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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1939
Page
1
The piece notes a dry late Spring hurting forest fires, auto sales, clothing, home services, golf revenues, and farming profits while lifting mood on sunny days. It also reports a new vehicle ownership certificate tax starting after next July and a Bath Iron Works bid outlook for two destroyers.
Senator Sumner notes the season will finish the road from Pop ham to the Small Point road, with about 60 percent completion seen and the route becoming passable soon.
Sewall informs the writer that the Legislature appropriated 1500 to be spent on the road this year and the amount should suffice if not fully complete the job.
The YMCA gym renovation will start within a week or 10 days with Alonzo Harriman hired to draft plans. Bids are invited through William C. Perkins, general secretary. Major changes include removing half the running track balcony, squaring corners, enclosing beams with ceiling lighting, removing all floor bleachers except along the east wall, and adding bleachers to fit a 72 by 38 feet playing area capable of seating about 450.
The 240th C. A. C. examining board evaluated Second Lieutenant John E. Madden for federal recognition at the Armory. The Battery boys showcase new quarters praised as among the finest in the state. Ken MacKenzie’s band entertained about 200 at a May 10 dance with a planned return May 29. Proceeds fund mess equipment and officer quarters. Colonel Henry W. Owen Jr. visited. William Paisley Jr. marries May 19. Summer encampment planned around July 1.
Poppies will be worn nationwide on Saturday May 27 to honor World War dead. Mrs John W Costain of the Roland Smith Post Unit American Legion Auxiliary said Auxiliary workers will distribute the flowers on streets and raise funds for welfare and relief work for disabled veterans and families. More than 11 million crepe paper poppies are produced by disabled veterans at government hospitals and poppy work rooms.
Farmers in Androscoggin and Sagadahoc counties consider planting field corn to feed the upcoming Fall and Winter. Yields range 50 to 70 bushels per acre with good methods, and trials show Minnesota Hybrid reaching 70. At current prices a 50 bushel yield saves about 43 dollars. 65 bushels 56 dollars. 70 bushels 60 dollars, with higher prices boosting savings.
Transfers recorded in the Sagadahoc Registry of Deeds show Bath notes with Annie E. Smith to Frederick W. Campbell and Edward W. Bridgham to Lloyd E. Steeves, plus a list of other transfers in Bowdoin Phippsburg Richmond and Topsham including Maude M. Haynes to Edward DeLong and Walter F. James to Viola James among land and buildings on West Water Court and related streets.
Mr and Mrs Asa A Wilson hosted Ernest a Katoenamp USWV and Dy erry PW and auxiliary members at Lincoln street home Tuesday of last week for the birthdays of Comrades Wilson and Alvin P Williams. Twenty five attended and a social evening followed with punch sandwiches coffee and a birthday cake in flag colors. The men received many gifts.
Elmer D. Greenleaf of Auburn spent Thursday on a business visit, meeting local professionals and engaging in informal talks about commerce and opportunities in the area.
Nellie C. Marston of 916 Washington street widow of Dr Eben J Marston filed a Sagadahoc probate will May 10 directing the Bath National Bank as executor to keep the estate intact for the natural life of her brother James D Clark with broad power to sell and reinvest for enhancement. The will names multiple legatees including friends Abbie C Noyes Mary C Hall and relatives Albert W Mubray Lyman Hall Madelyn Noyes and Dr and Mrs David L Wilson with the bulk to Mubray and Hall and was drawn February 15 1939 witnessed by Margaret L Keegan Eileen McCurdy and John J Keegan.
Mr and Mrs Edmund P Briggs Mrs Walter H Bowker and Mrs Arthur M Bowker left Friday for South Hadley Massachusetts to attend Mt Holyoke college May day exercises. The Senior class selected Miss Louise Briggs as a prominent member and the May queen was crowned Saturday afternoon. They returned Sunday.
A popular village dog named Chummy was moved 25 miles to a new home then released. He escaped, wandered back to Winnegance in under 24 hours covering over 26 miles. Was it hitchhiking or a long walk remain unclear as the dog stays mum.
Clarence W. Savage, formerly of Bath, Maine, returns to his birthplace after 33 years. He quit Bath in 1906 to work as a fireman on the Chelsea Ferry and later at Torrey Roller Bushing Works in Roxbury, Massachusetts. While visiting his nephew Henry E. Savage in Boston, he toured Bath landmarks including the Kennebec bridge and the new City Hall.
A Brunswick man digging clams at Thomas Beach recalls a goose that freed itself from a clam grip and then helped the bird after the clam released. The grateful goose followed him, honking as if saying thank you, while two other geese fed on the discarded clams.
