Dowling and Grover Rites Keep Wiscasset Ribbon of Life
Obituary notes Joseph B. Dowling 81 of Bradford street dies after long illness. Survived by widow Maud and children Cora Tripp, Maud Burke of Portland, Alfred Joseph Harold, and eight grandchildren. Funeral at Alfred Dowling’s home led by Rev. George E. Millard. burial in Green lawn cemetery. Also, Mrs Caroline Erskin Grover dies at 102 Birch Point. services at Birch Point with burial there. Local Red Cross meeting set, plus various social and club notices across Wiscasset including DAR tea and Rotary talk by Rev. George Chiera.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph B. Dowling
Bradford Street
Mr. Dowling
Maud Dowling
Cora Tripp
Maud Burke
Portland
Alfred
Joseph
Harold Dowling
Fort Kam
Hawaii
Alfred Dowling
George E. Millard
Greenlawn
Farm Bureau
Woman's Division of Civilian Defense
Good Will
Woolwich
Wiscasset
Laura Evans
Caroline Erskin Grover
Birch Point
Danielson Addresses Industrial Forum on Psychology in Industry
A. J. Danielson, former New Haven industrial secretary, spoke to USC Young Men's Industrial Forum about harmony and teamwork. He urged workers to improve man to man relations, noted home life shapes work attitudes, and said wives can aid the war effort by fostering a happy home, stressing morale for production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
USC
Young Men's Industrial Forum
A. J. Danielson
New Haven
South Pasadena man travels to Bath to visit ill father
Harold L. Donnell of South Pasadena California arrived in Bath Wednesday morning due to his father Roy A. Donnell's illness at Bath Memorial hospital. He flew from the Los Angeles terminal at Burbank to Boston by plane and then continued to Bath by train.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold L
Bill) Donnell
South Pasadena
Calif
Bath
Roy A. Donnell
Bath Memorial Hospital
Mr. Donnell
Los Angeles
Burbank
Boston
Social notes from West Bath and surrounding towns
West Bath and nearby communities exchange visits and dinners. Richard Andrews and Carleton Andrews of Bonnie Brook Farm travel to see relatives in Waterboro and North Leeds. Poultry farm owner George Frost hosts guests after a Maine poultry tally of 9,000 chicks and 3,500 hens. Multiple families from Bath Brunswick and Freeport attend events, church gatherings, and a West Bath first aid class with 40 participants. Easter dinners and visits to Topsham, Augusta, and Portland area are noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Andrews
Carleton Andrews
Bonnie Brook Farm
East Brunswick
Robert Gardenier
James T. Gardenier
Bath
Fred Williams
Capt Elizabeth
Lincoln Williams
Fosters Point
Hazel Wharff
Fred B. Kittridge
High Street
Carleton
Jackson Heights
N. Y
Robert Thompson
Barbara Freeman
Edwin W. Haggett
Harold Haggett
Winnegance
James B. Lemont
Sanford’'s Crossing
Edward Footer
Upper High Street
Maine Eye & Ear Infirmary
Portland
Harry Snow
Brunswick
Courtney Stover
Trufants Crossing
E. T. French
Daniel
Russell Street
Eugene R. Brown
Deering Street
J. Everett Mayo
Trufants
Charles Morse
Joseph W. Larrabee
Emily
Bertha Ward
West Bath
Freeport Grange
Florence A. Neiley
Bath Street
Walter Larrabee
Topsham
West Bath Grange Hall
Edward Jenks
Paul Boudreau
Rock Hill Inn
Colonial Club
Waterboro
Waterboro, Where They Visited Mr. Andrews
Charles Andrews
Uxbridge
Mass
Harold Phoenix
Harry E. Peterson
Augusta
Everett, Quinlan
Andrew Babkirk
Stockholm
Edward Burns
Plans Dessert Bridge For April 15 At Lowell Temple
Plans were completed for a dessert bridge to be held April 15 at 1 PM at the Knights of Pythias hall in Bath. The event followed a reg ular meeting of Lowell temple No 31 P S with a tack ing in the afternoon and public supper led by Mrs Marion Darrah and others. Robert F Anderson of the U S Navy has returned from leave to his duties, visiting his parents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lowell Temple
P. S
Knights of Pythias
Sarah Garcelon
Viola Melzard
Zartella House
Bath
Robert F. Anderson
U. S. Navy
Herbert L. Anderson
Huse Street
Maine D A R reports state meeting and events
