Legion Drive Raises Papers Books Across Wiscasset Area
A successful Aug 20 paper drive led by Robert C. MacQuiston collected magazines books and papers across Wiscasset Woolwich Edgecomb Alna Head Tide and Sheepscott. Eight donated trucks loaded a 15 ton freight car ending at 8 pm with thanks to donors and volunteers.
Mrs. George E. Cowley Dies at 60 in Maine
Mrs. George E. Cowley of North Edgecomb age 60 died at Miles Memorial hospital after a serious operation on Sunday August 13. She was the daughter of the late Frederick and Leonora Knight of Leeds and leaves her husband and one daughter Leonora Cowley of the Women's Army Corps. Services were held at Cowley Funeral home with Rev. George E. Chiera, burial at Greenlawn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George E. Cowley
North Edgecomb
Miles Memorial Hospital
Annual Meeting Highlights at Phippsburg Church
The Phippsburg Congregational Church held its annual meeting with Dr. Horace Holton as moderator. Reports noted Frances Robie’s resignation as Christian Service Worker, accepted with regret, and succession by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Higgins. Officers and committee chairs were reelected, and Higgins offered to arrange September services, starting with Rev. Robert Whitehead presiding next Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phippsburg
Abbie Minott
Emma Perry
Robert Whitehead
Ada Catherine Minott
Horace Holton
Arthur Higgins
Robert C. Whitehead
Republicans Hold Rally with Notables in Attendance
A Republican rally drew a long list of attendees including Ellis L. Aldrich and wife Senator Neil S. Bishop Arthur G. Spear Fred W. Quimby Florence Wallace Win Haggett Catherine MacFarland Esther Brown Mildred Nichols Seward Emmons Forest Legard John L Jack Milward Patten Stella Given Hildreth Topsham George Sprague Earl Mc Fee Charles W. Messenger and Joseph W. Randlette of Richmond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellis L. Aldrich
Neil S. Bishop
Arthur G. Spear
Fred W. Quimby
Florence Wallace
Edwin W. Haggett
Catherine MacFarland
Esther Brown
Mildred Nichols
Seward Emmons
Forest Legard
John L Jack
Milward Patten
Stella Given
Hildreth
Topsham
George Sprague
Earl McFee
Charles W. Messenger
Joseph W. Randlette
Richmond
Service Details For Clifford Varney
Clifford Varney of the U S A A is stationed in Florida. His parents are Mr and Mrs Irving Varney of Trufant Street. Before entering service he worked as an outside machinist at Bath Iron Works.
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Pfe
Clifford Varney
U.S. A
Florida
Irving Varney
Trufant Street
Bath Iron Works
Miss Sandra Farnham Visits York Street Mother
Miss Sandra Farnham of Bangor arrives for a visit with her mother Mrs. C. Richard Farnham on York Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sandra Farnham
Bangor
C. Richard Farnham
York Street
One of Woolwich’s oldest residents passes away
Miss Clarissa Hawthorne aged 93 died following a three week bed confinement after a fall. Born in 1850 in Wiscasset, she taught school, studied painting in Boston, and ran a late life art program with Miss Medora Atwood. A Woolwich Center Baptist member, she served as church clerk and helped run Hawthorne & Leonard store at Saga dahoc Ferry. Funeral Friday at Woolwich Center Baptist Church with burial at Laurel Grove.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarissa Hawthorne
Wiscasset
Charles
Clarissa (Walker) Hawthorne
Woolwich Farm Bureau
Woolwich and
Bath
Miss Hawthorne
Hawthorne & Leonard General
Sagadahoc Ferry
Flora Leonard
Woolwich
New Bedford
Mass
Elster Dolloff
Clara
Lida Hawthorne
Christine Hawthorne
Wilmot Dodge
Sadie Reed Wilson
Knights to Enjoy Annual Field Day
The Knights of Columbus hold their annual lobster bake and field day Sunday at Edward Murphy's farm in Woolwich. Committee chair Joseph Marquis promises an excellent menu and a day of activities for all ages. Tickets are sold by Council members and at Cyr's Market. attendance count is sought by Thursday.
