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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1933
Page
3
Holy Week services planned at St Philip's in Wiscasset with masses at 4 15 p m Monday and 730 p m Tuesday and Good Friday. The Woman's Club hosted a Bath Central church choir benefiting its piano fund. School events include academy honor lists, trustees meeting, prize speaking trials, and community notices covering residents, gatherings, and small local incidents.
Local notes report residents visiting Bath and Portland and returning to work in Gardiner and Damariscotta. Birch Point mill restarted. Della Collins steamer sailed to Kennebec. Waldoboro Granite Co holds annual meeting. Wiscasset Savings Bank declares 2 percent dividend. Town meeting grants right of way for W A R. schools reopen with Elden Munsey teaching high school.
Mr. W. G. Hubbard, Hilton House proprietor, has purchased the Wiscasset House. The property will undergo thorough renovation and be placed in first class condition under his management. The acquisition supports Hubbard’s expanding business and enhances Hilton House operations.
Mrs. Arthur Durgan of Bath visited town last Thursday. Miss Mary Wright returns from Bates College. Arthur Norton of Bath called on friends. Mrs. Follansbee of Chicago guests of Mrs. T. H. Bellas. Bath editor Arthur K. Purington was in town. Harry Fitch of Dover visited over the weekend. George McPhee heads to New York to rejoin his steamer. Miss Almeda Metcalf visits Bath with the Carrs. Mrs. James Lewis and Clifton Lewis guests of Mrs. Parker Lewis. Wall being rebuilt for a shoe factory bought by Howard H. Trussel. Ned Bailey to Gardiner for work at Ward's drug store. Miss Rena Pashard returns from Bath visit. Rudolph Stover of Portland returns home. Mrs. P. H. Oliver of Winnegance visits relatives. Mrs. Mabelle Sherer goes to Boothbay Harbor for military work. John E. Dickinson buys Patterson house on Summer Street. Miss Mary Stinson returns from Lewiston Sun for a few days. Holman Day in town for Hon. H. M. Sewall’s congressional bid. Mrs. Edwin Farnham ill with influenza. nurse called. Sergt. Joseph Harriman promoted to lieutenant at Station 9 Boston and to be stationed at Charlestown. Miss Helen White expected home from Wareham to teach. Local Y M C A forming to secure a meeting building for youths. Officers listed. charter shows fifty-five members.
Representative Moran quotes Admiral Pratt promising to consider sending a large warship to Rockland for Memorial Day if available. Pratt notes his Bel fast home and regional interest, while Moran says he will keep the request before him. Bowdoin fears beer sale policy at Moulton Union uncertain.
Lewiston man receives a California booklet from his brother with cuts illustrating quake havoc in Long Beach. The scenes show a post office in the street a hospital and apartments with walls torn away. The note, dated March 20, recounts ongoing quakes and residents rebuilding in 24 hours.
John F. Larrabee of the Littlefield school chairs the Morse high school National Honor Society committee with Mrs. Chester W. Dana and others. The Spring meeting was held Monday in the Morse gymnasium. Several Bath residents are noted in social visits and commutes, with travel and attendance at Bowdoin College events mentioned.
A Brunswick group of three generations joined 11 others in receiving first and second degrees at West Bath Grange No. 154. The Stetsons, Hadleys, and Brunswick residents formed a notable family contingent, with 120 attendees including 36 visitors. The meeting featured a degree team led by Edwin W. Haggett and concluded with dancing.
Ralph Hopper in Hallowell spotted a badly decomposed unidentified man in the Kennebec. The body weighed heavy, dressed in working clothes with curly dark hair. Dr. Roland L. M Kay ordered the body sent to an Augusta undertaking parlor. Earlier a January report described a man seen jumping from the Augusta bridge after police failed to locate him despite days of river dredging. The piece also notes James G. O Connor of Bangor as the originator of Roosevelt’s Maine campaign and details his prominent Democratic relatives and legal background.
Sixty eight boys enter a doubles pocket billiards tourney at the Y M C A conducted on an elimination basis. Matches set to 50 points with 75 semi finals and 100 finals. Players to arrange times. delays or no shows may forfeit. First round pairings listed.
The Winter Street Congregational Church team meets Highland Avenue Methodist Church of Gardiner for the state church basketball title at the Y M C A gym. Gardiner is undefeated and the Augusta Y M C A league champion. Winter Street holds the local church and city titles and faces a tough challenge from the up river visitors.
Charles Poulin, 22, of Portland and a Fifth Infantry member, allegedly held up Alton A. Kitchen late Friday afternoon. Kitchen says Poulin demanded money at gunpoint, took $5.25, and was captured minutes later by West Brook Chief Willis P. Mitchell after being cornered following a ride to South Windham.
Miss Sara Bailey teaches in Farmingdale and visits her mother Mrs. Dora Bailey. Raymond Hathorne from the University of Maine spends Easter with Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Hathorne. Morris Colby saws wood in North Woolwich. Mary Perkins enjoys Easter vacation from Kents Hill. Florence Swan spoke at Nequasset church. she has traveled in India and Turkey. Ladies auxiliary and Men's forum hosted by Mr. and Mrs. James Colby. Grace Preble returns from Malden visit. Mrs. Florence Temple boards with Mrs. Edwin Holbrook while teaching Nequasset school. Carrol Perkins moves camp toward Johnson lot. A special town meeting at 2 pm next Monday to discuss River road funding. Barbara and Priscilla Trott visit Bath hosts.
Woolwich Grange No. 68 plans third and fourth degrees on Saturday April 8 with a full program led by lecturer Mrs. Maurice T. Hathorne. The program includes songs, current events, a discussion on radio as a home luxury, readings, a paper on Grange benefits by Mrs. Harry Bradford, and tableaux under John H. Carter. An April 7 games night precedes the event, with the same committee organizing duties. no meeting was held April 1 due to a storm.
A Lewiston chronicle notes 1876 rum-seller protests in Augusta, urging strict law enforcement. A Henry Bradford home yields a preserved 1870s paper behind wallpaper. Thornton Academy seniors plan a Washington trip on Good Friday with chaperones E R Woodbury, Pauline Smith, and George E Martin.
The Winter Street basketball team, led by coach Jimmy Jenkins, defeated Morse high 24 19 in the city final after overcoming Bath Indies in the opening game and winning the church league crown earlier. Jenkins, central to their rise, starred as a Winter Street player and now anchors the Iron Workers era.
The Maine State Association of Fire Chiefs holds its quarterly meeting in Auburn on April 11 with about 50 chiefs attending. Morning sessions feature welcomes from Mayor McFadden and Chief Sanborn, plus six speakers including Frederick Ford and T A Flemming. Afternoon talks proceed with Chief Lovejoy and Boston speakers, followed by a 6 pm banquet at the central station.
The J. C. Mulligan Stevedoring Co. prepares Bath facilities for pulpwood from the Provinces, with first cargo expected around May 1. After selling six barges to St John Drydock Co., local officials worried Bath might lose the discharging role, but the operation will remain in Bath, employing a score of men seasonally.
A window at a well known business in The Brook Rockland displayed a sign reading Visit Our Bargain Basement Free Beer For Men Only. The playful notice sparked chatter about April Fools Day and Willis being exempt from the gag.
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