Myrtle Lodge Celebrates 40th Anniversary Banquet
Myrtle lodge U O of I G L marked its 40th anniversary with a lobster banquet at K of P hall. Guests included Mrs Addie Murray Waterville and Mrs Blanche Simpson Waterville, with attendees from Fort Halifax Merrymeeting and Brunswick lodges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Myrtle Lodge
U. O
P. Hall
Addie Murray
Blanche Simpson
Waterville
Fort Halifax Lodge
Marjorie Meeder
Lydia Bendix
Ethel Ryan
Merrymeeting Lodge
Brunswick
Elsie M. Alexdinder
Alice M. Dunning
Alice L. Soule
Iva Bean
Bertha Cullinan
Dorothy Viahos
Viola Tyler
Thelma I.neilson
Etta M.walker
Emma.a. Haley
Vesta R. Hackett
Grace E. Sylvester
Lillian Goodrich
Annie Carlton
Isabel Sparks
Mary Curtis
Lizzie French
Mabel Shepard
Maud Clark
Lizzie Chaney
Arthur Lemons
Florence Mank
Margaret Nelson
Jennie Oliver
Fraitwood
Zeulka Kingsbury
Grace Sylvester. Brunwick
Alexander
Stewart
Bendix
Corliss Street
Maine
Fe Halifax Lodge
Telephone history at Boothbay Harbor marks era shift
Boothbay Harbor celebrated a magneto to common battery switch on Wednesday. New England Telephone opened a modern building at 45 Townsend avenue with upgraded equipment. Carrie Reed remains chief operator and the first call was made by C Fred Greenleaf to Ralph Boyd. Rupert Irvine and W Howard Larrabee from Bath attended along with local officials. Master Harry Barrett Jr. is home sick with measles.
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Boothbay Harbor
New England Tel. & Tel. Co
Townsend Avenue
Wharf Street
Carrie Reed
C. Fred Greenleaf
Board of
Selectmen
Ralph Boyd
Second Selectman
Rupert M. Irvine
Bath
W.howard Larrabee
Police Ball Aids Morse Seniors and Police Gear
The third annual Policeman's Ball at the State Armory drew over 53 attendees despite bad weather. Organizers expect about 590 net, funding Summer uniforms for the police and a Morse High trip to the World’s Fair for two seniors. Attendees included Mayor Haskell and other officials. a ham auction supported the Morse trip.
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New State Armory
C. Leroy Hutchins
Committee In
Morse High School
New York City
Robert H Haskell
Donald N Small
Gardiner R. Deering
Dominique J. Tardif
Tardif
Rotary Club
Haskell
Joseph A. Butler
Percy W. Kingsbury
Ernie George
Tuys Arcadians
Board of Aldermen
Common Council
Police Department
Morse
Wilfred B Charnes
Hutchins
Joseph D Pennell
Joseph A. McLaughlin
Donald Crosby
Mrs Sewall Hosts Cosmopolitan Club Tea at Whitehall
Mrs Sumner Sewall entertained with a four to six tea at Whitehall for Cosmopolitan Club members. Several guests included wives of candidates for the Legislature this year. The serving lineup featured Mrs Herbert R. Lemont president, with Mrs N Gratz Jackson and others pouring and assisted by Miss Elizabeth Deering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sumner Sewall
Whitehall
Cosmopolitan Club
Herbert R. Lemont
N. Gratz Jackson
Fred W Quimby
Joseph W. Larrabee
West Bath
Neil Bishop
Bowdoinham
Elizabeth Deering
William T Donnell
Justus H. Miller
Marcia Moulton
Horace G. Morse
Frances Wallace Delivers Ivy Day Toast at Bates College
Miss Frances Wallace of 103 South Street Lewiston delivered the ivy day toast at Bates College Ivy Day exercises in Lewiston on Tuesday afternoon. A Morse High School graduate of 1937 she held student offices and honors including valedictorian and National Honor Society member.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frances Wallace
South Street
Bates College
Lewiston
Morse High School
Wallace
The
Mentor
National Honor Society
Bates
Miss Wallace
Women's Athletic Association
Publishing Association
Student
People's Church Scenes A Pleasant Pie Supper
Members of People's Church and Parish gathered for a chicken pie supper hosted by Rev. George B. Wolstenholme. Toastmaster Earle P. Morse introduced the pastor and parish members as remarks followed and a Girls Club entertainment with chorus singing and humorous readings. The pastor offered closing remarks and a poem while praising Wolstenholme's 16 years of service and generosity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
People’s
George B. Wolstenholme
Earle P. Morse
Mr. Wolstenholms
Morse High grads to visit New York World's Fair
