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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1927
Page
2
Members discuss possible 1928 nomination with Coolidge uncertain. Talks center on Dawes and Hughes as potential nominees while party leaders await a December meeting to set convention plans and clarify the presidential path.
The writer recalls the annual Pred erickton exhibition in September with displays of crafts animals and races. Prize wheels offered cash prizes openly. locals viewed it as normal while Maine authorities would clamp down. The referendum on Maine’s primary law looms. voters should reject repeal and preserve the system.
Public bequests named in the will of Mrs. Bina Greenleaf widow of Charles T. Greenleaf late of Bath filed Tuesday in Sagadahoc county probate court. The will disposes of real estate in Bath at 1088 Washington Street to the Universalist parish, with funds and stock bequests to the Old Ladies Home, City Service Co, and various institutions, and names several executors and witnesses.
The Sumail County Fair opened Tuesday morning in Topsham with favorable weather and strong attendance. Exhibits impressed across halls and sheds while the midway attracted crowds. The horse racing stock drew top entries for three days, and Wednesday brought clear skies, warmer weather, and many Bath visitors via special railcar.
Rev Robert T Carey of Corliss Street Baptist church will not speak Thursday night. The vestibule talk is shifted to next Thursday. Meanwhile Mrs Ora Shaver of Chicago will address Bath churches on The Tabernacle as Used by the Israelites of old. Mrs Shaver has spoken in Bath before and is expected to return to Chicago with her family by week’s end. Public urged to attend. Mr and Mrs Norman Smith of Brunswick hosted Commodore and Mrs Charles Fahs of Mere Point at a dinner Tuesday. Mr and Mrs Ralph Whitehouse and Warren Pushard of lower High street left Wednesday for Center Harbor New Hampshire to visit Mrs Whitehouse’s aunt and uncle Gay and Cram.
Bath veterans club hosts whist party with mixed prizes won by Mesdames Cocain Metnnes Haven Penton Pare and Votan. The week features Hospital Donation drive inviting jellies jams preserves and other goods dropped at local depots or called for.
At Grand Falls New Brunswick the International Paper Co plans a major development costing several million dollars. The town sits on a hill with a power house to generate about 6 000 horsepower by turbine systems.
Charles Henry Butler hosted Tuesday noon at Montsweag Farm Woolwich the Veterina Wiscasset Fire Society a harvest breakfast. Society includes leading citizens of Wiscasset and vicinity for 150 years with governors and lawyers among members. Menu featured Montsweag Farm cider and traditional fare. Guests included William Orr New York and Charles Sigh son Edgecomb.
The following enlisted men of Battery II 240th Coast Artillery have been promoted to private first class Christopher J Cushing Henry EK Savage Sars BF Maxwell Oram GG Larrabee Francis W Holmes and Clarence A Holmes. The battery now has a peace time strength of 67 enlisted men and three officers.
A dense list of mixed across and down clues for a crossword puzzle including naval ship, diagrams, verbs, pronouns, and various cryptic hints. The puzzle mixes numbered hints and fragment notes, with several typographical errors and garbled entries in both horizontal and vertical sections.
The 1927 Maine Library Bulletin from State Librarian Dunnack reports public library stats with Bath showing surprisingly low per capita circulation after adjusting population. The Patten Free Library is noted as main, with Bath’s ratable polls around 2400 suggesting an annual library appropriation near 4800. October 4, 1927.
Miss Eleanor King of Bath and George Umberhind of Richmond were married in a double ring ceremony at Wesley parsonage with Rev. Porrest Littlefield officiating. The couple hosted a luncheon at 71 Green Street, Bath, and plan to reside in Richmond after a wedding trip through northern Maine and Canada.
Avery Jones and Jeanette Walker were married Sunday at the Auburn home of David E. Widker in a ceremony performed by Rev. Charles McDonald. The couple, attended by Charles Leavitt and his wife, hail from Bath and Belfast respectively. The groom, a longtime employee at A. D. Stetson & Son, and the bride, formerly of Belfast, now reside in Bath. The double ring service featured navy blue silk crepe and white trim, with rooms decorated in cut flowers. After refreshments, they departed amid well wishes for their Bath home. Also noted is Harry MacDonald returning to Bath from Brockton to join W. N. Beal’s on High Street.
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