Golden wedding anniversary celebrated in Wiscasset
Mr and Mrs Benjamin H Crossman longtime town residents were honored for their 1891 marriage with open house at their daughter Mrs Charles E Mason Bradford Street and a family gathering with 13 grandchildren and two great grandchildren. The couple's family and local notables joined in the celebration with church and lodge ties noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benjamin H. Crossman
Charles E. Mason
Mason
Bradford Street
Crossman
Wiscasset Methodist Church
Lincoln Lodge of
Masons
Red Men
Pocahontas
Wilbur Cowley
Philathea Class Plans Luncheon and Supper
Corliss Street Church Philathea class schedules an all day Re search class lunch on Wednesday in the vestry and a Monday Sterling Bible class supper. Mrs. Earl H. Morang chairs the lunch with aides Mrs. Truman J. King and Mrs. Emerson B. Glidden. Mrs. Orris I. Ames chairs the kitchen for the supper with aides Mrs. F. Arthur Berry Mrs. Edward G. Waters and Mrs. Raymond Palmer. Dining room hosts are Mrs. Roy L. Lutz Mrs. LaForrest G. Coombs and Mrs. Alden Denham Jr.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philathea
Corliss Street Church
Sterling Bible
Earl H. Morang
Truman J. King
Emerson B. Glidden
Orris I. Ames
F. Arthur Berry
Edward G. Waters
Raymond Palmer
Roy L. Lutz
LaForrest G. Coombs
Alden Denham, Jr
Foster M. Pratt
Robert King
West Bath Grange Boosters Night Draws 100 Plus
More than one hundred attended the Annual Boosters night at West Bath Grange on Monday evening. Mrs. Fred K. Sturtevant led the program with a Carver's Orchestra dance segment and refreshments afterward. Participants included Miss Claire Grainger Franklin Howe Walter Olsen Mrs. Lawrence Palmer Mrs. Lewis Palmer Linwood Piper Frederick P. Morton Edward Jenks Mrs. David Henderson Mrs. Bird A. Shellenbarger Charles Genthner Miss Marie McDonald Lewis Palmer and Misses Dorothy and Jeanette Williams. Genthner will oversee the next contest program on Monday Oct. 6 the eighth in the series with dancing following.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath Grange
Fred K. Sturtevant
Carver
Claire Grainger
Franklin Howe
Walter Olsen
Lawrence Palmer
Lewis Palmer
Linwood Piper
Frederick P. Morton
Edward Jenks
David Henderson
Bird A. Shellenbarger
Charles Genthner
Marie McDonald
Dorothy
Jeannette Williams
Still Alarm Fire at Bath Iron Works
Engine four answered a still alarm at Bath Iron Works Corp at 2 15 Tuesday afternoon when sparks from a blacksmiths temporary shack cut up by Ellis Snodgrass contracting firm workers in the north yard. The plant whistle alarm brought the yard fire department and engine four crew with a booster pump to control the blaze. No damage resulted.
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Engine Four
Bath Iron Works Corp
Sparks Eyon
Ellis Snodgrass
West Bath Sewing group resumes Red Cross work meeting
The West Bath Sewing group held its first work meeting of the season at the West Bath grange with an all day session to restart Red Cross clothing projects. A noon dinner was served by a committee. The gathering included numerous members and guests from nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath Sewing Group
West Bath Grange
Red Cross
Harry Peterson
William Powers
Herbert Simpson
Grange Hall
Fred Bubier
Maynard Carlton
Courtney Stover
Powers
Peterson
Simpson
William Kerrigan
Hazel Whorf
Annie Henderson
Marjorie Cavanaugh
Fred W. Larrabee
Fred Rose
Annie Williams
A. B. Snow
Bubier
Leon Felker
Jerry Haile
J. E. Mayo
Carolyn Rogers
Insurance Firm Receives Gold Sign for 25 Years
James B. Drake & Sons, local insurance agents, were presented with a gold sign by The American Insurance Co. of Newark, N. J., in recognition of over 25 years representing the company. Paul B. Sommers, president of The American, sent a congratulatory letter praising loyalty and friendship. Drake & Sons have represented the firm since Sept. 28, 1916, and are wished continued success.
