Arthur H Price to Retire From Long Held Post in Bath
Arthur H Price will retire May 1 after 52 years in the workforce, 30 years in Bath with Congress Shirt Co. Raymond English to become manager and Arthur Nelson to operate machines. Price expanded the plant from 45 to 120 employees and helped foster amicable labor relations and Christmas parties.
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Arthur H. Price
Bath
Congress Shirt Co
Leonard C. Cooper
Mr. Price
Raymond English
Arthur Nelson
Price
Jacob Dreyfus & Son
Cooper
Middle Street
Rockport
Mowry & Payson
Browning & King Co
New York
Henry Storey
Congress Short Co
Sedgwick
Knights of Pythias
Ward 4
Board of Aldermen
Rotarians Hear Of Clubs Abroad At Sedgwick Luncheon
At Hotel Sedgwick a Rotary club luncheon featured F B Nichols of the Times detailing Rotary activities in war torn regions and relief efforts in Europe. He noted Nazi controlled areas suspended clubs while others aided relief. the Finnish minister’s wife spoke on conditions in Finland.
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Rotary Club
Hotel Sedgwick
F. B. Nichols
The
Times
International Committee
Rotary
Europe
England
West Palm Beach Club
Nichols
Florida
Dominique Tardif
George B. Wolstenholme
Bath Club
Charlie Shepard
T. Henry Riley
Norman Smith
Brunswick
Paul Kingston
Woolworth
Bath Lions
Higgins preparing Pollyanna at Five Islands
Mrs. Zetta Higgins of Wakefield Massachusetts has spent several days at Five Islands making ready her lodge Pollyanna for summer occupancy. She visited her brother E Mason Wright and Mrs. Wright on Winship Street during the stay.
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Zetta Higgins
Wakefield
Mass
Five Islands
Pollyanna
E. Mason Wright
Government to Build 200 Defense Houses in Bath This Summer
Reports indicate the Defense Housing Coordination program will erect about 200 government built homes in Bath this summer. The four to six room two story row houses will rent to defense industry employees earning moderate incomes, with rents of 25 to 40 dollars monthly. Most homes are planned for Bath with some in Brunswick, as land negotiations begin. total cost nears a million dollars.
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Bath
Defense Housing Co
Defense Program
Brunswick
Parker Head Society Notes and Local Updates
Mrs. Eugene Harrington and Mrs. Harold Rogers attended a wedding in Boston for Miss Geraldine Marks while Annette Williams and Priscilla Coombs visited friends. Marrtown sees houses being sold. John D. Libby named Parker Head truant officer. Bernard Carlson returns home after a week in Maine General Hospital with three broken ribs from a Bath house painting accident. Bates Stover undergoes surgery at Maine General Hospital in Portland and seeks a speedy recovery. Mr. and Mrs. Osgood of Perkins Island visited Mr. Taylor in Georgetown. they later toured Auburn with Fred Osgood and Cynthia Osgood meeting Boothbay residents. Osgood family members accompanied by Cynthia Osgood and Leeman Drake return to Bath. Mrs. Olive Dugay of Bath visits her daughter Mrs. Leston Harrington.
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Eugene Harrington
Harold Rogers
Boston
Geraldine Marks
Annette Williams
Priscilla Coombs
Marrtown
John D. Libby
Parker Head
Bernard Carlson
Dix Island
Bath
Bates Stover
Maine General Hospital
Portland
Osgood
Perkins Island
Taylor
Georgetown
Auburn
Fred Osgood
Cynthia
Roland Suddz
Clayton Dodge
Carl Dodge
Boothbay
Mr. Osgood
Cynthia Osgood
Leeman Drake
Olive Dugay
Leston Harrington
Frank Pfeiffer Slipper Manufacturer Dies at Popham Beach
Word was received of the death of Frank Pfeiffer, a Worcester slipper maker. He had long visited Popham Beach with a cottage on South Beach and was well liked in Popham and Bath for his quiet pleasant manner and many friendships.
