Wiscasset High School Dramatic Club presents two one act plays
The Wiscasset Dramatic Club will stage Among Us Girls and In the Shadows on May 1 at 7 30 p m at the YM. The Women’s Club holds its annual meeting Friday at St Philip’s parish house with a chicken salad luncheon and a May basket drive for Lincoln Home for the Aged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dramatic Club
Wiscasset High School
the &Ym
Woman's Club of
Wiscasset
St. Philip's Church
Lincoln Home
Benjamin L. Rines
Bradford-Sortwell- Wright
A. L
Aaron T. Tucker, Jr
James Merry
Wayne Adams
New York City
Washington, D.C
Lester Pickering
State of Maine Red Cross Council
Joseph Hasenfus
The
Red Cross
Alphonse Shelton
Wiscasset Public Library
National Library Week
Katherine Nichols
Daenna Lewis
Russell Mosier
Nancy Mairs
Boothbay Harbor
Old Pownalborough Court House Lecture Topic
The Lincoin County Cultural and Historical Association will host a lecture on the history of Old Pownalborough Court House at Cedar Grove Dresden. Miss Charlotte C Donnell will speak April 26 at 2 30 pm in the Lincoln County Museum Wisconsin, highlighting restoration progress led by Chetley Rittall of Boothbay Harbor and newly found pottery fragments. A new Lincoln County Museum exhibition Souvenirs of Lincoln County opens April 25 featuring Court House artifacts not previously shown. Miss Donnell, a former Oklahoma Public Welfare official, has traced her family roots to shipbuilder Benjamin Woodbridge of Sheepscot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pownalborough Court House
Cedar Grove
Dresden
Lincoln County Cultural and Historical Association
Lincoln County Museum
Wiscasset
Charlotte C. Donnell
Chetley Rittall
Boothbay Harbor
Court House
Maine
Lincoln County
Donnell
Oklahoma Department of Public Welfare
Woolwich Community Activities and Obituaries Update
Woolwich residents attended a Saturday baseball field work session led by Principal McPhail to prepare for school teams. The note lists numerous local leaders and residents with health, church, and civic events, plus upcoming Crusade and centennial meetings.
Grandparents Feted At West Bath Grange Night
West Bath Grange hosted Grandparents Night with 24 grandmothers and 12 grandfathers attending. Officers took part in a program led by Persis Miller and Alice Johnson featured songs, readings, toasts, a skit, and a dime match winner. Special cakes celebrated grandmothers and grandfathers, visitors attended from nearby towns, and plans for a bake bean supper and upcoming degree work were announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath Grange
Leona Howe
Edwin Haggectt
Verl McNelly
Persis Miller
Alton Collins
Edwin Haggett
Marion Farnsworth
John Howe
Alice Lewis
Ethel MacDonald
D. Wallace MacDonald
Mattie Collins
Ceres
Estella Doughty Ponmona
Laura White
Flora
Helen McNelly
BE. Mason Wright
Joseph Larrabee
Charles Soule
Evelyn Gagner
Dorothy Lewis
Alice Smith
Alice Johnson
You
Maggie
Janet Collins
Gerald Holbrook
Alton Collins, Sr
Bertha Palmer
Thelen McNelly
John Srowe
Alton
Jeffrey McNelly
Jacqueline Presley
Frances St. Martin
Estella Doughty
Ruth Doughty
Margaret DeMerchant
God
Merriconeag
Woolwich
Topsham
the Grange
Junior High Glee Club Hosts Record Hop Friday
Bath Junior High glee club held a Friday evening record hop at the school. Decor by Pamela Raven and others, with co chairs Elena Drake and Donna Petlock. About 75 students attended. prizes awarded for spot and elimination dances won by Michele Turcotte, John Rogers, Pamela Raven, and Ricky Woods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Glee Club
Pamela Raven
Nan Akeley
Joan Dauphinee
Gayle Doyle
Elena Drake
Donna Petlock
Carla Tukey
Betsy Goldstein
Nancy McInnes
Vicki Norton
Linda Deering
Noreen Addison
Cheryl Wetherbee
Karen Back
Mary Gillies
Harry L. Day
Neil LaRochelle
Michele Turcotte
John Rogers
Ricky Woods
Two Injured In Bath Car Crash Near Whiskeay Road
Gilman Robert Sprague, 1, and Wayne Snell, 15, Bath residents, were treated at Memorial hospital Monday afternoon after Sprague’s car went out of control on Whiskeay road and struck a tree. Car damage was estimated at $500. Snell sustained a nose injury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gilman
Robert Sprague
Wayne Snell
Bath
Memorial Hospital
Sprague
Snell
Amehness d
Bailey kinfolk visit church and family on Brunswick road
Wick Center and Mr and Mrs Roland Bailey joined the Baptist Youth Fellowship to Bowingham Baptist Church Monday evening to hear the Carter Gospel Team. Mrs Bernard Bailey of Montsweep road called Tuesday on her son Kenneth Bailey and family on Old Brunswick road.
