Portraits Presented to Patten Free Library Chronicled
The Patten Free Library received two portraits of Caleb Leavitt Jr. and Nancy Sewall Leavitt from their great grandson Howard Kellogg James of Alameda California. The report notes Nancy Leavitt’s flight from Fort Popham during the War of 1812 and the family ties to Bath and Sewall’s Hill, plus James’s broader affiliations with orders and genealogical societies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caleb Leavitt, Jr
Nancy Sewall Leavitt
Patten Free Library
Howard Kellogg James
Alameda
Cal
Fort Popham
Nancy
Caleb Leavitt
Mr. James
Nancy Leavitt
Freeman H. Morse
James
Bath
Leavitt
Charles
Washington
Old Newbury
Henry Sewall
Newbury
Old Jackman House
England
Howard Leavitt Morse
Freeman Ho Morse
Nanes Leavitt Morse
Anelurdes
Jerusalem
Hush the Great
Stephen of
Blois
Reubert
Flanders
Godfrey de Bouillon
Robert
Normandy
Raymond of
Toto
Bohemund
Tarentum
M. James
Mock wedding surprises costume party in Daughters of Isabella hall
About 30 attendees at the November social committee event in the Daughters of Isabella hall enjoyed a mock wedding as the centerpiece. Mrs. Lucien Bisson played bride, Mrs. Wilfred Skaling groom, others attended as wedding party. Prizes were awarded for costumes including Gay Nineties and funniest attire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daughters of Isabella Hall
Geraldine C. McGuiggan
Lorenzo J. Collins
Edmund J. Arsenault
Joseph Gaudet
Edward B. Hamblett
Collins
Wilfred F. Skaling
Frank T. Fortier
Wiliam H. McGhnchy
Oscar J. Tanguay
Arthur Jenkins
Jenkins
Alex Burgess
McGuisvan
Mary Pewers
Catherine Kelley
John M. Conley
John W. Sonia
Jennie M. Alten
Mbilicent Thomas
Beatrice Arsenault
Cather T. Ohara
Dominique J. Tardif
de Clarke
Pfitzgerud
James Cameron
Morse High Notes Highlight Senior Play and Red Cross Talk
Morse High notes report a senior class play “Lateh, C’own” opening Monday with the dramatic club sponsoring assemblies. Donald McKellar urged 100 percent Red Cross enrolment in Bath schools, while Carl P. Meister returned home to resume his former mill and paper foods work after months in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Groree H. Quimby
Beendalu Cori
Dramatic Club
Co Baidiiv
Donald McKellar
Wilner I. Voorhees
Carl P. Meister
New York
Carl T. Meister
Washington Street
Paper Foods Millesniin
Business Block Sold at Auction in Boston
Louis Annacone, a Boston automobile dealer, purchased the Johnson Bros. block and lot at 120 124 Front Street for 15 dollars plus the property debt of 7166 dollars 86 cents. Roger D. Skillings first bid 1 dollar over the bill in equity, with several raises by Fred H. Thompson and others before Annacone secured the bid by 15 dollars over the bill. The block currently houses McFadden’s drug store and offices on the second floor with Williams Whitney Bagdikian and Churchill among tenants. upper floors contain eight and ten rooms respectively.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Annecone
Boston
Johnson Bros
Front Street
Roger D. Skillings
George W. Johnson
Fred H. Thompson
Skillings
Annacone
Charles F. Cummings
McFadden
Red Cross recounts peacetime disaster relief records
Harry Day of the Bath Red Cross Chapter reports that during the Ohio Mississippi Valley flood year the Red Cross aided 322 300 families or 1 450 000 individuals. More than 25 million dollars was contributed for relief, with 128 disasters in 36 states Alaska DC and 384 countries touched. Disaster service aims to maintain preparedness committees nationwide and a door to door roll call in November invites membership renewal or new joins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Red Cross
