West Bath Social Roundup Highlights Local Visits and Gatherings
Mrs Velma Patterson and children from Portland visited West Bath for a week with Mrs Sophia Getchell. Beverly Curran and the Patterson children attended Marion Getchells birthday. Local Republicans at Hotel Sedgwick luncheon featured Loring Small and Edwin Haggett. A Topsham rally drew Haggett Larrabee Harry Rich and Odie Rich supervised by Small. Visitors from Arlington Mass including Emil Ringbergh and daughter Virginia stayed at Larrabee grove. Emma Cox visited Bath with the Luce and Skolfield families and Vida Skolfield of Hartford. Jennie M Larrabee of Portland weekended with W H Larrabee family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Velma Patterson
Portland
Sophia Getchell
West Bath
Beverly Curran
Bath
Virginia
Elizabeth
Jean Patterson
Donald
Douglas Patterson
Marion Getchell
Hotel Sedgwick
Loring D. Small
Edwin W. Haggett
Haggett
Joseph W. Larrabee
Harry Rich
Odie Rich
Topsham
Emil Ringbergh
Arlington
Mass
Larrabee's Grove
Emma Cox
Herbert B. Luce
High Street
Thomas Skolfield
Skolfield
Vida
Hartford
Everett papers note various cottage visits and guests
Mrs Rexford Clarke returns to Everett after a visit with Mrs Luella Noyes at the Noyes cottage. Quincey couple C B Ferris and wife come home after two weeks at a Delmar Bates bungalow. Several families and guests are listed at Sabine and Lloyd Hooker cottages with outings including a weenie roast at the hall for the association and friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rexford Clarke
Everett
Mass
Luella Noyes
Noyes Cottage
C. B. Ferris
Quincy
Delmar Bates Cottage
Edward W. Haggett
Arthur
Charles
Harold Haggett
Charles Haggett
Lemont Cottage
Anderson and Son
Beachmont
Aitken
Ray Perry
Hyde Park
Roy Perry
Belmont
Walter Gilpin
Sabine
Kelley
Lynn
Lloyd Hooker
Samuel Bates
Eleanor
Portland
George Bailey
South Portland
Fred Duren
Patricia
Richmond
Duren
Henry Henderson
Winthrop
Harold Bates
Warren Rouse
Trenton
N. J
Charles Bates
Jean Bates
Bates
Leslie Mayo
Winterport
Edwin C. Upton
Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson
N. Y
Engagement of Bath Young People Announces
The engagement of Miss Iva Hagan to Melvin Comeau was announced at a Brunswick Road party hosted by Mrs. Charles Doyle. Guests passed heart shaped cards signaling the engagement, with prizes awarded for card tables and refreshments later served. Miss Hagan, Morse High School 1926 graduate, studied art in Portland. Mr. Comeau, Morse Class of 1924, works as a machinist at Hyde Windlass Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iva Hagan
Melvin Comeau
Miss Hagan
Charles Doyle
Brunswick Road
Mr. Comeau
Gladys Comeau
Everett Quinlan
Brunswick
Morse High School
Portland
Harry E. Peterson
East Brunswick
Comeau
Estelle Comeau
Spring Street
Hyde Windlass Co
Quinlan
Edgar Leavitt
Bernice Carr
John Sanborn
Elsie Crocker
Wilbur Hagan
Edward Ford
Kathaleen Leonard
Vaughan Smiley
Philadelphia
Bath Country Club to Host Pro Amateur Tourney
Bath's Country Club prepares for the weekly pro amateur tourney drawing a large field from Bath and Shipping City. Prizes include low professional score and a potential cash award for breaking the course record of 69 set by Royce Abbott, an area high school star. The record stood last year at 70 before the pros challenged it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Royce Abbott
Edward
New Device Proposed to Tag Maine Lobsters for Trade Mark
A New York survey shows most New York market lobsters come from Canadian waters though sold as Maine product. Sturges Dorrance proposes a patent trade mark device using enlarged wooden plugs with lithographed metal coverings to identify origin from Maine New Brunswick or Nova Scotia and aid consumers. Maine Development Commission backs the effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
America
Maine
New Hampshire
American
New Brunswick
Nova Scotia
New York
Canadian
California
Florida
Idaho
Hawaii
Sturges Dorrance
Dorrance Sullivan & Co
Maine Development Commission
Walter A Murtaugh Addresses Bath Rotarians
Walter A Murtaugh of Western Electric in New York City spoke at the Bath Rotary Club weekly luncheon. He recalled Bath roller polo days in the 1890s, noted players, and the absence of drinking, ending with a recitation of an office boy’s version of Hamlet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hotel Sedgwick
Bath Rotary Club
Winchenbach
North End
Walter A. Murtaugh
Western Electric Co
New York City
Bath
Harry H. Donnell
Billy Leyden
Nick McGilivary
the Mooneys
Walter
Elwood Toothaker
Warren E. Kershner
Rotary
Edwin D. Hardin
Massena
N. Y
Ernest W. Blodie
Meriden, Conn
Carl Mountier
Charlevov, Pa
Montsweag Woolwich Churches Schedule Week
Church services and activities listed for Montsweag and Woolwich Center including morning worship at 10 30, church school times, youth meetings, and a weenie roast. Auxiliary groups plan all day meetings and visiting. several residents’ movements and health and social notices wrap the community calendar.
