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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1908
Page
3
City readers learn that schools opened after a Sunday gale altered plans for skating and outdoor activities. Sagadahoc encampment officers will be installed, and Morse High defeated Rockland 26 to 14 in a Friday basketball game. Public schools reopen with some illness, while a Mendelssohn club guest discusses next season.
Solar lodge number 14 F and A M installed its officers Monday evening with W 8 Shorey as Grand Master and N Gratz Jackson as grand marshal. New officers include Worshipful Master Henry R White Senior Warden Sylvester H Rowland Junior Warden Herbert L Hall Treasurer Horatio A Duncan Secretary Albert L Strout Marshal Charles M Snow Chaplain Rev George D Stanley Senior Deacon Harry A Langdon Junior Deacon Robert J Gilker Senior Steward J R Norton Junior Steward William J Perry Tyler William T Hodgkins. A banquet followed the ceremony.
Large congregations attended Sunday services at Peoples Church with both afternoon and evening gatherings. Twenty received the right hand of fellowship at the communion service and a baptism occurred. A highly anticipated meeting was planned for tonight. Nine people joined Beacon Street Methodist Church on Sunday.
The West Bath Grange officers were installed Monday evening by State Sec E H Libby assisted by Mr and Mrs Harry E B Pesterson. Music by Mrs Herbert S Harris. Officers named for the year include Herbert Hodgking as Worthy Master Fred A Willis Worthy Overseer Mrs Lillian Rogers Worthy Lecturer Fred P Ring Assistant Steward Elmer Williams Worthy Chaplain Owen E Rogers Treasurer Mrs Lillian M Brown Secretary Miss Annie E Wylie Gate Keeper Alvah J Higgins Ceres Mrs Joanna Hodgkins Pomona Mrs Belle Donnell Flora Mrs Nellie Ring Lady Assistant Mrs Evie Durgin. Bunches of cut flowers went to a sick member at Foster's Point and sixteen visitors from other granges attended.
The first leap year dance of the season, at the Kennebec Yacht Club, was managed by Misses Ruth Thompson Gladys Parker and Eleanor Leydon. Over fifty couples attended as the young ladies invited gentlemen friends, who paid admission and escorted their hostesses home after the event.
Mrs Paul Richards moves a house on Dr D S Richards lot with Mr Castner handling the work. Noble Maxwell prepares rock for breakwater work between Dresden and Perkins. Henry Smith threshes grain and presses hay at Hagar barn. George Palmer named assistant janitor at the village school. Noble Maxwell hosts New Year’s day party. whist event by Carmel Chapter O E S well attended. Charles Barnes dies at 72 on Pleasant Street. Dr K W Small plans to transplant a maple. Basketball team practices with several out of town games, slight loss to Brunswicks noted. George Lovell hires Harold Curtis for coal team. Perley Bullock ill with grip for a week.
Local residents and visitors are listed in Bath society items. Dr and Mrs R S Willis of Gar diner pass Sunday in Bath. William Rogers visits daughter Mrs Levi Wade in Newton Mass. Miss Harriet Pendexter returns from Boston. Eleanor Hyde of Bath to wed Dr John C Phillips of Boston at Emmanuel church next Saturday.
Mrs. John L. Cook and Mrs. Charles Stinson were confined to their homes this week by illness and grip. Ice left Winnegance creek three times since the first winter freeze. J F Upton, formerly of the area, bought the Wallace farm at Sebasco. Pitch Pine Hill school closed for winter vacation until April first. George D Weston of Hillcrest poultry farm provided 30 pounds of chickens for Bodwell Grange dinner after its officer installation last Saturday.
In Phippsburg and nearby Bath events tied a legal appearance by J H Rattleff and C S Gerrish to local mill repairs at Bald Head and Center. A Gerrish boat broke moorings and drifted ashore amid strong wind. Bowdoin student Ananda Hiwale spoke in native dress at Con cr tional chapel stirring a crowd. Kennebec Yacht Club opens auditions for the opera King Pepper this evening.
A ledger of charter rates and routes includes coal shipments from Port Reading to Provincetown at $1.50 per ton aboard Lanie Cobb 200 tons from Elizabetport to Calais at $1.30, J S Lamprey 250 tons Perth Amboy to Nantucket at 95 cents, E C Gates 103 tons Perth Amboy to Fall River at Sic, Donna T Briggs 194 tons Port Reading to Newport at 80 cents, Efi 1156 tons Gulf to Buenos Ayres at $12.50 with Rosario option $13.50, Stella B Kaplan 1024 tons Fernandina to New York with ties 15 percent, Marjory Brown 1061 tons Brunswick to New York with ties 154 percent. Miscellaneous Sch Tofa 556 tons Phila to Havana with case oil 10 cents, Minnie Slauson 271 tons Raritan River to Portland with clay $1.25.
Collector notices unpaid state tax claims against nonresident owners in Woolwich June 1907 list real estate parcels with amounts due including interest and charges. Public auction planned February 1 1908 at 9 o clock at the Town House for sale to recover owed sums.
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