West Bath Grange Meeting Showcases 70 Attendees
West Bath Grange held a lively Monday meeting with 70 in attendance. The program featured a 12 member committee, a sketch by Mr and Mrs Fred Cary, a Soldier's Safe Return tableau with Mrs Charlotte Owen as mother, song by Mrs Cary, a nailing contest won by Eva Atwood, and a humorous school sketch. Additional acts and social notes followed as members planned next week's program and guests from Bath and Portland were mentioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath Grange
America
Fred P. Cary
Charlotte Owen
George Nelson
Eva Atwood
Mabel Brown
Carrie Cary
Maj
William R. Kimball
Ethel Lee
Lillian Rogers
Philip Boudreau
Eleanor Blake
Edward Besaw
Stanley Peterson
Leigh Reed
Harriet Bonney
Mary Wilson
Almira Fairservice
Hazel McDonald
Helen Green
Harriet Baker
Central parish house visit noted in Brunswick
Wednesday afternoon Dr. B. Stackpole, a recent business visitor in Brunswick, was seen at the Central parish house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Parish House
Stackpole
Brunswick
State Boys Conference to be Held in Bangor
The nineteenth annual State Boys Conference of the Y M C A and Church Boys Clubs of Maine will meet in Bangor December 10 to 12. Delegates aged 15 to 20 from church clubs community groups and Sunday schools must register with a $2 fee by November 26. The event aims to share ideas on boys work hear North American authorities on the topic and foster state fellowship and leadership among Maine Christian boys. An adult leader accompanies each delegation. Further details at the Y M C A.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church Boys’ Clubs of
Maine
Bangor
State Young Men's Christian Association
North America
Jesus Christ
Drive for Bath Y Reaches Its Close
The Bath Y M C A drive ended last night with just over 1800 pledged by noon Wednesday though the campaign aimed for 2000. Sidney L Eaton directed the quiet successful canvass, funding the institution for winter and spring. The piece urges gifts of 200 to secure Bath’s YMCA, noting the building’s role in providing recreation, athletics, and community programs for hundreds of boys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Y. M
Sidney L. Eaton
Y. M
Bath
Bath Y. Mlc
Redman Presses on Campaign Finance At Portland Meeting
Fulton J. Redman Democratic candidate for United States Senator speaks in Portland on November 17 1926 urging reform of campaign finance. He questions unseating Ware and Smith amid large expenditures and warns that buying offices threatens the Republic. He calls for spiritual idealism beyond prosperity in public life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fulton J. Redman
United States
Portland
Maine
Ware
Pennsylvania
Smith
Ilinois
Gould
America
Bath charity drives fund local institution with 1800 pledged
The piece notes men classes and activities staged at real cost about 5000 dollars. Bath residents subscribed 1800 dollars after drives seemed impossible. Behind the institution is a self supporting system and the community is urged to provide the boys with a 2000 dollar quota.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Morse High Faces Formidable Deering In Maine Grid Clash
Morse high school travels to Portland Friday to confront Deering High, Maine's top scoring machine, amid fears the Bath team will face a brutal test. Deering’s aerial prowess and powerful line offer a stern challenge, while Morse aims to prevent a blowout and keep the score low with a strong defensive stand. Captain Riley leads Deering with swift backs like Stevens, as Morse vows a hard fought battle and fighting spirit to the final whistle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morse High
Portland
Morse
Bath
Deering High
Deering
Cony
Rumford
Westbrook
Giants
Maine
Bathites
New England
Morsemen
Diddeford
Stevens
Home Nursing Class at Evening School Opens Free
The Bailey Evening School offers a free home nursing course with flexible attendance. New pupils may register at Morse High School on Monday or Wednesday evenings from seven to nine. Mrs. Ina A. Small teaches a unit on child care, and the program emphasizes aiding families by enabling homemakers to supplement professional nursing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bailey Lvening School
Ina A. Small
Morse High School
Siei
Social visit after National Grange gathering in Wortland
Capt and Mrs Frank W Hagan hosted Sunday guests Mrs Carrie Dimen and daughter Edith of Shawcroft, Misoos Ay Cornell of Boston. They had attended the National Grange at Wortland and planned a Monday trip to New York before returning home. Mrs Damon and Mrs Hagan were girlhood friends and bridesmaid, both Lewiston residents employed at the same store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank W. Hagan
Upper High Street
Carrie Dimen
Edith
Shawcrots
Lewiston
Woolwich social and church event notes local doings
