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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1944
Page
7
Sv. WM J. Kerwin urges readers to support the war effort and oppose strikes and backhome traitors. He reflects on frontline sacrifice, stresses that relaxation harms troops, and calls for informed soldier voting and unity. The piece ends with local family notes including Mrs. Hale’s children and the Hale family in the USAF.
Miss Jane Margaret Jones of Charlotte and Rev. George Leslie Cadigan, rector of Grace Church Salem and former St Pauls Brunswick, married at All Saints by the Sea Chapel Southport with Rev Charles Cadigan officiating. Lt Jeanne L Honnebeu WAVES was maid of honor and Roy Cadigan was best man. Ushers Byron Atwood and Donald Seamans assisted. reception followed at Spruce Ledge.
The Bath National Bank marked its 80th anniversary noting charter date August 12, 1864 under President Lincoln. It survived Civil War era, two foreign wars, three depressions, and local business cycles. Original site on Front Street, now at 42 Front Street since 1910 with Arthur Sewall as president and Langdon T. Snipe as vice president. Directors include John G. Morse Frank B. Nichols Arthur Sewall O. M. Redlon and L. T. Snipe.
A social evening for Past Matrons club Genesta chapter CES followed a lobster and chicken supper at Witch Spring Inn. High bridge scores went to Mrs. Harry Deering in contract and Mrs. Philip Roberts in auction. October meeting plans to be decided. attendees included Mrs. Merrill and many members.
Sabino Improvement Association members voted to place a hall sign with fire fighting directions at a business meeting in Sabino Hall on Monday night. Everett Lemont cited the fire menace, mentioning a woods fire near Allen Irish's cottage. A social Friday night was planned with Mrs Dingley and Mrs Cameron in charge. Next meeting set for Monday August 21 at 7 30 pm.
Applications are now being received for the September class at Melrose Hospital Training School for Nurses. The school is approved by the Massachusetts Board of Registration the American College of Surgeons the American Hospital Association and the Regents of the State of New York. Also approved for the U S Cadet Nurse Corps. Address the Superintendent Melrose Mass.
An all day Nequasset Ladies Auxiliary meeting at the Bailey home featured a musical program with ten year old Frederick Richards of Greensville performing with his mother Mrs. Villa Richards. Ruth Dubar presided, funds from card sales reached 15 dollars, and a picnic was planned for the next gathering.
During a Sunday storm Bath Memorial Hospital and many homes lost power. Fire Chief Frates dispatched Engine Four with portable lights and floodlamps to the hospital, setting a generator outside to illuminate the corridors and delivery room, ensuring emergency readiness as a few expected births occurred later in the day.
State troopers chase a 1937 Plymouth with Massachusetts plate 374109 after it refused to stop. The driver fled into woods near Cook's Corner, a blackjack found inside the car, later linked to a second theft in Bath Iron Works via a 1937 black Pontiac, Maine plate 24649, owner Lawrence Towle.
Mrs Beatrice McIntosh of Providence R I is a guest of friends in Woolwich. The note records a social visit.
A letter from Mrs. Edward F. Merrill, state president of the Federation of Garden Clubs, accepting Cosmopolitan Garden club invitation to speak on October 23, was read at the Monday meeting. Miss Alice F. Johnson was absent, so Vice President Mrs. Roscoe P. McFadden chaired.
Dr and Mrs Joseph I Smith of 940 Washington street were away when a passing motorist smelled roasting chicken and rang fire alarm 54 at Washington and Oak. Firemen found smoke pouring from an electric stove oven and the charred bones of the planned meal. House badly smoked. a chemical was used to extinguish the blaze.
About 100 Bath Box Co. employees and their families attended a Sunday field day and clambake at Rock Hill Inn. The Logrollers won the safety contest with the fewest accidents, and they beat the Lumberjacks in a morning baseball game. Natalie B. McNeil won the office pota to race while Joseph W. Larrabee led the clambake. Out-of-town mourners attended Celia Hatch’s funeral, including Dunlap Hatch and relatives from Needham Mass and Arlington Mass.
Invitations have been sent to T. W. Hydecamp and Auxiliary to attend a reception and banquet in honor of Commander-in-Chief George H. Jones of the Grand Army of the Republic. The event runs August 26 at 6 30 at the Augusta House with reservations due by August 19 to Mrs. Margaret Annis of Bangor.
Councilman Earl B Lermond and Clarence A Warner co chair a newly named V-Day celebration committee. Members Edwin R Andrews Ralph G Stetson ex Mayor Donald N Small and I A Trueworthy agree to cooperate. The panel will plan a program for the day Germany s arms are laid down. Meeting set for Sunday at the Times office to organize and draft plans.
Mrs. Harold E. Hodgkins in charge of Red Cross nurse recruitment in Bath announced an urgent need for nurses to join the armed forces. The Army seeks 2,000 graduate nurses monthly and the Navy 500. Applications should be obtained from her at 1291 Washington Street. Last Bath recruit was Miss Mary MacRitchie, Bath Memorial Hospital graduate of 1943, awaiting call.
Kenneth E. MacDonald and family sold the late R. D. Spear home and moved to Bath. Glen A. Orr and family relocated to the Spear place. Robert Chesley and wife, previously in Texas, visit his parents Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Chesley. Mrs. Carl Brown of New York visits her mother Mrs. Mary Purington. Pvt. Fred Ladd and wife, who were visiting Bowdoinham and Rome relatives, have returned to New York.
Postmaster Frank C. Walker urges early mailing of Christmas parcels to armed forces overseas with dates September 15 to October 15. After October 15 a written request from the service member is required to mail a gift. He stresses careful wrapping packing and clear addressing and urges relatives to start on the opening day.
Turkey inaugurates its first five year industrialization plan in 1934 outlining state driven economic goals. The initiative marks a push toward centralized development, prioritizing heavy industry, infrastructure, and national self sufficiency.
Bowdoinham reports Raymond Frick wife Betty Ann Osborne, once a Penn football captain, is now a prisoner of war in Germany. Frick, an all star center from Bloomfield New Jersey, married in 1941 and has long been a frequent visitor to his grandparents in Bowdoinham.
Bath officer Robert M. Guptill uses sugar to herd two escaped saddle horses from Dr. Paul Gregware's stable into their stalls on a scorching afternoon. Deputy Marshal Frank L. Moriarty and Carl Albee chase without success until Guptill approaches with a lump of sugar, leading the horses calmly back as the others watch in astonishment.
A severe electri cal and wind storm stranded the city Saturday night as no local ambulances were available for an emergency patient. Deputy Marshal Frank L. Moriarty said the patient had to be moved to the hospital sitting in a sedan. The city’s request for a Ford ambulance police car had been denied by the DDT office for lack of units.
Miss Vivian Delano, a Bath Iron Works welder and Lincoln native, is confined to her home at 12 Fisher's Court due to illness. Local residents note her condition while wishful prayers rise for her quick recovery.
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