Pirates Near Parker's Island Prompt River Escape
Narrative recalls a 1751 raid at Parker's Island near Kennebec where armed vessels shelled the coast and locals fled to the river. A defender escaped through a rear window as attackers felled a door with hatchets, then he seized a canoe and reached Arrowsic while pursuing Indians struggled in the water. Later notes describe the Rosetta McNeil wreck, PTA poverty social, Easter egg hunt, and local town affairs including assessments and repairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parker's Island
Ken’ Red
Arrowsic
Yorkshire Regiment
Rosetta McNeil
Waldoboro
Portland
New York
Townsboys
Sprowl
Sprague
George Morton
Small Point
Iys
Rairden Farm
PTA
Retur ns to Bath After 26 Years
Andrew J Tracey of Valijo California a Bath native returns to his hometown for the first time in more than 26 years since World War I years. He served in the U S Navy after enlisting at the outbreak of war and was born to the late Thomas A Tracey. He plans days in Ayer Massachusetts with wife Margaret Percival before visiting friends across the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew J. Tracey
Valijo
Calif
Hs Os
Bath
Andrew
Daily Times
Old Deer
Ing
Mr. Tracey
Thomas A. Tracey
Ayer
Mass
Margaret Percival
Massachusetts
Personal notes from Wakefield Easter visits and births
Wakefield notes include Ruth Leighton visiting relatives in Rumford and relatives of the Meister family in Washington Street hosting Easter gatherings. A baby boy named Philip Joseph Menard was born March 25 at Memorial Hospital to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Leo Menard of Chestnut Street, weighing six pounds. Easter weekend visits continued with the Gauvreau family and J Manning Ho.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. H
Easter Seals money aid noted in Phippsburg drive
The report highlights Mrs Leston Harrington raising over 100 for Easter Seal funds aiding the crippled in Phippsburg. Community updates include church services, student activities, and visitors at homes around the village with several mass attendances and social visits.
Phippsburg Republicans elect town committee at caucus
At a Phippsburg town hall caucus John G. Morse Jr was elected chairman with Herbert Scott as vice chair and Thomas L Totman as secretary. The meeting chose delegates to the State and First District conventions and urged support for Governor Dewey at national and state elections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phippsburg
John G. Morse, Jr
Etta Hall Taylor
Herbert Scott
Eugene Winslow
Mark Harrington
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Harry C. Webber
Winfield W. Morse
John G. Morse
Raymond McIntire
Everett A. Harrington
Raymond Wyman
Bessie Sprague
Thomas L. Totman
Easter Services At Good Will Club
A special Easter service was held at the Good Will club in Sagadahoc Ferry on Sunday afternoon at two o'clock led by Rev. Alfred Ives of Beacon Street Methodist. The sermon inspired a large attendance and flowers decorated the hall, later sent to sick and shut-ins. The oldest member and charter director Mrs. Charles H. Hunnewell received the Easter lily while potted tulips filled the rest of the arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Good Will Club
Sagadahoc Ferry
Alfred Ives
Beacon Street
Methodist’ Church
Charles H. Hunnewell
Pamela Wakefield Birthday Party Celebrated
Miss Pamela Wakefield daughter of Mr and Mrs John Wakefield of 93 Bedford street marked her sixth birthday with a Monday afternoon party at home. Guests enjoyed games then ice cream cake and candy. The dining room was decorated pink and yellow and photos were taken of the hostess and guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pamela Wakefield
John Wakefield
Bedford Street
Miss Wakefield
Bruce Milliken
Merlene Osborne
David Brown
Kathie
Monday Contract club hosts Mrs. Sewall at High Street home
