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Bath Independent in Bath, Maine

19 Jan 1939

Page 7

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Newspaper

Bath Independent

Location

Bath, Maine, United States of America

Date

Jan 19, 1939

Page

7

Richmond Fraternal Installation and Local Notices Highlight Town Life

A detailed account covers Amy Bradley Tent No. 15 D of U V of C W installing officers with Viola Douglass as President and Eva Hinkley honored for 15 years as treasurer. Other society roles, a Mt. Carmel OES meeting, a Grange show, and community events fill the page alongside marriages, high school athletics, court actions, library news, and obituaries.

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Amy Bradley U. V C. W Viola James Adele Malloy Ina Douglass Alice Wedge Ida Watson Viola Douglass Pauline Gilpatrick Marion McFarland Sadie Waltz Courtney Hinkley Evalyn Hinkley Zoe Tyler Ida Hutchins Lillian Libby Vanessa Beedle Fern Perry Della Dickinson Ruth Leet Ethel Rankins Mildred Skinner Ethel Silver Margery Johnson Hutchins Deila Dickinson Mildred Davis Hilda Annette Harford Grace Jay Nelson
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Bath Iron Works notes list workers and launches planned

Fred Sturtevant and others work on ice at Whiskeay or the Bay while a group of women in offices bowl weekly. High score 90 by Mrs. Franklin Sherman. Dozens of employees from purchasing to inspector offices are named. 1,920 on payroll with 51 on temporary cleanup for USS Jouett trial. Next launches planned around April 15 the Sims and Hughes 1500-tonners. George Comeau returns as government inspector after Navy Yard work, joining Bath’s ranks alongside Albert Bonney.

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Fred Sturtevant Bnshop Franklin Sherman Henry O. Trowbridge Margaret Gordon Roberta Erwin Charlotte Page Muriel Howe Hull Esther Wilson USS. Jouett George H. Comeau Portsmouth Navy Yard Hyde Windlass Company Mr. Comeau Bath Albert Bonney
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Progressive Grange Meeting Highlights Richmond Hall

The Richmond Progressive Grange met Friday night. After a business session, activities included a reading by Mrs. Charles Thompson, an original song, a quartet, Lucy Tarr reading, a prompt question on yearly goals, a word contest won by Charles Thompson, a penny march won by Lucy Tarr, and New Year resolutions featuring Richard Thompson and Charles Thompson Jr.

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Progressive Grange of Richmond Charles Thompson Lucy Tarr Richard Thompson Charles Thompson, Jr
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Mrs Farrin Rites Held For Anne S Farrin

The funeral of Anne S Farrin widow of Henry R Farrin was Sunday afternoon at two at 41 Green Street. Rev Joseph Purdue of Winter Street church officiated with bearers Russell M Colby Edward Jaquith Charles MacDonald Harry Farrin and William H Farrin nephews. Burial followed at Maple Grove.

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Anne S. Farrin Henry R. Farrin Green Street Joseph Purdue Winter Street Russell M. Colby Edward Jaquith Charles MacDonald Harry Farrin Melrose William H. Farrin Boston Maple Grove
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Georgetown notes on WPA work and local travel aids

Georgetown reports progress on state aid and WPA construction with good teamwork led by Melvin Cunningham and Ernest Grover. Mrs. Wyman’s house damaged by fire is being repaired by Howard M. Trafton in Sa battus while Mrs. Trafton visits Portland Sanford Bovton.

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Howard M. Trafton Sabattus A. E. Wyman Wyman Georgetown Trafton Portland Sanford Bovton Doris Trafton George L. Tarr First Selectman Arrowsic Selectmen T. M. Hagan Grace Cunningham Alex. S. Cunningham Phippsburg Small Point WPA Melvin C. Cunningham Ernest Grover Wiscasset W. W. Riggs Maine General Hospital Allen Avenue Harry Carlisle Thomas N. Williams Carroll Deering Elizabeth Deering Bath Ernest Heal Ida Oliver Board of Selectmen Carlton Bridge Woolwich Arrowsie West Bath Edgecomb Southport Westport Boothbay Boothbay Harbor
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Legion Auxiliary Council Meets Here in Third District

Mrs Irene Metcalf presided at the Third District Council of the American Legion Auxiliary Maine held at the Legion hall. Officers and guests from Rockland Wiscasset Thomaston and Damariscotta discussed National Defense rehabilitation Togus and Legion home work.

