Easter services and town notes in Phippsburg
Sunday school groups joined Easter worship at Small Point church with tulips and daffodils on display. The Willing Workers 4-H club met April 23, discussing projects and a roadside improvement plan led by Herbert Scott.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Small Point
Frances Robie
Willing Workers
Herbert Scott
Robert
Lawrence Hughes
Dromore Farm Bureau
Grange Hall
Earl Lowell
Raymond Campbell
Seventen
Doris McCready
Farm Bureau
Girl Scouts
Sebasco Beach
Frank Wyman
Parker Head
Coast Guard Station
Riverside
Popham Beach
Winthrop Blair
Center School
Garret Galvin
James Norton
Galvin
Wilbur Hagan
Skowhegan
Center
Morse High School
James Nortons
Ashdale
Stanley Gilman
Phippsburg Congregational Church
Joseph O. Purdue
Eva Theresa LaFountaine
Holden Wright
Phippsburg
Arthur Harrington
Ceres McCourt
Community Notes From Parker Head and Nearby
Park er Head residents celebrate a birth and share club activities. PTA meets at Mrs Leston Harrington home. Girl Scouts and Brownies report May basket making and Junior Red Cross work. Easter services draw about 40. Leston Harrington Sr hosts birthday party with local neighbors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leo Hamel
P.T.A
Leston Harrington
Red Cross
F. P. Young
T. E. McCarty
Frances Robie
Earl Lowell
Farm Bureau
Dromore
Bert Nisbet
John Rellins
Leston T. Harrington
Ted Simpson
Beatrice Denningham
Bath
Earl Parkman
Clayton Hoar
George Morong
Eugene Harrington
Deejay
Frank Burnell
Sally
Bill Lowell
John W. Libby
Us.n
H. D. Mank. ,Jr
Baltimore
Portland
Lewis Lowell
Mertie Shephard
Allie Rollins
Burleigh Williams
Leroy Perkins
Winneganee
Bob Moore
Eleanor Bertram
John Kriedler
Harry Gordon
Marion Cushing
Winneyance
Purington House
James Hutchins
Percy
Cox’s Head
Stanton Dozois
Frances Robb
Clif Robinson
Small Point Road
Barbara
Burnell
Olive Deejay
Chet Rowe
Milford
George Allen
East Stoneham
N.R
Parker Head
Youth charged with assault on Bath lad in Municipal court
A 17 year old youth pled not guilty to assault and battery after witnesses described him bumping the head of a grammar school child against a brick wall. The boy was found guilty and fined 11.94 or 15 days in Augusta jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gardiner R. Deering
Augusta
Robinsons Return From Naugatuck Visit
Mr and Mrs William W Robinson return to 21 Old South Place after a month in Naugatuck Conn visiting daughter Mrs W E Hill and son in law Dr Hill who were on a trip to Fort Myers Fla
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William W. Robinson
Old South Place
Naugatuck
Bath Considers Victory Gardens On Group Plan
Bath evaluates a city led Victory Garden program with the Citizens Service Corps and Lions club. About 40 families show interest for land for gardens, with plans for a public meeting and potential university input. City parcels, a 20 acre Lions tract near Bath Country Club, and optional fuel allowances for distant plots are discussed. Leaders include Mayor Rogers and Hutchins, Mrs Parker, Thompson, and Trueworthy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Citizens Service Corps
Lions Club
I. A. Trueworthy
Times Office
University of Maine
Herbert Cavanaugh
Bath Country Club
Office of Price Administration
Victory Garden
Walter C. Rogers
C. Leroy Hutchins
John Parker
Harry L. Thompson
J. A. Trueworthy
Official draft classifications list prevailing across services
The document presents current draft classifications including 1-A for available for military service and 1-A-O for conscientious objector non-combatant service. It also covers 1-C naval or land forces, 2-A essential civilian work, 2-B war production, 2-C agricultural deferments, 3-A family deferments, 3-C agricultural dependents, 3-D hardship deferment, 4-A age 45 plus deferment, 4-B official deferment, 4-C neutral alien relief, 4-D minister or student, 4-E national work objector, 4-F unfit, and 4-H age 38-45 deferment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
May Breakfast at Cosmopolitan Club Planned
The Cosmopolitan club invites attendees to join the May Breakfast. Committeemen include Alice Johnson Mrs Roscoe McFadden Mrs Granville Colby Mrs Louis Silverman Mrs Mabel Harris Mrs Fred Quimby and Miss Nellie Goodrich. Reservations from committee members or McFadden's Drug store and Garden club members are requested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cosmopolitan Club
McFadden
Garden Club
Alice Johnson
Roscoe McFadden
Granville Colby
Louis ‘Silverman
Mabel Harris
Fred Quimby
Nellie Goodrich
Unable to Return Home From Massachusetts
A brief item notes a person unable to return to her home in Massachusetts, with limited context on reason or ongoing circumstances. The concise report emphasizes the destination and location while omitting speculative details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts
Popham Beach Easter Service and Spring Village Notes
