Annual Beacon Street Sunday School Business Meeting
The Beacon Street Sunday School held its annual business meeting at Easter noon with reports read and officers for the coming year announced. Milton Douglas was re elected superintendent. other officers include William Thistle and H. K. Erskine as Asst Superintendents. Eugene McGrath, Harry Hail, Peleg Sprague as secretaries. Mrs HH K Erskine and Alice Shillings as treasurers. and a long list of department heads and committees was named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beacon Street
Milton Douglas
William Thistle
H. K. Erskine
Eugene McGrath
Harry Hail
Peleg Sprague
HH. K. Erskine
Alice Shillings
Earl Cook
Cleve Ayres
Lucinda Tabor
Dan McDonald
Alice M. Douglas
Ella Baker
C .F. Knteght
Chas
Sydleman
N. B. Cook
E. G. Erskine
Daniel McDonald
James Blair
Harvey K. Erskine
Wm Thistle
Rosa Rogers
Geo. Perry
Emma Sydleman
Bertha Crossman
Blanche Cook
Alice Skillings
Navy selects Miss Nally sponsor for Jouett destroyer
Miss Marylee Nally chosen by the Navy and Mrs. Jouett to sponsor the torpedo boat destroyer Jouett at Bath Iron Works. The 14 year old will attend with her father Edward J. Nally and friends as the ship is launched at 11 30 next Monday forenoon. She studies at the Academy of the Sacred Heart in New York City and lives at The Trees Ossining New York. Nally is the daughter of Edward J. Nally First Vice President and GM of the Postal Telegraph Cable Company who married Miss Lee Redd, daughter of Captain Oliver Frazer Redd of Lexington Kentucky. Admiral Jouett and Captain Redd were grandsons of Captain William Allen of the Revolutionary War. both served in the Civil War with honors and were wounded in 1862.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marylee Nally
Navy Department
Academy of the Sacred Heart
New York City
Ossining-on-the-Hudson
New York
Edward J. Nally
Postal Telegraph Cable Company
Lee Redd
Oliver Frazer Redd
Lexington
Admiral Jouett
William Allen
Jowett
U. S. Navy
Redd
J. O. Shelby
Fighting Jo Shelby
Delightful Birthday Party Hosts Young Guests in Sum mer Street
Mrs John Scott hosted a Wednesday evening party for fourteen young people at her Sum mer Street home. The birthday event honored the young men for past favors and featured a hiinee birthday cake, colored lights, fortunes, and card con suited fun. Attendees included Misses Bothe Hawley Ling Andrews Florence Andrews Janice Ledyard Gladys Parker Mildred Clark and Messrs Harry Day Warren Hawley Howard Hawley Mildred Lord Dayton Hil Frank Smith Charles Hall Dunlap Hatch and others. Director Chapman hopes to announce remaining festival artists by May first and is negotiating with top performers. The Winter Street Ladies Aid met in the chapel while Sewall planned a Philadelphia trip and Dunlap Hatch returned from Boston. Allan Ramsey was named special soloist for the United Congregational churches this spring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milton Kimball
Loyal Sewall
Small Point
Sewall
Congregational Church
Carrie KE. Luce
Arthur Larrabee
J. An
Corinne Jackson
Pauline Tobey
Altia Sturtevant
Lydia Tracy
Elizabeth Woughton
Milton Douglas
Adelaide Dennison
Florence Dunton
Madelyn Chase
Hope Sturtevant
Louise Robinson
Millicent Clifford
Emily Cook
Allan H. Ramsey
Ernest Wood
James McLellan
Walter Parker
John Houghton
John Shaw
Charles Avery
Harold Avery
Harvey Hill
William Millett
John Scott
Summer Street
Othel Hawley
Ling Andrews
Florence Andrews
Janice Ledyard
Gladys Parker
Mildred Clark
Harry Day
Warren
Howard Hawley
Imred Lord
Dayton Hil Franksmith
Charles Hall
Dunlap Hatch
Maine DAR delegates head to Washington for Johnson bid
The Maine delegation of the Daughters of the American Revolution left Portland for Washington to back Mrs. Johnson, candidate for vice president general, wife of U.S. Senator Charles F. Johnson. Mrs. Morse and Mrs. Walsh will present her name as regent and assist, with Miss Laughlin visiting Portland before returning home. Bowdoin College hires Robert Withington to teach English literature, succeeding Professor Chapman. Withington previously taught at Harvard and studied under Barrett Wendall. Other local notes include visits from Mrs. Herbert Harris, James P. Webber’s return to Exeter, and Raymond Trott’s Dartmouth return for spring vacation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Daughters of the American Revolution
Portland
Washington
Johnson
U.S
Charles F. Johnson
Waterville
John A. Morse
City
William Ey Walsh
Roussinoc
Augusta
Ernest A. Allen
Morse
Ebbitt House
Dorothy Laughlin
Elizabeth P. Dean
Robert Withington
A. M
Bowdoin College
Chapmen
Professor Withington
Harvard
Barrett Wendall
Captain Withington
James P. Webber
Exeter
N. H
Washington Street
Raymond Trott
Dartmouth
Fortnightly Club closes season with membership limit plan
The Fortnightly Club holds its final season meeting with music by Mrs. Robert B. Hatch and piano by Mrs. John Shaw. Members vote to limit enrollment and urge notices to Miss Alice Skillings by June first. Miss Murphy is reelected president and committees for a three day program are named. The Maine Federation events and next season preparations are announced. The Patten free Library closes on Patriots Day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert B. Hatch
