Richmonds Yiows Club Plans Local Programs and Scrap Drive
The Richmond Yiows club held a supper at the Methodist church with new officers presiding. Plans for the year include monthly program committees and a scrap drive chaired by Lion Charles B. Day, funded by donor choice. Booster Night featured Enterprise and Progressive granges with readings, tableaux, and talks led by local officials and visiting grangers. Funeral services were held for James W. Gibbs, who died September 28, survived by family and friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond Yiows Club
Methodist Church
Lion Charles B. Day
Civilia
Corson Lady Returns Home From Visit to Sisters
Mrs Emma Corson returns to Corinth after visiting her sisters Mrs Leroy Robbins and Mrs Augustus Good. Middle Bridge school elected officers for the School Improvement League Albert Robbins president Ronal Brackley vice president Barbara Rittall treasurer Katherine Beckwith secretary. A program under Katherine Beckwith seven grade. One visitor attended. Mrs Alfred Preble of Bangor visited her brother William Rittall. Pupils work on salvage canvass until Oct 15 after school hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma Corson
Leroy Robbins
Augustus Good
Corinth
Middle Bridge School
School Improvement League
Albert Robbins
Ronal Brackley
Barbara Rittall
Katherine Beckwith
Alfred Preble
Bangor
William Rittall
Local Flower Blooms Surprise Miss Payson After Ten Years
Miss Edna M. Payson of Rockland entertained Saturday night. A third blossom of her night blossoms opened, the first time since ten years that more than two blossoms appeared in a year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edna M. Payson
Rockland
Miss Payson
Winter Street Junior Church Revives Fireside Club
Winter Street Junior Church members voted to revive the Fireside club after two years. it will meet next Sunday in the men's parlor to organize. Officers elected include John R. Kimble as moderator and Mrs. John R. Kimble as clerk. a large list of deacons ushers and social and service committees were named with several graduates and parishioners highlighted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winter Street Junior Church
Winter Street Congregational Church
Winter Street Fireside Club
John R. Kimble
Linna Marie Purdue
Arthur Brown
Bruce Fulton
Roswell Haskell
Warren A. Higgins
John F. Cooke, Jr
Robert Huse
Horace Morse, Jr
Joseph Swanton
Kenneth Wilson
Gerda Langbehn
Alice Lorraine Purdue
Mary Morse
Martha Pratt
Jean Small
Verna Wallace
Pearl Hathorne
Natalie Perkins
Philip Burns
Morse Faculty Coach Stutz Addresses Rotary Meeting
Stanley J. Stutz, new Morse faculty member in charge of basketball, spoke at the Hotel Sedgwick luncheon to outline training, fundamentals, and team posture essentials. He recalled Rhode Island’s high school and Madison Square Garden national tournament play and all American selections. Next Monday’s Rotary meeting will include a Ladies Night program at 6 30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morse
Stanley J. Stutz
Hotel Sedgwick
Nason Smith
Rotarians
Sedgwick
Bath Pilgrim Fellowship discusses Lou Gehrig life talk
The Bath Pilgrim Fellowship of Central church met Sunday evening at six in the parish house. Kenneth Hill led worship. Richard Andrews spoke on Lou Gehrig, idol of baseball, as the first of a series on great lives. Rev. Raymond G. Putnam spoke on Good Sportsmanship and Life. Addison Burbank led the business meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Pilgrim Fellowship
Central Church
Kenneth Hill
Richard Andrews
Lou Gehrig
Ormand Murrell
Brown University
Raymond G. Putnam
Addison Burbank
Adkins Webb Marriage Returns Filed in Ranger
Marriage returns filed in the office of City Clerk Chesley L. Hutchins record Calvary Adkins U S N and Miss Ruby G Webb. Jary public officiated Friday with witnesses Lafayette A Dickson Jr and Joseph Thibodeau. Both natives of Ranger West Virginia, bride’s groom son of Spencer Adkins and the late Armilda Watts Adkins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chesley L. Hutchins
Calvary Adkins
U.S.N
Ruby G. Webb
Jary
Lafayette A. Dickson, Jr
Joseph Thibodeau
Ranger
W. Va
Spencer Adkins
City
Armilda (Watts) Adkins
Georgetown announces Marie Woodbury to Montgomery Smith wedding
Georgetown friends report the engagement of Marie Woodbury, daughter of Clarence Byron Hill, to Montgomery Meigs Smith with a September 30 ceremony at Christ Church Cambridge Mass. Bible readings and a church service at First Baptist followed by communion frame the townwide notices and social events.
