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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1953
Page
2
The community hosts a bloodmobile visit with many volunteers and hostesses named. Also listed are church, fraternal, and town events including lodge activities, fundraisers, a class trip fund drive, and council meetings with details of attendees and dates. Community life highlights include theater ads and a movie schedule.
A film pairing features a romantic subplot focusing on a woman and her intended, intertwined with a short piece titled Log Jam that showcases logging operations in the Maine woods. The package blends drama with lumber industry imagery.
Dromore Grange gathered Tuesday despite a storm with large attendance. Ray Campbell presided as worthy master and a contribution to the Billy Brown fund was voted. Edward King reported on window screen project. Topsham guest Mrs Lucy Smith attended.
Brunswick Squadron members participated in a statewide search and rescue mission locating a lost F-94 jet near Standish. About 225 personnel and 30 aircraft covered coast to Sebago Lakes and Livermore Falls with Reginald Riley Leon White and A Risteen piloting. Ground rescue was led by Captain Gerald C Lallier and Malcolm Miller, with Henry Cordord as observer and additional ground crew. Harry Moses of Springfield College visits his mother Mrs A George Moses in Portland.
A sequence of community notes from West Bath records a birthday party for Mrs. Merrill Jordan at the Wass home with family attendees from Brunswick and Portland, plus gatherings at Arlene Scott’s for the Chatterboats and visits by residents to relatives in Madison Belfast Gardiner and Portland. Canada produced an estimated honey crop of 29 677 000 pounds in 1952.
Woolwich Grange held a March 18 meeting with strong attendance. Plans for a Billy Brown benefit supper were set for April 10 and Mrs. Marion Chubbuck named as committee chair. Several members traveled to Portland for the Sportsman's Show and attendees witnessed masons conferred on a class at Bodwell Grange.
Dresden column records visits, church and club activities, and a local obituary. Highlights include gatherings of the Shel don cousins and Houdlette families, a successful Grange degree ceremony, PTA plans and an upcoming spelling bee, and a Dresden Mills rummage sale. Mrs Lillian Blen of Owen Blen dies. service held in Gardiner with cross hill cemetery burial planned.
At West Bath Grange Monday evening members debated suitable community service contest projects with Mason Wright Ethel MacDonald Alex Burgess and Hon Joseph W Larrabee present Barbara Parks performed two songs and children played musical chairs with Joan Skinner winning. Alfred Niles provided fiddle numbers and Pauline Belanger won the Penny March while Florence Farn ham sang Pink Elephants and Verna Coombs was mentioned.
Troop IV of Winter Street church met Monday for a business session. They invited mothers to attend the birthday ceremony, then divided into four sections. Eighth graders made posters for next week while the other groups pursued proficiency badge work.
In Pittsfield Massachusetts a family dinner party was hosted with guests including Mr and Mrs Ralston D Clinton and their son Allen from Concord New Hampshire among others.
A note on early American agriculture records that Brussels sprouts were introduced to the United States circa 1800. The statement underscores the vegetable's long history in U.S. diets and cultivation.
Rev Nathanael M. Guptill, Field Work Director at Andover Newton Theological School, will lecture on The Dimensions of the Love of God at Winter Street Church in Bath Sunday April 12 as part of the University of Life first general assembly. Registration begins at participating Bath churches with a $1 enrollment for four Sunday evenings.
Exhibition lists participants and instructors across departments at Bailey Evening School including Bookkeeping Machine Shop Sheet Metal Sewing Knitting and related names such as Miriam Gross Louise Lord Thelma Sukeforth Alberta Bailey and Charlene Burgess. The display highlights student work and course offerings with multiple instructors and attendees.
The Spring F Show at South End Hall drew full capacity as children modeled spring apparel from W. T. Grant Co. volunteers assisted, with Mrs. Elizabeth Moffatt as general chairman and Arthur M. Swan and Edna Coombs aiding. Musical interludes by Cecil Fullerton complemented exhibits of coats, dolls, and children’s wear. Food and drinks were sold, and a preview in the Grant’s window followed at 3:30 pm.
A fragmented OCR sample lists multiple women associated with clubs and crafts, including Rugmaking and Dressmaking titles. Mentions include Sarah D Cameron Florencé Pete Christine Cummings Alice G Dow Esther F Evans Lillian Fitch Helen Greene Norris Charlotte Van Wynen Dorothy Weeks Marie Dressmaking Carolyn Bell Margaret Black Lillian Collins Evelyn Crocker Ruth Deering Pauline Faissenbe Elizabeth Fournier Lillian Gray Helen Gross Ida Hinkley Lilian Thompson.
A stork shower hosted for Mrs. Gleena Rippin by Sears Roebuck employees at Mrs. Miles B. Hagan’s home 12 Cobb Road. Mrs. Rippin, a former Sears employee, plans to depart for Pennsylvania in May. Attendees and gift givers are listed with group singing during the buffet.
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