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Newspaper

Bath Independent

Location

Bath, Maine, United States of America

Date

Apr 18, 1940

Page

3

Wiscasset Club and Lodge Events Highlight Week

Mrs Doroth y Lee hosted Club Galagang on Water street with all members present. Prizes in contract went to Miss Louise Adams and Mrs Albert Sherman. Esquire degrees conferred on Maurice Rines and Fred Blagdon. Several future degrees planned with others. Rev Eric M. Robinson to exchange pulpits with Rev George G Cluera on April 21. Woman's Club notes include nominating committee and spring luncheon plans. Fire Society held 558th quarterly meeting at Quinnam's Tavern with 17 attendees. Dessert bridge for Woman's Club success. numerous members named for prizes. Various personal items list residents visiting, traveling, or relocating in town and surrounding areas.

Club Galagang Dorothy Lee Waterstreet Louise Adams Albert Sherman Red Men’s Hall Maurice Rines Fred Blag Garrison Hill Ing Woman's Club Ethel Bedennett Nellie Munsey Laura Evans Carolyn S. Varney Kate Sewall Nellie Dowling Edith Day Ruth Jones George Haushalter George F. Ingalls Bessie Mikels Ruth Silverman Edmund Rothwell James Bimson Wiscasset Fire Society Quinnnam’s Middle Street Lon Jewett Charles E. Knight Charles S. Sewall A. H. Dodge Roy R. Marston Elden P. Munsey Charles E. Cowley Richmond L. White Wesley C. Day Leon G. Flood Carroll R. Berry W. Philp Munsey Joseph Kennedy Sidney G. Evans John F. Jackson William Elliot Neal Creamer Willis B. Mitchell Harold Campbell Charles J. DiPerri Huntoon Hill Grange Arthur Paquet Vitatie Quinnam Mabel McAfee Penny March Wuainter Don Sheu Arti Paquet Susit Hummahoon Warner Doris Fore Resnarks Bil Juli Sutteroid Woolwich Grange AmMiod Suwe Overseer Woolwich Cry New Jerusalem Royal Arch Masonic Hall Lincoln Lodge of Masons Fessenden Chase Charles Lee Portland Benjamin Adams Louise Rockland Edna Welch Paula Belfast Welch Fred Cormier Washington Street Frank H. Gray Albert Austin Bath Woman's Club Rooms April Ways and Means Committee D. F. S. Day Walter Dodge Pleasant Street Robert Day Bath Road Ruth Lepper Norwood Mass Carroll T. Berry Miss Lepper Sunbeam Maine Edwin Valentine Mitchell Saco Maine Craft Guild Charles Grover Frank Beane Clarence Race Jane Adams East Boothbay Race Earl D. Rines Federal Street Wiscasset Kennebec County Augusta House Augusta Bradford C. Redonnett Bradford C. Redonnett, Jr John L. Blagdon Harry E. Rines Alfred Dowling New Haven Conn Byron Adams Wiscasset Hardware Co Louie Coss Boothbay Josephine Tucker F. Burton Haggett Harry Haggett Ralph Gross Detroit Leonora Chiera St. Andrew’s Hospital Boothbay Harbor Miss Chiera Daniel Sortwell Gardiner Road Connecticut Florida Jessie White Vinnie Quinnam Gertrude Munsey Doris Foye Holbrook Blagdon Bernard Merry Fred Allen Eastern River Grange Elsie Blagdon Woolwich Crange Knox Pomona Weymouth Grange Thomaston Virginia Bangor C. A. Peaslee Mary Hob- Prderal Clarence A. Richards Lowell Paul FE. Bacies Raymond Marshall Mallet’s Bay Vermont Monsey Port- Wil Pratuives

Fire Crews Contain Edgecomb Lot Fire After Flooded Cellars

Firefighters from Wiscasset battled a small blaze on Monday afternoon on a lot belonging to Frank Webber in Edgecomb. The department also spent the weekend pumping out several flooded cellars around town.

Frank Webber Edgecomb Wiscasset

Dresden social notes recount visits and travel

Misa Hartatse Shelden of Verett Mil visits Middleton Bridge area with a 4 week vacation. George Bailey and Miss Tueley are linked to Cedar Grove as Burton Reed Watel officiates at a wedding. Mrs. Frank Cail returns home after wintering at Rich tienuid. Rev Ede officiates.

