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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1928
Page
5
Guests at Gibbs Duck Shooting Camps include Ben Ames Williams and Kenneth Roberts with others from Chestnut Hill Kennebunkport Greenfield Mass Skowhegan and Newton Center. Reports say a busy season with full limits of ducks seven geese three raccoons and several partridge woodcock.
Mrs. Harry G. Deering hosted friends for an auto trip and dinner at Bethel Inn. Among attendees were Mrs. Thomas S. Gibbons and Mrs. Owen J. Ledyard. Clinton weekend guests included Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Clark and Mr. and Mrs. John Crooker and Paul. Maine Kennel Club show in Portland features Betty the French bulldog and Murchie the Spitz. Thurlow and Howard of Boothbay Harbor visited Bath. Thurlow recalls Crowell & Thurlow shipyard days. Oscar F. Thornton resigns as Center Street A. and P. manager to study mechanical dentistry in Arlington. Captain H. W. Buller to attend Legislature in Bath. stays at Eastland, Augusta House. Loyal Temperance Legion met led by Miss Elizabeth Colby with 27 members. Plans for Old Folks Home service and Dutch dish served. Next meeting Friday four at Corliss Street vestry. visitors welcome.
The Georgetown Working League met with Miss Belle Heald. the motto In Union There is Strength was adopted and will be followed by the Lord's Prayer at each meeting. A Thanksgiving social is planned. Several local residents are noted visiting, traveling, or attending events across West Georgetown, Robinhood, Bath, and Rangeley Lakes as community life continues.
William Withee of Bangor and five Bath men who worked in the engine room on the steamer Bear Mountain between New York City and Bear Mountain on the Hudson River are back home after the season. Also noted: Mrs C Edward Bachelder and Mrs Georgie Glass plan a Florida trip. Halloween supper and auction hosted by Mrs Paul G Bagdikian with ghostly decorations and prize drawings.
Mr and Mrs Frank A Hodgdon of Woolwich honored at Moatsweag Grange for their 22nd wedding anniversary. The event featured a surprise entry, fine singing, a large wedding cake, pewter gifts, and dancing led by Clarence Johnson Melvin Robbins and Frank Fortier. Hodgdon, a Bath grocer since 1906, and his wife reside at the Stinson farm near Nequassel, noted as a fine country home.
The Y M C A will hold the second annual inter grammar school track meet next Saturday. About 40 to 50 Y Juniors gym class members will form teams. All grammar school lads are invited, members and nonmembers alike, with Morse High track team assisting.
Mrs Alden G Smith and Miss Ellen Newell traveled to Waterville for the Bowdoin Colby football game. Several Bath residents enjoy visits and short trips to Boston Melrose Boothbay Harbor Portsmouth and Bangor with family friends and familiar sites.
Fifteen more books arrive from Capt. F. J. Hinckley for the grange library marking the fourth large contribution. Miss Pearl Strachan of Boston adds four books. Local visits include Mr. and Mrs. Grindell and Clayton Rowe of Bath calling on the Blaisdells, and many townsfolk at church and gatherings. The George Popham and Watchman ships bring freight. residences receive paint and guests plan winter travels.
Topsham grange held its regular meeting Saturday evening with 143 attendees including visitors from West Bath Pine Tree and Mount Independence granges Falmouth Sister Skillings of Mount Independence grange presented Maine poems and humorous readings The program also featured a tableau When a Fellow Needs a Friend arranged by Bertha Graves a piano solo Amber Burns a Halloween masquerade led by Blanche Atwood singing by the grange a musical mixer Hints on Storing Vegetables and Fruits a reading Grace Sprague and a closing thought Minnie Plummer
Mrs Vesta Siegars visits daughter in Warren and others visit relatives across Bath Boothbay and Dresden area. William Wall Woolwich visits son Harold in West Dresden. Sam McDonald Dresden Mills stays with Siegars during trapping season. Lillie Siegars plans to move to Cleveland with daughter Ray Cate. Families from West Dresden Massachusetts and Boothbay Harbor return home after trips.
Evanston delegates note a Boston convention November 14 to 22 will renew temperance teaching. National officers push a larger scale campaign with topics including Canadian government control and Sweden's Bratt liquor system. Over 3 000 attendees representing nearly 1 000 000 members will gather with speakers lined up from the Salvation Army and the Anti-Saloon League.
Hon Joseph W Simpson of York named Arthur K Purington of Bath to lead Sagadahoc County for the Hoover Curtis Legion. The group aims to mobilize votes for a Maine presidential majority of 100000 on November 6 and to raise 10000 for campaign expenses through dollar subscriptions. H Augustus Huse leads the dollar drive, with funds sent to Jeremiah Milbank at the Republican National Headquarters in New York City.
The Maine Central Railroad reports that for the first three quarters of 1928 total operating revenues reached 14,517,847 with a surplus after charges of 520,983. For September freight revenue was 1,105,653 and passenger revenue 294,530, totaling 1,571,684 and yielding a 42,257 surplus after charges.
Miss Eunice G Hussey of Monmouth and Coy Robertson married Saturday at Congregational parish house Monmouth with Rev C F Sargent officiating. Bride wore blue satin gown with lace and carried sweet peas. The couple recently moved to a Monmouth farm. Mrs Robertson had lived in Woolwich with her parents for 11 years.
The Wesley Church annual roll call and supper drew about 150 members and friends to the vestry. A program featured Wesley Male Quartet readings by Mrs. E A Farrar and a memorial service led by the pastor with assistants. Rev C E Titus of Wiscasset gave the address on applying scientific thoroughness to religious and moral problems. The event closed with a benediction and the hymn Bless Be The Tie That Binds.
The Auxiliary of Roland Smith post A L held its annual business meeting Thursday at the Legion building. Elected for the coming year were Susan Rogers president Katharine Spear first vice president Frances Desmond second vice president Cleora Coombs secretary Mary Murphy treasurer Madelyn Shaw sergeant at arms Charlotte Anderson chaplain. The officers from last year were re elected. Katharine Spear reported on the recent card party and a $50 contribution was added to the treasury. Installation will take place in November.
Built three years ago at a cost of 185000 dollars the steam lighter Atlas sold at auction Saturday for 13500 dollars. Fidelity Trust Co as principal mortgagee acquired the Atlas after the sale while lighters Atlas and Ajax had been libelled and tied up at Brown's wharf. Ajax to be publicly sold on November 5. Maurice Deering among Bath fans at the football game in Bath.
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