Bath society notes span from lodge visits to travels
Bath society circles report members attending the Government of Maine meeting in Lewiston, plans for Mer rymeeting lodge in Brunswick, and transportation duties. Guests include Mrs Curtis, Mrs Chaney, Mrs Kingsbury, Mrs Campbell, and Mrs Stewart. Several members depart for cruises from New York and Boston, while others host gatherings, birthdays, and club events across Bath and surrounding towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Curtis
Gertrude Stewart
Lizzie Chaney
Annie Lemont
Zeulika Kingsbury
Peat] Campbell
Ethel Osgood
Frances Clark
Emma Daley
Maud Clark
Nellie Hunt
Myrtle Lodge
Lewiston
Government of Maine
LL. O
Bath
Curtis
Chaney
Kingsbury
Campbell
Stewart
Brunswick
Merrymeeting Lodge
Clark
Hodgdon influenza confinement and local notices
Henry G Hodgdon of Green street is confined at home with influenza. Miss Betty Small of 12 Dummer street has returned home from Memorial hospital after an appendectomy. Announcements include the Rockland Ky marriage of Mabel Halen Morgan and W J Edney, the Bellevue Ky couple with Morgan as dean of women and her husband athletics director, plans to attend the World’s Fair in New York. Marriage intentions filed for Clarence A Moore and Ethel Seavey, both of High street, with Seavey family connections noted. Various social visits, club events, and travel plans are listed, including guests from Gardiner and Augusta, and attendance at a luncheon hosted by Mrs Horace Morse. The page records many local visits, recoveries, and engagements across Augusta and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty Small
Ralph F. Small
Dummer Street
Memorial Hospital
Rockland
Mabel Halen Morgan
Archibald S. Morgan
W. J. Edney
Bellevue, Ky
H. Dorman Perkins
Upper
Washington Street
Bellevue High School
Simon-Kent School
Bellevue
Edney
New York
Mrs. Perkins
Gilmore
Clarence A. Moore
High Street
Walter Moore
Lisbon
Ethel Seavey
Clarence C. Seavey
Mrs Olive Guild and Miss Kimballs Touring South
Mrs Olive Guild and the Misses Anne and Miriam W Kimball traveling in the South have visited Natchez Mississippi and New Orleans this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olive Guild
Anne and
Miriam W. Kimball
South
Natchez
Miss
New Orleans
Atwood Family Return From Weekend Visit
Mr and Mrs Reginald Atwood and their son Robert of Portsmouth New Hampshire returned Sunday evening after a weekend visit with Mr and Mrs John Atwood on Upper Washington Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Poppe
Newtonville
Mass
Charies W. Avery
Washington Street
Ellen
Winnie Ashenden
Greenwood
Roscoe Perley
Melrose
Ashenden
Leonard Wether Dee
Upper
Abigail Carter
Isabel Carter
Washington, D. C
Edward E. Carter
Federal Forestry Service
Carter
Reginald Atwood
Robert
Portsmouth
N. H
Mr. Atwood
John Atwood
Jack Mulcahy
Dorothy
John
Pearl Street
Boston
Irving Johnson
Marguerite
Eight birthday party hosted by McRae family
Donald F McRae and Mrs McRae hosted 15 friends for an eighth birthday party at 680 Street Sunday from 3 to 5. Guests enjoyed games and cake, cookies, ice cream, and candy. Several attending and absent names listed. updates on others visiting relatives and travel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald
Donald F. McRae
680 Street
Mildred
Barbara Oliver
Joan Briggs
Eleanor Gotte
Betty Hill
Jean MacDonald
Sally Rogers
Eleanor McRae
Paul MacDonald
John Parker
Richard Cahill
Robert Higgins
Richard McRae
Harlen Boynton
Bobby McRae
