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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1931
Page
4
Wiscasset residents and guests populated the summer scene with travels and returns. Horace Henderson left for Pawling New York. many locals and visitors headed to Cambridge Belmont Waterbury and Portland for winters or holidays.
Captain William Taylor sails to New York and Capt George Southard visits Bath. Rev W B Jackson visits his Embden father. Emeline Dickinson returns from Phippsburg. Mrs L W Gibbs and L R Gibbs back from Reading. Millie Washburn sails to Boston with bricks. Schooners Lawrence Haynes Ira D Sturgis and Nat Meader sail to Newport. Myra W Spear and W R Chester to sound port with Birch Point lumber. Ira D Sturgis quick Newport trip in ten days. Harbor gale damages dirt dump along water front. Coffin family returns to Boston. J C Budd Co tests new shingle machine. Old Boxer floated for tow to Lennox's wharf. Abiel Wood dies in Greenwich Conn. native of Wiscasset, son of Hon Abiel Wood.
Miss Gertrude McKenzie of Boston is visiting in town and several Bath visitors are noted. The sale of the Wiscasset Waterville and Farmington railroad is postponed to Oct 20 as the receiver seeks time to form a syndicate to buy the line. Mrs Fila Ward of Connnier Mexico has visited Rev W B Jackson and departs for California.
Miss Dorothy Hlakell daughter of Mr and Mrs H L Haskell of Lee has been elected instructor in home economics at Leavitt Institute in Turner. A graduate of Lee Academy 1926 and the University of Maine last June she took part in many student activities during college and held leadership roles in sorority athletics Women’s Student Government and student housing leadership.
Edith M Perkins returns to New Brunswick New Jersey with her son Dr Earle B Perkins who resumes duties at Rutgers University on September 15 He has been in Atlantic City this past summer and traveled with his mother following the season spent at Cox's Head
Miss Mildred M. Chellis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Chellis, and her aunt toured historic sites from Lynn to Concord and Amesbury visiting Longfellow's Wayside Inn, the Old North bridge, the House of Seven Gables, and Whittier’s Captain's Well while tracing Chellis and Bartlett ancestry and admiring Ford’s preservation efforts.
Henry Cotreau and daughters Mary Eleanor and Doris Brown return from Sabine. Chester Stevens and family vacationing at Birch Point. Dr Leslie Bates and niece Shirley Bickford home in Beachmont after Sabine visit. A J Taylor and Whitman Mass stay at Ernie Williams Campbell's Pond home. Mrs Billa Clark and Maurice Clark and Robert Anderson leave Larrabee cottage for Sherman Mills Oak Tree Lodge. Lowell school opens with 32 pupils. J Everett Mayo improving after illness. Imwis Larrabee from Topsham visits Ernest Williams. C C Chesley visits Portland. Laura Lemont visits Bath and High Street home. Ernest Williams and son Stanley visit North Paris. Frank Daniels returns to Malden after Birch Point. Harold Haggett vacationing in White Mountains. Emma Cox visits Bath. West Bath Farm Bureau holds all day session at Mrs Humphrey A Cwin Sabine Summer home. Marguerit Williams opens Basin Sebasco school. Chester Freeman and Donald Bates, George Bailey and Eleanor Bates of Portland weekend at Sabine. Littlefield school opens with John Larrabee as teacher. Hallowell Rogers of Hartford stays with parents in West Bath. Ida Colby arrives to winter with Mayo family. student at Morse High. Florence Neily resumes teaching Brunswick second grade. Etta and Abbie Purinton return to Lynn Mass. Bates family visits Beachmont. Clinton N J member joins. Harvey Henderson family return to Beachmont after Sabine visit.
William M Sedgley a 47 year old Topsham resident vanished after driving his car to his garage following a minor Bath crash. Fred Berry, who rode with him, cannot explain the disappearance. Sheriff Albert Henderson searches for clues as the frantic wife fears foul play.
After Rumford school board action the Ste phens high school will open Sept 28 due to unfinished contractor work. The delay extends to the junior high while other schools including two parochial institutions start Sept 14 with only one week of Christmas and Easter vacation.
West Bath grange held its first meeting for September with 85 attendees. Officers led the roll call ritual while Ann Perry sang a solo. Topics on engaging youth in agriculture sparked limited discussion due to few farmers present.
Teachers from Arrowsic Georgetown Phippsburg Westport and Woolwich met with Supt John H Carter at Sagadahoc Ferry school Woolwich to review the new state elementary curriculum. Speakers from the Department of Education included Richard A Libby Mrs Spearin and A W Tozier with local teachers Mrs Edna Currier Mrs Ruth Powers and Mrs Georgie Walker presenting topics. Miss Alice May Douglas spoke for the band of mercy and international peace of the W C T U. The group then lunched at Begin's tea room.
