Abner J. Wilson Narrow Escape At West Point Wharf
Abner J. Wilson 44 Court Street proprietor of Wilsons Fish Market had a narrow escape Wednesday last week at West Point when he fell from Smiths wharf onto a lobster car. He sustained a badly bruised right hip and immersion, was rescued by a bystander, revived and treated at Memorial hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abner J. Wilson
Court Street
West Point
Smith’s Wharf
Memorial Hospital
Ardenne A. Stott
Wilson
Sebasco Road
Phippsburg
Alton P. Reed
Smith's Wharf
Mr. Reed
Mr. Wilson
Navy awards two destroyer contracts to Bath Iron Works
The Navy Department recently awarded Bath Iron Works two destroyer contracts at 5 067 000 each, bringing local shipbuilding totals to 39 817 800. The Boston News Bureau lists prices for seven other destroyers with various figures and launch statuses, noting Sims and Hughes about halfway completed and Gleaves and Niblack keel laid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy Department
Bath Tron Works Corp
Boston News Bureau
U.S. S. Sampson
U. S. S. Davis
Hughes
U. S. S. Gleaves
Niblack Hive
Bragg and Taylor are married in Central church ceremony
Albert Duncan Bragg son of Alder man and Mrs Ralph W Bragg and Miss Betty Louise Taylor daughter of Mr and Mrs Percy Taylor were married Friday afternoon at Central church parsonage with Dr David L Wilson officiating. The single ring ceremony featured Mrs Russell M Colby Jr as attendant and Robert W Bragg as best man. The bride wore blue chiffon and gardenia corsage. bridesmaid wore dark blue dress with sweet peas. Bragg, a Bath Iron Works employee and Colby Club member, is a Colby alumnus. After a short wedding trip the couple will reside at 220 North Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Duncan Bragg
Ralph W. Bragg
North Street
Betty Louise Taylor
Percy Taylor
St. Petersburg
Fla
Central Church Parsonage
David L. Wilson
Russell M. Colby
Robert W. Bragg
Divide Committee Into Groups For Community Flower Show
A large Cosmopolitan Garden Club committee will divide into multiple groups for the August 11 community flower show with no general chair. groups will handle different exhibits including flowers from home gardens and professional nurserymen. Proceeds will partly go to the Worthy Poor Fund at Memorial Hospital. guests attended a luncheon and shower for Miss Louise Calderwood prior to her upcoming marriage. A visitor, Mrs. W C Davis of Pittston, Pa., arrives in town with her husband and relatives for a month with Mrs. Caleb Burns and family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sumner Sewall
Cosmopolitan Garden Club
Henry Ricker
Topsham
Memorial Hospital
Mary Ella
Gyr Moss
Mary K. Kenney
Barbara Ross
Clarence W. Dalton
Carol Stevens
Elinor Shorey
Marjorie Trott
Nella S. Brives
Sebasco
Louise Ro Calderwood
Joseph W
Cal Iderwod
Albion
W. C. Davis
Pittston
Caleb Burns
Front Street
Davis
Paul Davis
Burns
Gorham
Ex eter guests at Pratt Institute with Mr Brate
Miss Margaret Lewis of Exeter New Hampshire Brice Anderson of Detroit Lloyd Balderston of Springfield Massachusetts were weekend guests of Robert Brops of North Street. They are all Elues mates of Mr Brate at Pratt Institute Brooklyn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Lewis
Exeter
Brice Anderson
Detroit, Mich
Lloyd Balderston
Springfield
Mss
Robert Brops
North Street
Mr. Brate
Pratt Institute Brooklyn
Dale Loses Suit for City Solicitor Compensation