Harry Day
Bath Red Cross
Ohio-Mississippi Valley
Red Cross
Day
United States
Alaska
District of Columbia
Philippine Islands
Airing the Heirlooms event set for November 30
Winter Street church Auxiliary led by Miss Janette W. Smith plans Airing the Heirlooms for Tuesday November 30 with Mrs Rosoe P. McFadden as general chair. A large team handles entertainment supper dining room tickets hobbies dresses costumes dolls old relics glass and china silver and gold publicity. Central church choir members must meet at the parish house Thursday at 7 15 for final Thanksgiving service music rehearsal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winter Street Church
Janette W. Smith
Ros Oe P. McFadden
Auxiliary
Fred K. Sturtevant
Robert P. Manson
Ernest Freeman
Alice F. Johnson
Ruth PF. Skillings
Almira Jones
Arthur S. Crockett
Phyilis Bowie
Carl Y. and
Ae Russens
Mary F. Campbell
Joseph O. Purdue
Leroy F. Colby
Central Church Choir
Rita Sullivan Re elected to Sagadahoc GOP Board at State Club Meeting
Miss Rita Mary Sullivan of Bath read her prize winning essay The Woman Citizen How to be a Good One at the State club gathering in Augusta where she was re elected to the board of governors by virtue of her Sagadahoc county presidency. Miss Mary Pelham Hill of Topsham won first prize in the essay contest and Miss Mildred Hill received honorable mention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry W. Butler
Sagadahoc
Republican Club
State Club
Augusta
Board of Governors
Mary Pelham Hill
Topsham
Butler
Bath
Harry F Litchfield
Rita Mary Sullivan
Mildred Hill
Sulivan
Marjorie Doe
Sheepscot
Lincoln Academy
Miss Hill
Miss Sullivan
Sue
Morse Hich
Charles D. Sullivan
Middle Street
Boy Scouts Clear Debris Along Route 1 in Blind Crossing
Boy Scout troop 55 led by Rev. Joseph O. Purdue cleaned decades of dumped rubbish from a roadside undercut on Route 1 in Blind Crossing district using sticks, boxes, rakes, hoes, and shovels from 8:30 to 11:15 AM. They then gathered at Mrs. Roscoe P. McFadden’s home for a fire, hot cocoa, doughnuts, and a weenie roast hosted by Cosmopolitan Garden Club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boy Scout
Joseph O. Purdue
Blind Crossing
Roscoe P. McFadden
McFadden
Highway Improvemnt
Cosmopolitan Garden Club
Leroy P. Colby
Irene H. Ingalls
Carrie D. Hall
Garden Club
Frank T Fortier
Obituary Eva Curtis Call Dies at Boston City Hospital
Eva Curtis Call widow of Warren Call formerly of Bath died at Boston City Hospital. She had been visiting West Bath a month earlier and fell ill after a cold while waiting for a Brunswick bus. Adopted daughter of the late Timothy Curtis, she lived in Arlington Mass after marriage and leaves a sister Miss Currie Johnson of Massachusetts and a brother Zeal Bay of West Bath. A miscellaneous shower honored Miss Beulah Littledale of Portland, who will wed Paul Farley in December and reside on Chestnut Street Bath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren Call
Bath
Boston City Hospital
Eva Curtis Call
Call
Arlington
Mass
Callissa
Eugene Curtis
Curriechusetts
Beulah Littledale
Portland
Raymond Farley
High Street
Miss Littlehale
Paul Farley
Chestnut Street
Miss Littleiale
Roland McIntosh
Sagadahoe Ferry
Farley
For Sale Stammer on Year Round Place Near Bath
Classified ad offers a property twelve miles from Bath with beach access and excellent view. Note reading shows pricing: 25 words first insertion 35 cents, 20 cents for each follow up. Copy must reach office by noon on Wednesdays. Write todt, Care of Independent 11-11-2tp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Personal notes from Arrowsic and Augusta residents
