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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1950
Page
4
The annual Freshman reception featured Avery's orchestra and student committees handling decorating clothing advertising tickets and refreshments. Booster night by Enterprise grange included a program arranged by Mrs Annie Batchelder with Charles White as speaker.
Sophomores: President Gloria Small, vice president John Sedgley, secretary Maxine Waltz, treasurer Walter Varney, class advisor Miss McFarland, Student Council Patricia McDermott. Freshmen: President Paul Ranco, vice president Ralph Stevens, secretary Jeannne Megerve, treasurer Norene Wight, class advisor Mr. Somerville, Student Council Charlotte Har ey. Miss Lillian A Johnson returns to Central Office work after two weeks in Philadelphia and mountain trips. Mr. and Mrs Wayne McGathrey of Glen Falls, N Y, guests of Mr. and Mrs Russell Ring. The Whitney camp trip residents return from Salem. Gerald Witham home from Gardiner General Hospital. Guests at C B Kennedy home include Bruce Henderson, Sidney Williams of Melrose Mass, and Ransom Sawyer of Georgetown. High School Senior class members in Portland for class pictures. Mr. and Mrs Andrew Friend and family spent weekend in Massachusetts with Mrs. Friend’s mother Blanche Kimball.
Morse High golf team edges Brunswick High 6 to 3 at Bath Country Club Saturday. Special arrangements by coach Tony Toothaker enabled the late season match. They meet again at Brunswick next Saturday. Included results list: Strange over Howard one up. Burgoin over Footer three and two. Shaw over Thompson four and three. Marchetti over Linnell three and two. Gaudet over Kendrick two up. Bowie over Siatras two up.
About 22 women from the Richard's Library Association met at the Georgetown library to catalogue and shelve new donations. Librarian Mrs. Roy M. Newman and Mrs. William A. Todd offered cookies and tea for the gathering.
The Crusade for Freedom membership drive starts Friday in Georgetown with circulars mailed to residents. Roland E. Peterson is chairman, Arthur Nelson vice chairman, and local solicitors named for Georgetown Robinhood Five Islands and Bay Point with others to be reported.
The Fall of the Good Neighbor club met Sept. 19 at Mrs. Harlan Pinkham’s home with 12 members. Officers were reelected and meetings set for the second and fourth Tuesdays. A dinner for the Bowdoinham Baptist Association was planned for Oct. 20. Other items include mail schedule changes, library plans, Sunday school activities, a young people rally, and local visits and trips by members to nearby towns.
Sedgeberg and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Taylor, former residents of this town. Mrs. Edwin F. Hussa and Miss Rose McCafferty left Mac Mahan last Thursday to return to New York. Mr. and Mrs. Roland E. Peterson visited Vassalboro to see their daughter, Miss Louise Peterson, at Oak Grove School. Walter MacMahan stopped at Robinhood Saturday evening before returning to Woolwich.
Helena F Stewart of Newton Center Massachusetts widow of Edward Jessup Stewart died September 18 at age 97. She spent springs at her Kennebec Point cottage and was a regular First Baptist church attendee in town. Services were held at Newton Cemetery Chapel with Rev Russell Bishop officiating. Survived by two sons Edward J Stewart Jr Needham and Theodore F Stewart Brookline and a daughter Mrs Philip Dalrymple Wellesley Farms plus several grandchildren.
Harry Sawyer Wallace 63 of 58 Granite Street died suddenly at Memorial hospital. He retired in 1948 after 30 years as foreman of the electrical department at Bath Iron Works. He was born April 12, 1887 in Phippsburg, son of Charles and Jennie Foote Wallace. He belonged to West Bath Grange and Sagadahoc Pomona. Survived by wife Rose J. Wallace, son Stanley E. Wallace of Bath, four sisters and three grandchildren. Funeral Friday at 2 from A. F. Mayo & Son Funeral Residence with Rev. Laforest E. Hodgkins officiating. burial in Oak Grove.
