Skippy Reunited With Owner After Wagging Reunion
"Skippy" the German police dog recovered in Woolwich, Monday evening, by his owner Mrs. Percy V. Shelly of Glennside, Pa. After a month missing since leaping from a train baggage car July 2, the dog answered his name and finally joined Mrs. Shelly after a 22 hour journey, reuniting in Bath with a tearful greeting. The dog had avoided contact with others, while many locals had spotted him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Skippy
Woolwich
Percy V. Shelly
Glennside
Lorraine Price
Maine Central Railroad
Shelly
Bath
Mr. Price
World of Mirth Show in Brunswick
World of Mirth Shows will bring fifty streamlined attractions on forty railroad cars to Brunswick August 7 to 14. Max Linderman selects kid friendly and educational acts, with new midway features and airplane rides with individual controls. Some displays are being shown for first time after the New York World's Fair. Lighting and spectacle devices will be toned down for local defense rules. A share of Wednesday gross receipts goes to the Army Navy War Relief Fund as the outdoor amusement industry aims for six hundred thousand dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brunswick
Max Linderman
Army-Navy War Relief Fund
Westport Notices of Birth and Summer Visits
Westport residents report a son born July 28 at Goodall Hospital Sanford to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Green leaf. Visitors from Massachusetts and New Hampshire plan travels to Portland Oregon and Salem Massachusetts. Various locals host relatives and attend weddings, picnics, and seasonal visits in Sebasco Harmon's Point and Bath during August.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Greenleaf
Goodall Hospital
Sanford
Marjorie Roberts
Richard
David
H. A. Swanton
Springvale
Portland
Oregon
Salem
Mass
Akron
Ohio
Judson Cromwell
Marion Cromwell
Chelsea
Richard Gardiner
Newton
Harmon's Point
Virginia Jewett
South Portland
Beatrice Gleason
Norman Danforth
George Knight
James Greenough
Medford
Green
John M. Leonard
Bath
B. M. Jewett
Lester Hodgdon
Dover
N. H
J. Louis Doyle
Betty Doyle
Stanwood Gilman
Sebasco
Ann Louise Jewett
J. M. Leonard Farrin, Jr
Burnham Knight
Amos Knight
Donnell Announces Engagement of Barbara Donnell
Mr and Mrs Charles Joseph Donnell of Kalamazoo Michigan announce the engagement of their daughter Florence Barbara Donnell of Boston to Lieutenant Charles Rutter Norris Jr U S N son of Lieutenant Commander Charles Rutter Norris U S N R and Mrs Norris of Charleston South Carolina and Tampa Florida Barbara Donnell educated in Bath Kalamazoo Pine Manor College in Wellesley and Katherine Gibbs School in Boston is secretary for the director of public relations at the Red Sox Norris attended the University of Tampa and the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis class of 1938 He was stationed in Bath in 1940 with the destroyer Greaves No date for the wedding has been set and Miss Donnell has returned to Boston after a stay in Kalamazoo
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Joseph Donnell
Kalamazoo
Wellesley
Mass
Katherine Gibbs
Boston
Red Sox
Norris
University of Tampa
United States Naval Academy At
Annapolis
Bath
U. S
Greaves
Donnell
Orville Rowe
E. M. Horton
E. M. Almedinger
Peter Rowe Bacon
Sanderson Hospital
Waltham
Francis Bacon
Eustis
Charles L. Moore
Naval Supply Corps
Harvard School of Business Administration
Norfolk
Wilma Frances Sawyer
Harold E. Dunton
West Bath
People’s Baptist Church
George B. Wolstenholme
Dunton
Ransom 1
Five Islands
Mr. Dunton
Willington Dunton
Dutton
Bath Iron Works
Good Neighbor Club
Porter
Harrison Franklin Lyman
Winchester
Alice Lyman
Charles Lothrop Moore
Ensign
U.S. N.R
Library Hall
Elbridge Southard, Jr
Elbridge Southard
Malden
Army Air Force Technical School
Sioux Falls
South Dakota
Corp
Dick Carey
Madge O'Brien
Army Air Corps
Camp
Sabino Improvement Association holds annual meeting
