Community notices span clubs, town meeting and events
The Friday schedule includes the Women's Club program led by Mrs. Lois Frye with Howard G. Richardson as guest speaker. Lions and Mothers clubs met. Esso Co. showed film scenes. A town meeting will vote on highway funds for Federal Street and village streets, risking limited funds for three years. Personal items note hospital care, relocations, and church activities.
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Lois Frye
Howard G. Richardson
Lions Club
Mothers’ Club Co
New Jersey
Louisiana
Esso Gas Co
Carl Colby
Aaron Tucker, Jr
Herbert Lermond
John Mar
Harold Mayberry
Walter Ibish
Leverett Welsh
Delmas Leighton
Arambec Lodge
1.C.C.F
Merrill Lodge
Freeport
Canton
Pine Cone Rebekah
Rebekah
Bath
Richmond
Red Brick
Organ Society
Rensel H. Colby
C.F. Hall
Highway and Bridge Capital Reserve Fund
Federal Street
Vilage
State Highway Department
Charles E. Quinnam
Gardiner Road
St. Andrew's Hospital
Helen Erskine
Alna
St. Philip’s
Charles E. Cowley
Star Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Portland
Grand Lodge
Daniel R. Sortwell
Frances A. Sortwell
Washington
George W. Smith
Washington Street
Canal Zone
Mr. Smith
Mounday
St. Philip's Church
Wiscasset
Wiscasset youths face court over unlicensed clam digging
A group of 15 Wiscasset youths appeared in Woolwich municipal court for unlicensed clam worm digging in Woolwich flats. The case was continued to April 11 with Attorney Edward R. Bridgham as counsel. Separate pleas by Ralph L. Gross Jr and Helen C. Clancy resulted in fines and costs for unregistered car operation and unlicensed driving. Two Bath girls received one year probation after moral charges at a closed hearing. Sailors from the U S Ep seres were handed to naval authorities. A Bath juvenile found guilty of robbing St Marys church and Troops Hardware was sent to the State School for Boys in South Portland.
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Wiscasset
Woolwich
Edward R. Bridgham
Ralph L. Gross, Jr
Frank W. Powers
Helen C. Clancy
Bath
U.S. S. Epperson
St. Mary’s Church
Anna Dunton
Court Street
South Portland
Gardiner R. Deering
West Bath social life marked by birthdays and gatherings
Community notes from West Bath recount birthday parties for Mrs. Arthur Cain Jr and others, a Red Cross fund tally, a Grass Fire at Jack Wilson’s barn, family visits, and club meetings. Numerous local residents and visitors are named with visits to Bath Memorial Hospital, Pomona and Enterprise grange events, and plans for Harvesters 4 H and PTA activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Larrabee
Arthur Cain, Jr
Fred Keene
Ross W. Nichols
Jeanette
Maude Nichols
Donald Nichols
Beryl
Shirley
Fred
Shirley Wharff
Larry
Social Eight Club
Irving Burnham
Josephine Pinkham
Flora Thayer
Susie Darrah
Alice Rideout
Viola Melzard
Lucille Stilphen
Frances Gazette
Phyllis Dolphin
F. W. Deehan
Eunice Fitzgerald
Woodbury
George
Billy Burnham
Deehan
John Perkins
Elizah Hallowell
Gertrude Greenleaf
Amos and
Emery
Arrowsie
Harold Davis
Bath
Howard Carlton
Roland Carlton
West Bath
Eva Perry
Norman
Laurance Perry
Madison
Earle Richardson
Wiscasset
Reggie Atwood
Elijah Hallowell
Jack Wilson
West Bath Grange Holds Monday Meeting With Entertainment
Over 100 grangers attended the West Bath Grange gathering. Lucy Armstrong chaired in place of the convalescent Carl Meister. The program featured songs, solos, a discussion on My Favorite Radio Program, humorous stories, saxophone numbers, a poem, an Irish story, a penny march won by David Reil, birthday songs for three members, and closing thoughts. A Welfare Committee baked bean supper was announced for Saturday evening with a social and dancing to Carver's Orchestra afterward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Hooper
