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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1942
Page
9
A man at a Bath wedding on Monday became intoxicated and had to be carried to the police station. He pleaded guilty to intoxication before Judge Fogg and paid $3 plus costs. The tale notes he was asked to manage the house. wedding party members dispute the extent of his actions.
The city showed a sign of coming prosperity as six typewriters sold within four hours this morning. Cyrus W. Longley and C. T. Lord traveled to Augusta to attend the G A R events. George C. Nichols returned to Baltimore to resume medical college studies and is due to graduate next spring. The Republican caucus at city hall Thursday evening proved unusually harmonious and enthusiastic.
Nearly 150 ladies gathered at the Sans Souci club for an afternoon of whist and euchre from three to six. Refreshments were served and the proceeds, 65 dollars, will aid the Home for Aged Couples and Old Men and the free kindergarten. Fred W. Gilbert, recently ill, resumed work at his bakeshop Friday.
Sunday activities at Beacon Street Methodist Episcopal church featured a rededication with pledges to retire the debt and cover upcoming year expenses. The renovated interior impressed hundreds with frescoed steel ceilings memorial windows new carpets and furnishings.
News of the sudden death of George Elburn Nichols 60 of Goffstown New Hampshire reached his aunt Mrs J B Neiley of West Bath. An undertaker he died suddenly of heart trouble after dinner. He had lived in Bath West Bath before marriage and joined West Bath grange. He trained in Halifax and Glasgow before settling in Goffstown NH where he resided. Survived by his wife two sons and a brother Older Nichols of Foxboro Mass. Funeral services were held at Nichols Funeral Parlors conducted by the deceased and Mrs Nichols.essional board mentions Briggs reorganized with Ralph Gay chair and Leslie Wold and Royal Johnston as members. Allen Clark and Mrs Gardiner to visit Roger Pierce.
Les Camarades Musicaux met at the Cosmopolitan clubhouse guests of Mrs Robert B Hatch. Mrs Carleton L Rice read on Musical Libraries. A varied program featured choruses solos duets and quartets with Mrs Hatch Mrs Watson Mr Ramsay Miss Melcher and others performing at the piano.
The second February Sagadahoc Probate Court session, presided by Judge Arthur J. Dunton, disposed of limited business including accounts and wills. Public administrations were granted for Bath residents, inventories filed and bonds approved, with several estates listed and a license to sell real estate sought by an heir. A local note mentions Canadian grackles at a home on upper Washington street and a newborn boy, eight pounds nine ounces, to Mr and Mrs Howard I Trott of Woolwich at Memorial Hospital.
Morse High School manual arts and evening classes join a nationwide effort to construct 509,000 model aircraft for Navy Bureau of Aeronautics training. Morse will workforce with about 100 students under supervisor David Y. Alkazin, using plans from the Bureau and delivering completed models to Naval Reserve bases.
Wallace Heros Hinkley formerly of Alton and Clara Mae Peanner formerly of Orlando married Monday at 5 PM. Dr. David L. Wilson officiated the single ring ceremony at 918 Washington street. Attendants were Mrs. James Rockefeller and Raymond W. Hinkley. The groom's parents are Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hinkley of Alton. the bride's parents are Mr. and Mrs. Harold B. Saunders of Orlando.
The Saturday Sagadahoc Registry of Deeds report shows widespread transfers in Bath Bowdoinham Georgetown Topsham and Woolwich including Bath Iron Works Corp and Wiseman Farms Corp engaging land and buildings on Water and Washington streets. Social notes report a small Daughters of Isabella gathering with games and refreshments and a move by Mr. and Mrs. Frank Myrick to 7 Page Street.
Court of Probate in Bath Sagadahoc County orders notice by publication for three weeks. Proceedings include letters testamentary without bond to Minnie M Love estate of Harry F King and others, licenses for conveyance of property in Bath, and trustee confirmation for Lucy E Percy under Eleanor P Irish and Allen M Irish. Judge Arthur J. Dunton signs.
Bath residents are urged to join the Associated Hospital Service of Maine with Ernest S. Hunt of Portland at the Bath Trust Company and hospital arrangements for registrations through next Wednesday. The plan offers 21 days hospitalization per year with monthly rates: families up to 19, 2 per month. husband and child, 1.50. single applicant, 2.50.
Miss Nancy Hyde, recently married to Lieut. Edmund A. Hoggard, was honored at a luncheon and shower hosted by her aunt Mrs. Olive B. Guild in Swampscott Massachusetts. Attending were her sister Mrs. Converse G. Fenn and Mrs. J. Edward Drake of Bath.
Town seeks a smaller building project to relieve overcrowding in the present section. Miss Pauline Winchenbach, employed at eeeaunty Salon, passed away at her Waldoboro home.
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