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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1937
Page
6
Leslie Logan returns to East Boston after visiting with Mrs. Angie Mank. Numerous guests and local residents travel between Bath, Kittery, Portland, and Meadowbrook for weekends, visits, and autumn turns. The narrative lists gatherings, cottage movements, and community events including a funeral, welfare club, and grange meetings with multiple named participants and locations.
Transfers filed in the Sagadahoc registry show Bath with 24 deeds in recent weeks. Notable transfers include Annie B. Dauphin to Elave L. Dauphin and Linwood V. Miller to Vernon W. Miller, with multiple properties exchanged among individuals and companies across Bath, Georgetown, Phippsburg, Richmond, Topsham, West Bath and Woolwich.
Mrs Kenneth Gray wife of the Congregational minister in Boothbay Harbor addressed a large audience of Winter Street Church Ladies aid Friday afternoon. The 58 attendees met in the ladies room for an all day session with luncheon at 12 30 served by the October committee chaired by Clare Coombs. The menu included cold ham macaroni and cheese pickles hot rolls doughnuts and coffee. After the luncheon a short business meeting announced the annual parish supper for tonight with Walter Abbott as chairman and Wallace Atwood as co chairman. The Christmas sale and supper on December 8 was planned to follow. Tickets may be obtained from Lemont or Purdue. Mrs Gray spoke of conference missions last summer at Northfield Massachusetts and discussed rural America.
Thimble club members held a harvest supper and Halloween party at Mrs. Elmer Blake’s home 73 Western Avenue. The meeting room was decorated as Thimble Inn with young waitresses Miss Lillian Johansen Miss Dorothy Johansen and Miss Shirley Ors. Present were Miss Dorothy Allain Mrs Louis Allain Miss Elinor F Coombs Mrs LaForrest G Coombs Miss Irma D Groves Mrs C Lloyd Hooker Mrs Walter B James Miss Emily M Larrabee Mrs H Chester McKenzie Mrs Raymond Palmer Mrs Ardenne Pierce Miss Lucy G Rogers and others.
A weekend of social visits spans Popham Beach and Bath as residents host relatives from Lisbon Falls East Boothbay and Milton Mass. Northwest gale winds repair and reshapes beaches while Conventions bring teachers to Portland. Community notes include greetings at lighthouses, hospital visits, and school duties returning after weekend events.
The Ladies' aid and Sorority of Wesley M. E. church prepare for their annual Christmas sale and supper in the vestry. Sale starts at three with supper served 5 30 to seven. Menu includes cold pressed meat mashed turnip scalloped potatoes jelly baked apples hot rolls coffee and Indian pudding with whipped cream. committees named for aprons candy handkerchiefs household table.
The baked bean supper scheduled for Saturday was cancelled as the Auxiliary voted to hold a cooked food sale on Wednesday afternoon November 10 at Senter's, Inc. Mrs. Irving C Varney presided as president and Mrs John H Hunt was elected secretary replacing Mrs Herman W Crooker who resigned.
Miss Elain Nasi entertained friends with a Halloween birthday party. Guests entered a Secret Order of the Ghosts of the Past, wearing costumes including Ellen McCall and Dolly Madison. Hostess won best costume as tombstone place cards bore epitaphs and a 15 candle cake was cut with rings still unfound.
Carroll T. Berry of Wiscasset displays colored block prints at Westbrook Junior College during National Art Week. The show features destroyers under construction at Bath Iron Works including the U S S Drayton and U S S Lamson, plus scenes of the Sortwell mansion Lilac cottage and Edgecomb. Works include a ship screen for Kenneth Roberts and original children's book illustrations by Mrs. Berry. Exhibition runs from November 2 to November 15, afternoons and evenings.
Mr and Mrs Frederick F Brewster announce the engagement of their daughter Miss Elmina Brewster to Marshall C Sewall son of Mrs Frank Lewis Sewall of Bath and California now in New York City He is a University of California and Harvard Business School graduate with ties to Compton Advertising and the Manhasset Bay Yacht Club Miss Brewster is linked to Foxcroft Middleburg and several New Haven area clubs notable for stables and kennels
Richard Otis Card marked his fifth birthday with a Halloween party at his parents home on North street. Guests included Barbara Burden and John Stickney who won prizes, with games led by Lula P. Herbert. Ice cream cake and cookies were served as gifts poured in.