Arrowsic Community Notes Include Pre School Clinic Contacts
Arrowsic parents seeking pre school clinic info contact Mrs George Stafford with details. Multiple local residents attend booster shots at Georgetown school. Frank Carlton welcomes seven new Bath Area Chamber directors. Birth announced for Harry J Gorby Jr in Belpre Ohio, former Arrowsic visitor Jo Ellen Friend. Various locals and visitors noted, including military assignments and summer plans around Jones Eddy and Bath. Great blue herons lose two birds near Spinney Mill road, with unmarked fatalities and no clear cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Stafford
Carol Ainsworth
Arrowsic
Georgetown
Frank Carlton
Bath Area
Victoria Novack
Bangor
Michiel Mazciko Ward
Japan
Ralph A Steene Jr
Wright Patterson Air Base
Dayton
Ohio
Johnson Air Base
Lawrence Rothwell
John and
Mark
Saugus
Mass
Rothwell
Norman Drummond
Warren FL Hawley Jr
Karl Rosenwald
Perley Ater
Bath
Ater
Ieeo Radzwill
Natick
Jones’ Eddy
Jan White
Leslie Ainsworth
Grace Episcona Church
Bion
Peter Phinney
Winter Street
Grace Episcopal Church
Daughter
Leslie
Virginia Freeman
Spinney Mill Road
Robert Phinney Jr
St Marys Ladies Plan Annual Rummage Sale Date
The St Marys parish ladies announce their second annual rummage sale set for Friday and Saturday May 1 and 2 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the former Desmonds store on Center Street. Co chairmen are Mrs Charles OReilly and Mrs Ernest G Rovers with a large committee assisting and drive for articles. Committee members will be at the store at 11 a.m. Thursday April 30 to receive items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fathers and Sons
McPhail
Leonard Dube
Cancer Crusade
Woolwich
Harvey Chubbuck
Mountain Road
Harold Tasker
Moatsweag
Phipps Point
Reginald Stacy
Parley Neck
Murphy's Corner
Clarence Tanner
Middle Road
Courtney Hupp
Leo King
Chopps Point Road
Richard Crocker
Sagedahoe Ferry
Just Wold
River Road
Central School
Nequesset
Ethel Blake
Alberta Brooks
Ruth Leeman
Gertrude Stacy
Harold Strout
Sagadahoe Ferry
Charlene Soule
Baptist Youth Fellowship
Moatsweag Baptist Church
Chester Bunker
Emma Bunker
Springfield
Mass
Good Will Club
Woolwich Fire Department
St. Mary's Parish
Desmond's
Center Street
Charles O'Reilly
Ernest G. Rovers
Harold Footer
Mirs Frances Burgess
Roc. McFadden
Mary EE. Perry
George Costain
Clarence Atwood
Frank Hinds
Alec Burgess
Edwaecdanon
Francis Portier
Peter Boutin
Katherine Filoriska
Margeret Mulligan
O'Reilly
Benson
Bath National Bank Rises 674 Places In 1958 Roll Call
Bath National Bank appears on American Banker list of 7,100 largest U S banks published in the April edition. It marks its highest year end rank, advancing 674 places from the previous year based on total deposits for 1958 ending December 31, compiled with Polk's Bank Directory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath National Bank
United States
U.S
Polk
West Bath sewing group aids Bath Memorial Hospital
The West Bath sewing group met at the home of Mrs. Francis Dechan Thursday evening to work for Bath Memorial Hospital with refreshments served. Members present included Mrs. Courtney Stover Mrs. Carl Hague and Mrs. Alfred Condon. Additional visits included Mr. and Mrs. Irving Burnham calling on their son and daughter in law in Brunswick and other weekend guests from Staten Island Jefferson Augusta and Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bertram Campbell
High Street
Brett Robert
St. Andrews Hospital
Boothbay Harbor
Don Geissler
Bucksport
Fornsinsey
Dean Shea
Donald Shea
Gardiner Road
John Rafter
Shaun
Anne
Marguerite
Manhassettt
Bradford Street
Ronald Shea
Mexico
Clinton Shea
Boylston Hutchings
Amherst
New Hampshire
Howard Locke
Henry E. Darling
Fire Society
Darling
W. S. Warland
A. M Norton
Charles G. Chase
Texas
Lawrence Haggett
