Farm Bureau and community notices from Phippsburg area
All day Farm Bureau session at Topsham home on coat making and buttonhole styles. Dromore grange hosts first aid class led by Enid Sawyer. Drift ice increases at Squirrel Point light as winter limits crossings. Center school reports strong Health seals sales and $77.40 saved in winter term. Multiple local obituaries, illnesses, and visits noted including Mrs. Perry’s death and various Bath area residents. Frances Robie directs Tougaloo College project. sewing group activities and Bates Stover’s absence from R F D service mentioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farm Bureau
Fred Cutler
Topsham
Ernest Rogers
Raymond Campbell
Dromore Farm Bureau
Dromore Grange Hall
Enid Sawyer
Path
Kenner Harold
Stanley Gilman
Center
Susie Barbour
Margaret Perry
Meadowbrook Road
Bath Memorial Hospital
Curtis Funeral Home
Miss Moore
Mrs. Perry
George C. Pease
Perry
Phippsburg
Bertha Wyman
Esther McCourt
Donald Preble
Emma Perry
Frances Robie
Tougaloo College
Mississippi
Sertha Wyman
Grange Hall
Bureau
Bates Stover
Brunswick Road
Bath
Maine General Hospital
Portland
Helen Gagnon
Installen Tuesday Evening at Dromore Grange
Officers of Dromore grange were installed in the grange hall by C M White of Augusta and staff. Mrs Elfreda Perkins received gifts for ten years as master and Miss Marion Rafnell for 19 years as secretary. A program followed with music and recitations. about 70 attended. Several officers and guests were thanked, and a Scotch auction closed the event. Supper and committees were listed, and gifts were given to Mrs Perkins and retiring master Edward G Waters. The grange sent gifts to soldiers guarding a bridge, and future meetings and local notes followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dromore Grange
Grange
C. M. White
Augusta
State Department of Agriculture
Elfreda M. Perkins
Hardings
Marion Rafnell
White
G. Cleveland Marriner
Enterprise Grange
Richmond
Wallace Brown
Yarmouth Grange
Cushnoc Grange
Capitol Grange
Gertrude Tarr
Topsham Grange
Lizzie Haggett
West Bath Grange
Melvin Pratt
Bodwell Grange
Perkins
Sagadahoe County Pomona
Edna Sanford
Aletha Campbell
Hubert T. McCarty
Sophia McPherson
Ralph Trask
Minnie Guptill
Woolwich
Stanley W. Williams
Evan Sanford
Ceres
Annie Wilson
Pomona
Mabel Ansert
Flora
Edward G. Waters
Robert D. Metcalf
The
Edwin W. Haggett
Mretcatf
Rachel Waters
Alice Rideout
Eveline Beals
Frances Williams
Annie Malcolm
Georgena Thorpe
Pearl Barter
Local Social News and School Notes from Parker Head
Mrs Clayton Hoar hosted a small party with candies and chips. Boy and girl scouts, Brownies, and future meetings are noted along with church services, a February 1 vestry gathering, and a January 12 School Improvement League meeting electing Miss Barbara Mank treasurer. Defense stamps earned by several pupils and attendance streaks are highlighted amid visits and local pathos.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clayton Hoar
Lewis Lowell
Allie Rollins
Leston Harrington
Miss Robie
Small Point Parsonage
Forrest Wyman
School Improvement League
Barbara Mank
Mary Wortman
Topsham
Lloyd
Sally
Bill Lowell
Raymond Nisbet
Marie Wyman
Portland
Burleigh Williams
Leroy Perkins
Walter Cushing
Bob Moore
Lewiston
Osgood
Perkins Island
Fred
Bath
Leo Hamel
Bert Nisbet
Union
Leslie Darling
Fort Riley
Kansas
George Morong
Pauline Morong
Blackwall
Harpswell
W. A.lowell
Phyllis Young
Allie Oliver
Edwin M. Wyman
Anna Percy
Boston
Mary MacDuffee
George Woodward
Harold Woodward
Parker Head
North Bergen
N. J
John Rollins, Jr
Clarence Blaisdell
Frances Robie
Earl Lowell
Sebasco
Hazel Hilton
John Libby Jr
Bath Hospital
Marion Cushing
Lloyd Lowell
Sally Lowell
Dorothy Cushing
Ramon Hamel
