Bath News Roundup highlights families, service and new births
Bath area residents report military induction updates and family news. Local boys study meteorology plans after Florida Army training while others announce births, moves and visits. Community members rally for sewing circle events as wartime rationing reshapes social plans.
Gifts and honors mark Grant Co. gathering
At a Tuesday gathering for W. T. Grant Co. employees Jeanette Underwood recent bride and Margart Gallagher bound for WAAC training centers were feted. Mrs Walker received many gifts and Gallagher a pen and pencil set. Patricia Webster made the presentations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. T. Grant Co
Jeanette Underwood
Margart Gallagher
WAAC
Walker
Miss Gallagher
Patricia Webster
Mrs Yates Leaves for Mountain View With Family
Mrs. George Yates of 33 Meadowway faced a farewell gathering Monday with Mr. and Mrs. J Edward Burns and others. Mrs. Yates and her three children Annie Warren and George Jr. departed Tuesday for Mountain View California to join Mr. Yates and establish a new home there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Yates
Meadowway
J. Edward Burns
Angie Talbot
Elizabeth Wakefield
Ruby Talbot
Yates
Annie
Warren
George, Jr
Mountain View
Calif
Local Notices Highlight Personnel Moves and Family News
Miss Betty Farris, daughter of Elm Street residents, works in John J. Keegan's law office in the Bath National Bank building and will handle special work and income taxes. Frances Harding of Damariscotta visited Bath relatives. Mrs. Harding hosted a tea Thursday afternoon. Pvt. Harlan Clowes, son of Arthur and Mrs. Clowes, is stationed at Mitchell Field, joined in New York by his wife and son Randall, after Bath Iron Works employment pre-induction. Everson Stinson of Woolwich hospitalized for blood poisoning at Memorial Hospital. Pvt. Frank O. Dunton reports assignment with 505th Q M Car Co. at Camp Livingston, Louisiana. Cleveland Holbrook, Health from Portland hospital, back home improved. Beverly Ann Clancy born Feb 1 at Bath Memorial hospital to Mr. and Mrs. James E. Clancy. mother Marion Gatchell staying with her mother in Woolwich while Clancy serves in Navy. Clifford Smith returns from North Easton, Mass., to Bath. Sgts Hiram Stevens of Ft. McClellan and Arthur Sarkis of Fort Williams visit Bath briefly. Mrs. Paul Davis spends winter in Westbury, Long Island with relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer Harjula
Thomaston High
Bath Iron Works
Camp Devens
Mass
Thomaston
William H. Daley
Middle Street
Edwin Harjula
Brunswick
Raymond Stein
Topsham
Harold Pease
Charles Lunden
Ina Anderson
Hyde Windlass Co
Rockland
Rockport
Betty Farris
Arthur Farris
Elm Street
Bliss Business College
John J. Keegan
Bath National Bank
Miss Farris
Harlan Clowes
Arthur Arthur Clowes
Central Avenue
Mitchell Field
L. I
N. Y
Clowes
Randall
New York City
Beverly Ann
James E. Clancy
Bath Memorial Hospital
Clancy
Marion Gatchall
Woolwich
Sophia Gatchell
Clacy
George D. Adams
Russell Street
Bath
United States Navy
Wrights visit kin then move to San Pedro shipyard
Harry N. Wright of Los Angeles California and Mrs. Wright visited relatives in Woolwich and Bath a year ago and now he is employed in a shipyard at San Pedro California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry N. Wright
Los Angeles
Calif
Wright
Woolwich
Bath
San Pedro
Bath News Notes Military Moves and Local Society
