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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1916
Page
12
C L Farnham Co Inc Ruberoid Roofing and related materials item appears in the list of roofing suppliers and building products. The fragment shows the company name and product line in a trade listing with no further details.
Dr Frederick Bates 84 Harvard Ave Allston and Faith Trombly 174 Hancock St Cambridge wed in Marblehead on Oct 5. They traveled to Christmas Cove Maine for their honeymoon after a surprise ceremony by Rev M Covell of Marblehead Baptist Church. Bride is 19. Bates, Harvard Dental School graduate, 21 and Psi Omega member.
Local jottings report windy harbor conditions that kept the Boston boat at the wharf until 11. The schooner William Booth bound from Philadelphia carries 850 tons of coal for the Central Maine Power Co. A mob of youths chased a boy on Washington Street and were halted after police explanations. Station Agent L Eugene Thebeau, returning from his honeymoon, was greeted with confetti and rice at the bank, the prank causing a brief commotion.
Local brief records W A Morse visiting Alna and Gilbert Maxwell from Richmond. Repairs on Harris residence Highland Oak Streets. A cottage prayer meeting at William Crafts 74 Dummer Street. Col and Mrs Silas Adams return from Waterville after visiting relatives. Funeral for Joseph Labelle at St Marys Church with Calvary Cemetery interment. Auburn teachers consider chartering a special Interurban car for State convention. Bowling league update from Park Swastikas vs Hyde Windlass. high scores noted. Morse High School Masquerade fundraiser. junior class event. Morse basketball schedule includes Portland High on February 9. Portland team led by Johnny Conley and William Needleman. Fred Ostergren coaching. Duck hunting disrupted by gale. broadbill and bluebill activity described. Novel two story house on Hagan lot Washington Street built by local manufacturers with 200 residents eyeing similar homes.
Rev and Mrs Peter MacQueen visited town en route to Boston. The Bruns wick selectmen close Garnet Bridge next week for a 40 foot passage, aiding river flow. Mendelssohn Club held a session. Drake re elected conductor and Miss Winson was named pianist. YMCA auxiliary announces gym classes starting Thursday with Miss Miriam Kimball as instructor.
The Stone House property owned by Arthur Sewall sees new electric lighting as work continues. Dr Maxwell Powers buys an Overland Model 32. A Montgomery St Bernard R A C convocation discussed Royal Arch degree with refreshments planned. Squirrels proliferate in Boston and Rockland resumes normal church and social life. Cross-over poles for Central Maine Power Co. rise on Washington Street, and lumbering plans unfold in Phippsburg with portable mills to follow. Bowdoin College backs Hughes for president with a Hughes Fairbanks club and student voting slated this week.
Old Boreas and the west wind wrought damage in Bath with the North End hardest hit. A giant poplar near George B. Moody’s Washington Street residence blocked a street and trolley wires, a chimney on a nearby double house was propped then torn down, and a elm on Captain Starkey’s former lot fell. The Beacon Street Church spire towers above the storm-damaged area.
At the Universalist Church parish supper in the vestry, Howard B. Johnson led the meeting as treasurer W. Scott Shorey reported year end finances. A $75 note was paid, $240 in improvements were needed, and a small deficit remained. A committee secured pledges to cover the deficit and fund next year’s expenses.
Stockholders will vote at the next annual meeting on November 14 to raise capital by 25 percent raising total outstanding stock to 55.5 million dollars. New shares at par 100 dollars will be paid in two installments due January 5 and April 5 1917. Proceeds of eleven million dollars will fund plant extensions and facilities for rapid business growth.
Clement M. Barter and Miss Mary A Belmont tied the knot Tuesday evening at the Wesley M. E. parsonage with Rev. C. W. Harrison officiating. The bride is daughter of August Belmont of Portsmouth New Hampshire. The couple will reside in this city and Mr. Barter works at Bath Iron Works.
The Small Point Gun Club held a ten day outing at Small Point and Boston with gunning fishing and beach hikes. Steward C F Chapman prepared meals including coot dishes praised as luscious by members. The 1870 founded club boasts a premier coast home though Henry Sanborn missing due to ill health at 89. Roster includes Walter Martin D Scherer T A Addison and others.
Thomas Martin of Portland, a noted piano mover with nearly twenty years of experience, was a visitor Tuesday delivering a valuable piano. He is regarded as one of Portland's strongest men in his profession.
William W. Robinson travels to New York for a business trip. He meets with partners and conducts meetings to discuss forthcoming contracts and regional opportunities.
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