Armistice Ball at Richmond High School Led by Lions Club
The Armistice eve dance at the Richmond high school gymnas ium sponsored by the Richmond Lions club drew many attendees. Prize winners included Charles Trott and Ruby Fisher in jitterbug and Mr and Mrs Philip Densmore in the waltz. A Marine Corps tribute followed with remarks by Rev James MacKillop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond Lions Club
Gordon Howe
King Lion Louis Lemieux
Lions Club
Charles Trott
Ruby Fisher
Philip Densmore
Lion J. W. Randlette
United States Marine Corps
Lion Rev. James MacKillop
Marine Corps
U.S. Marine Corps
Albert Wing
Russell Ring
Carl Anderson
Louis Lemieux
Monroe
Alberta Haynes
Georgetown spelling honors and local election notes
Spelling honors wrap up at Georgetown Grammar School with eight grades named for students. a local resident 87 year old Elizabeth Hunt cast the first presidential vote in town on November 7. Community life includes party plans, visitors returning from war zones, and residents traveling to Bath, Portland and Boston for holidays and work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Hanna
Arthur Tibbetts
Betty Rittall
James MacMahar
Claire McGillivary
Jeanette Pinkham
David Stevens
Elizabeth Hunt
Alfred Rowe
George E. Jordan
Merchant Marine
Robinhood
Clifton Matthews
Bath
Ralph Dunton
Portland
Charles Farrow
Boston
Carol Farrow
Marvin E. Burke
Lawrence Perow
Ralph Baker
Lewiston
Brooks Crosby
Jim Hobart
Edward Clarey
Dorothy Stuart
Mildred Easler
Bangor
Joseph Higgins
Miss Easler
Hyde Windlass Co
Winter Street Ladies Meet and Sew for Sale
Winter Street Ladies Aid held an all day session in the ladies room with about 50 members attending a luncheon at 12 30. They sewed aprons for the Christmas sale and planned the lobster salad supper at the church on Dec 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winter Street Ladies Aid
Allen M. Trish
Alice Varney
Cochairman
John A. Morse
Cecil E. Paine
Sarah Hitchcock
Clarence W. Morse
Claire Coombs
John Sylvester
Robert Colley
Samuel R. Percy
Isabel Carter
Abigail Carter
Elsie Folsom
Morton Young
Fred Irish
Ruth Henry
Carl Albee
Walter S. Wiggin
William S. Shorey
Joseph O. Purdue
Arthur Lemont
Corrie Varney
Washington Street
Memorial Hospital
Lillian —S. Frost
Belfast
Eva Atwood
J. O. Purdue
124Th General Hospital
England
Arthur K. Purington
Purington
Treasury
Clifford B. Wilband
Charles Nelson
Fred Emmons
Lewis F. Gannon
Morse High Hosts Education Week Assembly Recap
American Educational Week events at Morse High School featured a spelling and grammar contest won by Senior Carmen Hughes and James Bonney with 43 points. Juniors Stanley Small and Dorothy Kocha tied for second with 41, followed by Sophomores Everett Parker and Duveen Bryant, and Freshmen George Dole and Ruth Coombs. Master of Ceremonies Mr. Watson, with assistants Louise Dole and Norma Drummond, led scoring and remarks. An Friday morning assembly by the American Legion is planned under Capt David Alkazin. Air weight note closes the report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morse High School
Mary Conley
Ruth Wilson
Carmen Hughes
James Bonney
Dorothy Kocha
Stanley Small
Everett Parker
Duveen Bryant
George Dole
Ruth Coombs
Watson
Louise Dole
Norma Drummond
France
American Legion
David, Y. Alkazin
Maine State Guard
Community supper and speaker in Five Islands
Five Islands hosts a Friday evening public supper at the library hall with a free entry and a collection at the tables. Menu includes baked beans salads and meat loaf. Good Neighbor club handles preparations followed by a church talk by Dr Harrison. All residents invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Good Neighbor Club
Phillip Pinkham
Victor Pinkham
Red Cross
Orville Rowe
Free ride ends in a street bet spectacle
Harmon's Clothing Store owner Loring Jane and Rogers' Jewelry manager Charles Mason rode a wheelbarrow down Front Street near Elm to Water in a bet on the presidential outcome. Jane wore a sign saying I Bet on Roosevelt while Mason carried I Bet on Dewey. The stunt occurred around 10 o'clock Wednesday of last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loring Jane
Harmon's Clothing
Charles Mason
Rogers’ Jewelry Store
Mason
Jalfe
Front Street
Elm
Center
Water Street
Roosevelt
Dewer
War housing totals over one and a quarter million units
War housing now totals over one and three quarter million units designed to house approximately five million six hundred thousand war workers and their families according to the National Housing agency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Housing Agency
