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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1941
Page
5
Richmond and Bowdoinham farm bureau many clubs and families held outdoor cookery meetings picnics and reunions. Notables include Mrs. Herbert Adams leading an all day East Bowdoin home event and Enterprise Orange Ladies Aid gatherings with a boiled dinner for 47.
The Merrymeeting Chapter of the University of Maine Alumni Association held a mid summer outing at Garrison Hill Farm Harpswell owned by Lawrence Merriman. An outdoor clambake and various games were enjoyed by nearly 60 attendees including notables from Bath Brunswick Topsham Gardiner and beyond. A dinner dance in Bath precedes the Bowdoin Maine game in Orono on Maine night.
Nearly 100 members of the 88th and 89th Legislatures gather at Rock Hill Inn West Bath for a social event. Gov Sumner Sewall attends. a softball game captained by Sewall and Frank Farrington ends 20 20. Lobster bake by Joseph W Larrabee and aides delights guests as annual event Studios.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Artis of Bath and North Weymouth Mass sold their 22 Lincoln Street dwelling to Constantine and Clarissa Venetoulis for their own occupancy. The house, built by Charles Mitchell, was long occupied by Harry Mitchell, partner of the late E. Randall Leonard who ran a drug store at Front and Summer streets and now farms chickens in West Gardiner. Sale handled by Henry G. Hodgdon agency.
Charles Mansfield of Salem visits his wife and daughter at the Rock Haven colony Foster Point while stationed at the U S Coast Guard Air Station in Salem. Mrs Edmund T Bouchelle of New York and Richard Barler of Goshen Ind depart after a weekend with the Sewalls at the Stonehouse. Robert P Shaw of the New York Museum of Science and Industry arrives for vacation with Mrs Shaw and son at Mrs Fred R E Deans. Edward Houghton Sewall plans a Bath stay, with his Bath native family and Samuel Sewall employed at Bath Iron Works Corp and returning to California in September with his father.
Georgetown residents mingled at homecomings and birthdays while Amherst professors plan a ten day Mt Katahdin hike base at Chimney Pond. Baltimore official Walter Bouton and daughter Priscilla arrived to visit family and Miss Elizabeth Harris at West Georgetown.
From Popham Beach to the Powers home, the text records visits by Mrs. Allen Brown to Arrowsic, Mrs. Jennie Smith in Danvers Massachusetts, Allen Brown buying a lobster boat, Linwood Stevens and Elbridge Powers carpentry on the Westall cottage, Edwin Adams and family staying at a Roy Campbell cottage, and Dr. J H Brown from Indian Point Road traveling to Newton Center Massachusetts for a few days.
William S. Newell president of Bath Iron Works Corp and Mrs Newell depart for a several week West Coast inspection tour visiting shipyards in Portland Richmond San Francisco Los Angeles and Orange He will also tour Oregon Shipbuilding and Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp while Mrs Newell returns from California and they plan a return to Bath by mid September
The Navy expands its intelligence network to the New England area with a Portland branch at Room 302 Clapp Memorial Building led by Lt Commander John J. Thomas. The Maine territory covers all of Maine while Boston remains the central hub at 150 Causeway Street under Commander E. M. Major. The public is urged to cooperate and report information that could aid National Defense.
A woods fire near the Bowker shipyard on Parker Head road in Phippsburg rekindled Monday night. Bath’s service truck aided, crews fought the flames as rain finally helped extinguish them. Firefighters noted lack of nearby water and that the blaze had burned for nearly a week with prior alarms at Torrey Roller Bushing Works.
The Old Alna Meeting House seven miles north of Wiscasset on Route 218 hosts an annual service next Sunday at four o clock. Dr Rufus Jones will speak and Dr Lawrence Averill will deliver a historic address in antique costume with assistance from local participants. Special music comes from Mrs F W Saunders of Boston the South Jefferson church choir and Ridgeway Camp girls.
Entertainment at Howard's hall hosted Friday by the Community club and Library association features Miss Anna May Berry and Mrs. Jarley's wax works. Numerous small items note picnics, hospital updates, tea hours, fund raisers, and many visiting friends and relatives across Bath, Malden, Portland, and surrounding communities.
A long column notes numerous visits and short trips by residents of Melrose and Boothbay, including Miss Laura Harding and Miss Beulah Harding in Boothbay, Vincent Strout of Cabot Vermont visiting the Marrs, and families from Washington D C Malden and Pittsburgh vacationing or staying at cottages.
George T. Wilson of Lewiston died at age 89 in a Portland hospital. Known as Professor Wilson, he ran dancing schools in Bath at Columbian hall for Winters and led a renowned orchestra for social events. He retired in 1918 after over 40 years of teaching, praised for strict ballroom etiquette and decorum.
The second of two men stricken by heart disease while watching a Peaks Island game died in hospital Monday. Charles F. Hamlin aged 46 from Lynn Mass was a Bath farmer and a former steam fitter at the Bath shipyard during World War I. Samuel Agger 50 of Boston died instantly on the island ball-field Sunday.
Charles Wesley Powers 87 a retired ship and house joiner who had lived in East Brunswick for 16 years died Sunday in Memorial Hospital Bath after a hospital stay of more than two weeks. He had been a patient upwards of two weeks.
Born in Robbinston to Michael and Mary Powers, he lived mostly in Bath and worked at Bath Iron Works E. & A. Sewall and various shipyards. A former foreman of steam engine No 2, he served in the fire department and retired after time at Portsmouth Navy Yard in 1920. Survived by nephews Harry A. Douglas and niece Eleanor B. Solomon.
Miss Florence Rowland aged 83 of 745 Orange Street New Haven died last Wednesday in Bath Memorial Hospital from a heart ailment after visiting Pres Judson L Cross of Tougaloo College Mississippi and Mrs Cross at their Georgetown Summer home. Born in New Haven she was the daughter of William S and Emily Peck Rowland and lived there all her life. She fell ill Tuesday afternoon and was taken to Bath hospital. Her body was sent to New Haven where the funeral was held Saturday.
Mrs. Della Kuhn died August 6 at her 12 Upland Road residence Watertown Massachusetts after a three month illness. She was the wife of Frederick W. Kuhn and survived by two sisters five brothers and several relatives in Bath and here. She spent weeks yearly in Bath with her brothers John and James McLaughlin and had many friends in the area. Nearby relatives include Joseph John and Edward McLaughlin and a niece Mrs Oliver.
Funeral services for Charles W. Powers a former Bath joiner were held Tuesday afternoon at Curtis funeral home Bath Rev Charles L Kinney officiated Bearers included Chief Richard Frates and George Parshley representing the Bath Fire Department Burial was in Oak Grove A tea party followed at the home of Mrs Fred R E Dean Pelham Manor N Y with numerous out of town guests and relatives in attendance including Miss Alice Barler of Chicago Mrs Robert H Charles of St Louis and Mrs Culbert Mc Gay of New Milford The 35th wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs Henry T Bo Leeman Somerset Place was celebrated with family and friends nearby
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