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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1945
Page
2
The Dromore Grange building committee met in Dromore age hall Monday to begin work on kitchen renovations to free space for workers. Members include Clarence Spinney and Evelyn Beals among others. Local notes report a busy period with road work, visitors, and community updates across Basin area and Bath.
Dromore Grange met Tuesday evening. The Sagada hoe County Past Masters Association and Lecturers Council were announced to meet at Merrymeeting Grange on October 18 but the event was cancelled indefinitely. Boosters night and a Halloween party are planned for October 23 with an entertainment committee named. An American flag was presented by Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Miller, and a new flag pole will be erected with Maurice Warner, Alfred Stearns and Forrest Legard in charge. The group voted to hold a fair and supper annually. The program featured the pledge led by Ilene Percy, a unique number Sentimental Journey by the young people, tap dancing by Edna Oliver, vocal numbers including Moonlight Bay Darktown Strutters Ball Roll Out the Barrel, and a Little On the Lonely Side. Joyce Bartlett sang with Virginia White on piano, with vocal harmonizers and a closing Star Spangled Banner. The evening concluded with refreshments and dancing.
St Marys Guild of Grace Episcopal church met at the parish house with about 20 members. President Mrs Henry Double led a report on the rummage sale to be held Wednesday. The group sewed sale items and shared a social hour, with refreshments by Mrs Carl Troop and Mrs Herbert Calderwood. next meeting October 23 at 7 30. A J Clary of Belfast is visiting on business.
Parker Head schedules a school holiday October 24 25 and 26 while staff attend a Portland teachers convention. PTA will hold a penny sale and current events on October 25 with refreshments served by Mrs. William Wyman and Mrs. H D Mank Sr. Local society notes list visits, relatives and fair results from Topsham Fair and other Maine towns.
Cox Head and surrounding towns see visitors from Bath Waltham and Salem. Edwin Hill from Bath visits Cox Head friends. Frederick Thomas promoted to Sergeant and awarded the Bronze Star.
Roland Smith Post American Legion held a Tuesday session. The agenda includes a visit by Department Commander Robert H. Howell of Ellsworth on Oct. 23. Walter Hill Kenneth Weeks and Herbert Weinstein led the planning committee. Gordon Howe's nine piece orchestra is engaged for the Armistice Ball at the armory on Nov. 9.
Popham Beach notes include school closure for Tops ham fair and visits by Superintendent Stanwood Gilman and nurse Miss Anderson. Autumn foliage attracts out of state visitors as several locals and cottage owners spend weekends at various cottages. Families from Newtonville Bath Lisbon Falls Auburn Jersey City and Portland hospital updates are listed along with convalescence and travel details.
Personal notes report the birth Friday morning at Central Maine General hospital Lewiston of a baby girl to Mr and Mrs Earl Cahoon of Washington street. Frank Cushing and housekeeper Miss Mabel Mereen moved to Bath to take residence at the Cushing homestead 25 Green street. Mrs Alfred McCabe hosted the Discord club Tuesday evening with sewing and refreshments. The club will meet with Mrs Percy Miller Lincoln street Tuesday evening.
State Entomologist H B Peirson reports an extremely heavy bronze birch beetle outbreak sweeping Maine from New Brunswick. 55 percent of merchantable birch is dead or dying, prompting calls for newspaper ads to warn landowners and a push for funding. Peirson recommends clear cutting vulnerable stands and harvesting at-risk birch to curb the menace, noting sprays miss the beetle. The outbreak threatens a $20 million hardwood industry and many towns dependent on wood-using jobs.
An entire Chinese Sixth Army with horses and equipment was airlifted from Burma to China by the U.S. Army Air Transport Command in May 1945. The unit trained in India and fought in Burma, then prepared for a final offensive against Japan on the Asiatic mainland.
In the western Pacific during a 1944 typhoon, 45,000 pounds of ballast kept a toppling escort carrier stable as 300 sailors moved across the decks for 18 hours to balance the wave rocked ship.
Enterprising Allied prisoners held in Ca banatuan prison Luzon devised bogus sulfa pills largely baked soda and plaster of paris to dupe their Japanese captors and profit while in captivity.
The British Navy suffered its first major losses in the Pacific war when the Japanese sank the battleships Prince of Wales and Repulse off Malaya on December 10, 1941.
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Donald C. Freeman of Russell Street on Tuesday at Memorial hospital.
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