Sagadahoc Delegation in Strong showing at Bangor Convention
Sagadahoc county was well represented at the Republican State convention in Bangor with many long time party workers and some newcomers present. Morse edged Curtis for State Committeeman by one vote while Mrs Sumner Sewall defeated Ett Thurlow for State Committee Woman, as Kenney and Jones campaigned for June primaries amid crowded headquarters and late-night planning in the Bangor House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sagadahoc
Sagadahoc County
Bangor
Queen City
State Committee
Bangor House
Sagedahoc
John G Morse, Jr
Phippsburg
Cleveland P. Curtis
Bowdoinham
Sumner Sewall
Morse
Curt’s
Curtis
Bath
Horace McClure
Robert Hale
Neil S. Bishop
McClure
Bath Boosters to Host Meeting on Legion Baseball Program
Ralph Crocker president of the Bath Boosters club announced a Sunday meeting for everyone interested in the Junior Legion baseball program. The session at 4 p m will be in the Legion hall Washington street. With all games scheduled out of town this year the program faces financial uncertainty though the Smith Tobey Post will field an all veteran nine if a practice area can be found near Bath. The Woosters Club hopes to keep the program active this summer aiming for a strong return to Celley Field next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Crocker
Bath Boosters Club
Junior Legion
Legion Hall
Washingtontreet
Crocker
Smith-Tobey
Bath
Woosters Club
Celley Field
Crooke
Garden Federation Maine Day Program Sets Activities
Garden Federation Maine Day program runs Thursday from 9 a.m. to 4 30 p.m. at the University of Maine Little Theater and Alumni Hall with a morning program and an afternoon floral demonstration. Federation President Mrs John Parker of Bath announces a supper meeting for executive board members Wednesday at 5 30 p.m. in the South Lounge Ballantine Hall. Regular business session and yearbook planning, plus final plans for the Flower Show School May 24 and 25 in Portland, will be discussed. Mrs Milton S Blackwell presides Thursday as lectures and demonstrations cover garden problems and a floral demonstration in the afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garden Club Federation Maine
Little
Umni
University of Maine
Federation
Ohn Parker
Bath
Ballantine
Nso
Garden Federation
Portland
Maine
Milton S._ Blackwell
Presque Isle
Public Speaking Contest for Pupils at Huse School
A public speaking contest for sixth and seventh graders at Huse school will be held at Huse Memorial PT A on Thursday at eight. Judges include Mrs Faith Sherwood from Dike school Mrs Frances Perry from Morse High School and Mrs Ella Bates from Central Grammar. The business session will feature officer elections and annual reports. The nominating committee consists of Manley Grant Mrs Oscar Griffiths and Mrs Ralph Brewer. An executive meeting will precede the program at 7 15 p m in the principal's office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huse School
Huse Memorial PT A
Faith Sherwood
Dike School
Frances Perry
Morse High School
Ella Bates
Central Grammar
Manley Grant
Oscar Griffiths
Ralph Brewer
Sausage Cakes Cooked Slowly for Crisp Sides
To cook bulk sausage for cool weather meals mold the meat into half inch thick cakes. Place in an uncovered skillet and cook slowly until brown and crisp on both sides. Drain excess fat on paper towels after removing from the pan.
