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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1943
Page
5
A Bath society page records Miss Marie Safford now in Waltham secretarial work for Raytheon with Bath ties, plus local visits, illness, and family movements. Entries note Morse School alumnae, aircraft observation watchers, naval and Army related assignments, and community gatherings across Bath and surrounding towns.
Mrs Robert B Hatch entertained her contract club on Yington Street Thursday. Rev David L Wilson Chester H McCabe and Edwin H P Lowell attended the funeral of Rev A Francis Walch grand prelate of the Maine Knights Templar in Yarmouth Thursday afternoon. Walch was pastor of the Universalist church in Yarmouth.
Pitman, a second class tor pedoman in the United States Navy, visited his mother Mrs. Frank H. Reinoedt at 1227 Washington Street. The visit marked his first in one and a half years, and he has served three years since graduating Morse High in 1939.
Pvt Kenneth R Baker from R F D 2 Wiscasset arrives at Fort Knox for Armor Replacement Center duty. Mrs Perleston L Pert of High street recovers enough to sit up daily. Mrs Hayden Rogers and daughter Nancy of Trufants visit Waterville and sister Mrs Basil Larkin. Mrs Charles T Henderson returns home after two weeks at Memorial hospital. Dr Kenneth P Haskell opens Augusta chiropractic practice at 300 Water Street, formerly Dr E H Jackson’s office. his wife is former Bath resident Margaret Coombs. Mrs William I Tait of Richmond attends Genesta chapter O E S installation.
Mrs Edward H Dunton of S60thbay Harbor visits near her father Harold Holbrook a patent at Memorial Hospital. Mrs Ada Deering hosts at Huntington Hotel Boston and plans February Bath visit with grandson Harry Deering. North Sullivan families live at Sagadahoc Ferry while Mr Lawry works at Bath Iron Works and visit Maynard Gordons on Pine Street. Mrs John A Lord hosts a card club luncheon at Pearl Street home.
Overnight visits include Master Bobby Gardenier and Master Bobby Footer residents of upper High street visiting relatives in West Bath Corp. Powers on six months Africa duty enjoys furlough with sister in Edward street. Pvt Guy F Coolen in North Africa seeks greetings from Bath friends at 31045281 Co A 361st QM BN AP O 302 US Army care of Postmaster NOY CGUNSSY. A9-pound daughter born Jan 25 at Sunnyside hospital Staten Island to James G and wife 94 Bluff road. Major Eaton
Mrs Ednar Owens from Foster's Point works as a telephone operator in Bath while her Army husband serves near Fort Eustis. Mrs Napoleon Guerette Mrs J Beadoin and Mrs Winfred Snowden returned from Philadelphia after their brother-in-law William Foley died there. Ruth Ellen Hunter was born Jan 25 at Bath Memorial Hospital to Mr and Mrs Stanley R Hunter. Vida Hunter of Fairfield visits the Hunter home for a few weeks.
Frank Oliver of Quincy formerly lived in Bath and worked as a machinist at Fore River Shipbuilding. He is convalescing from a severe pneumonia illness after his Bath residence. The item notes other local notices including a Portland Gas and Light Co. director election and births and assignments.
Corp William L Ayer U S A has returned from Hollidaysburg Penn after a six day furlough. He reported at Fort Williams with wife Mrs Ayer and their baby daughter Karen Sue who stay with her mother Mrs William Southern in Freeport. They visited parents Mr and Mrs Arthur Ayer on Sunday on Upper High Street.
Neil S. Bishop reflects on the Maine 91st Legislature, urging citizen understanding of lawmaking and the sacrifice of public service. He notes legislators earn 600 dollars for a two year term, discuss the slow pace, and emphasizes two way communication between lawmakers and constituents.
A daughter, Star Love Poole, was born January 21 at Dr Leighton’s private hospital in Portland to Walter T. Poole and his wife of 40 Summer Street. Poole is a warrant officer at Bath Iron Works Corp supervisors’ office. The mother is Freddie Love Roach of Jacksonville. The infant weighed seven pounds three ounces.
Be and Mrs. Frank W. Rittall Jr. of Arrowsic welcomed son Ronald Owen Rittall at Dr Leighton's private hospital in Portland. The birth announcement notes the new arrival in 19.
Mrs John H. Perkins of Hardings returned Monday afternoon from South Windham where she spent several days with her son and daughter in law Mr LeRoy R Prescott and Mrs Prescott.
Mrs. Laura Harrington of 209 North street and her daughter Miss Beatrice Harrington travel with relatives to Moorestown New Jersey to spend several weeks with Mrs. Harrington's sister Mrs. John Sherman in Augusta.
Premier danseuse Maria Gambarelli of the Metropolitan Opera House appears in Bath on February 16 and Bangor on February 1 under the Bath Co-Operative Concert Association.
Captain Mattie A. Pinette of Fort Kent among five WAAC officers who served as clerical staff at the Casablanca conference between President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill.
The Maine piece notes the 50th anniversary observance of James G. Blaine in Washington with tributes from Sumner Welles and Senator Wallace White Jr and Blaine’s daughter and granddaughters in attendance. It also reports Maritime Commission action on Maine wooden shipyards including Belfast South Portland Freeport and a contract renegotiation at the South Portland yard amid labor concerns.
On Tuesday morning Judge Gardiner R. Deering handled two eviction cases alongside routine matters. One respondent pled guilty to vagrancy and intoxication, receiving 90 days in Augusta jail. another pleaded guilty to intoxication and paid $5.05 in costs. The Delano eviction at 534 High street proceeded with plaintiff Chester H. Totman seeking occupancy for his five-member family, while the Holbrook case at 29 High street was settled with a judgment for the plaintiff and a writ postponed until after February 10.
Mrs Bruce White merges her gift shop with the neighboring foodstore to save heat. Now groceries sit in one window and gifts in the other. A passerby jokes about the shop becoming a "day n nursery" as an officer’s baby is cared for during a radio school visit.
Eugene O Dauphin Jr son of Mr and Mrs Dauphin of 10 Tarbox Street was guest of honor at a surprise party the night before he left Bath with 63 other airmen for Fort Devens. Pvt Dauphin received a service wrist watch and is a former outside machinist at Bath Iron Works.
Arthur Brown and Frederick Sears, among the inductees departing for Fort Devens Friday, were honored Thursday evening at the home of their uncle and cousin, Theodore Burns and Mrs Burns of 78 Court Street. A buffet lunch preceded gifts of money and bracelets while guests from Bath and Portland attended. Brown worked at Bath Iron Works and Sears at a South Portland shipyard.
An hour of dense fog Sunday night shrouded the city and reduced visibility to a few feet. The fog formed quickly and lingered for about an hour before gradually lifting, forcing drivers to proceed with extreme caution on the near-deserted streets.
Mrs. Rupert O. Beltz of Hamilton Ohio arrived in Bangor to take up duties as director of the Bangor Brewery Council of Girl Scouts at scout headquarters Monday morning. She attended Western Reserve College for Women in Cleveland and has years of volunteer experience with children and adults.
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