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Frank Pfeiffer
Worcester
Pfeiffer
Popham Beach
South Beach
Popham
Bath
Rumrill Funeral Held for Charles A Rumrill
Funeral services for Charles A Rumrill of Center street extension were held Wednesday at 2 PM at the Arthur F Mayo funeral residence 819 High Street. Rev Chester B Oliver Wesley Church officiated with bearers Charles Berry John Madden James Mitchell and William Temple. Burial followed at Bay View Cemetery Bowdoinham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles A. Rumrill
Center Street Extension
Arthur F. Mayo
High Street
Chester B. Oliver
Wesley Church
Charles Berry
John Madden
James Mitchell
William Temple
Bay View Cemetery
Bowdoinham
Tea Social Hosts and Temperance Speaker Schedule
Mrs. E. Melvin Pratt hosted a social tea Tuesday afternoon with eight guests in attendance. Mrs. Wilfred C. Trott and Mrs. Bates E. Stover assisted as hostesses. Miss Grace Leigh Scott, touring the state to deliver temperance lectures, will speak at the county convention in West Bow on May 12.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. Melvin Pratt
Wilfred C. Trott
Bates E. Stover
Grace Leigh Scott
West Bowdoin
Miss Maud Thayer reviews books in Bath area report
Georgetown notes Maud Thayer vacationing from Woolwich, gives a book review on Europe in the Spring and Random Harvest in Portland for the Business Girl's club. She returns to Woolwich to resume school. next Saturday she attends a wedding in Rumford with Mrs and Miss Dolloff.
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Maud P. Thayer
Woolwich
Portland
Business Girl's Club
Claire Booth
Europe
Random Harvest
James Hilton
Rumford
Center Street
Rapheal Higgins
Everett Higgins
Bath
Andrew Rowe
Mr. Higgins
Rowe
Georgetown
Clinton
Bath summer social notes and visiting neighbors in town
Personal items from Bath note Mr and Mrs Harry J L Horne returning from vacation at their Summer Center home. Charlie McKenney of South Chelmsford Mass visits Bath. Mrs Augusta F E Rowe opens her Center cottage for Summer. Forest Legard and Bath oil truck visit West Georgetown for season start. Gilbert Gunnell and son John visit Williams home. Gunnells stay an extra week. Leon Williams family and Bedford visit West Georgetown. John MacGillivary of Five Islands visits Williams home. Susie Marr Oliver of Popham Beach stays with Carroll Powers at Robin Hood.
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Harry JL. Horne
Bath
Charlie McKenney
South Chelmsford
Mass
Augusta FE. Rowe
the Cove
Arlington
Forrest Legard
West Georgetown
Gilbert Gunnell
John
Waltham
Thomas N. Williams
Gunnell
T. N. Williams
Susie Marr Oliver
Popham Beach
Carroll P. Powers
Robinhood
Vincent Davis
Bath Iron Works
Portsmouth Navy Yard
Lloyd George
Lloyd Pinkham
Lermond Davis
Victor Pinkham
Good Neighbor Club
Eddie Moulton
George Kelsey
Anna M. Pickard
Marge Trott
F. N. Gowan
Rosalie Carver
Henry P. McAvoy
Elwood Esters
Fred Howard
Carver
H. R. Felton
Camden
Seguinland
George Gray
Alice Cromwell
Ernie Campbell
Mary Louise
Barbara Pinkham
Baptist Church
Brunswick
Raymond Clark
Ralph Morrison
Portsmouth
N. H
Percy Savage
Clark
Winona
Kathleen
Woodrow Gray
Melrose
Allan Huntington
South Danville
J. G. Stevens
Marion Stevens
Donald Stevens
Martha
Trenton
N. J
Mr. Stevens
D. R. Stevens
A. W. Butler
Watertown
Walter E. Reid
Victor Carey
Carey Cottage
Donald Kenney
Madelyn Berry
R. N
Walter
Berry
Leominister
Angus Burden
Abbot Redson
William Chase
South Freeport
Chase
Maurice Pinkham
P. B. Savage
Portland
Beulah Miller
Reginald
Rosalyn Pinkham
William Marr
Everett Cromwell
Leon Williams
Miss Olive
Leon
L. H. Rowe
Williams
Francis Bacon
Defense savings bonds go on sale May 1
The U S Defense Savings Bonds and Postal Savings Stamps begin sale at the post office opening May 1 as part of a national defense push. Postmaster Cahill says local plans are ready with civic leaders among first purchasers and Treasury officials urge broad public cooperation.
