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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1959
Page
6
June 17, 1959 report notes a cow moose feeding beside the road near Wiscasset as Lewis Gray approached in an automobile. The animal crossed fields and vanished into the woods, with locals speculating it may be the same moose seen near Bristol oxen recently.
Morse dispatched a crew of 14 for the Texas steamer Texaco 146 bound for Bayonne New Jersey and six for the schooner Charles H Trickery to New York with lumber. Mrs F W Armes hosted Epworth League at Cherry Street home with a bustling porch party for about 50 youths. First steps toward a local Y M C A Boy Scout troop were taken with 13 boys present and support from secretary Robert S Pinkham. Colonial club plans a shore dinner with 85 members expected, 6 30 departure by auto to Brunswick, dinner at 7 30 with an orchestra. Construction of bituminous macadam roads in Emergency Fleet Corp housing projects at Lincoln street begins with Small and Ingalls of Bar Harbor. Cement walks completed, grading nearly done. North End project to proceed with road work and grading progress.
June 19 1919 reports large mackerel arrivals in Bath easing living costs as Miss Janet Jewett and Miss Frances Woodbury visit and join performances with the Columbia Stock Co The Misleading Lady seats sell fast A Colonial club mid summer banquet pleases attendees and local concerts and picnics draw crowds in Bath Maine July plans include Sagadahoc County convention and Morse High School activities in 1920.
The Crowninshield was launched in forenoon on July 24 at Bath Iron Works and will near completion like other destroyers built there this year. Local news includes a Crooker water well project, first June berries in Bath markets, frost on planks, a Bath boy maps Rhine for Dr Rouse, fresh mackerel from Small Point pounds, and tenants of United States Housing Corporation holding an open air meeting on Academy and Lincoln streets about future rents and improvements.
Jerilene McNeill daughter of Mr and Mrs Gerald McNeill was guest of honor at a Saturday party on her second birthday. Party games balloons and candy were handed out with ice cream and cake. Attending were Beth Smith Valadon Candalene Lynn Sutherland Susan Deborah Anderson Gregory Dale MacNeill Maurice Boisvert Gregory Pomerleau Mrs Bernard Pomerleau Mrs Irving Wright Vanessa Wright Terri Pamela Catherine Thomas Hensley Mrs Nancy Hensley Mrs Robert McEachern and grandson Shane Eva MacNeill grandmother. Gifts came from Jerilene’s grandparents Raymond Christopher and Lynona Christopher of Willimantic Conn.
Beacon Street Methodist and Bowdoin Drive-In theater sponsor a Summer drive in church series starting next Sunday at 10 a.m. Rev. Frederick L. Niles will lead weekly services. Attendance has grown yearly. families may combine church with a beach or recreation outing. attendance remains in cars and dress is optional.
Domestic and commercial customers will pay identical rates under a new schedule. Rates rise on a sliding scale from 5.70 per quarter for the first 1 200 cubic feet down to 10 cents per 100 cubic feet beyond 99 000. Construction delays persist but expansion proceeds. Metering to be rolled out over 10 years with districts prioritized by tenure of service. The district will install meters at its cost. remodeling for metering falls to users. This is the first major water price increase since 1916.
George Crosby has opened a rest room for passengers on the Hockomock at Sagadahoc Ferry and will sell ice cream and groceries in connection. Amory McLellan of the Depot Square garage returned Monday night from Boston in a new five passenger Dart touring car. He was accompanied by Elbridge R. Wright and they report a fine trip down. Harry Armstrong of the Texas
Granite City grange hosts a special program with Miss Alice Johnson lecturing for hospitalized Mrs. Bur gess. The event features songs, readings, a Europe trip recap, and remarks by Edward McLeod and other grange officers.
Steamship Company departed this morning for New York and Philadelphia. Later this week it attends a convention of the Atlantic Coast Shipbuilders Corp.
The 1800 ton coal barge Blanche Sheridan unloaded at Gardiner after a slow upriver voyage. Swift currents and flood tides halted the trip to Hallowell, and on the return voyage it grazed the Carlton bridge fender with no damage. The vessel moored overnight and left with tow at 3 am.
Mr and Mrs Floyd W Goodell hosted a Sunday family reunion at Lemont s Cove West Bath featuring an outdoor lobster dinner boating and swimming Attending were several relatives from North Edgecomb Pleasant Ridge Skowhegan Belfast Pease Air Force Base New Hampshire and Colorado Springs with others unable to attend including relatives from Steuben Lincolnville and San Diego California
State police officer Philip Hodgkins reports a two car head on collision in Phippsburg Saturday about 5 80 PM. Five people in the lead car from the Naval Air Station Brunswick swerved into the second station wagon driven by Lucien Sheppard of Topsham. All occupants escaped injury as cars were completely demolished. Second car had one passenger returning to Bath. Route 209 half mile south of Bath Phippsburg line.
