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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1955
Page
6
The Bath Board of Aldermen elected Elwell S. Crosby Rupert Baxter and W Stark Newell as Bath Water District trustees. Terms begin Nov 1 with organization and term lotting to follow. A strip of civic and local items cover housing moves water mains sidewalk progress and staff vacations.
Sept 29 1915 Judge Dunton started reclaiming the Snow Farm and will soon have Isaac Rideout to help shape Snow Park for a new home colony. Apples gathered by workers from the estate were carried away over days as a gale blew fruit from trees. Bathites were delayed by ferry steering failures to Woolwich with repairs finished and the Bath boat resumed at 8 23.
Sept 30 1915 Bay region reports Al Ridley Mr DeLong and Mer ton Webber shooting ducks amid gale winds that churned the water. Steamer Virginia resumes trips after shaft overhaul. Mary Ann launches carry mails. Maxwell Powers homes in Colonial yellow. Rupert Baxter to return from Essex VT. Bath Water District trustees to organize. Local social life includes Wig-Wam Whist at the Dike homestead and a reception for Mrs C C Sydleman.
Post cards from Mr and Mrs Oliver Moses and Mr and Mrs E P Briggs show a motor tour through New York Vermont and Montreal with a planned tow of the Hercules to Boston by the Portsmouth. In Bath Doris Stetson joins Bristol School in Washington DC for dramatic study. Community notices cover local gate changes at Maine Central, a Bath Hebrew gathering, and hunting trips as birds migrate and divers are shot.
West Bath residents note timely arrival of an automobile carrying a fire extinguisher as crucial to saving a farm from ruin. The piece praises affordable extinguishers for farms and cites broader lessons for rural fire safety.
Cony High Rams overwhelmed Morse Shipbuilders 16 to 0 at McMann Field led by a bruising first half running attack and stout defense. Ken Rollins and Meylon Kenney powered two early scores while Towle aided the march and Rollins added the extra point. Morse managed only 31 yards and four first downs.
Mitchells camp by the bay for a week. A.M. Cutler’s sail loft builds two sails 75 by 37 feet for the schooner Kineo, to Newport News from Port Arthur Texas. The largest Cutler sail spread 1100 yards for the schooner Frank Palmer. Crafts for barges at Kelley Spear Co. yard. Also misses Alice Marks and Grace Fields on a Canada tour. Civil Engineer Corliss drafts Judge Dunton’s Snow Park plans. Real estate development details street layout five acres, minimum house cost, no old shacks. Sheriff Oliver nearly bought property. Judge Dunton secured it Monday. Willis Holbrook et al. duck and partridge hunting trip via Elmer Rich’s. Bath’s Walter King in England as army motor boat driver. notes from George E. Sonia. Four hundred motor cars on state road Brunswick to Portland. many limousines and coupes. Albert Dingley, Capt W. Dingley’s son, now first mate of Covington, earns pilot papers for Norfolk District. Mr. and Mrs. ER Plummer return from motor trip along the Androscoggin.
The item recalls Mr Plummer teaching in Gilbertville school thirty years ago with 48 pupils and a monthly pay of 35 dollars. It notes winter travel to New York, shipments by the Nellie G., motor tours by residents, Sagadahoc Fair upcoming, and local society activity plus a road hazard near Blind Crossing. Langdon Thistle, 10, is recovering from an auto accident with non serious injuries.
Earl C. Kimble, Bath Iron Works Navy office Supervising Naval Architect, received a Navy award pin for forty years of military and civilian service. Lt. Cmdr. Donald V. Horn presented the honor with a commendation from Secretary of the Navy C. S. Thomas, praising Kimble’s exemplary career.
Mrs Nadine Soucie was guest of honor at a stork shower Monday evening at the Lambert Park community building. Gifts were opened and refreshments served as a social hour followed. The guest list includes numerous local residents from Portland Brunswick and area. Mrs George Middleton has returned home after a stay at Memorial hospital.
Court in Bath Sagadahoc County announces probate orders for estates in Bath and surrounding towns. Sunken details include final accounts for Irving P Bailey Hermine Fortin Solomon Ko Greenblatt and others with various executors administratrices and guardians seeking allowances and name change petitions for Edward Bernard Halfpap to John Lawrence Forbis Junior. Probate judge Arthur J Dunton signs.
Theta Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi hosted a Mad Hatters party at the Grove Street home of Mrs. Harold Perry with hats as the highlight. Prizes for unique hats went to Mrs. Gerald Rioux, Mrs. Ruth Davis, and Mrs. Nicholas Kakos. Games directed by Mrs. Frank Curran entertained, and refreshments were served. Arrangements were made by several members including Mrs. Edward Cummings and Mrs. Perry. Guests included Mrs. Donald E. Hill and Miss Valerie Nickerson. Xi Beta Chapter members attended from Amesbury, and Theta Chapter noted its next meeting will be Oct 11 at the Oliver Street home of Mrs. Edward Cummings.
Sophie McPherson was elected Regent of Sacred Heart Circle Daughters of Isabella at a Tuesday evening meeting in the D of I hall Front Street. New officers for the year include Helen Moses past regent Carl Konstrand vice regent Alfred King secretary and others with installation planned for November.
Members of the Wesley Methodist church Men’s Club call for curfew enforcement in the city. At their Fall meeting they voted to have the secretary write to the City Manager, arguing youth troubles stem from late hours and lack of home supervision. Walter Upham elected president. Willard McLean secretary. Robert Savage vice president. George Hopkins treasurer.
Miss Shirley Staples daughter of Mrs Madge Trask Bath and Wayne E DeLong son of Mrs Doris Cox Rockland wed Oct 1 in Hertford North Carolina Attendants were Mrs Alice Fields and Donald Staples The couple plan to reside in Norfolk Virginia DeLong serves in the U S Navy aboard the aircraft carrier Coral Sea returning from a nine months Mediterranean cruise
Mortgage in Sagadahoc County details five parcels of land in Topsham Bowdoinham and Bowdoinham revised by Joseph Whitney and others. The First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Bath seeks foreclosure due to breach of condition as of October 3 1955 with parcels ranging from five to one hundred acres and tied to historic deeds and estate rights.
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