First annual meeting of Wiscasset cemetery held
The first annual meeting occurred Monday at Mrs. Edith Bellas White’s home with a general discussion on cemetery upkeep. Miss Alice D. Taylor resigned due to ill health. New officers include Mrs. White as president and several others as vice president secretary treasurer and managers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wiscasset Cemetery
Edith Bellas White
Alice D. Taylor
Priscilla Campbell
Helena Bellas
Samuel J. Sewall
White
Frances Sortwell
Daniel R. Sortwell
Charles S. Sewall
Board of Managers
Wiscasset
Carl M. P. Larrabee
Woods Fire at Quaker Point near Bath Sunday
Mrs. Stanley M. Brown was rescued from the Brown cottage at Quaker Point as flames cut off escape. West Bath firefighters aided by Bath Brunswick Bowdoinham units fought two hours to control the fire with a bulldozer helping later. A shift in wind helped prevent total loss and a boat pump wet down the scene Sunday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanley M. Brown
Quaker Point
Albert Reno
West Bath
Brown Cottage
Brown
Bath
Bath Iron Works
Brunswick
Bowdeinham
New Meadows
West Bath Social Notes Highlight Local Get Togethers
A sequence of relatives and neighbors share gatherings at Bath and Sabine cottages. Milestones include a 4 H Club camp selection for Wanetta Estes and Robert Belanger, and a wedding in Rockport. Frequent visitors hail from Bath, Woolwich, Gardiner, Farmington, and beyond with travel to Maine and Canada noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Rose
Milton Morse
Mr. Morse
Nell Whitmer
Johnny
Bath
Morse
Carroll Wing
Elmer Wing
Farmington
Everett Wing
Oakland
Harold Wing
Julia
Eleanor
Charlie Hardy
Norridgewolk
Earle Wing
Arthur Wing
Sharon
Billy
Burton Wing
Linda
Cleon Wing
Robert
Chester Wright
Calvin
Clair
Wanetta Estes
Robert Belanger
University of Maine
Ethel Burns
Eunice Putnam
Woolwich
W. Crosby
Gladys Deehan
E. W. Haggett
Arthur
Everett Lemont
Sabino
Reginald Farnham
Charles Willey
Waterville
Grange
Lemont
National Guard
Charlotte McAllister
Louisville
Ind
Robert Miller
Lynwood Miller
Marie Murphy
Christine Miller
Canada
Sainte Anne de Beaupre
Alice Smith
Lemont Cottage
Sabine
David Gitten
Brooklyn
N. Y
Carl Graves
David
Carl Jr. Graves
Eulelia
Dresden
Raymond Graves
Westbrook
Lames Fuller
Bath Memorial Hospital
Jean and
Marie McMann
Joseph Larrabee
Frank Hardy
Wing
Scott Maxson
Fred Larrabee
USN
New York
F. W. Deehan
B. F. Whitmore
Keith
Gardiner
Louise Heald
Ronald Annice
Rockport
Mass
Arthur Holbrook
Lee Holbrook
Joseph Holbrook
Bill Bass
Freeport
Alvah Holbrook
Ronnie
Brunswick
Percy Holbrook
Robert Thompson
Eva Farser
Lynn
New Meadows
Julia Coombs
Portland
Robert Metcalf
John Z. Rose
Ernest Rose
Japan
Pfc
USMC
Service Command
Fleet Post Office
San Francisco
Calif
Gilbert Heath
Maine General Hospital
Linda Bailey
Ralph Baker
Percy Halbrook
Claire Wing
Lnt
Sabino Notes and Local Social Updates
Albany visitors Mr and Mrs Lloyd Bates visit Mrs Paine and family as Sabino association votes to repair hall posts. Mrs Harold Bates mourns sudden death of her mother Mrs Barlow. Leslie Shumway family stay a month at their cottage. Sabine Improvement plans annual baked beans supper Aug 19. Everett Lemont joins Past Masters of West Bath Orange. West Bath Church invites Sabine community to services Aug 20.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lloyd Bates
Albany
N. Y
Everett Lemont
West Bath
West Bath Grange Variety Program Delights Members
About 100 West Bath grange members attended Monday night. With lecturer absent, Alice Smith organized a program including piano duets, a skit The Inquisitive Old Lady, songs by Bertha Palmer and guest Beverly Reed, readings and a Mock Wedding sketch, plus a closing thought and post meeting refreshments and dancing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath
Persis Miller
Yvonne Miller
Clara Bow
Doris White
Gladys Deeham
Ella Coombs
Eleanor Miller
Clara Reel
Walter
Donald Reel
Looneyville Nuthouse
Perry Thompson
Frank Donnell
Beverly Reed
James Royal
W. H. Small, Jr
Joe Wilson
Peter Pinson
Alex Burgess
Jack Mulcahy
Florence McCall
Fire truck put out of commission in collision
West Bath volunteer fire truck collided with a light sedan on Fosters Point road at Bull Rock road. Fire warden Arthur Reno and sedan driver Lee Ketchum escaped injury. Truck overturned in a field carrying 560 gallons of water. Damage estimated at 125 dollars for the truck and 300 dollars for the sedan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath
