Wheeler Case Given Retrial At Portland
Eight year old Betty Lorraine Seavey Curtis testified that her mother Pearl Wheeler of Bath assaulted her with scalding water, a hot iron, and a beating. The retrial in Cumberland County follows a disputed Bath trial last October.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty Lorraine Seavey Curtis
Pearl Wheeler
Bath
Cumberland County
Sagadahoc County
Edward P. Murray
Ralph O. Dale
Betty
Kenneth A. Rollins
Rollins
Murray Otten
Langdon B. Grern
William J Curran
Robert B. Hateh
Local Notes on Visitors and Arrivals in Town
Elmer Greemieul Aburn a business visitor arrived Tuesday in the city. Miss Doris Ho Henderson daughter of Mr and Mrs David S Henderson, a Morse High School Class of 1955 graduate, left Monday for Nathan Ceese Springvale. Mrs Oscar Wright and Mrs Howard Rice attended Mrs Percival Hodgedon of Birch Point in Wiscassel. Hodgedon was formerly of this city and was Miss Anna Swett before marriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer Greemieul Aburn
Wie
Doris Ho Henderson
David S. Henderson
Morse High School
Natan Ceese
Springvale
Oscar Wright
Howard Rice
Percival Hodgedon
Birch Point
Wiscassel
Hodgdon
Anna Swett
Queen Esther Lodge Hosts Picnic at Woolwich Home
Mrs. Edward V. Reed noble grand entertained 45 Queen Esther Rebekah Lodge members Tuesday night with a picnic supper at her Woolwich home. Tables were decorated with cut flowers and a social evening followed after a 6.30 meal of baked beans brown bread and more. Assisted by Mrs. B. Leeman Mrs. Alfred Bunker and Mrs. Thompson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward V. Reed
Noble Grand
Queen Esther Rebekah Lodge
Woolwich
Henry T. B. Leeman
Alfred H. Bunker
Albert H. Thompson
Bodwell Grangers Visit Dromore for Degrees
Bodwell Grange hosted Dromore Tuesday night conferring first and second degrees on 14 candidates including two from Bodwell. Visitors from West Bath Orange and Mapleton joined as annual inspection by Lorenzo Masse of Sagadahoe county occurred. Five candidates were balloted. Dromore to host Friday night for third and fourth degrees with 12 Dromore and two Bodwell candidates. Ice cream and cake followed a social evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dromore Orange
Bodwell
West Bath Orange
Mapleton
Aroostook
Lorenzo Masse
Sagadahoe County
Bodwell Grange
Dromore
Notable Local Social Notes and Visits Include Cruises and Travel
Miss Martha Donnell of Brookline Mass. died Tuesday after visiting friends in tah try. Miss Bernice Hosmer a Attleboro teacher has returned from summer vacation with her parents. Several residents returned from vacations in Connecticut and Springfield. Barbara Rinse underwent an emergency appendectomy in Whe submitted to an operation. Winifred Vo Q Qteani plans a Cunard Line West Indies cruise starting in New York. Olive Branch chapter OBOS to host post officers night at Dresden Lodge hall next Tuesday with Mrs. Shaw as Worthy Patron. Mrs. Shaw attended Officers night of the White Shrines in Malden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martha Donnell Brookline
Bernice Hosmer
Taiwh
Attleboro
Mass
Willian W. Hosmer
Middle Street
Mios Dory
Huteard
Iss
Cain Cod Hospital
Minot
Herbert Hupeard
Mechante Street
Sadie FC Sarkis
Nll
Connecticut
Spritefield
Bilene Sarkis
John Sark
Barbara Rinse
Fred P Roe
App Dist
Phiry
Mitchell
Winifred Vo Q@Qteani
New York
Cuarinthia
Cunard Line
West Indies
Tsabole T. Kennedy
Henry di Sinus
Olive Branch
OBOS
Lodge
Dresden
Shaw
Martha Washington
Waterville
Adah
Susan Blodgett
Franklin Jack
Henry Cornish
Mary Purington
Electa
O. E
Vendella Mosher
William Gould
Grange Hall
Russell Jack
Auburn
Louise Jack
Roger Robinson
Roland
Millard Hatch
Ypslanti
Mich
Ida Fowle
Joan Osborne
Bath
Helen Gallagher
Madeline Oliver
Guy Holt
Gardiner
Masonic Temple
Margaret Chapman Giles
Ella Brown
Elain
Princess Blanchard
Ruth Ole Brown
Esther Sachh
Syounr
Martha Ann Bibber
James Little
Georgeanna Chapman
Sentinel
Blodgett
Jane Browne
Charles Browne
Lettice
Jack Browne
Edward White
D. Saunders Patterson
Lila Patterson
Emma Bodge
Thomas Bodge
Olda Mackay
Roland Mackay
Augusta
Mabel DeShon
Emma Pratt
George Pratt
Portland
George Blanchard
Eleanor Totman
Irene Rice
Florence Dunklee
Brunswick
Luella Pendleton
Joseph Pendleton
Emily Pendleton
Isleboro
Fred Naylor
Nora Due
Westbrook
Consuela Alkazin
D. Y
Emma Ferguson
Clarence Purington
Hubert McCarty
Efreda Perkins
Annie Malcolm
Quebec
Ferguson
Sadie Perry
Jane Brown
Hollywood
Calif
New England Council to Discuss Highway System at Parley
