Pomona Grange Meets Wednesday at Merriconeag
Merriconeag and Segadahoc Pomona granges met in North Harpswell for a joint session with representatives from several granges. The event featured a fifth degree ceremony for 13 candidates, state officers present, juvenile grange programs from Topsham and Dirigo, and a harvest dinner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomona Grange
Merriconeag
Segadahoc
Merriconeag Grange
North Harpswell
Esther Murphy
Lucie Ricker
Shirley Scott
Gladys Robinson
Ila Day
Pomona
Lewis Guptill
Celia Guptill
Charles M. White
State Home and Welfare Community
Viola White
Clara Merriman
Millward
Ma Larrabee
Alice Harrington
Topsham
Topsham Juvenile Grange
Crystal Gott
Dirigo Juvenile Ange
Brian Warren
Linda Randall
Table
Je Beach
Hazel Carr
Joyce
Dirigo
Mary Griffin
Carolyn Racine
Guptill
Emma Larrabee
Grange
Riverside
Sebec
State and Community Welfare
Republic
Charles White
Edward Blanchard
Cumberland
York
Franklin
Kennebec
Merrymeeting
Topsham Granges
Twin Daughters Born to Mr and Mrs Morris Smart
Mr and Mrs Morris Smart of 6 Drayton Road welcome twin daughters Judith Ann and Janice Ellen born Saturday June 27 at Memorial General. Weights are five pounds 11 ounces and five pounds seven and a half ounces. Visitors are drawing attention at the hospital. Mrs Smart, nee Jane desdhentuat, lives nearby Witch Spring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morris Smart
Drayton Road
Memorial General
Judith Ann
Janice Ellen
Hosital
Smart
Jane Des Dhentuat
Witch Spring
Mrs John Parker Elected Head Of Garden Club Maine
Mrs John Parker of Bath was elected president of the Garden Club Federation of Maine at Bar Harbor with over 160 attendees. Officers include Mrs William Dennison as treasurer and Mrs Arthur H Colby as corresponding secretary, plus Bath based leaders Mrs Milton Blackwell, Mrs Curtis Tracy, and Mrs Loren Thompson. The two Bath clubs presented Parker with a corsage as she accepted the post and praised the federation’s 22 years of growth and civic collaboration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Parker
Bath
Garden Club Federation of
Maine
Bar Harbor
William W. Dennison
Arthur H. Colby
Parker
Milton S. Blackwell
Presque Isle
Curtis E. Tracy
Ellsworth
Loren H. Thompson
Brewer
Maine Federation
Federation
United States
Smith College
University of New Hampshire
Oxford University
England
Graduate School of Education
Harvard University
Medomak
Women’s Legislative Council
North Center P. T. A
Sagadahoc County
Smith College Club
Western Maine
Brunswick
American Association of University Women
Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania
National Farm and Garden Association
Ladies Rotary of
Bath Garden Club
Bath Council of Girl Scouts
Motor Corps
Red Cross and Defense
Cosmopolitan Garden Club
Perker
G. Thomas Murphy
Seth S. Mullin
Arthur Week
David C. Dickson
Carville Douglas
Albert Whitney
Dennison
Douglas
Bowdoinham Opens Its Modern Bridge
Bowdoinham unveils a $145,000 bridge over the Cathance River replacing the old Brooklyn Bridge. The 150 foot steel span with mixed in place surface and concrete sidewalk aims for full completion in about two weeks amid material delays. A temporary one way bridge was removed from the Bowdoinham Brunswick road and moved to Falmouth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cathance River
Bowdoinham
Brooklyn Bridge
Bowdoinham-Brunswick
Falmouth
Boys win week at camp for best conservation essays
Two boys from the Military and Naval Children's Home Bath won the conservation essay contest sponsored by Sagadahoc Rod Gun and Skeet Assoc Inc at Branch Pond near Ellsworth. Ronald J Talbot and Raymond Bishop were winners with Kenneth Nute as alternate. The trip, with basic conservation instruction, will occur in August.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath See
Maine Sportsmen’s Association
Branch Pond
Ellsworth
Sagadahoc Rod, Gun and Skeet Association, Inc
Ronald J. Talbot
Raymond Bishop
Kenneth Nute
Atty
Charles T. Small
Raymond Fogg
Kenneth Jacquith
Hallowell
Maine Sportsmen's Association
Sagadahoc
State Inland Fish and Game Department
Jacquith
Phippsburg
North Bath
Nick Mihalos
Narraganset River
Bakelite employes receive checks totaling near four thousand
The Bakelite Company division of Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation distributed checks totaling 3883 to eight employees as a two year savings plan matured. The company matched 30 cents per dollar for three plus years of service, 20 cents for two years, and 10 cents for one year, with 2 percent annual interest. The plan began July 1 1951 and is the seventh such plan since 1935. a new plan starts July 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bakelite Co
Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation
K. N. Francisco
Bath Iron Works to Launch LST 1159 Thursday
Bath Iron Works Corp will launch the LST 1159 on Thursday after noon at six o clock. Sponsor is Mrs Roy T Cowdrey commandant of the New York Naval Shipyard at Brooklyn New York. The public may attend and the main gate will open at 5 30 preceding the launching.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Iron Works Corp
Roy T. Cowdrey
New York Naval Shipyard
Brooklyn
Rainbow Girls Celebrate Big Party at Temple Hall
Rainbow Assembly 6 for Girls held a festive party at the banquet hall of the Mason Temple Saturday evening with a concert, performances, and booths selling candy food hot dogs popcorn and crafts. Proceeds benefit the Rainbow assembly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rainbow Assembly
Genesta E. S
Masonic Temple
Bath
Dunlap Commandery
Joan Hawkes
Patty Moore
Candy
Alice
Claudia Carter
Judy
Ne Gillespie
Doris McKay
Anna Lonn
Cynthia Osgood
Briggs
Judy Boyce
Scott Libby
Patty A. Robinson
Patty M. Robinson
Rainbow Girls
Burleigh McKay
Cyrus Ashe
Russell Merchant
Manuel Bowers
Kenneth Wood
Rainbow
Diane Bailey
Nancy Eseley
Mabel Ashe
Nancy Doyle
Diane Longley
Margaret Nscom
Jackie Staples
Phyllis Gagner
Judy Skillings
Arline McFarland
Ann Carleton
Edith Lowery
Patricia Guynn
Eleine Pinkham
Annette Bailey
Robert Mitchell
Two Assault Cases Heard in Municipal Court
Judge Gardi ner R. Deering presided over Wednesday’s municipal court session hearing two assault and battery cases. Walter W. Adams of 25 Huse Street pled guilty to assaulting his wife Katherine and the case was filed on payment of $6.82 in costs. James Black of Water Street pled not guilty on the same charge but was found guilty and the case placed on file. One intoxication case resulted in a $5 fine and $5.15 costs, with 30 days probation. Joseph T. Beaudoin of Bath was found guilty of drunken driving, fined $100 and $28.84 costs, and appealed to the Sagadahoc Superior Court October term with a $300 appearance bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gardiner R. Deering
Walter W. Adams
Huse Street
Lynn Bussey
Katherine
James Black
Waterstreet
Loring Clark
Bath
Deering
Black
Joseph T. Beaudoin
Beaudoin
Bath Police
Sagadahoc
Hoggard brothers to join at Chewonki Camp
Jack Hoggard of Wilmington is at Chewonki Camp Montsweag Woolwich and will be joined soon by his brother Sandy. Mrs Hoggard plans to visit her mother Mrs Arthur Corwin in Maine for several weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Hoggard
Edmund Hoggard
Wilmington
N. C
Chewonki
Montsweag
Woolwich
Sandy
Hoggard
Arthur Corwin
E , Ma
Mrs Card and Irene Ann Card Pass Away in Lisbon Falls
Mrs Harry Card and her daughter Irene Ann Card of Lisbon Falls died Wednesday. They were staying with the mother and grandmother Mrs Mary Stover at 14 Fremont street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Card
Irene Ann
Lisbon Falls
Mary Stover
Fremont Street
Sewall Chapter Guest Tuesday at Birch Point
Fifty members of Colonel Dummer Sewall Cha DiA R. were entertained by Summer Mrs. A M Main at Sun Point on Tuesday. A chartered Bath Bus Co. bus carried 27 with others traveling private cars. A fish chowder menu, apple pie, coffee, and mints followed a setting on the porch overlooking the bay and indoors. The head table featured past regents and officers, including present regent Mrs. Ada Minott Haggett. A Scotch auction provided amusement with all items sold. Proceeds support Chapter ways and means. the event closed the summer session before October’s next meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dummer Sewall Cha Dia R
A. M. Main
Sun Point
Bath Bus Co
Central Church
Ada Minott Haggett
Margaret Foote
Jane Lemont
Alice Varney
Marie Andre
Mildred Albee
Alice Litchfield
Lilie Niles
Nellie Lord
Lena Harnden
Lena King
Alice Shorey
Ethel May
Bernice McGlinchy
Myrle Stanton
Mains
Plans for Bath schools junior band tests
Morse High School guidance plans a Seashore Musical Talent Test program for fifth to eighth graders in Bath to identify instrument suitability. Tests cover pitch, loudness, tonal memory, timbre, time, and rhythm, with results sent to parents. Parents interested should contact Cecil Rowland, band director, and register early.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Morse High School
Seashore
Cecil Rowland
Bath assessor Kingsbury attends Maine Tax Appraisal School
