Genesta circle hosts 23-table bridge and auctions
Genesta sewing circle held a successful card party at the Masonic temple Tuesday night with 23 tables of contract and auction. Prizes awarded to Mrs. Richard Quick and Miss Arlene Footer in contract. Mrs. Scott Morse and Miss Blanche Freeman led ladies and men in auction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Genesta Sewing Circle
Masonic Temple
Richard Quick
Arlene Footer
Scott Morse
Blanche Freeman
Gardiner Deering
Emery Freeman
Freeman Trott
Lydia Howard
Eva Helah
Ada Deering
Eunice Walters
Nellie Congdon
Horace B. Ward
Alice Sanborn
Annette Merrill
Elizabeth Jackson
Eunice Ehlers
Ann Deering
Cosmopolitan Cliphouse
Hight
House Committee
Helen E. Hartwell
Roscoe P. McPadden
Char
R. Parnham
Dance and Card Party Sponsored by Dike P. T. Ay
A Friday evening event at the old Dummer Street Schoolhouse featured a well decorated hall by Henry Schofield and a Junior Jazz Makers orchestra. Prizes were awarded in bridge for high and low scores to Elmer Sidelinger, Mrs. Elmer Avery, Charles Robinson, and Mrs. Chester Marr. Sumner Sewall and son David visited from New York to see Mrs. Sewall in Washington Street, while Muriel Minihane announced her engagement to Dominique Tardiff with a party at Lewiston. Dr. James O. Lincoln has fully recovered from surgery and resumed practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dike P. T. Ay
Dummer Street
Henry Schofield
Peter McVickar
Bobbie Carver
Foster Pratt
Frank Martin
Roscoe L. Carver
Elmer Sidelinger
Elmer Avery
Charles Robinson
Chester Marr
William Fogwill
Schofield
Fogwill
Frank French
Charles MacDonald, Jr
Ralph Dunbar
Mary Minihane
Jefferson Street
Lewison
Muriel
Dominique Tardiff
High Street
Nathaniel Tardiff
Russell Street
Lewiston
Miss Minihane
Theta Pini
Minihane
Lewiston High School
Western Union Telegraph Co
Tardiff
Wiseman Farms
Banquet honors Bliss Business college girls in Westcustogo Inn
Miss Olive Rowe praised the girls basketball team at Bliss Business College annual banquet held at Westcustogo Inn with Principal Haynes as toastmaster and O. D. Bliss as speaker. Over 100 attendees included students teachers and guests. Wallace Pratt opened his Rock Haven cottage for the summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olive Rowe
Ming G. Wilson
Washington Street
Bliss Business College
Westcustogo Inn
Haynes
O. D. Bliss
Wallace T. Pratt
High Street
Rock Haven
New Meadows
Bowdoin Ivy Day plans near. Ellington to play
Mrs Archibald M Main hosted a Friday luncheon at 909 Middle Street with contract games awarding ten napkins to Mrs Rupert H Baxter and guest towels to Mrs William S Newell. Rev Omar W Folsom and daughter Elsie Folsom reopened their Washington Street home after winter in Washington DC. Ivy Day festivities at Bowdoin College are nearly ready with Duke Ellington and his orchestra to perform. Balcony admission will fund expenses, and bouquets and boutonnieres will be omitted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Archibald M. Main
Middle Street
Rupert H. Baxter
William S. Newell
William D. Sewall
Omar W. Folsom
Elsie Folsom
Washington Street
Washington, D. C
Bowdoin College
Duke Ellington
Cotton Club
New York
Hospital Groundbreaking at National Soldiers Home
J Ross Chase Harold Corliss and Christopher Cushing visited Togas on Thursday for the groundbreaking of the new hospital at the National Soldiers Home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Ross Chase
Harold Corliss
Christopher Cushing
Togas
National Soldiers Home
Clergy Visit and Nursing Class Graduation Noted
Rev Alexander W Doucette returned Friday to Danforth where he serves as pastor after a visit in this city starting Tuesday with Rev Timothy C Maney at St Marys Roman Catholic church. Four Bath City Hospital School of Nursing graduates are Miss Josephine Moore Miss Dorothy Milliken Miss Beulah French and Mrs Catherine Chase. exercises set for May 27.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander W. Doucette
