DAR leader urges Maine unit to study peace plans
Mrs. William H. Pouch of New York City, President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution, told the Maine Society of the DAR in Gardiner that members must learn the peace background. A Peace Planning Commission is assembling books to aid understanding of Allies issues as DAR supports war efforts with bond drives and mobile units. Mrs. Arthur N. Gosline of Gardiner, regent, presided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William H. Pouch
New York City
The
Daughters of the American Revolution
Maine Society of the Dar
Gardiner
United States
DAR
Arthur N. Gosline
State Regent
Knights to Present Play Columbus Day
Knights of Columbus plan Kacey Kaners variety show at their hall on Water Street on Columbus Day October 12. October committee Ard Bourque chairs with John J Keegan Monty Buteau Patrick Fitzgerald and Ralph Bertrand. A cast rehearsal is set for Thursday September 30 at 7 30 p.m. Harold Fish buys Byron Shaw farm in West Gardiner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kacey Kaners
Knights of Columbus
Water Street
Council
Arthur Bourque
John J. Keegan, Jr
Monty Buteau
Patrick Fitzgerald
Ralph Bertrand
Harold Fish
Washington Street
Byron Shaw
West Gardiner
SGT STANLEY K LOGAN ONE VICTIM OF CRASH
Sgt Stanley K Logan U S A Air Corps twenty died as one of six crew members in a training flight crash at the Avon Park Florida bombing range Sunday night. He was son of Horace and Mrs Logan of Eastport and a 1939 Shadd Memorial High School basketball star who entered service in 1942 and trained at Kendall Field and Shepard Field before assignment to the 48th Bombing Squadron.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanley K. Logan
U. S. A. Air Corps
Avon Park
Fla
Logan
John Logan
Bath Iron Works
William A. Hill
Middle Street
Sgt. Logan
Horace Logan
Broadway
Eastport
Bangor Hydro-Electric Electric Co
Shadd Memorial High School
Kendall Field
Shepard Field Engineering
48Th
Avon Field
James
Fort Dix
N. J
Edwin
Crookers Vacationing on Merrymeeting Bay as Bath Iron Works Cadge Break
Mr and Mrs Wilbur Crooker of Milan street spend a week at their camp on Merrymeeting Bay while Mr Crooker takes his annual vacation from the mold loft of the Bath Iron Works fabrication plant at Harding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilbur Crooker
Milan Street
Merrymeeting Bay
Mr. Crooker
Bath Iron Works
Hardings
Boosters Night at West Bath Grange Features Mrs Sumner Sewall
West Bath Grange held Boosters Night with special guest Mrs Sumner Sewall first lady of the state, escorted to the stage by Mrs Nell Marie Kelsey. The program included a monologue, solos, readings, group singing, a Harvest tableau, and a penny match prize. Remodeled by officers and concluded with refreshments and dancing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath Grange
Sumner Sewall
The
Grange
Nell Marie Kelsey
Eva Lemont
David Henderson
Sewall
Annie Henderson
Fred Sturtevant
Darling
Julia Field
Thelma Sylvester
Alice Johnson
Ila Day
Elizabeth Young
Robinhood Troop of Brownies Elect Officers and Welcome New Members
The Robinhood Troop of Brownies met at Winter Street church parlor for fall elections led by Mrs. Russell Grant. Officers elected include Marion Harris secretary Anne MacLeod treasurer and Margaret Cahill assistant for October. new members Elizabeth Mac Newell Barbara Pinkham Marilyn Keefe welcomed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robinhood
Brownies
Winter Street Church
Russel Grant
Margaret Cahill
Marion Farris
Anne MacLeod
Donna Sutherland
Edna Sukeforth
Jean Brown
Barbara Parks
Mrs. Grant
Elizabeth Mac Newell
Barbara Pinkham
Marilyn Keefe
Janice Boyd
Dorothy Laundry
Joan Ferris
Marion Ferris
Beverly Higgins
Elsie Thayer
Carol Ann Quimby
Virginia Whitney
Norma Ferris
Flora Thayer
Madelyn Thayer
Winifred Fish
Alice Plummer
