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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1958
Page
6
The Bath Chronicle reports on wartime community life including visits by Lewiston residents and students from Jackson College. It notes lectures by Bath Iron Works manager Charles P. Wetherbee, school thrift stamp drives, a postponed PTA program, Ladies War Relief activities, and dockyard changes. Naval and local officials are mentioned with appointments and busy social events.
Local fishermen shipped many bushels of smelts to the Boston market today and fetched fancy prices. The Bath Driving Club planned the second Winter race on Lily Pond Thursday with a strong field of Brunswick horses and local colts. Mrs Charles W Clifford and Millicent were visiting Portland. Percival Chase of Orono visited Bath for the week with Leon Harris. Oliver Moses on business in New York. Maude Macomber returning to Portland. Howard Whitten of Wiscasset joined the Texas Steamship Co as office boy. Ivan F E Lang deputy state insurance commissioner visited Bath on business. Friends greeted William R Dean upon his return.
January 1918 Bath notes report a large audience for the Chapman concert at Winter Street Church, the first in a trio series. Several residents travel for visits, business and family news while local figures such as Bowdoinham's B. B. Douglas and Bath residents are listed with daily movements and activities.
A program of readings and an exhibition of artistic dancing is scheduled with Miss Catherine Torrey assisting, joined by Mrs William Hawley Davis and Miss Mary Elliott of Brunswick. Percival Johnson substitutes as cashier at Dreamland Theater today due to the illness of Mrs Madelyn Tolman, the regular cashier.
Jan 13 1918 notes list Mrs Frank Shepard visiting Bradford Mass Miss Carrie Trott Mitchell school operated reoperating Sylvester in D T Percy Sons store as bookkeeper William T Cobb Bath Iron Works weekend Rockland Miss Jennie Harvey opens a children dance class Temple Hall Rockland Miss Margaret McLellan assists in D T Percy Sons Mrs Chester M Oliver Elm Street returned home Friday Mary McNamara returned to Boston guests Michael Biggins Battttery D 54th artillery Fort Levett Battery formerly 29th company C Battery D 54th regiment artillery Fort Levett home for weekend
Phil Wilson enlists in the Third Maine Regiment and a Bath club named The Happy Twenty forms among workers from Texas Co and Bath Iron Works. A dance at Armory Hall features a spotlight waltz won by Jerry Sullivan and Alice Lemieux. Rev Maurice J Duncklee resigns to serve YMCA war work in San Antonio.
The bulletin lists Frank L. Dennis and Howard F. Daniels among US Navy personnel stationed at Brunswick Naval Air Station as of January 1958. Dennis, a Ground Controlled Approach unit member, previously trained at Norman Oklahoma and Olathe Kansas, with earlier service in Boston and Lawrence Massachusetts. Daniels, an aviation storekeeper third class, reported to Brunswick January 6 after training in Bainbridge Maryland and Springfield Massachusetts, with duty in the supply department and VAH 5 assignment.
Charles C. Low will stay several days there and vicinity. Capt Will McDuffy resumed duties as plumber at Redlons this morning after a ten days absence caused by his father Randolph's illness. Ziga Elder and Mrs Carr of W Portland returned home Sunday after visiting Mr and Mrs Ezra Groves on Tallman Street.
Superintendent Addison gathered input from teachers principals and custodians to build a budget for the school department. Teachers listed classroom needs including painting repairs equipment and outdated texts. Custodians provided building needs while principals reviewed and flagged agreements deletions. Educational directors added budgets for physical education and visual education. Addison then studied the consolidated recommendations.
A Clarke county courthouse worker jailed 90 days was released to meet a grateful staff who passed the hat and gave him 18 dollars to help him on his way in Osceola Iowa.
Earl Weiter shausen of Pueblo Colorado spent four years building five coffee tables in his spare time. He cataloged 3 906 individual wood pieces used in the inlays after collecting supplies for 20 years at the lumber company where he works as a cabinet maker.
Ex Judge Osuta Osuna, son of former Police Judge John F E Brown, received a five dollar fine after running a stop sign. Brown said the suspension was out of respect for his former position. Osuna is a former Albuquerque police judge.
Barbera I Brewer registers probate actions naming executors administrators and guardians with dates in 1957 1958. The notice lists Rodney Smith Tarbox Frederick F Rockwell Jr E Effie Jo Simonds Harold M Simonds Fable Temple Marion S Pratt Bernard W Pratt Annie M Larrabee George F Minkham Ralph F E Keyes Chester H Totman and other executors guardians in Bath Newton Massachusetts and Maine with bond filings and appointment dates.
Richard B. MacLennan of the Bath Area Chamber of Commerce warns local groups to beware of unethical fund raisers using fronts for high pressure solicitations. He cites a Legion Magazine exposé and outlines simple steps to avoid scams, including checking with the Chamber and avoiding unknown solicitors.
The Cistercian nuns order traces its origins to a French foundation in 1125. It established a reformist Benedictine-based house emphasizing austerity, seclusion, and communal prayer under a female monastic framework.
A Bath probate court orders notices for multiple wills and administrations in Sapadahoe County. Named executors and executrixes include C Oliver Wellington, Lincoln E Kir Stean Morris Fish, Lathiien Bath, Harrys A Walter, Yvonne A Miller, Thelma M Burnham, George D Adams, James A McKay, Doris McKay Sanborn, Harold R Smeanson, Gardiner Yeerine, Glenwood C Brown, and Harold J Rubin. Hearings set for February first Tuesday with letters testamentary and administration without bond where applicable.
Real estate transfers recorded in Sagadahoc County Registry of Deeds Bath include multiple land and building transactions across Bath Bowdoinham Georgetown Woolwich Topsham and surrounding areas. Names include Grace C Dodge Lillian Marshall Lawrence Bates Katherine Lyde Lloyd Jipson Driscoll Althea Pelkey Parasis Sewall Hynes Lloyd Adams Wallentine Revers Haskins Hayes and Pushent al among others with properties on Western avenues High street Washburn street Webber avenue Front street Oak street Washington street Bridge street and Fort side road among locations.
Novelist Norman Mailer writes a stage version of Deer Park as his first foray into playwriting. The Broadway producer is reviewing the script. The work portrays Hollywood and eight figures from the Invovie colony, following Mailer’s bestseller The Naked and The Dead.
Truck driver Paul K. Morris of the 20th Century Canteen Co of Boston reported that on Brockton's main street a thief stole a tray of pastries and a tray of doughnuts from his parked truck. Police released a lookout for the suspect described as having a sweet tooth.
The State of Maine Sagadahoc County notices a public auction on February 18, 1958, at 2 PM for the real estate of Emily Field of West Bath, in satisfaction of a $405.47 debt plus $1240 costs awarded to Kenneth H. Russell of Portland. The parcel includes two described lots in West Bath with a known right of way called The Old State Road and other incident rights. Sheriff Lorine D Small issues the notice dated December 24, 1957.
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