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Newspaper

Bath Independent

Location

Bath, Maine, United States of America

Date

Sep 03, 1936

Page

3

Notes From Here And There In Maine Community Roundup

A broken windscreen from a rock released by a Street Department truck damaged a bakery van at Cummings Motor Co. Meanwhile road improvements continue on a High street segment near Lemont, with top resurfacing ahead after pipe work by Bath Water District crews. Local ferry service, summer tourism, road safety markings, blueberry harvest variance, and Shingling efforts at Small Point echo seasonal Maine life. The Popham Beach group allocates funds to repair sidewalk damage from spring floods, with plans for fall removal and spring replacement.

Cummings Motor Co City Street High Street Lemont Street Bath Water District

Miss Sewall Hostess At A Dinner Dance

Miss Mary Sewall hosted a costume dinner dance at the Stone House on Friday night. Winners included Matha Cahill as Raggedy Andy and Edward Owen as a farmer boy. many guests in varied costumes from Indian, Japanese, Turkish to gay nineties attire attended.

Mary Sewall Stone House Matha Cahill Raggedy Andy Ellen Stevens Edward Owen Edward G. Morin Louis Volk Roger D. Skillings Alice Barler John Grindell Carol Barbara Ross Martha Cahill Jane Hyde Elizabeth Butterfield Lucille Johnson Jane

Summer visitors fill lakeside and Bath area

A long list of residents and guests circulated through Wollaston Bath and surrounding towns as summer visitors return or arrive. Families including Brinkerhoff Skillings Spear Ham Cushman Perry and Morse hosted or visited relatives at Sebasco Lodge Bath Meadowbrook and Little Sebago while others departed for winter homes in Eliot Oberlin and Westport. Regular events noted include Bodwell Grange gatherings and church attendance with local families extending stays at summer homes and camps.

Virginia Brinkerhoft Wollaston Sebasco Estates John FP. Skillings Maynard Spear Emily Flushing N. Y Sebasco Lodge Courtney Ham Jean Catherine White Plains Everett Palmer Elizabeth Riverside Howard S. Bowker Hattie Bowker Doris Mains Roscoe Mains Bath Ralph Hart John Tracey Kittery Phippsburg Nellie Tracey Meadowbrook Marjorie Gilmore Ashdale Paul Gilmore Dorothy Purington Jennie Blaisdell Rosamond Stover Martin Wyman Smal Point Beach Bodwell Grange Bodwell Grange Hall Grange Willard Blair Massachusetts Dromore Omar Perry Frank Perry Campbell Farm William B. Perry New York Walter J. Pierce Ada Catherine William Bradford James E. Perry Cora Campbell Edward Bolton Portland Gertrude Blaisdell White Mountains John Evans Harold Young Pepperell, Mass Frank P. Leavitt

Cooper-Fearebay Wedding Saturday in Augusta

Adeline Hope Fearebay of Augusta and Lancelot Blaisdell Cooper of Waterville and Gardiner were married Saturday at St. Mark's Episcopal Church Augusta. Rev. Herbert E P Pressey officiated. The reception followed in Manchester with 75 guests. The couple to Gardiner after a brief time in Augusta. The bride, graduate of Cony High 1930, wore a blue wool suit and carried white roses. The groom, a Cony High and Springfield College graduate, is a Gardiner High School coach and instructor. Wedding gifts included a gold vanity case and ruby ring. Guests included Bath residents H D Cooper Earl E Cooper L H Cooper Louis Cooper and others. A bridal dinner was held at Lighthouse Inn prior to the ceremony.

