Wiscasset Club Plans Fall Fashion Show and Meetings
The Evening Guild of the First Congregational church met September 10 to plan a Fall fashion show for September 30 at the parish house with local models and entertainment. Mrs. Robert Sutter will chair the fashion show committee on September 16 at her Birch Point home. The Woman's Club will hold its first Fall meeting at St Philip's parish house Friday with a 1 p.m. covered dish luncheon and a program at 2:30 p.m. featuring Miss Jane Louise Mesick speaking on An Unbelievable Year. Sunday School will reopen September 20 at 9:30 a.m. for ages four through high school with full classes and teachers. Personal items note Reverend Stanley Johnson and Mrs. John Fisher received a certificate in Auburn for the church’s 100-year Sunday School history. Other items mention visits and trips by local residents and relatives to various places including East Auburn, Manchester, Stonington, Bangor, Rockland, and Canada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Congregational Church
Robert Sutter
Birch Point
Woman's Club of
Wiscasset
St. Philip's
Auburn
Egbert M. Sewall
East Auburn
Charles S. Sewall
John Blagdon
Manchester
N. H
Anna P., White
Theodore V. Sherman
Anna Road
John Jackson
Chester Pendleton
Canada
Robert Frazier
Stonington
Frazier
St. Philip’s Parish
John Myers
Oyster Bay
N. Y
Federal Street
Leon C. Flood
Bangor
Roy R. Marston
Rockland
Raleigh Tozer
Boylston Hutchins
Tozer
Mary Susan Metcalf
Eugene McGrath
Lois Foye
Jane Merry
Portland
Town
Bath
Clinton D. Wilson
Clinton Wilson
Eleanor Ferguson
Jennie Howe
Woolwich
Georgie Walker
Alice Galvin
Mary Dodge
Jennie Walker
Christine Hawthorne
Waldo P. Hawthorne
Sarah Bagley Bousfield
Hawthorne
Woolwich Center
River Road
Elwood Howe
Paulette
Billerica
Mass
Elwood Howe, Jr
Gary
Medford
Thomas Elliott
Everett
Howe
Kennebec
Seguin
North Edgecomb
Leeman
Herbert Leeman
Hockomock Road
Lori Brown
John King
Dover
Barley Neck
Portland High School
Raymond Vess
Milton
Seagraves
Mrs Beulah H Hoyt Dies At 75 In Maine Town
Services for Mrs Beulah H Hoyt 75 wife of Grover M Hoyt were held Monday at 2 pm at the First Congregational church where she was a member. She died Friday at her Chewonki Neck home after living in Wiscasset 33 years and later moving to town. Born South Berwick daughter of Irving L Blaghdon and Annie John Blaghdon of Manchester she belonged to the Woman's Club of Wiscasset the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Organ Society. Survived by her husband a daughter Mrs Warren A Gould of Boston and a grandson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beulah H. Hoyt
Grover M. Hoyt
First Congregational Church
Morse Senior Wins Prize In National Model Car Contest
Edward Morton of West Bath earned honorable mention and a twenty five dollar prize from the Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild for his model automobile after nine months of design work. Morse High School principal Raymond Farnham announced the news. Morton, a college junior at Morse, entered the nationwide competition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Morton
Fred Morton
West Bath
Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild
Morse High School
Raymond Farnham
Morton
Morse
Hyde Camp Auxiliary Plans Reception For Dept Head
Hyde Camp Auxiliary held its first Fall meeting at the G A R hall on Middle street and announced two receptions for Department President Mrs Jonah Oliver. The events will be at the junior high school in Waterville and a Department Fair is set for Oct 17 in Waterville. Several members were ill and hospitalized during the Summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. W. Hyde Camp
G. A. R. Hall
Middle Street
Jonah Oliver
Waterville
Woolwich Fall events and local gatherings planned
Woolwich activity notes include a fall and winter plan meeting at the Good Will club with Mrs Clifford Gainsley at Saga dahoc Ferry, a neighborly cookout at Sagadahoc Ferry, and a Moatsweag Extension Group session on Know Your Neighbor. Public dinners at Woolwich Grange hall fund grange needs and a parking lot project near Meatsweag Baptist church are mentioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woolwich Grange Hall
Marion Chubbuck
Patricia Tipsword
Albert Bailey
The
Grange
Vacation notices and travels of Woolwich residents
A string of Woolwich and Bath area residents spend summer at homes in Woolwich and nearby towns. The list includes Mrs Severoni and family in Woolwich, Mr Hilpman of International General Electric Co in Caracas, and many Bath area residents visiting family in Five Islands Sagadahoc and Nequasset. Also noted are trips to Detroit Chicago and Kingston Ontario, with workers returning to Bath Iron Works and National Guard duties in Bangor.