Norma McIintire
Ensign Lovell Jr Visits Bath With Family Over Weekend
Ensign F. A. Lovell Jr. of the U.S. Navy Reserve spent the weekend in Bath with his parents Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Lovell of Washington street and with his mother Mrs. Lovell and her parents Rev. and Mrs. Charles M. Tubbs of High street. Mrs. Lovell joined her husband for a return trip to New York for a few days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ensign F. A. Lovell, Jr
Bath
F. A. Lovell
Washington Street
Lions Club Supper Meeting At Central Church
Attendance was strong at the Lions Club weekly supper at Central Church parish house. A lobster salad supper was prepared by Central Church league ladies who were thanked for the two prior meals. The club discussed Third War Loan bond sales, hospital furnishings, and housing for Dr. Carey of Unity. An English sailors radio appeal was made and a Kay Kyser style program was organized with teams identifying tunes. William H. Lewis won a piano musical contest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lions Club
Central Church Parish House
Ladies of
Central Church League
Daniel Hoegg
Maine State War Loan Committee
Elmer Williams
Arthur Pratt
Memorial Hospital
Dr. Carey
Unity
Brunswick Naval Air Station
Johnny Bowers
Frank Hassett
Kay Kyser
William H. Lewis
Howard Steen
Albert Drouin
LaForest Coombs
Perrault Nickerson Wedding At Fort Williams Chapel
Miss Pauline Nickerson granddaughter of Mrs. Mary Scales and Sgt. Arthur Perrault U S A of Brockton Mass were married Sunday at three in the chapel at Fort Williams. The ceremony followed a double ring service with immediate family present. The bride wore blue velvet and orchids. Best man was Sgt Theodore Landry. The couple plans a Boston honeymoon and she will return to Bath Iron Works duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pauline Nickerson
Mary Scales
Elm Street
Arthur Perrault
U.S. A
Brockton
Mass
Fort Williams
Claire Grainger
Sgt
Theodore Landry
Massachusetts
Perrault
Morse High
Bath Iron Works
Peaks Island
Engagement announced for Barbara Kenney and Corporal Albert Thompson
A tea at 21 Bath Street celebrated the engagement of Barbara Louise Kenney to Corporal Albert W. Thompson. Kenney, a Morse High and Choate School graduate, works at Bath Savings and Fessenden School while awaiting Army service. Thompson serves in the U S Army Medical Department at Camp Blanding Florida.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russell L. Kenney
Bath Street
Barbara Louise Kenney
Albert W. Thompson
U.S.A
Herman E. Thompson
Lowell
Mass
Jane Stevens
Leonard Thombs
Richard H. Haskell
Frank Gallagher
Lawrence Couture
William W. Owen
Herbert B. Wing
William A. Lee
Miss Kenney
Morse High
Bath Savings Institution
Fessenden School
Newton
Choate School
Wallingford
Conn
U. S. Army
University of Maine At Orono Corp
Thompson
Army Medical Department
Camp Blanding, Fla
Legion Auxiliary to Buy 100 Bond at Third Drive
Regular meeting of Roland Smith Unit American Legion Auxiliary reports nine bonds purchased in the third drive. Guest Alice Linde of Milton Massachusetts attends. A district council report, a donation card, and illness notes are recorded. Plans announced for a dance, dessert bridge, and a gifts committee. Next meeting October 13.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roland Smith
American Legion Auxiliary
Alice Linde
Milton
Mass
Third District Council
Jennie Hallet
Mary Kelly
Hill
R. H. Bowers
Bernard Pratt
Carl Stinson
Leavitt
Engagement Party for Phyllis Mitchell Held in Portland
Miss Phyllis Jeanette Mitchell and Jerome McNinch of Portland, formerly of this city, were praised at a surprise engagement party hosted by Miss Mitchells aunt Mrs. Charles E Doten at 11 Sherman Street. Family and friends celebrated gifts amid refreshments as plans for a wedding set for October 6 at the Mitchell home.
