Wiscasset Hosts Civil Defense Drill and Community Notes
The first test assembly of the Air Raid Precaution Services occurred Sunday at 8 pm with 60 personnel manning 16 sector posts and the report center in nine minutes. Wardens police and ambulances covered roads to meet expected needs. A Round Table Civil Defense talk is planned for Thursday in the Old Academy Building with admission via Chief Warden Roy R. Marston.
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Old
Roy Farmer
Norman Holbrook
Conrad Peters
Jean Hutchins
Dorothea Morris
Dorothy Thompson
Virginia Butler
Margery Grover
Wiscasset Woman's Club
Bradford C. Redennett
Forest Stone
Thomaston
Prince Michaels
Arkansas
Harry Haggett
Dale Nellis
Leonard Seamon
Jim Donovan
Fordyce Green
Duane Owen
Hans Fitzler
Benjamin Rines
Leigh Johnston
Marcia Angell
Jacqueline Wallace
Margaret Main
Yvonne Ferris
Elinor Sutter
Aime Rossen
Beatrice Morris
Doris Willowby
Elinor Pomeroy
Ethel Whalen
Margaret Laine
Central Maine Power Co
Franklin Hall
Violet Hayes
Home Service Department
Alexander Eakin
New York
New Canaan
Richmond White
Wiscasset
Miss Eakin
Todhunter
Westover School
School of Fine and Applied Arts
Connecticut College For Women
White
Brooks
Berkshire
National Broadcasting Co
101St Cavalry
Bangor
Army Air Corps
Lincoln County Court House
Portland
Harvey R. Pease
Grace A. Cowley
Edith H. Rines
Vivian R. Giles
Blanche Fowle
Frances Somes
Horace Day
Frank B. Adams
Maybelle Sherman
John A. Southard
Frank H. Gray
Cowley
Grace C. Pease
Herbert W Hawes
Clara A. Wright
John F. Jackson
John Southard
A. Leland Bryant
Leon G. Flood
Fred R. Merry
Edith Rines
Eva Gorham Briadford
Charles J. DiPerri
Stanley Dodge
F. Burton Haggett
Harvey R
Women Campaign To Fight Cancer Active In 1942 Drive
The Women's Field Army of the American Society for the Control of Cancer begins its annual drive to educate the public about cancer symptoms and early treatment. Bath area supports Cancer Control Month from April 1 to 30, proclaimed by Mayor Walter C. Rogers. The proclamation stresses cancer as the nation’s second leading death cause and urges broad public backing for the campaign. Other local items note Red Cross Motor Corps lessons, obituaries, church music plans, and community notices.
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Women's Field Army of the
American Society For the Control of Cancer
Bath
Walter C. Rogers
United States
Women's Field Army
The
West Bath Social Roundup Reports Visits and Local Events
West Bath residents share visits, greetings, and small gatherings. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Williams plan return to Foster Point after three weeks with the Petersons in East Brunswick. A surprise party honors Mrs. A B Snow of Trufants Crossing for her birthday. Red Cross sewing group meets at the grange hall with an all day session and planned April 14 gathering. Local workers from Bangor occupy cottages in Larrabee Grove near Bath Iron Works. Regular meetings and civilian defense activities occur at West Bath Grange Hall.
