Wiscasset Community Notices and Events Brief
Semi public installation of New Jerusalem Royal Arch Chapter officers set for Dec 16 at 8 pm in Masonic hall with refreshments after. Next convocation Jan 6 at 7 30 pm. Lions club plans first and third Wednesdays meetings 6 30 pm at Kazy Korner. Christmas lights, tree, and skating rink ready. Schools present Christmas program Dec 2 2 30 pm in Memorial gym featuring Hansel and Gretel, choruses, orchestra led by Ernest Lippmann, and glee clubs. Pine Cone Rebekah lodge Friendship night Dec ? 8 pm with slides. Evening Guild smorgasbord postponed. Sunday school Christmas party Dec 17 3–5 pm kindergarten to grade 3. older children party Dec 18 7–9 pm. Personal items note Leland Foster hospitalized at St Andrew's Boothbay Harbor. Leon Flood in Portland on business. Mrs Parker Marean at Main Street home weekend with daughter and son-in-law Harwood Ellis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Jerusalem Royal Arch
Masonic Hall
Women of
St. Philip's Church
Lions Club of
Wiscasset
Kazy Korner
Memorial Gym
Hansel & Gretel
Ernest Lippmann
Glee Club
Claire Moody
Pine Cone Rebekah Lodge
First Congregational Church
Leland Foster
St. Andrew’s Hospital
Boothbay Harbor
Leon—G.flood
Portland
Parker Marean
Main Street
Harwood Ellis
George Smith
Glenn Lamoreau
Enterprise Grange
Della Groudin
Minnie Batchelder
Margaret Grant
Freda Sullivan
Groudin
Sadie Eaton
Norman Moody
Windsor
Edward Allen
Augusta
Joseph D'Alfonso
Bate College
Lewiston
Beulah Rebekah Lodge
Lillian Johnson
Clara Foster
Elizabeth Haynes
Eva Douglass
Margaret Nelson
Douglass
Bertha Trott
Solar Lodge Members Enjoy Supper And Entertainment
Members and guests of Solar Lodge F A M gathered at Masonic Temple for a combined business and entertainment evening. A chop suey supper was served at 6 with officers assisting. Col John T Bohn screened the film Our Mr Sun, followed by Christmas carols led by Arah Richmond and Leland Patton at the organ. The gathering announced a district meeting at Bowdoinham Thursday at 7 30 and a scheduled Solar Lodge inspection on Monday Nov 21. Tickets were available.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Solar Lodge
Masonic Temple
Linwood E. Temple
Mr. Sun
Bell Telephone Company
John T. Bohn
Arah Richmond
Leland Patton
Donald T. Page
Edwin H. P. Lowell
Frank G. Allen
Donald Freeman
Frank Donne
Richard Haskell
Maurice Hutchins
Edward H. Mosher
Masonic District
Bowdoinham
John Littlefield
Day's Ferry Ladies Aid Meets Tuesday for Christmas Bags
Mrs Carroll Morse entertained the Ladies Aid of Day's Ferry Church with co host Mrs Joseph DeSire. Members made Christmas bags for sale at the December 19 Community Club meeting and a gifts committee was named for the Sunday school. Present were Mrs Clayton Stinson Mrs Edwin Wadem Mrs Georgia Walker Mrs Donald Davis Mrs Edward Gallant Mrs Carlton Day Reed Mrs Victor Knight Mrs Alton Munsey Mrs Fred Brown Mrs Herbert Munsey Mrs Ralph Durgan Mrs Albert Richard and Mrs Joseph DeSize.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carroll FE. Morse
Ladies Aid of the
Day
Alton Munsey
Fred Brown
Herbert Munsey
Ralph Durgan
Albert Richard
Joseph DeSize
First Baptist Missionary Society Meets Thursday
Members of the Women s Missionary Society of the First Baptist church met Tuesday to work on the White Cross quota. The next meeting is set for Jan. 5 at Mrs. Lina Butler s home with Mrs. Bertha Furber presiding and Devotions by Mrs. Trueman Bray. Nineteen named members attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Women’s Missionary Society of the First Baptist Church
White Cross
Lina Butler
Bertha Furber
Trueman Bray
Laura Harrington
Rosalyn Carey
Bernice Oliver
Florence Woodside
Lottie Goodwin
Lila Place
Marjorie Oliver
Frances Bryant
Bray
McComb
Furber
Woolwich Community notices and holiday events updates
Woolwich groups announce changes and details for Christmas parties including Day's Ferry Community Club hostesses moving the Dec 19 date and gift exchanges. Sunshine and Day's Ferry Ladies Aid report successful sales and planned programs with a Dec 15 and Dec 20 schedule. Scouting and church service details cover field trips to the State House museum, a 11 a.m. Sunday service, 9:45 a.m. Sunday school, and 6:30 p.m. Youth Fellowship. Multiple residents and guests are listed for holiday gatherings, hospital visits, and family events across Woolwich Center, Nequasset, Montsweag, and surrounding towns.
