown at the office. Captain Plummer returns to paint Daisy Farlin. feldspar to Georgetown. L. W. Jenny leaves for Houston to supervise vulcanizing. Morse High School draws crowd for mechanical drawing, domestic science, bookkeeping courses. Rev. Evans and church members attend Maine State Baptist Convention in Lewiston. Three new church members welcomed at Communion. Steamers Bunker Hill and Massachusetts end all-season service. Whiskey seized. misdelivered to Bath by mistake. Wesley Church Sorority elections held at Mrs Ann Bliss’s home. Knights of Columbus officers elected. Local police search for G. J. Ott of Rockland in larceny case. Swett’s suitcase seized. Ott arrested near South Freeport.
Ladies' Aid met in the chapel. Bay Point becomes year round post office with F H Spinney as postmaster. Visitors from Washington toured state roads. fire from Great Island clambake damaged 200000 lumber owned by Franklin Davis. Maine farm statistics and land values reported. Rally week at Winter Street Church outlined. Allen Webb vaudeville to tour Wiscasset and Boothbay. Colonial Club October meeting recap and committee appointments.
The Bath area newspaper page reports on probate actions in Sagadahoc County with notices for Alexander McDonald and John J Keegan including required publications, also detailing estate matters for Mary McDonald’s heirs and the will probate process. It notes a 1914 court action, a peculiar accident at K Y C Fritz Kilppell’s glass carboy, and various local happenings such as tennis results at Bowdoin College and Small Point gunning trips.
Alton Lewis of this city and Alice M Curran daughter of James Curran of Portland were married Monday noon and honeymooning with Mr and Mrs Dennis N Lenaple Court. Lewis a chef at Avon lunch room Portland formerly served in the 4th Company CAC and Bath Fire Department. They will live at 21 Wilmont St Portland. Lowell Chapter Pythian Sisters sewing circle met at Center St to elect officers with sister Proctor.
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