Bath area notices and social visits reported
Local residents from Phippsburg to Bath and Woolwich are listed with visits, guests, and small events. Notable items include hospital trips, family get togethers, and social gatherings at farms, cottages, and clubs, with several trips to Portland and Augusta.
Bath and Rockland Musical Clubs Stage Public Concert
The second season concert by Les Camarades Musicaux of Bath and Rubinstein club of Rockland drew a large audience at the Rockland church venue. The program featured instrumental quartets, organ, piano, voices, and ensembles with praised soloists Mrs. Sturtevant Miss Leonard and Mr. Sprague, concluding with a grand finale by both clubs.
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Les Camarades Musicaux
Bath
Rubinstein Club
Rockland
Rockland Grestions
Sa Street
The
Courier-Gazette
Ramsay
Mrs. Sturtevant
Mr. McPherson
Miss Leonard
Sprague
Rubinstein
Schultz
Carl Albee
Francis McPherson
Nettie Averill
Aria
O Mio
Fernando
Donizetti
Kathleen Leonard
Fred Sturtevant
Fred Cary Clifford Smith
Albee
Romanza
Mozart
Mildred Havener
Gladys Grant
Muriel Crie
Berry
Pater Noster Verdi
Corliss Quintet Routs Grace in YMCA Church League Return
Corliss basketball squad returns to YMCA Church League after years away and defeats Grace 31 to 6. St Mary’s team dominates Elm 43 to 9 after a slow start, Universalist edges Hilltoppers 29 to 23, and Beacon beats Wesley 22 to 18. Mrs Calderwood and Mrs Hill host St Mary’s guild meeting organizing Advent boxes and Thanksgiving baskets for families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corliss Church
Grace
St. Mary’s
Universalist
Hilltoppers
Beacon
Wesley
Herbert C. Calderwood
Fred D. Hill
St. Mary's Guild of
Ish House
Y. M. C. A. Church League PC
St. Mary’s Seno Ette
Universalist Seunerae
Corliss Cerer
Elm
Grace Ae
Slavies
Central
Corliss
Popham Beach Notes From Bath and Surroundings
Residents and visitors from Bath Long Island and Portland frequent Popham area sites. Lighthouse keepers and family members travel to Bath, Portland, and Georgetown amid gale weather and ice hazards on the Kennebec crossing. Capt Eugene Osgood sustains a thumb injury requiring medical care in Bath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Like
Boothbay- Ae
Luke
East Boothbay
Waldo Weston
Pud
Bath
Page Wyman
Phillip
Laurence
Katherine Mullaney
Park Street
Margaret Stover
Mr. Stover
Pauline Morong
Lisbon Falls
Arthur Hill
Henry Sterling
Seguin Island
Stephen Etnier
Gilbert’s Head
Long Island
Portland
Shirley Morong
Robert
Elizabeth Oliver
George Oliver
Marguerite McNulty
L. J. Oliver
Frank Oliver
Myra Scott
Perley Chandler
Moses T. Chandler
Dora Bridges
Capt
Walter Sprague
Richard
Geneva Moody
Eva Dobbin
Karl Hentz
Eleanor Lowell
Alvah O. Light
John Carter
Woolwich
Popham School
Mr. Carter
Helena Oliver
Spruceville
Francis Luke
Frank Scott
Worcester
Scott
Edgar
Christopher H. Marr
Bernard Carleson
Parker Head
Hiram Stevens
Millard Urquehart
Clarence Perkins
Norman
Stanley
Arlene
Virginia
McNulty
Eugene W. Osgood
Popham Light
Floyd Bridges
Osgood
Morse High adopts 4 3 schedule returning from 5 2 plan
At a board meeting the Morse high school switches to a four period morning and three period afternoon day, restoring the 4 3 plan from the 5 2 arrangement. The tardy bell will ring at 8 20 a m starting Monday and the general hygiene program backed by the Parent Teachers associations gains approval. Eleanor Thebeau sewing and knitting class at Bailey Evening school is reinstated after a temporary closure with attendance concerns.
