Winnegance Village Hosts Bean Supper Funds Street Light
The Winnegance community club raised funds via baked beans supper at the community house to pay street lighting on the Phippsburg side of the bridge. The event drew strong turnout and featured a social, whist games, and prizes including live poultry for winners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phippsburg
Community House
William Daley
William Lemont
J. Parker Morse
Milton Ty Morse
Edgar Oliver
Zina M. Eaton
Charles E. Hewitt, Jr
Richmond
Marion Morse
John W. Gilmore
Harry C. Williams
Robert Day
Sanford
Joseph N. Day
Harry F. Oliver
Sherman
Morse
Elbridge Bo Malcolm
Harry FF
Oliver
Herbert Morse
Portland
Ysle Au Haut
Elmer Lufkin
West Point Welcomes Snug Harbor Inn on Shorefront
Ground breaking near West Point in Phippsburg marks the start of the Snug Harbor Inn a small 40 seat restaurant. Mrs. Jennie Sweeney posts mistress and former grange worker leads the project with nautical decor and meals largely from her own gardens and sea. The venture blends restaurant and dance hall to draw visitors along the Ashdale road.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Point
Phippsburg
Jennie Sweeney
Bath
Wings
Sweeney
Sweeney De‘clare
Song Harbor Tan
Ashdale
the Grange
Oak Grove Cemetery Extension Urged by City Board
The cemetery and park board says Oak Grove needs more room and plans to exploit part of the Sewall lot donated by Mr. Sewall for an annuity. Budgets seek funds for layout roads and burial plots with a start this year. Sewall lot is south of the west addition, connected by a bridge over the Maine Central track. The board met Friday with Arthur J. Dunton as chair and J. Edward Hughes as secretary. Horace W. Ward was reelected superintendent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cemetery and Park Board
Oak Grove Cemetery
William Sewall
Sewall
Park Board
Oak Grove
Maine Central
Brunswick
Sewall Farm
Arthur J. Dunton
J. Edward Hughes
Fred H. Pratt, Jr
Horace W. Ward
Phippburg Town Officials Schedule Tax Valuation Sessions
The selectmen posted a warrant calling taxpayers to bring valuations. Sessions are at the town hall on April 12 and May 12 to 5 p.m. for this purpose. Also noted are juror draws, routine business, and monthly meetings. Local residents and visitors are listed among those arriving or departing.
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Notic
Town Hall
Ton. Om
Moo Ob
Wilson
Walham
Mass
Cox's Tend
Ishland Bridge
Brie Carlson
Brook Ivo
Parker Head
Eliza Bradshaw
Parker Dread
Bath City Hospital
William Jobrson
The
Basin
Katherine MacDonald
Paris
Willian Wain
Marguerite Stacey
Mis
Bernard Carlson
Parker Tead
Pred Bfutehins
West Point
Porthiad
Elijah A. Morse
Small Point
Mlbridge Vernier
MeIntire
Ashdale
Bath Box Co
AL Wyman
Elkanah Wyman
Tle
Westport Notes on Fannie Fowle and Local News
Mrs. Fannie Fowle of Westport died at her Fowle's Point home after a Wednesday evening illness. She was widow of Jonas Powle and a former teacher from Wiscasset. Survived by a brother orlangle Dickinson of Portland and children including Mrs. Oliver Po Jewett of Westport and Mrs. Arthur J. Pelles of Yarmouth, plus two grandchildren Carl and Dorothy Fells. Funeral at her home, burial in Woodlawn, Wiscasset. Also reports on school term starts, yacht Trillora speed claims, baby born to Mrs Colin R. Dunn, and comings and goings of local residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fannie BE. Fowle
Fowle’s Point
Jonas RE. Powle
Wiscasset
Abijah
Dorothy Dickinson
Kent's Till
Orlangle Dickinson
Portland
Ore
Richard L. Pow
Michel VW. Veal
Eleanor Aathorne
Wooelyview
Thomas B. Dickinson
Westport
Dickinson
SR. OR. Guevenheim
New York
Colin R. Dunn
Massachusetts
Ross T. Beaton
Charming operetta delights Bath audience with a puppeted world
A large crowd at Morse High School enjoyed a two performance weekend of the Land of Dolls operetta by students from North Center district primary schools under the North Center PTA. Cast included Bessie Minnie dolls led by Jetty Rice and Alma Allen with Fairy Godmother Jeanette Shackford and King of the dolls Andrew Lemoine Jr. The show featured a colorful overture by North Street Primary Orchestra and a procession of dolls, soldiers, and fairies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morse High School
North Street
Center Street
South Street
North Center
North Street Primary Orchestra
Neve Elty
Dalton John
Trareld McLean
Albion Johnson
Edward Derry
John MehLonaughlin
Warren Triggiss
Mary Wives
Mary Robinson
Louise Norton
Gay Coolen
Clayton Thibideau
Roland Norton
Leah Merrill
Andrew Lemoine, Jr
Richard = Parntain
Hoopla
Phen
Tellela
Mary Child
Mama and Papa
Pat Sing
Tred Hayward
Judge Scarem
Martiny
Piline
Dabette
Kathleen Scott
Capt
Suffuan
Dorothy White
Sany Smith
Rastus
Sylvian Kutz
John Cass
Dorothy Wing
Barbara Thbbs
Jsine Wing
Madelyn Phibodeau
Machelsn Dunton
Marie Merrill
Martha Stilphen
Dennie Kakos
Betty Foley
Doris Lozier
Dorothy Norton
Marjorie McNeil
Dorothy Paisley
Lillian Goodwin
Mary Goodwin
Alice Colman
Olive Ripley
John Clancy
Ruth Gallagher
Frances Quinn
Thelma Carr
Louise Portreau
Mary Lee
Harold Footer
Charles Genuther
Missionary Society Presents Play at First Baptist Church
The Foreign Missionary Society of the First Baptist church held a vestry program Friday with a humorous play Packing the Barrel and a pageant The Dreamer. Participants included Mrs Fred W Larrabee Mrs Carolyn Reed Miss Marion Skillin Miss Lillian Hall and several others with duets and solos plus a candy table boosting the missionary fund. About 20 percent of Harvard students earn money averaging three dollars weekly.
