Cent er Church Lawn Party and Community Notes
About fifty children and parents attended the Center church lawn party last Thursday. The event was directed by Rev. Macy Whitehead and Miss Frances Charrier with Mrs. Eversfield Irma Gilman and Dianna Pye assisting. The Phippsburg Christian Service committee sponsors the annual party.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Center Church
Macy Whitehead
Frances Charrier
Eversfield
Irma Gilman
Dianna Pye
Mark Harrington
Thomas Totman
Clifford Pye
The
Phippsburg Christian Service Committee
Riverside Hall
Ellen Blair
Dianna Oy
Irma
Billy Gilman
Edie Whitehead
Patty Day
Windham
Thelin Conservatory of Music
Stanwood
Popham Beach
Christian Service
George Butler
South Park Methodist Church
Hartford
Conn
William Gilman
Harold Seavey
Center Pond
Winnegance
Center
Small Point
Peggy Gilman
Corinne Clausin
Mary Whittemore
Parker Head
Alice Lowell
West Point
Maud Thayer
Grace Wyman
Sebasco
Celeste Wallace
Marguerite Blair
Day's Ferry
Maine
William Cushing
Leslie Darling
Earl Lowell
Beach Ridge
Scarborough
Leston Harrington
Mary Dannenfelser
J D. Libby
West Bath
Ralph Bridgham
Portland
H. D. Mank
Bridgham
Mr. Mank
Plymouth
Kennebec
Clarence Skolfield
Bangor
Skolfields
Perkins Island
Bath
Barbara Harrington
Dexter Robinson
Hazel Young
Topsham
Albert Gray
Joyce Gray
Joyce
Pamela Hamel
Leslie Logan
Freeland King
Bowdoinham
Amos King
Michigan
W. E. Hallett
William Schreiter
Cathance
Richard Zagarella
Mr. Carlson
Boston
Ralph Frangello
Louise
Paul
William Hodgkins
Howard Hutchins
Freeport
Henry Alexander
Clifford Filer
Nazarene Church
Rev
Filer
Wales
Peter Hutchins
Donald Wyman
Nazarene
Idlewild
Lake Winnepesaukee
Small Pointers Visit Mysterious Cave At Small Point
About 40 children and 20 parents toured Brown's Cave on Jee's Mountain on a sunny Sunday. The group met Mr Brown who served lemonade, with William Allen Smith impersonating him for a joke. The cave's lore evokes pirate loot and unknown crimes, adding eerie intrigue to the coastal outing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brown
Jee's Mountain
William Allen Smith
Cold Spring Harbor
S.1
Mrs Darling and relatives pass away in Phippsburg
Mrs John Darling her two children and her mother Mrs Leona Sherburne and her niece Dorothy Stilphen of Phippsburg died Thursday along with Miss Delphene Goodwin and Miss Ethel Barter of 118 Academy Street in a local incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Darling
Leona Sherburne
Dorothy Stilphen
Phippsburg
Delphene Goodwin
Ethel Barter
Academy Street
Freeport inn owner miraculously saved after fall at West Point
Norman Kilby of Freeport, owner of the Four Seasons Inn and Motel and Souwester Restaurant, plunged from one boat to another at Shorey's wharf in West Point. He sank, rose, and was hauled from the water by Douglas Pye Levi and Norman Gilliam, who brought him to a nearby home and provided dry clothes. Kilby cannot swim and was saved from likely drowning, though he suffered only fright and shock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norman Kilby
Freeport
Four Seasons
Souwester
West Point
Shorey's Wharf
Douglas Pye
Levi
Norman Gilliam
Kilby
Oil Wells Cost Up To One Million Dollars To Drill
The report notes that drilling oil wells can require investments approaching one million dollars, highlighting the high upfront costs of exploration and development.
