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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1932
Page
4
Squantum residents visit relatives in town and Portland. many families from Dorchester and Cambridge travel through town. Abundant social calls, visits, and summer stays at cottages and inns. civic events include Founders Day planning and woman’s club meetings. Local births, illnesses, and travel update residents names, places, and connections.
Wiscasset Echo reports July 27 1907 happenings including visits by Bath businesspeople Misses Waters Pettey and Kitchen in town, guests at The Albee, among summer residents from Dorchester Providence Albion and Lynn, a New York Yacht Club steam yacht in harbor, and a Bath Bath auto trip to Boothbay. Ex mayor Torrey and others rode in one hour 23 mile run.
In a baseball game the Harbor team defeated the Squirrel Island nine by five runs to three. Hon. Thomas M. Babson traveled from Boston to attend the Wiscasset Fire Society meeting and returned Friday afternoon.
Phippsburg notes a busy summer with visitors from Pennsylvania and New Jersey admiring Maine’s cool respite. Emma Perry hosts neighbors at her New Meadows cottage while others stay at Henry Minott cottage. Mrs Delight D Snow, widow of Oliver F Snow, dies at her Auburn daughter’s home after a long illness. born in Harpswell, she leaves one daughter and four grandchildren.
A dense vintage sale listing offers $14.50 and $16.50 suits and topcoats, $10.95 pants, $3.00 and $3.50 pants in colors, $1.95 dark color work pants, 100 percent wool bathing suits, Harvard and Arlington dress shirts, broadcloth shirts from 50 cents, sweaters in various styles, Balbriggan shirts and drawers 39 cents, athletic union suits, 39 cents rayon shirts and shorts, cape in latest colors, and other garments. The seller emphasizes standard brands and a money-back guarantee.
West Bath Farm Bureau hosts a picnic on the west bank of the New Meadows river. Local families and visitors from Bath, Brunswick, Revere, Wakefield, and other towns spend weekends at Fred W. Larrabee cottages in Larrabee's Grove. Several births, visits, and summer stays are noted among residents and guests.
Bath households are listed as occupying or visiting various cottages for August and September. Names include McCabe, Trott, Rowe, Galvin, Hagan, Hewitt, Shackford, Gibby, Preble, Nason, Buchanan, Kittridge, Hastings, Clark, Small, Kelsey, Sewall, Hodgdon and others, with multiple Bath addresses and guests from Buffalo, Everett, Bangor and Beachmont. The report reads as a social roundup of summer visitors and seasonal rentals with no single event.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur E. Alton spent the weekend at Camp Breeze Rock Haven with Mrs Alton staying a week while Mr Alton returned to Everett Massachusetts. Mrs John Nelson and her sons Ruby and Albert from Somerville arrived to spend two weeks at their cottage. Mr and Mrs Jesse Brigham and daughter Elizabeth from Port Cheger New York are guests at Mrs Lillian Brown's for a few days.
A fire department hook and ladder truck struck a parked Buick coupe on Federal Street. The Buick’s left side was wrecked, wheels damaged, and steering disabled. Police and city officials blamed the unknown car for darting into the truck’s path.
Eunice Ann Sheldon 85 widow of Capt Parker W. Sheldon died Tuesday at her Bowdoinham River Road home. Born in Sangerville on December 1, 1847 she lived there 45 years. She sailed Cape Horn nine times with her husband and leaves a daughter Mrs Cleora Rollins and a grand niece Mrs Linwood F. Carr. Funeral Friday at 230 D S T at her home Rev E G Edgett officiating.
Daisy Bailey hosts Thursday events as John C. Gilmore returns from Canada. William Cressey and family welcome Elizabeth Burgess from Boston for two weeks. Visitors include Charlotte Buck, Esther and Norma Jean, and Harold Walker driving to Togus. Center Baptist Bible school conducts sessions led by Rev Carl Sullenberger with aid from Sunday school girls.
Gilbert Harold of Ohio State University gave a lecture on stock market forecasts during the Bath Rotary luncheon at Hotel Phoenix. He warned of public gambling, recalled historic market upheavals, and noted optimism from recent commodity gains as sentiment shifts toward brighter times. Visiting Rotarians included Albert Willard Smith and Walter Thomas.
Mrs Edward O Meade of Cincinnati Ohio visits her parents Mr and Mrs A M Cutler in Washington as guests.
Readable fragments show a high school fee notice impacting families. The document requests payment by a stated deadline and cites penalties for nonpayment, with an address or contact for questions.
The Pink Room hosted a birthday celebration for residents and visiting guests at the Told Ladies Home. Guests included Miss Olive M. Thompson and Miss Mary Anne Wentworth with a 98th and a long-awaited reunion. Children and staff enjoyed cakes, games, photos by Herbert L. Douglas, and party favors.
A tinker mackerel with an elastic band growing through its body near the head was found by bath fish dealers Albert Darrah and Earl. The band, seen after the fish was caught off Small Point, stretched and vanished into the flesh near the gills, indicating a bandification that likely began as a forgotten item.
Robert Smythe of Champaign NL and Mrs. Smythe stay with Cecil E. Paine at 924 High Street since July 11 and will return home the first of August. Mrs. Smythe, Virginia H. Paine, remains for the summer.
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