Mrs Lara A Greenleaf died recently and her funeral was held Monday afternoon at two from A. F. Mayo Son Funeral home 819 High street with Rev Charles R Sims of First Baptist church officiating Bearers were Joseph Bergeron Lewis Palmer Winsip Reed Jr and Frazer Haines Burial was in the family lot at Oak Grove
Funeral for Mrs Margaret M Holbrook was held Tuesday afternoon at two from A F Mayo Son Funeral residence 819 High street with Rev Charles H Berry of Portland officiating Bearers Clifton Legard Paul Legard Earl Legard and Lewis Stone. Burial followed in the family lot at Oak Grove Cemetery.
Funeral services for Frank L. Plummer were held Friday at 10 o'clock from the Arthur F. Mayo & Son Funeral Residence. Rev. C. C. Sargent of Wesley Methodist Church officiated. A committal at the grave followed, burial in the family lot at Oak Grove.
Funeral service for Mrs Estella Frances Wallace was held Tuesday afternoon at two at the West Point chapel. Rev Laforest Hodgkins of Central Congregational church officiated with bearers Lewis Wallace Harold Wallace Granville Wallace and Maurice Blaisdell. Burial followed at Oak Grove cemetery.
Plant breeders employ a hypodermic needle to insert pollen from male pecan flowers into female flowers as part of controlled hybridization efforts. The technique aims to improve pecan varieties by precise pollen transfer.
Mrs. Cora G. Holt widow of Dr. David Brainard Holt former Methodist minister and Wesley church pastor died Saturday evening September 16 at her daughter’s home in South Portland after a long illness. Born June 16, 1857 at Weld she graduated Kent's Hill Seminary and was active in church work including the Women's Home Missionary Society and Deaconess Board of the Maine Conference. Surviving are daughter Mrs. Herbert S. Waterhouse a grandson and two great grandchildren.
Mrs Lura A Greenleaf aged 72 died suddenly Thursday afternoon. Born in Topsham on June 24 1878 she was daughter of Charles and Clara West Whitten. She moved to Bath 45 years ago and many relatives survive including son Irving L Joy of Topsham three daughters all of Bath a brother in Exeter New Hampshire and several grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Mr. and Mrs. Converse Fenn of High Street are spending the week at Belgrade as guests of Mrs. Katharine Whitney. They recently closed their Belgrade cottage and Mrs. Whitney plans to return to her Washington Street home on October 1.
Word has arrived of the death in New York City on September 14 of Mrs Louise Hor tense Lowell Cooper formerly of Bath wife of Captain George F Cooper U S N retired and mother of Captain Lowell Cooper U S N retired She lived in the Lowell homestead on Oak street and attended Bath schools The Oak street house served as a wartime club house and was later torn down for new Texas Shipbuilding Co homes The Lowell family were leading figures in the shipbuilding city for years.
Mrs Margaret M Holbrook 75 of 37 Chestnut Street widow of Charles F Holbrook died Saturday morning at Memorial hospital after a long illness. Born Trevett April 14 1875 she was daughter of Gilman Lewis and Annie E Decker. She was a member of the Baptist church Damariscotta. Surviving: two sons Morton T Holbrook Lewiston and Charles Holbrook Augusta a step son Rev Harold Holbrook Cleveland Ohio a step daughter Mrs Gladys Gundell Bath a brother Raymond Lewis Trevett three sisters Mrs Martha Stone Mrs Annie Pinkham and Mrs Maude MacInnis Boothbay Harbor several grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Estella Frances Wallace of West Point died Saturday at Bath Memorial hospital after a long life in Phippsburg. Born April 3, 1885 to Arthur and Mary Green, she leaves husband Alvin Wallace, children Maisie Blaisdell Harold and Lewis Wallace, sisters Jessie Richardson Leafy Gooms, brother Harry Green, and many grandchildren and great grandchildren.
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