Bath Area Social News Highlights Visit Patterns
Local residents report Easter visits and weekend travel across Bath Kittery Augusta and Biddeford. Notables include Mr and Mrs Ernest Rogers visiting in Bath and Pauline Rogers staying in Kittery, Capt Rollo Morton at Popham Beach, and Miss Edith Atwood performing in the Easter program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Rogers
Kittery
Frank Leavitt
Augusta
Charles
Leavitt
Percy Miller
Bath
Ai Leavitt
Pitch Pine
Swanton Wyman
Small Point Beach
Pauline Rogers
Zarline Abel
Hazel Feere
George Moody
Mida Fesro
Lydia J. Feero
Edith Atwood
Herman Hallett
Jones House
Parker Head
Eugene Harrington
Alice Coffin
William Bowie
Ida Hinckley
Georgetown
Gertrude Blaisdell
Ernest Williams
Campbell's Pond
T. C. Hughes
Annie Haskell
New York
Sidney Coffie
Rollo Morton
Popham Beach Coast
N. W. Eaton
Harry Watson
Lydia Feero
Candidacy Sparks Maine Senate Race and Other Nominees
The Bath Democrat Charles H. Cahill announced for state senate with likely unopposed status as nominating papers circulate. Maine Democrats push Brann’s bid while several filings emerge including Bryant for Bowdoinham Richmond area and Allan for Topsham classed towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles H. Cahill
Bath
Louis J. Brann
Bangor
Fred H. Thompson
Cyprian H. Bryant
Richmond
Bowdoin
Bowdoinham
Georgetown
Ernest A. Allan
Topsham
Arrowsie
Phippsburg
West Bath
Woolwich
William F. Tate
Donald Cate
Houdlette
Ernest A. Avery
Roy F. Shackford
Avery
Register of Deeds
Sheriff
Standard Oil Buys Bath Property in Maine
Transfer of the United Motor Fuel Corp property at Water and Vine streets to Standard Oil Co of New York was recorded with an estimated price of 5 000 to 6 000 dollars. Plans include widening Vine Street to Washington Street and surfacing the approach to the bridge, signaling further motor fuel business activity in the Bath area. A lease talk between Jenney Mfg Co and L L Hooker may lead to a gasoline and auto supplies establishment. A Girl Scouts card party is set for Oak Street parish house with reservations possible through local organizers. Mrs. John A. Morse visits Worcester with daughter Mrs. Graham Blandy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Motor Fuel Corp., Inc
Water and
Vine Streets
Standard Oil Co
New York
Jenney Mfg. Co
L. L. Hooker
Vine Street
Water Street
Community Council of Girl Scouts
Bath
Oak Street
Tor
Robert W. Ferrell
Edward Sewall
W. S. Voorhees
Milton C
House of Tomorrow Subject of Address at Farm Week
Miss Gertraude E. Ebbeson of the University of Maine Civil Engineering department spoke on The House of Tomorrow to Maine homemakers as part of Farm and Home Week. She urged modern home design with integrated engineering improvements, noting future layouts will favor efficiency and esthetic harmony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gertraude E. Ebbeson
Department of Civil Engineering
University of Maine
Maine
House of Tomorrow
Ebbeson
Assistants Begin Annual Canvass Monday
The assistant assessors start their rounds Monday morning carrying cards with names from last year. They will note changes such as removals and return all names and addresses. They must list births from January to January and return details on possessions and livestock within ten days. Edmund P. Briggs is re elected chairman and Miss Elizabeth Conley secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Janary
Edmund P. Briggs
Elizabeth Conley
Engine Four Miscommunication Triggers Alarm Run
A Bath City hospital caller mistyped grease as 43 and triggered Engine 4 of the Bath Fire Department. The crew, hearing urgency, responded with sirens to the hospital, only to find no fire. No injuries were reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath City
Bath Tallow Co
Engine 4
Bath Fire Department
Plans Curtailing Delivery Service
