Wiscasset Clubs Host, Weddings, and Academy Honors
Olive Austin and Alberta Sherman won prizes at a Galap ng club meeting at Miss Ann Nelder’s Bath road home. Alberta hosts this Thursday on Federal street. Pauline Boyd engaged to Glidden B Rines of Wiscasset, daughter of Elise Boyd announces. Wiscasset Academy trustees elected Munsey as president Hawes as secretary Sewall as treasurer with Southard and Munsey on executive committee. Engagements include Marcia Bailey to George Wilson of Bath. Sophomore Prize Speaking speakers named. Academy honors awarded for March 12 in seniors juniors sophomores and freshmen. Legion Auxiliary plans card party at Togus with Oakland Auxiliary. Ronald Allan born to Joyce and Lewis at Bath Memorial Hospital. Women’s Club guests include Harlan Trott speaking on current international affairs. War Veterans program set for April 18. sunshine bags requested. Pemaquid DAR silver tea April 3 in Boothbay Harbor with music reading. Koussinoc DAR meeting in Augusta April 8. Marco Club meets with Dr. DiPerri as guest. Garrison Hill OES holds April Fool party. Obligation Night on April 15. Personal items note illness and hospital visits and various town travel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olive Austin
Alberta Sherman
Galagang Club
Ann Nelder
Bath Road
Federal Street
Elise Boyd
Pauline Boyd
Glidden B. Rines
Richard T. Rines
Wiscasset
Miss Boyd
Perkins & Perkins
Boothbay Harbor
Rines
Buick Automobile Co
Rockland
Wiscasset Academy
Elden P. Munsey
Herbert W. Hawes
Samuel J. Sewall
Edna M. Southard
Harold M. Bailey
Marcia Ellen
George Hubert Wilson
A. Arthur Wilson
Bath
Miss Bailey
Mr. Wilson
Morse High School
Legion Auxiliary
Sadie Bradford
Togus
Oakland
Ronald Allan
Joyce Linwood Lewis
Bath Memorial Hospital
Woman's Club
Harlan Trott
Boston
Trott
Alfred Dowling
Pemaquid
D.A.R
Elizabeth Reed
Grace Carlisle
Maude Laughlin
Fannie Perkins
Julia Reed
Lydia Morse
Lonie Clifford
Koussinoc
Augusta
Marguerite Brooks
Spruce Street
Marco Club
Stanley Dodge
Water Street
Charles J. DiPerri
Garrison Hill
O.E.S
Charles E. Cowley
Portland
Daniel R. Sortwell
Massachusetts
Sortwell
Clarence Allen
Camp Chewonki
Alton Erskine
Marshall Erskine
Nobleboro
Ruth Leavitt
Harold
Leavitt
York Beach
Winona Leavitt
Ruth
James McLaren
Nellie Dowling
Irma Brewer
Frances Somes
Lewiston
Donald Leavitt
Joseph B. Dowling
Allan Hunnewell
Virginia Pease
Katharine Ames
R. N
Caribou
Alton Ames
Hilda Olsen
Miss Ames
Earl D. Rines, Jr
Barbara Ann
Earl Rines
Alison Cummings
Randall F. Cummings
Royal Air Force
Horn Book
England
William Snyder
A. L. Purdy
Greenwich
Conn
Jesse
Brownie Metcalf
Harvey R. Pease
Social notes from Augusta and surrounding towns
Miss Ann Nelder hosted by Miss Virginia Pease in Augusta while Miss Katharine Ames and Miss Hilda Olsen visited Caribou relatives. Families and guests from Portland Damariscotta Greenwich Conn and Maine towns attended events. Local clubs named officers, council meetings in Edgecomb and Wiscasset formed a Community Health committee with plans for child clinics.
