Wiscasset Summer Sale A Community Social and Fundraiser
The annual organ society sale at the First Congregational Church in Wiscasset drew a social crowd and funds, with a luncheon, various committees handling kitchen, dining, tickets, and crafts. Founders Day plans in Lincoln Home events promise open grounds, lobster dinner, and a pageant on Aug 7 and 15, while local residents and visitors attend weddings, travels, and town happenings.
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Organ Society
First Congregational Church
Nina G. Fowles
The
Harriet Jackson
Nellie Blagdon
Laura Evans
Georgia Lilly
Sue Bailey
Jennie Lewis
Emily Groves
Mary R. Marston
Sophia Preble
Jennie Preble
Carolyn Pendleton
Elizabeth Sewall
Priscilla Campbell
Frances Plumstead
Dorcas Girls
Ruthena Thompson
Helen Quininam
Virginia Pease
Verna Southard
Jane Tucker
Laura Carleton
Lincoln County
Lincoln Home
Congregational
Farnum Macurda Wedding Receives Boston Church Notice
Miss Virginia Farnum daughter of Samuel May Farnum of Newtonville and the late Mrs Farnum married Paul Curtis Macurda of Newtonville and Wiscasset Me at Emmanuel church Boston July 20. The ceremony was by Rev Lloyd Gilmett with a bridal gown of white satin and Brussels lace. Attendants included Mrs Thaxter A Williams, Miss Willa May Curtis, Miss Jeanie Morrison, and Gordon Farnum relatives attended. A wedding breakfast followed at the Charles River Country club for both families.
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Boston Transcript
Virginia Farnum
Samuel May Farnum
Newtonville
Farnum
Emmanuel Church
Boston
Paul Curtis Macurda
Wiscasset
Charles L. Macurda
Macurda
Lloyd Gilmett
Thaxter A. Williams
Newton Center
Willa May Curtis
St. Louis
Jeanie Morrison
Saugus
John Earle Farnum
Grafton
Donald Bradford Macurda
Carlisle Macurda
Lawrence Macurda
Melrose
Charles River Country Club
New York and Paris Bride Plans Newtonville Home
Miss Mary Farnum of Franklin and Nantucket and Miss Elsie Curtis of New York attended a wedding with Dr. and Mrs T H Stevens of Boothbay Harbor Maine. The groom, Mr Macurda who graduated from the University of Chicago in 1926, is a descendant of Governor Bradford. After a motor trip to Canada via Maine and Vermont the couple will reside in Newtonville.
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New York
Paris
France
Mary Farnum
Franklin and
Nantucket
T. H. Stevens
Boothbay Harbor
Elsie Curtis
Farnum
Martin's School
Tours
William Brown
Macurda
University of Chicago
Bradford
Canada
Maine
Vermont
Rajah Sigmund to Perform Two Days at Bath Opera House
Mentalist Rajah Sigmund and his company visit Bath for two shows on Friday and Saturday. Friday screens The Scoundrel with Noel Coward and Julie Hayden, while Saturday shows Charlie Chan in Egypt with Warner Oland and Pat Paterson.
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Rajah Sigmund
Bath Opera House
Scoundrel
Noel Coward
Julie Hayden
Charlie Chan
Egypt
Warner Oland
Pat Paterson
Serena
Rajah Sigmund Company
Opera House
Iron Workers Favor Forty Hour Week at Bath Plant
In a Bath Iron Works poll 365 men voted for a 40 hour week while 221 backed 36 hours. The plant awaits official confirmation from Washington but indications suggest a four hour increase to a five eight hour day work week within a fortnight.
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Bath Iron Works Corp
Washington, D. C
Bowdoin Services Held at East Bowdoin Chapel
Religious activities reported with Rev. Percy L. Vernon delivering a Sunday sermon. Mrs. Walton Adams sang two solos accompanied by Leonard Curtis and Mrs. Charles Babb. Future service by Vernon set for Aug 11 at 3 PM daylight time. Various local visits and family updates noted.
