National Grange Address Highlights Farm Depression and Plan
Boise readers hear National Master Louis J. Taber outline a 13 year farm slump with income dropping from 13 to 5 billion dollars, urging New Deal support and a tested plan for balanced agriculture. He warns against bureaucratic control while praising cooperation and orderly adjustment to avoid strikes and ensure justice for farmers.
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Boise
Idaho
National Grange
Louis J. Taber
Taber
Grange
Roosevelt
Central West
America
Europe
Community notes from Bath area announce visits and returns
Mrs Nathan Cushman returns to Portland after Seabisbo season in Sebasco. Harold Cushm of Marblehead Massachusetts enjoys holiday period in Sebasco. Frank Scotts close cottage at Popham Beach and return to Somerville. Fred Osgood patient at Bath City hospital. Ernest Gibby and Mrs Melrose visit Bath, while Pauline Rogers visits Small Point with aunt Miss Emily Wyman. J L Morse visits Brunswick on business. Mrs James Perry returns from Bath hospital after six weeks. Alice Coffin cares for convalescence. Mrs Anthony Thomas Bath hosts overnight guest. Lena Oliver dines with Miss Cora Campbell. Feero of Bath visits grandmother Mrs L J Feero. Sylvester Cushman closes Burnt Coat Island camp and returns to Portland. Ruth Skillings returns to Bath after Sebasco stay with Mrs Sylvester Cushman. J L Morse hosts Miss Campbell and Miss Oliver for dinner. Loring Small and Mrs Mattie Bates of West Bath visit Mrs J E Perry.
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Nathan Cushman
Portland
Sébasco
Harold Cushm
Marblehead
Mass
Sebasco
Frank Scott
Popham Beach
Somerville
Fred Osgood
Perkins Island
Bath City Hospital
Ernest Gibby
Melrose
Lena Oliver
Cora Campbell
It Feero
Bath
L. J. Feero
Sylvester Cushman
Burnt Coat Island
Ruth Skillings
J. L. Morse
Dromore Farm Bureau Holds All Day November Meeting
Dromore Farm Bureau conducted an all day session at Dromore Grange Hall with 42 attendees led by Miss Hortense Welch. Topics included nutrition displays Know Your Groceries, charity gifts to Bath Hospital nurses Home, and planning for future meetings and events.
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Dromore Farm Bureau
Dromore Grange Hall
Hortense Welch
Auburn
Daisy Murphy
Leila Oliver
Bath
Dorothy Rogers
Phippsburg
Clara Coombs
Damariscotta Mills
Charles Stevens
Alfred Farm Bureau
Eva Rogers
Belle Sawyer
Gertrude Small
Ruth Trask
Elinor Thomas
Evelyn Beals
Bertha Wyman
Carrie Wyman
Abbie Minott
Aletha Campbell
Richmond
Miss Welch
Elizabeth Haley
Bath Bowlers Lose 4-0 in Portland Match
Bath's State Bowling League hopes suffered a jolt as the Bath bowlers lost to Portland 4-0 in Portland. Poke Farrar led Bath with a 300 series while Portland teammates Janiewicz 330 Aberle 319 and Sawyer 316 topped the lanes. The Bath second string came closest, dropping by four pins.
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Bath
Portland
Shipping City
Bowlodrome Lads
Forest City
Poke Farrar
Portland Towlers
Janiewicz
Aberle
Sawyer
Community groups hold card party and church events in Winnegance
Winnegance women and town groups hosted a first card party of the season at the community house with many tables. The next week features a Wednesday card night and a Thanksgiving supper on Thursday November 23. Club activities include a Quilting session, a hospitality dinner, and a stereo show with a big sing planned. Chapels held Sunday service with 34 attending and Miss Sims delivering the sermon on God. Loyal Temperance Legion met Monday. a women’s church meeting is planned at Mrs. Preble’s home on Wednesday at 2 30. Ice activity noted with boats being built as lake ice forms. Captain Totman and Irving Wall returned from a northern Maine deer trip.