Maine fish bill changes and naval nurse note
A legislative report details a new draft removing an emergency clause and extending the sardine packing season to 1943. It also favors prohibiting nonresidents from taking fish in Maine territorial salt water from April 1 to November 1. Herring is approved under a redraft. Miss Ellen Dolloff at the Naval Hospital writes home about life there, noting blackout conditions and fourteen months of service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Ellen Dolloff
R.N
Sta Naval Hospital
Cuvier R. Dolloff
Washington Street
Auto Use Stamps Go On Sale Here
Post Office announces auto use tax stamps required for all cars trucks and motorcycles by Feb 1 available 9 to 6 at Postmaster Hartnett Winston green 114 by 2 inches with Liberty Bell replica costing 2.09 for six months and 5 for a full year purchase by July 1. failure to comply carries up to 25 dollar fine or 30 days jail or both. stamps must be affixed face forward on windshield. earlier stickers faced glue issues with glued backs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward N. Hartnett
Internal Revenue Department
Transfers of Real Estate in Sagadahoc and Nearby Towns
Recent transfers of property recorded in the Sagadahoc Registry of Deeds list parcels in Bath Bowdoinham Georgetown Phippsburg Richmond Topsham and Bowdoinham. Transactions include land and buildings on Mechanic Street Blasland Lane Washington Street High Street Meadowway and other parcels with numerous buyers and sellers such as John W Gilmore Arthur Gilmore Ida Miller Joseph Saint Harold F Fuller Frank E Freeman and Lena Cadenelli among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sagadahoc Registry of Deeds
Bath
John W. Gilmore
Arthur G. Gilmore
Mechanic Street
Howard J. Brewer
Ida Miller
Blasland Lane
People’s Investment Assn
Joseph Saint
Meadowway
George C. Wotton
Jennie M. Allen
Washington Street
Antoinette Harrington
Harold F. Fuller
High Street
Bowdoinham
Herbert D. Higgins
Frank O. Nile
Lillian E. Davis
Herbert E. Higgins, Jr
Georgetown
George Stevenson Pine
Elizabeth Stafford Halbach
Phippsburg
Jane A. Bartlett
Etta Bartlett
Marguerite I. McNulty
Paul L. Davis
Nellie M. Cutting
Frank E. Freeman
Jane Bartlett
Alexander H. Brown
Nathan A. Cushman
Richmond
John H. Mayers
Roland J. Cloutier
P. Cadenelli
Lena Cadenelli
Pasquale Cadenelli
Topsham
Joseph L. Foster
Alva DiRenzo
Joel H. Avery
Frederick Eaton
West Bath Grangers Form Dramatic Club
A West Bath grange dramatic club organized at the Hamblett home with over 50 showing interest. Officers elected include Mrs. Edward B Hamblett as president and Miss Alice F Johnson as vice president. committees named for by laws plays and coaching. Next meeting set for February 1 at Mrs. Carter’s home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath
Edward B. Hamblett
Fratt Street
Alice F. Johnson
Lewis D. Carter
Fred K. Sturtevant
Johnson
Harry Moore
J. Franklin Howe
Lewis E. Palmer
Emma
Hamblett
Emma G. Brown
Eleanor L. Grainger
Frances Grainger
Gloria Leavitt
Carter
Drummond Street
Popham Beach Community Notes and Meetings
Last week’s Popham circle met on Thursday with Mrs. Ellison Moody on Gilbert Head. Attendees included Mrs. Guy Crowley Mrs. Frank Scott Miss Frances Robie Mrs. Raymond Larrabee and Mrs. Irving Dobbins. This week’s meeting will be with Mrs. Frank Scott on Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Popham
Ellison Moody
Gilbert Head
Guy Crowley
Frank Scott
Frances Robie
Raymond Larrabee
Irving Dobbins
G. E. McNulty
Bath
Rotary Club
Maine
Civilian Air Patrol
First Patrol
Isaacson
Richard Hallett
WGAN
Red Cross
Bodwell Grange Hall
Bodwell Grange
Small Point Parsonage
Allan Spear
Peter Isaacson
Lewiston
Stone House
