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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1916
Page
11
Local notes report mild spring warmth with a 62 degree reading in the shade and new outdoor activity. Town events include Salvation Army and Ladies Aid meetings, a Maine Aero Station subscribers gathering with Rear Admiral Peary, and a yacht launch in Portland.
Local items report spring warming, Bath Iron Works hires 850 plus workers, torpedo boat destroyers near completion, and river ice decline. School, club, and social notices include Morse High practice, Shakespearean gathering, and Phi Rho banquet. Fishing boats bring 1000 pounds of catch as Bath reads on.
A miscellaneous note column lists numerous visitors and residents in Maine towns and nearby cities. Names include Mrs Walter Kennison in Portland, Miss Alice Gachenback from Boston, Rupert H Baxter with business in Richmond, C A Robinson of New York, and many other locals visiting Boston, Portland, Freeport, Bath, or Brunswick.
Democratic delegates return from Bangor pleased with their trip as Easter Monday events are planned for April 24. Local society includes Aerie weekly whist and social nights while residents cope with the warm spell by eating ice cream. A Topsham feldspar quarry worker visits Bath and a 15 year old confesses to a Meritt store break in with hidden money and stolen snowshoes. The Bath City Hospital seeks a Nurses Home and plans to raise funds. The Kennebec tug is launched for towing duties and Rogers Bagley buildings undergo rapid demolition revealing century old craftsmanship. Comdr Ledyard and other locals face health issues while Miss Rose Rowell improves at City Hospital.
Capt Barter returned from New York in command of a Kelley Spear Co. derrick lighter with Capt Kingsbury arriving next day. Ira P Booker of Brunswick leaves seven thousand in real estate to widow and executrix Nellie Booker, with public bequests and an educational fund only if she had not lived. Charles B Ingham, local checker champion, defeated Roy Colby in three games and claims over ten thousand games played. L and W Street Railway officials visited to discuss a new electric road extension from Commercial Street to the Texas yard, with Manager Ford predicting immediate work and bright prospects for the Shippping City.
Regular monthly sociable of the Moose was held in the street floor rooms with a masquerade party for youths in the hall above. Harvey Henderson sold two fat cows and bought a high blooded milch cow after the beef sale. George W. Healey and James D. Brennan join the National City Bank of New York foreign service to act as auditor in South America. Rev. Charles F. Smith of Camden-Georgetown area serves as pastor of the entertaining church in Camden and has chaired conference statistics for twelve years as 300 delegates are expected. Philathea class at Corliss St. Sunday School met at Miss Hazel Bates’ home. officers elected include President Mrs. B. P. Brown, Vice President Hazel Bates, Secretary Christiania Albee, Treasurer Ada French.
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