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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1921
Page
7
A Morse high school assembly featured student speakers from the senior and sophomore classes urging support for the athletic association and the football team. tableaux depicted base ball track basketball and football, while Morse songs and an orchestra underscored the call to back the team financially and at games.
Myrtle lodge of Odd Ladies elected officers for the ensuing term. Installation will occur at the convenience of the lady governess. Officers include Lois McKiever senior representative Tillie Drake junior representative Annie Lemont past lady Nellie Hunt noble lady Elizabeth Pollard vice lady Lizzie B Chaney recording secretary Mary Gillispie lady reporter Gertrude Stewart financial secretary Amelia Mitchell treasurer Elizabeth Haley chaplain Lillien Wright senior warden Florence Mank junior warden Elsie Higgins conductress Frances Clark guardian. Trustees: Mary McIntire Maude Clark Mabel Shepard.
John J Desmond of Bath and his daughter Miss Madeline Desmond attended the National Association of Clothiers convention in Rochester New York. Desmond served on two committees and Miss Desmond was the only accredited woman representative and alternate delegate. The event featured social functions and business reports with optimistic sentiment from across the country.
Fire crews were called at 2 20 Sunday for a basement fire at the Spear candy store on Front street. The blaze near a water heater was confined by Bath firefighters using a log chemical. Patrolman John Foley sounded the alarm from box 47. Councilman Edward Miller fell through a trap door but was not seriously hurt.
The Sunday school Board of Wesley M. E. Church met September 21 in the vestry, presided by Superintendent E. B. Farrar. Plans were set for a Sunday school exhibit Friday and graduates in the primary grades will move to the junior department and receive Bibles. The board voted to complete a cabinet for Sunday school supplies.
Infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Kin tere Labby of High Street weighed two and a half pounds at birth. She died Friday morning and Saturday night.
A gift of ten books from Miss Elizabeth Cook and six from Beebe cottage Malden Island boosted the Grange library at the last meeting. The brief program notes include roll call conundrums and a paper on homemaking by Mrs. Ida Rowe. Several members and guests, with travel to Portland and Bath, are listed among cottage visits and local activities.
Mrs W T Johnson returns from Yarmouth after a short visit with her sister. A L Ware and Mr and Mrs Herbert Munsey with Mrs Ada Perry visit home for a few days. Mrs Glenwood Seigars visited town one day. N O Fitch spent weekend with family at the Kennebec house. George Tibbetts of Cliftondale returns home after weeks with relatives in Whitefield. Marehia Wade leaves for Vassalboro to teach school.
Many shifts in Bath train crews under the new timetable. The 10.25 run lists Edward Dow as conductor I S Yorkis as engineer Ed Starrett and Fred Foster as rear brakemen TI W Merry as baggage master Maynard Brasier as express messenger Herbert Tanson conductor on the 435 Cy Paul engineer C D Williamson head brakeman FL 7 Eaton rear brakeman Orrin Woodbury baggage master. The 455 train proves popular with theatre patrons. Portland visitors depart Union Station at 10 15 and return Bath at 12 45. Mr and Mrs Frank Knowlton Mrs Co T W Morse and son Walter and Josephine Freeman were weekend guests of Mr and Mrs W H Gordon at their cottage Bay Point.
Local savings banks aim to recruit more depositors and teach the science of saving. Bankers warn that waiting to save until reaching fifty or one hundred dollars leads to smaller balances end of year. They urge frequent small deposits and discourage withdrawals, noting the training value of regular savings and the payoff of enabling life goals.
A wealthy New Yorker who bought a Maine farm for vacation pleasure made a small sale when hiring a local to cut hay. He initially budgeted 25 dollars for grass cutting but the native offered to harvest the hay for 300 dollars, delivering a surprising profit from a modest investment.
Harold G. Brown age 28 alleged to threaten and force entry into homes around Pine and Merry in Portland near 126 Pine Street, resisted capture in a yard, while authorities note no listing for Brown in the Bath directory.
Morse High School revived sports with 15 track players under Coach David Alkazin as George A. Cahill named captain. The team plans to enter the interscholastic cross country run at Waterville next month and discussions arise of enlarging Kelley field to add a quarter mile track and baseball facilities. An association to push Kelley Field improvements is planned, aiming to fund next spring. The piece ends with a local potato feature from Aroostook County for Miss Annie Shepard.
Georgetown residents and visitors are listed in a bustling social column. Mr and Mrs Ernest Jewett departed for Auburn, while many locals moved homes, hosted guests, or visited Bath and Woolwich. Blackie, Pettengill, Hagan, and Clark families figure among weekend gatherings and travel updates.
Horatio Crie, director of sea and shore fisheries, appeals to lobster fishermen to cooperate in protecting lobsters. He urges monthly reporting on catches, prices, and receipts to gauge stock growth under current laws and to build a larger, profitable industry. He thanks past cooperators and asks for continued support.
Real estate valuation climbs in Maine while personal property and livestock valuations drop due to high prices and shortages. Clement So Stetson of Greene notes four major Cumberland County increases, offset by livestock declines, as assessors convene to prepare statewide figures for the 122 Legislature.
In Merrymeeting Bay on Friday a NW gale hampered gunners who dragged for birds. Alonzo G. Fisher claimed two brack ducks and a Teal, others reported mixed bags, while repeated efforts on Thursday yielded higher counts. A.W. Reed died Thursday in Auburn.
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