Handsome Yacht Bidou Launch Sets Sail From Bath
The Diesel yacht Bidou built for James A. Moffett Jr of New York was launched from Bath Iron Works with a New York party including Miss Nora Brown and others. The 124 foot steel craft has a 20 foot beam, 5 foot draft, twin screws, and will cruise the Atlantic coast from New York as home port. Captain R R Otwell and Chief Engineer O E Rumpf lead a crew of thirteen. The launch featured signal flags, a Seguin tow, and noted naval architect B T Dobson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Diesel Bidou
James A. Moffett, Jr
York City
Charming
New York
Nora Brown
Nellie M. Mahaney
Mary Schmitzr
Christener
Standard Oil Co
New Jersey
Bath Iron Works Corp
Pres
William S Nwell
John
Mary
Frederick E. Drake
Arthur Sewall
Charles H. Cahill
Rupert H. Baxter
R. R. Otwell
Otwell
New York City
B. T. Dobson
New Bedford
Mass
William
New York Yacht Club
B. L
Seguin
Kennebec
Park Street
Moffett
Atlantic
Archibald M. Main
Independent
Main
Bidou
James A. Moffet
Naval Architect
Williams-Coombs Wedding Held At Mrs Coombs Home
Tuesday ceremony at the bride's home 100 South Street featured a canopy in the south parlor and evergreen decorations. The couple, Mr. and Mrs. Williams, received with the bride's mother and the groom's father Frank M Williams of Winchester beside gifts of gold silver pewter and crystal. An automobile honeymoon awaits. they will reside at 69 Pleasant Street Reading Massachusetts after September 1. Out of town guests included Reginald Hixon Melker Arlington Mass Henry Elwell Newton Mass Louise Maxwell and daughter Gertrude Boothbay Harbor Lorna Bartlett Laconia N H John Brown Brunswick Clifton Dodge and daughter Rita Albion K Parris Bentley Gass Sidney Gass and Francis Hill Portland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Leslie Coombs
South Street
Ernest T. Pulcousin
Miss Fulton
Pierce School
Boston
Williams
Pleasant Street
Reading
Mass
Reginald Hixon
Melker
Arlington
Henry el
Chinese Revolution Topic Captivates Bath Rotarians
Arthur Rugh, a Y M C A secretary for Northern China, spoke at Bath Rotary noon meeting about the Chinese revolution. He traced causes and the Russian influence, described warlord control, and urged American study and aid, noting Christianity as a potential solution. Visiting Rotarians included Aldrich of Brunswick and F Pronk, with Briggs sponsoring the talk.
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Arthur Rugh
China
Bath
Hotel Phoenix
Rugh
Lake Cobberssee
Perkins
Nationalists
Japan
Great Britain
France
America
Edmund P. Briggs
Aldrich
Brunswick
F. Pronk
W. McLanathan
Lawrence
MacMillan set sails on three month Arctic cruise
Commander Donald B. MacMillan departed Wiscasset aboard the 85 foot Bowdoin for a three months voyage to Iceland Green land Labrador and Newfoundland. The party includes Ralph P. Robinson John T. Crowell Jr Frank Henderson and eleven Chicago crew members. They plan to reach Bar Harbor after stops at Reykjavik Ivigtut Nain and Monhegan to adjust instruments and resume scientific work.
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Donald B. MacMillan
Wiscasset
Iceland
Greenland
Labrador
Newfoundland
Bowdoin
MacMillan
Reikjavik
Ivigtut
Paul Hettasch
Grubb
Prom Nain
Ralph P. Robinson
Merrimac
Mass
Far North
John T. Crowell, Jr
Gloucester
Frank D. Henderson
Provincetown
John Jaynes
Somerville
Tony Alexander
Cook
Paul H. Davis Jr
Chicago
William A. Thomas
Boothbay Harbor Awaits Record Busy Summer
Boothbay Harbor expects the busiest season in history as resorts fill with visitors from Bath and beyond. Andrew S. Merrill of Bath is installing a 9 000 foot 12 inch cement lined water main from Adams Pond to the town, with several hundred feet still to drill through ledge. The project, shipped from rail to Wiscasset and trucked to Boothbay Harbor, competes with road work and local commerce as Bath merchants support the town’s boom.