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East Bowdoin Chapel
Percy L. Vernon
Walton Adams
Gorham
N. H
Leonard Curtis
Charles Babb
Vernon
Forrest Purinton and Sons
A. E. Purinton
Ernest Carr
Jamaica Plain
Mass
Osteopathic Hospital
Sibley Gilbert
Lewiston
Vesta Ackley
Garnet
Grant Woods
Harold Adams
H. K. Adams
N. E. Curtis
Olive Ward
Westport Summer Visitors At Local Cottages
Mr and Mrs Judson Cromwell and daughter Marion arrived at their Westport cottage for the Summer. Albert Perkins of Brookline Mass arrived at his cottage. Mrs Ethel L Wass visited her sister Mrs Lester Hodgdon in Wiscasset. Amos Knight visited Mechanic Falls. Briain Jewett visited Eastport. Thomas Woodbridge owns an Essex coupe. Prof and Mrs Harold Swift of Bangor are guests of Miss Eva Beaudet. Ruth Cannon and friend returned to her cottage after two weeks away. Everett Cromwell of Medford Mass is a guest of his parents. Mr and Mrs Leavitt and two children of Brockton Mass have returned home from the North End. Mrs Lester Hodgdon and son Alfred and Mrs Ethel L Wass passed the weekend with Solomon Higgins family. Nellie Little was a visitor in Wiscasset Thursday.
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Anne Nelder
Depositors’ Trust Co
Clifford W. Collins
Collins
New Jersey
Charles Collins
North Edgecomb
William Harvie
Peabody
William Katzmann
Everett
Mass
Harry Bailey
Federal Street
Vernon West
Lawrence Crocker
Lee Street
Morris
George Porter
Birch Point
Frank Dunton
Washington, D. C
Webber's Tavern
Robert DeWolfe
Boothbay Harbor
Luther Hall
Camp Edgewater
A. FE. Furze
Lewis DiSanti
North Reading
Frank M. Hagggett
Water Street
Elizabeth Erskine
Damariscolla
George M. Porter
Charles L. Macurda
Paul Curtis Macurda
Virginia May Farnamo
Wentonville
Emmanuel Church
Boston
James McCarty
Mildred
Irvine Littlefield
Josephine Plumstead
Portland
Antoinnette Plumstead
Wiscasset
St. Philip's Church
I. C. C. Whitmore
Flora Plumstead
Fred Moody
M. A. Plumstead
Frances
Ernest Ham
Monmouth
Roland Abbott
George Cramp
Bert Philbrick
Norwood
Ralph Freble
Charles Pomeroy
Beverley
Mabel A. Rhoades
Wellesley Hills
Saco
Sarah Ifill
Waterville
Ruthena Thompson
Jeannette Haggett
Madockawanda
Gertrude Hubbard Hulbert
Bath Memorial Hospital
Alice D. Taylor
Nettie Knight
Camden
Charles Legrow
Grace L. Knight
Richard A. Hunter
North Adams
Camp Chiwanki
Joseph
Laura Evans
Anna Soule
Farm Bureau
Grangehall
Sheepscot
Walter Leavitt
Ruth
Farmington
Leavitt
Lake Maranacook
Stanley Somes
Middle West
Clinton Perkins
Wilmington
Del
Mary McGahey
Niagara Falls
Perkins
Foster Perkins
Fort Hill Street
George Gilbert
New Harbor
Fred Gilbert
Pemaquid Beach
Edgar Hilton
Bath Road
Clarence A. Richards
Maine Association of Clerks of Court
Alfred
Alfred Court House
Pillsbury’s
Pine Point
A. W. Wilband
Wirthmore Grain Co
Mt. Washington House
Bretton Woods
N. H
Grain Company
Mt. Washington
Victor Gorham
Bruce Barton
John Andrews
Brooklyn
N. Y
Harvey R. Pease
John F. Wright
Charles J. DiPerri
Donald Bradford Macurda
Faneuil
Foster-Dolliver
Ocean Point
Macurda
Carlisle Macurda
Miss Symes
Judson Cromwell
Marion
Albert Perkins
Brookline
Ethel L. Wass
Lester Hodgdon
Amos Knight
Mechanic Falls
Briain Jewett
Eastport
Thomas Woodbridge
Harold Swift
Bangor
Eva Beaudet
Ruth Cannon
Everett Cromwell
Medford
John Cromwell
Brockton
James Lawrence
North End
Solomon Higgins
Nellie Little
Edwin W. Haggett
Berry's Mills
Harold J. Haggett
Ann
Charles L. Haggett
Billy
Bath
Everett G. Lemont
Sabine
Loring D. Small
Augusta
Hayden
Rogers
Sisters’ Hospital
Brett
Central Maine Power Co
West Bath
Llewellyn D. Rogers
Carolyn B. Rogers
Hallowell R. Rogers
William
Glastonbury
Conn
Rose Brothers
Jack Hardie
Myrtle
North Weymouth
King’s Point
Waller E. Whitmer
Alan
Jackie
Tommy
Long Island
Charles E. Hewitt
South End
Sabino
Samuel Stokes
Ruth, Emery
Barbara
Haverhill
Elliot Williams
Vassalboro
Hewitt
