Morse High Pupils Observe Book Week With Scenes
Morse High School students mark National Book Week with a Tuesday assembly presenting scenes from classic works. Miss Amy A Irish's seventh period Freshman English class performed scenes from Seventeen Little Women The Odyssey for Boys and Girls and The Story of a Bad Boy with student actors and a Mrs Hadcastle prank skit from She Stoops to Conquer. A book report on The Royal Road to Romance was read by Frances Ginty and a final Dickens scene from A Tale of Two Cities featured Lucy Manette and others with mob roles in costume.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morse High School
Amy A. Irish
Booth Tarkington
Eleanor Cornish
Clarence Arsenault
Louisa M. Alcott
Marion Anderson
Barbara Vigne
Rev
A. J. Church
Arthur Lowery
Ellsworth Wright
Paul Berry
Frank Wright
Elmer Morse
Alice Darrah
Anna Shellenbarger
Henry W. Longfellow
Charles Camack
Lawrence Boardman
Bertha Lenfest
Mary Tourtillotte
Lady Macbeth
Isabelle King Gemiiewomiam
Mary Durgan
Herschel Libby
Mrs. Hadcastle
Mrs. Hardcastle
Sally Ryan
Pom aLes
Frank
Charles Dar- Trav A
Lucy Manette
Pupils stage English minstrel sketches and Macbeth scenes
Miss Maury H Con class presents two Macbeth witches and sleep waking with Good English and Bad English caricatures. Students include Betti Swanton Burton Morrison and Alice Eaton as center figures in a courtroom trial style skit with jurors, bailiff Edward Bitterfield and clerk Marry Faulierton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betti Swanton
Burton Morrison
Alice Eaton
James Sutherland
Harold Avery
Barbara Hopkins
Janet Beardsley
Madeline Jones
Robert Minott
Richard Minott
Thelma Baker
Barbara Curran
Richard
Edward Bitterfield
Faulierton
Edward Atkinson
Chire Pilton
Nhey Cressey
John He Mad Jones
Mary Double
Mildred Hill
Dorothea Fulton
Elaine Nas
C. E
James Suther
Stanley Jack
Edward Hanson
Roswell Haskel
Carleton Stover
Katherine Conley
Hecate Carol Wood
Betty Waton
Thanksgiving program by Morse high orchestra and glee club
A city public schools orchestra directed by Miss Margaret A. Mackinnon will present a Thanksgiving program at Morse high school auditorium Wednesday at 2 PM. The program features Emancipator, March of the Dalesmen, A Song of the Seas, Cadets Drill, On Venus, By The Bend Of The River, Venetian Love Song, Giannina Mia, Sharpshooters' March, and Star Spangled Banner with Morse chorus, glee club, and Central Grammar School participants. Edna Besan and Ruth Cogan assist. The note also reports Gardiner halfback Norman Rogers recovering from a head injury sustained in the Gardiner-Hallowell game, treated by Dr. C Guarrell and now home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret A. Mackinnon
Morse High School
Harry L. Malette
Public Schools
March of the Dalesmen
Edna Besan
Doris Armstrong
Madelyn Jones
Grenda Wright
Alice Darrah
George B. Nevin
Morse High School Boys’ Glee Club
Ebien Cyr
Lorelei Friedrich Stulcher
Louis A. Drumheller
Public
Venus Waters
Otto Roeder
Central Grammar School
Ruth Cogan
Gean Stanton
Central Grammar
Recollections of the Elliot block and its tenants
Dr. Edward E. Bairy recalls Bath’s Elliot block, its former residents, and the memories sparked by its sale. He details early leases, ship model art, battles over ownership, and the block’s storied past, noting rents, family ties, and the eventual sale to Richard Goodwin for about $10,000.
