Bath's First Church Model for Phippsburg Folk
Historic Bath church built 1758 served Long Reach residents until 1812 with services ending after Old North church opened in 1802. Moved to Trufant's Point, later replicated at Arrowsic, and a separate Phippsburg church marked its 150th anniversary. locals traveled by boat to worship with factions of Congregationalists and Presbyterians resolving under Parson Emerson.
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Pep
Long Reach
Reed
Bath
Trufant’s Point
Bath Box Company
Arrowsie
Phippsburg
Kennebec
Pleasant Cove
James Lester Morse
Parson Emerson
Arrowsic
Kennebec River
Parker’s Flats
Georgetown
Butler’s Cove
Phippsburg Center
Margaret McCobb
Alna meetinghouse anniversary drew large crowd in costumes
A Sunday anniversary service at the old Alna meetinghouse drew heavy attendance with over 30 people in 100 year old costumes. Dr. Lawrence Averill gave the history of the 163 year old church, and Senator Smith urged a national revival of public morals.
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Alna
Lawrence Averill
Senator Smith
St. Philip’s
Florence MacQuesten
Henry Darling
Grace Cowley
Edith White
Anna Plumstead
Marion Warland
Cornwall Rogers
van Sant
Cora Beane
Daisy McGrath
Dyer
Maybury
LeBourdais
Marion Abbott
Richard King
Andrew Wilbank
Bee King
Brewster Doggett
David Ichols
Eudel Whitten
Stanley King
James Sutter
Charles H. Plumstead
Pine Cone Rebekah Lodge
Lin
Coffin Stephen Odbury Dies at 67 in Maine
Funeral services for Stephen Odbury Coffin were held August 9 at Crowley’s funeral parlors. Born in Wiscasset, son of Capt. and Mrs. Charles Coffin, he lived in Alna in childhood. A carpenter by trade, he worked years on the W. W. & F. railroad and died after a long illness. Interment was at Jackson Cemetery. Survived by his wife, a son Walter, and two brothers Charles and John.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephen O. Coffin
Stephen Odbury Coffin
Crowley
Mr. Coffin
Wiscasse
Charles Coffin
Wiscasset
Alna
Death Notice of Frank C Angell at Boothbay Harbor
Frank Chester Angell died suddenly at Boothbay Harbor on August 14 at age 68. A longtime Wiscasset resident, he later lived in Boothbay Harbor where he worked as a machinist. Born in Gloucester Rhode Island, he is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Marcia Ross of Anna. Body brought to Wiscasset for interment.
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Frank Chester Angell
Boothbay Harbor
Drake Family Ends Birch Point Stay in Berwyn Return
Mr and Mrs William P Drake and children Jimmie Molly Ann and Sally of Berwyn Pa leave after two months at the Drake Summer home Birch Point returning home Sunday.
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William P. Drake
Jimmie
Molly
Ann
Sally
Berwyn
Drake
Birch Point
Neighbors Across Kennebec Hear Field Day News
Mrs Charlotte Leeman will attend the all day Androscoggin Sagadahoc field day and chicken barbecue at Turner Center with women meeting at 10:30 and displays of flower Swedish weaving and foods. Men outdoors hear plowing new poultry feeder weed control and farm equipment. The 4 H club hosts a dairy show and refreshment booth.
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Charlotte Leeman
Twin County Extension Association
Androscoggin-Sagadahoe
Turner Center
Grange Hall
Nequasset Extension Service
France
Hugh Briggs
Livermore
Waldoboro
West Bath social notes and visiting lists span weekend
The West Bath column records gatherings at local homes church events and numerous visits. Attendees include James Lord Warren Davis Alfred Oxton Lloyd Kelley and many relatives from Boothbay Harbor Bangor Lewiston and Bath. The piece also notes Harvesters 4-H club attendance at church and residents traveling to Crystal Lake and New York connections.