Candlelight service time changed at West Church
The candlelight service at West Church has been moved to 1c 20 with notice of the date change from December 3. Local social notes show Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Tibbetts of Port Clyde visiting Mrs. Loring Small. George Boynton hospitalized at Maine Medical Center. Mrs. Boynton visiting her sister and husband William Hodgkins of Kittery. Other visits include Mr. and Mrs. Killam of Gardiner with Mrs. F. W. Deeham, and the Fitzgeralds with their sons Keith, Brian and Kevin returning from Thanksgiving in Canaan to their Hampden and Bath relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West the
Elmer S. Tibbetts
Port Clyde
Loring Small
George Boynton
Maine Medical Center
William Hodgkins
Kittery
Robert Killam
Gardiner
F. W. Deeham
Wilson Fitzgerald
Keith
Brian
Kevin
Benjamin Fitzgerald
Canaan
Owen Williams
Owen Jr
Jimmy
Hampden
Fred Higgins
Bath
Elmer Williams
Foster's Point
Polio Shots For Children Next Tuesday
Polio shots will be given to school and pre school age children at a public polio clinic next Tuesday at Huse school. Fate of the adult program is uncertain as City Manager Judkins says no adult clinic has been scheduled. Health officials explore sponsorship while costs and discounts are noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huse
Stanley W. Judkins
R. Clinton McFadden
Judkins
Bath
Maine
Tickets For Junior Hospital League Dinner Dance Are Going Fast
Plans for the New Year s Eve subscription dinner dance, sponsored by the Junior Hospital League, near completion. A report on the event was presented at the League meeting Tuesday night at Mrs. Willian A. Niss s home by co chairmen Mrs. Andrew B. Sides Jr. and Mrs. William Mussenden. The dinner dance will be at the Sedgwick with Cleveland Page s orchestra from Dam ariscotta engaged to play for dancing. Ticket chairman Mrs. Lynn M. Bussey said tickets will not be sold at the door and subscriptions are rapidly filling. Attending the meeting were numerous league members and a guest, Mrs. Clarence C. Niss. The next session Dec 22 at Mrs. John Thorpe s home will be the League s Christmas meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Junior Hospital League
Willian A. Niss
Middle Street
Andrew B. Sides, Jr
William Mussenden
Sedgwick
Cleveland Page
Damariscotta
Lynn M. Bussey
Abbot Fletcher
Andrew B. Sides Jr
Claus F. Hinck
John Thorpe
Winslow Porter
Hamdi Akar
Carlton Day Reed, Jr
Donald Spear
Donald Small
William Schofield
William Peavey
Leonard Mulligan
Lynn Bussey
Richard Ricker
Clarence C. Niss
High Street
League
Montsweag Extension Group Plans Christmas Party
The Montsweag Extension Service holds its annual planning meeting and Christmas party Thursday at Central Congregational Church. Activities begin at 10 15 with a turkey dinner and a gift exchange. Dinner committee members include Mrs. Lemuel Preble Mrs. Pat Murphy Mrs. Alice Baker and Mrs. Rose Kelley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montsweag
Central Congregational Church
Lemuel Preble
Pat Murphy
Alice Baker
Rose Kelley
Local notices from Bath area include hospital patients and events
Ferry resident James Knight returns from Bath Memorial hospital. Mrs. George Pierce and Mrs. Horace Jones Jr. are patients at Bath Memorial hospital after falls. Mrs. Alice Galvin moves from North Woolwich to South Paris for winter with daughter. Timothy Chubbuck visits grandparents in Bath. Clyde Bailey attends deputy school in Augusta. Woolwich team to play Phippsburg and West Bath. P.T.A. meeting at Elementary School with panel on What Do You Want to Know About Your School featuring Earl Coates and others. Elementary cheerleaders listed. team plans to attend Wiscasset game on Dec 21.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvey Chubbuck
Mountain Road
Clyde Bailey
State Grange
Sagadahoe County
Grange
Augusta
Horace Jones
Sagadahoe Ferry
Bath Memorial Hospital
Woolwich
Phippsburg
West Bath
Earl Coates
Robert de Wick
Leon Beal
John McPhail
Ed Woolwich
Carolyn Bookser
Meredith McFarland
Pamela Frances
Toni Dodge
Judy Hathorne
Renee Richards
Sharon Wright
Rosebelle Hawes
Andrea Doak
