Handsome Yacht Caroline Launched by Bath Iron Works
The 279 foot Caroline built for Eldridge R. Johnson of Moorestown New Jersey was launched at Bath Iron Works on Saturday afternoon. The vessel, with two 1500 HP diesel engines, is expected to reach about 16 mph and features a large gyroscopic stabilizer. Mrs. Johnson christened the ship with grape juice as spectators looked on, including officials and guests from New York Philadelphia and Camden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caroline
Bath Iron Works Corp
J. Pierpont Morgan
William S. Newell
Europe
Eldrige Reeves Johnson
C. R. McLellan
Camden
N. Jd
Andrew H. Peterson
Caroline Fanimore Fitler
Johnson
Craig’s
Long Beach
Cal
Patricia Anne Zeiser
G. Allan Hancock
Los Angeles
The
Iron Works
Cooper-Bessemer
Nathan M. Fitler, Jr
Haverford
Miss Fitler
Eldridge MacEwan
Orange
N. J
Edward K. MacEwan
Philadelphia
Caroline Fanimore Fitter
Bath
New Meadows Inn
the Iron Works Corp
Mr. Johnson
Archibald M. Main
L. Eugene Thebeau
Joseph A. MacDonald
Henry Gielow, Inc
Emmett V. Main
James French
Charles G. Cooper
Alexander Chopin
William Corfield
Morris Rosenfelt
Rosenfelt
New York City
Bath Iron Works
Lloyd's
Bessemer
Cummings
Sperry
United States
Henry J. Gielow
Owner Misses Launching Eldridge R. Johnson
Eldridge R. Johnson, builder of the Caroline, born February 6 1867 in Wilmington Delaware. He founded Victor Talking Machine Co., served as president until 1927, and held trusteeship at the University of Pennsylvania. He lived in Moorgetown New Jersey with business at 608 West Jersey Trust Building Camden New Jersey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eldridge R. Johnson
Wilmington
Del
Spring Garden Institute
Philadelphia
University of Philadelphia
Victor Talking Machine Co
University of Pennsylvania
American Philosophical Society
Union League
Rittenhouse
New York Yacht
Moorgetown
N. J
West Jersey Trust Building
Camden
Old T club entertains with shore dinner at Sabine cottage
The Old T club of former telephone girls was entertained by Mrs. Eugene McGrath at the Sabine main cottage with a shore dinner of crab stew steamed clams ice cream cake coffee mints and nuts. Guests from out of town included Mrs. Mary Wade Sparks Brunswick and others from Bangor Portland and nearby areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T” Club
Eugene McGrath
Sabine
Mary Wade Sparks
Brunswick
Lillian French Bibber
Bangor
Anirs
Mabel Sparks Gkins
Portland
Vermont Cleric Gillis Visiting City Relative Ties
Rev. Joseph F. Gillis vicar general of the diocese of Burlington Vermont is visiting in town staying with sister Mrs Edmund Arsenault at Rev Timothy Maney’s High street home. He is an uncle of Rev Archie Gillis who was ordained this summer and is now in Millinocket.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph F. Gillis
Burlington, Vt
Edmund Arsenault
Timothy Maney
High Street
Father Gillis
Archie Gillis
Millinocket
Five Islands church sale and supper in Grange hall
The Ladies aid will host a sale of quilts aprons and fancy articles at 2 p m and a supper at 5 30 featuring baked beans brown bread pickles salads doughnuts pie and coffee at the Grange hall. Also notices of many cottage guests and residents visiting or staying at local cottages around Five Islands through the week. Peter's Vision will be the sermon text at Five Island church Sunday at 2 30 E S T. Alden Avery longtime town resident dies Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies’ Aid
Grange Hall
Grange Library
H. B. Cranshaw
Malden Island
Birger Johnson
Needham
Mass
Dick Anderson
F. Eisenhauer
Weymouth
William Eisenhauer
Cambridge
Celia Harrison
Roslindale
L. P. White
Medford
F. A. Howland
Swampscott
Joseph Goddard
Wellesley Hills
Walter Bailey
Madford
Alderman Brady
George Douglass
Brookline
Douglass
Sedgemere Road
Ethel Staniels
Dorchester
Herbert Moore
Thomas Buckley
Augusta
Buckley
George Yeo
Bob
Ted
Winchester
M. B. McMahan
Bath
William Belanger
Merton Davis
Woodfords
L. H. Rowe
C. C. Davis
Percy McGilvary
Portland
Charles Pinkham
Charles Kinney
Paul Thompson
Joseph Stevens
Dorthea Williams
Barbara Marr
Carl Lewis
Harrisburg
Edward Lewis
Ride-a-Wee
Daniel Sexton
Eugene
Carl Pierson
Quincy
Pierson
Frank McMahan
Marie Peters
Malden
Elbridge Southard
John Grindell
Alfred Rowe
Joseph Blaisdell
Viola Hinckley
Gerald Hinckley
Walter Savage
Kittery
