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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1917
Page
8
Cosmopolitan Club meeting details old and new business. Mendelssohn Club concert news and Graveure plans. Social events include engagements, bids, and a large cabaret at the Ariel. Local tributes to Bath figures, lectures, and musical clubs fill the society page.
Local committees from several churches organize meals for Boys Conference delegates at the Y M C A. Gov. Carl E. Milliken is expected to attend the Friday banquet. A baked bean supper follows on Saturday evening. About $300 is being raised for the banquet band music parade and related incidentals to welcome the delegates in Bath.
Local notes report 600 to 700 workers at a Texas yard with an expected army of 1500 there within the year. Civil service exam Feb 10 for railway mail clerk, height and weight requirements given. County teachers meetings announced for 1917 across multiple Maine counties with dates. Brunswick court action over wills continues with judges and lawyers named. testimony to be taken before Judge Bird and no Law Court appeal.
A big berg of dumped snow in the city landing was swept out into the river by the tide on Wednesday. Also notes include a free Christian Science lecture at Columbia Theatre Monday evening, a Moonlight ice cream joke, lighting upgrades at Wilson drug store, billiards at Park Alleys, fox skins sale, Morse High School basketball antics in Auburn, a cargo ship Kreger reaching Newport News after a gale, and Harold Robie’s accident on a steamship deck with a bad wrist pending X-ray results.
A series of town notices describe Macy style display wins in Percy store window and various Bath happenings. Governor Milliken plans to attend a Boys Conference in the city next week. Fortnightly Club faces a travel lecture on South American routes with about $100 in expenses. A police bowling match yielded a 1824 total between Capt McFadden and Officer Place. Donald Spear attends his grandmother’s funeral in Bath as his mother cannot travel. YMCA discussions for older boys focus on what makes a good man led by P Miller. Cape Cod canal to become navigable soon after whaleback Ray Port wreck and planned dynamite action. Morse High School faculty lead a Men’s Y program at Bath YMCA with principal James P. King speaking on Bath’s greatest asset. Lincoln birthday celebration set for Feb 10–12 at Lincoln Memorial University Cumberland Gap with governors and dignitaries. special trains from New York and Chicago.
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