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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1932
Page
4
The Board of Education released a 1931-1932 financial statement showing a year end balance of 167.05 dollars. Total receipts were 110,461.66 and total expenditures 110,294.61, with high school and elementary costs itemized alongside administration and support services.
On Monday morning Ralph MacDonald and Jeannette Shackford announced Mohiba will become an annual three night event starting April 7 8 9 to benefit the Athletic Association. A lawn sign will advertise the affair and the junior class hosts its first school dance Friday night with a chosen orchestra and maroon and white class colors. Hank Bailey leads decorating ideas for the event.
Professor Kenneth S. Rice announced a special one year nursing training course to start in the 1932 33 session. Rice has been appointed by President H S Boardman to oversee the program.
Mrs. Samuel Lunt dies in Wiscasset after months of ill health. Ada Lunt’s funeral prompts a visit by Forest and Joseph Lunt from Mt. Vernon New York. Lions essay contest and religious services gain community interest. Local meetings feature church unity talks and film showings at the Congregational church.
In March 1907 the Wiscasset Echo notes zero weather, repairs at the post office and customs house done by men from East Boothbay, the death of Mrs. John Scofield in West Somerville, and a narrow gauge engine breakdown near the old mill dam. It also reports the Augusta marriage of Alex J. Lewis and Grace Mary Norcross and Miss May Poole's marriage after living in Latah and Spokane.
Rev W B Jackson visited Dresden last Wednesday. Miss Louisa Lincoln returns home from Kents Hill for vacation. Dr C A Peaslee and F E Johnson in Augusta this week. Village schools closed for a four week vacation. W L A R charter renewed. Five to six loads of apples brought from Alna and shipped here. Ed White Everett Jackson and Fred Coffin went eel ing to Sheepscot and brought about sixty pounds. Chaplain Rev C A Plummer of the State prison spoke at Boothbay Harbor. Mrs S E Saunders moves to Fitchburg Mass to live with son Henry M Saunders. Rumor of Lawrences of South Gardiner buying Birch Point Mill to run continuously. (Miss Ingalls hosted Discord club February 23.)
West Bath and surrounding areas report Sunday dinners with Haggett and Jordan families. Measles cases include Lemont children and the White household. 4-H Keep-It-Up club meets at Larrabee's home with officer slate and project records planned. Local visits span Trufant's Crossing, Brunswick, Bath, and Richmond for Pomona.
Mr. and Mrs. Zina B. Clifford observed their fiftieth wedding anniversary at their Auburn home on Davis avenue February 18. They received flowers and greetings, with a telegram from Riverside California. Their son George Clifford and daughter Grace Cobb joined a dinner and cake presentation themed with 1882 1932 and gold decorations.
Mrs. Michael Flaherty Jr of Boston Mrs. Edward ONeil and Miss Helen Flaherty of Haverhill Mass and Miss Margaret Flaherty of Philadelphia Pa left Friday afternoon for home after being called here by the death of Michael Flaherty Jr
The 1932 total solar eclipse will cross Maine New Hampshire Vermont and Massachusetts with observers along the path from Provincetown to Quebec and across Hudson Bay. Noted astronomers from Canada and abroad will gather in Cambridge Massachusetts after the event for meetings of the International Astronomical Union.
In Sebenon hall Monday evening Nequasset men and women groups hosted two plays Truthful Husbands and Crinoline and Candlelight plus music by John Carter and Merle Jameson. The event, benefiting from the Ladies Auxiliary Mothers Club and raised about 46 dollars.
Mrs Freeman H Merritt and her husband are confined to the house on Allen street by a severe cold. Philip Paine of High street departed Monday for Boston where he will spend a week.
Regular Woolwich community meeting at the Community House followed by social hour March 7 at the town hall noon hour. Town meeting will be held next Monday with 52 articles. doughnuts and coffee served. Various residents and guests noted visiting, illness, travel, and local events in Bath Rockland Augusta Lewiston and Gorham.
Funeral services for Vesta P Siegars were held from her home on February 17 conducted by Rev John Pinkerton of the M E church. L F Roberts was funeral director with bearers Fred Carleton Herbert Call Purley Road and Henry Grover. Burial followed at Maple Grove Cemetery. Out of town attendees included several named relatives.
Sunday evening discussion by Les Camarades Musicaux on Wagner operas Parsifal and its mythic roots. The program included excerpts from Parsifal with remarks by Mrs. Carl Albee and performances by local musicians, followed by refreshments.
The Grace church Men's club screened industrial motion pictures on the continuous mill process for sheet metal, likened to newsprint production, noting iron ore to finished product. Robert L. Brownell explained steps and steel rolling history. W. I. Voorhees served lunch.
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