Freeman Southard Dies Suddenly In Wiscasset At 4 15
Wiscasset townsfolk mourn the sudden death of Freeman D Southard at his Hooper street home from a heart attack. He had recently recovered from a prior attack and was seen driving about, making the loss a great shock. Funeral services were held Sunday at his residence with Rev Henry W Webb and Rev Robert E Merry officiating and interment at Greenlawn. Active and honorary bearers listed. out of town relatives attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freeman D. Southard
Hooper Street
Mr. Southard
Wiscasset
Remembering Freeman D Southard of Wiscasset
A tribute to Freeman D Southard the longtime fuel purveyor in Wiscasset his strict integrity loyalty to local churches and steady civic life. The memorial notes his fire society ties and friendships from forty years away and calls him a good man gone on a friend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freeman D. Southard
Wiscasset
Fire Society
Messrs
Lennox
Hubbard
Southard
Christmas Sale and Luncheon of Organ Society Held
The annual Christmas Sale and Luncheon of the Organ Society of the First Congregational church took place yesterday in the vestry, with members convening for the charitable event.
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Organ Society of the
First Congregational Church
Local society notes and town updates from Bath area
Regular Organ Society meeting honors Mrs. Blagdon for her birthday with cakes and gifts. Community events include church services led by Rev. Sowder and guest sermons, Pioneers entertaining Fireside club, wood carving exhibit by Charles G. Chase, and town payroll records. Several residents travel, host, or engage in church and Legion activities as winter settles in Bath and West Bath.
Postponed Friday Meeting and Local Happenings
A postponed meeting from last week will be held Friday afternoon December 11 at 3 o'clock. Mrs. Walter G. Chase will read excerpts from her History of Wiscasest. Algernon Dodge has moved into the former Merritt Rairden house on Boothbay road with his family. Philip's church held its December 2 meeting with Mrs. Sol Holbrook at her Main street home. Mrs. Henry B. Nash returns after weeks with daughter Mrs. Williams J. Lienau and family in Port Washington New York. Nate Rines at Bath Memorial Hospital awaiting operation is improving. Mr. and Mrs. Neal Creamer left for New York for winter work. Ellsworth Holbrook sponsors an outdoor ice skating rink named Iceland at Holbrook's pond with music from a loudspeaker radio, lighting, fires, and a small admission. Garrison Hill chapter O E S meets December 15 with a Christmas tree and picnic lunch. attendees bring a small gift wrapped unmarked. Mrs. Earl D. Rines and Mrs. L. B. Haggett attended Crystal chapter O E S inspection in East Boothbay last week.
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Organ Society
Fred W. Blagdon
John F. Jackson
Bedennett
Sowder
David L. Wilson
Central Church
Bath
Federal Street
Quinnam
Jennie Webber
Boston
E. Murray Senter
Salem
Ohio
Senter
Andrew W. Wilband
Wiscasset-Edgecomb Bridge
Water Street
Wiscasset Grain Co
Clark
Harpswell
Allen Malcolm
Bath Memorial Hospital
Norris A. Miller
Readfield
Mr. Miller
Jane Walker
Joseph H. Smith
Andover
Conn
St. Philip's Church
Main Street
H. B. Nash
Fred Hall
Farmington Falls
Walter Leavitt
Pleasant Street
Carl M. P. Larrabee
Clinton R. Bailey
Frank E. Quinnam
Harry D. Mosher
Benjamin H. Adams
George M. Porter
Ralph E. Preble
Brookline
Mass
Charles G. Chase
East 35d Street
New York City
Bradford-Sortwell-Wright
American Legion Auxiliary
Legion Hall
Ellsworth Holbrook
Roy Dow
New York
William Reed
Garrison Hill
Masonic Hall
Winchenbaugh
Wimurna
Waldoboro
Austin Winchenbaugh
Katherine Cunningham
Lake View
Jefferson
Walter Townsend
Mount Pisgah
Boothbay Harbor
Mary Crocker
Pemaquid
Bristol
Frances Brown
Crystal
Electa
Ruth Stilphen
Olive Branch
Dresden Mills
Warder
Maybelle Sherman
Sentinel
Frank B. Adams
Walter G. Chase
Wiscasest
Algernon Dodge
Merritt Rairden
Boothbay Road
St. Philip’s Church
Sol Holbrook
Henry B. Nash
Williams J. Lienau
Port Washington
N. Y
Nate Rines
Rines
Neal Creamer
Creamer
Holbrook's Pond
Iceland
Earl D. Rines
L. B. Haggett
Crystal Chapter
East Boothbay
Knox hunter claims perfect fox record with first shot
John Ward of Knox County bagged a fox on Saturday and declared he has never missed a shot. It was his first fox hunt, making his boast notable in local chronicles.
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John Ward
Knox County
Woolwich Community Notes Include Meetings and Visits
The Day's Ferry Community club schedules its annual meeting on Saturday December 12 with Mrs J W Reed at eight o clock. Nequasset Farm Bureau plans its December 16 meeting at Mrs Henry T Dubar's home with a morning discussion for homemakers and a 1030 Christmas demonstration. Community updates cover residents improving from illness, moves to Bath, and visits to relatives in Richmond and Porto Rico.
