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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1956
Page
6
Rich mond Enterprise reports Grange and American Legion activities with oyster supper, penny sale plans, and officer elections set for January. Guests include Kennebec Council officers and 40 and 8 members. Personal notices list engagements, births, holidays, and service members on furlough from the area.
Smelt camps dot the vicinity of Middlebridge as fish remain scarce and locals hope for better luck. Snow fences rise near the homes of Thurston and Foster families while Reay siblings visit Wentworth relatives in Dresden area. Reays from Paradox and Milo join Wentworths for weekend gatherings, with Christmas Eve hosting at Mrs. Wentworth’s mother in Gardiner. Mrs. Reed of Pittston works at Gray’s in West Dresden. Ancel Weymouth sells Dresden Mills farm and moves to Gardiner. Sheldon kin visit from Rockland. Johnny Lyons and Billy Brown recover from scarlet fever. Albion Beverage, Gould Academy student, spends holidays with mother on Call’s Hill. Mrs. Parnell of West Dresden visits New Jersey relatives. Harold Austin Jr. returns from Valdosta after training and night classes.
New Year weekend deemed safest in years by Police Chief Edward L. Gaudreau as 11 officers on duty with three patrol cars reported no drunken or reckless driving in Sagadahoc and Wiscasset areas. One Monday collision between Howard E. McFadden and Julian Bennett caused about 600 damage. no injuries reported.
Grace Episcopal church hosts its annual parish meeting Monday evening with reports from Rev. James L. Grant and parish officers. Elections will fill wardens and vestry seats for the coming year, with supper at 6 30 by St. Marys Guild before the meeting.
The Smith Tobey Post hosted an open house from 7 30 p m to midnight featuring dancing to an orchestra from Lisbon. Seasonal decorations and favors complemented a large gathering with several out of town guests. The event, deemed highly successful, was run by chairman Scott Kittredge with committee members Joe Fournier Cedric French Robert E Wagner and Francis McLaughlin.
The 1945 opener saw Cincinnati Reds win 7-6 over Pittsburgh Pirates in 11 innings. A Pirates homer by Jim Russell was disallowed after a runner urged time before the pitch, affecting the final score and momentum.
English kings formerly performed a Maundy Thursday foot washing for poor people as a religious rite. The practice ended after the reign of James II.
Warren Harris delivered a New Year sermon at First Baptist Georgetown on Watch Through 56 citing a ship radio operator lapse that cost hundreds of lives. He referenced Matthew 26 41 and noted church activities including a youth fellowship gathering in Freeport and an upcoming annual business meeting at Georgetown Center. The column lists community updates from Georgetown Center residents, visitors, and illness notes with several named individuals and places in Maine and nearby towns.
Bay Point residents observe winter birds flocking to popcorn, seeds, and bread left by the Furbish children. Bluejays drag treats to trees while grosbeaks and starlings feed. winter dress darker with white speckles. Weather icy and cold with near zero temps. Fishers unable to go out. Mrs. Dwight Furbish improving, LeRoy Moore reporting well after hospital checkup.
Wesley and Beacon Street church men’s clubs held a joint meeting at Beacon Street Methodist church with an oyster stew supper served by the Women’s Society of Christian Service. Films were shown and plans set for a Feb. 7 meeting at Wesley. Hartley Wilbur elected president. officers and committee groups named. A baked beans supper was planned for Jan. 21 and a March of Dimes donation collected. Church Family Night slated for Jan. 18. National Football League streak noted for Don Stonesifer, Jack Simmons, and Leo Sanford with the Chicago Cardinals.
Quick bread guidance notes letting batter rest in its pan about 20 minutes before baking. The pause helps develop structure and yields a more rounded loaf.
Second baseman Curt Roberts of the Pirates began 1955 as he did in 1954 by delivering the team's first hit.
During a New Year’s Day visit Thayer attended an Open House at the Woolwich home of Mrs Roby Welsh amid a heavy thunderstorm note. The event underscores community gatherings held on holidays despite inclement weather.
Lorenzo Fields, an 111 year old ex slave from Pittsburgh, recalls finishing a meal with an ice cream sandwich. He remembers his master Jim Roberts returning to a Mississippi plantation near Osaka, three miles away, where Union soldiers tied him to a cannon and fired. Fields speaks of his wife calling her “Baby.”
The BIW Camera Club meets Thursday January 5 1956 at 7 30 p m in the Main Room Recreational Hall for its first session of the year. Benjamin B Burbank presents a slide lecture on his South American trip featuring Venezuela Trinidad Island St Vincent British Guiana Surinam and a river voyage to an aluminum ore area. All BIW employees associates and families and photography travel enthusiasts are invited.
Woolwich Baptist Youth Fellowship held its Sunday evening meeting with Rosalie Hathorne presiding. Bernice Wilson and George Wilson sang duets, Joy Forigene read the scripture, and members offered resolutions for the new year. Twenty five members attended and the gathering closed with a prayer circle.