Arthur Reno
Lee Ketchum
Fosters Point
Bull Rock Road
Loring D. Small
Foster's Point
Bath Laundry Delivers Free Service to New York Man
A Bath Laundry customer from New York left a bundle for pickup in Bath and later asked for shipment to Manhattan. Linwood Haynes and Maurice Haynes offered to deliver the items to his door in New York, a special courtesy not part of the regular service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Bath
Rumford
Linwood Haynes
Maurice Haynes
City
Woolwich Community News Bursting with Local Visits and Events
Sagadahoc Ferry Mothers Club plans a joint sale and baked bean supper with the Good Will club at the Good Will club house on Saturday. The meeting, led by Mrs Beulah Crocker, previews a September Fall meeting. Numerous Woolwich residents and visitors are noted, including crossings of families from Bath, Brunswick, and Montreal, with reports on travel, illness recovery, and local outings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sagadahoc Ferry
Good Will Club
Beulah Crocker
Edith Rice
Cynthia Phillips
Marice Mallard
Win A. Hemmingway
Marjorie Hale
Katherine Harris
Betty Brown
Elva Edwards
Ruth Leavitt
Wyoming
Jolly Jingle 4-H Club
Edwold Carter
Nequasset
Union Fair
Carter
Arrowsic Community Notes Include Weddings and Farm Bureau Plans
Mrs. Charles Crosby keeps hundreds of African violets on her Mill Island road property and enjoys sharing them with friends while pondering winter space. Mr. and Mrs. Gates hosted relatives for the wedding of Dale Whittaker and Miss Mary Elizabeth Nostall of Bath. Montsweag Farm Bureau met at Jones Eddy with a floral arrangements program by Edith Rice and plans for Aug 31 at Woolwich Good Will club and Union Fair exhibit coordination led by several members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Bartlett
Bartlett
Berlin
N. H
Henry Dubar
Nequasset
Leon Bartlett
Granite Street
Bath
Helen Farnham
Wellesley
Mass
Woolwich
Charles H. Hunnewell
Sagadahoc Ferry
Bernard Tully
Fairfield
Alex St. Pierre
Maine Central Railroad
East Concord
Dick St. Pierre
Hunnewell
Eben Dana
Augusta
Roy Shackford
Birch Point
Paul Olson
Geraldine Rice
New York City
Olson
Nelson Rice
Lizzie Rice
Darrell Baker
Forrest Baker
Bath Memorial Hospital
Harold Gilmore
John
Kathy
Charles Crosby
Mill Island Road
Crosby
George Gates
Albert Heyer
St. Johnsbury
Chester Whittaker
Georgetown
Clyde Whittaker
Ath
Montsweag Farm Bureau
Evelyn Ater
Jones’ Eddy
Edith Rice
Home Management
Good Will Club
Farm Bureau
Union Fair
Gladys Eaton
Helen Hill
Leila Rosenwald
Bess Stephenson
Baker
Emma Drummond
Michiel Mazeiko
Ethelyn Shea
Helen Crocker
Muriel Preble
Carol Ainsworth and Sons
Bion and Leslie
Alice Dow
Elva Edwards
Ger
Lillian Freeman
Brunswick
Arrowsic
Harry Heyward
Homer Heyward
Roger
Eric
Hincks
Portland
Scarborough
Richard Danials
Frances Sturmer
Charles Paradis
Lloyd Durrell
John Durrell
The
National Guard
Apalon
West Roxbury
Natalie Steen
Arrowsie
Raymond Davis
Fay
Richard
Valley Road
Herbert Norton
Political Facts and Fancies in Sagadahoc County
A detailed note on Mrs Ruth Leavitt of Woolwich as Sagadahoc Republican Women's president and a Portland club leader, plus Governor Payne's arrangements for the Bath picnic and invitation to Senator Larrabee. Also Brewster Hale invited to Maine Federation luncheon. Democratic fundraising rumors and Republican views on Korea and youth voters amid the 1950s political climate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Leavitts
Ruth C. Leavitt
Woolwich
Donald Leavitt
Sagadahoc
Frederick G. Payne
Edward J. McMann
Bath Recreation Commission
Sagadahoc County
Brewster
Hale
Owen Brewster
Robert Hale
Maine State Federation of Women’s Republican Clubs
Portland Club
Bert D. MacKenzie
Old Town
Federation
Inez L. Wing
Kingfield
Payne
Democratic National Committee
Maine
Washington
Bath woman seeks Dem county treasurer post
Miss Helen M. Moses of Bath writes to this column to thank us for naming her as the Democratic candidate for County Treasurer. She runs against incumbent Mrs. Millward G. Patten of Topsham, who has held the office for years. Moses was a longtime Times carrier on the South End route.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Moses
Helen M. Moses
Bath
Agadahoc County
Millward G. Patten
Topsham
E. C. Patten
Times
Arrowsic and Bath Residents Visit, Tour Family Across States
