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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1947
Page
10
Bath residents attend social functions including a birthday celebration for Mary Rideout and a ship launch related event. Governor and family receive social attention while workers from the shipyard secure positions in California. Local incidents include an eye injury to Camilla May Page’s mother and a heat issue affecting a transit car.
An October 23 1907 note records Miss Angie Hunnewell teacher of a grade at South Street Primary visiting Boston. Grace Warren teaches the grade in her absence and Governor Brooks travels with a party up the Kennebec and Sasanoa rivers aboard a ship.
The text reports ships towed and sailing records, a Bath schooner arrival from Philadelphia, a regatta parade on Front Street, hospital stay of Russell Ayres, and community notices including a wedding at Front Street home on Tuesday evening, Oct 29, with various local tradesmen and crews involved.
Augusta announces the engagement of Anette Louise Mayo to John Stewart. The note highlights social plans and upcoming events in the city with local society mentions and family updates.
The fragment describes women pianists and a visitor gathering, mentioning travel to a vineyard destination, a traveler recovering health, and coworkers resuming duties after a brief vacation. It notes Mr Farrin and Maud Worth Dunn among those arriving and visiting, with activities centered on doors and carpentry work.
Oct 26 1907 notes indicate events and people including Mrs Lemuel Lane Miss Lyn and Mrs Lewis Perry leaving for Quincy Mass. The Colonial club announces its first ladies night on Nov 1 with committee members listed. George P Davenport returns from Boston. F Frederick lands a siding contract on Water street. Central church activities and Knickerbocker Towage Co tug Perry in service. Ice business on Kennebec River expected light.
Oct 28 1907 notes John F Shea leaving for Oil City Pa to join Standard Oil Co as his future headquarters. Bath friends extend best wishes. Mentions Albert H Duren of Duluth and George Duren visiting, and a church event with Rev Culbert McGay taking Grace Church pastorate in Rumford. David T Parker of Bath receives naval academy appointment after exam success. W C Oliver of the Board of Aldermen travels to Moosehead Lake.
The Bath Country Club plans its annual meeting on December 1 to elect directors and review the financial status and fund expenditures for the year. Stock transfers and certificates must be updated to reflect ownership, and a late financial report will be published afterward for members.
In observance of the Fraternal Order of Eagles anniversary on Front street about 200 locals and 40 guests attended the event. Entertainment by Bill Mead and Arthur Poulin coordinated a buffet lunch and refreshments. Due to forest fires several Eagles could not attend, and 300 chicken and lobster salads plus 100 doughnuts were sent to Richmond to aid firefighters, with meals packed for distribution.
Hydeon Tax Collector Brown and others spent the week at the camp. Bowdoin graduate Harry B. Mitchell joined Williamson & Burleigh for law studies. E. R. Starbird returns to Apopka Florida for winter with family. G. B. Webber returned from big game trip with a fine deer. Indian Moxie camp party Gould Lee Turner rack five deer. Sailmaker Goodman raises a new Elks Home flag. David Owen visits relatives. Sawyer Company member played Bangor all week and heads to Lewiston. known as Arthur Hastings.
A fragment notes a myth linking carrion to honey bee behavior and a claim that dead oxen undergo transformation. The readable text is sparse and mentions Tasin as linked to the myth, but the fuller story is unclear.
Local Girl Scout units report fall activities from Oct 26 Scout Week plans to Halloween parties and badge work. Troops No. 8 5 7 A 6 11 13 meet at churches and schools with leaders Mrs. Drake Mrs. Steen Mrs. Niss Miss Carter and others. events include tea, decorations, crafts, and Brownie flyup ceremonies with Juliette Low birthday cake.
Oct 22 meetings of Owl Troop No. 3 Wild Rose Troop No. 2 and Oak Leaf Brownie Troop 14, with leaders Mrs. Lawrence Katz, Mrs. Gloria Hoe, Mrs. William Forbes, and Mrs. Randall Daley. Troops assign homemaking, crafts, outdoor badges, calendar sales, and a candlelight investiture for Scout Week. They prepare favors for local hospitals and the Old Ladies Home.
Mrs Dorothea Little Edward Mansir and Winfield Hull serve on the Traverse Jury at Bath Superior Court. Mrs Adeline Standley of Center street died after nearly three weeks at Leighton rest home Gardiner. Funeral held at sister in law Faustina Pushard’s home. Fred Whitney of Windham is her son. Surviving relatives include three grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
Dr and Mrs Clyde A Berry of Bristol Mills were visitors here Monday afternoon, stopping to see local residents and share greetings.
Emery W. Booker notes a mortgage deed involving a parcel in Cumberland County Maine. The document references a prior deed dated Sapnaanoc Day with conveyance to Charles L. Douglas and subsequent assignment to M. nm, admr of Jordan, through Brunswick & Co.
Volunteers from Richmond Auge Gardiner Legion auxiliaries and the Red Cross aided evacuees from the River road area, about 25 families. Firemen, including Bowdoin College students, battled flames that threatened farms for miles, saving homes with wet sawdust and brave acts. Neighborhood folk ferried supplies, while long hours of vigilance continued into Friday.
John L. Jack publishes probate notices naming executors administrators and guardians for estates in Woolwich Bath and Bath area. Names include Samuel Moore Winnie Moore William Harriman Sarah Shaw Forde Badly and Daniel Pras with dates referenced October 14 1947 and related orders.
John L. Jack Register certifies estate matters listing executors administrators or guardians for multiple estates. Names include Almira Snowbeak as administratrix at Bath and Cornelius Bassett of Kingstown with bond waived. Joseph E. Jobling of New Hampshire. Annie Walker of Chester Vermont. Ellen Simpson of Bath. Arthur Joy of P roe to Am e copy of Original.
The readable text is garbled and inconclusive with no clear event names dates or locations. This record preserves only fragmented phrases without a discernible action or outcome.
Fragmentary report notes a junior class event at St Philip's church with a sap dance and a character named Iree. The continuation references a late game titled Be Game and a speaker whose remarks were well received.
The community mourns Elisabeth Lane Webb wife of the late Rev Henry W W Webb former First Congregational minister in Wiscasset. A longtime librarian and active club member she served as an officer in several groups and was historian for the local American Legion auxiliary as well as first Gold Star mother. Funeral services were held at her home with burial at Buckport.
Community notes mention Mrs. William Thornton and Pearl Reed chairing a meeting to purchase supplies. Daughters Majella and I of Garden Street visited their aunt Mrs. Leslie Bailey at home in Woolwich, with other local names appearing in the fragment.
A probate notice records the appointment of John L. Jack as register in the matter of the estate of Be Deceased. The petition requests the sale of a coal estate and related assets under a court order.
A probate court in Ba County will on the first Tuesday of October 1847 hear petitions for estates including Horace Ward and Jesse Wallace names appear in the filing. The notices request approval of wills and grant letters of administration to suitable persons with dates and parties listed.
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