Percy Savage
Five Islands
F. H. Hovey
Five Island
Alden Avery
Esther Worthing
Worthing
Joel Avery
Topsham
Municipal court convicts vagrancy and intoxication charges
Wallace Chaplin and Harry Curran pleaded guilty to vagrancy in municipal court and were sentenced to 90 days in the Androscoggin county jail in Auburn. Ralph McCabe also drew 90 days for intoxication and appealed to the October term, with $200 bonds set for a Superior court assault charge against Bath officer Lorenzo Collins. Nearby residents and visitors were noted leaving and returning from weekend trips, including Mr and Mrs Truss and Walter Connery Jr, with Edna Gatherer visiting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallace Chaplin
Harry Curran
Georgetown
John J. Keegan
Androscoggin
Auburn
Ralph McCabe
McCabe
Georgetown News Roundup of Visits and Events
Murray Simpson returns after a week as Roy Campbell’s guest at Robinhood in Georgetown. A stream of Sunday callers from Quincy, Bath, Portland, Milford, Melrose, Hillboro, Belmont, Hallowell and other towns visit residents. The Working League schedules a sale and supper for August 13 and announces a concert by Piney Woods’s Cotton Blossom Singers. The First Baptist church marks its 150th anniversary with ministers from Maine and Boston taking part. The Georgetown and Arrowsic boys are urged to join Boy Scouts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Murray Simpson
Winston Salem
N. C
Roy Campbell
Robinhood
Harry Adams
Quincy
Mass
Bath
Augusta Rowe
Howard Fletcher
Medford
W. V. Cummings
Portland
Webster Harley
Milford
N. H
Harley
Seguinland
Boothbay
Roscoe P. Todd
Melrose Highlands
Frank Boyd
Hillboro
E. B. Billings
Stuart C. Stand
Katherine
William
Belmont
John Wilson
Hallowell
Elizabeth Thompson
Abill Reynolds
Ralph Reynolds
Woolwich
Shirley N. C. Hicks
Ruth Hicks
Jamaica
N. Y
Annie Tracey
Danforth
Gorham Normal School
Working League
Christian Endeavor
L. Earle Hagan
First Baptist Church
Our
Benjamin Randall
Free Baptist Faith
Daniel Bliss
Old South Congregational Church of
Boston
Georgetown
John S. Pencheron
United Baptist Convention of
Maine
Roy M. 'Tratten
E. M. ‘Tratton
George
Boys of
Arrowsic
Boy Scouts
Richmond social notes span visits and obits
Richmond residents host and visit relatives from Oklahoma Maine and Massachusetts. Notables include Mae Norris and daughter Helen from Oklahoma, Joseph Baker visiting son Charles in Gardiner, and Mrs Kate Baker and daughter staying with Edward Beal. Obituary notices for Silas Call and Henry Tarr recap deaths and funeral details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mae Norris
Helen
Oklahoma
Ora Reed
Norris
Richmond
Henry Skelton
Langdon Road
Ellen Meserve Marston
Joseph Baker
Charles Baker
Gardiner
Kate Baker
Clevil
Edward A. Beal
Pleasant Street
Herman Briggs
Verna
Winnifred
Florence
Jay
G. C. Mariner
Walter Dunham
Buffalo
N. Y
William F. Dunham
Rhode Island
New Jersey
Humphrey Randall
Portland
Nettie Umberhind
Boston
S. S. Baltic
Ireland
Harry L. Stilphen
Jones
Fred Rogers
James Gallagher
Silas O. C. Call
Ore
Irving Maxwell
Richard Derby Maxwell
Oscar J Hardin Leaves Estate Of 84341 75
Oscar J Hardin died February 9 leaving a net estate of 84341 75 after allowances. The will from June 25 1926 provides equal shares to his two children Caro line Hyde Post and Rev Edwin Dodge Hardin. Executors are City Bank Farmers Trust Co and the decedent's son.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oscar J. Hardin
Edwin Dodge Hardin
Washington Street
Buth
Tsis
New York
John P. O'Brien
Caroline Hyde Post
Roubert College
Istanbul
Turkey
Hardin
City Bank Farmers’ Trust Co
William Street
Mrs Morin Returns Home After Visit at Indian Point
Mrs. Harry F. Morin has returned to her Washington street home after spending several days at Indian Point as a guest of Mrs. Sewall Webster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry F. Morin
Washington Street
Indian Point
S. ._ Sewall Webster
Augusta and Brunswick Social News and Town Meetings
Miss Rhena L. Roberts of Augusta and Donald H. Foster of Richmond wed at the Congregational church in Brunswick. The town held a special meeting with H. L. Tarr chosen as moderator and authorized selectmen to dispose of tax deed property. The article notes various visits, travels, and local gatherings nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clayton Stinson
