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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1912
Page
5
Local items report polo at Alameda and a busy Bath scene. Morse High and Bowdoinham engage in baseball, while the city eyes new industries, a moving iron store, and a rising box factory. Primary papers filings, lectures, and ship news mix with weather and civic notes.
Survivors reach New York on the Carpathia and recount the Titanic wreck on its first voyage. Major Archibald Butt aided women and children before drowning. the ship sank after hitting an iceberg at 21 knots. The Carpathia rescued 745, with 1,595 perishing. Notables, including Astor and Straus, were among the lost.
Citizens are warned to clear brown-tail moth nests from trees at once as nests line the trolley road ends. Officials should act without delay since the hatching period is near.
Citizens complain of poor telephone service blamed on induction from leaking trolley road power. Bond wires on tracks are missing or disconnected, suggesting railway power use harms phone lines and calling for improvements by street railway to fix connections.
Bath visitors include Mr and Mrs Edward S Dunton and Mr and Mrs Harvey T Bailey visits to York noted. Woolwich Grange had 34 members present last Saturday with regular program. A large class will receive first and second degrees next Saturday night. Rev J B Coy state missionary to preach at Free Will Baptist Church Montsweag on Sunday April 28 at 10 45 AM. attendance encouraged.
A supplement to the Bath and Brunswick telephone directory will be issued Monday listing numerous changes. Under the new system all Bath exchange numbers except rural lines will use a circuit number and a letter such as 999-R, replacing the old 999-1 format. The letters RED, LS MM, and xX Yn will be used, and subscribers will adjust to the change over time.
The remains of Mrs Rosalie White Grace were conveyed to Georgetown on Tuesday for burial in the family lot. She died in Bar Harbor at 81. She formerly taught in Bath schools and was the last member of the family of the late Richard and Nancy White of Georgetown.
Mrs Lucy Small is seriously ill at age 85. Mr and Mrs A S Buzzell have arrived from Rumford and are staying with A D Chase for a few days before moving to their farm the Giles Sampson place bought two years ago. Percy Lane reports a new foal on his farm stock.
The park and cemetery board seeks a 1000 dollar appropriation to enlarge the park pond north of the Hodgkins house. Plans include an island, summer shrub cover, and winter skating floods. The project would connect to the existing lake, fill the house cellar, and light the island fountain by the Electric Light Company.
The Sagadahoc County Teachers Association met all day in West Bath at Trufant's Crossing Grange Hall with strong attendance. The program featured morning and afternoon sessions with music by the High School Orchestra and Grade IX chorus, readings, and discussions led by Lillian Fisher, Lillian Lincoln, Marion Ricker, Maude Andrews, and Orren Hormell.
The Sagadahoc County Pomona Grange plans its April meeting next Wednesday at West Bath grange hall. Attendance is expected high as the hall is accessible by steam or trolley. The program includes opening music welcome, conferring the fifth degree, census debate on farm waste, readings, exemplifications by West Bath Grange, remarks by State Master Stetson, and closing thoughts by Fred Cary and Annie Wylie.
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