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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1933
Page
3
Harry B Sawyer returns to Florida aboard the Allegheny with his daughter and grandson after escorting Mrs Sawyer's body from Fort Myers. Other items note Mrs Given and Mrs Ross's Portland trip, a First Baptist sewing circle sale set for April 4, school events at Morse High, and Hayden Rogers' Spring vacation trip from Orono to Hartford with two Lambda Chi brothers.
Miss Jane Hyde Mary Sewall of Bath Miss Helena Mason of Brunswick and Miss Jane Porteau of Portland hosted a buffet supper at Waynflete house in Portland. Freshmen and sophomores will host a Spring dance on March 31. Ushers include Clinton Davis Cary Beyer Vincent Donahue of Portland and Carl Dearborn of Bath. Delta Chi Alpha House organized at Orono with Bangor filing. Howard C Bates More ’28 president and director. Betty Fastman returns from Portland visit.
William Hyde and his sister Mrs. K D Steward visited Mayor John A Lord and wife at 50 Pearl Street and left for home. They are children of the late Charles E Hyde, once Bath Tron Works engineer and former city mayor. Mr and Mrs Joseph Clarey of Boston stay with cousin Mrs James McLanehain at 35 Willow Street. About 150 attended the Fashion Show at Hicksville held by Dike P T A at Dummer Street schoolhouse with Robbie Carver's orchestra providing dancing after.
Mr and Mrs Milton S Kimball of Augusta died Sunday in Bath while visiting Mrs Albert H Shaw of High Street.
Miss Merthyne Ward of Morse high School class of 1933 held a Saturday birthday gathering at 700 High Street hosted by her sister Mrs Harold E Armes. Guests included Miss Margaret Higgins Miss Ruth Ames Miss Hazel Allen Miss Emma Colby Miss Roberta Gordon Miss Florence Wyman and Miss Dorothy Martin. Ice cream saltines and a birthday cake complemented games and music during the evening.
A son born March 24 to Mr and Mrs William Lawrence Bettis of North Bath has been named Howard Allan Beto. The announcement notes the newborn’s full name and parental residence in North Bath with standard birth notice phrasing.
Loyall F Sewall Arthur Sewall 2d Sumner Sewall Henry C Wright and W S Newell of Bath attended a dinner by the Harold Sewall club at the Falmouth hotel in Portland Saturday night. Also present was former Gov William Tudor Gardiner returning from Egypt. The club includes members from across Maine. Lieut and Mrs George Hunter hosted a supper on Summer Street Friday with three tables of contract.
Archibald M. Main Jr. of Bath Iron Works fame starred for Hebron Academy as the team defeated the YMCA in Portland. Main took second in the 40 yard dash and 100 yard free style, swam on the record setting 160 yard relay team that finished in 1 30 4 5. Arthur Sewall 2d visited from New York, and Adolph Brinker of Portland, injured in the Woolwich crash that killed Coffin and Mallett, was a Bath visitor. Brinker later suffered a fractured knee and concussion.
Mr and Mrs John H Hyde Loyall F Sewall and Arthur Sewall 2d were supper guests of Mr and Mrs James Ricker in Portland Sunday night. Charles H Cahill Jr was among those winning second honors at Hebron Academy according to announcement of scholarship averages by Principal Ralph L Hunt.
Mr and Mrs John J Lee of Quincy Mass formerly of Bath arrived Monday for a visit with Mr Lee s brother Edward J Lee and Mrs Lee at 64 Pearl street They were joined by Mr and Mrs Francis Lee of Quincy who will visit Mr Lee s sister Mrs Elford A Stover at 39 Allen street
Mrs. Albert H. Shaw Mrs. Frederick H. Kimball and Mrs. Charles H. Cahill died Friday in Portland. The notices name their spouses and indicate local obituary notices honoring three women who lived in the city.
Raymond C Hathorne Morse 30 arrives with his parents from Woolwich to spend a 10 day spring vacation from the University of Maine where he is a sophomore and Phi Kappa Sigma member. Roy S Lawrence Morse 29 and Miss Doris E Lawrence valedictorian Morse 31 arrive with their parents from Arrowsic as sophomores at U M for spring break. Misses Virginia and Anna Percy of Woodfords were calling on friends in the city.
Etude class pupils of Miss Carrie F Luce entertained about 20 friends at a social at 826 Washington street on Saturday evening. The gathering featured card games jig-saw puzzles and refreshments. Mr and Mrs Sam Levine of the Bath Department Store departed Sunday for Boston to buy new spring goods.
