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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1959
Page
2
Personal notes recount weekend visits and gatherings across Washington street Bath Brunswick Arrowsic Kittery and Brunswick towns. Families including Zimmerman McCabe McLaughlin Parks Eaton Moore Niles Marchetti Cornish Lowell Bisson Costain Potter and others are listed with locations trips and events such as golf tournaments and a Dean's List designation at Colby College.
Mrs. Stanley Teasdale and daughter Sandra of Washington will visit with her parents in West Bath as Teasdale from the U S Air Force moves to Germany for a three year tour. A new baby boy joined Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds of 332 Washington street, their third child weighing seven pounds nine ounces at Memorial hospital. Locals, out-of-town guests, cottage moves, and a North Bath open house for Mr and Mrs Clarence Pecci fill a busy social scene as Bath residents return from summer retreats and plan winter stays.
Mr and Mrs Edward L Gaudreau of upper Washington street returned from a visit with relatives in Portsmouth New Hampshire and South Portland. Mrs Pearl Oliver Isenbeck of Rockland formerly Bath is a patient at Fairview Brunswick. Mr and Mrs Merle Penney of Unity stayed with Wesley Sweeney in Bath. Penney supervised the Carlton bridge overpass construction. Miss Judith Commeau a Massachusetts General Hospital student visits home in Bath. Mrs Bernice Burns returns to Washington street after illness. Mrs Charles H Cahill Jr and daughter Leilani Cahill spent a weekend in Wallingford Connecticut. Mr Robert S Jackson of Brooklyn and his wife welcomed a daughter Karen Louise born in Brooklyn. Jackson is Bath native, son of Mark Jackson. Mrs Warren R Munsey of West Bath is a Maine Medical Center patient after surgery. Mrs Marion Easter of Rumford Point and Mrs Walter Slocum of Pownal visited Mrs Everett Lemont on Andrews road. Mr and Mrs Robert Dow of Lake Garda Connecticut visited E Melvin Pratt on Spring street. Mr and Mrs Charles Ginsberg, vacationing in Maine, spent Jewish holidays with Dr and Mrs Joseph TI Smith of Washington street. Atty and Mrs Lynn M Bussey closed their Popham Beach cottage for the season. Walter H Shumway and son Larry of Milton visited his brother Leslie C Shumway and Mrs Shumway on High street.
Street receives a letter from grandson A 2/c Edward L Gaudreau III stationed at Kingsley Field in Oregon. He notes the country’s beauty in the Cascade Mountains and says he enjoyed summers in Bath with his grandparents before graduation. Nearby, Bath residents Maurice Owen family plan a weekend at Popham Beach. Navy Cmdr Richard W Ricker, husband of Isabelle King, serves aboard USS Saratoga in the Mediterranean as part of Task Force 60 on a six month tour visiting Italy Spain France and Greece. Pvt Nicholas Orr, son of Mrs. Caroline Orr, completed basic training at Lackland AFB and is stationed at Lowry AFB. Col Edwin R Andrews of Hyde Windlass Co named co-chairman of a Foundry Conference session at MIT Oct 16–17 with 400 attendees. Miss Jean Shumway, Husson freshman, visited by her parents. Mrs Ada Milliken hosted Thimble Club at Oak Street. next meeting at Mrs Dyer’s West Bath home with several members.
Marine 2nd Lt. Maynard W. Maddocks serves with the Third Marine Aircraft Wing at the Fl Toro Marine Corps Air Station in Sanat Ana California. Mrs Inez Carter presided at Beulah Rebekah Lodge installation in Richmond Friday evening. Attending Bath Queen Esther Lodge members included Athana Gillespie Carolyn Thomp son Glenora Moore Bernice Bailey Lois M. Knight Eunice Perry Clara Leach and Dorothy Stone with guests Albert Bailey and Mabel Williams. Weekend visitors included Henry R Godfrey and family plus Dudley S Leavitt and family. Wayne Akeley hospitalized at Bath Memorial hospital and employed at Bath Iron Works. John Burgess and family returned home after a week in Stoneham Massachusetts and East Sullivan.
