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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1928
Page
4
Local notes from Wiscasset and surrounding towns include Frank Haggett’s cottage work for Horace Lewis at Westport Ferry, residents moving and visiting, and Red Cross fundraising efforts. Church events, Harvest supper, and social gatherings prevail as October court results reveal sentences for various offenses and local officials prepare for changes in the judiciary.
A New England Council report notes recreational resources form a growing industry worth about 500 million dollars yearly. It highlights distribution of the Come to New England directory, a plan for coordinated advertising, and the impact on retailers and manufacturers.
Opera singer Mme Emma Eames de Gogorza of Paris and formerly Bath arrived on the steamship Le De France in New York to spend two months in the United States. Her husband Mr Gogorza arrived a week earlier for the winter concert season and serves as a director at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.
Friends of L Etgene Thebeat celebrate his return to the outdoors after several weeks of illness. He visited his office as treasurer of the Bath Iron Works Corporation and was warmly greeted by fellow officials and workers.
A West Bath Ladies Farm Bureau special meeting is set for December 5 at the Grange Hall with Miss Emily Ride of Bowdoinham teaching reed work. The item notes continued local social activity and multiple resident movements and visits around West Bath, Sabine, and neighboring towns.
Solar lodge Masons prepare for the 19th annual Past Masters Night next Monday. A 6 30 dinner in the banquet hall will be hosted by Genesta chapter O E S with tickets issued. The Master Mason degree will be exemplified by past masters including Sylvester H Rowland Oscar F Williams Herbert L Grinnell and others.
Work finishes on the State Aid highway for the current year reaching south and west of the Burt residence with minor Center area tasks remaining on third class work at Center. Stanley Adams of Dorchester Center Mass injures his left hand with an axe requiring surgery in Bath. Weekenders from South Portland stay at Tilton Summer home The Cedars. Hosts include Miss Belle Tilton with guests Albert Tilton Arthur Lailer Ernest Keene John Scott John Wetmore Edwin Morrill Lawrence Barton Howard Dunlap Ralph Didden. Also in town are Mr. and Mrs A E Gove and John P Harrison of Everett Mass Miss Dorothy M Tarbox R N of Boston Ear and Eye Infirmary Edward P Adams of Dorchester Mass and Mr. and Mrs Woodbury Seimerts of Milton Mass.
The Massachusetts Maine Daughters hold their annual bridge and bazaar at the Copley Plaza hotel in Boston on November 22. The group consists of former Maine women and part of the proceeds fund Maine institutions.
West Bath Grange hosted a large Armistice evening with 13 present and 15 visitors. The Reds opened with a tableau Lest We Forget featuring John Sylvester as a soldier Lulu Leeman as flag bearer Frank Danforth as a sailor and Mrs Loring Small as reader.
The Bath Y M C A held its regular monthly meeting with directors present. Approval given for October and year to date reports. Sidney L. Eaton resigned as auditor and Arthur Sewall was elected auditor. The drive raised 3732.50 from about 330 donors. Delegates J Edward Drake and Arthur Sewall chosen for Augusta convention. Junior Hospital League granted gym use for New Year’s dance.
The League of Central church met in the Parish house on Monday to prepare for the annual Christmas sale on December 11. A comforter was tacked and donations pledged for the baked bean supper, to be served Saturday by the Sunday school boys to raise funds for uniforms for their church league basketball team. Members may call Mrs Newell for rummage sale contributions to be picked up Friday. Welsh rarebit and coffee were served.
The Winneganee area reports Busy weeks with the Women’s Auxiliary to the Community Club, Squaw Club, and several whist games. New members join, prizes awarded to Morse and Oliver families, and refreshments served. Bridge work on Winneganee bridge looms as town plans spring repairs and major rebuilding. A clam chowder supper raises over $22 for the Winneganee Community Club, with Mrs. Parks and staff coordinating meals. Obvious illnesses kept several residents home, while Armistice Day gave Freeport teachers a short break.
Bath drum major Edwin L. Emmons led a 12 000 man contingent in Lynn Massachusetts Armistice Day celebrations marking the 10th anniversary. The Bath native wore a purple velvet uniform and Busby hat earning the loudest ovation of the day from an estimated 60 000 to 75 000 spectators. He received roses and pledged future marching engagements as crowds cheered his baton work.
Home of Mr and Mrs C Edward Reed at 14 Robbins street held a Tuesday evening reception for newlyweds Harold Boutin and his wife who recently married and returned from a Massachusetts trip. About 30 friends attended with dancing and refreshments of ice cream cake and punch.
Mr and Mrs Frederick E Drake of Washington Street and Mr and Mrs Thomas Pierce of Providence with R J and Miss Elizabeth Gay of New York City spent the weekend at West Baldwin and New York.
Blaisdell Leeman Co machinists of 118 Commercial street purchase the south wharf and building of the Eastern Steamship Lines at auction for 1000 dollars. Auctioneer Marshall A Haraden canceled sale due to a wire from Boston. fate of the larger parcel remains undisclosed. The firm gains two wharves plus a Front street right of way and plans use for boat docking and repair with annual rents noted for adjacent properties.
At the Federated Sportsmen's Clubs of Maine executive committee meeting in Augusta the group debated fish and game law changes for the next Legislature. They proposed a seven member inland fish and game board appointed by the governor, with district representation, and urged using all department funds for its needs rather than returning about 100000 dollars to the state treasury. The meeting also covered uniting local sport fish and game groups into one body to guide policy across Maine. Hon. Edward W. Hyde and Edward W Bridgham attended.
Sheriff John P. Kelley of Lincoln County and State Highway Policeman George V. Jewett of Bath drove to Boston Wednesday night and returned Thursday morning with Clarence Dyer of Wiscasset. Indicted by the grand jury as a common seller, Dyer was produced in court before Associate Justice Guy H. Sturgis at ten o'clock after a Bath breakfast stop.
Morse High announces its first honor list of the year from Sept 17 to Nov 2 under a new ranking system. Highest Honors require 93 to 100, Honors 85 to 92, with seniors juniors sophomores and freshmen named for Highest Honors and Honors across classes.
Augusta resident Frank G. Farrington, formerly a 1924 gubernatorial candidate and recent appointee to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, is reported critically ill at Maine General Hospital. Doctors say he suffers from angina pectoris and his condition remained unchanged after a sudden illness in Portland last Friday.
List of donors added to the Bath Y M C A fundraising effort includes Edward Sewall Karcher S Jackson Harry E Litchfield Anna D Kimball Walter S Glidden John H Hyde Erastus A Jewett Julia W Litchfield Carroll A Deering South End Parent Tead A A Stott Mr and Mrs L F Ganr J A Bimson F H Whalen Arthur Sewall Ella E Wood Loyall F Sewall Raymond H Trott A Friend Mrs Emma G Small Morse High School Tea Ella C Carleton is Asso m 1ers.
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