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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1938
Page
2
The piece contrasts modern household gadgets with colonial inventories like Robert Gutch’s estate from 1667. It argues many gadgets are not essential to happiness, noting how early inventories reveal a life rich in both comfort and purpose. Columbus is praised for perseverance that opened America and advanced liberty.
After the event at the State Children's Home Thursday, guests praised the institution under the competent management of Mrs. Staples. Comments highlighted the well run gathering and the home’s hospitality.
A concise note lauds a woman for embodying service at state and city levels, highlighting her devotion to family, community, and public life as a model of merit.
Bath Memorial Hospital trustees held their monthly meeting with several items approved or referred. The hospital joined the Maine Hospital Association, W Dayton Hill joined the finance committee, and funds from a summer drive and a rummage sale totaled over 4 000 dollars. A heart testing machine was recommended and dental consultant Dr Herbert T Caverly was named.
Officer Joseph D. Pennell's hunch leads Brunswick police to a 1937 Ford sedan stolen in Quincy Massachusetts. The car, found abandoned on the Bath Brunswick highway near Glengary Spring, belonged to Robert Young of Quincy and was taken from in front of his home. Police suspect the theft aimed to reach Bath for work at the Bath Man Works Corp.
Senator Sumner Sewall was guest speaker at a St. Barnabas Guild for Nurses meeting at Grace parish house. He described his 26,000 mile flight and his South American visit with amusing anecdotes. The group voted to continue the sanitarium magazine subscription and planned a November Professor Quiz event.
Bath Iron Works Corp. borrows $1,000,000 from Bank of Manhattan Co. of New York to fund working capital for naval contracts. The loan will be repaid by ten notes due from Sept 1, 1939 to Dec 1, 1941. Directors met in New York on Thursday.
The Morse High School Girls Hiking Club, 114 participants, hiked Wednesday afternoon from 3 15 to 6 30 along High Street past the Stone House and back to school. Faculty included Miss Conley Leonard Lord Kirkpatrick, with Miss Smith and Miss Irish also present. Future hikes are set for Oct 26 Nov 9 and Nov 16, weather permitting.
Mrs. Robert W. McClure and her husband, home on leave from Foochow China, will speak to the Ladies' Aid of Winter Street church on October 21 in an all day session. Luncheon at 12 30, committee chaired by Miss Clare Coombs. Parish annual meeting with supper at 6 30 set for October 26. Numerous listed officers and co chairmen. meeting next Friday for all members. Aprons from last April to be brought in Friday. Hostesses named include Mrs John A Morse and Mrs Carl E Albee.
The Pine Tree club of Central Grammar School eighth grade division four held a Columbus Day program on Friday afternoon. Guests included Miss Bessie M. Hunt, principal, and grade six. Readings and scenes traced Columbus from boyhood to Spain, voyage, and voyage companions with student actors.
Acadia lodge K of P forecasts an active winter with six candidates awaiting esquire rank. An outline of the tenth district Pythian convention program was given by Harry Williams, Russell Kenney, and Frank Danforth at Fort George lodge Brunswick. Past Chancellor Williams and captain Harry Watson urge members to attend the Castlehall meeting on the 20th for a rehearsal of the third rank degree team.
Philena Rich Cutler widow of Rev. Julian S. Cutler of Pawtucket Rhode Island died suddenly Thursday at her daughter Mrs Arnold Bishops home in New York City. She was a Bath Maine native daughter of Charles and Ellen Rich and a Bath High School graduate. She leaves three daughters and a sister Mrs John F P Spaulding of Bath. Funeral was from Mrs Bishops home and burial occurred in New York City.
Randall House of Damariscotta, truck driver in the March collision with a Portland man near the Biddeford Kennebunk underpass, says slippery pavement, not speed, caused the crash. He testified in two Marley suit actions against truck owner Kenneth Rees of Thomaston seeking damages of 2500 for Grace Marley and 500 for Thomas Marley.
Glendon S. Sylvester a Bath Iron Works welder suffered two fractured ribs and head lacerations when his car collided with a vehicle driven by Mrs. Ruth McIntosh at the Woolwich approach to the Carlton bridge. William E. Sylvester Jr. drove the other car. both men are Bath Iron Works employees. The crash occurred about 6 15 p.m. in dense fog. no charges yet and investigation continues. Dr. Hugh D. Grant treated the injured man at home.
