Thanksgiving gatherings and community notices in Maine town
Local social pages recount a busy holiday season with lodge initiations and a linen shower for Mrs. Waldo Brewer of Boothbay Harbor, family dinners at Freeport and Bath, visits from relatives, and residents traveling to Clearwater and Port Harrison for winter work. Attendees include Amy Jewett, Miss Anne Miete, Mrs. Pannie Adams, and many others, alongside hospital and church updates and a note on a new janitor appointment at the school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amy C. Jewett
Anne Miete
Pannie Adams
Viola Adams
Annie Chase
Florence Sherman
Nellie Munsey
Jennie Gray
Waldo Brewer
Boothbay Harbor
Alice Lewis
Priory
Virginia Pease
Dorothy Chase
Local Society Notes and Employment Updates
Mrs. Jackson's mother Mrs. Nellie Clifford and sister Miss Helena of North Edgecomb visit. Miss Brookings recovers from Bath Memorial hospital operation. Roy Marston and family hosted in Maiden Massachusetts. Garrison Hill O E 8 meets December 13. refreshment committee named. Wiscasset Woman's club meets Friday afternoon. Rev Henry W Webb to speak. Mrs Eileen Leighton employed at Blair's. Eunice Lewis, Wiscasset Academy graduate, leaves for Boston for work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Tucker
Josephine Tucker
Tall Trees
Freeport
Charlotte S&s Whiton
Frank B. Creamer
Joseph L. Neal
Neal Creamer
Helen McLaughlin
Alfred H. Lennox
Carolyn G. Varney
Carrie Knight
Isabel Hughes
Wis- Casset
Harold Campbell
Campbell
Federal Street
Douglass Soule
Quincy
Mass
Melvin Soule
Alton Berry
Milton Soule
Woolwich
Pred Soule
Birch Point
Katherine Ames
R. N
Cary Memorial Hospital
Caribou
Winnifred Peterson
Ames
Alton E. Ames
Charles E. Cowley
Pederal Street
Maude Clark Gay
Waldoboro
Minnie Morang
Fort Hill Street
Lincoln County Memorial Hospital
Damariscotta
Clarence Blagdon
Theodore Greenleaf
Blagdon
Graded School
Wiscasset Academy
Grand Ladies Grover
Garrison Hill
Lawreme B. Hagget
Mable Lewis Churchill
White Elephant Club
Harriet Piye
Anne Miete
Prances Petrie
Wiscasset Woman's Club
Henry W. Webb
Eileen Leighton
Blair's
Eunice Lewis
Boston
Maine Artists Displaying Work at New York World's Fair
Maine artists will send painting sculpture and graphic arts to a regional preview for the 1939 World's Fair. The exhibition will feature Democracy in Art with curatorial selections from Portland Manchester and Bennington College. Over 15000 works are expected across painting sculpture and graphic arts for previews and juries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Maine
Grover A. Whalen
Contemporary Arts Committee of Selection
Portland Museum
Portland
Currier Gallery of Art
Manchester
New Hampshire
Whalen
Alexander Bower
Portland Society of Art
Sweat Memorial Art Museum
Marsden Hartley
Dorothy Hay
Federal Art Project
Waldo Pierce
Lucien Gosselin
Municipal Art Committee
New York City
Oronzio Maldarelli
Columbia University
Sarah Lawrence College
Simon Meselsie
Vermont
Bennington College
Graphic
Stefan Hirsch
William J. Schaldach
Andrew Vargish
Maud B. Knowlton
N. H
Holger Cahill
Fair Corporation
Bowling Green
Numerous Inventors of Photographic Art History
The passage lists many pioneers of photography from 1727 to 1839. It mentions Jens Schultz making an early photo copy in 1727 and Thomas Wedgewood copying images by light in 1802. Joseph Nicéphore Niépce produced the first permanent pictures and Daguerre publicized the daguerreotype method in 1839.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. H. Schultz
Jens Schultz
Thomas Wedgewood
Joseph N. Niepce
Louis Daguérre
Daguerre
Niepce
Judea
Isadore
States Levyed Tariff Duties Before the Constitution
Before 1789 each state controlled its trade with others and some states imposed tariff duties under the Articles era, highlighting interstate trade regulation practices prior to federal adoption.
