Wiscasset Picnic Returns and June Socials Recap
The Organ Society held a June 23 picnic at the vestry with 40 attendees and a noon luncheon. Committees for the July 28 Summer sale were named, including Luncheon, Food and Flowers, Apron, Bag, and Fancy Work tables, with several named organizers. Nearby Boy Scouts from Troop 123 prepared for a jamboree in Washington, D. C., and Lincoln lodge Masons attended church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Organ Society of the
First Congregational Church
Carl M. P. Larrabee
Nina G. Fowles
William B. Lewis
George W. Carleton
C. H. Bryant
Nina Fowles
Frank Adams
FE. P. Munsey
W. B. Lewis
John F. Jackson
E. Fred Albee
Frank H. Hutchins
W. C. Day
Frank E. Quinnam
Sparks Circus Arrives in Bath With New Program
Sparks managed circus Dowie Brothers Circus arrives in Bath on Saturday July 31 heralding a full show featuring animals certalists leapers jugglers clowns and horses. Promoter Sparks promises one of the largest tents with an entire program change for all ages 7 to 70 to enjoy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Furly
Fred Kilgore
Contac
Sparks Mangee Dowie Brothers Circus
Hoerheath
Wacht
Groother
Cadarhe Sparks
America
Mataser
Exhibition at Winnesunes Baptist Church
There will be an exhibition Thursday night in the Winnesunes Baptist church showing work by the boys and girls from the two weeks Church vacation school. All parents and friends are invited. program begins at seven. Mrs Frank F. Colburn and daughter Dawn Cecile from Pearl Street have returned from a three weeks visit with relatives in Bangor and Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnesunes Baptist
Frank F. Colburn
Dawn Cecile
Pearl Street
Bangor
Boston
Award Gold Insignia To Maine Woman
Mrs. William Holt of Portland receives the American Society for the Control of Cancer gold insignia for 1937 for distinguished service in cancer control. She organized 2,000 volunteers and led Maine to top state honors, with $15,000 raised to aid cancer patients.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Holt
Portland
Field Army
American Society For the Control of Cancer
Women's Field Army of
Maine
Holt
United States
Thomas J. Kennon
The
American Society
Women
Kittery
Fort Kent
Bath Boy Reaches Golf Quarter Finals
Rodney E. Ross Jr of Bath, representing Hebron Academy, was edged 4-3 by Frank Tirabassi of Portland in the Maine Interscholastic Tournament quarterfinals at Old Orchard. Tirabassi advanced after a strong front, while Ross had shown a solid morning round, and Ross plans to enter Bowdoin College next fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rodney E. Ross, Jr
Hebron Academy
Frank Tirabassi
Portland High
Old Orchard
Tirabassi
Ross
Ed Thayer
Sanford Star
Bath
Thayer
Dick Harden
Rockland
Ross, Jr
Bath Country Club
Bowdoin College
Personal notes on local visitors and travels
Miss Barbiara FE Fisher, a Littlefield school teacher, returned after a week in Gardiner hosted by Miss Eleanor Wise of Plummer Street. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Caton and son Joseph Jr. of Brooklyn plan a two week visit with Mrs. Caton's sister, Mrs. Melvin Ferris, during Mr. Caton's Brooklyn Navy Yard vacation. Mrs. Arthur B. Scott returned to Waldoboro after two weeks with Mrs. Fred P. Emmons. Miss Kathleen Scott, visiting locals for two weeks, went home and will soon depart for Sebasco for the summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barbiara FE Fisher
Littlefield
Gardiner
Eleanor Wise
Plummer Street
Joseph Caton
Joseph, Jr
Brooklyn
Fred P. Emmons
Lincoln Street
Kathleen Scott
Miss Scott
Sebasco
D. O. Blaisdell
Goddard Street
Bath
Humphrey A. Owen
Sabino
Ralph Daley
Waltham
Mass
Hewitt Cottage
Malcolm L. Doble
Miriam
Beatrice
Fair Oaks
Herbert Hodgkins
Lemont Street
Mr. Owen
Delmar E. Bates
