Center Congregational Church hears Leona Harmon on Prayer
Leona Harmon spoke at Center Congregational Church on Sunday to about 35 in attendance with conversational singing. The service included remarks by Miss Minott and noted attendees such as Mrs. Horace Ton, Dr. George Petey, Mrs. de M. Bowker, Mrs. Jons, and Mrs. Ette Caverly-Young and Samuel Young Jr. Funeral arrangements and local incidents, including a tragedy and various community updates, are mentioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ordon
Leach Hanan
John Davis
Malcolm
Ter
Iss Leona Harmon
Center Congregational Rch
Miss Minott
Horaceton
George Petey
de M. Bowker
Harles Jons
Chris Service
Ette Caverly-Young
Samuel Young, Jr
and Gilman
J. F. Leach
Emma A. _ Perry
Iis
George Pease
Iitigate
John Malcolm
Llaston
Mass
Sere
Basin Road
Grace Maln-Paine
Maurice Avery
Williamstown
Price Avery, Jr
George C
Long Hill
Basin
Rving Harrington
Arthur
F. Leach
The
Lindens
Pauline Wyman
Center
Rosa Wyman
Nelson Heald
Hebron Sanatorium
Small Point Road
Blair House
Andy Hill
Dorothy Davis
Bathemorial Hospital
Meadowbrook visitors and seasonal guests at Green Acres
Meadowbrook residents report Carrie Little and daughter Lillian Simmonds with Constance Ples spending the week at Green Acres. Friedlands occupy Kelley cabin for July and plan Davis cabin for August. John Holton came to Wynburg to join his wife. they returned to Springfield, Mass. Monday. Dr Horace Holton returns to duties in Wellesley Friday. Catherine Berry with a companion and Mrs Brook and son stay in Wynburg for the season. George Chadbourne and Rodney Austin visited Pleasant View Farm on Sunday. Olive Baker and Arthur Perry wed in Everett, Mass. Maroon, Friedlands guest, is a Kingston NY teacher. Gordon Icott attended Arthur Perry wedding reception in Everett. Clayton Luckenbach and son Peter of Winchester guests of the Willam Grovers. George Drake of Portland guests on the Lucky Low cruise. Gordon Davenport and wife, daughter, Springfield agents of a Jane Davenport, June 3 in Greenfield. Grandparents Elated: Davenport of Berkeley and Smertka of South Deerfield. Eva Steves remembered as former Phippsburg resident. Davenport Engineering staff at American Bosch Springfield. he and family will visit Maine in summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carrie Little
Lillian Simmonds
Goanceushter
Constance Ples
Green Acres
Friedland
Kelley
Davis
John Holton
Wynburg
Springfield
Mass
Horace ‘Holton
Wellesley
Catherine Berry
Brook
George Chadbourne
Rodney Austin
Pleasant View Farm
Olive Baker
Arthur Perry
Everett
Berkeley
Calif
Joseph Smertka
South Deerfield
Davenport
Eva Steves
Phippsburg
Gordon Davenport
American Bosch Corporation
Maine
Phippsburg Couple Marks 50 Years Together at Home
Mr and Mrs George C Pease of Phippsburg celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary Sunday at their Center home. They wed July 8 1895 at the Perry residence in the Basin with a large reception afterward. He served as town official while she taught at several schools and later ran the Philipsburg post office for 13 years and organized the Albert F Totman library in 1926. They now reside on the Maurice Avery farm with a thriving garden and admired flowers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George C. Pease
Phippsburg
Phippsburg Center
Nubbins Hoffman Celebrates Fourth Birthday in Cheyenne
Forrest "Nubbins" Hoffman, the boy who survived a feared bladder ailment, marks his fourth birthday in Cheyenne Wyoming. Once near death last fall and Santa visits in November, he now cheerfully promotes a birthday cake though his diet curbs his cake wish for a brother and a sister.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheyenne
Wyo
Forrest ‘‘Nubbins
Hoffman
Nubbins
Santa Claus
Marshall Hoffman
Bath man charged with theft of coins in $500 bail
Henry B. Schmidt of Bath was arrested Tuesday for larceny of nickel and silver coins valued at $500 belonging to Roger Lewis. Schmidt appeared in Bath Municipal Court and his case was continued to 10 a.m. Thursday with $500 bail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry B. Schmidt
Bath
Roger Lewis
Schmidt
Parker Head community notes busy Holiday week
Parker Head reports Sunday church services at 4 p m with Rev Albert Freeman of Bath to lead July and August. A weekly hymn sing had about 18 present led by Mrs H D Mank Sr with Miss Leona Harmon this week. Many locals and visitors from Bath East Boston Portland and Brunswick are noted among guests and trips, with occupations and war service mentioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Freeman
Bath
Freeman
H. D. Mank
Leona ‘Harmon
