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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1954
Page
3
The Wiscasset area hosted a busy slate with a talent night featuring a program of songs, readings, dance and a garter contest won by Julia Barker. Meetings announced include Seamon Hill Extension March 2 and Lincoln Chapter Red Cross planning 1954 drive. Obituaries note the death of Nettie G. Plummer.
Maine's first lady Mrs Burton M Cross will host a tea March 4 at the Blaine Mansion for Miss Bertha S Adkins assistant to the chairman of the National Republican Committee. The event follows a noon luncheon in Hallowell at the Worster Hotel where Miss Adkins spoke. Sagadahoc County Women’s Republican Club members including president Mrs Hazel Robbins and legislative chairman Mrs Ruth Leavitt plan to attend.
Red Cross workers and solicitors will meet at 2 30 p m Thursday at 23 Pratt Street to view a WCSH TV telecast on proper fundraising methods. Frederick E Drake Jr Bath Chapter president will attend to answer questions during the program. About half of US families earning under 32000 annually own their homes.
Good Will club gathered at Florence Kershner’s Bath home with 12 members for an evening of dining and committee planning for a March 4 Woolwich Lionesses banquet. Numerous residents from Bath, West Bath, Arrowsic and surrounding towns were listed with visits, hospital news, and school vacation notes.
Fragmented OCR notes record Bennett and Bennett of West Bath visiting relatives in Mechanic Falls and Woolwich. Mentions include Mr and Mrs Al bert sarki and Merlene of Woolwich celebrating a birthday, with family ties on River Road and Harriet Blanche.
Dromore Grange met Tuesday with the charter draped for the late Charles M. Gardner. A program honored Lincoln and Washington, featured readings and songs, and included a supper supervised by Mrs. Evelyn Beals. A March 24 Dromore Extension Group meeting and a February 24 Sagadahoc Pomona Grange gathering were announced.
Bath Brunswick and Wis casset area subscribers may face higher monthly charges as a new dial system enables toll-free calls within an enlarged area. Bath residents will pay about 25 cents more monthly, Brunswick and Wiscasset users about 1.50 extra per phone per month, with potential yearly increases totaling 18 dollars per line. Return cards ask customers to approve or disapprove the plan.
Robert Donnell of Stone and Webster in East Millinocket spent the weekend and holiday at his home on upper Washington Street with Mrs. Donnell and their children. He was previously employed with Bath Iron Works.
The West Bath Sewing Group hosted at Mrs. Albert White's home produced surgical pads for Togus hospital and the Red Cross. Members included Mrs. Courtney Stover and Mrs. Oliver Wass among others. Next meeting set for March 4 with Heart Drive donation noted.
Personal notes record Lincoln street residents returning Monday from Philadelphia where they were guests of Mr. Honnen. Capt. Joseph P. Gillo Jr. and Mrs. Gillo with son Joseph Paul Gillo III, stationed at Brunswick Naval Air Base, returned to Lynn Massachusetts. The Gillos had visited Capt. Gillo's mother Mrs. Joseph Gillo on Wesley Street. Deborah and Marvin Larrabee of York returned home after Washington's Birthday weekend with Mrs. Swain's parents in West Bath, accompanied by their niece Jean McMann of Pleasant Street who will vacation with them.
Local employees of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Co. will be honored at Sedgwick by management and city and police officials. A bronze plaque will be given to Bath Brunswick area drivers for a year without a chargeable motor vehicle accident, marking six and a half years of no accidents and a million and a half miles driven.
The group from the destroyer USS Monssen performed at a Bath charity dance hosted by Dyer Flaherty post VFW. Jim McDougal backed the band on drums. Arthur Wyman spoke on the ship’s history during intermission. The Monssen crew visited Bath guests Mr. and Mrs. Carl Tobey and thanked the Post and Lt. Hale. They hope to return next winter after a world cruise from May to December. Associates included Darrell Lee Allen Robin N Butler Charles E Drake and Harry E Lisee.
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