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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1946
Page
5
Community clubs report activities and awards from October events. Masonic lodge meetings, Farm Bureau recognitions, and Red Men raise members. Education week plans stir discussions while lodge officers are installed and a lobster supper follows a festive night.
The notice board records Mabel’s funeral at Gardiner on Saturday morning. It notes a fire call to Fenton Fowles in Huntoon Hill on Oct 29. It lists Garrison Hill OES guest officers night with a 6 30 supper under Mrs. Cora Beane and October obs by Wiwumacha and Mt. Pisgah chapters. It mentions Lincoln County Union of Women’s Clubs Fall meeting at Wiscasset Inn October 31 with luncheon and talks by Mrs. Cushman and Mrs. Rand and performances by local clubs.
Sunday school 9 45 and worship 11 at First Congregational Church while St Philip's offers Holy Communion 8 and 11 with church school at 9 45 and monthly communion at 8. Local notices report moves births visits and weekend guests including Metcalfs departure for Providence and various relatives in Waldoboro Dresden Mills and Edgecomb.
West Bath Grange met Monday with 109 members to finalize plans for the annual Grange Fair and sale on Thursday and Friday. A supper, entertainment, and dance will precede Friday’s fair with a full orchestra. Fire Chief Harold Nickerson spoke on fire prevention during Fire Prevention Week. The event featured booths, novelties, and a Halloween themed next week program, with refreshments served and dancing to close. Funeral of Frank O. Smith noted in Bath on Sunday.
A list of Bangor area residents recounts weekend trips and visits. Roy R Marston and Mrs. Marston joined journeys through Jay Livermore Falls Rumford Falls Bethel and South Paris. Mrs Marston visits North Reading Mass. Other locals host guests in Newcastle Bath Water Town Damariscotta York Rutland and Worcester.
Social Eight club met with Mrs Irving Burnham for sewing and refreshments. A surprise 13th birthday party for a son and 15th for Dorothy occurred at Mr and Mrs Fred Bubner’s home with 27 candles and gifts. Numerous visits, travel between Bath, Malden, Webster, Quincy, and Florida are noted along with local weddings and military discharges.
Mrs. Carrolleer Brunewick and Mrs. William Armstrong led two grandchildren and parents on a White Mountains excursion when a mishap occurred. A local site reports details of the outing and the group’s travel, with no injuries specified.
Local items report Mrs Lillian Barbour returning home to Small Point road from Portland while Mrs Minnie Malcolm heads to Portland for the winter. Jack Wade returns from Memorial hospital with John Davis operating the Cross Roads store in his absence. Harold Seavey at Squirrel Point Light earns only 20 cents a pound last week. Miss Bess Dickinson spends the weekend in Under-the-Lee and Miss Grace Dickinson helps host a Winter Street Church parish supper.
Inspectors tested water and soil at Cox's Head clam flats finding few bar clams of excellent quality while Thayer cottage area yielded dark mud and plentiful clams with mixed quality results. Local residents rely on these clams for meals and industry will await test outcomes. Lt. Kenneth Goodwin visited his Cox's Head home after seven years, along with other visitors from Boston and Bath.
Small Point forenoon group from Small Point and Phippsburg Center hiked Morse mountain and cooked dinner near Bailey's shore with Betty Bowker Jean Bowker Gilman Adel Hunt and others. Church school attendance totaling 15 at the parsonage plus a time change to 11 o'clock on Sundays. Brownies from Parker Head meet after school at the parsonage and Girl Scouts met to plan a Halloween party at the Small Point parsonage Friday Oct 25 from seven to nine.
The Woolwich area's events list a 6 member East Brunswick piano recital, a welcome address by Chief Stanley Jack, and a party with Bob White and Ray Barter performing. Church notices cover Woolwich Baptist Montsweag, Nequasset Congregational, and Woolwich Center services with Rev F H Johnson, plus Halloween planning, Girl Scouts, and senior patrol attendance at Morse Biddeford game.
Mr and Mrs greet the arrival of a son, David Frederick, at Memorialital. Mrs Stanton and family enjoy a two week vacation from duties at the office as Miss Leona Presley rests at the Maine hospital, joined by Delmar Cain and Miriam Robson.
Esther Lodge signals honor to Mrs Potter at the annual session. She served as degree mistress for Queen Esther and noble grand of the lodge in 1941 and 1942, deputy marshal for District No 10 in 1943, and wears the Decoration of Chivalry. She holds offices in the Rugged Cross White Shrine and is vice president of the King Auxiliary of Canton.
The parish aims for a 50 percent rise in regular worship attendance and a 500,000 increase in active church workers training. Goals include 50 percent more regular givers, 1 million proportionate givers, 500 additional members who are others, 255 more in overall church giving, and $30 million yearly to all causes. Also planning conferences in November December target the year ahead. Mr and Mrs Fred Hayward of High Street were in Portland Tuesday.
Coolidge spoke Friday evening with Mrs James Nostall of Mr and Mrs J Miller. A family moved to Bath for the winter. Mrs Mina Hinckley visits daughter Mrs Sumner Mains and Mr Mains. Mrs Maurice Burns and daughter with Mrs Burns mother Mrs Sylvia Warren spent the weekend in the White Mountains.
The Dresden academy will show the motion picture The Pilgrims this Friday. A distinguished board of editors appointed by a Yale committee will visit the legislature soon. Mrs Carleton Bee of South Dresden is visiting her parents Mr and Mrs John Parker in Richmond.
Mr Lannena Somerville Massachusetts who attended the Jenkins wedding in Bath Saturday evening stays with her sister Mrs Fenton Moore of Cherry street. Mr Dyer takes a three weeks vacation and the party will go to New York City to visit Mr and Mrs George Decker and stop at Cape Cod before returning home.
Wilbur A. Casey of Worcester Massachusetts was a guest at his family’s home on 1 Goddard Street, joining relatives in a local visit described as an end gathering.
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