Lincoln County Court terms and local community notes
The May Lincoln County Court term will be presided by Justice Donald W. Web with clerks and jury commissions listed among local officials. The Knox Lincoln High School split into The Knox League and The Lincoln League with a May schedule and playoff on May 27. Town Meeting approved toilet facilities at the Town Office, use of surplus for school gym and heating plant, and sale of town lumber for highway equipment housing. Holy Week services at St Phil’s and Easter services plus a busy Community calendar feature PTA events, club meetings, and local church concerts. Various residents and officials are noted including birthdays, hospital visits, and travel to Washington and Florida.
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Lincoln
Will
Donald W. Web Will
George A. Cown
Elenn Perkins
Herbert L. Pinkham
Fred J. Chipman
J. J. Burton Reedbert Clark
Leonard A. Alexis
Dorothy II
Boothbay
Robert
Chester Waldoboro
Alice May
Westport
John N. Fish
May Harbor
Willard B.ler
Waldoboro
Reginald Newcastle
Betty Hardwick
Tefield
Ralph Jenkins
Boothbay Harbor
George F
Nobleboro
George Linether
Souperk Aeer
James Lyons
Paul R. Pieri
Elbridge Wallace
Bristol
Norris Waltz
Odbury M. West
Erastus Whitfar Jekeren
Alton
Loboro
Boothbay Iscasset
Wiscasset
Harry L. Bradford
Town Landing
St. Phil‘s
Parent-Teachers Club
Wiscasset High School
Wilbur F. Merrill
Bath Road
F. D. Southard
Japer Stahl
Alice Boardman
Bible Baptist Church
Woman's Club
High Street
Memorial Gym
Organ Society
Marco Club
Congregational Church
Church School
Congregational
Episcopal Churches
Grace McFadden
Marjolain Morris
Daisy McGrath
Florence MacQueston
Frieda Brown
Bella Frazier
Bertha LeBourdais
Ruth Kierstead
Eva Rankin
Rensel H. Colby
Julian Doggett
Joseph Hubbard
Robert MacLaren
Sherwin Stanley
James Powell
William Cost
Kenneth Munsey
Drake couple return to Washington Street home
Hon. and Mrs. J. Edward Drake, who have spent the winter at the Eastland, Portland, returned Wednesday and have opened their house on Washington street. Mrs. John McInnes, also wintering at the Eastland, will return to Bath May 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Edward Drake
Eastland
Portland
Washington Street
John McInnes
Bath
Maine Visit Impresses Boston Colleague
Stanley Hallet of North Dakota stayed with Rev. and Mrs. Howard F. Cramer at 9 Beacon Street in Boston. Hallet, Cramer's BU roommate, found Maine appealing on his first visit to the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanley Hallet
North Dakota
Howard F. Cramer
Beacon Street
Mr. Hallet
Rev. Cramer
Boston University
Maine
Real estate transfers recorded in Sagadahoc County
Recent transfers of real estate recorded in Sagadahoc County Registry of Deeds include numerous land and buildings transactions across Bath Bowdoinham Georgetown Richmond Topsham West Bath Woolwich and associated buyers and sellers such as Arrowsie-Octave Dauphin Royce E Elwell Dora R Petlock Ed ward Hamel Susie Butler Nellie Daley Tina Alexander Howard Reynolds Rose Mitchell Doris Scott Louis Harvey George Lewis Roy Ritcher Katherine Weiland Leo Paradis Zacharie Cote Joseph Simard Gladys McDonald James Watson Glenn Orrs Edgar Temple Vernal Chaney Harold Rowe Madeline Sedgley Roy Wallace Orrs Manwaring Ruth Hitchcock Eleanor Brown Harold Ward Harland Johnson Raymond Thompson Thilbert Mank Genice Simonton Frank Burnham Sidney Shaw and others.
