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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1914
Page
11
Local jottings report quiet waterside scenes and a busy Bath harbor. Vessels Cora F Crescy Jacob M Has Kell and Lydia M Deering arrive with cargoes from Norfolk and Barbadoes. weather and winds shape the long voyages and hulls suffer little damage.
Sunday events highlight civic gatherings as well as social activities across Portland. Mrs. Luce’s residence repaints, City Landing hosts four boats and theatre parties, and a W C T U meeting attends to local concern. notes on dances at Society Hall Popham Beach and various personal incidents appear amid news of shipping, astronomy, and cotton market plans.
Dooleys and the Martyns met on Kelley Field with the Martyns winning 26 to 0. Smaller items note electric service on Sunday, church groups in Bath, and local real estate shifts around the Hinds and Lowell properties in Bath.
Sagadahoc Council hosts a whist night at the hall. Hockomock ferries up to Sunday carry 4949 cars this year. Topsham Fair prep draws crowds as fakirs arrive. The Kimball thermometer hits 115 degrees for Oct 12, a local record. Irving Wright and Alonzo Fisher hunt at Wolf Pond Woolwich, returning with six black ducks and a Partridge. Read Nichols Co ships 450000 bricks from its brick kiln. Maine Central runs special Topsham Fair trains Bath to Topsham with 9 49 departure and 4 45 return. Curtis party travels to Ossipee to visit Thomas Plant. Aroostook visitor notes tame partridge locally. Tug Seguin tows the barge East with 500 tons coal to Augusta, then to Portland with Jacob M Haskell for repairs. Mendelssohn Club holds regular meeting at Parish House. Members to bring Seven Last Words of Christ for rehearsal. The funeral of Miss Mary K O Connors at St Marys Church attended by Mary Society, conducted by Rev N J Horan. pallbearers listed. interment at Calvary Cemetery.
Morse High School football team travels to Rockland and loses 27 to 0. Rockland dominates with two field goals and a touchdown by Drinkwater, while Morse shows late improvement with passes from S Sprague and Attaya. Rockland’s Holbrook scores twice, Trueworthy adds points on kicks. Umpire Hunt referees. game spans two periods.
An advertisement for Gouraud’s Oriental Beauty Leaves by F. T. Hopkins of New York promotes a perfumed skin product for the face. It claims to refresh flushed skin without spilling like powder and to remove dirt soot and grease, offered in white and pink for ten cents posted.
Dr Robert H Donnell former Bath house physician of the U S Grant Hotel in San Diego met a demure woman while he swam at La Jolla She claimed she would swim again after a mile and a half course The woman was identified as a member of the Women’s swimming department of the Boston Athletic Association and had completed the Boston lighthouse swim
City Clerk Grassy records a letter from H W Crosman stating he must decline election to the Board of Highways and Sewers due to business relations. Also noted are visits by Mr and Mrs Albert L Strout and daughter Althea in Portland on Monday.
A dated advertisement touts Atwood’s Medicine as daily tonic to cure tiredness from hard work. It claims New England workers gain energy and calls it a favored household remedy. The copy references Mrs Brown and Wood’s Medicine as similar products and notes trial bottle availability.
An old newspaper ad touts Dean's Ointment for skin itching and Burdock Blood Bit h as blood purifying. It promotes cheap remedies and mentions other products with prices and testimonials. A separate item notes a sale of heavy horses arriving Friday August 28 by J L Quint of Topsham with cash or easy terms.
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