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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1944
Page
2
A local column in Phippsburg pieced together details on John Parker from Biddeford England and his move to America, and traced Dromore burial links to Rogers farm origins. It notes small town customs, school barefoot years, and a roundup of community updates including algea operations, politics, and social events at Dromore Farm Bureau and around town.
COX HEAD Mr and Mrs Ed Thomas and Mrs Nancy Thomas visited the Carlson home Friday. Ernest Olmstead of Holliston Mass visited the Dozois home Tuesday. He was called to Bath by the death of George Whitney. Mrs Frank Wyman spent time last week with daughters Mrs Laurence Tnay er and Mrs Robert Jewell, both of Bath. Mr and Mrs Stanton Dozois Richard Dozois and Mrs Julia Dozois returned from Holliston Mass where they visited M and Mrs Dean Garvin. Robert Moore returned from a hunting trip in northern Maine. Mr Johnson of West Bath has been at his cottage closing it for the winter. Mr and Mrs Arthur Stinson have closed their home for the winter. Mrs Monroe Wilbur, a patient at Bath Memorial Hospital, stays with her daughter Mrs Vernon Philbrook of Bath before returning to her home in Waltham Mass. Nathaniel Percy is employed on State highway work.
A Dromore Grange resolution mourns the death of Abbie F Minott and expresses sympathy to her relatives. It directs charter draping and printing in the Bath Independent, with copies to relatives. A committee on resolutions signs the statement amid notes of local social visits and guests from Portland Waterville and Port Angeles.
Goose Bay in Labrador emerges as a major wartime air hub linking North America with Britain and the Pacific theatre. The article details US and Canadian cooperation, Greenland and Iceland defenses, and the financing plan to transfer all works to Canada after temporary use.
Parker Head and Leona Harmon hosted a Hallowe en party for older children. Girl Scouts elected Barbara Mank patrol leader Sally Lowell secretary and Lorraine Harrington treasurer. Refreshments were served. Brownies met Harm on Tuesday afternoon. Church service and public supper planned for Nov 9 at Packard and Harmon homes. PTA sewing circle met with many hosts and refreshments served. Community members attended gatherings, plays planned for Thanksgiving, and locals visited relatives in Portland Lewiston Bath and Five Islands.
Capt Ardenne A. Stott and Mrs Stott arrive in Portsmouth after a few days at their Park street home while Capt Stott enjoys a leave from the U S Naval Hospital. They visited in Washington with Lieut Com Brad ley Carlton and Mrs Carlton. Mrs Hiram Annis plans a winter move to Laconia to stay with her daughter Mrs Ernest Marshall.
Popham Beach salutes Pvt Arline Davis as she leaves Bath for Portland to begin WAC training, replacing a man in the service after her husband Sgt Paul Davis of the U S Army was killed in the North Atlantic. The report also covers local retirements, visits, and community news at Popham and nearby towns.
James Gootwin of Chestnut Street has traveled to Portland to stay with a son and his family as a guest.
Harry E Buck a steward in the Maritime service formerly of Bath spent a 30 day leave with his sister Miss Betty Durton 89 Pear Street and his aunt and uncle Mr and Mrs William Edgett Edgett Street. He had just returned from a five month South Pacific voyage discharging cargo at Hawaii Islands Marshalls Guam and Tinian. Most harbors varied three to 38 days depending on cargo and speed. Japanese remnants hid in caves across coral islands resisting with flame throwers that failed to dislodge them. Buck brought home Jap rifles and a jeweled sabre once worn by a captured officer valued up to 1090 by US collectors.
Miss Dunton lists brothers in service across branches and states. M/S Robert Buck USMC at Quantico Virginia and Pvt Clarence Buck US Army Armor, Campbell Kentucky. Pvt Stewart McPherson Jr. is overseas with Army Engineers in Holland after England France Cherbourg Paris Belgium. Eliott B M Jewell with US Navy Reserve now at Camp Parks California after a preconversion leave. Waldhve Mitchell dies. Elliott attended Morse High and Deering Hill. grandson of Col George A Baker of Milan. Lorenzo Buker US Marine Corps is at Norman Oklahoma training in mechanical aviation. son of Balpin Baker Charleston West Virginia.
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