Auxiliary of Winter Street Church Meets for Charity Work
A busy Winter Street church auxiliary meeting was held Tuesday in the chapel with a program. The treasurer reported funds from the Christmas dolls sale, and Mrs. Crockett and Mrs. Drake urged contributions for rummage and other philanthropy. A Jan 12 meeting with a covered dish supper was planned, and a Nativity rehearsal was announced for Friday. Forty six attendees, including five visitors, heard musical numbers and saw committees named for future events.
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Winter Street
Ladies Aid
Arthur S. Crockett
J. Edward Drake
Harry Watson
Flower Fund
Fred Emmons
Henry McCabe
Catherine Leonard
Ruth Skillings
Janette Smith
Catherine Emmons
Amy Irish
Roscoe P. McFadden
Samuel Morse
Carleton Andrews
Anna Hill
Mrs. Andrews
the Moon
Alma Swanton
Carolina Moon
Madelyn Jones
Fred K. Sturtevant
Alice
Sylvia
Carl Swanton
Almira Jones
William Potter
William Crowley
David Alkazin
Beals Family Sunday Guests Across Park Street
Mr. and Mrs. Harry A. Beals of Gar diner visited Mrs. Beals’ sister Mrs. Nathan E. Coffin on Park Street and were hosted by their daughter Mrs. G. Clifford Madden of Portland who is staying with her aunt.
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Harry A. Beals
Gardiner
Beals
Nathan E. Coffin
Park Street
Mr. Beals
G. Clifford Madden
Portland
Regulation Advances in Otter Trawl Fishing Standards
Commissioner of Sea and Shore Fish argues for minimum 4% inch mesh in otter trawls to protect young haddock while expanding coastal fisheries. He cites U S Bureau trials, Maine fishermen support, and potential Maine legislation to set mesh limits, with Canada already limiting otter trawling inside the 12 mile limit.
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Rodney E. Feyler
U. S
Georges Bank
Maine
Department
Canada
Minister of Fisheries
Bath Girls Win in Book Week Contest
Marilyn Cummings of 2 Maxwell Street and Betty Mae Hopkins of 49 Corliss Street won fifth prize, a box of 25 bookplates, in a Portland Book Week contest. Marilyn, seventh grade at Weeks Street School, and Betty Mae, fourth grade at Mitchell School, were praised by librarians Mrs. Foote and Mrs. Troop for their participation and familiar presence in the Patten Free Library Children’s room.
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Marilyn Cummings
Maxwell Street
Betty Mae Hopkins
Corliss Street
Portland
Marilyn
Raymond D. Cummings
Weeks Street
Frederick W. Humphreys
Betty Mae
Donald B. Hopkins
Mitchell School
Effie C. Wright
Patten Free Library
Margaret R. Foote
Arline P. Troop
Dickens
Uts
Timothy Crachit
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Union Street
Elden P. Munsey
Benjamin Blagdon
North District
Luther Porter
Julia B. Lewis
DeForest Munsey
Joseph Kennedy
Mrs. Kennedy
Winchester
Alson Erskine
Anna
Mrs. Erskine
Charles S. Cowley
Middle Street
Woman's Club
West Bath
John Adams
Woolwich
Ernest E. Williams
Campbell’s Pond
Dwinall
Cornish and
Carl
Campbell's Pond
Loring D. Small and Sons
Wilbert and
Dana
Berry's Mill
Beachmont
Robert van Amringe
Samuel Blackwood
Bethel
Howard A. Spinney
Popham
American Red Cross
Grange Hall
Annie H. Trufant
Trufant’s Crossing
Hortense Welch
Lewiston
Fred J. Rose
Rosedale
Eastern State Farmers Exchange
Rose
Exchange
DeWitt Hotel
Henry Sandelin
Robert St. Pierre
Brunswick
Sandelin
St. Pierre
Hugo Sandelin
Bridgton Academy
Ohio State University
Alexis St. Pierre
Phyllis Sandelin
James C. Parker
Morse High School
Louise Miller
Fletcher A. Waterman
Dorothy M. Waterman
Percy R. Waterman
Grace M. Waterman
Beatrice Rose
Lincoln Williams
Edward Jenks
Hugo F. Sandelin
Hugo F Sandelin, Jr
Fisher
Chevrolet Motor Division
General Motors Sales Corporation
Detroit
Michigan
General Motors
Gar
Bath, Maine
Washington Street
Tel
Donald E. Reble
Ptometrist Dy Centre
S Ferry Community Club
J. W. Reed
Nequasset Farm Bureau
Henry T. Dubar
John Lilly
Sagadahoc Ferry
Costello P. Hall
Joseph
Millicent Hecht
Richmond
Lorenna Prothertho
Porto Rico
Anthony Dodge
Louis Dodge
Nequasset
William
Lucille Stinson
Fred Carlton
Florence
Annie Cunningham
Ella Legard
Moatsweag Church
Woolwich Center
Moatsweag
Cheerio Club
Montsweag
Winter Street Church
Gamres Fish Fishing
Paalee Atayeh
Bath Girls
John Newbery
Poland
Lewis Carroll
Howard Pyle
Hans Christian Anderson
Skylark
Ruggles
Topsy
E. Becker Thatcher
Philip Nolan
Treasure Island
Reginald Birch
South America
John James Audubon
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