Wiscasset Academy Prize Speaking Winners Named
The Wiscasset Academy prize speaking contest crowned Barbara Sullivan first, Jean Bailey second, and Elinor Pomeroy third. Judges chosen by the Alumni Association included Mrs Leona Weeks Bailey Miss Winona Leavitt and Harry L Bradford.
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Wiscasset Academy
Academy
Barbara Sullivan
Jean Bailey
Elinor Pomeroy
Leona Weeks Bailey
Winona Leavitt
Harry L. Bradford
George E. Millard
Caudle
Johnny
Burnita Pray
Priscilla Simpson
Elinor Sutter
Ruth Spencer
Betty
Margaret Beane
Leonard Seamon
Isabelle Lewis
Virginia Geroux
Albert Erskine
Bunker Hill
Kenneth Bailey
Virginia Butler
Lincoln County Union
Charles S. Sewall
Wiscasset
Lyndon Kelsey Hopkins
Portland
Woolwich Grange Hall
Lincoln County
Newcastle
Charles J. DiPerri
Carolyn Varney
Lawrence B. Haggett
Elden Munsey
Charles E. Cowley
Dorothy Fischer
Fred R. Merry
Maurice I. Rines
Harold A. Campbell
Forest W. Preble
Allen L. Malcolm
James J. Keefe
Leonard F. Metcalf
Edwin S. Pooler
Alfred E. Gorham
Carroll T. Berry
Neal Creamer
Walter G. Serle
Ellsworth W. Holbrook
Ralph Harvey
Northeastern Radio Amateur Club
Woman's Club
Nellie Dowling
Marietta Greenlaw
American Legion Auxiliary
Gertrude DiPerri
Mary Marston
Nellie Munsey
Priscilla Campbell
Marion Ingalls
Pemaquid
Woman's Club Room
Amy Jewett
Inez Ayer
Lydia Morse
Ellen Weiblen
Lillian Corey
Ina Smith
Bernard McFad
Rotary club hears on telephone plans and Maine program
Rupert M. Irvine of Bath area New England Tel and Tel outlines rising traffic and more stations, plus cables and central office upgrades to meet demand. He notes National Defense Program requirements and material shortages pushing substitutes as Rotarians eye a $2,800,000 Maine state program this year and District meeting in Bangor May 11-13. Herbert Payson Jr. visits.
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Rupert M. Irvine
Bath
New England Tel. & Tel. Co
Rotary Club
Sedgwick
Dominique J. Tardif
Irvine
National Defense Program
Maine
John J. Robinson
Portland
Bangor
Denver
Herbert Payson, Jr
Grass Fire Suppressed Behind Western Avenue Buildings
Engine 4 answered a brass fire in a field behind 75 Western Avenue at 1 PM Tuesday. The blaze endangered structures owned by Elmer F Blake on Western Avenue. Booster pump capacity exhausted and refilled twice before flames were fully out at 1:50 PM. crew returned to central fire station.
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Western Avenue
Elmer F. Blake
Central Fire Station
West Bath Dwelling Destroyed by Fire
A West Bath residence owned by Carl Deery was destroyed by a Thursday night fire that raged for about three hours. Fire Chief Frates said the roof and interior were fully ablaze and water supply was insufficient. Arson is being considered though officials suspect local youths may have started the blaze. The Babine family had recently moved out. damage estimated at 500 dollars with 300 insured.
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West Bath
Carl Deery
Bath
Frates
Four Corners
Bull Rock Road
Eleazer Babine
Lighting unit demonstrates 1250 watt portable system
Stephen Jones of American LaFrance showcased a 1250 watt lighting unit before the municipal fire committee and about 100 spectators at City Hall. The setup includes two 500 watt floodlights and a 250 watt spotlight with a gasoline generator, praised for rapid deployment to remote night scenes and adaptable to ladder trucks or police use.
