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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1939
Page
7
Westport hosts honor for Mr and Mrs John J Roche of Watertown their 47th wedding anniversary at their Harriman Point cottage. A family party included four Roche sons and a decorated cake with many gifts and well wishes.
A strawberry festival is set for Thursday evening on the Methodist church grounds with a rain contingency for the parish house. At Emerson Lane unit A L meeting on Monday night Mrs Lelia Card was elected secretary. A basket lunch followed.
Miss Virginia H Stilphen of Richmond married Robert C Wing of Augusta in a late afternoon home ceremony. Rev Herbert E P Pressey officiated at St Marks Episcopal Church. The bride, attended by matron of honor Olive Curtis. best man James Wing. Wing is a U S Navy Reserve lieutenant. she a trained nurse from Massachusetts General Hospital.
Enterprise grange in Richmond held its Tuesday night session, the last until Aug. 15, with programs by lady officers including readings by Edith Blodgett and Ethel Rankins, a humorous talk by Herbert Stewart, and songs by Helen Bishop and others. Miss Ruth McMorrow of Dorchester Mass returned to her parents on Monday after a visit with Sister Mrs. Charles Miller Jr.
A Wednesday afternoon pet show at Mrs. Walter Edge's Summer home drew a small admission and will donate proceeds to Memorial hospital. Notable attendees included Mrs. Frederick Palmer and grandchildren James and Phyllis Bell, plus Mayor and Mrs. Arthur Sewall and other Bath and Cape Elizabeth guests.
In municipal court on Monday, Everett Babine, J Whitney Craige, George W Gallant and William J Ker were convicted of malicious mischief for setting a July 3 fire damaging Bath Water District property. They were ordered to pay $4.95 court costs each, restitution to the water department, and placed on one year probation. Clarence Wallace pleaded guilty to lobsters sale without license, fined $25 plus $ court costs and 30 days jail with sentence suspended and probation. Lennie Wallace also guilty, fined $25, costs $21.45, 30 days jail. A third man, Wal lace, not guilty on lobster theft, case continued to July 14. Two juveniles charged with driving without a license placed on six months probation and to pay $4.96 in costs. Roger S Holden found guilty of speeding, costs $11.05. Cases of John M Watson speeding and an intoxication arrest continued to July 15.
Five tuna were captured at Small Point during the weekend with top honors to Douglas Dearborn of New York City for a 600 pound seven foot fish. Oscar Gilliam of West Point landed two tuna, the largest over 500 pounds, with Ernest and Chester Wallace of West Point each taking one. The catches end a two week run of horse mackerel as Ernest Wallace also harpooned the season’s first tuna.
A long list of summer guests and residents fill Georgetown notes. Rudolph Trafton and family visit from Portland, others like Miss Federica Beer from New York, Dr. Harold Newman from St Louis, and Miss Ruth Hicks from Jamaica are mentioned. Local households host relatives and friends, with theater links and regional travel noted.
Pastor Nathan Brewer, a former Maine man and missionary in China for 22 years, spoke at the Seventh-day Adventist church on July 8. He recalled miraculous救 saves of missionaries, the role of censorship and police in Manchuria, and urged prayers for China as 23 people die each minute there. During the past year 500 were baptized in Manchuria.
Boothbay Region Garden club invites flower lovers to a two day show at Boothbay Harbor High School gymnasium. Friday 2 30 to 9 pm and Saturday 10 am to 6 pm showcase unusual exhibits and striking arrangements. Lieutenant Commander Edward J Fitzgerald ret USN leaves for Milwaukee to attend CDA and ADA meetings.
Patten Free Library lists June acquisitions across genres. Notable items include fiction by Naomi Royde-Smith and Ngaio Marsh, biographies of Jane Welsh Carlyle and the Prince Imperial, and travel and poetry volumes by Millay and Edna St Vincent Millay. Several juvenile titles accompany adult works.
Robert P. Shaw, director of the New York Museum of Science and Industry, is profiled in Popular Mechanics as using a swing analyzer to improve his golf score from the low nineties to the low eighties. The slow motion film, shot from three angles on a round platform, helps identify errors such as early hand raise, poor follow through, overswings, or misaligned club head.
Ernest Babine found guilty in municipal court Saturday morning on a false alarm charge for pulling a fire alarm at Box 19 on July 4. He was fined 25 dollars plus 33.51 dollars costs. The case's attorney plans to appeal to allow payment. Two other men, Everett Babine and George W. Gallant, along with William J. Kerwin and J Whitney Criage, were arrested for arson related to a Washington Street fire that damaged a tool box belonging to Bath Water District. more arrests were expected over the weekend amid other fires on the night of July 3.