Betty Ann Footer
Jane Niles
Barbara
Donald Robinson
Stephen Hill
Mary Flaherty
Nael Flaherty
Milan Street
Janice Hogan
Barbara Preney
Edwin
John Williams
Lorraine Hamlin
Carolyn St. Martin
Colin Mitchell
Leroy James
Eunice Doughty
Walter Elliott
Billy Barter
Elwood Robbins
Norma Arabas
Bath area social notes and visits from a Bath paper
Thomas Steen celebrated his 72nd birthday at 1095 Washington street with family friends and a cake ice cream and cookies party. The event included many local relatives and neighbors from Steen Ater and Mitchell families. Other items note residents traveling, birthdays, hospital stays, and local civic figures in Bath including notes on a yacht voyage, a beauty parlor move, and D A R convention attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Steen
Washington Street
Perley Ater
Howard Steen
Doris Crocker
Mina Snipe
Bruce Wright
Elizabeth Ater
Paul Ater
Aubrey Steen
James
Richard and
Aubrey, Jr
Miss Muriel Grace Enters Local Telephone Exchange
Miss Muriel Grace daughter of Mr and Mrs George Grace of 619 High Street has entered the local telephone exchange. Robert Gordon, a watchmaker at A G Page Co for 25 years, began work Tuesday morning with Halt Hunt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reynold F. Lufkin
Hall & Hunt
A. G. Page Co
Muriel Grace
George Grace
High Street
Robert 6
Gordon
Halt & Hunt
Bath Iron Works Notes and Gossip
Commander Roger F. McCall will leave Bath for the Philippines to take command as engineer officer of Cavite Navy Yard. Lieut. Walter L. Dyer will replace him, with Mrs. Dyer and the McCall daughters to follow later, while Miss Jean and Miss June prepare for Manila studies and Miss Ellen finishes high school at Morse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roger F. McCall
USN
Navy
Bath Iron Works Corp
McCall
Philippines
Cavite Navy Yard
Manila
The
Iron Works
Walter L. Dyer
San Francisco
Treasure Island
Miss Jean
Miss June
University of Manila
Duke
Miss Ellen
Bath
Jean
Commander McCall
United States Navy
United States
University of Pennsylvania
Charles E. Courtney
Pearl Harbor Navy Yard
U.S.N
U. S. Naval Academy
USS
Zane
Dyer
Linesin Street
Workshop wages and costs in the school shop
The instructor earns about $50 weekly on a full time basis. The firm provides hoods, glasses, welding handles, and everything except gloves. Power use and wear on machines add to costs while two shop workers cut up plates for school use as the institution runs at full blast.
Welders in Demand At Local School With 23 Enrolled
The welding program draws students from Augusta and nearby towns. 23 trainees attend daily four hour sessions, including Nels Carlson Herbert Closson Ralph Dodge Jr and others. The text notes potential lack of steady returns for firms and that many graduates leave to seek opportunities elsewhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nels Carlson
Herbert Closson
Ralph Dodge, Jr
C. Martin Bearce
Mervin A. Giles
Victor A. Norton
Andrew Peters
Edward Hawkes
Merrill L. Keene
Hubert Arsenault
Alfred Parks
Alfred Hodgdon
Elwyn E. Skillen
Norman A. Adams
Clayton Dunning
Woodson Bartley
Clarence Pecci
Walter Emery
Norman N. Chase
John Fleming
Xavier Brackett
Raoul Lizzotte
Alvah Reynolds
Reyno
Augusta
Welling Boasts Lucrative Shipyard Trade Path
The piece notes shipyard work as a highly lucrative option for young men. It asserts that about 150 hours suffices for a fundamental grasp of the craft and that this leads to qualification in tacking.
