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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1914
Page
10
Bath churches offered varied Christmas services with choirs and solos. Notable pieces included works by Handel, Mendelssohn, Spence, Birch, and Shelley. Soloists listed include Miriam Kimball, Anne Hall, Miss Bayles, Miss Hunt, and Mrs. Hatch among others.
Pupils taught by Principal Ella J. Douglas and Margaret Met calf performed a holiday program last Friday with many parents attending. Each room presented acts, decorations showed corn balls candy bags and a present for every scholar. Randolph Many played Santa in Miss Douglas’s room and the overall show reflected solid training by the teachers who received many student gifts.
Special Christmas music was rendered by the Wesley Church choir conducted by Miss Margaret Bakeman. Sunday morning features Neid linger's Christmas Anthem sung by the choir and Dawn of Hope a duet by Mrs Dorman Perkins and Miss Coombs. Evening ends with The First Christmas pantata by Ira Bishop Wilson and a violin flute duet by Weeks and Harding.
Dayton Hunt, 72, of West Georgetown, with $130 in his pocket and a key to a dress suitcase, was assaulted on a station platform as he prepared to board a train to Montreal. His pocket book containing $120 disappeared. three men were arrested that evening but released for lack of proof.
Ninth grade students staged a July4 style Christmas program with speakers performing pieces such as A Shot in the Night A Leap for Life and The Concord Fight. Recitations featured Morton Holbrook Lawrence McCulloch Robert Fulton Martha Barker James Crane Mabel Swett Ethel Hay Elvira Owen Walton Elliot Ruth Ledyard.
Transfers filed before James C. Purinton include Cornelia Knight to Lucien H. White in Topsham and Mary I. Crocker to Lewis E. King in Bath. Other entries cover wills, estates, and property moves across Bath Bowdoinham Georgetown Richmond and West Bath with multiple grantees and properties.
An advertisement claims Hall's Catarrh Cure treats catarrh as a constitutional disease by acting on blood and mucous surfaces. It asserts a $100 reward for any case it fails to cure and offers testimonials, with F J Cheney & Co of Toledo selling the remedy through druggists.
The Carlton Prize or Gregory Prize contest for best Maine orchard in 1915 judged in 1919 opens January 1 next year. Eligible growers must plant one acre in Maine and keep precise orchard expense records. Prizes include 200 dollars initial prize plus multiple cash and tree grants from various nurseries, with more prizes possible due to wartime conditions. Applications available from the Department of Agriculture in Augusta.
The postoffice appropriation measure, about 525 million dollars, is ready for House action on December 14. It abolishes the assistant postmaster position, reorganizes first class offices, raises postal bank balances, expands rural carrier pay, tests county contract routes, and adds up to 1 million dollars for salaries and a railroad pay bump to reflect parcel post burdens.
The team will meet Colby at Waterville on Oct. 23 and Bates at Lewiston on Oct. 30. Open dates include a probable Sept. 25 game in Brunswick and an away game Oct. 9. All remaining games are tentative and await ratification by the Athletic Council and the faculty, with no expected changes.
Bowdoin's tentative next season schedule shows at most two new games with most dates settled. Opening date September 25 and October 9 are under negotiation while other fixtures are set. The Tufts game moves to Portland on November 13 and Maine clash is slated for November 6 in Brunswick.
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