Mrs Edward Sewall entertained the members of the Monday Contract club at her High Street home Monday afternoon. Albert Povich, son of Mr and Mrs Morris S Povich of Middle Street, left this morning by train for Washington D C where he is a student at the law school for Easter vacation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Sewall
High Street
Albert Povich
Morris S. Povich
Middle Street
Washington, D. C
Law School
Pei
Bath area residents and guardsmen tied to weekend events
Ice floes around Atkins Bay weeks after clear river. Coast Guardsman Rubin Kuritti brought home the daughter of Irving Sparrow for medical care. Bath residents visited, shuffled between cottages, shops, and churches as family and friends joined weekend duties and events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atkins Bay
Reece Oer
Seth Snipe
Bath
Alden Denham, Jr
Bath Goodrich
Keene
N. H
Frank Scott
Ies
Edith Fic
Allan Rogers
Hallowell
Mary E. Robinson
Walter Sprague
Isadore Singer
Royal Johnson
Barbara Sprague
Yarmouth
Ralph Small
Kate McCarty
McCarty
Herbert Sprague
Merton Wallace
Candy’s Harbor
Coast Guardsman
Rubin Kuritti
M-M
Seguin
Irving Sparrow
B-M
Virginia Perkins
Lester Morse
Winneganee
Morse High
Clarence Perkins
Richard Sprague
Clarence Bailey
Raymond Pye
Small Point
Elkanah Wyman
Leah Bowie
Lester Oliver
Oliver
Edith Fickett Rites Held In Bath With Burial At Falmouth
Funeral services for Edith Fickett were conducted at Mayo Funeral Home in Bath and she was buried in the family lot at Falmouth Cemetery. Attending were relatives and friends from Hanover New Hampshire Keene Portland Skowhegan Pejepscot Hallowell South Portland Popham and local communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edith Fickett
Bath
Easter Services at Small Point Church
Easter services were held Sunday at Small Point church at 3 30 p m with Rev Orville Lozier of the Congregational Christian Conference of Maine as guest preacher. Mrs Lester Oliver was organist. Local residents and visitors were noted at gatherings and calls in Bath and Brunswick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Small Point
Orville Lozier
Congregational Christian Conference of Maine
Lester Oliver
Edward Thomas, Sr
Edward
Frederick
Parker Head
Laura E. Dustin
Gordon Abriel
Bath
Nathaniel Percy
Bradford Sprague
Bessie Sprague
Bernard Carlson
Dix's Island
George Stacey
Edward P. Thomas
Eric Carlson
Albion Johnson, Jr
Ralph Robinson
Ilene Percy
Marblehead
Mass
Eric Carson
R. B. K. McLanathan
Boston
Frank Wyman
Lawrence Thayer
Robert Jewell
Edward Thomas, Jr
Frederick Thomas
Brunswick
Fenns Plan Move Visit to Wilmington NC Next Week
Mr and Mrs Converse Fenn of High street are spending a few days in Boston and will depart next week to Wilmington North Carolina to visit Mrs Fenns sister and her husband Mr and Mrs Edmund Hoggard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Converse Fenn
High Street
Boston
Wilmington
N. C
Girl Scouts Send Friendship Bundles to Foreign Lands
Two local Girl Scout troops delivered large Friendship bundles to the post office as part of the Clothes For Friendship drive. The nationwide aim is 100000 complete wardrobes for children ages one to fourteen to be shipped overseas under American Friends Service supervision. Each kit includes winter and summer garments such as caps mittens underwear sweaters dresses and overalls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis A. Dole
Girl Scouts of America
American Friends Service
Hummingbird Brownies
Ernest J. Leader
Alta Couge
Asi
Girl Scouts of Bath
Bath Delegates Return Home From Conference
Bath delegates and alternates attended sessions with Mrs. Charles Andre and Miss Jane Smalley gaining offices and honors. Amelia Mitchell accompanied the Bath group as a candidate for Strees age to Washington. Mrs. Margaret Chase Smith addressed the conference urging women to aid peacemaking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C.A.R
