Dancing and social cards share program finale noted
Following the program, attendees enjoyed social cards and dancing, marking a festive conclude to the event with music and neighbors socializing after performances.
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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1940
Page
4
Following the program, attendees enjoyed social cards and dancing, marking a festive conclude to the event with music and neighbors socializing after performances.
Supt John Parker and Mrs James Nostall announce a city wide Summer Roundup to give free physical examinations to children entering public schools next fall. The week of May 6 will feature doctor and dentist clinics with schedules for individual practitioners to assess and correct defects before September. Vaccination discussions encouraged, with options to use family doctors outside hours for a fee.
The Bath and Brunswick Community Concert Association will meet at Moulton Union on Sunday May 5 at 7 39 to finalize plans for the membership campaign launching May 6. Gladys Swarthout and the Trapp Family are slated to perform in two of the three concerts, signaling a premier season.
Allison P Howes of Palmyra, a former state official, urged burning the Maine Administrative Code and railing against high taxes at a Sagadahoc Pomona grange session in Richmond. He warned of old age pensions as an insult and pressed faith based citizenship, while the afternoon program showcased reports, readings, and a juvenile drill.
Ex mayor Donald N Small and Mrs Small presented home movie footage to about 30 residents in the newly decorated Old Folks Home living room on Friday evening. The screening included Bath parade with Drum Major Edwin L Emmons circus scenes at Bath surf at Popham Beach and children playing along the shore a Nassau cruise and Havana sequences as well as many shots from the New York World's Fair. Residents expressed gratitude for the thoughtful visit and entertainment.
Mrs. W. S. Voorhees and Mrs. Thomas Murphy travel Saturday to Washington DC as Bath chapter representatives. Voorhees attends for the Red Cross in schools and Murphy for the production committee. The convention opens Sunday with delegate registration and runs through Thursday.
Miss Eileen Jones daughter of Mr and Mrs Addison Jones of 19 Fremont street received Bliss Business college top honor in Lewiston She was elected editor in chief of The Go Getter yearbook Graduated Morse high 1937 National Honor Society member Ruth Bryan Owen prize candidate Maintains high scholastic average Active in Taleo Papoutsi sorority riding swimming clubs and Lewiston welfare work Lives at Lewiston Y W C A.
Percy E King and Miss A Hazel Plant wed Friday evening in a private ceremony at the bridegroom’s sister Mrs John Osborne’s home 22 Walker Street Rev Frederick P Moffatt officiated The couple will reside at 26 Walker Street Mrs King a Morse High School graduate 1939 and daughter of Cecelia White and Percy Plant The groom a Morse 1937 graduate works at Bath Iron Works Corp as a chipper
Alvin W. Mitchell a truck driver and Virginia M. Sutherland were married Friday at seven in a single ring ceremony by Rev Charleis H Berry at Emmanuel Bible Assembly parsonage 188 North Street Attendants were Mr and Mrs Earl E Blake The couple will live with the Mitchell and Sutherland families at their respective addresses.
Bowdoinham town clerk received notice Friday of the marriage at Brunswick on April 13 of Roger L. Douglas and Helen T. Read. They were attended by Mr and Mrs J E Miner. Douglas is son of O W and the late Irma Greening Douglas and works in Bath. He graduated Coombs high school in 1939 and attended Mississippi State College. Read is daughter of Walter F and Hattie Temple Read and also graduated from Coombs high school in 1939.
Donald Merton Oliver of 11 Dummer Street and Miss Barbara Elizabeth King of 15 Blasland Jane Street were wed Friday evening by Rev Charles M Tubbs at Grace Church parsonage 895 High Street. Mrs Frederick Percy and Miss Mabel Howard of South Lancaster arrived Tuesday to visit Mrs Arthur Sewall of the Stonehouse. Percy plans improvements at her Summer home at Small Point Beach.
Public notice outlining classifieds pricing at 25 words for first insertion and 35 cents, 20 cents for each subsequent insertion, and a deadline requiring copy to reach the office by noon on Wednesdays. details appear as an advertising and submission instruction for local readers.
A brief personals notice seeks a kind country home for a black long haired mother cat aged about one year. Contact Mrs Catherine Mc Farland at 666 Middle St Bath Maine for arrangements.
Ken Almy buys the Herbert Leighton place on Clay Hill and starts repairs. Dr. P W Woods to lecture at the P T A meeting May 8 at the high school on a dental clinic for all school children. Card party prizes at the Fireman's hall went to Mrs Margaret Gile and others. Memorial day planning, lodge events, and widespread local personal notes fill the page with community life.
Robert William Humason and Miriam Esther Graffam were married Sunday in a ceremony performed by Dr. David L. Wilson at his home, 808 Middle Street. The Humason and Graffam families, from Humason town and Whitefield, were represented.
Stephen Etnier, a widely known artist, was among about six aviation students who received private pilot licenses in Portland on Tuesday. Etnier resides at Gilbert Head near the mouth of the Kennebec River below Bath.
Mrs Bessie E Dickinson of Bath new Republican State committee member attended the Augusta House organization meeting Tuesday and heard praise from Vice Chair Inez G Wing for nationwide party organization. Re-elected officers were praised. chairman J Fred O Connell of Bangor noted as birthday. An elephant gift was presented to Mr O Connell by Willard H Cummings of Newport.
Henry D. Small of Morse high school faculty returned from Brewer where he was summoned by the death of his father Daniel Small aged 89 a Bowdoinham native. The funeral was held Saturday in Brewer with burial at Charlestown where he spent most of his life. He ran a sportsmen's camp at Onawa Lake for many years.
Merrymeeting Grange in Bowdoinham held a Friday program on birds and flowers directed by Mrs. Ralph McEwen in the lecturer’s absence. Seed packets were given, plans for a August flower show discussed, Arbor Day legend read by Mrs. William Kocian, and a beautification discussion led by William H. Gedald. Prizes and guessing contests followed, and a plan to take the grange play Aunt Bessie Beats the Band to Richmond on May 1 was made.
St Marys guild of Grace church ran a rummage sale at the parish house Tuesday with Mrs Kenneth Brown and Mrs Phyllis Mason in charge. Proceeds will aid guild welfare work. A Monday meeting launched a box drive for mountain whites in Virginia and North Carolina. Refreshments were by Mrs Harry B Briggs Jr and Mrs Thomas Allen. The Diocese of Maine Woman's Auxiliary meets in Augusta June 13 and 14 at St Mark's church marking the parish centennial. delegates include Mrs Fred D Hill and other guild members.
Mrs Maude Woodside, who spent the winter in Florida as a guest of Mrs Elmer D Hodgkins at 937 Middle Street, returned Wednesday to her home in Fryeburg.
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