Private Pierce Jr. reports to Fort Devens after 28 days at Kearns Utah. Morse ’42 alum previously at Bowdoin. Flight 154 M. Herman Whittam is hospitalized at Memorial Hospital. Cranberry Point guests include Helen Hayes Ruth Roche Eleanor Danforth and Jean Danforth. Mrs Cyr and Adrian visit from Augusta while Mr Cyr travels in Boston. Post Office Clerks Auxiliary sews bed bags for Red Cross. Billy Hudson, 7, injured from fall, confined with a broken leg. Edwin B. Parris, 87, celebrated birthday and is noted as a leading spar maker. Mrs John Gray joins Hyde Windlass staff. Gray inducted into service. Dawn Susan Bowles born Feb 4 at Brunswick Hospital. Grace Crowley returns to Stoneleigh College after vacation in Bath and Boston. Melvin Greenbough family relocates to West Bath with work at Iron Works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Own . Pierce, Jr
Fort Devens
Kearns
Utah
Salt Lake City
Army Air Corps Technical
Ight W. Pierce
North Street
Pvt
Pierce
Morse
Bowdoin
T.S.8
Birth of a son to Lamie family announced
Capt and Mrs E Walter Lamie of the Salvation Army formerly in Bath and now in Portland announce the birth of a son on Friday January 29 at the Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary in Portland. The child is named E Walter Jr. Mrs Stanley Peterson hosted a family birthday dinner in Brunswick with Mr and Mrs Carl Meister Mr and Mrs Alton King and Mr and Mrs Harry Peterson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. Walter Lamie
Salvation Army
Bath
Portland
Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary
City
E. Walter, Jr
Stanley Peterson
Brunswick Road
Carl T. Meister
Washington Street
Alton King
West Bath
Harry E. Peterson
East Brunswick
Mrs Pierce Returns from Portland Visit
Mrs. Roger Pierce of Park Street returned Sunday from Portland where she visited her sister Mrs Edwin W Pin son.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odessa Linnell
Brunswick
Elmer L. Eldredge
Dummer Street
Roger Pierce
Park Street
Portland
Edwin W. Pinson
Portland girl undergoes operation at Maine General Hospital
Miss Mabelle Smith daughter of Mr and Mrs Joseph Timmy Smith formerly of Lemont Street Portland is a patient at Maine General Hospital after an operation Saturday morning Mickey as she is known by friends is under care of Dr George Tibbetts North Bath man Ige Rooke rests comfortably at Memorial Hospital recovering from an operation performed a few weeks ago
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mabelle Smith
Joseph ‘Timmy” Smith
Portland
Lemont Street
Maine General Hospital
Howard sisters visit New York with Major William Howard
Miss Marcia Howard and sister Miss June Howard of Anchorage pass the week in New York City with their father Major William Howard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis
Richard Young
Boothbay Harbor
William Brewer
Marcia Howard
June Howard
Anchorage
New York City
William Howard
Johnny Bower Directs Two Night Show at Morse High
Johnny Bower directs a two night program at Morse High School Friday and Saturday at eight. The show features Johnny and Elmer Dow in a comedy sketch and Bower performs a magic piece titled The Wizard Who Makes An Oz of Himself.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnny Bower
Society of American Military Engineers
Independent Brotherhood of Shipyard Workers
Morse High School
Johnny
Elmer Dow
Mr. Bower
Wizard
Ohio
Colorado
America
Bath
Richmond Woman Visits Son in Miami Homefront Tale
Mrs. David McGinn and daughter Frma travel to Miami Florida to visit Pvt. David McGinn, her son, as part of a family visit during wartime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David McGinn
Frma
Miami, Fla
Mrs. McGinn
Pvt
Progressive Grange Elects New Officers and Posts Program
The Progressive Grange met in its hall with newly elected officers taking seats. A program followed the business session featuring singing, a reading, State lecturers conference report, an apple contest, and the penny match won by Arthur Pickard. Next meeting set for Feb. 19.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Progressive Grange
Grange
Bertha Gray
Marjorie Curtis
Annabel, White
Emily Wallace
Arthur Johnson
Richard Palmer
Arthur Pickard
Belle Whitaker
Nettie Leavitt
Grace Thompson
Laura Baker
