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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1934
Page
2
Indications point to a larger Summer Visitors Day at the capital on August 17 with several thousand attendees last year. Governor Brann invites Maine residents to join the event to showcase Maine hospitality and promote the states growing recreational industry amid rising publicity from other states.
The State Agricultural Department surveyed 879 orchards in 14 counties, finding 509027 trees with 170950 killed by last winter’s cold. About 166474 bearing trees and 4476 young trees were lost. $5000 was appropriated for the survey, costing under half. Maine voters will decide in September whether to retain or liberalize prohibition and related liquor sale legislation. Coast Guard rescues. 300 cattle from the Midwest to be shipped to Maine for pasture and fattening. clams and lobsters in outlook.
Mrs Wm Gardiner wife of former Maine governor opened Phips Point home Wednesday for a tea supporting the Lincoln Home for the Aged. The event was hosted by the Wiscasset Woman's Club with Mrs Frank A Hodgdon and Mrs John Wright among the volunteers and attendees from the city listed.
Bath explores replacing privately owned pupil transport with a city owned bus to save insurance and operating expenses. The proposal includes a sinking fund plan based on state bus life estimates and is under study after a favorable committee report. In other actions, funds were moved to cover tree care overdrafts and tax abatements for local charitable institutions were discussed.
The council granted permissions for fuel storage and sale at multiple sites. East Coast Oil & Transport Co. may erect a fire proof building at Vine and Water streets and store gasoline there. Howard Coal Co. faced tank burial referrals. Ralph E. Wright may install a buried gasoline tank at 1021 Washington. General filling station licenses went to Charles E. Robinson and victualers licenses to several residents. Eugene Hart became a confirmed constable.
A. Willis Robertson of Virginia informs John P. Carey Jr that gunning floats will not be barred in Maine this fall. The U S Biological Survey cannot extend Maine’s shooting season beyond the national limit, though the request is not endorsed. The letter endorses the general Maine conservation stance and thanks local leaders for their efforts.
Water backed up on the Saga dahock block roof poured through walls and ceilings of the New England Tel and Tel Co wire chief’s second floor office. A can on the roof swept into a roof drain causing a flood that damaged plaster and shorted wiring while adjacent offices held by Judge Keegan and Attorney Deering plus the telephone exchange escaped damage.
Salvation Army tag day nets 73.65 toward a 2000 goal for Bath and vicinity. community support continues as several plants pledge full or partial contributions, including F W Woolworth Maine Central Freight Torrey Roller Bushing Works and John Hancock Insurance.
Mr and Mrs Clifton W Tedford and son Leonard of Mechanic street visited Saturday night with Mr and Mrs Paul Poehler Everett Jr of East Orange N J and Mr and Mrs Mack Daniels Reading Mass who have vacationed at the Douglas cottage in Larabees Grove on the New Meadows river. Paul Poehler a former Maine bowling champion now works at Charlestown Navy yard. Poehler Jr is a physical instructor in East Orange schools.
Friday evening marked the close of Beacon Street M E church vacation school in the North End. The program featured recitations songs and daily Bible character talks. 57 pupils attended with 52 average over two weeks. Perfect attendance honors were awarded to many including Carrie Sanders and Helen Simmons.
Hall and Hunts jewelry at 106 Front Street shows a Bath window display of Maine gems and rare minerals from local mines. Property of Benjamin Burbanks of Brunswick, the collection includes placer gold from Swift River Byron, nuggets worth 10 and 20 dollars, plus beryl, tourmaline, aquamarine, topaz, garnet and more.
Dromore grange held a pleasant card party at its hall last Tuesday. Prizes in cribbage went to Mrs. Charles Morse and Mrs. H. W. Cutting, whist to Reuben Purinton and Charles Morse, and pitch to Mrs. Annie Malcolm and Ralph Trask. Sandwiches cake and coffee were served by the committee, boosting the grange treasury.
The J. P. Morgan yacht Corsair built by Bath Tron works Corp in 1930 arrived at Newport after a Southampton voyage, establishing a private yacht speed record with an eastward crossing of seven days eight hours. The vessel is praised as one of the speediest and finest private yachts and a credit to its builders.
Twin County Farm Bureau invites Rotary Kiwanis and Lions along with bankers and businessmen of Androscoggin and Sagadahoc to a Lisbon field day tour on Thursday August 23. The event features an old fashioned barbecue a roasted steer and exhibits on extension and Farm Bureau work with stops at the Rick er Bow ie Spear farms. The tour begins at 10 daylight time and barbecue at noon with a 3 30 final stop. tickets cost 10 to 15 cents.
Nearly 150 guests attended Mrs. Arthur Sewall 2d’s Washington Street home for the Red Cross card and tea event to aid the Bath local chapter. Twenty eight contract tables and two auction tables filled the afternoon with prizes awarded to Mrs. Milton C. Trott and others, tea service and serving volunteers noted among out of town visitors from Philadelphia, Brunswick, Wakefield, West Orange, Washington and Worcester.
A heavy two horse jigger towed by a Lewiston Monumental Works truck broke through William S. Oliver's store window at 191 North Street Thursday night after the chain unhooked. The pole halted by a post would have struck the chair where Oliver often sits, but he was away. An official from Lewiston Monumental Works assessed damages.
Mrs Lottie M Spencer, 56 Center Street, picked up four Brunswick youths aged 11 or under while driving to Bath. She handed them to Bath police. Officers routed the group onto the 10 pm train to Albert Marshall Loretta Chessman and Wallace Carter. Harold Barrington returns to Somerville with his parents accompanying his friend Leroy.
The old Colonial Spite House, built in Phippsburg and famed for a family feud, was transported by boat to Rockport to serve as Donald B. Dodge’s summer mansion at Deadman's Point. The house sits near Rockport Light and Penobscot Bay, preserving its east front to face the water.
The Beacon Street M. E. church ladies hosted their first public lobster salad supper drawing about 150 attendees. The event was a financial and social success, with bright tables, garden flower bouquets, and coordinated serving and dining volunteers led by Mrs. Charles T. Henderson and Mrs. John M. Howe with teams assisting in preparation and dining rooms.
Ro land Smith post members say they repaid 110 of 250 given in July for the destroyer Dewey launch celebration. Leon Billings and Donald Sterling led efforts despite rain, boosting ticket sales for drum corps events and a baseball game. Citizens praise the refund as meritorious. Mrs. Vincent d Hayvetter and daughter Mrs. Harry L. Boyd arrived in Bath to visit Miss Susan N. Ballou. Mrs. Boyd leads dormitories at UNC Woman's College.
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