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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1943
Page
9
With one more week to go in buying war stamps and bonds, Bath schoolchildren raise totals over sixty six thousand dollars, far above the fifty thousand dollar goal set earlier. Last week’s sales push the accumulative total beyond prior marks as recorded.
The New England War Production Board reports civilian flag stock will be insufficient by Flag Day June 14. Manufacturers may use four cotton fabrics and two rayon types, but material scarcity grows due to war demand.
Grand Exalted Ruler and five officers of the order from Boston will attend the annual convention in Maine, at Avivaota from June 12 to 15. A dance Saturday, business session Sunday morning, and the annual banquet at 1 p.m. Sunday are planned.
Waterfront style home on Kenneber Miser to front Street Richmond Maine combines Strmimer and Winter barge Twelve with 17 rooms two baths town and spring water on tap hardwood floors seven garages for four cars Italian tile solarium two fireplaces spacious veranda cemented cellar large lawn shade trees and garden space. Sacrifice price five thousand dollars clear title for details write or call owner BE BK Durand Elgrade Lakes Maine for inspection keys at Richmond Maine
Miss Thelma Trott national field advisor addresses Bath Girl Scout Council praising wartime effort and the Sewall's Woods Summer Day Camp set to reopen June 19. New troops emerge in Hyde Park under Mrs Pendleton and Mrs Burgess with training in Augusta August 5 to 9.
Holand an old veteran physician and surgeon of Au BUS was reguturiated to the Maine State Board of Registration of Medicine for a crox yest ferm bs Governor Sewall Dr McKay a major on the medical ostath o of the Maine State Guard and Olago State Procurement and Assignment Director for Medical Doctors.
Guest speaker Mrs. Andrew J. Danielson spoke on India toward the Club 42 gathering on Front Street. She described social classes, customs, clothing like the sari, and regional climates while sharing souvenirs and anecdotes from years in India.
Miss Kathleen M. Heald, Camden native and former Bath Iron Works clerk, joins the Marine Corps Women's Reserve. She travels to Boston then Hunter College for training. She is among early local women to enlist and will serve in Augusta at a recruiting station.
Small family seeks assistance with farm and house tasks on country property. Wage details by mail. Respond with name and offers to Pred B. Reed Co. Manager Stanley E. Wallace at 93 Front Street Bath. Telephone 332-W. April 16, 1.
Bowdoinham held graduation and baccalaureate in the Baptist church with anthem A Song of Peace and salutatory. Earle Hobart received diplomas and Fulton and Reader's Digest awards. Linwood Rideout to graduate from U S Naval Reserves Officers Training School in June. Death of Mrs. Sarah Vesta Coughlin, 76, long Bowdoinham resident. Local items note speeding plea by Stanley Theriault and eighth grade graduation at Coombs Grammar School. Other notes cover gas ban affecting Past Matrons night, family illnesses, teaching changes, and travel by Dr. Cairns.
Mr and Mrs Lawrence Hackett and daughter Marilyn of Hampton NH and Miss OBrien stayed overnight at Mrs and Mrs George Hackett home. Ruth Hackett graduated at Kent s Hill and returned home Sunday. Masons Electa Chapter OES and Baptist church service invited. Pvt George Reid Dow Field Bangor visited Archibald Craig sister. Phillip Rideout Portland spent weekend on Center Street.
Virgil Ladd stationed in Georgia and Earl and Mrs Ladd of Rome visited Mr and Mrs Charles Messer. Mrs Harry Purington died last week at their Dingley road home. Mrs Chester Hobart hosted her sister and father guests. Mr and Mrs Benjamin Maepherson, residents of town, returned north for the summer.
Harold S. Avery Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Avery of 29 Western Avenue, left after completing his junior year at the University of Maine to begin U S Army training at Fort Devens. He has served in ROTC and was active in sports and was editor of the S A E at Maine. His family hosted relatives and his fiancée Miss Mary Double at a supper before he departed.
The Bath Iron Works urges Morse High School graduates to join the shipyard in Maine as a 100 percent war work firm. It links the workers’ character to the quality of destroyers built and frames employment as patriotic preparation for postwar life. The message emphasizes duty, family, and community roots as national service amid wartime.
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