Wiscasset community notes elect officers and updates
Wiscasset Water Company held its annual meeting on April 20 electing Kathryn Stewart as treasurer and secretary with directors including Powers McLain Wentworth Stewart and Carl M P Larrabee who was chosen president. J Elliott Carleton has become general manager of the Pampa Oilers in Texas. The community reported school term openings, scouts trips to Augusta for swimming and local club meetings and fund drives. Mrs Mary Emerson Harvey of Wiscasset died in Braintree Mass at 79, with burial planned at Greenlawn cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wiscasssi Water Company
Kathryn Stewart
Powers McLain
Wentworth Stewart
Carl M. P. Larrabee
Harold D. Jones
Charles S. Sewall
J. Elliott Carleton
Wiscasset
Pampa
Heart Fund For
Lincoln Lodge
A. F
A.M
Huntoon Hill Grange Hall
Stanton Sherman
Curtis Tolman
Augusta
White Nichols
Don Brackett
Pete Nichols
Lincoln Association of Congregational Churches
First Congregational Church
Lincoln County Union of Women's Clubs
Waldoboro
Mary Emerson Harvey
Wendell Harvey
Braintree
Mass
Charles E. and
Josephine Rogers Emerson
Greenlawn
Surprise Stork Shower For Mrs Maddocks
Mrs Harland Maddocks was the guest of honor at a surprise stork shower Monday evening hosted by Mrs Henry Menrikson at 1291 Washington Street. Friends presented many pink and blue gifts in a bassinet as she opened them. Refreshments followed in the dining room hosted by Mrs Henrikson and Mrs Daggett with invited guests including Miss Joan Brooks Miss Jean McKay Miss Joan Henrikson and Mrs Bert Maddocks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harland Maddocks
Henry Menrikson
Washington Street
Douglas Daggett
Gostess
Maddocks
Henrikson
Daggett
Joan Brooks
Jean McKay
Joan Henrikson
Merton Witham
Waldo Brooks
Floyd Goding
Neighbors Across Kennebec Share Local News And Visits
Mrs. Alexander Reed of Days Ferry is a Bath Memorial Hospital patient after a fall. Miss Marcia Stinson returns home from a month long motor trip with Ruth Thompson. Mrs Georgie Chaney of Arrowsic improves after a long illness. Funeral held for Wendell P. Stevens of Bath. relatives attend from Arrowsic. Good Will club plans its April 30 baked beans supper with aprons and novelties sale to fund local needs. May baskets crafted. next meeting May 16. Burial for Wilson Wright from Woolwich with family. Mrs Frank J Walker returns from Boston. Howard and Doris Frye visit Arrowsic home renovations. Invitations sent for wedding Caroline Anderson and Carroll Morse of Day's Ferry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander Reed
Day’s Ferry
Waldoboro
Robert Reed
Bath Memorial Hospital
Marcia Stinson
Day's Ferry
Ruth Thompson
New York City
Bath
Woolwich
Everett McKenney
Augusta
Ralph Jewett
Granville
Arrowsie
Wendell P. Stevens
Curtis Funeral Home
Lemuel Stinson
Everson and
Glenn
Auburn
Mr. Stinson
Everson Stinson
Good Will Club
William Brann
Sagadahoc Ferry
Nelson Rice
Warren Kershner
Edward V. Reed
Percy Marston
Costello P. Hall
Percy Bailey
Maude Orr
Mila Darnell
Charles Piura Ais
Wilson Wright
Woodfords
Riverside Cemetery
Rey
Clarence Clark
Westbrook
Wright
Wright Homestead
Bonnie Brae
Frank J Walker
Day
Ferry
Boston
Russell Boyd
Boyd
Howard
Frye
Cohasset
Massure
Arrowsic
Lawrence RK Vail
Kennebec River
Davy
Kennebec
Vail
Georgetown
Caroline Harriet Anderson
Mulder
Mass
Carroll E. Morse
Samuel Morse
Malden May 7 Wedding Plans Involve Local Guests
The ceremony will occur Saturday at 3 May 7 in Malden with Matthon Doak Jr of Day's Ferry as best man. A reception follows in the church vestry and many Woolwich and Bath friends are invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malden
Matthon Doak, Jr
Day’s Ferry
Woolwich
Bath
Burton Hodgkins
Augusta
Hodgkins
Eben Dana
Sagadahoc Ferry
Eben
Sampson Air Force Base
Geneva
N. Y
Uncle Sam
Dresden News Roundup and Local Improvements
Joel Weldon of West Dresden, a Farmington State Teachers College student, was a high scorer in a recent basketball tournament. The lower bridge over the Eastern River nears completion and should be open to traffic next month. Eastern River Grange held a patriotic program with participants including Mrs. Benjamin Wentworth, Mrs. Edith Carney, the Misses Nancy Bourgois, Carole Brown, Donna Preble, and Mrs. Marjorie Hamlin. Thursday dances resumed at the grange hall. Mrs. William R. Houdlette of Dresden Mills visited Portland last Thursday. Sunday services topics included The Appearance of Christ and Along the Emmans Road, with a children's story Robinson Crusoe Smith. James H. Cameron entered Gardiner hospital for surgery. speedy recovery wished by friends. Recent Dresden transfers included several land and building moves among local residents. Gregory Groder of Rockland burned blueberry fields in town. Mrs. Carrie Cornell has returned from Daytona Beach to Cedar Grove.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eastern River