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The
Independent
Elliot Block
William E. Rice
Bath
John Patten
Anderson's
Capt. Patten
John
Johnny” Patten
Capt. Preble
Capt
Patten
George Preble
Charles A. Packard
John O. Patten
Bath Times
Boston Post
Johnson Brothers
Charles Davenport
George F. Patten
Lincoln National Bank
Edward and
Ernest
Swanton & Jameson Hardware
George Johnson
People’s Five and Ten Cent Savings Bank
George Fisher
Samuel D. Bailey
Samuel Anderson
Silas Anderson
Roscoe P. McFadden
Anderson Drug Store
Front Street
Ed. Barry
la Larrabee
Richard Goodwin
Augusta
Clara Patten
Clara
Goodwin
First National Bank
Mr. Goodwin
Anderson
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Elliot
Popular couple announces engagement in Bath society
Capt. and Mrs. Richard Quick announce the engagement of their daughter Clarabell Quick to George Baer Connard at a Tuesday luncheon in Bath. Miss Quick, a Morse High School 1927 graduate and Eastman School of Music alumna, and Mr. Connard, MIT 1925 graduate and Bath Iron Works executive, plan a 1938 wedding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Quick
Clarabell Quick
George Baer Connard
Washington Street
Miss Quick
Mr. Connard
Merritt Mitchell
Harold Stanton
Alvin Bond
Vernons. Mitchell
Thatcher Pinkham
Earl P. Cahoon
Bath
Theodore Bird
Rockland
Miss
Rolla S. Knapp
Sleepy Hill
Easton
St. Paul's School
Concord
N. H
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sigma Chi Fraternity
Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers
Institution of Engineers and Ship Builders
Scotland
Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club
Colonial Club
Fairfield Ship Building and Engineering Co
Govan
Werkspoor
Amsterdam
Holland
Rentschler Co
Hamilton
Bath Iron Works
Veterans Night at Camp and Auxiliary Held in G A R Hall
T W Hyde camp No 46 and Auxiliary hosted Veterans Night at the G A R hall on Middle street. Frances L Miller chaired with Auxiliary committee members Mrs Velma Crocker and others while camp members including Gardiner Crocker and Clarence Warner led the program. Activities included speeches, readings, solos, duets, a tap finale, and the Hills of Old Kentucky closing number.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. A. R. Hall
Middle Street
T. W. Hyde
Frances L. Miller
Velma Crocker
Mattie Swain
Gardiner Crocker
Clarence Warner
Maurice Warner
Jen Marks
David L. Wilson
David L. Henderson
Wesey H. Lemont
William E
Miller
Edward B. Hamblett
David Wylie Lemont
Reading
Cali
Gerald and
Allen Swain
Betty Swain Ter
Central Congregational Church
Primotich
Forest C. Legard
Chester Swain
Gerald Swain
Help Wanted Couple Run Local Coffee Agency
Classified ad notes a man and wife vacancy to manage a local coffee agency with earnings up to 240 dollars monthly. A new Ford sedan is offered as a bonus. Address for details is Albert Mills at 1226 Monmouth in Cincinnati. Copy must reach the office by Wednesday noon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Mills
Monmouth
Cincinnati
Red Cross Nurse on Matinicus Island Lives as Lifeline
The Red Cross Courier highlights Grace Wilbur a Delano Fund nurse serving Matinicus Island Maine her work aids isolated lobstermen fishermen and children. She provides prenatal care first aid hygiene classes and wound care shaping lives amid winter seas and held mail with Sea missions Sunbeam vessel.
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Red Cross
Red Cross Courier
Matinicus Island
Maine
Delano Fund
American Red Cross
Maine Seacoast Mission
Sunbeam
Bath
Matinicus
Delano
New England Deaconess Hospital
Department of Public Health Education
Simmons College
Boston
Grace Wilbur
Glidden Lewis wedding filed in Freeport office
Emerson B. Glidden of 7 Tarbox street marries Elizabeth A. Lewis of 481 Middle street on November 19 in Freeport with Rev. Hanley A. Bennett officiating. Glidden is son of Mrs Miranda J. Glidden and the late George S. Glidden. The bride is daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Winfield S. Cressey. Miss Marie Jack and Fred Jack of Washington street will attend as dinner guests at Thanksgiving hosted by Dr. and Mrs. Wilbur Brown of Lincoln street, Brunswick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John W. Gilmore
Emerson B. Glidden
Tarbox Street
Elizabeth A. Lewis
Middle Street
Freeport
Hanley A. Bennett
Glidden
Miranda J. Glidden
George S. Glidden
Winfield S. Cressey
Marie Jack
Fred Jack
Washington Street
Wilbur Brown
Lincoln Street
Brunswick
Bowdoinham Community Notes and Meetings
Sixteen members attended the Methodist Ladies aid at the parsonage, sewing done and plans made for a sale. Numerous residents and visitors are listed with movements, gatherings, and Thanksgiving visits, including Clara Fogg, Lena Cornish, Hazel Cornish, and Brunswick travelers. A boys and girls basketball team is forming, and multiple social events, visits, and trips are noted across Bowdoinham and nearby towns.