Miss Murial Parlin assistant to the Pine Tree Society executive director is confined at home in Boothbay by illness. Mr and Mrs William Sanford of West Bath took a motor trip to Conway NH and through the White Mountains on Sunday. Mrs Stanley R Coleman of 1229 Washington Street, newly employed by Bath National Bank, began duties Monday. Mrs Coleman formerly employed at the local...
Billy John Harvie, son of Mr and Mrs Frank Harvie of 1313 Washington Street, has returned home from Bath Memorial hospital after being a surgical patient.
Dr and Mrs Bernard L Allen of West Hartford CT Mrs Arthur S Rowe of Belmont MA and Mr and Mrs Clyde F Jordan and daughter Nancy were weekend guests of Mrs Benjamin Woodside of Winter street, details show a social gathering in a local home.
Mrs. Arlene Scott hosted a Chatterboat club swap party on Tower Circle with members including Mrs. Evelyn Sweeney, Mrs. Gwendolyn Gau det, and others. Plans for a guest party were announced. The column also lists hospital patients, travels to Lancaster PA and Augusta, teaching moves, a birth at Parkview Memorial hospital, and a promotion at Shepard Air Force Base.
Mark Whorff two year old son of Mr and Mrs Albert Whorff of Berry's Mill road West Bath has returned home from Memorial Hospital after a three week stay Mrs William P Hatch entertained members of the Monday evening club with a supper at a Monday gathering the club has met for more than 35 years date and place of the next meeting will be announced.
Miss Gloria Witham, a local schoolteacher, spent the weekend in Rockland with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Witham and returned Monday. Mrs. Ernest Buswell and her daughter Miss Priscilla Noddin from Rockland were guests Friday of Mrs. Buswell’s sister-in-law Mrs. Harry Blaisdell.
The Central Congregational church League completed plans for a rummage sale at the parish house on Friday October 9 at 1 pm A committee of fourteen led by Mrs J Haviland Torrey organized the event Presiding items included Adventurers in Reading lectures Ancient Religions a four part series and a Harvest Fair slated for November 13 Lectures begin November 23 and run four consecutive Mondays Readings and booklets were displayed for sale or loan by League members.
Mr and Mrs Clarence Pecci were guests of honor at a house warming in their new home at Whiskeag North Bath on Saturday. About 30 relatives and friends visited during the afternoon and evening and presented a variety of gifts. Co-hostesses were Mrs Robert R Coombs and Mrs Rene Roy.
Mrs Lindsay Dauphinee was elected chairman of the Bath Extension Group at the Cosmpolitan club meeting. Others elected include Mrs Edwin Small vice chairman and Mrs Carl Wight secretary. Driftwood and Christmas Suggestions will be the topic of the next meeting on Nov. 5.
Twenty nine second graders from Huse Memorial School, led by teacher Mrs. Morton Young and driver Donald Preble, toured Bath city on a bus trip as part of social studies. They viewed Bath Memorial Hospital, Patten Free Library, City Hall, Bath Iron Works, Hyde Windlass, the Old Folks Home, and Doubling Point Lighthouse, ending with West Bath’s new elementary school.
Three Bath dogs participated in the first licensed field trials by the St. Croix Valley Gun Dog Club at St. Stephen New Brunswick over the weekend. Butch Gypsy's Mallard of Wigloria finished second in Sundays all age stakes. First was Trouljard's St Patrick owned by Dr Timothy Reardon of Dorchester Mass. Third was Sebasticook Dux owned and handled by Frank Hazeltine of Pittsfield. Saturday's qualifiers saw Woodcroft Ripper win with Kennebunk handler Paul Genthner. Second went to Black Brooks Abênaki owned by Dr M M Filson of Ogunquit and third to Rock also handled by Genthner.
Bath chief Robert E. Wagner Jr. will join police chiefs from across New England at the Police Chiefs Association meeting October 11 to October 13 at the Poland Spring House. Senator Muskie Superior Court Justice Delehanty and crime experts will speak. Wagner travels with Chiefs Maurice Benner Alfred Teel John Rainfrette and William McDonald.
