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Newspaper

Bath Independent

Location

Bath, Maine, United States of America

Date

Sep 19, 1940

Page

4

North End Variety Store to Open Under New Proprietor

Otis Cole of Camden has taken over the North end stand from Charles E. Robinson after his nearly 20 years of service. Cole plans interior renovations and to rename the shop the North End Variety Store while moving in with his sister on Trufant street.

Charles E. Robinson North End Otis Cole Camden Mr. Robinson Mr. Cole Brenton Ayer Trufant Street Capt Charles Cole

Governor-elect Sewall Prized by Maine Citizens at Victory Gathering

A Sewall campaign headquarters scene near midnight on election day shows Governor-elect Sumner Sewall, his campaign manager and publicity director, and aides reacting to a AP radio flash declaring a statewide Sewall sweep. Profiles of Senator Hill and Bill Paxton note their roles and backgrounds in Maine politics and journalism.

Goupernor-elect Sewall Paxton Fulton J. Redman Senator Hill Portland House of Representatives Sumner Sewall Maine Collinsville Conn Hill Bowdoin College Harvard Law School Geraldine EB. Miller Betty Miller Hill William G. Paxton Bill Broneley England Ernest Paxton Long Beach Calif University of California Maine Development Commission WPA Senator Sewall Ann Allen George K. Allen Augusta Moosehead Lake George FE. Fam Capain Front Street

Bath city traffic study notes 166 cars at seven each morning

An observant local researcher reports that averaging 166 cars enter Bath city at seven every morning, mainly carrying Bath Iron Works employees. The item appears amid a miscellany of social events, local crime notes, baptisms, and community announcements.

Bath Iron Works Corp

Doctor Dash Buys Oak Point Property at Boothbay

Dr George Fe Dash a Cincinnati specialist in children's disease has purchased the Everett Jones property at Oak Point Boothbay opposite the old steamboat wharf at Southport. Dash who was long connected with Boothbay Camp for Boys and Merrymeeting Camp for Girls spent the summer at Oak Point with Mrs Dash and son David.

George FE. Dash Cincinnati Everett Jones Oak Point Boothbay Southport Dash Merrymeeting David

Inspector Wilbur C. Oliver Called for Airplane Carburetor Inspection

Wilbur C. Oliver aged 39, an inspector for Hawley Carburetor Co. in Detroit, and his son Richard, have been traveling for two weeks. Oliver left from Portland after being summoned on Saturday to report at a New Jersey plant for immediate inspection of airplane carburetors.

Wilbur C. Oliver 2d Hawley Carburetor Co Detroit Mich Richard Wilbur C. Oliver Union Street New Jersey Portland

Mrs Crosman Improves and Receives Friends at Home

Mrs Harry W. Crosman president of the South End contract club at 409 High Street has been confined to bed but is much improved and able to entertain visitors.

John Babcock Washington, D. C J. Leslie Coombs South Street Cape Cod Mass Keens Coombs Samuel Williams Reading Williams Babcock Bath Herbert Huggard Dorothy Huggard R.N Mechanic Street Hyannis Quincy Harry Bartlett Berlin N. H Ralph O. Burden Bedford Street Barbara Burden Memorial Hospital Florence Sidelinger Milwaukee Wis Sidelinger Cambridge Ave Harry W. Crosman High Street South End Contract Club

Maine author recreates summer in a Faraway Farm barn

Marguerite McIntire and family lived in a barn on Faraway Farm near East Waterford Oxford County Maine. The setting inspired her Maine novel Free and Clear and its sequel Heaven's Dooryard. The piece details the hilltop view, rustic interior, and local history of the McIntire neighborhood and family lineage dating to 1830.

Maine Marguerite McIntire Glenn R. McIntire Justin Chloe Sally Dinah Gracie Jersey Faraway Farm McIintire McIntire Oxford County East Waterford Four Corners Waterford Woodland McIntires Oxford Hills Vally Presidential Range Bruin Farrar & Rinehart Reading Mass Norway Albany Stoneham Ira Johnson Johnson Pa Se PacIntire

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