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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1951
Page
4
The Bath City Council held a late August session to debate enforcing theft ordinances and heating for Washington Street Grammar School. The issue, plus social visits, theater, yachting plans, local industry moves, and weather notes paint a busy coastal town scene in 1911.
Albert Downing of Bath rises from third to first assistant engineer on the steamer Massachusetts of the Maine Steamship Co, pleasing his Bath friends. The scow Mildred Goudy sails from Portland to Bath to recover the Woolwich end of the submarine cable, with a new cross Kennebec plan in view. Harvey Hillvilleg from Lynn after automobile driving course.
Mrs Wilbur C Oliver has returned from a two weeks visit in New York City and Gloucester. William Ballou of this city and Victor Shields of Vinalhaven are University of Maine students.
Charles H. Young of West Paris plans a no license campaign with a mass meeting at Custom House Square next Monday at 8 o clock. The piece notes local shifts and visits from Waldoboro Weekly News manager Ernest O. Knight and local social visits, plus a tramp incident on North Street and a bankruptcy case attended by Judge A J Dunton and County Attorney A Hy Stetson in Portland.
Members of the Kennebec Yacht Club are preparing their boats for a planned cruise to Linekin Bay next week. The event emphasizes club camaraderie and nautical readiness ahead of the outing.
August 4 1911 Bath touts its harbor as the state’s only ice free deep water port and central location for robust labor productivity with low death rates and few labor troubles. It urges nationwide advertisers to note these advantages while local scenes include a telegraph pole controversy and prohibition event at the Old Ladies Home. An unusual truck horse pulling a wheelbarrow sighted on Front street.
Captain George A. Baker of Fourth Company CAC believes a raft picked up by Sum mer residents at West Point on the New Meadows is the first found target from recent Coast Guard target practice.
Fog last night off Deer Island causes Capt Colby of the steamer City of Bangor to rip the mainsail of a local fishing schooner. The schooner suffers no other damage and requires no aid.
Public interest centers on a new hotel project as the solicitation committee is urged to be named and mobilized promptly. The old saying about striking while the iron is hot underscores the urged urgency for action.
Rev. Angus McDonald of Bar Harbor travels to East Northfield Massachusetts for three weeks of the General Conference of Christian Workers led by Dwight L. Moody. Bath reports burglaries at B F Savage home, local social outings, police watch actions, monkey mischief, lobster rides, bake plans, and summer crowds at Augusta races with drivers and crews.
Bids opened for eight 306 foot destroyers Nos 43 to 50 with Bath Iron Works holding two boats. Class 1 price 766000 and Class 3 price 746000. Awards expected in a couple weeks. Also notes pier removal in New Meadows River aiding motorboat handling and local property purchases by Abraham Miller on Middle street with occupancy planned next spring.
Twenty Cos mopolitan club members enjoyed a Wednesday evening picnic at the Georgetown summer home of Mrs. Frederick Moffatt despite afternoon rain. A brief business session named rummage and Christmas sale chairs, announced changes in house mother duties, and noted plans for November club events.
Zasu Pitts will guest star with the Lakewood Players beginning Monday night in Wilbur Daniel Steele’s and Norma Mitchell’s comedy Post Road at Lakewood. Pitts, a veteran film and stage star, recently completed a featured role in a talking picture and had a TV series in development.
The 1951 Maine Seacoast Missionary Society annual report is issued from Bar Harbor headquarters. Rev. Neal D. Bousfield leads staff. Sunbeam boat visit to Phippsburg Center highlighted by pictures and a Summer route program. Local support from Winter Street Church via Mrs Grace Morse helps reach goal. mission founded 46 years ago by Angus and Alexander MacDonald to aid coastal communities and island families in Maine.
Woolwich residents visiting relatives in Somerville and Day's Ferry. Florence Webb (Mrs Fitzgibbon) listed as former Day's Ferry daughter. James Thorpe and Janet visit at Camp Tanglewood with Russell Boyd and Mrs Boyd, then attend Rockland lobster festival. Mrs Gainsley to Caledonia Nova Scotia for six weeks. Woolwich Center church holds Sunday school at 10 and worship at 11:15 with speaker TBA.
Charles H. White, former Bath Iron Works employee now superintendent of Alexander shipyards in New Orleans, arrived with Mrs White and two daughters for a two week visit with his parents in West Bath. The New Orleans yards employ about 1000 men building sea-going tugs drilling rigs and river boats for Mississippi operations.
Boothbay Harbor gathered writers during a Tuna Derby period with extra boats and yachts in the harbor. The event, hosted by Guy Gannett Publishing Co and the Maine Development Commission, welcomed guests from Boston New York and Maine papers led by Goro Murata Nippon Times Tokyo.
Chair man William S. Newell of the Bath Iron Works Corp. Board of Directors plans to attend the annual field day and clam bake on Saturday Aug. 11 after returning Aug. 10 from a abroad trip through Norway Sweden Scotland Ireland and England. Maine Senator Owen Brewster and Congressman Robert Hale are expected to join the event.
Mrs Lawrence Thayer and Miss Roberta Jewell spent Thursday in Portland. Several families visited cottages over the weekend including the Seekins and Hannaford households in Bath and East Lync. Visitors from Massachusetts and New Jersey joined residents for dinners and outings in Ver mont New Hampshire and Bay View Farm.
The Maine Department of Health and Welfare reports for the week ending July 28 that Bath has one German measles case and West Bath has one measles case and one whooping cough case.
Miss Flora Thayer of 38 West ern avenue has entered the employ of Senter's Inc. in a new staffing move impacting local business.
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