Rhena L. Roberts
Augusta
Donald H. Foster
Richmond
Brunswick
E. Thompson Ashly
Bryce Roberts
Roberts
Foster
Emma V. Roberts
Ethel Foster
Garah Temple
Loraine
East Orange
N. J
Ida Stiooman
New Jersey
Marshall Small
New York
Vermont
New Hampshire
Temple
John Dunn
Walpole
N. H. Gilbert Maxwell
Hollywood
Calif
Lawrence Bond
Christian Endeavor of the Baptist Church
Own Hall
H. L. Tarr
Selectmen
Henry S. Beeche
State Department of Health
Irving Sykes
Mary Hager
Philadelphia
Lena Harlow
Henry Fenner
Providence
R. L
Fred
Elwood Edgeccomb
Eugene Edgecomb
George Farrington
Portland
Charles Soule
Dresden
Kennebec River
Harold Richardson
Fairfield
Martin family plans weekend visit to Billerca Mass
Mr and Mrs Cedric Martin and daughter Dorothy Marty left Saturday to spend the weekend in Billerca Mass with Mr and Mrs Roscoe Martin Their visiting niece Grace Martin returned home and Dorothy will visit her cousin at her uncle and aunt s home
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vernon Little
Richmond
Dresden
Ralph George
Somerville
Mass
Carlos Dunlap
Oren True
Gardiner
Lillian Johnson
Augusta
Ralph Hodges
Fodus
Gardiner Street
Lynn
Arthur Bent
Newark
N. J
Edward Favor
Merlin Joy
White Mountains
Revert Stanley
Bert Stirson
Amesbury
Mr. Stanley
Cedric Martin
Dorothy Marty
Billerica
Roscoe Martin
Miss Grace Martin
Miss Dorothy
Bath Savings Institution elects corporator and reelects officers
Dr E Motley Puller is elected a corporator to fill the vacancy left by John C Humphreys death at the Bath Savings Institution annual meeting. 28 of 36 corporators attend as trustees reelect the old board. list shows Wetherbee as president and Furber as vice president among others. The corporators also elect trustees who reelect the officer slate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. Motley Puller
Bath Savings Institution
John C. Humphreys
Abcentees
Charles P. Wetherbee
James S., Lowell
William A. Furber
Charles C. Low
Allan Spear
Marcia Moulton
Alexander A. Burden
Byron FP. Barker
William A. Parker
Edward W. Larrabee
James 8. Lowell
John G. Morse
William S. Newell
Harry B. Sawyer
William B. Shorey
Charles P. Wetherbe
Charles H. Cahill
Walter E. Chase
Fred C. Cox
Harry W. Crosman
Charles J. Cain
Frederick E. Drake
E. Motley Fuller
Walter S. Glidden
Frederick D. Hill
John R. Houghton
Owen J. Ledyard
James S. Lowell
J. Houghton McLellan
Charles V. Minott
James Lester Morse
Oliver Moses
William B. Mussenden
William 8. Newell
Frank B. Nichols
Cecil E. Paine
Samuel R. Percy
Rodney E. Ross
Arthur Sewall
William S. Shorey
Langdon T. Snipe
Harry E. Stetson
Alfred L. Tarbox
Lewis E. Wilson
Henry C. Wright
Arrowsic Community Activities This Week
In Arrowsic the Lost Sheep parable will be discussed at Thursday’s prayer meeting and in Robinhood Friday in daylight time. Vacation Bible school occurs at 5.00 daylight time. Sunday sermons will cover Trees at Arrowsic 1030 daylight time and Loads that Lifts at 7.30 daylight time. Boy Scouts met Monday evening at the Lower School house with new members and plans for a bean supper. George Melville Reed of Tampa visiting Bath and Oak Street residents. Thomas H. Eaton of New York City visiting Boothbay Harbor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arrowsic
Robinhood
Joyce Kilmers
Arrowic Schoo
Georgetown
Pine Island
Scout Ag
George Melville Reed
Tampa
Pia
Bath
Addie Reed
John Shaw
Oak Street
Mr. Reed
Green Street
Thomas H. Eaton
New York City
Brunswick O.cce
Boothbay Harbor
Mr. Eaton
Also Mentioned on This Page
Caroline Fitler
Muriel Spinney
Elinor Coombs
Jessie Colby
Isabelle Berry
Phyllis Wright
Shirley Shepard
Elizabeth Oliver
Virginia Clark
Miss Berry
Marvin R. Truss
Edna Gatherer
Waterville
Leonard Lord
Fitts Street
Henry H. Tarr
Litchfield Plains Cemetery
Dr. Butler
Congregational Church of
Cora B. Tarr
E. O. Tarr
Richmond Corner
Litchfield Plains
BE. O. Tarr
John Baker
Monmouth
Georgie Cheney
Lucy Baker
Cleveland
E. L. White
Clifford Gray
A. E. Purington
Ella Adams
Bowdoinham
E. E. Cate
C. E. Vancer
Charles White
Litchfield
Winnefred Webber
Gorden College
Charles Sinden
Leroy Cleveland
Elizabeth Haynes
Italy Hatch
Mr. Cleveland
Hallie Purington
Sinden
Paul
Philip Gildart
Philip
John H. Morsely
Jordan Marsh Co
F. H. Whalen
Pearl Street
A. C. Cross
Toom
Front Street
Bath Savings Institution Bldg
H. I. Phillips
Savings Institution
Weidenhoff
Center Street