Easter service at Popham Library led by Miss Frances Robie featured a children story and remarks on the holiday. Afterward potted plants were sent to neighbors and a daffodil pot given to Mrs. Frank Scott, whose Easter wedding anniversary was noted. The week included garden plans, visits, and family notes across Popham and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Popham Library
Frances Robie
Lyman Oliver
David Leon
Popham Circle
Frank Scott
Christopher Marr
William Hutchins
Walter Sprague
Phippsburg
Louis Gayton
Nancy Rounds
Muriel Walker
Mary-Abbie Pulsifer
Gaytons
Robert Rowland
Bath
L. J. Preney
Russell Sprague
Margaret Wyman
Spruceville
Vernon Mattson
Walter Cousins
Fred Waterhouse
Auburn
South Shore
Barbara Preney
Joseph Preney
Five Islands
Norma Small
Harold Wallace
Augustus
Earl
West Point
Moses Chandler
James Voorhees
Maritime Academy
Castine
John Feeley
George Percy
Portland
Sergt Vincent Cook Prisoner in Germany
Mr and Mrs Arthur Cook of 17 Valley Road report their son Staff Sergeant Vincent Cook United States Army is a prisoner of war in Germany. He describes good morale, praise for Red Cross work, a library and reading opportunities. he may join a captive band. He entered service a month after Pearl Harbor and is a Machias High School graduate who studied photography in Dorchester. his brother Private Herbert Cook serves in the Air Force in Texas. Mrs Bertha Dunbar of the Edna Mae Shoppe is confined with a hip injury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Cook
Valley Road
Vincent Cook
United States Army
Germany
Red Cross
Sergt. Cook
Pearl Harbor
Machias High School
NYA _ school
Dorchester
Herbert Cook
Air Force
Texas
Daylight Civilian Defense Mobilization Planned in Maine
A daylight mobilization to rehearse civilian defense across Maine except seven York County towns was ordered for Sunday May 2 by Colonel F H Farnum. Signals at 6 29 pm and 6 59 pm will test blue and red alerts with public clearance at 7 09 and radioed all clear by about 7 29.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
York County
F. H. Farnum
Civilian Defense
Portland
Bangor
Fleet Service Command
Farmuin
Central League Plans Activities for Community Church
The Central League at the parish house held its regular meeting with President Mrs Rudolph McRae presiding. Dates for final season activities were set including an annual supper on May 17 and a rummage sale on May 18, followed by an afternoon desert bridge and card party on May 20.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
League of Central Church
Hiram Stevens
Herold Brown
Arthur Brown
Walter
Leonard
Raward
Banna Elders
Pratt
Anna Thombs
Marius Pape
Desert Bridge
George Moses
Howard Steen
Edward Cumming
Easter Services at Dresden Mills M E Church
Dresden Mills M E Church held Easter Sunday services led by Mr. Alexander Cairns with music by Mrs. Russell King. Attendance included visitors from out of town and a sermon at South Dresden titled Easter Dawn. Local residents noted farm and illness updates plus family announcements, including the birth of John Randolph Baxter in Brunswick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dresden Mills M. E
Alexander Cairns
Stranger
Galilee
Russell King
Richmond
Cairns
South Dresden
Dresden Mills
Fred Stilphen
Iva King
Clayton Mayers
Carolyn Sheldon
Frank Goodwin
Carl Graves
McCoomb
Bridge Academy
Clifton Cate
Marilyn
Damariscotta
Warriette Sheldon
Everett
Miss
John Il. Mayers
Gardiner
Nellie Morse
Dedham
Mass
John H. Mayers
Madeline Rittall
Leroy Robbins
Canada
John L. Baxter, Jr
Longfellow Ave
Brunswick
John Randolph
Brunswick Hospital
Quartermaster Corps
Camp Lee
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Ira Perry
Sebasco
John Davis
George Davis
John Malcom
Wollaston
Basin Road
Marilla Williams
Thomas Totman
York
Miss Williams
Olive Sprague
Flatbush
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Public Library
Charles Percys
Bernard Plummer
Granite Street
Meadowbrook
Jack Wilson
Tony
Geraldine Fenderson
T. C. Hughes
Stanley Hutchins
Frank Bates
Dora Bates
Irving Harrington
Harrington
Sheepshead Bay
Long Island
Helen Oulton
R.N
Maine General Hospital
Allen Oulton
Bedford Street
Ronald Oulton
Richard
Parker
Francis Luke
Island
Osgood
U.O of Lo.l
Marrtown
Truman Taylor
Constance MacDonald
Children’s Hospital
Bath Lad
Victory Gardens
Stanley Hyde
Yarmouth
Ledgewood
Herbert Yeaton
William Wallace
William Jack
Ernest Oliver
Henry Wallace
Gloria Oliver
Truman Oliver
Woolwich
Ruth Oliver
Cpl
Fred Spinney
Ernest Spinney
Camp Edwards
Newcastle
Herbert Mitchell
Seguin
Clarence Sheffield
Lorraine
Thomas
North Harpswell
Sergt
Bertha Dunbar
F Dna Mae
Maine State Guard
Charess L. Stephenson
First Service Command
District No. 1
Central League
Fred Butler
Forest Butler
Belmont
Miass
Dresden
Sears
Allstate
Thousalas
Quay
Teacks
Keel
Sears, Roebuck and CO
Center Street
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