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Newspaper

Bath Independent

Location

Bath, Maine, United States of America

Date

Dec 04, 1952

Page

3

Winnegance P T A and Community Meetings Digest

Winnegance P T A met at the schoolhouse Tuesday evening and planned a Christmas dinner with a gift exchange. Upcoming meetings include the Christian Service committee at Small Point parsonage Monday and the Dromore Extension Association Wednesday. Bodwell grange hosts supper Friday at 6 30 with Third and Fourth degrees to be worked.

Winnegance P.T.A Ppsburg Christian Service Committee Small Point Parsonage Dromore Extension Association Bodwell Grange Volker Small Point Center Phippsburg P.T.A Riverside Hall Erick Moffatt H.macy Whitehead Boy Scout Troop 90 John Forbis Sylvanius Moore John Totman Bobby Cushing Parker Noreen O'Callagahan St. Joseph’s Academy Portland John O'Callaghan Sebasco William Gilman Syosset N. Y J. Bradford Sprague Bessie L George A. Sprague Topsham H. Jean Hunt Sargent College Thomas Totman Norene O'Callaghan New York Qrenkenss Bath Loyal, Jr Harvard Law School Truman Roberts, Jr Ashdale

Bath YMCA Busy Winter Program With Activities For Youth

Bath YMCA reports a busy winter with basketball teams using the gym weekly and the Boys Department offering pool ping pong and tumbling. Tom Kulten leads the tumblers who will perform in Waterville in December and a new class lists several boys. New YMCA members include Andrew J. Lemoine Robert J. Bruce Jon Paisley and others with annual tag days set for December 18 and 19. A pool tournament for eighth graders and high school boys will run over the next two weeks with registration available at the Y. A precision marching team will be formed soon and a Bath couple Mr and Mrs James Hamilton announce the birth of a daughter Catherine Joy at Memorial hospital on November 29.

YMCA Tom Kulten Waterville Clem Munsey Alf Barter Tom McDonough Fred Snowdon Charles Higgins John Doyle Everett Hawthorne Clarence Moore Walter Rice Andrew J. Lemoine Robert J. Bruce Jon Paisley James Bourgoin Tommy Brewer Vesey DeCapua Michael Conley Richard Atwood Richard M. Moody Robert Dingley Albert R Nelson Willard Sprague Gary Parker E Y

Parker Head Community Hears Multiple Gatherings and News

Parker Head Baptist church led Sunday services under Bob Ater with Rev H M Whitehead film showing. Thanksgiving gatherings at Small Point and Parker Head involve Hutchins and Doughty families, plus numerous local residents. Community notes include visits, hosting duties, travel to Bath and Concord, and school awards for good grooming and cereal eating.

Bob Ater Parker Head Baptist Church H. M. Whitehead H. L. Hutchins Herbert Doughty Earl Lowell Arthur Barkalow Sharon Turner Harriett Wyman Small Point Church Judy Moore

Bath Clubs Urged to Aid State Hospital via Red Cross

The Maine Red Cross Council for Camps and Hospitals asks Bath to gather and deliver bags and nonperishable articles to Augusta State Hospital. With 1700 patients, clubs are urged to supply 11 by 12 inch bags and donated items such as candy, soap, stockings, tobacco, and embroidery goods. All gifts due by December 15. contact Mrs. Seth Mullin for details.

American Red Cross State of Red Cross Seth Mullin Bath

Baked Beans Supper Aids Polio Respirators

Queen Esther Rebekah Lodge of Bath and Maine lodges sponsor a fund raising event to buy three respirators for iron lungs. A Good Will type baked beans supper is set for Saturday evening at Odd Fellows Temple from five to seven under Mrs. Mary Hall and Mrs. Pearl Reed with Mrs. Harold Carter coordinating dining room staff.