Col Dummer Sewall chapter D A R met in Central church parish house. Reports on March Portland state convention and duties for Wednesday Thursday and social activities were read. A diary gift to the Maine room at the D A R museum in Washington highlighted Pre Revolutionary Bath. New members elected included Mrs Jennie Heald Knight and three Heald and Craft spouses. May meeting set for Mrs Harry G Deering’s home with Elizabeth Lawrence C A R to provide program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Col
Dummer Sewall
Central Church
Portland
Charles M. Tubbs
Harry Ring
Harry W. Carroll
Agnes W. Humphreys
Robert Lemont
Maine
Continental Congress
Chicago
Miss Rittal
Pemaquid
Bridge Academy
Dresden
Mitts
Jennie Heald Knight
Iice Emerson Heald
Evelyn Heald Young
Marcia Holbrook Craft
Frederick W. Humphreys
Central Grammar School
Barbara Preney
Chloe Deraps
Jean Small
Roger Pinkham
James Elliott
Horace G. Morse, Jr
Edmund Hagan
Betty Anderson
Riva Divia Greenblatt
Jay Darling
Arthur and
Albert Berry
Florence Nightingale
Dorothy Dix
Thomas Jefferson
Marconi
Samuel Morse
Arthur Cook
Betsy Ross
Alice Carey
Julia Ward Howe
The
Pony Express
Horace Morse, Jr
Horace Murray
Corrie Varney
Alice Varney
Allen M. Irish
Humphreys
Harry G. Deering
Washington Street
Elizabeth Lawrence
Municipal court hearings include intoxication and DUI cases
Judge Gardiner R. Deering presided as Walter J. McElman pleaded not guilty to operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated and was fined 100 dollars plus costs or six months in Augusta Jail after a waived hearing. One intoxication respondent paid 3 dollars, another 4.70, with bus-ticket note and missed ride. An assault and battery case was continued awaiting the wife’s recovery from injuries. John M. Dauphin of Bath Iron Works is hospitalized in Brunswick’s Doctors' Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gardiner R. Deering
John P. Carey Jr
Walter J. McElman
Carey
Sagadahoc
McElman
Augusta
Boston
Memorial Hospital
Woolwich Church Services and Council Notes
Woolwich Center Baptist Church schedules morning and evening services led by Pastor J. M. Gowdey with topics The Stylist and Jethro. Additional events include Friday prayer meeting at Mrs Dolloff’s, an April 9 Ladies’ Aid meeting, and Woolwich Union services with Rev. Herbert F. Milligan. Monday Nequasset council session notes pastor’s pending transfer to Maine Methodist Conference. annual meeting prep and nominating committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woolwich Center Baptist Church
J. M. Gowdey
Jethro
Cheerio
South End P.T.A. Elects Officers For Coming Year
The South End PTA reelected officers at the annual meeting in Washington street rooms on Tuesday. Officers: Mrs. F Arthur Berry president, Mrs. R Raymond Palmer vice president, Mrs. Mark A Jackson treasurer, and Mrs. Orris I Ames secretary, with Jackson elected for a fourth year and the others for a third. The group planned a Red Cross sewing day and quilt tacking, served a meatloaf dinner, and approved a Cancer Control fund contribution. The canteen unit room was set as a stationary feeding center in emergencies. A district PTA meeting was announced for Boothbay Harbor on April 24, and the next South End PTA meeting is April 21 with a speaker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South End
Washington Street
Red Cross
F. Arthur Berry
R. Raymond Palmer
Mark A. Jackson
Orris I. Ames
Edward V. Coombs
N. Gratz Jackson
Leland R. Mitchell
Berry
Ames
Association
Truman King
Cancer Control Fund
Easter findings and illnesses touch Woolwich and nearby towns
Bert Hall, a Knox hospital patient for three weeks, is noted along with Mrs. Elizabeth Gould of Camden, a former Woolwich resident. Avis Marston resumes work at Nasan college after an Easter visit with Mr and Mrs. Percy Marston at Sagadahoc Ferry. William T Guptill of Waldoboro visited his granddaughter in Woolwich, while Reta Dodge spends Easter at Sagadahoc Ferry with her grandmother Mrs. Fanny Gass. An epidemic of measles in Day’s Ferry thwarted the Easter pageant at Day’s Ferry Congregational church with over half the cast ill. Sunday services were held at seven at the Good Will club house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woolwich Union For Christian Service