Excellent Speaker at Five Islands
Dr. Norman B. Harrison, noted Bible conference speaker and former Dallas Theological Seminary teacher, will deliver a message at the regular Bible conference in Five Islands Second Baptist Church on Friday November 17 at 730 p.m. Harrison, author of the His series including His Joy and His Peace, is a widely sought speaker whose talks attract a broad audience. The event is anticipated as a high point of the season with strong attendance expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Norman B. Harrison
Second Baptist Church
Five Islands
Harrison
Dallas Theological Seminary
Philathea class session with supper and slides
Corliss Street church Philathea class met Monday evening with thirty members at table. Supper committee included Mrs. Norton Crowley King and Achorn. Walter Norton presented slides of Bath Merrymeeting Bay and Boothbay. Nomination and money making committees named for December. hostesses listed for December meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philathea
Corliss Street Church
Jessie Norton
Ruth Crowley
Amanda King
Bernice Achorn
Walter Norton
Bath
Merrymeeting Bay
Boothbay
Earl Morang
Jessie*Norton
Ruth Ames
Beulah Pratt
Edward Waters
Foster Pratt
Leonard Smith
Murray Bridges
LeForrest Coombs
Alden Denham
Municipal Court Busy with Arraignments and Fines
Monday session handled multiple cases from Arrowsic and Woolwich for breaking and entering summer homes, seven intoxication charges tied to Armistice week, fines set at five dollars with court costs, Warman jailed 80 days in the house of correction, Wyman fined for driving an unregistered car, Bark fined for operating without a license, one case continued to November 22, and a Winthrop woman given an indefinite sentence to the Womens Reformatory on lewd behavior charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arrowsic
Woolwich
Warman
House of Correction
Willian Wyman
Phippsburg
Bark of Haines
Winthrop
Womens Reformatory
Skowhegan
Demonstrating the eye blind spot with a simple pencil test
A simple at home test shows the blind spot in the eye. By placing two dots on paper and closing one eye, moving the paper reveals the left dot disappearing as it falls on the blind spot. The observation demonstrates retinal blind spot properties.
Visual Fitness Requirement Gap for U S Drivers
It is estimated that more than half of licensed automobile drivers in the United States have never been required to demonstrate visual fitness to operate a car.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Dr Jacob W Norton Bath Dentist Dies in Haverhill
Bath friends learned of the sudden death in Haverhill Massachusetts Monday of Dr Jacob W Norton 67 after a brief illness with thrombosis He lived in Bath many years and ran a dentist practice with his late brother Dr Fred Norton He moved from Freeport where he was born His wife sister and niece survive Funeral services were held last Wednesday in Bath
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Haverhill
Mass
Jacob W. Norton
Norton
Jake
Fred Norton
Sagadahock Block
Freeport
Pennsylvania
Colonial Club
Ife
Bertha Davis
Granite Street
Davis
Richard Loring
Bramen Platts
Reading
Rev Earl T French longtime Bath Nazarene pastor dies
Rev Earl Titus French aged 76 longtime Bath Nazarene pastor died last Wednesday in Manchester Conn hospital after a two week illness. He served in Bath 1937 to 1942 and retired there after leaving the pastorate. Survived by Minnie Myer French widow two daughters Mrs Edna Smith Miss Anna C French three sons George E French Erwin K French Daniel M French. Funeral was Friday afternoon in Manchester.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl Titus French
The
Nazarene Church
Bath
Manchester
Conn
French
Cundy’'s Harbor
Livermore Falls
Massachusetts
New York
Connecticut
Colorado
Westport
Drew Theological Seminary
New Jersey
Minnie Myer French
Edna Smith
South Portland
Anna C. French
George E. French
Seattle
Erwin K. French
Middlebury
Daniel M. French
Pendleton 3D Lt Killed in Action in Europe Oct 12
Lieut. Fields S. Pendleton of Bangor born, educated at Bangor High School Phillips Exeter Academy and Cornell, killed in action in Europe on October 12. He piloted a Thunderbolt for the Ninth Air Force supporting the Seventh Army in Southern France. He was son of Mr. and Mrs. Fields S. Pendleton with a younger brother Charles. The Pendleton family once ran the shipyard at South End Islesboro.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fields S. Pendleton
Ninth Air Force
Seventh Army
France
Bangor
Bangor High School
Phillips Exeter Academy
Cornell
Beta Theta Pi Fraternity
