Community Notes From Dromore and Surrounds Jan 26
Meeting notices and events from Dromore area groups include the Dromore Grange conferring first and second degrees on Jan 26 and Junior choir rehearsals at Small Point parsonage with monthly choir singing at Small Point church. Local P T A s, Boy Scout activities, Girl Scouts leather work, and church committees report plans for Mothers March and church events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dromore Grange
Small Point
Osburg P. T. A
Morse High School
Bath P. T. A.s
Herbert Espy
Riverside Hall
Stanwood Gilman
Lewis Alexander
William Blaisdell
Thomas Totman
Gertrude Blaisdell
Arthur Morse
Gordon Alden
Bodwell Grange
Truman Roberts
Grange
Earle Perkins
Theresa Wyman
Small Point Center
Small Point Parsonage
Macy Whitehead
Eva Rogers
Wffe
H. Macy Whitehead
Bath Council of Churches
Central Church Parish House
Alexander LeFleur
Edward DeBery
Mark Harrington
Young Peoples Group
Jesus
Phippsburg Christian Service Committee
Fred Haggett
Whitehead
Maine Congregational Conference
Christian Service Committee
Parker Head School
Local social notes record visits and family moves
Guests of the Christian Service committee and nearby households are listed with weekend visits and illness mentions. Mrs. Carl McIntire of Ogunquit attended Bodwell Grange, Earl Harvey remained home ill, the Houp family moved from Cranberry Point, and Frederick Morse visited the Blaisdells. Other items note Miss Totman visiting, Mrs. Libby substituting at the Center Postoffice, and Col. Joe Bennett continuing his tour in the Philippines. Work on the Quimby home rebuilding begins with the roof partly on.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl McIntire
Ogun
Small Int
Bodwell Grange
Earl Harvey
Donald Houp
Cranberry Point
Houp
Brunswick Naval Air Station
Frederick Morse
Wiliam Blaisdell
Mari Totman
Carol Wyman
Small Point
Lawrence Libby
Center
Priscilla Rainey
Stanley Reynolds
Squirrel Point
Massachusetts
Joe Bennett
Clark Field
Philippines
Col. Bennett
Harold Seavey
Clarere Schofield
Topsham
Jean Hunt
Sargent College of Physical Education
Thomas Totman
Rose Wyman
Boston
Perley Quimby
Mary Dannenfelser
Hockomock Council
Silver Cloud Council
Orr's Island
Ralph Hasty, Jr
James Randall
Woolwich
Howard Hutchins
Everett Smith
Portland
H. L. Hutchins, Jr
Bath
H. M. Whitehead
Gordon Alden
Small Point Parsonage
Diane Ross
Lewis Lowell
Merril Turner
Augusta
Gertrude Turner
Washington
Beverly
George Bourgette
Florence Rollins
G. C. Beals
Dromore Grange
W. A. Lowell II
Maine Maritime Academy
Earl F. Lowell
Puerto Rico
Haiti
Colombia
Jamaica
Cuba
Castine
H. L. Hutchins
George Eversfield
Sebasco
Leslie Darling
Hebron
George Wilson
W. A. Lowell
Earl Lowell
Phippsburg Christian Service Committee
How to Prevent Progress Says Trade Paper
A West coast consultancy outlines ten steps to curb town growth from disbanding chambers to blocking bonds and salaries. The piece notes some towns have tried items separately, but using all would likely force relocation within a year. The article ends by linking to a separate claim that oral cocaine suppresses hunger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Inits Olor
Chamber <of Commerce
City Planning Commission
Community notices and meetings fill Parker Head week
Church activities and social events dominate Parker Head notes with Christian service gatherings and a PTA spelling match planned for January 28. Numerous visits, dinners, and hostings frame a week of community life while March of Dimes shows $16 raised locally and midshipman W. A. Lowell II returns to Maine Maritime Academy for sailing drills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl Lowell
Leston Harrington
Peterson
Reginald Cheney
Advent Church
Bath
Harrington
Frederick Haggett
Auto Collisions on Slippery Weekend Rainy Roads
Slippery weekend road conditions caused several city auto accidents with mostly minor damage. The severest crash occurred on Court Street involving a 1948 Hudson driven by Mrs S. E. Stimpson of 19 Dragne and a DeSoto. Burns' car sustained about 250 dollars in damage, Stimpson's about 75 dollars, according to police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Court Street
Hudson
S. E. Stimpson
Ciy | DeSoto Seven Emeneee
F. Stree Burns
Poce
Stimp
Advanced Piloting Course Opens in Portland
The Casco Bay Power Squadron in Portland held the first session of Advanced Piloting at Morse High School on Monday. Seventeen of more than twenty enrollees attended. graduates of the initial pilot training in December may enroll. Instructors were C. M. Wagner and Brian Lumstrum. The second class meets next Monday and will continue weekly until completion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Casco Bay Power Squadron
Portland
Morse High School
C. M. Wagner
Brian Lumstrum
Casco Bay Squadron
City health officer designated gamma globulin depot
The State Department of Health designates the office of City Health Officer Roscoe C. McFadden as a gamma globulin depots for physician use to protect contact cores of measles infectious hepatitis and German measles under Public Health Laws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roscoe C. McFadden
State Department of Health
Popham Beach Cold Start Delays And Local Visits
Below zero readings were reported Monday morning and several people had trouble starting their cars. Snowy slippery roads challenged travel as crews cleared hills last weekend. Local social notes include Popham Circle meeting with Mrs. Nancy Spinney and weddings, visits, and family updates across Bath, Phippsburg Center, Wiscasset, Brunswick, and Small Point.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Popham Circle