Sandra Severance
Linda Brown
Barbara Hodgdon
Fer ris Family Guests in Quincy Visit
Mr and Mrs Charles B Ferris and daughter Margaret of Quincy Massachusetts were Sunday guests of Mrs Elizabeth Ferris at 21 Huse Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles B. Ferris
Margaret
Quincy, Mass
Elizabeth Ferris
Huse Street
Christmas Program At Wesley WSCS Joyful Meeting Highlights
The Women’s Society of Christian Service at Wesley Methodist Church presented a Christmas program led by Mrs. Oliver W Bell featuring a reading of The Night Before Christmas, a dance by Ruth Ellen Hunter, and a song by Mrs. Walter Upham. The group approved a $100 gift for Higher Education and supported youth chorus material. Upcoming events include Watch Night services and a January smorgasbord with library book drives and refreshments for choir members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oliver W Bell
Woman’s Society of Christian Servic
Wesley Methodists Church
Belt
Cynthia Dudley
Sheryl Dudley
Lisa Upham
Ruth Ellen Hunter
Wualter Upham
Stanley R Hunter
Charles F. Marble
Holiday Lane
Methodist Youth Fellowship
WSCS
Drusilla Fielding
Alvah A Morse
Marble
Carlyle Taber
Church
Jennie H. Walker
Bell
Marc N. King
William J. Curran
Albert E. Whitney
Morse High School
Morle C. Niles
Niles
Elnora Oliver
James S Knight
John Swearingen
Mary Hall
Ellery C Kidder
Pearl Reed
Bowdoinham BYF Meeting At Bowdoinham Church
Corliss Street Baptist youth from Bowdoinham attended a monthly Bowdoinham Association BYF gathering. Mary Rowe gave a piano solo during the program. Next BYF meeting will be in Bath at Corliss Street church on Jan 4. New members grades ninth to twelve are welcome at 5 30 p.m. Sundays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corliss Street
Mr and Mrs Ray Howe Host Pre Christmas Party
A pre Christmas party was held Saturday evening at the home of Mr and Mrs Ray Howe at 82 Western Avenue. Refreshments were served and gifts exchanged among guests including Mr and Mrs Robert Howe and their children Robert Alvin Nancy, Mr and Mrs Newell Swain and daughter Donna and sons Dick Dennis and Dale. The Howes will soon depart for St Petersburg Florida to spend the winter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Howe
Western Avenue
Robert Howe
Robert
Alvin
Nancy
Newell Swain
Donna
Dennis
Dale
Local Notices and Social News From Arrowsic Area
ARROWSIC families and neighbors share visits, moves, and guests. Mr and Mrs Robert LaFord moved into a newly purchased home from Howard Frye. Mrs LaFord's relatives in Bath Woolwich Brunswick and Pom pomo Beach Florida are noted amid social calls and cruise plans. Local gatherings include dinner guests Edna Reay Bath. Keezer Falls and Portland visitors. birthday mentions. Sagadahoc Women’s Republican club speaker Bertha Rideout Freeport Cumberland County official.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert LaFord
Diane Ruth
Douglas Roberts
Howard Frye
LaFord
Brunswick
Ruth Champion
Bath
Ralph
Woolwich
Horatio L. Baker
Pompano Beach
Fla
S. Mabel Philbeck
Baker
Nassau
Miami Church of Religious Science
Briny Avenue
Maine
Frank Rittall
Edna Reay
Richard Steen
Gail
Steen
William Bachelder
Keezer Falls
Roland Peterson
Peterson
Gladys Weeman
Portland
John Johnson
Dorothy Stuart
Boston
William Bisseth
Robinhood
Mary Ann Chahbazi
Kalamazoo
Mich
Perleston Port Tro
Judy and
Jeffrey
Boothbay Harbor
Merton Saine
Tonsham
Otto Steen
Heh Campbell
West 3Th
Frank Cromwell
Fast Brunswick
Warren F. Hawley Jr
Sagadahoc
Buccaneers Receive Congratulations From Sen. Smith
Bath's Buccaneers Drum and Bugle Corps received a congratulatory letter from U.S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith praising their example for other communities. The corps also reported a 13 month income of 1860.14 and expenses of 1800.76 with a 59.38 balance. Plans for a New Year's Eve ball to raise funds for uniforms were set, with committees named and Joe Avery's Orchestra to play at the Armory on Lincoln Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Buccaneers
U.S
Margaret Chase Smith
Smith
Buccaneers Drum and Bugle Corps of
The
Corps
Claude S. Gillette
Washington Street
Dorothy Sonia
