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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1932
Page
5
About 50 attendees gathered Friday at Huntoon Hill hall for a Maass wedding shower. Committee members included Mrs Alton Ames and Miss Alberta Boudin with Mrs Roy Dow as chair. Others noted events at town meetings, club activities, and community notices across Wiscasset.
Wiscasset Echo reports a busy week with town life notes including sales of horses and oxen, visits by locals from Woolwich and Bath, a school party, and a barn collapse. Notable items include John Davis buying a horse, Nat Brown selling oxen, Miss Dorothy A Bee's marriage to Dr Louis C Bickford in Portsmouth, and John A Small joining as master mechanic for the W W & F Ry. Capt Warren Coffin spent two weeks in Boston on a night watchman job.
The un insured residence of James L. Young two miles from the village burned last Saturday night. Owner loses all personal effects. Town meeting elected officers and discussed a village water supply plan to fight fires. Mrs. Sarah Cook marked 15 years as Brunswick police matron with long welfare service. Beatrice Leighton noted as daughter of Mr and Mrs Raymond C Leighton.
Mrs Belle Donnell visits Bath guest of Miss Lily Pray at Center street. Miss Pray is Bath post office cashier. Several Bath residents travel to Lewiston Dorchester and Topsham for family events and athletics. Community updates note illnesses and cottages at Brigham's Cove and Campbells Pond. Morse High no sessions to attend Bates tournament.
Auburn Hebrew school pupils present The Purim Players and Shalach-Moness at Beth Abraham on Sunday March 27. Technology college Tau Beta Pi Engineers Day on Friday April 22 followed by a Alumni Hall dance. Also notes a Maine moose encounter, a Presque Isle airplane crash with minor injuries, and Miss Louise Langer earning the Golden Eaglet with 180 other awards at a Girl Scouts ceremony in Belfast.
The Nazarene church conducted its annual meeting on Tuesday evening, electing officers for the coming year. Key posts include Charles Kenney and Lois J. Palmer as officers, J. Everett Mayo as trustee, and Mrs. Hazel Brann and Mrs. Lillian Mayo as trustees and delegates to assembly. Reports from all departments were read and praised for encouragement, with thanks given to the pastor for his service.
William T. Powell, longtime Strand theatre manager in Portland since Publix acquisition in 1930, is promoted to divisional director of publicity for Western Massachusetts and Connecticut with Springfield as headquarters. John P. Hassett will replace Powell at the Strand after following him from the Bath Opera House. Powell, a popular figure in Maine New Hampshire and Vermont theatre circles, began in Publix under the late William P. Gray after newspaper work in Burlington Vermont.
Grace Church Men’s club heard N Gratz Jackson recount verses from years past in a hour long recital featuring titles such as The Story of the Hooked Rug The Buggy Ride The Cruise of the Nancy Lee The Gold Cure and On the Banks of the Rappahannock Followed by 30 to 50 year old songs led by guest accompanist Marius Page Charles Pearce and Carroll Watson oversaw the meeting Next week’s program will be led by R H Baxter and Harold Adams.
The food relief committee of Frigate Constitution post VFW set out baskets for needy families in 30 stores between Winship Street and Winnegance on Feb 13 and collected goods on Feb 20 27 and March 12. Items include potatoes cabbages turnips beans breakfast foods crackers tea salt soap sugar and more valued about 2845 dollars with 179 pieces distributed among eight families averaging two dollars per family. The aid targets those not receiving help elsewhere and is open to any deserving family especially with children.
A bustling scene at the Thomaston cement plant shows changing panorama as passersby notice the ongoing activity. Crushers grind limerock, and the site’s constant motion reflects a vigorous industrial pace.
Mrs Roy McIntosh returns home from Melrose hospital. Surprise party for Mr and Mrs Isaac Howard at Days Ferry community house. Locals complete hardwood hauling for Charles Barnes in Edgecomb and return home. Numerous visits, recoveries, and social events described, with Easter concerts and holy week gatherings announced across Woolwich and nearby communities.
South Dresden locals visit Richmond and Gardiner as Joseph Siegars recovers from chicken pox. Senator Hale reports Admiral Pratt will assign U S naval ships to Bar Harbor for the annual international tennis tournament in August, with British ships participating. The exact ships to be sent will be decided after the summer program is finalized.
performances of quality street a comedy by j m barrie were given in the dorothy memorial bangor saturday afternoon and night under the auspices of the shakespeare club by a cast of local amateurs to good sized audiences they was given an excellent presentation the scenic back ground truthful and pleasing the costumes beyond criticism the acting correct and convincing
The two story home of Councilman Leburton D. Sheldon and wife at 9 Edgett Street was nearly destroyed by a Thursday afternoon blaze. Firefighters faced a long hose run from Center and Charles streets and a pressured attack with Pumper 2. A collapsing chimney narrowly missed several onlookers and firefighters. Mr and Mrs Sheldon were not home. neighbor John Bishop alerted Engine 4. The fire prompted a general alarm from box 37 with little salvage and partial insurance coverage.
Madison Moore of this city a field manager for Pan American Airways delighted an audience of 45 at the regular meeting of the Men’s club of Winter Street church Wednesday night last week when he talked on aviation. He traced early history and developments, interspersing his talk with personal anecdotes from extensive flying in North and South America. The roast beef supper followed. committee members were Charles Andre Delmar Bates Henry O. Trowbridge aided by Dr. Charles E. Helah. Lieut. John A. Lord USN Ret will speak on the Chinese Japanese situation at the next meeting. Supper committee for that night was Elver Stickney Horace Herrick and William R. Donnell.
Garry the collie at the State Military and Naval Children's Home lost two collars and a leather harness. A brass plate and a tag from Torrey Roller Bushing Works were on the gear. City Marshal Whitney and police investigate while Mrs. Louise R Staples asks for help and notes the city ordinance requiring collars.
In nearly 40 years of fur dealing in the district Arthur G. Robinson of Gardiner purchased the largest weasel ever seen here. The pelt measured nineteen inches long and two and a quarter inches wide, prompting Gardiner officials to remark it may be the great great grandfather of all local weasels.
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