The Supreme Court upholds Judge Chapman’s ruling that Ralph O. Dale cannot recover salary or quantum meruit as Bath city solicitor for 1937. He was elected in 1936 for 1937, but no successor was elected. court holds an attorney is not a subordinate officer entitled to ongoing pay beyond services rendered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Law Court
Ralph O. Dale
Dale
Arthur Chapman
Superior Court
Thaxter
Supreme Court
Chapman
Bath
Sagadahoc
City of Bath
Board of Aldermen
Common Council
City of
Priv. & Spec
Truck Driver Fined After Near Collision With Police
State Highway Officer Harry L. Thompson investigated after a two ton Ford truck veered around a blind curve near Parker's Head. He spent three hours locating the Cox's Head, Lewis H. O'Brien vehicle bearing expired 10 day plates. O'Brien pleaded guilty and paid $5 fine plus $8.55 costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parker's Head
Independent Hall
Harry L. Thompson
Cox's Head
Lewis H. O'Brien
Cox's
Ceramic Feldspar Co
Bath
Thompson
O'Brien
Grange Master Taber to Speak at New England Conference
National Grange Master L. J. Taber of Columbus Ohio will be the outstanding speaker at the Conference of New England Grange Lecturers in Oro no on Wednesday evening August 24. He will also address meetings in Maine at Portland City Hall on Tuesday August 23 and Camp Benson Newport on August 25 during a field day for nearby granges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Grange
L. J. Taber
Columbus
Ohio
New England
Orono
Legionnaires Enjoy Lobsters at Camp Overlook
Thirty five Legionnaires and friends attended a lobster supper at Camp Overlook Kennebec Point. Mrs Harold Brown catered with lobster prominent on the menu under cover with brief addresses and songs. She will cater this Summer for reservations. The Bath Iron Works Corp launched the destroyer USS Davis. It slid free in 34 seconds, traveling 18.6 feet per second, setting a new launch record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp Overlook
Kennebe
Point
Harold Brown
Bath Iron Works Corp
USS. Davis
Bath Iron Works Foreman Costain Launches Ninth Vessel
John W. Costain foreman carpenter at Bath Iron Works supervised the launch of the ninth vessel at the Kennebec plant marked by the U S Davis at 4 22 p m Saturday. Costain, with 36 years at Bath Iron Works and more than 40 years in the trade, led a team including Clarence Atwood as first assistant and George Delano and Cyrus Reynolds as leading men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
Davis
Kennebec
Newport, R. I
Bath
Costain
Harold K. Vanderbilt
Ranger
Drayton
Samson
Sampson
Bath Iron Works
Savannah
Georgia Shipbuilding Co
Terry & Trench Co
Fort Wentworth
New Bath Iron Works Corp
Clarence Atwood
George Delano
Cyrus Reynolds
Pastime Horse Show Set With Record 23 Classes
The eighth annual Pastime Horse Show will be held Saturday, Aug 13 at 1 p.m. at Judge Duncon's West Bath estate. It features 23 classes the most in this event's history and a qualifying class for the New England champions at Springfield, Mass., in Sept 1924. Head judges are J Loring Brooks of Springfield and Dr Harold Haskell of Troy with Frank O Stevens of Auburn as announcer and James A Gillies Jr of Portland as ring director.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur J. Duncon
West Bath
Springfield
Mass
J. Loring Brooks
Harold Haskell
Troy
N. Y
James A. Gillies, Jr
Maine Horse Association
Frank O. Stevens
Auburn
Maine Association
Bridge receipts fall in July amid traffic drop
A sharp decline in Carlton bridge traffic in July reduced cash receipts to 34,545.75 dollars, down 2,137.80 from July 1937. Fares remained at five and fifty cents for passengers and vehicles. Mr and Mrs Guy Beddees and Louis Brown visited Arlington Heights relatives, returning with their niece Ruth Hynes for several days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlton Bridge