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Knights of Columbus
Edward Murphy
Woolwich
Joseph Marquis
Reggie Cyr
Cyr's
West Bath Farm Bureau Meeting Leads to Red Cross Sewing
Eleven members of the West Bath Farm Bureau met with Mrs Edward K Thompson on Thursday to sew eighteen Red Cross articles on the veranda. Dinner featured cold meats and gelatine pudding. The next meeting, Sept 21 at Mrs L D Small’s home, will cover cure and repair for longer wear under Mrs Haggett. Guests included Mrs Margaret Bickford of Beachmont, Mass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath Farm Bureau
Edward K. Thompson
Red Cross
Thompson
Edwin W. Haggett
L. D. Small
Haggett
Oscar Adams
Earle C. Donnell
William A. Coombs
Frank A. French
Walter G. Marco
Joseph Oliver
Perry L. Thompson
Ellery E. Whittemore
Margaret Bickford
Beachmont
Mass
Visit Details of Miss Betty McGuiggan and Family
Miss Betty McGuiggan formerly of Bath now in New York City visited Middle street and her sister Mrs Walter Madden of Pine street and uncle Edward McGuiggan. She accompanied sister in law Mrs James McGuiggan to Boothbay Harbor to stay with Mr and Mrs Harold Stover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty MccGuiggan
Bath
New York City
Middle Street
Walter Madden
Pine Street
Edward McGuiggan
West Bath Commemoration for 100th Protoereas Observed
West Bath residents plan an Aug. 26 observance at Grange hall marking the town incorporation. Local clubs and families hold social gatherings, clambakes, field days, and visits across Bath, Brunswick, and surrounding areas with civic and personal events noted.
Local social notes from Glastonbury and Bath area
Mr and Mrs H R and son William returned today to their Glastonbury home. Rachel Ann Phillips visits Blaine with grandmother Mrs Marion Blanchard. West Bath Sewing group met with Mrs F Deehan. Family trips and visits across Bath Topsham Portland York and WorMoncontogus Lake noted. military transfer Arthur Nicoll USN to Breezy Point VA. Families from Bath and York village enjoyed weekend visits and summer stays with relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. R
William
Glastonbury
Conn
Rachel Ann Phillips
Regis Phillips
Marion Blanchard
Blaine
West
Trafton Swain
Leon Felker
Daniel Young
Wormoncontogus Lake
Laura Whitmore
F. Deehan
William Sampson
New York
Massachusetts
I. Y. Knowlton
Valerie
Patricia
Wormoncontagus Lake
Daniel S. Young
I. B. Neiley
Florence Neiley
Marshall Boudreau
Philip Boudreau
Bath
Grange Past Masters and Families Attend Clambake Event
More than 50 past masters and families gathered at the Lemont summer home in Sabino for a clambake and social outing hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Everett G. Lemont assisted by Mr. and Mrs. Edwin W. Haggett. The Sagadahoc County Past Masters Grange Association and Lecturers Council were represented along with West Bath Dromore Bodwell Phippsburg Richmond Corner Enterprise and Richmond village granges. The afternoon included steamed clams lobsters corn and coffee with outdoor recreation and a business meeting led by Master Cleveland Marriner. An oyster stew dinner followed and plans were made for the next meeting September 21 at Richmond village grange hall. Guests included visitors from Rio de Janeiro Brazil and Bath area grange members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Everett G. Lemont
High Street
Sabino
Association
Cleveland Marriner
Richmond Village
Woolwich Grange Confers Early Masonic Degrees
Paul Batchelder, master of Enterprise grange in Richmond, conferred first and second degrees on two candidates at Woolwich grange. Next week includes plans for a clambake lobsters and a weinie roast. Third and fourth degrees due next Wednesday with Sagadahoc Pomona grange joining in two weeks for a combined meeting and supper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Batchelder
Enterprise Grange
Richmond
Woolwich Grange
Smith
Sagadahoc
Woolwich Community News Highlights and Local Notices
Woolwich Spinning Wheel club met with Mrs. Albert Temple Thursday. An outdoor picnic was enjoyed and children swam. The town schools will open Sept. 5. Good Will club plans a Monday meeting at the club house. Sunday school at Woolwich Center Baptist church at 10 a.m. Miss Terry Dickensonson won horsemanship prizes at a show. Local residents receive recoveries and news of travels, visits, and vacations across Maine and nearby areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spinning Wheel Club
Albert Temple
Gilbert Hathorne
Everett
Frances Hathorne
Merle Jameson
Merleen
Keith Jameson
Jordan Wright
Charles Thompson
Joan
Audrey
Esther
Eldie
Evelyn Leeman
Clayton Stinson
Carlton
Delmar
Linda
Roy Lilly
Walter
Good Will Club
Woolwich Center Baptist Church
Terry Dicksonson
New York
Cape Cod
Mass
Edwin L. Moulton
Pinecroft
Frank Walker
Judge Dunton
Dickenson
Gillies
North Bath
Frank J. Walker
St. Andrews Hospital
Boothbay Harbor
Sea Haven
Capitol Island
Boothbay
Louise Cerica
Swampscott
Maxine Walker
Cerica
Walker
Auguta
E. V. Reed
Ensign Gerard Nelson
U.S.N
Alton Berry
Birthday Party for Master Arthur Burns
Master Arthur Burns celebrated his eighth birthday with a lawn party on Saturday. Guests included Peggy Burns Patsy Burns Norman Final and others with Mrs Russell White and Ruth of Topsham visiting from out of town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Burns
George Burns
High Street
Arthur
John Ellis
Peggy Burns
Patsy Burns
Norman Final
Paul Bourget
Nancy Knight
John White
David Finklestein
Grover Cemetery Association Meeting Date
A meeting of the Grover Cemetery Association will be held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Bailey on Saturday evening September 9 at 8 o clock If stormy the meeting will be held on the next pleasant evening.