Community Events Highlight Woolwich Congregational Activities
Thirty one youths visited Rev Willard Rand at Day s Ferry for games and a discussion with mountain trip movie screenings. Outdoor worship drew over 100 despite rain in Nequasset Grove with performers including Thelma Klett and David Cash. Church Council met at Nequasset Methodist. Daily Vacation Bible School ends Thursday. A parish program in Sebenon hall Sunday night depicts school activities. Padre Sahib film planned Aug 12 at Nequasset Congregational. An all parish picnic Aug 14 in Nequasset Grove is planned with rain date. Ellsworth men recently caught a swordfish eight feet long and 800 pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willard Rand
Day’s Ferry
Nequasset Grove
Thelma Klett
Merrymeeting Camp
Ave Marie
David Cash
Jesus
Harold Metzner
Lloyd Doty
Arrowsic
Ernest Heywood
Bath
Henry Weston
Montsweag
J. W. Reed
Nequasset Methodist Church
Sebenon Hall
Nequasset Congregational Church
Woolwich
Farm land values back in line with commodity prices
The National Association of Manufacturers Agricultural Cooperation committee finds farm land values align with commodity prices after a period of speculation. The bulletin notes higher living standards, new uses for products, and scientific advances boost demand while erosion and soil exhaustion do not threaten major losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Association of Manufacturers’ Committee On Agricultural Cooperation
Committee of Industrialists
Lewis H. Brown
Johns- Manville Corporation
Congress of American Industry
The
Bulletin
Nature
United States
Lewis Brown
Egg Prices Forecast Upswing As Summer Nears
Economists from the Maine Extension Service predict egg prices will rise above 1935 levels by summer end due to seasonal factors. Feed costs have surged on drought, while poultry prices may dip if drought worsens. Domestic markets show higher receipts but lower storage stocks, with broad evidence of economic improvement in June and early July including strong auto sales and freight activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. N. Atherton
Maine Extension Service
Atherton
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Republican women entertain after Sedgwick Hotel talk
Mrs. Arthur Sewall and Sagadahoc county Republicans hosted at a Stone House Monday afternoon. Guests included Mrs. Wallace H. White Jr, Mrs. Lewis O. Barrows, Mrs. James C. Oliver, and Miss Marion Martin after a Sedgwick Hotel speaking event and before a Topsham grange rally that night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Sewall
Sagadahoc County
Republican State Committee
Stone House
Wallace H. White, Jr
Lewis O. Barrows
James C. Oliver
Marion Martin
Sedgwick Hotel
Topsham Grange
Winnegance Vacation School Set For August
Miss Barbara Allard of Mechanic Falls visits July with her parents and will stay with grandparents in Winnegance in August. Winnegance Church Vacation School will run two weeks starting August 10 in the vestry led by Mrs. Harry Oliver and Mrs. Thatcher Pinkham. Pupils should register with Mrs. Pinkham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barbara Allard
Mechanic Falls
Elmer Allard
South Harpswell
Samuel McElroy
Winnegance
Winnegance Church
