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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1939
Page
3
The article recalls the Sabine Head inscription marking Popham colony origins and George Popham Day memories. It notes visitors including Kenneth Popham and C. B. Linde, ongoing restorations at Summer homes, social events like the lobster stew supper, and rising guest numbers, with tide of summer guests, boats, and a need for wharf and road improvements at Popham Beach.
Personal notes list residents and visitors including E Prank Stewart who died in Portland. Ford Moran and Lucy plan to return to New York from their summer home in Phippsburg Center. Virginia Wright is able to go outdoors after appendicitis. Several households hosted guests, while Anne Shellenbarger heads to Pemaquid for employment. Also noted are relocations, hospital admission for Augustus Burnham, and industrial updates on Bangor court room renovations with fibre board, artificial stone, and new 300 watt ceiling lights slated for completion by August 30 and the first September superior court session.
Reverend Milton A Slade of Memorial Baptist Brooklyn and former Phippsburg Congregational pastor called on friends last week with his wife daughter Doris and Miss Strassman. He preached at West Point schoolhouse after 21 years in Brooklyn. Also noted were library gifts from Mrs William Greevers and local social visits by William and Frank Cutting with Aunt Miss Mattie Cutting. Olga Stegelman vacationing on Long Island Casco Bay visited Popham Beach planning poetry inspiration. Reverend Bevan of Gloversville spoke at Sunday church service on Religious Substitutes. deacons Henry Minott and Hyte Wyman assisted and Rev Horace Holton gave communion. service described as excellent.
Mrs. J Eugene Haggett hosted a kitchen lattice shower in a treasure hunt form for her sister in law Mrs. William Kingsbury nee Phyllis Haggett who recently wed. Guests included Mrs. Moses Kennerson Mrs. Arthur Haggett Mrs. Ardenne Pierce and others.
Guests at Sea View camp and Rumford included Mrs Gladys Mooney Sidney Mooney and Miss Anne Eastman of Watertown Mass Mr and Mrs Walter Small and Gordon Jackson hosted visitors in Rumford and Somerville Mass Ruth Jean Small celebrated her sixth birthday with a party guests Colleen Maxine Savilla and Myron Wyman Somerville hosts a surprise birthday party for Stewart H Day with steak dinner guests Leon Billings William Allard Harry F Oliver Harry Knight Anne Eastin and Gordon Jackson also present in Bath and nearby towns
Resolutions from Dro more Grange No 302 mourn the loss of Belle C Cutting a charter member and valued patron. The record will include a copy for the family and the names Aletha C Campbell Annie Wilson Mabel Ansert Robert Coombs.
James A. Gillies Jr president and general manager of the Bath Box Co is spending a few days fishing with friends at Parlin Pond in Northern Maine. He will return to Bath Thursday.
A crowded report from Parker Head lists Edwin M. Parker and families visiting Weiner Rock and near Wyman’s boat house. Guests include Bassett Sternberg Nickerson Mank Woodward and Blaisdell, with several others at cottages, picnics, and Sunday calls in Bath Phippsburg Ellsworth and Portland. Over 150 attended a Minott home supper to fund religious education in Phippsburg Center.
Luciano Mascia of Rome attached to the Italian delegation at Moscow returns after two weeks at the club house. New York visitors Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Quimby and Jane Quimby stay two weeks. Dean Quimby spent the weekend with Mrs. Harold Buckley. Mary Jane and Pewer Buckley left for Hollywood after six weeks at the club house where Buckley writes aviation scripts including Test Pilot. Loyall F. Sewall family returns from a Nova Scotia motor trip. Marshall Sewall of New Canaan and John K. Jayne hosted weekend visitors. Ray Dennis leaves for Harrison to join Jane Cowl in Easy Virtue at Deer Trees theatre after his mother’s visit. Edge children Camilla, Mary Esther, and Loyall Howard Edge sail from a Baltic cruise. parents follow soon.
Lowell Temple Pythian Sisters invite members to a Bridgton K of P hall reception honoring Edna Mae Hall Grand Chief of Maine Pythian Sisters. Echo Temple No 37 Bridgton hosts the event Friday evening September 8 at eight o'clock.
Charles S. Coughlin of Rockland, a veteran sea and shore fisheries warden, reflects on 40 years in the service and the big changes in Maine lobster industry. He recalls abundant past harvests, the rise of live-lobster shipping, and the impact of gasoline-powered motors enabling longer trap lines and offshore grounds.
August 1 conditions in New England point to a commercial apple crop of 5.49 million bushels, above 1938 and the ten year average, with Vermont forecasting a heavy season and Connecticut lagging. McIntosh and Wealthy look strong, Baldwinn and Northern Spy moderate. scab, curculio, and aphid damage light. Nationally, the 1989 commercial crop is about 192.6 million bushels, about 25 percent above last year and 6 percent above the ten year average. Pacific Coast and Rocky Mountain states will contribute about one third of the total.
Motorists and visitors along the Lake Auburn drive oppose locating pigpens opposite the Mount Auburn Cemetery entrance. Residents of North and West Auburn join in against the near-road site citing odor and nuisance concerns.
A joint report from the Maine and United States Departments of Agriculture indicates an 18 percent rise in Maine’s prospective potato crop during July. Conditions in Aroostook County are favorable though northern areas faced heavy showers late July. Maine’s Aug 1 tally stands at 49.3 million bushels, up from 39.6 million last year and above the ten year average.
Morse High School football will receive new equipment when candidates are called in September. Coach Henry D. Small will lead the team as the Board of Education approved purchasing pads, trousers, helmets and other gear for 30 players. The purchase follows an insurance adjustment for losses after the Berry Reclaiming plant fire in Holyoke Magss.
The Linneus Houlton club plans its fourth annual meet in early September likely at the new Linneus hall. Eligible locals include anyone who has lived in Houlton. Mrs. Horace Kelso and Mrs. Millard Moore organize the event. The Maine Alpine club schedules a 730 pm special session Tuesday to discuss Labor Day plans.
Luther M Hodsdon of Turner won 217 93 in a suit against Ralph Giovannucci Pittsfield contractor over dam control on Martin stream during last year’s ridge work A referees report filed with the Auburn clerk notes the decision A son named Joseph Leon Sonia was born Friday to Mr and Mrs Leon P Sonia of 1055 High Street at Memorial Hospital Sonia owns Sonia's Home Bakery 62 Center Street
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