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Grover Cemetery Association
J. G. Bailey
West Bath Grange Meets Monday Night
West Bath Grange held a Monday meeting with Arthur C. Lemont announcing committees for the October annual fair and supper. The evening included music, a lecture by Mrs Ethel MacDonald, a town quiz, and a flag tableau with God Bless America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath Grange
Arthur C. Lemont
Sagadahoc Pomona
Woolwich Grange
West Bath
Persis Miller
Annie Lemont
Lonesome Pine
Bowery
Florence Farnham
Ethel MacDonald
Edgar Guest
Frank Donnell
Herbert Simpson
Thelma Sylvester
Bath Friends Receive Letters From Mrs Philip Wenz
Bath readers note Mrs Wenz of Redondo Beach California reports cool weather and misses Bath and Day's Ferry home. Also mentioned are the Thombs of Hyde Park Terrace Union Street returning from Belfast and selling their home to Ralph L Cooper. Mary Anderson to return from MIT radiation lab for a Boston visit with the Andersons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Philip Wenz
Redondo Beach
Calif
California
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radiation Laboratory
Carl C. Anderson
Green Street
Abe Povich
Larry
Benjamin Mensh
Nathan
Marcia
Shirley Povich
David
Maurice
Lynn
Washington, D. C
Povich
Front Street
Washington Post
Mensh
Riggs National Bank
William E. Hill
Naugatuck
Birthday party in Roosevelt ends with bridge game
Robert Holmes Miller Jr of Roosevelt celebrated his 11th birthday with a dinner and two tables of bridge. Ruth E Keen won first prize as guests enjoyed the gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Holmes Miller, Jr
Roosevelt, N. Y
Ruth E. Keen
Arthur Berry Becomes Eagle Scout At Camp William Hinds
Arthur Berry son of Mr and Mrs Arthur Berry of Robbins street earned the Eagle Scout rank at Camp William Hinds Ray mond this summer serving as camp bugler. Also awarded Order of the Arrow honors were Frederick K Sturtevant Donald Spear Edward Berry and John Wishart. Bath youths returning home Sunday included Roy Lutz Fred Sturtevant Edward Berry Arthur Bowker and several others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Berry
Robbins Street
William Hinds
Raymond
Arthur
Order of the Arrow
Frederick K. Sturtevant
Center Street
Donald Spear
Allan Spear
Pear] Street
John Wishart
Archie Wishart
Oliver Street
Edward Berry
Bath
Roy Lutz
Fred Sturtevant
Arthur Bowker
Richard McDonald
James Arsenault
Edward Arsenault
Cecil Fullerton
Richard Hersom
Dean Leavitt
William Pomeroy
Vacationers Return From Reach of Summer Outings
Harold Cutting of Hyde Windlass Co. is on vacation. Mr. and Mrs. John Black of Nashua New Hampshire and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Parker of Newton Highlands Massachusetts return from a Black cottage stay at Southport. Mrs. Black formerly Gladys Parker of Bath with Mrs. Parker spent six weeks at the resort joined by their husbands two weeks ago. Edmund Arsenault and twin sons Richard and Robert come back from Camp Cheerio Panther Pond Raymond after a 15 day outing. Arsenault also vacationed from Bath Iron Works. Their sons Edmund Jr and James who spent August at Camp Hinds Raymond have returned. Charles W. Moore and son James Charles return to Camden New Jersey after two weeks with Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Moore on Washington Street. Moore begins study at Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary Philadelphia and is pastor of Alpha Congregational Baptist Church of Camden.
