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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1953
Page
7
Phippsburg Girl Scouts held a flyup ceremony with Norma Pye Edith Oliver and Martha Robinson earning wings. Bodwell Grange discussed inviting the Past Masters Association in September and heard the program Key to Spring. Sagadahoc Pomona to meet at Dromore Grange April 29. Numerous town events and personal notices follow from fires, schools, weddings, and visits across West Point Ellsworth and Bath.
Dromore grange met Tuesday week to announce April events including the first Spring meeting of the Past Masters association and Lecturers Council at Tops ham grange this evening with supper at 6 30. Dromore hosts Saga dahoc Pomona April 29 at a day meeting with noon dinner. Pomona next meets April 28. no refreshments with the following day. A committee handles Pomona dinner arrangements including King Anna Hanson and Florence Rollins, with Lillian Blair in charge of the dining room and assistants. Entertaining program led by lecturer Evelyn Beals opens with Quilting Party. Featured items include Daffodilla Evelyn Beals violin solo Melody Of Spring Thomas Tracey with pianist Elfrda Perkins, dime match won by Ada King, reading Burning Of Grasses Thomas Tracey, quizzes in charge of Evelyn Beals, piano solo Arthur Totman Jr., balloon stunt by Donald Freeman West Bath grange Arthur Totman Jr. and Charles Holbrook, reading Because You Are a Friend Of Mine Aletha Campbell. Program closed and members invited to the dim hall for lamb stew, crackers, pickles, cakes and coffee. Committee: Rev Charles L Stevens chairman, Edward King, Willard Blair, Reuben Purington.
Morse High School will participate in the Western Maine High School Music Festival in Brunswick on May 8 and 9. The Morse band of 33 players and 12 majorettes, led by Cecil V. Rowland, joins 34 other organizations in the two day event with about 5000 high school students. A monster parade, drill and concert are planned for May 9, followed by Morse and Junior band concerts on May 13 at the high school auditorium featuring majorette groups from both Morse and the junior corps.
The Bath municipal court saw two cases after the long holiday weekend. Carroll C. Allien of Auburn pleaded guilty to speeding 55 miles over limit on Leeman Way, paying a $10 fine plus $4.70 in costs. Patrolman Raymond Hatch filed a nolo contendere plea regarding a school bus incident, with Gardiner R. fined $10 and costs of $6.82 on Curtis Cunates bus driver complaint.
Parker Head updates list meetings at the vestry with Mrs Russell Turner and charity gatherings including PRAT fundraiser netting nearly $30 for emergency fire equipment. Local residents attend church, school events, visits, and family news with births, travels, and parties noted throughout the Bath area.
The Torrent No 1 Veteran Firemen association asks for more funds to buy uniforms for its fife and drum corps. They will hold tag days May 16 and 17. Instead of hoped for uniforms, caps and capes in gray and blue with red trim will be purchased, leaving about $150 still needed. The corps plans outdoor practice and will escort patriotic groups to church on Memorial Sunday May 24, with a first master scheduled for Newbury Massachusetts on June 3.
Heavy rains flood low areas at the village entrance while Kennebec Cottages and Silver Lake cause water on nearby roads. Popham area residents attend church events, summer work hires named, and a Father-Son dinner planned at Bodwell Grange with reservations. Local residents and visitors from Bath, Lewiston, Hallowell, and other towns are listed with weekend stays at cottages and travels to Portland and Belfast.
The Kennebec saw increased tanker deliveries and the collier Berwindvale carried coal to Bath. Bowdoin students searched Merrymeeting Bay for two men lost weeks ago after a capsizing. Local residents and visitors from Bath and New Bedford were seen at cottages and calls around Cox's Head and Dix Island.
A party of Moore and Lowell family members visited Edgecomb Monday. Nearby, Mrs. Ethel Moore hosted guests including Eugene Condon Emerson Glidden from Bath and Kenneth Wallace of West Point.
Pastor Tracy Hill delivered an illustrated lecture noting one in thirty Bible verses concerns Jesus return. He recalled a Middle West whirlwind experience and warned that storms come before heaven, stressing pardon and power as essential for salvation. He outlined Christ’s twofold return aims and promised next Sunday’s talk on when heaven begins after a 7.30 p.m. film.
The Special Committee on School Buildings of the Board of Education visited the Lillian M. Fisher school in the South End to consider final acceptance before last payment. They approved most aspects but noted minor details to be cleared in a few days. attendees included councilmen Eastham Guild Jr., Ronald Oulton, Melvin Comeau, Stanley R. Hunter, City Manager Nathan C. White, Board of Education members H. Martin Powers and Robert J. Perry, Superintendent Loring R. Addison, and Recreation Director Edward J. McMann.
National Geographic photographs taken during and after the 1952 eclipse illustrate starlight bending under gravity. The series documents how light paths curve near massive bodies, supporting Einstein’s prediction with visual evidence.
The Past Masters Association and Lecturers Council met at Topsham Grange on a Thursday evening after winter recess with about 70 attendees. A turkey pie supper was served, reports were read, and members from Merriconeag West Bath Woolwich Bodwell Dromore Progressive Dirigo and Topsham participated.
A national aquatic school will be held June 14 to 24 at Camp Tevyn Brookline New Hampshire to train leaders in swimming lifesaving boating and canoeing for Maine Vermont and New Hampshire. Sponsored by New Hampshire Department of Education and Recreation Division with the American National Red Cross the program offers two semester hours toward renewal of certificates and trains for summer recreation employment.
The Phenix Foods Co. plant in South Portland will buy about two million pounds of wet sea moss from Casco Bay this summer at 1.50 dollars per hundred pounds, with higher pay for air dried moss. Maine fishermen have improved revenue from sea moss in recent years as Marine Growths Inc. closed its Small Point Beach plant in 1949 and a Kennebunkport firm now purchases moss from the Small Point area, collecting at West Point and trucking to Kennebunkport.
Modern electric plants require about 1.14 pounds of coal to perform work that earlier generations would have achieved with 3 pounds. The improvement reflects advances in efficiency over the past three decades.
Plans for complete renovation of locker rooms at Bath Country Club were announced by officials. Work begins Thursday April 23 with painting and removal of possessions. items left after April 22 will be stored and club not responsible. Clubhouse open April 18 21 and 22 for members to clean out lockers.
Miss Diane Lynn daughter of Mr and Mrs Raid Perkins of 403 Lark Street was guest of honor at a Hyde Park community building party Wednesday last week for her third birthday. Betsy McInnes won the peanut hunt. Cathy Babine entertained with a tap and the room was decorated with hats balloons and baskets of candy. Ice cream cake and punch were served. Present were Trenia Babine Cathy McInnes Sharon Nickerson Diane Lefebvre Rosemarie DiGiusippo Patsy Young Elaine McDonald Bonnie Linda Garside and Cathy Debbie Kenyon.
An elderly Georgetown woman lost a green billfold containing family photos and cash from a recently cashed pension check. She asks the finder to return it and offers a reward. contact Georgetown 21-W.
A single intoxication case before Judge Deering resulted in a guilty plea. The respondent was fined $5 and $5.60 in costs or 15 days in Kennebec County Jail at Augusta.
A fragment notes Brussels appontance be known for about years, cited by National Geographic magazine.
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