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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1944
Page
8
The Maine Supreme Court rules a delivery of intoxicants to an express company in another state counts as a delivery to the purchaser. Bath items note a Phippsburg social yielding 40.50 for the church, theater swindles, local meetings, and community events with Bath weather talk and various local movements.
March 16 1904 Miss Helen Nichols serves as cashier while the regular cashier Miss Estelle Franks is away. Genesta chapter O E S was hosted by Mrs. Wilbur C. Oliver on Union street. Friday evening the order plans to move weekly meeting to seven to accommodate future entertainments. West Bath grange initiated ten candidates, harvest after. St Marys Society whist party planned for Armory hall April 11. Committees for details named as Thomas Cooper Henry Biggins Miss Katherine Conley Miss Adelaide Costain.
March events fill Bath society pages with meetings at North Street home of Mrs. Hill and at Advent church. Jolly Social Club plans Friday gathering with Eugene Desmond. Crone lodge and Bath Medical club active. Music concert at Columbia Theatre features Miss Low, Miss Emery, and Nevin quartet. Pool champion Carl C. Troop triumphs in third class. others noted include Miss Gertrude Lakin’s birthday party and arrivals at the Phoenix. Various civic, business, and social items noted, from theater to shipyard half-holiday and bridge damage.
Mrs George E Reed of Gar diner visited Bath friends. Dr B F Barker hosted Bath Medical club at New Meadows Inn last night. All but one member attended and the evening was enjoyed.
Mrs William Thurlow of Rockland visits sister Mrs Abbie Young in the city. Jimmie Davenport of Boston meets Jesse Savage Jr for LO rounds at the club next Monday eve ning. Savage shows improvement and aims for a strong showing. Miss Isabel Joy and Miss Catherine McDougall plan to leave next month for the West to stay a year. A West Bath grange social is on for this evening. Town messenger boys wear green ribbons for St Patrick s day.
In a city meeting Maine lodge NEO P elects Doyle for mayoral post with 15 votes to 14 required. Johnson, Oliver, Gay, Miller and Knight win unopposed or by unanimous ballot for city posts. Various boards and officials are appointed as the council closes nominations and postpones overseers of the poor.
March 20 1904 the Beacon Street church Ladies Sewing society will meet with Mrs Albert Strout Washington street Tuesday afternoon at two o clock Mrs Sarah K Taylor of Rockland will speak at the Advent Christian church Middle street Sunday morning and evening Alvin L Gilmore of the University of Maine sends letters from Aroostook county Bath friends during a Glee and Moncolin club tour There will be a rally of primary Sunday school teachers Street Baptist church Sunday afternoon at three under the county primary superintendent Alice Douglas A sand map and Sunday school appliances demonstration with kindergarten materials will be shown All interested in the work are invited.
A brief note states two candidates from the city are on the initiation list. The spring initiation began last evening and is scheduled to last 92 days, 19 hours, and 53 minutes.
Sunday and weekend visits highlighted by Mrs Pris cla Campbell hosting a gathering and Pauline Rave planning a return home on Federal Street. Residents Alvin Kierstead and Cyril Grant visited, while Clifton Redotmner and Clifton Mores stayed as Bristol and Waldorf area guests. Families Olen Hanson and Lawrence H Marston were noted as moves and weekend guests, with Belgrade Lakes residents hosting relatives.
The graduating class of Morse High plans a regulation observance as the first group to graduate from the new high school. Several Batholks will attend a social of Lewiston lodge this.
The listing shows several visits and guests across New York New Rochelle Boston Framingham Weston Dorchester and Wiscasset plus local academies. Mentions include Mr and Mrs Roy R Marston Mrs Winona Leavitt Miss Dorothy Weeks Mrs Mae Weeks and others hosting and visiting relatives and friends with notes on valedictorian and salutatorian at Wiscasset Academy.
Theta chapter celebrated its third anniversary with a Tuesday buffet at Mrs Brewster Sedgwick’s Middle Street home. Guests included Bath and Augusta chapter representatives, Waterville invitees, and long-time officers. Miss Jean Danforth Wave was away with the Navy.
Fragmented OCR reveals an insurance ledger from Old Colony Insurance Company Boston Massachusetts. It lists receivables assets liabilities miscellaneous items with figures in the millions and details of reserves and funds under administration. The text includes names such as Cyril Reet and Elmer Manks and references to a public trust or independent show proof.
T John L. Jack, Register of Probate, lists executors administrators guardians named for Sagadahoc County estates with appointment dates in 1944. Included are John A Terrell of Phippsburg, Rosermond Hunt, Tylestone, Mufion Me Deni, Richard S Bmunewilt, Mary Eo Wunne, Charles Mc Smith care at Bank decent Church, James D Clark of Bath, Edwin Dynegyite of Bath, Minnie Grierey, Immanuel Walker, and Allan Spear. Final orders by Arthur J Dunton, Judge of Probate.
A brief note describes a few days spent with Mrs Reed at their residence along the Wiscasset road, highlighting quiet domestic time and local provenance.
Miss Muriel Virginia Grace married Oscar Raymond Marsh in a candlelight ceremony at St Johns Episcopal Church in Brooklyn. The bride, of Bath, Maine, wore light blue with orchids. Rev Gordon Pierce officiated. The couple plans to live at 230 Middle Street Bath after a honeymoon. The groom is from Rockland. both are employed at Hyde Windlass Co. A rescue tug will be launched Friday by Camden Shipbuilding.
John L. Jack certifies several estates where administrators or executors were appointed in March 1944. Fred H. Thompson of Bath with Dorothy T Olsen named administratrix on March 7, 1944. Joseph G Stevens of Georgetown with Flavilla Fo Stevens executor without bond on March 14, 1944. Salmon W Prttnam III of Luannentiurs with Lotus Fo Putnam as executor without bond on March 14, 1944. Arthur J. Dunton notes true copy of the original order.
North Center P T A meets at Center Street school with president Mrs Joseph J Smith presiding. City P T A groups plan a Child's Theatre Production at Morse High auditorium in the week of April 10 or 24. Preschool literature group reports on books and meetings at Mrs Joseph I Smith's home. Next meeting set for Central Grammar April 4. Mr and Mrs Vaughn J Dean visit from Marianna Fla returning to duty after furlough.
At a Bath Sagadahoc probate court on the March meeting a series of matters were presented. Notices will be published weekly in the Bath Independent informing all interested parties to appear at the probate court in Bath on the second Tuesday of April at ten o clock in the forenoon to be heard and to object if they see cause. The matters include name changes for Marshall MacLean Russell and Gertrude R Rhein and final accounting and distribution for Herbert W McKenney, with custodians Howard and Gertrude Rhein and Lewis I Naiman as administrator.
A period order directs publication in Bath Independent for three weeks to inform interested parties of probate court on April first in Bath County Sagadahoc. Notices seek licenses to sell estate real estate in Bath and petitions to appoint administrators with or without bond. Names include Arline Y Merses, Charles Lyons Russell, Totman, Wellman, Burden, Hutchins, and others. several hearings and executorship matters filed in Bath.
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