A series of community notes lists moves and visits across Maine. Mr and Mrs Perley Ater relocate to 1095 Washington Street with Elizabeth and Thomas Steen. Quinlan sisters Mary Ellen and Anne Elizabeth return from Brunswick after visiting grandparents. Wilbur F Hagan visits from Skowhegan after Woolwich trip. Local Lodges and social events include Arrowsic Ladies Aid Christmas sale with several helpers and Hiawatha Rebekah officers visiting Gray for Visiting Officers night with 21 lodges represented. Marriage intentions filed for Ellsworth Darling and Margoie L Cothran, and Harold Hart with Ada M Fraser.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perley Ater
Elizabeth
Ater
Thomas Steen
Steen
Arrowsic
Washington Street
Mary Ellen
Anne Elizabeth Quinlan
Everett Quinlan
Augusta
Harry Peterson
Brunswick Road
Herbert W. McCabe
Lena C. Shepard
Albert H. Thompson
Gray
HiawWatha Rebekah Lodge
Marie S Hoffman
Fidelity Lodge
Lewiston
Rebekah Assembly of
Maine
Assembly
John W. Gilmore
Ellsworth B. Darling
Loring E. Darling
South Street
Marjorie L. Cothran
James F. Cothran
Pleasant Avenue
Harold C. Hart
Ralph E. Hart
Phippsburg
Ada M. Fraser
Major W. Fraser
Bowdoinham News Briefs and Court Result
A Bowdoinham automobile crash on a crest left Mrs. Stanley Foster of Augusta head lacerations and Mrs. Norman Knight of Augusta a fractured leg after a collision with a car driven by James McKinley of New York City. Knight was found guilty of reckless driving, fined $25 with 60 days in jail, and paid the fine. The report notes routine local happenings, visits, club meetings, and a basketball game where Coombs beat Brunswick 34 21.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanley, Foster
Augusta
Norman Knight
Knight
James McKinley
New York City
Brunswick Hospital
Mitchell
Bowdoinham Court
Robert Cote
Portland
John Purington
Spear Sedgley
New York
Zina Maxwell
Maxwell
Harold Hackett
Methodist
J. N. Palmer
Eleanor Webber
Elbridge Blodgett
Fisher Road
J. Edward Allen
Bowdoinham Farm Bureau
Grange Hall
Hortense Welch
Bowdoinham
Ralph McEwen
Edward Baker
Richard Denham
Milton Given
Chester Hobart
Howard Moody
Raymond Tibbetts
Donald Hackett
North Cornville
Leroy Adams
Woodfords
Alvin Huntoon
Frances Merrill
Brunswick
William Gile
Coombs High School
Coombs
South Paris
Temple
Douglas
Pletts
Payne
Linwood Skelton
Clarence Skelton
William Babb
Clifton Babb
Comfort Branch Sunshine Society
Ethel Hackett
Elise Browne
Earl Browne
Miss Browne
Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary
John Jewel
Malcolm
Elizabeth
Wellesley
Mass
Jewel
Josie Irish
Courtney Nealey
Sanford
Phillip Nealey
Charles Hackett
Carrie Merrill
William Hamilton
Silas Hamilton
Hamilton
Boston
Erla
Miriam Browne
Charge of carrying loaded shotguns in car
Sumner Berry Harold Fuller Frank and Norman Chase all of this city were arraigned in municipal court Monday afternoon. All four pleaded guilty and Judge Arthur J Dunton ordered them to pay costs of court taxed at 6.95 dollars. John H Perkins state game warden was the complainant. Perkins said he was checking gunning parties Monday at the bridge toll house and that the quartet bound home from a day's gunning in Woolwich had failed to unload their shotguns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sumner Berry
Harold Fuller
Frank
Norman Chase
Arthur J. Dunton
John H. Perkins
Perkins
Bridge Toll House
Woolwich
Anna Genevieve Smith Weds Donald H Benson in Brunswick
