Wise Owl Troop Hosts Mothers at Tea
Wise Owl Troop of Girl Scouts entertained mothers with a tea at leader Mrs. Joseph I. Smith’s home 940 Washington Street. Guest speaker Mrs. Wilmer J. Voorhees spoke on cooperation for badges and home instruction. Frances Young earned the first class award. 17 mothers attended. 17 troop members listed. A Scotch auction raised funds, with five pound sugar bag auctioned by Burt Lonn to benefit Mrs. Athena Gillespie. Next meeting will be gentlemen’s night with men providing entertainment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wise Owl
Joseph I. Smith
Washington Street
Wilmer J. Voorhees
John Parker
Juliette Fund
John Cooke
Voorhees
Joan Shaw
Roscoe H. Shaw
North Street
Frances Young
Carolyn Miller
Rouilon Francis
Barbara Cooke
Barbara Esmond
Barbara Reardon
Amelia Mitchell
Barbara Dunton
Patricia Cohen
Barbara Burdes
Rosaline Curmier
Roslyn Francis
Kitheryn Frates
Carolyn Miller Gas Mason
Nada Moore
Natics
Biartara
Lou Deering
Cara! Musk
Sirley
Jim Wis Owl
Clause
Alt Smith
Esses
Edith, Rich
Alice Sanborn
Irene Rice
Doris Berry
Burt Lonn
Athena Gillespie
Harold Tobey
Earl Pride J
Genesta Chapter Confers Degrees at Friday Meeting
Genesta Chapter O E S met Friday evening and conferred degrees. A report on a parish house card party by Genesta Sewing Circle was read by president Mrs Evelyn Morse. The Worthy Matron announced the Chinese War Relief fund goal had been realized and reported to Worthy Grand Matron Hor tense B Stevens. A request from USO asked members to act as hosts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Genesta Chapter
O. E.S
Central Church
Genesta Sewing Circle
Evelyn Morse
Hortense B. Stevens
Chapter
Valentine party for Hyde Windlass office force
Members of the Hyde Windlass Co. office force held a Valentine party at the American Legion hall Saturday evening. Music was by Joseph Avery’s orchestra, with red white and blue banners and a buffet lunch of Jobster bread sandwiches chicken salad olives cookies and coffee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fivde Windlass Co
American Legion Hall
Josemy Avers
Jobster Saad
Crekes
Local Theatre Sees Line Changes and Departures
Hote Wo Pikiaima manager Moti Titan theatre hosts Saturday program with ex poet Ty moving to a new line. Mr Pinkham, with 25 years in show, was at the Opera House as Hienender widlos left. Vt. visitor Mr Gibson of Barre came to Bath Saturday and Mathias assumed a vacant position. Ralph Melanis USN leaves for Sampson N.Y. after 21 days leave spent with his sister in Bath. Seaman McInnis, son of Mr and Mrs Wilfred McInnis of this city, also noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pikiaima
Moti Titan Theatre
Neelodi
Pink
Hienender Widlos
Hess
Gibson
Barre
Bath
Mathias
Pinkham
Ralph Melanis
USN
Sampson N.Y
James Nesbit
Court Street
Seaman McInnis
Wilfred McInnis
Rabbi Bernstein Addresses Lions Club on War Years
Rabbi Henry Bernstein US Army chaplain spoke to Lions at Hyde Windlass Cafeteria on Germany before 1939 and Nazi era. Four new members joined as Lt. John M. MacKenzie and others attended. Blue Cross pamphlets were distributed. next Lions meeting featured a field meet and basketball game.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hyde Windlass
Henry Bernstein
U. S. Army
Arthur Bowker
H. Everett Cook, Jr
Wendall Heald
Arthur Hall
Sherman A. Callahan
John M. MacKenzie
Chaplain Bernstein
Germany
University of Berlin
Hitler
Pine Cone Troop 4 Holds Court of Honor
Pine Cone Troop No. 4 led by Mrs. R. Clinton McFadden held a court of honor at Winter Street church. Scouts received badges for housekeeping, cooking, music, dancing and more. Four earned stars for perfect attendance, and Phyllis Gray earned the first class badge for the curved bar. Tea followed with mothers present and the American Girl Patrol assisting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. Clinton McFadden
Winter Street
Phyllis Gray
