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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1916
Page
12
Georgetown Center residents and visitors fill columns with travel, visits, illnesses, church news, a barn renovation, a Labor Day reunion, and a large Sunday School picnic planned at Indian Point. Attendees include the Trafton, Mains, Ward, Thompson, Clark, and Wood families plus Dr. Cragin and Rev. Tilden.
In Riggsville the church held Holy Communion last Sunday with Rev John West of Waverly Massachusetts assisting on The Lord s Supper West noted for starting new churches. The pastor preached The Old Testament Prodigal from Psalm 119 59 60. Next Sunday morning service at 10 30 will cover The function and piece of the Church with Sunday school at 11 30. Evening Epworth League service at 7 30. A Tuesday lecture by the pastor drew large crowds from Georgetown Center Five Islands and Arrowsic. Ice cream and cake were served in the vestry after the lecture and many attendees showed interest in Oriental life and Armenian persecution.
Mrs Lida Mains of Riggsville visited Mrs Mary Stewart and Mrs Carrie Dow at the Junction last week. Miss Martha Matthews and Miss Estha Hanley returned to Belmont Massachusetts. Miss Fanny Brooks stays briefly in town before Cambridge. Mrs Clark and Mrs Drew return to Portland after occupying the Oakes for summer. Gilmore Creelman and Ruth White head to Boston where Miss White will teach. Mrs EV Lewis returns to Phopsburg to resume a longtime school post. Mrs Roscoe Stacey of Popham returns after visiting her mother in town. Lottie Wyman and daughter Phyllis and Carrie Dunton of Bath were guests at the Oakes. Dana Copperfield resigns and heads back to Boston.
Mrs. E W Holbrook improves after a week of hand poison. School opens with same teachers as last term. W S Harley and Bertie Alexander visited Bath for business. Al Southard sold his house to Fred Richardson of Brunswick. About 30 locals attended a baptism at West Point camp meeting aboard A J Harris' boat. Eight were baptized by Rev Washburn and Louis Bachelder.
Southport officials, blocked by steel cost, secure Maine State Highway Department aid to build a new wooden bridge over the Boothbay Harbor Southport span. The project uses 12 000 dollars bonded by Southport, with 18 000 state aid planned, and Boothbay Harbor to pay 3 000 in ten annual installments. If weather cooperates, completion may come in ten weeks to three months.
Postmaster General Burleson secured comptroller authorization to use the 1915 appropriation balance as back pay for rural mail carriers. The move implements salary increases due under the last post office bill, compensating for the gap between the new pay scale and the prior rate.
The E. F. Emerson cottage at Bay Point burned to the ground Thursday evening. Mrs. Emerson and Mrs. Spinney escaped with limited belongings as flames spread from an accidental lamp, aided by Coast Guard crews and local volunteers. The structure, built in 1888, was insured but many personal items were not. The fire lit the area for miles as neighbors watched, and the property damage triggered a nightlong firefighting effort with several nearby cottages saved. The family planned to leave for Bangor, and the wind shift worsened the blaze before dawn.
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