Eastern River Grange
Benjamin Wentworth
Edith Carney
Nancy Bourgois
Carole Brown
Donna Preble
Marjorie Hamlin
Grange Hall
William R. Houdlette
Dresden Mills
Portland
Dresden
Christ
Emmans Road
Robinson Crusoe Smith
James
H. Cameron
Gardiner Hospital
Robert Wilkinson
Charles Rose
Alfred Lilly
Donald Little
Olive Higgins
Leslie Higgins
Fred P. Carleton
Gladyce Williams
Raynham
Mass
Carleton
Bertha McCobb
Raymond Perry
Bruce
Marjorie Alexander
Cora Gahan
Sebastian
Groder
Rockland
Carrie Cornell
Daytona Beach, Fla
Cedar Grove
Campaign Warns Public Of Blasting Cap Dangers
Sheriff Loring D Small launches a countywide campaign in Bath and Sagadahoc to warn children about blasting cap dangers. Posters in elementary schools urge kids to avoid touching caps and seek police help if one is found, citing risk of serious injury and blindness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Sagadahoc County
Loring D. Small
Sheriff Small
Sas
Fire crews halt flooded oil burner alarm at West Bath home
Bath's Engine Four responded Monday to David Crocker and wife on Berry's Mill Road West Bath where an oil burner flooded and alarm sounded. No property damage after units controlled the blaze. The house belonged to Edward Rowe formerly of Bath. A camel can lose up to 30 percent of body weight and endure heat, unlike most animals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath
Bath
David Crocker
Berry's Mill Road
Itelf
Edward Rowe
Woolwich Grange Holds Regular Meeting April 20
Woolwich Grange met with Master Clyde Bailey presiding. The youth group reported a successful cooked food sale at Rogers Hardware to fund youth guest officers night. They approved contributions to the New England Home for Little Wanderers cottage fund and the United Council of Churches. Member Madelyn DeLong is a Memorial Hospital surgical patient. members were urged to send cards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woolwich Grange
Clyde Bailey
Rogers Hardware Store
New England
Little Wanderers
Grange Cottage Fund
United Council of Churches
Madelyn DeLong
Memorial Hospital
Doris Haley
Grange
Grange Hall
The
Harvey Chubbuck
Kenneth Chubbuck
Brunswick
Margaret Gardiner
Annie Laurie
Jessie Spaulding
Chester Leeman
Charlotte Leeman
Ella Robson
Daisy Siwell
Roberta Pellegrini
Dutton Elected Head of Woolwich P. T. A.
Dutton was elected president of Woolwich P T A at a Central school meeting. Officer roles went to Thornton, McElman, Stinson, Temple and Rogers. Pre registration set for May 9 for children age six by Dec 31. Jungle gym approved, kitchen report due, clinic supplies bought. Attendance banner won by grade two. Navajo Good Shepherd Missions featured. refreshment committee named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrison K. Dutton
Woolwich P. T A
Central School
William Thornton
Richard McElman
Clayton Stinson
Albert Temple
Ernest Rogers
Frank Sparks, Jr
Harry Donnell
James Matlard
Robert DeWick
Robert Frazer
Wiscasset Episcopal Church
Loring W. Edgerly
Mason Carter
Missionary Society Re-elects Officers at Corliss Street Baptist
At a recent Far and Near Missionary Society meeting of Corliss Street Baptist Church officers were re-elected: President Mrs Harold Allen Vice President Mrs Paul Strube Secretary Mrs Francis Norton Treasurer Mrs Harold Walker. The White Cross quota was reported complete and sent overseas. Guest speaker Mariel Brehm of South Harpswell lectured on mission centers in large cities. Next meeting May 17 will have hostesses Mrs Leroy Colby and Mrs Paul Strube.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Far and Near Missionary Society
Corliss Street Baptist Church
Harold Allen
Paul Strube
Francis W. Norton
Harold S. Walker
Allen
Mariel Brehm
South Harpswell
All clear issued after local power and bridge checks
The all clear was given at 10 30 p m after checks on Bath s Battery B phone building Maine Central Power sub station Washington and Spring Streets Railroad Bridge Mill Pond New Meadows Cooks Corner and the New Meadows crossing on US Route 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine Central Power
Washington and
Spring Streets
Mill Pond
New Meadows
Cooks Corner
New Meadows Crossing
West Bath 4-H meeting details and local visits noted
West Bath Shamrock 4 H club met at Littlefield school for a day session with sewing in the morning and box lunches at noon. Judy Ashe led the meeting after lunch. Members present included Bonnie Belanger Jean Belanger Reta Hennessey Beverly Peec and others plus leader Mrs Pauline Belanger. The piece lists a string of weekend and guest visits from Brunswick Bath Gardiner and Augusta and notes local hospital and residence changes including the Payne property sale and moves to Bath by Charles Payne and the Comeau and Payne families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shamrock 4-H Club