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United States Defense Savings
America
Charles H. Cahill
Frank C. Walker
Treasury Department
Defense
Washington, D. C
United States
Daniel Chester French
Morgenthau
Gay Nineties Drama At Club Garret
A Club Garret meeting featured a melodrama set in the gay nineties with Myrtle and Ruth Pratt Frothingham plus Dorothy Anliker as writer and performer. The program included a barber shop quartet and a May 8 dance plan at the Hotel Sedgwick with an entertainment committee and refreshments served after the program.
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Sedgwick
Adele Hutchins
Dorothy Anliker
Shurley Tobey
Jane Stevens
Moss Barbara Pitivan
Barbara Young
Louise Trainor
Robert Lambi
Patricia Hamilton
Rita Cummins
Brown and Smith Guests of Wollaston Household
John Brown of Berrys Mills West Bath and Graydon Smith of West Bath have stayed a week with Walter T. Brown and Mrs. Brown at their Wollaston Massachusetts home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Brown
E. R. Brown
Berrys Mills
West Bath
Graydon Smith
Mr. Brown
Walter T. Brown
Mrs. Brown
Wollaston
Mass
Five Islands Community News Highlights Local Visits
The Bath Iron Works figures Vincent Davis and Lermond Davis began work at the Bath yard, while Lloyd Pinkham welcomed a son born Friday at Cornish Maternity Home. A busy week covers library meetings, birthday celebrations, and numerous social visits across Bath and surrounding towns.
Bath Girl Scouts At State Capital
Bath Girl Scouts from groups 2 and 3 led by Mrs Stanley Hunter and Mrs Bowen Torrey travel to the state capital after three weeks in Bath. They visit Ayers family and relatives in Bath with a stop at Mrs Lorentsen’s home on Mechanic Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Girl Scouts
Clarence Hooyer
Eunice Wanscom
Judith tSayr
Allston
Mass
Ayers
Walter Kennerson
Upper
Washington Street
Ayer
Chester T. Lorentsen
Lorentsen
Mechanic Street
Everett W. Neal 71 Bath Iron Works foreman dies at home
Everett Winslow Neal known as Cap for 44 years at Bath Iron Works died after a long illness at 61 Pine Street Bath. He rose from ice porter to machine shop foreman under Gen. Hyde and helped on the Ammon ram Katahdin acceptance run. He is survived by wife son Alfred and daughter Phyllis, with a sister in Holden.
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Everett W. Neal
Bath Iron Works
Pine Street
Cap
Everett Winslow Neal
South Brewer
Johnson W
Mary J
Bolton) Neal
Penobscot
Bangor Machine Co
Bath
Thomas Worcester Hyde
Neal
Boston
Bath Iron Works Corp
Polar Star Lode
Masons
Woodland
Colonial Club
Alfred W. Neal
Phyllis Neal
Ralph L. Copeland
Holden
Death of Arthur S. Crockett longtime Bath resident
Arthur Stanwood Crockett age 57, a Torrey Roller Bushing Works shipper, died Sunday at his Oak Street home after a hospital stay and pneumonia scare. A Bath native, he lived in Brunswick and Bath, was a Winter Street church member, West Bath Grange, Sagadahoc Pomona, and Bath Marine Band secretary treasurer. Survived by wife Ada R. Crockett and son David.
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Arthur Stanwood Crockett
Torrey Roller
Oak Street
Mr. Crockett
Bath
William H
Emma Schofield Crockett
Brunswick
Winter Street
West Bath Grange
Sagadahoc Pomona
Bath Marine Band
Crockett
Ada R. Crockett
American Red Cross
David
Charles A Rumrill 64 Bath Box Shop employee dies
Charles A Rumrill 64 an employee of Bath Box Shop died in Memorial hospital early Monday after injuries from the prior day. Born in Bowdoinham he lived in Bath six years and on Center Street extension. He leaves two daughters Mrs Mack Weybrant and Mrs Philip Coffin of Brunswick.