Jennie Palmer
Howard Knight
Erland Curtis
Eva Libby
Rachel Knight
Pepperell Sheet features two longtime Peperrell workers
Kazimir Charlie Klemansky, a Lithuania native, spent 51 years in the Lewiston division bleachery with only three days of leave while Axel Neilson, a Copenhagen native, has 23 years in mechanical work at the Bleachery. Both are highlighted in the Pepperell Sheet for workers at Lewiston Biddeford Fall River Opeloika Lindale plants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kazimir
Charlie
Klemansky
Axel Neilson
Lewiston
Peperrell Mfg. Co
Pepperell Sheet
Biddeford
Fall River
Opeleika
Lindale
Lithuania
Breachery
America
Neilsen
Copenhagen
Denmark
Women to buy service flag for Beacon Street church
The Woman's Society of Christian Service at Beacon Street Methodist met with 22 attending to plan fund raising and a budget pledge matching last year. They voted to buy a service flag for the church and two choir robes, and set a public baked bean supper for Feb 17.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman's Society of Christian Service
Beacon Street Methodist Church
William J. Craft
Marion Bowie
Craft
Charles T. Henderson
Della Adams
W. M. Knapp
Arthur M. Packard
Roger W. Pierce
Sanford B. Nickerson
Packard
Elmer Eldridge
John St. Martin
Irving Varney
Knapp
Andrew J. Danielson
India
Danielson
Miss Bowie
William Yule
Elizabeth E. Dunbar
Roger Pierce
Everett G. Lemont
Ward caucuses list officers for multiple wards Tuesday
The Republican ward caucuses on Tuesday evening nominated officers for seven wards. Contents include ward officers such as wardens clerks constables and aldermen like Roger M. Luke Charles A Coombs Jr Earle B. Lermond John O Witham Ernest G Kingsbury Alden H Anderson James A Jones Bessie E Dickinson Inez I Rothwell etc.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roger M. Luke
Charles A. Coombs, Jr
Earle B. Lermond
John O. Witham
Nellie G. Hunt
Elizabeth Deering
John A. Norris
Ernest G. Kingsbury
Alden H. Anderson
Converse G. Fenn
James A. Jones
Bernice Achorn
Miriam A. Clement
Fred D. Dwyer
Charles A. Thayer
Edward P. Thomas, Jr
James Comeau
Emery I. Freeman
Bessie E. Dickinson
Annie C. Longley
Albert M. Pinkham
Neighborhood Plan helps war info reach homes
The Neighborhood Plan in the city aims to deliver timely war information to every home via Local Defense Council led neighborhoods. Leaders visit 10–20 households, share official answers, and coordinate messages from war agencies to boost cooperation and curb rumors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Local Defense Council
Cary
Syracuse
Minneapolis
San _ Francisco
Bridgeport
Waterbury
New Canaan
Extension
U. S. Employment Service
Consumer and
Howard Bates
Bates
Norwegian graduate Alan Gamman guest of honor
Alan Gamman of Norway, who graduated in January from Bow doin college with high honors, was weekend guest of Mr and Mrs Norman Howard. His mother in Norway awaits a U S call for service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alan Gamman
Norway
Bowdoin College
Norman Howard
U.S. Navy
Miss Sampson Leaves Page's Jewelry for Hyde Windlass Co
Miss Margaret Sampson leaves Page's Jewelry after several months of service to join the Hyde Windlass Company, marking a career move within the local trades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Sampson
Page's
Hyde Windlass Co
St Marys Dedicates Service Flag and Honor Roll
In a ceremony at St Marys church Father LeFlém saluted the two flags of church and country and blessed the service flag. The parish Honor Roll lists dozens of men in the armed forces with star markers. Miss Eleanor Thibodeau visits her parents at 89 Green Street as Mrs Thibodeau remains ill at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Mary's Church
Father LeFlém
Father LeFlem
St. Mary’s
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