Littlefield
Judy Ashe
Bonnie Belanger
Jean Belanger
Reta Hennessey
Beverly Peec
Carol Bennett
Barbara Fuller
Marie Earle
Sally Grindell
Joan Ring
Dottie Snowdon
Pauline Belanger
Robert Burnham
Stanley
Brunswick
Irving Burnham
Nella Stover
Bath
Courtney Stover
Joyce Stover
Gorham State Teachers College
Maynard Carleton
George D. Alexander
Oliver Wass
Patricia
Merrill Jordon
Robert Killiam
Gardiner
F. W. Deehan
Laura Whitmore
B. F. Whitmore
Ed Haggett
Bath Memorial Hospital
John Libby
Oakland
Percy Holbrook
Virgil Libby
Eleanor Thompson
Eastern Maine General Hospital
Bangor
David
T. C. Hughes
Saco
West Bath
Oliver Lennon
Augusta
Harland Boynton
Quaker Point
Kenneth Josselyn
George Boynton
Everett Peaslee
Damariscotta Mills
Edmund Russell
Belmont
Mass
Edna Thompson
Everett Comeau
Charles Payne
Dromore Grange Holds Regular Meeting Despite Storm
Dromore Grange met Tuesday night with good attendance as master Thomas Tracey led the session. Walls of the hall were freshly painted in green by Edward Burns and fellow members. Sagadahoc Pomona meets at Dromore on Wednesday with a noon dinner. Next Grange gathering set for May 10 with a program of readings and community songs led by Eveline Beals Melvina Vachon Cynthia MacDonald and a bean bag scores event led by Elfreda Perkins and Dorothy Wright final totals 385 and 335 respectively.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dromore
Grange
Eveline Beals
Washington
Melvina Vachon
Cynthia MacDonald
Elfreda Perkins
Dorothy Wright
Perkins
Wright
Political Forum on Tibet at Bowdoin College
Sharab Tendul La a student from India will lead a forum on Tibet at Bowdoin Thursday evening. The free session starts at 7 30 in the Peucinian Room Sills Hall campus. He plans to graduate in June and study at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy Tufts University next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sharab Tendul la
India
Tibet
Bowdoin College
Sills Hall
Tenduf la
Ondoin
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Tufts University
Pearl in a restaurant oyster amazes dreamers
A rare oyster yields a pearl with little monetary value, serving mainly as a souvenir. The odds of finding such a pearl are about one in five thousand.
Safety Program Highlights W B Grange Meeting
West Bath grange held its regular meeting with a safety theme featured by William A Garand Jr on The Place of Land Grant College in Highway Safety. State Trooper Herman Boudreau spoke on Public Safety and a safety film was shown. The Ken MacKenzie Show was announced for Friday evening and the Grange dinner and refreshments plans were set.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath
H.ter Alex Burgess
Bers
National Grange
William A. Garand, Jr
Land-Grant College
Washington, D. C
Alex Burgess
Jean
Bonnie Belanger
Herman Boudreau
Lottie York
Winthrop
Maine
Sagadahoc Pomona Grange
Dromore Grange
Phippsburg
Ken MacKenzie
Grange Hall
Doris Archer
Talk On India Featured In University Of Life Session
Dr. Balkrishna G. Gokhale of Bombay spoke at Bowdoin College during the University of Life second session in Winter Street Congregational Church. He described India’s shift toward Western tech and industry and the eventual adoption of some Western spiritual customs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Talk On
India
University of Life
Balkrishna G. Gokhale
Bombay
Tallman
Bowdoin College
Winter Street
Gokhale
H. Macy Whitehead
Minerva K. Warner
Freeport
Warner
Jeffrey Carre
Brunswick
Professor Carre
Bernard M. Hanninger
James V. Miller
West
Corliss Street Baptist
Seventh Day Advent
John Gillespie
Social evening program with dancing and refreshments
The notice describes next Monday evening events with a social hour in the dining room and dancing to Carver's orchestra in the upper hall. It also notes Red China covering about 4,200,000 square miles and mentions 21 surviving whooping cranes, down from 25 last year and 15 in 1942.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carver
Red China
Margarine production climbs from 1942 to 1954
U. S. margarine output grew from 426 million pounds in 1942 to about 1,364 million pounds in 1954, reflecting strong postwar demand and industrial expansion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
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George S. Lincoln, Jr
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Johnson
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Helen Burgess
Niel McKinnon
McKinnon
Mrs. Maddocks
Joel Weldon
West Dresden
Farmington State Teachers’ College
Bath’s Battery
Political Forum
Bowdoin
W. B. Grange
Maurice Hutchins
Wesley Methodist
Phipspburg
Glenn R. McIintire
Baikrishna G. Gokhale
USA
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