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Miss Vantters
Pee Don Della Cormier
Liams
Beatrice
Hazel Wharff
Stover
Onedys
James Lord
Warren Davis
Ee Lord
Ae Lloyd "Kelley
Flushing
N. Y
Frederick
Long ‘Tek
Island Stover
Boothbay Harbor
Alfred Oxton
Nell Hunt
Bangor
Arthur MacDonald
Leroy Lord
James McGuiggan
Bevery
Mass
Reginald Farnham
John Tobey
Brunswick
Farrnhams
Mary
Margaret
Edward
Billy Boudreau
Frederick Boudreau
Bath
Marshall Boudreau
New Meadows
George Victory
Annie Preston
Houston
Carl Robinson
David King
Gordon Wright
Gordon
Vera Wright
Martin Roman
Meriden
Comn
Charles
George Quicksall
David Ring
Samuel Cole
Lewiston
Fred Larrabee
Andrew Babkirk
Portsmouth
N. H
Ethel Bi
Its. Aires Robechaud
New York
Joseph Robichaud
Edward Robichaud
Sandra
Joyce Baker
Fairfield
Leon Belanger
Donald Hayward
Long Island
Hayward
Korea
Elmer Williams
Texas
Alton Mitchell
Joyce
Thankful Harris
Martinville
John Hunt
Sebasco Estates
C. C. Sargent
Karen
Loring Small
Dexter W. Allis
Billerica
Lewis Kellogg
Almeda
Glastonbury
Bath Residents Return From Trek Through Woods
Two Bath residents completed an 18th annual St. Croix Voyageurs canoe trek through northern Maine. Hank Small and Donald Spear led 22 participants on an 18th journey, with six of the 18 younger boys earning Junior Guide tests.
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Bath
Civilization
Maine
Henry D
Hank” Small
Morse
Donald Spear
U. of M
St. Croix
Spear
Hank
Allegash
St. Jo River
Poland Pond
Small
Don Spear
Don
Harry J. Busch
Mechanic Falls
Phillip L. Gatz
Auburn
Hayward Lane
Augusta
Pierre E. Provost
Daniel W. Smart
Brunswick
Radcliffe Mitchell, Jr
West Auburn
Miss Joan Edgett Wins Morse High Prize
Miss Joan A. Edgett daughter of Mr and Mrs William F Edgett of 2 Edgett Street has won the Elizabeth R Moses prize awarded yearly to a capable senior planning to attend a higher institution. The prize by a committee of the Superintendent of Schools the high school principal and the school board chairman honors a deserving graduate. The award was first given to Miss June O Labbie who is soon to marry Allen Snow Wilkie and has returned the prize.
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Joan A. Edgett
William F. Edgett
Edgett Street
Elizabeth R. Moses
Morse High School
June O. Labbie
Allan Snow Wilkie
Local Socials Record Sanford Orange Evening Attendance
Courtney Stover Mrs Reginald Farnham and Mr and Mrs Carleton Andrews attended Sanford Orange Saturday evening. Miss Jeanette Williams returned from a five weeks trip to England and France joining a dental hygienists tour to the International Dental Congress in London. She sailed the S S Atlantic from Quebec to Southampton with stops at Oxford Chester Stratford. After ten days in London she visited Paris and a tour of Normandy and Brittany before sailing from Le Havre on return.
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Courtney Stover
Reginald Farnham
Carleton Andrews
Jeanette Williams
England
France
London
S. S. Atlantic
Quebec
Southampton
Oxford
Chester
Stratford
Paris
Normandy
Brittany
le Havre
Pre-nuptial Shower For Miss Cahill In West Bath
Miss Margaret A. Cahill daughter of Mr and Mrs Andrew R Cahill of 68 South Street received a pre nuptial shower Tuesday evening in Herrin. The event at Miss Carolyn Herrins West Bath home featured a buffet lunch after gifts were opened.
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Margaret A. Cahill
Andrew R. Cahill
South Street
West Bath
Carolyn Herrin
Oes Sani
Bath seeks state funds for new high school project
Bath extends deadline to file for federal school construction aid set at 235 236 dollars. City plans to borrow up to 455 000 through the Maine School Building Authority pending a new referendum on September 8, as voters had supported the loan in June but the authority requires a clearer ballot.
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Bath
Federal Security Agency
Office of Education
Maine School Building Authority
Bath attendees at Wiscasset GOP rally spotlight local leaders
Bath figures joined a well attended Republican rally in Wiscasset Tuesday night. Stanley R. Hunter and Mrs. Hunter led local party presence alongside Etta Thurlow Mrs. and Philip and Harold J. Carter with others. Speakers included Sumner Pike Senator Margaret Smith Governor Frederick Payne Nelson and Burton Cross. Attorney Lynn Bussey and daughter Anne returned from Bar Harbor after the weekend.
