Bath Still Short Eleven Thousand for Red Cross Drive
Bath Red Cross officials announced the city is about $11,000 short of its quota in the current War Fund drive with only $10,000 deposited to date. Immediate local response is urged through donations at drive headquarters or by mailing checks to the Bath Chapter. Collections will be conducted at local theaters with coordinators named, and specific workers are listed for each weekday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Harry B. Carney
Robert B. Hatch
Clifford B. Wilband
Brian M. Jewett
Anna Trott
Higgins Engaged in Bowdoin as Fitts Couple Plans Union
Mr and Mrs Herbert D Higgins of Bowdoin announce the engagement of their son Private Russell Dexter Higgins now at San Luis Obispo California to Sylvia Mae Fitts daughter of Mr and Mrs Augustine Fitts of Freeport The bride will graduate from Freeport High School in June Higgins trained at Bowdoin schools worked at Brunswick Airport before Army service and has served at Fort Belvoir Nashville Camp Horn and Los Angeles He is with the 1st Wildcat Division at Camp San Luis Obispo No wedding date set.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert D. Higgins
Bowdoin
Russell Dexter Higgins
San Luis Obisko
Calif
Sylvia Mae Fitts
Augustine Fitts
Freeport
Miss Fitts
Freeport High
Nashville
Rosetta Gowell
Alonzo Gowell
Wilbur Gowell
Gardiner
Nathaniel
Hannah Small
Litchfield
Carrie Kendall
Sne
Wilbur
Ina
Inez Gowell
Linda Gowell
Boston
Norman Rowe
Reginald Dore
Bernice Dore
Charles McEwen
Made Curtis
George Sedgley
Bert Wool
Madel Lancaster
Percy Blanchard
Beola McEwen
Harold Rollins
Norvisi Rowe
Percy Temple
Irying
San Pedro
California
Deisel
Dearborn
Mici
Lottie Cobb
Pearl Raymond
Masonic Hall
Ramson Kelley
Fairfield
Peleg Hughey
Arrostook County
Beano games aid firemen fund in Bath Hall event
The Bath Firemen's Memorial Association held a beano night at the FE. S. Crosby Insurance Co. office on Front Street Tuesday with strong attendance and prize offerings. Proceeds go to a uniform fund for the local firemen under the charge of George W. Breed. Mrs Edward Hamblett hosted a luncheon at 28 Pratt Street on Wednesday for a group including Mrs Tier, Mrs Skaling, and others. Miss Camulla Pratt, Providence Bible Institute student, enjoyed the afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Firemen’s Memorial Association
FE. S. Crosby Insurance Co
Front Street
George W. Breed
Edward
Hamblett
Pratt Street
Frank Fortier
Wilfred Skaling
James McLaughlin
John Anderson
Joseph Madden
John Cummings
Lucien Bisson
Michael Reardon
Camulla Pratt
Providence Bible Institute
Providence Ros
Clinton Pratt
Trufant Street
Army Chaplain Lang Addresses Bath Lions Club Talk
Lt Col Raymond Lang US Army stationed at Fort Williams Portland spoke at Bath Lions Club meeting at Hyde Windlass cafe. Lang urged religious and racial tolerance and warned of Nazism and Japan while praising liberty and Lafayette. Committee formed to arrange future speaker. Bowker endorsed for district governor. Hathorne admitted. guests Plant Garey Alden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond Lang
U.S.A
Fort Williams
Portland
Lions Club
Hyde Windlass
United States Army
Lang
Germany
Col. Lang
Commonwealth of Nations
Lafayette
Arthur M. Bowker
Elwood A. Hathorne
Albert S. Noyes
Chester A. Plant
Hollis Garey
Gordon Alden
Homer Johnson
Cecil Fullerton
Junior Hospital League Plans Spring Dance and Sale
