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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1924
Page
5
Bath milk supply analyzed by Health Officer Chester S. Rengsles shows high quality with clean bacteria counts and tight fat content. Several creameries including Trace, Wisenan, and Racinean are listed with clean or near clean readings, indicating overall strong milk quality in Bath.
Mrs Edith Abbott hosted the annual greeting of the Woman's Home Missionary Society of Wesley Methodist Church on Western Avenue. The old board was re-elected. Eva Cahill the president was absent due to illness. Officers named include Bea Cahill president Llewellyn Rogers vice president and secretaries and departmental heads chosen.
Rev George Wilson Scudder of St Johnsbury Wisconsin accepts call to First Universalist parish. He will preach Sunday October 12 and plans to move to Math around November 1. Pers and Mrs Charles Helah have opened their North Street home after hosting summer at their cottage in Maw Vairbor.
The Maine town of Wiscasset will share its name with a Greenland harbor after Capt. Donald MacMillan and his Bowdoin expedition. Wiscasset Cove will mark the inlet north of Refuge Harbor, Greenland, following the crew’s Arctic winter near Sewall Harbor named for Charles S. Sewall, MacMillan’s Snowdoin classmate.
The official vote released by the governor and council shows Peers McFernard of West Poland as the Republican candidate leading for United States Senate with 14,? to Redman 742? in Sagadahoe county. Ralph Brewster trails Pat tangall for governor by margins of 154,281 to 105,626, with Sagadahoe results 4,012 to 1,? for Pat tangall. Elbert D. Playford leads for state auditor by a slim margin over Hodgkins. Hayford leads for treasurer by a wide margin. Wallace White Jr. wins in Congress from Lewiston by 9,249 over Bertrand McIntire. The Times emphasizes accuracy and notes official returns from Sagadahoe county were compiled shortly after polls closed.
Queen Esther Rebekah lodge held a children’s night in Odd Fellows hall. The event featured cookies and cakes, games such as peanut hunt and pin the tail on the donkey, a Japanese dance by Emma Colby, music by Mrs. Albert Thompson and Lil Ling with Nellie Leeman, and a cream social. Committee chair Sarah Munsey led the event with Eva Atwood and Harriet Bunker. a sewing circle met earlier with supper at six.
Parker R. Lewis local superintendent of the A and IK St Ry was in an automobile accident Sunday near Lowell hill on the state road in Wiscasset. The Nash car owned and driven by Archie T. Dodge of Wiscasset collided with an Oakland car. Dodge’s car tipped into a ditch but no one was seriously hurt. Passengers included Mrs. Dodge and Dr and Mrs Deforest S Day. Dodge suffered chest bruising from the steering wheel impact. The Nash car was badly wrecked and the Oakland vehicle, owned by Portland people, had a broken steering gear.
The 20th anniversary clam bake for Bathaerie of Eagles shifts from Oct 17 to next Sunday on the swampswick side of the New Meadows river near Old Bull Rock bridge. Ticket sales end Friday at 7 50 PM to ensure enough provender, with Willi J. Shaughnessy and FE J. Lee supervising arrangements.
Maine notes report Lewis J. Hatch of Greenwood Mountain picking several apple blossoms from a tree on the hospital grounds where he is a patient. The State has a large farm and thrifty orchards, and Hatch suspects only these trees may blossom this Fall. Also, Eastport’s American Can Co plant on Water Street closed Sunday for an indefinite period, reducing local can production. Mr and Mrs Henry T B Leeman and family returned from a White Mountains trip, joined by William Astle and niece of Littleton, N H, once of Bath. Astle is known to Bath residents from five years with Blaisdell Leeman Co.
Members of McDonald Temple Pythian Sisters attended the annual convention and school of instruction in Brunswick on Thursday afternoon and evening. The group included Mrs. A. Newton Mrs. Eliza Ferguson Mrs. E. W. Warren Mrs. E. E. Wilson Mrs. Charles Fogg and others. The report notes many local social and railway related activities and changes in town life including train schedule adjustments and community events.
Personal notes list visits and moves in Pemberton and nearby towns. Dr. and Mrs. Lyman Hollingshead and son Lyman Jr. stay at Thorn's Head bungalow while others relocate to Park Street homes. Social rounds include weddings, church gatherings, and Guild meetings with various local residents and guests.
Mrs. Charles Cornish of Lisbon Falls visited George Cornish. The schooner Longfellow loaded ice at Newman’s and sailed. Hat tie Paige now loading. Farewell sermon of Rev J H L Little at the Church of the Redeemer. Next week Rev Dr French will preach with pulpit supplied later by various sources. Excursion to White Mountains well patronized. attendees listed. Mrs Capt Oliver and family depart for Washington Territory. Ducks plentiful. local sportsmen successful. K P Hall renovated and frescoed. Capt Charles Staples at work in Bath. Rev A R Sylvester now in Bowdoinham. First frost of the season fell Wednesday night. James Flynn of Richmond visited town. Baptist circle met with Mrs Annie Given.
Local residents including Mr and Mrs Charles R Higgins plan winter in Florida after closing Green Moors Inn in Kittery. The piece lists relocations and visits from Lewiston, Bath, Portland and Providence, with family ties, ancestral sites, and social gatherings plus an advertisement for Concord Yarns.
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