Adeline Hope Fearebay Augusta Lancelot Blaisdell Cooper Waterville Gardiner Lancelot H. Cooper St. Mark’s Episcopal Church Herbert E. P. Pressey St. Mark's Edwin Puller Viola Hogan Springfield Mass Richard D Brockton Hector Fearebay Manchester Oscar Fearebay Elm Street Con H. D. Cooper Earl E. Cooper L. H. Cooper Louis Cooper Earl Cooper Bath Lighthouse Inn

Dromore Farm Bureau Delightful Day At Home Event

Dromore Farm Bureau members enjoyed a luncheon at the Nequasset home of Mrs. Rachel Hodgdon. Card tables and a noon menu featured chicken club salad and ice cream. Guests included Miss Lucia Ferguson and Mrs. Maud Crowley, with the next meeting set for Sept 9 at Winnegance Community Club house.

Dromore Farm Bureau Bath William Haymes Norwalk Conn Sarah A. Thomas Hodgdon Frank A. Hodgdon Edward Winnegance Hortense Welch

One of Drayton's Crew Fatally Injured in Maine

John Erwin Williams, 32, of Gainsboro North Carolina, U S N signalman first class, was killed in an auto crash in Eliot Maine Friday. An automobile with Williams and George F Scully hit a pole after leaving the road. Scully escaped. Williams died at Kittery Naval Hospital from a fractured skull. Medical examiner Dr Charles W Kinghorn ruled accidental death. Williams had been at Kittery Navy yard since last March and was to join the Drayton in Boston.

John Erwin Williams Gainsboro N. C Drayton Eliot Williams George F. Scully Scully Naval Hospital Kittery Charles W. Kinghorn York County Kittery Navy Yard Maine Bath The Boston

Popham Beach Visitors and Summer Life At Bath Camp

Popham Beach hosts a flurry of visitors from New Jersey Massachusetts and Maine. Guests include Mrs Ann Mattson Mrs E W Legard Miss Frances Shaughnessy and many others at cottages and Sea Grille gatherings. Neighbors share meals beach parties and long summer visits amid local families and out of state tourists.

Jonet Ae eeeDonnell Freee Osgood Ernest Kenneth Cod Dais Minerva New Jersey Shirley Morong Robert Gerald Bath Ann Mattson Mattson Popham Beach Hill Vilda Barlow Boonbayee Linwood Haynes Omar R. King E. W. Legard Frances Shaughnessy Prudence Fitch Ardmore Ida L. Kellaway Newton Center Mass Bette Dorothy Mattson Jack Allan Jackie Mattson Newtonville John Shaughnessy Phillip Trainor Carl Robinson Maynard McFadden Frederick Wallace Chester Varney Omar King William Smart Portland George O. Richardson Montclair N. J Charles J. Donnell M. Patterson Vera Myrtle Cambridge Fellows Fisher Cottage Nettie Randlette Ella Marr Marr Mary Elanor Donnell George Percey Thomas Percey William Hill Tom Percey Walter Oliver Eleanor Lowell Karl Hentz Long Island Ida Burnham C. Benson Somerville F. Fellows Effie Spinney Doris Frances Roberts The Bronx N. Y Nathaniel Perkins W. R. McKinnon St. Stephens N. B Sea Grille J. Dwight Kimmouth F Hackensack Marguerite McNulty Norma Osgood Dover N. H Eugene W. Osgood Monhegan Mr. Osgood E. W. Osgood Popham Light Harvey Hartleb, Jr Hartleb South Shore Maude Kenney Mavis Georgie Morgan Southbridge Morgan Cottage Chester Kittle Peermont M. I. McNulty Earl Mitchell Virginia Brighton Graham Cottage Floyd Costello Marion Emien Germantown Rockport Jane Donnell Charles Clark of Mardings Clinton Newdick H. B. Corbette

Morse High School gains teacher coach in special session

In a special Board of Education meeting, John E. Madden of Pittsfield was elected teacher coach at Morse High School for the coming year, to teach biology and coach basketball. Resignations from Central Grammar and Dike schools were accepted. Transfers filled vacancies and a Student Activity Association was authorized at Morse. Several local visitors were noted.

