Beulah Rebekah Lodge Hosts Christmas Tree Night
Local notes show Beulah Rebekah lodge held an entertainment and oyster stew supper after a regular meeting at I. O. O. F. hall with about seventy five attendees. The next meeting Friday Dec 18 will be children’s night with a Christmas tree.
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Nesenny Svein
G. C. Marriner
Flora Shepard
Dwight L. Moody
New Hampton
N. H
Moody
Cora Smith
Beulah Rebekah Lodge
I. O. O. F. Hall
Odd Fellows
John Godfrey
Margaret Foster
Lottie Young
Winthrop
Richardson & Libby
Hallowell
Richmond
Lyt
Albert Darrah
Pauline
Kermit Darrah
Lynn
Mass
Annie Knight
Portland
Edith Knight
Bangor
Alvena Knight
Arthur Dearborn
Goshen
James Sencabaugh
Arnold
Local Social Notes From Maine Towns
Wedding announcements and social visits across Portland Eastland Gardiner Waterville Augusta and Yarmouth. Notables include weddings of Kline DeBow and Lucienne Couture Marcel Poulin, and Katherine Anne Carey to John Gerald Boilier. Various weekend visits and a new village mail carrier Norris Sidelinger noted. Funeral for Nellie Pratt reported in Brunswick with burial in Richmond.
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Ter
Eastland
Portland
Fred Naylor
Kline DeBow
Lowell
Mass
Victor R. E. Carey
Carey
Katherine Anne Carey
Hallowell
John Gerald Boilier
Gardiner
Sacred Heart Church
Mabel Price
Lyte Lint
Frank Preble
Bert Skinner
Augusta
Richmond Cemetery
Nettie Ware
Yarmouth
Harry James
Charles H. James
Brunswick Road
Edith Hayes
Formation Talk Sparks Bath Community Club Idea
Bath Veteran Fireman's association discussed forming a new community club at the Wa ter street hall. Viewpoints favored using BVFA rooms in mid town as suitable quarters for a potential club, following popularity of existing North End and Winnegance groups.
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North End
Winnegance
Bath
Water Street
B.V.F.A
Bath area social notes and wedding report
Georgetown friends and Bath residents visit relatives in Bath and Sagadahoc Bay. A December 2 wedding unites Marion Hunt and Woodrow Gray at the First Baptist parsonage with 34 guests and a reception at the bride’s mother’s home.
Thoughtless act cuts Bath power for five hours
A single shot by a careless person damaged three 33,000 volt insulators on the main line from Farmingdale to Bath, plunging a large area into low voltage from 2.30 to 7.30 PM. Crews worked through dusk to locate and repair the fault, warning of risks to hospitals and lifesaving services.
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Farmingdale
Bath
Gulf Island
Lisbon Falls
Brunswick
Ben Houser Visits Bath for NYA Projects
Benjamin Houser longtime Bowdoin baseball coach and NYA Maine recreation adviser visited Bath Tuesday meeting David Mullin NYA foreman to review progress on city NYA projects. He toured Goddard pond playground as skating and hockey preparations begin with a rink surface sprinkling crew under Mullin.
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Benjamin Houser
Bowcoin College
NYA
Maine
Bath
David P. Mullin
Ben
Bowdoin
Goddard Pond
Godard Pond
Edna Jones Weds Ed mond de Kertsmont Soree in Green Street Church
The four o clock wedding at Green Street Methodist Church united Miss Edna Elizabeth Jones of Augusta with Ed mond Michel de Kertsmont Soree of Lausanne Schweiz. Edna is the daughter of Herbert L. Howard of Gardiner Maine. the groom hails from a noted European lineage as a descendant of Maine's first governor William King.
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Green Street Methodist Episcopal Church
Edna Elizabeth Jones
Augusta
Herbert Leslie Howard
Gardiner
Edmond Michel de Kertsmont Soree
Lausanne
Switzerland
William King
Maine
Mrs. Maria Strout Dies at 78 in Bath Maine
Mrs. Maria Fisher Strout 78 wife of Albert L. Strout died suddenly Monday at home 1161 Washington Bath after a long illness eight weeks bedridden Bronchitis two months ago she narrowly escaped pneumonia Born in Bath daughter of Stephen B. and Hannah Sewall she lived in Bath all her life married 60 years ago last Nov 14 She was a charter member and past matron of Genesta chapter O E S Survived by husband three daughters Sewall P Strout son four grandchildren and four great grandchildren plus a sister and a brother in Bath Reading and Augusta.