Simplest Form of Welding Spurs Union Drive at Bath Plant
The Bath shipyard welding school feeds Navy and shipyard work, with about 60 men a year as graduates. Local No 4 plans a three month safety committee, a mid summer clambake, and a wage ballot. No lost time accidents since March 28. minor injuries include skin cuts, eye particle, knee strain, finger splinter, and a torn groin from shop tasks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Navy
B.I.W. Welding School
Yester
Storm Idles About 350 of 2000 Employees Monday
Nearly 2,000 workers faced enforced idleness as a storm hit. Outside crews including carpenters welders drillers chipers fitters and caulkers were affected. Carroll Watson led the labor boss with a dozen extra men to help clear the snow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carroll Watson
Hiring of 25 Workers Across Eight Shipyard Departments
Twenty five men were hired on Monday entering outside machinists tinshop pipeshop electrical shop plateshop welding shipfitting and laboring departments.
Friends of Capt Howard Barter Learn of His Improvement
The foreman rigger, who has been out three months with illness and alternately hospitalized in Portland and confined to his Summer Street home, is reported to be improving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas F. Perkins
Capt
Howard Barter
Rigger
Portland
Pilot Tutor Henry Footer Learns to Fly in Maine
Henry Footer of Hardings works as a boiler maker and is taking flying lessons. Frankie Simpson, Hast Bruns wick, a renowned Maine pilot in the erecting department, serves as his tutor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Footer
Hardings
Frankie Simpson
Hast Brunswick
Maine
Great Fire at Iron Works Paralyzes City Legend
A February 12, 1894 blaze at the Iron Works roared through the joiner shop and machine, plate, bending floor, mold loft and furnace rooms. South of the new machine shop buildings burned. wind-driven salvage saved the office and boiler shop. Tugboats stood by City of Lowell and Kennebec. $200,000 spray yacht Slater damaged. windlass for Cramps a total loss amid ruined machinery and tools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iron Works
City of
Lowell
Tron Works
Kennebec
Houghton’s
Fire following Bath blaze marks another disaster week
The plant fire occurred a fortnight after Bath's worst blaze on January 28, 1894. That fire began in the Sagadahock House stable, at Sagadahock Block location, and spread along Front street toward Broad, destroying buildings on the north side of Center street up to the old City Hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sagadahock House
Sagadahock Block
Front Street
Broad
Center Street
Old City Hall
Electricians defeat Layout bowlers in three string match
The Electricians beat the Lay out department bowlers at Arcade alleys Monday evening by 35 pins. They led by four, won the second by a single pin, but lost the third by eight. Allie Jewett led the losers with 305, just ahead of brother Don Jewett. Don Smith of the Electricians posted 301.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Electricians
Layout Department
Allie Jewett
Don
Don Smith
The
Pipe Fitters defeat Outside Machinists in high scoring match
In a Monday Arcade match the Pipe Fitters rolled 87 pins to topple the Outside Machinists, losing only the second string by four pins. H Arsenault of the Machinists led with a four string total of 378 including a 115, while Charlie Mac Donald of the winners was close behind with strings in the 90s. Hubert Arsenault, recently married, will move with his wife to 537 High Street Brunswick this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. Arsenault