Winter Street Fireside club did not meet Sunday evening but will hold a regular meeting next Sunday at seven. Ralph O. Dale Jr will lead a discussion on What Should Our Attitude Be Toward Germany and Naziism Refreshments will be provided by a committee including Miss Mary Bien Gy Miss June McCall Miss Isa belle King Clayton Thebodeau Clifton S Nickerson Mr and Mrs Harvey Henderson and son Harvey Jr and their granddaughter Miss Barbara McDonald who have moved into Park Street house formerly occupied by Mr and Mrs Martin Powers
Bay Point residents and visitors share social calls at homes of Spinney, Campbell, Adams, and Tolman. Edna M. Coolidge hosts dinner for Bath friends while Carl Hentz displays watercolors at Aunt Lou's Gift Shop. Thunderous weather and a serious auto accident last week leave Mrs. Tolman hospitalized with 42 stitches.
Mrs Edward Sewall Bath Bath Girl Scout Council camp chairman writes that camping is a key scouting project. An international encampment at Camp Andree New York celebrated the Silver Jubilee with 27 foreign girls and 150 New England and 300 American Scouts participating. friendships formed during the week at Camp Four Winds Plymouth Massachusetts. The Bath council has provided two weekly camps at Belgrade Lake for four years in honor of Julie Low.
A Wise Owl troop No 3 Halloween costume party was held Tuesday last week from seven to nine in the YMCA scout rooms. About 40 girls attended with Mrs. Wilmer I Voorhees as captain and Mrs. Jacob Smith as lieutenant. Decorations were orange and black. the program opened with a grand march followed by forfeit and other games. Refreshments included sandwiches cookies cake and chocolate milk. Committees included Decorations Elizabeth Williams Ruth E Cogan Go Pathee Sullivan Shirley Parshley Refreshments Elaine Nasi chair Kathleen Harkins Geraldine Nickerson Linna Marie Purdue Clean-up Mary Morse Frances Flaherty Marion Jordan Alice Young and Mrs Royal Wentworth of Skowhegan visiting at 39 West Street.
Winnegance youngsters staged pranks on Halloween night with a smelt camp placed on Sanford's store steps beside the highway Sunday. Squaw club met Monday evening with Mrs. Harry C. Webber hosting. next meeting Friday at Mrs. Winfield Morse's home. Visitors included Arthur Stewart of Somerville and Lincoln Parks visiting his mother, Mrs. Fred L. Parks, from Somerville.
Three North End youths aged 12 14 and 15 were arraigned in municipal court for larceny of Representative George A Baker s sedan from the Baker garage in Milan stress They pleaded guilty and were placed on probation by Judge Arthur J Dunton with costs of court and the expense of retrieving the stolen car from Wells Their session also heard three intoxication cases with one 30 day sentence in Kennebec county jail and the others fined 3 5 and court costs Ten boys aged 10 to 16 are ordered to appear before Judge Dunton Tuesday at 10 a m charged with breaking street lights on Center from High street westward using sting shots and a .22 caliber rifle Miss Lydia C Moses 1034 Washington street had a large plate glass window broken Saturday evening Police suspect Halloween revelers or a passing car caused the damage with macadam fragments found in the room suggesting the projectile came from a piece of street roadway.
A Sterling Bible class meeting at Corliss Street church voted to send its Thanksgiving baskets and cards to shut ins. Mrs. Pearl E. Dunbar, Mrs. Lee W. Scott, and Mrs. Leland R. Mitchel oversee the baskets. Committee roles, entertainment, and refreshments were assigned for the December 6 gathering. Bible questions will focus on Exodus chapters 12 and 13.
Nellie R. Minott daughter of George and Lavinia Rogers and a Bowdoinham native died Sunday at St Francis hospital Evanston WI after a long teaching career in Maine and Illinois She was born March 29 1874 educated at Bowdoinham High School Maine Wesleyan Seminary Syracuse University and Columbia University She taught higher mathematics at Roycemore School Evanston for 18 years Funeral services will be at Mary Esther Small cemetery Bowdoinham LT Halterman and their two children recently visited Bowdoinham and left for Fort Leavenworth Kan from Bath Lieut Halterman was transferred from Fort Williams and is on leave.
A joint meeting of the Girl Scout Council and Leaders Association was held at 972 Washington Street with 20 attendees. Officers discussed next year’s programs, a forthcoming handicraft class, and observance of Girl Scout week, plus troop meeting locations and publicity plans for the Girl Scout book shelf at Patten Free Library.
A Halloween party for 32 youths hosted by the Senior Young People’s Society of Corliss Street church filled the vestry Friday evening. Guests faced a ghostly welcome, a chamber of horrors, stunts, and other acts, with refreshments of doughnuts coffee apples and candy.
The Bath branch of the Needlework guild celebrates 25 years as a charity aiding Bath residents through the American Red Cross. Members are asked to provide two garments each year, such as bonnets or sweaters, with exhibitions and tea hosted by Mrs. Arthur Sewall, 2d, at Washington Street. Potential members may call Mrs. Sewall or directors to join.
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