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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1942
Page
8
A sweep of community notes from Bath to Boothbay includes births at Bath Memorial Hospital with Frederick Burbank III. marriages such as Miss Margaret Otelia Rogers to Roger Webster Dow of Wiscasset. and local visits, guests, and military placements. Notables include the Downey, Haggett, and Main families plus a Fire Society gathering and a Grange meeting. obituaries for Simon D. Wall and ongoing community travel and tea events.
Members convened in Bath to discuss the Navy department rule banning firearms on tidal waters. They urged Maine senators to seek repeal or modification for fall hunting and pledged support to the war effort. Treasurer Mihalos’s resignation was not accepted. a three member committee was named to scout clubhouse sites and a $13.65 collection was donated to the Bath Playground Fund.
Residents visited relatives on Sunday and families received guests. Huntoon Hill grange held a seven o clock supper with chicken loaf salad cucumbers cookies ice cream and punch. Meetings are set for the second Tuesday each month. Mrs Charlotte Quinnam and Barbara enjoy a vacation at Quinnam Hill. Linwood Ames moved to the west part of town from the Richard Ames Farm. The Child Health Clinic is planned at the Congregational vestry at 930 am Thursday July 30 under Dr Charles DiPerri and the state nurse.
Ms Bertha Albee of Boston guests Mrs Edward W Vaughan and daughter Mrs Herbert Caverny of Corliss street. Mrs Wellus Terry of Berhardsville Noor visiting Memorial Hospital patient. Miss Barbara Bracey daughter of Mr and Mrs Steiner Ho Braces visiting. Camp Taruglewepee two weeks. Mr and Mrs Hersace Herrick of Thomas City visiting Southwest Harbor. Mrs Edmund Bouchelle of Forest Hills and Mrs Edmund Gardiner of Hartford to stay with Mrs Arthur Sewall.
Augusta July 22 No supplemental gasoline can be allowed for summer vacationists to return home. State Attorney Robert B. Williamson says vacationists are eligible only for A books and that the rule applies across the rationed area. Special rations may cover returning a vehicle to its residence or a bona fide change in residence. The new coupon system aims to curb non essential driving. Maine vacationists report buses and trains moving briskly while travel times improve.
Titus Drug with Bowdoin players meets Cabots in Brunswick at 6 15 p m on Cabot field in a Western Maine Baseball League regular season game.
Mrs. Fred Stover and daughter June return from Boston to Middle Street. Mrs. W B Miller Jr of Tampa is at Alliquippa House then heads to Cape Neddick. Sherman Clark and family attend funeral of his father Allen Clark in town. John Chaney of Portsmouth NH visits family on Cato Avenue. Mrs. Benjamin Spock leaves Macmahan Island cottage for New Haven. Ada Perkins and related party return from Dresden to Bath. Linwood Miller visits Portland. Stanley Teasdale and family return from Sabine Cottage. Mrs Wilfred C Trott departs for Washington DC to visit daughter. Mrs Howl Perkins visits sister in East Deering while awaiting new home. Rev Charles Miller and wife Mil ter vacationing in Carmel. guests of Pratt. Dr Hugh Grant and Gladys Srimigion travel with Oscar Thornton. Camden visit. Elwood Coffin and Katherine Ann visit South Portland from Washington Street. Sgt Martin Butler on three-day furlough from Fort Preble hosts at Washington Street. James Gardener returns from Cape Elizabeth and Newton Mass visits.
Mrs. Ernest Williams of Campbell Pond improves after ten days bedridden. Visits and family gatherings fill pages with relatives from Rutland Portland Lewiston Augusta and beyond as weddings birthdays and campouts punctuate the week.
Goodwill Club of Woodlwich reelected officers and directors at its annual meeting held in the club house on Tuesday evening. New board member additions include Mrs Percy D. Marston and Mrs Edward V. Reed. Attendees planned a reception for the new pastor Mrs Mabelle W. Tracey on July 30 and set upcoming Red Cross sewing, a supper on August 8, and the next meeting for August 3.
Mrs. Pearl Thompson resumed duties Monday at Carmen's Beauty Shoppe after a vacation.
Bath residents mobbed filling stations as the four gallon weekly limit began. Long lines stretched through Vine Water and Washington streets with pumps delivering hundreds of gallons in hours. Motorists complained to the War and Rationing Board about meeting basic allowances.
Mrs Robert Jewell and others hosted a Monday evening gathering at 20 Garden Street in honor of Miss H Madelyn Summerton. The event celebrated her upcoming wedding to George F Pearce of Woolwich at Winter Street Church. Gifts were given and attendees included Betsy Westfall Edith Gotte Lillian Oliver Muriel Lane and Walter Norton among others.
The Bath Iron Works story notes wider sympathy for Don Stimpson. Eric Anderson and the machine shop workers contributed 275 dollars for his use while night storekeepers handle his cigarettes and Alec MacDonald joins The Simpson Supporters.
Mrs Charles T Small will entertain the Winnegance Auxiliary Thursday afternoon in the club house. Mrs Edgar W Oliver, a city clerk employee, has spent part of her vacation in Quincy Mass as a guest of her aunt and uncle Mr and Mrs Frank Oliver. She was joined by her mother Mrs Emerson Morse of High street.
Miss Betty Farris daughter of Mr and Mrs Arthur Farris of Elm street attends Bliss Business College in Lewiston and is employed for the summer in the Price Administration Direction office under Judge John J Keegan.
Woolwich Center and Montsweag Baptist churches plan morning and evening services with sermons on Christ-Centered Influence and Judah. Sunday schools set for 11 and 12 15, and a Friday prayer meeting led by Mrs. Dolloff. Spinning Wheel club held a garden gathering with tea and snacks at the Centre.
The Bay Point Village Corporation posts a warrant for its annual meeting to be held at the Casino at 7 30 p m on July 25. The item lists local residents and visitors from Bay Point enjoying weekends at cottages and area hotels with various family and guest mentions.
Montsweag Farm Bureau guests gathered Thursday at the home of Mrs. Forrest Baker on Wiscasset Road for a midday picnic. Hostess served fruit punch and vanilla and orange pineapple ice cream with crackers as two guests celebrated anniversaries, including Patricia Baker’s second and Mrs. Mira Hunnewell’s eighty second.
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