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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1912
Page
6
The Eleventh Season group departs New York on June 29 for Glasgow then visits Scotland London Paris Switzerland Italy Germany and Holland returning to New York August 25. Send for daily itinerary and testimonials.
More than one hundred Colonial Club members gathered at New Meadows Inn Tuesday for the tenth annual dinner and spring opening. The event included a two hour program by Boston entertainer Herbert A. Clark with blackface segments and was followed by a fund for Miss Lucinda Bailey’s entertainment gift.
The Bath school introduces a domestic science program led by Miss Piper, a Boston Cooking School graduate. Despite a 150 enrollment, classes expand from Friday evenings to Saturdays as forty women sign up, with demonstrations planned for a June public exhibition.
James Hodgdon and A. F. Frazier found a floating body near Bath Maine Central dock. Coroner Fred S. Curtis identified the man as Clifford McKenney, a seaman aboard the North Land. No relatives claimed the body. Res N. B. Cook conducted service and burial in the strangers' lot.
Proprietor John H. Stacey sells the Old Riverside Hotel at Popham to William Hamilton of Brunswick. Hamilton plans repairs and a mid June opening after a prosperous season under Stacey. Also noted are Bishop Sabin’s Christian Science sessions in Atlantic City and Portland and a broken boatman’s ledger at Mrs. Charles M. Hays’s cottage on Cushing's Island following Titanic loss.
The Portland Board of Trade led by N Gratz Jackson toured Bath on a special train with 80 leaders. They inspected Bath Iron Works and torpedo boat destroyers Jouett and Jenkins, met young foreman William H. Melcher, and planned travels to St John before returning to Portland Sunday.
For Memorial Day Bath will observe the holiday in its usual form. Veterans will decorate graves in local and suburban cemeteries in the morning and a traditional procession will follow in the afternoon.
Ralph Lord a 20 year old machinist at the Torrey Roller Bushing Works in the gasoline engine department has vanished after leaving his boarding house two weeks ago. He wore a gray suit and cap and left in working clothes with a wolfish attached shirt. He left behind clothes tools and personal effects. Police have no trace of him and his friends hope for a clue. Memorial services and sermons are planned at local churches with several fraternal and civic groups attending.
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