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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1911
Page
6
A busy week in Phippsburg features Old Jed Prouty at Society Hall Popham for library fund a boatload of social events with dances after performances many guests from Bath and West Bath visits to beaches inns and points along the coast recall a wide array of gatherings and local notes including accidents ship news and fort inspections
Neighborhood notes from Winnegance report numerous visits and travels as residents return from ay, Parker Head, Boothbay Harbor, and Rockport. Families including the Knights, Williams, Oliver, Morse, Perry, and Sprague share news, plus a birthday party for Charlie Small and upcoming straw ride to Frye’s Meadowbrook Inn. Blueberries and mill planning signal seasonal activity while boats and work trips mark the week.
Mrs. Florence Trefry Gorman of the New England Conservatory of Music gave a well received recital in Tuessie Hall Day's Ferry. The program featured Italian French and English songs with an encore Scotch number. Accompaniment by F. Carl Gorman and support from the Tuessic Dramatic Club preceded dancing with music by the Columbia Orchestra as the hall prepared for a new floor.
William Crocker of Woolwich was arraigned before Judge Dunton on a complaint by his brother Fred M. Crocker for assault and battery on his mother Anna M. Crocker. The court found him guilty, taxed $10.45 in costs, and ordered a $100 bond to keep the peace for six months.
Postmaster General Hitchcock says parcels post on rural free delivery routes could boost efficiency as 40,000 rural carriers earn about 4 million dollars annually. Opposed by express companies and local merchants fearing loss of business, the plan aims to make rural service self supporting by absorbing current losses with new parcel mail revenue.
At a Bath School Board meeting Miss Esther R. Piper of South Walpole Mass was elected domestic science teacher at 550 salary. A Boston Cooking School graduate with eight years teaching experience she last taught in South Natick. The department will open in Morse High basement funded by the Lucinda Bailey fund. This afternoon Bath baseball club faces Fort Williams at Kelley field in what promises to be a rattling good game.
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