Edward Rowe Snow lecture charms Bath audience
Edward Rowe Snow spoke to Bath residents at Weeks Street school sharing tales of the sea and Kennebec area history. He autographed books for a young attendee who traveled from Weeks Street, and he displayed pirate relics and curios for the South End P T A fundraiser chaired by Mrs. Frederick Moffatt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weeks Street
High Dhool
Mr. Rowe
Maine
Kennebec
Richmond
Phippsburg
Ocober
South End
Frederick Moffatt
Orris Ames
Carroll Deering
Alvah Morse
John Waterhouse
Laforest Coombs
Rowe
Alice Snow Rowe
Spelling finalists named for Bath city contest finals
Sixth to eighth grade winners and alternates in Bath spelling contest announced for finals Tuesday April 13 at Lillian Fisher School. Central Grammar winners and alternates span grades six to eight with multiple divisions and officials listed, plus winners from Huse, North Grammar, Dike, Fisher, Weeks and Weeks schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City of Bath
Lillian F Fisher
Central Grammar
Eugene Milliken
Divison
Warren Orr
Dennis Wetherington
Margo Parks
Beverly Ramsey
Barbara Worden
Dennis Ring
William Luke
Susan Bates
Raymond Ishop
Winnar
Loretta Bailey
Betty Condon
Huse
Colleen Frank
Nancy Brown
Jewell Flint
Lynda Dutton
Virginia Percy
Gwendolyn King
North Grammar
Joan Clunie
Thomas Fortier
Judith Legard
Stephen Lee
Dike
Joan Fogg
Judith Castner
James Leask
Joseph Robinson
Anita Gaudet
Peggy Galloupe
Fisher
Donna Young
Glenice Newman Weeks
Susan Farrell
Sandra Gross
Rita Hennessey
Colleen O'Donnel
Cars Get Safety Belts Toronto VP
Aircraft type safety belts are being tried in police and fire department automobiles. A study of accidents shows the right side of the driver is the most vulnerable, with passengers thrown against the dashboard or through the windshield, a danger called the death by own action seat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto VP
Classified: Incomplete rental and ad notices from Maine to New York
Fragments show classified requests including a 25 word first insertio n50 cent ad rate 35 cents later 20 cents per insertion. Mentions on premises in Aris scotta Maine and Summer Place. Housekeeping cottage wanted July 3 to 17 by middle aged Irish German couple near churches J Dooley 16 150th St Flushing NY. Also farm property sales and real estate inquiries to Wallace a veert st. a's.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Dooley
150Th St
Flushing
New Yorks
Marguerite Cromwell Bridal Shower At Bath Home
Miss Marguerite R. Cromwell of Woolwich was guest of honor at a personal shower hosted by Joan and Alice Canacaris at 236 North Street Bath. She will wed Richard A. Gregg of Wilmington Del in May. Cromwell graduates Morse High and works at Bath Iron Works. Gregg is a Wilmington High School graduate attached to Brunswick Naval Air Station. Guests included many Bath residents and loved ones. gifts were arranged under a crepe umbrella and a mini bride cake marked the occasion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marguerite R. Cromwell
Woolwich
Joan
Alice Canacaris
North Street
Guy Cromwell
Cromwell
Richard A. Gregg
Evan R. Gregg
Wilmington
Del
Morse High School
Bath Iron Works Corp
Gregg
Wilmington High School
Brunswick Naval Air Station
Miss Cromwell
Elaine Atkinson
Thelma Atkison
Marianthi Canacaris
Beatrice Duprey
Marion Ferris
Bernice McCurdy
Joyce McCurdy
Carolyn McElman
Paulyne Quelette
Nancy Small
Eleanor Willey
Betty Downing
Lillian Brassard
All of
Bath
Patricia Bailey
Luella Cromwell
Ruth Cromwell
Amy Cromwell
Priscilla Cromwell
Vera Dexter
Vivian Champeon
Freda Hathorne
Glenell Brown
Grace Brown
Marilyn Noah
Damariscotta
Leona Rines
Topsham
Shirley Beal
Wiscasset
Smith Tobey Post Holds IT Meeting and Plans Events
