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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1935
Page
10
Items from Bath rally files recount a dancing party at Music Hall hosted by four young men, a tea and linen sale before Easter, and social events at the Central society and Unitarian church. Reports include Capt. Kelley’s sleigh accident, gifts to Bath firemen, a new J. D. Footer drug store opening with a marble fountain, and planned Y M C A sociables.
March begins with Hyde and Greenleaf leaving and returning to Boston. A social at Miss Annie Roby's on Granite street, Epworth League meeting next Friday, and Albert Longley acting as city messenger amid Mr. Potter’s illness. The city hall rally with speeches and brass band is planned for next Saturday. George W. Peck travels to Boston to oversee electric work on the yacht test. Y M C U elects officers with a plan for a junior league. Gym apparatus for the new Y M C A includes vaulting horses and parallel bars. South End youths head to Lombard cottage for Rufe’s clam bake. Cycle Club minstrel show for Patten lodge nets about $50.
Miss Jennie Harvey hosted the W E C s on High street yesterday afternoon. The morning freight train delay caused by an on line accident disrupted service. John T Dowl ing well wishes from friends today. A baby boy arrived yesterday. About 35 Queen Esther Rebecca Degree Lodge members enjoyed Lewiston event Tuesday evening. Fidelity Lodge No 4 hosted M Y O B club at Frank and Mrs Moody’s Pearl street home. The gathering ended with merriment.
Flooding from a burst water pipe at Mrs Hennessey’s Center street store caused temporary fixations and a plumber call. Ledyard moves goods to the Piper store with Plate glass windows being installed in readiness for Mrs Hennessey to move in. Allet & Co. will occupy the former Hennessey space after renovations and moving in by next week. A South End sleigh party ended with a hot shore supper hosted by Harry and Lemuel Sanford followed by music and dancing before returning home in the early hours.
The Citizen's party holds a grand rally and ratification meeting at City Hall this evening. Miss Belle Johnson hosted the Sultana whist club at Mrs. Charles Turner's Court Street residence. Timber for Capt. Samuel Percy's schooner arrived for frame work at Morse yard.
Elks tournament draws 28 with a 4 to 4 tie between Lanterns and Martinis. Martinis win two bridge games and sixty three, while Lanterns take two pools. Other events include billiards cribbage and a 100 to 90 pool result and a scaling of final points across the six games.
A damaged clipping mentions Mabel Palmer in a local obituary fragment. The text is incomplete but indicates a notice of her name associated with a high air or locale, leaving the rest unreadable.
On March 6 1894 Dr Charles Palmer of Bowdoinham and Dr Price of Richmond visited the city to serve on the pension board. Prof Whittier of Bowdoin gave teachers a physical culture lesson and instructed the High school class. A ward four incident saw a citizen challenge a specimen ballot but Wardens Shorey refused the colored ballot. Franklin K Jack the new secretary of the board of examiners announced a civil service exam for clerk and carrier on March 17 with applications due March 13. William Small hosted friends for whist and music at Pleasant Street last night. Supt A S Hall of the Bath Water Co and George E Nevins laid out a Nequasset switch for a pumping station project to unload stone and bricks. work begins promptly once frost ends. Living tableaux presented by Miss Blanche Harrington’s troupe depart March 19 to Farmington Wilton Livermore Falls and likely Phillips for four days of entertainment. The Relief Corps fair featured a living tableaux show under Miss Harrington’s elocution. A new polished marble monument to George M Adams has been erected at the new cemetery, crafted by Page & Tibbets from Aberdeen Scotland, with Adams’ name prominently on the plinth.
The 1st annual YMCA Church League Track Meet ended in controversy after a relay disqualification dispute. St Marys contended victory, while Beacon claimed the judges ruled the race over, with the final tally 22 21 in Beacon’s favor. officials planned a rules check to settle the outcome. Lewis Star of Peoples led the meet with two wins and a record shot put. Fortier Gaudet McLaughlin Mullaney starred for St Marys and Beacon respectively.