Bath Lodge of Elks members and about 35 guests toured Brunswick Naval Air Station Sunday. They visited several aircraft, the weather tower, and learned base operations with Elks activities committee chair Gerald Rioux and Bath lodge Chief K J Szczepanski coordinating.
About 500 people attended the 1959 Jefferson-Jackson Democratic dinner at the Samoset Hotel in Rockland. A Bath contingent included Robert M. Huse, Edwin H. Pert, Delmar Bates, Frances A. Callan, Harry Thebeau, John P. Carey, Mary Golder, and Mrs Huse and others.
Jack Henderson of Phippsburg, a Bates College student in Lewiston, is employed for the summer at Newagen Inn.
John J. Essman, 20, of Naval Air Station Brunswick, was booked on a DUI charge after a Washington street crash near Bath Iron Works. A companion was treated at the Air Station infirmary and Essman was held in Bath lockup pending bail. The 1951 car was a total loss. A separate Friday evening crash at High and Center streets caused about $220 in damage. Andrew F. Black, 60, Bath, and passenger Andrew Gerald Black Jr., 7, were involved. Kenneth W Humphries, 45, Bath, drove the second vehicle with about $95 damage.
A community list details doctors covering weekends and holidays from June 27 to August 31. Coverage times run weekend noon Saturday to Monday morning and holiday periods from 7 PM the eve of the holiday to 7 AM the morning after. Doctors include Virginia Clay Hamilton Jacob Smith Edward L Kinder Jr Richard Clark and others on specific dates.
The J Edward Pomeroy Memorial Fund was set up Saturday by former Morse High School pupils after the death of teacher and sub master J Edward Pomeroy Friday at Bath Memorial Hospital. Alec Burden named treasurer. donations may go to Bath Savings Institution.
A Sunday evening gathering at 82 Western Avenue marked the 41st wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs Ray Howe, Mr Howe's birthday, and Father’s Day. Attendees included the Howes' children Alvin and Nancy, and relatives Don na Richard Dennis and Dale Swain. Grandson Robert Howe visited earlier before leaving for Newport R I to join the Navy.
Cushman's Beach at Small Point hosted a farewell party Tuesday for Mrs. Ethel Berry honored by Sedgwick Hotel staff and guests. Berry, longtime Sedgwick cook, will move to New Meadows Inn as pastry cook with about 20 friends and coworkers in attendance.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dillon Jr of Methuen Massachusetts and Miss Ellen Blair a student nurse at Maine Medical Center spent the weekend at her Small Point home. Mr. and Mrs. George Larrabee left Friday for their annual vacation.
Mrs. Clifton Gainsley and Mrs. John Robbins hosted a June 16 bridal shower at Gainsley’s Woolwich home for Miss Gloria D. Burnell of Auburn, future bride of Richard A. Leask of Woolwich. The couple plans to study at the University of Maine in the fall. Gifts, a green yellow decor basket, a green white iced cake, and a singalong finale distinguished the event with guests from Woolwich and Brunswick.
Midshipman George E. Coombs of Bath was among five seniors graduating from the Maine Maritime Academy in Castine on Saturday. He earned a Bachelor of Marine Science, a Naval Reserve Ensign commission, and a Coast Guard Third Assistant Engineer license at the 17th commencement exercises. Rear Admiral Elton W. Gref fel delivered the graduation address. The three year program combines classroom study with shipboard training aboard the Star of Maine to qualify for Coast Guard licensure and service on American merchant ships.
The Most Rev Daniel J Fee ney bishop of Portland announces Rev John E Bellefontaine as administrator of St Patrick's church in Damariscotta for the summer. Bellefontaine has been assistant pastor at St Mary's Church in Bath.
In Sagadahoc County Bath Sagadahoc probate court orders notice for June July 1959. Names Harriet Bowker Martha Tinney Cyril Bentley Verne Blagden Bimson Jennie Pierce Mae Oliver Katherine Pepper Stephen Osborne and others. Guardianship and administrator appointments plus license to sell real estate are proposed with the Bath Independent to publish. Harold J. Rubin Judge of Probate.
Berbera-t Brewer Register of Probate records list executors administrators and guardians named in Maine counties. Roland Shea Gertrude Moulton Wiltord Philbrick Arline Terry Lynn Bussey Robert Small Harriet Lewis are all named with appointments dated June 2 1959. Attest Barbara L Brewer Register of Probate.
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