Sagadahoc GOP Sets 1959 Fund Drive and 1960 Aim
Sagadahoc County Republican finance chairman William F. Mussenden outlined a $5,800 fund drive starting Sept. 15 to support 1960 campaigns. The plan pledges 50 percent stays countywide, with allocations to State Republican committees and national bodies. Bath rally plans and an October meeting were announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William F. Mussenden
Sagadahoc
Mussenden
Sagadahoc County
United States
Republican Finance Committee
Finance Committee
Bath
State Republican Committee
Republican
National Republican Committee
State Committee
Maine
Republican State Committee
Stanley R. Hunter
Arrowsic Socials Include Guests From Nearby Towns
Arrowsic residents hosted and visited include Mrs Earl Rosenwald hosting the Thimble club with listed members, dinners in Topsham and Damariscotta, visits by Capt Lawrence Grinch of Raritan Arsenal Metuchen NJ, and trips involving Michiel Mazeiko, Frank Belofsky, and Ernest Gisette. Attendees also joined events with the Baker, Hughes, and Phinney families and garden club meetings in Southport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl Rosenwald
Thimble Club
Elmer Blake
Percy Miller
Robert Jewel
Donald Stewart
Clyde Dyer
Earl Coombs
Norfman Drummond
Warren F. Hawley
Jeanette Pitkin
Barbara Johnson
Herbert White
Topsham
Lawrence P. Grinch
Raritan Arsenal
Metuchen
N. J
Ainsworth
Michiel Mazeiko
Chelsea
Mass
Frank Belofsky
Ernest Gisette
Mazeiko
Bath Iron Works
Frank Rittall
Clearwater
North Woolwich Church School Rally Highlights Summer Session
North Woolwich Methodist church school held a rally day program Sunday to showcase summer work and present attendance awards. Mrs. Jennie Howe hosted with performances by students including songs and Bible pledge, plus perfect attendance awards to Carolyn Booker Eunice Leach Craig Bennett Charles Knight Kem Murphy Charles King Dick Knight Glenie Bennett Ruth Chadbourne and John King with special recognitions to Kem Murphy and Eunice Leach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church School of the
North Woolwich Methodist Church
Jennie Howe
Sunshine Mountain
Eunice Leech
Carolyn Booker
Ellen Groves
Sharon Baker
Glenice Bennett
Ruth Chadbourne
Marilyn Bennett
Jesus Loves
Howe
Eunice Leach
Craig Bennett
Charles Knight
Kem Murphy
Charles King
Dick Knight
Glen Ie Bennett
John King
Brunswick Choral Society Plans Return Rehearsals
The Brunswick Choral Society resumes rehearsals Tuesday at 7 30 p m in Gibson Hall Bowdoin College campus as the group marks its 20th anniversary. Open to all who wish to sing with no auditions or requirements. Plans for the season include The Messiah in December and Brahms Requiem in February.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brunswick Choral Society
Gibson Hall
Bowdoin College
The
Choral Society
Brahams
Dresden Society Notes and Obituary Roundup
Dresden Mills and surrounding towns file a wedding announcement for Arlene Randall of Oak Park Illinois and Logan Moseley of Chicago. The bride, a nurse trained at Cincinnati General, Augusta General, and Bridge Academy, is the daughter of Melvin and Mrs Randall. The groom, a WWII and Korean War veteran, works as a Schwinn maintenance man in Chicago. Community visits include Carol Devlin and son Stephen of Rhode Island with the Hamlin family. Dr. and Mrs. James Ferguson visit Jack Kendrick in West Dresden. Sunday school resumes at St John’s Episcopal at 10 30, not 9 45. Lillian Bryer, born in Nova Scotia, died Tuesday at West Dresden. survivors include husband, three sons, four daughters, a brother, and a sister. Services were in Saugus Massachusetts with burial in Richmond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arlene H. Randall
Oak Park
Ill
Logan G. Moseley
Chicago
Melvin Randall
Dresden Mills
Bridge Academy
Augusta General Hospital School of Nursing
Cincinnati General Hospital
Schwinn Bicycle Co
Carol Devlin
Couple Returns Home After Honeymoon in New Hampshire