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Maria Fisher Strout
Albert L. Strout
Washington Street
Strouk
Bath
Stephen B
Hannah Orr Sewall
Strout
Genesta Chapter
Fireside Club Hears An Excellent Talk By Weisman
The Winter Street Fireside club welcomed Abraham I. Weisman, commander of the Jewish War Veterans of Portland, for a talk on What It Means to Be a Good Jew. He explained Jewish ethics, services, feast days, marriage and burial customs, dietary rules, and Sabbath prohibitions, with 43 youths gaining clearer understanding. Refreshments were provided by six committee members. Next Sunday the group shares a meeting with the Wiscasset Young People’s Fellowship to discuss Preparation for a Happy Marriage, with a 6 15 departure from the Winter Street church by truck and car.
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Winter Street
Abraham I. Weisman
Jewish War Veterans of
Portland
Weisman
Mary Ellen Cyr
Barbara Curran
Isabelle King
Vannessa Easton
Barbara Kenney
June McCall
Fireside Club
Wiscasset Young People’s Fellowship
Donald Page
Colonial Club Meeting Advances New Members
Rodney E. Ross Jr and Donald B Henderson were admitted to active membership at the Colonial club. John McCole reported a successful Nov 20 dance and Christmas tree drive contributions due by Dec 15. Merrill of Portland gave a Floyd Gibbons talk on vision and lens work.
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Rodney E. Ross, Jr
Donald B. Henderson
Colonial Club
John McCole
Francis A. Winchenbach
Mr. Merrill
Portland
Floyd Gibbons
Five Islands Social Notes Reach Bath Visitors and Local Events
Five Islands residents and guests visit Bath with multiple social activities noted. Mr and Mrs Potter visit relatives in Boston while Ivan and Harold Pinkham visit Bath. Will Reid returns from Brunswick hospital. Birthday party for Woodrow Gray at the Pinkhams includes Basil MacMahan Sumner Mains Norman Dubois and others. The Gray family hosts cake sandwiches and cocoa. Edward Clarey visits Five Islands. Orville Rowe drives to Bath. Public prayers and school concerts announced. Togus hospital treatment for Alfred MacMahan. Librarian purchases History of Bath for Grange library and Anthony Adverse donated by P B Nichols.
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Potter
Alonzo Thibedeau
Thibedeau
Seguinland
Boston
Ivan Pinkham
Harold Pinkham
Bath
Will Reid
Brunswick Hospital
Byron Campbell
Joseph G. Stevens
Woodrow Gray
Basil MacMahan
Sumner Mains
Norman DuBois
Horace Rittall
Lloyd Pinkham
Marion Hunt
Pinkham
Edward Clarey
Robinhood
Five Islands
Orville Rowe
George Gray
Edward Wren
Georgetown
J. G. Stevens
Leon Williams
Waltham
Grange
Anthony Adverse
Hervey Allen
P. B. Nichols
Jme
Return of Music in Bath Public Schools Urged
In a letter to The Independent Ernest Wood argues for reinstating music in Bath public schools. He notes Morse High School seniors showcased talent and urges the city to fund band and orchestra programs, citing the benefits to intellectual growth and community identity. He compares Bath to nearby towns thriving with full time music supervision and calls for budgeting to support fine arts education.
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the Independent
Morse High School
Bath
Ernest Wood
Family struck by hit-and-run driver in Bangor
A man and his wife, Mrs Leander Harn ish, 37, of East Hampden, and three children were struck while walking along a state highway in Bangor. The mother suffered severe head wounds and possible leg breaks, the father had cuts and bruises, and the children, aged six to ten, were hurled to the ditch and stripped by the impact.
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Bangor
Leander Harnish
East Hampden
Eastern Maine General Hospital
Ice boating season opens on Lake Cobbes Seecon
The 1936 37 ice boating season begins at Lake Cobbes Seecon with William Fisher Flynt and 8S Sewall Webster of Augusta sailing the Polaris. Hammond's Bay area limits activity to the bay as the lake remains partially unfrozen and reefs shoals and points pose danger.
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Cobbesseecon
William Fisher Flynt
Sewall Webster
Augusta
Hammond
George F Brackley Dies After Long Illness in Bath
George F. Brackley 71 died Saturday morning at the home of his half brother William H. Brackley 2 Huse street after a long illness. He worked last winter for the WPA and his foot froze leading to amputations. He had dropsy last summer and was a patient at the Marine hospital in Portland. Born in Bath he was a boiler maker at Bath Iron Works and a former deacon of the People's Baptist church. Survived by one son George Brackley of Union City New Jersey and three half brothers William Fred and Norman Brackley.
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George F. Brackley
William H. Brackley
Huse Street
Mr. Brackley
Marine Hospital
Portland
Bath
Eben R. Brackley
Center Street
Bath Iron Works
People’s Baptist Church
Bath Aerie, F.O.E
Freeman D. Southard Dies at Wiscasset
Freeman D. Southard, 73, longtime coal and oil businessman in Wiscasset, former school board member and Lincoln County treasurer, died suddenly last Wednesday at his Hooper Street home after a trip downtown. He had longstanding ill health and had worked at his office two days prior. Survived by wife Edna Merrill, son Lennox Southard, a prior marriage, and brothers John H. Southard of Wiscasset and George Southard of Mobile, Alabama. he was a Bath native and cabinet maker in shipbuilding.
