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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1941
Page
7
Reverend Lester Norton and Mrs Norton receive gifts from church groups while carol singers bring cheer. Charles Wheeler is reelected Master of Progressive Orange and installation set for January. Numerous townsfolk visit relatives and celebrate holidays with gatherings and personal updates.
A list by grades records pupils with perfect attendance for the 15 week term before Christmas at Dike School. Names span junior primary through grade seven, including Gayle Fitzgerald and Richard Arsenault among others.
Herbert Ross Brown's The Sentimental Novel in America 1789 1860, from Duke University Press, surveys how women authors and popular fiction shaped early American literature. It tracks influential writers from Pamela to Stowe, notes social trends, and explains the rise of sentimental fiction amid circulating libraries and moral controversy.
A brief earthquake or strong tremor rattled Georgetown, felt at 8.44 am for just over four minutes, affecting low-lying homes near the water more than higher areas. No damage reported, but residents frightened as Christmas decorations shook. The week brings rain and fog, snow mostly melted, ice scarce. Old Seguin performs, Christmas church events draw crowds, and local residents receive visitors and news of photography features.
A Bath Iron Works advisory source says Local No 4 of the CIO Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America is unlikely to seek a third election. He argues the union should first win a clear majority of bona fide, paid up Iron Works employees before the company will recognize it for collective bargaining. He downplays 1940 bonus unrest as irrelevant to future success. Local No 4 previously failed in 1938 with 819 to 861 votes and again in 1940 with 1,145 for and 1,153 against.
New England Tel and Tel Co women in the business office and traffic department held their annual Christmas party in the retiring room Monday evening. Gifts and joke presents were exchanged with sandwiches, cake, coffee, and candy served. A social hour followed with numerous attendees listed by name.
Personal notes record a resident moving to 23 Summer Street after visiting friends in Boston, and Miss Josephine Haskell departing Sunday for New York following Christmas with her mother Mrs. Ernest Haskell of West Point.
Bath Iron Works president William S. Newell posted a statement to address unrest among over 3 000 employees after bonuses to leading men were distributed. He explains a 6 cent per hour raise will yield over 150 annually in 1941, compares it with 10 to 50 under prior pay, and notes plans for a 1941 bonus distribution while praising foremen and leaders for loyalty.
Bath Pilgrim Fellowship met at Central church parish house after a Sunday worship led by Donald McKellar. College students home for holidays led a discussion, including David Y. Alkazin Jr, Betty Swanton, Edward Butterfield, Clifton Nickerson, with Barbara L. Kenney in charge. Next week at Winter Street church features marimbaphone music by Jeanette and Dorothy Williams. William Marshall to lead the discussion and Marilyn Cummings and Pauline Nickerson to handle worship. The group plans a dance at Central parish house tonight.
Through the Coburn Heirs and Blin W Page a new playground will be created in Skowhegan south of the Star Filling Station on East Front Street, between that point and Hathaway Street. The ten lots will extend the village's play spaces, joining the existing Jewett Street site, developed with NYA workers. The land comes from the Pratt farm once owned by the Coburn heirs.
Miss Ida Babineau, of Hanover, received miscellaneous gifts and felicitations attached to her empty milk bottle Thursday morning as her marriage scheduled for Saturday approached. She is known for delivering milk to town customers.
Charles Moore led the Young Peoples meeting at Five Islands and led the evening service. He is home from Providence Bible Institute to pass the holidays with Bath parents. Others mention travel to Boston Daytona Beach and Philadelphia with relatives, plus local visits and shipments of lumber for Ledgewood.
The Hanna family and relatives Mrs Lulu Hanna George Hanna Clinton Hanna and Mrs Wallace Pierce thank friends and neighbors for kindnesses shown during the illness and death of their loved one. Five Islands Me Jan 2 1941.
At the final rehearsal of Les Camarades Musicaux in 1940 Miss Alice N Magoun presented Allan H Ramsay the framed gold tapestry curtain fragment from the Metropolitan Opera House New York The curtain first opened in November 1905 for La Gioconda with Nordica Homer Caruso Scotti Plancon The curtain last appeared in March 1940 for Rossini s Barber of Seville Ramsay praised the gift in the club s tenth anniversary year Les Camarades Maine club contributed to the Met Opera funds last spring.
Eugenie Free returns home to Boston after days with friends. Miss Kingsbury and Miss Kutz travel to Boston to stay at the Hotel Touraine. James A. McLellan gave a Christmas musical program in the Old Ladies' Home then spent time with friends in Portland. Natalie Perkins returns home after a week with her sister in Portsmouth. Mr and Mrs Frederick A. Lovell Jr visit Rev and Mrs Charles M. Tubbs in High street. Ruth Watson, Boston office worker, returns after holidays with her parents in Loyall. Loyall Sewall arrives from New York to spend New Year with Arthur Sewall II and to attend Governor-elect Sumner Sewall's inauguration in Augusta. town, O., guests of Hon. and Mrs. Arthur Sewall at the Stonehouse. Hatkenschiel at Johns Hopkins Medical School after summer at Small Point Beach.