Harry Oliver
Thatcher Pinkham
Salvation Army drive nears goal amid late donations
The Salvation Army reports 2100.82 dollars raised of a 63000 goal after Way day totals added 121.31. Post office staff John Hancock Life Insurance employees and Bath Iron Works promise further contributions, with many local names listed among recent contributors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salvation Army
Post Office
John Hancock Life Insurance Co
L. Eugene Thebeau
Bath Iron Works Corporation
Tripp
John P. Carey
I. A. Trueworthy
J. Sampson Bath Fuel Co
Harry T. Passmore
A. D. Stetson &Son
A. McAllister
J. S. Rideout
W. B. Blanchard
Povich
Edwin Powers
J. Lemont
Elizabeth G. Gould
J. I. Smith
M. D. J. Houghton McLellan Davenport Fund
George Willis A. Ellers
John Dupont
William Manson
Edward W. Bridgham
Charles C. Low
A. Rollins
Rodney E. Ross
Sarah J. Hitchcock
Mary Hobson
Helena Bell
Charlotte I. Meeker
John McInnes
Postoffice
Employes Read Nichols Co
Frederick Edney
Miss Jane Murphy Attends University of Hawaii Session
Miss Jane Murphy of Bath is among 1160 students at the University of Hawaii Summer session in Honolulu. She stays at the Niumalu hotel as six states and one foreign country are represented in the student body. The Seminar Conference on Education in Pacific Countries runs July 2 to August 7 with attendees from 18 Pacific countries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Hawaii
Jane Murphy
Bath
Murphy
Niumalu
Honolulu
Hawaiian Islands
Canada
the Orient
England
Graduate School of Tropical Agriculture and Oriental Institute
Funeral Services for Mrs. Sadie A. Lakin
The funeral will be held Wednesday at 2 30 P M at Arthur F Mayo Funeral Residence Bath for Sadie A Lakin widow of Albert Lakin who died Sunday in New York City Born in Bath in 1877 she lived here years and worked seven years as a seamstress at the State Military and Naval Children's home Survived by daughter one sister one stepson and a cousin Rev Charles R Sims of the First Baptist Church will conduct the services Also notes a prairie schooner gift and its date of 1811 connected to William Gladman from Baltimore to Deersville Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wiscasset
Main Street
Village Improvement Society
Maine
White Elephant Club
Frank E. Quinnam
Biscay Pond
Raymond E. Farmer
A&p
Farnham House
Federal Street
Farmer
Lawrence H. Marston
Malden
Mass
Roy R. Marston
Lindon Robinson
Bath
Wood Greenleaf
Lisbon Falls
Sweet
Pennsylvania
Forest Preble
Albert Galloupe
Hallowell
Stanley W. Dodge
Damariscotta Pond
Blanche Plumstead
Camp Sargent
Nashua
N. H
Frances Creamer
Frank A. Creamer
Washington Street
Detroit
Boston
Helen Keirstead
Alvin W. Keirstead
Joseph P. Tucker
Josephine
Varney
Rockland
Ruth Sewall
Charles B. Sewall
Bowdoinham
Frank H. Hutchins
Russell Waters
Waterville
Maine Beautiful Camps
Bath Road
Harold Perkins
Mr. Perkins
Niagara Falls
Perkins
Billy
Jackie
New York
Royce Quinnam
Doris Quinnam
Samuel S. Quinnam
Gardiner Road
Josephine Plumstead
Portland
Birch Point
John W. Myer
Mr. Myer
A. G. Myer
Payson
Rex Webber
Rutland
Webber
M. C. Webber
James McCarthy
Mildred
Eugene McCarthy
Lois Ann
Christine McCarthy
M. A. Plumstead
Timothy Timmerman
Miami
Okla
Neil H. McIntyre
Marion Lownes