Trott speaks at New England conference in Boston
Raymond H. Trott of Providence, former Bath resident and Rhode Island Hospital Trust Co. vice president, spoke at the New England conference in Boston November 18 and 19 sponsored by the New England Council with six governors. He urged cooperation among the six states to expand industry, noting New England’s resources, craftsmanship, and leadership while warning against federal regulation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond H. Trott
Providence
R. I
Bath
New England
Hotel Statler
Boston
New England Council
Trott
Rhode Island Hospital Trust Co
Rhode Island
Local social notes from Bowdoinham and nearby towns
Mrs A J Vroom and a Freeport companion visited Mrs Annie Cobb on a day last week. Mrs Fred D Heath’s Lewiston niece visits for several weeks. Mrs Chester Hobart hosted her sister as a guest. Mr and Mrs A Frank Heath and Mr and Mrs George Ackley were in Upton Saturday. Chester Hobart shot a deer Monday while out hunting with Charles Blodgett. Mrs Tina Jack, visiting her son George in Hollis, has returned home.
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Bowdoinham Post Road
A. J. Vroom
Freeport
Annie Cobb
Fred D. Heath
Lewiston
Chester Hobart
A. Frank Heath
George Ackley
Upton
Charles Blodgett
Tina Jack
George
Hollis
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Senter's, Inc
Bradley
Morse High
Thomas B. Aldrich
Amerise Bourque
John Coombs
Maury H
Brewster G. Sedgwick Optometrist
Arthur Allen
Morse Auditorium
Norman Rogers
Gardiner
C. Guarrell
Rogers
Gardiner General Hospital
E. E. Barry
Edward E. Bairy
Wesley H. Lemont
FORD
Plymouth
NASH
Advance Auto Sales, Inc
DeSoto and
Plymouth Dealers
Elm Street
Bowdoinham
Methodist Ladies’ Aid
Roy Monroe
Dale
J. W. Bishop
R. D. Purington
Clara Fogg
Lena Cornish
Hazel
Emma Ferguson
Bowdeinham
John Gibson
Frances Merrill
Carrie Merrill
Coombs High School
Town Hall
Blue Romancers
Richmond
William Siegars
Mass
Frank Siegars
Bliss College
Coombs High
Armory
Auburn
Douglas
Coombs
Edith Wood
Hattie Andros
Sanford
Randall Andros
George Hamilton
Alvin Huntoon
Portland
Eleanor Webber
Ernest Millay
Reginald Dore
Fred Leavitt
Mary Dodge
Marion Curtis
Margaret Adams
George Fides
Erla Brown
Mount Carmel
Leon Dunklee
Charles B. Randall
St. Petersburg
Fla
Harold Hackett
Hampton
Hackett
Lawrence Hackett
Ralph Purington
Annie Mitchell
Charles White
Erle Brown
Fairfield
Rawson Kelley
Louise Calderwood
Barbara
Addie Trufant
Hall Denham
Carrie Lang
Richard Sparks
Carrie Kendall
Inez Gowell
Albert Seigars
Waterboro
Lang
Elmore
Merton
Robert Webber
Solon
Earle Palmer
Frank Palmer
Dover-Foxcroft
Palmer
J. N. Palmer
Harold Rollins
Edward Baker
Harold Woodbury
Ernest Frye
E. P. Kendall
Bay Road
Raymond Tibbetts
Donald Hackett
Mitchell
Alvin Purington
John Purington
Zina Maxwell
Roger Robinson
George Hackett
Linwood
Statler
Hattie Hackett
Emma Sturtevant
George Robinson
George Cutler
Jose
John Jewel
Wellesley
Josie Trish
Spear Sedgley
J. E. Allen
Samuel Wilders
Charles Wilder
H. B. Esmond
M.D. Bowdeinham
Opera House
John Boles
Jack Oakie
Lady
Charles Starrett
Robert Young
James Stewart
Myrna Loy
William Powell
Frances Farmer
Ray Milland
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