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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1944
Page
6
A society column records a public organ recital in Portland by Edward G Mead of Miami University and notes social visits and vacations of Bath residents, including families of Cutler, Brinkler, Seckins, and Adams. The piece lists numerous residents traveling, hosting relatives, and enjoying summer camps and seaside trips near Bath, Portland, and Winthrop.
Residents from Lebanon New Hampshire and Bath Maine visit friends in Brunswick and Damariscotta Lake area. Many travelers return home from Martha's Vineyard and Gloucester while others vacation at Popham Beach and Sebasco. Names include English Irvine Doyle Watson Mayhew Walen Spinney McBain Brown Wallace Heald Brown Shaw and several Jilison Perry Saunders and Van Hook households.
Among those who passed Friday in Portland were Mrs Don adevreembries of 302 Front Street who took her son William to the State Street Osteopathic houses Seat Ms and Mrs Charles Coan Jr of 74 Washington Street Mrs FE Stanley Robinson and son Witham of 33 Park Street Jack Finkelstein and son David of 1908 Hugh Street.
Mrs. Charles True of Weeks street received a letter from her nephew Leston Harrington S 1-c USN who served on the USS Arkansas. He notes the Arkansas role in the Cherbourg encounter and reports all quiet at his present station after training at Portsmouth and radar school at Virginia Beach. He formerly worked at Bath Iron Works and is son of Leston Harrington Sr of Parker Head.
J P Callan of 731 Middle Street left Saturday to pass a few days with his cousin. John Maguire of Rumford was mentioned in connection with the note.
Miss Marie Bennett, a student nurse at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, was visiting friends in Bath on vacation. She stayed with her father William Bennett and his wife at Cooper's Mills while Earl Pettengill of Rockville returned from a short visit with his brother in 672 Middle. Mrs Hubert Haley and Wayne Haley of Chelsea and Mr Dalton Haley of Upper Washington are visiting Haley's parents, with plans to spend a week in Livermore Falls before Rangeley summer plans with Mrs Haley's father. Her husband has recently entered the armed forces and is in training in Georgia.
H W Jackson of Unity returned home Saturday after visiting his son Arthur and Mrs Jackson at 58 Bluff road. Mrs Chapin of Montswéag Bay left to join her Red Cross husband at Camp Miles Standish. Cousins Folinsbee of New Hope Pa will occupy the Chapin home. Perry Kinney of Dover-Foxcroft visits Rev Kinney at the Beacon street parsonage. Kinney is Rev Kinney’s brother-in-law. Shackford and Greene families plan summer at Birch Point. Florence Hall of Cocoa nut Grove Fla arrives to pass summer with cousin Margaret Cargill.
Mr and Mrs Roger Pierce of Park Street return from a two week vacation in Farmingdale hosted by Mr and Mrs Allen Clark while Mr Pierce works at Bath Iron Works. Mrs Frank Poland of Round Pond leaves for Portland for a weekend. Dominique Tuardif and daughters Patricia and Fern spend summer at a Foster Point cottage with a large victory garden. Joseph Hibbs son of Lieut G Hibbs U S N and Mrs Hibbs return from Popham Beach. Dennis Smith leaves for Camp Hinds. his father serves as a councilor there. Frank Morrison and wife move into Heath Lane home in Lambert Park from Pembroke. Mrs Harrison employed at Bath Iron Works office. Morrison joins Cemetery Board. Floyd R Evans Jr of Norfolk arrives to stay with Mr and Mrs Henry O Trowbridge. George Buchanan returns to Troy NY after three weeks at a Popath cottage. Warren Mitton and daughter Doris and Miss Phyllis Johnson visit from Mattapan and return home. Pear Dunbar vacationing at King Point while Bath Iron Works keeps him busy.
Lt. David E. Cressey, son of Mr and Mrs Scott P Cressey of 330 Washington Street Bath, has reported as a student officer to Bainbridge Georgia Army Air Field for basic pilot training after entering the Air Forces on January 27 1944. He is a Morse High School graduate and will move to an advanced field to receive wings. Mr and Mrs Lester Crooker report their son Pvt Kenneth Crooker is safe in France and welcomes letters, contactable via his mother at 987 M.
Edward Sewall Jr USAAF is on an 18 day leave with his parents at 949 High Street. He will report to Lincoln Neb for assignment to a new B 29 squadron for further technical training on the aircraft. He graduated June 3 from a B 29 school at Amarillo Texas. Entitled to service in February 1943 he had basic training at Miami Beach Florida and radio school in Madison Wisconsin. He is Morse High School class of 1941 and studied at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for a year and a half.
Louis J Arsenault Aviation Radioman 2c USNR returned to Miami Florida after a week with his mother Mrs Walter I Norton at 962 Middle Street awaiting orders to deploy overseas He joined the Navy in 1942 trained at Newport Rhode Island attended radio school in Jacksonville Florida for seven months and in Lakehurst New Jersey He worked as a welder in the South Portland shipyards before entering service and has flown on a blimp.