Herbert F. Milligan
Day's Ferry Congregational Church
Nequasset Congregational Church
Good Will Hall
Sagadahoc Ferry
Day's Ferry
Nequasset
Woolwich Council
Maine Methodist Conference
Waterville
C. P. Hall
Woolwich Christian Endeavor Society
Geraldine Rice
United States Aircraft Corporation
East Hartford
Fred Hathorne
Lewiston
James A. Malloy
Sisters’ Hospital
James Henderson
Carol
Jane
South Portland
Roy Stewart
Sears Roebuck
Bath
Phyllis Gilpatrick
Boothbay Harbor
Fred Rice
Forrest Savage
Mary Wright
Moses Kennerson
Eben Dana
Chester Howe
Constance
Cape Elizabeth
Wilbur Howe
Frank R. Bailey
John C. Gilmore
Frank J. Walker
Horace Allen
Samuel Moore
Portland
Roy Temple
Bowdeinham
Albert Temple
Merlene
Merle Jameson
Henry Dubar
Elizabeth Bowers
Evelyn Roberts
Earl Stimson
Mr. Stimson
Elwood Stimson
Skowhegan
Leo Aptory
Randolph
Chaput
Fred Brown
Carle Longfellow
Livermore Falls
Bert Hall
Knox Hospital
Elizabeth Gould
Camden
Woolwich
Avis Marston
Nasan College
Percy Marston
William T. Guptill
Waldoboro
Samuel Guptill
N. Elwood Coffin Jr
Upper Washington Street
Reta Dodge
Clifford Dodge
Westbrook Junior College
Fanny Gass
Day
Day's Ferry Congregational
Good Will Club House
Nequasset Farm Bureau Meeting Highlights Nutrition Talk
The Nequasset Farm Bureau met for an all day session at Good Will clubhouse. Mrs Ethwold Carter led the Home Nutrition topic and reported on her Farm and Home week trip as a bureau delegate. A luncheon was served by Mrs John C Gilmore Mrs Edward Mayo and Mrs Etwold Carter. Attendees included Mrs Carolyn Wing chairman Mrs Duncan McIntosh Mrs Clifford Guptill Mrs Edward Mayo and others. Miss Elizabeth Harris and Miss Beatrice Bouton have moved to Georgetown and run a Play school at the Cosmopolitan club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nequasset Farm Bureau
Good Will
Ethwold Carter
University of Maine
John C. Gilmore
Edward Mayo
Etwold Carter
Carolyn Wing
Duncan McIntosh
Clifford Guptill
Everson Stinson
Oscian Dodge
Percy Bailey
Percy Marston
Norman Drummond
Maurice Hathorne
Frank R. Bailey
C. P. Hall
Herbert Leeman
Chester Leeman
Town Meeting Adopts Large Budget And Local Posts
Westport voters adjourned the March meeting at Town hall and elected town officials for the year including R. T. Beaton as Town Clerk J. P. Harrison First Selectman Ernest Anderson Second Selectman and Laurence Highfill Third Selectman. An appropriation of 7010.33 was approved, plus funds for State Aid road maintenance air raid warning equipment civil defense a fire pump and hose. Republican and Democratic caucuses selected town committee officers delegates and alternates. Local social notes include births visits illnesses and residents speaking of family and town events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Town Hall
R. T. Beaton
J. P. Harrison
Ernest Anderson
Laurence Highfill
Ann Harrison
Verlie Greenleaf
R. T. Greenleaf
F. I. Greenleaf
Amos Greenleaf
Ernest Colby
Ordway Lewis
Portland
Richard Towle
Ross T. Beaton
L. C. Highfill
Robert Higgins
Amos J. Knight
Bangor
Mary Greenleaf
Foster King
George Wood
Robert Marks
Robert Skinner
Wakefield
Mass
Robert Walther
James Harper
Jean
Framingham Center
Squam Creek Farm
Alice Colby
Maine General Hospital
Amos Knight
Adeline Tarbox
Rochester
N. Y
Shirley Apt
James
East Brunswick
Mabel Esiner
Gardiner
Eugene Whitten
Bath
T. R. Allen
Long Cove
Pauline Colby
Eugene Cromwell
Nequasset
Betty Walther
Frances Jewett
Hospital Staff Sponsor Meeting at Grace Church Parish House
Bath Memorial Hospital staff will sponsor a Friday evening meeting at Grace church parish house to showcase Red Cross nursing and home defense efforts. Mrs Ada W McConnell leads with Red Cross nurses. guest speaker Mrs Laura Knowlton Turner discusses Red Cross nursing service. Other participants include Mrs Gladys Wolstenholme Mrs Esther Murphy Mrs Estetta Coss and Mrs Gereva K Strout. All nurses and interested persons are invited to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Memorial Hospital
Red Cross
Ada W. McConnell
Sagadahoc
Grace Church Parish House
Laura Knowlton Turner