Thanksgiving Guests and Family News From West Bath
A long list of Thanksgiving visitors and family updates from West Bath shows many locals hosting relatives from Bath Portland Marblehead and Boston. Notable items include Beatrice Rose staying with her aunt, multiple couples hosting relatives, and twins announced for Raymond P Williams in Portland.
Bath to Brighten Christmas Season with Lights and Events
Bath merchants push a vibrant Christmas plan with multicolor lights across Summer Street to the post office and Center Street to the railroad tracks. City Hall Square and the Soldiers and Sailors Monument will host lighted trees. Santa will visit Bath for two weeks before Christmas, using a model car due to reindeer risks. A Home Decoration Contest offers prizes to the most attractive displays. details to follow in the Times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Bath Merchant's Association
Summer Street
P Post Office
City Hall
Center Street
City Hall Square
Soldiers and Sailors Monument
Court House
Santa Claus
North Pole
Greater Bath
Retail Merchant's Association
Charles Shepard
Harold Troop
Frank Vennett
Ralph Stetson
Francis Gooch
Rediscovery of the Safety Pin Reveals Ancient Idea
London Tit Bits reports that the modern safety-pin is a re invention from prehistoric research. The piece notes the device appeared again after thousands of years, debunking the belief it was born in the last century.
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London
Siris and Quy Sun Compared with Sirius
The Sun and Sirius are contrasted with the giant star Sirius. if they swapped places the Sun would be nearly invisible without a telescope while Sirius would engulf the Earth as a blast furnace would a gnat, needing 400 suns to equal Sirius.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Siris
Quy
Westport Notes on Local Visitors for Thanksgiving
Miss Virginia Jewett, student at the University of Maine, returned to Orone after visiting home and Bath with Mr. and Mrs. Donald B D Young. Several local families hosted or attended Thanksgiving gatherings including the Greenleaf, Cromwell, Jewett, Knight and Apt households with friends and relatives traveling to Bangor, Hyannis, Sanford, and Nequasset.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia Jewett
University of Maine
Orone
Donald BD. Young
Bath
Edwin R. Cromwell
Roy Farmer
Wiswasset
Brian Jewett
Bangor
R. T. Beaton
Fred
B. M. Jewett
Ann Louise
H. M. Jewett
Maud Webber
Ernest Colby
Ellsworth Colby
Eugene Cromwell
Nequasset
Fred Greenlaf
Sanford
Steeves Market gains in Tuesday night bowling league
Steeves Market leads nine points, closing to within one percent of Plant's Garages as new team total record 2467 tops Plant's 2371. Redlon's stacks six points. three Steeves players hit 500s or better, with individual scores high by Prates, Jones, and others.
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Steeves’ Market
Steeves
Plant
OYM
Redson Tribe
I. Trueworthy
W. Jones
S. Daley
R. Prates
M. Oliver
A. Jewett
North Bath Couple Plans Florida Winter
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Pearson of North Bath will leave Saturday by automobile for Florida for the winter. Miss Marjorie Cummings of Washington Street is visiting her parents in Topsham. Mrs. Roger D. Skillings of Washington Street left Tuesday for a few days with her mother in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore Pearson
North Bath
Florida
Marjorie Cummings
Washington Street
George Cummings
Topsham
Roger D. Skillings
T. W. Pease
Cambridge
Mass
Pow nan 4-H girl earns trip to national congress
Harriet I Hall 20 of Pow nan named by State Club Leader K C Lovejoy to attend the 7th National 4 H Club Congress in Chicago starting November 25. Her 12 year record includes 20 projects 125 pints of foods 66 garments 65 square rods of garden eight rooms improved and 30 exhibits earning 6050 in prizes total project value over 175 dollars. Four record champions from Extension Sections and a high ranking state winner will receive college scholarships of 4100 300 200 150 and 150 plus trips and county awards funded by Montgomery Ward for the sixteenth year of the contest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maes
Harriet I. Hall
Pownal
K. C. Lovejoy
Chicago
Montgomery Ward
Woolwich Residents Return from Thanksgiving Trips
Woolwich roundup notes several families returning from Thanksgiving visits in Connecticut Massachusetts and Boston. Includes engagements and weddings filed in Wellesley Wright and Pearl Doughty of Yarmouth. P T A plans a special Sagadahoc Ferry meeting with Elizabeth Waters the state nutrition consultant as guest speaker.