Danforth
Timothy C. Maney
St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church
Bath City Hospital School of Nursing
Josephine Moore
Dorothy Milliken
Beulah French
Catherine Chase
Social notes from local residents travel visits
Mrs Frederick H Kimball returned Monday from Augusta where she spent the weekend Mrs Milton S Kimball. Ex Alderman and Mrs Ralph C Cover, Mrs William A Mc Neal, Mrs W S Wiggin and Mrs Charles Locket yr motored to Dover New Hampshire on Sunday to visit Mrs Rodney Arnold nee Miss Jennie Jordan who formerly lived in this city
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick H. Kimball
Augusta
Milton S. Kimball
Ralph C. Cover
W.S. Wiggin
Charles Lockery
Dover
N. H
Rodney Arnold
Jennie Jordan
Alfred Haly works featured in Boston program at New England Conservatory
Two compositions by Alfred Haly, long harpist of the Boston Symphony and new Vienna resident, were performed by his pupil Artiss de Volt and baritone John Warren Sheldon in George W. Brown Hall. Sheldon, son of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Sheldon, studied at the Conservatory and presented songs by Jensen, Purcell, Chadwick, d Hardelot, Puistello, Pergolesi, Tosti and Verdi.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred Haly
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Vienna
Artiss de Volt
John Warren Sheldon
George W. Brown
New England
Conservatory of Music
Sheldon
William H. Sheldon
High Street
Conservatory
Jensen
Purcell
Chadwick
d'Hardelot
Puisiello
Pergolesi
Tosti
Verdi
Allan Ramsay
Morse High School
Miss deVolt
Mr. Holy
Christine Russum
Ralph Chioini
Boisdeffre
Titi
Boccherini
Miss Russum
Birthday party gathers Torrey family for Connie Morrill birthday
An impromptu Saturday party at 1207 Washington street extends to include Martha and Joe Torrey, Connie Morrill, Richard Torrey, and Jane Grant. Lawn games, refreshments, and a pink rose bud cake mark the six year old celebrant’s day. John Black, a University of Maine freshman, visited his mother Beatrice Black on Grove street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert E. Torrey
Washington Street
Martha
Joe Torrey
J. Haviland Torrey
Jerry
Connie
Peggy Morrill
Bernard Morrill
Richard Torrey
Jane Grant
J. Russell Grant
John Black
The
University of Maine
Beatrice Black
Grove Street
Bath News Briefs Include Opera Guest Visits and Red Cross Note
Mrs A J Hufstader of Winthrop attended the Martha opera presentation in Bath with her husband and visited Mr Ramsay's parents at 221 Oak Street. Miss Elizabeth D McGrath of Bates College spent the weekend in Bath with her parents. Corliss Street Baptist church group held an all day meeting at 82 Middle Street with 14 members and a guest, serving a baked bean dinner and making baby slips and blankets. Bath Red Cross reports executive secretary Mrs Arthur S Crockett rode downtown Friday for the first time since surgery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. J. Hufstader
Winthrop
Hufstader
Bath
Martha
Les Camarades Musicaux
Allan H. Ramsay
Ramsay
Robert T. Ramsay
Oak Street
Elizabeth D. McGrath
Bates College
Mrs
Eugene McGrath
Washington Street
Far
Missionary Society of the
Corliss Street Baptist Church
Ida Purington
Middle Street
Arthur S. Crockett
Red Cross
Captains plan weekend at Sugar Island camp
Capt. Samuel R. Percy travels with Daniel T. Dougherty George A. Churchill and Chester H. McCabe to spend the weekend at Percy’s Sugar Island camp on Lake Moosehead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel R. Percy
Daniel T. Dougherty
George A. Churchill
Chester H. McCabe
Capt. Percy
Sugar Island
Lake Moosehead
Mrs Alston Oliver Returns From Sabine Visit
Mrs Alston Oliver of 108 High Street returned home after a several day stay in Sabine as a guest of Mr and Mrs Humphrey Owen at their cottage.
