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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1928
Page
8
Forty years ago in Bath the September City Council meeting is noted. Naturalizations occurred at U.S. Court, engine Kennebec tested, and Bath citizens dispatched on trips. Social events include garden party and torchlight parade participation. Republican Harrison Morton club formed. Frost damaged crops. ship James S. Barrett towed for repairs. Western Union handled large dispatches for Democratic demonstration.
Notices from September 6 1888 include a short U S District Court session final adjournment and a dedication plan for Union block hall. Frost patches appeared in low lands. Donnell yard work saw 100 knees cut in three hours. Salem Cadet band concert and various civic activities plus ward lists, torches and torchlight procession details.
Bath residents vote as work halts in shipyards and manufactories. Ezra Hume travels to Washington territory for work, while a wrecked wagon on Washington street highlights the morning. A large squash is exhibited at Center street. polling room moves to a school site in Ward Three.
Sept 11 1888 report notes Maine baseball winding down for the season. North End water works extension to be completed tomorrow. Tug planking at Morse yard to be finished this week. A special train to Lewiston State Fair departs Thursday. Nine loads of hay weighed at 14 dollars per ton. Miss Mabel Fletcher leaves for Smith College Northampton Mass to continue studies. Superintendent Howe of Bath.
Pittsfield Mass article notes the 1790 Longfellow house and its famous staircase may be preserved in a new high school building after eminent domain. the original clock moved to Craigie House with plans for a replacement grandfather clock on the preserved stairway.
Water Works leaves Bath tonight for the New England Water Works Association meeting in Cambridge Massachusetts. A tar barrel fire set by a Republican last night disrupted the Park demonstration slated for tonight. A large Newfoundland dog, owned by the P M Hooper captain, was jailed at the lockup after escaping his chains and causing a disturbance. the captain is away south with cargo. City Hall saw a raucous Bath Republican return night with William E Hogan guiding cheers as returns favored a Republican victory.
Washington announces a full slate of executive appointments after the biennial officers’ election. New leaders include Mrs. John F. Sippel as federation president and Mrs. S L Toomer of Auburn Ala as division head for home extension service.
The Twin County Farm Bureau met at West Bath grange hall for an all day session. Nine members attended and took part in chair caning under the direction of Mrs. Brown, with dinner served at noon.
Miss Elsie Burkard of Rome New York has been named a teacher at the Opportunity school in Bath. She succeeds Miss Dorothy Ryder who taught there last year.
Forrest Mains Earl McCabe Harold Wagner Fred Gaudet and Thomas Pearson left Bath Sunday evening bound for Presque Isle in Aroostook County where they will pass the next three weeks employed as potato pickers.
Mr and Mrs George E Levyn announce the engagement of their daughter Miss Althea Margaret to Gardiner Robbins Deering. The couple hosted a pink and white dinner with out of town guests Miss Mary Stackpole of Brunswick and Mrs Forrest Staples of Hyde Park Mass. Miss Levyn, a Morse high school 1925 graduate, will study dietetics at Nassau Institute and then enter Boston's New England Hospital for Women and Children. Mr Deering, son of the late Frank M Deering and Mrs Elisha Atkins, is a 1925 Abbot School graduate and will finish Suffolk Law School in Boston next June.
Miss Lillian Dunton employed at a Bowdoin College fraternity house will return Monday to resume her duties after spending the summer with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dunton of Mechanic Street.
Mrs. Loring R. Bates departed Thursday to visit relatives in Rockland and Stockton Springs, Maine.
George Stuart Dole son of Rev and Mrs George H Dole of Wilmington Del and formerly of Bath died suddenly at his parents summer home in Wayne He arrived from Fryeburg where he had visited his brother Rev Louis A Dole Dole was a Yale athlete Navy wrestling champion and educator He served as a Navy lieutenant in World War I He is survived by his parents and his twin brother Rev Louis A Dole of Canton N Y
Harriet A. Coombs petitions as executrix in a will for Harriet A. Coombs of West Bath. The heirs named are Jillian M. Wright and Ethel L. Peabody. Court orders publication in Bath Independent for notices and a probate hearing on October 2 1928.
Fryeburg reports involvement of Thomas H. Dole of New York City in the ongoing matter.
The funeral of Randall A. Nichols was Thursday afternoon at his home on 4 Bath Street. Rev. Howard Davis Spoerl of First Universalist church officiated. Bearers were Bert Irwin Gardiner Rogers Harry Litchfield E J Lee and James Mc Laughlin. Burial was in Oak Grove.
Misses Cecelia Berarde and Maude Goddarde of Stratford Conn. return from a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Olsen at their Summer home Ledge-O-Rock Upper Washington street. Miss Goddarde had just come back from a trip through the South visiting friends in Georgia. Mr. and Mrs. Olsen and their daughters Thelma and Hazel and son Edward left Bath for home after spending several weeks there.
Mrs L L Hooker travels with her son Lloyd Mrs Abbie Gage Mrs George Moody and Edwin Spaulding on a ten day itinerary visiting Philadelphia New York Baltimore and West Point before reaching Washington D C on their trip.
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