Parker Head Community News Adapts To Falls Church
Parker Head church activities fill week with Sunday school at 10 am and evening sessions. The Parker Head school reopens Sept 8 with Mrs. Earl Lowell teaching. Residents report visits, picnics and church events across Sebasco, Bath, and surrounding towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Baptist Church
Parker Head
Hutchins
West Point
Cushman
Sebasco
H. M. Whitehead
Earl Lowell
Winthrop Blair
Wilma Hodgkins
Hodgkins
Bertha
A. B. Henderson
Gordon Alden
Parker Head Vestry
Howard Hutchins
Elmer Allard
Barbara
Bath
Walter Cushing
Grace Cushing
Marion Nadeau
Burleigh Williams
Lester Beals
Harold Barkalow
Madison
W. H. Wyman
Gardiner
Judy Moore
Claudia
Robin Hutchins
Harpswell
Albert Gray
Gordon-Ater
Isabel Foye
Malcolm O'Brien
University of Colorado At Denver
Kenneth Weeks
Ohio
George Woodward
Calvin Alexander
W. T. Wyman
Herbert Bassett
Charles Blaisdell
Eugene Harrington
Eugene Ross
Canasta
Turner McCarty
Slade
Worcester
Mass
J. G. Morse
Blanche Hewitt
Thornton Percy
Milton Slade
J. F. Leach
Beatrice Wyman
Nancy Hyde
Medford
Sam Sternberg
H. Epstein
Old Orchard
Massachusetts
Angie Mank
Margaret Woodman
Elbert Woodman
Nobleboro
Gilbert Woodman, Jr
Chicago
H. D. Mank, Jr
Ralph Mank, Jr
Ramon Hamel
Winneganee
Ao Hamel
Ashale
Popham Beach Busy With Vacationers and Visitors
Fine weather draws vacationists and tourists to Popham Beach with many from Brunswick and Orrs Island. A lobster supper by the Popham Beach Improvement Association funds library maintenance. The article lists numerous visitors and local residents spending weekends and summer at cottages along Riverside and nearby areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Popham
Horge Shoe
Brunswick
Orr’s and Bailey’s Islands
Popham Beach
Peter A. Isaacson
Herbert R. Sprague
F. H. Waterhouse
Vernon M. Mattson
J. Haviland Torrey
Peter Phialas
Roland McIntosh
J. Dwight Kinmouth
Dorothy Mattson
Frances Charrier
Union Theological Seminary
New York
Ohio
Maine Three-Quarter Century Club gathering in Lewiston
Edward P. Thomas Sr. attended the State of Maine Three-Quarter Century Club event at the Lewiston Armory with about 1500 attendees. The oldest member was nearing 101. Governor Burton M. Cross participated in afternoon events. Mrs. Charles Robbins and son Robert of Waltham Mass and Miss Verna Philbrook of Matin were noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward P. Thomas Sr
State of
Maine
Lewiston Armory
Burton M. Cross
Charles Robbins
Robert
Waltham, Mass
Verna Philbrook
Matin
Hus
Sarah E. Wilbur
Edward P .Thomas
Martin F. Goodwin
Thayer Family Reunion Held at Lawrence Thayer Cottage
The Thayer family reunion took place at Lawrence Thayer cottage on Wyman shore with a clambake. Attendees included Charles Thayer , Mrs Redford Christensen , James Christensen , Mr and Mrs Charles Christensen , Mrs Gloria Barnes and two children, Mr and Mrs Kenneth Thayer and son Donald, Mr and Mrs Harry Thayer and son Dennis, Mr and Mrs Allen Thayer and children Wayne and Ellen of Bath, Mr and Mrs Lawrence Thayer and children Jane and Stephen, and Frank K Wyman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clifford Pye
Naples
Helen Moran
Lucy Lofgren
Karen R
Wally
Walter Rainey
Rivers Head
Long Island
N. Y
Wilson Rainey
Sidney _Rapkin
Gertrude Gibby
Melrose Highlands
Mass
William Blaisdell
Gordon Alden
Bath Memorial Hospital
Theiol
Larry Goron
Peggy Rogers
Camp Wayaka
Oxford
Gertrude Blaisdell
Eleanor Gilmore
Five Islands
Thomas Totman
Jimmy
Marilla Williams
Sebasco Lodge Pool
Charles Stevens
Alfred
Carl Thach