Stanley Hyde
Barbara Hyde
Yarmouth
Ledgewood
Lester Morse
Marvin Gillam
Harold Wallace
West Point
Moses Chandler
Lester Oliver
Spruceville
Winnegance and Squaw Club Gather for Home Events
Mrs Harold Miller hosted the Auxiliary of the Winnegance Community club at her home. Mrs Herbert Perry hosted the Squaw club Friday evening at Mrs Frank Perry's house. Mrs Charles E Hewitt Jr entertained her afternoon club last Wednesday with a luncheon and sewing session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Miller
Winnegance
Herbert Perry
Frank Perry
Charles E. Hewitt, Jr
Sheriff Sale Notices in Sagadahoc County Maine
The State of Maine Sagadahoc county sheriff announces a January 12 1942 sale on a judgment in Bath against Sophia B Gatchell by AF Brehaut Co for 21 dollars 07 cents debt and 9 dollars 40 cents costs. The sale will occur February 14 1842 at 1 pm on the described West Bath and Bath parcels with buildings and rights of way. Loring D Small deputy sheriff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State OF Maine
Sagadahoc
Bath
Alexander F. Brehaunt
Brunswick
Cumberland
AF. Brehaut Co
Sophia B. Gatchell
West Hath
Maine
West Bath
Lev T
Purington
New Meadows
New Meadows Road
Samuel W. Foote
Henry T. Wing
Tanormeriy Am Simpson
Marion H. Higgins
Loring D. Small
Dresden Officers Installed by Eastern Star Group
The newly elected officers of Mr. Olive Branch chapter, Eastern Star, were installed Friday evening with Edna Waring of Damari scotta as installing officer and Mrs. E. Brown as chaplain. Names listed include Mrs. Charles Foss as Worthy Matron and Charles Foss as Worthy Patron, along with Marie Rittall, Pearl Rittall, Agnes Gilpatrick, and others. Refreshments followed. Also noted are births, hospital visits, and local illness updates including Charles Vaughn’s birth name, family health, and measles cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olive Branch
Order of the Eastern Star
Edna Waring
Damariscotta
E. Brown
Charles Foss
Marie Rittall
Pearl Rittall
Agnes Gilpatrick
Eleanor Perry
Ruth Stilphen
Mac Good
Mary McDonald
Geneva Bickford
Lou Lanes
Thelma Preble
Sentinel
Frank Preble
Ada
Eulena Pray
Ruth
Jessie Houdlette
Esther
Eva McDonald
Martha
Edna Preble
Electa
Gertrude Cate
Waldo Bickford
Gardiner Hospital
Ernest Cate
State Road
Middle Bridge
Lewiston
Robert James
Charles Chapman
Dr. Pratt
Richmond
Arthur Seigars
Obituary for Charles Clifford Lawrence 82
Charles Clifford Lawrence 82 retired carpenter died Monday in Rockland at his daughter Mrs George H Shute's home on Rankin street. He was born in Rockland son of Samuel and Caroline Day Lawrence. Survived by daughter Mrs Shute two grandsons seven granddaughters a brother F Edgar Lawrence and a sister Mrs William Lord. Funeral Thursday at two at Russell funeral home Rockland with Rev J Charles MacDonald officiating and interment in Achorn cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanley Hutchins
Meadowbrook
Carrie Little
James
J. K. Bowker
Perkins
Small Point Road
George Davis
Bath Iron Works
Capt
William B. Perry
Bath
Henry W. Butler
Butler
Carl Severin
Charles Thistle
Charlestown Navy Yard
Joseph I. Smith
Thistle
John Eastman
Boothbay
Walter Kennerson
Douglass Shaw
Center School
Raymond Wyman
Small Point
George Penton
Hickory
N. C
A. F. Williams
Gardiner
Eorge Davis
Pleasant Cove Farm
Kittery
Walter Pierce
Cora Campbell
Winneganee
Perrys
Charles Clifford Lawrence
W. H. Glover Co
Rockland
George H. Shute
Rankin Street
Lawrence
Samuel
Caroline Day Lawrence
Shute
Lawrence C. Shute
Fairhaven
Mass
Frank E. Shute
Harold Snowman
Dorothy
Margaret
Leatrice
Eleanor
Phyllis Shute
Carol Joan Shute
F. Edgar Lawrence
Newton
William Lord
Dennis
Russell Funeral Home
J. Charles MacDonald