In Woolwich on Friday residents gather at the Methodist church for a social and sing led by John Carter with cake coffee and candy for sale. Various locals travel to nearby towns, attend events like the National Grange, and prepare for winter while town figures visit relatives and plan moves to Bowdoinham Bath and Dresden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woolwich
Methodist Church
South Woolwich
John Carter
National Grange
Portland
William Lincoln
Bath
Columbia Chambers
Beatrice Wright
Old Orchard
Wilson Wright
Alva Light
Milton Hathor
Arrowsic
Fayette Blackstone
Houston Blackstone
Caribou
Edgar Bailey
Vortland
Eric Robertson
Manchester-Ly-the-Sea
G. M. Stinson
Bowdoin
Bowdoinham
Harry Allen
Prank Adams
Belgrade
F. W. Carlton
Alton Strout
Dresden
J. i. Main
Hiss
Bailey
JL. C. Ferro
Boston
Harold Snipe
Moining
Reddington
Fla
Wallace Reed
Clearwater
M. C. Trott
H. O. Cunningham
Rodney Bailey
Brunswick
Everett Rice
Windham
Minnie Lice
John Austin
Augusta
Harold LR. Shaw
Lloyd
Montsweag
Richard Grover
Wiscasset
Charles Henry Butler
Washington, D. C
Fh. W. Carlton
Sagadahoc Ferry
Adams
Senator Adams
Leon L. Kelley
Carlton
G. W. Shaw
Bowdoin College
Cast Selected for Colonial's Play Adam and Eva
The Colonial club plans a three act comedy titled Adam and Eva with rehearsals led by H Augustus Huse. A large cast includes James King William A Furber Emma Ayer Horace Pilgrim Clinton J Wilson George B Wolstenholme and Edwin Lowell. Adelaide Boynton Eva King Hortense Bryant and others complete the cast. Mrs Hateh died Tuesday in Portland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colonial Club
Adam and
Eva
H. Augustus Huse
James King
Long Island
N. Y
King Farm
New Jersey
Mr. Huse
William A. Furber
Corrinna
Emma Ayer
Clinton DeWitt
Jack Delamuter
Bryant Patten
Horace Pilgrim
Clinton J. Wilson
Adams Smith
George B. Wolstenholme
Lord Andrew Gordon
Edwin Lowell
Lincoln Sagadahoc Teachers Meet in Bath Friday
Lincoln Sagadahoc County Teachers hold an all day meeting in Bath on Friday with a program of assemblies, demonstrations, and sessions. Speakers include Bowdoin and Ohio University professors, state education officials, and local educators. The meeting features lectures on English, history, bookkeeping, and organizing an Aububon Club, plus a round table and Q A. Officers listed: Scott, Clifford, Adams, Moody, Carter, and Redennett.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln-Sagadahoc
Bath
Lincoln-Sagadahoe County
Teachers’ Association
Bowdoin College
R. J. Libby
B. E. Packard
Ernest W. Butterfield
New Hampshire
J. W. Taylor
George Starr Lasher
Ohio University
Augustus ©. Thomas
Maine
Assembly Hall
S. A. Evans
Bath Music
Morse High
Roland H. Cobb
Maine Teachers’ Retirement Association
R. J
Laura M. Bailey
Dresden
Constance Smart
Boothbay Harbor
EL Packard
Augusta
Prin
Arthur W. Jellison
Concord
N. H
Agnes Fahey
Morse High School
Prin. Carroll I. Young
Richmond
First Essentials
Athens
Ohio
Bula Terrill
N.hh
Georg Starr Lasher
Augustus O. Thomas
Arthur T. Scott
Harold LB. Clifford
Boothbay
Old Peabody Pew give by Wesley church sorority
The Sorority of Wesley M I church staged The Old Peabody Pew by Kate Douglas Wiggin at Wesley church Tuesday evening. The play set in a Tory hill church featured Dorcas society members sewing a new carpet with amusing dialogue and old fashioned costumes. Various cast members received praise for dignity, humor, and charm as Nancy Wentworth won hearts and Justin Peabody carried the Peabody claim. The show netted the sorority over 45 dollars. Miss Christine Stacey returned home from Boston after a few days there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley M. I. Church
Peabody Pew
Kate Douglas Wiggin
Wesley Church
Tory Hill Church
Dorcas Society
Burbank
Doreus Society
Lloyd G. Daley
Walter V. Day
Lobelia Brewster
Leigh W. Reed
Miller
Deacon Miller
Sexton
Littlefield
Justin Peabody
A. M. Butterfield
Marl Lermond
Woman's Party Leader Delivers Fine Talk in Portland
Miss Rebecca Hourwich, longtime speaker for the National Woman's party, spoke to Portland women on November 10 at Mrs. Robert Great Whitehouse's home. She advocated an equal rights amendment for full federal equality and noted her extended work in New York Boston and Chicago. Her remarks were broadcast on radio and praised by Bath listeners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rebecca Hourwich
National Woman's Party
Ferdinand Reyheér
Robinhood
Portland
Robert Great Whitehouse
Hourwich
United States
Woman’s Party
New York
Boston
Chicago
South Africa
Maine
Miss Hourwich
Collier's
The
Country Gentleman
Country Life
Good Housekeeping
the Independent
the Survey
New Republic
Woman's Party
Unusual Opportunity for Bath Teachers
Bath area teachers are offered a rare Winter course at Morse High School beginning Friday night. Harvard University extension instructor Francis T. Spaulding will cover aims in teaching motivation habit formation memorization drill inductive and deductive methods individualized and socialized instruction class management and measuring teaching results. The program runs biweekly on Fridays and Saturdays with a very reasonable fee and anticipated large enrollment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Harvard- Boston University
