Double surprise showers mark weddings in Wiscasset
In Wiscasset at the home of Mr and Mrs Raymond Sherman a double shower celebrated the marriages of Miss Ruthena Thompson to Edward Clark of Bath and Miss Lillian Rines to Richard Gowen of Arrowsic. Guests included Elsie Pearson Verna Southard Barbara Dow and others. refreshments followed. Engagement announced between Thelma Wright and Lawrence Berry in Bath. May basket drive for Lincoln Home at the public library ends May 31. Wesley Day confined to hospital with infected ankle. A pet parrot aged 49 accompanies Miss Alice Adams in Danville Junction. Sheep drovers once visited Adams home procured the parrot in St John New Brunswick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond Sherman
Ruthena Thompson
Lillian Rines
Miss Thompson
Edward Clark
Bath
Miss Rines
Richard Gowen
Arrowsie
Elsie B Pearson
Verna M. Southard
Barbara Dow
Elaine Dow Emily Smith
Ruth J. Applin
Carroll Dodge
Walter Miete
Olavi Miete
Joseph E. Hubbard
Boston
Lucia Emes
Federal Street
Nellie B. Clifford
North Edgecomb
John F. Jackson
Churchill Street
Harlan Trott
Elliot
Thelma Louise Wright
Stephen Wright
Lawrence Berry
Frank Berry
Machias
Lincoln Home
Wesley C. Day
Depositors Trust Co
St. Andrews Hospital
Boothbay Harbor
Alice A. Adams
Danville Junction
William D. Adams
Miss Adams
Howard
Adams
Danville
St. John
N. B
Testimonial Dinner Recipient Takes Bath Iron Works Post
Miss Ruth Louise Clark of 4 Marshall Avenue who left Times Co. after seven years to join Personal Finance Co. has assumed duties in the main office of Bath Iron Works Corp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Louise Clark
Marshall Avenue
Times Co
The
Times
Personal Finance Co
Bath Iron Works, Corp
Bath Teachers Club Banquet Honors Superintendent Ladd
The Bath Teachers club hosted a Tuesday banquet at Hotel Sedgwick for Superintendent of Schools and Mrs. Harland A Ladd with about 80 guests. A reception, dinner, music by Miss Lina Mari Purdue, and a flower gift for Mrs. Ladd followed by a Navy Relief Fund donation and committee appointments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harland A Ladd
Sedgwick
Bath Teachers Club
Ladd
Nathan W. Watson
Enid Sawyer
Lina Mari Purdue
Old Ladies Home
Katharine Leonard
May Conley
Hesta Rose
Agnes Fahey
Navy Relief Fund
Fred J. Higgins
George Bishop
Central Grammar School
Little Red
Fife
England
Epps Family to Visit Charleston Residents
Dr and Mrs Franklin Epps and their children Judith Franklin Jr and William of Charleston W V will arrive soon to visit Mrs Epps parents Mr and Mrs William A Furber of Washington Street Mrs Epps will be remembered as Miss Dorothy Furber They will be accompanied by Dr Epps mother returning to her home in Winchester Mass after a visit with her son through the Winter and Spring
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin Epps
Judith
Franklin Jr
William
Charleston
W. V
Bridgton
John Brown
Hochomock Road
Florida
Louise Orr
Butler
N. J
Bleike Reed
Earl Gainsley
Kittery
Gainsley
Edward Pratt
Richmond
Carle Longfellow
Clifford Richey
Chicopee Falls
Mass
Marcia Stinson
Portland
Day's Ferry
William Moore
Avis Carter
Louis Hunt, Jr
Ralph Durgin
Marjorie Skillings
Carleton Day Reed, Jr
Jimmie Carter
Marjorie Mayberry
Marguerite Dearborn
Isaac Howard
Chicopee
Braintree
Samuel P. Buck
Massachusetts
Cyrus Gilmore
Woolwich
Hunt Family Visit Guests From Augusta
