Victory Book Campaign Urges Rapid Book Donations
Local appeal reinforces national drive to collect 10 million books for soldiers at home and overseas. Readers are asked to drop books at bus terminals, libraries, or Red Cross and USO collection points for free transport to Portland Public Library distribution hub.
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The
Library Journal
American Library Association
USO
ARC
Staples Drug Store
Portland Public Library
Red Cross
Shirley Mank
W. Voorhees
Girl Scouts
Patten Free Library
Sewall Chapter Elects Delegates to State Session
Col Dummer Sewall chapter DAR named delegates and alternates to the state conference in Lewiston March 17 18 and to the Continental Congress in Cincinnati Ohio. Also notes program papers on handicraft and the Great Seal and reports on Red Cross work and a Bath obituary for Pearl Stinson.
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Col. Dummer Sewall
D.A.R
Continental Congress
Central Church Parish House
Lewiston
Horace P. Morse
Charles Andre
W. S. Given
Ethel M. Blake
Charles M. Tubbs
Leonard M. Lord
Harry G. Deering
Charles A. Soule
Harry Carroll
James T. Bonney
Elwina F. Durgin
Corrie H. Varney
Fred S. Curtis
Edward W. Bridgham
Lena Shepard
Orville E. Page
Cincinnati
Jane Lemont
Harry E. Ring
Alice E. Varney
Harry E. Litchfield
United States
Ring
Sirs Litchfield
Vrs
Cary
Calderwood
C W Clifford Honored On 87th Birthday In Bath
Charles W. Clifford observed his 87th birthday with a family dinner at the home of his daughter Mrs. Arthur J. Dunton on 932 Washington street Bath. Guests included Edward Sewall Jr Barbara Dunton and others. Clifford, a Bath native, ran a jewelry business for 50 years and served in the State Legislature and Bath city government. He holds many local positions and is active in horse groups and YMCA trustees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles W. Clifford
Arthur J. Dunton
Judge Dunton
Washington Street
Edward Sewall
Clifford
Edward Sewall, Jr
Barbara Dunton
Bath City
E. W. Hyde
Bath City Hospital
Waltham
Mass
F. A. Lovejoy
Davis Hatch
Sagadahock
Center Street
Front Street
Bath
Harold B. Eastman
Portland
Reynolds Grover
Boston
Madelyn Dunton
Patricia Sewall
John J. Martin, Jr
Brooklyn
N. Y
Martha Eastman
Charles Record
Betty Eastman
Charles W. Clifford, Jr
Huse Memorial PTA Hosts First Public Card Party
The Huse Memorial PTA raised 34.46 dollars at a Thursday card party despite a bad storm. Prizes were awarded in auction and contract events with donations from local drugstores and shops. Committee members included Mrs. Fred Sturtevant and Mr. Edmund Ford. Mary Ellicott and visitors also noted.
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Huse Memorial PT. A
Mae King
Ivanetta Newton
Charles C. Dutton, Jr
Duncan H. Farrell
Enid M. Sawyer
William T. Crowley
Clifford Piltz
Allan Spear
Joseph Butler
John E. Atwood
Carl's
McFadden's
Wilson's Drug Store
la Verdiere’s
Senter’s, Inc
J. J. Newberry Co
Nic-Nacs
Edna Mae
Fred K. Sturtevant
Edmund Ford
Stanley Greene
Harry L. Jones
Herbert Anderson
Charles Walsh
Ernest Freeman
John E. Hayes
Albert Veilleux
Three youths convicted in Bath car theft case
Three 19 year old Bath men Ernest L. Ricker Jr David Hayes and Frederick M Marston pleaded guilty to taking cars without permission in a case that linked thefts across Bath and surrounding towns A fourth arrest followed and authorities said the trio's convictions clear up 11 automobile thefts in the area.