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Board of Education
Morse High School
Eleanor Thebeau
Bailey
Two more trawlers for Bath Iron Works
Bath Iron Works Corp. closed a contract with Frank J. O'Hara of Boston for two diesel propelled steel beam trawlers of Bath design. Similar to prior Bath builds for the Boston owner, they will have more power and be named Villanova and Jean d Arc.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Iron Works Corp
Frank J. O'Hara
Boston
Bath Iron Works
Boston College
Holy Cross
Villanova
Jean d’ Arc
Frates Takes Lead In Eagles Bowling Averages
Dick Frates raises his average to 100.9 for six weeks, overtaking Pete Oliver in the Eagles Bowing circuit. Oliver trails close behind near the hundred mark, with Bob Burns rising to third as Wally Jones drops to fourth. Eddie Kenniston holds fifth as Ralph Boardman nears 90, while Walter McElman Harry Farrell and Frank King sit in the high 80s and eye 90.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colonial Club
Jewett Brothers
Allie
Don
Johnny Levyn
A. Jewett
Dick Hersom
Arthur Pratt
John Hayes
Horace Morse
Herb Douglas
Francis Parry
Doc” Berry
Dud Leavitt
Merritt Mitchell
Dave Mullin
Harry MacDonald
Clint Wilson
Jewett
Etter Eete Dees Levya
Jewett Etter Reer
Hersom
Pratt
As Hayes
Morse Seer Tee
Ease
Douglas Pee E Reese
Parry Eee
Berry Eae
Leavitt Ete
Mitchell Neem Eee
Reese
Mullin
MacDonald
Wilson
Ramsay
Stinson
Black Ce
Burden Re
Toothaker Fee
Reed
Small
McCole
H. Mayo
M. Trott
F. Turner
Hi, Brown
D. Williams
Dick Frates
Pete” Oliver
Frates
Oliver
Bob Burns
Wally Jones
Eddie Kenniston
Ralph Boardman
Walter McElman
Harry Farrell
Frank King
Bath Iron Works Starred In Time Finance Review
Time magazine’s Finance and Business feature lauds Bath Iron Works and President William S Newell. The piece traces the Kennebec shipyards from 1607 through the Ammon ram Katahdin episode, the United States Shipbuilding Corporation era, Schwab and Hyde ownership, wartime operations, and Newell’s revival including yachts like Corsair and naval work such as the Lamson destroyer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Iron Works Corp
Williams. Newell
Finance and Business” Department
Time
Kennebec
Virginia
American
Popham
Bath Iron Works
Bath
Kennebec River
Thomas W. Hyde
Congress
United States Shipbuilding Corporation
Charles M. Schwab
Johns. Hyde
Mr. Newell
J. P. Morgan
Naval Construction
Lamson
United States Navy
Newell
Nye
Congressional Committee
Washington, D. C
Bradbury White Couple Wed in Auburn St Josephs Lewiston
Miss Nathalie V Bradbury of Auburn and Ernest J White of Auburn and formerly Bath married in St Josephs church Lewiston with Rev John F Nelligan officiating Attendants were Miss Emily White and Clifford White The couple will reside in Auburn after a wedding breakfast hosted by the bridegrooms parents The bride is a Bath native and Auburn school alumna The groom works at Leighton Heel Co
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nathalie V. Bradbury
Auburn
Ernest J. White
Bath
St. Joseph's Church
Lewiston
John F. Nelligan
Emily M. White
Clifford J. White
Mamie Pilote
Frank T. White
Union Street
White
John Bradbury
St. Jos
Leighton Heel Co
Winnegance Rescue: Morse Saves Drowning Brothers From Ice