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American Legion Post
Robert C. MacQueston
Wiscasset
Woolwich
Edgecomb
Alna
Head Tide
Sheepscott
Arthur Paquette
Harold Maybury
Thadeous Reed
Forest Munsey
Jesse White
Daniel Ames
Donald Shea
Charles Dunton
Delmas Leighton
Harold Shea
John Merry
Beatrice Jones
Vinnie S. Quinnam
Russell Lewis
Ann Quinnam
Ann Mille
Bertha Reed
Caroline Barnes
Joseph Moore
Winthrop
Maine Sea Coast Mission
St. Philip's
Portland
Dorothy Thompson
Elaine Monro
Ways and Means
Woman's Club of
W Scasset
Stanley Brown
Carolyn S. Varney
Josephine Faye
Charles E. Cowley
Joseph Coffin
Lewis Philbrick
Ervin Thompson
Union Street
Sgt
Philbreck
Bataan
Alaska
Aleutian Islands
Los Angeles
Calif
Albert C. Wilkie
Needham
Mass
Robert H. Heigham
Congregational Parsonage
Chauncy D. Paul
Betty Anne
Bruce
Squantum
Paul
B. F. Blagdon
North End
Joseph Vincent
Boston
William Southard
Waterstreet
Barbara Sullivan
Maine Central Hospital
Hooper Street
C. P. Hall
E. B. Reed
Millicent Hecht
Bath and
Arthur H. Durgin
Federal Street
Ernest King
Fairfield
Richard King
King
Birch Point
Stella Hodgdon
Ernest Huff
North Edgecomb
Forest Preble
Gilbert
Pemaquid
Rita Gillett
New York
South Newcastle
Harold Erskine
Elizabeth
Everett
Erskine
Ralph
Janice Metcalf
Dorothy Fischer
Boothbay Harbor
John M. Merriam
Mary D. Davenport
Framingham
S. Bemis
Mary Hobson
William Kierstead
Wenesday
Ospathic Hospital
Bath
Harold C. Blanchard
Groveton
N. H
William J. Kierstead
Robert Temple
Paul Kuta
Bowdoinham
Pleasant Pond
W. H. Peckham
Melrose Highlands
Charles E. Macurda
Colonial Home
Main Street
John Kopf
Betty Lou
Frank L. Metcalf
Frances Plumstead
Rangeley
Fred Moody
Jennie B. Gould
Durgin
Theodore Bertocci
Hodge Street
Lewis
Walter Avery
Whitman
John A. Merry
Gardiner Road
Eleanor Whitport
Belmont
Jean Bailey
Sheepscot Road
Rose
Doris Stover
William B. Lewis
Lucille Babbidge
Warner Babbidge
Larrabee's Grove
Richard Hodgkins
Camden
Florence Clement
Islesboro
Larrabee’s Grove
Cpl
Clifton Babbidge
USA
Camp Mackall
N. C
Warren Babbidge
Frederick Boudreau
Mary Alice
Marguerite Ann
Portsmouth
Chicago
Philip Boudreau
David Walsh
Marshall Boudreau
Albert White
Stanley Williams
Francena
Frank Manion, Jr
Samuel
Marion M. Blanchard
Blaine
Frank Marion, Sr
Kenneth Noble
Dresden Mills
Clifford Whalen
Bar Harbor
Arthur Carlton
John Perkins
England
Warren
Velma Cleaves
Joan
Melford Perham
Roy Moore
Raymond Sewall
Janice Perham
Harry Cornish
Donald Desmond
Brunswick
Ray Moore
Myra Foote
Bath Iron Works
Harold Cutting
Hyde Windlass Co
John Black
Nashua
Walter Parker
Newton Highlands
Black Cottage
Southport
Black
Gladys Parker
Parker
Edmund Arsenault
Richard
Robert
Washington Street
Camp Cheerio
Panther Pond
Raymond
Arsenault
Edmund, Jr
James
Camp Hinds
Charles W. Moore
James Charles
N. J
Moore
Wilson Moore
Upper
Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary
Philadelphia
Alpha Commune Baptist Church
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West Bath Farm Bureau Meeting
West Bath Grange Hall
Irving Burnham
George Melzard
Court Street
Albert Pinkham
Bridgham's Cove
J. W. Larrabee
Thomas’ Point
E. J. McMann
Billy Getchell
Rockland
Billy
Butch
Cuccinello
Getchell
Charles F. Treat
Orono
Llewellyn Rogers
Grange
Hayden Temple
Dickey Parker
New Meadows
Bobbie Kelso
Earl Stimpson
Day's Ferry
John Leonard
Squaw Mountain Inn
Moosehead Lake
Charlotte Chase
Samuel P. Buck
Avis Marston
Magnetta Mace
East Winthrop
Old Orchard
Clarence Baker
Belgrade Lakes
Alice Galvin
Wilbur Hagan
Galvin
River
Loring Soule
Maine General Hospital
Roy Stewart
Robert Fry
Popham Beach
George Sargent
Woodsville
Ruth Tyler
West Lebanon
George Gates
Lester Ross
Anne
Robert Miller
Bobbie
Roosevelt
N. Y
Ride-a-Wee
James Oliver
Robert James
Boothbay Hospital
Maurice Hinckley
Cedar Cove
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Joe Marsh
Squire Mason's
Bert Childers
Bert
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