Mrs Samuel H Mildram of Brookline Massachusetts formerly Eleanor Leydon of Bath Maine and Mrs Arthur L Race wife of the Copley Plaza manager have returned from an 18 day cruise in the West Indies aboard the Kungsholm. They visited Martinique Trinidad Curacao La Guaira and Caracas in Venezuela Panama Jamaica and Havana.
Dr. Paul G. Bagdikian and Harry E. Litchfield with Frederick Edney traveled to Portland Friday evening to attend the council of the Princess of Jerusalem Scottish rite.
Principal and Mrs Arthur B Scott, Mr and Mrs Eugene M Desmond, Mr and Mrs William L Skelton and son John, Mrs Mary H Conley, Mrs Erroll L Baker, Miss Bessie F Greenblatt, Miss Sophie G Greenblatt, Omar W King, Linwood Hines, Elwood Legard, John McCarty attended the final competition in the interscholastic dramatic contest at Bowdoin College on Saturday.
George Conway has returned from Boca Raton Florida where he was employed for the Winter at the golf club for his third season.
Stanley D. Henderson Morse 30, a University of Maine junior and Phi Gamma Delta member, left Orone Friday for Wollaston Massachusetts to spend his spring vacation with friends. He is the son of Mr and Mrs David S Henderson of North Bath.
Miss Barbara Ros arrived Friday night from Boston to spend the spring vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rodney E. Ross, of High street. Miss Ross attends the Choate School for Girls in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Mr Allan Spear and Mrs Spear of Pearl Street visited Portland on Thursday, detailing a brief colonial era style local outing with no further events recorded.
Mr and Mrs Gaston LaChaise occupy a Summer home at Georgetown and have spent much of the Winter there. They left Thursday afternoon for Boston for a short stay before continuing to New Ark.
Philip Stackpole head of the mathematics department at Kents Hill preparatory school visits his brother Charles Stackpole on Middle Street during the school's Spring vacation.
Mrs Eugene Desmond entertained her contract club at her home on Lincoln Street Monday afternoon.
Carleton Pike and Sumner Pike of New York formerly of Lubec visited Portland guests of Loyall Sewall and Arthur Sewall 2d attending a Harold Sewall club dinner at the Falmouth hotel. Miss Doris Campbell taught at Cherryfield high school spent weekend in Bath with her mother. The Etc. club held a party at secretary Thersia Bennett’s home on Middle street with green and gold decor, games, refreshments, and dancing amid strong attendance. George Parson of Rockland visited Bath with D. Joseph Doyle. Mrs. M Langdon Hill of Falmouth Foreside was elected Portland Junior league president and to the national conference in Philadelphia May 15 to 20. Mr. and Mrs. Hill recently returned from the West Indies. A son named Edwin T. Thing was born Thursday at 21 Russell Street.
Dike P T A schedules a dancing party on April 7 at the Ol Dummer Street School with committee heads Mrs Herman Crocker Mrs Ray Clark Mrs Albert McFadden and Mrs Scott Golder. News notes also mention Miss Martha Cahill visiting from Emma Willard School Troy and Miss Barbara Ross joining in Boston.
A list of Tufts Morse Maine Bowdoin and related students on spring vacations visiting family or traveling to places like Portland Bath Bermuda and Miami with addresses and parental details. Notable names include John E. McCole Eugene G. Ingalls Albert L. Ingalls Alden G. Smith James M. Jackson Duncan H. Farrell and others with family residences in Bath Portland Lewiston and Boston.
David P. Mullin, Bowdoin 32, a first year student at Tufts Medical College in Medford Massachusetts, is spending his spring vacation with his mother Mrs Seth S Mullin at 1111 Washington Street.
Loyall F Sewall of Washington Street departed Sunday night for Baltimore to stay several weeks with his brother in law John W Williams. Mrs Williams remains in a Baltimore hospital recovering from an operation.
Miss Annie J Zuma Morse 31 Nassan Institute Springvale second year student spends spring vacation at her parents home Mr and Mrs Mike M Zuma 41 Chestnut Street in Springvale.
Mr and Mrs Malcolm Doble visited Portland to meet their daughter Miriam L a Wheaton college sophomore in Norton Massachusetts She plans to spend her spring vacation at home and will return in April A
Mr and Mrs Danford A McDonald and Mr and Mrs Harold J Haggett and Mr and Mrs Charles L Haggett were among those attending the dance at Ricker Gardens in Portland on Saturday evening.
