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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1940
Page
6
Graduation exercises for Morse high school closed last week, with 98 graduates planning future paths. Some will seek summer jobs, some enroll in other schools in the fall, others will take a rest period, and others will begin steady work in local industries, stores, or offices.
Attendance data for Mitchell School lists grades one through five with teachers Miss Sarah E Coombs Miss Marjorie Palmer Miss S Isabell Lewis Miss Effie C Wright and Miss Anne M Thompson. Several students are noted as not absent for term or year while others are marked absent for term or year.
West Bath residents and guests from Revere Mass. joined Charles H. Bates and Horace W. Aitken in a Sabino cottages weekend event. The item notes Bates recent Beachmont visit, a 90th birthday voter, and a large Bath rally for Sumner Sewall with speeches by Senator Hill and local officials.
Bath residents celebrate Sewall's primary win with a parade down Washington Street toward a park ceremony. notable attendees include William S. Sewell of Bath Iron Works, ex-Senator N. Gratz Jackson, and Mrs. Sewall. crowds estimated around 3,000 jammed the park as horns sounded.
Congratulatory letters telegrams and calls poured in over 36 hours for Pres Sumner Sewall of the Maine Senate after his victory in the Republican Primary nomination. Augusta Mayor Payne runner up pledged support while Elin W Page Skowhegan sent a warm letter of congratulations. The Sewalls will attend the American Legion convention in Boston and then travel to Philadelphia for the National Republican convention opening Monday.
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