Cragin Family Departures For Holiday Absence
Dr. Horace S. Cragin leaves for a week of study in Boston and New York with Mrs Cragin joining relatives in Rutland Vermont for Christmas. They plan to return mid next week.
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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1915
Page
9
Dr. Horace S. Cragin leaves for a week of study in Boston and New York with Mrs Cragin joining relatives in Rutland Vermont for Christmas. They plan to return mid next week.
Worthy Master J G Stevens and wife led a group to Portland for State Grange events returning Thursday. About four to five thousand Patrons attended the session the largest ever, with 48 Pomona and 315 State degree candidates. New officers were elected and installed, and a Christmas concert was planned for Saturday.
Deputy Marr awakens to a home disturbance after a break in at the E.S.S. Co. freight shed. Five bottles of whiskey were stolen and the owner, intoxicated, lay dead. three visiting men fled as women escaped with a carving knife incident. The E.S.S. Co. will reimburse the liquor and prosecute the burglars.
The Sunday service will feature an original White Gifts to the King program with a Great White Throne Queen Esther interlude. A March by the Sunday school and Epworth League leads to readings songs and verse ends with Jesus Shall Reign. Nearly three hundred envelopes issued for gifts and public invitation extended. Bath enjoys a joyful Christmas.
Local Bath notes report fox hunting parties planned for today and theatres sending groups to Portland for Experience. Shoppers fill streets amid rain while Bath nurses see few calls. Jordan Percy leaves Parker Head for Boston to run a yacht engine. Maine Central trims Bath freight. two trains operate daily. College and club events include a Colonial Club Christmas program for 150 children and a Dean Academy Maine trip starting December 28.
The Bath YMCA Juniors crushed Lisbon Falls 60 to 1 in basketball. The Jan 7 Colonial vs Wassitts of Lewiston game features Jitney Five of Bath vs Webster Grammar School in the prelim. Albert K. Gardner resigns as state horticulturist to lead Franklin County Extension work. Bath Aerie social event held despite storm, with whist prizes to Belle Rines, Milton Neal, and E. J. Lee with Harry Newhall.
Miss Mary E. Boyd dies in Wiscasset this week at age 84. A native of the town she belonged to one of its oldest families and was daughter of Capt Samuel Boyd a famed local deep sea ship commander. Sister Elizabeth Boyd had died years before. Several nephews and nieces live in the West. Funeral was largely attended.
Farm Notes list institutes at Enterprise Grange Richmond December 28 morning and afternoon, Bear Mountain So Waterford December 29, Abbot Grange Abbot December 29, and Princeton Grange Princeton December 29. Holstein cattle owner R R Homer Bucksport will have bull calves dropped at National Home Togus for three months from January 1 1916, offering valuable young stock at reasonable prices.
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