John Shaw
Alice Skillings
Federation
Winter Street Congregational Church
Bath
Miss Murphy
John A. Morse
Ernest A. Allan
Frostina Marston
George B. Moods
Harry C. Webber
William D. Sewall
Harold M. Sewall
Grace I. Coombs
Harry B. Sawyer
Patten Free Library Opens Entire Stack Room to Public
The Patten Free Library began open shelf access this week, making all volumes on the shelves available to patrons. The change, effective Tuesday, enhances usability and space appeal, following earlier success when non fiction was opened. fiction shelves now join the system doubling the library’s value. Patrons enter via the reading room and select books from the stacks before registering at the charging desk. Miss Foote oversees both reading and stack rooms in the delivery area. Local social items note Mrs. Arthur Stetson hosting a bridge party this afternoon, Mrs. Henry W. Cobb's trip to Dorchester for two weeks, and Miss Alice E. Varney hosting her sewing club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patten Free Library
Arthur Stetson
Washington Street
Henry W. Cobb
Dorchester
Alice E. Varney
Portland Bride Weds Lieutenant Franklin Babcock at Cape Home
Bathites learning of Miss Elizabeth Winslow of Portland note her Tuesday forenoon wedding to Lieutenant Franklin Babcock U S A stationed at Fort Williams. Rev Raymond Calkins officiated in a single ring ceremony at the bride’s Cape home with only family present. The bride is daughter of Mrs J B Winslow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bathites
Elizabeth Winslow
Portland
Franklin Babcock
Fort Williams
Cape
Raymond Calkins
State Street Church
J. B. Winslow
Death of Martha Louise Gould Affects Bath Friends
Miss Martha Louise Gould of Groton Massachusetts died after a long illness in Bath. A Bath High School graduate class of 1903 she lived in Groton and studied landscape gardening before illness worsened. Survived by her mother Mrs Daniel C Gould and brothers George Bradford and Harold Harvey Gould of Cleveland Ohio. Burial at Oak Grove Cemetery in Bath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martha Louise Gould
Groton
Mass
Gould
Bath
Miss Gould
Bath High School
New York
Massachusetts
Winter Street
Daniel C. Gould
Trott
George Bradford
Harold Harvey Gould
Cleveland
Ohio
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Alice Randall
St. Mary's Guild of Grace Church
Arthur Russell
Medford
Maass
Edward Turner
Arthur W. H. Rand
Times Company
Worcester Telegram
Times Office
Florence Rand
W. H. MccGlinchy Pleasants
South Street
John Gage
Foreign Missionary Society
the Wesley M. FE. Church
Alonzo A. Morse
John Morse
Juvenile Hospital Benefit
City Buds
Our City Hospital
Mary Mussenden
Fancs Table
Virginia Payne
Gladys Olm
Phyllis Wiman
Lani Sewall
Else Bacon
Camilla Sewall
Lydia Baxter
Mary Baxter
Muriel Staple
Dolalrs
Ladies Aid of Grace Church
Wesles
Bysis
Robert 125
Alah Srace Perkine
Alton Avery
Llewellyn Rogers, Jr
Providence, R. J
Earle Tempe
Mar- Cla Street
Rtobert B. Hatch
William Cushing
Westminster School
Simsbury
Conn
Cushing
Green Street
Margaret Torrey
Wellesley
Mase
Mis
Edna Norton Nichols
Oakwood Heights
Staten Island
George H. Stover
Brunswick
Mr. Stover
Capt
Lemuel H. Stover
Brunswick High School
Portland City Hall
Chapman
Madame Lil- Han Nordica
Madame Nordieu
Madame Nordica
Bangor
Cowen
Melbourne
Australia
Walter Many
Dorcas Guild
Grace Church
Charlotte Manchester
William Hall
Philip P. Cole
New Willard
Cole
Theta Delta Chi
William R. Dean
John Humphreys
Minnie White
Jane D. Moulton
Thomas P. Shaw
State Street
Lina Sewall
Carrie Ring
Boston
Jia Cl Ring
Ring
West Newton
Eleanor Cushing
Frank Cushing
Northampton
Unity Guild of the
First B Baptist Church
Temple Quartet
Lewiston
Universalist Church
Priscilla Kimball
the Pines
Norton
William FF. Wunsch
Joseph Smith
Herbert Russell
Lincoln St
Paul Wing
Julia Bishop
Wayne
Edna Marr
Earle Temple
James Bailey Company
Marcia Street
Fred C. Temple
Percy
Missie
Dorothy Daley
Laura’ Barstow
Henry Biggins
Frank Perkins
J. Edward Drake
Birch Point
Ohns. Hyde
Allan Brown
Orono
Arthur S. Hyde
St. Bartholomew's Church
Parker House
Emmanuel Church
Newbury St
Mr. Hyde
Nathaniel Worthen
Emmanuel
Ladies’ Aid
Philadance
Winthrop
Davis Hatch
Allan Ramsey
United Congregational Churches
Rele Park
Bon Falls
Herbert Harris
Robert Dyer
Henry R. White
T. P. Gibbons
Charlotte Meeker
Emma Shorey
Charles Blair
Herbert E. Cole
Elizabeth Webber
Viola Hogan
Carrie Moulton
Harry Cobb
Anna _ Palmer
Jane Murphy
Grace Warren
Grace Coombs
P. M. Olm
C. C. Low
Charles A. Harriman
W. S. Glidden
Maxwell Powers
Emma Coombs
Lydia Moses
Artha Hooper
Corrie Varney
Alice Magoun
Mary Hill
Ella Douglas
Jane Whitmore
Eleanor A. Percy
Janet Cutler
Ethel Curran
Lina Andrews
Margaret Sewall
Lydia
Elsie Folsom
Elsie Lowell
Dorothy Sewall
Leonice Morse
Elizabeth Houghton
Harriet Johnson
Mollie Palmer
Alice Shorey
Catherine Torrey
Sarah Lermond
Central Church League
James Dunton
Patriots
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