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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1914
Page
11
Local jottings mention the first snow flakes Saturday and a mix of small events around Bath, Boothbay Harbor, and Lewiston. Highlights include sports outings, church group meetings, a warehouse fire in the bog, and a Bath accident policy anecdote.
Smelting near the wharves draws labor as tug Seguin tows coal barge 707 to Togus Soldiers Home. A Casco Bay Line timetable shifts to one daily trip from Portland 2:30 pm on weekdays, with Merryconeag handling service and Aucocisco under repairs. Debates at Phi Rho hall discuss the European war’s impact on America, Otis Hunt leads with claims of a coming U S business boom, and a drowning incident links to George Snowman’s family history.
A new freighter Edward Pierce for Crowell and Thurlow launched at Newport News Shipbuilding with Miss Mary Bradford Peirce christening. About 40 to 50 Bostonians attended. The vessel will serve Hampton Roads Boston and New England routes as a collier.
The article recounts multiple Friday events including a ladies supper at Beacon Street vestry and a WCTU meeting, plus club and civic gatherings. It notes maritime traffic with schooner activity, the Jane Palmer coal voyage, and a new revenue cutter planned for 1915. It also mentions peat fuel reports, the tug Pejepscot’s shipments, and large Wolf River apples on display.
Rummage sale at Winter Street Church and a shift of grain deliveries to Riggsville. Capt Reed arrives with salt mackerel and shad. work begins on adding ties to the South End local line. Bowker car fuel trouble extinguished. Trott ships Wolf River apples to Bath. A stereopticon lecture on The Ministry of Healing draws viewers at Winter Street Chapel. A hammer injury at Windlass Works sidelines Charles Ridley briefly. Laura Nute funeral held. interment in Wiscasset. Lifeboat Hunnewell's Beach coordinates with Pinson for Seguin power launch. Beacor Sts Scouts haul cords of wood for the church. Joseph Footer buys the Bishop house. Columbia Theatre upgrades cut drafts. Bangor shipbuilding largely inactive. Bath still leads vessel building. Maine farmers prosper, improving farmstead appearance across routes. McCormick’s grain trip ends with engine backfire and brave Silsby extinguishing the blaze. Cap burned, car safe, both men unharmed. driver Silsby keeps his cap.
Reports from Lewiston and nearby towns cover church meetings, a ge rman of civic groups, and social happenings. Activities include the Central Church League gathering, a South End Parent-Teachers association meeting, a First Baptists bell fund drive, and a Grace Church vesper service return.
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