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A. E. Ames
Lowelltown
Addie Merry
Federal Street
Harvey R. Pease
Farmington
Franklin County Municipal Association
Margaret Davis
Woodland
Robert MacLaren
Harbor View
Arthur E. Hatch
White Plains
N. Y
Charles Sigison
Sigison
Catherine Pinkham
Ida Cutting
Elmer Williams
Dorothy
Jeanette
Owen
Harry E. Peterson
East Brunswick
Foster's Point
Alton King of
Ruth Ann
Bridgton
Whitney
Hayden Rogers
Rogers
West Bath
A. B. Snow
Trusants Crossing
Louis Felker
Snow
Freeport
Yarmouth
Bertha Neiley
Ada Larrabee
Lillian Mayo
Hazel Whorff
Annie Williams
Lillian Rogers
Edward Burns
J. B. Cooke
David Whorff
General Electric Co
Lynn
Mass
Bath Iron Works
J. Everett Mayo
Fred W. Larrabee
Trufants Crossing
Mayo
Elmer D. Hodgkins
Middle Street
Bath
Edward Noyes
Everett
Jennie Larrabee
Portland
Walter Larrabee
Larrabee Grove
Osteopathic Hospital
Elmer Hodgkins
Red Cross
Grange Hall
Herbert Simpson
Harry Peterson
John Whorff
Zachiele Emato
Rose Baker
Woolwich
Herbert Cavanaugh
William Powers
Edwin W. Haggett
Llewellyn D. Rogers
Carolyn Rogers
Lincoln Williams
A. I. Snow
Courtney Stover
William Bell
Reginald
Mark Lawrence
Bangor
James McPhail
Larrabee
J. W. Cunningham Co
Swift & Co
Kenneth Bruce
South Portland
Trufant Crossing
Stanley Williams
Campbell Pond
Williams
Percy Holbrook
Robert Metcalf
Will Gillis
West Bath Grate Hall
Harry Rich
Berry's Mills
Memorial Hospital
Rich
Orie Rich
H. M. Bates
Walter Jensen
Needham
Jensen
Oscar F. Wright
North Bath
Day’s Ferry
Baptist Ladies’ Aid
White Cross
A. E. Dolloff
Rose Shea
Forrest Baker
Patricia
Darrell
Morton Baker
Mary Wright
Clara M. Hathorne
J. M. Gowdy
Nelson Rice
Harry T. Fitch
John Wharff
Llewellyn Rogers
Bath Iron Works urged locals to open homes for navy personnel
President William S Newell of Bath Iron Works urged Bath residents to rent portions of their houses to commissioned Navy officers and their wives stationed there. With increased production more officers are present and ships not yet complete, making temporary housing for a few weeks a vital aid amid material shortages. David C Dickson at the Iron Works can provide information.
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Williams. Newell
Bath Iron Works Corp
Bath
United States Navy
Newell
Mr. Newell
Local shipyard worker injured after deck fall at Bath Iron Works
Edmund Ford of lower High street employed at Bath Iron Works is a Memorial Hospital patient receiving treatment for injuries from a fall on a deck of a boat under construction. He did not realize the severity until he could not rise from bed.
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Edmund Ford
Lower High Street
Bath Iron Works
Memorial Hospital
Real estate transfers populate Sagadahoc and nearby towns
The Sagadahoc County Register of Deeds lists transfers across Bath Bowdoinham Georgetown Phippsburg Richmond Topsham Woolwich and more detailing land and buildings sales between numerous individuals and entities. The report notes a separate theatre season closer in Milwaukee as Merton Sprague completed a run with the Clare Tree Major theatrical company and traveled on to New York.
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Real Ae
Sagadaho County
People’s Investment Assn
Raymond D. Small, Jr
J. William MacGuire
Chester H. McCabe, Jr
Clarence N. Flood
Maude
S. Flood
Bowdoin
Philip E. Williams
Ernest A. Purinton
Bowdoinham
Lottie M. Purington
Sagadahoc Ferti
Wilbur L. Hunter
Jane A. Hyde
Florence A. Sherman
Edith H. Aldrich
Topsham
The
American Land Co
Carroll Lauriston Smith
Clifton H. Hight
Louis G. Harvey
Et al
Agnes L. Harris
Crystal N. Naugler
Woolwich
James M. Munsey
Percy C. Bailey
Merton E. Sprague
Edward Street Court
Clare Tree
Children’s Theater
Milwaukee
Wis
Mr. Sprague
Wisconsin Music College
Wieniawski
Morse High School
Chappaqua
Mrs Thompson Returns From Boston Flower Show and Hellzapoppin
Mrs Albert H Thompson returned from a Boston trip where she visited the city flower show and attended a performance of Hellzapoppin.
