Majority Against New Deal Shown In Digest Poll
The Literary Digest reports a rise in anti New Deal sentiment in its 10 million ballot straw poll. Current tally shows 115,736 opposed to 91,351 in support from 207,087 votes across twelve states. Illinois leads in opposition, Georgia and Texas show support, and Ohio and Nebraska trend heavily against the program. The poll notes growing national interest and cautions final results remain uncertain with 36 states still to report.
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Literary Digest
Roosevelt
Florida
Illinois
Minnesota
Nebraska
North Dakota
Ohio
Texas
Georgia
Iowa
Kansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
Thanksgiving Play and Community Notes at Center School
A Thanksgiving program at Center School featured Mrs. Mary Pratt teaching and a lineup of student acts including A Dinner, A Thanksgiving Lesson, A Big Fat Turkey Solo, and The Dinner that ran away. Several local residents and families in Bath participated in holiday gatherings and visits, with notes on travel, guests, moves, and weekend activities.
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Center School
Mary Pratt
Dorothy Vis
Lester Beals
Mary Morse
Pratt
Horace Morse
Arthur Harrington
Bessie
Martha
Bertha Doughty
Rooster
Robert
Ceres McCourt
Grace Parks
Lincoln
Somerville
Mass
Owen Richardson
Vanita
Jacqueline
Clinton
James L. Morse
Bath
Errold Blaisdell
Quincy
Blaisdell
Rotary Luncheon Speaker Mixes Laughter With Insight
The Rev. Raymond L. Hart told Gardiner Rotary Club members that taking themselves less seriously can heal world ills. He used humorous anecdotes from many countries to illustrate his point while keeping the audience amused with well chosen jokes.
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Raymond L. Hart
Gardiner Rotary Club
Chaney Family Trips To Portland For Hospital Visit
Mr and Mrs Wilfred W Chaney and Miss A Margaret Chaney with Francis E Parry traveled to Portland Sunday to visit Mrs Williams Bruce sister of Chi at land street and a patient in Dr Leightons hospital
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Wilfred W. Chaney
A. Margaret Chaney
Francis E. Parry
Portland
Mr. Chi
William A. Bruce
Land Street
Bath residents share news as families gather for Thanksgiving
A Bath column lists numerous local residents and visitors, detailing Thanksgiving meals, visits to Boothbay Harbor and Portland, travels to Gilberts Head and Bear Mountain, and social events. It notes a medal presentation to Uncle Nat Perkins for 68 years of Masons membership and a marriage announcement at Oak Grove Seminary naming Dora Colony and Wilson McDonald.
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Boothbay
Vilda Barlow
Ethel Luke
Barbara
East Boothbay
Eva Dobbin
Raymond Larrabee
Seaman E. Drake
Carol
David Drake
Bath
Eugene W. Osgood
Robert Barlow
Robert
Francis Luke
Robert McDonald
Constance
Portland
Fred Osgood
Jackie
Joseph
Eugene Stover
Kate Mullaney
Llewellyn J. Oliver
Seaboard
Warwick
R. I
Kennebec
Ernest R. Spinney
Ralph
Bay Point
Ellison Moody
Gilbert’s Head
Moses Chandler
Bear Mountain
Marguerite McNulty
Clifton Morong
Edgar N. Drake
Georgetown
Edgar L. Drake
Christopher Marr
Shirley Morong
Eva Dobbins
Boothbay Harbor
Eugene Harrington
Parker Head
Charles McDonald
Pauline Morong
Lisbon Falls
Popham
Clifton
Edna M. Coolidge
Herman Spinney
Forrest Legard
Paul
Page Wyman
Phillip
Lawrence
Leona McDonald
Connie
E. W. Osgood
Ernest Oliver
Bath Suny
Eleanor Lowell
Karl Huntz
Long Island
Clinton Newdick
Augusta
Harry Spencer
Bangor
Graydon Morse
James
Frank M. Irving
Biddeford
Jay
Hiram Stevens
T. C. Chandler
Wiscasset
Damariscotta
James P. Hutchins
Cox’s Head
Edward McNulty
Elisha Bridges
Newburyport
Mass
Ernest Spinney
Enid Spinney
Ollie
Gray
Helen Emery
Clarence Wiley
Sutton, N. H
William R. Bowie
James Hutchins
William Hutchins
F. Raymond Irving
Oak Grove Seminary
Dora Colony
Meriden
Conn
Wilson McDonald
MacDonald
C. E. Owen
I State Normal School
Edward W. Colony
Vassalboro
Squaw Club Hosts and Auction at Old Folks Home
Friday night the Squaw club enjoyed a session with Mrs and Cogge shall as hostess and will meet next Friday with Mrs Parker Rogers. Mr and Mrs Pred and Coombs hosted the Old Folks Home event and an auction sale of household effects occurred Saturday. Coombs later moved to the Old Folks Home. Fred S Coombs grocery closed and its second floor contents were sold by auction.
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Squaw Club
and Coggeshall
Parker O. Rogers
Coombs
Charles E. Hewitt, Jr
Aeantheles
Jobin
Maree
Fred 'S
Iron Works Employes Sponsor Bath Destroyer Ball at Masonic Temple
Bath Iron Works employees announce a Friday night ball at the Masonic Temple on December 13 from 8 30 p m to early morning celebrating three destroyer contracts. Harold Adams and Thatcher Pinkham lead arrangements aiming for about 80 couples. Leeman's orchestra will provide music. intermission refreshments and flags decorate the hall. 62 attendees confirmed. In Norway a 14-year-old boy brings home a six point buck after hunting in fresh snow, dragging the 150 pound deer with family help as dinner waits.