A final tribute to Walter A. Murtauga, former Bathman, who died after a brief illness in a New York hospital was paid by many friends at committal services at Oak Grove cemetery. His body was brought from New York where the funeral was held. his wife Ethel Snow of Bath accompanied by Mrs. Carl Liberty of Portland and Miss Martha Crosby of Bath attended. Rev. Charlies M. Tubbs of Grace Episcopal Church officiated. Mrs. Charles H. Cahill drove to Washington, New Jersey to visit her daughter and will return Thursday, accompanied by Miss Lois Swet.
Warm Maine coast attracts many Summer visitors to Five Islands as cottages fill and sailing races flourish between Cozy Harbor Southport and Five Islands. Notable guests include Leon Williams of Waltham and Bates College faculty P W Wilkins with family, plus numerous Bath, Boothbay and Malden Island occupants enjoying the season.
Walter A Murtaugh a Bath resident for decades died of heart trouble at Knickerbocker hospital New York near his West 77th Street home. A polo player and Bath Iron Works draftsman he later led the New York office of the company and worked for Fore River Bethlehem and Western Electric. He appeared on stage in local productions and vaudeville and served as Colonial club president and city councilman. His wife Ethel Snow survives him.
Russell Sargent Fenn, 51, of Hamden, died suddenly at his New Haven area home. Born in New Haven, son of Bruce and Elizabeth C. Sargent Fenn, he was Yale Class of 1910 and served as a World War I Air Service lieutenant. He later worked with Sargent & Co. as assistant to the general manager and was twice married. Surviving are his second wife Frances Anna MacDonald Fenn and three sons from his first marriage: Bruce Fenn II, Russell Fenn Jr., and Converse Fenn.
Lieut. Commander Thomas J. Casey U S N Mrs Casey and son Ward died Monday night in Bath at the Red House He had served as Assistant Inspector of Machinery at Bath Iron Works 1934 to 1936 He was detached from the destroyer Jarvis and will report July 24 to Annapolis as marine engineering instructor Mrs Casey and son Ward visited Atlanta relatives since February then moved to Bangor before Annapolis lodging with Karl Philbrick
Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Wyman of Camden New Jersey hosted Miss Catherine Angle and Charles Lenny of Camden for a stay at the Wyman Summer home in Phippsburg Center. The Wymans will spend the season there while their guests return to New Jersey after several days. Miss Dorothy Waldo of Kalamazoo Michigan arrived Saturday to spend two weeks with Miss Barbara Donnell at Pepham Beach.
William B Kendall of Bowdoinham retired fertilizer manufacturer and former Maine House member died at his Old Orchard Beach summer home after years of illness He founded Sagadahoc Fertilizer Co and Long Branch sheep farm led Maine sheep breeding and helped shape state law on education and geography He leaves a sister Carrie Kendall and brother Edward P Kendall of Bowdoinham with his widow Ella Adams Kendall previously of Bowdoinham dies wife died ten years earlier
Funeral services were held Sunday at the Baptist church in Bowdoinham for William B. Kendall , longtime fertilizer manufacturer. He died Thursday at his Summer home in Old Orchard Beach and was buried in a casket he had directed, built from an oak tree from his land with wooden pegs. Dr. Clifton D. Gray of Bates College officiated. Honorary bearers included W. D. Hutchins, William B. Skelton, C. A. Knight, J. H. Ames and others. active bearers from Bowdoinham were Carl E. Roberts, Earle W. Harvey, Kendall Lord, Herbert Adams, Charles Blodgett and R. A. Dickinson. committal services were read at Bayview cemetery by Rev. John N. Palmer.
Mrs Eleanor Rowe 24 formerly of Bath died Wednesday at Western Maine Sanatorium Hebron. Wife of Erwin Rowe Lewiston she was born January 29 1916 in Bath daughter of Archie and Nellie Libby. Survived by husband son Steven Erwin Rowe daughter Harriet Brown parents four sisters seven brothers.
Captain Victor J. Spicer died Sunday July 2 from abdominal trouble and was buried in the Government cemetery at Nassau Bahamas the next day according to an air mail letter received by his wife Mrs. Spicer 74 Court Street Rev Edward Douglas officiated at the committal service and the crew of the yacht Atawan owned by Mrs Eleanor Drake of New York attended Spicer who had been away three years planned to come home this Summer to visit his wife News of his death has nearly overwhelmed Mrs Spicer who is under a physician’s care and confined to her home since the message arrived
Elizabeth G. Rossiter of East Boston widow of Joseph Rossiter died Saturday afternoon at Bath Memorial hospital after a two day illness. Born in Phippsburg daughter of William T. Morse she was active in the Daughters of the American Revolution in Massachusetts. Body to Boston burial at Woodlawn Cemetery Everett funeral Tuesday afternoon at 2 at 114 Byron Street.
Mrs Frederick E Drake entertained the Monday contract club for the last meeting of the season at Birch Point. Out of town guests included Mrs Charles J Donnell of Kalamazoo Michigan Miss W Ethielda Shoe of Philadelphia Mrs Guysbert B Vroom of Phippsburg and Mrs Donald S Sewall of Boothbay Harbor.
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