Bank Names Lewiston Native Manager for Richmond Office
At the Depositors Trust Co. David M. Le Bourdais of Lewiston is named manager of the Richmond office, with R. Powers becoming manager of the Hallowell office. Le Bourdais, eight years with the Lewiston office, a Lewiston High School graduate and ex Navy corpsman, will move to Richmond with his wife and two children. Town planning board formed. zoning and Clean up Week set for May. various local grange events and personal items noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Depositors Trust Co
David M. LeBourdais
Lewiston
Richmond
R. Powers
Hallowell
LeBourdais
St. Patrick’s Catholic Church
United Commercial Travelers
Mural Project Planned by Milwaukee Artist Lewandowski
Edmund Lewandowski of Milwaukee considers executing a large mosaic mural for a local firm’s cafeteria. The 200 color artwork would use thousands of half inch glass pieces to depict the company’s progress since 1906. He has traveled to Italy to arrange studio space, arrange fabrication, and hire 20 to 30 artisans with plans to return this summer to supervise. sections would be embedded in mortar at the site with paper washed away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Wis
Edmund Lewandowski
Lewandowski
Italy
Unique Sun-Cured Tobacco Market Claims in Richmond
Richmond asserts it operates the only sun-cured tobacco market in the world while a quick bread recipe boosts flavor with orange rind and date strips. The brief notes local culinary aroma and a bold regional tobacco claim from Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Bath area social notes and family visits reported
The Bath department grader was working in North Bath Friday. Local residents and visitors, including Mrs. Philip Arsenault and infant, Mrs. Edwin Hemingway and family, and Ms Rose Kingsbury, are noted with hospital visits and weekend gatherings. Corporal Chandler Rogers arrived in San Francisco after delays due to weather and mechanical issues on his flight from New York. Ray Kneeland moved to Togus hospital for illness, and multiple Bath families hosted and visited kin at various homes and towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Highway Department
North Bath
Ersonal
Philip Arsenault
Bath Memorial Hospital
Edwin Hemingway
Lewiston
E. N. Cole
College Street
Rose Kingsbury
Bath
Rose Lee Higgins
John DeGroot
Edmund Higgins
Edwin Rogers
Cpl
Chandler Rogers
San Francisco
New York
Denver
Colo
Ray Kneeland
Rooke Farm
Togus Hospital
Joseph Robinson
Kenneth Crafts
Bay Point
Annabelle
Everett Wing
Oakland
J. Carroll Wing
Hollis Leeman
Edward
Robert King, Jr
Woolwich
Calvin Wing
Burton Wing
Portland
Earl Wing
Brother Carroll Wing
Wayne
Wing
Elmer Rogers
Ralph Robinson
Pony League to Hold Position Tryouts at Lambert Park
Arthur Small announced tryouts for four Bath Pony League teams to be held Tuesday and Wednesday at 5 30 p m at Lambert Park Field. Applicants must be 13 to under 15 on July 31 and complete forms with a parent by the Wednesday session. Do not attend if played in Pony League last summer. Season opens June 10 with a Lambert Park Field doubleheader. weekly games run Monday to Thursday starting at 6 p m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Small
Bath Pony League
Lambert Park Field
Small
Rec oncil iation theme dominates morning sermon at 1st Baptist
The morning service at the 1rst Baptist church featured Pastor Arren Harris speaking on Reconciliation, citing scripture and urging harmony before worship. The report also notes community events including a Working League meeting, a birthday card shower for Mrs. Ernest Heal, and a funeral at Five Islands for Vernon E. Gray with many attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
1Rst Baptist Church
Arren Harris
Working League
Joseph F. Higgins
Roy Newman
Ernest Heal
League
Lyman Owen
Clarence B. Hill
Warren Harris
Vernon E. Gray
Five Islands
Indian Point
Portland
Robinhood
Dora Hill
Blanchard Hill
Greene
Georgetown Center
Hill
Charles Cromwell
Clark's Island
Social News Roundup From Georgetown and Vicinity
Local families and visitors frequenting Bath Georgetown and surrounding towns are listed with weekend and midweek travels. Names include Bisseth Stuart Higgins Hagan Palmer Lee and others with moves between Robinhood Bath Georgetown Gardiner Everett Portland and St Petersburg.