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Foreign Missionary Society of the First Baptist Church
Phose
Fred W. Larrabee
Carolyn Reed
Mary McNinch
Leon Taton
Mabelle Lake
Edgar Murphy
Freeman Crosby
Herbert
BE. Worrey
Gardiner Roberts
Ruby Fullerton
Margaret McDonald
Marion Skillin
Gertrude Reed
Lillian Hall
Carolyn Moody
Roslyn Hall
Maarie Creage
Edwin W. Haggett
Donald Preble
Haley
Maine to Consider State Semi-Pro Basketball League
Maine may form a six to eight team semi pro basketball circuit modeled after the major leagues. Bath Augusta and Bangor are leading interests with bids from Lewiston Auburn Westbrook Portland Waterville and others as preliminary plans unfold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Bath
Augusta
Bangor
Legionaires
Portland
Auburn
Banger
Harry Epstein
Y.m.c.la
Bill Perkins
Augusta City
Lewiston- Auburn
Westbrook
Waterville
Biddeford
Rockland
Brewer
Twin Cities Face Split as Lewiston Weighs Independent Team
The Auburn Legion is the league’s logical unit but Lewiston may field an independent squad altering the Twin Cities rivalry. Semi pro basketball once dominated Maine sports. war killed teams and revival efforts stalled, stoking local interest.
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Auburn Legion
Lewiston
Twin Cities
Maine
Bath High School to Drop Track from Roster Over Interest
Bath Maine officials announce track will be dropped for the year unless more student interest appears. The small squad cannot compete in state or interschool meets, with limited facilities forcing runners to train on unsafe roadside tracks and a poor campus layout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morse
University of Maine
Colby
Bates
Beys of
Bath
Bath Park
Bath Youth Weds Indianapolis Bride in Miami Nuptials
Kenneth Leroy Atwood son of Mr and Mrs Wallace Atwood Bath Maine and Miss Dee Messer of Indianapolis Indiana were married in Miami Florida on March 2. The groom a Morse high school 1921 graduate and alumni of Phillips Exeter and Bryant Stratton College Boston is a well known Bath figure. The bride works for Jeaux-Arts Electric Co in Miami and belongs to the Business and Professional Women’s club of Indianapolis Minneapolis Minnesota. The story notes interest for Bath people and mentions a separate item about the Russian Soviet government requesting Minnesota’s agricultural school to send experts to demonstrate fruit ripening gas use.
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Bath
Miami
Indianapolis
Ila
Kenneth Leroy Atwood
Wallace TL. Atwood
Washington Street
Dee Messer
Ind
Morse High School
Phillips-Exeter Academy
Tryant-Stratten
Minneapolis
Minn
University of Minnesota Agricultural School
West Bath selectmen oppose Bridle Path bill
West Bath selectmen argue the Bridle Path bill would force private property access and damage payments, overrule town votes, and threaten farming and roads. They contend damages could burden taxpayers and hamper agriculture, urging preservation of private property rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Maine
America
Winiter
West Bath Selectmen
West Bath
Selectmen
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Niehard CC. Morse
John H. Carter
Woolwich
George ©. Pease
Herbert W. Cutting
Rogers
Squaw Club
Richard, Morse
Sherman LI. Morse
Parker O. Rogers
Robert D. Manson
Lillian Parks
Bates Street Shirt Co
Fred I. Parks
George J. Cutting
Boston
Ile
Winneganee
George Ingalls Place
Charles A. Rogers
Southport
Nelson L. Jackson
King Tavern
Weinfield W. Morse
Charles Be, Hewitt
Charles KL Hewitt
Doris Morse
Gorhim Normal School
Eugene Spinney
Florida
Stuart Day
Nelson J. Jackson
OLD Timbers
West Points
Cosy New Restaurant
Naples
Italy
Frederick FE. Drake, Jr
Holderness School
Plymouth
N. H
Ralph Small
Andrews Road
St. Stephens
George M. Middleton
St. Dominic’s Church
Daniel Perry
Benedicta
Patrick Rogan
Winfield Th. Tram
Frank A. Small
C. BF. Hathaway
Cambridge
Morse High Measure
Assembly Hall
Paul Dooley
Ellen Cyr
Marcorel Anderson
Clinton Child
Martha Page
Anna McNinel
Grace Swain
Ethel Sutherland
Thelma Pegg
Barbara Mank
Donald Didley
Kenneth Jacequith
Dorothy Safford
Walter Rogers
Charles Bracca
Rother Sutherkind
Emerson Webster
Marié] Quinn
Marie Comeau
Jeanette Kay
Marjory Fish
Mildred Pinkham
Vera Hudson
Doris Crocker
Hope Dumas
Trelen Simmons
Florence Leeman
Eunice Pinkham
Jack Merrill
Roscoe Po McPadden
Mabel Ayer
First Baptist
Harvard
Bath Savings Institution
the Independent
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