The Sabino Improvement Association gathered in Sabino Hall on Monday evening with the largest turnout in years. Officers were re elected and the group discussed plans for the 20th anniversary supper on August 25. New screens and shingling were approved. A town meeting at Canton voted to rescind March state aid construction and redirect funds to finish the fire house, with remaining balance to road construction. The Haile family of Waukeagan Illinois visited their uncle in East Brunswick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Sabino Improvement Association
Sabino Hall
William Dean
C. Lloyd Hooker
Alice Small
Lula Lemont
Jack McNary
Canton
Social Roundup Highlights Georgetown Summer Life
A busy sequence of luncheons dinners and trips marks Georgetown social season. Elizabeth Hunt hosts for Harriet Lane with John Olsen Howard Trafton and Walter Powers among guests while A G Steadman and Frank Brown unite for a Mile Beach picnic. William Zorach and Morris Levine dine with the Stewarts and Winslow Eaves with Summer art student from Detroit attends at Deermont home. Local outings include Robinhood trips and a Hell's Gate sail, with church notices and a Working League sale planned for Aug 11 at the First Baptist vestry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Hunt
Harriett Lane
John Olsen
Howard Trafton
Walter Powers
Mile Beach
A. G. Steadman
Frank Brown
Carol, Lee and
Davis
Virginia Steadman
Fred Butters
J. C. Bearse
Almon Marr
Malden
Five Islands
William Zorach
Morris Levine
West Georgetown
Roy Newman
Harry Horn
Robinhood
Winslow Eaves
Detroit
Albert Deermont
Happy Nook
J. C. Bearce
E. R. Brown
Tom Green
J. Dickie
MacRonalds
Rumford
R. I
Oaks
Brown
Mill Pond
William Holley
Wiscasset
Hell's Gate
Elizabeth Thompson
Burton Cunningham
Lawrence Heffron
J. F. Higgins
Koehlwetter
Working League
First Baptist
Mary Watkins
Harrison City
Andrew Rowe
J. H. Brown
West Newton
Mass
Miles Hagan
Natalie
Bath
Boothbay Harbor
Charles L. Kinney
Denmark
Marequita
Charles Kinney
Dunton Cottage
Kathleen
Rowe
Clinton
Florence R. Knapp
Girls Central High School
Syracuse
George E. Jordan
Bath Iron Works
Donald Smith
Guy Lowe
Methodist
Celia Connolly
Bath Playground Fund finances for 1942 report
The Bath Playground committee treasurer Donald D. Young presents the 1942 receipts and expenditures showing total receipts from donations and city fund transfers of 5008.68 with expenses of 2723.34 and unpaid bills 749.50, leaving a net balance of 1535.84. The report lists specific donations, expenditures, and a city fund transfer of 314.00, with unpaid bills totaling 749.50 and various local notices following.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Playground Committee
Donald D. Young
Hyde Windlass Co
Br'hood
Marie Hamblett
Armory
Rod & Gun Club
City Fund
City Playground Fund
J. R. Porter
Shaw's Book Store
C. W. Rogers, Inc
Bath Times
Board of Education
Woolworth's
J. H. Miller
Senter's
Carl's Drug Store
Berry Paper Co
Horace Partridge
Frank Allegrin
Piano recital at Odd Fellows Home Auburn features Marie Hoffman
88 year old resident Arry Insmore performed original piano works in the Auburn Odd Fellows Home reception rooms after a grove picnic. Mrs Marie S Hoffman, past president of the Rebekah Assembly, was highlighted in several pieces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arry Insmore
Odd Fellows Home
Auburn
Marie S. Hoffman
Rebekah Assembly
Five Islands Summer Fair Struggles Amid War Conditions
The Five Islands Library Auxiliary plans a Thursday afternoon fair on August 13 from 2 to 5 with aprons quilts fir pillows and books despite wartime strain. A prize story and new births weddings and engagements are noted along with community club plans and local visits, including Ensign Moore and several families visiting Five Islands.
Summer vegetables plentiful in local markets
Native green corn and cucumbers appear in the markets, with tomatoes at a roadside stand believed to be first in the area. Beans, summer squash, broccoli, beets, carrots, cabbage and potatoes noted. Blueberries still high priced due to picker scarcity. raspberries dwindling. a few blackberries. Strawberries will be scarce this fall due to drought. Apple crop expected earlier than usual this year.