Junior Hospital League met at Elmhurst with 11 members. Vice president Mrs Theodore Earl presided in the president’s absence. A report on the Cosmo politan Club tea by Miss Normena MacKinnon was favorable. Plans for a Spring dance were discussed and a rummage sale is set at Grace church parish house on March 25 chaired by Mrs Frank Givin. A floor washer and polisher were approved for Memorial Hospital. Sewing for the hospital continued and refreshments followed. CSNI League to meet Mrs Alden Anderson on March 28.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Junior Hospital League
rMs
Converse Fenn
Elmhurst
Edwin M. Fuller, Jr
Theodore Earl
Cosmopolitan Club
Normena MacKinnon
Topsham Reader
Grace Church Parish House
Frank Givin
I O
Memorial Hospital
Csni League
Alden Anderson
South Street
Club 42 Plans Annual Banquet and Supper Party
Club 42 met Thursday evening to plan a supper party at Brunswick on April 6 and announce plans for the annual banquet to be held in May. Committees were to be named and three guests discussed. Mr F I Kenney and Mrs Dulty spoke. Miss Esther Wilson and Miss Vanona McDonald left for Brooklyn to attend Miss Muriel Grace wedding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brunswick
F I] Kenney
Art Dulty
Charlotte Francis
Esther Wilson
Vanona McDonald
Brooklyn
N. Y
Muriel Virginia Grace
William Grace
Bath
Winter Street Ladies Aid plans rummage sale and tea
Winter Street Church Ladies Aid met with 35 attending and planned a full day session next Friday with lunch served. They voted to hold a rummage sale on April 12, with Mrs. Fred Foote chairman and a silver tea at the parsonage on March 31 led by Mrs. Joseph Purdue. The Red Cross group and USO talk followed, plus a Scotch auction and a postponed white elephant sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies Aid
Winter Street
Trygve Carlsen
Lewis F. Gannon
Sarah Adams
Alice Shorey
Lemont
Fred Foote
Clifford B. Wilband
USO
Roscoe P. McFadden
John Sylvester
Ernest Freeman
Morton Young
Reginald Farnham
Burton Jones
Mizpah Class Meets Tuesday Evening
Mizpah class of First Baptist church met last Tuesday at Mrs. George Carey’s Oak Street home. Rev. Charles R. Sims led Bible study on Jesus the Master Workman. Attendees included Mrs. Harold Carter Eleanor Mills and others. Next meeting with Mrs. Harold Carter on North Street planned. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Peterson visited Lewiston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Baptist Church
George Carey
Oak Street
Charles R. Sims
Jesus
Harold Carter
Eleanor Mills
Chester MacKenzie
J. Russell Grant
Leland Green
Kenneth Thayer
North Street
Surprise Party Given for Seth Doughty
A surprise birthday was tendered to Seth Doughty at his mother Mrs Stella Doughty’s home 17 Shaw Street on Tuesday of last week for his twentieth anniversary. Guests included family members and friends from Bath Iron Works and nearby towns with music by an orchestra and performances by Raymond Davis and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seth Doughty
Stella Doughty
Shaw Street
Raymond Davis
Albert Doughty
Harold E. Doughty
US A
Doughty
Bath Iron Works
Freeman Davis
Cundy’s Harbor
Ernest Doughty
Willis Doughty
Elsie Doughty
Marjorie Doughty
Arthur Brown
Ernest Brown
John Shottler
This City
Harriet Barter
John Worrey
Portland
Frances Higgins
Cedar Grove
Phippsburg
Soldier Seeks Bath Friends Through Georgetown Contact
Pvt. Charles FE Mains of U S A requests letters from Bath friends. He is son of Mrs. Dairy Mains of Georgetown and asks to obtain his address by calling his mother in Georgetown at 323.
