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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1938
Page
6
Phippsburg local column lists residents traveling to Syracuse and Bath visits over holidays. Many Bath and Boston families host guests, plus Armistice Day and hunting trips are noted. Community groups Dromore and Bodwell granges report meetings, prizes for Mountain Laurel 4-H projects, and officers being sent to the State Grange.
Chester A. Plant proposes to rebuild Plant's Garage on the former 737 Washington street site in Bath after the March 1 1938 explosion that killed two men and injured five. Aldermen will meet Friday night to consider the permit. The new 100 by 650 foot two story building would reuse the concrete foundation, with the upper floor wooden, and include a showroom facing Washington street.
The Red Cross Executive Committee announced 341.73 dollars raised for hurricane relief, with over 40 from the Junior Red Cross. Juniors sent 30 Christmas boxes abroad and a toy box to Maine Seacoast Missions. Harry L. Day named year committees including nursing, volunteers, production, first aid, and accident prevention. 2200 accident survey forms distributed in city schools. Junior Red Cross member Donald McKellar oversees Red Cross flags at several local stores. Nursing reports were shared by Ruth Henry and Lillian Fadden. A review of Red Cross work featured a paper by Mrs. Arthur S. Crockett on principals and procedures.
Miss Mary Newell presiding at Washington street home with 16 members as Junior hospital league outlines annual New Year’s dance proceeds aiding Memorial hospital equipment. Mrs. J Edward Drake Jr chairs. sub committees named for tickets decorations favors publicity. Members sew for hospital after meeting. Newell shows West Coast trip film. refreshments served. Minnie A White travels to Brookline for week with Mrs. John Monroe then to New York to visit Mrs. Joseph White.
Mrs Niles Cameron and daughter Fauiine spent the weekend with Mr Cameron at Popham Beach. Capt Milliard Urquehart, Seguin Island light keeper, returned from Jonesport with his family. Many Bath and Boothbay residents visited, vacationed, or passed the weekend at cottages along the coast. The Osgoods returned to the light station after a 20 day vacation. others motor through Maine New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Local cottages were repainted and new bulkheads installed. Road conditions were praised as excellent by motorists.
Miss Barbara Kenney led a discussion on The Importance of Our Speech at a Winter Street Fireside Club meeting with 68 attendees. Slang and profanity were discussed and methods to improve conversation were suggested. Jane Stevens chaired a brief business session and social plans included a hayride for Nov 27.
Bath chapter volunteers drive the annual Red Cross roll call with a $1 membership and highlight extensive local programs. Public health and school nursing, disaster relief, junior Red Cross, home service, garment making, and highway safety are run by paid staff and volunteers, serving Bath West Bath Woolwich Phippsburg Georgetown and neighboring towns. The chapter supports both local and national work with wide community impact.
Everett C. Brown and Anna pleaded guilty to obtaining over $80 by false pretense and were fined $50 plus costs by Judge Arthur J. Dunton in municipal court. James McFarland and John Kelley, idle and disorderly, received 60 days in the House of Correction and a $5 fine with bail. Emil Anderson paid a $5 fine for intoxication. Lester Munsey Jr. was released on promise to pay $8 weekly support.
A J McNaughton of Bangor brought budding twigs from Hammond Street area to the Commercial showing diverse tree and shrub shoots including cherry, maple, apple, white and Japanese lilacs. The collection, in early spring bud form, suggests spring is not yet near, despite the season.
Herman A. Spinney hosted a Hunters dinner for Bay Point fishermen featuring soup roast black duck venison sirloin and assorted sides. Attendees included Le Roy Moore Clyde Pinkham Maurice Burns Clarence Butters and others who praised Spinney as an excellent cook.
At Beacon Street church Junior Aid meeting plans were canceled for this month’s basket social and members must bring 50 cents to the Nov 28 gathering. Won derwebs funds to be turned in then. The group will oversee the dining room for the Dec 8 Ladies Aid sale and supper with Mrs Samuel A Morse as chair. Multiple hostesses and members will assist.