Religious Education Institute closes with banquet at Ferry Beach
The Religious Education Institute met at the Universalist church on Ferry Beach and closed Friday with a banquet at the Quil Ohli. An annual commencement program followed at Rowland Hall at 8 o'clock directed by Dean Ellsworth C. Beamon of Syracuse. Mrs Ralph Millett has returned home from Memorial hospital with her infant son Ralph Jr.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Religious Education Institute
Universalist
Ferry Beach Park
Ferry Beach
Rowland Hall
Dean Rey. Ellsworth C. Beamon
D. D
Syracuse
N. Y
Ralph Mullett
Ralph, Jr
Hardings
Memorial Hospital
Millett
Mary Royal
George B Drake Dies in Flushing
Funeral services were held for George B. Drake Sr. 70, marine architect and yachtsman, who died Thursday in Flushing. Survived by his widow Martha Kessel Drake and daughters Elizabeth Skelding and Helen Angus, he was a former Texas Steamship Co. general manager in Bath. Drake lived in Bath during the 1916 shipyard opening, later ran a New York marine design firm, and with his son operated a shipyard in the South. His last Bath visit was for the Exiria launch on December 20, 1941.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George B. Drake
Flushing
Martha Kessel Drake
Elizabeth Skelding
Helen Angus
Texas Steamship Co
Bath
L. I
Drake
New England Co
Arthur Sewall Co
William S. Newell
Bath Iron Works Corp
Washington Street
New York
Marine Department of the
Texas Co
American Export Co
George C. Quicksall
The
Boothbay
Damariscotta
William Hamilton dies in Florida at 84
William Hamilton 84 a former Brunswick resident died in St. Cloud Florida Thursday evening after illness. Born November 22 1857 in Rouston Falls Can he spent 50 years in Brunswick working in retail groceries and later ran the Riverside hotel at Popham Beach. Survived by two sons Dr Holland Hamilton Los Angeles Calif and Carl W Brunswick two daughters Mrs Frank St Clair Millburn N J and Mrs Thomas Edwards St Cloud Fla two sisters Mrs John Barnes Brunswick Mrs Cora Boldes Augusta and Mrs Frank Whitten St Cloud Fla one brother James St Cloud several grandchildren and one great grandson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Hamilton
Brunswick
St. Cloud
Fla
Rouxton Falls
Can
James
Elizabeth Hamilton
Riverside
Popham Beach
Florida
Holland Hamilton
Los Angeles
Calif
Carl W
Frank St. Clair
Millburn
N. J
Thomas Edwards
John Barnes
Cora Boldes
Augusta
Frank Whitten
Alexander Deojay Dies in Bath at 81
Alexander Deojay aged 81 of Bath died early Monday at Maine General Hospital Portland after a period as a patient. He lived with his daughter Mrs Frank Burnell at 244 Center Street. Born in Bath to John and Mary Hart Deojay he leaves wife Olive Deojay, a son Thomas A. Deojay of Brunswick, three daughters including Mrs Burnell, Mrs Leston Harrington of Phippsburg and Mrs Herbert Eaton, a nephew Frank Deojay of Bath, and several grandchildren. He worked as a carpenter in Bath for many years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander Deojay
Bath
Maine General Hospital
Portland
Frank Burnell
Center Street
John
Mary Hart Deojay
Olive Deojay
Thomas A. Deojay
Brunswick
Burnell
Leston Harrington
Phippsburgh
Herbert Eaton
Frank Deojay
Deejay
Funeral service for Miss Pris cilla Howell held Thursday
Funeral service for Miss Priscilla Howell was conducted Thursday afternoon at two o'clock from the Mano Funeral residence with Rev David Jl Wilson officiating. Bearers were Richard Garrison Rexford Pierce James Ambrose and Alonzo Carter. Burial followed in the Varney cemetery family lot at Brunswick. Separately the Caribou Lions Club began constructing a swimming pool last Monday clearing the Sweden Street Spring Street junction area to prepare a dam site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Priscilla Howell
Mano
David JL. Wilson
Richard Garrison
Rexford Pierce
James Ambrose
Alonzo Carter
Varney
Brunswick
Caribou Lions Club
Sweden Street
Spring Street
Night police captain Christopher Cushing dies at 49
Bath Iron Works night captain Christopher J. Cushing died at his Dummer Street home after returning from night duties. Born February 28 1896 he served in World War I and was active in Veterans of Foreign Wars. He leaves his wife Rena Pattee five children including John who recently left for Fort Devens. Funeral services will take place.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christopher J. Cushing
Bath Iron Works
Dummer Street
Christopher S
Julia
Grady) Cushing