Lt. Pendleton
Charles Pendleton
Fields Pendleton
South End
Capt
Islesboro
Death notices for Pvt James H Ashenden Jr on Italian front
Mr and Mrs Leonard Wetherbee of Washington street received word of Pvt James H Ashenden Jr USA of Wakefield Mass killed in action October 17 on the Italian front. He lived in Bath and worked briefly at Bath Tron Works time office before service. He was son of Mr and Mrs James H Ashenden of Wakefield and leaves his wife Ann M M Ashenden a son James Allen born in March and three sisters Mrs Wetherbee Bath Miss Ellen Ashenden and Mrs Winifred Langley Wakefield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard Wetherbee
Washington Street
Wakefield
Ann MM
Henesseyv) Ashenden
James Allen
Wetherbee
Bath
Ellen Ashenden
Winifred Langley
Thaddeus Dodge Dies in New York City
Thaddeus Dodge, brother of Mrs. William Cummings of 987 Middle Street, died Thursday in New York. The body was awaiting funeral arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thaddeus Dodge
William Cummings
Middle Street
New York
Dodge Funeral Remains and Survivors Mentioned
The body was brought to Gorham for burial after a funeral Saturday and interment was in Buxton Cemetery. Survived by wife Grace Buck Dodge three sons Ralph Robert and Harold four nephews in the city and one niece Mrs Maurice Haynes. Dodge formerly served as Westbrook postmaster and was born in the week of Lincoln’s assassination naming him for the president’s son.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gorham
Buxton
Grace Buck Dodge
Ralph
Robert
Harold
Illiam
Ray
Edward
Charles Cummings
Maurice Haynes
Dodge
Westbrook
Lincoln
Mrs Elizabeth Barth Dies at 82 in Woolwich
Mrs Elizabeth Barth aged 82 years 7 months 22 days died Sunday afternoon at the home of her daughter Mrs Henry C Seegar on Nequasset road Woolwich She was born in Germany to Carl Gange] and Elizabeth Webber Survived by son Aloysius Barth of Dunellen New Jersey and daughter Mrs Henry C Seegar The funeral was at Mayo Funeral Home High street Wednesday afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. P. Hackett
Fairfield
Car 'Weiting
U.S. Navy
Welling
South Weymouth
Mass
P. B. Savage
J. G. Stevens
Paul Thompson
Marion Stevens
Exeter
N. H
L. H. Rowe
Francis Bacon
Waltham
Hartley Harley
Webster Harley
Boston
Chester McMahan
St. Andrews Hospital
Boothbay Harbor
Linda
O. F. Rowe
Hanson M. Sudds
Braintree
Jennie
Fred Carr
Maine General Hospital
Portland
Edith McMahan
Vincent Davis
Eleanor
Davis
Harley Harley
Seguinland
Ransom Sawyer
Bath Memorial Hospital
Dorothy Thompson
North Yarmouth Academy
Mattie McMahan
Edgecomb
Chester
Natalie
Judy McMahan
James McNeil
Bath
St Andrews Hospital
Mabel Dickey
Madelyn Berry
Frank Carleton
Woolwich
George Hanna
Ruth Pierce
Lester Lewis
Richmond
George Douglas
Sedgemere Road
Paul Pierce
George Nichols
John Huskins
Huskins
Elizabeth Barth
Henry C. Seegar
Nequasset Road
Germany
Carl Gange
Elizabeth Webber
Barth
Aloysuis Barth
Dunellen
N. J
Mayo Funeral Home
High Street
Arson case continued to Friday morning in Bath
George Mulholland of Bath employed at Bath Iron Works pleaded not guilty to arson on Wednesday. John Gilliam of West Bath and Mrs Grace Johnston of Bath also denied charges as accessories. State Insurance Commission officials to be present. bonds set at 1000 for Johnston and Gilliam, 3000 for Mulholland. Additional local cases included indecent exposure, intoxication, and a delayed speeding fine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Mulholland
Bath
Bath Iron Works
Middle Street
John Gilliam
West Bath
Grace Johnston
State Insurance Commission
Kennebec County
Clyde Stilphen
Bruce Perry
West Virginia
United States Navy
Bowdoinham
John deWinter
Birthday of Susan Farrell Is Marked With Family Party
Susan Elaine Farrell, four, daughter of Duncan and Mrs. Farrell of Winnegance district Phippsburg, celebrated a birthday with a party at her parents’ home. Aunts, grandmothers, great aunts, and many young friends attended, enjoying cake, refreshments, and gifts in a cheerful afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Susan Elaine Farrell
Duncan Farrell
Winnegance
Phippsburg
Herbert W. McCabe
Susan
Peter
Arthur Totman
Thornton Willams
Charlene Brown
Stephen Wilson
Tamara Day
Kathy Watson
David Abbott
Alden Perry
Donald Bryant
Barbara
Deborah Lawrence
Loretta Morse
Harry S. Farrell
Robert P. Manson
McCabe
Frank Perry
Stain Killer Prevents Bleed Through Painted Mahogany
If staining mahogany is planned, apply a stain killer first. Various preparations from paint dealers form a preventive barrier to stop the stain from bleeding through the final paint coat.