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Irene Metcalf Third District Council American Legion Auxiliary Department of Maine Legion Hall Olive Tinkham Marietta Greenlaw National Rehabilitation Committee Hotel Bond Hartford Legion Home Maine Auburn Area A Augusta Trene H. Metcalf Wiscasset Sara Houdlette Rehabilitation R. Matthews Rockland Thomaston Damariscotta Roland Smith Unit Jennie Thompson Togus Florence McClure
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McCall Assigned to Asiatic Station

Naval orders assign Commander Roger F. McCall, inspector of machinery at Bath Iron Works Bath Maine, to the Asiatic station. Mrs Charles P Wetherbee of 820 High Street has gone to Chicago to visit relatives.

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Roger F. McCall Bath Iron Works Corp Bath Maine Asiatic Station Charles P. Wetherbee 820 High Street Chicago
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Lowell Thomas One Man Industry of Speed and Sight

California talk centers on Lowell Thomas and his vast personal industry. He hires two secretaries, dictates from trains and taxis, runs Fox Movietone and travels daily between Pawling farms and New York studios. He chairs the Advertising Club luncheons and Dutch Treat Club events, credited by many as the era’s most energetic one man industry.

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California Lowell Thomas Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane Lane Thomas East 50Th Street New York Mr. Thomas Duchess County Pawling Fox Movietone News Film Studios R. Co. A Mary Davis Electra Ward Fox Studios New York Advertising Club Mr Thomas America Christian Science, Monitor
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Bay Point residents aid runaway skiff and local obits

Gale winds blow logs down the Kennebec as Bay Point volunteers led by Mayor Butters pursue a runaway skiff. The mayor saves none, returning to cheers. The issue marks two elder Bay Point deaths, plus visits, travel, and local work on electricity and daily life around Bath and Georgetown.

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Logs Devris Kennebec Herman A. Spinney Bay Point Mr. Spinney Mayor Butters Bay Indian Point Horatio Drake Capt Edgar Drake Birchwood Vinal Haven E. A. Manning Horace Bremner Bath Perlie Chandler Chandler Bob Tide Bremner Sherman Campell Harold Robinson Auburn Ralph W. Bragg Central Maine Power Co Louise Howard Etnier Stephen Ethier Stephanie Nassau Bahama Islands Gilbert Head Edna M. Coolidge W. O. Oliver Burton Radley Georgetown Clarence Kneeland Son Keith Dorothy Stewart Edgar Warren Perlie Chandler Sherman Campbell Maurice Burns Howard Barter Clarence Oliver H. A. Spinney W. O. Clark William Adams Rose Campbell Lois Burns
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Five Islands Community Notes Include Visits and Births

Five Islands residents share weekend visits as the Duntons and Gray families settle in at the Marr house. A new baby was born to Mr. and Mrs. Philip Campbell Jr. at the Cornish maternity home in Bath. Library additions include Clear the Trail and West of the Pecos with Miss Hope Berry assisting the librarian.

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James Dunton Gardiner Five Islands Woodrow Gray Topsham Marr House Mr. Gray Bath Iron Works Russell Pinkham Kittery Ellsworth Pinkham Chester Davis Orville Rowe Georgetown Raphael Higgins J. G. Stevens Bath Walker E. Reid Augusta Carrie H. Stevens Katharine Pendergast Daytona Beach Fla Miss Stevens Philip Campbell, Jr Merton Pinkham Clarence Kneeland Percy Savage Roy Shackford
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Restoration of Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Under Way

Secretary Harold L. Ickes delivers a two million dollar Treasury check to the receivers of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Co. for the government purchase of the 185 mile canal from Georgetown to Cumberland. The National Park Service will restore the canal, locks, and towpaths with focus on the Great Falls area and a revived tavern as a historic gathering spot.

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Harold L. Ickes Treasury Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Co Georgetown D. C Cumberland George Washington Washington Seneca Great Falls The Potomac National Park Service Department of the Interior Park Service National Park System Great Falls of the Potomac
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Great pyramids yield to American dams in mass

Secretary Harold L. Ickes notes that Boulder and Grand Coulee Dams surpass the Great Pyramid of Egypt in masonry. Shasta Dam will top both with an estimated 5,500,000 cubic yards. Construction pace and workforce differ greatly between ancient and modern monumental projects. Mrs. Ida Hinckley and Mrs. M. E. Beerwort sail Jan 20 on the SS Statendam for a Caribbean cruise via New York.