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Squaw Club
I. A. ‘Trueworthy
Community Jlub
Charles T. Small
Portland
D. Ruth Campbell
Merton G. Merry
Winneganee
Miss Campbell
Arthur B. Farris
Arthur Stewart
Boston
Miss Sims
Miss Trott
Loyal Temperance Legion
Charles Preble
High Street
William Totman
Irving Wall
Maine
Harry C. Webber
Omar R. Perry
Bridge Street
Arrowsic
Wage conference outlines shipyard hours and pay reform
Iron Works officials outline a 40 hour week in navy yards while private yards adjust to a 36 hour week with pay boosts, and 32 hours for navy work with the raise. Bath Iron Works awaits two new destroyers under the code with about 400 workers seeking wage adjustments. Officials credit NRA programs for contracts but note construction delays and longer time to realize employment gains.
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Main
Iron Works
Navy
Coast Guard
Marine Engineering Magazine
C. L. Bardo
New York Shipbuilding Co
National Recovery Administration
National Labor Board
Bath Iron Works Corp
Bath
Tron
People's Church Annual Meeting Elects Officers
Rev George B Wolstenholme presided at the annual meeting of People's Baptist church after the prayer meeting. Officers elected include Helen Leonard church clerk Nina McRae collector Milan Leonard treasurer and Everett Leonard chairman of the board of trustees. Deaconesses and cradle roll superintendent named. Ladies Aid reports praised. Maud Orr chosen moderator with a slate of officers and a sewing committee to be formed for the coming year.
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George ‘B. Wolstenholme
People's Baptist Church
Helen Leonard
Nina McRae
Milan Leonard
Wolsternholme
Everett Leonard
Clarence C. Seavey
Margaret Sutherland
Bernice Cressey
Ladies Aid
Minnie Cressey
Maud Orn
Maud Orr
Viola Seavey
Grangers Plan Annual Fair and Harvest Evening
Grangers and friends anticipate West Bath Grange’s annual fair in the hall with a card party in the afternoon, a harvest supper, and an evening minstrel show led by Edwin W. Haggett. The program features many grange members and entertainers including Arthur C. Lemont, Miss Lillian E. Lewin, Miss Dorothy A. Welch, and others with more names to be announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath
Edwin W. Haggett
Ead
Sam Povich
David Fields
Robert Oliver
Bernard Comeau
Arthur C. Lemont
Lillian E. Lewin
Fred K. Sturtevant
Dorothy A. Welch
David S. Henderson
John M. Howe
James B. Lemont
Gardiner D. Rogers
Charles L. Haggett
Raymond A. Smith
David S. Cogan
Bernice M. Carr
Lucy W. Coombs
Frank R. Durant
Helen E. Hartwell
J. Rupert Wing
Anne K. Quinn
Christine C. Curtis
Emma G. Brown
National Book Week Observed at Patten Free Library
National Book Week begins November 12 and ends November 18. Patten Free Library marks the observance with posters displays and new books in the children's room. Every day is registration day and afternoons feature Miss Anna H Hill reading to children at 3 45. The library closes Saturday for Armistice Day.
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Patten Free Library
Anna H. Hill
Morse High School
Farmington Normals School
Rotarians Hear New Stories At Tuesday Luncheon
Rotary club members met at Hotel Phoenix with President Passmore presiding after a chicken dinner. A songfest led by Edward Sewall and Chester Plant featured Marius Page on piano. The membership committee proposed A. G. Richards of Metropolitan Insurance Co as a new member to be received next week.
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Rotary Club
Hotel Phoenix
Passmore
Edward Sewall
Chester Plant
Marius Page
Rotary
A. G. Richards
Metropolitan Insurance Co
Chester
Boy’s case continued for next two weeks
A 14 year old who drew 200 from a local bank at his grandmother’s request to obtain 25 and kept 175 was questioned. Judge John J. Keegan continued the case for two weeks with no charges by the grandmother and the boy ready to report back, while considering a possible State School for Boys sentence of seven years.
