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Newspaper

Bath Independent

Location

Bath, Maine, United States of America

Date

Dec 26, 1940

Page

5

Bath Society Notes Spark Christmas Season With Guests

A Bath community society page recounts Christmas visits and parties. Sandra Daley turns five with a Kris Kringle visit, a supper spread, and a donkey-pinning prize. Numerous locals and relatives arrive from Boston, Philadelphia, and Maine to celebrate at homes on Andrews Road, High Street, and other Bath addresses, sharing meals, engagements, and travel updates.

Sandra Daley Randall Daley Andrews Road Kris Kringle Patty Tardif Julie Sally Cummings Patty Fern Tardif Jane Henderson Sylvia Palmer Leiani Cahill Patty Hayes Ann Shaw Day Anita Deering Elbridge H. Reed Philadelphia Harold Boutin High Street Court Reed Philadelphia Navy Yard

Secretary at Augusta City Hall Retires Moves to Bath

Mrs Edward Norton, secretary at the mayor s office in Augusta City Hall for six years, completed her duties Saturday and will move with her husband to Bath where he is employed at Bath Iron Works.

Gwendolyn Mann R.N Percyann Irvington N. J East Orange Memorial Hospital East Orange Memorial Miss Mann Bath New Jersey Albert Pollard Center Street Lena Louise Kamendalis City Alfred E. Willette Portland Farmingdale St. Mary’s Church Edward J. Lee, Jr William Willette Frank R. Durant Margaret L. Minott Henry M. Minott Phippsburg High Street Washington, D. C Air Corps Alice Hampton Minott Posse School Kendall Green Mass Gordon Davenport Bergeley Calif Alice Minott Edward Norton Augusta City Hall Bath Iron Works Central Church David L. Wilson Fred W. Larrabee Ada E. White T. F. White First Baptist Church Larrabee Harvey P. Hathorne Woolwich William H. White Bath Camp M. W. of A New England William H. Smart

Bath and County Year In Review Highlights Local Happenings

A chronological review of Bath and Sagadahoc County events from 1939 covers shipyard profits at Bath Iron Works, political candidacies, hospital affiliations, public notices, births and weddings, civic club actions, and notable anniversaries. Highlights include executive moves at Bath institutions, storm impacts at Popham Beach, and community fundraisers supporting Finnish relief and infantile paralysis programs.

Bath and County

Various city events mark spring 1940 civic drive

April observances start with the Annual Cancer Control drive and a wave of civic appointments. Worumbo Mfg. Co. elects Walter T. Guttman as president and Rupert H. Baxter as vice president with Oliver Moses 3d as vice president in charge of operations. Mayor Haskell issues a Cancer Control proclamation as the Cemetery and Park Board forms, Lions Club organizes, and a five year debt plan is announced. Federal census canvass begins, Congress Shirt Co. plans plant expansion, and local committees choose leaders for Republican and Democratic activities. City departments, court schedules, and public events fill the calendar from early April through mid month, including land needs, land purchases, and public banquets.

Stanley E. Wallace Amy C. Parker William H. Parker Wiliam T. Donnell Popham Beach E. M. Fuller Democratic City Committee Superior Court George L. Emery Samuel R. Percy Old Folks Home Corporation Robert Hale Portland Maine House of Representatives Robert H. Haskell Timothy C. Meaney St. Mary's Bath Memorial Hospital Arthur Sewall Rodney E. Ross Hyde Windlass Co Automobile Registration Bureau Municipal Levi Flint Fred C. Hill Bath Iron Works Corp St Mary's Church Timothy C. Maney Nightingale Club Sedgwick Memorial Hospital Inez G. Wing Republican State Committee Charles F. Cummings Byron F. Barker Washington Street State Armory Sagadahoc County Bath Iron Works Woolwich Joseph Charles Footer Hotel St. Mary's Church Harold R. Peacock Associated Fulton J. Redman Episcopalian Grace Church Bath Water District Sssg Barnabas Guild William D. Sewall York Hall Charles Henry Butler Moatsweag Farm Washington, D. C Morse High School Edwin R. Andrews Edward L. Reed Old Folks Home Boston Massachusetts Bath Maine Progressive Union Cosmopolitan Club American Legion Veterans of Foreign Wars Bath Lodgs of Elks William S. Newell National Business Advisory Comittee Thompson Brookwater Lake Nequasset Republican City Committee Fred W. Quimby Carroll A. Deering Arletta Yates Alexander Burgess, Jr Leslie J. Wold Brunswick Hotel Sedgwick Arthur T. Stray Associated Hospital Service Colonial Club Woodtfords Club Bathlodge of Elks L. Eugene Thebeau Elkdom Harris T. Rodick Charles Wallace North Street PL. W. A Kennebee River Congregational Day's Ferry Oscar F. Williams Birthey Dunlap Commandery K. T Board of Highways and Sewers Wilbur C. Oliver Republican John P. Carey Jr Sagadahoc Rod, Gun & Skeet Association Sumner Sewall Maine Municipal Association E. B. Parris Upper Haskell Sewall Eugene Alexander Buress, Jr State Fish and Game Department Sagadahoc Rod, Jun and Skeet Association E. Bernard Macausland Oak ‘Street Bee David J. Sinnett Loraine Price Bath Tron Works Corp Archibald M L. Eugene Tice Beau St. Barnabas Guild Roland Smith Post A. L Democratic Caucus Bangor Morse Highchool John R. Newell Camden Fire Department Solar Lodge Board of Education Allan Spear John Parker Selwyn H. Towne, Jr Edmund P. Briggs George Comeau Bailey Evening School of Industries Junior Chamber of Commerce A. Farley Mayo William Turpee D. Rodney Lee Republican Caucus John W. Gillespie Montgomery and St. Bernard Eva Fulton Alice Henderson George H. McElman Bedford Street Frederick P. Moffatt Corliss Street K.T Masonic Temple Floyd H. Preble Charles F. Hughes Navy Club United States New State Armory Queen Esther Rebekah Lodge Scott Morse Department Iemen’s Memorial Association Hotel Phoenix Worumbo Mfg. Co Walter T. Guttman Lewiston Rupert H. Baxter Oliver Moses 3d James S. Knight Horace W. Ward Agadahoe County Democratic Committee James J. Cain Richmond Harry W. Thebeau Cecla McEwen Bowdoinham F. A. Winchenbach C. Roland Trott Congress Shirt Co Herbert R. Lemont Waldo R. Weston Night Watch Ada Crockett Winter Street Arthur K. Purington George M. Chase Lions Club Arthur M. Bowker Mildred Craw West Point Philadelphia Seth Stewart Castle Hall Lowell Temple P. S George A. Baker Battery H C. A Elver A. Stickney Municipal Court Gardiner R. Deering Harold J. Rubin Roscoe P. McFadden Overseers of George J. Goodwin First Baptist Brotherhood Athern P. Dayrett Bowdoin College Democratic Club Municipal Auditorium Board of Health John J. Mulcahy Joseph I. Smith N. Gratz Jackson Kennebec River Augusta Charles Gilbert Norwich Styles Bridges Times Company Governor Club

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