Doris Scott
Kansas
Donald Logan
Marilla Totman
Marlene Logan
Bernard Henderson
Con Jack
Vicki
Norma
Dianne Blaisdell
James Little
Kenneth Weeks
Columbus
Ohio
Thayer
Lawrence Thayer
Wyman Shore
Charles Thayer
Redford Christensen
James Christensen
Charles Christensen
Gloria Barnes
Kenneth Thayer
Donald
Harry Thayer
Dennis
Allen Thayer
Wayne
Ellen
Bath
Jane
Stephen
Frank K. Wyman
Vandalism Hits Rural Mail Boxes In Bath Area
More than 30 rural route mail boxes were torn down and damaged early Sunday in Bath West Bath and along routes to Win neganee and Phippsburg. Police and post office officials examined the sites Monday and launched an investigation. The force cites U S statutes on destruction of mail facilities and offers a reward for information leading to convictions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
West Bath
Winneganee
Phippsburg
Foster’s Point
Old Brunswick Road
Postoffice
Sheriff's Department
Edward N. Hartnett
U. S
Hartnett
Dike School Tests Heating Unit and City Hall Tank
The Dike school heating unit underwent a trial and produced satisfactory steam in 12 minutes from a cold boiler. A new welded steel oil tank at City hall passed air pressure tests of three and a half psi. Boiler erection will start soon as pipe and boiler coverings are completed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dike
City Hall
County Directory a Glimpse of Bath 1892
Thomas C McCabe of Floral street loans Independent a copy of Sagadahoe County Directory 1892. It lists Bath and surrounding towns with 382 pages, notes wharves halls and old businesses, and sketches civic life under Mayor Twitchell and City Clerk Clark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas C. McCabe
Floral Street
Sagadahoe County
Brown Thurston Co
Portland
City of Bath
A. Hallet
City Hall
Center Street
Columbian Hall
Front Street
Forester’s Hall
Golden Cross Hall
Good Templars Hall
G. A. R. Hall
K. of L. Hall
Masonic Hall
Music Hall
Washington Street
Odd Fellows Hall
Percy's Hall
Popham Hall
Pythian Hall
Red Men’s Hall
Riverside Hall
Russell's Hall
Louise H. Abbott
North Grammar School
Emma Zimmerman
Green Street
Morse High football practice starts Thursday
Morse High announces football practice under Coach Bob Frink starting Thursday with two daily sessions from 9 to 11 in the morning and 1 30 to 3 in the afternoon. Equipment distribution and insurance forms are handled at the high school. Next week pads daily with a single Saturday session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morse High School
Bob Frink
Kelley
Friedman Birth Announced in Malden Hospital
Mr and Mrs David Friedman of Brighton Massachusetts announce the birth of a son on Wednesday at Malden Hospital. Mrs Friedman formerly Irene Lalit of Bath Maine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Friedman
Brighton
Mass
Wednesday Macnn
Malden Hospital
Friedman
Irene Lalit
Bath
Bath engines place in money at Newburyport muster
Two Bath machines break into prize money at the Newburyport firemen muster with Kennebec second in class two at 179 ft 8 in Torrent No 1 third at 172 ft 5 in Pow Wow of Amesbury hits 207 ft 7 in in first class, Neptune leads with 222 ft 2 in, Deluge wins second division at 188 ft 5 in Kennebec also mystery prize winner. Next muster at Marblehead with Torrent entered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newburyport
Kennebec
Amesbury
Mass
William
Torrent No. 1 Fife and Drum Corps of
Bath
Volunteer
East Greenwich
R. I
Neptune
Passaconaway
Seabrook
N. H
Protection
Newbury
Gov. Bradstreet
North Andover
Okoes
Marblehead
