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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1931
Page
5
Low cost universal credit company promotes time payments for a selection of used cars dated from 1924 to 1930. Model list includes Tudor sedans, sport coupes, pick ups, roadsters, touring cars, and trucks with varying body styles. Emphasizes that a used car is only as good as the dealer behind it and markets affordable pricing.
Sunday guests and weekend visitors include James son of University of Maine graduate staying with Mrs. Emma Stinson and Miss Jackson. Elizabeth Sewall returning from Emerson school in Richmond. Mrs. Orin Main of Portland attending Alumni meeting. Dorothy Fischer visiting Damarsicotta. Sanger Annis and Merle Thompson families among hosts. Sermon at First Congregational by Rev. E G Spinney titled The Second Mile.
Friends gathered at The Ledges to surprise Mrs. Harry Quinnam on her 50th birthday. Guests enjoyed muffins sandwiches cake and coffee served by Mrs. Quinnam and her daughter Lucille. A decorated cake by Blanche Fowle and a picture titled Old Fashioned Gardens were presented.
Capt Sewall Southards repairs his stable. Joseph and James Taylor in Bath. I G Williams back from Boston. Tug Wawenoe tows two schooners upriver. George W Norton offers fruit and confectionery. Mrs Sewall Southard visiting Bath. Alfred Groves from Boston home for days. F A Creamer at Waldboro home. Mrs A J Stone and son from St Paul at F W Sewall's, headed to Boston. Brig Rochmont loading ice at Birch Point then Portland for Africa. Lincoln family attend Kent's Hill graduation. Louisa Lincoln at school. Wiscasset riders visit Edgecomb for road conditions. Only one of 30 Maine 14th Regiment remains living, Warren Lewis of Wiscasset.
Miss Jane Tucker visits home while L A Gray of Portland and F M Chase weigh ice in Edgecomb. Residents return from Memorial Day trips to Portland and Bath. Several townsfolk from Cambridge Wollaston Farmington Augusta Orono with relatives or guests. Captain William H Clark marks his 78th birthday.
Willis E. Blackman 43 a Maine Central section hand was found dead Friday morning at his Lee street extension home in Wiscasset. A shotgun lay by his side and a throat wound indicated suicide. he had not reported to work Thursday and was last seen Wednesday. Funeral planned for Saturday at the Episcopal church.
A boat with a Studebaker Master Six engine, capable of about 20 mph, is described as unusually smooth and level on water. It is set to compete in the Harpswell Harbor boat races this summer, drawing interest as a top contender.
West Bath and nearby towns feature weekend visits and cottage stays at Birch Point Sabino and Sabino Beach. Families note graduations at Littlefield and Morse High School preparing for summer. Mrs Bailey improves after Bath City hospital operation.
The two Methodist churches at Arrowsic and Robinhood open for summer under Rev. Warren H. Bright. Regular Sunday services start 10:30 at Arrowsic and 2:30 at Robinhood. evening services alternate Sundays. Vacation Bible school runs June 18 at Arrowsic Schoolhouse. Everyone is invited.
Westport's Center town hall undergoes internal reconditioning with walls and ceiling being morescoed and woodwork repainted. Selectman P J Wette, Ernest Colby and Ellsworth Colby oversee the work as townspeople travel for graduations and visits.
Cynthia Trask wed a Civil War veteran 65 years ago this Wednesday. Mr and Mrs Nathan I Hallowell celebrated their 65th anniversary at their South China home, a gathering of friends and neighbors. The couple, long time residents, have three sons, one daughter, 13 grandchildren and nine great grandchildren.
Deputy Sheriff Lor ing Smail patrols West Bath flats to keep non residents out of quahaug beds. Strangers from across Maine camp there seeking dams while residents with permits may take up to two bushels per day depending on tides.
Bowdoin alumni association of Bath met at Rodney E. Ross home on High street. Frederick E. Drake and John C. Fitzgerald were reelected to president and secretary treasurer. Prof Edward Harmon spoke on college year events, scholarship awards, gifts, and athletics. Attendees included Dr Byron F Barker Errol L Baker and others. Mrs John McInnes Mrs Caldwell S Phillips and Miss Mary Paine spent Tuesday in Portland.
Local social notes report visits and trips from Montsweag Nequasset and Day's Ferry. Residents such as Mrs Frances Brook ings, Leona Presley and Elizabeth Potter are noted with guests and recovered or upcoming events. The Riverside Cemetery association held a meeting at the Day's Ferry schoolhouse.
At the Central Maine General Hospital annual meeting in Lewiston on Wednesday afternoon the Women’s Hospital Association presented the trustees with a $5000 check raised over the past year. The funds will furnish the children’s ward in the new hospital wing, which is nearly completed.
In Augusta, inmates at the Kennebec county jail secreted files about themselves and, when unobserved, tried to saw bars from a window. The work took place in the wash room on the jail's east side.
Members demonstrated meat selection and cookery from recipes learned by Miss Hortense Welch at Mrs. A. C. Norton’s home 1075 High Street. Ann Gearing and Ethel Bailey assisted. Twenty attended. Next meeting July 15 at Mrs. J. W. Brown’s Woolwich to outline plans and choose projects.
A movement to destroy tent worms and their cobweb nests gains momentum. Property owners will clean their lots as time allows and help neighbors. Youth volunteers torch nests, improving property and neighborhood appearance. press and citizens urged to publish and promote the effort.
Mayor Robert A. Cony recounts leading a camel in the Walter L. Main Circus in Augusta forty two years ago and notes an invitation to attend today’s parade and show. Three new directors and three new vice-presidents were elected at the Lewiston Trust annual meeting Tuesday.
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