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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1919
Page
6
An editorial urges Bath to adopt a golf course and clubhouse as spring arrives. It highlights golf as accessible recreation for all ages, its health and social benefits, and notes other towns with golf facilities provide affordable outdoor fitness and community gathering space.
Deputy Sheriff Aderton finds a suitcase from Boston carried by Samuel Brayman who claims to fetch work in Bath. The bag holds five quarts of liquor though he says it contains tools for a friend in rooming nearby. Brayman is jailed after no companion appears at the designated meeting place.
Sagadahoc County commissioners apportion a statewide tax of 26500 among towns led by Bowdoinham’s Charles Randall chairman and with Alton Thwing Woolwich and Charles Mason. Bath sees about a 3500 increase while most towns show reductions. overlay totals 483.79. Mill rate set at one and three fourths per dollar.
Phi Rho, Morse high school's secret fraternity, aims to draft initiation rules and seek Board of Education approval to gain access to the hall for meetings. A committee of Raymond Golder, John McCormick, Edward Lowell, George Costain and Earl Burgess leads the effort. Officers elected include John McCormick president Bernard Hoyle vice president John Cary treasurer Tromer Potter secretary William Perkins sentinel. Phi Rho editors for the new class books are William Renaud and John Lord. The society arranged for a monk who once placed a pack of cards in a library book. Mrs Mabel Pierce, a waitress at King Tavern, is confined at friend Mrs Roy Wallace’s home on Tine Street by illness.
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