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James B. Drake & Sons
The
American Insurance Co
Newark
N. J
Paul B. Sommers
Sommers
Blake couple celebrate 34th wedding anniversary
Howard E. Blake and Mrs. Blake traveled to Portland for the 35th Great Sun Council Fire of the Degree of Pocahontas while observing the 34th anniversary of their wedding. They wed October 1, 1907, at First Baptist Church. Both are active in local Masonic and D of P circles with extensive family ties across Maine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard E. Blake
Blake
Portland
Great Sun Council
First Baptist Church
George F. Roullaird
Masonic Order
Ramona Council
D of P
Genesta
Myrtle Lodge
U. O
L O. L
Sons of Veterans
Lincoln
Nebraska
Lucelia Tarbox
Franklin P. Tarbox
Westport
Willard Clifford
Topsham
Dennis Tarbox
Mechanic Falls
Rodney Tarbox
Woolwich
Arnold Tarbox
Massachusetts
Mr. Blake
Nettie Blake
Roslindale
Mass
Litchfield Allen announce engagement
Capt and Mrs William S Blair of Washington street announce the engagement of Alma E Allen to Leonard E Litchfield. Alma is superintendent of St Andrew's hospital Boothbay Harbor and a Morse High and Mount Auburn School of Nursing alumna. Leonard a Bath Street native and Union Iron Works test engineer in San Francisco holds a Maine chemical engineering degree cum laude. The couple plan to marry in October.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William S. Blair
Washington Street
Alma E. Allen
Leonard E. Litchfield
Miss Allen
St. Andrew's Hospital
Boothbay Harbor
William H. Allen
Woolwich
Morse High School
Mount Auburn School of Nursing
Cambridge
Mass
Litchfield
Harry E. Litchfield
Bath Street
Union Iron Works
San Francisco
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp
Kents Hill Seminary
University of Maine
California
Hyde Windlass Co
Selective Service Board Calls 16 Draftees for October 13
Local Board No. 1 issued its sixteenth call listing draftees for departure on October 13. Names include Robert R. Reno Bath Guy F. Coolen Topsham Orrin S. Martin Richmond Harold F. Babb Bath and others. A Maine man claims a bear attacked his hive, then he shot a 200 pound bear and collected a $10 bounty, settling a debt.
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Selective Service
Robert R. Reno
Bath
Guy F. Coolen
Topsham
Orrin S. Martin
Richmond
Harold F. Babb
Brunswick
Robert D. Cates
Herbert E. Blakney, Jr
Homer Farthing
South Portland
Gordon E. Pinkham
Daniel E. Poulos
Leon Tervey
Anson
Hervey
Expanded training wing opens at Aubert Hall in chemistry fields
A new wing of Aubert Hall was dedicated Friday with expanded facilities for training and research in chemistry chemical engineering and pulp and paper technology. Faculty students alumni and members of the Maine Chemical Society and the Maine New Hampshire Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry attended a two day session on campus.
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Maine
Aubert Hall
American Chemical Society
Maine-New Hampshire
Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry
Woolwich and Bath Baptists Unite in Joint Service
A union service united Bath area Baptist churches for a baptism at the Bath church. Community groups like Willing Workers and Day's Ferry plan suppers to raise funds for Christian service while neighborhood clubs hold meetings and visitors arrive from surrounding towns for services and social events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baptist Church
Bath
Anna Soule
Day's Ferry
Union For Christian Service
Hollis Leeman
Nequasset
Personal notices from Bath and vicinity
Mrs E Melvin Pratt of Spring street is ill and at home under a physician’s care. Norman McDonald of Waltham Mass visits Bath with the Carrolls of Washington. Ambrose Curran, chief machinist on the ice cutter Kickapoo, is a patient at Baltimore Marine Hospital for five weeks. his wife recently visited. Mrs Albert H Thompson returns from Orono after a week with Mr and Mrs Phelan Junkins former Bath residents. Mr Thompson accompanied her from Orono. Beulah Rebekah lodge Richmond officers to be installed by Carolyn Thompson district deputy president and her marshal Queen Esther Rebekah lodge Bath. installation marks Thompson’s first in that role. Supper at the grange hall around 6 30.