The Genesta Chapter No. 73 O. E. S. met at the Masonic Temple Wednesday afternoon of last week with an attendance of 20 members. Mrs. Benjamin F. Savage and Mrs. Jason A. Merrill were hostesses. Two quilts were tacked.
Edwin M. Fuller Bowdoin class of 1932 takes a first family vacation with Dr. and Mrs. E Motley Fuller at 808 High Street. Fuller is Morse Academy graduate of 1927. Miss Mary F Gibbons returns home after weeks in Providence Rhode Island with cousin Mrs J Prescott Farnsworth and visits friends in Sharon Massachusetts on the way.
Miss R Hazel Feero Morse 30 a University of Maine junior visits her parents Mr and Mrs Linwood C Feero on Phippsburg road and will return next Monday. Miss Jeannette F P Shackford Morse 32 a Nassan Institute first year student at Springvale spends a ten day Spring vacation with her parents Mr and Mrs Roy F Shackford at 10 Turner s court.
Miss Olive Sewall arrived from Poughkeepsie New York to spend the spring vacation with her parents Mr and Mrs Sumner Sewall on Washington Street. She is a member of the 1936 Vassar College class. Mr and Mrs Robert C MacArthur of Boston Massachusetts were weekend visitors at Mrs Pred R E Dean's home. Mr MacArthur succeeded the late Mr Dean as general manager of Armstrong Co Boston.
Mr and Mrs Francis G Cooke of Silver Spring Md are visiting this city as guests of Mrs Cooke's brother Sheriff and Mrs Albert Henderson of Union Street. Mrs Annie Johnson and Mrs Gertrude Stewart hosted the Past Ladies club of Myrtle lodge No 8 LL O S O L at 149 North Street. About 15 attended after the business meeting they played cards and had lunch. The next meeting on 24 will be at 79 Academy the home of Mrs Mary Lowell with Mrs Lois T McKiever hosting.
International speakers and guests will headline the 38th Rotary District Conference in Portland in April. The event runs April 17 and 18 at the Falmouth Hotel with a Sunday reception, a Boston-bound banquet at the Eastland Hotel, and a three day program emphasizing entertainment over business. Noted figures include John Nelson, Edwin Weeks, Barbara Weeks, Marie Ahnigi to Peary Stafford, and Dr. Amos Osborne Squire, among others.
Martha Smith of Saco and Marjorie Moulton of Hiram both seniors in the University of Maine Home Economics Department will demonstrate “Potatoes in 57 Ways” during Farm and Home Week on March 30. They assert potatoes provide high nutrition at low cost and can form an adequate staple for families on limited incomes without boring repetition.
A string of local notices reports guilty pleas and sentences in Auburn municipal court. A man received 90 days and one year probation, while others faced jail, probation, or fines for intoxication. Fire crews battled chimney fires on Washington and Center Streets, and a youth trio faced larceny charges with a year of probation. Community events include a Chinese operetta at Winter Street Chapel and rehearsals for Jason Allen’s Golden Wedding.
Illness delays The Deacon's Honeymoon at the Beacon Street vestry of Brunswick M E church. The three act comedy will be performed next week with the evening to be announced. County Attorney John P. Carey Jr will address a law class Thursday at 7 30 in room 6 on Corporations.
Ri Page of the Colonial Club bowled well Thursday, posting a high single of 144 and a three-game total of 330. The Fatimas raised their lead with a 1404 team score, putting them five percentage points ahead of the Murads. Chesterfield, Camels, and Old Golds closely trail in a tight six-team race.
Bath taxpayers association met Tuesday evening at city hall with all members present except two. A chimney fire at 856 Middle street required engine Four. Commander R W Ferrell, USN, stationed at Bath Iron Works during destroyer Dewey construction, said hull is 25 percent complete.
Over the past three years Bowdoin College has added three new buildings totaling 400000 dollars. The Moulton Union a 170000 dollar recreational hub funded by the late Augustus F Moulton of Portland. Curtis Pool cost 150000 dollars and serves as a premier New England facility. A 15000 dollar war memorial flagpole honors World War I graduates.
John E. Carlton of Perkins Locke Williamson in Augusta, a Bath business visitor, was in town Wednesday.
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