Nancy Spinney
Fred Haggett
Phippsburg Center
Jesse Munsey
Fred W. Spinney
Congregational Church
Wiscasset
Munsey
Spinney
Blanchard Crowley
Plainville
Small Point
Stanley W. Perkins
Leon Fickett
Bath
Frank Florian
Chatham
Mass
J. W. Gilman
Patricia Jean
Bath Memorial Hospital
Roland MacIntosh
Carson Lindley
Jeane
Donna
Sharon
Brunswick
Herbert R. Sprague
Sprague
Reynolds Tree Surgeons Clear Lines on Popham Coxs Head
Reynolds Tree Surgeons worked last week clearing telephone and power lines along Popham road and Coxs Head road. Social notes record visits and calls among Bath residents including Mr. and Mrs. Stanton C. Dozois Mrs. Julia B. Dozois Mrs. H L Carlisle Mr. and Mrs. Lester Oliver Rev H Macy Whitehead and Omar Perry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. M. Whitehead
Robert Cushing
Claudia Hutchins
Herbert Doughty
H. L. Hutchins
F. A. Libby
Jackie
Lester Beals
Connie Hoar
Reynolds Tree
Popham Road
Cox’s Head Road
Stanton C. Dozois
Julia B. Dozois
H. L. Carlisle
Bath
Lester Oliver
Spruceville
Harry Litchfield
H. Macy Whitehead
Edward P. Thomas
Omar Perry
Meadowbrook
Million Dollars in Gold Weighs Near a Ton at $35 Ounce
A cache of gold valued at one million dollars, priced at 35 dollars per ounce, would have a mass just under a ton. The note highlights the approximate weight and value of the bullion.
Judge Bernstein Addresses Lions on Juvenile Delinquency
Louis Bernstein, Portland Municipal Court judge, spoke to the Ba Lions at Sedgwick on causes, treatment, and prevention of juvenile delinquency. He urged community action, probations, and local law codification, noting delinquency now spans suburbs and rural areas and urging social services and education to rehabilitate offenders. The talk drew questions from members including County Attorney George M Carlton Jr and other local officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Bernstein
Portland
Wednesda
Ba Lions Club
Sedgwick
Y. M.C.A
Y. W.C.A
Girlscouts
Boy Scouts
Bernstein
Abe Kramer
George M Carlton, Jr
Edward W. Bridgham
John
Bath visitor Mrs Mildred Leavitt meets kin in Bath
Mrs Mildred Leavitt of Boothbay Harbor visited Bath on Monday to call on relatives. Elmer Dow, former Bath resident now with Lestparency in Los Angeles, was in Bath and active in auto sales. Dow at Pico and Figueroa streets invited local friends visiting LA to look him up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mildred Leavitt
Boothbay Harbor
Bath
Elmer Dow
Los Angeles
Dow
Pico and
Figueroa Streets
Iron Lung Great Aid to Polio Victim
Marjorie Howard daughter of Mrs Chester Murray of Topsham was struck with polio and paralyzed. She spent time in Maine General Hospital Portland then transferred to Mary MacArthur Memorial Respirator Unit in Wellesley Mass where treatment reduced reliance on the iron lung and she later returned home for physiotherapy. Sagadahoc Chapter NFIP funded the over ten thousand dollars in treatment costs and hopes for a bed at Hyde Home Bath soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marjorie Howard
Chester Murray
Topsham
Maine General Hospital
Portland
Mary MacArthur
Wellesley
Mass
Hyde
Bath
Fishermen ride cold Maine to prime winter catches
In Maine rabbit hunters prospered before heavy snow and ice. Flagstaff Lake area yielded several limits by three friends between 11 and 2. Lake Cobbesseecontee produced pickerel around 3 pounds. Thermo boots keep feet warm, retailing near 12 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Flagstaff Lake
Somerset
Franklin Counties
Cobbesseecontee
Korea
Leavitt Returns to Times Advertising Dept
Howard Leavitt of Boothbay Harbor and former Bath resident re enters the employ of the Times in the Advertising Department after a period away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Leavitt
Boothbay Harbor
Bath
The
Times Co
Times
Announcement of B M H Gift Brightens Bath Hospital Meeting
A Bath Memorial Hospital report credits a new rotating x ray tube and a donor gift with lifting equipment to New England levels. The 1953 gathering thanked many local groups and figures, noting better attendance after moving to the hospital, with a social and refreshments. Next annual meeting shifts to the fourth Saturday in January to ease Comptroller Eaton's report workload.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Bath Memorial
Austary
Junior Hospital
Levenport
Nightin Club
Needlework Guild
Iron Works Corp
Small Summer Colony
Bath Lodge Elks
Lions Club
Rotary of Salvation Army
Bath Garde
Eaton
Portland Woman Passes Monday in Portland
Mrs Archie L Seekins of Portland died Monday while staying with her parents Mr and Mrs Carlton Lowell of street noting the family's residence remains in Portland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Archie L. Seekins
Portland
Carlton Lowell
Street
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Bernard Henderson
Women's Division Council of Churches
Christian’ Service’committee
Osi
Matthew B. Ridgway
Army
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Joint Chiefs of Staff
U.s.-South Korea
International Soundphoto
Ezra Taft Benson
Senate Agricultural Committee
Eisenhower
Congress
Popham Beach
Cox
Argentina
United States
Justicialista
New York
Jean Martin
Pittsburgh
LIONS
Marjorie
Sagadahoc
Bob Elliot
B.M.H
Marie Dawson
Frank
Bonn
Tha Tate
Theothe
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