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Charles A. Rumrill
Bath Box Shop
Memorial Hospital
Mr. Rumrill
Bowdoinham
John C
Susanna Rumyrill
Bath
Center Street
Mack Weybrant
Philip Coffin
Brunswick
Mrs Mabel S Cate Dies After Pneumonia
Mrs Mabel S Cate of Dresden widow of David A Cate died Saturday at Damariscotta Hospital after two days of pneumonia.
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Mabel So Cate
Dresden
David al Cate
Damariscotta Hospital
Pneumona
Rev Elwyn O Taylor Dies Pastor and China Collector
Reverend Elwyn O. Taylor, former pastor of Corliss Street Baptist Church in Bath from 1920 to 1925, died Monday night in Attleboro Massachusetts. He was a Chat ham native, Newton Theological Institute graduate, and once junior pastor at Tremont Temple Boston. He served in Charlestown and Georgetown before Bath. His hobby was collecting rare English and French china. Funeral Friday at Ballantyne Read Funeral Home in Warwick Rhode Island.
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Attleboro
Mass
Elwyn O. Taylor
Corliss Street Baptist Church
Ballantyne-Read Funeral Home
West Warwick
R. I
Taylor
Chatham
Capt
John Taylor
Newton Theological Institute
Harper
University of Chicago
France
Switzerland
Italy
England
Tremont Temple
Boston
George C. Lorrimer
George Horace Lorrimer
Saturday Evening Post
Bunker Hill
Charlestown
Georgetown
Bath
Yarmouth
Clarence M. Foggy
Freeport
Death of 11 year old Richard M Oliver after surgery
Richard M Oliver 11, son of Alfred and the late Gladys Young Oliver, died Monday at Memorial hospital after an emergency appendectomy. Born in Bath, he leaves two Bath sisters Lena Lewis and Louise Oliver and three Bath brothers Clarence Kenneth and Donald, plus grandparents Noyes Young and Anna Oliver. Funeral Thursday at 2 p.m. at 7 Dummer Street Court home of Lawrence Young.
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Richard M. Oliver
Alfred
Gladys Young Oliver
Dike School
Memorial Hospital
Bath
Lena Lewis
Louise Oliver
Clarence
Kenneth
Donald Oliver
Noyes Young
Anna Oliver
Lawrence Young
Dummer Street Court
Mrs Mary Skelton Dies at 71 in Bowdoin Home
Mrs Mary Jane Campbell Skelton died Tuesday at a Bowdoin home of her son Willis after a three week illness. Widow of Leonard B Skelton she was a Nova Scotia native aged 71. She leaves two other Bowdoin sons Ray and Maurice two Bowdoin daughters Edna Card and Rachel Skelton 25 grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
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Mary Jane Campbell Skelton
Willis
Bowdoin
Leonard B. Skelton
Nova Scotia
Funeral for Mrs. Mabel S. Cate Held at Dresden Home
Funeral services for Mrs. Mabel S. Cate were held at her Dresden Center home with Rev. Tom G. Akeley officiating. Bearers included William Houdlette, Ernest Cate, Ralph Cheney, and Lawrence Gahan. Interment followed in Pine Grove Cemetery, Dresden Mills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mabel S. Cate
Dresden Center
Tom G. Akeley
Episcopal Church
Masonic Committal Service Held for George C Copeland
A committal service for George C. Copeland formerly of Bath was held Monday morning at Oak Grove cemetery. William H. Daley and Solar lodge officers conducted the service over Copeland’s ashes after his death in New York last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George C. Copeland
Bath
New York
Oak Grove Cemetery
William H. Daley
Solar Lodge
Robinsons Reunite as Family Plans Panama Passage
Joseph A Robinson of North Jath recently arrived in Panama and is now at Cristobal C C. He is a pipe fitter formerly with B I W Corp. Mrs Robinson and son Joseph Thomas plan to sail aboard the S S Panama from New York in about a month to join him.
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Joseph A. Robinson
North Jath
Panama
Cristobal
C. C
Robinson
Robison
B. I. W. Corp
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