Local Grange Officers and Community News in Wiscasset
The article lists Master Lawrence Poland and many Grange officers from Seaside Huntoon Hill and Nobleboro, with names like Richard Barker Bernard Merry Norris Waltz Julia Barker Lillian Poland Mildred Wyman Irene Puffer Lily Waltz and Milton Russell. It notes church events at Congregational Parish House and a film So Dear to My Heart, plus Boy Scouts Troop 201 service, a defeat of Wiscasset Town by House of David, and various personal items and enlistment notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence Poland
Seaside Grange
Richard Barker
Huntoon Grange
Bernard Merry
Huntoon Hill Age
Verona ‘Ork
Nobleboro Grange
J. Wilbur Hunter
Seaside
Johnyman
Huntoon Hill Grange
Norris Waltz
Nobleboronge
Eolatch
Emery Pinkham
Garrison Hill Grange
Ceres
Julia Barker
Huntoon Hill
Pomona
Lillian Poland
Mildred Wyman
Milton Russell
Harrison Puffer
Irene Puffer
Lily Waltz
Flora
Congregational
Pilgrim Fellowship Group
Lions’ Club
Advent
St. Philip’s
American Home Department
Ralph Cross
PT Club
Io the Lion Club
P. T
Lions Service
Howard Page
Josephine Foye
Gardiner Road
David Barnes
Charles S. Barnes
Fort Williams
Harvey R. Pease
Maq
Augusta General Hospital
Herbert Reed
St. Andrew's Hospital
Reed
Judith Rines
Walter G. Serle
Ralph Knowlton
Waterville
Knowlton
Barbara Sullivan
Lawrence A. Averill
Averill
Augusta
Central Congregational Church
Bath
Stanley W. Dodge
Hollywood
Fla
Albert Galloupe
Hallowell
William Kovalchuck
Lincoln County
Sgt
Isaacs
James Rankin
Frank Lombardo
Augusta Navy Recruiting Office
Sgt. Perry
Lessons Forgotten in Detroit Driving Case
Mrs Anna Zemmel received a suspended sentence after police testified she drove into Allan Frank, saying she had just completed 12 driving lessons and became flustered upon seeing him, who was her instructor. The judge questioned why Frank made her nervous.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Anna Zemmel
Allan F. Frank
Frank
Frnnk
Freezer Temp Tip for Fast Freezing Desserts
Use the fast freezing setting on your refrigerator when making frozen desserts to achieve the best texture and quick solidification.
Richards Restaurant Opens With a Bang in Bath
Richards Restaurant in Bath opened early Monday morning with a gas oven blast that shattered a front window and caused a fireball in the kitchen. Mrs. Richards escaped unharmed while her husband sustained only a singed hairline. Workmen boarded up the window as a replacement window was ordered for Tuesday. Local Portland transplants seek assurances no recurrence.
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Richards
Portland
Thomaston Grangers Guest at West Bath Monday Night
West Bath Grange hosted a Monday evening meeting with 21 mystery riders from Weymouth Thomaston attending. The program featured readings, musical numbers, dances, and a Penny March won by Mattie Collins, with a stunt winners duo and closing remarks by Alice Inman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath
Weymouth Grange
Thomaston
Grange
Alex Burgess
Alton Collins
Joseph Larrabee
Joseph Wilson
Persis Miller
Bernice McGlinchy
Bessie Boudreau
Ivella Holbrook
Mattie Collins
Topsham Grange
Edmund Arsenault
Our Grange
Bonnie and
Jean Belanger
Esther Andrews
The
Barrell
Sophie Green
Alice Inman
William Small
Mary Gaudreau
James Royal
Marshall Boudreau
Doris Doughty
Phyllis Gagne
St Marys Guild Plans For Sale At Christmas Fair
St Marys Guild of Grace Episcopal church finalized plans for a Christmas Fair co sponsored with Grace church Women s Auxiliary. The event Tuesday Dec 7 features book, gift, greens, and household utilities tables with listed chairs and committee members. Refreshments were served after the meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Mary's Guild of
Grace Episcopal Church
Grace Church Women's Auxiliary
Charles Swearingen
George Parshley
Martin Anderson
Edward W Bridgham
W. Dayton Hill
Kenneth Brown
Stephen Jones
Walter Hill
Thomas Aikenhead
Harry Collins
Abbot H. Redlon
Myra Foote
Harry Wilson
Lawrence Thayer
Alex Robertson
Stella Dolloff
Katina Vamvakias
Warren Hawley
Carl Anderson
Driver Exonerated After Rampage Down Hill
Jerome, 3, was barely scratched after a car driven by a youth reportedly sped down a steep hill leaped the curb and damaged Sam Monahue's store by 800 dollars while his father’s car sustained 400 dollars in damage when the youngster fiddled with the gearshift as his father left the parked vehicle to deliver a paper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerome
White
Sam Monahue
Nequasset and Days Ferry Natives Share Thanksgiving
Nequasset and Days Ferry residents recount Thanksgiving visits with kin across Bath Woolwich and Arrowsic. Families gather for dinners parties and anniversaries while neighbors plan Christmas events and civic meetings at Nequasset and Woolwich venues.
