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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1915
Page
8
Local jottings recount frigid Christmas with low temps on Front Street two below zero at Popham and a burned rail car near Windsor Locks. Community events include charity dinners, Sunday school entertainments, Christmas trees, and the Colonial Club minstrel show at the Columbia Theatre.
Christmas scenes across Bath feature family warmth and civic acts. Squirrels and ferries, markets and churches share holiday memories as the Colonial Club distributes gifts to 175 children and mail crews handle festive volume with routine efficiency. Royal post office staff and local volunteers coordinated a quiet, orderly holiday amid frigid temperatures and traditional observances.
Christmas at noon it was one below zero and Christmas cards arrived from Alex Cochran now government inspector in Baltimore. The Knights of Pythias elected H H Donnell president Floyd W Stanton vice president and William Mann secretary at Acadia Lodge Section 394. Grace Church held a candle lit Christmas Eve service with choir and rector Rev Culbert McGay. On Christmas Day three cars delivered gifts, post parcels and late gifts extending into the night. Harvey Henderson mourned his horse Jack. William Cahill reclaimed his dapple gray colt kept near Bath. The American ship Aryan, owned by Eugene P Carver of Boston, sits at Sydney under wool embargo. licenses debated by State Department. New England mills faces potential layoffs as wool supply dwindles. Aryan built 1893 by C V Minott, 2123 tons, Boston home port. last wooden sailing ship launched in the U S. Lewis J Sawyer to visit Hotel Phoenix Jan 11-13.
Nearly a hundred Dunlap Commandery Knights Templar members gathered in Bath at the asylum for a Christmas noon observance honoring Grand Master Ballou. Speakers recalled Ballou’s role as founder and longtime leader, with a tribute by Hon. Harold M. Sewall and a charity collection of 49 dollars.
A savings bank book is reported lost in Sili Maine on December 1, 1914, with the finder advised to return it to the rightful owner or to local authorities.
Margaret B McDonald of Phippsburg petitions to prove and assign administration with will annexed of Daniel A McDonald who died in 1914 leaving four heirs. The notice details heirs Wm Alvin McDonald Daniel Wallace McDonald Margaret P B McDonald and Arthur N McDonald and requests appointment as residuary legatee. Public notices announce court dates in Bath Sagadahoc Maine.
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