Bay Point Scene Shows Residents Busy On Weekend
Bay Point activity includes Arthur Colby of Bath opening his home for the season and tree swallows nesting. Linwood Stevens and Dwight Furbish repaired Bay Point, the Furbish family visited Bath, and Louisa Howard came to Brunswick. The M. Conley and sons and the Simpons visited, while Mr and Mrs Ellis and family stayed on Bay Point. Dwight Furbish Jr marked his 15th birthday, and Deputy Sheriff Edward Belanger of Topsham was present on Bay Point.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Colby
Bath
Linwood Stevens
Dwight Furbish
Bay Point
Furbish
Louisa Howard
Brunswick
M. Conley and Sons
Simpson
Woolwich Fellowship Meets Sunday Evening at Center Church
The Woolwich Baptist Youth Fellowship met Sunday evening at Woolwich Center church with Patricia Hathorne as witness committee chairman. Discussion centered on the topic Just As I Am, featuring Miss Hathorne Anna Hawes Russell Tanner Grace Brown Carol Tanner and Rosabelle Ilines. Also taking part were Bernice Wilson and Charlene Hawes. The gathering closed with a prayer circle and benediction by 19 members present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woolwich Baptist Youth Fellowship
Woolwich Center Church
Patricia Hathorne
Miss Hathorne
Anna Hawes
Russell Tanner
Grace Brown
Carol Tanner
Rosabelle Ilines
Bernice Wilson
Charlene Hawes
Community Notes From Local Clubs And Family Losses
Eight attended the Good Neighbor club meeting at Mrs. Harlan Pinkham's home. Vernon E Gray, long-time proprietor of the local general store, died. community sympathy extended. Attendees at funerals and visits to Bath and surrounding towns are listed among residents and relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Good Neighbor Club
Harlan Pinkham
Lulu Hanna
Dennis Moore
Victor Pinkham
Henry Moore
Erland Moore
Thomas Watson
Vernon E. Gray
Reynolds Grover
Harold Rowe
George Gray
Orville Rowe
Izetta Pinkham
Rowe
Gray
Bath Memorial Hospital
Bath Dog Club Field Trials Highlight Local Winners
Batch, a Chesapeake Bay retriever owned by Marshall L. Willis of Bath, won the derby stake for dogs under two and placed second in the qualifying stake at the Maine Retriever Trial Club event in North Berwick. Stein the Labrador topped the qualifying stake, with Butch second and other Labs following. judges included R. Higgins and F. Hezel tine for derby, and M. Genthner and W. Marcus Jr. for qualifying.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Batch
Marshall L. Willis
Bath
Maine Retriever Trial Club
North Berwick
Stein
Fisher
Springfield
Mass
Sally
Fred Baird
Mt. Vernon
Scot
Warren Summers
Kennebunk
Fisher's Stein
Willis
Butch
Tipper
M. Langmann
Concord
Sal
Mel Coulter
Veazie
R. Higgins
Haskell Memorial School Closes 13th Year With Temperance Program
Haskell Memorial School will close its thirteenth year June 8 with a closing program set for June 6. Pupils presented a temperance program at White Memorial Church in Portland as part of Youth Temperance Week. Participants in Hetty Ria's Faith included Hetty Ria Leilani Pecci Dan Jessup Billy Rice and several others. New officers for the North End Youth Temperance Council were named with Drucilla Westermeyer as president Jeannie Bettle as vice president Roberta Jewell as secretary Bonnie Pangburn as treasurer. The council meets Mondays after school to study Youth Studies Alcohol by Harkness and Fort. Honors were announced for glorified glass painting and tropical fish projects with several students named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haskell Memorial School
Gov. Muskie
White Memorial Seventh-day Adventist Church
Portland
Hetty Ria
Leilani Pecci
Dan Jessup
Billy Rice
Harkness and Fort
David Stilphen
Cynthia Weaver
Danny Bettle
Ruth Ann Bettle
Bethany Westermeyer
Drucilla Westermeyer
Jeannie Bettle
Bonnie Pangburn
Colored Slide Program At Co-Weds Club Saturday