Es Va
Guy Beddees
Louis Brown
Arlington Heights
Mass
Beddees
William Hynes
Grove Street
Ruth Hynes
Lost Skiff on Westport Island Reward Offered
Lost white skiff on Westport Island, finder to receive a suitable reward. Call Westport, Maine. Also classified note seeks a farm and city shore property listings via Fred B. Reed Co. Bath. 4-W. 12-30-t1
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westport Island
Westport
City Shore
Fred B. Reed Co
Seananee
Beanie Wallace
Front Street
Bath
Bowdoinham Social Roundup Includes Many Local Visits
A Busy weekend in Bowdoinham features Bertha Tibbetts of Portland visiting her daughter, extensive gatherings at Happy Landing on Pleasant Point, and trips to Pemaquid Fort Boothbay Harbor and Southport. Dozens attend card parties and bridge games. several families vacation, travel to York Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and Boston, while local gardens, tea parties, and outings fill the community calendar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bertha Tibbetts
Portland
Denham
Howard Moody
Happy Landing
Pleasant Point
Charles Hackett
Sara Temple
Nolte
Maurice Zimmerman
Marshall Small
John Dunn
Pemaquid Fort
Boothbay Harbor
Southport Priday
Donald Lynn
Frances
Lucille
Marie Jack
East Bowdoinham
Youngstown
Ohio
Star Aid
Margaret Gile
Bridge
George Cutler
Mabel Baker
Pearl Raymond
Charles Fogg
Lewiston
Nona Brown
Rumford
C. M. G. Hospital
Jessie Ames
Forest Wall
York
Bessie Sawyer
Avery Fides
Moosehead Lake
Shirley Crosby
Vassalboro
Betty Hobart
Cairns Rogge
New Jersey
River Road
Harry Woodbury
Edward Baker
Carrie Kendall
Inez Gowell
Kendall Cottage
Old Orchard
R. D. Puringtoen
Emma Ferguson
Bowdoin Lilly
Jane Browne
Clara Fogg
Sadie Perry
Lauris Wilson
Edward
Edward Wilson
Lola Lang
Baileys Island
David Lynn
Robert Browne
East Bowdeinham
Larchmont
N. Y
Lynn
Kenneth Wilson
Joan
Jimmie
Hartford
Ramson Kelly
Fairfield
Earle Brown
Philadelphia
Girard College
Topsham
Bowdeinham
Harold Curtis
Beverly
Mass
William Raymond
Paula
Berlin
N. H
Bert Merrill
Bath
William Sparks
Billy
Lang Farm
Milicent Page
Rhode Island
Coombs High School
Ocean Point
Frank Siegars
Tenant's Harbor
James H. Ames
Daniel Craney
Davis
Norman B. Small
Melrose
Augusta Cone
Carrie Lang
Herbert D. Cornish
Ivan Lang
Julia Walsh
Boston
Courtney Nealey
Sacred Heart Circle Dinner Plans at Hotel Fullerton
Sacred Heart Circle of Daughters of Isabella arranged a dinner for August 16 at Hotel Fullerton in Boothbay Harbor. Members must notify chairman Mrs James E McLaughlin by August 13 to attend and a hospital fund donation was approved. September hostesses named and the meeting was well attended. Mrs Charles H Cahill and Miss Martha Cahill left for Hartford, Conn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hotel Fullerton
Boothbay Harbor
Sacred Heart Circle
Daughters of Isabella
James E. McLaughlin
Hospital
H. Joseph Madden
John W. Sonia
Moses
Wilfred F. Skaling
Popham Beach Camplands and Summer Social Notes
Popham Beach community reports guests and visits from Woolwich Bath Dedham and other towns. Residents and visitors frequent cottages on the riverside fort reservation and South shore with many returning from Bath Portland and Boston for summer. Sunday church services and weekly song meetings are announced along with dances lobster stew and clam chowder events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mabel Jack
Woolwich
Doris Brody
Frances Roberts
Annie Oliver Stacey
Bath
Herbert Kellaway
Newton Center
Mass