Chief Air Warden Publishes Blackout Violator List
Chief Air Raid Warden Ralph Bragg warned harsher punishment for blackout violators after tests. He said lights found burning will be reported publicly. repeated violations could lead to court action. The Bath area list includes Bath National Bank, Ralph O. Dale, Carroll Cut Rate Store, and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Bragg
Bragg
Bath National Bank
Ralph O. Dale
Center Street
Carroll Cut Rate
Bath Water District
Lombard Street
Boston
Harold J. Rubin
Oak Street
William H. Small
Pleasant Street
City Hall
Elm Street
Arthur L. Freeman
James P. Sutherland
Thomas C. McCabe
Floral Street
Percy W. Kingsbury
Bath area freight and resident visits note local activity
Walter Powers tractors work on Bath housing project. Donald Rockwell visits Boston from Robin Hood. Mrs Harriet Layne returns to Bath from weekend visit. Mrs Howard Fletcher travels to Belmont. Earl Hagan family and Elmer Palmer trip to White Mountains with Mrs Gray from Portland. Ralph Davis on vacation from Bath Iron Works. William Zorach returns to Brooklyn midweek from Robin Hood. Allen Brown travels to Sebasco on business. Alfred Farrow known as Pete visits Boston with sisters. Mrs Aubrey Fullerton to Portland with Miss Louise Peterson. Ralph Jewett in Robin Hood. The Peterson family from Portland to Bath and back with Louise Peterson to school. Mrs Winslow, nurse for late Mrs Annie Peterson, returns after five years’ service. Painting work on Peterson garages near MacMahon Island. Edith Powers visits Bath with sisters Addie Scott and Winfield Cressey. Sebec scrap drive yields 20 tons to Fay and Scott in Dexter and remaining to West Virginia. effort completed in one week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence Byron Hill
Marie Woodbury
Montgomery Meigs Smith
Christchurch
Cambridge
Mass
First Baptist
Keehlwetter
May Hagan
Henry Bascom Thompson
North
Chester Avenue
Pasadena
Calif
Thomas Brineger Parks
T. B. Parks
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Parks
Henry Thompson
Marie Louise Clarke
Georgetown
Emma Billings
Dorothy Stuart
Elleningwood
Roy Newman
C. L. Hinckley
Rapheal Higgins
Rosalin
John Gordon
Linda
Wilbur Leavitt
Roy's Market
Bath
Howard M. Trafton
J. F. Higgins
Camp Devens
Ernest Heal
Massachusetts
Parker Overton
Everett Higgins
Walter Glover
Sadie Drake
Lexington
William Chesna
Clarence Oliver
Elizabeth Thompson
Brooklyn
N. Y
Ellingwood
Vermont
Billings
John Olson
Joanne
Janice
Rockland
Harold J. Brown
Kennebecc Point
Brunswick
Jimmy Carey
Sagadahoc Bay
Bangor
Robert Frye
Bath Iron Works
Dunkling
Plainville
John Lane
Billa Tarr
Morris Levine
West Georgetown
New York
Charles Stevens
Florida
Stevens
George Smith
Harlan Raymond
Albany
Heal
A. E. Holt
Merom
Ind
Kennebec Point
Walter Cunningham
Fred Harford
Walter Powers
Donald Rockwell
Robinhood
Boston
Harriet Layne
Elizabeth Hunt
Howard Fletcher
Belmont
Mr. Fletcher
Earl Hagan