At the monthly Board of Education meeting the board approved the new insurance plan from the city insurance committee. The secretary reported Girl Scout Council use of a room at Weeks street school and police cooperation in painting cross walks near schools. Inspector Shaw cited traffic safety survey results. The High School Activities Association balance of 375.86 was read and accepted. Accounts totaling 890.33 were approved for payment. Present were William L. Skelton chair, Mayor Donald N. Small, Alden G. Smith, Allan Spear.
The engagement of Miss Dorothy Jean Allin daughter of Col and Mrs Benjamin C Allin of Stockton California to Malcolm A Blanchard of Bath and Brookline Massachusetts was announced in New York City Monday Blanchard attended MIT and the College of the Pacific and works in the Bath Iron Works production department He is a pilot with a license and flies his own plane Allin graduated from National Cathedral School Washington DC and studied in Oxford England last year
Nearly seventy seventh grade pupils at Central Grammar School presented a program for eighth graders and over thirty mothers during National Education Week Armistice Day observances. The event featured a play What Hartwell Learned, a pageant with costumed roles, and musical numbers led by clarinet soloist Kathleen McLaughlin. Participants included many students, a Miss Columbia figure, a Red Cross nurse, and a Flanders Fields segment, with a large cast portraying Allied and Central Powers and various patriotic roles.
Roland Smith post and the American Legion with the Legion auxiliary hosted a festive dance for 40 couples at the Legion hall Armistice night. Francis McPherson and his orchestra provided music as guests enjoyed solos by Dick Boucher and Madelyn Jones on guitar with vocal numbers. Hubured McCarty staged a contortionist act and intermission offered ice cream cookies and crackers. The organizing committee included Allan Spear Miles Hagan Gardiner Rogers and auxiliary members Mrs Ralph Gay Mrs Bernard Pratt Mrs Carl Stinson and Mrs Ambrose Curran.
Harold Burns son of Mrs Edna F Burns and the late George Burns and Evelyn Bertrand daughter of Mr and Mrs George Bertrand were married Nov 5 by Rev David P Surrette. The ceremony was small with immediate family present. The couple reside at 866 Washington.
Lawrence S. Lord and Helen L. Smith were married in a single ring ceremony at the Central church parsonage. They will reside in Bath after a wedding trip. Lord is a Morse High School 1932 graduate and works at Bath Iron Works, while Mrs. Lord is a Brunswick High School 1932 graduate.
Westport residents plan winter departures and visits as Flora Jewett heads to Boston and Dean Elwood Colby named after a newborn. Numerous local weekend guests arrive from Woburn Roslindale Mechanic Falls and West Roxbury while others visit family in Bath Belgrade Princeton Wiscasset and Everett. Dr. Graumann shoots a deer. Trudy Richardson battles whooping cough. Maud Webber ill.
Merrymeeting Grange of Bowdoinham traveled to Richmond Tuesday evening to furnish a Thanksgiving program for Enterprise Grange. The program, led by Mrs. Witt Gould, included Maine song, tableau and readings, musical solos, illustrated readings, pantomime, skits, and a closing song. The visit featured an exchange of readings, songs, and a question on whether farmers aid communities more than manufacturers.
Mrs Carl Y Kennedy of the Cosmopolitan Garden Club deliver a lively talk on Trees at a Central church league meeting. Plans are set for a silver tea at Mrs Bowen Torrey’s Eauceshome home on Wednesday from 3 to 5 PM with Miss Ethel Blake and Miss Shirley M Mank as hosts for the November 21 gathering.
Herschel I Libby Richard W Dennison Hebert Steeves F David MacDonald Robert A Besaw Robert W Clark and William D Hill Jr lead a group of 49 Bath youths bound for Lewiston with Harry Fullerton as group leader Clarence Gowen Albert E Whitney Jr John Lowery Nathan E Coffin Jr and Freeland H King Jr cited among organizers Mr and Mrs Alonzo G Fisher of Woods Hole Mass and their Park Street home hosted Sunday visitors Mr and Mrs Fred Williams of Cape Elizabeth at Foster's Point summer residence
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