View of Wiscasset From Cushman's Mountain at Birch Point
By E Lawrence Lewis the poem surveys Wiscasset from Cushman's Mountain at Birch Point as sunset glows over Woolwich and the bay The speaker recalls ships fading on the horizon the old block house and decayed vessels and finds rest in the harbor rather than the stormy sea of life
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wiscasset
Cushman’s
Birch Point
Lawrence Lewis
Woolwich
Yester-Year
Mrs Edwin Small Returns From Visit To Auburndale And Milton
Mrs Edwin Small returns home after several days in Auburndale Massachusetts with sisters Misses Charlotte and Eleanor Lanagan and Milton Massachusetts with brother Edward Lanagan. Mrs Eric Anderson of Boston and New York, guest of Mr and Mrs Edwin Small, has gone to Wiscasset for a short visit before returning home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin Small
Auburndale
Mass
Charlotte
Eleanor Lanagan
Milton
Edward Lanagan
Eric Anderson
Boston
New York
Wiscasset
Mrs Reardon Hosts Pre Easter Tea at North Street Home
Mrs Michael J Reardon entertained guests at a pre Easter tea held at her residence 154 North street on Thursday The event featured a guest from Boston visiting her uncle and aunt Mr and Mrs Jer ome O Keefe of Oliver street Charles Mitchell of Lancaster Massachusetts was visiting his sister Mrs Ray Howe on Richardson street
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael J. Reardon
North Street
Phy
Boston
Jerome O’keefe
Oliver Street
Charles Mitchell
Lancaster
Mass
Mrs
Ray Howe
Richardson Street
West Bath Maine Society plans August midsummer clambake
The Maine Society of Florida long term winter Maine residents plans an August gathering at Larrabee's Grove with an old fashioned Maine clambake and attendees from all Maine districts. West Bath P T A officers held their annual election Tuesday night at Littlefield school with thirteen members and three visitors present. no changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine Society of Florida
Maine
Larrabee's Grove
West Bath
Melford Perham
Nelson Perham
Lillian Silver
Woodstock
Courtney Stover
Caroline Rogers
North Whitefield
Arthur Chissam
Chissam
Walter Kinney
Maynard Carlton
Foster's Point
Illness and Social Visits Reach Dresden
Miss Eva Rice R N of Bath cares for Mrs Oscar Bailey and young Yvonne Bailey as both are ill with flu and rheumatic fever Dr Pratt of Richmond attends Mrs Bailey The Rollins family from Bowdoinham visit Carolyn Sheldon Norman Bailey returns from Fort Devens Russell and Mrs Bickford return from Woolwich Smelt camps removed from Eastern River Mrs Fred Chapman visits Port land Mrs Mabel Cate visits town and works for Scott Hodgkins in Gardiner
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eva Rice
R.N
Bath
Oscar Bailey
Yvonne Bailey
Dr. Pratt
Richmond
Harold Rollins
Bowdeinham
Carolyn Sheldon
Norman Bailey
Fort Devens
Russell Bickford
Woolwich
Fred Chapman
Portland
Mabel Cate
Cate
Scott Hodgkins
Gardiner
Rod and Gun Club Banquet Highlights Research Film
The Rod and Gun Club held its banquet with remarks on duck hunting risks and lead poisoning, followed by an interior department film on Merrymeeting Bay and duck food. Prizes included fishing gear, a flashlight, a hunting knife, a landing net, and a shotgun. Committees were formed for the May 6 final meeting at the Sedgwick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stickney
Department of the Interior
Merrymeeting Bay
Mississippi
West Virginia
Research Bureau
Department of Fish and Game
Clarence Baker
A. M. Packard
Murals, Inc
Julius Gediman
Rogers Hardware
Frank King
Malclam Lundberg
Andrew J. Lemoine Jr
Orris I. Ames
Sedgwick
Community notices from Day's Ferry region, April events listed