Harry P. Nason
Cottage Park Avenue
Sabino Sunday
A. Owen
Conrad Nelson
Alice
Ted
Marblehead
Nelson
Portland
George Bailey
South Portland
Bates
Samuel Bates
Alfred J. Horley
Arlington
Horley
Janet
Sabine
Catherine Turner
Charles
Turner
McCluskey
Newton Center
Hugo F. Sandelin
Triusant’s Crossing
Dorothy M Waterman
Foster's Point
W. T. Grant Co
Eleanor M Thompson
Waterville
Percy E. Holbrook
Meadowbrook Road
Thompson
Waterville Junior High School
E. H. Williams
Arthur
Ruth Williams
Topsham
Ernest E. Williams
Campbell's Pond
Campbell’s Pond
Muriel Williams
Needham Heights
Williams
Annie Ridley
Benjamin H. Stackpole
Philip A. Stackpole
Kent's Hill School
Stackpole
Bates College
Dwinal E. Cornish
Rose Street
Perry Thompson
Edward K. Thompson
Charles H. Bates
Beachmont
Littlefield School
Barbara E. Fisher
Eva Kingsbury
Helen Robinson
Loring D. Small
Lowell
Thomas Point
Benjamin Bachelder
Chester T. Lorentsen
Little Son
John P. Lorentsen
Lorentsen
Fred J. Rose
Rose
Marian Rose
Rosedale
Doris L. Crocker
Lester Crooker
Upper
Washington Street
Charles Rose
Marcia Street
Kenneth Crooker
Pred J. Rose
Edward H. Coburn
Edward H. Coburn, Jr
Hartford
N. Y
Willams
New Meadows
Lincoln Williams
Ernest TV. Fulton
Front Street
Beatrice Rose
Larrabee’s Grove
Joseph W. Larrabee
Miss Rose
Edith Lowell
Sagadahoc Pomona
France
Bowdoinham
Edwin W. Haggett
Berry’s Mills
Fred W. Larrabee
West Bath Social Roundup Reflects Summer Visit Notes
A sequence of Bath and Sabino visits features Mr and Mrs D O Blaisdell hosting and guests from Bath and Massachusetts. Several Bath residents and relatives, including the Hodgkins and Nelson families, swap cottages at Sabino and Triusant Crossings. Community members attend school events at Littlefield and Lowell, with local residents visiting camps, sharing news of vacations, and celebrating the close of the school year along the Maine coast.
Rotary Told Training of Funeral Directors
At the Bath Rotary club luncheon H F Bardwell outlined the need for proper funeral director training He emphasized embalming courses and modern funeral facilities plus a skilled staff. Dr Francis A Winchenbach retired as president handing to Fred D Hill on July 1 as Rotary year begins. Visiting Rotarians and guests were named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Francis A. Winchenbach
Fred D. Hill
George B. Wolstenholme
Harold E. Laws
Brunswick
Charles L. Smith
Old Town
Morse High
Nels Armitage
Wilton
Mass
Ryette Legendre
Lewiston
Hector O. LaFayette
Auburn
Arthur F. Mayo
City
Laurel Coburn horse doubles at Lewiston Friday races
Laurel Coburn owned and driven by George W. Jewett won both the first and seventh races at Lewiston on Friday. The West Bath horse paid 4.10 to win and 2.50 to place in race one and 6.00 to win and 4.00 to place in race seven. Times were 2.11 for the opening mile and 2.12 for the second.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laurel Coburn
West Bath
George W. Jewett
Lewiston
Fair Grounds
Jewett
West Bath Steed
Josedale
Stafford
Roy Directum
Kennett
Tom Hardy
Stewart
Rosedale
West Bath Farm Bureau Meeting Notes and Local Anecdotes
West Bath Farm Bureau met on Thursday at the home of Mrs. James Lemont with 16 present. Talks on Good Nutrition for the Family were led by Miss Hortense Welch, and plans were made for a July 22 picnic and an August 25 meeting. Guests included Mrs. C. W. Andrews and Mrs. Arthur Whittier. The gathering also listed many attendees and a cleanup committee. A separate item notes a two-foot turtle caught in a Pleasant Gardens pond and the reaction of the owner. Additionally Gareth Coffin, 15, saved Patrick Evans, 5, from drowning at Little Dam near Gerrish Island, as the Kittery Boy Scout troop prepared for the National Jamboree in Washington, D. C.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath
Loring D. Small
Gareth Coffin
Patrick Evans
Kittery Point
Little Dam
Gerrish Island
Coffin
Leon Coffin
Kittery
Washington, D. C
Woolwich Community News and Engagement Notes
Miss Etta Lilly has returned home after caring for Rev William Wood. Sunday services on the first Sunday of the month begin with 10 45 morning worship and 7 30 evening service at Woolwich Center and Montsweag churches. A summer prayer and social plan unfolds as local church committees meet. Multiple town residents and visitors are noted with travels, visits, and seasonal happenings including births, anniversaries, farm work, and club meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Etta Lilly
William Wood
Washington Street
Bath
Woolwich Center
Montsweag Church
Ruth Shaw
Montsweag
Willard Rand, Jr
Peabody
Mass
Joanne Rowena
Hazel Smith
Forrest
Richmond
Mason Carter
Frank J. Walker
Guy Ingalls Bussey
Sanford
George Tibbetts
Maude Paquet
Edgecomb
Fred Carlton
George M. Stinson
Marcia Stinson
Day's Ferry
John Savage
Donald Preble
David G. Reed
Maxine Walker
Swampscott
Carl Longfellow
Holyoke
Plinette Allen
Laughlin McInnes
Boothbay Harbor
Romney
N. H
Josiah L. Walker
Woolwich Farm Bureau
Capital Island
John Reed
Hortense Welch
Wm. Tudor Gardiner
Phipps Point
Earl Ryan
Detroit
Mich
Nequasset
John Carter
Livermore Falls
St. Pierre
Leroy Jameson
Roland McIntosh
Donald
Connecticut
Ladies Auxiliary of
Dora Bailey
Henry Dubar
Alton Reed
John Gilmore
Ethel Bailey
John Brown
William Leeman
Florence Hathorne
Guy Paine
Sarah Bailey
Gardiner
Beulah Littledale
Portland
Woolwich
Sagadahoc Ferry
Danielson
Summer Holiday Visitors Arrive From New York and Massachusetts
Mr and Mrs William Fahey of Allston Mass visit over the Fourth with Mr and Mrs Frank F Colburn of 59 Parl Street. Henry W Mank, a Gibbs & Cox naval architect in New York, will arrive Saturday to spend the holiday with Mrs Mank and infant Judith at the home of Mrs Manks parents Mr and Mrs Erastus Jewett. Later in the week Mrs Prescott and daughter Dorothy and Miss Edith Jewett of Rochester N Y will join Mrs Prescott's parents Mr and Mrs Erastus Jewett for July.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Fahey
Allston
Mass
Frank F. Colburn
Parl Street
Henry W. Mank
Gibbs & Cox, Naval Architects
New York City
Mrs Alma Stinson Nears 95th Birthday in Bath
Mrs Alma Stinson aged 95, long resident of 476 Middle Street Bath, celebrated Monday marking her long life since arriving from Boothbay at age five. Despite pneumonia she enjoys visitors, flowers, and cards, aided by daughter Mrs Leland Mitchell who lives with her. Her memory remains keen and she contributed data for a local history book.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Almira Stinson
Middle Street
Bath
Boothbay
Stinson
Times Company
Leland Mitchell
Woolwich Grads Enjoy Fine Trip to Boothbay Harbor
The Woolwich graduating class of 19, with 13 attending, toured Boothbay Harbor on the steamer Virginia thanks to Woolwich P T A and Samoset Steamship Co. Supt John H Carter and relatives joined the party. They left Bath at nine in the morning and returned at six, with swimming, fishing, sightseeing, and a picnic lunch in the cabin. Captain W E Farmer of the Virginia received hearty cheers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woolwich P. T. A
Samoset Steamboat Co
Woolwich Schools
Boothbay Harbor
Virginia
Maxine Bailey
Annabel Maass
Betty Leavitt
George Ames, Jr
Bertram Bailey
Kenneth Bailey
Vernon Mank
Alton Munsey
Frederick Scott, Jr
Harold Strout
Kenneth Sylvester
Frank
Woolwich Grange Children’s Day Planned Next Week
Woolwich grange observed children’s day with 25 attending. Miss Cora M. Pearson and Chester Leeman will run next week’s program. Readings by Mrs. William Bradford Miss Pearson and Mrs. Frank Lawrence. Balloons, singing, cherry ownership debate and a murder case discussion featured. Grange voted to donate its old regalia to Crooked River grange and noted its new regalia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woolwich Grange