Maine State Nurses Association
Maine
Red Cross Nursing Service
Gladys Wolstenholme
Esther Murphy
Estetta-Coss
Gereva K Strout
Damariscotta
Mrs. Colby in Maine General Hospital After Operation
Mrs Willard Colby of Tarbox street is a patient at Maine General hospital Portland after an operation on Monday. Her condition is reported as good.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willard Colby
Tarbox Street
Maine General Hospital
Portland
Veteran Kennebec captain marks 91st birthday dinner
Capt Charles E Hewitt a longtime Richmond resident celebrated his 91st birthday with a dinner at the Tally O in Portland. He has wintered in Kittery with his daughter and son. Hewitt, a veteran tow boat commander on the Kennebec, later supervised ice concerns and served as deputy sheriff and tax collector. He has long held Masonic and Odd Fellows memberships and now splits winters between Richmond and Bath with family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles E. Hewitt
Richmond
Portland
Kittery
Ernest Higgins
Higgins
Philip
Lily Sherburne
Hewitt
Kennebec River
Morse Ice Houses
Consolidated Ice Co
American Ice Co
Richmond Methodist Church
Richmond Lodge F. & A. M
The
Odd Fellows
Bath
Charles E. Hewitt, Jr
Charles 3Rd
Augustus Preble
Stratford
Abundance of Flowers at Winter Street Church
An Easter Sunday display at Winter Street church featured abundant tulips purchased by the Ladies' Auxiliary and a committee. Mrs. John H. Sylvester led the group with Miss Lucy G. Rogers and Mrs. Frederick H. Cullen arranging the blooms. Additional flowers honored the memory of several members including Mrs. Laura Black and Morton Young.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winter Street
Ladies’ Auxiliary
John H. Sylvester
Lucy G. Rogers
Frederick H. Cullen
Laura Black
Warren Curran
Cow. Hall
Martha Minott
Arthur L. Perkins, Jr
Percy Richardson
Evelyn Wallace
William H. White
Morton Young
Mrs Sewall Hosts Boothbay Harbor Card Luncheon
Mrs Donald S Sewall entertained her contract club at her home in Boothbay Harbor on Monday for luncheon. Present were Mrs Frederick E Drake Mrs Carroll Watson Mrs Arthur Sewall Miss Mary F Gibbons Miss Anne Kimball Miss Miriam W Kimball of Bath Mrs George Hodgdon of East Boothbay and Mrs George S Nevins of Damariscotta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald S. Sewall
Boothbay Harbor
Frederick E. Drake
Carroll Watson
Arthur Sewall
Mary F. Gibbons
Anne Kimball
Miriam W. Kimball
Bath
George Hodgdon
East Boothbay
George S. Nevins
Damariscotta
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ernoon
James B. Perkins
Mabel Rand
Elizbeth Reed
Boothbay
Charles Cowley
Lonie Clifford
Lillian Corey
Miss Denny
Ada Coffin
Downe
Cowley
Robert Fulton
George Falconi
Charles Dugas
Allen Hunnewell
Raymond Beane
Kenneth Russell
George Jones
Milton Baker
Dresden Mills
Muriel Ann Lewis
Patricia Carey
Carol Brown
Donna Brown
Ruth Jackson
Marlene Washburn
Doris Hilton
Rita Gross
Alberta Grover
Anne Nelder
St. Andrews Hospital
H. S. Lewis
Muriel Ann
Dalton Haley
Solon
Emmelyn
Mary Weeks
Bath Road
North Edgecomb
Alton Erskine
Fred Hitchcock
Marcia Erskine
Evelyn Gorham
Ralph Webster
Madison
John Kilborn
Peter
Allan Hunnewell
Federal Street
Everett Williams
Vera Quinnam Haggett
Harry Spaulding
Spaulding
Charles Sigison
Catherine Pinkham
New York
Connecticut
Vermont
Vincent C. Reed
Charles
Quinnam’'s
John C. Fisher
Wiley Munsey
Reed
Roger Reed
George W. Fisher
Etta J. Applin
Belfast
Sidney Evans
George Chiera
Rotary Club
Bingham
Bernard A. Merry
Lawrence
George N. Paul
First Congregational
Paul
New State Road
New Meadows
Grange Hall
Walker Street
Pythian Sisters
D.ar
Col. Dummer
Sewall
Deering
John M. Dauphin
Bath Iron Works Corp
Doctors’ Hospital
Costello P. Hall
Edward V. Reed
Rockland
Adel
South End P.T.A
Nequasset Farm Bureau Meeting
Orone
Elizabeth Harris
Beatrice Bouton
Cosmopolitan Club
Georgetown
Junior College
Taylor
Miss Bouton
Thomas Pratt
Arthur Pratt
Nathan E. Copeland
Copeland
Alfred R. Pratt
Bedford Street
Westport
Kennebec
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Henry W. Owen, Jr
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