Charlie MacDonald
Anniversary and community events noted in city pages
Last week announcements highlighted a March 20 to March 26 anniversary dinner for American Legion Roland Smith Post members and sustaining members, plus a March 17 dance for post members and friends. Other items cover plays, Girl Scout activities, a car accident on Washington street, storm response and road sanding, a school coach collision, museum and hospital events, club stockholder meeting postponement, and an Old Folks concert planned by the Winter Street Ladies Auxiliary with tickets available through members and participants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion
Roland Smith Post
Post
John E. Madden
Morse
Center Street
Oakhurst Dairy
Madden
Winter Street
Fred K. Sturtevant
Fire destroys Randolph home after oil burner explosion
In Randolph on Kinderhook street, an oil burner explosion in Arthur Moore's kitchen started a Saturday fire that gutted the house, burned furniture, and killed the house cat. Damage is estimated near 800 dollars. fire chief Ralph Russell notes water from the Randolph Fire Department saved the frame, with interior walls ruined. The garage corner and one car tire were only lightly damaged. the house and furniture were not insured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Moore
Kinderhook Street
Randolph
Ralph Russell
Randolph Fire Department
Russell
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Park Street
Wingdale
N. Y
Geraldine Stott
Harlem Valley State Hospital
Julia Fletcher
Henry T. B. Leeman
Somerset Place
William D. Sewall
Miami
Nassau
Havana
Erathy Hector
Pine Manor
Wellesley
Arthur Sewall
Sewall
Mary Sewall
Smith College
William S. Sewell
Beth Iron Works Corp
Leonard Lord
Lesnard Munsey
John Moore
Albert Thompson
Odd Fellows Hall
Walter Noritsa
Milton C. Trott
Roeland Robinson
Westboro
Alfred McCabe
Cobb Road
Prince William, N.B
Kan-Do Klub
Beacon Street Church
Barbara Danforth
Jesse Kenderdine
Valerie Nickerson
Muriel Kenderdine
Kathleen Clark
Geraldine Foge
Evelyn Perkins
John P. Carey, Jr
Westport
Mabel Travers
Packard House
Bernard Pratt
Nicholas S. Michalos
Dorothy Hand
R. N
Rumford
Edmund St
Elmer J. Dow
Westbrook
Charles Cole
Raymond Smith
Isadore Singer
Anne Riva
David S. Cogan
Louis Petlock
Solomon K. Greenblatt
Adam
Riva Divia Greenblatt
Iscar W. Greenblatt
Abraham E. Greenblatt
Alexander Levine
Albert Friedman
Monroe FE
Beverley
Henry T. B. Leeman Osborne
Norman O. Magoon
Gail Elizabeth
Paul Sherman
William S. Blair
Maurice A. Libby
Bath Water District
Libby
Florida
Kenneth Atwood
St. Petersburg
Lake Wales
Lake Nequasset
Woolwich
Oliver Moses
Mary Lee
Edna Mae
Virginia Wright
Leland Mitchell
Donald Hopkins
Corliss Street
Robert King
Highland Street
Discord
Rodney Upham
Everett White
Eugene Haggett
Francis Norton
Lelia Thornton
Edward J. McMann
Dorothy Waterman
West Bath
Helena Hadley
Beatrice Sedgley
Miss Hadley
James Flanders
Hadley
Whilliam Hadley
Mr. Flanders
Edith G. Small
Fred Brown
Mary E. Pinkham
Middle Street
Topper's Club
Ruth Robinson
Edith Estabrooks
Adele Hutchins
Dorothy Bourque
Madelyn Dunton
Martha Cutting
Eileen McGurdy
Howard Rice
Mechanic Street
Brunswick Hospital
Nancy R. Russell
Frank E. Hollis
Ethel R. Beane
Clyde F. Jordan
Alsay
Beth Trott
University of Maine
Mrs. C. Wilfred Trott
Marshall Avenue
Katharine Marr
R.N
New Haven Hospital