Alex Cunningham
Gov. Smith
High Street
George P. Hobson
Squirrel Island
Mary Hobson
George Bemis
Andrea Getchell
Moatsweag Food Products Cannery
Allen Berry
Carroll T. Berry
Berry
Anna Sibley
Brookline
Elm Lodge
Friendship
Grace
Lucy Hildreth
Beverley
Grace L. Knight
Charles M. Legrow
Guy L. Vannah
New England School of Theology
Congregational Parsonage
Summer Street
L. J. Boynton
Augusta Johnson
Harland Johnson
Clinton
Ethelyn Bickford
Smith’s Corner
George Dill
Auburn
Knight Home
Wilbur F. Merrill
F. D. Southard
Southard
Hooper Street
C. A. Richards
Granville Moulton
William Clisby
Earl Rines
Rail Hill
Frank Houdlette
Smith Field
St. Philip’s Church
Milford Griffin
Henry Dyer
Roy Dow
Herbert Pushard
Ralph Wakefield
Alvin Keirstead
A. F. Sortwell
Horace Day
Verne Farnham
Alfred Higgins
Julia Lewis
Harry Quinnam
Frank Haggett
A. J. Myer
A. H. Lennox
Leland Bryant
William Gove
Virginia May Orne
Everett C. Orne
Boothbay
Harold Walter Leavitt
Walter C. Leavitt
Plinette Allen
Baptist Church Parsonage
Masonic Hall
Garrison Hill
Louise Blagdon
Lettie D. Hubbard
Order
Nellie Blagdon
Antoinette Plumstead
Rose Trask
Annie Webber
Bradford C. Redennett, Jr
Washington, D. C
Bradford C. Redennett
Hodge Street
Eames
Wiscasset Inn
Good Turn Studios
New York City
Josephine Merry
Gardiner
Lee Merry
Donald W. Leavitt
Edna Jones
Edith Robinson
Laura Pearl Ladner
Carlisle Macurda
State Street Congregational Church
Henry Bradley
Macurda
South
Montsweag
Woolwich Center
Sarah Bagley Wright
Henry E. Weston
Glennys Mank
Helene Leavitt
Duncan McIntosh
Lexington
Agnes McIntosh
John C. Gilmore
Harold
Laura Hall
John Reed
Capital Island
George M. Carlton
Nequasset
Camden
Victor Gott
Brunswick
Eugenie Hunnewell
Josiah L. Walker
Roslindale
Frank L. Decker
Philadelphia
Ruth Hume
Richard
Robert Decker
Mable Thwing
North Woolwich
Earl Gainsley
Cambridge
George Gainsley
Fred Carlton
Florence Carlton
Charles Henderson
Melvin
Herbert Pierce
Ssaphene Dolloff
Elster Dolloff
Harvard
Miss Dolloff
Bates College
Hotel Sedgwick
Women's Republican Club
Sagadahoc County
Tudor Gardiner
Emma Head
Olive Corliss
John G. Reed
Georgie Walker
Charles Crosby
Frank R. Bailey
James McFarland
Harold G. Hall
Harold, Jr
A. W. Hall
Men's Forum
Henry Dubar
Good Will Club
Katy Bell
Lynn
J. H. Whittum
Flushing
L. I
Day's Ferry
Louise Sidelinger
Sadie A. Lakin
Albert Lakin
Arthur F. Mayo
Lakin
Edward
Ellen (Sampson) Winslow
State Military and Naval Children's Home
R. C. Jones
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Lee Lewis
Newport
Ralph A. Smith
C. R. Smith
Exeter
Bryant
Prank Houdlette
Lewis
Worcester House
White Mountains
Ralph Smith
Keith Smith
Elizabeth Smith
Blake Smith
John McKeon
Clinton Condon
Donald Couster
Margaret Wahlund
Bloomfield
Walter Dow
Ira Redonnett
B. C. Redonnett
Herbert Lewis
Sanford G. Lewis
Providence
R. I
Charles L. Macurda
Carlisle Moore
Harbor
Paul Macurda
Newtonville
Grace Hatch
Quebec
Sabino
Bath Country Club
Edgar Beaudoin
Norway Village
Mill Pond
Ord‘way
John Wood
Pike Hill Road
Lake Road
Thad B. Tobey
Clifton
Thomas H. Bird
Paul Moore
Moore
Bath Street
Arthur W. Brown
Montreal
Woolwich Church News
Ellsworth
Manufacturers’ Committee
Salvation Army Drive
Sadie Lakin
Barre
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