Morse
Francis T. Spaulding
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Wesley Church Annual Roll Call Draws Large Attendance
Wesley Methodist church held its annual Roll Call on Wednesday November 10 with strong attendance ATS members present. Rev. Charles Parkin of Brunswick spoke on Spreading Joy delivering a fine talk. Supper was served at six with cold meats escalloped potatoes rolls pie coffee and cake. The roll call committee consisted of Galen Watson Oliver V Brown and Walter I Day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley Methodist Church
ATS
Wesley Church
Charles Parkin
Methodist Episcopal Church of Brunswick
Galen Watson
Oliver V. Brown
Walter I’. Day
Morse High School Football Guests At Bates Big Game
Morse High School football men were guests of Bates College at the annual Bates Colby game in Lewiston. Coach Cutts, head of Bates athletic activities, granted the Morse squad the privilege of watching the game after attending a morning event in Hallowell, and the players greatly appreciated the kindness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morse High
Bates College
Bates Colby
Lewiston
Bath to receive rebuilt Combination 2 fire engine
Alderman Ralph C Covel who chairs Bath’s fire committee says a rebuilt Combination 2 will arrive in a week or ten days. It will join the hook and ladder truck at the North End station once delivered and converted from the old machine now being refurbished into a motorized ladder truck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph C. Covel
Committee On Fire Department
Bath City
North End
North Nd
Fire alarms and local notices from Bath area
Two still alarms occurred Monday morning when Combination Four responded to Felix J. Gallant’s home at 4 Willow Street Court where a crib fire and a large chemical were used to extinguish smoke made the scene seem larger. Earlier, Combination Four tackled a chimney fire at 25 School Street, one small chemical sufficed. Also noted are Bath residents at the National Grange session in Portland and the illness of George T. Furrin, with Dorothy Donnell returning home from Brookline to tend him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Combination Four
Felix J. Gallant
Willow Street Court
Rank A. Manion
School Street
Dorothy Donnell
Deiconess Hospital
Brookline
Mass
George Tl.furrin
Middle Street
North-Center P T A Has Successful Sale
The North-Center Parent-Teacher Association cleared 56 at its rummage sale on Wednesday November 10 at the parish house on Oak Street. Funds will be added to the treasury for general PTA work. The chairwoman was Mrs Warren F Hawley and the committee included Mrs Roscoe P McFadden Mrs John A Lord Mrs Daniel T Dougherty Mrs Russell Kenney Mrs Alvin Coss Mrs Harold Avery Mrs Robert B Hatch and Mrs Lewis A Gannon. A Woolwich sub-committee assisted with Mrs Frank A Hodgdon Mrs Wright and Mrs Waldo Hathorne.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North-Center
Parent-Teacher Association
Oak Street
Treasury
Warren F. Hawley
Roscoe P. McFadden
John A. Lord
Daniel T. Dougherty
Russell Kenney
Alvin Coss
Harold Avery
Robert B. Hatch
Lewis A. Gannon
Woolwich
Frank A. Hodgdon
Wright
Waldo Hathorne
Foundations of Liberty and Colonial Self Rule
An overview traces religious liberty and governance in the original colonies from the 1600s through the lead up to independence. It highlights charter and royal colonies, key figures like William Penn and James Otis, and the shift toward self government amid British taxation and trade restrictions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles II
Rhode Island
America
Charles la
Maryland
Lord Baltimore
Maryland Assembly
New Jersey
Lord Berkeley
George Carteret
Carolina
William Penn
James
Duke of York
Delaware Bay
Pennsylvania
New Hampshire
Maine
Georgia
Gorges and Mason
Massachusetts
Gorges
Province of
Savannah
James Oglethorge
Connecticut
England
New World
Moyland
George the Third
Thenjamin Franklin
Albany
James Otis
House of Representatives
Otis
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West Bath
Chester Freeman
Donald
Eleanor Bates
Oscar Landean
Samuel F. Bates
Sabine
J. Edward Drake
Birch
Olive Doughty
Harpswell
Marguerite Williams
Campbell's Wond
Topsham
Bates
Campbell's Pond
Bradford
N. IL
Olive Stackpole
Charles
Ruth Stackpole
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Nazarene Church
J. Everett Mayo
China
Alma Reid
Augusta Pitts
Lois Palmer
Evelyn Sotheard
Cora Sotheard
Melvin Pratt
Frank Emerson
Martha Hall
Edith Stewart
Kitty Preble
Lillian Lewis
FE. R. Brown
Isabel Hunt
Lydia Brewer
Red Cross
Grange Hall
Ada Jarrabee
Lillian Brown
Poster's Joint
I. M. Stackpole
Henry Healey
Sanford Crossing
Belle Donnell
Annie Williams
Washington Street
James B. Learent
Violet Ellis
Y.M.C.A
Brown
Norway Medicine Co
Colonial
Robert T. Hateh
Emma Pierce
Davis Hateh
States
OLD Peabody Pew
Sorority of Wesley Church
Kate Douglas Wiggins
Christine Stacey
Doston
State Ferry Garage
Porthind
Marshall McDonald
Ethel Iruce
Tom Atwood
Ten Wiihinety
Guy Crosby
P.T.A
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