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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1951
Page
5
Community and family news from Bath features residents traveling visitors and guests including Thompson family staying with relatives during vacation, Mr and Mrs Doughty welcoming a daughter Janet Lynne, and many locals attending events visiting Memorial hospital or summer spots. Geraldine Jackson marks a birthday with well wishes as others share travel and medical updates.
John Clark of Marshal Avenue resumes duties at the Boat Shop in Groton after visiting his wife Mrs Clark.
Mrs John Monagle of Brookline Mass and Mrs John Murphy of Roxbury Mass are visiting their cousin and her husband Mr and Mrs Frank C Dingley at 8 Fishers Court.
Mrs. Lowell Lingle and her daughter Kathy from Davenport Iowa left last week for home after visiting Mrs. Lingle's mother Mrs. Eleanor Rand and grandmother Mrs. John Moulton on High street. Mrs. Lingle formerly Virginia Rand was a bridesmaid at the Grace Episcopal church wedding of Miss Ruth Williams and John Knowlton Butts on Saturday.
Miss Sandra Moore spends a week at Bay Point hosted by aunt and uncle the Moores. Frances Norton joins A Hallet & Co. staff after leaving home on Lark Street. Mrs H Kenneth Smith returns from Memorial hospital after virus infection treatment. Several Bath residents visit relatives in Portland and Arlington. John Atkins Ginn III born at Memorial hospital to Orrs Island couple John Ginn and Gay Mason Ginn.
Mrs Stella Callan remains a patient at Memorial hospital. Miss Julia Dean has returned to her mother Mrs Samuel Guptill and Mr Guptill at Days Ferry after visiting in Poughkeepsie New York with her aunt and uncle Mr and Mrs Walter Nickerson. She was accompanied to Woolwich by Mr and Mrs Nikerson who on their return were joined by Patricia Dean who will visit for a fortnight. Mrs Ralph Dunton of Portland Summering at her Robinhood cottage was a visitor in Bath on Thursday.
Miss Carolyn Miller daughter of Mr and Mrs Justus H Miller of Garden street works in Washington D C as reservation agent for Capitol Air Line. She lives in Arlington Virginia and enjoys Washington but finds the weather very hot.
Edmund Guynn USN visits his mother in town while his ship Hobson remains in dry dock in Charleston. Charles Lake resumes duties at Hyde Windlass after illness. Nathan Watson travels to Maine for summer school and visits family. Patrolman Byron E. Clark completes vacation and returns to duty Friday. The notice lists multiple social calls and summer travels across Bath area households.
Edward Hart Konen, visiting his aunt and uncle Mr and Mrs Elbridge Webster of 82 Academy Street, has due to return to his home in Fords.
Atty. and Mrs. John J. Keegan and relatives plan to return home Monday after visiting Bath Iron Works relatives. Irene King returns home from Memorial Hospital after three weeks as a patient. Bennetts and others host and visit across Bath area as illness and recovery noted.
Mr and Mrs Merritt Lothrop and their son Billy of 56 Pine attended the Red Sox game in Boston Saturday.
Mrs Roland Eaton of Williston Del wed at Sebasco Estates cottage guests included parents Mr and Mrs Hayden of Withington and Eaton relatives Leon Eaton of Oak Street and Harold Shaw of Wiscasset. Eaton a Phil rg native, son of Nathan Eaton of Ashdale, recalls visits to his boyhood home. Delphine Goodwin of Bath visits Boothbay relatives. Lt Mrs Lydia Gifford of Baltimore joins Princeton trip return. Alton Wright and daughter Mrs George Archer of Edgewood R I return from visit with Wrights sister and husband on Trufant Street.
Mrs Wallace Hart and daughter Carol arrive from Dixfield to spend a week with her parents Mr and Mrs Leon Eaton at 150 Oak Street. Mr Hart teaches at the Dixfield High School. Mrs Stanley Commeau of 59 Dummer Street is a surgical patient. Mrs Charles T Small Jr Mrs Ralph E Milliken and Mrs Edward McGuiggan attended the PTA Leadership Conference at the University of Maine on Thursday.
Mr and Mrs Harry Horne of Washington street are passing the summer at their Georgetown Center residence. Mrs Azabia Holland of Bath, her aunt, is visiting as a guest.
Mrs Marguerite McNulty postmistress at Popham Beach visited Bath. Miss Anne Singer returned to her parents after three weeks with relatives in Dorchester Massachusetts. Mr and Mrs Lawrence R Vail of Arrowsic were guests at the Georgetown Center cottage of Mr and Mrs Charles MacMahan in Malden Massachusetts. Former Bath residents.
Mr and Mrs Kenneth Howard and daughter Anna of Bangor spent an overnight visit at the Summer home of Mrs Howard's sister and husband at Five Islands.
David Hill son of Mr and Mrs Howard P Hill of Saco returned to Honolulu Hawaii after a five weeks vacation visiting his grandmother Mrs Frank G Reed of Mechanic Street Mechanic Street. His twin brother Donald recently graduated from a Boston mortuary school. Miss Theresa Skaling of Mere Point Bath is spending the weekend with Miss Georgiana McFadden at the McFadden home 21 North Street.
