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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1941
Page
8
Obituaries for Mrs Edna Burnell of Richmond and Mrs Elsie Oliver note services in West Baldwin and Richmond with interment in Richmond cemetery. Enterprise Grange reports a 36 attendee ladies aid, quilts, dancing, and upcoming June 24 meeting. Various personal items list hospitalizations, travels, graduations, and family gatherings in Richmond and nearby towns.
Richmond Juvenile Grange met to form a committee of Glenn White Wesley Webber and Roger Baker to build a cupboard for donated dishes. Clara Foster led readings and tap dancing with selections by White Sidelinger Mealey Guiou Bellevance Strout. A boys versus girls contest was set with refreshments for the winner.
A Richmond Progressive Grange meeting discussed third and fourth degrees for one candidate. Deputy Inspector Masse could not attend the inspection. A special meeting is set for July 26 with the Worthy State Master and High Priest Demeter to attend, plus an early July entertainment. next gathering will be a business meeting.
Mrs J Leslie Coombs and Miss Muriel Grace of 100 South Street traveled with Richard Bently to Boston over the weekend.
Georgetown grammar school pupils held graduation before a full Town Hall audience on Friday. The program featured multiple recitations songs and readings including The Flag Goes By The School Song and We Love Our Flag with diplomas presented by the Superintendent of Schools.
Miss Letitia Katherine Watrous of New London married Charles Wilson Moore of Bath in a June 12 double ring ceremony at First Baptist Church New London. The event drew 200 guests and followed with a reception at the bride’s home.
Mrs Edmund A Rothwell of Bath chairs the State Roadside Development committee of the Maine Federation of Garden clubs to lead a roadside improvement council during the Garden Club Federation of Maine tenth annual convention on June 24 and 25 at the Rangeley Lake Hotel. The convention opens Tuesday morning with the annual business meeting Wednesday, where the nominating committee will announce officers for the coming year. The committee includes Mrs Charles T Penney of Augusta, Mrs Benjamin F Cleaves of Presque Isle, Mrs Leonard F Hillgroves of Ellsworth, Mrs Arthur C Reed of Dexter, Mrs Harrie B Coe of Portland, and Mrs Rothwell as hostess.
Mr and Mrs Norman Drummond and daughter Norma Jean spent several days in Orono for the University of Maine commencement. Esther Drummond graduated and will work at the Small Point Clubhouse and teach French at Bucksport High School in fall. Anne Ofton will have the Summer pastorate at Georgetown and Robinsonhood. Miss Barbara Marden of Portland stayed with Mr and Mrs Harry Carroll for the weekend.
Georgetown schools closed Friday with graduation at Georgetown Town hall attended by a large audience. Graduates Effie Loveitt Fred Laskey Victor Hagan and Lorraine Sawyer plan to attend Morse High School in Bath in the fall. A home wedding united Ruth Kennerson and Herbert C Hunt with reception and gifts. Summer residents include Capt Henry Snow and Mrs Bearce of Malden, with multiple visitors and local social notes from Five Islands and Georgetown Center.
Enzabemeric resumes public appearances after a Belmont Massachusetts stay visiting Mrs. Walter Coombs. She attended Wheaton College alumni events with her former roommate Mrs. John Porritt of Providence.
The Kennebec river dredging project, awarded to George W. Sunderlin, Inc. and Elliot & Watrous for 600000 dollars, will deepen the channel to an average low water depth of 27 feet. Equipment includes two drill boats, scows, tugs, and launches. 31610 yards of rock and 31000 yards of other material will be removed. A 65 to 75 man crew will work aboard boats with living quarters, and blasting with over 50 tons of dynamite is planned to straighten navigation within a year.
The Winter Street Ladies Aid Indoor Fair committee announces a lobster supper to be served 5 30 to 6 30 pm with co chairs Mrs Clifford B Wilband and Mrs John H Sylvester directing dining room staff. Cashier Miss Alice Varney will handle checkout as the fair opens at 2 30 in the afternoon.