Sudbury
Mass
Richard Renshaw
Maynard Carleton
Bath Memorial Hospital
Eva Perry
Jeanette
Norman
Laurance Perry
Madison
Roland Carlton
Francis Deehan
Laura Whitmore
Gardiner
John Beal
Harry Hicks
Donna
Gorham
Edward Kenney
Herbert Holbrook
William Bass
Yarmouth
Lee Holbrook
Freeport
Percy Holbrook
Robert Burnham
Stanley
Topsham
Irving Burnham
Louise Varney
Bath
Stanley Williams
John Perkins
Harvesters 4-H Club
Russell Estes
West Bath
Durward Bowie
Florida
Leon Belanger, Jr
Carl Graves
Carl, Jr
David
Linda
Eulelia Pray
John Frey
Dresden
Grangers
Kathryn Hagan
Welfare Committee
Carver
Marshall Boudreau
Wilbur Hagan
Weeks Street School Assembly Offers Musical Recitations and Film
At Weeks Street school assembly students presented the Lord's Prayer, Psalm 121, songs and poems, with Bradley Christopher Sandra Torrey and others leading and joining in flag salute and readings. Later, grades 4 5 and 7 viewed film scenes from Cooperstown Howe Caverns and Catskills with Mrs Convictt narrating. John E Babine, husband of Arlene Babine, completed a supply procedure course for the Army Specialist Training Regiment at Fort Dix.
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Weeks Street
Bradly Christopher
Sandra Torrey
John Arsenault
America
School
Goin’ Fishin
Corliss Crowley
Mark Freeman
Sylvia Googins
Josephine Cothran
Golden Tacks
Vera Pagurko
Yellow Rash
Texas
Wallace Plant
Josephine Haines
Philip Hatch
Stanley McDonough
Arthur Richardson
Convictt
Cooperstown
N. Y
Doubleday Field
National Baseball Hall of Fame
Museu
Abner Doubleday
Howe Caverns
Catskill Mountain
Serge
John E. Babine
Arlene Babine
Shepard Street
9Th Infantry Division
Fort Dix
N. J
Woolwich Church Services And Local Club News
Woolwich First Congregational holds 10 30 worship with Sunday school at 9 30 Rev John F Anderson pastor. Woolwich Center Baptist 10 Sunday school 11 worship 7 Bible study Rev H E Danielson pastor. Ladies aid meets April 14. Montsweag Baptist 2 Sunday schooner 3 worship Rev H E Danielson. evening Bible study at parsonage 7 30. Willing Workers met in Bath. Good Neighbor club at Chopps school 7 30 Thursday. Mothers club at Day's Ferry school. Spinning Wheel club hosted Mrs Rose Cooper Bath. Barbara Thornton won Woolwich spelling title. district contestants named. Towns champions meet April 8 for Sagadahoc district. Personal notes list travels and hospital stay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida
Federal Street
Stanley Dodge
Beverly Main
Eva A. Jenney
Belfast
Neil McKinnon
Rense
H. Colby
First Congregational Church
St. Philip's
Harriet Smith
West Anna Road
Harold Mayberry
Blanche G. Stickney
George Stickney
Birch Point
Portland Press Herald
Westport
Dresden
Stuart Bailey
Nequasset
John F. Anderson
Woolwich Center
Montsweag Baptist Church
H. E. Danielson
Marion Berry
Bath
Good Neighbor Club
Chopps School
Mothers’ Club
Day's Ferry School
Spinning Wheel Club
Rose Cooper
Woolwich
Carol Hunnewell
Sagadahoc
Henry Sevger
Freida Hathorn
Union Bridge
Georgetown
Arrowsic
Phippsburg
Carl Welling
South Weymouth
Mass
River Road
Wilbur Howe
Bath Memorial Hospital
John Leonard
Baltimore
Maryland
Charles Draper
Belmont
Willard Elliott
Portland
Draper
Merrymeeting Bay
Olive Wade
Boston
New York
Washington, D.C
Harlan Trott
Alexandria, Va
N. L. McCann
Montreal
Alfred J. Back Spreads Christmas Cheer in Britain
Alfred J. Back visited schools in the British Isles giving candy to children who could afford it, while noting ration constraints. He conducted philanthropic outreach to families in Bath and Newcastle, met Birmingham Rotary members, and spoke to groups in Bath upon returning, urging aid for "British neighbors" and war‑affected children.