Odd Fellows Rebekah Lodges Maine Queen Esther Rebekah Lodge of Bath Odd Fellows Temple Mary Hall Noble Grand Pearl Reed William Potter Harold Carter Good Will Club Woolwich

Bath Authority chief enjoys weeklong Penobscot hunting trip

Bernard Varnum executive director of the Bath Housing Authority spent a week at his Penobscot boyhood home with relatives. The Bath party including Fred Tobey and George Barry hunted and returned two large bucks and a doe amid wonderful weather and a grand time.

Bernard Varnum Bath Housing Authority Penobscot Mrs. Varnum Fred Tobey Bath George Barry John Barry Adam Stulinski Bob Melcher Jake Shattuck Portland Mr. Varnum

Gillivary announces engagement of Dorothy Gillivary to Airman Thomas McDorr

Mr and Mrs Percie Gillivary of Five Islands announce the engagement of their daughter Dorothy to Airman Third Class Thomas McDorr U S Air Force son of Mrs Helen McDorr of Bath Maine Both Miss Gillivary and Airman McDorr attended Morse High School McDorr has completed his high school work in the Air Force and earned a diploma and a mechanic's diploma He is home on leave and will report back to Norton Air Force Base California December 14 Also mentioned are Mr and Mrs Fred Hayward of High Street who returned from Winthrop Mass after Thanksgiving with their son S F C John Hayward U S Army and Mrs Hayward.

Leston Harrington Arthur Williams Mary Dannenfelser J. D. Libby Lewis Lowell Barnard Wyman Walter Cushing Beatrice Denningham Frances Morong Lawrence Morong Howard Morong Lucky Parker Francis Lander Herbert Doughty Earl Lowell Phippsburg Phippsburg Center Hothamock Council Bath Dannenfelser Winnegance W. T. Wyman Grace Kenney Laura Cutting Florence Maass Raymond Brown West Point Roy Greene Laurence Thayer Robert Winslow Windham Russell Turner Howard Hutchins Hutchins Turner McEachern Carolyn Mary Anne Wyman Connie Eva Hoar Harold Dudley Barkalow Mae Ella Hamblin John Libby Frances Barkalow Eugene Harrington Fairfield Canada Lowell George Watson The Forks Walsh Lake Moxie Mary Ella Hamblin Barbara Harrington Frank Burnell Olive Deejay Edward Francis Gray Bingham George Morong, Jr U. S. Navy Hamel William Cushing Florence Rollins Burleigh Williams Thorton Grace Cushing Millard Nadeau Marion Nadeau Ronald Dorothy Robert Cushing Irene Libby Parker Head Lis- Bee Falls Percie Gillivary Five Islands Thomas McDorr U. S. Air Force Helen McDorr Russell Street Miss Gillivary Airman Dorr Morse High School Airman McDorr Air Force McDorr Norton Air Force Base San Bernardino Calif Fred O. Hayward High Street Winthrop Mass John Hayward Hayward Allan Spear Edwin Lowell Edgar Wallace Freeport Ralph French Miss Gilman Stanley Wallace J. Haviland Torrey Stanley W. Perkins Raymond Wyman Peter A. Isaacson Lewiston Ralph Small Pine Eden Robert P. Bentley Boston Stanley W. Hyde Leon Fickett C. P. Strout Portland Blanche Westall Guy Crowley Popham Carl Bickford Bruce Bowdoin Ernest Oliver Alice Reed Alice Erskine Robert Erskine U. ES. A Germany Fred Spinney Clifford Pye Waite Ellison Moody Bath Memorial Hospital Gayle Dixie Oliver Edith Margaret Oliver Roberta Snipe Marguerite McNulty George Oliver Roger Willard Dixie John McCarty Cape Cottage Jesse Munsey Woolwich Harvey Chubbuck

Prize for modelling the finest turkey indla

Robert Gray and Peter Hutchins won second honors. Five children attended choir practice at Small Point Wednesday afternoon. Money from Christmas card sales nears $15. Plans are underway for the annual Christmas observance on December 18 at 7 p m.

