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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1956
Page
2
Leonard I Rainey and John F Mezenski aboard the U S S Saratoga headline a Bath area naval note as the carrier returns to New York after sea trials. Amid travel, hospital stays, family visits, vacations and convoys, Bath residents are noted touring New England states and hosting relatives while civic life continues with police vacations and community events.
Mr and Mrs John Craft of Lisbon Falls announce the birth of their son Randy Wayne at Memorial Hospital on July 11. The baby weighed six pounds twelve ounces. Proud mother Mrs Madelyn Thayer Craft formerly of this city.
Mr and Mrs Paul Cushman and son Thomas of Gorham visited Mrs Cushmans parents Mr and Mrs John Howe on upper Washington. Mr and Mrs Stanley Hunter and family of the old Brunswick road are spending summer at Birch Point in their cottage. Mr and Mrs Robert D King and children Arthur William Ellen of Weston Mass vacationing at York Beach were guests of Mr Kings brother and wife on Bedford Street. Pvt Richard Hinds US Army left Wednesday for Fort Sill Oklahoma to attend guided missiles training after a 10 day furlough with his parents Mr and Mrs Frank Hinds of Valley Road. Hinds is Morse High Class of 1952 graduate and was employed at Bath Iron Works before enlisting.
Mr and Mrs Arthur King of Edgett street have returned from a visit in Waukegan Illinois with their daughter and son in law Chaplain and Mrs Richard Ricker and children
Mrs Willis Morse nee Jean Brown flies from Portland on Thursday afternoon to Long Beach California to join Ensign Willis Morse aboard the USS Philippine Sea. She is accompanied by her parents who saw her off. The plane was due to land Friday at one in the morning.
Mr and Mrs Maurice O Fortier moved from 10 Heath Lane Lambert Park to 1151 High Street. Their Bath visitors included Arthur Wing Lloyd Coombs Robert Dyer Robert Fletcher and Ellen Fortier of Bath plus Mrs Fletcher's sister and husband David Walsh of Brooklyn New York. Mrs Lucien Bisson on High Street hosted her contract club at Mere Point summer home with a cookout and afternoon cards.
Mrs. Mabel Dickey, longtime clerk in the garment room at Senter's Inc., has completed her duties there and is spending the season at her summer home in Georgetown.
Capt and Mrs Ednar Owens and two children Sheila and Arnold left Sabino for Chicago where Owens serves in the U S Army. Mrs Bertie Owens of Bath visited in Sabino with her son in law and the Foster’s Point area connection. Doris Doughty leaves Morse High for United Airlines in San Francisco as an office file clerk after California trip. Joan Crooker returns from Girl Scout Camp Laughing Soon in Oxford. Mr and Mrs Crocker to drive to camp with daughter. Mrs Cleveland Burns and Douglas Burns spend a week in Boston.
Mrs. John H. Hunt of Bangor returns to Sebasco to spend the summer with her daughter and husband Mr. and Mrs. Chester Wilson. Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Pratt of Cobbroad visit their Sa bine cottage as they camp at Small Point on vacation with their Groton son Bernard Pratt Jr. Mrs. Raymond Oliver of Winnegance spends the weekend at the Cosmopolitan club. Mrs. Edmund Rothwell and Miss Irene Ingalls, winter Floridians, stay at the Rothwell Summer home in Boothbay Harbor after calling Bath friends.
Mrs. Lawrence Murrell and her daughter Linda of Windsor Connecticut visit her parents Mr. and Mrs. Brian Jewett of Day's Ferry. Merton Wright of Bath Iron Works takes his annual vacation and visits his nephew and family at Sebago Lake. Mrs. Lee Williams returns to duties at the Grant store after a week off.
Mr and Mrs Arthur Miller of Brooklyn New York vacationing in the city stay with Mrs Miller’s sister Mrs Robert Levine at 141 Lincoln Street. Frank Reay of North Street returns to Hyde Windlass Co after two weeks’ vacation with his wife Linda and mother in law Mrs Viola Mae Beane of Wiscasset. Mae Slattery of Springfield Massachusetts arrives to visit her sister and brother in law Mr and Mrs Arthur E Bourque at 1217 High Street.
Mr and Mrs Louis M Silverman returned to 175 Oak Street after a week in New York attending the Summer furniture market and the lamp and home furnishing show. Mrs Leroy R Young and her twin sons Lee Charles and John Michael, born June 28 at Memorial hospital, have gone home to Washington with Mrs Young accompanying them. Charles D Milliken US Navy sea cook first class departed Brunswick Naval Air Base for Malta with his squadron and expects to return in December. Edith Riley of Portland was weekend guest of her sister and brother in law at their Corliss Street home.
Mr and Mrs Thomas McKay of 5 Cummings Street hosted Thursday guests Mr and Mrs James Larkin and daughters Ann and Ellen of Woodland. On Saturday Wilfred Larkin and children Pat Ann and Matt of Waterbury Conn were guests at the McKay home.
