Elks Bowler Banquet Marks Fifth Year Of League
Bath Lodge of Elks bowling league held its fifth annual banquet at the Home on Lombard street with a turkey dinner for about 40 in the Dutch room at 6:30. awards were presented by D. Joseph Doyle. Coach Pepper hosted an upstairs Park Alleys bowling session with music by a three piece group. Prizes included pens and pencils for the Cup team Ralph O Dale and runners up Eleven O’Clock. Individual honors went to A Thayer for a 106.6 high average. The event featured numerous league members and officers praising the season and planning future bowling activities.
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Bath Lodge of Elks’ Bowling League
Lombard Street
Frank Pepper
Pepper
Lyndon Plummer
Foster Pratt
Clayton Holden
Katherine E Ayer
D. Joseph Doyle
Ralph O. Dale
Henry Parsoney
Edward T. McCormick
A.bert Thayer
Morris Petlock
Roy Richter
Ralph Nowell
Josph Grindel
Joseph O'Brits
Harald Fielding Lesit
Alber
A. Thayer
Piet
Leon Brown
Frank
Eamne
Bickle
Maine Scouts invited to border jamboree for King George VI birthday
Aroostook District announced that about 500 Maine Scouts will join Canadian and provincial counterparts on May 20 for a large all day jamboree along the international border. James E West of New York City and John A. Stiles of Ottawa extended the invitation as part of Canada’s observance of King George VI’s birthday.
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Maine
Canada
King George VI
England
Aroostook
James E West
New York City
National
EtCout
Attheasi
John A. Stiles
Ottawa
Maine City
Government class visits Augusta to tour state government
Morse high school's Government class of 30 pupils traveled to Augusta last week to observe state government. They met Gov. Lewis Barrows and Sen. Sumner Sewall, attended House and Senate sessions, a Bath delegation luncheon, and committee hearings with hosts Rep. Dominique Tardif and Rep. Justus H. Miller.
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Morse High School
Augusta
Dominique J. Tardif
Justus H. Miller
Pres
Sumner Sewall
Senate
House
Bath
John Parker
Hester Rose
Lewis O. Barrows
Augusta House
Pres. Sewall
Abbie McCabe
Edward McCabe
Ardenne MacFadden
John McLaughlin
Virginia Merry
Henry Middleton
Robert Mitchell
Howard Reynolds
Henry Rice
Lawrence Russell
Theresa Small
June Sullivan
Charles Wyman
Eleanor Bertrand
John Clark
Joseph Cloutier
Harry Cornish
Doris Crocker
Richard Cummings
Jerre Desmond
Charles Dubar
Alice Eaton
George Hart
Leslie Higgins
William Hill
Frank Kenyon
Frances Lemont
Erle Locke
Lloyd Losier
Raymond Lomer
Mr. Parker
Greorge J. Goodwin
Senator Sewall
Tardif and
Muller
Modernize Bath YMCA Gym For Driving Floor Expansion
The Bath YMCA gym will be enlarged to create a driving floor about 115 feet long by 49 feet wide with galleries at ends. The modernizing committee, chaired by Archibald M. Main, won board approval to proceed with bidding and contracting. Work is expected to start mid April, taking six weeks to two months, with Alden G. Smith overseeing the finances totaling 35340. The finance and association accounts were approved, and Capt. Claude S. Gillette USN arrived to join Mrs. Gillette at the Baxter home.
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Ym.ca
Archibald M. Main
Mr. Main
Alden G. Smith
Roger D. Skillings
Elford A. Stever
J. Edward Drake
Association
O. K
Edward Sewall
Claude S. Gillette
USN
Philadelphia
Farm Bureau Meets in West Bath Grange Hall
West Bath Farm Bureau held an all day session with the men meeting in the grange hall and the women led by Miss Mary L. Wright. Charles Eastman led the men. Mrs Loring D. Small presided and sent her to Orono for Farm and Home Week March 27. Din ner featured creamed filet and apple pie. Attendees included 12 men and 20 at noon with 12 members listed among others.