Mr and Mrs John Doyle Jr wrap up their honeymoon in Wolfboro New Hampshire and go back to Mrs Doyle’s mother Mrs Ethel Robinson of Adams Court. Mrs Doyle formerly Dorothy Robinson works at Brunswick Naval Air Station and will resume duties Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Doyle, Jr
Wolfboro
N. H
West Bath Grange Officers Shuffled At Family Night
West Bath Grange held Family Night with a surprise officer shuffle. The meeting shaded the charter for late Emma Crosby, and new temporary officers served for the evening while plans for the Grange Fair were advanced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath
Junior Hospital League Plans White Elephant Sale
The Junior Hospital League outlined a white elephant sale for October 16 to accompany the hospital rummage sale at Central Congregational church parish house. The group will also sew diapers for the nursery and reported a successful hors d oeuvres book sale for fundraising. Upcoming meeting set for Mrs. Omar R. King’s home in West Bath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Junior Hospital League
Hamdi Akar
Grove Street
Central Congregational Church
William A. Niss
League
Omar R. King
West Bath
John Thorpe
Abbott Fletcher
George Carlton
William Peavey
William Mussenden
Winslow Porter
Claus F. Hi
Montsweag Extension Group Meeting With Dromore Guests
The Montsweag Extension group will meet Thursday at 10.15 in Arrowsie Town Hall with the Dromore Extension group as guests. The program chairman Mrs. Frank Ozella will lead a talk on Scotland under the topic Know Your Neighbor. Dinner committee members include Mrs. Ann Mullin Mrs. Roy Lawrence Mrs. Clinton McFadden and Mrs. Roy Loeschner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montsweag
Arrowsie Town Hall
Dromore
Scotland
Frank Ozella
Ann Mullin
Roy Lawrence
Clinton McFadden
Roy Loeschner
West Bath Dedication Refreshments Highlight P T A Aid
West Bath school dedication featured refreshments provided by the West Bath P T A. Joseph Larrabee, who recently underwent surgery at Central Maine General Hospital in Lewiston, is improving and receives daily visits from Mrs. Larrabee and other relatives. Dr and Mrs Edward Russell and family have returned to Belmont Massachusetts after spending summer at their cottage and returning to the University of Maine for the sophomore year with his parents. Mr and Mrs R Killam of Gardiner visited Mrs Francis Deehan on Saturday. Deehan then hosted them and Mr and Mrs B F Whitmore of Gardiner on Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quincy
Severoni
Elizabeth
Woolwich
Hilpman
International General Electric Co
Carracas
John King
Dover
Mass
Tibbetts Point
Barley Neck Road
J. G. Laturno
Venezuela
Richard Gowen
Bath
George Stafford
Damariscotta
Roland Peterson
Samuel Blake
Richmond
Horatio L. Baker
Fenna Hoffman
Small Point
Muriel J. Hughes
Burlington
Hughes
University of New Hampshire
Oxford
Europe
Baker
Columbia University
Norman Drummond
Edgar Phinney
John Mazeiko
Susan
Betty Ann
Peter
Michiel Mazeiko
Earle Goodridge
Lisbon Falls
Dave Stins
West Bath
West Bath P. T. A
Joseph Larrabee
Central Maine General Hospital
Leywiston
R. Killam
Gardiner
Francis Deehan
Bath Drum and Bugle Corps to reveal first public appearance
Bath bandsmen the Bucaneers will stage a 10 am parade from the Court House to Linden and a 7:30 pm rally at the American Legion hall in Bath. The Corps, successors to the Cadets, seeks members 16 and older with no experience needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Bucaneers
Court House
Center
Front Street
Front
Linden
American Legion
Cadets
Robert Lowery
Pine Tree Council Scouts Show Growth and 50th Anniversary Plans
The Pine Tree Council reports 4,906 Cub Scouts in 154 packs and 6,485 Boy Scouts in 217 troops as Cub Scouting and Boy Scouting expand. Exploring numbers total 589 in 44 units. The 50th anniversary year features national events, a Washington observance, and a 1960 Jamboree at Colorado Springs with 50,000 participants. Also noted are individual placements, Jay G. Hamilton Jr. and his sister Carol Anne Hamilton moving to new colleges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pine Tree Council
