City Council debates Lanham Act funds and city needs
The Bath city council held a lengthy November session with limited business as members debated Lanham Act funds for police and other services. Officials discussed billeting, street work, firefighting hose loans, street lighting, and a proposed North End sewer grant while considering budgetary constraints and potential reimbursements.
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City Council
Police Department
Common Council
Edmund A. Rothwell
Cyrus W. Longley
Knights of Columbus
Water Street
Hall
Charles A. Shepard
Kennebec Wharf and Coal Co
John R. Newell
Commercial Street
Shepard
Newell
Philip H. Oliver
Hattie Bailey
Bowery Street
Oliver
Board of Health
Court Street
Kimball Field
Water District
Kimball
Roscoe G. Bailey
Bath Water District
Alderman Oliver
Wesley Street
Middle
Washington
Williams Street
John P. Carey
Lincoln Street
Academy Street
Andrews Road
Rogers
Central Maine Power Co
Delibera
Orth Holton wedding for Scarsdale and Brockton circles
Miss Marguerite Jeanette Orth daughter of Mr and Mrs John C B Orth of Scarsdale N Y wed John Berry Holton son of Rev and Mrs Horace Holton of Brockton Mass in Hitchcock Memorial church Scarsdale on Monday November 9 at 4 pm The ceremony was by the groom's father assisted by Rev George Hugh Smyth A reception followed at the Roger Smith hotel White Plains N Y Attendants were Miss Virginia F Menniges maid of honor and Miss Alice E Balzac bridesmaid both of Scarsdale Best man was Robert C Whitehead Jr of Mount Vernon N Y Ushers included Roscoe C Funk Russel M Keith John C B Orth Jr Roscoe S Smith and others from Scarsdale Brockton Worcester and Orville The bride's dress ivory satin with gardenia bouquet Attending Worcester residents listed The couple will reside in Worcester after a brief honeymoon Dr Horace Holton of Brockton will resign April 30 to become Executive Secretary of New England Board of Pastoral Supply, a move created 40 years ago. The note highlights his prior pastorates and service.
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Phippsburg
Marguerite Jeanette Orth
John Christopher Boettner Orth
Scarsdale
N. Y
John Berry Holton
Horace Holton
Brockton
Mass
John C. Berry
Worcester
Hitchcock Memorial Church
George Hugh Smyth
Roger Smith Hotel
White Plains
Virginia F. Menniges
Alice E
Russel M. Keith
John C. B. Orth, Jr
Roscoe S. Smith
Orville
Wash
Katherine Fisk Berry
Gordon Berry
Margaret W. Berry
Margaret Hessketh
Brightwater-Wynburg
Robert C. Whitehead
George Zink
Lou Blatchley
Bessie Cotton
Pierce Lambert
Porter Congregational Church
Holton
New England Board of Pastoral Supply
Charles C. Merrill
Congregational Society
Phippsburg Congregational Church
Porter
St. Louise
Far East life described at Rotary Club luncheon
Lieut Commdr F E Moore on naval duty spoke at Hotel Sedgwick about life in China and the Philippines from 1938 to 1941. He described Japanese advances, regional dialect diversity hindering education, and U S efforts to improve schooling. He urged aid to help the region regain self sufficiency and return to American influence. James Black of Brunswick attended as a visiting rotarian.
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Far East
Rotary Club
F. E. Moore
Bath Iron Works
Hotel Sedgwick
China
Philippines
Shanghai
Indo China
United States
Warren E. Kershner
Jud Miller
James Black
Brunswick
Milliken Guests Visit Seekins in Cape Elizabeth
Mr and Mrs Robert Milliken of Academy Street stayed with Mr and Mrs Archie Seekins in Cape Elizabeth over the weekend. They plan to depart Monday for Boston to visit Mrs Millikens sister Miss Isabelle King a student nurse at the Walham Hospital in Waltham Mass now affiliating with Boston City Hospital. Milliken works as a lead man at Bath Iron Works and is on vacation.
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Robert Milliken
Academy Street
Archie L. Seekins
Cape Elizabeth
Boston
Parker Head Community News Recaps Busy Week
Despite Tuesday storms 15 children had perfect attendance at the Parker Head village school. Reports note church school, Brownies and Girl Scouts activities, planned marionette show and a Thanksgiving fundraiser. Visits include residents from Bath Winnegan ce and North Berwick, with several families traveling to Newport Haynesville and East Machias.