Ernest G. Kingsbury, chairman of the Bath Board of Assessors, returned from Orono after a four day session of the University of Maine Tax Assessors Appraisal School. He was elected chairman of the executive board of the Maine Association of Assessing Officers, whose annual meeting is held quarterly in different sections of the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest G. Kingsbury
Bath
Reid State Park dedicates nature trail in Georgetown
A nature trail about a quarter mile long was dedicated at Reid State Park Georgetown. Charles P Bradford Park Superintendent led the ceremonies with Harold W Dyer and I A Trueworthy among attendees. The Maine Federation of Garden Clubs sponsored the project to identify trees mosses and wildflowers with aluminum tags.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Park Toll House
State Park Commission
Charles P. Bradford
Harold W. Dyer
Augusta
I. A. Trueworthy
Bath
Park Commission
Bradford
Garden Club Federation
Hyde Memorial Home For
Maine
Maine Federation of Garden Call
Clara Meshes Reid
Walter E. Reid
Georgetown
Reid State Park
Josephine Newman
Frank Lowe
Harrison
Allen Rowe
Portland
John Parker
Maine Federation of Garden Clubs
Harriett Worrell
Philadelphia
Marie I. Preston
Pine Tree Society For
Federation
Clara Holway Reid
The
Reid
E Chu
Unve Lowe
Gen. Lowe
Army
Chandler H. Portland
Thompson F. Dow
Elizabeth
Osewantha Garden
South Portland
Arthur Colby
Aewast Asophy
Medomak
Herbert Sherburne
Frank Nature Club
Lowe
Lee Bath
Naval Architects Meet at Bath With Travel and Tours
More than 90 members of the New England section of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers attended the annual Spring meeting in Bath. Papers by A D Caton and A M Butterfield were presented at Bath Iron Works. The event included a luncheon, a cruise to Boothbay Harbor for the ladies, tours of BIW and Hyde Windlass plants, and a dinner at Newagen Inn. Co chairs were John R Newell and Rodney E Ross Jr with a committee listing BIW and Hyde Windlass members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
The
Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers
Society
Bath Iron Works
A. D. Caton
A. M. Butterfield
Catton
Butterfield
Bath
Hyde Windhass Company
BIW
Argo
Boothbay Harbor
Boothbay
Newagen Inn
John R. Newell
Press- Bath Iron Works
Rodney E. Ross, Jr
Hyde Windlass Co
G. B. Connard
A. Mayo
Andrew M. Butterfield
J. F.cooke
Nugent Explains Dirigo Boys State Experience to Legion
Patrick Nugent, son of Mr and Mrs George Nugent, praised the Smith Tobey post for sending him to Dirigo Boys State at Orono. He described a large program with sports government and food and said it taught town and state government through active participation. The post plans to invite him to return in the Fall for a fuller report. Two new members were admitted, Donald Gurney and Henry St Louis, both World War veterans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smith-Tobey Post
A. L
Russell N. Turcotte
Patrick Nugent
George J. Nugent
High Street
Dirigo Boys
Orono
Bath Legion Post
Young Nugent
Dirigo
Nugent
Donald Gurney
Henry St. Louis
Turcotte
William Milliken
Wedding interrupted by three car crash at East Brunswick
Eight people were injured when a three car collision on Route One at East Brunswick interrupted the wedding plans of Rodney E. Mears and Dorothy Thoms on. The couple, 19 and 18, were treated for cuts and bruises and postponed their plans. The most seriously hurt were Gwendolyn G. White, 32, and her mother Mabel White, 65, with facial and pelvic injuries. Other injured include Frank Cummings, 76, David A. Brownell, 20, Madeline Mace, 16, and Gerry Mace, 18. State Trooper Buzzell said excessive braking to avoid a raccoon caused the crash. Navy shore patrols aided at the scene. Only the raccoon escaped unharmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Brunswick
Rodney E. Mears
Richardson Street
Dorothy Thompson
Bath
Brunswick Hospital
Gwendolyn G. White
Lisbon
Mabel White
Frank Cummings
Topsham
David A. Brownell
Madeline Mace
Gerry
George C. Buzzell
Miss White
Brunswick
Cummings
Gerry Mace
Navy
Vacuum cleaner dusting brush helps clean books
A guide suggests using the vacuum�s top brush attachment to dust books. It notes the attachment fits for removing dust from book surfaces and spines, offering an efficient cleaning method for readers with many volumes.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ceara M. White
Joseph W. Larrabee
Edric Wheeler
Elizabeth Williams
Ceres
Mane Curtis
Lillian Henderson
Virginia Lemay
Shirley Merrill
Gladys Allen
Grace Knight
Cynthia Morse
Eleanor Ripley
Son
Avith
Woolwich Grange
Sewall
Birch Point
PLANS
School OF Tax
Offine
Aismmeta
Naval Architects
Marine Engineers Meeting
Newagen Nn
Legion OF Boys
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