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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1952
Page
5
Bath and nearby towns report a busy week with social visits from Miss Alice Mulligan and relatives, church events, and music. Memorial Day plans by Camp Kateen include cemetery services and grave decorating, while local groups prepare parlor shows and parades.
Local cemetery notices record several graves and memorials. The brief item notes interments and commemorations for residents with headstone dates and burial locations.
May 27 1912 report starts work to raise the Winter street bridge. The effort aims to improve clearance and safety, with crews mobilizing and temporary measures under way.
A long list of community tasks unfolds with postponed locomotive work, parade duty assignments for Otins Rigel and Spanish War Veterans, and a regional push for Memorial Day activities. The Arkansas battleship sails for trials with lifeboats for all, while sailors and clubs plan river floral services and steamer trips for Grangers and Bodwell in Small Point.
A social note lists Miss Martha Barker entertaining friends at Park Chambers on Summer Street, inviting attendance to a quiet gathering tomorrow evening.
Plans call for eight miles of Route 209 road work replacing the Pitch Pine hill stretch with a straight easier grade road. Surveying and engineering proceed for spring construction next year as part of a county highway improvement aiding Beach area travel and the proposed central Phippsburg Center school to reduce bus routes and dangerous curves.
Reading of General Logan's Orders by Stewart McAllister. Wreaths laid at the monument by veterans groups. First verses of America and The Star Spangled Banner. Lincoln's Address at Gettysburg by Thomas Schulten. Taps by Rockland buglers. Benediction by Rev. Howard F. Crand. Parade proceeds Center to Front to Lombard. Bath Lodge of Elks to conduct services.
Order directs notices for probate of Jennie S Butler estate Bath Maine and appointment of Mildred Phinney executrix without bond. Bartlett requests Allan Speer as administrator. Final accounts for Josephine Hart and Georgia A Randall estates presented. executors named and probate order attested by Judge Arthur J. Dunton.
A ceremony featuring a flag raising and the first verse of The Star Spangled Banner performed by the band, led by officers of the ee Neo unit. The event marks a rededication with patriotic observances and ceremonial music.
At Central Congregational Church Concord on June 15 a living room party featured pink and white streamers and a miniature bride and groom. Guests included Mrs A G Longley Mrs Cyrus Miss Diane Longley and many Bath residents. Mountain peaks near the equator remain snow covered year round.
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