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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1943
Page
5
At the home of Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. Hall in Cedar Grove, six Hall daughters and families held a Sunday reunion with a noon dinner and a musicale. Mr. Hall, aged 85, sang a solo amid the gathering of relatives from Richmond Yarmouth Gardiner Kezar Falls and Dresden.
PFC John P. Pushard of Richmond veteran of Guadalcanal died in an automobile accident. He had been convalescing from wounds at a base hospital in their area. Interment will be at the crash site. He would have turned 21 this Friday. He was an only child and a 1939 Richmond High School graduate who later attended Augusta Business College. He enlisted Jan 2 1942, trained at Parris Island and Quantico, and was among the first Marines to land in the Solomon Islands where he served as a radio technician.
Mrs Hannah J Roach died Monday at the Merrill Rest Home in Gardiner after about three months there. Born April 15, 1860 in Richmond she remained tied to that town. She is survived by her brother John T. Dailey of Richmond a niece Mrs John Coan of Swampscott Mass a nephew Arthur Bent of Lynn Mass and several cousins.
Morse High presents a Friday show detailing the physical education program with a focus on the commando training for boys. The event features extensive calisthenics by both boys and girls and recalls earlier demonstrations under Duncan Farrell.
Private Charles Everett Dore Jr 19 of Richmond is in recruit training at Parris Island South Carolina after induction in Boston on April 2 He is the son of Charles E Dore Richmond road commissioner and Mrs Dore and played baseball football and basketball in high school.
Miss Frances Harding, employed in Portland, was a weekend guest of her parents Mr and Mrs Frank Harding at 45 Bedford Street.
The Hunt house near the bridge sold to Mrs. Gertrude Hunt of Brunswick. Community activities resume with Working League. Center school honors list names students from grades 2 to 4. Firefighters burn old grass for J. F. Higgins and W. A. Todd. Victory gardens expand across town. Summer residents visit Robinhood tea room, birds noted. Local church services led by Rev. Densmore. Many residents active in war effort with missing in action reports and military family updates.
Bath's airplane recognition school for members of the Ground Observer Corps opened Tuesday evening at City Hall auditorium. Instructor Mrs. Isabelle Murray led the first class, teaching observers to identify 54 aircraft types. The eight week course meets once weekly, aiming to improve interception readiness for First Fighter Command.
West Bath notes list visits by Mr and Mrs Dwinal Cornish and family at Campbell Pond, Percy Low family at Birch Point, and many other relatives and friends gathering. Mrs Ray Lane is ill at home. John H. Larrabee travels from Manches ter Conn. to visit sisters Esther Bailey and Bessie Bailey before returning.
Wednesday night in Bath covered the Pythian Sisters meeting. Aubrey Fullerton and William Bisseth were painting the passenger boat Viking for summer service at MacMahan. Geodetic Survey Group marked tides along Sasanoa and Sheepscot rivers. Harold Hunt road commissioner improved the Robinhood road with a scraper. Horace Bond of Bangor visited Bath for business.
A large Five Islands congregation heard Rev. D. H. Densmore's Sunday sermon from Give thy servant an understanding heart. The column lists many local events: piano pupil Danaid Kenney performing in Augusta for the Maine Federation. families moving into the Pierce property at Seguinland. hospital stays and returns at Bath Memorial. Mothers Day activities at the Five Islands school. visits and outings among Bath, Bath Iron Works workers, and nearby towns. cottage openings, visitors from Dorchester and Boston, and church gatherings.
Miss Jean Louise Danforth of Bath was sworn into the U S Naval Reserve as an apprentice seaman at Boston Naval Procurement Station. Believed to be Bath’s first native WAVES entrant, she returns home to finish teaching duties at Dike School before active service.
John G. Evans, Specialist First Class, USNR, will hold recruiting sessions at Bath City Hall courtroom on Thursdays starting May 13 and at Brunswick Town Hall courtroom on Fridays starting May 14, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Women aged 20 to 36 are urged to join WAVES and SPARS, while men 17 to 18 may enlist in the Navy or Naval Reserve. Additional qualified men ages 38 to 50 may enter petty officer ratings. Further details available from Mr. Evans or the Portland Navy Recruiting Station at 76 Pearl Street.