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Roland McIntosh
Donald
Danielson
Conn
McIntosh
Clinton Pellett
Avis Marston
Colby College
Percy Marston
Howard Whittum
Flushing
L. I
Good Will Club
Charles
Charles T. Brown
Hopkinton
Mass
Kenneth Sheldon
Boston
William Sheldon
Susanna Bluffs
Wellesley Wright
Miss Pearl Doughty
Yarmouth
Albert A. Kingsley
Mary Card Wright
Frank J. Walker
Clara M. Reed
S Maxine Walker
George B. Farnham
Telephone Pioneers of America
Hotel Statler
George Farnham
Sagadahoc Ferry
James MacFarland
Bath
Sewall Dickinson
Wiscasset
Harry Fitch
Fitch
William McLaughlin
Warren Jewell
Robert
Winslow Gray Sheldon
Falmouth
Pontoons Towed to Bath by Tug Seguin
Twenty dredging pontoons used by a Richmond to Bath project were towed by the Seguin as far as Bath. They were anchored near The Texas Steamship Co. plant. The crew planned to move the rest downstream below the Richmond bridge and continue the trip to Bath with Harriet Lane helping. Ice thaw eased the operation and officials expected full removal if the thaw continued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond-Dresden Bridge
South Gardiner
Bath
Seguin
Texas Steamship Co
Harriet Lane
Richmond Bridge
Faithful Chesapeake Retriever Ned Dies at 17
Ned the Chesapeake retriever, owned by Col. Walter E. Reid of Seguin land, died Tuesday night at his master's home. A blue ribbon winner with relatives also show champions, Reid calls Ned “peer of them all” for his intelligence. Ned was 17, aged and long ailing, with five other Ned-sired dogs kept in Massachusetts. England’s coastline measures about 4650 miles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ned
Walter E. Reid
Seguinland
New—York
Col. Reid
Massachusetts
Harry Thurlow
Machias
Lance Cooper
Lance
Harry
Leon
Joe Rancour
Harry Bowie
Brunswick
Wesley
Joe
Bath Iron Works Notes and Gossip
Bath Iron Works Forum run by Harry Libby and Clarence Baker offers five weekly classes at Morse High Bailey Evening School with monthly speaker series on shipbuilding. Programs span welding, grinding, flame hardening, ventilation, Hi Tensile steel, propulsive machinery, electrical welding, valves, and naval architecture with motion pictures and lectures led by local professionals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Libby
Clarence Baker
Bath Iron Works Forum
Bailey
Morse High
Libby
Baker
C. Delbridge
Air Reduction Sales Co
Norton Company
R. M. Johnson
General Electric Co
W. F. Lah
Crane Co
John Osborne
South Philadelphia
Tom Allen
Harry B. Briggs, Jr
Walter Anliker
Thatcher Pinkham
Chester Marr
John Newell
Howard Bates
Alex McDonald
Harry E. Cook
A. Gray
Boy hunters recount mischief and deer encounters
The piece sketches youths such as Fred, Bert Dickinson, and the Percys in a string of antics from collecting money for flowers to a deer hunt in Dresden woods. It notes playful but risky episodes, a few deer killed in self defense, and various yard gunnings with humorous anecdotes about crew members and camp misadventures near Machias and Georgetown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred
Bert Dickinson
Percy Oliver
Tom
Alton
Percy King
Dresden Woods
Percys
Bath Water District resumes work on 16 inch Kennebec main
Contractors resumed the Bath Water District project after a weather delay. They completed three borings for the day and plan two more, with work continuing on river approaches at Broad street and near the Maine Central railroad slips. Weather will drive plans for gate pits test piles and crib construction as the project aims for completion next year.
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Kennebec River
Bath Water District
Broad Street
Bath
Maine Central Railroad
People’s Ferry Co
Woolwich
Montsweag Church Notes Schedule
Sunday service at 10.45 followed by Church school. Cheerio club meets Thursday evening at Jud Soule home for a five cent social. Willing Workers hold an all day session Tuesday at the Montsweag parsonage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheerio Club
Jud Soule
Montsweag
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