Joan Longley
Mary Burgess
Madelyn Kronstrand
Joyce McCurdy
Marilyn King
Marguerite Driswill
Missionary Society Meet at President Chaney’s Home
Far and Near Missionary Society met Thursday afternoon at Mrs. Chaney’s home. The secretary read an article on liquor in plumbing and Mrs. Moffatt presented a paper titled Christian Ventures. A radio skit on West China mission work was performed by Mrs. Walker and Mrs. Moffatt. Tea and crackers were served. Next meeting set with Mrs. Chaney on March 16.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Far and Near Missionary Society
Chaney
Summers In Bath And Winters In Portland Family Move
Passes his Summers in Bath with his son and wife Mr and Mrs Charles E Hewitt Jr on High street and spends the Winter in Portland with cousins Mr and Mrs Clyde Richardson of 32 Juniper street. Before going to Portland he visited his daughter Mrs Lily Sherburne of Richmond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Charles E. Hewitt, Jr
High Street
Portland
Clyde Richardson
Juniper Street
Lily Sherburne
Richmond
Educational campaign eyed to curb illegal Maine Central parking
Nine Iron Workers faced Maine Central Railroad parking charges in Bath court but all cases were continued as union rep Paul Fitzpatrick proposed an education drive. Officials urged space to move trucks and unload goods. police noted limited success of warnings and No Parking signs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine Central Railroad
Paul Fitzpatrick
Independent Brotherhood of Shipyard Workers
Gardiner R. Deering
Fitzpatrick
Edward W. Bridgham
Bridgham
Bath Iron Works Corp
High and
Western Avenue
Dana W. York
South End PTA Observes Founders Day With Large Attendance
The South End PTA held Founders Day with the largest turnout in years. The program featured community singing, piano solos by Riva Divia Greenblatt, selections by Red Rose Intermediate Girl Scouts, readings by Mrs. Sophie Friedman, and a play by PTA members. A post program tea followed, served by multiple members and Girl Scouts, with blue and gold decorations and cakes marking the National PTA's 47th anniversary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South End
PTA
Riva Divia
Richard Quick
John Hunt
Alfred Carpenter
Arthur Berry
N. Gratz Jackson
National
P.T. A
Democratic Committee Chooses Officers at City Hall
At a city hall meeting the Democratic committee elected Arthur H Colby as chairman for the year with Frank Dingley as vice chairman and Walter Lyden as secretary. A March 2 session will select delegates and alternates for the State Democratic convention in Lewiston on March 24.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Democratning
City Hall
Arthur H. Colby
Frank Dingley
Walter Lyden
Lewiston
Democrati State Committee
Plac
Augusta
Cosmopolitan Club Literary Day Draws Capacity Crowd
Literary Day at the Cosmopolitan club drew capacity crowds with exhibits of local writings and rare books. Elizabeth Reed of Boothbay Harbor spoke in the afternoon. Robert P. Tristram Coffin gave the evening address on What Is a Poem.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cosmopolitan Club
Elizabeth Reed
Boothbay Harbor
Maine Federation of Women's Clubs
Virginia French
Louis A. Dole
Mabel Harris
Granville Colby
Harmon W. Smith
Fred W. Quimby
Robert P. Tristram Coffin
Smith
Fred P. Carey
Carl Albee
Fred K. Sturtevant
Fred D. Hill
Nathan W. Watson
Margaret Melcher
Allan Ramsay
James Royall
Edward B. Hamblett
Minnie White
Alice Johnson
Iota Sigma Meeting at Beulah Pratt Home
Iota Sigma held a meeting at 53 Spring Street hosted by Miss Beulah Pratt. Read a WAVES member Natalie York letter and featured a multifaceted program including readings, poems, music by Miss Pratt and others, with next social planned at Mrs. Rosamond McGuiggan’s home on Feb 29.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iota Sigma
Beulah Pratt
Spring Street
Natalie York
the Waves
