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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1931
Page
3
The 13th semi annual rummage sale takes place at St Philip's parish house on Thursday and Friday November 12 and 13 from noon to five. Community notices cover church groups, meetings, marriages, travels, and local club activities across Wiscasset and nearby towns.
Dear sons and daughters of Bath you are urged to enroll in the Bath Chapter of the American Red Cross during the annual Roll Call. Fifty cents of each membership supports national relief and local public health nursing and baby welfare work. A registration of 150 preschool children is noted, with 30 attending a weekly conference. Checks may be mailed to treasurer Charles C Low at Bath Savings Institution.
The 12th grade cohort includes Berniece Webber and Esther Pray at the University of Maine Katheryn Perkins at home Pauline Rines at Shaw's Business College Portland Ada Pushard at home Hulda Pushard at home Helmi Miete at home Dorothy Merry at Lincoln County laundry Mabel Grover in private family New York Fred Hilton Cloverdale store Louise Adams postgraduate at W A Helen Bailey Maine School of Commerce Auburn. Senior Hallowe en festival at Parish house featured fortune telling booths side shows hot dogs cider candy stunts dancing music by Paul Bailey Paul Farnham Earl Pearson.
The November 5 1892 issue notes residents visiting and returning from Boston Baltimore Portland and other places. It lists John Greenleaf Henry Ingalls Rosa Coffin Salista Munsey Albert Erskine and others on extended trips and calls attention to Mrs Abbie Turner and Mrs Quimby among townsfolk. It also reports a damaging two fire incident with the J C Budd Company mill as a major loss.
Community notices from West Bath list residents visiting or returning home from travels, weekend guests in Sabino and Bath, hunting trips in Northern Maine, illness updates, a Halloween party, Red Cross sewing, and a new 200 ft cable fence along Campbell's Pond road.
Mrs. R. B. Adams of Washington D C wife of the Coast Guard construction chief will sponsor the 165 foot Thetis first of seven U S coast guard patrol boats to be launched by Bath Iron Works Corp next Monday A party of Washington Coast Guard notables including Admiral F C Billard Captain and Mrs Noedeker and Constructor and Mrs F A Hunnewell will attend The destroyer Hunt flagship of Destroyer Division No Two is due in Bath next Sunday for the launching and a crew visit for the Thetis is planned for Monday November 16 proceedin g to the other six patrol launches and crew visits to Bath
West Bath grange conferred first and second degrees on a class of 14 during the Monday meeting. The third and fourth degrees will be given next meeting by Topsham grange. A harvest feast for the grangers is planned for next Monday under officers Mrs Agnes Wright Mrs Robert Oliver and Mrs Ernest Snow. District deputy Harry Rackley of Topsham attended and spoke. An item about an automobile accident near Skowhegan misidentified Stanley Whitehouse. friends are relieved it was not him.
The League of Central church held a Tuesday afternoon white elephant sale in the parish house. A favorable sum was realized from the sale, with many attractive articles sold. Remaining items will be sold at the league’s regular weekly meeting next Monday evening.
Dromore Farm Bureau sent a 24 member delegation to the Twin County Farm Bureau annual meeting in Tops ham grange hall Topsham with over 200 members from Androscoggin and Sagadahoc counties. The group reported the largest gain in Twin county membership for the year ending Oct 15 1931 and showcased a program including a musical sketch An Old Fashioned Flower Garden led by Bessie Dickinson and featuring roses and other flowers.
The Far and Near Missionary Society of Corliss Street church met Friday afternoon Oct 30 at Mrs Mabelle Harfords home with 17 members and three guests. Lois Ames presided. readings prayers and reports were shared. a $10 donation to New England Baptist Hospital was approved. next meeting set for Nov 13 at Mrs Crystal Berry for an all day White Cross session.
A 300 pound cow moose charged Cecil Thombs on a road from the State highway into Richmond, damaging his Chrysler roadster and breaking the animal’s neck. Thombs, of St. Johnsbury, was near Richmond en route to relatives. A game warden hauled the carcass to Augusta after the collision.
Mrs Sarah E Palmer widow of Nathaniel T Palmer died at her East Orange New Jersey home from a shock after years of ill health and a hip fracture. Born in Somersworth New Hampshire she lived in Bath and Portland before settling in East Orange for 15 years. She was active in the Sans Souci club and Winter Street church and is survived by her son Nathaniel T Palmer Jr. Committal was held at Oak Grove with Rev C M Tubbs officiating.
Woolwich notes list residents and visitors from New Bedford Bath Portland and Philadelphia with moves and visits. School committee meetings church services and a union program outline harvest season events and a November 8 citizenship rally including a Bible scientific facts talk by Dr B A Bailey and a missionary mite offering.
Montsweag Farm Bureau and North Auburn lead with 21 men enrolled each. County Agent and local leaders visited Woolwich to recruit seven members first day, with three more promised. Executive members joined, and plans were set to recruit more before the annual meeting.
Roland Smith reports the first of a series of card parties and dances at the Arcade ballroom drew many couples. Prizes included a ham shoulder and flour. Norman J. McCabe and Mrs. Harry P. Bridge took bridge and whist honors, while Beatrice Libby won whist ladies first. Leeman Drouin orchestra provided seven pieces.
A joint hearing by the State Highway Commission and Sagadahoc County officials convened Wednesday at 3:30 PM in Georgetown. They discussed the petition by Georgetown selectmen to rebuild the East bridge over Robinhood Cove, citing the current poor condition as justification for replacement. The project would share costs among State, county, and town with Bath bearing about five eighths of the county tax, highlighting Bath's vested interest.
John W. Conway an Iron Works employee sustained a deep cut in the right neck after slipping on a rug and forcing his head through a window. He received 12 stitches and was operated on by Dr. A. A. Stott at City Hospital around 2 a.m. He remained in favorable condition the following Monday.
Mrs Kenneth Sanders of Portland is visiting at the home of Mr and Mrs Jesse Sanders on Cummings Street, with the Sanders family.
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