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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1915
Page
2
A lively Monday evening social at Bowdoinham Town Hall marked Miss Haggett’s final dance season in St Patrick Day colors. Bridegroom and guests, local dignitaries, and visitors mingled amid music by St Pierre’s orchestra Bruns wick. The evening featured fashion notes with numerous ladies in satin and lace and a winner’s nod to a bright social scene.
Capt and Mrs J M Harford plan Boston visit and consider moving to a Gotts Cove cottage. Spie Social unit at M B McMahan store netted funds for the church. supper to follow. Local transport and boat trips to Bath attract passengers and freight. Town activity includes houses sold, new construction, and residents traveling for work. Schools set to open April 5 with few teacher changes. Poultry ads offer hatching eggs from Barred Rocks Wyandottes and Reds at 3.50 per hundred.
Mrs Arnold Morse visits her sister Mrs John Holland in Portland as Mrs Holland recovers from illness. Waitstill Wallace ships stock to Drummond Cutting to help with spring work. Martha Cutting spends Sunday at her Dromore home. Capt R E Fletcher visits Bath on business. Robert Manson’s boat Ontario docks in Portland early week. Mrs Manson joins husband aboard his vessel then visits Winnegance to see a sick mother. Mr and Mrs A C Johnson of Brunswick attend Bodwell Grange meeting in town. Fred Morrison visits Bath on Thursday. Phippsburg town officers hold meetings on the first Thursday each month.
Dro more Grange No 302 holds a March 23 meeting with music by the Grange Choir and performances by Bessie and Grace Dickinson and a reading on Anecdotes of Early Days by all charter members. The session includes quotations from Longfellow, a discussion of profitable farm eras, and a closing song. William A. McNeal, a G G Deering Co. joiner, reports starting work on a new five masted schooner replica of the Courtney C. Houck to be built at the Deering yard this summer.
A shipment of a large mixed lot arrives for local auction with diverse objects awaiting appraisal. Organizers caution buyers to inspect contents and note that provenance and condition details are limited in the initial listing.
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