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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1924
Page
3
West Bath grange will assemble at Beacon Street vestry Sunday morning, march to the auditorium for a sermon by Rev. E. Lewis Wall. A Monday social is postponed. the sewing circle will meet as planned and evening business will follow.
The article notes a Littlefield and Lowell teacher now in Connecticut intends to attend Columbia College this Fall and later seek a West Coast position. Fred D. Winter of Bath attended as Sunday caller at the Brown home with friends. Mrs. Miles Purington and two other Bath residents joined the Regional Conference of the State Parent-Teacher Association at Grace church parish house. Miss Carrie Norton of Woolwich visits relatives in Bath for a few days.
The West Bath sewing circle of the grange met in the hall Monday afternoon to plan the May event. Supper served at six drew nearly ten attendees. a brief business session followed with Master Gwen Hogers presiding. The program featured songs, readings, and talks on fertilizing orchards and spraying care, with Miss Danes Wak and Mrs Edith Ries among participants, and a charity party planned for next Monday. An invitation from Beacon Street Methodist church for Sunday services was extended.
Two Bath Rotary Club members led by Pres. Owen J. Ledyard and Lee Harry TL Passmore returned from Worcester Mass where Bath represented at the 1st district Rotary International conference. Nominations for district governors were made unopposed for Pawtucket and Colby College official Pierbert Libby of Waterville Me. The eighth district will form July first, with Bath moving to the new division. Total conference registrations reached 512. Renabel N. Mark gave a keynote address. a proposed oat resolution on theater display of antidepressants was rejected as Rotary stays from legislative input.
Horace S. Steward cashier of the Met and civic leader is reported as president for 1924 25. Clarence Cook Little president of the University of Maine is named as vice president. Tiarold TH Tredge is secretary treasurer with Horace S Steward Clarence Little Hillwold I Hodge Stuart B Copeland Lewis A Savage Paul Savage and Dan T Sullivan listed as directors Ellis Y Mildridge sergeant at arms
Electrical Merchandising predicts a major radio summer with ten million listeners tuning into Democratic and Republican conventions in New York and Cleveland. The piece notes presidential campaign broadcasts, polar expedition updates, and a surge in high power stations, improved receivers, and cheaper radios expanding home entertainment and news.
Wesley Sorority held a public supper in the vestry last Wednesday, attended by over 100 guests. The menu featured cold ham potato salad Baxter peas coffee and Washington pie served by committee members with Miss Annie Stewart and Mildred Curd assisting. Chair Mrs Andrew M Butterfield led the event with Mrs Whittier Lilie M Cahill Provence Watson Mrs C J Brooks Marion Whitmier Mrs Ella Sprague made the coffee and Madelyn Parvis served as cashier.
A New York mother pushing a baby carriage along an uptown sidewalk collides with a large tree blocking the path. She questions why the tree stands on the sidewalk and argues for its removal. A bystander overhears and reflects the public sentiment about city trees.
Poster Wright in Mentor Magazine reports Neoma, City of the Sky, near Laguna, Neo M. notes Acoma Indians and long tradition decline as younger generation leaves for work with whites, claiming population near GOD with temporary return visitors.
A Barbados native moves a house on a cart in a remarkable display of portable home transport. Sir Frederick Treves notes rigid walls and roof placed flat, with shutters and chicken house carried along, no plumbing. Miss Marion Worrey visits home from Portland with Mrs Worrey and Miss Meloney.
A Massachusetts analysis links 3 to 7 pm with the most child traffic fatalities. It urges teachers to warn pupils at dismissal and promote safe play away from streets to cut deaths by a quarter.
The report shows Maine in first place by quota filed for Citizens Military Training Camps with data attributed to Lieut. Col John Meliride. It lists state enrollments for Massachusetts Rhode Island and Connecticut and notes county by county percentages for April.
Preparations underway for annual Bath City Hospital reception on May 12. Hospital and Nurses' Home to be open for inspection during afternoon hours with visitors invited. Improvements cited. event aims to reflect local support from Bath and surrounding towns including Brunswick and Wiscasset.
Bowdoin veteran Mal Morrell resigns from the baseball team due to heavy study load, taking six courses and facing major exams. Coach Ben Trouser plans to rely on Wayne Sibley and notes solid play against Bates as Bowdoin seeks state title revenge in Brunswick.
Mesdames Gertrude Wil ly Eaton and Levi Wy Steward wed after Sunday at 15 Harvest Street Charlestown Mass Rev Perry Bush officiated The bridesmaids were Alice White Burlington Miss and Mrs Verey Gouminen Rumford Pages sister-in-law The groom works on the Boston and Maine railroad and is active in Masonry Honeymoon plans include New York Washington Norfolk and Baltimore
The State ferry Hockemoeck starts the Sumner schedule on May 1 running Bath to Woolwich from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. departures occur on the hour and half past from Bath and on the quarter and quarter past from Woolwich. After 9 p.m. departures switch to Bath on the hour and Woolwich on the half hour with a late 11 p.m. sailing to Woolwich and return.
Charles Reo Farnham won the handicap sweepsakes bowling match at the THT alleys finishing night with a score of 1042. Leroy Lothrop placed second with 1022 and Eyverett Quinlan third with 1002.
Report from The Times notes boy damage on Winship Street near City Hospital with ball playing and noisy cycling disturbing patients. The informant hopes for relocation of these activities to a quieter area.
Three newborns arrive on April 23. Two twins enter City hospital for Mr. and Mrs. Harold Fish and a daughter for Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Presley. A son is born to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Tibbetts on Washington Street.
Morse High faculty with outsider Torbert Douglas will stage the play Come out of the kitchen featuring Ruth Chatterton in past fame. Eugene M. Desmond directs rehearsals as students perform late May. proceeds fund books for the library and athletic association. Cast includes Olivia Dangerfield Stella Duprey Elizabeth Dangerfield Nellie Sawyer Paul Dangerfield and others.
Bath Boy Scouts lost to Wiscasset Academy in a game reported as 21 to 7. Tony Olinto pitched the fourth inning with no hits or errors allowed yet four runs scored on wild pitches and walks. The rough outline notes six baserunners and multiple wild pitches ending the inning with two on and none out.
Marion Wagner has been elected captain of next season's Morse High girls basketball sextet. She stood out as a guard this past season, among Maine's best. Letters went to Miily Choate Lydia Daxter Leola Ward Dorothy Donnell Minnie McMinn Mc Donald Wagner Gladys Mitchell and manager Lillian Lee. The team earns gold basketballs for their second place in Maine.
The Daxter Juniors displayed strong form with a 70 feet 5 inches handtub event Friday. Earlier they posted 66 feet 0 inches on April 22 and 51 feet 6 inches on April 15. A follow up playout is planned Monday on Pine Street with Bath Veteran Fireman's Association members expected to attend for coaching.
Relieves cough cold rheumatism strains sprains and soreness of muscles chafe hands and throat restores bronchial comfort. On sale at Webber's Drug Store Bath Maine March 27 3m.
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