Dorothy Vomaska
Deletra Hill
Flanders Field
Margaret Hanscom
Gloria Stover
Santa Lucia
Eleanor Wright
Rosamond McGuiggan
Mother of the Hills
Middle Street
Dorothy Womaska
Democrats Name City Committee
The Democrats at their caucus named the city committee for the year with members listed by ward. Ward One includes James W. Temple and others. Ward Two lists Ralph C. Covel and teammates. Ward Three covers Leslie J. Wold and others. Ward Four names Edward F. Miller and Alfred Pomerleau. Ward Five includes Harold Corliss and Edward McCormick. Ward Six lists Joseph Marchetti and more. Ward Seven names William Daley and Alexander MacDonald among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ward
James W. Temple
William B. Temple
George Moses
Dominique Tardif
Frank J. Lehane
Helen Moses
Sadie Garcelon
Ralph C. Covel
Harry W. Thebeau
Frank Dingley
Theresa Cabot
Ella Dingley
Leslie J. Wold
Alexander Burgess
Arthur Colby
Walter Lyden
Mabel E. Ansert
Edward F. Miller
Alfred Pomerleau
Harold Corliss
Edward McCormick
Carleton Perry
Joseph Marchetti
Martin Powers
Bertha Dunbar
Alphonse Turcotte
Edward Footer
William Daley
Alexander MacDonald
Roland Robinson
Harry Plummer
Central Fire Station Handles Three Day Stills Blaze
Three separate fires kept Central Fire Station busy on Saturday. A blaze in cardboard and paper at 32 Denny Road sent Engine Four to Lambert Park. An electric light bulb set fire to a chair at 248 Middle Street. Around five pm rags near a smoke pipe in a barber shop caused flames. Mrs. Charles Henderson of High Street, a Memorial Hospital patient, received a sunshine basket from her club and neighbors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Fire Station
Denny Road
Lambert Park
Middle Street
Charles Henderson
High Street
Memorial Hospital
Keegan and Andrews Tie The Knot In Mass Early Mass
Miss Geraldine Evelyn Andrews daughter of Mrs Edna J Andrews and the late Carroll E Andrews became the bride of John J Keegan Jr Monday morning at eight o clock in a nuptial mass at St Marys Catholic Church Reverend Fr John Cummings performed the single ring service in the presence of relatives and friends The couple left for a wedding breakfast at Hotel Eagle Brunswick and will reside in an Allen apartment on Washington street after a Boston honey moon Groom John J Keegan Jr and bride both Morse High graduates and employed in local offices and Bath Iron Works respectively The aunt of the bride Mrs Carlton Andrews played the wedding music and wedding march
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geraldine Evelyn Andrews
Edna J. Andrews
Carroll E. Andrews
Union Street
John J. Keegan, Jr
St. Mary's Catholic Church
John Cummings
Amerise Bourque
Carlton Andrews
Brunswick
Hotel Eagle
Morse High
The
Times Co
J. J. Keegan
Front Street
Keegan
Bath Iron Works
Community Concert Association Set for Early 1944-45 Drive
Bath community group formerly Bath Cooperative Concert Association moves up membership drive to early March to secure artist dates and transport logistics. Meeting Sunday at Central Church with Jean Fish from New York coordinating. drive ends March 4 with program planning to follow. Over 900 joined last year. aim to equal or surpass that total. Nazaire Gallant, 69, of Bangor, killed in Brewer when crushed by a truck driven by Maurice Goldberg after Gallant alighted from the cab.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Community Concert Association
Bath Cooperative Concert Association
Central Church Parish Holl
Jean Fish
New York
Miss Fish
Bath
Central Maine Power Co
Barry Ensemble
Nazaire Gallant
Gridley Street
Bangor
Brewer
Earl P. Bradbury
Maurice Goldberg
Essex Street
Bradbury
Gallant
Goldberg
Bradley Said
Firing Up New Plant Aims To Boost Spring Fertilizer Supply
