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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1915
Page
12
A packed schedule of gatherings and civic notices fills Bath items. Concerts at Congregational church and Wesley Church events feature speakers and religious interest. Local clubs plan fundraisers and marriages, while school and boatyard developments, sports wins, and a funeral mark community life.
Multiple small item notes: Grace Church parish meeting, Queen Esther Rebekah Lodge roll call, Christmas choir rehearsal, Central Church league entertainments, Bath Iron Works yacht progress, barge launches planned for December, mass cabbage shipments, a Home for Aged Couples service, and repairs on the Hananada schooner and Nahanada ice armor upgrade. Also mentions residents visiting from Worcester and Boston and a new frame on a Snow Park residence.
SEBASCO reports Miss Angelia Bartlett has returned home from Vermont where she taught school for Thanksgiving. Rev House’s wife, hospitalized in Portland, was operated on Thursday and is improving. Mrs T H Bartlett met Angelia in Portland and returned Tuesday. Loton Wallace moved his family to Portland. G E Black remains sick in Portland hospital. Cecil Wallace recovered enough to sit up last Sunday.
Mrs. Sadie Boise of Auburn visits her cousin Mrs. Drummond Kelley in Bath. Dr. F. H. Wilson of Brunswick nears recovery after a week of critical illness. Frank McCormick of East Pittston visits family in this city with relatives. Mrs. Tebeau and children return home from Pine Point via Bath. H. F. Corliss and daughter Alice travel to Eustis Florida to join Fred Corliss, fruit exchange superintendent. Capt. Harvey Berry arrives at Popham Beach from Machias after attending Mrs. Berry’s sister’s death. Charles H. Burgess U S N returns to Portsmouth after four years aboard the Virginia. assigned to Hannibal for a ten month voyage to Nicaragua starting December 15.
Bath residents and visitors recount Thanksgiving travels and gatherings. Notables include Mrs. William G. Small visiting Boston, Edna Nickerson visiting Peterborough, and multiple Bath residents hosting relatives from Maine and beyond.
Principal James P. King notes weekly registrations from 545 to 425 over seven weeks. Average attendance per subject includes King drawing 18, Turner grade work 12, Black penmanship 17, Walton stenography 12, Cortell manual training 25, Williams typewriting 49, and others across 14 courses.
Mrs Brown and Miss Pearce visited the Tesynn club's clubhouse. An order for a dozen porch cushions will decorate Mere Point summer home after Christmas. Several associate memberships were voted at the Wednesday meeting. The Cook Book will be ready by mid month. The club lost charter member Mrs Herbert Mallard who left Monday for Philadelphia. The annual Christmas sale Friday opened the series of local fairs.
Frank Stedman and Mrs. Chester T. Wallace returned from Boston after Thanksgiving visits. Mason Lemont came back to Tufts College from Everett Sinclair, while Miss Marguerite Irving shopped in Bath. Several residents journeyed to Boston or Rockford for family illness or leisure, and local figures like Edward L. Gaudreau and Harry A. Plummer were noted at home or in town. James Cummings, injured weeks ago at Georgetown quarries, is out of danger.
A civil suit heard Monday in the Common Council room involves rent for a stable and attached hay. The debtor claims the hay in question belonged to the stable owner and was moved after a transfer. testimonies show the horse is fed ten pounds of hay daily and four quarts of grain. Judge Keegan reserved judgment.
The Independent invites readers in Sagadahoc County to subscribe for a year and receive a weekly page of farm items from the Bureau of Agriculture, plus the Boston and New York Produce Market reports. The notice asks for name and address to mail the paper.
The South End PTA met with Mrs. Walter Potter at 164 High St. Electrician Harold Avery recovers from a fall with a mild concussion. Week’s Mills wood crew sought four men. Brunswick men joined Bath-bound group. Laymen meetings in Portland and Bath featured speakers from Jerusalem and China. A Richmond house raid led to a man skipping trial and eviction notices for McGinn tenants. Weather prophet forecasts alternating warm and cold waves through December with a possible severe December near Christmas. Local wildlife reports note deer, coons, partridges, foxes, and black ducks in area hunts. An editorial from Lisbon Enterprise discusses McGillicuddy and local political tension.
At a Morse High School meeting after school on Monday Percy Miller was elected captain of the Morse High football team for 1916. Also noted: Ruby Farr underwent appendicitis surgery with a successful outcome at the city hospital.
Sir William K Birdwood, in command of British forces at Gallipoli awaiting General Monro, is advanced to lieutenant general. He previously led Australian and New Zealand troops there and is highly praised by Sir Ian Hamilton. Birdwood served as military secretary to Lord Kitchener in the South African War where he was wounded, and he later served in India.
The Missouri River is described as the muddiest in the Mississippi valley, carrying more silt than other large rivers in the United States. It dredges 3381 tons of dissolved and suspended matter per square mile annually, second only perhaps to the Rio Grande and the Colorado.
A discussion notes that in France, Germany, China, Japan and other countries wives are chosen by parents for men. It argues that older parents may be better at selecting a wife due to experience, while conceding the idea is not yet proven to be unwise.
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