Raise Waters of Winnnegance Lake for Recreational Improvement
A Bath resident urged raising Winnnegance Lake by three to four feet to create a summer and winter recreational area. He argued higher water would improve fishing spawning grounds, reduce mosquitoes, enhance sail and ice boating, swimming, and overall lake beauty and community health. He noted local history and asked for public reactions from Winnneyance supporters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnegance Lake
Independent
Bath
Winneganee
West Bath
Maine
League church to host public supper and parish social
Mrs Adolph Ehlers chairs the refreshment committee for a public supper bridge at Central Church on Monday evening January 18 in the Parish house. Mrs Perry L Thompson and others are also on the committee. A second group led by Mrs Harold S Avery plans refreshments for the parish social on February 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adolph Ehlers
Perry L. Thompson
Walter Cummings
Charles A. Soule
League of Central Church
Harold S. Avery
Leonard M. Lord
Joan M. Harrison
Mother Daughter Banquet Set At Cosmopolitan Club
The Cosmopolitan club will hold its annual Mother Daughter banquet on January 28 with committees named for decorations training room and banquet. An updated program for the January meeting features readings, music, a sketch, a vocal solo, and tea. The Maine Progressive Union of Clubs meeting with Cosmopolitan is planned for February 12, and a Beano party is scheduled for January 16.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cosmopolitan Club
Maine Progressive Union of Clubs
Howard C. Bates
Edmund A. Rothwell
Irene Ingalls
Williams Whitney
Allen Spear
Hiram T. Stevens
William M. Adams
Malcolm L. Doble
William W. Dennison
Harry B. Briggs
Merritt A. Mitchell
Howard M. Steen
Donald B. Wilson
George W. Hibbs
Granville M. Colby
Muriel H. Howe
Ada Y. Greenblatt
Dorothy M. Milliken
Roscoe P. McFadden
Ann Gearing
Maine Federation of Women's Clubs
Augusta
John H. Perkins
Perkins
Carl Y. Kennedy
Leroy F. Colby
Paul L. Boudreau
Leslie J. Wold
Alice F Johnson
Gardiner R. Deering
Louis M. Silverman
Deering
Marjorie P Troop
Mary L. Lord
Edward A. Cummings
Lena D. Donnell
Beasie M. Hunt
Warren M. Stulphen
Mrs Voorhees Elected Scout Commissioner
Mrs Wilmer I. Voorhees was elected Girl Scout commissioner for her third year at the annual meeting of the Council held at the home of Mrs Glenn H Easton on Front Street. Other officers named include vice chairman registrar Mrs Alfred E Carpenter and secretary Archibald M Main. The council voted to send a representative to the Brownie conference in Boston on January 12 and discussed plans for a Mother Daughter banquet at the Y in March. The next meeting is set for January 27 at the State Military and Naval Children's Home with several officers present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmer I. Voorhees
Glenn H. Easton
Front Street
Alfred E. Carpenter
Archibald M. Main
Milton C. Trott
Edward Sewall
Arthur Sewall
Carpenter
Trott
Voorhees
Frank L. Staples
Easton
David S. Cogan
Sumner Sewall
Main
Boston
Staples
State Military and Naval Childrens Home
Edward Sewell
Fireside Guests Next Sunday at Wiscasset Club
Winter Street Fireside club plans a weekly visit featuring The Pioneers Young People's group as guests. Dow will lead a discussion on Are You Absolutely Honest, with the Young People's choir of Wiscasset performing. Refreshments by the social committee, Mary Mc Clure, Whitings. About 60 attendees last week. Rev Joseph O Purdue led a talk on Protestant Catholic relations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winter Street
Wiscasset
Rourer Dow
Wincasset
Mary McClure
Whitings
SG Vonns
Joseph O Purdue
Robes and Apples Stolen From Auto in Bath Street Heist
A Bath woman learned Saturday night that her car left unlocked near Front and Broad streets was rifled. Three wool robes and a half peck of apples vanished while she dined nearby. Miss Alice Lippincott of Braintree, visiting Washington Street, is noted in the report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Broad Street
Front Street
Shinai
Nso
Alice Lippincott
Braintree
E. Everett Pierce
Washington Street
Mid Winter Meeting of Maine Women's Clubs Opens
The Maine Federation of Women's Clubs holds its mid winter meeting January 28–29 at the State House Augusta with a symposium on legislative problems. Governor Barrows hosts a Friday tea. banquets and luncheons are organized by club leaders. Members of allied clubs are invited to attend and participate.
