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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1956
Page
4
Wiscasset residents will have Saturday window service extended from 1.00 pm to 5.00 pm on December 15 and December 22. The issue appears amid a long town page of anniversary notices, club events, troop activity, and local society details.
Waldoboro High boys defeated Wiscasset last week while Wiscasset girls defeated Waldoboro girls. Parish events include St. Philip's Communion service at 7 30 Sunday and regular Parish Family supper Monday. Lincoln County Cultural and Historical Association displays medieval exhibits at the museum open Wednesdays Saturdays 10 am to 5 pm Sundays 2 5. Pine Cone Rebekah Lodge reception honors Marjorie Niles and Madeline Colby with Ruth Leavitt presiding and Jim Juliano performing.
The Marquesas are a group of 11 volcanic islands in the South Pacific, with six islands permanently inhabited.
Theta Chapter Beta Sigma Phi met at Mrs. Robert Brown's home to continue work on the Christmas doll project to be displayed at Thompsons Insurance Agency window. President Mrs. George Larrabee Jr led a brief meeting announcing Christmas favors for Bath Memorial Hospital trays and a joint party with Xi Beta Chapter on December 18 at Mrs. Duncan McInnes home.
Xi Beta Chapter Beta Sigma Phi members continued preChristmas activities at Mrs Paul Akeley home. They wrote cards to shut ins worldwide and worked on Christmas favors for Old Ladies Home patients due December 22. The group also prepared baskets for local needy families and planned a joint Christmas party with Theta Chapter at Mrs Duncan McInnes home December 18.
The Beth Israel Sisterhood hosted a Chanukah gathering for the congregation with a white elephant sale at the synagogue. Abraham L. Kramer led prayers during the candle lighting, assisted by Jacob Goldstein and Morris Povich. Mrs. Louis Petlock led arrangements with help from Mrs. Sam Levine, and Mrs. Sam Prawer organized the sale with auctioneers Frank Freeman and Mr. Prawer. Southern Methodist and Notre Dame football note appears as a separate line.
Woolwich schedules a 10 a.m. special town meeting to elect a new selectman after Ivory C. Strdeut’s death. Five candidates vie for the seat as two warrant articles, including a potential community recreation hall donation from the Woolwich P T A, are addressed before four hours of voting.
Family Night at Montsweag Baptist Church featured Rev and Mrs Lloyd Lowe missionaries to Brazil with a family supper. Woolwich Grange presented a Guam and Philippine Islands travelogue by a Brunswick Naval Air Station nurse and announced the Dec 19 grange Christmas party. Civil Defense Medical Service discussed radiological detection at Central School House. Day's Ferry Community plans an 8 pm Christmas party. Co chairs named for Shaw and Hathorn arrangements. Fire displaced Dana's Mills family moved to Claude Preston house while home is rebuilt. Local residents visited Cherryfield and Bath Memorial Hospital where Charles Powers of Sagadahoc Ferry returned home. Lois Price seen at Bath railroad yard after convalescence. Funeral for John Hickson held in Oakland. widow Helen Hickson is Bath natives. Edwards family spent Thanksgiving at Sherman Mills with Sides and Cornish relatives. Melvin and Harold Cornish returned from hunting trip. Melvin brought eight point buck. Gordon family visited Mattawamkeag. Local women visitors to Port on Wednesday.
A Bath Junior High PTA panel discussed school pride courtesy parent teacher relations at Thursday evening session with parents Mrs. William M. Hodges Harmon E. Eliason teachers Mrs. Gladys de Weaver Neil LaRochelle students Virginia Percy John Nostall. They covered ten questions and held a general discussion. The group considered a simplified ninth grade graduation and a library fund gift of 187.75 from the Fall tea.
Prospective commander William H. Bowen and prospective gunnery officer Arthur R. Hasler Jr along with prospective engineer officer Donald B. Polatty arrive in Bath. The nucleus crew of forty one men has reported for duty as the Manley DD 940 prepares for later assignment.