Sam Trott
Olive Hallowell
Carroll Witham
Dorothy Peec
Dennis Hallowell
Daniel Snow
Joe Avery
State Armory
Lincoln Street
Club 42 Plans Christmas Party At Stagecoach Inn
Club 42 members discussed the annual Christmas party to be held next Tuesday at Stagecoach Inn with a social hour from 7 to 8 p.m. preceding a buffet supper. Committees include Mrs. Milton Savage Mrs. Edward Jones and Mrs. Henry Middleton for arrangements and a slate of officers to be nominated at the January 13 meeting with Mrs. Leonard Smith Mrs. Howard Farr Mrs. Bertram Lavoie and Miss Edith Small on the committee. New member Mrs. Raymond Moore was welcomed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stagecoach Inn
Club 42
Milton, Savage
Edward Jones
Henry Middleton
Leonard Smith
Howard Farr
Bertram Lavoie
Edith Small
Raymond Moore
Wing family gathering includes wedding of Sukeforth Bennett
North Bath notes show J Carroll Wing visiting sister Amah Coolidge in Livermore. Thanksgiving guests included Arthur Wing family, Cedric Sukeforth, Florence and Vincent Williams, Dana Sukeforth, Jacqueline Bennett, and David Dodge clan. Dana Sukeforth and Jacqueline Bennett wed Saturday. Sukeforth on 30 day leave from Elmison Air Force Base Alaska. Freeman Pitcher sold house and moved to East Brunswick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Carroll Wing
Amah Coolidge
Livermore
Arthur Wing
Bath
Mrs. Calvin Wing
Cedric Sukeforth
Florence Williams
Vincent Williams
Dana Sukeforth
Jaqueline Bennett
David Dodge
Ethel McCloud
Norwood
Mass
Harold Casey
Weeks Mills
Vincent Willams
Union
George Rose
West Bath
Sukeforth
Ejilson Air Force Base
Alaska
Freeman Pitcher
East Brunswick
West Bath PTA Membership Grows by 22
The West Bath PTA reports 22 new members from the November drive, raising total membership to 89 at the December meeting held in the town’s new consolidated school. Plans include a Christmas party December 22, a basketball game next Monday, and postponement of the apron project to January.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath P.T.A
New Consolidated School
Aline Qouellette
Leonard Smith
Ways and Means
Barbara Thompson
Phippsburg
P.T.A
George Boynton
West
Greater Bath Council of Parents and
Morse High School
Smith
Gloria DePalma
Chester Merrifield
Sen ' A
Hong Kong
Mary Huntley
Dorothy Patterson
Ann Savage
Bert Cousins Return From Bath Memorial Hospital
Bert Cousins returned to his Front Street home Friday after a two week stay at Bath Memorial Hospital where he was treated for pneumonia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bert Cousins
Front Street
Bath Memorial Hospital
Richmond Club Elects Officers For Coming Year
At a Richmond Extension Association meeting officers were chosen including Chairman Edith Sullivan and Vice President Perley Harriman. The group plans a December 21 meeting with a Christmas party and gift exchange. A covered dish supper precedes the gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond Extension Association
Edith Sullivan
Perley Harriman
Helen Gilpatrick
Alicé Boyd
Simone LeBourdais
Sally Hoyt
Eleanor Sherman
Margaret Dunn
Grace Dicksinson
Variety Program At West Bath Grange Marks Holiday Night
A West Bath Grange meeting featured Lecturer Alex Burggess guiding a diverse program. Visitors from Saccarappa Eureka and Walpole Mass granges attended. Silent Night and Hark the Herald Angels Sing were sung. Freeport Village Eight Square Dancers performed My Indiana Home Lady Be Good and Open Up Your Heart. Participants debated if Christmas is celebrated differently now than 25 years ago. Phyllis McNelly and Eteli Doughty read St Francis At the Crib and That Night. Closing thought by Inez Lewis. Next week overseer Ceres Pomons and Flora will present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath
Alex Burgess
Saccarappa
Fureka
Walpole
Mass
Granges
Herald Angels
Grangers
Village
Freeport
Indiana
Alton Collins, Sr
Inez Lewis
Florence Hooper
Irving Crockett
Phyllis McNelly
Etelli Doughty
St Francis
Overseer
Ceres, Pomons
Flora
Local Boy Scouts Rally Set at Waldoboro High Gym