Rexford Clark
Winthrop, Mass
Sara Bailey
Unity Lake
Nathan Coffin
Ida Beals
Frank Becker
Stewart
Chelsea
Lake Nequasset
Werner Bennett
E. A. Copeland
Sebenon Hall
Ethel Stinson
Gertrude Gilmore
Blanche McLain
Charles
West Roxbury
William Tucor Gardiner
Phipps Point
Woolwich
Red Cross
Frank A. Hodgdon
Central Church
Myers Reed, Jr
Rangeley Lake
Axford Ramsey
Baltimore
Day's Ferry
Robert Decker
Malden
Canada
Marcia Stinson
Elizabeth Webber
Penham
Dora and
Blanche Corliss
Day’s Ferry
Miz Alexander Robertson
Manchester
Kennebec
John Savage
Herbert Burgess
Woolwich Center
Ira Jay Martin
Eben Dana
First Baptist Church
Ladies’ Aid
Henry Eckener
Bellows Falls
Malcolm
West Bath News Notes Social Summer at Sabino
West Bath residents and visitors fill cottages at Sabine and Sabino for July gatherings. Families travel from Bath Augusta Waterville and Boston visiting relatives while sharing town events and seaside trips to Boothbay Harbor and Sebasco.
Visitors at Birch Point cottages end month stay
Foster's Point notices recount arrivals and departures from Birch Point cottages. Norwood residents Mr. and Mrs. D H Philbrook and guest Mrs. James Wood of Boylston left after a month. Salem couple Mr. and Mrs. William F Hennessy stayed two weeks with Ina Williams. Portland's Miss Julia Coombs visited Campbell's Pond with Mrs. Robert Metcalf. Worcester's Mr. and Mrs. William Charlesworth and son Donald visited Ernest Williams's camper. Everett's Miss Fannie Tinkham returned home after two weeks with Florence Chadwick.
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Foster’s Point
D.H. Philbrook
Norwood
Mass
James Wood
Boylston
Philbrook
Birch Point
Swampscott
Philbrook Cottage
William F. Hennessy
Salem
Ina Williams
Williams
Julia Coombs
Portland
Campbell's Pond
Robert D. Metcalf
William H. Charlesworth
Donald
Worcester
Charlesworth
Ernest E. Williams
Campbell’s Pond
Fannie Tinkham
Florence Chadwick
Everett
Western screen star Buck Steele with Kay Bros Circus
Buck Steele famed western film star appears with Kay Bros Circus in Bath on Monday Aug 5. He is joined by Hollywood cowboys cowgirls and a tribe of Indians performing riding roping bronco busting and other rodeo feats wearing ten quart hats high boots and bright outfits. The show features Steele the reigning rodeo champion and film star who has won cups medals saddles and prizes from frontier contests.
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Buck Steele
Kay Bros. Circus
Hollywood
Bath
Beacon Street church lawn party plans announced
Committees for the Beacon Street Methodist church lawn party met with general chairman William J. Craft to finalize plans for a Friday event to be held on the church grounds with free admission. A concert will broadcast across the grounds using Vachon’s amplification setup and booths will feature cooked foods candy aprons punch bowl fish pond ice cream frankfurts vegetables and games. Edward Dale True of Hobart Mfg Co recently left Bath for New York after a three week visit with his parents and sister Sally Joan. Mrs True and Sally will remain at Birch Point, returning in September.
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Beacon Street Methodist Church
Church
William J. Craft
Vachon
Clinton Pratt
Jack Clark
Wilbur Crocker
Laura Craft
Clifton Tedford
Elmer Norton
H. Martin Powers
Hermon Crocker
Fred Pratt
John Howe
Fred Pinkham
Charles Henderson
Everett Lemont
Edward Dale True
Hobart Mfg. Co
Troy, O
Edward D. True
Bath
Birch Point
New York
Woolwich notes reflect summer visits and church events
Miss Sara Bailey spends part of her vacation at Unity Lake cottage while Bath and Woolwich residents visit relatives and attend summer gatherings. The Woolwich church announces a vacation school, a Wayside Pulpit board, and August services, with concerted planning by local groups for the Red Cross fundraiser and local garden parties.
