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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1936
Page
9
Phippsburg and Bath area residents are reported with comings and goings. Miss Bessie Sprague returns from visits. John Holbrook leaves Central Maine General Hospital after five weeks as patient. Several locals attend events in Bath and Nequasset. ice harvesting continues. farm and club activities, visitors, and new equipment noted.
Auxiliary of Winter Street church met Tuesday evening in the ladies parlor with 35 present. Members sewed for the welfare committee, ate supper, and held a business session where Miss Janette W. Smith reported on welfare activities. A wedding gift was presented to Mrs. Edward L. Masters.
Senator N. Gratz Jackson spoke to the Men's club of Central church on a legislator’s work at the state capitol. He outlined the Appropriations committee and the demands for funds for state institutions. An informal Q A session followed, with a fish chowder served by R G Bailey, Arthur B Stilphen and Charles E Curtis, then a brief business meeting led by club president Karcher S Jackson.
Nominating petitions are filed to re elect William L. Skelton to a four year term on the Board of Education. Skelton, current chairman, is noted for his strong interest in school welfare and is regarded as a valuable member.
Mrs. Annie Percy hosted 24 members and guests at Parker Head with knitting and crafts before lunch. A 12 30 dinner followed and a vote approved a 156 piece dinner set for February. 4 15 was donated for the dishes. Names were designated to run districts and plans for the annual fair discussed.
A Brunswick audience viewed reels about the 1928 29 Byrd Antarctic expedition led by Admiral Richard E Byrd and Ruppert Bear of Oakland. Ninety five people traveled for 20 months with 13 in isolation amid Little America’s barren landscape. Dr Perkins described life there as lacking rocks trees or people.
A Rhode Island Red hen at North Orrington lays unusual double eggs. Each egg contains another egg, with the outer egg housing the narrow shell and the inner egg the size of a pullet egg. Both shells are hard and each egg has its own yolk. Five such double eggs have been laid at three day intervals.
Long list of Bath and Boothbay Harbor residents visit, attend movies, dine, and attend a China lecture aboard the Sunbeam boat. Notable attendees include Mrs. Ethel Osgood, Mrs. Grace Percy, Capt. and Mrs. Eugene W. Osgood, E. Seaman Drake, Norman Perkins, Dora Crowley, Floyd Bridges, and Ella Bridges, with activities at the lighthouse reservation and Kennebec River station.
City officers will hear Central Maine Power Co. pole location petition and discuss appointing a third member to the Annie L. Palmer will committee. The $10 000 trust income is to aid inhabitants as a three member panel determines. Executors include Charles C. Low and William L Skelton. Judge Arthur J. Dunton co-executor.
Attend the Thursday night event supporting the President's ball for the infantile paralysis fund. Local organizers urge community members to participate and donate to the cause.
Edward J. Red McMann, Bath native, gains recognition in football and basketball officiating. He worked Lewiston Edward Little autumn games and several Southwestern Maine Conference matchups for Portland Thornton and Westbrook. McMann starred at Morse High as a guard and captain in 1919 before his post at Kent’s Hill.
A Bangor truck driver George Anderson employed in city snow removal leapt from his loaded truck as it began sliding off a Kenduskeag stream snow dump near Franklin Street. The vehicle toppled over the cliff and plunged into the icy water, nearly submerging.
Friday evening law club met at Mrs. Elmer Coggeshall’s home and will gather next Friday with Mrs. Harry C. Webber. Miss Carolyn Oliver, nurse from Webber Memorial Hospital Biddeford, visits family in Maine before returning to Biddeford to practice private nursing. Nearby families and visitors from Somerville and Orange share winter stays and town trips. Friday night’s Winnegance Community club hosts North End Community club for a 60-player pitch match with refreshments. Women’s auxiliary to the Community club meets Thursday at two with Mrs. Harry C. Williams.
Charles Miller a 35 year old Moosehead lake guide known for conditioning Baer Carnera and Tunney arrived in Augusta Sunday night on snowshoes en route to Boston. His longest distance to date is 43 miles in 12 hours and he plans to cover 40 miles the final day reaching Boston late Saturday night. He has traveled entirely off highways through deep snow. Airplanes en route to Boston twice flew low to greet him as he crossed fields.
The mid winter meeting of the Maine Branch of the Woman's Auxiliary to the National Council of the Episcopal Church is planned in Gardiner on Feb 4. The program includes holy communion, business meetings, a quiet hour by Bishop Brewster, luncheon, and a 1:30 p.m. address by Rev. H. D. Gasson on Our Missions in Southern Brazil. Miss Daisy Waterhouse chairs hospitality.
Arthur H. Kateon wrote to Governor Hoffman complimenting his stance on the Hauptmann case. The governor answered that human life is sacred and all questions must be cleared before final action, expressing no regret for following conscience and duty even if results differ.
Dr. Milton Ellis of the University of Minnesota leads a two volume American Literature anthology project with Louise Pound of Nebraska and Dr. George W. Spohn of St Olaf College. Ellis also writes on William Hill Brown and revises a biography of Joseph Dennie for publication.
Franz A. Burkett of Portland and Fred E. Burkett of Union son and father held first in the Maine House and then in the Senate together. With the son a candidate for attorney general the father seeks renomination to the Senate to vote for him in the joint convention.
Mrs. Jennie Bates of West Paris reported her cat missing from Sunday to Thursday. The animal was located on the top cross bar of a telephone pole and rescuers used a ladder to bring it down. It remained unclear whether the cat had stayed up there or was frightened up.
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