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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1950
Page
7
The Bath Country Club begins its 1950 golf season this Saturday with Jimmy Jones back as pro. The course is in good condition and membership fees are $10 with green fees $1 before 4:30 pm and 50 cents after, including weekends and holidays. non-member fees are $2 daily. Members should remit fees to Rodney E. Ross Jr. or pay Jimmy Jones.
Club Forty-Two hosts a public canasta-bridge party Thursday at Lambert Park Community building starting at eight. Proceeds go to the club charity fund. Committee includes Mrs. Stanley Brown chairman Mrs. George Hert Mrs. Lawrence Wyman Mrs. Leonard Smith and Miss Edith Small. Refreshments after.
A junior high queen election begins with 14 nominees from seniors to alumni. Preliminary voting Friday and Saturday selects four finalists for the May 11 and 12 final ballot.
Rev and Mrs M A Gordon motored to Augusta on Monday to attend the Augusta Ministerial Association gathering at Greentree Methodist Church.
Grace Episcopal Church hosted an early spring wedding Friday evening as Miss Lois Ann Young and Joseph Richard Hart exchanged vows in a double ring ceremony performed by Rev. Canon Charles M. Tubbs. The couple will reside at 61 North Street.
A family confirmation party for Nathan, son of Mrs Morris H. Cohen, was hosted at 10 Old South Place after a Beth Israel Synagogue confirmation. Open house followed the Saturday event with guests from Boston, Framingham, Cambridge, Providence, Brooklyn, Lewiston, Quincy, Portland, and Bath, who sent congratulations by telegram.
Frederick Weidner III tenor featured Friday at Morse High School auditorium in a well received program. Han Hittmair cellist and H Berkeley Peabody pianist also performed with a section of cello solos by Hans Hittmair. Sponsored by the Bath Skating and Hockey Association.
Two grass fires triggered still alarms within minutes. Engine 4 responded to a blaze behind Hilltop Market on Center Street at 10.15, while another fire south of the Charles B. Doyle residence on the old Brunswick road was extinguished with no damage.
Winter Street church Ladies Aid held an all day session closing the season with a meatloaf lunch for 65. A rummage sale was set for April 25 chaired by Mrs. Fred Foote. The Aid and Auxiliary will host a reception for Rev. and Mrs. Joseph Purdue on April 26.
Mr and Mrs Daniel C Barton of North Adams Mass announce the engagement of their daughter Beryl Hazel Barton home demonstration agent for Androscoggin and Sagadahoc counties with the U S Extension Service to Robert S Hill son of Mr and Mrs Melvin Hill of Turner Maine Hill attended Leavitt Institute and owns Hill's Service Station at Turner the couple plan an early summer wedding in Massachusetts
K Blair Hodge will leave Torrey Roller Bushing Works in late April to become a partner in a Cobleskill New York clothing business. He will move with his wife Mrs Marcia A Hodge and their four children after leaving Torrey's. He is a Morse High School and Boston Business College graduate and serves as senior deacon of Polar Star Lodge and cubmaster of the Winter Street Cub Pack. Cobleskill, about 40 miles from Albany, has a 2000 population.
The Central Church League met Monday at the parish house to arrange an annual banquet for May 1 at Hotel Eagle. Volunteers included Mrs. Harold Avery to represent Central church at Bath Council of Church World Fellowship Day.
The North-Center P T A met Monday selecting Isadore Singer as president and Ralph Milliken as vice president along with secretary C Lloyd Hooker and treasurer Paul Scanlon. Delegates head to the State convention in Augusta May 4 and 5 and a rummage sale is scheduled for April 29 at the G A R hall.
Mrs. Marion Jaques Smith author of A Maine History From Wilderness to Statehood spoke to the Mary Dillingham Chapter D A R at the Hayes home in Lewiston last Wednesday. She described how as a Central Grammar teacher she found Maine history lacked appeal for children and how her book grew from classroom stories and editor interest into a streamlined state history now used in Bath schools.
The article explains that thunder is produced when a rapid heat flash causes the surrounding air to expand suddenly. This expansion creates a shock wave that travels as sound, heard as thunder.
Staton R. Curtis, director of professional services for the Pine Tree Camp and Hyde Home, resigns effective June 1 to take another position. The executive committee accepted the resignation with regret and named a nomination committee. The society reported 398 Easter Seal chairmen, memorial gifts totaling $4,000, and approved renovations including a new rehabilitation center location, elevator replacement, and pool preparation.
Gayle Fitzgerald 21 Meadow Way was honored with a surprise birthday party at her home Monday last week for her fifteenth birthday. Organized by her mother Mrs. George Fitzgerald and friends Barbara McBrine and Marilyn Hogan, the event featured Vie music Linwood Miller and Paul McDonald at the piano, with sandwiches chips pickles soda and cake. Guests included Gayle Fitzgerald Barbara McBrine Marilyn Hogan Ruth Fernald Marion Snow Clara Hanscom Hilda Bowers Anita Deering Brad Stover Nick Snowdon Edward Torrey Frank Torrey Linwood Miller Paul MacDonald Bill Haggett and Joe Black.
Rev. Arthur R. McDougall Jr creator of the Dud Dean stories will speak at the Sagadahoc Rod Gun Skeet association meeting in Sedgwick on Thursday evening April 27. He is pastor of the Congregational church in Bingham and his outdoor magazine humor has appeared in Field and Stream. A chicken supper is planned at 6 30 p m with tickets sold at Bailey's Hardware Nick's Shoe Repair and Falls Shoe Store.
A meeting of the New Meadows River Regatta Association Inc will be held Thursday at South End P T A hall with supper at 6 30 p m Roger McAleer co designer of the new racing sloop Dirigo will speak The summer racing schedule will be outlined discussions planned for Foster's Point and Winneganee Bay The association will adopt a constitution and by laws Moving pictures on boating will be shown This is the last meeting before the racing season opens.
Mr and Mrs H Blair Bailey of Bluff road announce the return of Polly Nickerson formerly of Bath to their home.
Local clubs sponsor a card party at the Masonic hall in Gardiner with Margaret Gile in charge. The Sunshine Society plans aid for the needy, and Elizabeth Evans spoke at Bowdoinham Baptist church about the Women’s Fellowship. Personal notes cover hospital stays, travel, engagements, a spelling contest winner, and a summer wedding planned for Annie Fides and Rodney MacArthur. A chimney fire prompted a fire department call, and Billy Dodge celebrated his seventh birthday with friends.
Iota Sigma Chapter met Tuesday at Mrs. Lawrence Thayer's Park home after devotions and reports. Mrs. Floyd Carter was elected treasurer replacing Mrs. Frank Cutting who resigned. A Citizenship program by Mrs. Edward McGuiggan followed. guest Mrs. Franklin Kehlwetter of Howland. Annual covered dish supper set for April 25 at Mrs. Robert Jewell's Middle Street home with Mrs. Carter and Mrs. Philip Merkel in charge of entertainment after supper and business.
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