The New England Council's 52nd Quarterly Meeting will feature talks on regional highway development and economic contrasts between New England and the South. Dr Miller McClintock and Victor M Cutter will present on the highway future, with other speakers from Yale Dartmouth and Harvard detailing tax and business outlooks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
South
New England Council
Crawford House
Crawford Notch
New Hampshire
James W. Hook
Malcolm W. Keir
Dartmouth College
New England Governors’ Railroad Rate Committee
Keir
United States
Miller McClintock
Traffic Research Bureau
Yale University
Victor M. Cutter
New England Regional Planning Commission
Great Britain
Harriman
Maurice F. Reidy
Worcester
Mass
O. M. W. Sprague
Converse
Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration
Sprague
Bank of England
United States Treasury Department
Holland Webster Wedding Saturday in Boothbay Harbor
Miss Weltha Blos som Webster and Edward Peck Holland wed in Spruce Point chapel Boothbay Harbor in a four o clock ceremony. The couple's families and Bath area guests attended a reception at Spruce Point Inn. The bride is a Cony High School and Wheaton College alumna and the groom a Cornell University graduate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weltha Blossom Webster
Serena Sewall Webster
Augusta
Bath
Edward Peck Holland
Walter Elam Holland
Spruce Point
Boothbay Harbor
Paul Spur
Ariz
Little Chapel
Andrew T. McWhorter
South Parish
Alfred Paul, Jr
Cornelia Paul
Benjamin F. Furber, Jr
New York
S. Sewall Webster, Jr
Spruce Point Inn
Webster
Holland
Paul
Young boys linked to two barn fires in Brunswick
Brunswick police say confessions by two 9 year olds cleared the mystery of two weekend barn fires. They admitted torching a lone barn owned by Lewis Stuart Monder on High and Cushing streets with a $500 loss and another on Cushing Street at $100. Despite their ages, investigators will pursue five earlier fires in the town section.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brunswick
Lewis Stuart Monder
Cushing
William B. Edwards
Joseph Z. Ouellette
Maude Clark Gay Addresses Cosmopolitan Club Meeting
Maude Clark Gay president of the Maine Federation of Women's Clubs spoke to about 50 women after the Cosmopolitan club monthly meeting. She outlined federation work including conservation education and civic duty and noted Junior Clubs will carry the torch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maude Clark Gay
Maine Federation of Women's Clubs
Cosmopolitan Club
Club Garret
Ruth H. Farnham
Gay
Federation
Maine
Florence Danforth
Educational Loan Fund
C. K. Huang
Boothbay Harbor
China
Chinese Relief Fund
House
Miriam W. Kimball
Isadore Singer
William S
Newbaker First Aid Unit Organized At Bath
The Newbaker First Aid Unit formed by graduates of the instructors course in first aid, led by Dr. Bryce A. Newbaker of the American Red Cross, was organized at a meeting at the Colbys. Officers include President Mrs. Earl Ryan and Secretary James L. Morse with plans for monthly lectures and demonstrations on First Aid for the Layman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loring Small
Harold E. Cutting
Harry Shulman
Brunswick
American Red Cross
Blind North Cutler man tops chimney and works with skill
Charles Davis, 55, of Sprague's Neck, has been blind for about 25 years yet remains a capable all round worker. He has climbed and topped a chimney and recently installed outside hall windows and cut nails from old boards with a bucksaw, doing so without help. He enjoys radio programs in the evenings after a day of work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Davis
North Cutler
Mr. Davis
Sprague’s Neck
Hall Hodge wedding linked two families in Raleigh area
Daniel E. Hall Jr. and Miss Jennie M. Hodge married at her Zebulon family home Saturday night at 7 30 officiated by Rev Joseph O Purdue. Attendants wore blue gowns with caps. reception featured white roses and gladiolas then couple left for Washington and Raleigh. They will reside at 732 Middle Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel E. Hall, Jr
Daniel E. Hall
Oliver Street
Jennie M. Hodge
Charles Hodge
Zebulon
N. C
Marcia Hodge
Middle Street
Joseph O. Purdue
Winter Street Church
Miss Hodge
Juliette
Priscilla Hodge
Portland
Nathan W. Watson
Hall
Washington, D. C
Raleigh
Morse High School
Senter's, Inc
New England Tel. & Tel. Co
Cottage Fire Destroys Clark Home in Phippsburg Burn
Firefighters from Phippsburg and Bath battled a blaze that incinerated the eight room Clark cottage in Sebasco, a $6,000 Dorchester owned home formerly of Fairfield Gilbert, as winds drove embers into surrounding woods and nearby Abbie Perry cottage. Over 100 volunteers helped patrol woods to prevent a forest fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phippsburg