The Co-Weds club of Central Congregational church met Saturday evening in the parish house where Mr. and Mrs. Kirk Roberts presented color slides of a trip to Monhegan Island and a mountain climbing trip in New Hampshire. Clyde W. Ambrose presided at the business meeting and announced the next regular meeting will be May 19.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Congregational Church
Kirk Roberts
Monhegan Island
New Hampshire
Clyde W. Ambrose
Richard H. Haskell
Edward J. McMann
Herbert Craige
George VanWynen
Clyde Mallett
Willard Sprague
E. Lawrence McCurdy
Harold P Small
Several Small Fires Reported Over Weekend in Bath
Bath firemen responded to minor blazes via still alarms over the weekend. An oven fire at 805 High Street occurred Saturday at 5 30 p m with recall at 5 40 p m Then Sunday smoke in a cellar at 83 South Street prompted investigation but required no service with recall at 12 47 p m Monday Engine Two handled a flooded oil burner at Larrabee Grove West Bath with recall at 11 15 a m The report also notes social visits from Bath residents including Pinkhams Campbells Hopkins and Browns in town over the weekend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
High Street
South Street
Larrabee’s Grove
West Bath
Funeral rites for Herbert Grinnell prominent Bath native
Funeral services were held in Derry New Hampshire for Herbert L Grinnell a prominent attorney and former Bath native born 1881 who served as Derry school superintendent and municipal court justice He led local civic work including hospital board banks and draft boards and was honored by naming Grinnell School after his long public service He survived by his widow daughter and son plus sixteen grandchildren with other relatives listed
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert
Prominen Hampshire
Bath
Derry
N. H
Herbert L
Sarah L. Kennerson Grinnell
High Street
Bowdoin College
Maine
Boston
University of Maine Law School
G. K. and
B. T. Bartlett
Municipal Court of
Alexander-Eastman Hospital
Derry Savings Bank
Derry Cooperative Bank
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Solar Lodge
New Hampshire
Grinnell School
Grinnell
Jenny
Bartlett) Grinnell
George H. Grinnell
Victoria L. Quigley
Hudson
Barbara G. Schurman
Eleanor P. Ingerson
Mendon
Mass
Jewel A Otis Dies. Bath Painter Longtime Resident
Jewel Almon Otis 88, a retired painter and paperhanger, died Saturday night at Bath Memorial Hospital. He lived with brother John L. Otis at 454 High Street Bath. Born in Fairfield he was son of Hezekiah and Mary Otis. Survived by sister Emma Desjardens of Lynn and three nieces and three nephews.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jewel A. Otis Jewel Almon Otis
Bath Memorial Hospital
John L. Otis
High Street
Fairfield
Hezekiah
Mary Otis
Bath
Lynn
Mass
Emma Desjardens
Vernon E. Gray Funeral Held at Second Baptist Church
Funeral service for Vernon E. Gray was held Sunday afternoon at one o clock at the Second Baptist church Five Islands with Rev Warren B Harris officiating. Large attendance and abundant flowers showed high community regard. Bearers were Fenton Moore Lloyd Pinkham Russell Harford Harold Pinkham William Marr and Ray Grover. Committal followed at the family lot in Oak Cemetery Georgetown Center.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas W. Blaisdell
Bath
Branwell Harford
Orville Rowe
Capt
Stinson Davis
Lester Davis
Everett Stevens
Thomas Watson
Harford
Stevens
Rowe
Mr. Watson
Addie Moulton
Vernon E. Gray
Earl McMahan
Edgecomb
Nelson Rice
Woolwich
Earl Temple
John Wakefield
Mina Swift
Edward Clough
Vincent Henderson
Etta Moore
Mark Hanna
Edwin Berry
Albert Moore
Vincent Strout
Fairfield
Victor Pinkham
Mary Stevens
Georgetown
Lilla Lewis
Fenton Moore
Florine Stevens
Gene
New York
Alton Reed
Harold Rowe
Second Baptist Church
Five Islands
Warren B. Harris
Mr. Gray
Lloyd Pinkham
Russell Harford
Harold Pinkham
William Marr
Ray Grover
Oak Cemetery
Georgetown Center