Reds Restore Chinese Shrines Tokyo
The Gate of Heavenly Peace in Peiping once used for imperial ceremonies now serves as Mao Zedong’s rostrum during parades. The 530-year-old Imperial Palace has become a museum and the hilltop Summer Palace with the temple of 5,000 Buddhas is a tourist center, Peiping broadcasts boast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Death Strikes Twice in North Carolina Conviction
Julian Hart, 29, was convicted in Superior Court and sentenced to three to five years for the death of 16 year old John Wilson Lockamy. Hart's car struck his tractor on the Benson Angier road. A year earlier he was a driver in a fatal wreck at the same spot. he was not indicted then. The text notes school bus transport costs about $30 per pupil in the U S.
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Lillington
N. C
Julian Hart
John Wilson Lockamy
Hart
Benson-Angier
West Bath Christmas Seal appeal and local gatherings
The West Bath community regions show a busy period with a Christmas Seal drive, a Winter series meeting led by Rev. Dr. Oliver W. Bell on December 5, sewing club activities for Togus hospital and Red Cross, and numerous Thanksgiving visitors and family visits across Bath and nearby towns. Local residents including the Small, Noyes, MacDonald, Stover, Boynton, Hodgkins, Cormier, and Larrabee families are noted with travel and gatherings in December.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath
Oliver W. Bell
Loring D. Small
West Bath Grange Hall
Togus Hospital
Red Cross
Maine Tuberculosis Association
Albert White
Maynard Lee
Stanley Rose
Condon
George Stimpson
Harold Perkins
Maynard Carleton
Courtney Stover
Oliver Wass
Francis Deehan
White
Lee
Grange Hall
Kenneth Noyes
Patricia
Howard Noyes
Beverly
Mass
Warren Davis
Daniel MacDonald
Bath
Joyce Stover
Gorham State Teachers’ College
Harland Boynton
William Hodgkins
Maine
Kenneth Josselyn
Augustai
Quaker Point
Kittery
Arthur Cormier
Marjorie Ann
Portsmouth
N. H
Cormier
Ralph Goodrich
Kermit Bennett
Glenace
Craig
Bennett
Hayden Temple
Woolwich
Guilford
Edwin Colson
Richard Bowman
Larrabée’s Grove
Joseph Larrabee
Islands
Craig Bennett
Irving Burnham
Woodbury
Bill
William Cowan
Sydney
Yecile Beane
Walter Williams
Smithfield
Beane
Thelma Spaulding
Oakland
Harold Blaisdell
Trafton Swain
Deborah
Marvin
York
Walter Larrabee
David
Joseph
Topsham
1954 Christmas Seals Depict Oldtime Custom
The 1954 Christmas Seals feature a design by Danish artist Jorgen G. Hansen showing a Danish Christmas Eve scene. After rice porridge and roast goose, the family joins hands and dances around the tree singing old carols.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jorgen G. Hansen
Denmark
Bow Bells to Return London
The restoration of St. Mary le Bow in London will take about four years. Cockney origins are tied to being born within Bow Bells sound. The church dates to 1680 and sits near Cheapside. The note adds that Britain’s radio industry employs about 135,000 people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
St. Mary-le-Bow
Christopher Wren
St. Paul's Cathedral
Tropical crabs venture to sea to spawn
Some crabs living far inland still migrate to the sea for spawning. The behavior shows strong marine reproductive instincts, with coastal routes guiding the crabs to their spawning grounds despite distance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tropics
Wesley Youth Group Plans December Activities
The Wesley Methodist Youth Council met at the church vestry Sunday at five with 20 present including Rev. Oliver Bell and leader Mrs. Carlyle Taber. They set December plans, announced a Christmas sale booth for Dec 3, rehearsals for a pageant on Dec 14, and a hymn book purchase project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley Methodist Wesley Church
Oliver Bell
Carlyle Taber
Wesley Womans Service
Gail Carlton
Roger Upham
Womens Society For Christian Service
Stanley Hunter
Orrs Island
Milk program starts in Bath schools this week
In 1954 Congress backed federal aid for school milk programs. Bath Board of Education approved a daily milk sale at 5 cents a bottle from Oakhurst Dairy, with chocolate milk on Tuesday and Thursday and plain milk on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Free milk available for those showing financial need.
