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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1915
Page
11
Local notes report a busy week with ship activity from Bath to Boothbay and repairs on the Camden turbine. Lubricated by insurance adjustments, coastwise coal cargoes, and Hyde Windlass Co. director changes, the town also reviews school affairs, youth activities, and the growing YMCA room demand as the athletic scene adapts to debt and expansion.
Local notes report Capt and Mrs Snowden chaired a Winneganee gathering on Wednesday. A committee led by Ralph Gay planned payment for the deo or M.bS. Athletic Association and proposed a one act farce and dance on February 25.
The column lists various Bath events including church meetings at Western and Universalist churches, the Nazarene sermon by Miss Curry at Bowdoin 1910 coaching Morse High School relay team, and plans for a Bowdoin Indoor Interclass meet. It notes the annual inspections and meetings of Knights Templar Dunlap Commandery No. 5 and Maine Brigade U R E P with invited guests and addresses. It also mentions a one reel feature lecture by Bath Camp No. 17407 Modern Woodmen and a steamship port service update from the F J Lisman and Boy Scout council actions in Bath.
Bath residents reported brisk sleighing and coasting as tales of a big moon and circling halo dominated town chatter. Hunters brought in foxes and a rabbit, while local groups held meetings and socials across Bath on Thursday and Friday evenings.
Long Maine notes tell of fishers on Nequasset Lake and New Meadows River with ice traffic and odd finds. A West Bath resident reports a frozen midwinter pond lily buried six feet deep, a spring bloom preserved in ice, while local crews monitor schooners, freights, and winter work along Bath and Lisbon Fall.
Capt L B Clark Portland business visitor. Mr and Mrs B F Savage visiting Rockport Mass. William Given formerly of Jackson block factory to Portsmouth Navy Yard. Eugen Spear Belfast ex Bath telephone head in town en route to Rockland. James Rosewett left Sanday for Charlestown Mass no Navy Yard position. Capt Hawthorne Richmond visitor using a cane after hip injury. William Kittredge returned to Qiines after visit with O Kittredge. Ernest T Cripps started for Panda to enter government machinist work. Mrs Cripps accompanied to Boston. Dales of Phippseburg to Hedlawn with Tloward Williams patient at sanitarium. Mrs I Noamnestle decided to stay in town. Lewnder Dauphin and brother En see men to Providence for five months work. John Chaney accompanied Leame on to Kiev. William H Jackson Union former resident in town for Transor Theological convocation. returned due to death of church member. Pred White Bath Works left for Toaston to overhaul turbine on steamer Camden. Powers helped install blades in 1907.
Bath events and notes cover a basketball game where Bath gained the advantage, social gatherings hosted by the Ladies Aid groups at Winter Street and Central Church, a new candy kiss called "Toodles" from a Front Street maker, the Wadsworth torpedo boat near launch, and local fishing reports with references to market sales in New York. A ten pound son arrived to Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Courser, and Prof. C W Barber lectured on Seed and Crop Improvement at Morse High School.
A Columbus Ohio Journal columnist notes a man’s CES as his castle and laments constant pressure from vendors trying to sell unnecessary goods like brooms and potatoes. The remark frames consumer traps and shopping fatigue in a wary, skeptical tone.
A teacher gave a short poem to Little Lola to memorize. When she recited it later she changed a line from Sail on, ye mariners, the night is gone to Sail on, ye married men, the light is gone, altering meaning with a misheard word.
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