The Sagadahoc Fertilizer Co in Bowdoinham completed a modern mixing and bagging unit and a storage area to supplement existing equipment for the spring season. New 60 ton per hour mixing plant from Sturtevant Mill Co and 12 100 pound bagging unit from St. Regis Paper Co enhance automatic filling. A small three wheel gasoline tractor will unload fertilizer cars within two hours, supporting a 3000 ton dealer/farmer stock by April 1. The firm expects similar output to last spring’s 12,000 tons. The program follows War Food Administration guidance to ease planting season congestion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sagadahoc Fertilizer Co
Sturtevant Mill Co
Dorchester
Mass
St. Regis Paper Co
Oswego
N. Y
War Food Administration
Washington
Hartford Friends Gather Amid Small Town News
Hartford Connecticut residents connect with neighbors on Thursday as Mary Pides stays home on medsles. Ernest Hunter begins work Monday as a trackman for the Maine Central Railroad. Mrs Vera Winters and her granddaughter of Waterville visit Mr and Mrs A B MacDougal for the weekend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartford
Conn
Mary Pides
Medsles
Ernest Hunter
Maine Central Railroad
Vera Winters
Waterville
A. 8. MacDougal
Local social notes from Bowdoinham post road area
Mrs Kenneth Almy and son Kenneth Jr return from Brunswick hospital. Coombs high girls and boys basketball teams played Wiscasset on Feb 11. Ray Douglas and sons visited R A Douglass at his home. Clyde Is serving with U S Coast Guard in Texas on leave at home. Mrs Alden Conners returns from Kentucky where husband is stationed. Mrs Earl Ladd of Rome visited last week with daughter Mrs Walter Zachrau. Patricia Messer vacationing with grandmother. Allan Naugler and daughter weekend guests of W H Gould.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Comfort Branch Iss
Carl Rogers
Rogers
Neil Bishop
Charles Hackett
Bath Iron Works
Bowdoinham Town Hall
Merry Meeting Grange
Cleveland Marriner
Richmond
Edward White
Linnie Gowell
Boston
Pleasant Street
Irving Temple
USN
Gertrude Rogers
Bridgewater
Mass
Allen Naugler
Dixie Mae
Old Orchard
J. E. Allen
Portland
River Road
Kenneth Hackett
Fort Bragg
N. C
Kenneth Almy
Kenneth, Jr
Brunswick Hospital
Coombs
Wiscasset
Ray Douglas
Roger
Clyde
R. A. Douglass
U.S. Coast Guard
Taxas
Alden Conners
Kentucky
Earl Ladd
Rome
Walter Zachrau
Patricia Messer
Allan Naugler
W. H. Gould
Aldermen To Probe Police Department In Special Meeting
The Board of Aldermen will meet at City Hall at seven PM to discuss an investigation of police department affairs suggested by a police official. Deputy Dana W York Captain Edward L Gaudreau and Patrolman Frank L Moriarty are summoned to testify amid claims of intoxicated conduct and alleged department inefficiency. Also, New England Shipbuilding Corp officials and Local 50 IUMSWA sign a union security contract enforcing membership for workers under a War Labor Board directive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Aldermen
Police Department
Walter C. Rogers
Personnel Service Commission
Toin
Board of the Commission
Dana W York
Edward L. Gaudreau
Frank L Moriarty
New England Shipbuilding Corp
Loca 50
Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers O America
War Labor Board
WLB
Mus
Iumswa
Loca
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S3, Inc
Leloup
Wise Owl Troop
Avery
Proternitier
I Pontes
Ay Bass
Biosci
Rabbi Bernstein
Lions Club
Pine Cone Troop
Girl Scouts
Missionary Society
M.C.R.R
South End Pta
Democratic Committee
Democrats
Keegan-Andrews
St. Mary’s
Community Concert Association
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Nesdays
Fred B. Reed Co
Jene E. Wallace
Bowdoinham
Karl Hatch
Frederick Pauling
Cen Ine
John Wayne
Martha Scott
Albert Dekker
George Hayes
Technicolor
Charles Boyer
Berbera Stanwyck
Edward G. Robinson
Anne Lie
Betty Figip
Robert Ss
Universal Picture
Ppa Sonsny
Bowdoinham Post Road
Richard DIX
Jane Wyatt
Albert Dexki
the Blues
Bob Haymes
Lynn Merri
Vagabonds
Columbia
Bird Tierney
Brooks George Givot
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