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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1933
Page
3
Local society notes show Woman's Club and Executive Board meeting plans for June. Many residents report summer homes, visits, and family events in Wiscasset and nearby towns, with obituaries and community notices detailing kinship, travels, and public addresses.
Edward McLaughlin arrives from Bath. Freeman Southard and wife visit from Bath. Pearly Meserve of Richmond employed at Johnson's drug store. Capt George Southard and son Roy in town. Hattie Wade travels to Bath. David McRitchie returns home from Norfolk on vacation. Fred Dunton joins Bath visitors for baseball. Mrs Joseph W Munsey visits Medomak relatives. J Manchester Haynes sails for Europe. John Southard returns from Boston. Italian laborers camp near Wiscasset. M C R R dump work resumes north of station. Brunswick’s Mr Cobb moves into Sawyer tenement, Maine Central stone crew. Wiscasset & Quebec railroad work to start next Monday by Rowe & Hall near rail point. fireworks and band at grand event on the common. Harbor Notes report Millie Washburn sails to Boston. Niger loading at Marshes. Tug Echo and Wawenoe at the Point. five lighters loading at the Point and Wiscasset Brick Works. coal bin built at draw pier for Lizzie Snow steamer.
Local column from the Sheepscot Echo lists residents visiting Bath Portland Lewiston and Richmond. Names include Stella Purington Ida Dickinson Ada Bourdin Emerson and Priscilla Clapp with moves from Montsweag Wollaston and Reading. Fire department heroism praised for saving a house as Mrs Grant thanks responders.
A small blaze on John Nute’s Pleasant street roof was sparked by a bonfire. W H Ryan to start daily passenger trips to Boothbay Harbor with the launch Sir Knight after morning trains. A lightning strike on Tuesday set the Coffin homestead barn ablaze, damaging the ell and storing, with losses around 1500 dollars and insured.
West Bath Grange hosted an eight weeks program drawing 155 attendees including 43 visitors. The event featured piano solos, readings, a comedy sketch The Silent Woman, poems, songs, and a curtain-net song-picture finale. Future program leaders and cast lists for June 5 and June 12 were announced.
Mortgage holders and other creditors are expected to scale down debts of farmers before refinancing with help from a Commission. Michael J. Luosey of Bangor, son of Patrick J. Luosey, will graduate from the U S Naval Academy at Annapolis on June 1, ranking 41st in a 441 class. He will take a vacation before reporting to San Pedro California to join the destroyer Portland for two years with the Pacific fleet.
A long feature notes that American Indians still favor blankets, with dealers like John Hart of Racine Wisconsin supplying tribes for four decades. Hart explains tribes’ blanket use, regional differences among Winnebago Sac and Fox, Osage and Comanche, and noted American Indian perseverance in maintaining traditional dress amid white settlement pressures.
North End residents watched a sail boat with two young men and a girl capsize opposite the Reach. The trio clung to the hull for 15 minutes until shore rescuers in a rowboat arrived. A passing motorboat towed the craft to shore. the youths endured a ducking but escaped without harm.
Edward P. Hutchins of West Auburn, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Hutchins, is among 12 recipients awarded a fellowship by the Social Science Research Council. He will research migration of tuberculosis and occupational mobility in Stockholm, Sweden, after earning his PhD this June and a $2,200 scholarship. Hutchins is a 1923 Edward Little and 1927 Bowdoin graduate, studied at MIT, taught in Harvard's public health department, and recently returned to MIT for further work. Also noted, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Spinney of Allston, Mass., visited Mr. and Mrs. Fred D. Hill.
A West Bath home hosted Mrs. Cyrenus P. Higgins for her 60th birthday with games music and treats. The piece lists many Bath and nearby residents visiting or socializing, plus Memorial Day and cottage weekend activities across Cape Elizabeth Boothbay and the surrounding area.
Mr and Mrs Charles F Cummings of Bath chaperoned a party of girls from Senter's Bath at the Everett G Lemont cottage over the weekend. In the party were Miss Doris McKay Miss Edna Antworth and Miss Bernice Carr Miss M Eleanor Bates of Portland and George Bailey of South Portland
Woolwich Grange will resume regular Wednesday meetings at 8 30 p m after winter Saturdays. The Memorial Day program featured readings notables by Mrs Richard Hunnewell and John H Carter master, songs by the grange, and flag and hymn selections including Battle Hymn and Star Spangled Banner. The program closed with readings of The Blue and the Gray and Peace Hymn of the Republic.
West Bath Farm Bureau met at Trufant's Crossing with Annie H. Trufant. Mrs. Jerry L. Haile led a training session on pressing at home. Next gathering June 22 at Berry's Mill Road home of Mrs. Small with Good Nutrition for Health as the topic.
Oscar the baby seal once drawn to Bath waterfront died at Arrowsic after a local resident kept him in a pen. Officer John Place cites a broken heart as the cause of death. A local fisherman captured the seal during visits to the Maine Central dock.
Officials discuss building a 12 room school in New Auburn to replace the burned Wilson school. The new facility would house junior high and grammar grades with an auditorium that could serve as a gym. Domestic science and manual training rooms are planned.
Riverside cemetery association plans its annual meeting at Day's Ferry schoolhouse in Woolwich on Saturday at 2 30 PM. Local events include church services, readings by Mrs. George Wright, a male quartet, and a growing choir. A charity supper at Murphy's Corner schoolhouse benefits the community lights, with a five cent charge.
The Montsweag Boys 4-H club will meet Friday evening June 2 at leader Albert J. Bailey's home. The topic is Spraying Potatoes and Chicken Houses. The May 26 session at Samuel Soule’s in Wiscasset had full attendance and welcomed new member Lloyd Stinson of Nequasset. debate covered using formaldehyde in dipping seed potatoes.
Rev Paul Dugal and William Gaudreau of the Mission Church Boston conduct a renewal at St Marys Church. This week's services focus on women with next week for men. Morning masses at 5.30 and 7, instruction sessions after. Evening devotions at 7.15. Public invited.
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