Washington, D. C
New Johnston
Boy Scouts of America
New Brunswick
N. J
R. E. Johnson
Colorado Springs
Col
Air Force Academy
Richmond and Brunswick Community Notices
Richmond Progressive grange met Friday Booster's Night with readings tableau piano solo and refreshments by lady officers Next meeting September 18 will elect officers Methodist Y A Y F met Friday with pot luck supper Guest speaker Miss Celia Miller recently returned from Indiana as a state delegate to a Young Peoples conference Berwick Academy South Berwick hires Gordon Curtis as social studies teacher and coach Married couple Donna Marriner and Ernest Williams reside in South Berwick Mrs Mina Austin a surgical patient at Parkview Memorial hospital In Brunswick Wesley Webber and family visited Massena New York and Mrs Archer Terrill RN on two weeks vacation Nancy Dube Foxboro Mass returned after summer with grandmother Elizabeth Nichols Janet Howe returned to Portsmouth New Hampshire after summer with Ruth Howe Erland Curtis Delmar Curtis returned from two weeks in Texas visiting son Gordon Curtis in Big Springs Texas Rendle Jones and daughter Laura Island Falls visited Pleasant street residents Margaret Jones and others
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Progressive Grange
Richmond Corner
Marjorie Curtis
Maynard Brown
Earland Curtis
Myron Douglass
David Williams
Methodist Y. A. Y. F
Celia Miller
Indiana
Mina Austin
Parkview Memorial Hospital
Brunswick
Wesley Webber
Wesley Webber, Jr
Massena
N. Y
Archer Terrill
R. N
Gardiner General Hospital
Nancy Dube
Foxboro
Mass
Elizabeth Nichols
Janet Howe
Portsmouth
N. H
Ruth Howe
Erland Curtis
Delmar Curtis
Texas
Gordon Curtis
Big Springs
Tex
Rendle Jones
Laura
Island Falls
Vincent Jones
Margaret Jones
Pleasant Street
Also Mentioned on This Page
Good Will Club
Clifford Gainsley
Sagadahoc Ferry
Charles Paradis, Jr
Harold Strout
Donald
William Brann
Lawrence Edwards
Lawrence, Jr
Robert Witham
Pamela
Kathy
William Phillips
Cindy
David
William, Jr
Melvin Cornish
Lori
Linda
Emily Strout
John Gordon
Dennis
John
Charles Paradis Jr
Charles
Moatsweag Extension Group
R. Clinton McFadden
Seth S. Mullin
P.O. Box
Boothbay Harbor
Merton Wright
Sasanoa Bluffs
Ontario
St. Lawrence Seaway
Wright
Minard Bigelow
Augusta
Bigelow
Claude Beal
Nequasset
Gerald Hersom
Hersom
Franz Stevens
Five Islands
Mountain Road
Bernard Bailey
Chubbuck
Maurice Hinckley, Jr
Bailey
George Ganglfinger
Detroit
Mich
Adirondacks
Chuckbuck
Auta Munsey
Sherman Mitchell
Raymond Durgan
Richard and
Raymond, Jr
Harrison Tipsword
Danny Lee
Raymond Coffin
Fred Hayward
Hayward
Camille Dionne
Muriel Preble
Orlow Kent
Victor Knight
Day's Ferry
Maxine Walker
Swampscott
Frank J. Walker
Day’s Ferry
Niel Hathorne
Merle Hathorne
Murphys Corner
Bath Memorial Hospital
Nequasset Center School
Adrian Lavielle
Terry
Timmy
Lavielle
Woolwich Center Baptist Church
Aroostook County
Cora Pinkham
Carol Tanner
Clarence Tanner
Christian Youth
Robert Warren
Boston
GOP
North Woolwich Church School
Dresden
Alice Burgess
Pomona
Dora Jones
Flora
Rosa Freeman
Bertha Palmer
Estella Doughty
Lawrence Palmer, Sr
D. Wallace MacDonald
Verl McNelly
Janet Collins
Mattie Collins
Alice Smith
Alton Collins
Persis Miller
the Grange
Khrushchev
Robert Palmer
Alex Burgess
Edgar McNelly
Mission of
Ladies Aid
Past Masters’ Association and Lecturers’ Council
Dromore Grange
U. of M
Edith G. Wilson
University of Maine
Maine State Ymca
Miss Wilson
Baltimore
California
University of Southern California
Teachers College
Phi Beta Kappa
Phi Kappa Phi
Mu Theta Epsilon
Kappa Delta Pi
Dean Wilson
National Association of Deans of Women
Progressive Educational Association
Maine Teachers’ Association
National Education Association
American College Personnel Association
National Training Laboratory
Bethel
Jast
William Milliken
Millinocket
New Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
New Jersey
Florida
Illinois
Legion Hall
Lew Colby
Jay G. Hamilton
East Brunswick
Machias
Washington State Teachers College
Carol Anne Hamilton
Gorham State Teachers College
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