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Maine Federation of Women's Clubs
State House
Augusta
Hall of Representatives
Maine Progressive Union
Cosmopolitan Club
Winneganee Community Club
Maybelle H. Brown
Maude Clark Gay
Augusta House
Eva C. Mason
All-gusta House
Lewis O. Barrows
County Agent News Advises Farmers Meeting in West Bath
County Agent Eastman announces an Agricultural Conservation meeting for West Bath Bath and Phippsburg on Thursday January 21 at 930 am at West Bath Orange Hall. Attendees will learn changes to the conservation program affecting payments and have a chance to fill out applications for 1937 eligibility. A single meeting to handle applications in the community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lear Farmer
West Bath
Bath
Phippsburg
West Bath Orange Hall
Seaso
Tuesday probate court session reviewed wills and filings
Judge John W Brackett presided in Sagadahoc county probate court due to Judge Wal ter S Glidden illness. The session approved will probates for Bath estates andTopsham and Bowdoin matters, heard petitions for administration and probate of foreign wills, filed insolvency representations, and granted licenses to sell real estate in Richmond and related distributions and accounts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter S. Glidden
John W. Brackett
Lincoln County
Sagadahoc
Judge Brackett
Boothbay Harbor
Glidden
Emerson Hilton
William H. Hilton
Damariscotta
Waldoboro
Bowdoin College
Dimeriscotta
Brackett
Mary R. Swett
Bath
Charles C. Low
Phippsburg
John P. Carey
Abbie L. Gage
Marion B. Lloyd
Marion Lloyd Sinsabaugh
Whitestone Landing
N. Y
Arthur H. Beal
Topsham
Katherine E. Beal
John M. Johnson
Bowdoin
John E. Johnson
Lisbon
Hoffman Richardson
Los Angeles
Calif
Maud J. Richardson
Melinda C. Perry
Omar R. Perry
Ida A. Crocker
Woolwich
Edward C. Crocker
Alice C. Scribner
Jessie H. Seabury
Edwina M. Hall
Katherine M. Robb
Michael L. Fahey
Lethcix
Couture
Cyrille Couture
Edwin A. Mansir
Richmond
John F. King
Isabelle M. King
Mary L. Durand
Edwin E. Durand
Sagadahoc Farmers Receiving Checks
Agricultural conservation checks have been received by a majority of 335 farmers in Androscoggin and Sagadahoc counties who applied and earned this reward through soil building and soil conservation, says County Agent C. L. Eastman of Lewiston.
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Twin County
Androscoggin
Sagadahoc
C. L. Eastman
Lewiston
Farm Bureau
Bowdoinham Social News Highlights Local Events
Bowdoinham reports dinners and social visits including Mrs Charles Hackett hosting guests, Hazel Cornish weekending in town, and several supper gatherings. Weddings and moves involve Marie Thibodeau of Brunswick and Joseph Adams of Bath. An abandoned car on River road near Milton Given’s was traced to a theft from a C C C camp worker in Jefferson.