Bowdoin College invites the public to an open house at the Bowdoin College Museum of Fine Arts Thursday from 4 to 5 30 pm to view a group of paintings on extended loan from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Refreshments will be served in Walker Art Building with free admission.
Woolwich residents and the Bath Chapter of the American Red Cross assisted the Densmore Leach family after their home burned Sunday afternoon in North Woolwich. Mr and Mrs Leach and their children Carlton 12 and Eunice 8 were moved to a vacant house nearby. Donations of food clothing and bedding were provided as plans to address further needs are organized by Woolwich citizens. Mrs Harry Card Irene and Harry Jr visited Mrs Card's mother Mary Stover on Fremont Street. Mr and Mrs Fred White of Winthrop Mass entertained Dec 27 for friends from Five Islands.
A Boston couple Nancy and Edward O’Neil will headline the Winter Street Couples club meeting with scenes from The Four Poster Quadrille and Anne of a Thousand Days. They will perform after a 6 30 covered dish supper chaired by Mr and Mrs Bernard Knight with help from Mr and Mrs Donald Freeman.
The State Highway Commission will open bids at 10 a.m. on Jan 11 for the Moatsweag overpass carrying Route U S 1 over the Maine Central railroad tracks at the Woolwich Wiscasset line. The 42 mile highway project includes 165000 pounds of structural steel 360 cubic yards of concrete a 28 foot roadway and two 22 foot safety walks.
Mrs Carrie Sipinney Loon, 91, widow of David Loon, died Sunday at her Woolwich home. Born August 19, 1864 in Winslow, she was daughter of Albert and Mary Palmer Palm er. She lived in Popham before moving to Woolwich six years ago and attended the Methodist church. Surviving is her daughter Mrs Clarence Getchell of Woolwich. Body to be entombed at Oak Grove for spring committal at Oak Cemetery Georgetown.
Funeral services for Frank W Perkins were conducted at 2 pm Monday at Curtis Funeral Home with the Rev. James L Gilnt officiating. Bearers were Fred Morton, Clinton D Wilson, Stanley Comeau, Eugene Desmond, William Curran, and Roland Robinson. Burial was in Oak Grove.
Funeral service for James W. Dunton 55 an executive assistant with the Maine Turnpike Authority who died December 27 after a short illness was held at First Congregational Church South Portland. Born October 14 1900 in Bath he attended Morse High School and the University of Maine. He lived in South Portland previously Gardiner and was active in Masonic Solar Lodge Bath and the Good Roads Association. Survivors include his widow Sally Harrison a daughter Joanne a son James R. Dunton a sister and a brother.
Lawrence B Martin 59 of 37 Chester Street Groton Conn died suddenly early Saturday at Lawrence Memorial Hospital New London after a day as patient Born West Gorham Maine December 29 1896 son of Samuel B and Ruth Martin He was supervisor of arrangements in Electric Boat Co Groton for 22 years Previously with Bath Iron Works and Central Maine Power Co He served in Army Air Force Balloon Division in World War I in France June 1918 to June 1919 Member of Union Lodge Masons Submarine Craftsmen Club and Electric Boat Men’s Chorus Survived by widow Ruth Ward a daughter Mrs Herbert S Williams of Groton two sisters Mrs Cora Eastman of Groton and Mrs Harwood A Keyes of Fitchburg MA and three grandchildren.
Sandra L Marks eight year old daughter of Airman Warren F Marks of Duluth Minn and granddaughter of John J Marks of Bath Me died from a chest wound when an army carbine discharged in the hands of her younger brother Warren Marks Jr at the Hampden home of her grandparents Mr and Mrs Guy Tribou During holidays visit investigators say the boy found ammunition and loaded the gun while the grandparents were away The mother Mrs Louise Marks lived in Westfield Mass at the time of the incident.
Funeral services were held for Margaret Florence Frye who died after a long illness. The Bath native daughter of James and Margaret Farrell, educated in Bath and Bath High, lived in Phippsburg briefly, then resided in Bath for 40 years. Survived by daughters Alice Bowen of Bath and Christine Adams of East Brunswick, and grandkids John W Adams Mildred Adams Basil Bowen Jr. Bearers named Ammon Soule Russell Farrow Herbert Grover Allan Ramsay.
Frank W Perkins 78 of 937 High street Bath died at Bath Memorial hospital Friday night after a long illness. Born in Bath March 12 1877 he was son of Alden and Katherine Weeks Perkins and a lifelong Bath resident. A former crockery salesman for Dr Percy and Co and later a traveling salesman until retirement he helped lead the Colonial Club as president in 1911. He is survived by a cousin Fred Emmons of West Bath.
Mr and Mrs Donald B Hop kins Jr and daughter have taken up residence in the recently built home at 2931 Washington Street.
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