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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1953
Page
5
Local items report the wedding of Nancy Larrabee to Sgt Russell Mulcahy at Broadway Methodist church and related family travels to Reading and Fitchburg. Other notes cover servicemen, moves, promotions, and visits, including Navy and Air Force personnel, shipments from Bath Iron Works, and several local attending funerals and ceremonies.
Miss Jennie Larrabee, a secretary in the Sak Deering Loan and Building Association office in Portland, traveled to visit her sister Merton Wright in Sasanoa Bluffs.
Jackie Fortin son of Mrs Carol Potter of 24 Dummer Street has left Maine General Hospital for Hyde Memorial Home for ongoing treatment. His mother and Mr Potter drove to Portland to accompany him to Bath. He will celebrate his fourteenth birthday next Wednesday. Stanley P Hatch of Decatur Illinois arrived in Bath to visit his mother Mrs Robert B Hatch of Green Street after being called from Luntownville New York by his wife’s illness and death.
Mrs William S Blair and daughter Nancy of 1219 Washington street returned from Boston where on May 12 they attended the Boston Marine Society annual dinner at Parker House. Captain Blair met them and later left for Washington on business. Mr and Mrs Linwood Carr of Harpswell, parents of Mrs Harold Carter, also arrived home from St Cloud Florida after a pleasant winter and smooth trip.
Mrs. David E. Hughes leaves Boston on Friday via American Airlines for Rochester to join her husband. They will drive to Cincinnati for a week, then Erie for another week. Mrs. Hughes, Barbara Preney, is on ten weeks leave from duties as secretary to Commander Pearse at Brunswick Naval Air Station.
Mr and Mrs Charles Whitehouse receive word their grandniece Margaret McAvoy seven year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Raphael Roy of Kittery formerly of Bath is a patient at Portsmouth Hospital They will pass Sunday in Portsmouth.
Mrs Louise Garth of Sebasco Estates accompanied by two friends passed away Tuesday in Port. The brief notice notes her suburban residence and the unexpected death, with no further biographical details available in the fragment.
Mr and Mrs John Sampson of 1059 High street and their daughter Mrs Edward Butterfield of 1033 High street were guests Sunday of Mr and Mrs Albion Wotton of Friendship, the couple's uncle and aunt.
Invitations note Lieut Halterman’s June 6 baptismal at Woodbury Church and West Point graduation on June 2. Bath residents and relatives, including Mrs. Longfellow and the nurse class reunion at Tewksbury, are cited along with travels, guests, and summer home plans across Bath Me and nearby towns.
Mr and Mrs Benjamin Haggett and their son Benjamin Haggett Jr returned to Front Street from West Orange New Jersey after ten days with the Haggett family. Mr and Mrs Edward Butterfield and Mrs Carlene Suslar returned from Boston where they were among guests at the commissioning of the U S torpedo boat destroyer Mitscher.
Seventh grade at Central Grammar and sixth at Fisher School held a joint celebration in the Fisher auditorium for basketball champions. Entertainment, dancing, ice cream, and soft drinks followed by a program with songs, dances, and a railroad coach setting. Coach Boardman received a pen and pencil set. certificates were awarded to cheerleaders and team members led by Raymond Bishop.
Miss Beverly Coombs daughter of Mr and Mrs Laforest Coombs of 22 Cherry street was guest of honor at a pre nuptial shower Sunday evening at Red Men hall in Brunswick hosted by Mrs Ralph Dyer. Tables held pink and yellow decorations and a large iced cake. Guests listed include Mrs Mathias Gaudreau Mrs Alvin Leavitt Mrs Doris Gulliver and many Brunswick residents. The event celebrated her upcoming marriage to Robert E Dyer of Jacksonville Florida with a July 12 wedding planned at Corliss Street church.
The Fisher school auditorium receives a new stage curtain and track while Morse High School reports most new drapes in place. Woods Co. of Springfield Mass furnishes materials and handles installation. The Fisher curtain and Morse drapes are velour lined.
Lone area troop leaders host a busy day for visitors at Boothbay Harbor with nature exhibits, terrariums, and a mantis research display. Supt. Harold B. Clifford welcomed guests and suggestions for troop activities followed. An afternoon of square dances, sightseeing, a lecture on Gems of Maine, and crafts inspired by Audubon materials concluded with a gathering at the church. Next Merry meeting set for Freeport on Sept 26.
The Sagadahoc Rod, Gun and Skeet Association reports Inland Fish and Game will deliver about 10,000 brook and brown trout and possibly white perch to Sagadahoc county waters this week. Members are urged to assist wardens Saturday, as 21‑day closures from May 23 to June 12 apply to Abagadasset River, Mill Brook, Wilmot Brook, Malone Stream, Richmond, Gillespie Brook, Cathance River, Bowdoin, West Branch Brook, White Brook Sedgely Brook, Carros Brook, Bowdoinham, Nequasset Stream, Hatch Brook, Montsweag Stream, Woolwich, Branch Brook, Cathance River Tops ham. Violations carry fines up to 300 plus costs or imprisonment up to days, or both.
Supt. Loring R. Addison and Morse High principal Raymond W. Farnham spent Wednesday interviewing teachers in several sections of the state. They seek two vacancies that will exist at the schools visiting Augusta Waterville and Newport.
Frederick Dotton, a Morse High junior and trombone student, will perform as a member and soloist with the Lincoln County Orchestra at the Huse Memorial pop concert Sunday evening. The event benefits the Morse scholarship fund and features a formal setting with tables for four and six. Reservations are urged through Harmon Eliason or Oscar Marsh.
Extensive alterations underway at First National Bank include modern streamline counters replacing old high counters with iron grills, mahogany cabinet work by O. Bailey of Portland, revised lobby layout, new tellers’ sections, moved bookkeeping, a shifted cashier’s office, a future vestibule entrance at Center and Front streets, temporary relocation of the night depository, and plans for a tuberite floor to achieve a modern, efficient banking environment for customers.
T W Cunningham of Cunningham Construction and Philip Gatz of Alonzo Harriman Associates met with Loring R Addison Nathan C White and Harold J Rubin to finalize plans for a new junior high school. The Bangor low bidder’s $537700 bid has federal approval and signing should occur Friday with construction starting soon after.
The Skeet Association will sponsor a week at Maine sportmen’s junior conservation Camp Jordan Ellsworth for August. Two Bath Boy Scout and Naval Reserve members will be chosen by essay on Wildlife Conservation. Essays invited from all interested. one winner from Bath group, the other from the wider home troop entries.
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