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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1930
Page
2
The Wis casset Lions club hosts a meeting with Mr Parker praising Club service while Harvey Pease discusses a dike solution replacing a wooden bridge. Gov Gardiner endorses the Christmas Seal sale aiding 26 Maine public health nurses. local organizers include Mrs Pred Albee and Carolyn Varney.
A classified listing offers several used cars including a 1929 Ford Tudor Sedan for 350 dollars a 1929 Ford Closed Cab Pickup for 350 dollars a 1929 Ford 1 14 Ton Truck Closed Cab for 375 dollars a 1929 Ford Sport Roadster for 300 dollars a 1930 Ford Sport Roadster with low mileage for 440 dollars a 1928 Chevrolet Coach a 1927 Chevrolet Landau Sedan for 175 dollars a 1925 Chevrolet Touring a 1922 Chevrolet Truck a 1926 Ford Touring a 1925 Ford 12 ton Panel with good tires for 60 dollars and a 1924 Star Sedan for 35 dollars. The note emphasizes these are not rare but are good value and that the dealer's reputation for fair dealing ensures buyers' confidence.
Local events include a Family Night at South Newcastle chapel on Friday at 7 30. A stereopticon lecture Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven will be at Wiscasset Worship service Sunday evening. Dorcas club and Women’s Methodist group meet midweek with a Christmas sale planned. The Community chorus gathers Friday evening at eight. A Thanksgiving service was held at the Congregational church with Rev Spinney and Rev Titus. Lions club speaker Harvey R Pease discussed bridge and dike plans for Maine. Numerous social visits and Thanksgiving gatherings are noted across town.
West Bath residents and visitors gather for Thanksgiving with extended family. Names include Mrs. A. B. Snow, W. Larrabee, Mr. and Mrs. Berry, the Allen Cates family, the Daniels and Drake households, Proctors from Bangor, and Stackpole relatives. Courtney Stover earns a place on the University of Maine Dean’s list. Red Cross holds an all day session. Woman’s Farm Bureau plans sewing screen making.
Bath Maine announces a fresh Bath Boys Club basketball squad led by Gus Meister. The team includes Morse high standouts Harold Lyden Cyrus Longley Ralph Crocker Stanley Whitehouse and Reddington Reed plus Needy Brewster. Schedule features games against Hebron Academy Kents Hill Fifth Infantry Bar Harbor and Wiscasset.
Mrs Evelyn Barnby Truss a trained electrotherapy technician opens her office at 731 Front Street in the Mullin building. She offers ultra violet galvanic diathermy and infra red treatments for arthritis rheumatism neuritis skin disorders and muscular pain by appointment only and can be reached on Oak Street.
James Little arrives in New York to join J Pierpont Morgan’s yacht Corsair tied at Tebo Yacht Basin as an oiler aboard the palatial craft.
OTE are Hopkins junior steward, David M. Mc Kellar chaplain, John Wishart Ni shal, Arthur C. Norton organist. This team was assisted by Scott Morse Williams S. Newell, Henry G. Shaw and Waldo Marshall. John Shaw was director of music. It is of interest to note that every past master of Polar Star lodge with one exception is living since the terms of Dr. Eben J. Marston in 1898-99. The exception is Charles B. Furber who served in 1900-01. In rotation the others have been John A. Small 1902-3, William A. Furber 1904-05, Samuel Welch 1906, George A. Ward 1907-08, Irving C. Trufant 1909-10, Roy J. Buxton 1911-12, Raymond C. Brown 1913-14, Daniel Brierly 1915, E. Motley Fuller 1916, Alden P. Denham 1917, Delmar E. Bates 1918, Joseph A. Terrell 1919, William F. Hanscom 1920, Chester L. Shepherd 1921, Philip A. Roberts 1922, Arthur C. Hagen 1923, Oli Moses 3rd 1924, Harold E. Cutting 1925, Henry W. Owen Jr. 1926, Arthur B. Stilphen 1927, Edward W. Sampson 1928, W. Percy Marks 1929.
Governor Gardiner urges observance of Universal Bible Sunday on December 17 in Maine churches. The American Bible Society, publishing over eleven million Bibles and portions annually in nearly 200 languages, has long sponsored the event. The governor emphasizes the Bible's role in family life and work and the lessons of its study.