Robert Gray Peter Hutchins Small Point

Thanksgiving services and social updates from Bath area

The report notes a Thanksgiving service at Wall Point church and describes cold, windy conditions with 14 degree temperatures. It lists numerous Bath area residents and visitors over the weekend and holiday, including various hosts at cottages and family gatherings in Popham, Portland, and Pine Eden, with several absentees and passings noted.

Wall Point

Local Notes From Coxs Head Holiday Weekends

The Extension Group plans a planning meeting and Christmas dinner at a Grange hall on Wednesday. Various residents report visits and greetings across Bath Woolwich West Point Parker Head and surrounding towns including Mrs Ethel Moore Miss Carolyn Caton and families sharing Thanksgiving meals and weekend gatherings.

Ae Grange Hall Edward P. Thomas Bath Popham Road Carolyn Caton West Point Ethel Moore Ernest Wood Mary Forest Wallace Emerson Idden Robert Moore Gardiner David Wrence Woolwich Frank Lawrence Stanton C. Dozois Leston Harrington Parker Head Earl Lowell Martin F. Goodwin Wolfeboro N. H Walter Sweeney Cook’s Corner Brunswick Laurence Thayer Wyman Farm James Sensibaugh

Mrs. Ann Higgins Weds Naval Man in Parsonage Ceremony

Ann Higgins daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Savage of 902 High Street married Victor Misner Jr. of Thurnmont Maryland a U S Navy man assigned to Brunswick Naval Air Base. The ceremony was at six Sunday evening with Rev. Howard F. Cramer officiating. The couple, who work and serve in the Navy community, were attended by Charles B. O'Conner and Mrs Jeanne Cramer.

Ann Higgins Milton Savage High Street Victor Misner Jr U.S. Navy Victor Misner Thurnmont Howard F. Cramer Beacon Street

Maine Canners Association Event Noted At Falmouth Port

Personal notes record Eubra Troop attending the Maine Canners Association convention and annual banquet held at the Falmouth Port land venue. Joseph Beaudoin of 75 Richardson Street is back from Memorial Hospital after a three week pneumonia treatment. David C Dickson city health chief and Mrs Dickson spent Thanksgiving with their daughter in Manchester New Hampshire. Mrs Dickson to stay a few days longer.

Eubra Maine Canners Association Falmouth Portland Joseph Beaudoin Richardson Street Memorial Hospital David C. Dickson City Health and Welfare Department Manchester N. H Dickson Frank W. Graffin

Milk Inspection Report for October Bath

October milk samples in Bath show raw milk standards: total solids minimum 11.75 percent, butter fat minimum 3.25 percent, and standard plate count not exceeding 50 000.

Davis le Higgins Dairy George Larrabee & Son le Farm F. E. Sturmer H. L. Simpson Harold Wing Ralph Whitehead

Bedford man Jack Verheus sails to South Africa then Holland

Jack Verheus of Bedford street leaves for a long vacation starting in New York City. He will sail Thursday to Johannesburg to visit a sister, then travel to Den Hilda in Holland to see his homeland and relatives after 25 years. He faced booking delays due to the English coronation.

Jack Verheus Bedford Street New York City Johannesburg South Africa den Hilda Holland England Jack

Brothers in arms separate paths at Fort Devens reunion

Two Morse brothers from Winneganee meet at Fort Devens Massachusetts as one is discharged from the U S Army and the other begins service. Cpl Richard C Morse Jr returned from Iceland after two years in the infantry while Kenneth Morse leaves for initial training in the ordnance department. Both graduates of Morse High School. Kenneth attended Bath Iron Works before enlisting.

Winnegance Fort Devens Mass U.S. Army Cpl Richard C. Morse, Jr Iceland Kenneth Army Ordnance Department Betdeen S¢ Richar Deveris Richard C. Morse Winneganee Ooys Morse High School Cp. Morse Army Infantry Fo Morse Bath

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