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Egypt B. C Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation Boulder Grand Coulee Shasta Central Valley Harold L. Ickes Great Pyramid Boulder Dam Grand Coulee Dam Shasa Ida Hinckley Five Islands M. E. Beerwort Portland New York City SS. Statendam Holland American Line Caribbean St. Tho As St. Pierre Fort de France Martine i Bridgton Barbadoes Port Aub Trinidad Curacao la Guaira Caracas Venezuela S. A New York
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Wild Bill Hickok a Legendary Fighting Machine in the Hills

Boston Sunday Post writer Sam Gibson recalls Wild Bill Hickok as the fiercest man of the old West. An old timer at Deadwood’s cemetery muses on Hickok’s fame and the legend of the ten against one duel, then shifts to Hickok’s famed duel with Dave Tutt in Springfield.

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Mooney William S. Kenyon Iowa Sebasco Sagadahec Kenyon Wickersham Commission California Wild Bill Hickok Old West Deadwood South Dakota Black Hills Sam Gibson Boston Sunday Post Reckom Jane Wild Bill America Wild West Jack McCall Bill Dave Hickok Dave Tutt Springfield Bill Hickok Tutt Davis
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Bath Memorial Hospital Nurses Alumni Meeting Rescheduled

The last quarterly meeting of the Bath Memorial Hospital Nurses Alumni has been postponed to Thursday evening February 16.

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Bath Memorial Hospital
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Alfred H. Ives Lester Norton Baptist Church Mt. Carmel Courtney Hinckley Thomas Hinckley Flora Denham Nathaniel Gilpatrick Sadie A. Wood Ruse C. Curtis Grace Purinton Inez Whitmore Enterprise Grange Hall the Grange J.M. Mansir Emily Grant Weary Willie Mansir Solon Purinton Earle Cronk Mina Floyd Margaret Bailey Charles Blake Edna Lane John Parker Arthur Terrell Beatrice Parker S. Stanley Card Cy White James Roberts Mr. Blake Card Edward Mansir Purinton Chester Foster Philip Densmore Velma Bailey Mr. Densmore Mr. Foster Richard Grindle Ruth Stone South Berwick Baptist Parsonage Freeport H. Emerson Akerley Linwood Grindle Florence Plummer Ola Liscomb Lincoln Grindle Harold Castner Grindle Durand Richmond High School Winthrop High Winthrop June McKenna Connecticut Wilbur Cooper Washington, D. C George Fargo J. Blanchard Chapman J. W. Randlette Chapman Lloyd Umberhind E. C. Trueworthy South Front Street Lawrence Wakefield Nancy Westbrook Harry Whitney Pasquale Cadenelli Beverly Worcester Mass Arthur A. Callaghan Methodist Church Emerson Lane Post A. L Isaac F. Umberhind Public Library W. W. Gardiner F. H. Naylor 8. B. Dunn T. M. Borjesson Edith Stevens Iver ‘Ring Ruth Lang Wallace W. Gardiner Frederick Naylor E. B. Dunn P. H. Naylor Ruth B. Howe Ruth V. Walton Ruie Curtis Ruth Howe Ivor Ring Harry Mumford West Dresden Roberts Leland Segars Charles Morton Eugene Nichols Harold Averill Jamaica Plain Elizabeth Kelley Pinehurst N. C Marilla Tarr Charles B. Day Mary A. Lancaster Fred Lancaster Bowdoinham Mar George W Mary Smail Sturtevant Alice Beedy Dover- Foxcroft Arthur Lawrence Toledo Dover-Foxcroft Charles Los Angeles Calif G. C. Marriner Milton Ada H Frank Dresden Arthur Allen Optometrist Pleasant St Brunswick B.J.W William Blake Harry B. Briggs, Jr Sims Hughes Floyd H. Preble Timekeepr Jouett Eric Anderson Iron Works Farber Davis Fred Carr Victor Pinkham Vernon Gray, Jr Gilbert Standish Maurice Bailey Islands Junior Williams Joseph Higgins Earle Hagan Progressive Grange Legion Auxiliary Council Bowdoin College D. M. Humphreys & Co Sagadahock Block Bath, Me Room Edward Clancy Granite Street Florida Fred S. Curtis & CO Thomas R. Huston Ambulance Service Center Street Great West
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