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Ernest L. Ricker, Jr
Middle Street
David Hayes
Frederick M. Marston
Front Street
M. W. Sewall Coal Co
Gardiner R. Deering
Augusta
Ricker
Hudson
Dana W. York
City Hall
Marston and Hayes
Alvah F., Lewis
Lewis
Francis W. Powers
Powers
George R. Crocker
Chelea
Gardiner
Togus
J. Edward Marks
Charles Marks
John P. Crosby
John DeWinter
Bath
Central Maine Power Co
Sears Roebuck
First National
Marston and
Hayes
Frank L. Moriarty
Crocker
Marston
York
Lions Club seeks vacant Bath houses for defense housing
Bath Lions committee urges State Highway Commission and Governor Sewall to make about 17 vacant houses along the Carleton bridge approach available for defense workers. The homes were bought for road construction and tenants were asked to vacate, with no progress seen on road plans. The group asks for immediate reply and notes capacity for 31 tenements and a rooming house for about 40.
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Bath
Elsinore’ Avenue
Washington Street
January Brings Rugged Winter With Snow and Cold
January delivered a harsh winter, with a heavy snowstorm and several snowfalls adding up to about four to five inches, followed by a south east snowstorm. Temperatures ranged from five below to 35 above, with twenty four fair days and fewer total inches than last year. Weather notes compare this January to 1942, noting more frigid mornings and variable precipitation.
Mrs Emma Giles Celebrates 90th Birthday
Mrs Emma Giles marked her 90th birthday on a Wednesday, January 27, at the home of her daughter and son in law Mr and Mrs Ralph Campbell on Townsend Avenue in Boothbay Harbor. She has been bedbound since last fall and received many cards and gifts.
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Pearl Stinson
Rebekah Assembly of Maine
Harry T Stinson
Lodge of Odd Fellows
Forest Avenue
Portland
Bath
Queen Esther Rebekah
Emma Giles
Ralph Campbell
Townsend Avenue
Boothbay Harbor
Rebecca E Smith Weds Thomas W Back in Bath
Miss Rebecca Elizabeth Smith of Bath marries Thomas William Back at the Corliss Street Baptist church parsonage in Bath. Rev. Frederick P. Moffatt officiates. reception follows at the Hunt home. The couple will reside at 16 Page Street Brunswick after a wedding weekend previously disrupted by storm. Remaining attendees include Mrs. Grace Sederquist and Alfred J Back with their families.
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Rebecca Elizabeth Smith
Thomas William Back
Corliss Street Baptist Church
Middle Street
Frederick P. Moffatt
Kendall Lord
Brunswick
Massachusetts
Morse High School
F. W. Woolworth Co
Back
Bath Iron Works Corp
Elks Lodge
Alfred J. Back
Court Street
Gardenier-Wedding Ties Portland With O'Brien in Early Morning Nuptials
Staff Sgt. George Gardenier U S A and Miss Anna Kathleen O'Brien of Portland were married in a nine o'clock ceremony at St. Dominic's church Portland. The couple planned a brief Boston honeymoon before Gardenier reports for duty in New York after a ten day furlough.
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James T. Gardenier
Upper High Street
Elks Club
New England Tel. Tel. Co
Portland
Bath
Howard Pratt
James Ledyard
Luncheon and cards enjoyed at party
Mrs. Duncan McInnes hosted a buffet luncheon for Mrs. John McInnes at 53 Pearl Street with Spring flowers and card games. First prize went to Mrs. Lucy M. Green, second to Mrs. R. H. Baxter, third to Mrs. David C. Dickson. Mrs. John McInnes travels to Stroudwater then Florida to join her son.
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Duncan McInnes
Pearl Street
Mr. McInnes
John McInnes
Florida
Lucy M. Green
R. H. Baxter
David C. Dickson
Bath
Stroudwater
John
Bowdoinham Social Notes and Obituary Mention
Bowdoinham sees Red Cross session at Masonic hall for surgical dressings. Baptist Women host gift boxes. Alaska letter sent to Caleb Sedgley thanking for New Testaments. Obituary notes Joshua Grazier, Denver attorney, once Bowdoinham athlete, dies after illness. Town officer petitions circulate for Feb 13 ballot. Personal items span local residents, military induction, visitors, and a Bowdoinham Farm Bureau meeting with Doris McCready named home demonstration agent.