Also Mentioned on This Page
G. Cleveland Marriner
Enterprise Grange Hall
Freda Hopkins
Sagadahoc
Mr. Marriner
Donna Marriner
Marriner
Densmore
Frank Bishop
Clarence Dunbar
Mildred Pashard
Virginia Anderson
Russell King
Juvenile Grange
Berry
Marjorie Rice
Mildred Skinner
Fort Richmond
Dar
Edward F. Pratt
War Chest Fund
Emerson School
Rose Curtis
Solon Purinton
Pearl G. Curran
Lawrence Bond
Richmond Lodge
Kennebec Valley
IOOF
Beulah Rebekah
Lawrence K. Crommett
Augusta
Orlan Sproul
Hallowell
DDGN
Clement Quigg
DDG
Frank Merrill
Gardiner
Ora Pomroy
Preston Glidden
Sentinel
John T. Witham
Eben Baker
J. W. Randlette
Wesley Webber
Harry W. Douglass
Chester L. Foster
Ernest E. Brown
RSNG
J. W. White
LSNG
Everett W. Kincaid
RSS
Elmer King
LSS
Archer Terrell
E. C. Pinkham
Ralph Brown
Seth C. Watson
E. C. Rankins
LSVG
Leland Siegars
Percy Wattabe
D. G. Stevens
Portlad
George H. Cobb
DGSW
Harry Grant
Errol Thompson
DGHP
Orlam Sproul
Rebekah Lodge
Robert Sommer
South Pleasant Street
Janet Violette
Lora Grondin
Mary Jane Comiet
Lewis L. Lermieux
High School
Deborah
Charles B. Day
Nichols
Times Company
James Witham
Philadelphia
David Ames
Roger Curtis Pierce
Dorchester
Carlton Curtis
Jennie Kintz
Brookline
James Foster
Milbridge
Pauline Purinton
Emerson Grammar School
Melvin Chase
U.S.N
Otis Chase
San Francisco
Pearl Harbor
Seaman Chase
Sampson, N. Y
Fort Pierce
Fla
Harris Hutchins
Winfield Hull
Princeton
Carl Watts
Carolyn Curtis
Donald Weed
Texas
Cpl. Watts
Pounds Field
Tyler
Sgt
Weed
Forth Worth
Charles Thompson
Richard G. Thompson
Italy
Lieut. Thompson
Charles F. Thompson
Pacific
George Thompson
Arthur Turner
Georgetown
Linwood Stevens
George Powers
Ruth Gordon
New Meadows
Maud Thayer
Thomaston High School
West Georgetown
Peter Barton
Frank Boyd
Hillsboro
John Green
Edward C. Clarey
Adolph Spear
Howard Trafton
Rudolph Trafton
Arlington
Gardner Hanson
Irving Hunt
George Nickerson
Paul E. Akeley
Nan
John Gordon
Mac Hagan
Benjamin Riggs
Charles Chapman
Riggs Cottage
Winifred Robishaw
Mar
James Oliver
T/Sgt
Francis Oliver
Wilfrid E. Guerin
North Street
Winter Street
Morse
Harmon Smith
Charles Lishness
East Boothbay
James Chesbro
Mary Minihane
Pine Street
Fred Merchant
Meadow Way
Camden
Haverhill, Mass
Earl T. French
James H. Ashenden
Susan Farrell
Fred S. Curtis & CO
Thomas R. Huston
Washington St
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