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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1933
Page
2
A gala gathering on Gardiner road celebrated Mr. Robert G. Foye’s 65th birthday. Guests included S. B. Quinnam, Harry Quinnam, Jeanne Quinnam, Annie Colby, Annie Bondin, and family friends. A roasted chick dinner and decorated birthday cake marked the event amid neighborhood visits and well wishes for many more happy returns.
In Wiscasset the Buckingham sisters made many friends. Over the past two years one sister died, then the matter, and now Miss Buckingham’s death leaves Harriet Buckingham alone in town who knew her well.
From the November 17 1894 issue Miss Marion Snell visits Bath and many towns. People travel to Gardiner Richmond Hallowell and Somerville. Local industry chatter notes C A Tilley leaves fruit business for Auburn and Day of Ellsworth scouts town prospects. Harbor notes report ice cargoes and vessel movements including Martha T Thomas Nat Meader and Madeline Coorey with Seguin’s tug assistance.
Wiscasset news from November 14 1908 recounts visits and arrivals including Mrs Alice Albee Earl Rines and Miss Emerson with trips to Augusta Boston Damariscotta and Gardiner. Local items note ice works at the creamery a new steeple cross finish and appointments at the Maine Central station plus community notes on teachers elections and veterans affairs.
A visitor arrived in Reading, Mass., last week with her sister Mrs Elizabeth Bachelder of Reading. A large portable mill reached the station and was moved to the Margaret J Quinnam lot where it will operate. More lumber lots nearby will be cut. Mr and Mrs F T Dana celebrated their 334th wedding anniversary at their Main Street home with a party and numerous presents received.
The Cosmopolitan Club and Thespians present Cock Robin at Columbia Theatre Thursday Navy 23. Huse directs a romantic melodrama with an old play within the play set in an eighteenth century tavern. Amateur actors portray amateur actors in a clever, partly comical stage puzzle.
A duck hunting party at Brookins Bay in Woolwich faced a near tragedy when Paul M McCole abandoned a fragile boat to retrieve a duck. A leather jacket bearing his gunning license drifted ashore alerting residents and authorities. John E McCole nearly died before reaching land as strong winds and icy water tested survival limits. Sheriff Henderson and Deputy Oliver investigated, finding that McCole and crew survived, while other locals returned to shore after attending to the crisis. Charles Wetherbee and his son George plan to attend naval architects sessions in New York, and Thornton Percy visited from Brooklyn for Armistice weekend engagements.
West Bath residents share Armistice Day weekend visits and winter plans. Mr and Mrs Samuiet F Bates of Sabine will travel to Cathance to spend winter with daughter Mrs William A Foster and will celebrate their 51st anniversary on November 23. The piece records numerous guests and travels among local families, schools, Nazarene church activities, and regional connections across Bath Brunswick and Dorchester.
Bath area residents expected to attend the annual West Bath Grange fair with a 2 30 card party led by Mrs Herbert S Cavanaugh and Mrs Charles B Doyle followed by a cold meat supper and an evening minstrel show. The program features interlocutor Edwin Haggett, performers, readings, harmonica acts, solos, and a dance finale with local musicians.
Mrs. Frederick H. Kimball entertained the Gadabouts at the Eastland hotel in Portland for luncheon on Wednesday. Guests included Mrs. Mark W. Sewall, Miss Carolyn Moses, Miss Minnie A. White, Miss Emma Small, Mrs. James O. Lincoln and Mrs. Lucy Green. Cards followed in the afternoon.
West Bath Farm Bureau conducted its regular meeting at Miss Annie Trufant's home with a second Know Your Groceries session led by Miss Hortense Welch. Officials and guests discussed diet, fruit purchase, and planned a December 7 planning meeting with county agent Charles Eastman and a University of Maine representative on taxation, while members donated vegetables and canned goods for relief efforts.
The Winter contingent of the Civilian Conservation Corps in New England, about 25 000 men, is nearly housed in 100 newly built camps. Five hundred replacements are being recruited in Massachusetts Connecticut and Rhode Island to reach full strength. Camp facilities and commercial electric service are advancing with 78 of 125 work companies wired, while remote camps will use new generators. Contracts for 856 snowshoes went to New England firms and 1600 more to local manufacturers. A Solon Maine businessman won a local contract to make 56 pairs, demonstrating CCC employment relief in action.
Grangers from West Bath plan to organize the meeting next Monday night and proceed to fill chairs after recess. Miss Lillian E Lewin announces the program with Mrs Harry E Peterson Mrs Herbert Hodgkins and Mrs Fred S Brown in charge. Attendance was 116 with 28 visitors. Topsham and Merriconeague granges were well represented. Four voted to membership and six names to be voted on next week. First and second degrees due in two weeks. Reminder of annual fair Thursday includes a 230 card party 530 supper 800 minstrel show and a dance. Monday program opened with G P Hennessy of Topsham discussing a South Central Mexico expedition in which his son participated. Other numbers included a saxophone solo by David S Cogan with Dorothy A Welch at piano a Armistice day reading Fifteen Years by Bessie F Greenblatt a reading by Edwin W Haggett a short wordless skit A Cute Baby by Mr and Mrs Leland S Plummer and Herbert S Cavanaugh. John W Donnell Morse 31 now in Pinehurst NC as hotel bell hop after summer at Mt. Washington Bretton Woods NH visiting relatives.
The Swedish state land commission provides interest free loans of 1000 dollars to assist small farmers tenants and others without capital. The loan is repayable over thirty years to support farm ownership and access to land.
Woolwich Farm Bureau hosted a fine chicken supper at the grange hall raising about $50. Montsweag School gave an entertaining program under Miss Charlotte Buck. Red Cross subscriptions were collected in Montsweag. Junior League of Arrowsic School held a supper and show. Several residents visited Portland. Proceeds from a Sebonen Hall supper will fund Day's Ferry parsonage repairs. Union services and Thanksgiving season socials planned at Nequasset, Sagadahoc Ferry, Day's Ferry, and North Woolwich with songs games and light refreshments.
Members of the Outdoor club hiked to Alden's Pond in Gorham with Nellie Leeman Nellie King and Burnette Bailey among participants. The advanced history methods class marked National Education Week with a chapel program on Maine featuring songs poems and a short history. Burnette Bailey from Woolwich contributed to the program while Marjorie Frost of Brunswick visited before returning to Gorham Normal School after nine weeks of practice teaching at Westbrook Maine.
Mrs Georgianna S McHeffey widow of John Otis McHeffey died Tuesday forenoon from a heart ailment at her sister Mrs Edward Drakes home in Bath where she had come to pass the winter. She was born in Westport daughter of George and Mercy Ann Dickson and lived much of her life in Massachusetts. Survived by son Russell H Stodder of Bath and siblings Thomas Dickson Harriet Burkhardt Mrs Drake and Mrs George Ingalls. Private funeral Thursday at 12 Snow Park Bath. The piece ends with a note on Mae West’s Bijou Theatre appearance decades ago.
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