The Bookmobile of the Maine State Library visited Patten Free Library in Bath on Saturday morning from 9 30 to 10 30. It is loaned by the Maine Federation of Business and Professional Women clubs and features a top and sides that drop down to reveal shelves. Now in its first year on the road, it will tour five more weeks to reach every city and town in the state, aiding rural libraries, establishing stations in small towns, and distributing books to individuals. Miss Elizabeth Libby and Miss Bertha Davis of the State Library are in charge and left Bath for Aroostook county.
Charles Wallace of North street extension pleaded guilty in municipal court to operating a motor vehicle without a license and not guilty to drunken driving when arraigned before Judge John J. Keegan. He was arrested Thursday night after a collision with Paul McCol of Bath. The judge found him guilty of drunken driving and sentenced six months in Auburn jail, suspended on condition he follow a useful occupation for one year and support his family. A suspended sentence was also given on the license charge. Wallace claimed the odor police detected was checkerberry rather than alcohol.
Edward Van Buren faced Judge John J. Keegan in municipal court on a non support charge. He was ordered to pay his wife ten dollars weekly for one year or until further order, and appealed to Sagadahoc Superior Court in October. Representing Van Buren were Edward W. Bridgham and Mrs. Van Buren was represented by John P. Carey Jr.
Bryce Canyon rocks including sandstones and shales shift with weather. Dry spells harden surface crust and leave few tracks for hikers while horses break through the crust after showers. Abram Goodside of Portland visited the city on Saturday.
Woolwich residents and former locals visit friends. Pittsfield, Brookline, Bowdoinham, and Vanceboro figures travel as guests. Teachers meet at Sagadahoc Ferry. Sagadahoc Ferry, Rockland, Gardiner, Gorham, Augusta, and White Mountains trips noted. A community evening at A Dolloff home features Isaphene Dolloff on piano and local musicians with refreshments.
Mrs G L Siegars returned home Saturday after visiting her brother and wife Mr and Mrs George Tibbetts in Richmond for a few days. Mr and Mrs Horace Mitchell and family of Bath visited with Mrs Mitchells sister Margaret Pushard. The Leland Siegars and son Joseph spent Friday and Saturday with Mrs Siegars parents Elmer and Mrs Tozier in Winslow. Frank Brown of Woolwich visited Joseph Siegars last week. Harold Wall and family visited with Mrs A A Hodgdon in Gardiner. Ralph Cunningham and Fred Cunningham of Richmond were calling on friends in town Sunday.
The body of Mrs Harold M Sewall, who died at the American embassy in France, will arrive Friday by Pullman from New York, and the funeral at Grace Episcopal church will be held at noon Friday instead of Thursday. Five bearers named are John Winslow Williams, Douglas Dearborn, Sumner Sewall as David Dearborn, Henry C. Wright, all connected to Bath, New York and Baltimore.
The funeral for Mrs. Kate W. Hitchcock widow of Samuel P. Hitchcock was held Saturday afternoon at two from the Washington street home with Edwin Dodge Hardin officiating. Bearers were Archie Fowneff Clarence Lindsay Forest Tenneman William Donnell and Walter Hilton. Burial was in Oak Grove.
Services for the late Nancy J Robertson were held Thursday afternoon at two at the home of her daughter Mrs Arthur A Gilley 26 Court Street Rev Forrest L Littlefield of the Wesley M E church officiated Burial will be Friday at Southwest Harbor A Boy Scout troop needs a live scoutmaster Levi L Cook former schoolmaster in Squando Cornwall has a qualified man Cook recently treated his charges to an outing at his camp on Colcord Pond Porter where they hiked boated and fished
Mr and Mrs Vernal Chaney of Cato Avenue spent a relaxing weekend at their cottage at Poster's Point with no reported incidents or plans for upcoming travel.
A federal prohibition agent says he was targeted by Bath bootleggers on a city wharf Sunday. An operative agreed to buy liquor for the undercover agent and took $10, then two men struck the agent and fled. The agent seeks recovery of the $10 but will not press assault charges. Trials loom in Portland for nearby suspects.
Five thousand invitations have been sent by Governor Gardiner for the Maine White House Conference on Child Health and Protection. The event on Friday September 18 will open with a general session in the House of Representatives at 9 am and run four concurrent sections on medical service public health education and training and the handicapped. A Le Deering directs the conference with Rev E P Pressey giving the invocation and the governor outlining the purpose. Governor and Mrs Gardiner will host supper at the Blaine House from 5.30 to 7.30 pm.
Bridge tolls on the Kennebec posted noticeable gains for the week of September 7 to 14 despite a revised fare schedule. Five cent fares totaled 16 674 1931. fifty cent cash fares reached 5 555.28 318. A weekly average gain of 172 dollars per day, 291 cars daily, and 587 passengers daily reflects broader increases across all figures.
The Par and Near missionary society held an all day session at Mrs Vivian Plant’s home on High street. White Cross work included 16 dozen large com presses and patch work. A noon baked bean dinner fed 12 attendees with more arriving later. A short business meeting followed. The next gathering will be at Mrs John Towle’s Cherry street on Friday the 25th to open Love bags, with proceeds aiding the work. Mrs B H Stackpolc leads the program for the next week.
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