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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1921
Page
4
A Lisbon tragedy repeated in Bath and Lewiston shocks the community. The article notes the bereaved man, known in Bath, who lost his first wife and infant daughter years ago and now endures another family disaster linked to a gas explosion death of a sister in Lewiston.
Maine motor vehicle registrations show progress toward the Million Dollar mark in the year’s receipts. Totals to Sept. 25 reach into the high tens of thousands with large sums still expected as registrations and licenses continue to accumulate statewide.
Merritt Ferguson's volleyball team defeated Tiarold Lenfest's side three games to two in a string of tight matches at the YMCA gym. Players listed include Ferguson squad Har ry F E Thompson, Aicert J. Tufstader, Heney Boudreau, Arthur Miller, Ralph Dale and Lenfest's Lorraine Price, Benj Shane, Samuel Liberman, Jason Merrill, Clinton McFadden. A separate item notes George D. Berube and family escaping death in Canada after a reckless auto incident.
The Richmond Farmer's and Mechanics' club launches its 44th annual cattle show and fair on the Richmond playground Chestnut Street. A broad premium list, grange exhibits from Merrymeeting and others, trap shooting for county championship, horse and baseball events, a baby show and dances mark a busy day with Enterprise grange serving dinner.
In Scotia New York Mrs Josephine Kellogg renews her subscription to the Independent calling it the best weekly read and likening it to a letter from home for readers living away in another state.
The Winnegance community organizes a Winter club modeled after Bath’s Colonial club on a smaller scale. They secured quarters, plan basketball and ice polo teams and a gun club, plus a game dinner when openings ready. Funds from dinners, parties, and games boost a treasury already over $100 to outfit next season’s baseball team.
Lincoln lodge of the Loyal Order of Moose and Queen Esther Rebekah lodge will send delegations to the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of Maine sessions in Portland on October 15 and 16. Growth reported across regions boosts total Odd Fellows membership beyond 2,500,000. Encampment starts October 15 followed by the grand lodge meeting. Rebekah Assembly begins October 18 with Past Grand Representatives and a banquet at Congress Square hotel.
Break at the North grammar school occurred between Friday afternoon and Monday morning. A teacher’s desk was forced open and money collected from pupils for the Current Event fund disappeared while a knife was left behind. No pencils or similar items were disturbed. Miss Katherine Reynolds and her sister Miss Alice Reynolds are visiting in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Viola Coombs entertained about 36 friends at Liberty Hall Bowdoin farm with a noon dinner a night supper music on the Violin and lawn games prizes were awarded Mrs Nettie Umberland won first in the women clothes pin race and T W Cornish won for the men.
The town notes improvements around a palatial Eastside Park mansion, editor urges subscriptions to the Advertiser, and local residents travel to Thomaston, Bath, and Orr's Island. Others report homecomings, health rebounds, and building projects including Capt. Emery Center’s new ell and a Spring house on Main Street.
Directors of the Popham Beach Steamboat Co sold the Virginia and Islesford to new buyers for Bath Five Islands operations. The Virginia will gain a new boiler and engine next winter and be paired with the Islander next season. The Islesford moves to Five Islands ownership with a Bath Five Islands run planned. both vessels may be replaced by a mid sized craft. The mail contract continues, with deliveries expected within 50 days for the Islesford and about two months for the Virginia.
George IE Thompson and others from Bath are named along with positions. George E Thompson serves as president, Frederick J Hinckley as treasurer, and James FE Perkins as general manager. Names include Charles V Minott Jr of Phippsburg Center, and Capt James E Verkins with John N Stacey of Popham Beach.
Lilian Owen of New York earns praise for her Marionettes in the Greenwich Village Follies prologue. Critics call the puppets a high spot, noting their portraits of Ned Lewis, James Watts, Ida Forman, Irene Franklin and Al Herman. Owen’s puppets appear alongside the production’s satire of stage reform and a heavenly court scene.
Mr and Mrs Arthur Kateon of Wesley street left Tuesday for an extended trip through Canada returning via Niagara Falls and the Mohawk Trail. They expect to be gone several weeks. The couple recently returned from a visit in Camden and Rockland.
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