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Stephen Jones
American LaFrance Co
Municipal Fire Committee
City Hall
Jones
Portland
Lewiston
West Bath Builds With Farm Bureau Joint Session Planned
West Bath sees considerable construction as bungalow and larger homes rise. On May 7 a joint session with Nequasset and Dromore Farm Bureau is planned. Local social notes include visits from Bath residents to Portland and Boston, spring vacations, and hospital returnees.
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West Bath Farm Bureau
Nequasset and
Dromore Farm Bureau
West Bath Grange
Past Masters Association
Bodwell Grange Hall
Grover C. Smith
Portland
Bath
Fred Bubier
Boston
Howard Spinney
Rufus W. Lombard
I. B. Neiley
Charles Doten
Alfred B. Snow
Neiley
Alfred Cargill
Washington
Agnes Cargill
Courtney E. Stover
Melford Perham
Bath Iron Works Corp
Perham
Janice
South Woodstock
Albert White
Foster's Point
Bath Hospital
Edna Catherine
Marshall Boudreau
Boudreau
Philip Boudreau
J. W. Larrabee
Edward J. McMann
Lewiston
E. W. Haggett
Arthur
Charles Haggett
York Street
James Brann
Peggy
Eugene
I. B. Cook
Larrabee's Grove
Alfred Bonney, Jr
Verona
N. J
H. A. Peterson
East Brunswick
Elmer Williams
Peterson
Warren C. Kinney
Philip Fifield
Fifield
Saco
James Kaler
David
Kaler
Samuel Jordan
Kittery
Mental Hygiene Talk by Dr Grace Foster at North Center P T A
Dr Grace Foster chair of Mental Hygiene Maine Congress of Parents and Teachers spoke to the North Center P T A on Parents Teachers and Mental Hygiene. She noted Maine lacks Child Guidance Clinics and outlined four needs for children: security experience response and recognition.
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Grace Foster
Maine
Congress of Parents and Teachers
North Center
Foster
Louis A. Dole
Association
Isadore Singer
Wilmer I. Vorhees
Paul G. Bagdikian
Wescott Davis
Alden Howard
Band Boosters Club
William S. Davis
William W. Dennison
Daniel H. Matter
Elizabeth Young
West Bath Sewing Group Busy Day With Red Cross Work
The West Bath Sewing group sewed childrens dresses for the Red Cross at Tuesday’s meeting and enjoyed a luncheon of cold roast pork vegetables pie and coffee. Luncheon committees are listed for this week and next. Enid Sawyer of Central Grammar school faculty spent the weekend at home in Augusta.
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Den
Judy
Bangor
Charles Barnes
Merle Day
Wilbur Merrill
Roy R. Marin
Susan Reed
Boothbay
Lawrence B. Haggett
Bath Road
Carroll McFadden
Lewiston
Fessenden Chase
Main Street
Felix DeMarco
Samuel Ciampa
Everett
Miss
Joseph DiPerri
Sewall Strout
Malden
Mass
North Edgecomb
Charles S. Sewall
Mary Sewall Metcalf
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Harold A. Campbell
Elmer Campbell
Charles Edward
South Paris
Campbell
Togus Hospital
Will McFadden
Norman Lundy
Helen
Saco
Hazel Lundy
Westbrook
Louis Oliver
Virginia
Elizabeth Trott
Bath
Jay Libby Blagdon
Charles E. Cowley
Eva Gorham Wise
Boothbay Harbor
Harvey R. Pease
Sumner Sewall
Blaine Mansion
Allan W. Hunnewell
Bingham
Richmond L. White
Helena Bellas
New Orleans
John Minott
John Francis
Judith Ann
Minott
I. Young
Thomaston
Clifford Blood
Ann
Rockland
Young
West
Enid Sawyer
Central Grammar School
Augusta
Community notices and Easter church activities in Woolwich
Woolwich Union for Christian Service lists Sunday services at Day's Ferry and Nequasset with an evening gathering at Sagadahoc Ferry followed by a major Union meeting. Easter services at Day's Ferry Congregational Church feature several baptisms and soloists. Ongoing club events include Good Will, Teachers Club, and Game Night planning with multiple members noted. many residents and visitors are cited in social and travel updates.