Achorn Cemtery
Mrs Eva Deering Case Rites Held for Local Widow
Funeral services were held Tuesday for Mrs Eva Deering Case widow of George Case who died at the home of her son Albert Case in Narbeth Pennsylvania aged 87 after heart trouble and months of declining health She had lived in the city and Wenonah New Jersey and has relatives including Mayor Walter C Rogers and Carroll A Deering Burial was in Wenonah New Jersey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eva Deering Case
George Case
Albert Case
Narbeth
Penn
N. J
Walter C. Rogers
Calvin W. Rogers
Carroll A. Deering
Leland R. Mitchell
Charles E. Stinson
Wenonah, N
Olive Farley Birthday Party Honors 10th Birthday
A birthday party was held Monday evening at 487 High Street for Olive Farley tenth birthday. Attendees included Janette Atwood Barbara Morse Margaret Safford Helen Witham Margery Cummings Shirley Hamlin May Hamlin Gloria Brown Cynthia Dolph in Beverly Dolph in Barbara Fraser Alice McCrater. Children played games, then gathered for ice cream cake and candy. Olive received gifts and money in a purse. Weather was poor but party was joyful. guests departed about seven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. W. Farley
High Street
Olive
Baxter Donates 12000 Acres Land for State Park
Former Governor Percival Proctor Baxter proposes another 12000 acres as part of his plan to create a Maine State Park in the Mount Katahdin region. He states future donations will total 47000 acres with current deeds tied to irrevocable trust laws to protect the land for Maine people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Katahdin
Percival P. Baxter
Baxter
Portland
Maine
Sumner Sewall
Senate and
House of Representatives
W. E. L. S. Traveler Town
Percival Proctor Baxter
Morse High Home Economics Club Second Meeting
The Morse High School Home Economics Club held its second meeting in the school cooking room. Miss Verna Stults spoke on Red Cross work and plans were made to devote the next meeting to Red Cross activities. A social hour followed. Miss Virginia Andre led a program including a vocal solo Missouri Lullaby accompanied by her guitar, quiz games, community singing, and additional vocal solos by Miss Katrina Moffatt. The gathering closed with God Bless America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morse High School
Verna Stults
Red Cross
Virginia Andre
Missouri
Miss Andre
White Cliffs
Dover
Chattanooga
Ministers Sponsor Leadership Institute for Sunday School
A Bath Ministers Association committee approved a Leadership Training Institute for Sunday school teachers and parents. Rev Louis A Dole will lead with other teachers to be chosen. The program runs five Tuesdays during Lent opening Feb 17 at Winter Street Church. Supper at six followed by courses seven to nine. Attendees included Rev Joseph O Purdue Rev Chester B Oliver Rev Charles R Sims and Miss Irma D Groves. Another meeting is set for next Tuesday at First Baptist Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Ministers’Association
Joseph O. Purdue
Washington Street
Louis A. Dole
Winter Street
Ladies’ Aid
Institute
Purdue
Dole
Chester B. Oliver
Charles R. Sims
Irma D. Groves
First Baptist Church
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Charles M. White
Robert Beals
Janet Shaw
Jean Bowker
C. W. Rogers
West Palm Beach
Fla
Rogers
Bath Independent
Emmy Wyman
Asa Wyman
Swanton Wyman
Miles Webber
Curtis
Robert Hyde
Mary of
Gladys
Parker
West Bath Grangers
Popham Beach
Sheriff's Sale
Dresden
George Vaughn
Cedar Grove
Charles Vaughn
Florence Call
Arthur Siegars
Leona Siegars
Avalon Good
Charles C. Lawrence
Olive Farley
Legislature
Home Economics Clubas
Spon Train Institute
Scott Furs
Scott Super-Bilt
Miss Hennessey