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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1951
Page
3
Town notes detail budget talks at Town hall with selectmen and committee chairs. Various clubs host gatherings in Winneganee and Small Point, including card games and canasta. Scouts plan a Sunday hike and a Fly Up ceremony, with P T A and school committee discussions on district changes and budget. Personal items list travelers, moves, and visits around Winneganee and neighboring towns.
The article reports that the average American consumes 17 pounds of candy annually, more than 10.2 pounds of butter, 7.2 pounds of cheese, 5.7 pounds of margarine, and 8 pounds of cereals per person each year.
A male mourns after his mate is trapped and dies, with distress leading to self starvation. The excerpt notes the behavior as a response to mate loss in a cited species.
Three poisonous plants to watch for are common poison ivy oak leaf poison ivy and poison sumac. These plants can cause skin irritation and allergic reactions in many people and should be avoided or handled with care.
Local society notes record Mrs Leston Harrington hosting a Parker Head PTA paneer evening planning a store purchase and vestry draperies plus multiple donations. Several residents and visitors are named including Harrington, Gray, Brown, Blaisdell and Hamel with upcoming events and health treatments mentioned.
Bay Point residents Mr. Hall and Mr. and Mrs. McNeil of Bath were Sunday guests of George Renaud. Merwin Delano Sumner Mains, his son Cecil, and Mrs. Dwight Furbish visited Mrs. Mains in Greenwood. The Delano and Taylor families hosted visitors in Auburn and Bath shoppers included Carl Delano and his daughters Sharon Deborah Dawn and Louisa Howard. Madison Moore of Bath called.
Mrs. Marguerite E. Buxton of Damariscotta and Bremen spoke on Birds At My Window at Bath Garden Club’s January meeting. She described a bird station on her Old Bristol road, noting 67 species and visits by Canada geese, evening grosbeaks, hummingbirds, chickadees, and more, while detailing reading picks and a plan to send a member to Augusta for picnic areas legislation.
Observation from studies notes that dogs' vision is weaker than human sight. It is suggested dogs discern objects best when they are twenty feet or farther away.
The Bath P. T. A. Council executive committee met at Morse High School with President Mrs. Charles T. Small presiding. They noted the Jan 18 puppet show was a successful venture and scheduled the next meeting for Feb 26 with location to be announced.
In a report from the Department of Agriculture the global demand for apparel wools is depleting surplus stocks rapidly. The analysis highlights shrinking inventories and rising prices as fabrics move from storage to markets worldwide.
Popham residents met with Mrs. Carl Bickford and Mrs. Guy Crowley, with church and town activities noted. The Spinney Guest house and Leon Fickett’s home received insulation from Maine Home Insulating Co. A Coast Guard buoy boat set a new mooring near the Kennebec life saving station to ease spring ice dangers. March of Dimes campaign solicited by schoolchildren. Social visits include Marguerite McNulty in Bath, H Macy Whitehead hosting in Bath and Ellison Moody's Sunday dinner. Various residents, including U S Navy sailor Leon Oliver on leave, visited Bath, South Portland, and Kennebec area establishments. A Snipe family supper guest list and a Bath Eagles dance with Snipe’s orchestra are noted.
Mr Earle B Perkins circulates nomination papers for the coming year as School Committee candidate in Cox's Head. A three inch snowfall on Sunday Night drew hunters Monday as hounds trailed rabbits and foxes have been shot nearby. Frederick Thomas attended Budget and Finance committee and Scout meetings at Phippsburg Town Hall and Riverside Hall respectively. Ernest Wood of Bath visited his cottage Saturday. Mr and Mrs Leslie Dyer of Bath called on Eric Carlson Sunday. Mr and Mrs Lester Oliver of Spruceville called on Edward P Thomas Saturday en route to Parker Head. Lawrence Thayer of Bath visited the Wyman farm Saturday. Frank Wyman staying with daughter Mrs Lawrence Thayer on Park Street Bath. He has been living with daughter Mrs Robert Jewell on Middle Street for months. Mr and Mrs James Chambers of Sebasco called at the Thomas home Friday evening.