Jaquiths Leave for Groton Home After Vacation Visit
Mr and Mrs Harrison Jaquith and their children June Harry and Richard left last Wednesday by car for their Groton Connecticut home after vacationing as guests of Mrs Donald Avery on Center Street and H Edward Jaquith on Academy Street Ex Alderman and Mrs Harold L Troop and Miss Hazel Allen of Cobb Road visited Sunday at the Troop cottage on Murphys Corner Road Woolwich
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles I. Madden
Mechanic Street
Charles I. Madden Jr
Barbara
Portland
Earl A. Randlette
Herbert
Herbert C. Stevens
Cobb Road
Harrison Jaquith
June
Harry
Richard
Groton
Harold L. Troop
Hazel Allen
Troop
Murphy's Corner Road
Woolwich
Wheeling Steel Rep Frank Perkins To Stay In City
Frank W. Perkins of 151 North Street a Wheeling Steel Corp representative with New Hampshire territory will spend several weeks at his home in this city News notes of a business executive visiting local residence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank W. Perkins
North Street
Wheeling Steel Corp
New Hampshire
Local Couple Die While Visiting Fairfield Residents
Mr and Mrs John G Haskell of Fairfield died Sunday in the city while guests of Mrs Haskell's brother and sister in law Mr and Mrs Fred P Emmons of 131 Lincoln street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John G. Haskell
Fairfield
Veterans of Foreign Wars post instituted in Westbrook
Five men Fred O. Hayward Harold L. Cortiss William H. Mitchell Harry L. Crocker and Burt M. Dyer attended the initiation of a Veterans of Foreign Wars post in Westbrook on Friday evening. A parade preceded the ceremony and a Portland drum corps provided music.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred O. Hayward
Harold L. Cortiss
William H. Mitchell
Harry L. Crocker
Burt M. Dyer
Westbrook
Veterans’ of Foreign Wars
Portland
Winter hospitality noted in Melrose Highlands social round
Mrs Caldwell S Phillips of Melrose Highlands hosted an overnight guest Friday, while Mr and Mrs Just Wold entertained a supper for Mr and Mrs E L Higgins of Southwest Harbor who plan to return home after spending the winter in town. Attendees included Mr and Mrs Arthur A Gilley and Mrs Anna Spicer. Hon Frank W Carlton and Lawrence Putnam left Saturday for Moosehead Lake to enjoy spring fishing at the Carlton camp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Just. Wold
100 Court Street
E. L. Higgins
Southwest Harbor
Fred J. Higgins
Arthur A. Gilley
Anna Spicer
Frank W. Carlton
Lawrence Putnam
Carlton
Moosehead Lake
Fishing trip ends with four pound trout at Jackman Lake
Harold L. Adams and Gerald S. Atkinson return from a weeklong fishing outing at Jackman Lake. They originally planned Moose River but water was high. Among their catches is a four pound trout and two other fish over three pounds. Mr and Mrs Henry Kersting drive home from Bath after visiting Au burndale, Mass. Beatrice Eno sister in law of Mrs Edward Stiness survives Arthur Ranney of Century Fla. Charles M Miller and son Charles E Miller drive to Portland and Boston to visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles E. Snow
Middle Street
Boothbay Harbor
Snow
John A. Miller
Capt. Miller
Evelyn
Grace Giles
Carrie Reed
Georgia Pierce
Benjamin Miller
Thomas Waldo Miller
Medford
Mass
Miller
Harold L. Adams
Gerald S. Atkinson
Jackman Lake
Moose River
Bath
Arthur Ranney
Century
Fla
Ranney
Beatrice Eno
Edward Stiness
State of Maine
Maine
Bowdoin College
Morse High School
Edward DeLong
Harold W. DeLong
Washington Street
Nathan W. Watson
Harry H. Watson
Front Street
Morse
Webb Family Guests Visit Loyall Sewall in Washington Street
Mr and Mrs Stuart W Webb and daughters Miss Marcia Miss Barbara and Miss Eleanor Webb and George Huhn of New York City arrived Friday night to spend the weekend as guests of Loyall Sewall of Washington street Miss Margaret J Adams of South Street arrived in New York Saturday She has been in Europe for several months studying.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stuart W. Webb
Marcia Webb
Barbara Webb
Eleanor Webb
George Huhn