Elmer Palmer
White Mountains
Mrs. Gray
Portland
Ralph Davis
William Zorach
Allen Brown
Sebasco
Adolf S Pear
Alfred Farrow
Pete
Carol
Dorothy Farrow
Aubrey Fullerton
Louise Peterson
Ralph Jewett
Westport
Roland Peterson
Laura Moore
Marion Winslow
Louise’ Peterson
Peterson
MacMahon Island
Edith Powers
Addie Scott
Winfield Cressey
Five Islands Community Notes and Local Visits
A box of books was donated to the Five Islands library by Mr. and Mrs. Fred Elliott of Gott's Cove. Social groups met with Mrs. Mark Porter and Miss Isabel Stevens, welcoming Mrs. J. J. Gibson. Numerous residents and visitors from Woolwich Bath Kittery Lisbon Falls and Boston were recorded in weekend and weekday activities along with travel to Lakewood and Manchester for errands and a funeral.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Elliott
Gott's Cove
Good Neighbor Club
Mark Porter
Five Islands
Isabel Stevens
J. J. Gibson
Horace E. Wade
Woolwich
Percy B. Savage
Bath Iron Works
Martha Thompson
Boston
The
Waves
Frsday
Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin
Miss Thompson
J. G. Stevens
Eugene Baker
Kittery
Horace Bickford
Lisbon Falls
W. H. Holland
Bath
William L. Berry
Mabel Dickey
Madelyn Berry
Spruce gum may see revival as shortages hit products
The spruce gum industry in New England could expand again due to a gum shortage. With sugar scarce to 60 to 70 percent of normal output, chewing gum supplies shrink in stores and vending machines. A Roxbury Five Islands factory run by H. F. McMahan plans to double production to fill gaps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Five Islands
H. F. McMahan
Roxbury
Mass
Boothbay artist honored by crew for portraits in service
Carola Spaeth Hauscha, artist living in Boothbay Harbor, donated portraits for the Boothbay Blue Jackets recreation center for boys in the service. The crew of a patrol boat named her Honorary Skipper Hauscha after she sketched every crew member before departing for Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carola Spaeth Hauscha
Boothbay Harbor
Maine Library Association Elects Dixfield President
Dixfield was elected president of the Maine Library Association during the Friday afternoon Lewiston session. Griffeth, who had been Maine director of the Victory Book campaign, succeeds N Orwin Rush of the Dalby College Library.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dixfield
Maine Library Association
Lewiston
Griffeth
Maine
N. Orwin Rush
Dalby College
Local U.S.O. presents wartime service report for Bath
A Bath U.S.O pamphlet details 466 sessions since January 1942 serving 43 710 attendees with free services for service members and fee sharing for defense workers. Highlights include 33 parties 60 dances 22 classes 13 entertainments and multiple trips and outings plus 238 packages delivered 148 volunteers and 112 personal interviews to aid morale and character. The Y M C A cooperates by offering free facility use.