Judge Dunton's Smokey Ben Wins Blue Ribbon at Newport Show
Smokey Ben a bay gelding from Hon. Arthur J. Dunton's stable captured blue in the 5 gaited saddle horse class at Portsmouth New Hampshire First Annual Horse Show. Dunton also placed fourth in the gentlemen's riding class among a large field of New England horsemen including former Massachusetts governor Alvin T. Fuller. The event was held on the estate of the late Frank Jones in Portsmouth.
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Smokey Ben
Arthur J. Dunton
Portsmouth, N. H
Mr. Dunton
New England
Massachusetts
Alvin T. Fuller
Frank Jones
Portsmouth
Winnegance Visit Highlights Local Social Scene
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Webber of New London plan visits to their daughter Mrs. Ralph M. Merry and later Mr. and Mrs. John C. Wright of Marshall Street. Leroy Twitchell Malden High principal and Mrs. Twitchell, Helen Kitchen, and Arthur Lavender of Malden were Saturday guests of the Merry family. Mrs. Winnifred S. Merry of 1 High Street is ill at home. Children from Haverhill Mass. stay with Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Hewitt Jr. at their Sabino summer home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Webber
New London
Ralph M. Merry
John C. Wright
Marshall Street
Leroy Twitchell
Malden High School
Haverhill, Mass
Charles E. Hewitt, Jr
Sabino
Governor Clambake plans and Safety contest at Bath plant
Transportation heads estimate 175 cars needed for transit to West Bath for a large clambake day. Workers will assemble at 8 a.m. for a multi-group caravan as part of a Safety contest with Reds and Blues teams, awarding cash prizes and a $1 per man penalty funded by the company to cover costs. Various sports events and elaborate contests will feature nearly 400 participants, with team lineups announced for Reds and Blues and details of officials and observers.
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The
Transportation Committee
West Bath
Reds
Blues
Bath
al “Elmer the Great
Thayer
Frank
Eagle Eye" Sheridan
John
Levyn
Ernest “Poosh ‘Em Up" Sarkis
Andrew “Stonewall” Savage
Harold “Ducky Wucky” Boutin
Stanley
Whitehouse
Harold “Asbestos” Haggett
Lloyd “Winnegance
Perry
Donald
Gabbey
Avery Rush
Roland “Nerts
Hanscom
Everett
Aspirin” Crocker Blues
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A. R. Benedict
John Heiser
Donald F
Srove Bath
Rajah
Sigmund
Bowdoin
Westport
L. F
Atwood
Atwood’s
Medicicine
Bernard Pratt
Carl Stinson
Pratt
Marie Cotteau
Belmont
John G. Morse
John G. Morse, Jr
Sebasco
Walter Gilpin
Everett Mass
Oscar S. Adams
Betty
Camp Sunset
D. O. Blaisdell
James Thorpe
Samuel Bates
Eleanor Bates
Chester Freeman
George Bailey
South Portland
Delmar E. Bates
Virginia
Lincoln Williams
Agnes Woodworth
Barbara Woodworth
Helen Hoffman
Newton Highlands
Belle C. Donnell
Marguerite Donnell
Fred Williams
James
Cape Elizabeth
New Meadows
Ralph Good
Fred Williams, Jr
Falmouth
Percy R. Waterman
Fletcher A. Waterman
Foster's Point
Somerville
Louis Shea
Walpole
Horace Mayo
Quincy
Larrabee’s Grove
E. H. Coburn
E. H. Coburn, Jr
Hartford
Hartford, Conn., Are Camping In Larrabee’s Grove For the Week. Mr. Coburn
Berkeley High School
Joseph W. Larrabee
Tondreau’s Point
Harpswell
Brunswick Rotarians
Claire Wiseman
Robert Wiseman
Kate Perkins
Darrah Po
Kay Brothers
Beacon Street Church
Buxton’s
Buxton Medicine Company
Abbott Village
Judge Dunton
BLUE
Lee “Schnozzle
Sheldon
Wild Bill” Daley
Crab” Jenkins
John “Dynamite” Westfall
Paul “Panz” Hayes
Miller
Ted
Man Mountain" Earl
Francis
Pretty Boy
Fortier
H. L. “Doctor
Adams
S. M
Brown
Bertram
Wildcat” Crocker
Ernest “Plummy” Fulton
L. H
Joe E. Brown
Cooper
Harry “Brains” Briggs
Briggs
R. F
Super
Hill
Robert Vose Langmuir
Cambridge
John A. Lord
Pearl Street
John F. Freete
Lord
Martha Cahill
High Street
Germantown
Mary Hare
Tuessic
Henry