Set was admitted to Bath Memorial Hospital Monday as a surgical patient. Mr and Mrs Robert D Stevens and daughter Rebecca Jane moved to Murphy's Corner road. Mrs Jennie Howe attended the Maine Retired Teachers Association meeting in Augusta. Raymond Hathorne, US Geodetic Survey engineer, leaves for California after vacation with parents Maurice and Mrs Hathorne. Sally Marie Rogers, daughter of Ernest and Mrs Rogers, celebrated her third birthday at a family party with brother John and relatives. Frank Watts family to Florida for winter. Richard McElman to substitute as P T A president in Watts' absence. Clyde Bailey returned from a Nutrilite Gold A Rama trip in New York. Bailey children Charon and Ann joined Mrs Bailey's parents in Kittery.
A sequence of community notices from West Bath highlights a party at Mrs. Samuel Armstrong’s home for Mrs. Ethel Burns before her upcoming marriage to Ernest Mahoney. The West Bath Sewing group met to make bandages for Togus hospital and the Red Cross, with a Christmas Seals donation noted. The juvenile grange hosted a play titled Thanksgiving Basket at West Bath Grange Hall, and several local showers and visits are recorded alongside travel updates and hospital recoveries.
December 6 and 7 mark the Ring Ding Fair and musical comedy Marrying Marion sponsored by Bridge Academy students. Cast includes Simpson as a butler with Robert Brown and Marion Stanton among others. new transfers and social notes cover local families, visitors, and a RFD carrier’s new car on his mail route.
Miss Harriette Houdlette died November 28 at a Richmond rest home where she resided since her sister Blanch Slipp's death. Daughter of George and wife from Dresden Mills she lived in the area and worked as a dressmaker. Survived by three nephews Alfred Houdlette Bath Melville Houdlette West Dresden and Harold Houdlette Gardiner. Burial was at Forest Hill cemetery Friday afternoon.
Hundreds of Bath families visited the Kennebec Greenhouses on North Street for a Christmas season open house. Santa Claus made his 1956 debut to delight children and seniors, with displays of tree ornaments Nativity scenes ribbons wreaths swags laurel roping and a giant mobile. Santa’s workshop scene at the North Pole drew special attention among the youngsters.
S/Sgt. Morris H. Beardsley announces all new air force enlistees after January 1 must have a Social Security number. The law extends Social Security to all service personnel with deductions 1.56 to 7 dollars monthly, government credits, and survivor benefits for dependents. Further information available at Bath post office Mondays.
The Colonel Dummer Sewall Chapter DAR met Tuesday afternoon at Wesley Methodist church for a special Christmas program titled Eleven Flowers and Trees Symbolic of the Christmas Season. Readers were Mrs. Elnora Oliver and Mrs. Nellie Lord, with piano by Mrs. Mildred Albee and vocalists Mrs. Adelaide Bowker and Mrs. Bernice McGlinchy. Music included selections from The Messiah and Handel, plus carols like O Little Town of Bethlehem and Joy to the World. A Christmas tea followed, with committee members serving and pouring. Regent Mrs. Maude Howard led the business session which opened with prayer. reports covered a gift to Opportunity Farm, clothing shipments to Crossnore School, and national defense messages.
At the Bath Public Health Nursing Association November meeting Mrs. Mila Morse reported 170 visits in October and November. Five Well Baby clinics served 43 infants in October and four clinics with 19 babies in November. Nursing care is available at 72 Front Street with home visits for a nominal fee.
Phippsburg notes list a Friday Bodwell Grange special meeting to counter third and fourth degrees, with a long degree team led by Ral Master Melvin Pratt. Other items include library gifts, youth fellowship caroling plans, Christmas pageant December 23, and local club meetings.
Inner Wheel members will meet Thursday afternoon at Mrs. Donald Emero’s High street home with guest speaker Benjamin Burbank a Bath Iron Works metallurgist. Hostesses are Mrs. Hildreth H. Fisher Mrs. Erling O. Barsness and Mrs. Dwight W. Pierce. Members asked to bring canned goods for the Salvation Army.
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