Bath Road
Florida
Roy R. Marston
Bangor
Maine Pharmaceutical Association
Edward Marston
Malden
Mass
Main Street
Harold Tasker
Stephanie
Montsweag Road
Tasker
Raymond Belanger
Mountain Road
Marwerie Merrill
Arlington
Sandra
Sharon
Augusta
Merrill
Vernon Peaslee
Arlington Beals
Meadow Road
Ronald Belanger
Morsey High
Harvey Chubbuck
Susan
Halsie Chubbuck
Richard
Gardiner
Fred Spinney
Popham Beach
J. Vinal Hunnewell
Elmer de Merritt
Moatsweag
Emma Bunker
Athens
Ronald
Arlington Beal
Portland
Pearl Hilton
Maine Medical Center
Steven
Montsweag
Hunnewell
Elizabeth Barter
Richmond
Jacqueline Durgan
Auta Munsey
David Barter
Clyde Bailey
Woolwich Grange
Edgecomb Grange
Leon Beal
Old State Road
White Mountains
Sharon and
Jinx
West Bath
Francis Dechan
Bath Memorial Hospital
Courtney Stover
Carl Hague
Alfred Condon
Irving Burnham
Robert Burnham
Brunswick
Clement Robichaud
Teddy
Staten Island
N. Y
Wayne Whitmore
Ridge Road
U.S. Army
Fort Dix
N. J
Roger Baker
Michael
Lee
George Baker
Charles Jewett Leonard Bishop
Glen Lamoreau
Bath
John Williams
Charles McMurphy
Auburn
Oscar Douglass
Lillian Haynes
Elizabeth Haynes
Pine Cone Rebekah Lodge
Wiscasset
Local Social and Family Visits in Bath Area
Everett Wing and Leola Peavey of Oakland visited Mr. Wine and his wife. The crowd included Mr and Mrs J Carroll Wir, Mrs Bint Staples of Bath, Hugh Campbell of Boston visiting relatives, and family gatherings with the Wigns and Kennedys. Raymond Kneeland moved to his son’s home, Mrs How Rogers released from Bath Memorial, and births and anniversaries noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Everett Wing
Leola Peavey
Oakland
Mr. Wine
Mroo
J. Carroll
Bint Staples
Bath
Harry Iwh
Wiggins
Hugh Campbell
Boston
Willian Campbell
Raymond Nindent
Raymond Kneeland
McDorr
Extension Service Group Dessert Bridge Benefit
Mrs. Frank Ozella and Mrs. Donald Gurney hosted a dessert bridge at 70 Oliver Street to benefit the Montsweag Extension Service. Six tables played with prizes awarded to Mrs Moody, Mrs Willis, Mrs Parks, and Mrs Beers who also claimed the galloping goose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Ozella
Donald Gurney
Ozella
Oliver Street
Montsweag Extension Service
California
Reginald Cyr
Benjamin Berenson
Archie Wishart
James Sharkey
Arthur Bourque
Stanley Woods
Norman Adams
Ruth Loeschner
Claire Willis
Paul Marchant
Greta Gower
William Cunningham
Stephen Johns
Darna Small
Clifton Moody
Diane Hart
Julia Brown
Margy Lowe
Gladys Beers
Janet Turcotte
Bertha Parks
Stanley Commeant
Moody
Willis
Parks
Beers
Bath 4-H Club Hosts Turners Bath Get-Together
Bath Teen-Age 4-H members parents and friends attended a gathering at Levitt Institute Turner featuring a chicken pie dinner and a school dance. Special guests from Massachusetts stayed overnight and names include Marjorie Doucette Ruth Ellen Zedalis Lucia Douglas Jean Stern Mary Steen Sarah Green Jane Thayer Marriott Small Lynda Ayer Sue Marchant Mr and Mrs Raymond Small Mr and Mrs Granville Colby. Also present were Raymond Smalls weekend guests Mr and Mrs John Freto Martha Jane and Mary Lee from Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Levitt Institute
Turner
New. Go
Massachusetts
Marjorie Doucette
Ruth Ellen Zedalis
Lucia Douglas
Jean Stern
Mary Steen
Sarah Green
Jane Thayer
Marriott Small
Lynda Ayer
Sue Marchant
Richmond Groups, Fire News And Trips Highlight Week
Richmond clubs held meetings at homes and Central Fire Station with topics on fabrics and accessories. Firefighters battled two grass fires April 15 near Elmer Purington and Wayne Whitmore properties. Five seniors prepared for a Washington, D.C. class trip, and Rebekah lodge hosted Guest Officers Night with multiple dignitaries in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond Corner Extension Association
Ellen King
Wilma Berdan
Plains
