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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1921
Page
1
Bath churches offered rich Christmas music with 10:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. services. The program featured Handel and Menotti works, carols, cantatas, solos by Eugene Reed and ensemble pieces, with Miriam W. Kimball and John F. Stacy among the performers and Mrs. Arthur Baum at the organ.
A church program lists Christmas offerings including hymns and cantata sections. Performers include Mrs Herbert Harris soprano, Edgar Dunbar tenor, H E Worrey bass, Mrs Harry E Ring organist, with readings and prayers noted.
On Christmas Sunday Grace Church held the holy eucharist at 9 a.m. and 10 30 a.m. welcoming resident and visiting communicants. A midnight carol service and the later eucharist featured remarks by Rev. Charles Myrin Tubbs and special music by the full choir conducted by Frederick E. Drake.
Sunday evening program at 7 15 featured a 20 voice chorus directed by Prof John L Carter. The Holton cantata The Light of the World included solos duets and choir numbers with Miss Bruce Mrs Maud Wright and Bertram Crocker among performers.
Voluntary bells of Aberdovey open the Wesley Church morning service followed by Stewart’s Anthem Glory to God in the Highest. Continued on page seven.
Christopher Rampates, owner of a shoe repair shop at 184 Front Street, Bath, is a World War I veteran and former Greek fighter who also served in the New Hampshire National Guard. He played active roles in St Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne, and Aisne Marne campaigns, survived heavy losses, and plans to become a citizen while remaining ready to defend the United States if called.
Harry Cohen of Boston, owner of the Government Surplus Depot and staff writer for the Boston Advertiser, offered about 20 reclaimed wool overcoats for Bath’s needy as a Christmas offering. He noted the coats need minor mending but would be serviceable to the unfortunate with repairs. Mayor Cahill accepted the gesture with gratitude and praised the offer.
Miss Jennie Harvey and Roland H. Smith of the American Legion organize a New Year’s dance on January 2 at the Armory. Proceeds go to the Home Fund, with no war tax due to Legion eligibility after January 1, 1922. Miss Harvey will host a Christmas dance on Monday. Legionnaires plan to attend and invite friends.
More than 100 bottles of high grade liquor seized last summer in an exclusive York Harbor club have been moved to the federal building in Bath for storage. Agents led by Director Seth May confiscated rare wines and fine whiskey and gin, drawing a strong warning to similar organizations about keeping liquor where it could be publicly served.
The Fish erman Capt Byron Campbell won second prize in The American Journal of Photography contest. The Boston photographer Father Hasenfus shot the image from Little Good Harbor near the Sheepscot river mouth. Campbell, a 72 year old native of Five Islands, is well known in Bath for summers delivering lobster by market basket and resides with Mrs Campbell in Seguinland.
Robin Arsenault a portable mill worker near Perry's Hill in Phippsburg barely escaped collision as his Ford rolled backward down icy grade. The car struck a stone wall at the bottom, toppled, pinning him briefly. He was freed with only minor bruises. the vehicle suffered severe damage.
Louis Gagne of Tented City proposes gifting a North street parcel 150 by 50 feet for manufacturing with a minimum value of 20000 and would supply a factory site with sewer connections and potential spur rail access, provided a reputable firm commits to real manufacturing use. The south side offer is for housing lots only and measures 116 by 50 feet.
After a Thursday hearing before Judge Lauren M. Sanborn in Cumberland County Superior Court, Mary Thompson from Portland was ordered transferred to the women’s reformatory in Skowhegan. Officials cited prison overcrowding for women in the current section.
Old man Winter arrived on schedule bringing temperatures six to ten degrees below zero with a fifty plus degree drop from Wednesday. Reports from Bath towns and farms note readings from six below to fourteen below in exposed areas while the Kennebec river runs with drift ice and the Hockomock ferry faces ice barriers and rough seas at dawn.
Federal agents Robert H. Jack George Aldrich and Deputy Chester Aderton raid Fred Baike s home at 1 Fremonts rest finding a firelit still twenty gallons of mash and a gallon jug of home brew. Mrs Baike fled upstairs and denied evidence before Aderton but Baike awaits arrest and transfer to Judge John J. Keegan for disposition.
Christmas tree event Friday night at the telephone operators station featured Santa Claus naming the gifts for the girls. Chief operator Miss Bessie Stimpson received a cedar tester as a token and many staff members including Doris Cornish and Ethelyn Nye were noted among the honorees. Reverend S. A. Evens of the Baptist churches in Southwestern Maine district is listed in connection with the event.
Cor. Donald J. MacMillan of Freeport, Arctic explorer, departed Wisesset July 18 in the auxiliary schooner Bewdein and was announced to be presumed frostbound 1700 miles north of Bath off Baffin Bay. A wireless message notified him of a life membership gift from Theta Ieta Chi, sent via the wireless desk on December 21. He planned to play Santa for Eskimo children on Christmas day with toys and dolls.
Adams named local manager of all houses and property in the North End Housing project, known as Moorkind Realty Co, now under Transportation and Treusing divisions of the United States Shipping Board. A. Sanshefier to handle rents with a new schedule likely, an office opened on Western Avenue for tenant communication.
Palmer Lo Guptill, seriously injured Aug 16 when an atrenedile fell from a State highway embankment into the Maine Centre freight yard. He was discharged Saturday to return home at 21 Saunders St Allston Mass. His companion Dennis J. Lensen of Waltham Mass had earlier recovered. Both suffered cuts bruises and broken bones. Guptill was a starter for the Boston Elevated and Lensen a conductor with Middlesex and Boston Railways Co.
Miss Doreths Jewett's kindergarten held a Christmas tree and party Friday morning. Children sang carols spoke poems and danced. The decorated tree bore gifts for each child and ice cream was served. Visitors including Duncan Bragg John Black and Caroline Rogers enjoyed the festivities.
Solon Cabill, a popular Maine Central conductor, is recalled for his long service on trains from Lewiston to Bath and Brunswick. The reminiscence recounts his crew, notable runs, the Brunswick turn, close calls, and the era’s equipment including the Newport, a Hinkley locomotive, and changes in car assignments.
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