Bath
Gertrude L. Clark
Dorchester
Mass
Sebasco
Clark
Fairfield Gilbert
Basin
Sebasco Estates
Wallace
Central Fire Station
Abbie Perry
Sebasco Lodge
Co-Workers Class Resumes Sessions for Peanut Pals
Plans were completed for the annual peanut pals meeting set for September 21 at the First Baptist church. Mrs. Joseph L. Dauphin hosted the event, with Evelyn W. Sotheard in charge of arrangements and Lucy G. Rogers and Irma D. Groves directing entertainment. Refreshments were served by Mrs. Dauphin and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Baptist Church
Joseph L. Dauphin
Spring Street
Evelyn W. Sotheard
Lucy G. Rogers
Irma D. Groves
Cedric A. Martin
Edward E. Cooke
Dauphin
Miss Sotheard
Laura Gilmore
Arrowsie
Oliver A. Carter
Jessie M. Erskine
Ralph E. Legard
Edwy A. Sotheard
Charles R. Furber
Houlton High Adopts Six Year Unified Plan For Middle Grades
Houlton High School will open under a six year unified plan with grades 7 and 8 integrated with the former Senior High. The two buildings will share facilities to benefit all students in the last six years of Houston public schools. Instructors will exchange rooms between buildings during the day, reducing student movement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houlton High School
Houston Public Schools
Fire guts A. E. Small & Son hardware store in Mexico
A fire of unknown origin destroyed the A. E. Small & Son hardware store in Mexico on Monday. Damage is estimated at 30000 dollars as the blaze fed on oil and paint and threatened nearby property. Rumford sent two engines to help Mexico firefighters. Charles Sloan and his family, who lived above the store, escaped unharmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. E. Small & Son
Mexico
Rumford
Charles Sloan
Weekend Visits and Local Gossip in Bowdoinham
The Bowdoinham Post Road notices list that Mr. and Mrs. Fred D. Heath and their son spent the weekend at their town home. Mrs. C. O. Purinton, Mrs. Emma Furgerson, and three friends vacationed in Quebec. Irene Current hosted guests including her sister-in-law and a young baby for a week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred D. Heath
C. O. Purinton
Emma Furgerson
Quebec
Irene Current
Earl Hobart
Chester Hobart
Annie P. Cobb
Hazel Brown
Augusta
Tina Jack
George
Elmer Wade
Pittsfield
Mass
James Reed
Boston
Joe
Pennsylvania
Auger
Reed Homestead
Demand for trained teachers rises at Machias Normal
The Machias Normal school reports growing demand for three year elementary graduates with successful experience. Higher salaries from out of state sources and a generally increased state salary level for three year graduates mark this year, while inexperienced teachers from the 1938 class earn up to $900.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Machias
Coast Guards Aid Three Distressed Boats On Labor Day
Coast Guardsmen at Cape Elizabeth station and the cutter Algonquin aided three distressed yachts in the harbor or just outside. Two had disabled engines and one was aground near Diamond Island ledge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape Elizabeth Station
Algonquin
Diamond Island Ledge
Also Mentioned on This Page
Senter’'s, Inc
Wheeler
Sagadahoc
Brewster G. Sedgwick
Optometrist
Arthur Allen
Bath Trust
Queen Esther Lodge
Bodwell Grangers
Holland-Webster
Spruce Point Chapel
Carroll Watson
Anne Kimball
Harry F. Morin
Constance Morin
Edward G. Morin
Cosmo Club
Club Garet
National Organization of the American Red Cross
C S. Sowder
Wiscasset
George Ed. Nagle
Indian Point Road
Georgetown
George B. Nagle
P. O
New Haven
Conn
Edward P Pierce
Gaston Lachaise
City Shore
Fred B. Reed Co
Stanley E. Wallace
Front Street
Tel
Bride
Clark Cottage
Basin and
Gilmore
Arrowsic
Bowdoinham
E. K. Allen
Sanford
Avery Fides
Cora Wilkinson
East Orange
N. J
Harold Rollins Merton Webber
Clara Fogg
Daniel Noden
Frances Curtis
Newton
Margaret Gile
Carrie Lang
Charles Randall
George Cutler
Helen Britt
Mackaylow
Marion Curtis
Kennebunk
Moosehead Lake
Ellen Sparks
Frank Siegars
Robert Webber
Freeport
Bert Webber
David Noden
William Rogge
Priscilla Small
Cape Elizabeth
Minerva Dunlap
Annie Raymond
Old School Baptist Association
Whitefield
Charles Stilphen
Salt Lake City
Opera House
Rudy Vallee
Bulldog Drummond
Africa
John Howard
Heather Angel
Chester Morris
Frances Mercer
Sonja Henie
Richard Greene
Bowdoinham Post Road
Don Ameche
Aileen Whelan
Buck Jones
Tombstone
Lynne Overman
Tim Holt
Sons OF the Legion
Bob Burns
Joel McCrea
Wells Fargo
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