Lawrence E. Wold merchant marine. after five days with parents at 58 Court Street New York he resumes deck officer training. Entered service December 14 1943. served overseas. Pfc George P Perry USA on furlough from Fort Williams Portland with wife Dorothy Bourque 81 Floral Street Damariscotta Lake previously at Fort Bragg and Camp Blanding Florida.
Mae E Stacey Yeoman Third Class WAVES has returned to Washington DC after leave with Capt and Mrs George C Stacey of 50 Washington Street. A Morse graduate class of 1942 she entered service November 1943. She trained at Hunter College in New York and attended Yeomen School in Stillwater Oklahoma.
Mr and Mrs Clyde Stilphen of Richardson Street entertained Friday for their son Pvt Carl Stilphen US Army on a brief furlough from Camp Hood Texas. The party featured red white and blue carnations a patriotic centerpiece novel place cards and a decorated cake with a tiny American flag. The guest purse of money conveyed best wishes to Pvt Stilphen who was a machinist before service.
Local notes recount military training progress of a Bath Iron Works rigger at Camp North Hood and Camp Swift Texas as a tank destroyer operator. Many city residents attend a sendoff purse event for Pvt Stephen and PMs from Brunswick report Coast Guard and Marine service highlights with families watching. Several Brunswick and Bath figures are named, including Earl Maines, Philip Lemieux, Loring Hart, and family ties to Westbrook and Brunswick.
Linwood E. Temple USN returns Monday to Sampson N Y where he has received boat training after five days with his wife at 2 Shenandoah road A Morse High School class of 1935 graduate he was a machinist at Bath Iron Works before joining the Navy Pft William Raynes departs Friday for Sedalia Army Air Base Missouri after 15 days with his wife at Day's Ferry home A farewell party was held Sunday night for James McGuiggan at 223 Middle Street before he leaves Tuesday for armed forces service Hosts were Mrs Edward McGuiggan Mrs Walter Madden and Mrs Arthur MacDonald with Mr Stover on piano.
A party for Mr McGuiggan included generous gifts and best wishes for the future. Guests named include Chester and Maurice McCabe Harold Stover from Boothbay Harbor Betty McGuiggan D Wallace MacDonald Maurice Libby Alfred R McCabe Warren Davis Bertha Ward George Davis Donald Peters Barbara Peters Auburn George Conway Joseph A Robinson Georgia McGuigan Arthur MacDonald Walter Madden Edward McGuigan. Refreshments were served.
Pvt. Verdon R. Chase whose wife lives at Whitefield has earned the expert rifleman medal at Camp Planche New Orleans. He formerly worked at Bath Iron Works and scored 174 at Slidell rifle range. Pvt. David S. Ring, wife at 7 Bridge Street Bath, also won the expert rifleman medal at Camp Planche and scored 172 at Sidell range.
Private Marion L. Chaney of 13 Oliver Street completes training at Fort Des Moines Iowa in the Army Clerk division of the First Women's Army Corps Training Center. WAC specialist schools include Bakers and Cooks, Clerk, and Motor Transport with more opening as needed. Army lists over 490 jobs for Wacs ready to fill. Pvt. Stewart D. McPherson Jr. returns home for ten days after service at Camp Hood Camp Carson and Camp McCoy, having attended Morse High School Class of 1942.
Pvt. Wilfred Lewis, son of Mrs. Edna M. Lewis of 1359 Washington Street, has served at the Army Air Forces School of Applied Tactics in Orlando and at MacDill Field in Tampa, Florida, and other Florida bases. He is now overseas on Oahu in Hawaii but says no place beats Maine and enjoys Bath Independent hometown news, even if the paper arrives late.
Wounded in both legs by fragments of Japanese bombs on Cape Gloucester last New Year’s Eve, Marine Sergeant Ruel H. Anderson Jr., 21, of Freeport Maine, arrived at the U S Naval Hospital Oakland for treatment and convalescence. He was with a Marine unit aiding Navy corpsmen when the attack occurred as they moved forward. he saw much action in less than a week of fighting.
A Maine Leatherneck recalls a brutal New Year in jungle conditions and nightly noises during the South Pacific campaign. He enlisted in 1942 and served after Cape Gloucester, while his wife Jessie Anderson resides on Main Street in Freeport.
Mrs Bernice G Cressey of 1 Cressey Avenue has learned from her son 2d Lt Stanley B Cressey that he is stationed in England as a navigator aboard a U S Flying Fortress with the Eighth Air Force. He participated in the invasion of the French coast and has had many thrilling air experiences. Lt Cressey enlisted about 18 months ago and trained at Atlantic City Syracuse University and Texas airfields. He was commissioned at Sioux City and received combat training at Kearney Nebraska before going overseas.
S/Sgt. Scott P. Cressey Jr. in England writes grandparents thanking them for a church card. Farewell party given for Gerald F. Thornton before Navy service, with purse and wrist watch. Pfe. Richard Tanner, stationed in France, reports bayonet and shrapnel, notes friendly people and wild roses near his foxhole amid invasion details.
Mrs. Stanley Irving of St Stephens New Brunswick and granddaughter Charlene Robinson arrive for a three week visit with Mrs. Irving’s daughter Mrs Warren Parris of Supper Washington Street, Moore’s Mills contact unseen.
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