France
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Rena Pattee
Hiram Pattee
John C
Nation
Armed Service
Fort Devens
Marjorie L
Sears, Roebuck
Ann Elizabeth
Senter’s, Inc
Frances E
Daphne R
Cushing Funeral Services Held At Curtis Home
Funeral services for Christopher J. Cushing were held at Curtis Funeral Home on Washington Street with Reverend Charles M. Tubbs officiating. Veterans of Foreign Wars conducted graveside rites. Bearers included four guards from Bath Iron Works and four VFW members. Burial followed at Oak Grove.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christopher J. Cushing
Curtis Funeral Home
Washington Street
Charles M. Tubbs
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Mr. Cushing
Guards Department
Bath Iron Works Corp
V.F. W. Post
Ralph Pomeroy
Edward Pomerleau
Ralph Harvey
Harold Sprague
Floyd Preble
Harold Corliss
Carl Swanton
Asa Wilson
Oak Grove
Funeral for Alexander Deo Jay at St Marys Church
The funeral for Alexander Deo Jay was held at eight o'clock on Tuesday morning at St. Mary's Church with Rev. Tim othy C. Maney officiating. Bearers were Ernest Pinkham Frank Deojay Frank Burnell William Burnell and Leston Harrington Jr. Burial followed in Oak Grove Cemetery with committal performed by Father Maney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander Deo Jay
St. Mary's Church
Timothy C. Maney
Ernest Pinkham
Frank Deojay
Frank Burnell
William Burnell
Leston Harrington, Jr
Oak Grove Cemetery
Father Maney
Local notes highlight meetings and events in Maine
Notes of Interest recalls Sector Wardens meeting at City hall with exams, and a public Federal inspection of Co D Maine State Guard at the Armory. Col Miller will inspect at 7 30 pm. Free Will workers and Sterling Bible class enjoyed an all day Birch Point picnic with 16 attendees. The Bath campaign opens with Sewall posters. Dr Fred H Albee, famed surgeon, plans a goodwill tour by Pan American Airways from Miami to South America. A porcupine named Lucky returns to Acton to visit the Loveyuy family at their farm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Co. D. Maine State Guard
North
Lincoln Streets
Col. Miller
United States Army
Free Will
Sterling Bible Class
Corliss Street
Chester Plant
Birch Point
Lincoln County
Fred H. Albee
New York City
Venice
Fla
Albee
Miami
Pan American Airways
South America
Brazil
Argentina
Chile
Peru
Panama
Lucky
York County Farm Bureau
Raymond Bo Loveyuy
Faroy
Acton
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Mrs. Shelly
Pennsylvania
Dog
Aviation Field
Westport
Barbara Donnell
Bride
Michigan
Sabino Association
Sue
Elaine Haile
Jerry Haile
Waukeagan, Ill
East Brunswick
Georgetown
Ralph Davis
John Gordan
Ruth Gordan
Sagadahoc Bay
Old Orchard
John D. Williams
Rapheal Higgins
Chamberlain
James R. Nichols
Gardner Hanson
Arlington
Keehwetter
Maud Bisthan
Verona Herman
Raymond Brown
Framingham
Wilhemina McGrath
Brooklyn
Madelyn Oliver
Muriel Petterson
Merose
Miss Oliver
W. A. Todd
John Blackie
Beatrice Abbott
Ernest Heal
Red Cross
East Winthrop
Alma Davenport
Marie Griffith
Isabel Hewett
Mildred Huffman
Avis Richards
Harriet McCreary
Mabel Whiting
Mina Richards
Etta Tucker
Marian Thurlow
Annie Weatherbie
Alice Whiting
Dorothy White
Robert Lundquist
Joan
Herbert J. Moore
Charles Moore
Herbert Moore, Jr
Belmont
Sylvia Woolson
Rochester
Walter Houghton
Elizabeth
Kathryn
Carey Cottage
Donald MacPherson
John V. Blasi
Olaf Hanson
Everett
Ray West
Rockcrest
Lotti Wyman
Edith Davis
Vincent Davis
Kittery
Lester Davis
Mildred Pinkham
Westbrook
Ellsworth Pinkham
Olive Williams
Clarence Pinkham
Laindquist
Roslindale
Harmon's Harbor
Clarence W White
Missoura Rovers
Sarah Hill
Concord
Popple Stone Beach
N. L. O'Connor
P. H. Collins
Long Island
O'Connor
Woodrow Gray
Portsmouth Navy Yard
Dr. Nichols
Jones Cottage
Walter Moore
Hallowell
Walter Thomas
Lowell
Malden Island
Chester
Pinkham
Donna
Walter Savage
Percy Savage
Marion Stevens
A. L. Huntington
South Danville
N. FA
Dorothy Lewis
Rosemont
Rockmere
Arthur Baird
Harriet Baird
Harold Rowe
Carl
Leon Williams
L. H Rowe
Alton Reed
Reed
Savage
Lermond Davis
Dickie
Jimmie
North Anson
Thorne
Martin Duffy
Gloria
Shiela
Newport
R. 1
Beverly
Lewis Cottage
Albert Johnson
Lynn
Felix Salamoni
Phyllis Mason
Harbor Home
Potter
Brookline
Clark
Messrs
Tozier and
Landry
Rolalot
Riverside Hotel
Popham
Portland Hospital
C. J. Cushing
City Hall
Maine
Legion
Sewall
Freds, Curtis & CO
Thomas R. Huston
Washington St
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