New York City
Loyall F. Sewall
Washington Street
Margaret J. Adams
South Street
New York
Europe
McFadden Family Visits Boston Before Provincetown Season
Mr and Mrs Roscoe P McFadden visited in Boston over Sunday to see their son George A McFadden who soon leaves to join the Provincetown Wharf Players for his third season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roscoe P. McFadden
Boston
George A. McFadden
Provincetown Wharf
Weekend Back Home After Washington D C Dedicates Memorial
Rev David L Wilson returned Saturday after a week in Washington D C where he attended the dedication of the George Washington Masonic Memorial in Alexandria The trip included visits to New York City and Augusta with relatives and friends Miss Priscilla Blake Miss Arlene Preney and Mrs Stella Greenleaf were among those called upon in Augusta Miss Sarah Adams returned home from Europe after months in Munich Switzerland and Italy Her travels included a September departure from Bath and a late arrival in New York Ralph Dugan a Bath native and former Liberty theatre operator spent a few days in this city Mrs Arthur C Norton returned to her High street home after a four to five week hospital stay William H T Gave Jr fresh from Boston University weekend visit with parents in Washington street now works for MecCalls Magazine Company as a salesman
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David L. Wilson
Washington, D. C
George Washington Masonic Memorial
Alexandria
New York City
Relaves
Howard E. Blake
Priscilla Blake
Arlene Preney
Augusta
Stella Greenleaf
Sarah Adams
High Street
Europe
Arthur C. Norton
City Hospital
William H. T. Gave Jr
Boston University
Dennis J. Brennan
Washington Street
Gove
MecCall’s Magazine Company
Mrs Bibber Visits Bill the Pointer After Florida Trip
Mrs Harold T Bibber who wintered in Lake City Florida with daughter Mrs Jack Futch visits Bill the pointer owned by Mary Kimball daughter of Mr Eeree. She attends the first Kennebec Valley dog show where she wins first prize for pedigreed pointers as hundreds watch exhibitions and special booths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold T. Bibber
Lake City
Fla
Jack Futch
Bill
Mary Kimball
Eeree
Kennebec Valley
Morse High School Honor List Issued by Principal
The Morse High School honor list for the school year’s penultimate term was issued by Principal Scott. Among 15 seniors in a 76 class, 15 earned honors. juniors 15 of 106. sophomores 3 on highest honors and 13 on honors. freshmen 2 on highest honors and 12 on honors. Rank thresholds: 87–92 for honors and 93 for highest honors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morse High School
Scott
Morse
Ssaphene Dolloff
Stanley Wallace
William Bryant
Louise Calierwood
Emma Colby
Evelyn Coombs
Mary Dunton
Clinton Fleming
Ada Greenblatt
William Levine
Edith Mackinnon
Marjorie Palmer
Cynthia Rogers
Jeannett Shackford
Elizabeth Colby
Ida Colby
Eleanor Cotteau
Jane Donnell
Faye Jerome
Helen Minott
Blanche Moody
Alice Mulligan
Crystal Shorey
Oscar Wright
Eleanor Wright
Ruth Cohen
Elizabeth Trott
Beatrice Adams
Charlotte Colby
Margery Haskell
Jennie Kakos
Frank Martin
Frances Montgomery
Evelyn Nickerson
Mary Nickerson
Elizabeth Rice
Nellie Robinson
Betty Rose
Catherine Shellenbarge
One Session Plan Appears Popular at Morse High
More than 300 of 500 Morse High parents' ballots returned showing 300 for one session and 48 for two sessions. The vote, led by Hi Y club reps Omar King and Ralph MacDonald and Student Council leaders Hope Rice and Paul Hayes, awaits Board of Education action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morse High School
Tneday
Board of Education
Omar King
Ralph MacDonald
Hi-Y Club
Hope Rice
Paul Hayes
Teachers Await Board Action On Readjusted School Plan
School officials face a $20,000 funding cut with rumors of department eliminations and up to 28 teacher losses. The Board of Education meets Thursday as Supt. Wilson presents a readjusted plan, with May engagement decisions moved up due to unsettled conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Education
Wilson