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Sagadahoc County
Valley Road
Rose E. Mitchell
Alvin W. Mitchell
Middle Street
Doris M. Scott
Louis G. Harvey
Garden Street
George I. Lewis
Roy C. Ritcher
Washington Street
Katherine Weiland
Leo M. Paradis
Bowdoin
Oscar Larrivee
Zacharie Cote
Madeline H. Sedgley
Roy D. Wallace
Orrin S. Martin
Topsham
Guy E. Lewis, Jr
Benjamin J. Bixby
Donald A. Manwaring
Ruth M. Hitchcock
Eleanor M. Brown
Harold S. Ward
Harland D. Johnson
Raymond H. Thompson
West Bath
Charles M. Morse
Charles L. Douglas
Dears Sell Cottage at Small Point Beach Then Renovate Waterfront Home
The Dears who sold their large cottage at Small Point Beach to the Chandlers last summer are undertaking extensive repairs on another waterfront cottage on their Small Point land in anticipation of occupancy this summer.
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Douglas Dearborn
Small Point Beach
John Chandler
Small Point
West Bath sewing club aids Bath Memorial and Togus hospitals
Local groups meet at the Grange hall and Littlefield school for service projects and fundraising. Members from West Bath sew for Bath Memorial hospital and Togus hospital, with upcoming meetings planned, and Easter Parade tickets promoted. Personal items note residents employed, hospital stays, and community visits across Bath area.
Engagement Announced for Flor Witham of 552 Washington
Mr and Mrs Lorimer 5S Thomas announce the engagement of their daughter Flor Witham to Mr John Witham of 30 Highland street. Flor attended Morse High School and works at Thomas Lunch. John is Morse graduate and employed by Hyde Windlass Co. No date set for the wedding.
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Lorimer
Thomas
Washington Street
Flor Witham
John Witham
Highland Street
Miss Thomas
Morse High School
Thomas’ Lunch
Mr. Witham
Hyde Windlass Co
Poppy Campaign Chairman Chosen By Foreign War Vets
Commander Foss announced Sfc John A Hayward as 1952 Buddy Poppy campaign chairman with May 17 set for the sale. Hayward, in the U S Army since 1945, is stationed at the local recruiting station and will organize post members to boost poppy sales to aid veteran welfare in the city. Proceeds aid disabled veterans and families. poppies are made by disabled veterans in government hospitals under VA approval as part of occupational therapy.
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Nelson F. Foss
da Mt Eee
Sfc
John A. Hayward Wi
Veterans of Foreign Wrex
Hayward
Commander Foss
U.S. A
Caribbean
Post
Congress
Veterans’ Administration
Prizes Awarded in Fifth Junior Prize Speaking Contest
Miss Susan Watt and Thomas Schulten won the top prizes in Morse High School's fifth annual Junior Prize Speaking Contest sponsored by Inner Wheel. Watt spoke The Storm, Schulten The Tell Tale Heart, each earning $15. Second prize went to Miss Louise Allain for The Juggler of Touraine, third to Eugene Hersom for The Saga of Old Pete, and fourth to Leonard Rainey for A Willing Worker, each receiving varying amounts.
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Susan Watt
A. A. Watt
Pearl Street
Thomas Schulten
T. Tarpy Schulten
Woolwich
Inner Wheel
Morse High School
Wilfred Gibson
Miss Watt
Schulten
Edgar Allen Poe
Louise Allain
John Allain
Pratt Street
Touraine
Edwin Merkham
Eugene Hersom
Tower Circle
Pete
Leonard Rainey
Wilson Rainey
Phippsburg
Frances Boyd Calhoun
Vivian Clark
Frances Norton
Barbara Urquhart
Edmund St. Peter
Graeme Hanson
Katherine Conley
Loring R. Addison
Paul K.niven
Brunswick
Rita Licciardolo
Brunswick High School
James Doubleday
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Chandler Rogers
Morse
Bach
Mozart
Beethoven
Chopin
Visiting Union official plans 50th Bath class anniversary
David E. Sprague of Cambridge Massachusetts visited the city over the weekend. He has spent 35 years with the Union and Insurance Co. and is president of the Episcopal Club of Massachusetts. He leads the Bath High School 50 year class and discussed plans for the June 50th anniversary observance during the alumni banquet.