Luke Marr
Miss Marr
Arlington Marr
Everett
Esther M. Hanley
Belmont, Mass
Brian M. Jewett
Wesport
Harry Coombs
Central Maine General Hospital
Auburn
Mrs. Coombs
Margaret Minott
Janet Browne
Old Orchard Beach
C. Roland Trott
Edith Mackinnon
Margaret Mackinnon
Hilda Scott
Doris Scott
Margery Scott
Jonas Knight
Foxboro
Melvin Knight
Westwort
Percy Scott
Andrew Flaherty
Charles M. Tubbs
Episcopal Church
Province of
New England
Sumner Sewall
Pine Tree Society For Crippled Children
Leroy H. Colby
Maine Congress of Parents and Teachers
Roscoe P. McFadden
Lewis O. Barrows
Blaine Mansion
Maine Women's Legislative Council
Helen Keller
Polly Thompson
Noel C. Little
Haven Sawyer
Charis E. Armstrong
Trufant Street
Deaconess Hospital
North End Knitting Club
Perleston Pert
Archie Wishart
Donald Green
Maurice Shea
Wilbur Crocker
Carl Langbehn
Cyril Varney
Cummings Street
Kenneth Annis
Raymond Small
Pleasant Street
Annis
Small
Portland School For the Blind
Henry G. Hodgdon
Green Street
Mabel Robinson
Bowdeinham
Mrs
Delmar Bates
Snow Park
Horace P. Morse
West Street
South End
Alfred Carpenter
William H. Small
Carroll A. Desring
Wellington A. Moore
Guy Sprague
Vivian Brown
Raymond Good
Mary
Gardiner
Harry Watson
Anne Quinlan
Everett Quinlan
Harry E. Peterson
East Brunswick
Mary Ellen Quinlan
Ernest Haskell
Garden Street
Cecile Seiberling
Beekman Tower Hotel
New York City
Edward J McMann
Joseph W. Larrabee
Gov
Barrows
Walter Rogers
Whiskeay
Kittery
Kenneth Soule
Edward McLellan
Frank
Newport
R. I
Walter E. Edge
Ventnor
N. J
Georgia
Ponce de Leon Hotel
St. Augustine
Fla
Washington
Small Point
Mss
Maria Wiggin
Old Ladies Home
John Taylor
Fort Kimble
Harry Ring
J. Leslie Coombs
Fred Nichols
Lena Shepard
Shirley Hach
Littleton, N. H
Fred Hayward
Oliver Street
Edith Campbell
Benton
Everett Pollard
Ralph Jewett
Ida Hinckley
Five Islands
South America
Charles E. Pisisted
Charles Camack
Eamesholm
Brooklyn
Plaisted
Robert J. Sisk
Whitman Mitchell
Phyllis
Emery
Eliot
Mitchell
Charles E. Doten
M. F. Brown
Stephen M. Etnier
Gilbert Head
Hersilia
Bahamas
E. A. Carter
City
Little Eugenie Brackett
Woodbury Brackett
Middleboro
Jennie C. Cameron
Granite Street
Brackett
Carl Hentz
Edward P. Steininger
Philadelphia
Howard Small
Brownville Junction
Henry D. Small
Dike Road
Marguerite Brown
Maxine Albee
Westbrook Junior College
Miss Brown
Weeks Street
Flora Rice
Thomaston
Carleton Rice
Turner Court
Forrest Young
Mildred Colby
Chester Colby
H. Martin Powers
Donald N. Avery
Meadow Way
Bath Memorial Hospital
Harry Hill
Otis Munro
Harry M. Huse
Frank J. Ham
Liquor Commission
Ernest Fulton
Elwina Durgin
Carolyn Rice
Wilfred Rice
Fryeburg
Bath Iron Works
B. JT. W
C.S0
Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers
Joseph Arsenault
Alvin MacDonald
Frank Nadeau
Joseph Beaudoin
Joseph Belanger
J. Townsend
Henry Carleton
Horatio Carlisle
Chevry Chase
Furber Davis
Herbert Dennison
E. Gessner
Cyrus Gilmore
Beard Gilpatrick
Alonzo Haskell
Robert Hyde
Donald Lakin
Joseph Lausier
Albert Light
George Pearce
Fred Redmond
Douglass Reil
Roger Reynolds
Frank Sheridan
David Tabor
J. Waterhouse
Merle Weeks
George Wright
Reds
Blues
H. Stone
L. Crocker Wee Ewes
H. Sarkis Ra
D. Smith Ween
Time Office
A. Jewett
Pipe Fitters
H. Pierce Sere Eeee
R. Lewis
Father Andre
Real Boudreau
Daughters of Isabella Hall
Helen Thivierge
Biddeford
Fillmore Harris
Girl Scouts Leaders’ Association
Y.M.C.A
Margaret J. Adams
Bessie E. Dickinson
Us.n
Music Hall
Central Maine Power Co
Arch
Memorial Hospital Nurses
Bath Country Club
Bath Trust Co