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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1950
Page
8
Fortunes, thefts, repairs, and plans fill Bath news from August 1910. Mentions of Oakledge resort expansion, shipbuilding, bridge repairs at Winneganee, theater debates, and local officials guiding clambake contests. Reports of vessel tows, cargo shifts, and a proposed Alameda theater plan amid a prosperous season.
The dedication of the Thomas Brackett Reed statue in Portland marks a state wide tribute to a Maine statesman who steered the House with executive skill and transformed disorder into order. The piece praises Reed and Maine's congressional legacy and calls for a Bath memorial to Gen. Thomas W. Hyde, Reed’s Bowdoin classmate.
Sept 2 1910 Bath Maine reports Bath Iron Works builders raised US Navy speed records held by three Bath built destroyers now the nation’s fastest ships. Other notes cover hunting at Merrymeeting Bay officers in Acadia lodge installation and local merges including Huse signing for The Gentleman from Mississippi and various transport and town works.
Charles Goodwin of Water Street fell from a carload of lumber in the Maine Central yard yesterday at three. He was taken home and a doctor was not secured until eight. City Physician Harold T. Bibber found several badly fractured ribs after arriving at the scene.
Miss Black departs for Perth Amboy to live with her parents and seek work at B Altman. Miss Rich visits Bath then Washington PA to resume music teaching. George Morse reports eight men aboard the schooner Alice Lawrence and ships Abe naki for a South port. William Sewall and daughter Margaret enjoy Brussels crossing. Eugene Ingalls builds Hazel II and plans sale in New York. Local hay market notes price and Maine demand. Bowdoinham reports ten cars shipped this week.
Rev Curtis L Stanley of the First Church of the Nazarene delivered the guest sermon at the fourth annual worship service sponsored by the Parsonsfield Porter Historical Society. Assisting him was Rev Megert of Riverside Methodist Kezar Falls. The Stanleys visited Portland Wednesday and were hosted by Mr and Mrs Floyd Webber of Yarmouth Wednesday evening.
State law imposes a penalty of five to one hundred dollars for wilfully defacing tearing down removing or destroying an official list of questions submitted to the electors or a specimen ballot.
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