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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1952
Page
6
Forty years ago in Bath items report a Bath High reunion and ball at New Mead Inn, local officials, shipbuilding notes, and police court cases. Mentions a schooner, Maine Central engines, Bay Point cottages, and community events with multiple local figures named.
A Boston sailor spoke at a Union gathering on temperance, praising restraint and urging support for abstinence. The address emphasized responsible conduct at sea and on shore, reflecting ongoing temperance advocacy within maritime unions.
The pupils will give a recital this evening. The Bath Marine Bard has furnished music for the celebration in Wiscasset. The text contains garbled phrases and partial names but indicates a local cultural event with a musician and students performing tonight.
The upcoming meeting will approve the installation of officers and set the date for the next installation event. Members are informed to attend and participate in the planning of the ceremony.
Socialist candidate Eugene Debs spoke to about 1,500 listeners in Brunswick last evening, delivering a two hour address with frequent applause and interruptions as he urged his platform. A local report notes a good lodging and dining room bookings for July at nearby inns and mentions various local activities and notices.
Former Mayor Torrey opened his cottage at Arnold cottage today as Beach families evacuated to the area. The move involved numerous households and their relatives relocating to safer coastal accommodations.
A Bath region bulletin reports on activities along the New Meadows river including a motorboat outing at 30 mph and a boys camping trip in West Bath. It notes local strawberry picking at 20 cents per box, a Cedar street squirrel sighting, and traffic impacts at a street crossing. It covers Miss M Janet Cutter taking a teaching post at Whittier School in Merrimac and the school’s music program. Also mentioned are excursions, a wrestling event at Popham Beach, Boy Scout outings, military returns, and a harbor yacht accident near Harvard Yale races with a death aboard and repairs underway.
The annual outing of the pastors league outlines a trip since last November with a $2.50 per toy cost and a balance in the treasury after expenses. The event may include a trip down the St. Johns River and a shore dinner at New Meadows Inn, not limited to a cut.
The month of June averaged around 55 degrees with noonday highs near 70. Morning temps ranged to 14 degrees above baseline in places with heavy winds and a storm. Prevailing winds were southerly.
Wiscasset County Chapter meets in fall. Notes include Chester Merry Hodge plans for Maine Maritime Academy in Castine this August after high school graduation. Frederic L. Carlton enlists in a six week Northern Conservatory course in Bangor and will play piano with Bill Stetson's Dance Band. Janice Blagdon marks her second birth anniversary at Union Street home. Frank H. Gray retires after 52 years at Maine Central Railroad. Atwood of Rockland to fill. Andrews family departs for New York. house rented to Mrs. Mueller and family for July August. Mrs. Mary Grant arrives from Washington to cast anchor for summer. Emma Giffin, patient at Bath Memorial, dies. Leuella Frazier hospitalized at Maine General for care. Mildred Burrage shows Maine Water Society exhibit at Portland museum.
Fred Rines died in Boston on June 26 at age 81. Funeral services were conducted Monday at Cowley Funeral parlors with Rev. Robert P. Frazier officiating. He was born in Wiscasset and survived by four sisters and two brothers. Interment followed in Greenlawn cemetery.
Mrs. Ada Milliken Mrs. Madison Moore Mrs. Robert Jewell and Mrs. Linna Butler are listed among Bath social figures with Mrs. Rosen as a contributing hostesses in a regional society roundup.
New York Giants scouts Bob Trocolor Tony Ravish and Henry Turgeon will run a two day baseball school on July 21 and 22 starting at 10 a m at Pettingill park Auburn. Boys aged 17 to 22 may attend with spike shoes gloves and uniforms if provided by parents.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions a location on Treas Street and a person named Frances Pintueey with vague references to a sister and old Perry. No identifiable event, date, or actions are readable.
Fragmentary OCR lists multiple land transfers and property dealings. Names such as Vance L Wakefield Edward A Cummings Woolwich Ethel L Ra Clayton F Stinson Perley Hodgdon and Frank R Durant appear in transfers comprising land and buildings among various parties.
Miss Barbara Hart, daughter of Eugene G. Hart, was guest of honor at a nuptial shower hosted by Reginald Parker and Evelyn McPhee at Turner Court. Bride-to-be Fred T. Schock’s family attended. desserts and gift opening followed by a card session.
A burial service was held in Bath for Emma Eames 1865 1952 a famed opera singer who grew up in the area and returned to the city for burial. Her grave sits among birches maples and a grey granite stone bearing her name and life years.
The note records a 26th wedding anniversary for the tuna fishermen at West Point. In recent days Mrs. had been in Yonkers visiting relatives. Tuesday Mrs June M. ooe hosted a birthday party for her son Greg W. on his first birthday.
A fragmented note references a school auction and a building condemned premise with emergency appropriation concepts. It hints that provisions exist for amendments and contingencies, urging compliance with unclear authority. The text shows fragmented mentions of policy and approval processes without concrete names or dates.
Mr and Mrs Chester McCrater of Arrowsic announce the engagement of their daughter Miss Alice L McCrater to Las Wortman Jr US Navy son of Mr and Mrs Douglas Toe of Ohio The couple plan a July wedding McCrater attended Morse High School Wortman graduated from an Ohio school and has served in the Navy about a year and is stationed at the Brunswick Naval Air Base
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