Kellaway
Miss Ida
Riverside
David Clark
Upper Washington Street
John Gilmore
Mechanic Street
Fort Reservation
Joseph Oliver
Eugene W. Osgood
Roscoe Shaw
Shaw
Joan
Barbara Sprague
Cape Cod
Portsmouth
N. H
George Woodman
Dedham
Woodman Cottage
Woodman
Popham
Kennebec River
Arthur Phillips
Sedgeburg
Bangor
Waterville
Raymond Dexter
Maine
Betty Dexter
George Morong
Bath Memorial Hospital
Rollo Morton
Saco
Mr. Morton
Katherine McCarty
Seth Snipe
Robert Cody
Milton
Cody
Ann
Frank Shaw
Muriel
Carleton
Round Pond
Bronx
N. Y
Charles Small
Auburn
Georgetown
William Hill
Naugatuck
Conn
William
Robert
Hill
Miles Cameron
Pauline
Ellen
Canada
Wylys Ames
Hyla
Charles
Montclair
N. J
Ralph Marsh
Samuel Ward
Ruth Levine
Boston
Walter Powers
Robinhood
Needham
Henry Schofield
Kerwin Boucher
Kerwin, Jr
Edward Whitehouse
South Beach
Haynes
Walter Sprague
Portland Marine Hospital
Lynette Caverly
Constance Morin
Mary Ellanor Donnell
South Shore
Ida Schofield
Cox's Head
Parker Head
Bay Point
Society Hall
Philip
Lawrence Wyman
Madelyn Bridges
Bowdoin Service Set at East Bowdoin Chapel
Bowdoin Services will be held Sunday at 4 PM daylight time in East Bowdoin Chapel with Rev. Percy L. Vernon of Lewiston United Baptist church officiating. All are welcome. East Bowdoin Ladies' aid meets Thursday with Mrs. Grant Woods. George Iverson, gravely injured after a horse incident, is recovering at Brunswick hospital. Curtis filling station reopens after a year closed. Visitors include Mrs. Harry King and Mrs. Belle Emerson of Watertown, Mass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Osgood
Ida Oliver
Popham
Omar King
George Palmer
Brunswick
Ralph
Fort Reservation
Vernon Mattson, Jr
Voorhees Boys
Seguin Island
Robert Barlow
East Boothbay
E. W. Osgood
Stephen Etnier
Gilbert Head
Long Island
Melvin Downing
Beverly
Shirley
Auburn
John McCole
W. Franklyn Morse
Maude Haminston
Elkanah Wyman
Margaret
Wyman
Elisha Bridges
Philip Carruthers
Edwin
Jane
Melrose
Mass
Sedgeburg
Peter Isaacson
Lewiston
Isaacson
Ladies Sewing Circle
Popham Beach
Society Hall
Stanley Hyde
E. J. McNulty
Frank D. Scott
Walter Sprague
George Oliver
Alford M.graham
Robert Cody
Vernon Mattson
Lizzie Oliver
Herbert Kellaway
Raymond Larrabee
Ellison Moody
East Bowdoin Chapel
Percy L. Vernon
Lewiston United
Everett Jones
Sabattus
Irving Clough
Hallowell
L. C
Harry King
Belle Emerson
Watertown
C. A. Babb
Nellie Cobb
Gardiner
Carrie Douglass
Gaudet and Sprague Married at Bath First Baptist Church
John Abel Gaudet and Ruth Jane Sprague wed in a single ring ceremony at the parsonage of the First Baptist Church in Bath. Attendants were Ethel Potansu of Waldeboro and Philemon R. Russell. The couple’s families are from Maxwell Street Bath and North New Portland. Reverend Charles R. Sims officiated their Saturday nuptials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Abel Gaudet
Peter Francis Gaudet
Maxwell Street
Ruth Jane Sprague
Alden E. Sprague
North New Portland
Nellie Sprague
Charles R. Sims
First Baptist Church
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Senter’s, Inc
Kid
U. S
Bath Fish Market
Brewster G. Sedgwick
Optometrist
Arthur Allen Bath Trust
R. W. Bragg
Justice Chapman
Grangers
Legionnaires
John W. Costain
Old
New Bath Iron Works
Connecticut
Bowdoinham
Charles H. Cahill
Martha Cahill
High Street
Hartford, Conn
Ethel Osgood
Fred
Dresden Mills
Richmond
Bowdoin
Gaudet—Sprague
Edwin Dodge Hardin
Massena
Hardin
Winter Street Church
Sebasco Estates
Walker Cottage
Opera House
Robert Montgomery
Stuart Erwin
THE
Ritz Brothers
Kentucky
America's
Shirley Temple
Little Miss
Broadway
George Murphy
Jimmy Durante
Phyllis Brooks