Community Notices and Club Activities Across Town
Small Point church to host fall meeting with Easter rehearsal. Union Lenten service at Beacon Street Church featured Dr. Joseph Smith as school physician appointment. Chimney fire at Miss Maud Holbrook residence. Fire Chief issues emergency numbers for chimney and grass fires. Dromore Extension Service March meeting praised. April theme Behind the Seams with HDA Hilda Haskell. Bodwell Grange event celebrated St Patrick’s Day with contests, songs, and skit. Crews installed electricity at Squirrel Point Light Station. Albert Totman Library hours posted. Local personal visits and births noted. road conditions described as muddy but passable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fall Point Claren
Small Point
Ev. H. Bits Whitehead
Beacon Street
Ath
Joseph Smith
Maud Holbrook
William Blaisdell
Phippsburg
J. H. McCourt
Dromore Extension Service
HDA
Hilda Haskell
Mildred Rogers
Pauline Hart
Gladys Dozois
Anita Totman
Annette Skofield
Thelma Skillin
Lela Moore
Bodwell Grange
St. Patrick’s Day
Edward DeBerg
The
Grange
Maggie
Mark Harrington
Stanwood Gilman
Macy Whitehead
Ireland
Thomas Totman
Coast Guard
Squirrel Point
Albert Totman
Victoria Blaisdell
Peggy Rogers
Joe Bennett
Stanley Reynolds
Bath Memorial Hospital
Reynolds
George Larrabee
Boston
E. P. Bowen
Grand Rapids
Mich
Gordon Alden
Sebasco
Duncan Farrell
Peter
Dudley S. Leavitt
Russell E. Merchant
Bath
Merton Snipe
Topsham
Meadowbrook
L. Rainey
Sally
Lewiston
Charles Stevens
Arlington
Librarian Mrs Milliken Speaks To Fourth Grade
Mrs Ralph Milliken librarian in the children's room at Patten Free Library spoke Friday afternoon to fourth grade pupils at North Grammar school. Her informal talk was followed by a discussion period and many new books were displayed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Milliken
Patten Free Library
North Grammar School
Donald Hopkins, Jr
Lissa Sue
Donald Coombs
Cheryl Anne
Guy Allenwood
Betsy
Herbert Belanger
Roxanne
Coombs
Carol
Lynne Grover
Robert Carter
Jand McIntosh
George Carey, Jr
Bertram Reed
William A. Niss
Middle Street
John Harris
Patten Free Library Board
North
North Grammar
Bessie Boudreau
Marjorie Bartlett
Marjorie Oliver
Cleo Hornsinger
Bert Osgood
Eliot Hanson
Kirk Roberts
Truck driver spots tires rolling by emergency stop
Riley Lee Barton of Temple Texas observed a pair of dual tires with wheels rolling past his truck cab as he paused at an emergency stop in Grand Island Nebraska. He investigated and found the tires were detached from his trailer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Island
Neb
Riley Lee Barton
Temple
Tex
Parker Head News Briefs On School Schedule And Local Visit
Sept 8 notes show Gilman visiting the school Monday afternoon. April events set noon close so Anne Gray and Sharron Turner spell at Phiburg Center to crown town champion then at Wiscasset for School Union title April 15. First free clinic for children 4 months to high school set April 11 9:30 AM with Drs Joseph and Jacob Smith. other clinics May 9 June 9.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Gilman
Anne Gray
Sharron Turner
Phiburg Center
Wiscasset
Joseph and
Jacob Smith
West Bath Grange Hosts St Patrick Evening
West Bath Grange held a lively meeting with 100 plus in attendance. Shamrock decorations and pins greeted entrants while Presumpscot Grange members performed a humorous one act play Pig O My Heart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath Grange
Alice Burgess
Presumpscot Grange
Clair Bishop
Mantha
Ray Burgess
Fun With Flowers Program At Beta Sigma Phi Meeting
Mrs. Raymond Brown of Dam ariscotta presided over a joint Theta Xi Beta Sigma Phi covered dish at Mrs. Marsh’s home. Helen Hayes led the program with flower arranging tips, displaying a glass brick centerpiece and various containers. A business meeting funded a fried clam supper for Morse scholarship and a shower of household articles was given to Mrs. Curran after a fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beta Sigma Phi