Acting Postmaster Hartnett announced a curtailment of mail delivery through the end of the fiscal year to balance the budget. Postal employees will receive furloughs without pay and substitutes’ time costs will be cut. Residential deliveries will be reduced to a single daily delivery, with carriers awaiting the morning train for all mail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartnett
Post Office Department
Sherr Bornstein Marriage at 549 Main Street Lewis ton
Samuel Sherr of Auburn and Hattie Bornstein of Auburn wed Sunday March 24 at 549 Main Street Lewis ton in a ceremony by Rabbi Nathanson. Attendants were S S Cinemon and the Gediman couple. A bridal dinner followed with about 30 guests before the couple left for a wedding trip and plan to live in Auburn. Both work at Excel Cleaners and Dyers. she is R Beckie’s daughter and Edward Little graduate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Sherr
Auburn
Portland
Hattie Bornstein
Arthur W. Gediman
Bath
H. Bornstein
Main Street
Lewiston
Nathanson
S. S. Cinemon
Arthur Gediman
Winnegance Church Opens Main Auditorium For Easter Services
The Winnegance church for the first time since 1901 opened its main auditorium for worship on Easter Sunday after extensive cleaning and redecorating. A Woman's Society and a group of young women have formed to support church work and missions. The project included new platform, piano, upholstery, hymn books hoped for, and mulberry ivory color scheme. The Easter concert featured Miss Sims and a pageant The Hope of Easter with Mrs Thatcher Pinkham and Mrs Bernice Drake directing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnegance
Woman's Society
Harry Oliver
Winneyance
Omah Trott
Thatcher Pinkham
Bernice Drake
Polar Star Lodge Installs Officers
Polar Star lodge Masons installed officers for the ensuing year last Wednesday night led by Rt Worshipful Walter S. Glidden with Ed win H. P. Lowell as grand marshal and Delmar E. Bates as grand chaplain. Officers named include Edwin A. Rowe as worshipful master Thatcher B. Pinkham senior warden Carl J. Severin junior warden William A. Furber secretary J Edward Hughes treasurer Charles Nelson senior deacon Chester H McCabe junior deacon Delmar E Bates chaplain Blair Wilson senior steward Everett Pinkham junior steward Charles Miller marshal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Polar Star Lodge
Walter S. Glidden
Solar Lodge
Edwin H. P. Lowell
Delmar E. Bates
Edwin A. Rowe
Thatcher B. Pinkham
Carl J. Severin
William A. Furber
Pirates of Penzance Presented for Waynflete Loyalty Fund
The Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan will be staged in Portland at The Playhouse on Friday night and Saturday afternoon and night. Proceeds benefit the Loyalty fund of the Waynflete Latin School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gilbert and Sullivan
Portland
Playhouse
Waynflete Latin School
Tourist barometer appears favorable
North ern Summer resorts expect their biggest season in four years if St. Petersburg holds up as a barometer. Registrations are 37 percent over last season with all states and provinces represented plus over 30 foreign countries. Hotels full since January and deluxe houses open into April to meet demand. Sagadahoc county locals arrive staying through June including Chester V. Horne Mrs. Roger Skillings and Miss Katharine Pendergast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Lodwick
St. Petersburg
Fla
Sunshine
Sagadahoc County
Chester V. Horne
Roger Skillings
Bath
Katharine Pendergast
Carrie J. Stevens
Georgetown
Mrs Nutting Reports Californias Early Spring Fruit Bloom
Mrs Otto C Nutting in Long Beach California writes that fruit and flowers are ahead of previous years with orange groves and grapes especially forward. She and Mr Nutting expect to return to their Mt Desert home in about a month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln Bailey
Bedford Street
Otto C. Nutting
Long Beach
Calif
Mr.Nuttiing
Mt. Desert
One Charter Member of Lodge Living Noted at 53rd Anniversary