Board of Education John E. Madden Pittsfield Mass Morse High School Madden Providence College John E. McCole Mary A. Harvey Central Grammar Dike Duncan H. Farrell Dike School McCole Anna M. Severin Dixe School Farrell Horace J. Herrick

New Maine Publicity Bureau to Move Into New Portland HQ

The Maine Publicity Bureau will occupy a new Portland building at St John and Danforth streets to handle 80 percent of Maine tourist traffic arriving from the south. The site near the East end of the South Portland bridge will replace Longfellow Square as headquarters with modern facilities, landscaping by the Portland Park Department, and parking for 100 or more cars.

Portland St. John and Danforth Streets Maine St. John Street Park Avenue Deering Avenue Dartmouth Street Forest Avenue Baxter Boulevard Bureau Longfellow Square Portland Park Department

Fall term starts in village amid mumps report

Several mumps cases are reported in the village as the school district schedules the fall term to begin Monday September 14. Elmer Coggeshall is overseeing state road work in Scarboro. Mrs Omar Perry had a bad fall injuring her ankle. Miss Lillian Parks visited from Lewiston with her mother. Orman Coggeshall and family travel to Whitefield for temporary truck work and camping plans with a hired trailer.

Elmer Coggeshall Scarboro Causeway Omar Perry Lillian Parks Lewiston Fred L. Parks Orman Coggeshall Whitefield

State education costs rise as needs grow, Packard says

Changing conditions bringing in creased demand for educational facilities have resulted in the necessity for increased expenditures for education in much the same way that the development of the modern motor car has required the state to assume "the responsibility of guaranteeing a net work of splendid highways available to all our people." State Commissioner Bertram E. Packard said Sunday.

Bertram E. Packard

Dr H Jacob Smith Opens Brunswick Office In City

Dr H Jacob Smith brother of Dr Joseph I Smith has opened offices Tuesday at 26 Center street second floor Bath Department store building. Native of Brunswick he graduated Bowdoin College 1931 University of Vermont 1935 interned at Auburn City Hospital. Son of Mr and Mrs Samuel Smith 103 Union street he plans to live at 146 Oak street with wife Miss Sara Levine of Burlington Vermont whom he married at Plattsburg New York. He is the third in his family to enter medicine. Another brother Dr Morris Smith practices in Bethlehem Pa.

Leavitt Everett Leavitt Woburn Mass B. C. Simpson Cumberland Center Fred A. Oliver Milton Simpson Roslindale Mattie Cutting Bertha Nickerson Welfare Club George Derwent Dromore Phippsburg Congregational Church Thomas Kelley Brightwater Emma Perry Lottie Cobb Brunswick Ida Hinckley Five Islands Gertrude Blaisdell Errold Blaisdell Fred Morrison Quincy Graham Ee Prank Shaw Marie Cameron Needham Sunpee Cece Springer Todd Todd Nathaniel Perkins Bangor Toa Georgetown Youngstown Ohio Mexico Christopher Marr Bath William Hutchins Clinton Newdick Eee George Percey Salem Thomas Percey Minot Percey Arlington David Judge Sea Grille Alma Hayt Eee Falmouth Wright Augusta Todd Harry Wright Popham Mase Olive Wallace Mr. Wallace Eastern Promenade Portland Wallace Ella Marr C. H. Marr Nettie Randlette Hallowell Marr Grace Barrett John Conley Seaman Drake Carol David Mr. Drake Edgar N. Drake Anna Sharp New York City G. Edward McNulty Margaret Stover Jackie Junior Joseph Boothbay Harbor Frank Scott Worcester Ralph Spinney, Jr Bay Point Prances Roberts Elwood Legard Son Sargent Lizzie Oliver Oliver Prank Scott H. Jacob Smith Joseph I. Smith Center Street Bath Department Store Dr. Smith Samuel Smith Union Street This Morris Smith Bowdoin Bethlehem Sara Levine Burlington, Vt Plattsburg, N. Y Oak Street

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