An assembly formed a radio program with sound effect men Harmon York and Conrad Rabee. Announcer Charles Burden and control man Donald Beaton led the show while Dick Jackson Paul Burns Ronald Atwood and Rodger Ketchum sang a Tennessee Waltz commercial.
Meadowbrook residents Mr and Mrs Jay K Bowker hosted two moose in their front field a bull and cow with the bull showing preliminary antler changes. It marks the first prominent moose sighting on the farm in years alongside past wanderers. Nearby activity includes visits to Rogers camp and Mild changes in Millinocket trips plus a Bath school wrist injury.
Kathleen H. Foss four, daughter of E. Dean Foss and wife, is a patient at Hyde Memorial Home Richmond after polio struck October 2. She began at Central Maine General Hospital Lewiston then moved to Hyde three weeks later with one leg paralyzed. She has regained weight and can bend her leg, content at the home where she follows a daily routine, attends kindergarten, and is supported by Sagadahoc County March of Dimes funds.
Canada, Venezuela, the United Kingdom, Mexico and the Union of South Africa were the five leading importers of steel from the United States last year. U S steel exports totaled 4,682,110 tons.
The article recommends preventing tuberculosis in poultry by selling laying hens after their first year and replacing them with home-raised birds purchased as day-old chicks from disease-free hatcheries.
Cooked fish or meat lasts longer at 45 degrees than when left uncooked. Heat from cooking kills many bacteria and enzymes that cause spoilage.
Freight cars are in the hands of shippers and receivers of freight for loading and unloading about 50 percent of the time.
An out-of-town resident appeared before Judge Gardiner R. Deering in Bath municipal court and received a 480 day jail sentence suspended on six months probation. He was ordered to leave town.
The text notes that seamless steel pipe comes in a vast size range with the largest diameter about two thousand times the smallest tube diameter used for hypodermic needles. This highlights dramatic scale differences in pipe applications and manufacturing.
Gen. Joseph L. Ready and Col. Edmund Tomasik spoke at Bath City Hall on state civilian defense and home safety during Korea. The meeting sponsored by Dyer Flaherty post VFW urged veterans to join defense efforts as Roy Stewart announced a Feb. 14 showing of the technicolor Pattern For Survival film.
Myrtle Lodge of Odd Ladies met at G A R hall Friday evening. Supper preceded birthday cake honors for eight January birthdays including Mrs. Chaney Estes Perry Camerson Oliver Davis Crocker Hunt. A stork shower for Mrs. Estes followed, and a planned visit by Lydia Bendix and Blanche Simpson was postponed to Feb 23.
Mr and Mrs James A Bimson of 994 Washington street hosted an informal tea Sunday afternoon from four to six. The dining room centerpiece featured red and white carnations with red tapers. Numerous local women assisted in serving and pouring. Out of town guests included Mrs John McInnes of Bath and Portland, Mr and Mrs Wilbur Brown of Brunswick, and R Newell of Boothbay Harbor.
The Earth travels around the sun at about 1109 miles per minute on average. It moves fastest when closest to the sun and slowest at aphelion when farther away.
The largest recorded Sitka spruce is described as having a trunk diameter of 16 feet measured four and a half feet above the ground. The description notes the enormous size of the tree as a notable natural specimen.
Sagadahoc Rod Gun and Skeet Association plans an ice fishing derby at Nequasset Lake on Washington’s Birthday open to all ages with junior entries possible. Prizes awarded for largest pickerel or trout, most, and smallest. entry fee charged. rain date if weather delays. lobster stew supper at Grand Army Hall.
Morse High hockey opened its season with a loss to St. Dom’s JV. The game marked Morse’s first test of the year as players adjusted to league play and new lines.
The goldenrod is named official state flower by Nebraska in 1895 and Kentucky in 1891, followed by Alabama in 1927. North Carolina adopts it by common consent, making Solidago the most widely claimed plant as a state symbol.
In 1949 approximately 4.645 million home injuries occurred leading to one or more days lost for about 32 persons per hundred. The death toll reached 31,000 with about half due to falls and 120,000 permanent impairments noted among home injuries.
Rug owners report that flat rugs may lose stiffness when cleaned and fail to lie flat. A thin coat of white shellac applied to the back is suggested as a remedy to restore straightness and even distribution on the floor.
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