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Woolwich Union For Christian Service
Day's Ferry
Nequasset
Good Will Club
Sagadahoc Ferry
Day's Ferry Congregational Church
Samuel Kirkpatrick
Roland Raynes
William
Margaret Ellen Oliver
Warren Eugene Raynes
Virginia Richards
Dale Howe
David
Stephen Allen
Donna Sharron Youland
Bruce Mae Brown
Charles T. Browne
Arthur Callaghan
Joseph O. Purdue
Bath
Riverside Cemetery
Charles Woodbury Merrill
Brooklyn
N. Y
Edward V. Reed
Teachers Club
Day
Bernette Wallace
Frank J. Walker
Albert Temple
Wilbur Howe
Irene Pai
Isaphene Dolloff
Philip Wenz
Alton
Herbert Munsey
J. W. Reed
Walter Abbott
Edward Murphy
Low
Harry Walters
Nelson Rice
Lester Knight
Edward Crocker
Edward B. Reed
Geraldine Rice
United Aircraft Corp
East Hartford
Dresden
United Air Craft Corp
East Harford
E. V. Reed
St. Petersburg
Fla
Ralph Hatch
Woolwich
Daytona Beach
Lucille Stinson
Bangor
Everson Stinson
Maxine Walker
Russell Boyd
George MacKenzie
Lincoln
Mass
Bowdoin College
Boston
Clara M. Reed
Boyd
Dutyington
D. C
Woolwich Grange Enjoys Program on Trees
Woolwich grange held a Wednesday meeting featuring readings on trees by Mrs. Rose Hathorne Miss Irene Chambers and an essay on Trees in the Bible by Edith Chapman known as John Apple Seed A tree quiz followed and the session closed with a game Going to Jerusalem Plans were made for a public supper at the hall on April 18 with cold sliced meats and vegetables the lady officers of the grange in charge.
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Woolwich Grange
Rose Hathorne
Irene Chambers
Jessie Spaulding
Edith Chapman
John Apple Seed
Jerusalem
The
Grange
Fellows Laud Bath Workers and War Economy Risk
The speaker warns that wage increases without more goods will cause inflation, hurting defense and the public. Taxation and baby bonds are urged to absorb excess purchasing power. He notes rising taxes, reduced investor returns, and the need for a careful shift from wartime to peacetime economy to preserve employment and opportunity.
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Wall Street
National Unity Key to Wartime to Peace Transition
The speaker urges urgent national unity across agriculture, labor, business and government to replace wartime spending with peaceful investment. He warns walls fail without collective spirit, cites China and France, and calls 130 million Americans to teamwork, self sacrifice, and industrial cooperation to mobilize people and resources for a strong nation.
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China
France
America
Two Drivers Fined in Bowdoinham arraignment
Louis H. Young of Bath was fined 100 dollars and costs for drunken driving after arraignment before Trial Justice James H. Ames in Bowdoinham. Edward Riendeau of Brunswick was fined 10 dollars and costs for reckless driving with the fine suspended on payment of costs. Witnesses included Thomas Belanger Alexis Fournier James Sturtevant and Chief J Z Ouellette of Brunswick. State Trooper Herbert Q Marriner was the complainant in both actions.
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James H. Ames
Bowdoinham
Louis H. Young
Bath
Thomas Belanger
Alexis Fournier
James Sturtevant
J. Z. Ouellette
Brunswick
Edward Riendeau
Sturtevant
Ouellette
Fire at Whiskeag brush fire near Bath side
A brush fire in a lot north of Whiskeag road near the creek on the Bath side prompted a Friday alarm from box 621. Firefighters contained the flames with considerable smoke but minimal damage reported.
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Bath
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