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Bath
Wiscasset
Republican County Committee
Stanley R. Hunter
Hunter
Etta Thurlow
Philip Oliver
Harold J. Carter
Louis O. Couture
van Perkins
Sumner Pike
Lubec
Margaret Smith
Frederick Payne
Nelson
Augusta
State Can
Burton M. Cross
Lynn M., Bussey
Anne
High Street
Bar Harbor
Nine Children Gift Mother Planned Vacation Tour
Mrs McEachern, wife of Stuart McEachern of Bath, receives a surprise airplane trip and wardrobe as a birthday gift from nine children. She will visit Byron Wyoming to see son Ellsworth Wright and family, touring Yellowstone, the Black Hills, and Lead mines over about a month.
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Mtn
Ioe
Rge
New England States
Byron
Wyoming
Ellsworth Wright
Yellowstone Nati Park
Black Hills
South Dakota
Bath
U.S. Air Force
McEachern
Stewart McEachern
Westport Island
Ralph Wright
David Wright
Woolwich
Wastooorgie Magner
Wright
Donald Wright
Robert Fortier
Kenneth Murray
Robert
Patty McEachern
Westport
Mrs. Graydon Smith
West Bath Grange Meets With Evening of Entertainment
West Bath Grange held a Monday meeting with announcements of Sagadahoc County Pomona’s supper gathering in Woolwich. The program featured Aguerite Mulcahy, Esther Andrews, Florence Farnham, and William H. Small Jr with piano duets, readings, and humorous acts followed by dancing and refreshments. Mrs. Edward Murphy of Warwick Neck Maine was noted as an overnight guest.
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West Bath
Canning
Esther Andrews
Florence Farnham
Alfred Neal
Shirley Taylor
Jacqueline Purdy
Calvin Taylor
Pat
Paul Crocker
Bermuda
Dorothy Eseley
Carver
Edward Murphy
Warwick Neck
R. I
Bath
Charles Haggett
York Street
Bath girl wins second in local Miss Ellenbeth pageant
Bath participants from Bath Brunswick Topsham Richmond and Bowdoin competed in the Miss Ellenbeth era contest. Babe of Siiteea reportedly clocked 74 picks per hour as part of the event with cash prizes awarded and 20 youngsters paid over the minimum entry rate. Notable entrants included Libby of Bluff Road Aubut of High Street and Patricia Chubbuck of Woolworth Street.
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Bath
Ellenbeth Er
Babe
Siiteea
Se Mucks Libby
Bluff Road
Charles Aubut
High Street
Re Patricia Chubbuck
Woolw
Younger Has Party for Sheila McLean in Woolwich
Sheila M McLean daughter of Lt Sgt Lawrence McLean and Mrs McLean of San Antonio Texas attended a Woolwich birthday party Sunday afternoon in honor of her first aunt Sheila The living room featured yellow and pink decorations and the cake served with ice The party included a telephone call from San Antonio and a large gathering of family members from Woolwich and nearby homes.
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Sheila M. McLean
Lawrence McLean
McLean
San Antonio
Texas
Sheila
Woolwich
Jessie Delano
Neal
Eleanor
George Rattleff
Nancy
Barbara
Steve
Craig Ryan
Dennis Rattleff
Philip Rattles
Philip, Jr
Gerald
Caroline
George Delano
Meadowbrook Social Notes Roundup At Rogers Cottage
Meadowbrook residents and guests share visits and travel notes. Eugene Bowker, Jr. returns from Kittery after time with his grandmother. Bath and Bath area families attend graduations and host gatherings at Gardiner Rogers cottage.
New Red & White Market Planned on Elm Street Front Spot
Trucks haul a vet and a bulldozer level a parking area for the Red & White Super Market on Front Street near Elm Street. The August 28 opening is planned after the Gift Stall and Mike Zoome’s refreshment stand building was removed, forming part of the store grounds.
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Red & White Super Market
Elm Street
Mike Zoome
Earl S Grant of Portland Visits Bath
Earl S. Grant of Portland was a visiting guest in Bath on Monday, staying briefly as a DS visitor and taking part in local social rituals.
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Earl S. Grant of Portland
Bath
Mon
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Davis Island
Burleigh
Rufus Sewall
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Daniel W. Staffeld
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Naperville, Ill
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Laura Whitmore
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Dresden
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Larrabee’s Grove
Annie Towle
Missionary Society of the
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Dennis
Massachusetts
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Bailey Island
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West Bath Grange
Meadowbrook
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Ison Eugene, Jr
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Kittery
Bowker
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Arthur Smith
Fredee Turnercourt
Bolduc
University of Maine
Samuel Jordan, Jr
Jordan
Gardiner Rogers
Cedar Brook
Ind
Fred Perry
Toledo
Ohio
Clarence Johnson
Berlin
Iconn
Nancy Dares
Navy Club
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