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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1934
Page
2
The Y M C A board votes to give away 60 memberships to boys facing financial hardship. Committees of two to three students select recipients from grammar schools and four high school classes. Recipients must not have joined in the last 60 days. gifts are outright and funded by the board.
Richard Farnham won the senior division and defeated junior champ Henry Gallant to become the overall YMCA chess champion for the season. The YMCA also hosted gamma school boys’ and ongoing tournaments with daily games and demonstrations of Dema, a game from Syria.
The Auburn man, aged 30, removes his glasses and views his razor blade under about 100x magnification to gauge sharpness more accurately than by hair cutting. He has long possessed unusually keen eyesight, with the issue becoming clear only as he approached adulthood.
Bowdoinham Bishop school pupils presented an afternoon program directed by Lois Pratt and Wendell Heenie. The event included readings like Abraham Lincoln and Gettysburg Address, a ukulele number, and a Valentine theme. Also noted was the death of Ernest Lancaster from injuries suffered February 5 on a bridge worksite. Funeral details followed in Ridge Cemetery.
North Bowdoin reports Judah Small school closes Friday for vacation. Danville Junction visitors Mr and Mrs Arthur Snow and Mrs Otis Douglas stop at High Pine Farm. Bath visitors Mr and Mrs Wilson Freeman arrive Thursday. Brunswick guests Mr and Mrs John Reid visit Tuesday. Eleanor Danforth vacationing at home in Bato. Tarr Hill resident Herbert Higgins and Raymond Sheene visit grandparents W S Douglas. Sympathy extended to Mr and Mrs Ray Tibbets on bereavement. Roland Cornish couple celebrate birth of a daughter.
Georgetown notes report Herbert Hunt and brother Harold Jr visiting relatives in Medford and Brookline while their father Harold F. Hunt recovers in Bath City hospital. Grandmother Mrs. Elizabeth Hunt also hosts the family during the illness.
Attendance was thin due to absence or illness. Dr. Harry F. Morin was reinstated to the staff. Miss Alice Reynolds of Washington street, visiting from Boston, plans a few weeks in town.
In Clinton D. Wilson's school office a desk chair once belonged to William T. Cobb 43rd Governor of Maine. Cobb used the chair while state chief executive and later brought it to Bath Sign Works during the war. The chair remains in good condition after decades of service and was later purchased by Wilson with other school furnishings.
About 22 of 29 Democratic city committee members gather in City Hall to plan campaigns. Coun ilm an John J. Mulcahy declines chairmanship after unanimous re election citing nine reasons including family and job. Henry M. Powers elected chairman with Ruth Farnham as vice chair, Amos F. Perry secretary, Leslie J. Ward treasurer. Stanley M. Brown attends, urging unity to elect all Democrats.
A home party at the State Military and Naval Children's Home honored Miss Ruth M. Ledyard, secretary there, with a supper and handmade gifts from the children. She stayed for supper instead of returning to her Lincoln street home, ahead of her upcoming marriage to Hugo H. Baecker of East Orange New Jersey on Saturday at 2 30 PM.
Members of Genesta chapter No. 73 O E S enjoyed an entertaining program after the meeting Friday evening in the Masonic temple. Mrs Frances D Young was in charge with Ralph F Small assisting. The program included songs and solo performances by Albert Henderson Rich Dorothy Leavitt and others followed by a reading and a dance number. A social period with popcorn followed.
South End P T A held a Founders Day Silver Tea at Mrs. J Albert Redlon's home to honor the 37th anniversary of the Maine P T A. About 100 invitations were issued for the event, with proceeds to go to state field work. The tea featured blue and gold colors, jonquils centerpieces, multiple birthday cakes, and noted officers and helpers from the association.
Science teacher Blair Wilson of Morse high spoke to 50 Fireside club members on Science and Religion. He argued the science theology clash is largely past and compared science lawgivers with the God of religion. The forum covered Genesis, miracles, moral sense, and other student topics with strong applause.
Mercy Elizabeth Berry 80 of Concord New Hampshire died Monday night at her daughter Mrs H Dorman Perkins home after six years invalidism The widow of Charles Edwin Berry she was born in Smyrna Mills and had lived 40 years in Concord She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and Genesia chapter O E S She leaves four sons and a daughter and 13 grandchildren The funeral is set for Thursday at one at Harry C Berry’s Concord home with burial in Blossom Hill cemetery Concord
The Blackstones did not bowl last week in the Park Alley League yet remained in first place. The Forty Fours rose from fourth to second after a double header yielding nine points, pushing the Dexters down to fourth as standings shifted. Biddeford's roving reporter vented irritation about illegal parking near Portland shops, urging a fifty cent fine for area residents.
Morse High basketball team travel toward Westbrook was halted by a severe snowstorm on the New Meadows river. Two cars collided on the river fill, trapping the convoy as blizzard conditions reduced visibility to a few car lengths. One car was badly damaged but the group managed to retreat to Bath after turning at Peterson's Hill.
Miss Caroline E. Vose of 17 Storer street Portland and Walter Edward Sullivan of Shorewood Hills Madison Wis were quietly married in New York City Saturday morning. The bride sister of Mrs W L Haskell of Pine Lewiston was born in Gouldsboro to Wilbur F and Frances Hancock Vose. She long lived in Portland with her sister the late Mrs Edville G Abbott and is known as a writer of essays and short stories. Mr Sullivan a Ludlow native is son of James and Mary Mitchell Sullivan.
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