Mr. and Mrs. William Hunt and son William Jr. with Miss Evelyn Hunt of Augusta were weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. Isaiah Hunt in East Brunswick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Hunt
William Jr
Mr. Hunt
Evelyn Hunt
Augusta
Isaiah Hunt
East Brunswick
Highway Tragedy In Bath Leaves Woman Dead
Miss Mary Bragdon of Lisbon Falls, 45, was killed when struck by a Bath car driven by Christos Sirmopoulos, aka Danny Needham. He said he failed to see her. witnesses placed him at slow speed. Identified at Mayo funeral home. initial reports misidentified her as Ida Currier. Police and DA resolved blame. the incident occurred on the Bath Brunswick highway near Merrymeeting Park. Also news: a D.A.R. card party at Cosmopolitan club house raised funds for the hospital with 20 tables of auction and contract.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Bragdon
Lisbon Falls
Christos Sirmopoulos
Front Street
Bath
Merrymeeting Park
Bath-Brunswick
Memorial Hospital
Sirmopoulos
Sagadahoc
Alberts. Owen
Danny Needham
John P. Crosby
Crosby
Needhais
Mayo Funeral Home
Miss Bragdon
Thomas’ Point
Ida Currier
Bath-Brunswick Road
Chapel of Our Savior
Cumberland County
Richard Chapman
Needham
West Bath Notes and Local Social Highlights
West Bath residents relocate to Oak and High streets while Mr and Mrs James McPhail left Larrabee Grove for a Bath apartment. Se gatherings include sewing clubs, visits from kin, and weekend guests from Brunswick Bangor and Portland. A Wardens test raid in West Bath's Rosedale district succeeded, with Fred Rose as head sector warden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James McPhail
Larrabee Grove
Oak and
High Streets
Bath
David Henderson
North Bath
Francis Burgess
James B. Lemont
New Brunswick
Bath Iron Works
Eula Coombs
Congress Shirt Factory
Carol Coombs
Woolworth’s
Walter Kingsbury
Berry Mills Road
A. C. Halle
Portland
Jerry L. Halle
East Brunswick
Charles Hutchins
Bangor
Hutchins
West Bath
Lowell School
Alice Smith
Forrest Barter
Melford Perham
James B. Cooke
Chipman
N. B
Rosedale
Four Corners
Fred Rose
Ernest Rose
John Williams
Boston
Camp Devens
John Zerella
Rose
Milton A. Crockett
A. B. Snow
Trufant's Crossing
Harpswell
Ada Benson
Georgie Getchell
Leon E. Selker
Trufant’s Crossing
Albert Sullivan
Woolwich Mothers club plans rosebud gifts and bean supper
At a Woolwich Mothers club meeting at Mrs Carl ton Day Reed's home last week the group voted to give a rosebud to each grammar school graduate. They scheduled a baked bean supper for May 23 at Day's Ferry schoolhouse. Many local events followed including gatherings at Nequasset church and Day's Ferry schoolhouse with prizes, speeches, and plans for graduation celebrations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mothers Club
Carlton Day Reed
S Ferry
Nellie Maybury
Harold Maybury
Gilbert Hathorne
Ralph Durgin
Mason Carter
Clayton Armstrong
Stanwood Gilman
Nequasset Congregational Church
Jessie Spaulding
Avis Carter
Billy Moore
Lewis Hunt, Jr
Cyril FE. Bousfield
Ada McConnell
Chopps School
Christine Hathorne
Lydia Hathorne
Maxwell Welch
Bowdoin
Genesta Chapter Officers Attend Crescent Odd Fellows Night
Mr and Mrs Philip A Roberts and other Genesta chapter members attended Crescent Oh co ac 4(1) Passe day night in East Boothbay with Mrs Roberts playing Adah and Mr Roberts sentinel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philip A. Roberts
