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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1929
Page
6
A meeting at Leslie F. Roberts store on Main Street organized a Richmond Lions Club with 23 charter members led by William F. Dunham. Portland visitors Gus Tapley Sturtevant and Fred H. Gabbi spoke on Lionism as officers and meeting plans were announced.
S. T. Cobb of Auburn and W. S. Cobb of Brunswick visited their brother C. H. Cobb on Sunday. Ernest Purinton spent Sunday with friends in Portland. E. O. Tarr and son were business visitors in Bath on Thursday. Miss Mary Ridley is improving after illness. Mrs. Maude Purinton was a business visitor in Augusta last week. The Farm Bureau held its January meeting with strong attendance, led by Miss Welch the home demonstrator. she had a car accident en route but was uninjured. Local farmers are harvesting ice. Mrs. Hazel Bastion and son Edgar visited L. M. McMaster in Lewiston, while Mr. and Mrs. George Yeaton visited Gardiner. Lewis Witham of Harpswell was weekend guest of his parents, the Withams. Dorothea Temple spent Friday in Winthrop. Willard Lane recently visited Augusta. W. H. Gould of Bowdoinham was calling on friends this week.
Distinguished visitors from across the United States and Canada converge on St Petersburg Florida for a festive winter season with plans for a stay by President elect and Mrs Hoover. Senators Fletcher and Trammell, Mayor Thatcher, and other notable guests fill hotels as the city hosts racing festivals, golf events, lawn bowling, and international celebrations through February and March. Agnes Fahey of Morse High School visited Portland over the weekend.
Joseph Totman’s illness improves while residents attend events in Portland and Bath. Arrowsic votes to allow the state to take over the toll bridge, with town backing. School at Center temporarily paused due to illness, then resumes. Ice harvesting proceeds at Five Islands. local residents visit Bath, Robinhood, and Bay Point. A Baptist school meeting plans for new members and a Young Peoples society social. A circulating library operates at Center school via the Colonial Dames.
Arthur Oliver left Saturday for Hartford Connecticut to become managing editor of four weekly newspapers the Hartford Sunday Sun the Manchester Sunday Sun the Wethersfield News and West Hartford Times. The two latter papers are published Fridays. Oliver, previously city editor of the New Bedford Times, will be stationed at the four weeklies main office in Hartford.
Elizabeth Karcher Farnham aged 78 dies at her daughter Mrs N Gratz Jacksons home at 1 Shaw Street She was born in Boston daughter of Jacob and Catherine Miller Karcher and lived in Boston Boothbay Harbor before moving to Bath fifteen years ago She belonged to Boothbay Harbor Methodist Church before joining Wesley Methodist Bath She was known for helping the needy and leaves beside her daughter a son Frank C Farnham of Boothbay Harbor five grandsons five granddaughters two great grand children eight nieces and eight nephews
Woodbury Brackett arrived from Hot Springs Virginia after the death of his grandmother Mrs Ida A Hamlin in Bath. The devout Grace church attendee, born in Wiscasset and widow of Edmond Hamlin, was beloved by her family including Paul Honstvet James A Broom Fred Hamlin and Joseph Hamlin. Paris-Indigestion added to complications of Marshal Foch's illness.
Ten books were received last week for the Grange library, with four more from Judge E. P. Pierce of Brookline Massachusetts and others from Miss Minnie Butland Mattapan Miss Louise Bray Cambridge Miss Helen Munroe Cambridge and Mrs Paul Thompson Hollis New York. The Grange expresses thanks. Residents and visitors attended Five Islands events as families and friends stopped by cottages and shared meals and conversations. Others mentioned include Hartley Harley, Arthur Jerry, J G Stevens A B Thibedeau and families from Bath Georgetown Robinhood and Richmond with social visits and quilting activities for the Grange.
One of the largest West Bath Grange meetings on record drew over 190 members despite cold weather. Sheriff Albert E. Henderson led a chorus, with games and dancing concluding the evening. Ladies plan card parties at the grange hall next Monday for ten cents per table. The event showcased agriculture and home economics lectures and demonstrations, with plans for a bigger program than 1928 Farmers Weeks. For details contact College of Agriculture Orono Me.
The twenty third annual Farm and Home Week will be held March 25 to 28 at the College of Agriculture, University of Maine. The event continues a long tradition starting from a modest beginning.
In the Maine Legislature Rep Aldrich of Topsham introduced a road and bridge resolution for Foster's Point road in West Bath and the highway from Winnegance to the Phippsburg town line. An Arrowsic bridge act and Supreme Judicial Court trial term respecifications were also filed, with proposals sent to the Ways and Bridges Committee.
The record questions whether Bath's term count was meant to drop from three to two or if an omission was an oversight. No further reduction has been recorded. The issue was sent to the judiciary committee. Representative Butler introduced an act to regulate dam taking in Phippsboro, referred to sea and shore fisheries. Hawkes introduced a resolve honoring H. E. Houdlette, administrator of the estate of Benjamin Owen Emmons, referred to claims.
North Center P T A met in the Dike school teachers room to switch milk service from 10 30 to 9 30 for undernourished pupils. Founders day observance planned for the week of Feb 18 with an out of town speaker. An evening session and location to be announced.
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