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West Bath
Grange Hall
Mary L. Wright
Charles L. Eastman
Loring D. Small
E. W. Haggett
E. C. Donnell
James B. Lemont
William Coombs
Charles Ripley
E. K. Thompson
Coombs
Farm Bureau
Bath Street
Humphrey Owen
Maud Bryant
Ellery E. Whittemore
E. W Hagegett
Edna Higgins
Morse High Glee Club Concert Set For Annual Event
Bowdoin College Glee Club performed to about 500 attendees at Morse High School in Bath. The event, organized by the Morse Music Club, aims to become an annual concert with a projected $60 profit to fund a school band. The 60-voice group presented 13 numbers under Prof. Frederick E. T. Tillotson before heading to a New York state and Pennsylvania tour.
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Morse High School
Bowdoin College Glee Club
Music Club
Polar Bears
Bowdoin College
Jane W. Stevens
Bowdoin Glee Club
Glee Club
Bath
Morse High Music Club
Ifill and Brown Wedding in Boothbay
Liewshon Ifill of Waterville and Miss Kathleen Brown of Woolwich wed in Boothbay Saturday afternoon at two. Rev. Plinette Allen officiated. Attendants were Mr and Mrs Fio Pinkham of Boothbay. The bride wore beige with brown trim and lilies of the valley. The groom works in Maine Central Railroad machine shops in Waterville. The bride is a Morse High School 1938 graduate training as a nurse. They will reside in Woolwich after a short honeymoon.
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Liewshon
Waterville
Kathleen Brown
Woolwich
Boothbay
Plinette Allen
Montsweag
Boothbay Center
Ifill
Fio Pinkham
Srocom
Sarah
James Ifill
Maine Central Railroad
Lowell Brown
Murphy's Corner
Morse High School
Bath
Bath Memorial Hospital
Brunswick Women Speak On The Challenge Of Maine
Mrs. Newt C. Little of Brunswick spoke on The Challenge of Maine Sunday evening before the Winter Street Fireside club. Alice Britt introduced her, refreshments followed. Young People Group of First Parish Brunswick plans to host Rev James E Walter associate secretary of the Congregational Missions Council who will address the club Sunday evening. Mr Walter is a popular speaker with Young People groups and a skilled storyteller. A closing supper is set for April 16, with attendance lists due by April 2.
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Newt C. Little
Brunswick
Maine
Winter Street
Mary Pinkham and Fred Brown Tie Wedding at Snow Park
Mary Pinkham and Fred Brown wed Friday night at eight at 22 Snow Park in the home of Verdie A. Grant. Dr. David L. Wilson of Central Church officiated with Rose M. Coleman of Gardiner as wedding singer and a large guest list. Brown's sister Margaret Woodsum served as bridesmaid and Verdie Grant Jr. was ring bearer. Ernest Harmon acted as best man amid seasonal floral decorations.
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Mary Pinkham
Fred Brown
Mr. Brown
Verdie A. Grant
Snow Park
David L. Wilson
Central Church
Grant
Rose M. Coleman
Gardiner
Margaret Woodsum
Little Verdie Grant, Jr
Ernest Harmon
Smith Petrillo wedding ties two Maine families
Phillip E. Smith of Newcastle and Mary L. Petrillo of Damariscotta wed on March 14 in a ceremony conducted by Ralph O. Dale. Portland reported the passing of Mr and Mrs Edward A. Cummings and Mrs Bowen Torrey on Friday.
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Phillip E. Smith
Edgar Smith
Newcastle
Mary L. Petrillo
Galtono Petrillo
Ralph O. Dale
Edward A. Cummings
Bowen Torrey
Portland
Missionary society packs for Mather School in Beaufort
Far and Near Missionary Society of Corliss Street church packed two boxes with clothing books pens pencils stationery games anklets laundry soap and handkerchiefs for Mather School Beaufort South Carolina. Mrs Rose Cooper led the session with a paper on the school highlighting its history and mission to educate destitute Negro girls.
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Missionary Society of
Rose Cooper
Annie Towle
Midway
Port Royal
Beaufort
Rachel Crane Mather
Island
Mather School
Mather
A. E. Reynolds
Christ
Beacon Junior Aid Plans Rummage Sale
Beacon Junior Aid held a meeting at 19 Mechanic street hosted by Mrs. Fred D. Pinkham. Mrs. Aubrey E. Steen was appointed rummage sale chairman for the late April event and a silver tea report was praised. Members voted to order more no-sen-fowl pins and a list of dining room waitresses for the parish supper was set.