St Mary's Guild opens its fall sessions
St Marys Guild held the first fall session at the Parish House on Oak Street with a covered dish supper served by a committee led by Mrs Henry Double Mrs Philip Foster Mrs Edward Parker Mrs Russell Phinney and Mrs Farley Mayo. A business meeting approved the presidentMrs Russell. The group voted to hold the Christmas sale on December 4 with a baked bean supper and planned a rummage sale at the Parish House on October 12 with committee members Mrs Stewart Day and Mrs Kenneth Brown. There were nineteen members and four guests present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Mary’s Guild
Oak Street
Henry Double
Philip Foster
Edward Parker
Russell Phinney
Farley Mayo
Russell
Stewart Day
Kenneth Brown
Local sportsman bags seven birds in weekend outing
Cecil Drew and a group of friends went gunning Saturday and bagged seven birds. Drew, a pipe shop employee at the Athlon Works, is described as an ardent sportsman who enjoys hunting as the seasons arrive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cecil Drew
Mr. Drew
Ath Tron
Mizpah class presents Bible to Rev. Charles R. Sims
The Mizpah class at First Baptist hosted Rev. Charles R. Sims at Miss Eleanor Mills’ Court street home to mark his belated birthday with a gift of an Americanized Goodspeed Bible. Mrs. Arthur Freeman presented the present as classmates opened with devotions and Rev. Sims led a Fall Bible study on The Sermon on the Mount. A social hour followed with plans for a covered dish supper hosted by Mrs. Russell Grant on Liberty street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles R. Sims
First Baptist Church
Eleanor Mills
Court Street
Sims
Arthur Freeman
J. Russell Grant
Russell Grant
Liberty Street
George Carey
Chester MacKenzie
William Parks
Eleanor Wright
Gilbert Young
Pre-Nuptial Shower For Miss Mitchell In Portland
Miss Phyllis Mitchell daughter of Mr and Mrs Whitman B Mitchell of Portland was guest of honor at a pre nuptial shower hosted by Miss Gerda Langbehn at the Langbehn home 1238 High street. Gifts were displayed on a wheeled coffee table and guests included school friends from before the move to Portland. A decorated cake and refreshments followed the gift opening. Miss Mitchell will wed Jerome McNinch of Portland a Morse High graduate in the class of 1942 on October 6, the couple celebrating her parents wedding anniversary. Invited guests included Gertrude Simpson Claire Martin Margaret Elliot Constance Beardsley Eleanor Fullerton Geraldine Estabrook Lorna Fay Kramer Linna Marie Purdue Jane Crockett and Miss Mitchell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phyllis Jeanette Mitchell
Jerome McNinch
Portland
Miss Mitchell
Charles E. Doten
Sherman Street
Whitman R. Mitchell
Brentwood Street
Mitchell
George A. Baker
Milan Street
Bath
Morse High
The
New England Shipbuilding Corp
Rines Bros
McNinch
Mary McNinch
Cumberland Avenue
South Portland
Phyllis Mitchell
Whitman B. Mitchell
Gerda Langbehn
Carl M. Langbehn
High Street
Gertrude Simpson
Claire Martin
Margaret Elliot
Constance Beardsley
Eleanor Fullerton
Geraldine Estabrook
Lorna
Fay Kramer
Linna Marie Purdue
Jane Crockett
Dream May Come True at Popham State Park
A letter from Herbert J. Kellaway of Boston praises an Independent editorial supporting turning Popham into a Maine State Park with a good road, wharf, and lasting significance for local and national park efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
the Independent
Popham
Maine
Herbert J. Kellaway
Bath Woman to Sponsor Motor Mine Sweeper Launch
A Bath woman Mrs. Harold Nielson will sponsor a motor mine sweeper to be launched Thursday at Rice Brothers Corp in East Boothbay. She is wife of an officer at the U S Navy Supervisor of Shipbuilding office in Bath Maine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rice Brothers Corp
East Boothbay
Harold Nielson
Middle Street
Bath
U.S. Navy
Maine
Bowdoinham Names New Coombs High Principal