Miss Anna Genevieve Smith daughter of Mr and Mrs John W Smith wed Donald H Benson son of Mr and Mrs Charles Benson in a Thursday morning ceremony at the bride’s home on High street. Rev Charles M Tubbs presided. The bride wore white satin princess gown with lace edged veil. Her niece Mary Johnson carried the bouquet. Matron of honor Mrs John Melley wore brown crepe and bronze chrysanthemums. Best man Albert Mullen. Reception followed with a halibut loaf buffet luncheon. The couple planned a White Mountains Massachusetts honeymoon and will reside at 98 1/2 Russell Street after returning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna Genevieve Smith
John W. Smith
Donald H. Benson
Charles Benson
Brunswick
High Street
Charles M. Tubbs
Gracechurch
Mary Johnson
John Melley
Rockland
Albert Mullen
Lohengrin
Calvin Kimball
Mrs. Benson
White Mountains
Massachusetts
Russell Street
Benson
Morse High School
William P. Hill
Middle Street
Bath Iron Works Corp
Fred Benson
Carl
Orrin Benson
Wilfred A. Duquette
Ralph Nelson
Lewiston
Bert Johnson
Frieda Miles
East Auburn
Bert Marrow
Auburn
Robert Chapman
Raymond
Rosanna Hills
Leroy Smith
Manchester
N. H
Bath girl wins All Holyoke award in speedball
Miss Louise E. Briggs of Bath Missouri, vice president of Mount Holyoke College’s Athletic Association, received an All Holyoke award for speedball at the annual banquet. She has previously earned numerals in basketball and a speedball award, and serves in the Glee club with upcoming concerts in New York City Worcester and Holyoke during Christmas holidays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Hadley
Mass
Louise E. Briggs
Edmund P. Briggs
Bath
Athletic Association
Mount Holyoke College
Briggs
Ham
Catherine Palmer Robinson
Department of Physical Education
Miss Briggs
The
Glee Club
New York City
Worcester
Holyoke
Barrington Bill Hayes Visits Rockland as Yankee Scout
Barrington Bill Hayes, a 19 year old scout for the New York Yankees and participant in their World Series campaign, spent a weekend in Rockland as the guest of Miss Felice Perry at the home of her parents on Grove Street after a two week stay on the West Coast with Joe DiMaggio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rockland
Barrington Bill Hayes
New York Yankees
Barrington Bill
Yankee Farms
West Coast
Joe DiMaggio
Felice Perry
Mrs
Donald Perry
Grove Street
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Senter’s, Inc
Scranton
Bart O'Donnel
Portsmouth
Brewster G. Sedgwick
Optometrist
Arthur Allen
Rath Trust Bldg
Daughters of Isabella
Morse
Elliot Block
Ohio
Mississippi
Rita M. Sullivan
BOY Scouts
John J. Lowery
Richard L. Minott
Kenneth Wilson
Joseph Swanton
Dwight W. Pierce, Jr
Richard Dennison
Harry Fullerton
Bruce Fulton
Austin Stover
George Conway
Robert E. Minot
Zeal
West Bath
A Johnson
Solar Lodge
A. M
Masonic Temple
Genesta
Carroll A. Deering
Athana Gillespie
Solar
Sanford B. Nickerson
John W. Gillespie
Langdon T. Snipe
Harry E. Litchfield
N. Gratz Jackson
Jackson
Oscar F. Williams
Luther S. Thompson
Roy F. Shackford
Karcher S. Jackson
Jason A. Merrill
David E. Rich
Edwin H. P
Walter K. Morse
William J. Perry
Horatio A. Duncan
W. Scott Shorey
John R. Knowlton
Wilbur F. Hagan
Skowhegan
City
Mr. Hagan
Melvin Comeau
Upper High Street
Hagan
Garret Galvin
Ladies Aid of Arrowsie
Norman Drummond
Drummond
Charles Crosby
William Potter
Francis Sturmer
Allan Naugler
Remington Rand
WW. H. Smith & Son
Center Street
Sai Belanger
Son Smith
Opera House
Bette Davis
Henry Fonda
Barbara Stanwyck
Gene Autry
Rex Beach
Barrier
Paul Muni
Emile Zola
Deanna Durbin