Wanser Farewell Party Honors Bethany Bound Siblings
Local gathering at Bathroad marked by a farewell lawn party for Randy Wanser who heads to Bethany Nazarene College and Delores Wanser set to join the same college as a senior. The event featured a buffet, a musical program, and attendance from family friends and neighbors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abe Wanser
Randy
Bethany Nazarene College
Delores
Talks On Newspaper Work At Rotary Club Today
Bath Rotary Club hears Mark Hennessy district correspondent for Guy Gannett discuss his newspaper career as photographer and reporter at Central church parish house. He notes humor and tragedy in the work, cites 33 years with the Gannett chain, and praises relations with the Bath Daily Times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mark Hennessy
Guy Gannett
Bath
Rotary Club
Central Church Parish
Hennessy
Stanley Hunter
Gannett Chain
Bath Daily Times
Daughters of American Colonists Luncheon Attended by Maine Chapter Members
The Maine chapter of the Daughters of American Colonists met at the Narragansett Hotel Kennebunk Beach for a Monday luncheon. Attendees included Mrs William W Dennison Mrs Harry Litchfield Miss Susan Reed Mrs Leonard Lord Mrs Harry Deering and Mrs Robert Baker. Guest speaker was Mrs William Carrigan National President of the DACs from Washington DC.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daughters of American Colonists
Maine
Narraganset Hotel
Kennebunk Beach
William W. Dennison
Harry Litchfield
Susan Reed
Leonard Lord
Harry Deering
Robert Baker
William Carrigan
Washington, D. C
The
Carmichael Family Moves for Stearns High Post
Mr and Mrs Robert Carmichael and children Jeri Ann and Robert Jr leave Bath for Millinocket where Carmichael begins duties as varsity football coach junior varsity basketball coach and history teacher at Stearns High School. He is a 1958 University of Maine graduate and son of Mr and Mrs George R Carmichael of 64 Central Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Carmichael
Jeri Ann
Robert, Jr
Woolwich Groups Attend Maine Home Demonstration Day in Turner
Nequasset Extension Group and many Maine clubs participated in Home Demonstration Day at Leavitt farms in Turner. Demonstrations covered electrical gear and time saving devices, cooking on gas and electric stoves, with questions answered by manufacturers' reps under Miss Jean Spearin. A noon chicken barbecue marked the event which also combined the Area meeting planned for Sept 18.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nequasset Extension Group
Woolwich
Leavitt
Turner
Maine
Iidors
Jean Spearin
Lewiston
Good Will Club
Georgie Walker
Capitol Island
Will o Good Will Clubhouse Hosts Mrs St Pierre Shower
A Monday evening shower for Mrs Richard St Pierre was held at Good Will clubhouse with joint hostesses Mrs Mary St Pierre Mrs Ruth Rice and Mrs Jessie Barnes. Guests from Brunswick and Topsham attended and gifts were opened amid decorative cakes and a stork centerpiece.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Good Will
Richard St. Pierre
Mary St. Pierre
Ruth Rice
Jessie Barnes
Marion Kilbride
Helen Clark
Phyllis Clark
Juanita Milville
Katherine Melville
Viola Gagne
Fdna St. Pierre
Jacqueline Fournier
Adrienne Dubois
Brunswick
Harriet Kilbride
Donna Kilbride
Margaret Thurlow
Donna Ricker
Elsie Ricker
Marcia’ Ricker
Patricia Clark
Irene Ricker
Mac McMannis
Gladys Barnes
Bernice Gammon
Tazel Howland
Janice Tardiff
Topsham
Dorothy Cunningham
Building a Better Maine Jim Oliver for Congress
In a Maine political pitch Jim Oliver outlines a plan to build a better state. He pledges equal pay, clean water and river restoration, slow federal loans to aid towns without raising local taxes, and increased aid to small businesses. He urges voters to ensure their vote counts.
