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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1930
Page
2
Proceedings recount a detailed financial report showing a $10 000 treasury with recurring losses due to motor truck operations. A 3414 total shares vote split 493 for continuation and 2931 for discontinuance. A liquidating committee was proposed but ultimately directors were urged to proceed with liquidation. The line traced to the road’s founding in 1897 and its decades of prosperity before losses after local takeover five years earlier.
Local notes report community life in Wiscasset with postmaster change Bradford Young, residential visits, and numerous social calls. Baseball results feature Pirates beating Conquerors 5 to 4 in a decisive chicken supper game at the ball grounds.
Mr and Mrs Leonard Munsey of Bath were in Wiscasset for a recent town visit, as reported by the Sheepscot Echo on June 24 1905.
John Alden Neal returns home for summer vacation. Misses Eva and May Sears visit Bath. Taylor family with relatives in Bath. Annie Wood of Chicago staying with Mrs. Young. Mrs. Eliza White of Damariscotta visits her sister. Annie Lewis heads to Portland for weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Flagg of New York with Capt. Tucker. Nannie Arthur goes to Damariscotta. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Tinkham visit Gardiner. F. D. March and Joseph Emerson bring a tablet to Isaac H. Coffin’s grave at Birch Point. Liew llyn Nute buys the William N. Smith farm of 200+ acres for 2422 dollars. Notables on a Monhegan cruise in the yacht Atalanta. Wis casset Loan and Building association elects Andrew Lacy president. C. A. Peaslee vice president. F. W. Sewall and B. F. Blagdon re-elected treasurer and secretary.
More than 50 members attended the West Bath Grange meeting featuring singing, a member roll call with playful life‑swap questions, a debate on the Debenture Plan's benefit to Maine farmers, a tree contest, stories, and readings. Judge Pinansky advised a firm folk wisdom to a 71 year old offender. The Vinalhaven high school graduates toured Maine sites including Portland and Augusta on See Maine First day.
Train timetable updates in Bath introduce through parlor car Boston to Rockland with daytime Portland connections. The Flying Yankee links Boston, Portland, and Bath with a new arrival 12.01 p.m. from Fall schedule dates, while the Pine Tree Limited shifts to a 3.30 p.m. departure from Boston and 7.10 p.m. Bath arrival. A Rockland to New York through sleeper service continues, with Saturdays local runs to connect with The State of Maine Express.
Marjorie Louise and Selma Lavinia Gregory of Boothbay Harbor and Portland connections lead a notable entry of six sister pairs at Oak Grove seminary. Marjorie earns science honors and acts in the senior play while Selma plans domestic science and participates in school activities. The Gregory sisters, daughters of Dr. George A. Gregory, are set for Smith College and Simmons College respectively, with a planned cross country trip to visit classmates including Jeane Dana of Portland.
Seventeen Bath boys and thirteen girls left by YMCA transport for the Christmas Cove camp, an L A Miles estate in New York. Rotary club arranged the trips led by transportation chair Henry A Magoun, with cars donated by F B Nichols of The Times and local sponsors including Arthur B Scott of Mars High School, Harry P Bridgec, and Plant's Garage.
The funeral for John W. Crooker a joiner of 9 Page Street and Bristol native was held Saturday at 2 P M at his daughter Mrs Arthur Guimond s home 48 Oliver Street Rev Weston P Holman Beacon Street Church officiated. Interment followed at Bristol Mills Ruth Wills of Fryeburg attended as a relative of Miss Bessie Galvin of High Street.
West Bath and Sabino scene with several visits and gatherings. Residents Walter Hill family from Bath spend time at Aitken cottage Sabino. Attendees at Topsham Grange include E W Haggett and J M Lemont. William Burke family from Portland plan two months at Larrabee cottages in Larrabee Grove. Numerous arrivals and seasonal stays across Bath, Topsham, and surrounding towns with visits to Portland and Brunswick. Mary, Alma, Augusta, Susan, and Carolyn among locals noted. Socials at First Baptist Ladies Aid and West Bath Farm Bureau meetings.
Two trucks collided in Bath at Arch and Front streets about 1 10 in the afternoon. Allan Bornstein of Auburn drove the Excel Cleaning Co truck and Wallace Jenkins of Bath drove Howard’s truck. No reckless driving found. parties to adjust the matter themselves. Bornstein is an All Maine athlete and will attend Fordham College.
Closing exercises at Dike School Friday featured Supt. Wilson awarding two 10 gold pieces to Jennie Kakos and Raymond Crocker for outstanding yearly progress. The donor’s name was kept secret. PTA president presented penmanship prizes to 18 pupils including Reynolds Morin Fraser Miller Perry Moores Quirk Crocker Craige Hoffman Fraser Mullaney Chaney Staples Kingsbury Sprague McFadden Kakos.
Kenneth Norris of Dixville and Marion Crawford of Akron wed Wednesday at the Franklin House. Rev Geo B Wolstenholme officiated. The ceremony featured Lohengrin and O Promise Me, with a double ring service and gifts of a mesh bag and cuff links. Out of town guests from Berlin N H Dixville Boston and more. Honeymoon planned in Boston and New York.
Donis Fuller of The Monroe Stores sales department and Roy Lutz of Holbrook Massachusetts assistant manager of the Bath store wed in Portsmouth New Hampshire on Thursday noon. The bride daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fuller of 108 Center Street is Morse High School class of 1925 alumna and once worked at Olympia candy shop. The groom from Holbrook is Clifford Smith helper at the Monroe store. They were joined by the bride’s mother and sister Miss Marion Fuller and returned to Bath early this week.
Woolwich residents host visitors from Bath Rumford and New York as social events unfold. A violinist, a student pastor, and campers in Camden prepare for July 3 arrivals while the Day's Ferry Community club shifts dances to Tuesday evenings at Tuess ie hall.
Dunlap commandery with 64 Knights Templar from Bath joined Strathglass of Rumford and Lewiston commanderies for a field day at Auburn Fish Hatchery. The event featured races like 50 yard dash won by Clifton Bean and Harold Cutting, chariot and sack races, baseball, relay basketball, and a band concert followed by a 615 pm banquet.
Miss Beth Hagar of Rockland returns home from Presque Isle as the first air passenger and enjoys the Maine scenery on the trip. Ellsworth American reports daylight-saving time experiments in Ellsworth failed rapidly as merchants began adopting standard time through the week ending Thursday.
Vivian F. Ryder and Mrs. Florence M. Burns filed marriage intentions at the Bath city clerk. Mrs. Burns is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur B. Reynolds of the city. Mr. Ryder is a native of Presque Isle and works as a chauffeur in Bath.
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