Winnegance Lake scene Thursday afternoon saw Donald and John Williams age 11 and 9 plunged through thin ice. Morse reached the smaller boy neck deep and the other armpit high. With a paddle improvised from a boat tied to shore, Morse safely hauled them to shore where first aid was given. The rescue is seen as a determent to others venturing on fragile ice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winfield W. Morse
Donald
John Williams
Arthur Williams
Winnegance Lake
Mr. Morse
Winne- Bance
Williams Brothers
P. O. Rogers
Burleigh Williams
Morse
Squaw Club
Robert P. Manson
Frank Perry
Regular hockey rink installed at South End project
The Rotary club rink built by Morse High School’s Manual Training department at Goddard playground costs about 350 dollars and will be flooded to ice over the next day or two. NYA workers under David Mullin assembled it in sections and will bank and flood for skating. Police and residents urged cooperation after damage to the prior rink and plans for a Bath hockey club and Winter Carnival use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rotary Club
Morse High School Manual Training Department
Goddard
Bowdoin College
National Youths’ Administration
David P. Mullin
NYA
Goddard Playground
Francis A. Winchenbach
Bath
Maine
Mullin
Goddard Pond
White Ribboners Hold Regular Meeting in Nazarene Church
At the W C T U meeting in the Church of the Nazarene Miss Marjorie Stover led the devotional on Christ for the World Carrie H Trott and Nellie Brown outlined the Frances E Willard Centenary Plan with The Forward Program and The W C T U Five Year Five-Point Program A business session followed with Mrs Nellan S Stover presiding Plans were made for the Hold-Fast meeting on November 30 and one December meeting on December 15 Thanksgiving guests include Mr and Mrs Fred D Hill of High Street and their three children Kenneth Langdon Elizabeth Louise and Walter Jr plus Mr and Mrs M Langdon Hill and two children Marion and Richard of Falmouth Foreside
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilbur Raymond
New , Mass
George
Veterans’ Hospital
W. Albert Thompson
Jed Hallowell
Bath
Nathan W. Eaton
Harold Shaw
Shaw
Woolwich
Emma Perry
Lottie Cobb
Bowdeinham
Portland
Ralph Robinson
Pauline Rogers
Augusta
Phyllis Eaton
Willifred Brown
Robinhood
Harry Gilmore
Edwin Hogan
Léavitt Cottage
Fred A. Oliver
Lena
George W. Larrabee, Jr
William B. Perry
South Eliot
Walter J. Pierce
Cora Campbell
Linwood C. Feere
Bertha Nickerson
Campbell Farm
William R. Donnell
William T. Donnell
Mary Elizabeth
Billy
Howard
Bowker
Louise Garth
Boston
Sebasco Estates
Mattie Cutting
Dromore
Nellie Cutting
Leonard Bickford
Howard S. Bowker
Elfreda Perkins
Brunswick
Irvin A. Atwood
Howard A. Atwood
Alice M. Gilliam
James A. Gilliam
West Point
David L. Wilson
Central Church
Walter Keyes
Helen
New York
Howard Atwood
Bangor
George W. Larrabee
Gardiner Rogers
Meadowbrook
Harry Williams
Thatcher Pinkham
Church of the Nazarene
Marjorie Stover
Carrie H. Trott
Nellie Brown
Frances E. Willard
Nellan S. Stover
Fred D. Hill
High Street
Kenneth Langdon
Elizabeth Louise
Walter, Jr
M. Langdon Hill
Marion
Richard
Falmouth
Edna Hoyt Fifth Master Brings Last Maine Schooner Home
Captain William F. P. Plummer returns to Searsport with the Edna Hoyt the last five masted schooner afloat. The vessel unloaded 2100 tons of acid phosphate and 100 tons of oyster shells and sailed from Searsport to Norfolk for coal bound for Martinique.