Mr and Mrs Milton C Trott and Florence Carlton with Free man Trott spend the weekend at the Trott cottage on Highland Lake Bridgton. Mrs Duncan McInnes and Nancy Ellen finish two days with Addison and Mrs McInnes in Rochester then visit Lloyd Gallup in New London Conn Mrs McInnes and Nancy Ellen extend their stay. Dr and Mrs E Bradley Carlton Judith and Ardene of Troy New York and Mrs Ardenne A Stott of Park Street visit Boothbay Harbor Friday. Russell Stodder his wife and daughter Jackie move from Boothbay Harbor to Bath at Eaton apartment 148 Oak Street. Stodder works in Bath Iron Works drawing office.
Mr and Mrs Ernest Doane return to their Brockton Massachusetts home after visiting Mrs Myra Pennell on High Street. Doane serves as vice president of Knapp Shoe Co.
Mr and Mrs John Bourque their daughter Miss Amerise and son John of Floral street have returned from a week long motor trip to Nova Scotia where they visited many points of special interest and were guests of relatives in New Edinburgh N S
Fragmentary report notes a woman sustaining a hip injury and mentions Miss Marion Carter involved with the American embassy in Oslo. It references a planned leave, a legation in Paris, and a late husband Captain Carter with children residing on North Street and Fitts Street. Also mentions the Gallups from New London and Archibald Main of Garden Street at Birch Point.
Mrs. Frederick E. Drake returns home after a week at Birch Point with her son and daughter in law Mr and Mrs William P Drake of Berwyn Pennsylvania where they are spending the summer. Mr and Mrs Paul Drouin and children Janet Joyce and Larry of Saugus Massachusetts arrive to spend the weekend with Mrs Drouin s father Lawrence R Vail and Mrs Vail at their Arrowsic home. Mr Drouin a General Electric Co foreman in Lynn Massachusetts is on vacation after a trip through the White Mountains.
Mr and Mrs Henry J Sarkis and their sons Henry George and William of Philadelphia visit Mrs Sadie Sarkis on High Street It is the first time in five years that the former Bathman has visited e.
Mrs Edmund J Arsenault of 48 Chestnut Street is recovering from a fall suffered weeks ago in her garden. Though confined to her home, she is much improved.
Mr and Mrs Fred Nibbling and daughter Joyce of Newark New Jersey leave Bath after several months at 21 North street McFadden Aents. He worked at Bath Iron Works for an out of state firm and moves to a Baltimore project. Mrs Nibbling and Joyce stay in Newark. Mrs Samuel Mildram of Brookline Mass nee Eleanor Reid of Bath visits Brunswick. Ada Sweetser writes from Amherst Nova Scotia about ideal weather and her son’s job with a power and light company. Mrs Arthur Gilley of Court street is hospitalized at Memorial hospital.
Mrs. Raymond Chubbuck and her sons Billy and Stephen, with Mrs. Clara Mac Lauchlin, return from Fredericton after a week with relatives. Mrs. Bennett Cowan also accompanied them. Lieut (jg) and Mrs. Jackson D. Hill announce the birth of a daughter at Bethesda Naval Hospital. Arthur Wing hosts Lewiston teachers at 18 Robinson Lane and Boothbay Playhouse, with Mrs. Wing returning to Farmington State Teachers College after the weekend.
Hiram Turner of Somerville Massachusetts arrives for a summer visit with cousins Mr and Mrs Frank H Turner of Union Street confirming family ties and guest plans.
Mr and Mrs Thomas Wetherington of Western avenue entertain their son Clyde Wetherington and his wife plus Mr and Mrs Jack Hadfield of Newark New Jersey. Sunday visitors include grandson Bruce Wetherington and Mr and Mrs Ernest Card and daughter Susan of Portland.
Mrs James Coe of Attleboro Mass left Saturday for home after a week with her in laws Mrs Pet ers of West oan Bath vicinity friends and kin. Neatly garbled lines hint at a local social note and o longer readable fragments.
A clambake for about 20 Pennant McMann relatives gathered at Mr. and Mrs Ciward McMann’s Pleasant street home. Relatives from Bath included Edward J McMann Albert McMann and their mother Mrs Mary E Gallant and librarian Jessie Gould. The group visited Rev Richard J Schaper’s home on Washington street. Mrs Harold McCarty of Potomac Beach Va improving after a year bedridden and two months hospital stay. Commander McCarty, retired U S N, and his wife are former Bath residents. Leonard Litchfield and daughters Pamela and Susan will stay at Price cottages Sedgemere on the New Meadows in August and September.
Families and visitors linked to Bath area share weekend plans. Floral Street residents Mr and Mrs Florence Foss with son George and Mrs Lizzie Foss visited Brooklin guests Mr and Mrs Wallace Rockwell. Woolwich couple Mr and Mrs Frederick Burgess welcomed son Ames Arthur Burgess at Memorial hospital on July 24.