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Charles Hackett
George Cutler
Karl Hatch
Frank Siegars
Edward Baker
Harold Rollins
Alice Maxwell
Phillip Rideout
Minerva Dunlap
Hazel Cornish
Kittery
Lena Cornish
Margaret Gile
Leland Chapman
Merry Meeting Grange
Charles M. White
Augusta
White
Zina Davis
Lyford
William Gould
Chester Hobart
May Heenie
Wendall Heenie
Leroy Adams
Ella Purington
Vera Sherman
Sarah Frye
Charles Sherman
Ceres
Mary Webber
Pomona
Hobart
Flora
Prudence Hamilton
Betty Hobart
Milton Given
Howard Moody
George Hackett
Willis Skelton
Foster Meserve
Topsham
Hattie Hackett
Charles Buzzell
Bowdoin
J. N. Palmer
Old South Cemetery
Clara Fogg
Portland
Emma Ferguson
Harold Hildreth
Harry Durgen
Clifford Starbird
Ralph Raymond
Emma Raymond
Emma Sturtevant
Helen Clark
Marie Thibodeau
Brunswick
Joseph Adams
Bath
Bowdoinham
Harrison Adams
Mr. Jones
Jefferson
Monster Porpoise Seen Up River Near Bath
Observers along the riverfront reported a monster porpoise spotted around three o clock Tuesday afternoon. Henry T B Leeman watched from 118 Commercial Street as the creature swung across mid river near the old People’s Ferry Co. line. Locals said it was the first porpoise seen this far upriver at Bath as residents watched for a school. Meanwhile Mrs John H Hyde sails from New York to Jamaica then Miami to visit several weeks. Her father Charles M Boyd recently recovered from surgery in Newton Massachusetts.
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Henry T. B. Leeman
Commercial Street
Old People's Ferry Co
Bath
John H. Hyde
Elmhurst
New York
Jamaica
Hyde
Alfred Sweet
Miami
Fla
Charles M. Boyd
Newton, Mass
Free Will Workers of Corliss Street Meet Social and Election
Free Will Workers of Corliss Street church met at Mrs. Robert C Mitchells home on Weeks street for a business session and a large social. The annual meeting elected officers with 17 present. Officers include Mrs Fred Coombs president Mrs John H Hunt vice president Mrs Warren H McIntire secretary Mrs Harold S Walker treasurer and committee heads Mrs C Frank Knowlton Mrs Robert C Mitchell Mrs James W Gillespie and Mrs Frank M Bowker. Yearly reports showed gains. four more robes for the choir and higher church pledges were approved. An entertainment including a play was set for Jan 27. Teas and a supper followed with gifts distributed to members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Free Will Workers of
Corliss Street
Robert C. Mitchell
Weeks Street
Fred Coombs
John H. Hunt
Warren H. McIintire
Chester A. Plant
Walker
William H. Sheldon
McIntire
Plant
Frederick P. Moffatt
Mr. Mitchell
Hunt
Central League to Hold Public Supper Bridge
Central church group met in the parish house naming Monday January 18 for a public supper bridge with committees for refreshments tables and prizes listed. 25 attended. Next meeting January 25 will feature Rev David L Wilson on his Central America trip. Feb 2 parish social announced with hostesses named and refreshments to be arranged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
League of Central Church
Perry L. Thompson
Walter Cummings
Charles Soule
Dora L. Howard
Ethel Blake
Leslie J. Wold
Gardiner R. Deering
Edward A. Cummings
Merritt A. Mitchell
Howard
David L. Wilson
L.H. D
Central America
Martha A. Foote
Agnes W. Humphreys
Leonard M. Lord
Harold S. Avery
Joan M. Harrison
Frederick J. Hoffman
Former Bath Resident Keeps Love for City
Mrs. George R. Palmer of Portland renews The Independent saying she cannot get along without it. She notes pertinent editorials she enjoys and that at 85 she remains interested in Bath, even after years away, happy to see the city prosper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Independent
George R. Palmer
Portland
Bath
Grandma Cole of Bryant Pond Knits Mittens for Dolls
Elderly knitter in Bryant Pond makes mittens for dolls despite near blindness. She refuses charity for herself and her ailing husband, seeking to support their household through her craft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cole
Bryant Pond
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