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Boothbay Harbor
Bath
Andrew S. Merrill
Adams Pond
Water District
Wiscasset
Boothbay
Bath Laundry
Joseph Charles Footer & Sons
Bath Department Store
Don
Joe Sewall
Bob Sutherland
Fred L
Harbor
Maine
Squirrel Island
Southport
Governor Gardiner Seen Travelling Between Estate and Summer Home
Residents along the water front catch fleeting glimpses of Governor Gardiner as he moves by river between his Gardiner estate and his Summer home at Phipps Point. He formerly traveled by auto and was a frequent Bath visitor. The trips cover about miles and can be made in roughly an hour.
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Governor Gardiner
Gardiner
Phipps’ Point
Bath
Kendall
Army of Campers to Invade Maine
New England camps will host about 16 000 campers drawn from New York and Pennsylvania with 516 camps statewide. The migration begins Thursday with two special trains and the Flying Yankee non stop to Portland leading the way. Peak travel hits July 1 and 2 as Rapid trains carry youths to Maine New Hampshire Vermont and Massachusetts coast and lakes.
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New England
Boston & Maine Railroad
New York
Pennsylvania
Southern
Tern
Wi England
Boston & Maine
New England Council
Maine
Portland
New North Station
Pullman
New Hampshire
Vermont
Cape Ann
New England Governors Head to Salt Lake City Conference
New England governors depart Boston for the Conference of Governors in Salt Lake City June 30 through July 2 led by Connecticut’s John H. Trumbull Rhode Island’s Norman S. Case Maine’s W Tudor Gardiner New Hampshire’s Charles W Tobey and Massachusetts’ W S Youngman aboard the Minute Man with 20 delegates. The group will be joined by New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt and travel via Boston and Maine routes to Utah with visits to Zion Bryce Canyon and Grand Canyon on a post conference tour July 3-5.
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New England
Salt Lake City
New North Station
Boston
John H. Trumbull
Connecticut
Norman C. Case
Rhode Island
Wm. Tudor Gardiner
Maine
Charles W. Tobey
New Hampshire
W. S. Youngman
Massachusetts
Thomas Nelson Perkins
E. S. French
Boston and Maine Railroad
North
Albany
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New York
Ornor George H. Dern
Utah
National Park System
Zion National Park
Bryce Canyon
Grand Canyon
Hawes-Cooper
Conference of Governors
Charles H. Allen
S. L. Kelly
Virginia Phean
W. Tudor Gardiner
A. Lincoln King
William S. Youngman
Charles W
Zion
Bath High Alumni Hold 38th Annual Reunion in New Morse High
The Bath High School Alumni association held its 38th annual reunion in the new Morse High auditorium on Thursday evening. About 400 members attended as graduates from classes dating to 1865 gathered for a banquet and program, with tours of the new building and remarks from officers and class representatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath High School Alumni Association
Morse High
Y.M.C.A
Morse
Forrest L. Littlefield
Wesley Methodist Church
Alumni Association
Jane Goodman
Edmund Rollins
Miss Goodman
Harry L. Day
Ethel Coombs Peabody
South Portland
Louise Mason Hussey
Waterville
Clarence H. Emery
Bernadine Scott Fitch
Ardmore
Harry P. Williams
Everett Bowie
Reading
Mass
Jane Watts Laing
Braintree
Elizabeth Cahill Temple
Portsmouth
N. H
Charles C. Low
Joseph McCobb ‘Trott
Robinson
Ellen Haley Roche
William J. Rouse
Christine Curtis
Association
Florence R. Calderwood
C. R. Farnham
Morse High P.T.A
Emma Brown
Harry Ring
Florence A. Hawley
Edwin Lowell
Brenda Hill
Katherine Spear
Freeman Trott
Wilson
Morse High School Graduates 67 in Bath Commencement
Seventy students and guests filled Morse High School auditorium for the Bath graduation. Principal Arthur B. Scott and former Governor N. E. Kendall of Iowa spoke on success and self reliance while Edmund Rollins led the class in song and procession.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kendall
Iowa
Bath
Arthur B. Scott
Morse High School
Carrie E. Shaw
Edmund Rollins
Morse
Rollins
Edwin Dodge Hardin
Winter Street
Ruth Watson
Margaret Mackinnon
Scott
N. E. Kendall
Maine
Sebasco
America
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Bath Iron Works
Charming Bath Girl
Arthur Allen
Optometrist Bath Trust
M'Millan
Bath Man
North Station
Henley
Alice May Hovey
Frank W
Georgetown
Heshalf
Irma Groves
Herbert Groves
Court Street
Misset Mackinnon
Gand
Jeffery
Ferdico
Stanzall
Johnson Brosco
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