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John J. Keegan
Keegan
Foreign relations topics dominate Cosmopolitan club meeting
The Current Events club at the Cosmopolitan clubhouse held its first meeting with 12 members. They planned alternating Thursday sessions at 2 30 to study foreign countries, starting with Russia on November 23, and to invite speakers with direct country experience.
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Current Events Club
Cosmopolitan
Charles R. Farnham
Cosmopolitan Clubs
Frederick W. Humphreys
Doris P. Dyer
Joseph I. Smith
Russia
Patten Free Library
Maxim Litvinoff
New Bridges at Woolwich to Begin Friday
Construction of two Woolwich bridges linked to the Kennebec bridge approach will start Friday November 17. Only men registered for re employment at Bath City Hall are eligible, with Woolwich workers given preference if qualified, followed by Bath men.
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Woolwich
Kennebec
Bath
Lettie W. Meader
Francis McDonnell
Maine
Meader
McDonnell
City Hall
Bath Office
Assistant Chief Morse In New Role
Scott Morse of Bath Fire Department, after years answering alarms, found himself at his home chimney fire at 130 am. Ill and unable to climb, he summoned Engine 4, resolving the blaze quickly with no damage. Deputy Sheriff Howard B. Everett and Mrs. Everett left Bath for Presque Isle after visiting Mrs. J. Horace McClure.
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Scott Morse
Bath
Priday
Andrews Road
Howard B. Everett
Aroostook County
Oracle in a Gale Surges Toward Destruction at Cape Horn
The crew endures a brutal storm with the ship drifting east-northeast. Lands appear off the coast as the mate warns of rocks and the crew must man sails and pumps while the Captain contemplates abandoning ship as they near deadly reefs and heavy breakers.
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Beverage
Cape Horn
Mr. Beverage
Morrison
Davy Jones Lockler
Bo'sun
Hir
Maine Lottery Proposal Increases State Finance Debate
The Boston Transcript reports State Senator Frank H. Robie’s idea of a strictly state controlled Maine lottery to cover a $2.5 million deficit. Proposals imagine monthly sales near one million dollars and yearly profits around $6 million, with strict controls on winners. The Portland Press-Herald and public opinion resist, arguing Mainers would not accept a lottery despite historical precedent and fiscal need.
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Boston Transcript
Maine
Frank H. Robie
Cumberland County
New Hampshire
Nevada
Pine Tree
Oxford and Cumberland Canal
Sebago Lake
Portland Harbor
Robie
Portland Press-Herald
Meine
Cumberland
Stolen Cookies and Poultry Reported in Bath
Thieves struck Ward's store on Lincoln Street and Clarence E Black Sr’s hen yard near Kelley Field. Missing are saltines and cookies at the store and three pallets and two roosters with one hen taken from a nest. City Marshal Whitney suspects the same culprits for both break ins.
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Bath
Ward
Lincoln Street
Bedford
Clarence E. Black, Sr
North Street
Kelley Field
Walter L. Whitney
Marshal Whitney
Dogs and Cats Avoid Flowery Areas With Nicotine Odor
A report notes nicotine sulphate deters dogs and cats from running over flowers and shrubs due to the strong odor. The substance seems to influence animal behavior by creating an unpleasant scent barrier around planted areas.
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L. F
Atwood
Atwood’s Medics
Sarah Wilbur
Julia Wallace
Emily Williams
Clara Wyman
Bernice Drake
Martha Morse
Lizzie B. C. Chaney
Ruth Morse
Mary Campbell
Clara Oliver
Bess Manson
Rachel Hodgdon
Philbrick
Oliver
NRA
Iron ‘Works
People's Church
ANAL
West Bath Grange Hall
Gail Laughlin
Legislaar
Laughlin
Augusta
Morse
Capt
Omar J. Humphrey
Yarmouth
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