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Richard Dozois
Raymond Nisbet
Sally
Bill Lowell
William and
Grace Kraft
Sandra
Barbara Mank
Laura Wyman
Marie Wyman
Beverly Moore
Iva
Marion Allen
George Morong, Jr
Dorothy Cushing
Miss Robie
Earl Lowell
Stella Packard
Red Cross
Parker Head
Frank Burnell
Bobby Burnell
Olive Deejay
Leston Harrington
Barbara Harrington
Herman Hallett
Bath
Ora Hallett
George Allen
Marion
Johnnie
North
North Berwick
Rev William Brewster is Named Headmaster of St Mark's School
The Bath community notes the election of Rev William Brewster rector of All Saints Episcopal Belmont Massachusetts as headmaster of St Mark's School Southborough Massachusetts. Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill announced the choice and Brewster will assume duties after Christmas. He is a Yale and Cambridge Episcopal Seminary graduate and serves in diocesan social service leadership. He and his wife Elizabeth deV Bosley have four children.
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Bath
William Brewster
All Saints' Episcopal Church
Belmont
Mass
St. Mark's School
Southboro
Kenry Knox Sherrill
Massachusetts
Brewster
Benjamin and
Stella (Yates) Brewster
Maine
Kent School
Kent, Conn
Yale University
Episcopal Theological School
Cambridge
Department of Social Service
Diocese of
Concord Conference of Young People
Camp O-At-Ka
Sebago Lake
Elizabeth Dev. Bosley
Frederick A. Bosley
Emily Sohier Bosley
Concord
Charles M. Tubbs
Bay Point road work stalls over bridge permit
The Bay Point area faces a road work standstill as the Ar rowsic draw bridge cannot be crossed without repairs and permission. Local residents report ongoing garden blooms and a late blueberry crop while Bay Pointers donate over 2500 pounds of scrap iron copper and lead and seek someone to remove it. Community notices list visits and guests from Portland Bath Bowdoinham Auburn Lewiston and Richmond over the weekend and past week.
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Arrowsic Draw
Georgetown
Bay Point
Miss Howard
Personal mentions and social notes of Bath residents
Mr and Mrs Clifton Legard visit Keene and Manchester during vacation. Mr and Mrs Henry Caldwell return from a four day outing in Stockton Springs and Richmond. Miss Muriel Grace and Miss Edith Small weekend in New York City. Grace attends her brother’s wedding. Mrs Louis Dionne travels to South Carolina then Salt Lake City to join her husband in the Army Air Corps. Miss Ellen Dolloff, RN, stationed at Pearl Harbor, will be remembered with Christmas cards by Genesta chapter O E S. Arthur Michaud, Morse High School class of 1942, leaves for Army Air Corps enlistment after a party in his honor and wristwatch gift. Madison Moore and wife visit Bath from Panama for two months, then hunting trip to Kingfield and visit to Somerville. Robert Burgon enlists in the Navy as first class seaman and sails from Bath to Newport R I, with family members accompanying to Portland. He is a Morse graduate and worked at Bath Iron Works and United Fruit Co. boats.
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Clifton Legard
North Street
Keene
Manchester
N. H
Legard
Henry Caldwell
Tarbox Street
Stockton Springs
Richmond
Muriel Grace
Edith Small
New York City
Grace
Louis Dionne
Bath
South Carolina
Salt Lake City
Utah
U. S. Army Air Corps
Ellen Doffffoff
R.N
Cuvier Dolloff
Upper Washington Street
Naval Hospital
Pearl Harbor
T. H
Genesta Chapter
Arthur J. Mic
Hyde Windlass Co
Madison Moore
Gamboa
Canal Zone
Panama
Moore
Kingfield
Somerville
Mass
Claude Dyer
U. S
Robert E. Burgon
Almira Burgon
Middle Street
John Burgon
United States Navy
Naval Training Station
Newport
R. I
Burgon
Morse High School
United Fruit Co
Bath Iron Works Corp
Portland
Reginald T. Burns
City
Shirley Brewer
Boothbay
The
Elks Club
Moose Dazes Car On Popham Beach Drive
Mrs Lester Oliver of Sprucville and neighbor Miss Margaret Wyman escaped serious harm when a bull moose leaped onto their car hood on the new cross road to Small Point. The animal rolled off, dashed away, and the women continued to the Bodwell grange meeting. The incident highlights local moose activity in the Phippsburg area.
Church Forum Declares Church Regaining Its Place
The Central Congregational church hosted its third Community Evening Forum with Rev. G Ernest Lynch of Portland as speaker. He traced the church history from the Middle Ages to modern times, noting a 1920 low point and recent signs the church is regaining influence in national and community life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Congregational Church
G. Ernest Lynch
First Parish Church of
Portland
Raymond G. Putnam
Central Church League
Putnam
Martin Luther
Lynch
Anders Myrhman
Bates College
Gardiner Family Ties to Kennebec Purchase Founding Colonists
Gardiner residents and history enthusiasts learn that Drs. Harry and Carroll Church and J. Elwood Church are descendants of the first white women to step on the Kennebec Purchase land bought by Dr. Sylvester Gardiner in 1760. The Church family has remained rooted in Gardiner for 180 years, active in civic and church life.