Obituary of John E. Hatch 51 former Bath resident
John E. Hatch 51 of 1190 Washington street died Saturday evening in Togus Veterans Hospital after a heart shock. Born April 27 1891 in Kennebunk to Marshall and Emma Hatch he lived in Bath 25 years with the Rogers family. A former auto mechanic he later worked as a jeweler's clerk at 135 Front Street for A K Rogers. He leaves no relatives with services in Saco conducted by Rev Charles L. Kinney and burial beside his sister in Saco cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John E. Hatch
Washington Street
Veterans Hospital
Togus
Mr. Hatch
Kennebunk
Marshall Hatch
Emma (Anderson) Hatch
Bath
Artland K. Rogers
Hatch
T. T. Movers
Augusta Women’s Rifle and Drill Corps Dance Series
The Women's Rifle and Drill Corps of Augusta sponsors Wednesday dances at the American Legion Hall to raise funds for new uniforms. Arrangements are led by Captain Ruth L. McCarthy, Sgt Betty Perry, Sgt Jane Blake, and Sgt Lucie Ann Ingalls. The first dance was held last Wednesday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Women’s Rifle and Drill Corps of
Augusta
Amercan Legion Hall
Ruth L. McCarthy
Betty Perry
Jane Blake
Lucie Ann Ingalls
Oil spill along Kennebec at Cushnoc Paper mill
Fire Chief George McCurdy reported a deposit of road oil left on the east bank of the Kennebec during the late last week was washed into the river from a Cushnoc Paper Company road project in Augusta. The spill did not appear to threaten wildlife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennebec
Cushnoc Paper Company
Augusta
George McCurdy
Bath Young Man Included In List Of War Missing
A Bath, Maine, man, Alexander William Forbes, 21, is listed among 251 New England casualties in the Navy Merchant Marine roll covering Sept 27, 1941 to Aug 1, 1942. Forbes, a Bath native, worked variously before enlisting and studied at Hoffman Island. his family includes parents George and Amy Forbes and siblings in Bath and Gray.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
United States Navy
Alexanzander William Forbes
Maine
Alexandander William Forbes
Bryant Pond
George Forbes
South
Paris
South Paris
Brown Lumber Co
Berlin
N. H
Merchant
Norway
Flanders Limber Co
Navy
Alec
Marines
Merchant Marines
Government School For
Hoffman Island
N. Y
Vipers
Houston
Texas
George Forbes, Jr
Gray
Ruth Ladd
Rachel Forbes
Rothers
William
Douglas
Morse High School
Edward
George E Crooker Dies in Bath After Long Service
George Elmer Crooker 74 of Upper Washington Street died Saturday morning in Bath Memorial Hospital after ill health. Born in Bath January 25 1869 he lived in the Shipping City all his life. He worked as a cemetery grader at Oak Grove for over 20 years retiring four years ago. He was a Beacon Street Methodist Church member and about 20 years with West Bath Grange. Surviving are his widow Harriet Barnes Crooker a daughter Habel Louise Crooker a brother William Crooker an uncle Everett Cornish and several nephews and cousins. Funeral Tuesday at Curtis Funeral Home with Rev Joseph Purdue officiating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enterprise Grange
Progressive Grange
Chester Foster
Topsham
Progressive
Clara Thompson
Minnie Batchelder
Paul Batchelder
Marriner
Grange
Ethel Rankins
Donald Grant
Emily Grant
Joseph Randlette
Albert S. Goss
Merrymeeting
Sagadahoc
Litchfield
Merry Meeting Grangers
Marjorie Curtis
Perlena Routhier
Gwendolyn Douglass
James W. Gibbs
Roberts Funeral Rooms
Lester Norton
The
Baptist Church
Mr. Gibbs
Merrill Rest
Gardiner
Richmond
Wiscasset
George and
Arabell Jones Gibbs
Selma Pitzold Gibbs
George
Carl
Ernest Curtis
Bowdoinham
Ulysses
Emery Gibbs
George Elmer Crooker
Upper Washington Street
Oak Grove Cemetery
Bath Memorial Hospital
Mr. Crooker
Bath
Charles W
