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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1935
Page
6
Richmond notes show D A R and Fort Richmond chapter gatherings with music and poems, a Pomona and Saga dahoc attendance, and a Fort Richmond meeting at Myrtle Stewarts. Birthdays, illnesses, a family trip to St Petersburg, and a Worsted Spinning Co order restart are also reported along with hunting and fishing activity at Pleasant Pond.
Various local updates include visits by John Dixon to Gardiner and Irving Howe in Stockholm, PTA meeting at the high school with recitations and music, and residents returning home after months away. A chimney fire prompted the fire department, and multiple social events at the Masonic hall, farm bureau, and local homes highlight births, visits, illnesses, and upcoming Enterprise grange program.
The Central church men's club held its regular Tuesday evening meeting in the parish house with supper at 6 30. A business session appointed committees to organize the centennial banquet and the guest speaker Theodore Urbanowitz discussed The Making of Explosives, fielding many questions.
Percival Knauth Bowdoin student will speak to the Winter Street Men's club Thursday evening on "Four Years a Student in Germany." He has previously spoken at Bowdoin and an engaging evening is expected. Supper at 6 30 served by Edward C Daly James A Clappison A John Conti Jr and Rev Joseph O Purdue.
Georgetown locals share visits and social events while clam concerns dominate town matters. Ralph Hasty visits Ardeen Pinkham at Five Islands. Mrs. Walter Schoepfer hosts Working League. Hamilton sisters from Dedham visit Georgetown families. a clam truck overturns on Town House Hill. a formal lecture by Rev. Schoepfer planned. Scott Harley, 62, dies at Cundy's Harbor. Maud Thayer visits West Georgetown. clam hearings in Augusta prompt turnout. town meeting attendees include Trafton Bowen Hagan. various residents visit Bath. church services note The Voice of God and choir offerings. Schoepfers plan trips to Pawtucket.
The Colonials versus Brunswick clubmen fix Friday night at Colonial clubrooms with bowling at 6 30 and pool billiards card matches to follow at eight. Local players listed include Clint Wilson Kenneth Trask Dick Hersom Horace Morse Arthur Pratt Elwood Toothaker for bowling and Morse Black for pool.
Sasanoa tribe No 64 S O R M held its Past Sachems Night at Red Men's hall Tuesday. Officers listed include Ernest R Avery prophet Ralph J Boardman sachem Arthur B Haggett senior sagamore Carlton Rideout junior sagamore Albert J Gallant chief of records George Flint keeper of wampum Thomas Lyons collector of wampum Eugene Haggett first sanap Charles H Ansert second sanap. Lunch followed the meeting with committee Arthur Haggett Ernest R Avery Eugene Haggett. In Gardiner high, James L Reid of Augusta spoke on real property laws to commercial law students introduced by Charles B Hinds.
March plans include stocking the Winnegance lake with white perch and later black bass after conditions permit. The Winnegance Community club will host a big beano party and two March social events with committees named. Dromore Farm Bureau to hold a card party March 21 at the clubhouse, followed by social pitch games.
City Clerk Gilmore issued 108 auto toll exemption cards and 119 passenger cards, totaling 227 for the day. Receipts reached 137.75 dollars as many applicants sought the toll exemption for Carlton bridge passage while a ballot inspection also occurred. Clerk Gilmore worked through the day to balance records, turning the receipts over to the treasurer.
Final inspection on the Ward 6 council race shows Albert H. Thompson Republican with 166 votes, Dominique J. Tardiff Democrat with 163. Three disputed ballots revealed two for Thompson and one for Tardiff. Tardiff sought an official recount but will not pursue further action.
Westport residents share weekend visits with family in Wis casset and Boothbay Harbor. A large group attends a bridge hearing in Augusta that was postponed to Thursday. Mr and Mrs Ralph Wright visit relatives in Woolwich, returning with their two children. Jonas Knight honored on 50th wedding anniversary with Aladdin lamp, cake, coffee, and dancing at town hall. Gilbert Greenleaf, Boston worker, returns home for a visit.
West Bath resident Mrs. W H Holland visited relatives including W L Berry and Miss Madelyn Berry. Orville Rowe repairs the Boucher house on Sedgemere road with Thomas Hanna assisting. Mrs. William Chase and Howard headed to Freeport for work. Grange and Prayer Circle gatherings noted with plans for officer elections. Several residents traveled to Bath, Cambridge and Georgetown for visits and a town meeting, with others at cottages and social circles through the week.
Mrs Noel C Little of Brunswick spoke to the Ladies Auxiliary on World Peace urging study of wars and armaments figures for 1913. A white elephant sale benefited the welfare committee and a public recital by John W Sheldon was planned for mid April with Francis S McPherson as accompanist.
Evening service at 7 30 in Nequasset led by Union Young People's Christian Pioneers opens to all ages. It will study Japan literature with Lamott's Suzuki Looks at Japan and Kagawa's Christ and Japan. Questions on peace, pride, education, and their world impact will guide readings and discussion.
Miss de Roche mont hosts a display in the Rockland High Problems of Democracy class featuring rare coins and paper money. Win field Chatto shows denominations including silver dollars Columbian half dollars and colonial tokens. Donald Saunders brings a range from centimes to German marks and Helvetian money. Helen Condon contributes shillings and various pennies and foreign coins.
Girl Scouts and others will build bird houses for a contest approved by the Cosmopolitan Garden club. Guides cover species by design and dimensions for bluebirds wrens martins and woodpeckers plus material tips and placement. Residents may call Joseph Robinson for instructions. houses due in the first week of April.
John C. Fitzgerald of the Federal Housing Administration announces a nationwide housing essay contest for high school pupils. George M. Williamson outlines rules. Regional winners advance to national finals in Washington on May 25, with six minute oral essays on what home means.
A memorial service at Grace church consecrated a silver chalice and gold plated bowl paten in memory of Camilla Ashe Sewall wife of the late Harold M. Sewall. The pieces by Arthur J. Stone Gardner MA reflect fine handwork and notable commissions including Yale Museum and College plate and Church of the Advent Boston. A second memorial for Marcia D. Richardson included a silver pyx and stock with gold plating, also handwrought and obtained from London.
Mrs Kenneth C M Sills of Brunswick gave a splendid address to the Winter Street Fireside club on her Palestine trip. The talk was well received by about 40 young people. Next Sunday Senator N Gratz Jackson will discuss Youth and Life. Refreshments arranged by Kathaleen Scott Mary Goodwin Ellen Stevens Betty Rice Crystal Shorey. Betty Rice to lead meeting. Fireside club play Where's Grandma? planned for Friday in the chapel. Also noted is a Gardiner native rising in shoe business and William Gingrow's career from Augusta to Parkersburg.
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