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David E. Sprague
Cambridge
Mass
The
Union and Insurance Co
Episcopal Club of
Massachusetts
Old Bath High School
Butterfield Named to Committee for Plan for New School
Former Bath councilman and Hyde Windlass Co. engineer Andrew W. Butterfield was named by City Council Chairman Merritt A. Mitchell as member-at-large of the Special Committee on Schoolhousing. The panel will lay groundwork for preliminary plans for a new Bath senior or junior high school and may hire an architect to discuss locations and early design.
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Andrew W. Butterfield
Hyde Windlass Co
Merritt A. Mitchell
Bath
Butterfield
Huse Memorial School
Tohell
Board of Education
Lloyd C. Hooker
H. Martin Powers
Eastham Guild, Jr
Harold W. McElman
Wesley G. Marco
Archibald M. Main, Jr
Jesse Alllen
May Ball Planned By West Bath Grange
West Bath grange met Monday night and set May 9 for the annual May ball with entertainment. Marguerite Mulcahy presented a varied program including songs, piano solos, readings, impersonations, and dances. Peter Pinson won the Penny March and Estella Doughty delivered the closing thought as Carver's orchestra provided music for the dancing.
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West Bath Grange
Marguerite Mulcahy
Grange
Wildwood
Marcia Marquis
Calvin Taylor
William Small, Jr
Ann Snow
Esther Andrews
Peter Pins
Armed Forces Day Amateur Radio Activities Include Receiving Contest
Amateur radio events for Armed Forces Day May 17 feature a receiving competition and a certificate of merit for perfect copies. A Secretary of Defense message will be broadcast. For schedules and station times contact Lt. Comdr. W. M. Fowden, U S N, Navy office Bath Iron Works Corp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of Defense
W. M. Fowden
Navy Office
Bath Iron Works_Corp
City Health Officer McFadden and wife die in Boston
City Health Officer and Mrs. R Clinton McFadden died on Wednesday in Boston where they had gone to visit their daughter Miss Georgiana McFadden a Trinity College student in Washington DC who accompanied them for a two weeks vacation.
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R. Clinton McFadden
Boston
Georgiana McFadden
Trinity College
Washington, D. C
Dube Speakers Rally for State Representative Race
Dube addressed a rally without party entanglements after speeches by Bath and Woolwich residents. The meeting named local party organizers including State Committeeman E. Brewer of Bath and Committeewoman Mrs. Jane Gilliam of West Point, plus County Chairman Robert E. Wagner of Bath.
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Bath and
Woolwich
Ert E. Brewer
Robert E. Wagner
Bath
Dube
Jamano
Lewiston
Dunton Seeks Nomination for Sagadahoc Senate Seat
Frank Q O Dunton of Bath announced Monday his candidacy for publican nomination for State Senator from Sagadahoc County. He was born in Bath, is an attorney, served in World War II thirty months including twenty two in the European theatre, and is a Suffolk Law School graduate. He ran for Congress from Portland in 1948.
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Frank QO. Dunton
Bath
Polar Star of Masons
Congress
Fot
Portland
Save the Pines and Clear Rubbish at Back River Cove
Irma E. Coombs appeals Bath Times editor to address rubbish dump along Back River Cove road near Woolwich. She urges action to protect the pine bank and trees guarding the road edge from unsightly debris and bulldozer damage.
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Back River
Yepril
Bath Times
Woolwich
Back River Cove
Irma E. Coombs
Leeman Household Welcomes Visitors Amid Illness
Recent guests of Mr and Mrs Henry T B Leeman of Some Dlace include Mrs Linwood Pratt of Dan ariscotta and Mrs eye Gordiere McKinley cousin to Mrs Leeman. One guest returned home while a Mrs Leeman has been confined at home by illness for weeks.