Raymond Brown
Damariscotta
Old Bristol
Morse
Frank Curran
Edward True
Ruth Davis
William Rogers
Andrew Flaherty
E. O. Barnsness
Harold Perry
Nicholas Kakos
Paul Lemont
Charlotte Francis
Richard Jackson
George Larrabee
Maxine Rioux
Anne Slief
Edward Rowe
Richard Ravenall
Theta Chapter
Eleanor Danforth
Robert Stevens
George Gardenier
Leonard Wetherbee
Paul Akeley
Clyde Ambrose
Amerise Bourque
John Conley
Alpert Desmond
George Gallant
John Greene
Paul Graustuck
Catharine Legard
Waldron Troop
Xi Betha
Community club hosts eye opening talk and candlelight ceremony
Mrs Williams praises ballet and theatre while noting drab audience dress. Officers elected for the year include Mrs Asenith Haggett president and Miss Katherine Conley vice president amid a candlelight charter member ceremony and new member initiation. Two solos entertained 51 attendees as the next meeting is set for April 19 at 6 30 with supper and program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williams
Asenith Haggett
Katherine Conley
Natalie McNeil
Gladys Chase
Emma Brown
Percy Robbins
Olney Perry
Robert Jewell
Carl Albee
Irene Bates
William H. McGlinchy
Food Alcohol and Tobacco Consume Large Share of Income
A third of the average U.S. family income is spent on food including meals at home and away, plus liquor and tobacco products, highlighting rising living costs and consumer spending patterns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
Former Bath Women Lead Out of State Club in Brockton
Two former Bath girls now in Massachusetts gain prominence in Brockton’s Women’s Out of State club. Mrs. Franklyn Kane nee Ann Desmond chairs membership and modeled at a March 22 style show. Mrs. Arthur Perrault nee Pauline Nickerson is an active worker with two Brockton sons. The club includes only women born outside Massachusetts and represents many states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Massachusetts
Brockton
Mass
Franklyn Kane
Ann Desmond
Eugene Desmond
Lincoln Street
Arthur Perrault
Pauline Nickerson
Blair Bailey
Kane
Boston
Abington
Perrault
Morse High
Peter
Arthur, Jr
Popham Circle Baked Beans Supper At Schoolhouse
Popham Circle held a successful baked beans supper at the schoolhouse with out of town visitors including Harold Seavey Clifford Pye of Phippsburg Center Fred Small of Bath and families from Woolwich Perkins Island and Bath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Popham Circle
Harold Seavey
Clifford Pye
Phippsburg Center
Fred Small
Bath
Harvey Chubbuck
Susan
Clyde Bailey
Sharon
Woolwich
Clarence Shelfield
Perkins Island
Blanchard Crowley
Maritime Academy
State of Maine
Kennebec
Castine
Portland
Christian Service
Popham Schoolhouse
Walter Gilmore
Ernest Oliver
Winthrop Blair
Re. Macy
Arthur Allen
Myra Scott
Doris Gilmore
F. Clayton Walker
West Medford
Mass
James R. Walker
Marguerite McNulty
Charles Shepard
Charles, Jr
Willard Oliver
Doris Wallace
Ralph Small
Car . Bickford
Son Bruce
West Bowdoin
Coxs Head Dromore Extension Group Meeting Report
Coxs Head Dromore Extension Group met at the grange hall with the casserole and oven meals topic taught by Mrs Evelyn Beals and Mrs Ad die Seavey. New members joined. next meeting set for April 14 on Behind the Seams with the home demonstration agent in charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dromore Extension Group
Grange Hall
Evelyn Beals
Addie Seavey
Ray Moore
West Bath
Mildred Rogers
Pauline Hart
Gladys Dozois
Mizpah Class Meets With Mrs Buffum
Mizpah Class of the First Baptist Church met at Mrs. Ronald Buffum’s home at 987 Middle Street. Devotions opened the session with a business meeting and a strong treasurer’s report on finances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Baptist Church
Ronald Buffum
Middle Street
Harriet Wright
Memorial Hospital
Marlin Pennington
Bonita Graves
Gertrude Buffum
Lila Place
Grace Mitchell
Dorothy Thayer
Cora Blakeney
Miriam House
Nancy Roy
Bath women pass away in Portland Tuesday