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Back
British Isles
Mr. Back
William Wakefield
Perley Baker
Jack Wills
F. N. Sanborn
Lancelot Cooper
Earl Cooper
Bath
W. J. Jane
Newcastle
Birmingham
George Gumbley
Phippsburg Students Compete In April Spelling Bee
Children from Phippsburg schools gathered with teachers at Center schoolhouse on April 1 for a Maine paper spelling bee using 71 words. Norma Pye of Small Point leads toward the district title on April 8 at Sagadahoc school with Adele Hunt runner up.
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Phippsburg
la Maine
Center School
Norma Pye
Small Point
Sagadahoc
Adele Hunt
Ally
Madelyn Holbrook
Winnegance School
Joyce Gray
Parker Head
Harriet Wallace
Sebasko School
Annie Wallace
Woolwich P T A to Host Sports Night Saturday
The Woolwich P T A and Woolwich Athletic Association sponsor Sports Night at the P T A hall in Woolwich Saturday April 9 to honor the Woolwich Grammar School basketball team their coach Richard McElman and assistant coach Harold McElman plus girl cheerleaders. Noted sports figures Henry Shanahan John Fortunato J Wallace Lovell Alfred Parks Duncan Farrell and others will appear with an All Grammar School five and Morse High School Band. World Series footage and basketball film shown. No admission charge. Capacity crowd expected.
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Woolwich P.T.A
Woolwich Athletic Association
P.T.A. Hall
Woolwich
Woolwich Grammar School
Richard McElman
Harold McElman
Henry J. “Hume
Shanahan
Lewiston High School
Holy Cross
Western Maine
John Fortunato
Boston College
Central Board of Basketball
Huse
Bath Grammar School
Duncan Farrell
Morse High School
Joseph Marchetti
John Trafton
James Rockerfeller
James Beck
Robert Carmichael
Mark W. Hennessy
James B. Hall
Keith Crockett
Brian M. Jewett
Donald Leavitt
Eugene Beck
Frances Kirkpatrick
Day's Ferry
Ethel Blake
Nequasset
Union Bridge
Beulah Crocker
Real estate transfers listed from Sagadahoc County deeds
Disclosures from the Sagadahoc County Register of Deeds detail transfers of land and buildings across Bath Bowdoinham Phippsburg Richmond Topsham and Woolwich. Notable changes include Ellen R. Owen to Henry W Owen on Oak Street and the Bowdoinham Nazarene church property to Leonard L. Bishop trustees.
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Sagadahoc County
Office of the Register of Deeds
Bath
Andrew McDonald
Frederick D. Cressey
Willow Street
Ellen R. Owen
Henry W Owen
Oak Street
William P. Kelley
Donald T. Burkhardt
Park Street
William T. Delaney
Everett E. Dickey
Center Street
Margaret J. Knight
Forrest R. Knight
Washington Street
Bowdoinham
Medley M. Billings
Winthrop R. Staples
Julia Connors
Miles E. Hilton
S. Ruth Hilton
Leonard L. Bishop
Bowdoinham Nazarene Church
Phippsburg
Elizabeth F., Hanson
Clarence P. Spinney
Charles S. Gomes
Grace F. Alexander
Richmond
John W. Quarrington
Frederick C. Voight
Topsham
Charles L. Douglas
Felix Laferriere
Woolwich
Albert J. Garland
Dwight Hale
Boothbay Court Club Meeting Draws Local Residents
Mrs Wesley Simpson of Fisher's Court and Mrs George Middleton of Middle Street attended the Courtetts club gathering in Boothbay on Sunday.
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Wesley Simpson
Fisher's Court
George Middleton
Middle Street
Coulietts Club
Boothbay
Mrs Shaw Leaves Memorial Hospital After Four Months
Mrs John Shaw, long treated at Memorial hospital for a broken hip, is discharged and returns home to Oak street.