Smith Tobey Post members welcomed Robert Norton and Emmet Weeks as surprise visitors and reviewed new draft laws. A reception for department commander Robert Merrow is planned for May 18 to inspect the Junior Drum and Bugle Corps field day. Proceeds will aid uniforms. A district meeting in Damariscotta on May 2 will elect a new district commander, with Sagadahoc county to select a candidate from Smith Tobey. The post sponsors Mullins Royal Pine Shows June 14 week and votes to move officer elections to May.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Norton
Emmet Weeks
MacFarland
Knoxcoun
Smith-Tobey
A. L
American Legion
Francis MacLaughlin
Robert Merrow
N Rt
Toward
Damariscotta
Sagadahoc County
Turcotte
Smith-Tobey Post
Mullins Royal
Legion Home
Leora Pennell Hosts Eighth Birthday Party
Leora Pennell daughter of Mr and Mrs Leon Pennell of 254 Center Street celebrated her eighth birthday Wednesday last week. A pea nut hunt and various games entertained the group of friends in a flower decorated home with cake candy baskets and colorful balloons. Leora a second grade pupil at Huse Memorial School was surrounded by Sue Sturtevant Judy McCole and other classmates who joined in the celebration with sandwiches chocolate milk and ice cream.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leora Pennell
Leon Pennell
Center Street
Leora
Huse Memorial School
Elizabeth Young
Sue Sturtevant
Judy McCole
Sandra Grace
Donna Weston
Lynnette Miller
Carol Black
Joyce Wetherington
Laurie Lee
Susan Gardenier
Ann McCole
Marie Comeau
Joyce
Janice
Central Grammar Basketball Team Honored at Dinner
Central Grammar’s court quintet, winners of the YMCA Junior High School Basketball Tourney at the Bath Y, were honored at a Hotel Sedgwick dinner. Attendees included team members, cheerleaders, coaches, and guests with J Horace McClure as MC. Ray Bishop gifted Coach Moody Flint a shirt and tie from teammates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Grammar
YMCA
Bath “Y
Sedgwick
J. Horace McClure
Moody Flint
Morse High
Eugene Hunter
Ray Bishop
Flint
Towle
Herbert Pierce
Kenneth Thayer
Salami Cottage Cheese Sandwiches Snack Idea
Quick weight watchers snack uses salami slices spread with seasoned cottage cheese. Top with another salami slice to form a sandwich then cut each into four portions for easy serving.
Lions Club hears Capt Winslow at Sedgwick supper
About 40 Lions Club members shared a roast chicken supper at 6 30 in Sedgwick before the regular meeting. Capt Eliot Winslow of Southport spoke, sharing anecdotes of life on his excursion boat Argo and WWII Navy service. April 7 guest will be Dr James Stacy Cole Bowdoin College president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lions Club
Sedgwick
King Lion
Herbert T. Caverly
Eliot Winslow
Southport
James Stacy Cole
Bowdoin College
Winslow
Watson
Argo
Boothbay Harbor
Dartmouth College
U. S. Navy
Sheepscot Bay
Fred Allen
Wesley Fellowship Members Visit Rockland Conference
The Youth Fellowship of Wesley Methodist church attended a Rockland conference at Pratt Memorial Methodist church. Bath group met at 8 30 a.m. with cars carrying picnics and led by Mr and Mrs Carlyle Taber. They toured rooms, shared lunch, and planned July August visits to the Farnsworth homestead library museum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley Methodist Church
Rockland
Pratt Memorial Methodist Church
Bath
Carlyle Taber
William A. Farnsworth
Wesley Group
Walter Upham, Jr
Robert Legard
Gail Carleton
Priscilla Marble
Elizabeth Marble
Cristel Cornish
Walter Upham
Hartley Carleton
Engaged: Geraldine A Fogg and Thomas C Aylward
Mr and Mrs L William Fogg of Woolwich announce the engagement of their daughter Geraldine Ann Fogg to Thomas C Aylward son of Mrs Hannah Aylward of Camden and the late Abraham Aylward. An early June wedding is planned. Geraldine is a Morse High School 1947 graduate and Augusta General Hospital nurse employed at the Veterans Administration Tagus. Thomas Aylward is a Camden High School graduate who served 3 1/2 years in the U S Navy in World War II and is proprietor of the Coffee Shop and Lucky Strike bowling alleys in Camden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. William Fogg