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Aubrey E. Steen
Fred D. Pinkham
Beacon
Arthur L Berry
Charles I. Madden, Jr
Roy Bradford
Edward Manser
Walter L. Elliott
Roy O. Edwards
Jessica Hughes
Dean R. Bonney
For Sale Estate Residence Near Bath Beaches
Classified ad details a nine room year round house with bath hardwood floors plastered third floor good cellar two piazzas in excellent condition near beaches twenty minutes from Bath with good roads. Family home potential summer residence. Write Times Company Box H.F 3-1-3. Also mentions listing with Fred B Reed Co Bath contact E Wallace 93 Front Street Bath Tel 514-W.
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Bath
Write Times Company
Box H. F
City Shore
Fred B. Reed Co
E. Wallace
Front Street
Bowdoinham News Briefs Highlight Safety Talk and Local Visits
Bowdoinham residents attend a State Highway Department safety talk for grade and high schools. Visits span Boston Richmond Gardiner Topsham and York Beach with many relatives and friends. A Christmas birthday party at Merrymeeting Farm includes a poem by Robert Coffin and a large guest list. Firefighters respond to a chimney fire on the Post road.
Birthday Surprises and Fire Call Reported in Bowdoinham
The Bowdoinham post road item notes a chimney fire at Frank Millay’s home Sunday forenoon. Twenty relatives and friends attended Mrs. Frank Heath’s surprise birthday party at her residence, with games and a cake. Last week L H Berry celebrated their daughter Diana Coe’s first birthday. Mrs. Eli Minner and son Robert returned home from Gardiner General Hospital.
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Frank Millay
Frank Heath
L. H. Berry
Diana Coe
Eli Minner
Robert
Gardiner General Hospital
Edward McAuliffe Obser ves 80th Birthday and Retirement
Edward McAuliffe of 21 Bailey street quietly marked his 80th birthday and the 15th anniversary of retiring from the Bath post office after 30 years service including 25 as letter carrier and last five as postal clerk retiring March 20, 1924. Born March 20, 1859 in Bath, he has lived here all his life.
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Edward McAuliffe
Bailey Street
Bath
Braille Easter Cards For Porto Ricans
Mrs. Wilmer I. Voorhees reports Day's Ferry Sunday school children making Braille Easter cards to be sent to the blind in Porto Rico. Executive committee votes to send a Morse High School student to Washington as junior representative to the Red Cross Convention. John Parker and others named to a program committee. Lillian Madden discusses school nursing. Nursing activities committee reports. Maternity kits and sterilization noted, plus abdominal binders from local groups.
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Wilmer I. Voorhees
Red Cross
Ferry
Porto Rico
Morse High School
Washington
John Parker
Donald N. Small
Seth Mullin
Nursing Activities Committee
Henry
Fadden
Eastern Star
Bath Memorial Hospital
Central Church
Bowdoin Ladies’ Aid Meeting News
East Bowdoin ladies plan Thursday gathering with Mrs. Herbert Adams. Mrs. Grant Woods returns from Springfield visit with daughter Mrs. Carl Coolidge. Miss Marion Curtis of Boothbay visits her father N. E. Curtis. Mrs. Herbert Higgins ill at Brunswick hospital slowly improving. Mrs. Irving Clough of Hallowell with father L. C. Starbird.
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East Bowdoin
Barnard Discusses Radio Safety at PTA Meeting
Arlen E. Barnard of Portland gave a talk on the uses and problems of radio at the North Center PTA meeting in Grace church parish house. He urged sponsor oversight of children's programs, preferring protests directed to sponsors and a literature and child psychology informed approval board.
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Arlen E. Barnard
Portland
North Center P.T.A
Grace Church Parish House
Barnard
Joseph I. Smith
Alice N. Magoun
John Parker
J. Edward Pomeroy
Joseph O. Purdue
Isadore Singer
Louis A. Dole
Bird
Mrs Armstrong Returns From Boston Hospital Visit
Mrs Charles E Armstrong of Washington street has returned after spending a few days in Boston near her husband, a patient at Deaconess Hospital where he underwent a surgical operation several days ago.
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Charles E. Armstrong
Washington Street
Boston
Deaconess Hospital
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