Cora M. Pearson
Chester Leeman
Grange Hall
William Bradford
Miss Pearson
Frank Lawrence
The
Grange
Crooked River Grange
Bolsters Mills
Engagement of Alice M Lovejoy to Winthrop Man Greenlaw
Mr and Mrs Arthur Lovejoy of Winthrop announce the engagement of their daughter Alice M Lovejoy formerly of Bath to Charles E Greenlaw a Winthrop businessman. Lovejoy has worked as a nurse, Greenlaw runs the Winthrop Fish Market and has ties to local newspapers. They are both IOOF members and she leads the Golden Red Rebekah Lodge of Appleton. The marriage is planned for late Fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Lovejoy
Winthrop
Alice M. Lovejoy
Bath
Charles E. Greenlaw
Miss Lovejoy
Apuletom
Greenlaw
Winthrop Fish Market
Rockland
Rockport
Golden Red
Rebekah Lodge
Appleton
Travel plans of Belfast residents and students
Hurley Grant and his father Dr. H. D. Grant stay at a Waldo County Hospital Belfast home and cottage on the New Meadows while Miss Barbara Ross sails from New York on the S S Champlain for six weeks in Europe. Miss Effie Noddin of Elizabeth will also sail soon for Europe visiting Norway Sweden Russia Germany Italy and other places. Miss Noddin is sister of Mrs. Florence Troop of Washington Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hurley Grant
Waldo County Hospital
Belfast
H. D. Grant
Front Street
New Meadows
Barbara Ross
High Street
New York
S.S. Champlain
Europe
Ross
England
Belgium
France
Germany
Austria
Switzerland
Italy
Effie Noddin
Elizabeth
Norway
Sweden
Russia
Miss Noddin
Florence Troop
Washington Street
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Troop 123
Boy Scouts
Camp Hines
Panther Pond
Raymond
Boy Scouts of America
North Edgecomb
Robert Smith
Bradford Street
Carlin
Lincoln Block
Waterstreet
Lowney D. Young
Young
Helen R. Hodgdon
Frank R. Hodgdon
Westport Road
Donald W. Dunn
Fred Dunn
Newcastle
John F. Wright
Lee Street
Bertram J. Packard
Colorado School of Mines
Donald Dunn
Wiscasset
New England Fire Chiefs Association
Dixville Notch
Charles T. Doe
Cheshire
Huntoon
Damariscotta-Waldoboro
Ratroad Park
Perfort
Purser
Clair
Fred W. Merrs
Mudie
Pie Rade
C. C. Blagdon
Fred Ro Merry Donald Shay
Harrys M. Barley
Sidney Bobsats
Pred Cormier
B.C
Donnertt
Stanton Sherman
Bye Jackson
Ehysune
Tia
Officis
M. A Pliutietead
Birch Pot
Joseplttes Plumstead
Birch Point
C. H Bryant
Newport
Bryant
Greenville
Methodist Hat
Ralph Preble
Ralph, Jr
Brookline, Mass
Federer Street
Effie J. Poole
Federal Street
Alice Libbey
Randall F. Cummings
Alna
Dresden
Pittston
Columbia Teachers’ College
Samuel Stover
Grace L. Knight
Massachusetts
Beverley
Plymouth
Lee Gorham
Augusta
William E. Gorham
Mary Campbell
Pendleton
Joseph E. Hubbard
Somerville
Alice D. Taylor
Hodge Street
Press Herald
Washington
Raymond E. Quinnam
Maurice H Pendleton
Edward Evans
Maurice C. Lintwith
Pine Tree Council
Marion E Emery
Wiscasset Academy
Popham Beach
Ruth Jones
Eva Rines Rankin
Olive Miete
Elsie Bailey
Andrea Getchell
Priscilla Haskell
Lee Merry
Martha Haskell
Joanna Evans
Edgar Rankin
Walter Pushard
Harvey Ro Pease
Viruna
Reed H. Ellis
Rangeley
Sparks
Circus IS
Bath Boy
Helen H. Rogers
Longmeadow, Mass
Llewellyn D Rogers
West Bath Grange
Edgar D. Leavitt
Carver
Clarence Gerrish
Clarence M. Gerrish
Wilbert Small
Warren K. Davis
Dana
Rotary
H. F. Bardwell
Philadelphia Chemists
West Bath Farm Bureau Meeting
C. W. Andrews
Arthur Whittier
Harold Haggett
Arthur Brown
Maude Bryant
Earl Lermond
Georgia Ripley
Harris Rodick
Charles T. Small
Whittemore
Hugo Sandelin
Small
William Coombs
Robert Brooks
Robert
Pleasant Gardens
Brooks
Rockland Courier Gazette
Woolwich Grads