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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1931
Page
5
The Morse High School Alumni Association will honor the class of 1906 at a Thursday night gathering at the school building. Efforts to contact all members are underway and a good attendance is anticipated.
Mayor Small announces committees for the U S S Frigate Constitution visit in Bath July 13 16 detailing Executive Reception Regatta and Regatta committees plus a feature on Bath Iron Works grand superintendent Roland F Hill a Bath native with a long career from shoveling rats to general superintendent and his ties to the shipyard history. The piece also notes the yacht Halonia voyage and the launching of the Caroline for an expedition cruise with scientists from the University of Pennsylvania.
Bath plans a July 13 to 16 visit of the frigate Constitution and the mine sweeper Grebe to celebrate Bath being incorporated 150 years ago. A banquet and ball, a parade with local bands and civic groups, and decorations are planned, with governors and congressmen invited. Publicity, welcomes, and inspections will accompany the event.
Explorer Donald B. MacMillan announced changes to plans for a Labrador to London flight this summer. He doubts the Labrador departure timing, plans an aerial survey of uncharted Labrador regions, and will sail from Wiscasset on June 27 with Bowdoin to collect Eskimo relief supplies including toys dental gear and educational films.
At Town Hall on Wednesday evening 47 students from the class of 1931 received diplomas during the Brunswick High School graduation exercises. Robert Spaulding Harmell gave the salutatory and Frederick Cleveland Copeland delivered the valedictory.
Franklin A. Brown 22, Bath Iron Works worker and Bath cycle squad member, died after a motorcycle accident on the Lewiston Lisbon road early Sunday. The crash involved a machine Brown borrowed from Frederick Cullen and is believed to have been caused by a soft roadside shoulder. He is survived by his parents Jennie P. and Edward D. Brown and brothers Edward S. and William H. Brown of Bath.
A six foot diameter steering wheel from an early Sewall square rigged ship is mounted as a dining table for Sumner Sewall of New York City. Exhibited at Lemont's Antique Shop, the wheel weighs over 200 pounds with a bronze hub near 100 pounds. A solid glass top covers the wheel leaving spokes exposed, and the table seats 10 with a binnacle box pedestal support. The piece was later sent to a Summer home at Small Point beach.
The National Grange backs uniform traffic signals speed limits and highway rules to improve road safety amid 25 million registered vehicles. It seeks enactment of laws setting a 45 foot maximum for all automobiles or trucks with trailers to curb highway hazards. F Hamer of Central Maine Power Co. arrived Tuesday at Bath office.
Evelyn L. Donnell of 23 Oak Street and Adele S. Burton of 15 Crescent Street along with P Jane Edgecomb of 1408 Washington Street graduate from Gorham Normal School Monday. Donnell belongs to the class of 1927 Morse High School, Burton to 1928 MHS, Edgecomb to 1929 MHS.
The draw span on the bridge was lifted nine times by two o clock Tuesday as ships including the Virginia Pejepscvy Seguin Shrub and Hattie M passed. The Virginia will pass again on return from Boothbay Harbor. Barges No 2 and 8 to Salmon River carried pulpwood while Seguin carried cargoes for Maine State Hospital Augusta. Shrub buoyed buoys after passing Arrowsic bridge. Hattie M went to Kennebec Wharf. This marks the busiest lift day so far this year signaling summer business beginning in earnest.
Mrs. Fred A. Bowie of Drummond street spent a fortnight in Hartford Connecticut with her daughters. She also visited her son Everett Bowie in Reading Massachusetts where she was met by her husband and two more daughters Marion Bowie and Mrs Nelson Rice and son Rolvin Bowie who drove to Reading to pass the weekend and return home.
Members of Morse high school's class of 1931 graduated Wednesday night in the auditorium marking their transition to alumni. The ceremony began at eight with 67 seniors receiving diplomas as 29 boys and 38 girls, some in long gowns, carried yellow roses. Co salutatorian Katharyn L. Shorey was absent due to scarlet fever. Deble spoke for both.
The Maine Home Economics association selects Miss Alfreda Skillin Morse High School head of Home Economics as president's alternate for the National Home Economics convention in Detroit from June 22 to 27.
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