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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1915
Page
5
Local jottings cover Bath events from a police station lodging to church meetings and a stray horse on North Street. Labor Day effects include post office hours and field days at Happy Nook, with accidents, boating, and a county-wide blackout briefly darkening Brunswick and Topsham.
Dance last Friday in Forrester's Hall and a busy coastal scene with ships, barge work, tug activity, and shore services. Reports include a Bath schooner load for Philadelphia, a new four masted barge Atlantic construction, and maritime movements by Seguin and Ariel. Local church sermons, nurse gathering plans, a tagged child voyage to Boston, and O. P. Haley returning from California rounded out a busy town period.
Reports say the overdue schooner Maude Palmer is likely to have foundered in last month’s hurricane. Sailors on the Sun from Sabine to Philadelphia and the Massapequa from Galveston to New Orleans sighted sunken schooners in 14 fathoms near Trinity Shoal and southern waters, suggesting the Palmer’s fate.
John Heney underwent an appendicitis operation at the city hospital by Dr. Sturtevant of Augusta. Miss Carrie Wing of Gardiner visits relatives in town. Joseph H. Madden spent the weekend in Lynn and Boston. Mr and Mrs Henry M Shaw enjoyed a three day auto trip to Boston. Miss Cora Gaudet of Haverhill guests of Mrs Charles Comeau. Mrs E Neill and daughter Miss Georgie of New York guests of Mrs Fred Billings Mechanic Street. Mr and Mrs Roscoe Martin and daughter Florence visiting Mr and Mrs S B Martin Lincoln Street. Henry M Biggins returned from a vacation in Boston and resumed duties with D T Percy & Sons Tuesday. Mrs Fred Kowalker and daughter Frances of South Boston visiting Mrs Kowalker's mother Mrs S Newlander. Mrs Kowalker formerly Miss Sarah Newlander of this city.
Mattie McMann 51 died after a long illness at her Granite Street home. She was a Gardiner native, widow of Thomas B. McMann, daughter of William Gilbert, and survived by three daughters Mrs Thomas McDonough Mrs Archie Libby and Miss Marguerite McMann three sons Herbert Earl and William four sisters Mrs Coleman Mrs Besaw Mrs LeClair and Mrs Oliver and two brothers Fred Gilbert of Brunswick and William of Augusta. Funeral held Sunday at 2 30 from the family residence.
Mr and Mrs Ralph Whitehouse and son Stanley were at Sabine over Labor Day. Eugene Allen returns to teach in New Haven Conn High School. L B Swett and family enjoyed a drive to Portland. Harriet Rice spent Labor Day in Newcastle with aunt Bertha Trovant. Weston L Bonney and sons Dean and Orvis returned from Five Islands. Roy Dunning home from Boston on vacation. He works in Boston Post Office delivery. Mrs C M Holmes of Dorchester Mass visited sister Mrs L H Andrews School St then returned home. A H Goodwin of Oakwood Farm and Ralph Emery go by auto to Milton Mass for five weeks. Peleg Sprague to be Danforth Me high school principal after Orono summer school. Miss Mary Sullivan Emma Pineau Gladys Hart visiting Miss Pineau in Quincy. Ernest Graves of Montague City returned from a week with niece Mrs Ralph Mank. Marion Dickson left for Boston to visit Miss Mollie Greenwood City Point over Labor Day. Capt F R Rowe of Boothbay in town on Friday en route to Bethel for Rev B F Fickett funeral. Mrs Page Wyman and son return home to Popham after staying with sister Mrs Charles Carr on Maple St. Clarence Hodgkins leaves Windlass Works to start own auto business. Mrs L Washburn weekend in Portland with sister Mrs Bradford and returns with daughter Beatrice. Edgar Chandler returns from West Southport after third season as chef at Cozy Harbor House. guests not as many as former seasons.
A roundup of residents visiting friends and relatives across Maine and nearby states. Includes H T Madden in Lynn, Edward Hearn visiting Aunt in Bath, Alfred Crosby from Westinghouse in Boston for holidays, and trips to York Beach and the White Mountains. Also notes promotions at Bath Iron Works, car purchases, and pilots bound for Cristobal with Captain Oliver and family.
A circular from the Maine department announces the 49th National Encampment of the G A R in Washington D C from Sept 27 to Oct 2 1915. An excursion under a past department commander is planned with invitations to related groups. A Sixth Corps reunion and Arlington visit are slated for Sept 28 with details via Simon Andrews and A F Motley.
Mr and Mrs Charles Gardiner of Rockport Maine where Gardiner is cashier at Lamden Savings Bank local branch were weekend guests of Mr and Mrs William Shea on Beacon Street.
John McCormick of East Pittston is here to enter Morse High School after preparation in Gardiner. Advertisement notes Burdock Blood Bitters claim to restore digestion, normal weight, and purify the blood, sold at all drug stores for $1.00.
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