Misa Hartatse Shelden Verett Mil Josie Hesse Bates Bailey George Bailey Miss Tueley Cedar Grove Fener Burton Reed Watel Ede Frank Cail Richtienuid

West Bath Grange Meeting Features Music and Poem Recitals

West Bath Grange Monday roll call drew 31 members and two visitors. Short poems and verbal turns were presented along with guitar and vocal solos by the Morony brothers. A penny maren was held and Mrs Dorothy Ke Theclus was asked to bring a question to next week's meeting. Minstrels will rehearse tonight at Mrs Fred K Sturtevants 21 Center Street. J J Carver of South Portland passed Monday in Bath.

West Th Grange Tle Morony Brothers Dorothy Ke Theclus Fred K. Sturtevant Center Street Nettie M. Stephens Memorial Hospital Emma Head St. Petersburg Fla Lindsay D. Cooper Good Will Club Stanley Whitehouse Warren Dana Portsmouth N. H Whitehouse Eben Dana Dana Woodrow Miller Charlestown Navy Yard Louise Miller Leanna Mae Alvin T. Hathorn Cornish Bath Busy Hands Clayton Armstrong David Reed Loring Maybury Mabel Jack J. Winship Reed Day's Ferry Reed Erroll Quint South Eliot Forrest Baker Nequasset Wilbur Hagan Skowhegan Hagan Garrent J. Galvin Exeter New England Agricultural Department University of Maine Herbert Munsey Day Alton Munsey Merton Bearce James Thorpe Fred Brown Day’s Ferry J. Howard Whittum Harry Short Columbus Ohio William Sheldon Sasanoa Bluffs Short Dorothy Sheldon Carroll Houdlette Jessie White Gardiner Woolwich Woolwich Center Florida

West Bath Red Cross Draws Finnish Relief Effort Tuesday

West Bath Red Cross plans a meeting in the grange hall on Tuesday April 23 to discuss Finnish relief projects. Selectmen are in session this week preparing tax bills. Local residents and visitors are listed with weekends and travels to Boston Malden Auburn Wiscasset and Rumford.

West Bath Rumford

Big advance sale for Friday's party in Bath

Bath Country Club hosts Patriots Day event at the new State Armory with a large advance ticket sale. The all girls Quequettes orchestra, famed for radio and Warner films, headlines the program along with dancing. Tickets available at Andrews' flower shop. Parking will be patrolled by Battery members.

New State Armory Bath Coquettes Warner Brothers Vitaphone Maine Amherst College Boston Andrews Uptown Theatre Battery

Bailey-Grover Wedding in Wiscasset Woolwich Parsonage

Miss Marion D. Grover and Fernald R. Bailey wed Thursday at the Wiscasset Woolwich Baptist parsonage with Rev. J. M. Gowdey officiating. Attendants Ruth E. Grover and Roland S. Bailey received gifts. couple to reside in Montsweag Woolwich after a Boston area wedding trip.

Marion D. Grover Viola P. Grover Wiscasset George Grover Fernald R. Bailey J. Gould Bailey Woolwich Wiscasset-Woolwich Baptist Parsonage J. M. Gowdey Ruth E. Grover Roland S. Bailey

New Ar mory Wall Part Removed for 155 m.m. Gun

Bath's new State Armory will lose a wall section to install a 155 millimeter artillery gun for Battery D 40th Coast Artillery. The gun, about 10 tons with carriage, arrives next week from outside Maine and will be studied by locals during encampment in Portland. Adjutant General James W. Hanson, in Bath for the unit's machine gun to coast artillery change, oversees the move.

Bath State Armory 40Th C.A.C National Guardsmen Armory Bath Iron Works Corp

West Bath Farm Bureau Holds All Day Session

West Bath Farm Bureau met at 9 Bath Street with Ada W. McConnell state field nurse presenting Health. Dinner served by E. W. Haggett and J. W. Larrabee. After dinner committee sang, business meeting chaired by L. D. Small. Next meeting May 9 on Left-overs In Meal Planning led by Maude Bryant and Small.