Stacey
Frank D. Percy
Brooklyn
N. Y
T. E. McCarty
Percy
Portland
Atlantic, Gulf and West Indies Steamship Co
Robert W.hart
San Jacinto
H. H. Mank, Jr
William Hodgkins
Robert
East Boston
Pacific
Noreen Murphy
Woolwich
Edith Hemmer
Victor Munier
Wilmam Hodgkins
Winifred ‘Whately
Somerville
Mass
Mank
Leslie Logan
East ‘Boston
William Craft
Grace
Topsham
Walter Maass
Lowell
Florence Maass
Kenneth Wyman
Mere Point
W. T. Wyman
Togus
David Galarneau
Brunswick
Albert Galarneau
H. D. Mank, Jr
Bernard Wyman
Sea Bees
Bob Moore
Raymond Edward
New Jersey
Raymond
George Woodward
Sebasco Estates
Alston Oliver
Bath Memorial Hospital
Bernard Webber
The
Parker Head
Knights
Westine
Massachusetts
J. Ashton Nickerson
J. Ashton Nickerson, Jr
Herbert Bassett
Sam Sternberg
Alan
Carol
Marilyn
EF Vb. Wyman
Sam Stenberg
Medford
Bert Hunt
Parkers Head
Henry Carter
Teddy
Freeport
Elwood Hathorne
Pearl
Natalie
Safidra
Charles Blaisdell
Earl F. Lowell
Bath Iron Works
Solange Reno
Rosalie Richards
Richards
Sally Lowell
Lennie Wallace
Orlando Tibbetts
Boston
Bath Aims to Employ Veterans Returning Home
Townsend of the Bath United States Employment Service outlines a coordinated plan with American Legion Veterans of Foreign Wars and their auxiliaries to place returning service members in local industry. The program targets 1600 unfilled orders and seeks employer cooperation to match veterans to suitable retail, service, and related jobs, aiming for full Bath area employment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack W. Townsend
Bath United States Employment Service Office
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Batth
Townsend
United States Employment Service
Bath
Employment Service
Army
Stoare
Stern
Veterans
Iotus
Veterans Representatives
United States Employment Service Office
Mee
Weaver
Seashore Holiday Crowds Mark Boothbay Beach Weekend
Seventy girls with chaperones visited from Merrymeeting camp for the first annual camp boat trip to the shore. Boothbay boys joined for their Fourth of July celebration as perfect Summer weather drew crowds seeking cottages and lodgings, all reportedly unavailable.
Canning Center Opens at Morse High July 24
A canning center will open at Morse High School on July 24 with Miss Catherine Leonard as director and Mrs. Milton Savage as assistant director. Sponsored by a local committee and Bath school department, the center works with the noon lunch program. Canned produce from each home is to be donated for lunch use. cans cost five and a half cents. Mrs Joseph T. Smith chairs the committee. gasoline for the center is available via the ration board for coin use, with application signed by the superintendent of schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Morse High School
Catherine Leonard
Milton Savage
Joseph TP Smith
Superintendent of Schools
Augusta Pardons Held Up as Council Tables Two
Governor Horace A. Hildreth and the Executive Council continued one pardon hearing and tabled another. The first petition, Arthur Veine of Old Town, was for robbery with a six to ten year State prison sentence imposed in April 1936. The second petition, Joseph Boutin of Bangor, sought pardon for a six year term for statutory rape imposed in April 1942.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta
Horace A. Hildreth
Executive Council
Arthur Veine
Old Town
Joseph Boutin
Bangor
Charades Poetry and Music Head Evening Program
The Cosmopolitan Garden Club held a monthly meeting with a program of charades music and poetry about gardens. Performers included Mrs Roscoe P McFadden Miss Alice Johnson and others with songs poems piano solos and a group of flower themed charades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cosmopolitan Club
Garden Club
Roscoe P. McFadden
Alice Johnson
Chester Roberts
Everett Pinkham
Lydia Tracy Storer
Carlton Andrews
Bernard Knight
Charles W. Messenger
Andrews
Country Gardens
Melvin Howe
Roberts
Messenger
Morris Povich
Lena Donnell
Granville Colby
Clinton McFadden
Edward Hamblett
Fred Quimby
Jennie Walker
Nellie Goodrich
Eunice Ledyard
Fred Hayes
W. Ho McGlinchy
Harmon Smith
Ivan Trueworthy
Rachel Nichols
Albert Whitney
William A. Bruce
Harold Avery
Week's Activities at City Playgrounds Highlight Busy Week
City playgrounds hosted busy events last week with large attendance on pleasant days. Archery winner Dike Billy Allard, with Robert Gauvin second and Walter Lure third, led a children’s contest. The week featured crafts, doll show preparations, woodcraft projects, and a successful pet show on Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billy Allard
Robert Gauvin
Walter Lure
Central
Red Cross seeks volunteers for sewing and knitting drive
