Local birthday party and social notes in Bath area
Master Donald Thayer celebrated his fifth birthday hosted by his uncle and aunt on Union Street Court. The event featured outdoor games and a pink yellow color scheme with a large five candle cake as guests named include Joe Fitzpatrick and many Thayers and Grant families. Numerous Bath residents are listed with visits, travels, weddings, and civic duties across Maine, New Hampshire, and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald Thayer
Kenneth Thayer
Union Street Court
Donald
Joe Fitzpatrick
John Trafton
Thaxter Trafton
Thornton Trafton
Mary Ellen French
Hydin Grant
Sally Grant
Elaine Pinkham
Jane Grant
Harold Pinkham
Stephen Thayer
Jeannette
Ann
Nathan Cohen
Donald Jewett
Winifred McFarland
Judith Stover
Alton Clark
Stephen Griffin
Charles Thayer
Bath area social notes highlight local visits and births
Mrs. James Dailey and Mrs. Lyle Halstead visit Bath relatives due to illness. Families celebrate arrivals, moves, and reunions including a baby girl Geraldine Grace born Aug 26, and Army service updates with Willis Roberts in India. Local trips span Brunswick, Portland, and Boston.
Royal Navy Men Help in Program for Grangers
A large West Bath Grange gathering featured a varied program led by Mrs William A Armstrong. Highlights included vocal performances by Bernice Sturtevant and a Hodgkins quartet, readings, dances, and a striking Hands Across the Sea tableau with Orrin Crosby in Air Corps uniform. The event closed with a grand march led by Eva Lemont and Royal Navy officer Binns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal Navy
West Bath Grange
William A. Armstrong
Bernice Sturtevante
Gerard Hodgkins
Lewis Palmer
Lewis Carter
Lewis Simmons
Aliss
Martin
Edwin Hemmingway
Reading
Arthur Packard
Grange
Alice Smith
Leonard Boucher
Marie Hamblett
Eawin W. Haggett
Grangers
Fred Rose
Binns
Tommy Lester
Ord Dstioner
Wcard
Vivian Whites
Jessie Spaulding
Army Air Corps
William Deehan
Girard Hodgkins
Uncle Sam
Orrin Crosby
United States Air Corps
Lester
John Lesko
USN
Maine State Guard
Louis Palmer
Sgt
Royden Haines
America
Everett Lemont
Song of the Pioneers
W_D Gallagher
Lizzie Haggett
Courtney Stover
Melvin Pratt
Eva Lemont
Bath Members Attend Regional Red Cross Parley
Representatives from Bath and 14 Southern Maine chapters met in Portland at Frye Hall for the regional conference. Highlights included a Junior Red Cross talk by Morse High freshman Knute Holmson and talks by Portland officials and Red Cross leaders on nursing, welfare, and war package efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Red Cross
Southern Maine
Portland
Frye Hall
Louis A. Dole
Loyal Sewall
R. S. Hitchcock
William Osborne
Knute Holmson
Red Cross
Carl C. Albee
Holmsen
Morse High School
Bath
Louise M. Brandon
Benjamin B. Sanderson
Peter T. Garden
North Atlantic
Gertrude Lyons
North Atlantic Service
J. Harrison Heckman
Herman Kiner
James G. Blaine
Maine
National
House of Representatives
Rotary Club Luncheon Hosts James Nelson Jr on Price Control
At the Rotary club luncheon held at Central church parish house, James Nelson Jr of the Price Control Administration spoke on price control and rationing. He urged a home front pledge, government schedules, and subsidized support to protect small and large producers during shortages.
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Rotary Club
Central Church Parish House
James Nelson, Jr
Nelson
Europe
Great Britain
Rupe Irvine
Rotary-Anns
Hotel Sedewick
George S. Herris
Interition
Rotary
Rupe
Bath Club
Teacher Miss Darrah Returns Home to Sangerville
Miss Alice Darrah, head of the Sangerville High School commercial department, returned Sunday afternoon after visiting her parents on Pine Street. Mrs D L Howard is also back at her Middle Street home from Memorial Hospital.
