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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1930
Page
4
Out of town visitors attend Bowdoinham Masonic service and summer stays with local families. Summer guests include Mrs Maxwell and Alice in East Bowdoinham, and Mr and Mrs Jewell from Wellesley. Charles McEwen wins Democratic nomination for state representative. Local students enjoy outings. several residents attend funerals and gatherings.
Portland residents attended gatherings and visits as Mrs. Clara N. Fogg traveled to Gardiner to meet Hon. and Mrs. W. L. Bonn. Frances Adams visited her mother in Portland while Miss Eva Weston visited Mrs. Frank Heath. Attendance for spring term reached 98.2 percent with 96.1 percent for the year.
A group of W C T U members hosted a birthday party for Miss Ann Mary Robinson at the Y M C A after a brief meeting. Miss Alice May Douglas recalled Bath union history, curfew efforts, temperance school instruction, a Washington convention under McKinley, and a Henderson home gathering. A birthday cake by Mrs Chester C Aderton was cut for Miss Robinson who received a bouquet. Law rallies planned at Wesley church July 13 14 and 15 by Flying Squadron Foundation speakers Oliver W Stewart Norma C Brown and Alfred L Mondy. The Union will present a U S flag to new citizens. One court presentation noted.
Mrs Celia Connor long absent from Bath returns Tuesday aboard the Majestic from Southampton. She traveled through Cairo and the Mediterranean, visited Paris, Switzerland and London before telephoning her parents in Bath. She will visit Mr Connor in Concord before returning. Miss Marion Fuller hosted a kitchen shower for Miss Elizabeth McDougal, whose marriage to Gerald Holland is planned this month. The shower also announced the engagement of Marion Fuller to Harold Safford Jr.
Bowdoin er s Prat degrees were conferred on a Class of candidates and a program was enjoyed after the work. The Thorns Corner team will confer the third and fourth next Saturday evening with usual harvest supper. Rev. Percy Vernon of the United Baptist church of Lewiston will conduct the services at the East Bowdoin chapel Sun afternoon at three, standard time. All are welcome. Mrs. M. BE. Smith passed Tuesday at the home of Mrs. E. O. Tarr at Richmond Corner.
The article urges planning a vacation reading list to enjoy classics and new fiction. It highlights reviews as aids in selection and notes children should read during summer to explore distant lands and engage imagination, offering relief from monotony.
Raymond Green M H 8 28 enters Bath Iron Works for the Summer. Durwood Bowie and Harry Bennett join the Androscoggin and Kennebec By Co as motormen. Florence Oliver of 3 Trufant street visits Portland with her father Captain L W Oliver arriving aboard the tug Westmoreland. Marion Freeman, formerly at Scituate High School, summers with her mother Mrs Frederick Freeman in York Street. Marion Lloyd of High Street, a patient at Bruns wick Hospital, shows marked improvement after an operation.
Bath performers staged a program for the Maine Druggists convention at Rangeley Lakes on June 25 26. The Bath girls rehearsed under Mrs Roscoe McFadden and entertained with dances singing and skits including East is West Russian Dance and Sidewalks of New York with Dido Cutting Marion O’Hara Kath leen Leonard and Hilda Scott among the participants.
The funeral of Mrs Annie R Grover widow of Ezra Grover was held at 45 Pine Street Bath on Wednesday afternoon at two Rev Forrest L Littlefield officiated Bearers were R C Mitchell L R Mitchell Chester Colby and Samuel Povich Interment at Oak Grove Ancestry visits noted from Lewiston include Mr and Mrs Fogelman Frances and Bernard of Lewiston visiting Bath Max Fogelman employed at Wiseman Farms during the summer Also listed are a Bath house for sale and small ads for local services and a nursing training program in Haverhill Massachusetts
Sixteen members of South End P T and supper spent the day in pleasant activities. Seminary services were held with preaching at Seal Harbor and Otter Creek church Sunday and planned for Northeast and Town Hill next Sunday.
Next Sunday June 2 the entire Wiscasset and Edgecomb district will lose electric service for 12 hours from 3:00 AM to 3:00 PM daylight saving time. A large crew will construct a new substation before power is restored.
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