Morse Senior Wins Elks Essay Prize in Bath District
Alden B. Bailey of Morse High School captured first prize in the Bath district Elks essay contest on What Uncle Sam Means to Me. Miss Barbara Freeman and Miss Barbara Bell, both Morse and Boothbay Harbor high schools, took second and third prizes as district judges announced local winners.
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Alden B. Bailey
Morse High School
Elks
Bath
Uncle Sam
Elks’ National Defense Committee
Lodge of Elks
Brunswick
Damariscotta
Augusta
Barbara Freeman
Morse
Barbara Bell
Boothbay Harbor High School
N. Gratz Jackson
Henry W. Owen, Jr
John Parker
Bath Lodge of Ellis
George
America
Samuel
Sam
South America
Cowboy Sam
Venetian
Adolf
Benito
John Bull
Seacoast
Industry
P.T.A
Central Church Parish House
Charles Stenger
Friendship
Raymond G. Putnam
George Gregory
Lincoln County Council
Daniel H. Matter
Portland
Knox
Lincoln
Kennebec
Charles B. Center
College Park
Burton Goodwin
Mexico
Fred K. Sturtevant
O'Hara
William W. Dennison
South End
North-Center
Nobleboro
Waldoboro Society
Boothbay Harbor
Harold B. Clifford
New East
Ruth Dodge
Boothbay
Harold Nutter
Waldoboro
Center
Louis A. Dole
Donald Sewall
Boothbay Har
Hutchins Curtis Wedding in Bath at Seven P.M.
The marriage of Arthur E. Hutchins Jr. and Miss R Laura Curtis took place Friday at Winter Street Church with a reception at the bride’s home. The ceremony followed singing and music by Mrs. Carleton W Andrews and other local notables.
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Arthur E. Hutchins, Jr
R. Laura Curtis
R. N
Winter Street
Joseph O. Purdue
Front Street
Carleton W. Andrews
Cadman
Handel
Liszt
Tschkowsky
A. Bernard Henderson
Andrews
Stanley E. Curtis
Hutchins
Joan
Bartlett O. Smith
Richard Curtis
George B. Wolstenholme
Howard Mayo
Doris Hutchins
Barbara Mank
Arthur E. Hutchins
Cherry Street
Morse High School
Colonial Club
Bath Iron Works Corp
East Brunswick
Charity Bourget
Alonzo W. Curtis
Memorial Hospital
School of Nursing
Nurses Alumnae Association
King's Point
New Meadows
West Bath
Old Rodgers house in Georgetown prompts age inquiry
Mrs. Sarah Smith Drake of Cambridge asks about the age and builder of the Rodgers house on Indian Point road, noting its three foot pine panels and wide floor boards and recounting past alterations. Her brother removed brick ovens and boilers during a 35 year ownership. Also reports the Tardifs returning from Rock Haven cottage for summer.
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Sarah Smith Drake
Cambridge
Mass
Georgetown
Woodbury Smith Wedding in Bath a Delightful Affair
The marriage of Miss Janette W. Smith of Bath to Stephen Tenney Woodbury of Fitchburg was held Saturday at the bride’s mother’s home with about 100 guests. The ceremony featured classic music, formal dress, and a reception, followed by a weeklong trip to Virginia.
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Janette W. Smith
Edward B. Smith
Mr. Smith
Bath
Stephen Tenney Woodbury
Charles Woodbury
Fitchburg
Mass
Middle Street
Joseph O. Purdue
Winter Street Church
Dennison
Mendelssohn
Liszt
Sundown
Ira Wilson
Sylvia
Ole Speaks
Victor Herbert
Andrew J. Karkos
Lunenburg
Simmons College
Patricia Smith
Gilbert Woodbury
Mrs. Smith
Pauline Moulton
Jere Chase
Franconia
N. H
John S. Woodbury
Springfield
Four Generations Represented in Local Family Photo
The Grover family of Wiscasset and Woolwich poses with four generations: William Grover and wife, their son Walter Grover, granddaughter Isabel Brewer, and great granddaughter Donna Lee. taken April 14 for the couple’s 56th wedding anniversary. William Grover, born 78 years ago in Wiscasset, is retired after long service with Mill Pond Ice Co. in this city. The Grovers have another son, William Jr., living in Auburn.
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William Grover
Wiscasset
Walter Grover
Woolwich
Isabel Brewer
Donna Lee
Brewer
Grov
Ler
Mill Pond Ice Co
Grover
William, Jr
Auburn
Walter
News gathering costs rise with war and censorship
Prof Reginald Coggeshall spoke to the Merrymeeting branch on how international events stretch newspaper work. He cited AP spending on foreign news, balking at propagation costs and radio photo surges, and warned against selective reading of unpleasant war coverage while noting German high command reports are typically more reliable than Admiralty or DNB releases.
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Reginald Coggeshall
Merrymeeting
University of Maine Atlin
Sedewick
Coppeshall
Associated Press Eiploye
New York Herald
Sarc
Conneshall
United States
Dhe Corse
Associated Press
Balkans
Copeeshall Far Ous
Hle
High Command
Admiralty
Bath Girls Scout Visit to Blaine House Highlights Capitol Day
More than 100 Girl Scouts visited the Blaine House in Augusta on a Saturday invited by Mrs. Sumner Sewall wife of Maine's governor. The group met Gov. Sewall in his office and toured the State House, greeted by legislators in the rotunda, with ice cream served before departure.
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Walter C. Rogers
Fort McKinley
Joseph A. Butler
Battery D
240Th C. A
Bath
Edward Quinn
Sumner Sewall
Sewall
Col. Quinn
Armed Forces of America
Reveille
Quinn
Medical Department
Capt. Butler
Maine
Blaine House
State House
Bac Hiss
Sia
Rotunda
Cheorge F Findlen
Aroostook County
Thesaine
America
Seywatll
Alexandra
Betty Cummings
Thomas de Cums
Mini Croweriers
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Dominique Tardif
Patricia
Fern
Pine Street
Rock Haven
Foster's Point
Woodbury-Smith
Stephen T. Woodbury
Coggeshall
U. of M
Bath Girl Scouts
Maine Capital
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