West Bath D. O. Blaisdell L. D. Small Maude Bryant Small Joanna M. Hodgkins Charles Ripley E. E. Whittemore Marie Marco Bryant E. K. Thompson E. C. Donnell Annie H. Trufant

Sowing hardy annuals on frozen ground for early start

Garden notes urge sowing self sows on frozen ground and planning a varied year. Check tools mower and lawn roller service readiness oil helps prevent rust. Watch cookery columns for new vegetable ideas like globe rooted radishes boiled mild turnip flavor. Plan annuals choose two or three new varieties and prepare hotbeds frames in good shape.

Personal Notes and Engagements Across Attleboro Area

Local social notes list Miss Bernice Hosmer and Miss Patricia Sewall visiting relatives for holidays. Mentions Mrs Arthur Sewall joining a Maine church auxiliary committee. Miss Mary Louise Shorey engaged to Robert Cushman. both families named with backgrounds from Smith College and Dartmouth. Mr Shorey travels in the Far East on business for National City Bank, with stops in Manila, Singapore, China, and Japan en route home.

Bernice Hosmer Attleboro Mass William W. Hosmer Middle Street Arthur Sewalld Washington Street Maine Woman's Auxiliary Erniscopal Church St. Mark’s Church Augusta Patricia Sewall Bradford Junior College Bradford Edward Sewall High Street Sewall Elizabeth Patterson East Liverpool Oto Archibald Miller Granite Street Margaret Miller Brighton Miller Miss Miller Scotland Mary Louise Shorey Arthur C. Shorey Ardsley-on-the-Hudson N. Y Robert Cushman Norman Cushman Winchester Miss Shorey Miss Masters School Dobbs Ferry Smith College Cushman Phillips Academy Andover Dartmouth College Shorey Wilamhorey Far East National City Bank Manila P. L Singapore East Indies China Japan

Woolwich Community Notes and Local Events

Sagadahoc Ferry and Day's Ferry pupils held a after school weenie roast. School closes April 18 for a week vacation. Community club activities include bridge and whist results and preparations for a new club house. Various residents travel, visit or welcome guests, with local church services, meetings, and social events detailed.

Sagadahoc Ferry Day’s Ferry Day's Ferry School House North Woolwich Moving Pictures A. O. Gross Nequasset Church Club House

Portland Lincoln clubs host reception for Senator Bridges

Roy W. Putney of Senter's Inc. and Arthur K. Purington of the Times attended the reception and dinner Monday night. Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire was tendered by the Portland and Lincoln clubs at the home of the former.

Roy W. Putney Senter’s Inc Arthur K. Purington the Times Styles Bridges New Hampshire Portland Lincoln

North Center P T A hears talk on safety education

C Harry Edwards Maine Director of Physical Education spoke to North Center P T A at Grace Church parish house detailing safety education goals for children. He outlined home, school, highway, industrial and recreational hazards and the state’s five approaches including bulletins, an Augusta institute, broadcasts, national bulletins, and driver training.

C. Harry Edwards Maine North Center P.T.A Grace Church Edwards Augusta Pasteur Mdme Curie Harvey Ehrlich Marius H. Page Joseph I. Smith William Reagan Edward B. Hamblett Horace G. Morse Elizabeth Young W. Scott Davis Norman W. Howard Louis A. Dole James Noftall Daniel H. Matter North Center P. T. A Noftall Dole Paul G. Bagdikian Alice N. Magoun Celia McCormick The North Primary School

Democrats Endorse Several Legislative Candidates

The Democratic organization in Sagadahoc county endorsed candidates for probate court sheriff and representative posts. Primary nomination papers were filed with the Secretary of State for State Senator Carlton Day Reed, for Representative Charles W. Blake, Bath representatives Andrew R. Cahill and Clara A. Corliss, Topsham official Ernest J. Small, and county commissioner candidates, with no Democratic candidate for county attorney.

Arthur J. Dunton Charles W. Messenger Richmond Raymond M. McIntire Phippsburg Arrowsic Topsham West Bath Woolwich Sagadahoc Carlton Day Reed Charles W. Blake

Trio Given 30 Days For Street Begging

Harry Final of Bath John Cavanaugh Portland and James Mullen Bangor were arraigned before Judge Gardiner R. Deering in municipal court and pleaded not guilty to intoxication and begging. The judge ordered intoxication charges filed and gave each 30 days in Kennebec county jail on the begging count. They were taken into custody in Augusta’s business district Tuesday afternoon by Lieut. Joseph D. Pennell and Patrolman Percy W. Kingsbury, with two nabbed on Center street and the third on Front street.