Lloyd E. Steeves, grocer at 47 Center Street, has purchased the Water Street property. The sale also includes neighboring Rob erts property to the north, with a lunch cart at 204 and a two story wooden building at 206 and 208, along with the land associated with both structures. Plans for the use of the new property were announced but not disclosed.
Miss Mary Sewall daughter of Mayor Arthur Sewall attended the Junior Promenade held last Friday evening at Smith College in the Scott gymnasium. The event marked a standout social highlight of Junior Promenade Week End for the community.
The Maine Camporee brings Maine Scouts west of Pittsfield to Camp Keyes June 2 4 for a three day state event. Exhibits from Inland Fisheries and Game Sea and Shore Fisheries Agriculture Forestry and the State Police Safety Bureau and a Maine minerals display will be set up. The Fish and Game Department museum at the State House will be open for inspection. Assistant arrangements are led by Pintee L Gerrish with Governor Lewis O Barrows reviewing the parade. Protestant and Catholic services are planned and activities include fingerprinting ballistics safety demonstrations and forest fire prevention.
The municipal committee on taxes recommended selling the Charles W. Morse property at Washington and Garden streets to Fred S. Curtis & Co. for 2500 dollars. Opponents feared a funeral residence in a residential area, though manager Huston noted alternative nearby sites. The report goes to the city council for the June 7 meeting.
Calesthenics filled Friday as Mrs Berenice Colbys Grade Seven Division One class performed stunt day. Participants included Elinor Fullerton Jean Stanton Mary Stone Lillian Johanson Marguerite Rines Germaine Bonney Janet Garwood and Madelyn Oliver with acts such as the elephant walk headstand wheelbarrow and group stunts led by Camilla Puilia and Arthur Pierce.
In a letter to the United Lodge of Masons of Brunswick, the group offers the use of their temple facilities following a fire. Jackson, Bath Masonic Building staff, and Miss Anne Kimball with relatives are noted in the surrounding social notes.
Rev Timothy C. Maney of St Marys returns to Bangor from a Mediterranean style voyage aboard the Grete liner Santa Rosa. He brought back souvenirs including Latin American newspapers and copies of world news. Maney hosted seven o'clock masses aboard and was entertained in New York by Madame Van Zandt Wheeler and Fred Madsen, with other marine travelers noted.
At the annual Maine branch meeting in Portland Mrs. Frederick E. Drake resigned as first vice president after ten years in that post. Mrs. Arthur Sewall 2nd remains Directress of the Maine Altar Guild. Mrs. Frederick D. Hill was re elected secretary of the supply closet and Mrs. Ralph G. Stetson re elected secretary of Christmas box work. Drake elected deputy to the Provincial Synod in Hartford October 24 25. Rev. Charles M. Tubbs continues as secretary of the Standing committee and as vice chairman of Christian Social Relations and was named chairman of the Resolutions committee. Drake also serves on the Departments of Christian Education and Christian Social Relations of the Diocesan Council.
Mr and Mrs Charles H Rackley of Topsham announce the engagement of their daughter Alvin to Loo mis Dyer foster son of Mrs Jane Hall Browne of Bowdoinham Education details note Alvin is a Brunswick High School 1937 graduate and Loo mis Dyer is educated in Bowdoinham schools No wedding date is set.
A report recalls that strong cooperation between local organizations and the Bath Water District aided firefighting efforts after a siege fire across the Kennebec. It notes Captain Maurice A. Libby and district members consistently assist the local fire department with district facilities and readiness.
Visitors from West Bath and Hun t eon filled the hall for a Woolwich Grange event last Wednesday. The program featured dancing and refreshments, a Mother's Day tribute, songs including Put On Your Old Gray Bonnet, and readings by Elsie Bailey William White Eleanorutter Cora Sutter and Mrs Rose Hathorne. Curtis Pearson contributed a short story and all joined in Here's to the White Carnation.
Mrs Waldo R Weston won the women's high prize and Edgar W Oliver the men's high prize for bridge at a Community club and Auxiliary party in the Winnegance club house. Consolation prizes went to Mrs Frank Hunt and Herbert R Morse. In pitch Miss Bessie B Potter led with high score while Frank M Lemont took low. Sandwiches cake coffee and tea were served. Five tables of bridge and four of pitch played.
A portrait of Albert R. Savage the only Auburn bar member to reach Maine chief justice has been hung in the county courthouse attorneys' room. The likeness mirrors a similar portrait in the county law library gallery.
A fragment puzzle list reads mixed clues with numbers 16 19 20 21 22 23 25 26 29 30 31 32. Entries include terms like Bestial the pee dizes and Hindustani. Missing standard crossword format obscures answers.
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