Bath Lions Club Charter Night Draws 110 Attendees
Bath Maine event marked a successful charter night at Hotel Sedgick with about 110 Lions and guests including 32 from six other Maine clubs. Arthur Bowker received the charter from Arthur Hinman, pledging service to City, State and Nation amid remarks on Lionism and civic duty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lions Club
Sedgick
Maine
Arthur M. Bowker
Arthur Hinman
Portland
Bath Club
Harold J. Rubin
Hinman
Pres. Bowker
Bath
Dominique J. Tardif
Rep. Tardif
America
Lions International
Rotary Club
Lions
Tardif
Rotary
William H. Niehoff
Waterville
Niehoff
Europe
Stars and Stripes
Walter K. Morse
Brian M. Jewett
Cliff Leeman
Mr. Jewett
Percy Leeman
Joseph
Rubin
Greatest rally in Bath honors Sewall for governor
A large Bath crowd packed City Hall auditorium for a Sewall for Governor rally. President William S. Newell of Bath Iron Works presided and urged voters to back Sumner Sewall. Senator George E. Hill praised Sewall as Maine Senate leader and wartime ace, citing his military and governmental experience. Sewall acknowledged the crowd amid a standing ovation.
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Bath
Sumner Sewall
City Hall Auditorium
Portland
Drayton
Newell
Sewall
Sagadahoc
George E. Hill
South Portland
Hill
Newcastle
Senate
Senator Hill
France
Maine
Senator Sewall
Maine Senate
Sagadahoc County
Europe
Germany
Baccalaureate Sermon Preached at Morse High Sunday
A Sunday service at Winter Street Church featured Rev Joseph O Purdue delivering his fifth baccalaureate sermon to Morse High School’s Class of 1940. He urged youths to seek meaningful life objectives beyond mere employment and marriage, citing Paul and contemporary world events as context.
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Joseph O. Purdue
Morse High School
Winter Street Church
Clare Fulton
Winter Street
Rupert M. Irvine
Richard T. Hersom
F. Waldo Marshall
Clifford B. Smith
Gounod
Pucci
Carleton W. Andrews
Carl Y. Kennedy
Arthur C. Lemont
Purdue
Paul
Corinth
Andrew Carnegie
Church Peace Union
W. M. Letts
City Council Deliberates On Salaries Hours And Public Works
The Bath city council discussed an ordinance change placing salary oversight of the Overseers of the Poor under the Board. A plan to close City Clerk and City Treasurer offices earlier was debated, with a two week paid vacation compromise for staff. Additional actions included sidewalk improvements, property bids, bench replacements, and public safety issues.
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Alderman Hunt
Haskell
Hunt
Arthur L. Pratt
North Street
Dike Street
Board of Highways and Sewers
Jennie R. Morse
Washington Street
Cemetery and Park Board
Hutchins
Bath Marine Band
Finance Committee
Alderman Legard
Public Safety Committee
Water Street
Young
Front Street
Warren Cooper
Butler
Douglas
Board Street
Roscoe G. Bailey
Arthur Sewall
Edward, Dummer
York
Middle
North Streets
Rubin
Bath
Morse High Class Day Exercises Highlighted by Mock Wedding
Morse High School’s Class of 1940 held a large class day by the auditorium with 98 members on stage. A class history was read by Elizabeth Swanton and Edward Butterfield, and the ode Memories by Patricia Webster was sung by the seniors. The program featured a class will, prophecy, and a mock wedding with presentations, followed by remarks from Class President Clare Fulton and gifts to faculty.
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Morse High School
Elizabeth Swanton
Edward Butterfield
Patricia Webster
June Sullivan
Shirley Parshley
Mary Double
Alice Eaton
Georgia Kakos
Geraldine Andrews
Harry Fullerton
Thelma Baker
Russell Snell
Edward Atkinson
Clare Fulton
David Y. Alkazin
John Sturtevant
Frances Lemont
Barbara Curran
Jeanette Varney
Alice Darrah
Polly Nickerson
Amelise Bourque
Eunice Perkins
Priscilla Trott
Eleanor Wilson
Mildred Cutting
Barbara
Janet Beardsley
Barbara McMann
Harold Avery, Jr
Robert Mitchell
Will
D.S. T
Wiscasset Academy Alumni Association
Masonic Hall
Roy R. Marston
Ruth Jones
Eastern Star
George E. Millard
George G. Chiera
America
Gerald Sherman
Eulela Pray
Everett W. Jackson
Eola Hatch
Nobleboro
Wiscasset
Gratz Jackson
Samuel J. Sewall
Lawrence ‘Haggett
Mr. Haggett
Alexander McLeish
Grace Colby
Everett
Mass
Lennox Southard
Groton
Wiscasset Academy Graduation Week Busy for Seniors
Elaine P. Dow of Wiscasset is valedictorian for the class of 1940 at Wiscasset Academy. The week featured alumni events, a class ode, remarks by staff, and preparations for graduation in Red Men's hall on June 13 1940.
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Wiscasset Academy
Elaine Priscilla Dow
Roy L. Dow
Wiscasset
Miss Dow
Academy
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Bath Lions Club
City Hall
Navy
Council
MORSE
Cok Walsen
Mary
EE Dorel
Madeline Jonesee
Rutherford White
Edna
St. Philip's Church
Maurice Lint
Marion Lint
Louise Blagdon
Char Sewall
Miss Ruthes
Nellie Dowling
Henry Rines
Josephine Merry
Mildred Morris
Red Men's Hall
George Goodie
Congregational Church
George Millard
Bradford-Sortwell- Wright
Legion Hall
L. Prank Metcalf
Alvin Sherman
Ellsworth Holbrook
Walter
the Times
United States
Congressman Bewster
Pine Tree
Brewster
National House of Representatives
Washington
U. S. Senate
U.S
Brewster-for-Senator-Club of
Dexter
N. C. Bucknam
Pres
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