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Viola Adams
Nellie Munsey
Ruth E. Leighton
Church School
First Congregational Church
A. J. Myer
James A. Bimson
Bath and
Wiscasset
Carleton Lowell
Fred Hayward
Ruth R. J. Steussy
Bath
Mary Hobson
George Bemis
Carolyn S., Varney
Grace L. Knight
Quebec
Charles E. Cowley
New Hampshire
Vermont
Frederick Tripp
Chehaven
Benjamin Adams
Union Street
Bernard Seamon
Brookline
Mass
Inez Sherman
Federal Street
Alice Fulton
Mae Flanders
New York
Bradford- Sortwell-Wright American Legion Post
George Gavett
Neil Due
Walter Shaw
Carol
Westbrook
Harold Sherman
Earle Lewis
Gibbs House
Lewis
Frank B. Adams
William B. Lewis
Phyliss Reed
Thelma Berry
Bradford-Sortwell-Wright, A. L
Grace Crowe
Louise Heiffer
Lynn
James J. Keefe
Gardiner Rond
John Blagdon
North Edgecomb
Calvin Carey
Blagdon
Eames
Clarence Race
Hale Pulsifer
Eddy Cottage
East Edgecomb
Locust Valley
N.Y
Eugene McGrath
Nova Scotia
Alfred Cargill
Kermit
Cargill
Agnes Cargill
Washington
Maine
Courtney Stover
Nazarene Church
Rock Hill Inn
George Sullivan
Betty
George, Jr
Bingham
L. D. Rogers
Hayden Rogers
Nancy
Charles Haggett
West Bath
Henry Donnell
Brunswick
E. C. Donnell
Roland Bailey
Waterville
George Gainsley
John Preble
Lemuel Preble
Walter Libby
Nequasset
Bath Memorial Hospital
Clifford Peck
Waldo P. Hawthorne
Cummington
Charles Haley
Lincoln Houdlette
Beltran Crocker
Paul
Richard
Patricia
Sagadahoc Ferry
Rangeley Lake
Donald Leavitt
Donald, Jr
Leavitt
Lee Merry
Gilbert Genthner
Barbara
Woolwich
George Hathorne
Genthner
Mary Cameron
Washington Street
Weston Bousfield
Mansfield
Conn
Cyril Bousfield
Day's Ferry
John N. Palmer
Woolwich Methodist Church
Bowdoinham
Nequasset Methodist Church
Day's Ferry Congregational Church
Sagadahock Ferry
Herbert F. Milligan
The
Churches of Maine
First Baptist Church
Franklin W. Johnson
Colby College
Mark A Rich
New York City
Mildred C. Widber
Boston
Herman J. Sweet
Chicago
Paul L. Vogt
Washington, D. C
Marget Winchester
Max H. Webster
Burlington
Mervin M
E. Melvin Pratt
Spring Street
Norman McDonald
Waltham
Harry J. Carroll
Ambrose M. Curran
Blind Crossing
Marine Hospital
Baltimore
Curran
Albert H. Thompson
Upper Washington Street
Orono
Phelan O. Junkins
Junkins
Thompson
Brookline Wedding Unites Mollie Stewart and Joseph Read
Miss Mollie Stewart of Brookline Mass and Joseph Read of New Haven Conn were married September 27 at Harvard Congregational Church Brookline. The ceremony featured a Lohengrin march and ivory satin gown with a reception in the parish house. Over 100 guests attended and plans call for residence in New Haven after a wedding trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mollie Stewart
Brookline
Mass
Kennebec Point
Joseph Read
New Haven
Conn
Harvard Congregational Church
Stewart
Read
Carroll Deering
Elizabeth
Harry Stone
Lewiston
Gail Whitehouse
Children's Library of
Arthur Maxwell
Pearl Perry
Walter Quance
Evelyn
Mr. Brown
Auburn
Pollack
Adams
Miss Howard
Bath
Adelaide Hinckley
Maurice Burns
Birthday Outing for Topsham Citizen
A Sunday afternoon gathering at the Rock Hill Inn in West Bath celebrated Percy E. Marriner of Topsham turning 64. The group enjoyed a clam bake, a seaplane ride for Marriner, and foliage views from the air, with several attendees taking rides and returning to walks and water adventures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Percy E. Marriner
