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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1933
Page
6
Richmond and surrounding communities held meetings and socials last week including the Enterprise Grange Ladies aid quilting and a surprise luncheon for Harriet Patch. Lions club, Lodge 11.0 CF and Emerson school activities featured guest speakers, receptions, and a rally week at the Methodist Church with varied community visits and entertainments.
The marriage of William M. Sparks of Brunswick and Miss Marie R. Merriman of West Harpswell was held Tuesday evening at Rev. Harvey H. Bishop's Westbrook home with a double ring ceremony. Attendants were Miss Lucy Merriman and Everett Booth of Brunswick. After the ceremony the couple took a motor trip through the White Mountains and will reside at 15 Bath Street, Brunswick. Sparks, a Brunswick High and Wentworth Institute graduate, works in his father’s plumbing business. Merriman also attended Brunswick High and Maine General Hospital in Portland. Allen B. Little of 26 Turnercourt visited Lewiston on Friday.
The town reports weekly work crew shifts on state roads and notes residents traveling to Seguinland Little River Boothbay Harbor Bath and Ellsworth. Crops frost damaged cranberry fields while several families hosted visitors from Portland Bath Westbrook and New York. Local church services featured Rev Bishop and special music. many residents weathered illnesses, trips, and summer stays with diverse social calls and road work updates.
Elezer E Danforth of Bath son of Mr and Mrs Frank L Danforth of Freedom wed Viola Fuller of Bath daughter of Mr and Mrs George Dudley of Sidney in Brunswick by Chester W Magoun justice of the peace at 7 Center street returns filed with City Clerk John W Gilmore on Tuesday show Bowdoin college platters and Wedgwood Potteries dinnerware delayed due to rush of business at the potteries as a note from the importers states
President and Mrs. Kenneth C. M. Sills invite Brunswick residents to the annual reception meeting new college faculty on Thursday evening October fifth from eight to eleven.
An advertisement from Freedman Medicine Co of Stonington Maine promotes In-Vita Herb and Iron Tonic. It claims the tonic cleanses the system purifies the blood aids appetite aids digestion tones up the system regulates the bowels and helps correct constipation and asserts it is guaranteed safe and reliable.
Fifty three years after starting his trade Melvin Haggett, long-time steward and barber at the Colonial club, began as an apprentice in 1880. His career spanned multiple Bath shops, a fish market venture, and a final move to the Colonial club in 1907, where he remains a golf and gaming enthusiast respected by locals.
The Woman's Mission society of the First Baptist church held its first meeting after the summer recess. President Mrs. A. I. Stuart led devotionals and business. Miss M. Helen Sims spoke on Missions in Africa with stereopticon views. Plans were made for a missionary conference on Oct. 19 at the church.
The Five Islands Grange circle plans a Friday meeting with Miss Madelyn Berry and Mrs. Mabel Dickey, aiming for strong attendance. Local visits include the Hunts from Dorchester and trips by residents to Bath and Malden Island, with a week of island happenings and puzzles added to the Grange library.
Miss Caroline Florence Kaulbach of New York City left about 19000 in total estate with specific bequests of 16009. St Marys church Bath receives 1000. Miss Nellie Biggins of 6 Dike street gets 1000. Old Folks Home receives half the residuary estate. Helen Campbell of 6 Stone street Portland receives 500. Kaulbach died August 6 at 76. She was born in Bath and planned to visit though ill health prevented it.
Gloria, the four year old granddaughter of Belgrade’s tax collector C. E. Tillson, planted one seed potato last spring as an instructional gesture. The single hill produced 138 potatoes weighing 73 pounds, including four potatoes totaling five pounds and 16 potatoes weighing 12 pounds.
The Bath Fire Department tribute to Chief Charles E. Parks recalled his early 1890s stand on water pressure during a rope walk fire. He insisted pressure was insufficient, challenging officials and earning admiration for honesty. A veteran event featured Rev Wolstenholme, Mayor Lord, and a generous purse presented to Parks, with praise for Parks’ decades of service and frugal, effective leadership.
A Bath ceremony praised Fire Chief Parks with remarks from merchants and Senator N Gratz Jackson. Jackson lauded Parks as a unifying, selfless figure serving all, urging others to emulate his duties of a gentleman. Oscar F Williams, veteran fireman, also spoke briefly.
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