Morse High suffered a 21-18 loss to Thornton Academy in Saco to end the 1933-34 season. Thornton gained a 6-0 lead, led 12-4 at halftime, and 16-6 after three quarters. Morse battled in the second half but shot woes kept them from catching the visitors as Coker and Mistos paced Thornton with four baskets each, while Parks and Oliver led Morse in a hard-fought, low-scoring battle.
Miss Ada Yates gave an interesting talk on her recent trip to England and observations during a regular meeting of the girls club held Wednesday afternoon at Brunswick High School.
A survey at Kelley athletic field examines a proposed new grandstand as part of the CWA project. Ex-city engineer James Dunton leads the survey for the local field reconstruction committee. The wooden or steel structure would sit at the north end 90 feet behind home plate, doubling as the backstop. The diamond layout is slightly adjusted, with home plate moved back so the outfield fence sits just under 300 feet from the batter. Completion by May 1 is possible given steady progress on the $16,000 project, though spring baseball timing remains uncertain.
Delinda E Marsh 87 wife of John Marsh died Monday after a three month illness. Born in Brooks daughter of Jacob Randall she taught in Arrow sic and Albion. Married about 45 years ago in China Maine they moved to Bath where he worked as a ship joiner. She was past president of Sedgwick circle Ladies of the G AR and is survived by her husband two daughters Mrs Frank Smith of West Newton Mass and Mrs Lena C Shepard of Bath and one grandson John Shepard of Bath. Funeral Thursday at two at her home 1079 High Street.
Miss Augusta V. Burt aged 90 died Sunday morning at the home of her niece Mrs. Ralph W. Curit in Freeport. A Bath native born July 4 1843 she lived with her sister Mrs. Levi H. Andrews then moved to Freeport. She was long an assistant to Dr A K Gilmore and is survived by two nieces Mrs. Curil Miss Grant and two nephews plus one great niece.
Silas Gilman Moore 88 died Friday morning after a sudden illness. Services were at Edgecomb Baptist church with relatives from Edgecomb Boothbay and Wiscasset attending. Born June 11 1846 in Edgecomb he was a farmer and Congregational church member. He is survived by sons Woodbury G. Moore East Brunswick and Simon M. Moore 49 Bath Street.
Ruth Ann Harrington widow of James H Harrington died Saturday at her daughter Myra L True's home 58 Weeks Street Bath. Funeral Monday afternoon at her home in Parker Head with Rev Charles H Berry of Corliss Street Bath officiating. Born in Westport, daughter of Amassa Jewett, she was 69 years old.
The funeral for Frances S Weeks wife of Gorham D Weeks took place Friday at two at their home 84 Green Street. Rev F L Littlefield of Wesley Church officiated with bearers Seth Stewart Charles Munro Daniel Munro and Mark A Jackson. Burial followed in Oak Grove Kenneth Weeks of New York attended the service.
Eleanor Alexander of Sebasco died at City hospital after a week of injuries from a hot water tub fall. In Auburn, Miss Helen Baker, a Maine University sophomore, was chosen for the lead feminine role in Masque Society's upcoming production Both Your Houses to be staged March 14 and 15 at Alumni Hall Little Theater. Alfred Sweeney of Auburn also in the cast. Miss Baker previously starred in the 1931 senior play Skidding. Dr Ceil Holmes spoke on Mathematics in its Place at Bates Round Table in Lewiston Friday evenings at the Gray home.
Public notices record the 1934 probate appointments for William P. McAuliffe and Ward W. Bridgham of Bath Sagadahoc along with an asset and liability summary for United Firemen's Insurance Co of Philadelphia. The document lists net unpaid losses unearned premiums liabilities and the resulting surplus, plus real estate mortgage loans stocks and bonds cash and other assets.
A Bath gathering discusses moral and educational reforms tied to alcohol, urging teachers and parents to present findings clearly. Mrs. Little argues for youth training in governance and the revival of honesty and duty, while Mr. Libby outlines Maine’s commission on education financing and a proposed minimum education standard with possible income tax funding.
Raymond Potter, while employed by Sumner Carr in an Abbot station potato house, was struck by a large ice fragment hurled from a Bangor and Aroostook snow plow. Glass shards cut an artery in the back of his hand and damaged tendons, leaving him disabled for two to three weeks, per Dr. G E Dore of Guilford.
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