Mrs. Earl Wade, Mrs. Kenneth Humphries, Mrs. C. Arthur Mayo and Mrs. William Turpie of Bath passed Tuesday in Portland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl Wade
Kenneth Humphries
C. Arthur Mayo
William Turpie
Bath
Portland
Mrs Huskins Visits Bath to See Relatives During Day Trip
Mrs. Helen Huskins of Five Lands shopped in Bath on Tuesday and spent time visiting relatives during her day in the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Huskins
Five 'Slands
Bath
Wesley Church Elects Officers and Committee Members
The Wesley Methodist Church official board elected officers for three years and one year terms, including trustees William Hanson Charles Marble George Hopkins Stanley Hunter and others. Special stewards include Pastor Oliver W Bell and Walter Upham. numerous church commissions were formed with ex officio and at large members named. The meeting reviewed appointment lists and set a combined official board and fourth quarterly conference for April 18 at 6 pm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley Methodist Church
Oliver W. Bell
Fourth Quarterly Conference
William Hanson
Charles Marble
George Hopkins
Stanley Hunter
Marc N. King
Willard McLean
Andrew Butterfield
Walter Day
Alvah Morse
Lloyd Daley
Otis Ayer
Nan Brown
Merna Faulkes
Helen Follett
Earl Lermond
John Sampson
Robert Savage
Carlyle Taber
William Temple
Wilfred Trott
Walter J. Upham
John Waterhouse
Walter E. Upham
Elnora Oliver
Merle Niles
Cally Rogers
Woman's Society of Christian Service
Methodist
Church School
Charles Pinkham
George Biette
James Haley
Barbara Small
Commission On Finance
Llewelyn Rogers
Lissa Dearborn
Omah Snipe
Edward Butterfield
Carolyn Rogers
Charles Howe
Marc King
Bell
Walter Upham
Carl Taber
Art Supervisor Speaks to North-Center PTA on Bath Needs
Miss Marie St Angelo art supervisor for local schools spoke at the North-Center PTA meeting at North Grammar school. A Portland native and Maine graduate, she urged more art time due to limited Bath school facilities and described teaching aims, student work, and a parent art lesson with Easter themes. The group also discussed educational bills approved by the State Congress of Parents and Teachers and planned pre‑school events and library outreach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alston Oliver
Bath Memorial Hospital
J. A. Darling
Portland
Mark Harrington
Boyd
Parker Head
H. D. Mank, Jr
Carole
Lewis Lowell
Francis Lander
Forreston Wallace
West Point
Lewiston
Joyce Gray
Westbrook Junior College
Brunswick
Sarah Gordon
Reginald Gordon
Reginald, Jr
Sarah
Albert Gray
Bernhard Carlsson
Dix Island
Carlsson
David
Edward Gray
Woolwich
Grays
E. Gray
Fred Baldwin
Diane
Martha Ross
Leslie Darling
Nancy Ross
James
Martha
Diane Ross
Earl Lowell
W. A. Lowell 2d
Florence Rollins
Eliza Bradshaw
Phippsburg Center
Rollins
G. C. Beals
Stonybrook Road
Frances Morong
Son Howard
Walter Cushing
David Harrington
Cushing
William Cushing
Ronald Nadeau
Leroy Perkins
Mercy Hospital
Burleigh Williams
Bath
Lester Beals
Mariah Nadeau
Augusta
Earl F. Lowell
State of Maine
W. A. Lowell
Lowell
Charles Blaisdell
Exposition Building
Marie St. Angelo
North Grammar School
Miss St. Angelo
Portland Art School
University of Maine
S. Theodore Bertocci
Congress of Parents and Teachers
District Superintendent Hempstead to preside at church year reports
Rev. Alfred Hempstead will preside over the district meeting and call for written reports on the church year’s work. The gathering aims to review progress, collect accountability data, and plan future activities for local congregations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred Hempstead
Morse High Hoops Team Returns From Boston Trip
Morse High School basketball players coaches and staff returned to Bath after a three day Boston visit to see the New England Schoolboy and Prep School tournaments and sights. The trip was funded by Bath citizens contributing 1100 to honor the team for winning the Western Maine Class L title and reaching the finals against Bangor High.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morse High
