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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1937
Page
2
Telephone workers stage a holiday party for needy boys and girls in the operators rest room at Sagadahock block. Hosts fund the event weekly, invite selected youngsters, treat them to ice cream fruit and candy, and Santa distributes clothing funds to support continued schooling.
Augusta reports the 88th Maine Legislature convened with caucuses Tuesday night. Governor elect Lew Barrows, age 44, prepares to take office after a no-legislative-experience start, backed by a committee of aides including Oliver Hall and Mildred Small. Barrows and family move into the Blaine mansion as inaugural events unfold, with a luncheon for state leaders and judges.
Passers in Roxbury and Bath visit friends and relatives including Abbie Minott and Ada Minott at the McCourt home. Residents report callers from Bath Portland and South Eliot, with Grange meetings at Merrymeeting Bowdoinham and Bodwell. Schools reopen after holidays. Bath pig weighs 390 pounds. Aurin Wallace plans winter stay in Bath after visiting Thorndike.
The Y M C A re elected its head and set 1937 budget figures with a $52 097 31 investment and a bond reinvestment plan after bonds called last year. Major committees include Finance and Trust Fund with members Nichols Low Sewall Morin Drake Skillings. Plans include portraits of Davenport and Moses, plus a Smith tribute. Augusta Rotary guests included Senator elect Owen and other state officials. Mayflower buds arrive at Bangor Commercial office as warm weather signals blooms.
The permanent Old Town firemen held a reception and banquet for special friends and former heads of the department marking the fire station's near complete modernization. Miss Grace Allen returned to Kents Hill preparatory school with her parents, Mr and Mrs Arthur P Allen, at the start of the holiday recess.
Miss Viola Sudds returns to Auburn after visiting Capt. Eugene W. Osgood and wife at the girt house reservation. Bath and Lisbon Falls residents visit town. Miss Catherine Mullaney hosts at sister’s home. Miss Barbara Sprague resumes studies at North Yarmouth Academy after vacation. Households exchange greetings from Florida. Coast Guard ties and lighthouse keepers noted. School opens for winter term. several residents visit Bath and Brunswick. Sunday school canceled due to illness and storm. local gatherings include games and refreshments.
Resolutions from Bodwell grange P H express sorrow for the deaths of Emma Sylvester and Melinda Perry. The group mourns the losses, drapes its charter for 30 days, and orders copies of the resolutions recorded and published in the Bath Independent.
We express appreciation for the sympathy and many acts of kindness extended by neighbors and friends during our recent bereavement Omar R. Perry Arthur R. Perry share gratitude for support and thoughtful gestures.
A lodge gathering featured gifts to the district deputy president and marshal, with Mrs. Carolyn Thompson as general chairman and Mrs. Ethel Parks assisting. The program included piano solos by Mrs. Carleton W Andrews, vocal solos by Sanford B. Nickerson, violin numbers, a piano duet by Irma D. Groves and Evelyn W. Sotheard, and various musical and comic acts. Georgia Pierce oversaw committees including kitchen and dining duties led by Eva Atwood and others.
Judge Walter S. Glidden presided over the first Sagadahoc probate court session of January. The long docket includes wills admitted to probate, administrations granted or appointed without bond, bonds filed and approved, inventories and accounts filed and allowed, and various petitions for administration and guardianship. A youth, Carl Creamer, 10, is highlighted for early gun handling earning him a $14 fox pelt sale, reflecting local life and occupations.
Norman Merritt McCabe, son of Mrs Harold Small of Freeport, has returned after visiting his uncle and aunt, Mr and Mrs Leon Pennell. The Pennells and their son Leon Jr and George Merritt were guests of Mrs George Dennison in Freeport. Village school reopened after a two week vacation.
Bowdoin College's basketball team, led by Harold Ashkenazy and Bunny Johnson, travels to St Mary’s to face the unbeaten Hilltoppers. St Mary’s relies on Bob Footer, Leland Fortier, Johnny Lomac and guard Skip Skaling to counter Bowdoin’s balanced lineup featuring Cartland, Frewer, Kibbe and Clarke. Coach Ernie Sarkis expects a tight, hard fought ball game on home court.
A Grace church parish house meeting of the North Center P T A voted to join others in staging a Girl Scout banquet in March to mark the Scouts 25th birthday. The Maine Congress of Parents and Teachers supports financing education bills via income and selective sales taxes.
Brown Co. announces 25000 tons of bale based pulp to be imported through Portland this year. Henry F. Merrill, president of the Port of Portland Authority, says the cargo will be loaded at Baltic sea ports in Sweden Norway Denmark and Finland aboard the Swedish American Line, which serves Portland in this trade.
Mrs Allen Pettingill with Mr and Mrs Malcolm Jewett of South Portland visited Tuesday calling on Mrs Pettingill's brother Perry Beals in Beals Maine.
Winter tourists heading to Florida can explore historic sites from New England to the Southeast. From Liberty Island to Morristown, Philadelphia, Gettysburg, Antietam, Fort McHenry, Lincoln sites, Mount Vernon, and Virginia battlefields, then to Raleigh Guilford Court House and Kings Mountain before Florida’s Fort Marion, Matanzas, and Fort Jefferson on Dry Tortugas offer a rich, era-spanning travelogue of national parks and monuments along Route 1 and connecting roads.
Donald Robert Bickford of Shburnham Massachusetts died on December 25 at Memorial Hospital in Gardner following two emergency operations. He was an 18th birthday casualty and a popular member of Bates College freshman class.
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