Harry Final Bath John Cavanaugh Portland James Mullen Bangor Gardiner R. Deering Noto Deering Kennebec County Augusta Joseph D. Pennell Percy W. Kingsbury Center Street Front Street

Court postpones arraignment in Brunswick incident

A court proceeding was postponed as details emerged of a mishap involving Richardson who reported being momentarily blinded by oncoming headlights. He returned to the scene, visited Brunswick hospital, and then went to the police station with Chief Ouellette noting a possible loose rock strike and a minor fender jar.

Richardson Brunswick Ouellette

Family returns home after death of Elmer Jameson

Mr and Mrs Chester Robinson of Manchester New Hampshire and Mrs Henry MacGraw of West Newton Massachusetts returned home Wednesday after being summoned by the death of their father Elmer Jameson.

Chester Robinson Manchester N. H Robinson Henry MacGraw West Newton Mass Elmer Jameson

Birds Arrive On Bay Point Then Flock Away

A spring bird migration arrives on Bay Point with hermit thrushes and other species noted around town. Observers mention great blue herons on First Beach and geese migrating northward, alongside local bird houses and nest observations. The piece also highlights J Otis Swift and the Yosian Brotherhood, a worldwide nature movement started by Swift that gathers readers for talks and outdoor study.

Maine Bunny Keissling Dedham Mass Charles Keissling

Candlelight Service At Queen Esther Lodge

Queen Esther Rebekah lodge held a candlelight service after supper and a business session Tuesday. Members received white pink or green candles and sang My Task. The table featured hat boxes inscribed Friendship Love and Truth with a gold dove and decorative beehive and celestial symbols. Meals were served by lodge officers. a rehearsal for the district meeting Brunswick May 13 was held and Ralph P. Mank won the past noble grand's quilt.

Queen Esther Rebekah Lodge John W. Gillespie Noble Grand Wallace L. Atwood Horace W. Ward Dorothy M. Milliken Brunswick Ralph P. Mank

St Mary's Guild Hosts Evening Meeting at Grace Church

Miss Anna Trott and Mrs. Daniel Williams hosted the St Marys guild gathering in the parish house Monday night. Following the business session a rehearsal for the May entertainment was held and members worked on articles for the Memorial hospital and the Needlework guild.

Anna Trott Daniel Williams St. Mary's Guild of Grace Church Guild Memorial Hospital Needlework Guild

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Mrm APTA Matiote Moise Lytth Alberta Shier Albert Lustiga Wits Avero Priveren Rim ‘Et John TL. Blaydon Troy Ann Nelder Jashae Adams Chaudles J. DyPeert Wissassel James Dune Wii A Austin Bath Tee Cran Dresden West Bath Grange J. J. Carver South Portland Country Club and Battery Grover Wiscasset-Woolwich Parsonage Joseph F. McCole Daytona Beach Mrs. McCole J. Houghton McLellan, Jr J. Houghton McLellan West Bath Farm Bureau Cape Cod Lorraine M. Price Price North Woolwich Church Nelson Rice Albert Humphrey Loring T. Mayberry Walter Abbott Harry A. Walters Fred Rice Edward Crocker Edward Murphy Alex St. Pierre Lester Knight Oscar Snowden Georgetown Charles H. Hunnewell Andrew Merrill Grove Street Carle E. Longfellow Travelers Club Flora Bradley St. Andrews Hospital Mitchell Aphia Pinson Opera New York Emily Gilmore David P. Gilmore New Brunswick N. J Harry Detroit, Mich Curtis Plant Helen Plant Jersey City Stephen C. Plant Brookline North Center Grace Parish House Sagadahoc County J. Otis Swift Nature World-Telegram Bay Point Mr. Swift Swift Care World- Telegram Mrs. Swift Hastings-on-Hudson Sherman Campbell Rose Byron Maurice Burns Echo Valley Sylvia Warren Five Islands Edward Wren Robert Fry Cedar Cove Adams Louisa Howard Eddie Thorne Audrey Pinkham Elizabeth Deering Clarence Kneeland Harold Brown, Jr Earle Payson Uo Queen Esther Lodge
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