Water Witch
Lee
L. C. Spaulding
Morgan Horse Show at Phipps Point Highlights Maine Event
The second annual Morgan Horse show in Woolwich sponsored by the Maine Morgan Horse club took place at Phipps Point, Miss Margaret Gardiner’s summer home. Hugh Little’s Lippitt Red More won multiple firsts in stallions under saddle and obstacle courses and placed second in older stallions. Miss Gardiner’s Bayfield led in three-year-plus stallion classes and in sire dam and get, finishing second to Lippitt Red More in under saddle. Richard Nelson judged from Amherst, with Frank Owen Stephens of Auburn as announcer and ringmaster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine Morgan Horse Club
Phipps Point
Woolwich
Margaret Gardiner
Miss Gardiner
Hugh Little
Rockland
Mr. Little
Bayfield
Lippitt Red
Richard Nelson
Amherst
Mass
Frank Owen Stephens
Auburn
Praying Mantis Sightings Increase in Bath Maine
A stray praying mantis, rare for Maine, was found at Central Fire station and later in Bath. Two more were reported on Washington Street and at Torrey Roller Bushing Works, with one kept in a Times office display. The cause is unknown though a southern hurricane is suggested as a possible transport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Fire Station
Maine
Bath
Washington Street
Thomas Kennedy
Times Office
Torrey Roller
Commercial Street
Eas Maine
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Halsey Loder
Alliquipa Harbor
Manley Cottage
Sumner Sewall
Fenno Hoffman
E. Osborne Coates
Philadelphia
Wright Cottage
William Sanford
Greenwich
Alliquion
Newmpshire
Billy
Malcolm Coates
Coates
Kenneth Hall
New York City
Bath Iron Works
John K. Jayne
New Canaan
George St. John
Hobe Sound
Fla
Morse's Mountain
Seton Ijimes
Ashtabula
Ijimes
Nancy Mellen
Nimes
Louisville
Morgan Gilbert
Washington, D.C
Christopher Stancliffe Hurst
Hurst
Gilbert
Walter E. Edge
New Jersey
Atlantic City
Albert Bigelow Smith
Howard Edge
Cambridge
Albert Bigelow
James L. Grant
Grace Episcopal Church
Shaw Swain
John C. Phillips
Swain
Longy School of Music
Parker
Paul Hodgkins
W. Hodgkins
East Boston
W. A. Lowell
Maine Maritime Academy
Castine
Irene Er Eng
Pasunday Atd Orchard
Bay Point
Ross
Yarmouth Friends
Dorothy Peat
Partiison
Yarmouth
Helen Ayer
North Yarmouth
Horseshoe Beach
Baltic Sea
Ocean
Francis Shaw
Needham
Riverside
Caswell D. Strout
Leon B. Fickett
Sherman Mitchell
Spinney
Woodell White
Warren White
White Spot
Judy Morse
Lester Morse
George L. Stone
Col
Watson
Ontario
Can
Lester Follett
Kenneth
Audrey
Ernest Solberg
Marcella Wailonis
Vinci Sabin
Jan Noble
Naugatuck
Mark
White Horse Ledge
Eleanor Simons
Ruth Scott
Northampton
Barbara Sprague
William D. Hill
Myra Scott
Stone House
Bradley Brown
MacIntosh
Francis L. MacDonald
Quincy
Frances MacDonald
University of Maine
MacDonald
Frances
Gray
Miss MacDonald
Gray and
Gloucester
Robert Goodwin
High Street
George Stacey
Ernest Wood
Clyde Chaney
Billerica
Edith Perkins
Earle B. Perkins
Betty
Waltham
New Meadows River
Wesley Lewis
East Douglas
Lewis Cottage
Kleber
Edgewood
Maryland
Stacey Cottage
Harry Hannaford
Joan
Plainfield
N.J
Arthur Ostander
Hannaford
Joan Hannaford
Cox
Masters Tommy and
Terry Holbrook
Morton Holbrook, Jr
Middle Street
Lewiston
Mrs
Morton Holbrook
Eleanor Lawrence
Belmont
Costello P. Hall
Sagada‘hoc Ferry
F. H. Twitchell
George H. Clark
Edward C. Hyde
William B. Palmer
John C. Minott
Winter Street
I. C. Phillips
H. E. Cole
William E. Hogan
Arrowsic
Westport
Georgetown
Boothbay Harbor
Morse High
MONET
Torrent
Morgan Horse Show
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