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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1951
Page
8
Bath Daily Times items recount Thanksgiving activities and local happenings. Families travel to visit relatives, club programs announce a lecture on Labrador through the Yeomen, and Bath institutions report improvements at the City hospital. Various social events, performances, and local gossip fill the pages along with weather and transport updates.
Roscoe P. Ham grand deputy president of the Fraternal Order of Eagles was entertained by Knox Aerie of Rockland. A banquet followed the visit and several candidates were initiated during the occasion.
Captain Charles A Blair, who has commanded the Ransom B Fuller on the Portland division of the Eastern Steamship Co, arrives home this week and will depart south next Monday aboard the Governor Cobb.
In 1911 reports indicate Captain E. Hewitt has been appointed as the Richmond superintendent, marking a key leadership change in the city administration.
The Bee praises Hewitt as a conscientious official after 25 years with independent companies and later with Eth Can Ice Co., resigning effective Nov. 30. Phippsburg selectmen seek War Department approval to fill a Winnegance bridge with gravel and rock, crossing tidal water. Meanwhile, local life continues with news of ducks, hunting, visitors, theatre ads for Maude Adams in Portland, and community notices in Bath.
The Sagadahoc Agricultural and Horticultural Society met at the Brunswick Court Room at noon on December 3, 1911. Officers were elected with Edwin C. Patten re elected as president and John R. Stanwood chosen as secretary.
Local Bath items detail community events and personal notes from families and visitors. Highlights include holiday preparations at Beacon Street Sunday school, memorial observances in Boston, aqueduct and harbor updates, and road drift memories from forty years ago.
The four masted schooner Allice M. Colburn arrived in Boston from Norfolk yesterday and sailed again from Boston on her next trip.
The National Geographic Society reports that cabbage was widely cultivated and valued many centuries before the birth of Christ, reflecting long standing agricultural use.
Justice Francis W. Sullivan oversees an equity hearing in Portland on the validity of Horace W. Swett's $5,000 legacy to the non operating Universalist church in Bath. The case pits heirs Lewis B. Swett and Lois Swett Earl against the Maine Attorney General and the First National Bank of Bath as to whether the gift should return to heirs or pass to the Universalist conferece of Maine.
The French club held its reg ular meeting with about 20 members. Eleanor Marks presided while Mrs. Granville Colby spoke on her England trip. A food sale committee was chosen with Rena Legard and Judy Costain as co chairs. The Girls intramural volleyball tournament nears end with Mice and Snake tied for first. All stars beat the faculty 33 to 19 and split a game with the boys. Bowling leagues Ten Pin and Gutterball start with eight teams and about 100 girls. Ping Pong Tourney begins with about 75 players. winner gets a medal at the Girls Athletic Association banquet. Joyce Stover was last year's champion.
In Dixfield father s camp the Bath boys took a hunting excursion and each shot a deer. Donald Footer of U S Navy has returned to Portsmouth Navy Yard after leave with his mother. Robert J Gaudette U S Army attached to the 14th Quartermaster Corps has arrived in Munich Germany with new APO address.
Mr and Mrs Galen Watson of Waterville died Monday in Bath while attending the funeral of Arthur Nichols where Mr Watson served as a bearer.
The Bath Trust Company informs stockholders of its annual meeting on January 8, 1952, at two o'clock in the afternoon in Bath Maine. The meeting will elect a Board of Trustees and address other legal business. Signed by President R H Baxter.
State notice states a Munsey Phippsburg defendant under sentence for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated faces a hearing before the Governor and Council. The hearing is set for January 2, 1952 at 10 a.m. in Augusta Council Chamber with Harold I Goss as Secretary of State.
Numerous deeds record transfers of land and buildings in Bath Bowdoin Georgetown Phippsburg Richmond Topsham West Bath Woolwich and related exchanges. Buyers include Ruth A Jones Adolphe W Brault Muriel Sturgis Hermine Bigelow Boris Dulkin Michael Kopitch Orville Small Carlton Green and others as properties change hands on North Union High streets and local parcels.
Rehearsals underway for annual Nativity presentation at Winter Street Congregational church on Sunday evening December 23 at seven. Bath public has long enjoyed the event as an institution with volunteers from church committees handling work.
A Woolwich gathering details were announced with plans for an upcoming meeting and refreshments. The afternoon continued socially with hostess served sandwiches cakes and coffee as a list of attendees including Mrs Ethel Blake Mrs Amy Cromwell and Mrs Ruth Leeman is noted. In Nequasset nine year old Jean Blake gathered blooming pussywillows while her grandmother picked strawberry blossoms and green berries. Gardens elsewhere show growth with Oriental poppies emerging.
Notice states a petition for the pardon of W TY, a convict in Maine State Prison for sodomy, is before the Governor and Council. A hearing is set for January 2, 1952 at 10:00 a.m. in the Governor's chamber.
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