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Bath Iron Works Corp
Masonic Temple
Harold L. Adams
Thatcher B. Pinkham
Leeman’ss Orchestra
Francis Wyman
Norway
Dad
Sterling Bible Class Plans for Christmas
Sterling Bible class of Corliss Street church held its monthly meeting with 27 members present. Committees were formed for Christmas events and boxes of candy were planned for shut ins. Members also noted members visiting relatives in Waltham and returns from the holiday weekend.
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Sterling Bible Class
Corliss Street Church
John H. Hunt
M. Eugene Watson
Lee W. Scott
William H. Sheldon
James W. Gillespie
Fred W. May
Chester A. Plant
Scott
Hylan M. Jewett
Santa Claus
Robert C. Mitchell
Hunt
Mitchell
Weeks Street
May
Fred Coombs
Fred E. Bragg
Edwin L. Robbins
William J. Paisley
Linwood A. Piper
Ralph Cornish
Lively debate marks Colonial club monthly meeting
Members debated raising admission age from 19 to 25 with no decision. Speakers Blair Wilson William L Skelton Marius H Page for the affirmative and Rev George B Wolstenholme Dr Francis A Winchenbach John Mc Cole for the negative. Dr Winchenbach discussed plans for a Winter carnival and club cooperation with Rotary. A basketball revival was noted with a potential young-member team and out of town games. Charles C Parks and Harold Fenders on active membership. Four piece orchestra played from seven to eight with George Field McPherson Reginald Stacy Harold Carlan and Field singing, and refreshments followed.
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Colonial Club
Blair Wilson
William L. Skelton
Marius H. Page
George B. Wolstenholme
Francis A. Winchenbach
John McCole
Winchenbach
Rotary Club
Charles C. Parks
Harold Fenderson
Morse High hoop squad trims to fourteen
Fourteen candidates survived the first cut in Morse high’s basketball squad after Monday afternoon practice. Ten are undergraduates. The 1935-36 varsity lineup likely set, with players Herbert Closson, Wilfred Chaney, Carl Earlbach, Robert Footer, Alfred Gallant, Wilfred Gaudet, Charles Grace, Maynard McFadden, Clifton Nickerson, George Perry, George Sarkis, Henry Sarkis, Francis Stover and Harry Thayer.
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Morse High
Herbert Closson
Wilfred Chaney
Carl Earlbach
Robert Footer
Alfred Gallant
Wilfred Gaudet
Charles Grace
Maynard McFadden
Clifton Nickerson
George Perry
George Sarkis
Henry Sarkis
Francis Stover
Harry Thayer
Bruce Couple Return from Lynn Thanksgiving Visit
Mr and Mrs Charles A Bruce were overnight guests of Mr and Mrs E R Wright Monday then left Tuesday for their Belfast home on their return from Lynn Massachusetts where they spent Thanksgiving with their daughter Mrs H Sturgis Dexter
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Charles A. Bruce
E. R. Wright
Belfast
Lynn
Mass
H. Sturgis Dexter
Henderson Returns From St Petersburg Trip
Vincent Henderson son of Mr and Mrs David Henderson of North Bath has returned from a three week stay in St Petersburg Florida where he chauffeured a West Bath resident.
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David Henderson
North Bath
St. Petersburg
Fila
West Bath
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Digest
Edward A. Morrison
John
Lubec
Trescott
Fred Harrington
Katherine Harrington
R.N
Walter Jennison
Wollaston
Oscar Wright
William B. Perry
New York
Harry Berry
George J. Ingalls
Edith Atwood
Gorham Normal School
Katharine Johnson
Percy Johnson
Edward Thomas
Parker
Hadley Tremain
Johnson
Somerset County
Charles I. Hughes
Gardiner Rogers
Meadowbrook
Arthur Footer
Perry’s Cove
Hattie Bowie
Harrison Bowie
Center Street
Frank P. Leavitt
Arthur Bean
Abbie Minott
Roxbury
Charles V. Minott
Miss Minott
Topsham Grange Hall
Farm Bureau
Twin County
Pauline Rogers
Melvin Wallace
Irving Wallace
Earl
Donald
Omar Perry
Hiram B. Wyman
W. J. McCourt
Ernest A. Rogers
Perry
John D. Rogers
Wilbur Wyman
Welfare Club
Walter J. McCourt
Hiram EB. Wyman
Irma Gilman
Waverly
John M. Rogers
Arthur Perry
Lizzie B. C. Chaney
Dromore Farm Bureau
Park Street
Iron Works
Chevrolet
Chevrolet Motor Company
Detroit, Michigan
M.A.C
G.M.A.C
Fisher
Michhigan
Flint
Michigan
Bath, Maine
Ashington
Lillian Upham
Lower High Street
Waltham
Arthur Williams
Eugene
Morris Upham
Sagadahoc
Cumberland
Bath City Hall
Brunswick Town Hall
Department OF State Motor Vehicle Division
George Field
McPherson
Reginald Stacy
Harold Carlan
Mr. Field
MORSE
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