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.
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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1915
Page
11
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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