Phippsburg Bodwell Grange will install officers this evening at eight. Deputy Clyde Bailey to install an officer. Phippsburg PTA sponsors a food and rummage sale Saturday 1 to 3 p.m. at Old Town hall with Ida Nordland in charge of rummage and Mrs. Donald Wallace chairing the sale. Four evergreen shrubs planted on the Honor Roll, with Mrs. Jo hn Rogers as Honor Roll chair. Books added to the Albert F Totman library include Together The Turning Wide The Far Journey The Four Story Mistake Candy Kane Clorinda of Cherry Lane. Center residents may contact Mrs. John Rogers to arrange pickup for sale items. First PTA meeting of the school year held last Monday. Frederick Thomas named hospitality chair and Winnifred Ross publicity chair. Mrs. Earl Lowell presented retired School Superintendent Stanwood Gilman with a gift on behalf of teachers Town officers and school employees. Dromore Extension Association meets Oct 14 at 10 30 a.m. Mrs Beryl Hill will present You and Your Finances. nominating committee to report. Membership dues due. Emergency feeding meal served at noon by Mrs. Rogers and Mrs. Seavey. Monthly Fire Department meeting held at the Fire House. Personal items note J Walter Snipe of Connecticut visiting Center home. Mr and Mrs R Havell moved into Moody House at the Center.
Ralph W. Brewer will head the Bath Area United Fund Small Business Division for the 1919 campaign, with offices across Bath and cross indexed records to avoid duplicate solicitations. The drive starts in October during United Fund Month as the goal remains $47,207, unchanged from 1958. Brewer, a Bath Iron Works timekeeper and former educator, brings extensive civic and sports credentials to the effort.
Central Church Fellowship plans to host Lincoln Association Pilgrim Fellowships at the parish house October 25. Executive Board members discussed the event and will finalize details at the fall meeting, with Barbara Brown and Leslie Kinney leading devotional services.
Parker Head CWO Parker Head and Mrs Maurice M Perrine were honored at a farewell party at the home of Commanding Ocker and Mrs S M Sigurdson Brunswick by Fasron 108 officers and wives. Perrine leaves Oct 21 for Argentia Newfoundland to become Air Frames officer for Fasron 105. Mrs Perrine remains on staff at Bath Memorial Hospital and daughters continue studies at Phippsburg school.
Phippsburg PTA met September 28 at the Elementary School. Newly elected officers were Frederick Thomas president, Mrs Truman Roberts Jr vice president, Mrs John G Morse Jr secretary, and Mrs Fred Haggett treasurer. Reports covered Red Cross swimming classes, women’s gym night, and Athletic Council. Attendance banner won by seventh grade. Several community notices followed including hospital admissions, births, illnesses, and visits among local families.
Mrs Ernest Oliver attended the October Unity Circle meeting at the home of Mrs Celeste Wallace in Sebasco. Many Bath residents, including the Olivers, Spirneys, Moodys, and Snipe family, were guests or visitors across weekends and weekdays.
Officials of the Bath Area Community Concerts Association listed available Maine performances for members at no extra cost. The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra performs March 19 in Augusta and March 20 in Lewiston. Other acts include Chanticleers Quartet in Oct at Rumford and Oct 15 at Hopedale, William Warfield in Lewiston Oct 8, William Primrose in Augusta Oct 29, Parsons and Poole in Lewiston Dec 7, Claude Frank in Augusta Dec 3, Luboshutz and Nemenoff in Rockland Nov 30, Paul Draper Company in Rockland Oct 12, Rudie Sinfonetta May 7 in Rockland, and Beaux Arts Trio Jan 20 in Waterville.
Autumn colors cover the landscape as pleasant days encourage outdoor fall tasks. A Bath Iron Works guided missile destroyer tested on the Kennebec Friday and returned to Bath Saturday. Local residents and visitors from Ogunquit to Swampscott share weekends with families, while Dozois and Chamberlain families host and visit in Bath and surrounding towns.
Mrs. S Theodore Bertocci of 985 High Street will host the Central Maine Mount Holyoke club fall meeting on October 15. Officers for the coming year will be elected and all Mount Holyoke alumnae in the region are invited to attend.
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