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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1918
Page
6
Weekend greetings and Thanksgiving visits feature residents from Bath Parker Head and Winnegance. Notes include travel to Portland Fort McKinley Yarmouth and Chebeague Island, plus family gatherings and local shipments of goods and coal.
Bath officials report two housing projects will follow original contracts despite wartime declines. Project 59 in Palmer field and Project 13 for the Emergency Fleet Corporation will be completed as originally agreed. The Bath Iron Works gains three more destroyer contracts and related factory plans progress.
West Bath residents and neighbors share Thanksgiving scenes with visits to Bath and Portland areas. Families like Bean Flood Craig and others report travel, meals, and socializing while noting gunning trips, illness updates, church and grange activities, and preparations for winter housing and community events.
Miss Isabelle D Olm announced engagement Friday to Dwight W Pierce USN of Brunswick at a gathering honoring guests from Harrisburg and Portland. Olm, daughter of Mr and Mrs Paul M Olm, taught kindergarten in Bath after Morse High and Wheelock School. Pierce, Bowdoin graduate class of 1917, served on the destroyer Wickes and captained the track team.
Margaret J. Klippel widow of John Klippel died suddenly Friday. Born on Lecumpher Island she lived in Bath over 50 years. She left four sons and three daughters, two brothers and three sisters. Also notes government foreman C W Nocton, Bath native, now in Pittsburgh, and visits of Doris Stetson and Mary Stein in Boston as Leland Powers School of Oratory students.
Kindred Johnson of Bath and Arthur Woodbury Kindred of Dorchester Mass announced their marriage on November 11 at the home of Miss Johnson’s cousin in Covina California. Miss Johnson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest A. Johnson, is a Morse High School alumna class of 1912 and has worked for W. H. Smith & Son. Mr. Kindred formerly worked as a draftsman at Bath Iron Works and served as ships inspector for Todd Shipbuilding in Seattle. The couple will reside in Seattle Washington.
Alfred Quist of Bath married Catherine A. Cressey of Bath on Wednesday night at seven at the Brooks memorial parsonage on North street with Rev. C. Raymond Chappell officiating. The groom is a riveter, son of the late John and Alvina Quist of Sweden. the bride is daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Cressey of Bath.
Thanksgiving across New England finds the Sawyer family visiting in Boston and various Bath residents hosting friends and relatives. Miss Varney travels to Washington to see Mrs Carter and Mrs Norsworthy, while Miss Harvey visits Malden with Lemuel Baker, a former Bath boy. Annie Torrey teaches in Portland and visits her brother Hon Joseph Torrey, and Marcia Stinson, now in Brooklyn, stays with Mrs Harry Magoun in Haddonfield New Jersey. Robert Ham visits Bath from Portland, with Mrs Ham staying with her parents, and Mrs Lemoinne returns from Waterville to Bath. Photographer Preble, a Bath boy, runs a large state business. Harold Turner alias Frenchy, 22, held for trial in Arlington on bonds, suspected of drug involvement and prior breaking and entering.
A local trend notes more girls than usual wearing fur this season. The report highlights growing popularity of fur coats and fur accessories among young women in the community.
A daughter was born Monday to Mr and Mrs John H Hyde of Brookline Massachusetts formerly of Bath. Hon and Mrs Harold M Sewall and family and Miss May Norton were dinner guests yesterday at the home of Mr Sewall's brother William D Sewall. Arthur C Hodgdon, hospital corps returns to Charlestown navy yard Sunday after week at Bath home. Ensign Paul Blackwood promoted to first assistant engineer with rank of lieutenant, junior grade, aboard the U S S William Isen. ship to sail for Europe December 10. Mr and Mrs Clarence W Morse entertained Thanksgiving guests at Linden Street including Mr and Mrs Charles A Coombs and Miss Clare Coombs, and Rev and Mrs Edwin Dodge Hardin. Miss Edna Pepper of Boston and Miss Bertha Taylor of Burlington VT visited Miss Pepper's parents Mr and Mrs Arthur Pepper for Thanksgiving. Horatio N Douglass, chief traveling inspector for Emergency Fleet Corp United States Shipping Board, home for Thanksgiving, leaves today for Portland Maine. He travels from Machias to Fall River with Boston headquarters and Portland sub office.
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