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Gardiner
Kennebec
Harry and
Carroll Church
J. Elwood Church
Sylvester Gardiner
Church
Maine Seacoast Mission Tours State With Sunbeam Ship
Rev Anson Williams missionary pastor leads a tour of Maine detailing the Sunbeam mission work and its wartime needs The mission serves spiritual and physical needs of people on isolated coastal communities from Kittery to Eastport and reports rising calls with reduced financial support during war time.
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Maine Seacoast
Sunbeam
Anson Williams
Kittery
Eastport
Williams
Girl Scout Troop 9 Sends Stamps to Evacuees in England
Mrs Donald Ireland leader of Gar diner Girl Scout Troop No 9 received a note from Mrs G Hailey Williams of Devon England thanking the girls for postage stamps sent last August for evacuee children. Troop 9 organized stamps in response to a Leader magazine appeal and sent them to England in care of the British Philatelic Association.
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Donald Ireland
Gardiner
G. Hailey-Williams
Devon
England
Hewitt Daughter Engaged to Chap man of Damariscotta
Mr and Mrs Robert Hewitt of Hampton New Hampshire announce the engagement of their daughter Madeline G to David W Chap man of Damariscotta Miss Hewitt works as an X ray technician at Miles Memorial Hospital in Damariscotta
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Robert Hewitt
Hampton, N. H
Madeline G
David W. Chapman
Damariscotta
Miss Hewitt
Miles Memorial Hospital
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FWA
Benson
Jewett
Supt. of Schools
Harland A. Ladd
Board of Education
Joseph I. Smith
Smith
Longley
Board of Alder
Dr. Smith
Gediman
South Street
Dana W. York
Eugene Hart
Bath Savings Institution
Thayer
Bowie
Knight
Thomas
Eaton
Osborne
Pletts
Plummer
Green
Stover
Povich
Bath Fire Department
Arthur Brown
Allegrin
Mary Rogers- Booker
Dromore
Libby
Ada C. Minott
Eric Carlson
William D. Sewall
York Hall
Orono
Donald Preble
Cranberry Point
Mrs. Totman
York
Marilla Williams
Brooklyn Public Library
A. F. Williams
Kenmore Hall
New York
Charles V. Minott, Jr
Abbie Minott
Orone
Leon Pennell
Parker
Leroy Perkins
Winnegance
Walter Cushing
Bert Nisbet
Haynesville
George Morong
Ralph
Lisbon Falls
Connie Lee Hoar
East Machias
Charles Blaisdell
Elwood Hathorne
Wiscasset
John Williams
Leston Harrington, Jr
Lloyd Perry
Wayne
Urban Harding
George Capana
Hallowell
Alonzo Lowell
Sebasco Estates
W. A. Lowell
L. F. Lowell
E. F. Lowell
St. Mark’s School
Southboro, Mass
Carl Delano
Ardene Pinkham
Walter Cunningham
Maurice Hinckley, Jr
Clyde Whittaker
Leo Purtell
Mervin
Gloris
Cunningham
Earl Payson
Arthur Delano
Bowdoinham
A. Pinkham
Elizabeth Deering
Eva Gaudet
Fred P. Taylor
Dickie’ Hagan
Auburn
Harry Stone
Eleanor McCue
Lewiston
Arthur Maxwell
George Roberts
Bonnie Brae
Popham Beach
Lester Oliver
Spruceville
Margaret Wyman
Bodwell Grange
New Cross Road
Small Point
Ernest Skinner
Popham
Spinney
Guy Crowley
Ernest Oliver
William Hill Jr
Naugatuck
Conn
Bowdoin College
William Hill
Bowdoin
Navy
Tilton Junior College
Mattson
Popham Summer Colony
Junie
Popham Circle
Herbert Mitchell
New England Baptist Hospital
Mitchell
Frank Scott
Ellison Moody
Frances Robie
Harry Spencer
Richard Sprague
Charles Small, Jr
Robert Small
Richard Small
Bertha Newdick
Merrill Oliver
Mary Newdick
Walter Newdick
Ellen Newdick
Charles Small
Stanwood Gilman
Spencer
Stephen Etnier
Stephanie
Virginia
Paul Davis
Etmer
Gilbert Head
Moody
Calvin Beede
Popham Sun
Lester Morse
Clarence Perkins
Gardiner Rogers
Central Church Forum
Harry Smith
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