Ninety eight Morse High School graduates will visit the New York World's Fair this weekend. Robert P. Shaw, a Morse alum and director at the New York Museum of Science and Industry, arranged museum and Radio City tours for the contingent. Additional donations from Hyde Windlass Co and North Center P T A fund one remaining trip per student. chaperones named include David Y. Alkazin and John E. Madden. Sacred Heart Circle donated to sponsor another senior.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morse High School
Robert P. Shaw
New York
Edwin R. Andrews
Hyde Windlass Co
North Center
David Y. Alkazin
John E. Madden
Duncan H. Farrell
Bath
Engagement announced at a supper party in East Brunswick
Mr and Mrs Harold E Freeman hosted a supper party at Sunnyside Farm East Brunswick to announce the engagement of their daughter Barbara Bazin to Robert C Thompson Miss Bazin who graduated Brunswick high school in 1938 and Fuller’s Business school is now a bookkeeper at Steeves Market Thompson son of Dr and Mrs J B Thompson Bangor and Mere Point and a 1936 Bangor high school graduate and 1939 BU College of Business Administration alumnus He has worked as a Transcontinental and Western Air Lines junior clerk since 1939 and is based at LaGuardia Airport New York City An early fall wedding is planned with guests including Isabel King Sally Ann Furbish Dorothy Anliker and others in attendance
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold E. Freeman
Sunnyside Farm
East Brunswick
Barbara Bazin
Robert C. Thompson
Miss Freeman
Brunswick High School
Fuller’s Business School
Steeves’ Market
Thompson
J. B. Thompson
Bangor
Mere Point
Bangor High School
Boston University College of Business Administration
Transcontinental and Western Air Lines, Inc
LaGuardia Airport
New York City
Isabel King
Sally Ann Furbish
Topsham
Dorothy Anliker
Ruth Pratt
Barbara Kenney
Barbara M. Freeman
Betty Watson
Jane Stevens
Bath
Peggy
Bath Police Officer Marries Local Beauty Shop Proprietor
Donald H. Crosby, Bath police officer and Morse High School 1929 alumnus, wed Carmen B. La Fontaine, owner of the Madlyn Marie Beauty Shop, at the Episcopal church in Gardiner. The couple, who will reside at 23 Center Street after June 1, were joined by Rev. Tom G. Akeley in a double ring ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl E. Albee
James Chambers
Dunlap Commadery
K. T
Asylum of St. Omer
Waterville
St. John’s Day
Bath
Boothbay
Grove
Beautiful Oak Point
Old Eastern Steamship Co
Southport
Bath Marine Band
Masonic Temple
Genesta Chapter
O. E.S
Morse High School
Maine
Gardiner
Dunlap
Trinity
Augusta
Claremont
Rockland
DeMolay
Skowhegan
St. Omer
Palestine
Belfast
Pilgrim
Farmington
Strathglass
Rumford
Camden
Donald H. Crosby
Carmen B. LaFontaine
Madlyn Marie
Center Street
Tom G. Akeley
Episcopal Church
Guy H. Crosby
East Brunswick
Crosby
New York
World Broadcasting Co
National Broadcasting Co
Alex LaFontaine
Bangor
Bath man buys High street house with stables and land
The three story wooden dwelling at 619 High Street with stables and land was sold Friday by Mrs. Henrietta P. Drake of Bath, William F. Plummer of Ardmore Pa, and George C. Plummer of Upper Montclair NJ to Clarence N. Flood of Bath. Flood bought for investment and may move antiques from the Morse homestead to the High street property or convert it into an apartment. The home later known as a shipbuilder William Rogers' residence. Mrs. William D. Sewall of Washing ton Street returned home after a week with her daughter in New Canaan Conn and in New York City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Street
Henrietta P. Drake
Bath
William F. Plummer
Ardmore
George C. Plummer
Upper Montclair
N. J
Clarence N. Flood
Flood
Morse
South Street
William Rogers
William D. Sewall
Washington Street
Johnn K
Jayne
New Canaan
Classifieds Notice Prompting Local Listings
For sale and rent notes appear with rates and contact hints. The fragment mentions cottages on Casco Bay and a Bath area contact list including Inez Smith and Stanley Wallace with Bath address hints.
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Casco Bay
Bathaire
Inez Smith
West Point
Bowdoinham native appointed instructor at Northeastern University
Ellis Purington of Beverly Massachusetts has been named in structor in coordination and placement officer in the department of cooperative work at Northeastern University Boston. He is noted for placing 400 to 600 men annually in accounting banking and business management roles. The item also lists community notices from Merrymeeting Grange Emerson Lane Post and various local residents with mentions of births visits and memorial events.
