Bath community notes on events and repairs around town
Local Bath items report ice fishing on Whiskeag, a ferry water main issue, church activities, a New Year social at Grace Church, a 25th wedding anniversary, and plans for a five masted schooner launch. Also news of Dreamland Theatre pianist, War Relief work, a cat advertising image, and a Elks Christmas gift to steward William Leydon.
New Year's Ball and Local Sports Roundup at Bath and Nearby
Southport Grange hosted a New Year's ball at its hall with four pieces in the orchestra. Deering High plays its first boys basketball game at the Y M C A gym Friday. Elmer Rich shot seven rabbits near his home with a 12 year old dog and returned by sunset. A stereopticon lecture on John Huss and His Countrymen was held at Winter Street church Thursday. The Independent Club enjoyed a gathering at Miss Cora Savage's home on Middle Street with ice cream and cake. The Bath Y M C A team visited the Samosets and Bath won 39 to an unidentified score. Miss Thelma Stickney spent the New Year weekend with Miss Hazel Judkins in Westport. Mr and Mrs John Warren of Boothbay are wintering in the city due to work at B I W. Reports on the Persian liner torpedoing mention three Americans aboard. Police lodge officers elected for the year and to be installed next week. The three masted schooner Henry Withington sailed to Norfolk to load coal for Providence, under new master Capt Johnson, built 1874 and 528 tons. Night Police Capt. Wallace notes a horse at White stable repeatedly rising to beg for grain, misinterpreting his routine as the stableman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Popham Beach
Society Hall
Harold Boyd
Woolwich
Grace Church
Fred
Hockomock
E. S.S. Corp
First Baptist Church
William Shea
Beacon St
Court Sagadahoc
Foresters of America
G. R. E. Pullen
Gardiner
Bay Point
Kimball Bros
Virginia
Percy
Chester T. Wallace
William Oliver
Small Point
Dromore Grange Hall
New York
War Relief Committee
Alva Altekamp
Dreamland Theatre
Miss Alt
Southport Grange
Southport
Deering
Elmer Rich
Winter Street
John Huss
Universalist
Jesus
Thompson Brothers
Independent Club
Cora Savage
Middle St
Boothbay Register
Y.M.C.A
Thelma Stickney
Hazel Judkins
Westport
John Warren
Boothbay
Warren
Aden
Frank Rairden
Java
Father Taylor
North End
Bostom
Lincoln Lodge No. 10
1.C.C.F
Noble
Newburyport
Wallace
Old Charlie
Charlie
Capt. Wallace
Raymond's Court
Arrowsic
Morse High
Wesley Church
Esther Brown
Ladies’ Aid of Universalist Church
Jennie Morse
Washington, St
People’s Baptist Church
Amanda McIintire
Front St
McDonald
Charles Lee
West Bath
Grace Sage
Daddy Long Legs
Universalist Church
Alonzo Parks
Coburn Steamship Co
Moosehead Lake
Moose
Mann
Kennebec
Richmond Bee
Hull
Engine
Bath Iron Works
Park
Brown
Gullicksen
Leah Winslow
Boston
Edgar Brooks
Summer St
Miss Winslow
Plymouth Theatre
Philadelphia
Thorndike Hotel
Boston Common
New England
Andrew Merryman
Bowdoinham
Wisconsin
California
Maine
Taylor
Harvard Observatory
A. O. Leuschner
Students’ Observatory
Berkeley
Cal
Bath Opera House
Department of Commerce
Washington
Bureau of Fisheries
Halcyon
Boothbay Harbor
Gannet
Houghton
Cass
People’s Church
Evans
Chappell
Fred A. Snow
Freeport
Lewis J. Marshall
Lisbon Falls
United States
District Court
Portland
Hale
Mr. Marshall
Fred Page
Popham
Addie Reed
Haverhill
Mass
A. J. Couture
Manchester
N. H
William J. O’brien
Alex Cochran
Baltimore Dry Dock Co
Robert M. Silsby
Wiscasset
William Henry Brown
Eugene Brown
Adelbert
Chester Carver
Rockport
Gladys McGillicuddy
Richmond
Alden Blossom
The
Hastern Steamship Co
Grace Eggleston
D. T
M. C. Trott
Famil North
Edward McDonald
J. Fred Tobey, Jr
Charlestown
Navy Yard
L. H. Curtis
Phoenix Mutual Insurance Co
Hartford
J. Edward Wakefield
H. W. Pinkham
McLein-Jones Oil and Supply Co
Kittery Navy Yard
William I. DeCoste
Pawtucket
Roscoe H. Shaw
Arthur B. Stilphen
Gloucester
F. E. Bragg
Richardson St
Stilphen
H. E. Pinkham Co
East
George K. Robinson
Famous Players Co
Harry C. Webber
Robinson
Paramount Pictures
Paramount
Columbia Theatre
Park Theatre
Snow and churchgoing mark a cold Sunday in Bath
Local notes recall sleighing improvements and church attendance on a snowy Sunday in Bath. Smelter huts on Arrowsic ice, a burned grocery building owned by Charles Lee, and a new steamer project by Alonzo Parks are mentioned along with park league bowling results and a lengthy tale of Andrew Merryman’s distant orange ranch success in California and Maine’s booming AEG crop shipping 18 million oranges.
Great shipbuilding boom noted in iron and wood sectors
Rockland’s C. G. Rockland notes a surge in American shipbuilding led by iron construction with wooden ship growth expected to follow. Bath already shares in this boom. The report covers local dances at Bodwell Grange, Taylor's comet, a Bath Opera House mishap, and multiple civic items including fishery vessel bids, local sports results, church services, and court news.
Bath News Roundup Includes Local Movers and Visits
Fred Page of Popham called Bath residents Monday. Many locals travel for holidays, visits to Boston Manchester Clinton Iowa Richmond Westport and Boothbay Harbor noted. Key names include Silsby McCarty Wakefield Sprague Spear and Robinson with ongoing shipyard and theater tours.
Also Mentioned on This Page
James S. Lowell
William H. Watson
H. A. Duncan
Annie Gould Auxiliary
Sons of Veterans
Mary Price
C. R. Chappell
Ernest Shorey
Elsie Wakefield
Brownie
Dwight Thurston
Northland
Santa Claus
Harvey Berry
Dreamland
Florence Hoffman
Louis Pooler
Margaret Hoffman
Erma Temple
Retha Morris
Pearl Bridges
Little Christ
Alexander
Harry Ring
J. A. Alexander
Brunswick
Brunswick Record
M.C. R.R
Lewiston
Augusta
Waterville St. Ry
Maine Central
Tix
Kimball’s Wharf
Rockland
C. G
Knox County
Bodwell Grange
Oach Popham
Parker Head
Winnegance
Conant
Lance
Thomaston
G. L. Crockett