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Bowdoinham
Brunswick
American Red Cross
Masonic Hall
Charles Hackett
Women's Missionary Society of the Baptist Church
Attie Andros
W. J. Erskine
Alaska
Caleb Sedgley
Eli Miner
Lottie Cobb
Hall Denham
Phillip Nealey
Richard Denham
William Gould
Caleb Mitchell
Joshua Freeman Grazier
Denver
Colo
Mr. Grozier
Josephine Given
William Grozier
Pacific Coast
Edwin Grazier
Denver Athletic Club
Edward D. Baker
Ernest W. Frye
Edward L. White
Jessie M. Ames
Locke Crouse
Fred L. Leavitt
Jessie Ames
Cecia McEwen
Barbara Siegars
Fryeburg Academy
Frank Siegars
Theodore Carras
Fort Devens
Mass
Carras
Cpl
William Stratkaris
Carl Jolson
Fort Preble
Louis Kares
Bath
Earl Brown
Mary Brown
Warren Morgan
Linwood Rideout
Portland
Muriel Tibbetts
Jerry
Tibbetts
John Maher
Edward S. White
Chester Hobart
Osteopathic Hospital
Ruth Hackett
Hampton
N. H
Wesley Stratton
Annie Fides
Avery Fides
Arnold Lamoreau
William Gray
Jacob Barter
Delma Curtis
Maurice Libby
Erland Curtis
Ellis Moore
Rita Yates
Eula Terrell
Richmond
Bowdoinham Farm Bureau
Milton Given
Doris McCready
Visitors recall Europe before the war at church aid meeting
Miss Sarah A. Adams shared travel pictures and tales from Germany in 1914 Toulouse in 1925 and Spain in 1929 during Winter Street church ladies aid meeting. She taught Spanish and German at Marot junior college. 30 members attended as plans for rummage sale and indoor fair were discussed.
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Sarah A. Adams
Ladies’ Aid
Winter Street
Marot Junior College
Thompson
Conn
Arthur M. Bowker
Harry E. Peterson
Lucy G. Rogers
Emma Hooper
Arthur C. Lemont
Edgar Hatch
Red Cross
Sewall
Front Street
Aid
Allen M. Irish
North Street
Wallace L. Atwood
Elmer W. Rogers
John A. Lord
Miss Couture Birthday Celebration At Sister’s Home
Miss Claire Couture was guest of honor at a surprise birthday party held Thursday night at 16 Liberty Street the home of her sister Mrs Lorenzo Michaud. Guests included family friends and several U S N members as well as local residents.
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Claire Couture
Lorenzo Michaud
Liberty Street
Miss Couture
Lawrence Couture
Charles Benoit
Alice Pulia
Lillian Adams
Phyllis McKenna
Ethel Dupont
Doris Dupont
Frances Dupont
Margaret Reed
Anna Fitch
Leo Couture
Louis Couture
Frank Puiia
Ernest Nichols
Leroy Stevens
Maurice Turcotte
Bud Mills
John Clause
Don Boyne
Bob Stickles
Lee Katsikan
U.S. N
Bob Rizzo
Millinocket Pioneer Mrs Lenehan Celebrates 84th Birthday
Mary E. Lenehan pioneer resident of Millinocket celebrated her 84th birthday with an open house. She has lived in the United States for 60 years after coming from Debec Junction New Brunswick. She taught and boarded teachers for years and is remembered for her cooking and active housework in the community.
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Mary E. Lenehan
Millinocket
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Frank Moore
Arkansas
Bath Iron Works
C. W. Clifford
Huse Memorial P.T.A
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Blind Crossing
Walter Elsnore
Nancy
Mrs. Elsnore
Grand Lake Stream
Cedric Sukeforth
900
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Water
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Deering
Merrill E. Bagley
Cess
Maurice W. Greenlaw
BIW Guard
John P. Carey
Augosail
Bagley
Greenlaw
Carey
Lions Club Committee
State Highway Commission
Rebecca E. Smith
Thomas W. Back
Corliss Street
Gadenier—O'brion
Fred B. Reed
Stanley E. Wallace
W. Fin Scott
ES Orig Sy Me
Ruth Mathias
Third St
Bangor
Maine
Robert Young
Certon
LAHR
Virgin Daes
Tommy Dorsey
Weaver Bros. & Elviry
Europe
Sarah Adams
Frank Heath
Gene Tierney
Geo. Montgomery Lynn Bars
Russia
Spencer Tracy
Katherine Hepburn
I. A. R. Wylie
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Frank Craven
Richard—Whorf
Monty Woolley
Ery Lupino