The Bath Chapter of the American Red Cross met to urge more volunteers for sewing and knitting to supply garments for war troubled Europe and to provide items for disabled veterans. Sewing rooms run 9:30 to 3:30 on Tuesdays with other church groups assisting on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Roy Moore of Waterville won gross honors with an 81 at the Bath Country Club in the Maine State Golf Association tourney. detailed golf standings follow in Class A and B with multiple local players noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
American Red Cross
Front Street
Europe
Red Cross
Winter Street
Lews A. Dole
Mikired Albee
Tocat
Frank Given
Ades
Bath Iron Works
Louis A. Dole
Albee
Roy Moore
Waterville
Maine State Golf Association
Maine
Bath Country Club
Moore
Robert Murphy
Augusta
Alec Baka
Portland Harbor
Edgar N. Keith
Penobscot Valley Country Club
Bangor
J. K. Newell
Paris Hill
T. I. Little
Brunswick
Gross Laure
A. R. Parks
Gross
C. W. Winter
Phil Flynt
Ross Spear
Paul Stinson
Chass
EW. Bridgham
W. Hall, Jr
Chass A
F. A. Windenbsch
Art Burke
Howard Mayo
Elwood Toothaker
R. Young
Victor Parquet
Loriand Petltetter
R. Diversi
Clarence Eaton
Bill Gove
Purpoodeck Club
Dr. F. C. Tyson
Maurice Williams
R. W. Gasser
Earl Knox
Henry Mank
Ted Earl
H. E. Lewis
Barney Beg
Charles Knox
Ed Sewall
C. A. Douglas
C. Walter Hunter
H. H. Harris
H. E. Robbins
Robert L. Brownell
George Fortin
Richard Paquip
Bill Daley
F. S. Bruce
Prizes Awarded for Diverse Animal Roster
Prizes went to winners representing a range of animals. Dennis Elliott won largest, Freddy Elwell took oddest, Patricia Stover was smallest, and Beverly Riley claimed cutest. Others receiving prizes included Mary Donnell Mary Pratt Robert Bruce Sandra Bean Shirley Hamlin John Hughes Harold Ames Francis McNeil Frank Marion Arthur Richardson Joan Hamlin Janet Ring Bree Hopkins and Marion Elwell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dennis Elliott
Freddy Elwell
Patricia Stover
Beverly Riley
Mary Donnell
Mary Pratt
Robert Bruce
Sandra Bean
Shirley Hamlin
John Hughes
Harold Ames
Francis McNeil
Frank Marion
Arthur Richardson
Joan Hamlin
Janet Ring
Bree Hopkins
Marion Elwell
High Street House Struck by Lightning in Storm
The home of Cleveland Holbrook on High Street was hit by lightning during a severe storm Monday evening. The bolt entered through a water pipe, damaged the sink, knocked out the lights, and splintered a large pine behind the house. No fire followed, but Mrs Holbrook and her three children were frightened though unharmed. Salvador is noted as the smallest of the middle American states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland Holbrook
High Street
Mrs Holbrook
Diamond wedding anniversary honors in West Bath community
Mrs Minnie Locke of Augusta and Mr and Mrs Enoch Huff of Lynnfield Mass with Herbert Simpson of Newport headlined a 50th wedding anniversary. Relatives from Whitman Yarmouth Gardiner joined many West Bath and Huntoon Hill grange members to celebrate the couple’s diamond anniversary, as John Gilliam spent the weekend at West Point.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnie Locke
Augusta
Enoch Huff
Lynnfield
Mass
Herbert Simpson
Newport
Maude Rines
Whitman
Frank Hilton
Yarmouth
Samuel Soule
Gertrude Coombs
Gardiner
West Bath Grange
Huntoon Hill Grange
Also Mentioned on This Page
Irs
Ford Moran
Daugh
Lucy
Merchant Marine
Lss
Myrtle Seavey
Squirrel Point
California
Walter Carty
I. Turner McCarty
Parker Id
J. F
George Bonney
Bonney
Leon Eaton
Small Point Sunday
Frank Percy
J. Fach
Malcom's
Harry Wie
Phyllis
S. Charles Stevens
and M. Bowker
Joe
Meadowbrook
Parker
Popham Beach
Merrymeeting
Boothbay
James Doucette
George Parks
Norman McKinnon
New York
John McCarty
Paul Galambos
Waldo Weston
Harold Ward
Marcia
Frederick Ward
John Bowie
John
Karl Olver
Waltham
Clinton Newdick
May Watson
Phyllis Gibson
Anna Place
Hanover
N.hs
N. B. Fickett
Pond Island
Wendell White
Warren White
Kate McCarty
Seabees
USN
Jock
Ralph Tibbetts
Winnegance
Stevens Cotlace
Elizabeth Livingstone
Winchester
Shirley Isaacson
Hanni Herzbaum
Lewiston
Vernon M. Mattson
Dorothy Mattson
Robert J. Fite Gerald
Newtonville
Walter Cousins
Voorhees Cottage
L. E. Cloutier and Son
Fred Waterhouse
D. T. Perey
Ruth Linder
Weston
Minot Perey
Leotha Blodgett
R.wn
Peter Isaacson
Boothbay Playhouse
Ruth Cogan
Kathleen Harkins
David Cogan
Isolve
Canning Center
Cosmo Club
Sevice
Salvador
Middle American States
John Gilliam
West Point
United States
United States Brewers Foundation
Foundation
Aohrt States Data Hats Foundation
Rea Selves
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