Mrs Almina Ricker Hayden Dies at 86 in Bath
Mrs. Almina R. Hayden 86 resident of Bath for 16 years dies Friday in a local nursing home after months of illness. Widow of Seymour A. Hayden born October 28, 1869 in Canaan she lived in Waterville and traveled widely before settling in Bath. She belonged to the Baptist church Suburb Civic club West Bath grange and the Three-Quarter Century club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Almina R. Hayden
Almina Ricker Hayden
Bath
High Street
Seymour A. Hayden
Miller R
Maria Welch Ricker
Canaan
Hayden
Waterville
The
Baptist Church
West Bath
Jewel A Otis Funeral Service Held in Curtis Funeral Home
Funeral services for Jewel A Otis were held Tuesday afternoon at Curtis funeral home with the Rev Charles Ro Sims presiding. Beourers named were Jewel Otis, Le land Otis, Gerald Cookson, Leo Desjardin. Burial took place at Riverview cemetery in Norridgewock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jewel A Otis
Curtis Funeral Home
Charles Ro Sims
Jewel Otis
Leland Otis
Gerald Cookson
Leo Desjardin
Riverview Cemetery
Norridgewock
Funeral services for Mrs Clara Hatch
Funeral services were held at Curtis Funeral home at 2 pm on Wednesday with the Rev. Louis A. Dole presiding. Bearers named Allan H. Ramsay, Robert L. Brownell, Harry L. Day and James M. Royal. Burial followed in Oak Grove cemetery family lot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clara Hatch
Curtis Funeral Home
Louis A. Dole
Allan H. Ramsay
Robert L. Brownell
Harry L. Day
James M. Royal
Oak Grove Cemetery
Barge Arrives With Tar Load for Local Plant
The tug Bill Endter brought a barge of tar to the American Bitumuls and Asphalt Co. at Woolwich. Fred Haney was introduced as the new Milwaukee Braves coach, previously managing the Pittsburgh Pirates and playing for the Tigers Red Sox Cubs and Cardinals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Endter
American Bitumuls & Asphalt Co
Woolwich
Fred Haney
Milwaukee Braves
Pittsburgh Pirates
Tigers
Red Sox
Cubs
Cardinals
Obituary of Vernon E. Gray Five Islands native
Vernon E. Gray, 65, a Five Islands grocer, died morning at Bath Memorial Hospital after a week’s illness. Born April 1891 at Five Islands, he was a Georgetown and Bath resident, carpenter by trade, worked at Bath Iron Works and Todd Bath Shipyard during WWII, later owned a general store. Survived by widow Addie Olive, five daughters, a son Vernon Gray Jr. in U S Navy, two sisters, and several grandchildren and nieces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vernon E. Gray
Bath Memor
Five Islands
George
Arabine Lewis Gray
Georgetot
Five Island
Georgtown
Bath
Bath Iron Works Corp
Todd, Bath
South Portland
Gray
Georgetown
Addie Olive
Ethelyn Beter
Hazel Peron Bath
Barbara Callaway
Lilla LaRose
Islan
Charlotte Carleton
Woolwich
Vernon Gray, Jr
U. S. Navy
George A. Watson dies at 69 after long Bath Iron Works career
George A. Watson 69 longtime Bath Iron Works employee dies Wednesday April 25 at his daughter Mrs Har Crocker’s home in East Brunswick. Born March 21 1887 in De ver he lived in Brunswick over 50 years and with his daughter in the last year and a half. He was a machinist at the shipbuilding firm and widower of Grace Jacks Watson. Survived by daughters Mrs Ernest Ruby and Mrs Samuel Mercer two sons Herbert Wilbur and William D. Watson a brother Osmar Watson two sisters Mrs Percy Hyde and Mrs Mildred Burton, 14 grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. Funeral Sunday at 1 PM from Brackett Funeral Brunswick with Rev Harold Wheeler officiating. Burial in Haring Cemetery East Brunswick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George A. Watson
Bath Iron Works Corp
Har Crocker
East Brunswick
Dever
Michael al Harriet Stott Watson
Brunswick
Watson
Grace Jacks Watson
Crook
Ernest Ruby
Samuel Mercer
Falmont
Herbert Wilbur
el Brunswick
William D. Wison
Bath
Osmar Watson
Lisbon Falls