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Pvt
Charles FE
Mains
Dairy Mains
Georgetown
Bath
Former Bath teacher Emma Greene dies in Lisbon Falls
Emma Shorey Greene, widow of Andrew E. Greene, died after a brief illness at her Main Street home in Lisbon Falls. Born in Lisbon Falls November 27, 1869, she led a active literary and church life in Bath and was connected with St Mathews Episcopal Church and several women's organizations in Lewiston and Androscoggin County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma (Shorey) Greene
Andrew E. Greene
Main Street
Lisbon Falls
George
Fannie (Bibber) Shorey
Shakespeare Club
Pioneer
Mary Dillingham
Lewiston
Androscoggin County
Greene
Bath
North Grammar School
Margaret Adams
South Street
Morse High School
Elmer Hodgkins
Middle Street
Caroline Shorey
Brunswick
Worumbo Mfg. Co
Stamp and Bond Sales Decline at Bath School
War stamp and bond purchases by Bath school children fell last week to 1437.30 bringing the year to date total to about 85,000. Week and cumulative totals show 1437.30 and 84,366.45 with last year at 33,238.95. Mrs Elwood Hodgkins and grandson David Newton of Portland arrived to visit Mrs Roscoe P Higgins and family on York Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Elwood Hodgkins
David Newton
Portland
Hodgkins
Roscoe P. Higgins
York Street
Farm Property Sale Listing in Bath City Area
To buy or sell farm or city share property, contact Pred Bo Reed Co. Manager Stanley BE. Wal lace at 93 Front Street Bath. Telephone 332-W. Dated April 16, 1911.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bo Reed Co
Stanley BE. Wallace
Front Street
Bath
Woodbury Fides engagement announced in South Portland tea
Mr and Mrs John B Woodbury of South Portland announce the engagement of their daughter Marion Woodbury to Avery M Fides Jr Boatswain's Mate 2c U S N R of Bowdoinham. A tea at the Woodbury home Saturday welcomed guests including Mrs Avery M Fides and Mrs George Robinson. Marion Woodbury a South Portland High School and Westbrook Junior College graduate works at Steel Products Corp South Windham. Avery M Fides Jr is the eldest son of Avery and Mrs Fides of Bowdoinham and a former student at the University of Maine and a member of Phi Eta Kappa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John B. Woodbury
South Portland
Marion Woodbury
Avery M Fides Jr
Bowdoinham
Avery M. Fides
Bowdoinmham
Woodbury
Geoorge Robinson
Myrtle Kealing
Annie Fides
Fides
Louise, Roverta
Virginia Woodbury
Ruth Lunt
Georgia Fides
Mary Jane Fides
Miss Woodbury
South Portland High School
Westbrook Junior College
Steel Products Corporation
South Windham
Avery Fides
Coomis High School
University of Maine
Phi Eta Kappa Fraternity
Hale Invited to Probe Lambert Park Conditions
About 200 Lambert Park residents filled the recreation hall for a mass meeting in the government housing project. The Citizens Committee reported work since inception and invited Congressman Robert Hale of Portland to investigate project conditions. The panel discussed Civilian Defense pumps, telephones, plans for pivlans, and a temporary volunteer fire chief to aid the local department pending official arrival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lambert Park
Ciizens Committee
Robert Hale
Portland
John Ro Newell
Alderman Newell
Rupert Irvine
New England Tel. & Tel. Co
Mesdi
Tho
Solunteer
Also Mentioned on This Page
Senter’s, Inc
RED Cross
Wgan Niit
World Today
WGANC
Aan
News of the World
Bill Henry
Maine
Voice of Friendly Service
Bath Lions Club
Sanford Nickerson
E. H. Robinson
A. M. Main
Edward D. True, Jr
Central Grammar
Central Grammar School
Ymca Grammar School
Berenice Colby
Laurent Pomerleau
Elton L. Pinkham
YMCA
Andrew Rines
James Fortin
Donald Staples
William Wagner
Harold Staples
Kempton Kosha
Robert Dolan
Albert Cullen
Donald Dobson
Wendel Dobson
Winter Street Ladies’ Aid
Stanley Peterson
Brunswick Road
Central
Ymca Grammar School League
Emma Shorey Greene
Accu- School
Wash
St. Pri
Wesley B. Williams
Bowdeinham
Arabel Raymond Williams
Ira Williams
Amanda Baker
Williams
Amrmin
Kar
Hatch
J. E. Miner
Arthur Curtis
Clifford Gray
Joby
Byron Durzin
A. S. MacDougal
Wind Lowell
Eva MacDoug
Mi Les Gowell
Germer
Hosetty Gowell
Toi Cutler
Topsham
George Cutler
SAR
Kennett Marksugel
Ella MacDeonough
Dorcheer
Mes
Thomas F. Reynolds
Washington Street
ST Ee
Marsha Hunt
Alexander Knox
Spencer Tracy
Qirene Dunne
Hale
Indy Red Cross
Trail Blazers
Legitiyee Baers
Ata, Joan Uays
Gaving
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