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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1929
Page
8
Fortnightly items recount Bath Maine happenings from August 28 to August 30 1889. Highlights include Shaw mill shutdown for a worn bearing and rapid restart, new fronts on Front street stores, street improvements and sewer work, Bath Division URE trips, steamer upgrades, schoolhouse conversions, and local social events.
The Union ferry resumes regular trips Monday amid high water service demand. Substantial sewer and water plans are debated, including a new Franklin Street line to improve circulation and prevent dead water. A four-team gravel haul on South Street feeds the project. a recent ferry boiler test showed 160 pounds cold water pressure and solid steam capacity.
Sept 3, 1889 reports a carpenter injured at the Maine Central depot and the Bath telegraph office opening with a first message to the Portland Express. Six offices on the new line begin operation, while a Hose Three exhibition is postponed. Bath hosts various civic items, wood deliveries for the alms house, Sebago Lake excursion results, and oil about coal prospecting at the Kennebec mouth. Public talks and chalk demonstrations are noted, along with staffing changes at the Bath customs house.
A person is confined to their residence due to a severe cold restricting daily activities. No additional details on location or eligible timelines are provided.
Miss Dor Raey of Bath married W Stangler of Ridgeway Pennsylvania in a single ring ceremony. Attendants included the bride’s sister Mrs Leola Fleischmann of Brooklyn and Bath’s Lionel Breton. The bride, a Morse high 1925 graduate, worked for Metropolitan Life, last at New York City. the groom, Lafayette College 1928 civil engineer, works on State highway construction.
Belmont man Herbert L. Moore pleaded guilty to trespassing on Georgetown Associates Inc. property known as Indian Point and picking raspberries. He was fined 10 dollars with 12.25 dollars costs, the fine suspended on payment of costs, after city clerk Sewall Webster testified he had asked Moore to stop trespassing.
Leon Venus escaped serious injury when his 1928 Oldsmobile sedan collided with a stalled heavy truck near Edgecomb Center. The truck reportedly had no lights. Venus veered left to avoid impact, ripping off the right mudguard and door and damaging the cowl. The car was towed to Cummings Motor Co., Bath. Venus was at his Boothbay Harbor store.
Mr and Mrs John Leach of Florida and Phippsburg hosted a Tuesday evening reception at their Phippsburg summer home for son H G Leach and his bride from Malden Mass following a Chelsea Mass wedding. Attendees included Bath Brunswick residents and local summer guests.
The New England crop reporting service says Massachusetts will yield 375000 barrels this year, above 335000 last year and the five year average of 176000. Barnstable County may see a lighter crop while Plymouth growers anticipate better yields. dry weather is speeding ripening.
Mrs. L H Kimball of Bath returns to Boston after the sudden death of her grandson Merriweather Otis Kimball at a Georgetown summer home he fell ill last week and died in Haverhill. The body was taken to his parents winter home at 14 Charles River Square Boston. The Kimball family is well known in Bath.
Senator F W Carlton says caisson work at Bingham, run by Central Maine Power with The Foundation Company, is well organized. He notes fourfold more workers than Bath and three fatalities in five months, but cites safety measures and pay as evidence of proper conditions.
A surprise linen shower at Sabine summer home in Dorchester honors Miss Marion Dean of Dorchester and Bath, soon to wed Robert Shaw of New York City. Guests include Miss Anna Trott and Miss Gladys Olm. Priscilla Magoun hosts gifts in a garden themed party with heart place cards and a silver bracelet prize.
A city notice lists Miss Emily Piatrie Shaw Miss Maryda Moulton Mrs Howard Fasearthy Caldwell Phillips Alden Smith Miss Anna Trott and Mrs Wallace Rand of Brookline Mass Mrs Charles Bradeen of New York City among those named.
Trustees of the Gray Water District awarded the water plant contract to General Contracting Co of Bath owned by Andrew Merrill. Work to begin immediately, with completion estimated in about three months. Pipe and standpipe contracts went to R D Wood & Co of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh Des Moines Co. The plant costs around 40000 dollars and uses a spring source yielding 300 to 400 gallons per minute. The district was formed under...
Plans were drawn for a water district charter with Pullerne Repairs and Harry named as engineer in charge of the project. The article notes the charter grant and the appointment of personnel overseeing the work.
Bridge receipts for Aug 21 to Aug 28 rise by 5161 passengers and 1828 cars. Frank Grinwell Page of Pelham Manor New York visits Bath with his wife and two children and Miss McDonald of Oakland California. Page is grandson of the late Albert G Page of New York. Bath residents host visitors as Miss Ida A Thurlow and Mrs Charles R Brown of Wollaston Massachusetts stay with Mrs Leslie A Fowles at 389 High Street.
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