Daniel Maloney
George Anderson
Leslie Gardner
Maurice Sullivan
Bernard Thyng
Muriel Pratt
Kenneth Rodrigue
KVC
Richmond High School
Washington, D.C
Jean Hatfield
Marilyn Lamoreau
Bradley Stinson
Larry Saker
Leighton Carver
Thelma Meader
Dresden Installations Boost Olive Branch Chapter Officers
Officers at Olive Branch Chapter O EB OS were installed by district deputy grand matron Beaterice Grover with Robert Rovers as installing patron and Annie Reed as grand representative. New officers include Horace Gilpatrick as worthy patron and Teresa Gilpatrick as secretary. Ruth Chadwick Electa, James McCoy warder, and many others were noted, with travel jewel awarded to Powell and service wires presented to McDonald and Cate. Eastern River 4-H met Saturday at the Methodist vestry with agent Hazel Gammon assisting. Continued on Page Five.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olive Branch
O. EB. OS
Beaterice Grover
Soothbay Harbor
Robert Rovers
Annie Reed
District of Columbia
Madelyn Reed
Wiwurna
Waldoboro
Stephen Powell
Horace Gilpatrick
Ruth
Lawrence Chadwick
Esther
Harold Blenn
Martha
Ernest Cate
Electa
Rinymond Perry
James McCoy
Sentinel
Powell
Milligan
Samuel McDonald
Charles McDonald
Ernest Cates
Eastern River
Methodist Church
Hazel Gammon
Union Association
Cleanup Week Observed in Bath April 27 to May 2
Bath to hold Cleanup Week from April 27 through May 2 with City Manager Stanley W. Judkins announcing the drive. Crews will clean streets and curb areas, repaint no parking zones, and encourage residents to haul rubbish, check fire hazards, trim hedges, paint, repair, and wash windows to promote health and prevent fires. Citizens and civic groups back the effort, aiming for a cleaner, healthier, more beautiful city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Stanley W. Judkins
Judkins
Bath Area
Former Bath Man To Speak At Boothbay Graduation
William H. Gove former Bath resident now heads the Bill Gove Organization of Sales Research and Development in Coral Gables Florida will be principal speaker at Boothbay Region High School class of 1959 graduation on June 12 Gove is noted as one of the nation s most sought after speakers and has spoken at major sales conferences in the United States and Europe He was chosen by the National Sales Executives Inc to tour Europe in Operation Enterprise delivering American marketing ideas to European businessmen
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William H. Gove
Bathman
Florida
Boothbay Region
Gove
Bill Gove
Coral Gables
Flas
United States
Europe
Earths Rreor Terrrizertioniss
National Sales Executives, Inc
London
Paris
Stockholm
Oslo
Brussels
Antwerp
Amsterdam
Central Ladies Aid Meets At Parsonage
Central Congregational Church Ladies Aid met Thursday afternoon at the parsonage hosted by Mrs. Craig I Richards and Mrs. Edward Murphy. An entertainment program featured vocal solos by Mrs. Dana McIntire with Allan Ramsay at the piano, plus solos by Mrs. Abraham Boyd with piano by Mrs. Richards. James Preble, son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald F. Preble, performed piano pieces including Chopin and Copland. Members donated dish towels for Pilgrim Lodge at Winthrop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Craig I
Richards
Edward Murphy
Ladies Aid
Central Congregational Church
Dana McIntire
Allan H. Ramsiay
Abraham — Boyd
Boyd
James Preble
Donald F. Preble
Aaron Copeland
Pilgrim Lodge
Congregational Christian
Winthrop
Gardiner Rogers Named Memorial Day Marshal
Gardiner D. Rogers will serve as marshal for the Memorial Day parade representing Smith Tobey Post American Legion with Abraham Greenblatt as aide. Announcement came at the post meeting which also appointed the nominating committee to present a slate of officers for May 7 elections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gardiner D. Rogers