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William FP
Rsport
Winship Street
Edna Hoyt
Searsport
Baltimore
Norfolk
Martinique
French West Indies
Seven Seas
Maine
Plummer
Vineyard Haven
Robert Rickson
Bangor Daily News
Provincetown
Bristol
Thomaston
Penobscot Bay
Bangor
Josephine McQuesten
Ida S. Dow
W. B. Tyler
Melrose
W. B. Robinson
Boston
Harold G. Foss
Superior Trading and Transportation Co
Bath Delegation Joins State Boys Conference in Waterville
The Bath delegation led by William C. Perkins left Friday to attend the State Boys Conference in Waterville. Over 700 delegates from Maine towns gathered for sessions featuring Dr. Norman V. Peale and discussions using motion picture films to explore personal religion and character education. The Bath group included delegates and observers, with final activities Sunday led by Rev. Harold Ruoppe and an address by C. D. McKean.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Waterville
William C. Perkins
Norman V. Peale
Marble Collegiate Church
New York City
Peale
Dr. Peale
Pres. Johnson
Colby College
The
Cobbesseecontee
Milliken
Committee On Social Values In
Roger Albright
Maine
Clyde E. Russell
Winslow
Norman Mathews
George Bucknam
Wilfred J. LaPoint
Bar Harbor
Floyd Maynard
Camden
Kenneth Coombs
Nathan Canfield
Belfast
C. Arnold Calahan
Bangor
Hugh Smith
Herman Berley
Orono
Herbert Brown
Herbert Newman
Chester Hall
Portland
Sam McCall
Augusta
A. D. Gillingham
Thomas Cleaver
Skowhegan
Mrensel Colby
South Paris
Walter J. Rideout
Hartland
Herbert C. Libby
P. H. Lush
Oakland
Warner Gifford
John Brush
Richmond Hayden
Harold Metzner
E. C. Flood
Percy F. Crane
John Morrison
L. L. Campbell
Fairfield
Phillip Sayles
Bethel
Melvin Harter
Seal Harbor
Everett Rockwell
W. A. Kelley
Frederick Smith
Joseph Anderson
Auburn
A. I. Oliver
Clarence Clark
No. Windham
James Hayes
Arthur A. Beale
Department of Justice
Manchester
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Pittsburgh
Baltimore
Detroit
Oklahoma City
New Poe City
Jacksonville
Fla
Bosmn
Harold Ruoppe
Boston University
Ruoppe
Robert L. Sutherland
Robert E. Minott
John W. Coombs
D. Leroy Lord, Jr
John J
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Phippsburg
Colonial Bowlers
Chester Plant
Wallace Plant
Reginald T. Lombard
South Portland
Jack
Squire Clifford Smith
John Sanborn
Carleton Rice
Sturtevant
Clifford Smith
Faith Berry
Bertha Luce
Robert Hatch
Earl Storer
Stevenson Mesdames
Hatch
Holman
Leonard
Sanborn
Rice
Cary
Mr. Smith
Delibes
Universalists
Popham Beach
EA League
Pete Oliver
Eagles’ League
Frates Eee
Ewe
Rmee Eeeeseese
Oliver Sete
Wen Nnae
Eset Ivereese Doseeee
Jones Kenniston
Ere
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Boardman CP Ec
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McElman
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Boyce
Butler Wensecooes Gseeesnweeee
Davis
Goodwin
Rines
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Dauphin Eee Eeeerseeve
2Nd Tttee Eeereees
Robshaw
Boardman
Ears Reac Eareeree
Crocker Ttt Eee Eeerseserreene
F. Fortier
M. Skaling
Teme
Emt E Eee Reses
I. Durgan
Sete
Reres Peste Eereee
F. Stover
West Assssdoreee
E. Metcalf
Cee
Mee
Eee Ieee Eeereaee
R. Milliken
Bradbury
Charles E. Hewitt, Jr
South End
Edna’ Hoyt
Genesia Chapter
Arthur M. Berry
Lula P. Herbert
Genesia
O.E.S
Masonic Temple
Ethel Blake
Carl B. Swanton
Della T. Adams
Eula E. Morang
Frederick Chapman
Carleton W. Andrews
Annie R. Hall
Fannie F. Wilson
Caroline G. Carpenter
Andrews
Mary F. Leonard
Audrey White
Young People’s Fellowship
Episcopal Diocese of
Christ Church
Gardiner
Edward Ainsworth
Merrill Cousens
Robert Trask
Maynard Carroll
Shirley White
Dorothy Adams
Barbara Fisher
Littlefield School
West Bath
Vassalboro
Elliot Williams
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