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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1921
Page
7
Bath Iron Works janitors hold annual picnic at Sandy Cove between the technical and accounting departments. The ball game ended 21 to 13 with the accounting team prevailing. A women’s teams tied in a separate game. swims and races followed. two missing were located at moonrise. full player lists released.
The list cites numerous individuals and relatives including Evelyn, Harold Lenfest, Thomas E. Artis, Margaret Wishart, Arthur P. Sampson, Jennie Sawyer, Winnie Quinn, Vivian Miller, Joseph Melrose, Charles Burgess, Dayton Hill, Rachel Cutting, Ralph Bragg and his family, William Richards, A J Hufstader and kin, Leland R. Mitchell and daughters, Dorothy Welen and others, along with Dr William Hill and George Wetherbee among households referenced in the article fragment.
Mr and Mrs William D Sewall traveled from Shrewsbury Mass to attend the marriage of John Whitin Lavell and Miss Frances Sumner at their Shrewsbury home on Saturday afternoon in the presence of a large society gathering from Boston Portland Bath Worcester and Whitinsville The Rev Frederick D Thayer conducted the ceremony with Frances Hill as flower girl and John Tyler Mills Jr of New York as best man The Lasell family hosted the event and the couple will reside in Whitinsville after their wedding trip.
A Bath Masons party visited Lisbon Falls Saturday to tour the Pejepscot Paper Co. mill and attend a supper hosted by the Eastern Star. Wor shipful Master William A. Staples of Solar Lodge assisted with a degree, and Brunswick Masons hosted the Bath group on return.
The first blueberries of the season were picked by John Allen Jr at Nichols Street and sent to the Independent, with indications of a strong yield. The Barge Bourne at Kelley Spear Co. yard closed Saturday and to be launched in early July. Charles W Clifford Jr visits Boston for a few days.
Many Malden Island cottages open for summer with the large dining hall in use. Local residents and guests arrive for the season including the Mains, Stevens, Tarr, Reed, and Rowe families. Grange activities and church service mark the start of summer as residents plan for annual events and summer work.
Leaves Boston for Bath on Mondays Wednesdays Fridays and Saturdays at 6 00 p m Boats depart Bath for Boothbay and the Islands on Tuesdays Thursdays Saturdays and Sundays at 5 30 a m daily including Sundays at 10 a m daily except Sundays at 2 15 p m
Rev Mr Webb, pastor at Wiscasset Congregational Church, will preach at Center M church Sundays through summer. Visitors include Miss Leonora Knight of Waterbury Conn and several New England residents at Collins cottage, Melrose and Providence connections. Mrs Sarah J Welch injured in fall but improving.
Mr and Mrs Harry AL Walters of 95 Union Street join 600 bankers and ladies for a three day June party in New York arranged by The National Shawmut Bank of Boston through Bath National Bank. The itinerary includes a Hudson sail, Harlem canal view, Elis Island visit, City Hall reception, Commodore hotel dinner, and a Rye golf tournament at Westchester Biltmore club.
Miss Gwendolyn Dodge of Damariscotta hosts Miss Alice Wyman at Popham while Mrs Edith Richards Goldthwaite of Hanover Illinois visits the Donnell cottage with plans for her husband to join. Annie Donnell returns to Bath after a brief outing as guests of Charles and Mrs Donnell. Miss Alice Wyman plans to enter Columbia University in fall after serving on the University of Maine staff. Edward Hennessy of Milwaukee joins Bath party at Popham for two weeks. Mrs Emma Small Hathaway of Cambridge arrives to spend the summer at Popham with Eliza beth Webber’s guest listниками.
Mrs. Ann S. James of West Dresden died June 18 after a period of illness. She was buried June 21. She was a devoted wife and mother of four daughters and three sons, with two sisters and one brother surviving.
The 1019 class held its second anniversary dinner at New Meadows Inn on Monday evening. Eighteen members attended and shared memories since schooldays. After dinner several young people danced at Dirigo Grange. attendees included Robert Shaw Clarence Daley James Dunton Earl French Earl Smith John Conway Edwin Lowell Ruth Ledyard Madelyn Davis Martha Barker Josephine Frazer Alice Hartnett Helen Martin Phyllis Neal Sadie Sologieh and Pear} Moody.
Earl Hagan and Miss Marjorie Grey united in a Monday afternoon ceremony at the First Baptist church officiated by Rev. William Boyd. The event featured a double ring service, a reception, and a bridal party including Mrs. Frank Meald and bridesmaids Emma Webster and Dorothy Stuart. The couple plans a short auto trip and will reside with the groom’s family on the Bath road.
Frances Tope infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Henry Tarbox of Georgetown died suddenly Saturday. Funeral held Sunday afternoon at the family lot in Georgetown Center Cemetery with Rev W T Boyd officiating. Rev and Mrs Frank H Hall and family left Wednesday for Old Orleans to pass July.
The Maine Central schedules two crews on the car ferry Ferdiando Gorges as of time change Monday. First crew lists Captain Chaney Osmond Dy Erskine mate Albert Clouse wheelman Birkenfield deck crew Leavitt and Reed as drop engineers with Wakefield and others aboard. Second crew departs 2 30 pm with Captain Perkins mate Kingsbury wheelman Leonard and Reno as dock hand, Wakefield and Cushing as drop engineers.
Edward Pomeroy and Ernest Shepard install amplifiers at the Bath Radio association for receiving radiophone reports of the Deimpsey Carpentier bout. If successful, club members can hear the fight from the start, with a ring-side announcer describing the bout via transmitter. The match starts at three. members should arrive early to hear the return.
Morse high school graduates held a 1913 reunion Tuesday night at The Inn. After supper, entertainment and dancing followed a social hour with attendees including Mrs Edward Sewall, Mrs William Anderson, Mrs EB Burndall, Misses Sarah Black Arline McNeil Gladys McGillicuddy Mildred Daley and others. Charles Fitzgerald and Arline McNeil served as reunion committeemen.
Toward Owen, veteran journalist and close friend of James G. Blaine, died in Augusta Tuesday night. He was a prominent Maine newspaperman, official biographer of the Maine Legislature, former manager of the Maine Farmer, and held posts as Kennebec county probate register, Maine Press Association president, and Augusta Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals leader. A tug with coal for Purinton Bros. was to tow the Barge Taverford from New York to Augusta once weather cleared. the vessel, storm bound after visiting Boston, was to be taken in tow by the Seguin near Kennebec.
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