Bath
Boston
New England
Cinerama
Gene Hunter
Don Buckley
Duncan Farrell
Ray Farnham
Herbert Flint
David Bourque
Bob Billington
Thaxter Trafton
Dick Bishop
Wes D. Capua
Eddie Marchetti
Bob Haggett
Phil Weybrant
Harry Xinsk
Herbert Anderson
George ‘Ardis
John MacDonald
Wiliam Russell
Genere Ity
Celti di
Education Emphasis at Hyde Home Highlights Rehabilitation
Education shares top billing with medical science as the Hyde Memorial Rehabilitation Hospital aids crippled children. Executive Director Marie I. Preston says education completes rehabilitation, while the Pine Tree Society seeks legislative expansion of the state education department for handicapped children. The society funds nursery school through the Eastern Seal Campaign and a retired teacher, Nellie R. Ricker, runs classes without pay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hyde Memorial Rehabilitation Hospital
Hyde Home
Marie I. Preston
Pine Tree Society For Crippled Children and Adults, Inc
Pine Tree Camp
Rome
State Education Department
Maine
Pine Tree Society
Brunswick
Nellie R. Ricker
Bath Women Pass Away in Portland Loss
Mrs. Abbott Redlon Mrs. Henry O McCabe and Mrs. Percy Pratt of Bath died Tuesday in Portland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abbott Redlon
Henry O. McCabe
Percy Pratt
Bath
Portland
Bath Rifle Club Wins Maine Postal League Crown
The Bath Rifle and Pistol association captured the Maine State Postal League Class A championship by outshooting Hyde Windlass Rifle club 1411 to 1385 at Belfast. Perley Port led Bath with 287, while Phil Staley had 285 and Phil McAloney led Hyde with 284. Old Town Mohawk forfeited their shootoff berth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Rifle and Pistol Association
Maine State Postal League
Hyde Windlass Rifle Club
Belfast
Bath
Hyde
Mohawk Rifle Club
Old Town
Old
Phil Staley
Phil McAloney
Weather vane atop Winter Street church collapses
A 490 pound weather vane on the Winter Street church steeple collapsed after years of wear and recent high winds. Police cordoned Washington Street to prevent injuries while steeplejacks arrive from New Hampshire to remove and reset the vane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winter Street
Washington Street
Winter
Linden
Bath
New Hampshire
Turpie Couple Attend Boston Flower Show
Mr and Mrs William Turpie of Green Street spent the weekend in Boston visiting the Flower Show at Mechanics Building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Turpie
Green Street
Boston
Mechanics Building
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White Mountains
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Detroit
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Hanau
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Lucy Marie Hoar
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Eddie Hunt
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U. S. Coast Guard
Clarence Skolfield
Popham Beach
Leston Harrington
William Hodgkins
East Boston
J. F. Mezenski
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Hodgkins
C. Leo Hamel
Virginia Lemont
Bud Watson
Gail Lemont
F. A. Libby
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Richard Parad
Richard Collins
Bonnie Belanger
Richard Carter
Mary Gaudreau
Lawrence Palmeer, Jr
Sharon Holbrook
My Baby
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Hex
Alex Burgess
Shamrock
Irene Rice
Ruel MacKenzie
Josephine Pinkham
Mrs. Williams
Roxanne Belanger
Bath Girls
Cox
Stanton C. Dozois
Richard
Wesley Harrington
Raymond Pye
Elkanah Wyman
Winfield le Mair
Georgetown
Edward P. Thomas
Frederick Thomas
Bernard Carlson
Dix's Island
Sarah F. Wilbur
Mizpah
Buffum
Wesley Church
Cultura
P.T.A. Mee
Bath Rifle Club
Maine Postal League
Bath Rifle Club OH OH
P Tis. Pert
P Staley
Wallace
Yi McIntire
Skaling
P Hyde Windlass Rifle Club MecAloney
W Lovett
Besaw
H White
Einder
Hartsgrove
Bragg
Reust
Knight
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