Maine coast anglers may win two trophies in Sea and Shore Fisheries contests funded by Arthur Ro Greenleaf and Richard Cushman. Greenleaf offers a largest tuna prize, Cushman mirrors a 140 dollar striped bass prize. Open to all, entries close at midnight September 30, 1940.
Mr and Mrs Joseph Saint and their children Juanita and Joseph of 24 Meadowway left Sunday to travel as far south as North Carolina with a brief Washington stop. Also visiting were Donald Ryder and Miss Beatrice McCarty of Boston, guests en route to Canada.
Five Islands اجتماعات اجتماعات في الكنيسة الأسبوع الماضي جذبت حضوراً واسعاً مع عزف موسيقي من Emil Gaverlick وHubert Swetnam من كلية Gordon في بوسطن. تقارير عن تخرج مدرسة Five Islands ورحلة مرضى ومناسبات مكتبة وأخبار عن سكان البلدة وزيارات من وولويش وباث وغيرهم.
Capt Walter E. Farmer resumes the Bath to Boothbay Harbor boat service aboard the Virginia I with good patronage on opening day. The schedule includes 9:45 a.m. and 3:45 p.m. departures from Bath via the islands to Boothbay Harbor, stopping at MacMahan Island and Five Islands, with Sunday excursion trips from Bath at 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
British children from New York, aged six to fourteen, arrive at Camp Casco Bay near West Point for a Maine summer. Mrs Ena Curry leads the operation with 45 campers plus two assistants, as volunteers supply beds, bedding, camping gear, books and magazines.
Marcus Lafayette Oliver, 93, a Parker Head native who spent much of his life there, died Sunday in Hopewell after a five month illness following a fall that broke his hip. He would have turned 98 on July 4. His body was moved to Parker Head cemetery after services at Curtis funeral home. He is survived by two brothers, Baxter of New Hampshire and Winfield of Auburn, and several nieces and nephews including Mrs. McElroy, Mrs. Charles Talbot, Bath, Miss Bessie Sprague, Small Point, and Mrs. Charles A. Rollins.
Parker Head Mrs Eliza Bradshaw Phippsburg Frank Sprague of Arizona George Sprague of Topsham Mrs Oliver died five years ago and a daughter the late Mrs Frank Percy of New York died six years ago Mr Oliver was one of five children a brother and sister having died years ago.
Lucian Deane Fuller 57 longtime newspaper man died at his Melrose home after a year of illness. He helped organize Bath Chamber of Commerce and edited the Cambridge Chronicle and Sun. Born in Chatham Mass he worked for Brown University and the Cambridge press. Survived by wife Mabelle and daughter Mrs. William Sargent of Ohio.
Miss Sarah E Whitten of Topsham died Tuesday night at Doctors Hospital Brunswick after six weeks illness. Born August 14, 1845 in the family home she occupied all her life she was Topsham’s oldest resident and Brunswick High School's oldest graduate. Funeral Friday at 2 30 pm at Pleasant street residence officiated by Rev Chauncey Stuart. She leaves cousins Adelaide Haskell Mary Church Frances Walker Everett Haskell Fred Hull Charles Knight and was a member of Topsham Grange Portland Club and Three Quarter Century Club.
Mrs Eliza Morris 86 wife of Benjamin Morris of 60 Munjoy Street Portland died Friday at home after four weeks illness. Born in St John New Brunswick she moved to Bath as a bride and ran a boarding house. Survived by two daughters Miss Annie Huggard and Mrs Ella Munson and two sons Herbert Bath and Edward Huggard Bangor plus sister Mrs Fanny Kearstead Hartford Conn. Kenneth Vennett graduates Bath and Kenneth to enter University of Maine in fall.
Mr and Mrs Janice J Winn of Quincey Mass Miss Moith diam of Charlestown Mass and Mrs Wanteld P Skillings of Searborn Beach attended the family reunion at the home of Mr and Mire Willian FP Ham 85 Pearl Street Sunday The out of town members of the family passed the week there Others attending were Mr and Mrs Tan and their sons Francis and Theodore both of this city
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