Rock Hill
New Meadows
Rock Hill Inn
West Bath
Topsham
Fred W. Larrabee
Marriner
Peje
Larrabee
Walter Larrabee
Percy Marriner
Norman Marriner
Harry S. Wallace
Herbert Anderson
Herbert, Jr
Leburton D. Sheldon
This City
Scott Maxson
Edgar Murphy
Fred L. Williams
Katherine Corrigan
Portland
Bath Men Attend Trawler Launching
The 60 foot trawler Holy Cross was launched in semi dark ness at the Maine Ship building Corp. yard. It is the seventh of 10 vessels for F. J. O'Hara & Sons of Boston. Sponsor Miss Gertrude Dolan of Boston attended with Holy Cross President Rev. Joseph R. N. Maxwell and Bath Iron Works leaders William S. Newell and Archibald Main. Also present were former Gov. Louis J. Brann, Arthur R. Greenleaf, and Edward J. Bran lent U.S. District Attorney Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holy Cross
South Portland
Maine Shipbuilding Corp
F. J. O'Hara & Sons
Boston
Gertrude Dolan
Joseph R. N. Maxwell
William S. Newell
Archibald Main
Bath Iron Works Corp
Louis J. Brann
Arthur R. Greenleaf
Edward J. Branlent
U.S
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Charles J. DiPerri
Alvin W. Kernstead
Fred R. Fulton
Samuel J. Sewall
Charles Pomeroy
Elinor Pomeroy
Greenlawn
Turner Gregoire
Maine Teachers’ Association
Winona Leavitt
Frank H. Gray
Pemaquid
Frederick Pennoyer
West Boothbay Harbor
William Frye
Lon Jewett
Lillian Nash
Damariscotta
Harvey. Pease
Burlington, Vt
Marlene Washburn
Lincoln Street
Priscille Byrant
Arthur Leland Byrant
Robert Ashley Condon
St. Philip's Church
Stanley Dodge
White Mountains
Gray
Maine Central
Roy R. Marston
Vermont Pharmaceutical Association
Richard Rines
Edgar Smith
Newcastle
John B. Downey
Lee and
Churchill Streets
Norris A. Miller
Register of Deeds
John Riley
Gibbs
F. W. Burleigh
J. E. White
Lubec
Eastport
Tom Wilmot
Frederick H. Burleigh
Montreal
Pittsburgh
Penn
Oscar Bailey
Alna Road
Cyril Grant
Gorham
Grant
Todd-Bath Iron Works
William Dickinson
Sandy Creek
N. Y
Alvin W. Keirstead
Main Street
X. C. Gaimont
Oakland
Mary Warren
Martha Warren
A. H. Durgin
Gaimont
Maine Central Railroad
C. D
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Ferry
Everett
Corliss Street
Bath Iron Works
Bath Insurance Firm
Iron Works
Litchfield-Allen
Selective Service Board
Eben Dana
Bessie Hunt
Gilbert
Frank Becker
George Cotter
Chelsea
Becker Cottage
Nequasset Lake
Morton Baker
Ida _ Beals
Flossie Beals
Harvey P. Hathorne
Rangeley Lakes
Everett Rice
Jean
South Windham
Mr. Rice
Minnie Rice
J. N. Palmer
Alice
Miss Ames
Bowdeinham
Palmer
J. R. Terry
Haverhill
Hall Inn
Brooks Terry
W. T. Grant
Phyllis Gilpatrick
Boothbay
Fred Rice
Harold Shaw
G. W. Shaw
Moatsweag
Loring D. Small
Wilbert and
Dana
Charles Bates
Beachmont
Sabine
Frank J. Hunt
Joan
Leon Eaton
Leonard M. Lord
Fitts Street
Ethel Blake
R. N
Maxine Walker
Russell J. Boyd
William O’connell
Samuel P. Buck
Buck
Charles Chase
Charlotte Buck
Carrie Hathorne
Mason Carter
Hazel
Sarah Bagley Wright
World Emergency Fund
Anna
Bernice Soule
Irene Spinney
Moatsweag Baptist Church
Jean and
Margaret Gowdey
Central Baptist Church
Melvin Howe
Jon
Richard Baker
Arlington
David G. Reed
Guy Buzzy
Sanford
Frank J. Walker
Earl Gainsley
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