Mr and Mrs Cecil H Spicer and their son Robert of West New York New Jersey arrived by Northeastern Airs for a visit with H Spicer and family at 12 Milan Street They expect to stay until Friday Also John F Preney son of Mr and Mrs John J Preney Snow Park returned Saturday after a two weeks stay at the Y M C A camp at Lage Cobbossee contee.
Councilman Louis Couture and family depart for two months at Nelson cottage Five Islands with Couture to commute to B I W work. Harry G. Deering returns from a two week YMCA Lake Cobbesseetee outing. Arthur M. Packard and wife enjoy two weeks at a Weld cottage with Weekend guests Franklin Howe and Bath. Dummer Street resident hospitalized at Mercy Portland requests correspondence. visitors report improvement.
Framingham and Needham residents including Mr and Mrs Eugene Worrey and Mr and Mrs Roger Worrey visited Mrs Julia Worrey at the Old Ladies Home. They also called on Mrs Worrey's sister and brother in law Mr and Mrs E T Scammon of Floral Street. Richard Towle, long time Oakhurst Dairy route man, becomes wholesale man succeeding Clinton Owen who heads Crosman IGA in the South End. Towle and his wife have two children. Percy Low of the post office is on two weeks’ vacation at his cottage in Birch Point.
Mr and Mrs George Wetherbee of Portland along with daughter Katharine and son Paul returned to Portland after a brief visit with Mrs Charles P Wetherbee on High Street following a motor trip to Moose.
Popham Beach drew crowds as the Markham cottage yard sale moved the former Fassenen garage to Silver Lake locality. Norman Markham, new Village Improvement Association president, led a baked bean supper in the library that raised over $40, attracting permanent residents and seasonal visitors for more events this month.
Coxs Head road crews led by Ralph Doughty repaired damage from last week’s heavy rain on the road to Parker Head and to McIntyre’s corner. Monday visitors included Mrs. Fritz Klippel and others from Bath and New Jersey, with social calls at several cottages and summer homes from Cape Porpoise to Dix Island.
West Bath residents share weekend visits as William Batley and Carroll Wing distant relatives visit from Sidney. Courtney Stover and family travel to Boothbay. E B Scott and children stay with Hope Ward's daughter. Reid State Park hosts Booker family and James Cilley clan as Henry Rose relocates to Searsport for work.
The article notes that a television receiver is a heavy user of vacuum tubes, requiring 20 or more tubes.
The Lakewood theater presents Louise Star in a pantomime style drama staged by Centre theater. She has appeared opposite De Webb Solayioe Holmes in earlier productions and in the talking picture Gentleman's Agreement. The setting is New Orleans with Blanche Du Bois facing disintegration and complex relationships. August 13 features ZaSu Pitts as guest star in Post Road.
Parker Head, Shepard, and George Weston of Brunswick host visitors including Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Perkins and three sons from York. Boston's Beatrice Denningham vacationing with her mother Mrs. J. D. Libby. Mrs. Helen Lemont and son Paul of Bath were guests of Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Libby for a night. Frances Hoar and daughters Connie Eva and Lucy of Sabe Yard are visiting Mrs. Frances Morong. Captain and Mrs. Donald Logan and two children from Winnengance spent time with Parker Head relatives. Laura Logan Gage and Miss Blanche Boeen are guests of Mrs. Leslie Logan. Archie Erickson and family hosted Mr. Erickson Paul Hodgkins Mrs. Wilma Hodgkins Roy Fo bert. Paul Hodgkins and Archie Erickson Jr. visited by family. Sunday guests of the Ericksons included Mr. and Mrs. Billy Williams and family of Chelsea. Four generation gatherings at Leston Harrington’s included Mrs Olive Deojay Mrs arrington Mrs Clyde Moore and Miss Rose Marie Moore with a second Deojay group, then Mrs Frank Burnell and daughter plus Mr Burnell's daughter.
WISCASSET at the 11 o'clock service as well as at the 7 30 Earl D. Rines is recovering from his illness at home after a long hospital stay. Mrs Ferdinand Auberjoriois and family return to New York after occupying the Andrews house in July. Mrs John Dos Passos and family of Sneeden s Landing N Y are in town for August. Lt Col and Mrs Robert Doe hosted Miss Etta Peoples of San Gabriel Cal and Miss Olive Peoples of Middletown N Y recently. Etta Peoples and Mrs Doe worked with Girl Scouts in Hawaii. Lt Col and Mrs Ralph N Huse and daughter Iha, recently returned from Hawaii, will be stationed at Fort Leavened Benut anh Deputy Thaddeus and Ethelred and Mrs Anna White attended Eastern River Grange. Deputy Reed inspected in the 4th degree. The Maine Sea Coast Mission boat Sunbeam will visit the parish house August 11 at 8, with collection taken to support the mission. Pine Cone Rebekahe will host a banquet at Dodge s Inn on Tuesday August 7.
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