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Hubert McDonough
Dorchester
Mass
Thomas F. Reynolds
Upper Washington Street
Donald Hatch
Donna Lee
Lambert Park
Memorial Hospital
Hatch
Camp Devens
Nas
Bath Iron Works
Sheila Mae Owens
Ednar Owens
U.S.A
Loyall Sewall
Washington Street
Small Point
Gladys Comean
Spring Street
Payminster
Bath Iron Works Corp
Norfolk, Va
Robert C.yates
D. L. Howard
Middle Street
Charles T. Small
Gerald Thomas Small
Court Street
Maine General Hospital
Portland
Small
Yvette Picard
Topsham
Daniel Williams
Clara Hunt
New York City
Harry C. Stone
Geraldine Grace
Fessenden
Otis Munro
Turner's Court
Orrin Burns
State Street Hospital
Burns
Alice Darrah
Sangerville
George Darrah
Pine Street
Darrah
Sangerville High School
Memori] Hospital
A Soldier Speaks From the Front Lines of War
Marvin Gilliam of West Point in the United States infantry shares a poem about wartime fatigue and hope. The piece reflects anti war sentiment while urging victory over tyranny and a return to peace as the Axis powers fall. The poem ends with a vision of a world restored and children laughing in the streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marvin Gilliam
West Point
United State Infantry
The
Independent
Axis
God
Pre nuptial parties honor Evelyn Alice Young
A fall themed pre nuptial event at 510 Washington Street honored Evelyn Alice Young before her wedding to Cadet William Earl Raynes of Day's Ferry. Guests included relatives and coworkers from the New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. The couple will wed in Raleigh North Carolina with plans to occupy an Air Base apartment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evelyn H. Young
Alice Young
Washington Street
Raleigh
N. C
Miss Young
William Raynes
Roland Raynes
Day's Ferry
Morse High
David N. Heald
Evelyn Alice Young
William Earl Raynes
Muriel Raynes
Marjorie Knight
Evelyn Young
New England Telephone & Telegram Co. Exchange
Jeanette Jenkins
Doris Spinney
Priscilla Wood
Muriel Orum
Lois Kallman
Freda Tyler
Arline Waite
Arline Morrison
Clara Waite
Ruth Bennett
Fern’ Griffin
Mary Kobts
Carol Halil
Glenda Howard
Betty Howard
Shirley Farnham
Cadet Raynes
Shepard Street
Bath
Nate Young
Augusta
Telephone Exchange
Schools Boost in Stamp and Bond Sales in Bath
Bath schools report week and cumulative stamp and bond sales rising to 11394.11 dollars, up from 886.95 the previous year. High School leads weekly at 1771.50, with North Grammar and Central Grammar close behind, and various elementary schools posting smaller totals. The ceremony recorded the Raleigh wedding party for Cadet William Raynes, U S A F, with a list of attendees.
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Bath
Centre Grammar
North Gramar
Central Grammar
South Street
Nort Grammar
Cetral
Accumu
I !High
N. Gram
Jc. Gram
South St
N. Primary
Dike
Huse
Center
Weeks
Mitchell
Wash. St
Woolwich Soldier Returns From Leave In Pittsburgh
Paul Berry MM 2 c United States Navy has returned to Pittsburgh Pa after a ten day leave with his parents Mr and Mrs Alton C Berry of Woolwich Willing Workers of Montsweagh hold a supper Friday at Murphy Corner with baked beans and chicken pie on the menu Mont Sweag Willing Workers met with Mr Fred Soule for an all day session Rev Dr David L Wilson attended the Lincoln Association meeting in Wiscasset and helped in the ordination of Rev Robert H Heigham the Central church lay delegate was Howard Steen present with Mrs Steen Mrs Alice Soule and Mrs Edward Pinson
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Berry
Pittsburgh
Alton C. Berry
Woolwich
Montsweagh
Murphy’ Corner
Montsweag
Fred Soule
David L. Wilson
Wiscasset
Lincoln Association of Congregational Churches
Wiscasset Church
Robert H. Heigham
Centra Church
Howard Steen
Central Church
Steen
Alici Soule
Edward Pinson
Birthplace of Famous Ships Bath Maine 1943 shipbuilding pride
George W. McVay writes of Bath Maine as a historic shipbuilding center famed for rugged warships. The piece celebrates Bath’s white oak and hackmatack craft, the Shenandoah Roanoke and Liberty destroyers, and Bath’s continued output in World War II to aid the fight against the Axis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Bath
Kennebec
Shenandoah
Roanoke
George W. McVay
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Wayne
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Wollaston
Paul Pitman
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Hish Street
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Boston
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Oak Street
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Alna
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Skowhegan
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Williamsburg
Naval Hospital
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Buck
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Cyrus L. Purinton
Rumford
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Sagadahoc Ferry
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Gardiner
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Hyde Park Terrace
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Fred Naylor
Grand Chapter
O. E. S. of Maine
Westbrook
Frank Longfellow
Waterville
Turner’s Court
Bertram Willis
Academy Street
Lexington
Mess
Willis
Francis Murphy
Arthur Seekins
Ralph Seekins
Earl Pride
Milan Street
Henry W. Hanson
Lillian
Cumberland Center
Milton H. Douglas
York Street
Susan Black
Eugene McGrath
Wisseasset
Birch Point
James Dailey
Fitchburg
Lyle E. Halstead
George E. Sonia
Oliver Street
Sonia
M. Layden
Halstead
Jacksonville
Fla
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Idaho
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Carroll B. Hatch
York Beach
Ralph Hatch
Navy Yard
Arthur Wing
Saaron
Brunswick
Paul Moore
Betty
Briggs
Washington and
Beacon Streets
Taylor
Felix Gallant
Leo Gallant
John Moore
Irving Layton
West Bath
Layton
Ralph Dunton
Robinhood
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Angus Burden
Mr. Burden
Kista Hanson
Vermont
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Jordan Avenue
Belle B. Coffin
the Times
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A. A. Stott
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Unity
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Gail
Topsnam
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Park Street
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Drayton Road
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Western Avenue
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Boothbay Harbor
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Amesbury
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Ter
Thaddeus Roberts
Meadowway
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Savannah
Roberts
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United States Army
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Fe Relresamer
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Almira Jones
Victor
Ree
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Misse
Muriel Ora
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Leah Gallan
Lois Kallmann
Carol Hal Clara Waite
Barbara Kidde