Addie
Cornish) Crooker
Beacon Street
George Crooker Funeral Held in Curtis Home
The funeral for George Elmer Crooker of Upper Washington Street, longtime Park and Cemetery Board employee, was Tuesday at 2 PM at Curtis Funeral Home. Rev. Joseph Purdue of Winter Street Congregational Church officiated. Bearers were Carroll, Earl and Arthur Wing, and Irving Barnes. Burial followed at Oak Grove Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Elmer Crooker
Upper Washington Street
Park and Cemetery Board
Curtis Funeral Home
Washington Street
Joseph QO Purdue
Winter Street
Congregational Church
Carroll
Earl
Arthur Wing
Irving Barnes
Oak Grove Cemetery
Hodgdon Dies at Work at Bath Iron Works
Frank A. Hodgdon 58 a Bath North End grocer for 30 years died of a heart attack at his work in the Bath Iron Works pipe shop Monday morning. Born December 6 1884 in Westport Island he left a wife Ann Gearing Hodgdon and two children. Surviving are his father Orrington Hodgdon a sister and four grandchildren. Funeral was held at his Woolwich home with burial in Oak Grove Bath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank A. Hodgdon
North End
Bath Iron Works Corp
Mr. Hodgdon
Westport Island
Orrington Hodgdon
Derby
N. H
Clara Bowden Hodgdon
Lewiston
Bath
M. B. Hodgdon
Hodgdon
Nequasset
Elms
Frank W. Sparks
Bath Lodge of Elks
Rachel Shaw Hodgdon
Ann Gearing Hodgdon
Woolwich
Edward S. Hodgdon
Joseph H. Mullaney
Ruth Hodgdon
Annie M. Hodgdon
Joan
Beatrice Shaw Hodgdon
Patricia Ann
Sally Jane Mullaney
Arthur C. Hodgdon
Brockton
Mass
Mark W. Burlingame
Cedric A. Martin
Charles Myron Tubbs
Grace Episcopal Church
Oak Grove Cemetery
Death of Mrs. Susan E. Millay in Portland
Mrs. Susan E. Millay of Portland formerly Bath resident died Sunday at her daughter Luella Dunton’s home 288 Spring Street Portland. Widow of Timothy E. Millay of Bowdoinham born in Bowdoinham 86 years ago funeral from 288 State Street Tuesday October 6 at 1 00 pm with interment in Ridge Cemetery Bowdoinham. She leaves daughters Luella Dunton and Mrs Charles Tracy both of Portland three grandchildren three great grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Susan E. Millay
Portland
Luella Millay Dunton
Spring Street
Dunton
Charles Tracy
Ralph Dunton
Lillian Thompson
Medford
Mass
Thresa Pratt
Portsmouth
N. H
Eleanor Pratt
Robert Pratt
Clarence Thompson
Infant daughter dies in West Bath home
Margery Pp. Furrow ten months old daughter of Mr and Mrs Woodford Furrow died Sunday morning after pneumonia. Born in Thor ndike on December 6 1941 she was an only child. Survived by parents grandparents and great grandparents. Funeral held Tuesday at Tweedie home Unity with burial in Pond cemetery Unity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margery
Furrow
Woodford Furrow
State Road
West Bath
Thorndike
Woodford and
Athene (Ellis) Furrow
John Ames
Almon Ellis
Hartford
Benjamin Tweedie
Unity
Walter Ellis
Vassalboro
Tweedie
Pond Cemetery
Harold Oldis Funeral Committal Service Held
A committal service for Harold Oldis was held Saturday afternoon at 2 30 at Oak Grove. Rev Frederick P Moffatt of Corliss Street Church officiated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Oldis
Oak Grove
Frederick P. Moffatt
Corliss Street Church
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Rotary Meeting
Morse High
Adkins-Webb
Sebec
Dover-Foxcroft
Fay and Scott
Dexter
West Virginia
T. J. Hanna
Woodrow Gray
J.J. Gibson
Rose Wilkins
Jay
William Marr
Marr
D. W. Staffeld
Quincy
Luke Roy
Roy
Lawrence Rich
Walter Moore
Hallowell
Wah
Moore
See- See-Sea
Sedgemere Road
Orin White
White Cottage
Fred Carr
Manchester
Mr. Carr
N. O. Baird
U.S.C
U.S. QO
Togus Hospital
George E. Crooker
Os Park and Cemetery Board
George Crooker
Fred S. Curtis & CO
Thomas R. Huston
Washington St