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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1915
Page
5
A long program listing multiple acts and participants fills a church or school hall. Children perform pieces like Nellie’s Prayer and The Children’s Santa Vets while organizers and an organist supervise. Community members including families of Mrs. Rowe visit and return.
Dresden reports a Christmas Eve event at the lower road school house with two well laden trees and gifts for all ages. Santa, despite cold and fatigue from a long trip from Wiscasset, distributed gifts. many local families and teachers attended and hosted visitors from Bath and Gardiner.
The church Christmas night program at New Meadows featured chorus singing, victrola music by Robert Murray, readings by Mrs. Ridley, solos by Miss Jorden and Mr. Clicord, a duet by Mrs. Jordan and Mrs. Clicord, and speeches. Gifts from two cedar trees were shared. Local families hosted Christmas gatherings and condolences are offered to the Wheeler family after the loss of their two week old baby. Mercy Holbrook returns from Portland for the holidays. Ernest Clifford from Orono visits home for two weeks.
Local notes from Bath describe New Year greetings, visits from townsfolk including Thomas Coombs of Togus, and discussions on Bath finances. Interspersed are mentions of smelt fishing on the Kennebec, a Colonial Theatre dance, a Squirrel Island project, and a YMCA basketball game where Colonial Duty defeated the Senators of Augusta 28 to 16.
Notices list local residents and visitors in Augusta Boston Portland Lewiston Bath and Quincy Mass. many spent Christmas week with relatives or on business trips. Names include Morse Clifford Merry Oliver Gilman Lemont Trott Wildes Baker Gowell Nichols Johnson Pawcett Marr Desmond Legard Martin Norris Hart White Stinson Elliot Whiting and others.
Bath residents hosted several visitors over Christmas including Thomas Hickey of Eastern Steamship and Wilbur Hill of General Electric. The piece notes multiple return travels, engagements, and guests such as Paul Frederick Hayes a newborn eight pounds, the Seaman family in from New York, and Navy personnel heading to sea. It also mentions local projects with Contractor Hacker, Glen dam work, and revival workers at Corliss Street Church reporting strong attendance despite a storm.
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