Massachusetts patient Mrs Loring Maybury is noted. April 8 Good Will club meets at Eugenie Hunnewell home. Nine of Clubs auxiliary met at Dorothy Pitman’s with Sevigney. Day's Ferry Mothers club hosted by Carlton Day Reed Tuesday. Travel club met at Samuel Buck home with Lydia McDonald hostess. River near Burnt Jacket sees geese and ducks. ice going out. Upcoming meetings include Capt J W Reed’s home Saturday April 5. Teachers club co hosted by Mary Scribner and Maude Thayer at Day's Ferry schoolhouse Thursday 7 30. Merlene Jameson celebrates 11th birthday March 27 with family supper. Willing Workers held by Mrs Harold Bailey. Bath guests visit Day's Ferry residents including the Kings and Carters. Boston visitors to Miss Maxine Walker's family with new Pontiac. Willard Elliot returns from Sarasota. Frank Soule family and Frank J Walker relatives visit. Several local residents travel to St Petersburg Florida. Mrs Chester Grover returns from St Andrews hospital. Donald St Pierre and friends celebrate sixth birthday with a party. Christian Service and Council announce services and April meeting at Nequasset church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Buck
Lydia McDonald
Burnt Jacket
Day's Ferry Community Club
J. W. Reed
Mary Scribner
Maude Thayer
Teachers Club
S Ferry
Merlene
Merle Jameson
Harold Bailey
Bessie
Mildred Clark
Bath
Florence Carlton
Everett King
Sadie
Arthur King
Edithe Crocker
Martia Wallace
West Point
Alice King
Maxine Walker
Back Bay
Russel Boyd
Beacon Hill
Boston
Miss Walker
Frank J. Walker
H. P. Small Co
Willard Elliot
North Woolwich
Sarasota
Fla
Harriett Blanche
Mechanic Falls
Woodrow Miller
Delmar Trott
Waterville
Nellie Reed
Louise Miller
el Smith
Son Forrest
Richmond
Mason Carter
Day’s Ferry
Nelson Rice
Orono
Montsweag
Reed Cottage
Capitol Island
Portland
Chester Grover
St. Andrews
Boothbay Harbor
Donald St. Pierre
Alex St. Pierre
Sagadahoc Ferry
Frank Soule
Mary Lou
Wiscasset
Everett Rice
Windham
Lydia Morrell
Donald Clinton McIntosh
Roland D. McIntosh
Woolwich
Beverly
Donald Coombs
LaForest Coombs
Donna Cooper
Lindsey Cooper
Beverly Coombs
Woolwich Union For
Christian Service
Day's Ferry
Nequasset
Good Will Club
Christian Endeavor Society
Nequasset Congregational Church
Bath Iron Works Plans New Modern Office Building
Bath Iron Works Corp announces a six story modern brick and steel office building to replace three adjacent houses on Washington Street. The 170 by 50 foot two to three story structure will house executive offices on the street floor and a large engineering drawing room on the top floor with extensive vaults and a basement conference and blue printing area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Iron Works Corp
Washington Street
Union Street
Bath Iron Works Corporation
Pres. Newell
Alonzo G. Harriman
City of Ships
Navy Department
Blue
Iron Works
Miss Nash Returns to Augusta General Hospital as Senior
Miss Dorothea E. Nash daughter of Mr and Mrs Howard O Nash of 38 Edward Street has completed her affiliated course at the State Hospital in Concord New Hampshire and returns to the Augusta General Hospital on Tuesday where she is a senior.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothea E. Nash
Howard O. Nash
Edward Street
State Hospital
Concord
N. H
Augusta General Hospital
Maine shock as Richmond murder trial advances
More than 59 witnesses lined up by the state in the Richmond murder case of Dr Laverne Harris Joss, who pleaded not guilty to killing his wife March 27. The Bath municipal court set a Friday hearing with Judge Gardiner R. Deering presiding, Dr Joss held without bail, attorney Judge Ernest L. Goodspeed beside him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Maine
Dr. Laverne
Harris Joss
Dr. Joss
Gardiner R. Deering
Bath
Ernest L. Goodspeed
Augusta
Murder case looms as 51 witnesses lined up
Augusta April 2 The State plans to call 15 of 51 witnesses at a Bath Municipal Court hearing on a murder warrant against Dr Merrill Joss for the bludgeoning death of Dr Laverne Harris Joss 38 in Richmond The body was found at her home after funeral services Her husband 31 was arrested Sunday and denies the charge State Police Chief Henry Weaver disclosed after a conference with Attorney General Frank Cowan about the evidence in the brutal killing of the tuberculosis specialist whose head showed 26 blows