A long list of Arrowsic Bath and surrounding residents traveled and hosted relatives from Charlottesville Chicago Saugus and Boston. Notable visits include Miss Esther Drummond resuming duties, Mr Ralph Steen Sr. hospitalized in Bath Memorial and several families spending vacations with relatives in Vermont Auburn Pittsfield and Hartford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Steen, Jr
Chicago
Ill
Mr. Steen
Ralph Steen
Steen
Bath Memorial Hospital
Steen, Jr
Chanute Field
Esther Drummond
Hyde Memorial Home
Norman H. Drummond
Grace Ticé
Charlottesville
Grace Phinney
Kenneth Vail
Saugus
Mass
Mr. Vail
Lawrence R. Vail
Vermont
Auburn
Archie L. Seekins
Bath
Emma Wiswell
Pittsfield
Willis Grover
Exeter
N. H
Lindley Foss
Joyce Foss
Farmington
Donald Dean
Shirley and
Virgindon
Robert E. Lawrence
Hartford
Norwood
R. I
Lawrence
Roy Lawrence
Reginald Sherman
Linda
Rochester
Sherman
Nora Lawson
Woolwich Churches Schedule Vacation Bible School
Woolwich Center Baptist and Montsweag Baptist churches publish schedules for Sunday school at 10 a.m. and morning worship at 11 15 a.m. Alternate Sundays, with a Daily Vacation Bible School demonstration on Aug 20 and session runs Aug 21 to Aug 26. Miss Florence Gilmore to lecture mid week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woolwich Center Baptist Church
Ralph H. Champlin
Center Church
Montsweag' Baptist Church
Florence Gilmore
Union Victory Ball Planned for Bath Area Workers
The Bath Iron Works, Bakelite Division of Union Carbide and Bath Box Co employees and families are invited by the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers to a victory ball at Bath Iron Works Recreation Hall Friday evening. International Representative Paul M. Hovey extends the invitation. event lasts about one hour and forty-five minutes. The note also mentions a 20 inch home television tube and a 3 inch model.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Iron Works Corp
Bakelite
Union Carbide and Carbon Co
Bath Box Co
A.F.L
Bath Iron Works
Paul M. Hovey
Brotherhood
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Ralph Keene
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Edward Lincoln
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Dyer’s Valley
Perley Crummit
Thaddeus Reed
Huntoon Hill Grange
Knox Pomona
Knox
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St. Philips Women’s Auxiliary
Wiscasset- Edgecomb Bridge
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Leonard van Lent
Ithaca
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Daniel R. Sortwell Jr
Canon Crawford Brown
Washington, D.C
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Lawrence Lord
Bolster’s Mills
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Harrison
Lawrence Matter
Dennis McCunee
Frank Lawrence
William Bradford
Carleton Lewis
Westport
Women's Club
Robert MacLaren
Gardiner Road
Ace Grill
Theodore V. Sherman, Jr
Theodore V. Sherman
William Riley
Miles Memorial Hospital
Damariscotta
Riley
Nancy Sewall
Arthur Sewall 2d
Grace Episcopal Church
Winnifred Pearson
Lucille Leighton
Nettie Plummer
Wilton
Nash
Main Street
Mary Rafter
Lincoln Speed
Norfolk
Harvey Beane
Hodge Street
Frank Reed
Winnifred Mills
Vincent
Reed
Federal Street
Kenneth Sullivan
Somerville
Leslie A. Sullivan
Hooper Street
Elmer Pushard
Livermore Falls
Roy Fairfield
High Street
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Frank Dickinson
Robert Heigham
Five Islands
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North Reading
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Tokio
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Chicopee
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Day's Ferry
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Harold Hussey
Stewart
Belmont
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Monmouth
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Robert Linder
Waltham
Ernest Cutler, Jr
Lexington
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Clifton
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Pawtucket
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Unionville
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Doris Tracy
Day’s Ferry
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Clinton Strout
East Weymouth
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Reginald Stacy, Jr
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Kelley Air Force Base
San Antonio
Texas
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Okinawa
Reginald Stacy
Anna Woerter
Edward Doran
Washington, D. C
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Charlottesville, Va
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