Woolwich
Geraldine Ann Fogg
Thomas C. Aylward
Hannah Aylward
Camden
Abraham Aylward
Miss Fogg
Morse High School
Augusta General Hospital School of Nursing
Veterans’ Administration
Tagus
Camden High School
Aylward
U. S. Navy
Lucky Strike
Cost accountants visit Portland plant
The Southern Maine Chapter of the National Association of Cost Accountants toured the American Can Company plant in Portland on Thursday afternoon. Bath participants included Daniel L. Lord Jr as chief accountant Oscar R. Marsh Hyde Windlass Co George Finlay Bath Iron Works clerk Frank Given Bath Iron Works assistant auditor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Maine
National Association of Cost Accountants
American Can Company of
Portland
Bath
Daniel L. Lord, Jr
Oscar R. Marsh
Hyde Windlass Co
George Finlay
Frank Given
Bath Iron Works Corporation
Eighth grade benefit square dance at Georgetown Central
A square dance and box social is set for Saturday evening at Georgetown Central School at 8 30 for the benefit of the eighth grade. Mel Howe will be the caller and the box in auction will take place at p m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgetown Central School
Mel Howe
Community discusses new school building plan and local events
A group gathered to extract lumber for a proposed school. A 1952 survey plus a ten member committee urged a one story four room building with potential additions as needed. Other items note Easter events, fundraising, and local visits across Bowdoinham including fire department training and missionary reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mill Wood
Women’s Extension Service
Ralph McEwen
Margaret Prindall
Mabel Heenle
Pine Tree Society For Crippled Children
Grange Hall
Bowedinham
Carver
Marie Preston
Bath
Bowdoinham
Eleanor Purington
Olive Frizzle
Pythian
K. of P. Hall
Horace McDonald
Kennebunk
Allan Frizzle
Ethelyn Carlson
Beatrice Stevens
Warren Raynes
Portsmouth
Jeffrey Warren
Houston
Winfield Lowell
Richmond
Leon Thompson
Waterboro
Andrew Peterson
Orono
Carl Carlson
E. W. Hassan
Alna
Arthur White
Connecticut
White
Funeral services for Mrs Maud McHenry held at Heenie
Mrs Maud McHenry was remembered at a Wednesday afternoon funeral service at Heenie Funeral Home. The brief notice notes the ceremonial details and the deceased's family.
Rowe Wins Ward Six Council Seat In Close Race
Harvey V. Rowe defeated R. Frederick Brown by nine votes in a special Ward Six election, 194 to 185, after a prior 131-131 tie. Rowe, 38, works at Maintenance Works Corp, Brown in personnel. Earlier counts and a ballot inspection led to the tied result and subsequent recounts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvey V. Rowe
R. Frederick Brown
Rowe
Brown
Bath Iron Works Corp
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Biddeford
Margaret C Smith
Jones
Big Mullin
Navy
Mullin
Mrs Smith
Burton M Cross
Congressman Robert Hale
Frederick G Payne
Charles McIntire
Payne
Congressman Hale
Bangor Auditorium
Boyd L. Bailey
Katherine Ae
yBath
Sage
Mr Bailey
Legion
Maine Day
Little Theater
Huse Memorial P. T. A
Edward Rowe Snow
Fisher School
Sean W
Austin Block
Fred G Copp
St. A'S
Genesta
Genesta Chapter
Masonic Temple
Evelyn Wyman
Soae
Grace Bishop
California
Standish
Bishop
Ethel Osgood
Avadna Drake
Irene Rice
Mary Larrabee
Nellie Smith
Viola Osgood
Leonard Munsey
Fred Osgood
Robert Mitchell
Leah Page
Washington Street
Edna McRae
Marie Berry
Dorothy Pratt
Eleanor Merchant
Lula Lemont
Dorothy Shea
Carolyn Robbins
Elizabeth Piart
Mabel Merrill
Mabel
Judy Ashe
Fifth Avenue
Celina Small
Florence Fullerton
Cecil Fullerton
Anna McCabe
Ruth Fuller
Alice Stilphen
Marguerite Cromwell
Naval Air State
Pottstown
O'Neil Camahos
Wesley Fellowship
Pratt Memorial Church
Cari
Laredo Way
Rex Allen
Sun
Cgun Fury
IRS
Ralph Champlain
Village Cemetery
Bermuda
Ivanhoe
Technicolor
Tonite
Teceancoten
Verna Corcoran
Tances Dee Ial Gypsy
Scott
Selina Aed
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