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United States Congress
Bath Board of Education
Bath
Oakhurst
Superintendent of Schools
Youth Council of Beacon Street Methodist Church Meeting
The Youth Council of Beacon Street Methodist Church met Sunday to plan December events. Natalie Fowle will speak December 12 and supervise recreation, with plans to join Wesley Methodist on December 22. Christmas Eve service duty and December 30 conference rally in Lewiston are noted.
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Beacon Street
Methodist Church
Wesley Methodist Church Group
Oliver Bell
Lewiston
Bishop Lord
Bowling Party Plans With Wesley Youth Council
Eleven members met to arrange a bowling party with the Youth Council of Wesley Methodist church. The worship hour was omitted from the agenda.
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Ning
Wesley Methodist Church
Breadmaking Featured In Morse High School Class
Bread making took center stage at Morse High School cooking school as Mrs M W Westermeyer led seven lessons in healthful cooking. She urged housewives to bake their own bread using a mix of whole grain flours and emphasized the value of combining rye corn rice oats barley buckwheat soy lima bean and millet with predominant whole wheat flour. She warned against refined products and promoted natural starches and sugars with the slogan No calories without vitamins.
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Morse High School
M. W. Westermeyer
Braves World Series link spans 1948 and 1957 years
Warren Spahn, ace southpaw, is the only Milwaukee Braves pitcher to have also played for the Boston Braves in the 1948 World Series.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren Spahn
Milwaukee Braves
Boston Braves
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Wiscasset
Front Street
Thomaston Grangers
ST. Mary’s Guild
Kennebec
Lawrence Muzroll
Linda
Pittsfield
Muzroll
Brian M. Jewett
Days Ferry
Maine Central Institute
Waldoboro
Carlton Day Reed
Hepzibah
Joe Carter
Rossebelle Hawes
Doak
Norman Howard
Rosiebelle Hawes
Betty Lutz
Cindy Phillips
Patti Joe Leavitt
Howard Kirkpatrick
Joseph Carter
Michael Carter
Jimmie Munsey
Greg Doak
Linda Dutton
Linda Murrell
Andrea
Senesta Ham
R. N
Bath Memorial Hospital
Carlton Bridge
Woolwich End
Canasta Club
Elsie Stinson
Lester Holbrook
Richard
Randall
Wilbur Presley
Clayton Presley
Korea
Charles Presley
East Hartford
Conn
Ivan Rines
Ralph Champeon
Ruth Champeon
Nequasset
Frank Rittall
Ronald
Arrows
Edgecomb
Rittall
Joseph Gagnon
Arrowsic
Marthon Doak
Day's Ferry
Belfast
Mr. Doak
Day
Frank J. Walker
Harrison Dutton
Brawn
Fred Brawn
Dutton
Its
Stewart Miller
Waban
Bermuda
Gaspe Peninsula
Yellowstone Park
Lake Louise
Banff
Alberta
Canada
Richard Gowen
Woolwich Central School
Mason Carter
New England
Woman’s Auxiliary
Tina Molson
Hazel Presley
Ethel Blake
Ruth Leeman
Amy Cromwell
Margaret Wagstaff
Alberta Brooks
Kay Stevens
Chester Leeman
Damariscotta
Mr. Waltz
Emma Waltz
Kenneth Trask
Nequasset Road
Francis Ames
Betty
Skowhegan
Adam Galuza
Barley Neck Road
Ronald Hodgdon
Hodgdon
Hollis Leeman
Fort Dix
N. J
Ray Vestaciani
Quincy
Seagraves Fire Apparatus Co
Herbert I
Ceman
Woolwich and
Arrowsie
United States
Yoshio Shirai
Japan
Pascual Perez
Perez
Wesley
Anna Lonn
Christian Fellowship Area
Ruth Ellen Hunter
Ee Higgins
Cristel Cornish
Walter Upham, Jr
Youth Council OF Beacon Meeting
Henry E. Dombrowski
Thomas Parrino
Mary E. Cowan
Bay Village
Ohio
Samuel Sheppard
Osteopath
Cleveland
Dombrowski
REDS
Wuchiu
Hin A
Formosa
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