Personal notes from the Bedford street area include Master Jackie Small with mumps, Mrs Anna Thombs returning from Belfast, and George Hamilton visiting in Boston. Grace Crowley, a Stanleigh Junior College freshman, visited her mother Mrs Crowley in Union street. Mr Crowley works at Charlestown Navy Yard and also returned to Boston after the weekend. William Raynes, U S A I Air Corps stationed at Gulf, called home on Mother's Day. he sent a voice message. Pvt. Raynes enlisted November 1 and worked at Hyde Windlass Co as an apprentice machinist.
News arrives that Col Percy Elmer Barbour died in Lima Peru on May 5 while serving as technical adviser to the U S State Department. He was a Bath High School and Worcester Polytechnic Institute graduate and longtime mining engineer, with a career including secretary of the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America. He served in the Spanish American War and World War I, rising to colonel in the Officers Reserve Corps. Mrs Barbour accompanied him in Lima and he had been hospitalized about a month for acute leukemia.
Fred Leslie Bixby died Friday afternoon on North Front street in Richmond after a long illness. He was born in Randolph on August 9 1901 and had lived in Richmond for three and a half years, coming from New York. He is survived by his wife Bessie Dunlap Bixby four daughters Anna Whitmore Evelyn Katherine and Jennie all of Richmond two sons Leslie and Robert of Richmond his mother Gertrude Bixby three brothers William of Portland PFC Arthur in the U S Army and John of Richmond two sisters Miss Fannie Bixby of Bath and Miss Velma Bixby.
Wilbur L Carlisle 26 of Bath died Wednesday of last week at Memorial hospital after a brief illness. Born in Bath he was son of Horatio and Alice Higgins Carlisle. He leaves his parents one brother Everett W Carlisle of Bath and a sister Mrs Luetta Nutting of Rye Beach New Hampshire. He worked at Torrey Roller Bushing Works and formerly at Todd Bath Shipbuilding South Portland and Harding Fabrication Bath Iron Works. Funeral held Saturday at 2 PM from Arthur F Mayo funeral residence 819 High Street.
Mrs. Lillian Day Morton 75 of Dresden died at home early Friday. Born May 28, 1868 in Bath she was a daughter of Alfred and Georgia Day. Survived by husband Charles B Morton three sons Alfred Houdlette Bath Melvin and Harold Houdlette Dresden one daughter Mrs John F E Hall Dresden and several grandchildren. Funeral from her home Sunday at 3 p m with Dr Alexander Cairns officiating Interment Forest Hill Cemetery West Dresden.
Funeral services for Captain James Warren Hawley were conducted Friday afternoon at his home on Western Avenue with Mrs. Carleton W. Lowell reading the Christian Science service. Bearers included Fritz N. Klippel and several Hawley family members. burial followed in Oak Grove Cemetery. The report also notes steady improvement of Mrs. D L Howard at Memorial Hospital after two weeks of treatment.
The Cosmopolitan Garden club met Monday with president Alice Johnson presiding. Reports praised the May breakfast as a financial success and funds will aid civic projects including park benches, a fountain, flower beds, and the Community Victory garden.
The W C T U held its monthly business meeting Tuesday at Mrs. Nellie Brown’s Deering Street home with Mrs. Elizabeth Trott presiding. Reports from officers and committees were presented, a appreciation letter from Bertha Rachel Palmer was read, and a Hold Fast Honor Certificate confirmed dues parity with last year.
Funeral services were conducted Thursday at 1 80 for Charles H. Perkins of Day's Ferry from Mayo Funeral 819 High Street. Rev. Dr. David L. Wilson officiated. Bearers were Albion L. Corliss Carlton Day Reed Carl Longfellow and Herbert Munseys. Burial followed in Laurel Cemetery Woolwich.
The Tuesday edition omitted names of Mrs. William Coombs Mrs. Howard Blake and Mrs. E Mason Wright from the West Bath grange May ball committee. Mrs. Coombs and Miss Alice Johnson served as co chairmen of the affair.
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