Genesta
Crescent Oh
Roberts
Adah
Sentinel
East Boothbay
David E. Rich
Luther S. Thompson
Harold E. Hodgkins
Fred Osgood
Justus H. Miller
Herbert Morse
John Bowie
Three Generation Navy Family to Attend Benefit Program
A three generation Navy family will appear at City Park on Friday for a program supporting the Navy Relief Society campaign. Hawley Brannon of Rockland and his wife will travel to Bath with Mrs Louis Shane Jr of Winthrop, to join Mrs Shane and Lt Conradr Shane, commander of the submarine Shark, which recent reports say is missing. Their son Thomas Leo Brannon, a seaman first class, enlisted in 1938 after graduating Somerville High School. The Brannon family has deep Navy roots from Arlington to Rockland, with the grandfather Timothy Mahoney retired after 40 years, and a younger brother Francis Brannon enlisting in the V-7 class. Mrs Jennie Hopkins Walker begins work as a stenographer at the Kennebec Greenhouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy
City Park
Navy Relief Society
Hawley Brannan
Rockland
Bath
Louis Shane, Jr
Winthrop
Conradr. Shane
Thomas Leo Brannon
Somerville
Mass
Arlington
Brannon
United States
Seaman Brannon
Timothy P. Mahoney
Francis T. Brannon
Tufts Engineering School
Hawley Brannon
Theavy Relief Society
Dresden Notes on Local Arrivals and Movements
Arthur Babcock left town Tuesday to report for military service and will be sent to Fort Devens Massachusetts Ronald Brackley traveled to Woolwich for the summer Registry staff for Dresden Mills gas rationing last week included Miss Milton Baker Mrs Mary McDonald Miss Carolyn Sheldon Mrs Reuben Durgan and Miss Margaret Pushard Oscar Bailey and Frank Lemarr found work in Bath Miss Virginia Robbins visited Call's Hill schoolmate Katherine Beckwith Shad fishing boats are operating on the Eastern river nights
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Babcock
Fort Devens
Mass
Ronald Brackley
Woolwich
Dresden Mills School
Milton Baker
Mary McDonald
Carolyn Sheldon
Reuben Durgan
Margaret Pushard
Oscar Bailey
Bath
Frank Lemarr
Virginia Robbins
Katherine Beckwith
Call's Hill
Also Mentioned on This Page
Wiscasset
Teachers’ Club
Mrs. Ladd
Lisbon
Col. Dummer Sewall
Cosmopolitan Club House
Washington Street
Hospital and Activities Committee
Arthur L. Pratt
Charles A. Soule
R. J. M. Steussy
New
Center ST
LES Camarades
Les Camarades Musicaux
Grace Church
Sprague
Frederick D. Hill
Grieg
Robert B. Hatch
d’Hoffman
Nathan Watson
Patdel
Carl E. Albee
Margaret J. Melcher
Lucrezia Borgia
Donizetti
Fred H. Cary
Allan H. Ramsay
James M. Royal
Swan
Joy
Cadman
Forest Voices
Schultz
Esther Murphy
EL Africaine
Meyerbeer
Taj Mihal
Wachtmeister
Mozart
Dear Lind
Sibelius
Snow
Cowen
Carleton J. Rice
Louie
Bach
Jota
DeFulla
Merton E. Sprague
Carl EK. Albee
Huntington Woodman
Kingsford
Hoffman
Ottenbach
Carl FE. Albee
Matthews
Mrs
Phil Staley
Maralyn
Albert Temple
Mer- Tene
Merle Jameson
Charlotte Cahills
Keith Webber
Mable Lancaster
Paul Kuta
Bowdeinham
Edwin Copeland
St. Petersburg
Fla
Judson Soule
Montsweag
Elmer Mank
Mont
Sweag
Warren Mank
New England Tel. & Tel. Co
South Portland
Lewiston
Navy Relief
Jennie Hopkins Walker
Kennebec Greenhouse
Dresden
Uncle Sam
U.S. War
U.s.war
Sears, Roebuck and CO
Center Street
Bath, Maine
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