Supt. Wilson
Motorists visit to watch alewives in Damariscotta Mills
Hundreds of motorists from near and far traveled Sunday to Damariscotta Mills to witness alewives ascending from sea to fresh water to spawn. The river pools showed huge schools of leaping fish making their way through the split waters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Damariscotta Mills
Damariscotta Pond
Jamestown anniversary, postal rules, and Bath notices
Framed as a mosaic of local items, the article notes Jamestown Virginia’s 1607 anniversary and explains postal rules on undercharged letters and dead-letter handling. It lists Morse High School National Honor Society officers, Maine scholarships for Bowdoin College entrants, Exeter Relief actions, Bath civic updates, police calls, reunions, fires, dances, and local petty crime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morse High School
National Honor Society
Eugene G. Ingalls
Wilhelmina M. Gackenbach
Sophie G. Greenblatt
Elsie M. Crocker
Albert L. Ingalls
James W. Temple
Man Threatens to Shoot Henderson in Rockland Court
A Rockland man faces charges after a grand jury indictment presented by Judge Gilford Butler in Rockland municipal court Monday morning. County Attorney Ralph O. Dale says the defendant also threatened to shoot Sheriff Henderson, though he was unable to meet bond requirements in Rockland as expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gilford Butler
Rockland
Henderson
Ralph O. Dale
Bathman Re-elected President of League at Skowhegan Muster
Bathman was re elected president of the league at the annual muster held in Skowhegan on August 20. Frank Worrey served as first vice president and Noah Gauthier as secretary. The group voted to hold the next meeting on October 3 at Westbrook.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nual Muster
Skowhegan
Frank Worrey
Noah Gauthier
Westbrook
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John W. Gilmore
Richard Clifton Kingsbury
Robert E. Kingsbury
Walker Street
Grace Edith Johnson
Stanley N. Johnson
Louise Marie Williams
Fred Williams
Shirley May Hamlin
Herbert H. Hamlin
Winter Street Court
George Avery
Academy Street
Syracuse
N. Y
W. P. McCarty
von Manley Weston
Newport
R. I
Beatrice Elizabeth Libby
Y.W.C.A
Cambridge
Weston
Leon
Swift & Co
Trinity Commandery
Lewiston High
Lewiston-Auburn
Frederick E. Drake
Mary
FP. Gibbons
Charles H. Cahill
Charles M. Tubbs
Goodrich RS Fenner
Rurak
National department-of-Christian Social Service
Fenner
Woman's Auxiliary
Wayne Stiles
John H. Hyde
Elmhurst
Eleanor MacDonald
Evelyn Coughran
Mrs. Gardiner Ayers
Betty Susan Jordan
Meadowrook
Owen J. Ledyard
Henry O. Trowbridge
Agnes Trowbridge
Roland F. Hill
John A. Morse
Worcester
Graham Blandy
Murray Club
First Universalist Church
Yarmouth
Westcustoge Inn
City
Charles Merrill
Ina True
Miriam W. Kimball
Charlotte Thomas
Sumner Sewall
David
Mr. Sewall
John Levyn
Hebron Academy
George Levyn
Turner Court
James O. Lincoln
Armando J. Conti, Jr
Pi Beta Phi Sorority
Bangor House
R. Hazel Feere
Linwoold C. Freere
Phippsburg Road
Conti
U. of M
Ruth Bessey
Edward B. Smith
Pauline Moulton
Mary F. Gibbons
Jeanette Smith
Newfield
Walter S. Glidden
Hayden Conant
Malden, Mass
Mrs. Glidden
Edith Weeks
William R. Brown
Berlin
Arabia
Bartlett
Brunswick
Brown
Moulton Union
William Bassett
John
Wellesley Hills
Caldwell S. Phillips
Melrose Highlands, Mass
Marcia Moulton
Henry Kersting
Auburndale
Beacon Street Methodist Church
William D. Yule
Upper
Charles M. Miller and Son
Charles E
Lewis Miller
Charles E. Miller
Ralph Dugan
Rumford
Mr. Dugan
Old Liberty Theatre
Morse High
Jamestown
Virginia
Exeter
James Plaisted Webber
Philips Exeter Academy
Industrial Accident Commission
City Hall
West Bath
Legard
New Meadows Inn Road
Simpson's Corner
North Pole
Norge
Amundsen
Ellsworth
Ee Neeee Savage
State Reformatory For
Keegan
Sade Coats of
ML E. S
American Legion Hall
Garnet
Alice May Douglas
W.C.T U
Steeves Market
Sadie M. Armstrong
Levine
Board of Aldermen
O'Sullivan
Sagadahoc
Bathman
League
Mes. Barker
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