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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1914
Page
9
Christmas services in Bath featured a range of choirs and organ works from Church of the New Jerusalem and Memorial and Universalist and Winter Street Congregational churches. Soloists included Miriam Kimball Anne Hall Miss Bayles and Miss Hunt with orchestral selections and postludes by Handel Mendelssohn and others.
The pupils of Dummer Street Primary School under Principal Ella J. Douglas and Margaret Metcalf enjoyed a festive Christmas program last Friday. A large crowd of parents attended as each room presented its own act with trees adorned and gifts for every scholar. Randolph Many played Santa in Miss Douglas’s room and the show featured a string of songs, solos, and little plays performed by Grades I to IV with numerous students named in the program.
Special Christmas music was rendered by a chorus choir conducted by Miss Margaret Bakeman. Special music at Wesley Church Sunday morning included Neid linger's Christmas Anthem sung by the choir and C. W. Coombs's Dawn of Hope sung as a duet by Mrs. Dorman Perkins and Miss Coombs. In the evening the choir performed the Christmas cantata The First Christmas by Ira Bishop Wilson. Messrs. Weeks and Harding played a violin and flute duet.
Dayton Hunt a 72 year old West Georgetown resident traveling from Boston to Montreal reported a theft on the platform. He lost a pocket book containing $120 after three men hustled him and were questioned but released without charge.
Ninth grade students performed a Christmas celebration Friday afternoon with notable recitations. Work included A Shot in the Night, Lincoln's Speech at Springfield, and The Concord Fight among others by Morton Holbrook, Lawrence McCullock, Robert Fulton, Martha Barker, James Crane, Mabel Swett, Ethel Hay, Elvira Owen, Walton Elliot, and Ruth Ledyard.
The second Carlton Prize contest for best orchard set in 1915 will start January 1 next year for Maine orchards of one acre or more. Eligible growers must keep precise accounts. prizes include the original $200 Gregory prize plus cash and tree awards from several nursery companies. Applications available from the Maine Department of Agriculture in Augusta.
The measure nearing House submission includes abolishing the assistant postmaster office and consolidating first class offices under a postmaster. It raises postal bank balances and caps, expands clerks and carrier pay, tests county contract rural routes, and adds 1 million dollars for railroad compensation tied to parcel post.
Transfers filed last week before Register James C. Purinton cover properties in Topsham Bath Georgetown Bowdoinham Richmond and Phippsburg. Names include Cornelia Knight Samuel Cobb Mary Crocker Emma Perkins Phinela Oliver Charles Shaw Herbert Nealey Walter Bowker and others with deeds to Lucien White William Whitham Lewis King and various grantees.
The slate lists games with Colby in Waterville on Oct. 23 and Bates in Lewiston on Oct. 30. Open dates include Sept. 25 in Brunswick and Oct. 9 away. The final game is tentative and awaits ratification by the Athletic Council and faculty, with no expected changes.
Readers learn Hall's Catarrh Cure is claimed as a universal remedy. The advertisement asserts the medicine cures catarrh as a constitutional disease with internal action on blood and mucous surfaces, promising $100 to any case it fails to cure and inviting testimonials from F J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio.
Bowdoin's tentative 1915 football schedule will add few new games, with only one or two possible openings. The opener on September 25 and October 9 are under negotiation, while most dates are settled. Bowdoin will host Amherst on October 2 in Amherst, Wesleyan at Middletown on October 16, and Tufts in Portland on November 13, with the Maine state championship against the University of Maine in Brunswick on November 6 following the usual alternating system.
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