C. Kenneth Smith
Charles Andre
Erma Farrar
Brunswick
Bath
Amelia Mitchell
Strees Age
Washington, D
Dummer Sowall
Leonard Litchfield
Jane Smalley
St. George High School
Maine
National Society
Washington, D. C
Margaret Chase Smith
Eastland
Russia
Europe
Middle East
Asia
State Society of Children of the American Revolution
Edward Cassidy
Bangor
Edward F. Merrill
Skowhegan
William H. Rimes
Gardiner
Otto N. Larsen
Waterville
Edwin F. Pratt
Richmond
Alton Carl
Bingham
Earl C. Wing
North Anson
Frank Locke
Kittery
John W. Healy
Augusta
N. T. Stanley
Rumford
Lewis D. Smith
Carroll Webber
Stevens Avenue
Easter guests feature local families in Five Islands and Augusta
Mr and Mrs Norman W Howard and son Gilbert of Washington Street were Eastern dinner guests of Mrs Zetta Higgins at her Five Islands home. Mrs Clifford Harrington of North Street spent Easter weekend in Augusta with her daughter Miss Beatrice Harrington and sister. Lucius Barrows appears in the fragment with Harrington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norman W. Howard
Gilbert
Washington Street
Zetta Higgins
Five Islands
Clifford Harrington
North Street
Augusta
Beatriceton
Arin
Lucius Barrows
Miss Harrington
Bath Democrats Name Delegates At City Caucus
Bath Democrats held a city caucus at City Hall to elect delegates and alternates to the State Democratic convention in Augusta on April 9 and 10 and to form the new City Committee for 1948 49. Robert H Haskell was elected chairman and Arthur J Sarkis secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
City Hall
Augusta
New Democratic
Robert H. Haskell
Arthur J. Sarkis
Haskell
John P. Carey
David M. McKellar
Harry Thebeau
Celia Wold
Robert M. Huse
Willis C. Dunning
Ralph C. Covel
Robert E. Wagner, Sr
H. Martin Powers
Frank Lehane
Alexander Burgess
James W. Temple
Margaret McKellar
George Nurgent
William Temple
Clara Corliss
Engagement announced for Doris Sawyer Brennan in Augusta
Mr and Mrs Joseph L Paquin of 27 Pearl Street Augusta announce the engagement of their daughter Doris to Walter J Brennan son of Mrs Jennie S Brennan of Augusta formerly Miss Sawyer of Bath. Doris is a Cony High graduate 1945 and a stenographer at the Veterans Administration Center. Walter a Calais native and Cony graduate plans to enter the University of Maine in fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph L. Paquin
Pearl Street
Augusta
Doris Harry Sawyer Brennan
Jennie S
All Street
Walter J. Brennan
Swan
Miss Sawyer
Bath
Harry B.syer
Miss Paquin
Cer Land
Ee Cony
Adj
Veterans 3Istration Center
Paquin
New Memorial United Baptist Church
Brennan
U. S. Army
Calais
Cony High School
University of Maine
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M Gilman
Kexoker
Price
Walter Libby
Gardiner Rogers
Pleasant View
Stanley Hutchins
Johnsons
Meadowbrook
Horace Holton
J. K. Bowker
Leston Harrington
Warren Doughty
John Rollins
Grace Kraft
Mae Dennenfelser
Florence Rollins
Sandra Mank
St. Mary’s Church
Earl Lowell
Albert Gray
Orville Lozer
Congregational Conference
Herbert Doughty
Leslie Darling
Eugene Harrington
Pos Center
S. C. Gilman
Millard Nadeau
Ronald
Dresden
Walter Cushing
Dorothy Cushing
Leroy Perkins
Winnegance
Clarence Blaisdell
Charles Blaisdell
Harold Woodward
North Bergen
N. J
George Woodward
New Jersey
Mabel Wade
Stephen Rogers
Harrington
Edwin M. Wyman
Will
Be Sr
Hamel
Frederick Libby
Harold Barkalow
Bea
J. D. Libby
Elizabeth la
Arthur Lear
Bérlil Nisbetof
Lear
Eugene Joeton
Kerwin
Lewiston Givacae
Sporting Goods Department
Mercury
A . Ny
Town Hall
Cox
Girl Scouts
Louise Munsey
Bonnie Cormier
Betsy Bertrand
Martha Pratt
Louise D. Carter
Lillianni Canales
Ernest
Democrats
Adjo Man Haskell
John Costain
Geraldine Rice
Hartford, Conn
Nelson Rice
Fred Bowie
Drummnod Street
Chevrolet
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