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Albert H. Thompson
Boston
Woolwich Union events and community notices fill town page
Woolwich Men's forum and Ladies' auxiliary met at the Dubars home on Nequasset road with changes to the first Thursday schedule for Lent services at Nequasset Congregational church. Easter plans, union services, and a long list of local club meetings, personnel changes, and resident updates fill the busy Woolwich community calendar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woolwich Union For Christian Service
Henry Dubar
Nequasset Road
Nequasset Congregational Church
George B. Wolstenholme
Bath
Woolwich Christian Endeavor Society
Maunday
Federated Congregational and
Methodist Churches of
Woolwich
Herbert F. Milligan
Day's Ferry Congregational Church
Madelyn Durgin
Nequasset
Ralph Durgin
Donald Preble
Merlene Jameson
Maralyn Temple
Clayton Reed, Jr
Mary, Mother of
Jesus Avis Carter
Resolutions on Death of William S Hanson Director
An obituary resolution from Riverside Cemetery Association honors William S Hanson longtime director who served nine years and never missed a meeting. The group extends sympathy to relatives and requests copies for records and publication in The Bath Independent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riverside Cemetery Association
William S. Hanson
Bath
Flora A. Hathorn
David G. Reed
Editorial warns of perils as war demands total effort
The writer urges immediate, nationwide ramp up in industrial output and an end to wartime complacency and self interest. He attacks strikes, federal programs, and graft, insisting maximum production requires sacrifice, unity, and abandoning gimme culture. The piece cites France and calls for relentless work without interference from vested interests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York World-Telegram
United Nations
United States
France
India
Near East
Donald Nelson
W.P.A
C.C.C
N.Y.A
New York
Uncle Sam
Paris
Hamblett Family Weekend Visit in Portland
Mrs Edward B Hamblett and her sons Donald and Edward B Jr spent the weekend in Portland with Mrs Hamblett’s sister Mrs James McKenna. Edward B Hamblett Jr a student at the University of Maine enjoyed vacation with his parents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward B. Hamblett
Donald
Pratt Street
Edward B. Jr
University of Maine
Portland
Miss Eunice Perkins Returns to Duke After Vacation
Miss Eunice Perkins returns to Duke University in Durham North Carolina after a short vacation with her parents Mr and Mrs William C Perkins of 24 Summer Street The sentence notes her leaving home to resume studies after time with family.
Large gathering at county Pomona held in Richmond
Members of West Bath grange attended Sagadahoc County Pomona with Progressive grange in Richmond. Attendees included Lizzie Haggett Lucy Armstrong Eva Lemont Annie Lemont Helen Greene Ethel MacDonald Ida Oliver Ila Day Bernice Sturtevant Marie Marco Beatrice Leavitt Leona Howe Justus H. Miller Westley Lemont and Hubert T. McCarty also present. Pomona overseer Joseph Randlette led the session with absent officials noted. A day of questions covered farm income wartime gardens and roadside beautification.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West
West Bath Grange
Ceres
Armstrong
Constance Smith Returns Home After Bath Visit
Constance Smith of Portland has returned Monday after spending a week in Bath as the guest of Lila Richmond, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arah Richmond of 648 Washington Street.
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Elden P. Munsey
Federal Street
Earl Dana Rines, Jr
Robert Applin
Norfolk
Ruth Jones Applin
Belfast
Charles J. DiPerri Re
Constance Smith
J. T. Smith
Portland
Bath
Lila Maeichmond
Arah
Richmond
Washington Street
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Jean Soule
Beverly Carlton
Brenda Joyce Bank
Billy
Red Cross Motor Corps
Haggett Garage
Julia Lewis
Worcester
Charles Robinson
Robinson
Lewis
Wilbur
First Congregational Church
Rossini
Schubert
Jackson
George E. Millard
NAVY
Mary Magdalene
Roberta Armstrong
Mary, ‘Mother
James Virginia Young Angel Gabrielle
Ormon Skillings
Melisande Marjory
Maybury
Hepsibah Reed
Eleanor Carlton
Robert Reed
Billy Kellen
Vernon Woods
Billy Moore
Mary
Marguerite Durgin
Hopestill
Marylou Reed
Betty Preble
Elsie Reed
Virginia Young
Town House
Frank R. Bailey
John C. Gilmore
Georgie Walker
Bernice Bailey
Elizabeth Bowers
Frank J. Walker
Horace Alten
Eben R. Dana
Olive Corliss
Samuel Moore
Mazilla Gilmore
Wilson Bailey
Eben Dana
Horace Allen
Alton Berry
Marion Berry
George Wright
Carle Longfellow
Clara M. Reed
Garret Galvin
Bailey
Albion L. Corliss
Orono
Suzel Howard
Day's Ferry
Harry Tabor
Marcia Stinson
Harold Roberts
Clifford Richey
Joan
Junior
Chicopee Falls
Vinal Hunnewell
Sagadahoc Ferry
Bert Houdlette
Bertram Crocker
James Thorpe
Harold Shaw
Moatsweag
Elizabeth Hathorne
Dinsmore Leach
Stanwood Gilman
C. P. Hall
Edword Carter
Hubert Redding
Milo
Redding
Warren Higgins
Hayward
Harold Hall
Yonkers
Hall
Adelbert Hall
Knox Hospital
Rockland
Ralph Jordan
Arthur Jordan
Moultonville
N. H
Harold Safford Jr
Pine Street
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Pomona
Progressive Grange
OF Bath
Henry W. Owen, Jr
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