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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1943
Page
4
Tea hosted with Miss Plumstead assisting featured a pink centerpiece and delicate cakes. Alumni Association of Wiscasset Academy planned their annual meeting for Monday evening June 7 with a trimmed program and postponed banquet.
Mrs William Radford of Los Angeles California has arrived for a visit with her sister Mrs Rudolf McRae and Mrs Walter M Wessmund at their respective homes on Middle street.
A week’s total of 3508.50 in war stamp and bond purchases by Bath schools pushes the yearly grand above 55,000. High School led with 1615.90, Central Grammar 556.10, and other schools contributed in weekly and accumulated totals through the period.
Wiscasset and Phippsburg educators gathered for a four to six tea hosted by Superintendent Stanwood Gilman and family. Guest speaker Miss Frances Robie spoke on Character Education and religion in schools, with remarks praised by attendees including Miss Frances Plumstead and Miss Josephine Merry.
A wildcat seen and heard at Foster's Point near Jamaica Plain Massachusetts treed by Teddy the Leavitt dog. Linwood Leavitt fired the animal after it showed fierce behavior. The black dark yellow bobtail cat may be young and another may be at large. Residents fear a litter roams the woods.
A Grange gathering at West Bath hall saw 18 candidates receive first and second degrees, with Master Charles Genthner and team guiding the ceremony. Notable members listed include Helena Jenkins and Mary Ellicott, as well as contributors for music and tableaux. A third and fourth degree session is planned next Monday May 24, preceded by a harvest supper. A memorial for Almon R. Perry was observed, and Sagadahoc county Grange groups plan a meeting with lobster stew in Topsham.
The West Bath Parent-Teacher Association plans a variety show and dance at the West Bath Grange Hall Tuesday evening at eight. Featured acts include Witch Spring Pete and His Gang, Bicycle Built For Two, Me and My Gal, a barber shop quartet, skits, and vocal and instrumental solos, followed by dancing to a three piece orchestra. Committee members are Cleveland Smith, chairman, Mrs. Leon Belanger Jr., Mrs. Francis Dechan, and Mrs. Byron Clark.
At a Woolwich teachers meeting the ninth grade class of 18 pupils from North Woolwich Day’s Ferry Murphy’s Corner and Nequasset schools was slated for graduation at the Congregational church Nequasset. Also notes a War Stamp drive total and a wellattended baked bean supper boosting funds. Memorial services and community visits follow with local families noted.
Sgt. Lawrence K. Hanscom 37 son of Mr and Mrs Samuel Hanscom North Street Augusta is a prisoner of the Japanese in the Philippine Islands. He has served in Panama and the Philippines twice returning last in June 1940. He enlisted in the Navy at 17 and has remained in military service since. His wife Violet Gadapee now lives with her mother at 116 Grove Street. They married shortly before he left the United States in 1940.
A Cerulean Warbler, not seen here for two decades, was found about three quarters of a mile from Bay Point on the Amos Steadman property. The article also details a swift tree swallow collision, arrival of Ocean Gulls at Kennebec, and community updates including military training assignments, visits, and local residents’ activities.
In Fort Wayne Indiana brothers Jerry Morrill age 15 and Giles 12 operate a basement workshop turned war plant for the Army air forces. They fill bomber part sub contracts starting February 1942 and have not had any parts rejected. Their eight piece parts are machined within two to four thousandths of an inch and rival industrial outputs. Their mother assists on the assembly line and five year old sister Carolyn wipes parts.
Mrs. Anna Curtis of South Liberty drove off the highway near the residence of Fred Sukeforth on route 220. The car struck a stonewall after locked brakes failed to stop it. The three occupants escaped serious injury during the evening mishap while returning from Rockland.
Charles L. Eastman addresses Bath Lions on hunger threats and the need for more home food production. He notes aging farmers, rising demand from Allies, and draft considerations for essential producers. He cautions small but efficient gardens and urges early fertilizer seeds jars and tools to avoid shortages.
The district convention in Augusta June 4 and 5 asks attendees to notify Charles Genthner. Among the guests Wednesday evening were Capt. Webb, R. F. Talbot extension dairyman of the University of Maine Extension Service with Mr. Eastman to Bath, William Haskins, Charles Pierce and Walter McCarthy.
Dr. Leon E. Buck, Lieut. (j. g.) USN, stationed at Newport Naval Training Base, still stars on the USS Constellation baseball team. In a five inning mound stint last Sunday he allowed two scratch hits and two unearned runs, showing quality from Morse High to Bowdoin College. Buck, a 1933 Morse and 1938 Bowdoin graduate, joined the Navy last August and now plays with former Yankee George Selkirk on a strong local clubs lineup.
Iota Sigma Sorority met at Mrs. Har riet Fraser s Chestnut street home with Mrs. Edwin McGuiggan presiding in the president s absence. Miss Beulah Pratt led the entertainment and the next meeting will be hosted by Mrs Omah Snipe at Miss Deletra Hill s 645 Middle street. Refreshments were served. Present were Miss Anna Day Miss Beulah Pratt Miss Eleanor Wright Miss Deletra Hill Mrs Dorothy Womaska Mrs Margaret Hanscom Mrs Omah Snipe and Mrs Fraser. Mrs Earl Twitchell has returned to Haddonfield N J after visiting her mother Mrs David Hatch of Greenstreet and gave a family dinner at the Hotel Eagle in Brunswick.
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