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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1915
Page
11
Local jottings report May's progress with blooming orchards and warm weekend weather. Bath sees straw hats, a Ford delivery car, and a new potatoes sale. Community events include a stereopticon lecture on children abroad and a farewell sermon by Rev. Miles N. Reed. City officials address tuition collections and curbside loitering, with the mayor seeking remedies.
Local items report Frank Edgecomb catching 33 shad in the river and another barrel of shad shipped to Boston. Mother's Day observed in churches. postmaster appointment due the 22nd. Bath posters to promote tourism printed at 20 cents per 100. Moves on church, railway and steamer news alongside civic developments.
Local clubs and church circles report meetings in Fisher's Court Foresters Hall Beacon Street and Morse High facilities. Attendance notes include sewing circles Mission Guilds and Knights of Columbus events. Marriage intentions recorded for George Chandler Jr and Margaret West while tuition debts reach two hundred dollars.
J Court presides in session as crowds gather for football fans before the Bowdoin game Monday. Reports from West Bath note H K Erskine and Frank French visiting the French farm. The W C T U met at 3 pm with Mrs Addie Robbins. Florence Haggett entertained the Beacon Street chorus at Frank W. Hagan’s home. EK W Society of the First Baptist Church planned a Saturday meeting at Miss Ruth Goodwin’s home. Sedewith Circle of the Ladies of the G A R held its routine session. The Rebehils hosted a mystery supper and social. The First Baptist Brotherhood May meeting occurred Tuesday in the church vestry with a planned refreshment. A small fire at Parker Head damaged none. Maude Palmer sails from Portland for South America aboard a coast trade voyage. Louis Borssett arrived in Portland with a cargo of hard pine. Marshal Pattee summoned Emma Garrison to the lower court over property damage at Eliza Atkinson’s home. Grand Knight Madden and other officers attended Lewiston Council’s grand ball and convention. State Deputy Keegan’s absence due to his mother’s death led to leadership changes. The Overseers of the Poor reported Bath’s inmates deny malnutrition and thanked Master Brown for care. A heated debate produced a 17 to 16 vote and new officers were elected for a final year-end hop set for May 26 with a large orchestra.
The article recalls Capt. Thayer of the schooner Elsie A. Bales, his Klondike journeys via the Chilcoot Pass and Miles Canyon White Horse Rapids, and a near-miss on a rock while steering a self-built scow. It notes a fatal snow slide in 1898 near Chilenot mountain, and mentions his prospecting work and a claimed crown land holding later contested.
Program for a Wednesday evening event at North Street Church to aid the Ladies Aid of People's Baptist Church. Includes readings by Maria Mehit able Tracy and Col Turnipp Topp Curtis with the Bigge Choir, a Ladies' Quartet, and performances by Matilda Hope Ward and Theophilus Cary among others.
A fragmentary program lists Tracy and Bragg with Ye Bigge Choir performing Ye Last Rose of Summer and Ye Second Half New Jerusalem, plus Miles Standish Pratt reading. Multiple names appear in a crowded, garbled roster of songs, readers, and ensembles.
An advertisement touts a counterfeit cure for catarrh claiming a perfect combination of two ingredients. It urges sending for testimonials and lists CHENISY &G., Toledo, as proprietors. Sold by druggists with a price. Take Wall's Family Pills for constipation.
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