Smith Tobey
American Legion
Abraham Greenblatt
Donald Perry
Rogers
Edgar Leavitt
Cmdr
Robert Bo Wagener
Wagner
Donald Gurney II
Post
Woolwich Scouts Train in Wood Cutting and Axemanship
Woolwich Boy Scout troop 938 studied wood cutting and axemanship at a Thursday meeting. Patrol members were awarded merit badges as Captain Gerue C Stacey of Days Ferry donated circus tickets. Plans were laid for the Down East district camporee April 24 to 26 at the Naval Air Station Brunswick with Canadian Scouts as guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woolwich
Is Ferry
Temperance Clubs Present Program At Lotta Sigma
Members of Bath Town and Phippsburg Youth Temperance Groups led a program in observance of National Youth Temperance Education Week at Corfis Street parish house. Misses and speakers conducted the YTC pledge, flag salute, songs, and two prize speaking contests with silver medals awarded. A movie titled It's The Brain That Counts closed the program before refreshments were served.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Tota
Corfics Street
Children of
Bath and Phippsburg
Donna Burkhardt
YTC
Jennifer McGuheson
Martha Elle Shepard
Alin Miter
Marilyn McDonald
Jowell Flint
Lawrence Thayer
Jane Gray
Phippsburg
Ruth Gray
Martha Ross
Rosemary Pennine
Nancy Licey
Bath Ytc
Deborah Allen
Judith Reed
Jane Thayer
Margaret Besaw
Harry Larrabee
Leon Boats
Herman Shepard
Orman Coggeshall
Nella Stover
William Hill
Edward McGuigigan
Astate
Youth Temperance Education Week
David Swearingen
Roland Hanscom
Robert Jewell
Charles Swearingen
Kenneth MacDonald
Alice Lowell
Toat Sigma
Baby Shower Hosted for Mrs Lewis Savage in Arrowsic
Mrs Lewis Savage of 10 Gerald Street received many gifts at a Saturday baby shower hosted by Miss Flaine Kingsbury and Mrs Richard Kingsbury at Kingsbury's Arrowsic home. A buffet supper and decorated shower cake were served, with guests including Mrs Rose V Kingsbury Mrs Verna Smith Mr Rose Lee Higgins and others. Sending gifts were a list of friends and relatives from Dover NH and surrounding areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewis Savage
Gerald Street
Flaine Kingsbury
Richard Kingsbury
Arrowsie
Savage
Rose V. Kingsbury
Verna Smith
Rose Lee Higgins
Gladyvee Cothran
June de Groot
Nellie Erskine
Linda Kingsbury
Bath Extension Group Discusses Highway Safety Topic
The Bath Extension Group met at Mrs. Carl Tobey's home to discuss Safely On the Highway with Doris Bourgoin and Eva Wight distributing State Trooper Herman Boudreau literature. A mystery package was won by Mrs. Glennis Berry. refreshments served by Janet Fullerton and a Donsey. Members plan a May 7 meeting at Fullerton's Meadow Brook home with Know Your Modern Fabrics program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Extension Group
Carl ‘Tobey
Brat’ Road
Doris Bourgoin
Eva Wight
Herman Boudreau
Glennis Berry
Janet Fullerton
Donsey
Fullerton
Meadowbrook
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bill's
Sagadahoc Ferry
Nelson Rice
Charles Quimby
Chubbuck
Woolwich Central School
Town of
State of
T. Tarpy Schulten
Harold B. Leeman
Lawrence R. Edwards
Junior High Glee Club
St. Mary’s
Kenneth Josselyn
Harland Boynton
Patricia
Boynton
Dre
Paul Tuttle
South Portland
Quaker Point
James Neville
Chris
Joeachment
Jaf Wilhiams Cove
Edmund Russell
Belmont
North
Mattie Stevens
Tayisham
Rooke Farm
Quulah Rebekah Lodge
Alva Kelley
Lewiston
Rebekah Assembly of
Maude Gretchell
Assembly
Inez Carter
Athena Gillespie
Kenneth Small
Hallowell
Priscilla Little
eBrnice Terrell
Arlene Gardner
Mildred Pinkham
Richmond Extension Association
Central Fire Station
Louis Billings
Grace Dickinson
Bery] Hill
HDLA
Boothbay
Central Ladies’ Aid
Gardiner Rogers
Lota Sigma
Georgia Tech
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