Society and Clubs in Bath Full Week of Local News
Bath society notes detail Miss Sophia Mikels return from a long Pacific coast trip visiting relatives in Los Angeles San Francisco Chicago and New York and mention other Bath families. The column records gatherings at homes clubs and the theatre as well as births engagements and a sailing vessel in drydock in Portland with local residents visiting Augusta and Bath for social events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sophia Mikels
Calif
Benjamin M. Mikels
Miss Mikels
Los Angeles
Simon Newman
Frank M. Mikels
San Francisco
Horatio A. D. Mikels
Chicago
East
Charles Israel
Loeb Memorial Home
Eastview
N. Y
David Smith
Brookline
Mass
New York
Army library drive boosted by Colton in First Corps Area
Miss Aline B Colton Corps Area Librarian inspected Army fort and camp facilities to assess reading needs. She found soldiers eager for technical and historical volumes, with many posts lacking adequate libraries and transport to civilian resources, prompting appeals for books and support from communities and publishers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whiteside
High Street
Miss Colton
Charles B. M. Whiteside
Andover
Mass
Martha Mary Chapel
Sudbury
Old English High School
Boston
Army Library Service
Corps
First Corps Area Army Base
South
George Atwood Colton
Lee, Mass
Goodyear Rubber Company
Bangor
Portland
Colton
First Corps
Fort Terry
New York
Long Island Sound
New London
New London Library
Fort Bragg
N. C
United States
Camp Edwards
Fort Devens
Portsmouth
New Hampshire
Fort Buckman
Manchester
Maine
Manchester Air Base
Portland, Maine
Portland Harbor
Quartermaster Department
Portland Public Library
Fort Wright
the Red Cross
Community War Fund
American Library Association
Aline B. Colton
Army Base
Mrs Burton Goudy Returns From Visit in Lincoln County
Mrs Burton E Goudy of 66 Oak Street has returned after a stay with her son Charles E Gale and Mrs Gale in Damariscotta and with friends in Newcastle lasting a few days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burton E, Goudy
Oak Street
Charles E. Gale
Gale
Newcastle
Mrs Reinoehl Hosts Visit For Mrs McKay In Fort Wayne
Mrs Frank Reinoehl entertained a few friends Friday afternoon for Mrs Charles W. McKay of Fort Wayne Indiana at her home located at 1227 Washington Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katherine Burgess
Court Street
Burgess
Eva McElman
Lida Costain
Sedgwick
Frank Reinoehl
Charles W. McKay
Fort Wayne
Ind
Washington Street
Victory Book Drive Underway At Patten Library
The Victory Book Campaign in Bath runs through this week under Miss Anna M. Trott, Andrew J. Danielson, and Mrs. Wilmer N. Voorhees. Residents are urged to donate books they would read, avoiding old or children’s titles. Collected books serve soldiers at nearby forts, the armory, and Columbian hall, with Junior Red Cross members delivering from the U. S. O. center in Columbian hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Anna M. Trott
Patten Free Library
Andrew J. Danielson
U.S. O
Wilmer N. Voorhees
Red Cross
Armory
Columbian Hall
U. S. O. Center
Cross
Mrs Gatcomb Visits Bath Friends From Malden Mass
Mrs. Fred Gatcomb of Malden Massachusetts is in Bath calling on friends including Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Hatch of Washington street. Mrs. Gatcomb was formerly Miss Hazel Eades of this city, from her Bath High School days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Downey
R.N
Boston
Bath
B. Downey
Wiscasset
Park Street
U.S.A
Harvard
Miss Downey
Ware
Mass
Children’s Hospital
Louis Spicer
Bedford Street
Spicer
David Henderson
North Bath
Claude S. Gillette
Rupert H. Baxter
Washington Street
Washington, D. C
Elwood Hodgkins
Clinton Street
Portland
Herbert Spinney
High Street
Bertha C. Oliver
Medford Hillside
Harry C. Burrill
Lawrence Martin
Groton
Jill Ruth Olsen
Karl Olsen
Memorial Hospital
Olsen
Dorothy
Billy) Thompson
Morse High
Fred H Thompson
Front Street
Fred Gatcomb
Malden
Robert B. Hatch
Gatcomb
Hazel Eades
Bath High School
Our Town Forty Years Ago Bath in Bath Independent
Delano Brookings of Boston writes in the Christian Science Monitor about Bath's Forty Years Ago column. The piece blends random Bath items from 1901 including the William P. Frye launch party and local events, showing how the town’s people and places shaped its past with reminiscences, gossip, and photos from the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Our Town
Christian Science Monitor
Delano Brookings
Boston
Bath
Bath Independent
William P. Frye
David P. Dearborn
Caroline Frye Briggs
William D. Sewall
Independent
Maine
High Street
New England
Bunker Hill
York Hall
Sumner Sewall
Bath Iron Works
Sewall
Sumner
Alameda
Columbia Orchestra
New York
Standard Oil Co
Knickerbocker
Kennebec
Phippsburg
Japan
Bath High School
Boothbay Harbor
Sewall’s