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John Shaw
Memorial Hospital
Oak Street
Brookings Name One of Oldest in Woolwich Town
In East Woolwich a neglected private burying ground marks the Brookings family history. Stones record Josiah Brookings 1823 aged 85 Ann his wife 1884 81 Josiah Brookings Jr 1808 47 Rev Ebenezer 1799 43 Abner 1850 63 Susanna 46 Henry 5M. Henry Brookings, founder of the Maine line, moved there after 1738 with Edward Hutchinson confirming 100 acres. The Brookings name figures in local history and a descendant became Governor of Dakota Territory. Brookings, South Dakota, bears the surname. Today few Brookings remain in Woolwich.
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Woolwich
Josiah Brookings
Ann
Josiah
Ebenezer Brookings
Abner Brookings
Susanna
Henry
Henry Brookings
Maine
Plantation
Nequasset
Wadleigh
James Phipps
Sir William
Sarah Wadleigh
Newburyport
Isle of Shoals
Sarah Young
Rowland Young
Matthews
York
Boston
Mr. Brookings
Wadley
Edward Hutchinson
Wadleigh’s Cove
Brookings
Brookings Bay
Sarah Brookings
Little Josiah
Ebenezer
Miriam Brookings
John
Mary
Benjamin Shaw
Mary Bullen
Joseph B
Elizabeth ‘Rogers
Martha
Miriam Brooks
Hannah Sprague
Bath
Anna Brookings
Lucy B
John Wright
Josiah Jr
Elizabeth Bailey
Molly B
Joseph Wright
Susanna B
John Bailey
Sarah B
Francis Blinn
John B
Lucy Lancaster
Luther B
Mary Blackman
Fanna
Asa Snell
James B
Sarah Bishop
Henry B
Prudence Dunton
Samuel B
Pamelia Hilton
Abner
Susanna Bailey
Anna
Wilmot Brookings
East Woolwich
Bowdoin College
Dakota
South Dakota
Elias Brookings
Betsy Blinn
Phipps Point
Samuel Brookings
Murphy's Corner
Gardiner Brookings
Susan Shaw
Nequasset Pond
John J Desmond Co 40th Anniversary Gifts List
The John J Desmond Co marks its 40th anniversary with gifts awarded Saturday evening by Harold P Small president of the Chamber of Commerce. Recipients include J W Gartett 36 Union St suit Mike Burden 23 Bedford St slacks Robert Burgess 1257 Washington St Mallory hat R C Mitchell 40 Weeks St Robert Bruce sweater F B Rand P O Box 37 Gates gloves R Babine 516 Middle St Van Heusen shirt G Babein 35 West St Swank belt J F McCole 28 Court St necktie Clinton B Owen 10 Garden St necktie Mrs Mahoney two pairs Phoenix hose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John J. Desmond Co
Harold P. Small
Chamber of Commerce
J. W. Garbett
Union Street
Mike Burden
Bedford Street
Robert Burgess
Washington Street
R. C. Mitchell
Weeks Street
Robert Bruce
F. B. Rand
P. O
Day's Ferry Mothers Club Plans Spring Meeting
The Day's Ferry Mothers club met at the schoolhouse and will join the Good Neighbor club of North Woolwich on April 7. The next meeting is April 21 at the home of Mrs Samuel Guptill with co-hostesses Mrs Charlotte Chase and Mrs Guptill. Members present included Mrs Grace Smith Mrs Halen Howes Mrs Peggy Hathorne Mrs Guptill Mrs Hazel Croper Mrs Charlotte Chase Mrs Lois Allen and Doris Carter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Day
Geigers Return From Three Month Europe Trip
Dr. and Mrs. John C. Geiger return to San Francisco after a three month European tour traveling through twelve countries. He, a noted public health expert, was entertained by royalty in several nations, notably Sweden, while directing the San Francisco Bureau of Health which earned him international recognition. Mrs. Geiger, formerly Miss Anna Morse of Bath, is the daughter of the late Charles and Mrs. Morse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John C. Geiger
San Francisco
Europe
Sweden
Bureau of Health
Geiger
Anna Morse
Bath
Charles W. Morse
Mrs A Bernard Henderson Returns Home from Bath Memorial
Mrs A Bernard Henderson returned Saturday from Bath Memorial hospital to her home at Dromore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Bernard Henderson
Bath Memorial Hospital
Dromore
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