Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-01-15

At meeting Of the directors of the
Bath Y. NJ. c. A. late Friday after
| noon 1t was voted tc allow the
! operating committee TO permit dane
Ing in the gymnasium after basket
ball games or on other special &C.
caSions. They also recommended that
| the dances stop at II o'clock 1t is
understood that the Ladies' Auxiliary
will chaperone them. This step has
been taken only after careful consid-
| GRAFTON and is In the nature of an
experiment for this season only.
Many Of the parents believe 1t better
to have their children dance at the
| "Y" than at some of the public halls
without anv oversight Dancing is
now allowed at the new Y. NJ C.. A.
at Auburn and at Augusta. and this
| step has been taken In Bath with
the hope of making the "Y" as much
| of community center as possible
Bath Times.
| The regular meeting Of the Penob
scot County Medical society. to bs
held at the Bangor house on Tues-
| day night will be one o. more than
ordinary amount of interest. for II
will be a gathering in honor o. five
well known physicians who have
| been engaged in the practice of their
! profession for period of 45 years
or over. In consequence the best
meeting of the year is confidently
! expected. as events of this nature are
not Of common occurrence. DR.. Galen
M. Woodcock is the dean of Bangor
! physicians in the line of length of
! practice. Those who will be honored
by this assemblage are DR.. Wood
cock, DR.. William f Fellows, DR..
| Walter l.. Hunt. DR.. Calvin p. Thorn
as and DR.. Henry D. Worth. All
! those mentioned are still engaged in
the practice of medicine. although DR..
| Worth is giving attention to the af-
| fairs of the State Board of Health. of
which he is member. DR.. Thomas
! is passing the winter in Florida at
! his ranch.
The initial steps toward a big fire.
mems muster in Bath on the Fourth
of July to mark the 18th anniversary
of the first muster ever held in this
country and which, by a strange
/ within of fate, took place in that very
| city, We're taken at the annual ban
| quet of the Bath Veteran Firemen's
association in Baxter hall on Friday
night and donations were actually
pledged for the prize money. Whether
| 1t will be open to al New England or
confined to hand engine companies in
| Maine was not fully determined but
there was strong enthusiasm in be-
| half of sending representatives of the
associa ton to the meeting of the
New England Veteran Firemen's
League in Boston Tuesday when
positive action in regard to New
England muster can be taken and at
which the matter can probably be
| clinched by election of Bath ca6-
didate as a vice president of the
League to represent the State of
Maine. The impetus to the muster
came after brief talk by Edward w.
| Vaughan, who, when called upon for
a response to toast, referred to the
evolution in fire fighting apparatus
! in the last centur'. and spoke of the
sport obtained from the keen COM
petition of the various companies,
declaring 1t to be one of the cleanest
and best of sports. Then he called
attention to the fact that the first
muster ever in the country was in
Bath on July 4. 1S49 and expressed
the desire that Bath might celebrate
the 18th anniversary Of this import
ant event The suggestion met popu-
lar approval and the first man to
endorse the idea was George Dow of
the Portland Veteran Firemans as
ISOLATION. 9 past president Of the New
England Veteran Firemans League.
who called attention to the import
! ance of having Bath represented at