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta
Laverne Harris Joss
Bath Municipal Court
Merrill Joss
Henry P. Weaver
Weaver
Frank I. Cowan
Joss
Richmond
Bath physician's preliminary hearing set with Augusta talks
Sheriff Messenger and Sagadahoc County Attorney Dale will meet in Augusta with Attorney General Cowan and State Police Chief Weaver to discuss the preliminary hearing for Richmond physician Merrill E. Joss in Bath Municipal Court. The stairs from his Richmond home used to uncover his wife's body will not be brought to Bath as evidence. The amount of admissible evidence remains undetermined, and the identity of the "other woman" may be revealed at the hearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles W. Messenger
Ralph O. Dale
Sagadahoe County
Augusta
Frank I. Cowan
Henry P. Weaver
Maine State Police
Merrill E. Joss
Richmond
Bath
Messenger
Bureau of Investigation
Woolwich Grange Gardens Plan Read at Meeting
Woolwich Grange members answered roll call on garden plans during last Tuesday's meeting. The gathering opened with the range singing Sow the Seed. Mrs. John Sutter read a creed for home gardening and several members read gardening poems.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woolwich Grange
John Sutter
Fred T. Hathorne
Jesse B. Spaulding
Milton L. Hathorne
Eleanor Sutter
Merle Jameson
Rescue of Onward III Off Seguin Island by Coast Guard
The oil screw boat Onward III of Portland, engine disabled and leaking, was rescued one mile east of Seguin Island at 3:15 AM Thursday by U S Coast Guard from Popham Beach. Crew Niles Cameron Freeman Beal Melvin Sproul towed her to Poole's Wharf Boothbay Harbor for repairs. The vessel measures 47 feet 9 inches and is owned by the Portland Fish So.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Onward III
Portland
Seguin
United States Coast Guard
Popham Beach
Niles Cameron
Freeman Beal
Melvin Sproul
Poole’s
Boothbay Harbor
Tom Morong
Cameron
Roy Curtis
The
Portland Fish So
Phippsburg Man Fined For Inadequate Brakes Incident
Lester H. Beals of Phippsburg paid court costs after pleading guilty to operating a motor vehicle with inadequate brakes. Trial Justice James H. Ames at Bowdoinham suspended a $10 fine on payment of costs following the Saturday night crash on the Lewiston road involving a parked car owned by Nelson Sedgeley of Lewiston, reported by State Patrolman Herbert Marriner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lester H. Beals
Phippsburg
James H. Ames
Bowdoinham
Beals
Herbert Marriner
Lewiston Road
Nelson Sedgeley
Lewiston
Also Mentioned on This Page
Nadine Dow
Forest Faulkingham
William Grant
Herman Grover
Kenneth Munsey
Burnita Pray
Phyllis Reid
Emily Riley
Jacqueline Townsend
Marcia Angell
Harry Haggett
Beatrice Morris
Ivan Rines
Kenneth Bailey
Margaret Beane
Albert Erskine
Isabel Lewis
Elinor Pomeroy
Benjamin Rines
Leonard Seamon
Barbara Sullivan
Elinor Sutter
Ruth Spencer
Earl Bailey
Franklin Fairservice
Raymond Farmer
Virginia Geroux
Leon Grover
Margery Grover
Jean Hutchins
Clifton Hutchins
Lorca
Wiscasset Woman's Club
Barbara Bailey
Nelle Dowling
Clara Wright
Lincoln-Sagadahoce Council
Edgecomb
Ralph Pollard
Waldoboro
Lew Fortier
Ellsworth
Richmond White
L. Frank Metcalf
Clarence Blagdon
James Keefe
Frances Sortwell
Clarence Bailey
C. E. Cowley
Dowling
Ada McConnell
Barbara Fisher
Lowell School
Oscar Adams
Littlefield School
Larrabee’s Grove
Little Lawrence
Lawrence
Barbara
Beverly Joy
Laura Palmer
Lewis Palmer, Jr
Betty Palmer
Richard Simard
William Mulhern
Charles Darrah
Rosemont
N. J. Simard
Salem
Dresden
ROD and Gun Club
Lwich
Seguin Island
Coast Guard
Tee Lu Stores
Sea
Onlen Ony
House of Old Molineaus, Inc
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