Winnegance Skating, Smelt Camps Spark Local Activities
Winneganee creek draws youth for skating as first freeze brings smelt camps onto the ice. A man reports 350 pounds sold at 35c per pound. A community Christmas tree event at the schoolhouse featured a fine program and gifts. Local illness and social notes follow with dances, hospitality, and ongoing home improvements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winneganee Creek
Edgar Oliver
Bould
Bridgehall
Eugene Spinney
Henry Potter
Roberta Manson
Charles Stinson
Bath Iron Works
Pearl Rice
Lauriston Richard
Harry Blaisdell
Thomas Oliver
Joshua Tibbetts
Carolyn Oliver
Frank Terry
C. F E. Quinlan
Portland
National Biscuit Co
Saguar
Tould
Bridge Hall
Arthur Brown
Florence Wagner
Elizabeth Webber
Harry C. Webber
Rotary contributes to Bath Orphans' Home Christmas fund
The Bath Rotary Club raised funds at its weekly luncheon, contributing $40 toward a $50 goal for the Bath Military and Naval Orphan Asylum Christmas fund. The meeting featured resolutions on national policy, club business, and notes of thanks from former members. Next week will be father and son day, with two notable guests present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rotary Club
Bath
Fred P. Shaw
Bath Rotary Club
Charles M. White
Haverhill
Mass
Bath Club
Augusta
Ralph Stetson
Harry E. Stetson
Internal” Revenue Department
Washington
George B. Wetherbee
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Charles P. Wetherbee
Shaw
Mrs Emma Brown Rogers obituary notes two week illness
Mrs Emma Brown Rogers aged 78 widow of Roland E Rogers died Monday at her daughter Mrs William Cornish 921 Washington Bath after a two week illness. She was born in Bowdoin to Alfred and Elizabeth Gowell and was long linked to Sagadahoc Grange Bowdoin. She moved to Bath two years ago and leaves a brother Horace F Gowell of Hopkinton Mass three grandchildren Roland Stanley Elizabeth Cornish and an adopted daughter Nellie White of Saco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma Brown Rogers
Roland E. Rogers
William F. Cornish
Washington Street
Rogers
Bowdoin
Alfred
Elizabeth Gowell
Sagadahoc Grange
Bath
Horace F. Gowell
Hopkinton
Mass
Roland, Stanley
Elizabeth Cornish
Nellie White
Saco
Thompson on German wartime plan to beat England
Winfield M. Thompson discusses how the former German liner Kronprinzessin Ceceli flew the US flag and was sheltered in neutral ports during World War II. He portrays the plan to use neutral havens and U boats to seize global trade, then notes the plan failed as world opinion turned against Germany, making the ship a prize of war. He highlights Bar Harbor Maine as a key stop and recalls gold shipments returning to New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winfield M. Thompson
Marine Journal of New York
United States
Maine
Bar Harbor
Germany
Kronprinzessins
Kronprinzes
Kronprinzess
Cecelic
mid-Atlantic
France
Johnny
Mt. Desert Island
New York
Boston
Figet
Bath institutions benefit from will
Zachariah Jellison of Brooklyn by will leaves funds to Bath institutions. The Home for Aged Couples and Old Men, and the Patten Free Library receive about 1 of the library total roughly $2 000 for the library and about half that for the Home for Aged Couples and Old Men. He also left property to the Portland Y W C A association totaling about $26 000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Zachariah Jellison
Brooklyn
N. Y
Harvard
Patten Free Library
Jellison
Portland Association
Brunswick Veteran Firemen Plan City Association
Brunswick veterans from old and new fire departments plan a Veteran Fireman's association. They will use the Niagara engine hall free of charge to house two hand tabs and hold meetings with trophies from both groups on display. Miss Louise Haggett travels to Annapolis to spend holidays with relatives. Clarence Richards of Damariscotta, a pure food inspector, visited on business.