Mr. Brookings
Elmhurst
North End
Bowdeinham
Winter Street Ladies Aid hears fine reading on Friday
The Winter Street Ladies Aid at Winter Street church heard extracts from Shake Hands With the Dragon by Carl Glick read by Mrs. Carl L. Kennedy, program chair, after a business meeting attended by 40. Hostesses included Mrs. Elmer Hodgkins, Mrs. Charles Low, Mrs. Fred Hill, and Mrs. Edward Hawley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Glick
Carl L. Kennedy
Ladies’ Aid
Winter Street Church
China
Kennedy
Elmer D.hodgkins
Charles C. Low
Fred C
Walter H. Bowker
Corrie H. Varney
Martha E. Hooper
Emma F. Hooper
Books and magazines sent to soldiers at state armory
Soldiers at the state armory receive books and magazines from Mrs Colbys class at Central Grammar. Pupils collected reading material and snacks to aid guard duty on the bridge, with plans to continue weekly donations. Weekend visitors from Malden, Mass., were relatives of Bath residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Armory
Mrs. Colby
Central Grammar
Reginald Parker
Frances Higgins
Cecil Fullerton
Lawrence Hart
Jean Drake
Gloria Christiansen
Richard Callan
Deserve a Boost in Compensation for Bath Teachers
A Bath Maine citizen and school board member urges city leaders to grant a 15 percent retroactive pay raise to teachers, arguing salaries lag behind other trades and prior increases were insufficient. The letter cites resignations, sick leave limits, and the need for new or improved schools as justification for action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Street
Bath
Maine
the Independent
The
Independent
Board of Education of
Parker
Board of Education
Selwyn H. Towne
Phippsburg Notes On Campaigns And Local Happenings
Local page notes report Infan tile Paralysis coin cards distributed in schools by Frances Robie as part of a town campaign. Brownies elect Betty Ann Bath secretary and Janet Shaw treasurer. Richard Dolloff, son of Mr and Mrs George Dolloff of Oak Lawn Rhode Island, now stationed at Fort Devens after high school in Cranston, enlisted before Christmas and trains as a shipfitter at Bath Iron Works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frances Robie
Brownies
Betty Ann Bath
Janet Shaw
Richard Dolloff
George Dolloff
Oak Lawn
R. I
Cuvier Dollott
Washington Street
Bath Iron Works
Fort Devens
Ayer
Mass
Cranston
U. S. Army
Jtter
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William F. Plummer
John Huskins
Winship Street
Gail
Nancy Hutchins
Harvey Hutchins
Watertown
Nova Scotia
Perth Amboy
N. J
Gerald Holland
Richardson Street
Knick-Knack Klub
Walter Mosher
John J Keegan
Jack
William Esmond
George Moody
Augusta
Judee Keegan
State House
Jane Trott
M. C. Trott
Alusic
Any Desmond
Gloria Leusset
Mary Pierce
Elizabeth Trott
Norma Drummond
Lydia South
Mary Clappison
Ruth Small
Peri Lemont
David Dickson
Edward Footer
Forrest Drake
Graydon Smith
William Osborn
Richard A.drews
Frank A. Danforth
Upper
Hs Boon
John E. Madden
C. A
HSD
Morse High School
Seacoast Artillery
Fort Munroe
Charles Finley
Carroll Watson
Col. Finley
Anne Cary Bradley
Fryeburg
Louis A. Dole
Middle Street
Madison Moore
Camboa
Canal Zone
Panama
J. Paul Cushman
Quincey
John Howe
Union Street
Howe
William L. Aver
Mrs
Arthur Aver
Upper High Street
Claude B. Dyer
West
Somerville
Louise R. Staples
Alice Mulligan
Waterville
Central Fire Station
Philip Tardif
Alton E. Ames
Warren Barnett
Berlin
N. H
Ralph O. Burden
Stanley J. Bickle
Henry Bickle
North Street
James \. Farley
Mr. Bickle
Detroit
Cincinnati
Crosley Radio and Refrigerator Co
Louis M. Silverman
Mikel“bys, Inc
Nafone
Jennie Larrabee
Maine Loan and Building Association
Porthnd
Walter Larrabee
West Bath
Merton Wright
Ronald Larrabee
Pierfield
Mr. Wrignt
Austin Wright
South Portland
Philip Tarditt
Nichols Street
David Coombs Tarditt
Milton C. Trott
Raymond F. Campbell
Dromore Farm Bureau
Ernest A. Rog- Teader
Topsham
Lena Shepard
Spencer Dorset Co
Eastland Hotel
Lola Trax
New Haven
Conn
Roscoe P. Higgins
York Street
David Reckards
South Street
Fleanor Wright
Frederick E. Chapman
James A. McLellan
John Sansom
Curtis String Quartet
Brunswick
Beatrice Shaw Hodgdon
Bath Memorial Hospital
Edward Hodgdon
E. Mason Wright
Daniel MacDonald
Bertha Dunbar
John MacLellan
Mary MacLellan
Frank Sylvester, Jr
Kittery
Frank Sylvester
Frank Lemont
C. Kenneth Thayer
First Baptist Church
Union Street Court
Dorothy Carey
Arthur Freeman
J. Russell Grant
H. Chester MacKenzie
Eleanor Mills
Sally Hagerthy
William Parks
Duncan Farrell
Everett G. Lemont
Roger Pierce
Good Will Club
Sagadahoe Ferry
Lemont
Sgt
William Watson
Eric Munson
Frank Mordino
Tommy Dolphin
Joseph Delleville
Pierce
Lorraine Tyler
Amy Parsons
Dolphin
Frank Danforth
Higgins Classical Institute
Wes Pagan
Army First Corps
W. G. Cahill
Patten Library
Christian Science
Winter Street Ladies’ Aid
Sewall P. Strout
Malden, Mass