William F. E. Lockwood announced Bath and Woolwich troops join Lincoln County teams for a Friday 7 p m rally at Waldoboro High School gymnasium. About 200 boys, 200 parents from ten troops will attend, with six events and a parade of colors ending at 9 p m with ribbon awards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William FE. Lockwood
Down East
Bath
Woolwich
Lincoln County
Waldoboro High School
America
John Bachus
Were
Mohiba Ball Brings 1959 Mohiba Queen Crowning
Morse High School hosts the Mohiba Ball next Saturday night December 12 in the gym with dancing from 8 p.m. to midnight. Six candidates vie for the crown to be presented around 1 p.m., carved by senior Robert Phinney. Contenders include Janice Curd Diane Dunn Judy Libby Rain Ellen Hunter Suzanne Bryant and Christine Coombs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morse High School
Robert Phinney
Janice Curd
Diane Dunn
Judy Libby
Rain Ellen Hunter
Suzanne Bryant
Christine Coombs
Bath School Storm Policy Outlined by Superintendent
The Bath School Department will keep schools open during storms unless travel is dangerously hindered by severe conditions. Parents will receive notices detailing policies and a calendar for the rest of the year. In severe mornings, a decision to close follows alarms and radio announcements. If noon closures occur, meals continue and afternoon buses resume at 12:30 p.m. The remaining 1959-60 calendar lists Christmas, mid winter, and spring vacation dates with reopens and Memorial Day given.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
R. Addison -Hid Thiursdas
WMMS
WGAN
Portland
Bath Area Boating Club Dines at Ledges Inn
A Bath area group of boating enthusiasts held a Christmas dinner and social at the Ledges Inn in Wiscasset on Saturday. The 32 attendees from Bath and surrounding communities included Mr and Mrs Ernest Zaps, Everett Wallace, David Sprague, Alfred McCabe, Elwood Letard, George Pearce, Judson Niles, Jack Barry, Minnie Brown, Edgar Hancock, Hugh MacDonald, John Mullaney, Arthur Estley, Ralph Whitehin, Walter Beane, Robert Stone, and Edwin Pinson Jr of North Edgecomb.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Area
Ledges Inn
Wiscasset
Covent
Ernest Zaps
Everett Wallace
David Sprague
Alfred McCabe
Elwood Letard
George Pearce
Judson Niles
Jack Barry
Minnie Brown
Edgar Hancox
Hugh MacDonald
John Mullaney
Arthur Estley
Ralph Twutehins
Walter Beane
Robert Stone
Bath
Edwin Pinson, Jr
North Edgecomb
Lisabeth Clark Celebrates Sixth Birthday at Home
Lisabeth Clark daughter of Maurice and Mrs Clark 969 High street celebrated her sixth birthday Thursday with a party at home. Guests included Jan LePage Judith Aliberti Michael David and Sarah Clark and Mrs Robert LePage. Grandparents Earl Houghton Lewiston attended. Party games followed by birthday cake and ice cream.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lisabeth Clark
Maurice Clark
High Street
Jan LePage
Judith Aliberti
Michael Clark
David Clark
Sarah Clark
Robert LePage
Earl Houghton
Lewiton
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ladies’ Aid of
Day’s Ferry
First Baptist Missionary Society
State House
James Hay
Arthur Darnell
Henry Seegar
F. William Berry
Samuel Soule
Henry Rice
Marvin Jackson
Bucksfield
Center Baptist Church
Baptist Youth Fellowship
Ladies Aid
North Woolwich Methodist Church
Church School
North Woolwich
Beacon Street Methodist Church
Moores
Russell Tanner
Carol Tanner
Barrington Bible School
Providence
R. I
Miss Tanner
Chauncey Eldridge
Barrington Bible
Rochester
N. H
Clarence Tanner
Woolwich Center
Charles Presley
Nequasset
Carrol Jones
Fernald Bailey
Bailey
Viola Hilton
Jeannette Rose
Louis Brown
Ivan Shaw
Walker Road
Raymond Belanger
Harold Tasker
Montsweag Road
George Gavitt
Phipps Point
Bernard Bailey
Edward Belanger
Southport Grange
Maynard Dolloff
Boothbay
Southport
Albert Garland
Old State Road
Jinx Bailey
Moatsweag Road
Clifford Molson
Irene Metcalf
John King
Dover
Tibbetts Pond
Frank Side- Tinger
Som Larry
Herbert Leeman
Chester Leeman
Hockomock Road
Norris Waltz
Gary Pinkham
Alex St. Pierre
Sagadahoc Ferry
National Foundation
Wesley Wscs
Mrs
Sen. Smith
North
West Bath Pta
Richmond
West Bath Grange
Waldoboro
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