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Old
New Fire Departments
Brunswick
Niagara
Clarence Richards
Department of Agriculture
West Bath school closes with Christmas program
Mrs. R Wayne Gardner of Bath praised for directing a Christmas decorated closing program at Lattlefield school West Bath. Proceeds from a small admission will fund items to brighten the school and surroundings. Gardner wife of the Nazarene pastor in Bath, in her first year, led a long program featuring recitations songs a pantomime and a dialogue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. Wayne Gardner
Bath
Lattlefield School
West Bath
Gardner
Church of the Nazarene
Harles Haggett
John Clough
Wendall Williams
Edith Davis
Vantomine
Newsboy
Yim
Charles Haggett
Edge
Ruth Bryant
Santa Claus
Clyde Nash
Squire Hawley
Everett G. Lemont
West Bath—grange
Bangor
Fred D. Colby
William Field, Jr
Delmar Bates
Samuel Bates
Robert Small
Florence Neiley
Brunswick
J. B. Neiley
William Knowles
South West Harbor
Knowles
Texas Company
Annie
Lowell
Massachusetts
Doris Urington
City Hospital
Miles Warington
Annie Trufant
J. Everett Mayo
Fred W. Larrabee
J. W. Haggett
Post Office
Lillian Brown
Portland
Harry Lemont
Lemont
J. M. Lemont
C.P. Higgins
Edith Brewer
Murray Brewer
J. C. Larrabee
Joseph White
Arthur Lemont
Emily
Joseph Larrabee
Edgar Wright
Wortland
Charles Foote
Ernest K. Williams
Dorothy Stilkey
Morse High School
E. Kk. Brown
Farmers must organize for fair wages and better conditions
The author argues farmers need intelligent publicity and organization to win fair wages and political representation. It criticizes low farm incomes, calls for united action through groups like the Grange, and warns against profiteering, urging balanced policy to feed the world and restore economy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Grange
Cornish
Jess
Everett L Reed dies in Oakland pioneer and planing mill owner
Fred B Reed, real estate dealer, learns of death of his brother Everett L Reed in Oakland California. A pioneer and former proprietor of Bay City Planing Mills, he was born in Dresden and moved west 41 years ago. He retired eight years ago and died December 12 leaving a widow two sons and a daughter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred B. Reed
Oakland
Calif
Everett L. Reed
Bay City
Fred Reed
California
Harold
Akron
Former Bath Boy Heads Big Mine in Mexico
William Rogers Wade, son of Margaret Wade of Middleton Mass and grandson of the late shipbuilder Hon William Rogers, becomes superintendent of the Macatazuma Copper mine at Vilares Sonora Mexico. The mine, a major local employer with about 2000 names on payroll, produced copper valued at 14 million dollars last year and uses a concentrate plant at Nacozari with smelting in Douglas. Wade, known as Dilly Wade among Bath friends, shares in the family legacy of business and hustle fueling Mexico’s border industry activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Rogers Wade
Bath
Margaret Wade
Middleton
Mass
William Rogers
Macatazuma Copper
New York
Vilares
Sonora
Wade
The
Independent
Bangor
John G. Dunning
Mexico
California
Kansas
Levi ©. Wade
Mexican Central Railroad
Macatazuma
Douglas
Billy” Wade
Dean Porter to speak at Community Forum Sunday
James J. Porter, Dean of Clark University Worcester, will headline the Community Forum at Columbia theater Sunday at four. He will discuss The Human Factor in Modern Social and Industrial Life and share lessons from his summer as a Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp plant worker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James J. Porter
Clark University
Worcester
Mass
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation
Dean Porter
Middle West
Indiana State Biological Station
Army
Sanitary Corps
Middle
Far West
Columbia University
Columbia Theater
Bath Driving Club Christmas Races Set for 2 50 PM Start
The Bath Driving Club will hold four classes of races on Christmas afternoon, starting at 2 50 PM to finish dinner before the lily pond. Charles Jordan will start, with judges Harry Peterson and Harry Ent, as Roger Skillings returns from the University of Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Driving Club
Bath Driving Club
Lily Pond
Dunton
Charles Jordan
Harry E. Peterson
Sagadahoc Agricultural and Horticultural Society
Harry F
Also Mentioned on This Page
Rotary
Orphans’ Home
Joseph Cloutier
Combination 4
Thompson
England
Louise Haggett
Melville Haggett
Annapolis
Terricle
Thomas A. Henry
Mrs. R
Wayne Gardner
Littlefield School
Myra Coombs
Alfred Coombs
Campbell's Pond
Charles H. Bates, Jr
Julia Coombs
Susie Bates
Revere
Mansa
Charles Hi. Bates, Jr
Iiving Coombs
Stackpole
A. S. Flood
Oxford
Mr. Flood
Henry Galt
Alice and
Evelyn Bates
Tie
Ford
Robert Coombs
Hardings
Mr. Coombs
Jane Haggett
Merry Christmas
John J. Desmond
William David L. Wilson
Central Church
Enos F. Berry
Earl Berry
Willian C. Chadbourne
Conley’s Specialty Store
S. H. Conley
BIG Mine
Hockomock
Edward Stinson
Long Reach
Frank Orff
East
Waldoboro
Roger Skillings
University of Virginia
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