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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1936
Page
3
Readers note a stream of visitors and homecomings from Bath to Portland as locals and guests share weekends and dinners. Families like the Leavitts and Morse host friends while others return from wintering in Boston and New York. Social ties span Parker Head, West Point, Ashdale, and Meadowbrook with school reopening after measles.
The New York Herald Tribune notes painter Stephen Etnier and his wife visit Manhattan briefly each year after buying and renovating the Clark homestead at Gilbert Head on Long Island near the Kennebec. They enjoy tea dances cocktail parties theaters and night life during a few weeks in town.
Rev Charles R Sims was unanimously reelected pastor of First Baptist Church for a sixth year at the annual society meeting held Wednesday night. The session opened with a supper and was followed by reports from officers committees and organizations noting a prosperous church. A committee was named for the 1936 vacation school and the missionary budget was discussed before adjournment.
Mrs Clinton D Wilson, who filled the unexpired term, was elected president for the ensuing year at Grace church parish house. Other officers named include Bird A Shellenbarger vice president and Frank F Colburn Jr secretary. Committees were appointed for Finance Publicity Membership Program Hospitality and more.
A crowded report details locals from Popham Beach to Boothbay with visits to Bath and East Boothbay. It lists lighthouse staff, coast guard personnel, summer campers, and residents returning from trips including Mrs. Connors and her children Nancy and Mickey, Mary Morton, and Capt. Walter Sprague.
Allan H. Ramsay, president of Les Camarades Musicaux, selects Morse high school's Merton Sprague as the youngest Camarade to solo at the May 14 Bangor concert for the Maine Music Federation. Accompanist Francis B. McPherson and delegate Miss Margaret M. Binnion join the event. Mrs. Fred K. Sturtevant is alternate. Mr and Mrs Gilbert Knowles travel to New York for two weeks visit with Knowles' parents while Knowles manages Newberry's.
Miss Clara Leyonbarg of Westfield Massachusetts a member of the Norman school teachers staff was a visitor in the city this week calling on her school friend Mrs Donald Young of Front street LalCOL
Over the weekend Sebasco attracted many visitors drawn by sea air and ocean views. N A Cushman funds a larger concrete pool nearly three times bigger than last year and adds a broad piazza at Sebasco Lodge to enhance sunset views of Casco bay. Horace Morse builds a Summer cottage nearby while Sylvester Cushman visits from Portland and N A Cushman tends ongoing improvements before returning home.
Johnny Murray of Bath, a Maine junior, won the 100 and 220 at Orono to defend his double sprint titles as Bates and Bowdoin trailed. He clocked 10.1 and 22.1. Teammate Don Huff pushed him to the tape in both finals despite earlier muscle trouble. Murray led a four-win day for Maine with Kishon of Bates and Good of Bowdoin also taking multiple events.
Mrs Emma Frances Hatch widow of Henry Crawford Hatch celebrated her 88th birthday on May 7 with 27 descendants at Hatch's Corner. The gathering at her South Dresden home included children grandchildren and great grandchildren from several towns. Photographs were taken and refreshments served as she enjoys reading sewing and local civic affairs.
Mrs J Wallace Buchanan arrived Sunday to spend a week with her daughter Mrs Edwin H Given of High street and Mrs Sarah Given of Oliver street. Miss Geraldine Stott, junior at Jackson College Boston, has been visiting her father Dr Ardenne A Stott and Mrs Stott on Bedford Street. Mr and Mrs Adelbert Hall of Bedford Street leave Thursday for Syracuse NY to stay two weeks with their son Harold Hall and family.
Bath joins Rumford Lewiston Auburn Lisbon Falls Dixfield and Sanford in the 1936 Maine State League with Bath Iron Works Corp. securing a franchise. Manager Ring aims for ready trips to Sanford Dixfield Rumford and seeks talent while offering 25 cent admission and no player jumps without release.
A violin crafted by Carroll Greenleaf of Norway uses four kinds of wood. The back is cherry, the top is spruce over 100 years old from Greenleaf's grandmother, the neck is apple wood dyed with ink, and the bridge is birdseye maple.
The Bath Hospital trustees discussed the June graduation at Morse High School auditorium. Exercises to be held in the afternoon with a reception and banquet that evening. Twelve graduates, among the largest class in years. Resignation of Charles Weatherbee from finance and executive committees accepted with thanks. Two hospital rooms to be furnished on approval by dealers for viewing before purchase.
Samuel Hathorn 72 of Day's Ferry suffered a severe injury when trapped between a truck frame and body on May 4. At Bath Memorial Hospital his left leg was nearly severed but doctors report the operation saved the foot though his condition remains critical due to age.
Kenneth J. Smith will replace his father Jefferson C. Smith as state YMCA secretary upon his June 1 retirement to Winthrop. Uncle Jeff has served 31 years, since moving from Bar Harbor to Waterville in 1905.
Chester H. McCabe Jr reelected first vice president of the Maine State Engine League at its annual meeting in Saco. Benjamin Aldred of Saco named president as officers and trustees were chosen, with plans to sponsor a muster in Hallowell on August 1 tied to the Firemen's Circus.
Jack Mulcahy of O. M. Redlon won high honors from Philco Radio and Television Corp for Maine sales Feb 15 to May 1 and earned an all expenses paid Bermuda vacation aboard a special New York to Bermuda steamer on June 1, but cannot attend due to other duties with Redlon.
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