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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1921
Page
6
A Bath official describes overcrowded, poorly ventilated rooms and frozen toilets in a three-school complex. He urges a 16 room modern building on the South Street lot to improve conditions and to foster city pride, inviting parents and citizens to support the plan.
Morse High School faces severe crowding with 415 pupils and 13 teachers in 11 rooms. Superintendent Smith argues a completed third story would add eight rooms and expand the assembly hall to accommodate growing enrollment and planned program changes.
West Bath officials fret over town meeting capacity as women will attend for the first time. The debate centers on moving the annual meeting from the town hall to the grange hall to accommodate larger crowds. The record also notes local social news from Campbell's Pond and Sabine including theater, visits, illnesses, and community events.
A combined meeting of the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts at the Y M C A occurred Friday night led by Miss Bessie Hunt and Miss Charlotte Gook. The Girl Scouts formed a full troop with four patrols of eight girls each. Seventy five scouts in total joined in games and activities.
The Portland Municipal Organ Concert series draws large crowds with high quality artists. Merle Alcock, a renowned American contralto, appears as the assisting artist alongside Dr. Irvin J. Morgan the municipal organist who will perform a captivating program of organ selections as a feature of the grand evening.
Fred A Willis 75 of 12 Park Street Bath died Sunday morning after two years of ill health. A former seaman and milk supplier, he served as game warden in Idaho county for 12 years and held terms on Bath's common council. He was a member of Polar Star lodge Masons and West Bath Grange. He is survived by his wife.
Reynolds led the week with a 109.6 average and a high single of 128, while Hodge set a high single record of 132 though not showing last week. Top ten averages included Reynolds Russell Slo comb Oliver Ham Hennessy Morse Lee Caron and Stewart with notable high team totals for the American Legion 825 and a high single in the Legion event.
Members of the Colonial Cub plan a trip to Brunswick this evening to join a Brunswick club hosts. The event features a tournament with two teams in billiards pool duplicate auction sixty three cribbage and more. The committee expects many members to attend whether or not they participate.
Ideal conditions drew a strong crowd for the Bath Driving Club event at Lily Pond. Winners included Lottie Roberts, Miss Chickering, Tony Bynes, and Ella Watts with Baroness Farle absent due to racing Lisbon Falls.
Bath, Maine fans bid farewell to Joe Neptune McNeil and Beanie Stover as they sign with the Frederick team in Maryland’s Blue Ridge League. The trio, key in Bath’s battery with Mac on the mound and Beanie behind the plate, head south for training and a likely chance at advancing to higher levels.
Fourteen Corliss Street church Sunday school workers met in the vestry for a basket lunch and coffee. Plans call for devotional exercises at each Sunday’s opening of school and programs aligned with special Sundays. Classes will be named, memberships recorded, and attendance noted. A follow up conference is scheduled for a month hence.
James H. Parker, 89, of Bath died Friday at his daughter’s home in Quincy Massachusetts where he wintered. A longtime Water Street store keeper and maker and repairer of fish nets he enjoyed his kitchen garden and planting early vegetables in store windows. The body arrived in Bath Monday afternoon and a committal service was held at Maple Grove Tomb by Rev Culbert McGay of Grace Church.
Large crowd attends the funeral for Fred A. Willis held at his home 12 Park street. Rev. Irrank H. Hall of Wesley church officiates in Dr. BE. Hilton Post’s absence. Polar Star lodge ritual led by Joseph A. Terrell with William A. Furber as chaplain. Bearers include Ex-Mayor John A. Small and the Terrell brothers. Burial is in Oak Grove.
Spiro M. Naska died suddenly Saturday night at a Bath hotel where he was under treatment until January 27 when he was to be moved to the Central sanitarium at Fairfield. A native of Albania, he was a son of Michael Naska and had lived in Bath for over five years. He had no relatives in Bath, but fellow countrymen cared for him during his illness, providing medical care and a trained nurse.
The funeral for Benjamin F. Green was Saturday afternoon at his home 121 Court Street with many relatives and friends in attendance. Rev. Louis W. West of the People’s Baptist church officiated. Bearers were shopmates from Bath Iron Works Lee Huff Alonzo Thaye Harry Totman and Just Wold. He was buried in Oak Grove.
The funeral for Gilbert Atwood aged 17 who died Saturday at his home in Phippsburg was Tuesday at two. Rev Elwyn C Taylor of Corliss Street Baptist Church officiated. Pallbearers were his sons Wallace L Howard A Harold G Willard B John E and Clarence C Atwood. Burial followed at Oak Grove Cemetery.
Caroline E. Humphrey, 20, daughter of the Humphrey family, is identified in a short notice. No additional details are provided in the fragment.
Carrie B Humphrey and Walter I Humphrey died in Somerville Massachusetts on January 22. Carrie, formerly Carrie Bo Ayward, and her mother resided in Bath for years at the home of Mrs Humphrey's uncle Captain Robert Goodman.
The American House and annex at Water and Erin streets were purchased by Thomas B. McCormick from Bath Iron Works Ltd. The sale follows the Works’ remodel and wartime use of the hotel to house plant workers. McCormick, who has managed since 1912, will retain dining and boarding services for both workers and transient guests.
Mid-year examinations at Morse high school began Wednesday and run through Friday. A rehearsal of the Phi Rho mock trial occurred Monday night and will be repeated at intervals until the presentation on February 11 in the Morse high school assembly hall.
A physician advised method to reduce fatigue by cleansing the intestines with mild laxatives and using Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets and Anuric to purify kidneys and bladder. The ad links toxin removal to improved nerves, circulation, and resistance to disease, citing backache and rheumatic conditions as helped by these products.
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