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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1942
Page
2
Meadowbrook faced a scare when How ard Bowker set a burn on autumnal grass that spread toward nearby land. The fire, fanned by a breeze, threatened roads and terrain before firefighters contained it. Community notes report Farm Bureau Red Cross sewing and fundraising, town accounts being closed, a portable saw mill move, church services, and local illnesses and recoveries.
The Merrymeeting 4-H Club of North Bath met January 31 at president Marilyn Wing’s home with members and leaders Mrs. Doris Wing and Mrs. Elsie Piper present. Reports from secretary and treasurer were given. Roosevelt noted for a meeting at the assistant leader’s home next Saturday. Civil Defense office hours change to 2 to 4:30 p.m. daily except Sunday, effective February 2. phone 1192.
Bath Iron Works employees departing at midnight will have special buses starting Tuesday at midnight. The Bath Bus Service will run one northbound and one southbound shuttle from the Iron Works gate, with regular service ending at 11. A second 30 day trial route through Center and Floral streets will offer half hour departures with transfers available to connect to north or southbound buses.
The Iron Works near Water and Washington streets completed three property purchases in three weeks, signaling the city’s largest industrial expansion. Plans include tearing down Water street structures, with further development on Washington street and allied sites. Local residents report sale to 713 Washington street owner and relocation of 1009 Middle street property. Corporal Alkazin's son in the Air Corps will be furloughed from Shaw Field, with his mother visiting Sumter and trips to Montgomery and Philadelphia before returning via Washington, D. C.
Mrs. Eugene Harrington and others sewed for the Red Cross at Mrs. T. E. McCarty’s home. Social visits and gatherings occur across Parker Head, West Bath, and nearby towns with church and school activities, plus enlistment news as Arthur Bassett becomes a second class petty officer after 14 office visits. Walter Keene and family members enlist. multiple trips to Bath, Topsham, Montreal, and Boston are noted among residents and guests.
Sally Lowell, Raymond Nes bit and George Morong Jr received Defense Stamps for perfect attendance last week. Several students earned awards for poetry memorization including Marion and Dorothy Cushing, Sandra and Barbara Manh, Lloyd, Sally and Bill Lowell, Lewis, Beverly and Robert Moore, Marie Wyman, Laura Wyman, Raymond Nisbet, Lor raine and Barbara Harrington and Lawrence Morong. The noon hour changed to 12 to L to give upper grades more time for interrupted study. Pupils are working for seven point pins with some eligible for dental certificates. Mrs Leston Harrington and William Cushing visited school. School Improvement League weighed the children Friday. Valentine party planned for 2 p.m. Feb 13 and all are invited. Six dollars seventy-five cents of Defense Stamps were purchased last week. Rank cards issued Monday with Bill Lowell and Marie Wyman receiving perfect rank.
Over 200 books arrived at the U S O office for the Victory Book Drive and were delivered to soldiers Friday by U S O Director A J Daniels son. Most volumes are novels and detective stories, long appreciated by recipients. The committee invites more donations, to be left at the U S O office, with preferred titles including mystery, biography, travel, adventure, westerns, and short story collections.
Letter from John A Gaudet Bath Maine quotes Ed ward F Gaudet a chief petty officer radioman aboard a battleship with 20 years service. Notes Pearl Harbor Christmas card from 1940 and family reunion in San Francisco. Mentions prior duty on Utah Ogalala Cavite China and California assignments and amateur radio license 1 C U R.
Bay Point on a cold calm morning reported a blaze near Marrtown. Robert Fry and First Selectman Harold Brown alerted rescue crews, saving the Hamilton home as the barn burned. Local residents noted birds feeding at Spinney and Campbell properties, with several Bay Point residents visiting Bath and Navajo area during the week.
New York hosts a Tall People club while Santa Barbara hosts a Short Girls club Boston features a Fat Man club and Hamtramck Michigan has a Big Nose club with film figure Jimmy Durante named as an honorary member.
A Saturday night storm with southeast wind snow sleet and rain cut sands at Popham Beach with erosion near Morse's river while no cottages were damaged. Popham School will close February 6 for vacation through March 2. Local groups including Bodwell Grange and the Red Cross held meetings as residents report illnesses, visits, and community events across Phippsburg and nearby Bath.
Mrs Helen Leach of Boston returned home Monday after a weekend visit with her brother Edmund Staples of Front Street.
Miss Evelyn Hosmer of Brunswick spent the weekend with her sister Mrs. Philip Roberts on Dummer Street, sharing family time and local memories during the quiet city visit.
Hyde Park Terrace at the former Perry field on Center street extension begins occupancy with 41 of 200 units ready. The 56 buildings include four and five room apartments and six family dwellings with modern baths and hot water. Manager S M Werner aims to complete grading, landscaping, and additional units by spring to ease the local housing shortage.
Mrs. Walter Morse led the Auxiliary of the Community club in a Thursday afternoon auction session with three tables in play. Mrs. Charles T. Small Sr hosted a Tuesday sewing session at her home, serving coffee and box lunches for an all day ladies gathering. Children’s skirts for the defense program and a large batch of children’s nightgowns were completed. Friends of Mrs. Warren Pushard of Winnegan ce, wintering in Woolwich, are glad to hear she is nearly recovered from a fall that kept her confined. Duncan Farrell, Bangor High School physical director, spent the weekend with Mrs. Farrell at her parents’ home.
A busy municipal and state political year looms as Republicans plan ward caucuses next Tuesday to nominate aldermen and ward officers and a city hall gathering Wednesday to nominate a mayoral candidate. Mayor Walter C. Rogers is a strong Republican favorite, while Democrats may contest the mayoralty. The push then moves to state conventions in Portland, with potential shakeups in the Sagadahoc delegation and races for governor, senator, and Congress.
Mr and Mrs Harry Short of Columbus Ohio spent months in Orlando Florida for recovery from last summer’s auto accident. They then moved to Pinehurst to race Mr Short’s horses. Mrs Short formerly Dorothy Sheldon of this city is daughter of Mr and Mrs William Sheldon of Sas anoa Bluffs.
Census Bureau figures show United States factories produce 10,450,000 safety razors 747,500 dry shavers and 75,000 straight-edge razors plus other items annually. Safety razor blade production reaches about 1.905 billion blades each year.
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