Miss Hope Forgatte of Scarboro Cumberland County has been named the best all around Maine 4 H Club girl in home economics projects. Miss Mildred G. Brown announces the award and notes the prize is an educational trip to the Ninth National 4 H Club Congress in Chicago. The trip rewards ongoing 4 H home economics work sponsored by state agricultural colleges.
A Sunday night gale in Bath damaged a 50 by 30 foot sign under construction at the former Eastern Steamship wharf shed now owned by Kennebec Wharf & Coal Co. The wind snapped four by six inch timbers, allowed the sign to fall on the shed roof, and workers began repairs and lettering application on Monday.
Mrs. Perry Sanford reported a missing pocketbook while in the A. K. St waiting room. An elderly woman, suspected by Sanford, was questioned by City Marshal Whitney and searched. the pocketbook with money was recovered. No charges were filed due to the suspect's age. The woman said she lived in Richmond.
Miss Theo Cousins daughter of Mrs L M Cousins of 37 West Street and Royal Arthur Thompson son of Mr and Mrs Albert Thompson of 299 Water Street were married Wednesday November 26 at Boothbay Harbor with a single ring service. They were attended by Mrs Fifield and Harold Swain of Bath. The groom works for the city and they will reside at 146 Water Street.
Woolwich items list guests visiting from Bath Auburn Waterville and Belmont Mass. updates include farm bureau meeting planning at Nequasset hall and parish parsonage painting praise. Local residents travel for Thanksgiving and weekend visits while community events feature card parties whist and a box supper at Nequasset schoolhouse.
Families from Dresden and nearby towns shared Thanksgiving visits by telegraph and in person. The Farm Bureau held its annual planning meeting with officers elected and a year long program planned listing topics from Main Dishes to Dress Accessories.
The Siegars family hosted relatives from Winslow and Bath for the holiday. West Dresden visitors included the Wall and Starrett families dining with Joseph Burgess at Leland Siegars. An 85th birthday was noted for Leland Siegars with guests from Warren and Wiscasset. A sentence on a sensational kidnapping trend from China is included.
November additions include Atom by Thomson, American Marquis by Weston, Ants by Huxley, Best Short Stories of 1930 edited by O'Brien, and many more titles. Juvenile selections add Apple Pie Hill, Frontier Girl of Massachusetts, Indian Twins, and other works.
A West Bath Grange program opens with Ethel MacDonald reading followed by a vocal by Iola Worrey and clippings by Herbert Simpson. The impersonation of the Ruggles family features Frank Danforth, Hope Ward, and a large cast with multiple bits by Worrey, Cavanaugh, Dunbar, and Oliver. The event closes with a performance by Robert Oliver and Daisy Oliver and readings by Ward and Peterson.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Chesley led the evening program. On December 29 the lecturer appointed a committee for the Christmas tree with members Mr. and Mrs. Everett Lemont Bessie Snow Mercie McFadden and Marjorie Cavanaugh.
Albert 16 and Clarence 14 Savoy drowned when their flat bottom boat capsized near Richmond. Bodies were recovered Monday and Tuesday by river searches led by local divers. The boys, sons of Mrs Inez Savoy, leave two brothers and a sister. diver W Scott Tibbetts planned further search but could not reach Richmond due to cold weather.
George Murphy a Topsham farmer awaiting Sagadahoc Superior Court in January on an assault with intent to kill charge died in the Kennebec county jail at Augusta Tuesday morning. Murphy had been jailed after failing to post an $800 bond for his January appearance and had been in custody since November 19. The municipal court hearing on November 19 featured charges that Murphy invited William Curtis of Brunswick to supper and tried to force him to dine with a shotgun as persuasion.
Carl Y. Kennedy manager of the Oakhurst Dairy in Bath and Miss Alice Rena Hunter of Strong will marry before year’s start in Winchester. Kennedy formerly sold for Cushman Baking Co. in Portland and is son of Mr and Mrs William Kennedy of North Turner. Hunter is daughter of Mr and Mrs Lor ing Hunter of Strong. They will reside in Bath.
Ardeen C. Cote of 43 Spring Street filed marriage intentions with the Bath city clerk to wed Lucy Crean Smith of Bath daughter of Fred P. Carr of Five Islands. Cote lists occupation as a borer and Smith as a waitress.
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