Percy Hyde
Jude Hyde
Topsham
Mildred Burton
Manchest N. H
Secral
Brackett
Harold Wheeler
Bere Baptist Church
Haring Cemetery
Mrs Clara P Hatch noted Bath vocalist dies in Hanover Mass
Clara Pierce Hatch 69 native of Bath and longtime area vocalist died Sunday in Hanover Massachusetts where she had lived eight months. widow of Robert B Hatch born June 17 1886 in Bath she was soloist at Winter Street Congregational Church for TM years studied in Boston and Portland sang at Brunswick as Bowdoin Professor Wass and performed in oratorios. She belonged to Les Camerades Cecilia and other clubs. Surviving are three sons Stanley Rockford Illinois Robt Hanover Mass and Daniel Bedford Massachusetts a brother Stanley Pierce Freeport Long Island New York and several grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clara P. Hatch
Clara Pierce Hatch
Bath
Hanover
Mas
Robert B. Hatch
Daniel and
Elma Nichols Pierce
Hatch
Winter Street
Re Stuart
William Whitney
Boston
Ethelyne Smith
Portland
Brunswick
Wass
Bowdoin
Les Camerades
T City
Atsini Club
T Cecilia Club
Augusta
Church of the New Jersalem
Sol Stanley
Rockford
Robt
Mass
Daniel Bedford
Staley Pierce
Freeport
Longland
N. Y
Gran
Mrs. Mary Wood Bosworth Dies in Portland Hospital
Mrs. Mary Wood Bosworth of Cape Elizabeth died in a Portland hospital after a brief illness. She was born in Portland on November 30, 1879, daughter of James and Virginia Stanwood Jordan. Survived by husband Arthur Sewall Bosworth and two daughters Barbara Ingraham and Stephen Sleeper, a brother Robert Jordan, two grandchildren and two nieces. Funeral at 2 30 p.m. Tuesday at St Albans Church. Interment Mt. Pleasant cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. S. Bosworth
Mary Wood Bosworth
Arthur Sewall Boswor
Cape Elizabeth
Portland
Boswort
Catain Robert Bosworth
James
Virginia Stanwood Jord
Colnial Dames
St. Albans Bur
Funeral for Mrs Almina Hayden Held By Local Church
Funeral service for Mrs Almina Hayden was conducted at the Leslie C. Shurway funeral home on High Street Sund afternoon with Charles T. Sims pastor of the First Baptist Church officiating. The body was entombed at Or grove for burial in the family lot in Pall field with arrangements for burial later in the spring.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Board of Selectmen
Vincent C. Jones
Carl Watts
Earl Farley
Wilbur Cooper
Plympton Kent Jr
Charles Danforth
Main Street
Main
Enterprise Grange
Union Grange
Merrymeeting Grange
Bowdoinham
Sagadahoc Grange
Bowdoin Center
Progressive Grange
Richmond Corner
George M. Johnson
Harold Averell
Lincoln Street
Harold J. Averell
Japan
Ivan Lukashev
Paraska
New York City
General Langfitt
F. Kukush
Pony League
Algeria
Paris
International
Waldo Brown
Cambridge
Kennebec Point
Theodore Stewart
Brookline
E. J. Stewart
Needham
Frank Sutherland
Somersworth
Walter Beane
Charles McMahon
Edward Balestereri
Diane
Danny
Judson Cross
Exeter
Joseph Lane
Vincent MacMahan
Arrowsic
Alvah C. Reynolds
Memorial Hospital
J. W. McArthur
Gerald
Reynolds
McArthur
William Bisseth
Roland Peterson
Bisseths
Bisseth
Miss Rothy Stuar
Edward C. Clary
Ralph Carlisle
Winchester Mass
Roger Arnold
Wakefield
Anchorage
L. Earle Hagan
Gardiner
Elmer Palmer
Everett
Jack Lee
John K. Lee
Wimpie
Ethel Patterson
Ruth
West Georgetown
James Oliver
Williams School
Harold J. Brown
Brown
Maine General Hospital
Dorothy W. Stuart
Harry L. Horne
Florida
St Petersburg
Allendale
S. C
Roger Peterson
Alice Whitney
Peterson
Woolwich Fellowship
CPO
Vernon E. Gray, Jr
U. S
Newport
R. L
Phillip Pinkham
Congress Sportswear Co
William Campbell
Moore
Chester Pinkham
Hartford
Grace and
Prince
Majorca
Alensa
Prince Rainier II
Monaco
Princess Grace
Formentor
Retriever Trial Club
Co-Weds Club
Yankees
Tor
Pinkham
Phyllis Campbell
Donald Hopkins, Jr
Lisa Susan
Hopkins
John Brown
Yarmouth
Herbert L. Grinnell
Vernon Gray
Jewel A. Otis
MRS
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