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Henry T. B. Leeman
Dlace
Thessei Anpister
Linwood Pratt
Danariscotta
Leeman
Eye Gordiere McKinley
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Greenlawn Cemetery
Alberta Blagdon
Mary D. Weeks
Marion Abbott
Stephen Vansant
William Snyder
Newcastle
Charles
Sewall
Boylston Hutchins
A. M. G. Soule
White Sulphur Springs
Fla
University of Maine
Robert Frazier
Maine General Hospital
Delmas Leighton
Walcott Andrews
Martin
Andrews
New York
Andrews House
Marion Lint
Bath Memorial Hospital
Nellie Merry
Water Street
Woolwich Grange
Day’s Ferry
Herbert Munsey
Memorial Hospital
Fred Brawn
Herbert Cornish
Dana
Fred Brown
Frank J. Walker
Matthew Doak, Jr
Frank Allegrin
Mabel Jack
Carroll Morse
William Sheldon
Lowell Brown
Sagadahoc Ferry
Ada Pearl
Edith Rice
Mary Hall
Pearl Reed
Gertrude Marston
Josie Sheldon
Cora Rice
Lillian i Fitcch
Francena Cromwell
Pauline Wing
Shirley Hemingway
Nequasset Extension Service
Good Will Club
Stanley Wallace
Jordan Wright
Sarah Bailey
Ethel Bailey
Hadassa Glidden
Thelma Pottle
Linda Lee
Teddy
Raymond Wallace
Orono
Russell Boyd
Blossom
Heggie
Swaxgpscott
Daytona Beach
Boyd
Swampscott
Day's Ferry
Ruth Deplissa
Hallowell
Gerald Galuza
Adam Galuza
Murphy’s Corner
Chester Leeman
Wayne
Herbert Leeman
Murphy's Corner
Damar‘scotta
Melvin Howe Jr
Hubert Reddin
Oakland
Redding
Duncan - Intosh
Woolwich Center Baptist Church
Montsweag Baptist Church
Daniel W. Staffeld
Myers Reed
Reed
Agend
Ie Bath Iron Works
Uncle Sam
Bridge Commission
F. W. Carlton
Carlton Bridge
Central
Wizard of
Raynes
Central Ave
J. Horace McClure
Sagadahoc
Spmuel Stover
Decca
Rexford B. Stover
Elford A. Stover
Jennie M.woodward
Harold E. Woodward
Eebolaten
Wate Bond
F. Carroll Perkins
Bessie M. B. Perkins
Joel R. Lilly
Grace A. Whitehouse
Edith Harris Graham
Pls of
Tops
Chester D. Har- Reethen
Agnes Annis
Sie Annis Marshall
Laconia
Edward Sewall
Foster B. Shepard
Charles T. Small
Dunton
J. Horace McClt
County of
Sageds
G. Mead
Elaine Mead
Howard Trowbridge
Robert Trowbridge
Robert Whridge
Arthur J. Ysley
J. Borage Eee
Thilbert Mank
Genice Simonton
Frank E. Burnham
Sidney J. Shaw
Grange Hall
Togus Hospital
Lillie Donnell
Ida Stover
Ida
Olive White
Hazel Wharff
Pauline Belanger
Alice Smith
Karen
Edna Thompson
Hazel White
Gladys Deehan
Harvesters
Littlefield School
Beverly Pecci
Judith Ashe
Bonnie Belanger
Mable Ashe
West Bath Grange Hall
West Bath Pta
Harry Larrabee
Bath Council
L. D. Small
New England School Development Council
Isabelle Bryant
Woodbury Burnham
Bath Box Co
Ellen Davis
Campbell’s Pond
Mery Hospital
Fred Bubier
Leon’ Belanger
Bonnie
Extension Association
William Ketchum
Augusta
Lee
Auburn
Peter White
Elmer Williams
Ida Rose
Joseph Larrabee
Sagadahoc Grange
Bowdoin Center
Laurance Burnham
Portsmouth
N. H
Irving Burnham
Edward Sampson
Perry’s Cove
R. Arbuckle
Harold Davis
Eric
York Harbor
Davis
Kittery Navy Yard
Elijah Hallowell
Cliff
Sylvia
Watervile
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John Perkins
Roland Carlton
Ronald
Norman
Laurence
Madison
Albert Reno
Percy Holbrook
Foe Holbrook
Freeport
Henry Rose
Ernest Rose
Betty Goodell
Popham
Joseph W. Larrabee
Edward McMann
Penobscot Hotel
Bangor
Lance Fuller
the de Molay
Poppy Campaign
Foreign War
John A. Hayward
McGrath
James P. McGranery
Truman
J. Howard McGrath
Washington
Rath
Hunter Newbold Morris
U. S
Ven Dube
Hall
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