The Brunswick wedding drew many relatives and friends including Mr and Mrs John Alain and daughter Marie Mr and Mrs Charles Benoit and sons Joe and Charlie Mr and Mrs Peter Couture Mr and Mrs Lorenzo Michaud and daughter Marie Allen Power Miss Bertha Savoie Mrs Marion Savoie Mrs Philip OHara Mrs Alphee Genthner Mrs Warren R Munsey Mrs Rose Lightbody Miss Sally Sue Wright Mr and Mrs Donald Harrison Larry Pecci Miss Elvera Pecci Mr and Mrs Lucien Tardiff Mr and Mrs Harry Musk John Flaherty Mrs Bradford Belanger Miss Annette Belanger Bradford Belanger Jr and Mr and Mrs Rosario Tardiff.
Mrs. Clara Smart and daughter Shirley return home after a week in New York City. Mrs. Gerard Billington returns from Birch Harbor and visits family in Lamoine. Mr. and Mrs. Walter P. Wass entertain guests from Rochester New York. The Colbys host relatives from Pontiac Rhode Island. Colby works at Quonset Naval Air Base. John Morse fourth travels to Winthrop for YMCA camp. Dusel and Jones families end two week vacation at Damariscotta Lake. Edward Wilson, naval trainee, hosts family visit from Bainbridge Maryland.
Mr and Mrs Lincoln Sib ley and Mrs Henry Campbell of Melrose Mass returned to Oliver street after a week at Mrs Manley Reed's Juniper Point East Boothbay. Mrs Claire Langevin and Miss Rose Turcotte of Fall River Mass returned home after visiting Mr and Mrs Alphonse Turcotte in Winship street. Mr and Mrs Clarence Irish and daughter Ann of 1183 Washington street will vacation at Popham Beach with Mr and Mrs Richard Gilmore and children Benson and Kevin of Auburn formerly of this city. Mr Irish will be on vacation from duties in the X ray department at Bath Iron Works Corp.
Henry T. B. Leeman of 13 Somerset Place is hospitalized at St. Andrews Hospital Boothbay with a spinal injury from a chain saw accident at his Edgecomb summer home last Friday. His son Arthur Leeman assisted in the tree cutting when a falling limb struck him.
Mr and Mrs David Clark of 1530 Washington Street welcomed a baby girl at Osteopathic Hospital of Maine in Portland. The infant Heidi Leanne weighed six pounds three ounces and joins the Clark household.
West Bath Grange organized a juvenile Grange on Thursday evening with parents and children in attendance. State Deputy Mrs. Alice Harrington led the meeting naming officers led by master Edgar McNelly and matron Arvella Holbrook with Helen McNelly as assistant matron. Regular meetings set for the second and fourth Thursdays at seven in the Grange hall, first on July 26.
Miss Marilyn J. Thomas and Robert E. Gilliam were married in a double ring ceremony at St. Marys RC Church in West Point. The nuptial mass was led by Rev. John E. Bellefontaine at 10 a.m. A wedding breakfast followed at the Four Seasons in Freeport and a reception at Bodwell Grange in Small Point. The couple reside at 24 Dummer Street. Out of town guests were listed from Scarsdale New York Yonkers Mountain Lake New Jersey and other nearby communities.
Miss Nancy Wakely of Topsham will marry David Peter Schlieper of Nashville Indiana on August 4. Miss Jane Ledyard and Miss Patti Hayes attended a pre nuptial shower in the city with Wakely family members present.
Mr and Mrs Henry H Hill of Boston Frank M Lawrence Belmont Mass and Mrs Mary B Swain of Westbrook Conn are guests for ten days of Mr and Mrs Horatio L Baker at their home Bluff Head Arrowsic
Mr and Mrs Albert S Cressey of Portland were Sunday guests of Miss Alice B Ramsay at her home on Bailey street. In the afternoon they attended the Christian Science lecture in Newcastle.
Andrew R. Cahill of 68 South Street resumes duties at Lamey Wellehan shoe store in Portland after returning to work on Monday following an absence.
Miss Elizabeth Jane McPhee daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard S. McPhee of 43 Dummer Street became the bride of Richard Torrey son of Mr. and Mrs. Haviland Torrey of 16 Cobb Acre Saturday at Central Congregational Church. Clergyman Rev. Craig H. Richards officiated a double ring ceremony followed by a lawn reception.
Miss Syvilla Ada Wyman of Small Point and Eugene Cedric Sukeforth of Bath married Sunday afternoon at 2 30 in the First Baptist church. The ceremony was conducted by Rev H Macy Whitehead and followed by a vestry reception. The couple, both Morse High 1955 graduates, will reside at 50 Elm Street.
The ceremony at St Marys Church united Miss Marilyn MacGillivary daughter of Mr and Mrs Percy MacGillivary of Five Islands Georgetown with Lucien Harmon Tardif son of Mr and Mrs Rosario J Tardif of Russell Street in a double ring wedding. Attending out of town were numerous Five Islands Georgetown Bath Lewiston and Topsham residents.
Mr and Mrs John McMann and their nephew Alan Dinkelacker of Lynnbrook L I have returned after several days visit in this city with Mr McManns brothers and sisters Edward J McMann George F McMann Albert H McMann Mrs Carrie Le an and Mrs Albertha Williams
Duncan McInnes, superintendent of the Outfitting Department at Bath Iron Works Corp., is on his annual vacation.
Mr and Mrs George M Carlton Jr and their daughters of 68 Green Street reside at their Damariscotta Lake cottage for the summer as reported in local society notes.
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