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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1915
Page
11
Local notes from Bath cover school vacation days for children, shifts in mill work, and civic events. Benjamin Hosmer is named as animal cruelty agent for Sagadahoc County. old residents receive honors, and the community follows shipyard activity at Kelley Spear yard with barge keels under construction. Community concerts, weather vane concerns, and accidents are noted alongside residents’ movements and local entertainments.
Palm Sunday pleasant outlook and Easter bloom frame Bath items. Local cottages bear playful names near Indian Carry while lecturing by Fred D Hill is recalled. Grace Church Holy Week hours, public baptisms, and Good Friday devotions are listed along with obituaries, school debates, Minstrels proceeds, and a mysterious ore specimen touted as potentially valuable by Bath residents.
A mixed Bath Chronicle page reports Holy Week services at First Baptist and Universalist churches, civic fly campaign, sailing and rail passenger totals, summer visitors arriving from Brunswick and Lewiston, a torpedo destroyer sponsor selection, Maine Central photo drive, a painter’s eyeglass mishap, and community notes including a Bath shipyard view and a man mistaken for another with his bundles.
Stanton's Military Band rehearsed Tuesday evening while the Midget at the Carry stayed in commission over the weekend. Palm Sunday services were held across churches. Morse Senior dance with Stanton's trio occurred Wednesday at K.Y.C. Bath streets saw many motor parties on Sunday.
George Coombs and crew work on the Preston house on Oak Street. A $25 check arrived to start pumping out the Wallula. Tug Seguin towed the barge Neshaminy loaded with coal to Parker's Flats for Purinton Bros. and ashore at Augusta. The Virginia met rough water near Georgetown. the Antoinett’s captain reported the same. Westbrook beat Portland 2 to 1 at the State basketball semifinal. Prof. Ashburton toured Bath with trained dogs and a baboon. Diver Scott Tibbetts located anchors near Woolwich shore, delivering them to the Larrabeth yard. The Hazel Dell waits for favorable wind after towing to sea.
Ruth M. discharged lumber cargo at the M C R R wharf and then returned to the Eastern River. The Bath-built gunboat Machias ordered in full commission on April 1 and the Marietta on May 1 at the Navy Yard New York. Schooner Edward E Berry of the Deering fleet arrived in Pernambuco from Norfolk with 2500 tons of coal as an early coastwise arrival. Over 159 gallons of beer seized from Portland Terminal Co yards as deputies curb intoxication on Portland area Saturdays. Grand field day plans under way for Maine Odd Fellows First and Second regiments with June dates under consideration. Interdenominational Maine Commission elects Bowdoin President William DeWitt Hyde. Secretary Anthony re-elected, HH. M. Foye named vice-president. Capt George W. Brown, Sailor's Snug Harbor agent, dies at home in Brooklyn after 18 years inspecting mariner indigent records.
Park League update shows Beacons widening their lead with 71 wins 3 losses 0 ties for 845 percentage. Percy's team remains atop the second division. Clothiers and Eurekas follow as Plumbers and Hyde Windlass share gaps. Weekly schedule lists Clothiers v Eurekas Beacons v Percy's Times v Hyde Windlass and Hywin cos v Plumbers.
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