Bowdoinham Baptist Association Holds Spring Meeting in Bath
Large attendance marked the Bowdoinham United Baptist Association opening at Corliss Street church with sessions Thursday and a packed final evening. Officials and committees were named for 1939 and various church leaders announced plans for fall meetings and missionary work.
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Bowdoinham Baptist Association
Bath
Corliss Street Church
Bowdoinham United Baptist Association
Corliss Street
Five Islands
C. C. Koch
West Harpswell
Freeport
F. 3. Koehlwetter
North Sedgwick
Georgetown
R. H. Chamberlin
Topsham
Stanley Bennett
A. I. Stuart
C. D. Nutter
Brunswick
F. E. Daggett
Charles R. Sims
Rumford
W. W. Fish
George Gray
Henry E. Weston
Woolwich
Frederick P. Moffatt
H. W. Chamberlin
Former Bath teacher completes life of Colby’s Prof Taylor
Miss Bertha L. Soule of Bath has written a biography of Prof. Julian D. Taylor, longtime Colby Latin professor. The book, printed by Athenaeum Press, Cambridge, Mass., reflects his half century on the Colby faculty. Soule, Colby graduate and former Bath high school Latin teacher, is praised for meticulous detail and faithful portrayal. The college trustees underwrote publication, with distribution planned soon locally.
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Bertha L. Soule
Grove Street
Bath
Brooklyn
N. Y
Julian D. Taylor
Colby College
Miss Soule
Colby
Old Bath
Soule
Taylor
Wild Rose Troop Court of Awards in El Dorado
The El Dorado court of awards for the Wild Rose Troop Girl Scouts will meet Thursday at 7 30 p m in Grace church parish house. Brownie Fly Up ceremony marks Brownies becoming Scouts. First and Second class badges and merit badges awarded. Rev Charles M Tubbs presides. Amici Patrol mock wedding Mooswa Shadow Pictures Busy Beavers movies. Group singing led by Rev Joseph O Purdue. Accordion solo by Catharine Harkins and trio by Alice Dennison Ruth Cogan Geraldine Nickerson. Mooswa Patrol serves refreshments.
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Wild Rose
Grace Church Parish House
Charles M. Tubbs
Amici Patrol
Mooswa Patrol
Shadow Pictures
Busy Beavers
Joseph O. Purdue
Catharine Harkins
Alice Dennison
Ruth Cogan
Geraldine Nickerson
Bowdoinham Weekend Socials and Local Notices
Bowdoinham residents and visitors populate a weekend page of social notes. Notables include Erla Browne, Miriam Browne, Hazel Cornish, Elise Browne, and Mimi Browne with relatives visiting in Rockland, South Poland, Augusta, Rangeley, and Bath. A widening Elm street sidewalk and Coombs high school baseball defeat are noted along with a prize speaking event and a local dance after judging.
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J. E. Brown
Bracket
West Medford
Board of Selectmen
Erla Browne
Rockland
Lora Green
Helen Britt
Boston
Ida Purington
Walter Purington
Gorham
N. H
Miriam Browne
Riccar Inn
South Poland
Erle Browne
Charles Hackett
Augusta
Hazel Cornish
Gardiner
Rangeley
Elm Street
Phyllis Witham
John Witham
Pleasant Pond
Elise Browne
Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary
Portland
Albert Henderson
Bath
Victor
Melrose
Mass
Anson Given
Whittemore
Carrie
Grace
Yarmouth
Dorothy Dickinson
Coombs High School
Bowdoinham
Lisbon Falls
J. N. Palmer
Bangor
Parent Teacher Association
Daniel Craney
Good Will Farm
Hinckley
Hall Craney
Richard Sparks
Waterville
Louisa Sparks
William Siegars
Reading
Prank Siegars
Carmalene Skelton
Lawrence Adams
Linwood Hackett
Pearl Skelton
Ruth Howard
George Couture
Phillip Nealey
Christine Temple
Leroy Temple
Friends mourn ill W S Given and local obits lift spirits
The notice lists W S Given senior and family, with William Given Jr. visiting. Mrs Ella Gray funeral held at her daughter’s Richmond home. Mrs Harry Allen visiting relatives. Mrs Annie Cobb visited Freeport to see ill sister Mrs A J Vroom. Marshall H Small funeral at White Road home. Mr Linkin and family move back to Richmond after work with Millay Brothers. Chase family and daughter move to Charles Douglass farm from Brunswick.
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W. S. Given
William Given, Jr
Ella Gray
William Gray
Richmond
W. H. Gould
Harry Allen
Annie P. Cobb
Freeport
A. J. Vroom
Mary H. Heath
Marshall H. Small
White Road
Linkin
Millay Brothers
Chase
Brunswick
Charles Douglass
WDOINHAM FAMILY FORCED OUT BY FIRE
Bowdoinham family of Henry C Hunt fled their Bay road farm after a Tuesday fire destroyed the house barn ice house milk house poultry house and implements. Loss estimated around 10000. 11 cows two heifers and hundreds of chickens perished. Mrs Hunt and four children escaped with few belongings. The site formerly belonged to Albert Henderson of Bath and featured a two and a half story dwelling and a 100 foot barn.
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Henry C. Hunt
Bowdoinham
Hunt
Albert Henderson
Bath
Sagadahoc
Bay Road
Merrymeeting Bay
Henderson
Hendersons
Mrs Louisa Sparks of Bowdeinham Dies at Long illness
Mrs Louisa Sparks widow of Captain W W Sparks lost at sea in 1888 died at her daughter Mrs Ivan Lang’s home in Bowdeinham after years of ill health and near blindness. Born October 24 1853 in Hallowell she taught in Bowdoinham and worked in a drug store before marrying December 13 1881. Survivors include son W C Sparks daughters Mrs Robert Wade and Mrs Ivan Lang three grandchildren and several nieces.
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Louisa Sparks
Bowdeinham
W. W. Sparks
Ivan Lang
Sparks
Hallowell
Charles C
Margaret Butterfield Cone
Bowdoinham
Fisher Road
Frank L. Webber
John Cone
Brunswick
Topsham
Bowdoinham High School
L. D. Small
Carolyn
E. B. Duran
Portland
Marjorie Ingalls
Cambridge
Mass
Harold Mansfield
Waltham, Mass
Sagadahoc Grange Meeting At Bowdoin Features Variety
Sagadahoc Grange at Bowdoin met Saturday evening with fair attendance, including visitors from Topsham. Program included skit The Wrong Bed, readings Ballard of Bewilderment, Who am I contest, social betterment question, Texas Bound, Talkative Tillie, Gas Stove, Favorite pastime, Going Up, and other acts. Future meetings set for 8 30 p m under D She.
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Sagadahoc Grange
Bowdoin
Topsham Grange
Laurence Adams
Thelma Cornish
Ballard
Sadie Garland
Llewellyn Freeman
Edna Bickford
Dwight Adams
Tillie
Mary Burns
Inez Larrabee
Ernest Coombs
George Couture
Grange
April Day Records Heat Spike in Portland Weather History
The mercury reached 88 degrees at 3 p.m. Thursday, marking the day as the second hottest yet recorded in April for Portland. It surpassed the April 28 record by eight degrees, with the historical peak listed as 89 degrees on April 20, 1927.
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Mercury
Portland Weather Bureau
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Wild Rose Troop Court OF Awards
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Round Pond
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Newcastle
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Columbia Univ. Supt
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Fred B. Reed Co
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Front Street
Bowdoinham Post Road
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Bath Trust
Wdoinham
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Opera House
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Doug. Fairbanks
Joe Penner
June Travis
Gene Autry
Smiley Burnette
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