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Newspaper

Bath Independent

Location

Bath, Maine, United States of America

Date

Dec 11, 1915

Page

11

Christmas new moon outlines local jottings

Local items note a cold season shift with a new moon in December. Judge Dunton builds a sleeping porch at his Snow Park home as city operations move to Reed's wharf for winter.

Christmas dollars stay local in Bath with planned events

Bath notes many community happenings from Beacon Street Sunday School officers and annual Christmas entertainment to school pageant rehearsals and Elks lodge sorrow service. Shipping news covers Orleans voyage with 678 mahogany logs and parrots, plus rival sailings from Boston to Africa as freight rates soar.

Bath area notes community meetings and maritime updates

Sunday arrivals aboard the Henrietta Simmons and a schooner crew. many local clubs meet this week including D A R and Universalist church attendees. Coastal activity reports include a Bath boy counting 73 carloads of Brunswick potatoes, Guard Coast rifles planned, and schooners Sunbeam and Henrietta Simmons awaiting fair weather.

Christmas Wreaths Abound as City Stores Bloom

In local scenes shoppers fill stores with evergreen decorations while boys and girls go door to door selling wreaths. The city reports 17 hospital cases with five new on Saturday and two on Monday. City Clerk Grassy receipts five pension applications from five blind residents. A barge loaded with boxwood arrives at the box shop wharf and a scow from Pemaquid Falls unloads. The McGinn family leaves a Richmond house raided by deputies. The tug Pejepscot tows barges to St Stephens and St Johns to load lumber. Rev S A Evans preaches Satan s Sifting at People's Church with service at 2:15. The Bath Iron Works order a 1916 Dodge Roadster for immediate delivery. Franklin Street property sold to William N. Hosmer for residence use after improvements. Grace Church holds services at 7:15 pm. Morse High plays Boothbay High in Boothbay Friday. Captain Fitzgerald leads a hard season. A deer crosses the New Meadows track near the Inn at Bath. Hyde Windlass wins in Park Bowling League. Frates posts high scores. Church midweek Fosdick talks attract interest. Daughters of Veterans plan New Year tree at Bath Naval Orphan Asylum. A Center Street fracas ends with an arrest. Edward T. Mumzer dies. Caro line D. Rullman to wed. farewell party with gifts and music.

Judge Dunton Snow Park City Landing Reed’s Wharf Richmond Bee W. E. Rowe Board of Dental Examiners the Bee Richmond Times Office Lillian Varney Woolwich Brown People’s Church The Baptist Church Freeport Evans St. Paul Lee Hooker Fred Dwyer Bermuda Universalist Church Palestine Sheepsecot Charles H. Butler Westport Birch Point Butler Wiscasset John Henry Ella L. Davenport Boston Navy Fernandina Henry Boston West End Davenport Capt. Dunton Isaiah Elder Brunswick Brunswick Democrats George L. Thompson Lider Maine Central United States Western Union Telegraph Co Bath Life Popham Virginia Beacon Street Herbert Rice Edith Bowie First Baptist Sunday School Kennebec Humber Bethlehem Park and Cemetery Board van Allens Boughton Three Marys Forest City Marguerite Gulf Ports Italy Colonial Club Portland Independents Y. M.C.A Wassitts Auburn John Gilmore Viola Ingham Court St John C. Ellers Lynn Mass Amasa S. Ellers York St S. A. Evans George F Bath Boys Wesley Church Fred Armes Cherry St Dunton North St Queen Esther K.Y.C Maine State Nurses’ Association Augusta State Hospital William Dean Nettie Hunter Hill Dean E. W. Society of the First Baptist Church Mary Perry Crescent St Ladies’ Circle Unity Guild First Baptist Church Central League Elm St Winter St Vinton Dow Damariscotta Herald Vinton Coast Guard Uncle Sam Maine Dorcas Guild Beacon St T. N. Kewley Ladies’ Aid Charles Oliver Mechanic St Allan Clark Home Missionary Society High St Harvey Bates South End Wilbur C. Corey Corey Diamond Helen Corey Boothbay Portland N. Y City Hospital Grassy Piscataqua Pemaquid Falls Box Shop Oliver McGinn Pejepscot Swett Hull John S. Hyde Bath Iron Works Bath Auto & Gas Engine Co Dodge Frank Wormwood School and Franklin Sts Frank Reed William N. Hosmer Culbert McGay Grace Church Shaw Morse High Boothbay High Boothias Capt Fitzgerald New Meadows Frank Reals Park Hyde Windlass Knig‘ts Columbus Frates Fosdick Annie A. Gould Daughters of Veterans Bosworth Post Hall Fortland Naval and Military Orphan Asylum Daughters of Veterans Ar Center St Officer Rice Edward T. Mumzer Munger Harry B. Ivers Cumberlain Light & Power Co

River smelts and river navigation amid varied moves

Dan Hart reports large smelt catches at the river mouth as some fear navigation may close by the 15th. Invitations go to Bath Aerie for Casco Aerie banquet on Dec 12 at Falmouth Hotel. Casco project interest grows with an electric road Topsham to Litchfield.

Dan Hart Bath Aerie Casco Aerie Portland Falmouth Lisbon Falls Topsham Litchfield Albert Frawley Bangor Morse High Morse W. B. Berry Gardiner Augusta, Gardiner & Boothbay Steamboat Co Ocean Point Alfred S. Dodge Harry A. Plummer John C. McCarthy Hallowell State House McCarthy Plummer

How the News Grew at Beacon St Church and Local Happenings

Reports from Friday events include a Dorcas Guild presentation at Beacon Street Church with ice cream sales, a large bouquet of Ladies Delights brought by Mrs. Reed of Woolwich, and a Bath Iron Works league bowling match with Gullicksen high single. Winter service changes on the Lewiston Bath line begin December 6. Sedgwick Post G A R elects officers: Coombs, Madden, Brown, Curtis, Jones, Dow, Oliver. Col. E C Plummer returns from Fryeburg after Knights of Pythias dedication and Dam on and Pythias film, with Republican support noted in Lewiston Journal.

Beacon St Dorcas Guild Times M. E. Reed Woolwich Reed House Hull and Engine Craughtsmen Bath Iron Works Gullicksen Rothchild Lewiston, Augusta & Waterville Street Railway Bath Lewiston Sedgwick Post G.A.R Charles A. Coombs Hugh T. Madden Sumner Brown T. B. Curtis James Jones George R. Dow Cleveland M. Oliver Sedgwick Circle Col E. C. Plummer Fryeburg Knights of Prthias Hall Col. Plummer Damon and Pythias Lewiston Journal

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