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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1949
Page
6
Miss Florence Cole of Portland visiting Bath became the victim of a train joke when a Bath friend on the Portland bound train tossed rice as though a wedding had just happened at the station. Miss Cole vows revenge on Bath girls who planned the prank. The note closes with Bath stores adorned with mountain laurel and local social items.
Mrs Emma Pierce and Mr and Mrs Roger Pierce attended the wedding of Miss Cora Belle daughter of Mrs Ellen F Thomas and William Willis Dan born both of Portland last evening at the bride parents home in Portland Rev A H Wright performed ceremony The bridegroom belongs to Portland fire department Other items include Grand Lodge K of P Maine committees E C Plummer on printing and supplies Charles D Newell on finance G I Waltz visiting and touring Singers Sasanoa Tribe election officers Woodbury Potter Edward Alexander committee for clambake Williams cottage at Foster Point bought by Boston parties and Dougherty and Cox trips to Portland
July 1 1909 Bath Maine notes Mrs Annie Russell York, returning from England, travels to her summer home near Christmas Cove. The Brookline party of E J Stewart family arrives en route to Kennebec Point. Harry Washburn opens a reinforced concrete fireproof garage with display windows and a turntable. Hyde Guards plan a 600 yard rifle range near Sanford place West Bath. Flusser torpedo destroyer salutes Bath Iron Works steam and a locomotive responds. William Delano begins Bay Point casino construction. Ike McDonald versus Googin in a three mile roller skating race set for Saturday.
July 2 1909 Miss Barbara Black a clerk at D T Percy Sons is on a three week vacation visiting her parents in New Jersey. Tomorrow night William W Robinson and Miss Carrie Smith will go out. Street and Sewer Commission may fill the hollow at Russell street extension and Middle street to ease grade and create an ideal route to the South End. Bath residents plan Sunday excursion to Portland on the steamer City of Bangor with a stop in Portland. tickets limited and the steamer departs at 12 15.
A Bath resident’s summer luck in New Meadows is noted as proverb. His boat drifted overnight but the next morning lay undamaged within 100 feet of his house. An oar later returned to the float. He loses and regains his pocket pipe within Bath. Deputies search two Center Street saloons for liquor and forward beer samples for analysis. Davis Hatch Jr visits with Alma Bucknam. Mrs Chalmers and daughter arrive from Scotland to join her husband at Bath Iron Works.
July 5 1909 The 1.40 express from Boston brought the season’s largest crowd to Bath with eleven cars transferring across the Kennebec and two trips by the Fernando Gorges. The day featured Anglo ice cream freezers at D T Percy & Son with Lillian Welch making 12 quarts. a Bath swimming party by four local girls. a new Bath Hardware Co plan by G G Hart and H S Carlisle of Woburn. Master Plumbers of Maine outing at Garnet Bridge. a big baseball forecast match Baths vs Sagadahoes. and Rev Richard W Phelan’s brief visit from St Bernard greeted by many friends.
Bath's only Fourth of July baby, a son weighing 6 pounds 7 ounces, born at the hospital to Mr and Mrs Everett Quimby of 32 Farrin Street. Dr John F Dougherty officiated. A nurse attached a bright red firecracker to the boy's bed tag in celebration of Independence Day.
A heaping crowd of 176 children rides to the beach aboard two green buses amid a songfest and playful roughhousing. Supervisors keep order as lunch and games follow, with no accidents reported and mothers watching nearby.
Supervisors watch over visiting youngsters at the beach trip returning confidence to parents as patrols gather stray toys and items. A four foot brown haired sleeper hid behind driftwood, later found and identified as a camper. Buses fill with cheerful children heading home from the White Spot beach outing.
A school sports day hosted by Bath Bus Service featured boys and girls in a softball game, tug of war, and twelve mixed races. Winners included Peggy Moriarty and Robert Spicer in the mixed race, several group and individual winners among girls and boys, followed by swimming. The National Guard donated a field kitchen helping in hot dogs, rolls, coffee, and service.