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Freeman D. Southard
Wiscasset
Lincoln County
Hooper Street
Mr. Southard
Bath
Sewall Southard
John H. Southard
George Southard
Mobile
Ala
Death of Mrs. Bert Cobb Recalls Gardiner Ties
Word was received from Gardiner of the death of Mrs. Bert Cobb of that city a sister of Mrs. Edward J. Bachelder of 41 Lincoln street. She had many Bath connections and was traveling with her husband and her sister when illness struck near St Elizabeth hospital in Richmond Virginia on November 6.
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Gardiner
Bert Cobb
Edward J. Bachelder
Lincoln Street
Family ties mark southern trips end with Bath death
Winter in the South and his sister Mrs. Georgia Glass who joined Mr. and Mrs. Bachelder on annual trips south died in Bath, ending the long standing family travels and one member’s presence onПеред
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South
Georgia Glass
Frank P. Lord Dies At 69 In Bath Community Leader
Frank P. Lord 69 a Bath citizen and former city council member died Friday night in Augusta. A private funeral was held Sunday at Fred S. Curtis funeral home Bath. Born July 3 1867 in Westbrook he helped install Bath electric lighting and worked as an electrician and machinist later at Torrey Roller Bushing Works. He was a Kennebec Yacht Club member and 32 degree Mason with Kora Temple Shrine. He is survived by his wife and two daughters Miss Mary L Lord and Mrs. Merritt Mitchell both of Bath.
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Frank P. Lord
Bath
Augusta
Fred S. Curtis
Center Street
Mr. Lord
Westbrook
Charles
Lydia Lord
Ueself
Broad Street
Torrey Roller
Kennebec
Joseph R. Roy Dies After Long Illness in Bath
Joseph R. Roy, 72, longtime Bath resident and former policeman, died Saturday evening at Memorial hospital after a prolonged illness. Born in Tabasco Canada he lived in Bath 47 years. He is survived by his wife one son Wilfred Roy of Bath one daughter Mrs Bert Turgeon of Framingham Massachusetts one brother Alfred Roy of Livermore Falls three sisters Emily Roy of Lewiston Mrs Ernest Dumars of Chisholm Mrs Hen ry Savary of Bath and a granddaughter Jeannette Roy of Bath.
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Joseph R. Roy
Read, Nichols Co
Memorial Hospital
Tabasco
Canada
Bath
Wilfred Roy
Bert Turgeon
Framingham
Mass
Alfred Roy
Livermore Falls
Emily Roy
Lewiston
Ernest Dumars
Chisholm
Henry Savary
Jeannette Roy
Brackley Rites Held At Fred S Curtis Funeral Home
The funeral of George F. Brackley was held Monday afternoon at two o’clock at the Fred S. Curtis funeral home on Center Street. Rev. David L. Wilson officiated with bearers Fred L. Brackley William Brackley Clarence W P Oakes and Edward E Morse. Burial followed in Oak Grove Cemetery.
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George F. Brackley
Fred S. Curtis
Center Street
David L. Wilson
Central Church
Fred L. Brackley
William Brackley
Clarence W. P. Oakes
Edward E. Morse
Oak Grove
Funeral for Frank P. Lord Held at Curtis Home
The funeral of Frank P. Lord took place Sunday afternoon at two in the Fred P. Curtis Funeral Home with Rev. David L. Wilson of Central Church officiating. Bearers were Fred H. Lord, Robert Mitchell, Merritt Mitchell, and Charles C. Toothaker. Burial followed in Oak Grove.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank P. Lord
Fred P. Curtis
David L. Wilson
Central Church
Fred H. Lord
Robert Mitchell
Merritt Mitchell
Charles C. Toothaker
Oak Grove
Miss Emma McLellan Houghton Funeral Held
The funeral for Miss Emma McLellan Houghton was held Thursday at 11 at her home 982 Washington Street with Rev. David L. Wilson of Central Church officiating. Burial followed at Maple Grove.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma McLellan Houghton
Washington Street
David L. Wilson
L.H.D
Central Church
Maple Grove
Mrs Harriet Lord and Mrs Lillian Bibber Return from Weeklong Visit
Mrs Harriet Lord of Skowhegan and Mrs Lillian Bibber of Waterville returned Monday after a week long visit. Mrs Emer Side linger of Washington Street accompanied them for part of the trip.
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Harriet Lord
Skowhegan
Lillian Bibber
Waterville
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