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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1931
Page
2
The Times Company on Pront Street in Bath Maine operates a local business facility. The listing notes the address and location serving the Bath area.
In Portland the Maine State Grange urged the next legislature to tax electrical companies and consider an intangible property tax. Georgetown calls for a new bridge with a special town meeting next Monday to decide funding for Georgetown’s share of the cost.
A nostalgic look at school seating shifts from old four to five pupil benches to modern upholstered desks and chairs aimed at better posture and health. reflections on changes from slate study to comfortable classrooms. The article notes Red Cross Christmas seals drive for tuberculosis, December fundraising, and warns of winter risk. It also covers Bath lighting for Christmas displays, holiday shopping, and safety concerns about cars with one headlight plus a proposal to turn Fort Baldwin reservation into a deer park.
Reports indicate Maine may soon launch television service after radio broadcasting, with strong footholds forming and public service planned in many cities including Portland. The development signals a new era for communications as communities anticipate pilot stations and demonstrations.
Stretch Harrington and Jim Jenkins combined for 30 points as the Iron Workers defeated Trevett A C 52 to 29 at Boothbay. Trevett, missing seven foot center Lewis, struggled against Harrington and Jenkins and trailed throughout. A rematch is planned at Bath YMCA on December 22 with Trevett aiming to field its full lineup.
The Bath Country Club offers special membership cards as Christmas gifts. Men pay 35 dollars and women 15 dollars with the club year running January 1 to January 1. Certificates ready for gifting promise social activity and a popular new nine hole course for members and visitors.
In two weeks Bath will organize a separate Y M C A Men’s club to operate with its own board, sharing policy with the Bath Y M C A. The aim is to provide social and athletic activities for post high school and college age men, with teams in basketball baseball hockey track football bowling swimming and golf, competing against state teams. Directors approved rooms on the top floor of the Y M C A building at December meeting Tuesday night.
Thetis, a United States Coast Guard patrol boat launched by Bath Iron Works on November 9, will be stationed at Section base 2 in New York for the winter. A two week shakedown may send her to Washington by December 15, with a three day stay for official inspection. Lieutenant F. T. Kenner will command and may visit any port as needed.
The fourth annual Economic Conference will take place in Augusta on Friday December 4. Delegates from Sagadahoc County include Bath mayor Harold P Small Bath representative N Gratz Jackson and J W Randlette Richmond Chamber of Commerce president. The agenda covers county conditions relief plans and employment stabilization with speeches by Clarence C Steton and a dinner speech by a member of President Hoover's unemployment committee followed by discussion and a resolutions report.
Nearly 300 persons attended the Union Thanksgiving service in Wesley M E church. Copies of Governor Bradford s proclamation were read from the pulpit along with Washington s and Gardiner s. Pastors from cooperating churches assisted. Rev F L Littlefield preached The Challenge of Thanksgiving. A substantial offering was taken to aid suffering in the community.
Front and Center streets will be lit with colored arches spanning 100 to 125 feet as Central Maine Power crews lay nearly a mile of wire. The lights are expected to be activated by Friday or Saturday, funded by merchants and professionals through a single contribution fund.
Thanksgiving night at the Masonic Temple hosted by Montgomery and St Bernard R A C drew about 60 couples. Bath youths home from school attended as Brim Jewett and his crew kept dancers moving from 8 30 to midnight. A Colonial club dance the prior Wednesday attracted about sixty couples with Wally Marshall and his syncopators providing music and intermission refreshments.
Twelve large boxes filled with vegetables candies fruits and jellies were distributed by the Cosmopolitan club on Wednesday afternoon to bring Thanksgiving cheer into homes. Miss Jennie Perkins housekeeper of the Cosmopolitan club directed the filling of the boxes with Miss Carolyn Stackpole Miss Harriet Lord and Mrs George A Churchill assisting in the distribution.
A. M. Haynes of Staten Island New York assigned to duty aboard Coast Guard patrol boat Thetis bagged a 125 pound doe on his first deer hunting trip on Thanksgiving morning He is staying at 53 Vine Street
Members from the Nequasset branch contributed gen ea to many older Bath residents. Baskets of good things made Thursday a real Thanksgiving for numerous families. Mrs. Carl C. Anderson hosted her contract club on Andrews Road Monday afternoon.
A midnight benefit performance at the Opera House drew Bath crowds over 1 000 strong. About 425 dollars was raised for Mayor Harold P. Small's unemployment relief committee. Entertainers Bria Jewett Brim and a cast including Bobby Caror Allyn Jewett Pearl Oliver Mary Cunningham and the Banjokesters performed for free with Frank Colburn and staff donating the venue. The show began after 11 with full houses and lasting entertainment for over an hour.
A briefing on local jobs reports from Bath and nearby towns says employment is not unsatisfactory or alarming. Mayor Small and town selectmen chairs met with N Gratz Jackson to review relief plans and list job seekers on state forms for submission to state headquarters.
Harry C. Knight, president of the New England Council and Hoover unemployment relief envoy, will keynote the Fourth Annual Economic Conference at the Maine Development Commission on December 4 at the State House in Augusta. Delegates register at 10 a.m. Sessions run all day. Clarence C. Stetson will preside.
Two fires erupted in the North End on Saturday. At about 4 pm a fire gutted a camp on Harvard street owned by Forrest Crocker, destroying the camp and furniture. Around midnight a second fire at the Upper Washington street schoolhouse fence ignited from pine sprigs, damaged the fence near Mrs Henry L Adams, kept from spreading by Engine 2. Mrs Norman Howard, Mrs Nate Young and Mrs Lucile Steussey drove to Portland Saturday.
An A.C. led team defeated the Bath Independents 19 to 6 at Kelley field after four quarters of hard fought football. Key plays featured Joe Butler and Stan Whitehouse scoring for the A.C.’s, with Indie Brewster suffering a fractured finger and Cannonball Oliver injuring a sprained ankle.
A compact compilation of clues and answers across and down themed by wordplay and definitions. The puzzle lists numerous terms from relief to propulsion, flora to fauna, and includes proper nouns such as place names and titles. The reader navigates paired clues with varying word lengths to fill a grid.
State of Maine may sell 700 tons of loose granite and large timber assets from Fort Popham and Fort Baldwin after inspections by John W. Healty and Fred Ralton. The suggestion includes selling and using proceeds to improve Atkins bay shore access, with prior naval reflections on service and character.
A Ford truck owned by Melvin Marco of Bath Welding Co. and driven by Harold Rowe was wrecked Saturday on Garnet road. The driver was blinded by sun, lost control, and landed on large rocks, bending axles and ruining mud guards. Rowe, uninjured, also damaged a welding machine on the truck. Nearby Gardiner night officers aided a separated out of town couple, reuniting them after a brief police interception.
Kennebunk hunter P L Watson found his car in a road end garage above Ripogenus sagging interior lining. He discovered two quarts of corn hidden there by animals likely squirrels or rats as part of their winter forage.
The Far and Near Missionary Society of Corliss Street church met at 2 45 PM Friday at Mrs Ruby Preble's home with 14 members. President Lois Ames led scripture and prayers, reports and readings followed by a social hour and refreshments. Next meeting will be a White Cross session with plans to be announced. Meanwhile Thanksgiving menus featured roast turkey and venison.
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