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Ellis Purington
Clarence
Lizzie Elwell Purington
Beverly
Mass
Northeasten University
Boston
Purington
Bowdoinham
University Evening School of Business
Eva Boynton
Ellis, Jr
Merry Meeting Grange
Ada McConnell
Richmond
Department of Agriculture
Emerson Lane Post
A. L
Dresden
Bowdoin
Ernest W. Frye
Kenneth Almy
John McCart
Carol Jean
Gardiner General Hospital
P. C. Nealey
Red Cross
Europe
Nellie Ward
Austin Ward
Alphonse Bickford
Marshall Powers
Topsham
Ernest
Harold
Charles Meserve
Bert Temple
Bowdeinham
Girl Scouts Plant Tree in City Park
The Bath Girl Scouts, Leaders' Association and Council planted a Colorado blue spruce in the park to honor community service. The event ties to Mrs. Wilmer I. Voorhees, a longtime commissioner, with ties to Tallman family history in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leaders’ Association
Wilmer I. Voorhees
Tallman
United States
Constitution
Bowdoin College
Bath Academy
Frank Tallman
Ree
Girl Scouts
Greene Shackford wedding set for Thursday morning
The wedding of John A. Greene Jr and Jeannette F Shackford will be held Thursday at ten in Winter Street church with Rev Joseph O Purdue officiating. Attendants include Geraldine A Stott as bridesmaid and William L Greene as best man. The couple will honeymoon in Boston then reside at Birch Point for the summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John A. Greene, Jr
Jeannette F. Shackford
Joseph O. Purdue
Winter Street
Geraldine A. Stott
Bath
Boston
Miss Stott
Roy F. Shackford
Turner Court
Young Men Enlist in Navy from Richmond
Two Richmond youths enlist in the Navy Waldo Leroy Furlong 18 and Rodney Augustus Dunn 18 are the sons of Alfred D. Furlong and John A. Dunn. They enlisted in Boston on May 27 for six years as Apprentice Seamen and were sent to the Naval Training Station Newport Rhode Island for initial outfitting and eight weeks training before assignment to a fleet vessel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Navy
Waldo Leroy Furlong
Alfred D. Furlong
Rodney Augustus Dunn
John A. Dunn
Boston
Dunn
Furlong
Naval Training Station
Newport
R. I
Airman Sergt Joseph Allen to visit Bath parents
Sergt. Joseph W. Allen of the 7th Transport Squadron USN based at Sacramento Air Depot is due in Bath soon to see his parents Mr. and Mrs. Earl H. Allen on North street extension. He recently attained sergeant rank after four years in the Philippines and was transferred to the California Air Depot in March. He plans to fly home via army planes as far as Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph W. Allen
7Th Transport Squadron
Us.n
Sacramento Air Depot
Sacramento
Cal
Bath
Earl H. Allen
North Street
Allen
California Air Depot
Philippines
Sergt
Boston
Also Mentioned on This Page
Senter’ S, Inc
Expelio No
Expelio Filler
Electrolux
Methex
K. OF P. Hall
Harry Barrett, Jr
Front Street
George Coe
Lovell
Mrs. Sewall
Miss Frances Wallace
People's Church
Wolstenholme
Museum of Science
Barbara Bazin Freeman
Bath Police Force
Carmen LaFountaine
Bath Dwelling
Reed
Stanley Wallace
Fromt Street
Frank P. Webber
Guy
Weymouth
Alton Lancaster
Worcester
George Hackett
Hampton, N. H
Lawrence Hackett
Minnie Pert
Leon Dunklee
Cecil Poor
Charles Hackett
Hiram
Wallace Hunter
Portland
J. Bowdoin Lilly
Malden
Bay Road
Esther Brown
Springfield
Earl Brown
Arthur Carr
Robert
Donald
Carr
George Brown
Charles Baker
Poland
Edward Baker
George Lewis
Andover
Chester Hobart
Frederic Pauling
Pauling
William Bissonette
N. H
Roland Bissonette
South Portland
Mary Temple
Harry Passmore
Leslie Craney
Corinda Blair
Colorado
Blue Spruce
White Cross
Armstrong
Samson
King-Kold
R.C.A. Victor Radio
Axminster
A. D. Stetson & Son
Elizabeth
Fred S. Brown
Day's Ferry
Harland McCobb
Francis McCobb
Day's Ferry Congregational Church
Charles Brown
Woolwich Union For Christian Service
Miss Brown
Winnifred
McCobb
Cartlon McCobb
Gilbert Ames
Fred Brown, Jr
Mr. McCobb
Bridge Academy
Dresden Mills
Kents Hill
Bath Iron Works Corp
Miss Brawn
Morse High
Dresder
M’cobb
Day’s Ferry Congregational Church
Miss Correnne
Uptown
Featuring
BANK
Repebtic Wistere
Papeete
Frida
Ys ‘Taylor
Altan Russel
Allan Faye
Don Y Ameche Hear Fonda
Edward Arnold
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