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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1943
Page
7
The Bath district faces fuel supply problems with coal and wood scarce. Dealers warn of continued shortages as wartime wages lure workers away from local shops. Officials consider rationing or closing facilities to keep homes warm and safe while seeking relief and alternate energy options.
New York visitors Miss Rice and Miss Brown performed in a club gathering. James A. Royal was missed. The program featured piano pieces, choral numbers, arias, and duets led by Mrs. Albee and Mr. Ramsay with solos by Miss Brown and Miss Elizabeth Rice.
Sterling Bible class at Corliss Street church reelected all officers at Monday evening session in the small vestry. A mystery supper preceded the meeting attended by 19, with three more joining later. New member Mrs Grace Anderson attended, reports show 41 calls made that month, and gifts exchanged after Mizpah benediction.
June to December 1942 in Bath details civic events, school plans, wartime productions, safety drills, and local milestones. Memorial Day heat, Morse High graduations, BIW activities, rationing measures, new housing projects, ship launches, and community responses frame the year.
Mr and Mrs Thomas Potter of 907 High Street spent the holidays with their son and daughter in law Mr and Mrs Mellen B Potter of Biddeford. Mrs T W Pease of 1059 Washington Street left Thursday for St Petersburg Florida to spend the rest of the winter.
The Winter Street church Ladies aid resumed meetings after Christmas with 47 in attendance. A white elephant sale featured Rev. Joseph O. Purdue as auctioneer. Miss Alice E. Varney reported a pleasing Christmas sale. The group planned a future turkey banquet for the Red Cross. Meals and menu details plus a Nash poem closed the session. hostesses for Jan 8 were named.
The Bath Lions Club hosted a meeting featuring a compelling reading by Wolstenholme and discussed an upcoming January dance, a two-team membership drive with captains Trowbridge and Baker, and cigarette shipments for Lions and their sons in service. Donations supported Russian Relief and the Salvation Army, with New Year and Christmas cards received from Lt. and Mrs. Smith and Lt. and Mrs. Groet zinger. Miss Althea Francis traveled to Portland to visit relatives Carleton Frown and family.
Mrs. Wilmer I Voorhees led Okaiyoka Seniors Christmas party with a short business meeting and gift exchange. Guests included former members. names listed are Carolyn Carpenter Catherine Powers Virginia Bowker Riva Divia Greenblatt Eleanor Grainger Dorothy Delong and Martha Leeman.
The Russia Relief Inc contributions list grew with Monday submissions, naming many donors such as Hodgdon, Irish, Main, Craft's Battery Service, Douglas Photo Shop, Deering, Carroll Watsons, Mildred Wright, Boyd Bailey, Dr. Kershner, Annie Thurs ton, Baxter, and others. The list remains open with more names expected and notes Navy personnel and local groups among contributors.
Cub Pack No 55 of Winter Street church held a New Year’s night meeting at 6 30 in the church men’s parlor. Den 1 led a program with Harmon W Smith as den chief. Den members Dennis Smith John Bowie David Drake David Brownell Edwin Pert helped. The pack enjoyed a joke Christmas tree and issued new year membership certificates.
A Maine notice asks mothers and families serving in the armed forces to communicate the service member's date and place of birth. Dr Clinton A Clauson collector of Internal Revenue and Ernest Wellman and Mrs Lyda Hall Berry deputy administrators are connected to the call.
The Past Ladies' Club of Myrtle Lodge No. 8 U O of L met at 504 Wihgh street A after the New Year tree gifts were given. Jennie G. Oliver was reelected president for a 12th term with Gertrude Stewart and Nellie G. Hunt as officers. Mrs Emma Daley attended after illness, cards were sent to Mrs Lucy Perry and Mrs Maud Clark. Next meeting Jan 24 at Mrs Mary Curtis home with Mrs Lucy Perry hostess.
Approximately $450 was cleared by the Junior Hospital League at their New Year's Eve dance held at the Armory. The event featured music and drew praise for the performance. The hall was decorated with bunting and flags loaned by Bath Iron Works Corp.
Crossword clues fill a grid with definitions for DOWN and across entries. The page lists numbers and hints such as Prison room circle and small island, plus a cryptogram quotation from Milton. The quote is BRAVE MEN AND WORTHY PATRIOTS dear to CCD and famous to all ages.
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