Ladies Auxiliary plans fall sale at Nequasset church
At a Thursday meeting the Ladies Auxiliary of Nequasset in the vestry of the Congregational church laid plans for a fancy and useful articles sale on Oct. 25. Committees will be named by president Mrs. Gertude Stacy. The group hosted a candy booth at the Bath City Park Hospital Development Fair with Ethel Reed Ruby Stinson and Jessie Spaulding taking part.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies Auxiliary of
Nequasset
Congregational Church
Gertude Stacy
Bath City
Ethel Reed
Ruby Stinson
Jessie Spaulding
Schuylerville
N. Y
Fred Powers
Schenectady
Clarence Angell
Francis Angell
Kay Shepard
Kay
Barney
Harry Earle
Lucerne
Maine
Elmer Newton
New Canaan
West Bath Artist Exhibit at Small Point in Maine
James Elliot of West Bath will display oil paintings and watercolors at the Small Point clubhouse in Phippsburg Thursday from 3 to 5 pm. The Maine landscape and sea scenes artist teaches at the School of Fine and Applied Arts in Portland and studied at the Scott Carbie School of Art in Boston and with Jay Connaway and John Muench. He has shown work at the National Gallery in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Elliot
West Bath
Small Point
Phippsburg
Maine
Elliot
Bath
School of Fine and Applied Arts
Portland
Scott Carbie
Yacht Club Members Entertained At Camp Eggemoggin
Mr and Mrs O Sherman Yale hosted New Meadows Yacht club guests at Camp Eggemoggin on Long Island in the New Meadows river. The Nancy NT New Moon and Four Winds ferried attendees from the yacht club while a lobster stew dinner and camp tour preceded an evening of dancing with Commodore Kenneth Francisco and other members in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. Sherman Yale
New Meadows Yacht Club
Yacht Club
Commodore
Kenneth Francisco
Williams
Lee
Daniel McDonald
Ernest Zapf
Casper van Diel
Jack Barry
Minnie Brown
Elmer B. Williams
Isaac Hamilton
John Mullaney
Thayer Family Guests at Camp Azalea Visit Gorham
Mr and Mrs Lawrence Thayer and children Jane and Stephen of Park Street and Parker Head with Miss Candace Lee and Miss Linda Ayer spent Sunday in Gorham as guests of Miss Doris Bridges who attended this year s Summer session at Camp Azalea Ocean Park with her Bath guests
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First National
Bath
Charles Paradis
Paradis
Forrest Baker
Philip
Dennis
Sagadahoc Ferry
New Phippsburg School
Georgia Cram
Lucille Cram
Phoenix
Ariz
Orville Small
Smalls
Woolwich
Arizona
Small
John Webber
Portland
Hollis Leeman
Barley Neck
Sandra Hathorne
Elwood Hathorne
Richard Chadbourn
David Hodgdon
Roland Leeman
Barley Neck Road
Bath Memorial Hospital
Linwood Grover
Wiscasset
Nancy Jean
Grover
Arlene Leeman
Bernard Tully
Lewiston
Sagadahoe Ferry
Alex St. Pierre
Emil St. Pierre
Brunswick
St Pierre
Sapadahoe Ferry
John D. McNecish, Jr
Duncan
Wellesley
Mass
Rodi
McNeish
Brian M. Jewett
Day's Ferry
Lawrence Thayer
Jane
Stephen
Park Street
Parker Head
Candace Lee
Linda Ayer
Gorham
Doris Bridges
Camp Azalea
Ocean Park
Frank Rittall
Ronald
Spinney Mills
Quebec City
Quebeec
St. Anne's
Orleans
Quebec
Bion Ainsworth
Raymond Ainsworth
Raymond
Camp Hinds
Ainsworth
Leslie
Bion
Gertrude Phinney
New Jersey
Richard Tice
Damariscotta Lake
George Safford
Earle Rosenwald
Boston
Indian Rest
Paul Bailey
Lillian Harvey
Mount Vernon
Edith Campbell
Ralph Jewett
Point
Howard O. Frye
Black House Point
Rangley Lakes
John Mazeiko
Peter
Betty Ann
Susan
Saco
Rocco DeMonte
Jerry Galuza
Mazeiko
Michael Mazeciko
Mark Lawrence
Lawrence Rothwell
Worcester
Rothwell
Norma Jean Drummond
Norman Drummond
Ibra K. Lawrence
Roy Lawrence
Barbara
Lawrence
Franklin Wright
Falmouth
Campbell clan gathers for Bath Union family reunion
The Campbell family held its annual reunion at Arthur and Mrs Farris home in Bath. Edith Campbell of Arrowsic, age eighty, was the oldest. Stacey Purinton, seven weeks old, was the youngest. Attendees included many generations from Bath Auburn Belfast Portland and Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Campbell
Arthur Farris
Bath
Union
Edith Campbell
Arrowsic
Stacey Purinton
Harold Purinton
Auburn
Arrowsie
Roxanne Merry
Tony McLaughlin
Dawn
Gail
Kelsy
Mary
Donald Dean
Arthur Farris, Jr
Barnadette
Belfast
Norman Parks
Norma
Donald Hinckley
Merton Merry
James
Joseph
Jeffrey
Brewer
Willard Pinkham
Nobelboro
Paul Bailey
Mount Vernon
Everett Pollard
Jean Ann
Winslow
Norman Scribner
Fairfield
Jay Walker
Patricia
East Hartford
Conn
William Miller
Peter Sarvas
Christine Lava
Julia Belossky
Kathy Wlatigall
Chelsea
Mass
Michael Mazciko
Progressiva grange observes Roll Call and plans services
Rich mond Progressiva grange met Friday night with Roll Call night. Members spoke on Maine beauty spots and the charter honored James M. Jones. Plans include Russian Orthodox services for Labor Day weekend led by Bishop Nikon of Florida with deacons from New York City and Arch Priest Afanaey Donetzhov.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Progressiva Grange