December brought more rain and less snow than last year with about ten inches of snow versus twelve. The coldest morning dropped below zero on two days, eight below on December 4, while last year’s was five above on the 20th. There were 13 freezing or above mornings, 18 fair days, eight rainy days, and four snowy days. Roads were largely ice and snow free except shoulders, when plowing occurred, and icy travel occurred earlier in the month.
Heavy rain toppled 11 smelt camps on Whiskeag Creek upper reaches near Ward's shore north of Bean Rock. One camp disappeared at Arrowsic Gut after ice broke, drifting via floe to Sasanoa and Hell's Gate. several camps salvaged as debris drifted.
Work on relaying the auxiliary Bath water main from Thompson's Brook to New Meadows Lake is delayed by a mild spell. A Bath Water District crew toiled on ice with derricks and two divers in eight to nine feet of water. About 85 feet of pipe laid. lake ice must freeze deeper over two to three cold nights before continuing. No water service interruption as gates remain closed and West Bath subscribers draw from Lake Nequasset or Thompson's Brook.
A pansy bouquet was picked Tuesday morning by David Y. Alkazin at 1284 Washington street. The Rockland Flying Club, organized in August, now has 16 members using Curtiss airport at Holmes street and Broadway, owning a Cub sport two seater. Their current plane has skis but none used yet. most members hold student solo permits.
The funeral for 94 year old Rockland artist William P Burpee was conducted beneath his mural A Vision of the Jordan painted over the baptistry in the First Baptist Church.
Captain Procter A. Hagan 86, retired mariner, died Sunday at the Old Folks Home after a year of illness and three months bedridden. A native of Arrowsic, he began seafaring at 12, commanded schooners including the Frances M and Miriam Landis, which wrecked off the Algerian coast. He retired in 1922 and is survived by his wife, four stepsons, a brother, a nephew, and a niece.
Mrs. Mary Savage widow of Edward Savage of Cambridge Massachusetts died Monday morning after a long illness in the Old Folks Home. A Bath native daughter of Asa and Martha Hodgkins she taught at Weeks Street Grammar before marriage. She lived in Boston area most of her life, returned to Bath five years ago, then entered the Home a year later. Survived by nephew W Percy Hodgkins Lynn and three Bath nieces Mrs. Harry Crosman Mrs. John Hunt and Mrs. Guy Sprague. Rev. Frederick P. Moffatt conducted funeral Tuesday afternoon at Curtis Funeral Home and burial was in Cambridge.
Edward A Rhines, 78, passed away Thursday afternoon at one in Winthrop Massachusetts. A longtime conductor on the Boston Revere Beach Lynn narrow gauge railroad he was loved for his sunny disposition. He often spent summers at his sister in law Henry C Wright home 945 Washington Street. Funeral was held Friday afternoon at his Winthrop residence.
Mrs Mary Susan Thompson 83, formerly of Bath, died December 25 in Rockland. She leaves sisters Mrs Alice Johnson of Arlington Massachusetts and Mrs Eva Beebee of New Haven Connecticut. Funeral held Friday at 2 p.m. at Russell's Funeral Home Rockland with burial in Sea View Cemetery.
Rose Colby 78 wife of Edgar Colby of Basin Road Phippsburg died Thursday in Bath Memorial hospital obituary notice notes her widower and kinoments with Basin Road listed.
The funeral service for Miss Myrna M. Avery, noted musician who died December 24, was held Thursday afternoon at the Arthur F. Mayo funeral residence on High Street. Dr. David L. Wilson officiated with bearers John Grindell, Francis McPherson, Reginald Stacy, and Hiram Stevens. Burial followed in Oak Grove.
The funeral for Capt. Proctor A. Hagan, longtime resident at the Old Folks Home, was held Tuesday at two o'clock at Curtis funeral home. Rev. Joseph O. Purdue of Winter Street church officiated. Bearers were Charles T. Henderson, Everett G. Lemont, Fred B. Kittridge, and William A. Kittridge. Burial followed in Oak Grove.
The funeral of Mrs. Mary Savage widow of Edward Savage of Cambridge Massachusetts was held Tuesday afternoon at three at the Curtis funeral home. Rev. Frederick P. Moffatt of Corliss Street church officiated and burial will be Wednesday in Mount Auburn cemetery Cambridge Massachusetts.
Rev Raymond G Putnam pastor of Central church spent Tuesday as a visitor in Portland meeting local clergy and parishioners, sharing guidance and fellowship during his crop of engagements in the region.
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