Queen Esther Rebekah lodge No. 20 marked its 53rd anniversary with a history noting only one charter member remains, Sister Elizabeth Pepper. The piece recounts the 1881 charter by Grand Master H P Cox, 37 original members, later name change from Daughters of Rebekah, and early six-weekly installations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Pepper
Queen Esther Rebekah Lodge
Nellie Leeman
William E. Hogan
Daughters of Rebekah
Leeman
Lois Knight
Noble Grand
Henry Hoffman
Lewiston
Grand Lodge of Maine ‘of Odd Fellows
Honor List Issued From Morse High
The Morse High honor list issued by Principal Arthur B. Scott covers February 12 to March 23. Post Graduates earn Highest honors, Ila is noted among the top students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morse High
Arthur B. Scott
Ila
Kingsbury Loses Wager With Court In Probation Case
Lawrence V. Kingsbury a teamster lost a wager with Bath municipal court Judge John J. Keegan on February 26. He faced six months probation with the condition that violation would trigger 90 days in jail after his arrest for intoxication on Saturday afternoon. The judge stated the terms as a straight bet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence V. Kingsbury
Teamster
John J. Keegan
Bath Municipal Court
Kingsbury
Keegan
Court records reveal wagers lead to sentences
Kingsbury made a bet with Officer Langdon Green and faced consequences after the bet went wrong on Saturday. Court Recorder Owen J. Ledyard carried out the terms Monday morning. Two other respondents pleaded guilty, one receiving a suspended sentence while the other must pay $7.30 in court costs or serve 30 days in August jail, with time to pay granted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kingsbury
Langdon Green
Owen J. Ledyard
Ledyard
Marr Appointed Federal Inspector for Industrial Alcohol
Chester N. Marr of 126 Dummer Street left Monday for Boston to receive orders as a government inspector in the Bureau of Industrial Alcohol. He is known in Maine for two years with the Federal Prohibition Enforcement forces, uncovering rum runners and bootleggers. His new post places him under the Treasury department and he will report to Beeston to oversee tax collection and shut down outlaw distilleries in states where liquor sales are legalized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chester N. Marr
Dummerstreet
Boston
Bureau of Industrial Alcohol
Marr
Maine
Federal
Prohibition Enforcement Forces
Washington
Department of Justice
Treasury Department
Beeston
Mrs. Lena Crocker to Return Home This Spring
Mrs Lena Crocker who has wintered in Somerville Massachusetts with her daughter Mrs Willard Whitman will return to her home on Washington Street later to pass the spring and summer as she plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lena Crocker
Somerville
Mass
Willard Whitman
Washington Street
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Senate
Vine and
United Motor Fuel Corporation
John A. Morse
Worcester
Graham Blandy
Sherr
Bride
Martha Cahill
Charles H. A
Arthur Sewall
Emma Willard School
Troy
N. Y
Carolyn Oliver
Webber Memorial Hospital
Biddeford
Harry F. Oliver
Squaw Club
Harry C. Webber
Robert P. Manson
Causeway
Winneganee
Community House
Furnace Fund
Fred L. Parks
Alfred Cornish
Chevrolet
General Motors
Chevrolet Motor Company
Detroit
Michigan
G.M.A.C
Garage Turner & Gilpatrick
Florida
LODGE
Harold Fuller
Harold Gilmore
Frances Montgomery
Julia Paisley
Dorothy Parshley
Betty Rice
Nellie Robinson
Glenwood Snowden
Linwood Temple
Dorothy Farley
Charlotte Page
Mary Sprague
Ruth Sprague
Ruth Brown
Nellie Burgon
Martha Cutting
Esther Drummond
Sophie Johns
Bret Kakos
Lena Kamendulis
Ruth Larey
Ruth Oliver
Mary Philips
Bertha Presley
Eugene Rice
Francis Stover
Madelyn Summerton
Priscilla Wyman
Helen Oulton
William Owen
Frances Wallace
Barbara Donnell
Isabel Gediman
Barbara Hogan
Virginia Jewett
Glenys Mank
Greta Mitchell
Doris Perry
Ferralyn Roberts
Caroline Small
James Steen
Dorothy Wing
Bureau of Industrial Alcohol Forces
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