The Bath Iron Works Recreation Association beat Hallowell A A 9 to 1 at Kelley Field Sunday afternoon. Willie Wilson pitched the win for Iron Workers, with Furrow and Parker delivering key hits as the team scored in the third, sixth, and seventh innings. Hallowell managed a lone run in the third. Parker and Bean hit .500 with two hits apiece.
Food for two hundred hungry youngsters came from Bath area businesses and wholesalers, both local and external, who donated generously for the picnic. The collective effort highlighted community support and charitable giving in the event.
Personal notes record Betty Trainor visiting Ellsworth Bar Harbor Helen Milan guest of Stephen Crosby Dorothy Marks taken to Memorial hospital for emergency appendectomy James Henderson returns to Sears duties. Mrs Henderson back at Central Maine Power Co. Clarence Burch and Fern Boucher welcome a seven and a half pound son born July 6 at Naval hospital Quonset Point R I. Fern Boucher is daughter of Francois Boucher of Floral street. others sail to Boothbay Harbor on Viking with Skipper George Lowden. Squirrel Island sail hosted by Mrs Joseph Oliver and Mrs Frances Clark with several guests.
Former Morse pitcher Richard Lefty Gilmore departed Wednesday for Augusta to meet Boston Red Sox scouts Don Brennan and Neil Mahoney. He then proceeded to Stellaton Nova Scotia to join a Canadian Summer league, possibly staying until September before entering Maine Vocational Technical Institute in Augusta.
Bill Johnson rested regulars and sent Smith Tobey Junior Legion reserves against the U S S Gyatt sailors at Kelley field. The junior team, with many eighth graders and freshmen, fell 15 to 13 as Haggett struggled with 12 strikeouts and a string of errors behind him. Hessler led Gyatt with three of seven hits.
The Country Club golf course saw high turnout over the Fourth as many residents joined the event. Qualifying rounds for the Presidents Cup finished Monday with 18 holes played and match setups to follow. The McInnes Trophy begins this week with 36 holes to be completed by Sunday night for the low net prize.
After the dealers' floats came the Sons of Union Veterans color guard and Torrent No. 1 drum corps. These two elements were followed by the Torrent firemen, the Sagadahoc handtub and firemen, the Woolwich fire department, and the Bath fire department including its equipment and members.
Maine Central officials and a Maine line crew welcomed 2,000 spectators as 1849 era passengers inspected the engine and two cars at Bath station. The first passenger locomotive and cars rolled in on a free excursion to York Junction, with flat cars carrying settees for riders.
An employee of Elite Beauty Salon returned from Boston where she spent the weekend with her husband, Donald Weeks. Weeks, serving with the Army ROTC unit in Maryland during the summer, was met by his wife in Baltimore.
After two weeks, the Giants hold first place with four wins and no losses. Underwood leads league batting at .643 with nine for 14, while Christiansen hits .455 with five for 11. In the final game, the Giants beat the Dodgers 8 to 3, with Underwood earning the win and Christiansen striking out twice. Bud Christiansen and Underwood had three hits apiece for the Giants. Lewis and McPhee contributed key hits as well.
Bath-Woolwich Baseball standings show Indians and Red Sox tied atop the league with 3 wins. Cardinals and Braves close behind, Dodgers and Yankees with one win, while the Indians defeated Cardinal 18 to 8 at Sewall's Field. Next week schedule features Braves vs Red Sox and Dodgers vs Cardinals.
At a Court of Probate in Bath County proceedings name John W Huskin Georgetown deceased. The court orders notice by publication for three weeks in Bath Independent. An account is presented by executrix Helkins. Judge Arthur J D signs true copy by John L. 25-30-7.
A probate entry records Gertrude Waterville Maine named executrix for the deceased George A. Millik Bath. The Register notes appointment without bond dated June 14 and a copy of the original will or testam
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