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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1929
Page
4
The Bowdoinham community records visits and moves as residents attend fairs and gatherings from Topsham to Portland. Families like Randall Stevens Heath and Browne guests share travel, new homes, and seasonal plans while local businesses move coal deliveries and a new fire engine arrives from Lewiston.
Mrs Victor L Warren state regent presided over forenoon and afternoon programs of the Maine D A R event at the State House. Mrs Magna national librarian general announced Constitution Hall opening in Washington Oct 22. Bronze lamp bid discussed for Washington hall costs not less than 300 dollars. vote planned for March. Eugene Desmond was in Portland on business.
The Current Events Club schedules Thursday meetings at the Cosmopolitan Club clubhouse at 3 45 with a program theme Science Electricity. Members will bring clippings and the agenda covers papers on The Light's Jubilee The Latest in Radio An Electric Garden with speakers Miss Margaret J Adams Miss Marcia Moulton Mrs George A Churchill.
Mr and Mrs Warren C Munsey celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary with a black duck dinner at their Union street home hosted by their three daughters. The event featured autumn decorations and a handmade anniversary cake, with gifts from attending relatives and friends. Mr Munsey, a Bath Iron Works employee, previously from Wis casset, and Mrs Munsey, formerly Lydia A Rice of Woolwich, have lived in Bath for many years. the gathering included family members from Bath Lewiston and Montsweag. Shipments of potatoes by Bangor and Aroostook up to October 6 totaled 7772 carloads, with 3077 last year, and most shipments remain at current volume for the year ahead.
A Portland woman files for divorce on the ground of non-support stating her husband gave only ten cents at a time and with long intervals between payments, suggesting she may not expect much alimony.
In a terse local note, neighbors describe a weasel as a pure killer, claiming it destroys more animals than it can eat. The incident stirs concern about wildlife predation and garden losses in the area.
District 10 Pythian lodges met in Bowdoinham with Acadia lodge Bath hosting. A parade, banquet by Bowdoinham McDonald temple YS, Knighting of a candidate, then remarks by Grand Chancellor Hodgdon Buzzell and Grand Keeper Edgar Brown. One of the most enjoyable recent district gatherings.
The many friends of Mr and Mrs Lauris Wilson who left here recently to make their home in Philadelphia.
A silver cup will be awarded to the player with the best net score at the Colonial club impromptu golf event Sunday at Sebasco. Handicaps mirror the club tournament. the cup rotates after one year and becomes permanent after three names. The cup is on display at A Hallet & Co. Play starts at 10 AM in foursomes. luncheon at 1 PM with Warren Hawley and George Hunt arranging. The Mississippi in flood equals eight Niagaras.
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