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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1938
Page
6
Forties year old Bath notes list visitors residents and events in Bath Maine including Mrs F B Nichols in Portland W Heald of Wiscasset and Lucius LeMont Boston trips and dinners. Many Bath figures send summer plans to Washington Street homes Busyness includes Ye olde Ducking, the Sousa concert in Portland and local yacht and shipyard activity.
The long-necked soft clam, Massachusetts to Maine, topped a near one million dollar value in 1936. A New England Museum exhibit notes its habitat, life cycle, and how regulation, farming, and disinfection address overfishing and pollution. About 29,000 bushels were chlorine treated in 1936 under state supervision.
May 23 1898 records Alonzo McNear and wife spending a few days in Damariscotta Miss Mae Baker of Gardiner visiting friends in the city yesterday Mrs George McFadden to Bos two weeks visit plans tomorrow night leaving for Boston later notes on local movements and travel schedules
Arthur Hill arrives in San Francisco after a 123 day voyage from New York aboard the Aryan. Mrs G W Boothby returns from Bath and is accompanied home by Miss Julia Watson and Miss Lilla Moses, both of Bath.
Dr George W Hibbs scored a perfect 25 in Sundays skeet event at Bath field drawing 15 shooters, the season's largest turnout. Fred Sturtevant led Saturday with 22 and a 25 for 47x50, while Hibbs also posted 47x50. Participants ranged from Portland Richmond to Fairfield. totals cite multiple rounds and scores across the field.
Local baseball fans may reserve seats for next Monday’s excursion to Boston to see the Giants face the Bees. Contact Sam Povich or Lorraine Price for tickets, with 20 already reserved and about 15 spots remaining. A Maine program funds a $50,000 fish culture station in a five-year plan, with Rep. Oliver and Rep. Brewster backing a lobster station at Jonesport.
A broad coalition led by Governor Lewis O. Barrows launches a state wide campaign to fund a Memorial Pipe Organ for Augusta’s Green Street Methodist Episcopal church in honor of Rev. Henry E. Dunnack. The effort features diverse religious and civic leaders and offers a Perpetual Memorial Roll for contributors. Checks to The Dunnack Memorial Fund via Charles S. Hichborn First National Granite Bank Augusta. The project marks a notable cross creed collaboration in the community.
The Sophomores under Mr Alkazin present four one act plays on May 26 with a varied program. The first play A Bit O Heather features a Scottish widower marrying an aging bride who proves to be his first love transformed. a shy minister a doctor and a housekeeper add to the comedy as they try to untangle a tangled setup. Cast includes Jeanie Bigger Martha Preble John Wilson Harry Fullerton Per Cameron Maggie Martin Georgia Kakes Edward Atkinson.
The May procession and crowning of the Blessed Virgin took place Sunday afternoon at St Marys Church under the Married Ladies Sodality. Parochial school children formed at the school and marched to the church singing hymns. Children wore white and some costumes depicted angels. A benediction followed with a program including processional and crowning acts, rosary, sermon, and reception of new Sodality members.
Michael Corbett of this city paid 4.95 in costs after pleading guilty in municipal court to failing to stop at Center and Water Streets. Judge Arthur J. Dunton presided. Two intoxication cases also appeared. one defendant pleaded guilty and was fined five dollars plus five dollars and thirty cents in costs, the other received a continuance until 4 15 p m. Mrs Harry Buckfield reports a gloxinia with eleven blossoms, flowering since last winter with twenty nine large blooms.
The North River Insurance Co 110 William St New York shows assets totaling 21 292386 and liabilities with 2 000 000 cash capital and 12 030 562 surplus as of Dec 31 1937 plus probate notices listing executors administrators and guardians for six Bath Sagadahoc Maine estates with appointees named May 10 1938 including Rice Kimball Wing Ward Lovejoy Tyler Farnham Small and others
Morse high boys tennis went 3-1 to Westbrook at Paper City on Thursday. Georgie Sarkis won Morse’s lone match 6-3 7-5 after dropping the first set to Ingalls. Doyle and Ingalls took the doubles 10-8 6-3.
Mrs. George Hackett of Bowdoinham has a lemon tree six feet tall and seven inches in circumference, grown from a seed planted 16 years ago. She now tends a grapefruit tree a foot and a half high and has produced two cotton crops, the first destroyed by boll weevil, the second forming two buds that matured into bolls.
Court of Probate in Bath Sagadahoc issues notice for estates and administration without bond. Publication in Bath Independent for three weeks. Hearings scheduled for June 7 1938 at ten oclock AM. Parties include James A Landers Margaret C McDonald Danford A McDonald Rosa D Shea Frank S Head Edith M Dunton Emma B Sylvester John P Carey. Walter S Glidden Judge of Probate.
Miss Hazel M Norton of Freeport daughter of Mr and Mrs Frank Norton and Alfred W McIntire of Warren son of Mr and Mrs Charles A McIntire were married Wednesday of last week at People's Church parsonage by Rev George B Wolstenholme.
Bradford C. Redennett of Wiscasset to deliver the Memorial Day address at Oak Grove Cemetery Soldiers monument on May 30. Bath Marine band expected to lead the annual parade.
Edward T. Stotesbury of Philadelphia dies at age 89. A Summer resident of Bar Harbor, he owned a fine home and led the Bar Harbor Club. From a Drexel & Co. clerk earning $16 a month, he rose to head J. P. Morgan & Co. and became Philadelphia’s wealthiest resident, supporting Maine resort activities and leaving a void in the community.
Notice of public auction of tax deed properties in Woolwich on June 15 1938 at 6 p.m. at Town House. Listings include Bernard Bailey parcels, Edgar Bailey holdings, Hathorne and Pushard tracts, Dixon Trott, Scott, Wright, Trott heirs, and others totaling multiple acres. Selectmen Buck Dunton Wright sign.
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