Bowdoinham School Committee hires Donald Favor of Guilford to lead Coombs High School replacing the late Charles Whynot. Favor, a Deer Isle and University of Maine alumnus, has taught at Higgins Institute, Deering High, and Guilford High and now runs a Guilford business. Senator Neil S. Bishop will teach temporarily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowdoinham
Donald Favor
Guilford
Coombs High School
Charles Whynot
Favor
Deering High School
University of Maine
Maine
Higgins Classical Institute
Guilford High School
Japan
U. S
Vacation visitors and local sightings reported
Warren Morgan from Sheepshead Bay joined Earl and Florence Browne for a few days. Governor Sumner Sewall of Augusta attended Browne's Point opening duck hunt. Malcolm Hatch, Gould Academy junior, visited Bethel with his parents Karl and Mrs Hatch. Sergeant Edwin Bayes and family returned to Port Miss after visiting Harry and Mrs Purington. Mary Dodge, Rumford teacher, spent the weekend with the Dodges. Donald Hackett from Bath enjoys a week off work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren Morgan
Sheepshead Bay
N. Y
Earl Browne
Sumner Sewall
Augusta
Browne's Point
Malcolm Hatch
Gould Academy
Bethel
Karl Hatch
Edwin Bayes
Harry Purington
Portland
Mary Dodge
Rumford
Horace Dodge
Donald Hackett
Bath
Bowdoinham Ladies Aid Met For Quilt Making
East Bowdoin Ladies Aid met September 23 at Mrs. Wilson Freeman's home with her daughter Mrs. Oscar Hatch assisting. Twelve members attended a picnic luncheon and worked on quilts and Red Cross sewing. Members included Mrs. Bickford Merry man McAfee Heath Williams Williams Dow Barrett Rogers Jenkins Purington. After business, a program featured readings by Freeman Barrett Williams McAfee Jenkins Rogers and closed with singing led by Mrs. Dow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Bowdoin
Theta Chapter Weenie Roast and Meeting Held
Theta chapter Beta Sigma Phi held a Wednesday evening outdoor weenie roast at Mrs. Leonard Wetherbee’s home on Western Avenue with picnic lunches and hot coffee. Following the pleasant social, a business meeting led by president Mrs. Harmon Eliason announced the October gathering at Miss Roberta Hathorne’s Woolwich home and program chairmen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theta Chapter
Beta Sigma Phi
Leonard Wetherbee
Western Avenue
Harmon Eliason
Roberta Hathorne
Woolwich
Richard Haskell
Madge Stacy
Eleanor Danforth
Jean Danforth
the Waves
Norman
Oklahoma
Val Ringer
Kathleen Scott
Waldoboro
Edwin R. Andrews
Nathan W. Watson
John A. Greene, Jr
Joan A. Conley, Jr
Albert Coombs
Brewster Sedgwick
Katherine Legard
Burt Osgood
Mary Carroll
Carol Stevens
Helen Hayes
Vanona MacDonald
Wetherbee
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Senter’s, Inc
Just
Failles—Suedes Grosgrain
Maine D.A.R
Knights
the Times Company
Front Street
Marriner
Leon Felker
Martha Crocker
Edward Burns
Francis Deehan
William Armstrong
Robinhood Troop OF Brownies
Nickerson
Barbara Kenney
E. B
Care Independent
Bath Woman
E. Wallace
Charles Holmes
Fairfield Sanitarium
Togus
Brunswick
George Trefry
Lula Holmes
Nettie Holmes
Ayer
Frank
John
West Bridgewater
North Brookfield
Charles H. Berry
Bowdoinham Baptist Church
Charles Berry
Wallace Ames
North Edgecomb
James H. Ames
Bowdoin
Sunshine Society
George A. Hackett
American Red Cross
Defense Center
William H. Gould
Forest Fides
Maine Maritime School
Castine
Avery Fides
Clarence Blackman
Waterville
H. G. Rogers
South Wallingford
Carl Rogers
East Bowdeinham
Harry W. Crockett
Melrose
Mary Lilly
Bay View Farm
Grace Hooper
East Hartford
George Sedgley
Philip Rideout
Raymond
Bert Stewart
Richmond
Wesley Williams
Lottie Purington
Merton Webber
Hartford, Conn
Wallace Beery
Lucille Ball
Wm. Gaxton
Louise Allbritton
Diana Barrymore
Robert Paige
Bowdoinham Post Road
Uriowns
Country Store
Per Hutler Udwig Donath
Fritz Kurtner
Gaie Sondergaare
Columbia Pictures
Iona
Jean Arthur
Uae
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