Maine
James M. Jones
Marshall Dunn
Story
Frank Millay
Emily Dunskit
Dorothy Wallace
Robert Wallace, Jr
Ethel Riffenburg
Albert Palmer
Nettie Leavitt
Nikon
Florida
New York City
Afanaey Donetzhov
Richmond
Frederick Payne
Horace Hildreth
Robert Hale
Earle McFee
Florence Wheeler
Leonard Bishop
North Bath Social Roundup of Visits and Travels
George Lawrence returns from Rome where he served as Pine Tree Camp councillor. Bath area residents mention trips to Old Town Milford Thorndike and Sabattus. Haines family guests and travels spread through Maryland Boston New York City and Europe with Yale connections and future medical study.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Lawrence
Harry Higgins
Rome
Pine Tree Camp
Edwin Hemingway
Old Town
Milford
Frederick Cole
Thorndike
William Lenfest
Linda
Union Fair
Fulalia Haines
New London
Russell Pearson
Carrie French
Carolyn
Barbara
Bath
Royden Haines
Arthur Temple
Gene
Bob Blatt
Sabattus
Charlotte
Dora
Royden Haines, Jr
North Bath
West Bath Odd Ladies Meet Marks Social Season
The State Past Ladies Association of the Independent Order of Odd Ladies met in West Bath with Mrs Warren Davis. About 50 members from Portland Waterville Auburn Brunswick and Bath enjoyed dinner at Witch Spring Inn. Verna Miller of Auburn was elected president and Sadie Ricker of Lewiston vice president. Members planned to meet next year at Mrs Davis home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Past Ladies’ Association of the Independent Order of Odd Ladies
Warren Davis
Berry's Mill Road
Witch Spring Inn
Davis
George Boynton
George Biette
Bath
Edward Earle
Judy Marsh
Henry Marsh
Pine Tree Camp
Rome
Robert Thompson
Robert Frazier
Tommy Valence
Lynn
Mass
Percy Holbrook
John Perkins
Togus Hospital
Owen Thompson
Waterville
Debby
Margaret Fox
Calais
Linda Fox
Miami
Fla
Lillian Zeigler
Nellie Starrett
Brunswick
Carl Hague
Portland
George Green
Orr’s Island
Pearl Whittier
Magog
Quebec
Charles Barnes
Barnes
Larry
Sharon
Charles
Arthur Cormier
Margie
Teddy Robichaud
Alphonse
Dresden Sister, Gladys Swasey, Dies After Illness
Mrs. Gladys Swasey of Dresden Mills died after a lingering illness. Born in Dresden, she was the daughter of Melville and [undisclosed] Randall. Survived by son Allen, daughters Karla and Paula, and two sisters Miss Arline Randall of Chicago and Mrs. Souviney. Services held at Robert Funeral Home Richford. Burial at Pine Grove Cemetery Dresden Mills. Reverend James Herick officiated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladys Swasey
Leslie Souviney
Dresden Mills
Dresden
Melville Randall
Allen
Karla
Paula
Arline Randall
Chicago
Souviney
Robert Funeral Home
Richmord
James Herick
Pine Grove
West Bath Grange resumes meetings Monday night
West Bath Grange ends a six week recess and restarts Monday evening with a public supper report and a visitors list from Worcester Orange and Granite City grange. The fair committee includes Alton Collins Alec Burgess James Royal with subgroups for supper fancy work candy and vegetables. An entertainment program and additional committees are planned with all grangers asked to assist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath
Persis Miller
Helen McNelly
Dora Royal
Cecile Garron
Vivian Brown
Clarence
Anne Minott
Herbert Simpson
Charles Soule
Alton Collins
Worcester
Mass
Orange
Granite City Grange
Hallowell
Sagadahoe Pomona
Solid Rock Grange
South Durham
Alice Inman
Emma Larrabee
Rosa Freeman
Bessie Boud
Woolwich Grange Votes Donation To Bath Hospital
Woolwich Grange approved a donation to the Bath Memorial Hospital Development Fund at its Wednesday meeting led by Worthy Master Marion Chubbuck. Pro tem officers were Leon Paulin, Alberta Bailey, and Harvey G. Chubbuck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Memorial Hospital
Woolwich Grange
Marion Chubbuck
Leon Paulin
Alberta Bailey
Harvey G. Chubbuck
Pranue
Patricia Tipsword
Jesse M Chubbuck
Daisy Elwell
Clyde Bailey
Woolwich Man Injured As Truck Tire Explodes
Woolwich Road Commissioner Harold F. Hunt, 88, is hospitalized at Miles Memorial in Damariscotta after a tire explosion during maintenance. The steel rim lock struck his forehead and knee, leaving a fractured skull and a lacerated knee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woolwich
Harold F. Hunt
Miles Memorial Hospital
Damariscotta
Hunt
Robbins and Cowan Visit Dresden Mills Home
Richard Robbins and Mr and Mrs Joe Cowan of Michigan are at the Stummer residence in Dresden Mills visiting the family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Robbins
Joe Cowan
Michigan
Stummer
Dresden Mills
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