Lyndon Plummer of 150 High Street pleaded guilty after failing to stop at High and Court streets Friday morning. Judge Arthur J. Dunton taxed costs at 4.95 dollars. Complainants were Officer Byron E. Clark and Constable Leroy Hutchins. Albert Erskine of 100 South Street faced accusations of passing a vehicle at an intersection but was found not guilty for lack of evidence. attorney Edward W. Bridgham defended him. The incident followed a collision at High and Richardson streets involving Erskine’s car and James A. Clappison’s oil truck.
A two week Sagadahoc registry of deeds listing in Bath shows numerous transfers of land and buildings along Washington Street Middle Street and other local roads. Transactions include Wright to Keebler Currier to Currier Mullin to Avery and Hartnett to Hartnett plus several other pairings and corporate transfers in Bowdoinham Georgetown Richmond and Woolwich.
In Farmington a $500 damage action is filed against Sheriff Wilson R. Leavitt by Madeline E. Blanchard of Eustis. She alleges he allowed Frederick M. Blanchard to escape or be released from Franklin county jail and remains at large. Blanchard owed $66 weekly support for two children. $12 arrears triggered execution on July 21, 1938. Blanchard was arrested August 11 by Hugh S. Sylvester and jailed under Leavitt. Attorneys: Berman and Berman of Lewiston for Blanchard.
Officers of Myrtle lodge, Odd Ladies, were installed Friday evening after supper at Pythian Temple. Frances Clark chaired with Eva Atwood Edith Nash Sadie Savage assisting. lists include May Connell Viola McCrum Alice Peterson and others from Portland. Committees organized. gifts presented to installing officers by Mary Curtis and Lizzie Chaney.
Kenneth L. Oliver and Edmund C. Robinson Jr., brothers in law, both of 132 Dummer Street, pleaded guilty to breaking and entering and larceny. They were held to the October term of Sagadahoc Superior Court in $200 bonds each after confessing to park bowling alleys burglary and other breaks. Police report they signed confessions, made without lawyers present, following a tip and initial denials.
The traveling collection of colored reproductions from the University of Maine Department of Fine Arts announced by John Huddisston aims for a second annual tour. It features 30 works including architecture monuments, Italian Renaissance masters like Raphael and Leonardo, Rubens and Holbein, Whistler, Manet, Degas and Daumier. Huddisston invites applications for exhibit space at 36 South Stevens Hall.
A gasoline can explosion in the Brown company large storehouse at Cupsuptic on Lake Mooselockmegantic spread to the adjacent state forestry department building containing forest firefighting equipment. Rangeley pumpers and Qquossoc apparatus fought the blaze but could not check it as flames rapidly spread. Gov Barrows urged fair prices and fair treatment as key to Maine’s recreational business supporting $8,000,000 annual income and thousands of workers and farmers.
Ayith Does and Bears Co. of Harrisburg and H. C. Garber of Ogdens are reported to have killed a 75 pound bear and two bears along with two deer during a Maine outing. The guide praised Garber’s cool aim after a sudden bear charge, and the pair enjoyed fishing before returning to Bath and Ridin’ Light Lodge during their hospitality-filled trip.
Bath Needlework guild directors gathered at Mrs. Arthur Sewall 2d’s Washington street home to plan the annual exhibition and tea on November 3. Red Cross officers urged donations as reserves are depleted, asking each member to contribute two clothing items for babies and children, plus bedding for needy homes. Tea followed the meeting with Mrs. Frederick E. Drake pouring.
The Deer Isle Sedgwick bridge remains unharmed by the hurricane as the two tall main towers are finished. The major task of laying the supporting cables will start shortly.
The U.S. Biological Survey reports trumpeter swans near extinction risk with a 148 count this summer, ten fewer than last year. Most nest at Red Rock Lakes Refuge in Montana and Yellowstone in Wyoming, with 93 adults observed this year versus 81 last year.
The Maine Central Transportation Co. inaugurated a Bath to Hardings bus service with departures from Bath at 9 10, 11 20 a m, 1 00 p m and 4 20 p m and return trips from Hardings at 9 20 a m, 1 15 p m and 4 30 p m. Fares are 10 cents each way and service uses West Bath or new road as specified. Public Utilities Commission approved the operation today. A nearby hurricane incident mentions Mrs. Charles Thompson’s purse recovered near Wareham, Mass.
The Department of Sea and Shore Fisheries conducts an experiment by planting seed oysters on three acres of flats in Southport Gut. William Ray of Southport finances and oversees the project, with flats to be policed to protect the crop.
A fragmented list of crossword clues from 1938 by King Features Syndicate. The garbled entries cover various themes, with numbers and partial phrases referencing animals, objects, and common words. The piece resembles a puzzle page blurb rather than a complete, readable item.
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