Cooper-Goldsmith wedding in Norway church
The marriage of Miss Jane Goldsmith of South Paris to Sergeant Edward Cowper of Bangor took place Sunday afternoon at four in the Episcopal church in Norway. It was a war wedding with the groom on leave from Camp Shelby. The church and home reception featured patriotic decorations and family guests from Bath, Portland, and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jane Goldsmith
A. Frank Goldsmith
Paris
Edward Cowper
Bangor
Episcopal Church
Norway
United States Army
Camp Shelby
Miss
Lohengrin
Mendelssein Wer
Carol Stevens
Bath
Thehhurch
Rose Faille
Barbara Ross
Miss Ross
Walter Grey
Harold Fletcher
Sterling Bible Class Meets Monday Night
Sterling Bible Class of Corliss Street Church met Monday evening at 7 45 in the small vestry with Mrs John EH Hunt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sterling Bible Class
Corliss Street Church
John EH. Hunt
Rationing Quarters Plan District 48 Meeting
Stanwood Gilman superintendent announces the rationing schedule for the new gasoline rationing system in District 48. Registration will be held July 1 from 12 to 8 pm at multiple town halls and schools with site administrators listed for each location. Residents and out of state motorists are urged to register promptly to avoid delays and trouble at the stations. Also noted are visits by Mrs Susie Barbour and family to Washington street relatives and local travel through Portsmouth and Brunswick areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred W. May
Edward A. Garcelon
Perley E. Dunbar
Ira Boyden
H. Roy Farnham
Flavel S. Pierce
Pedro Miguel
Herbert Preble
Transportation Committee
Benjamin Coombs
King’s Point
Millard E. Watson
William J. Paisley
Delia Goodwin
Fairfield
Stanwood Gilman
School Union No 48 Ha
Susie Barbour
Sayadahoe Sehool
Reyels
Iraweie
Thur Inetie
Ceorgetown
Coorg Laskyie
Dresden
Vu Margaret Pashard
Tellate
Bernadine Dall Becomes Bride of Edgar G Hancox
Miss Bernadine Margaret Dall, daughter of Mrs. George W. Dall, married Edgar George Hancox Jr at St Marys Church in a 930 AM rectory ceremony. Attendants included James Hickey and Norma Aldrich. The couple hosted a reception for about 50 guests and plan to live at 32 South Street. The bride, Morse high school graduate, wore white organdie. groom a Bath Iron Works Corp employee. Out-of-town guests came from Waterville, Woolwich, Dexter, Portland, Concord, and Hopkinton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bernadine Margaret Dall
George W. Dall
South Street
Mr. Dall
Edgar George Hancox, Jr
E. George Hancox
Hopkinton
N. H
St. Mary's Church
Roland A. Martineau
James Hickey
Dorchester
Mass
Norma Kathleen Aldrich
Waterville
George D. Cabot
Wilbur Higgins
Horatio Jolicoeur
Doris Dall
Richard Johnson
Cabot
Hancox
Alphonse Jolicouer
Adelaide St. Mars
Dexter
Leverett
Welch
Neil Geer
Blanchard Crowley
Woolwich
Alice Dunton
Portland
Charles McCarthy
Brunswick
Clarence
Pine Haven Camp for Girls Scouts Opens Monday
Pine Haven Girl Scout Day Camp in Sewall’s Woods, overlooking sunny and shaded high land, opens for its second season on Monday July 13. Registrations are urged by this week end through Mrs Edward Sewall and Mrs Wilmer Voorhees. Miss Muriel White of Richmond Ind will be camp director with Mrs Linwood Carr as assistant and hobbyist. Three units for intermediates to seniors led by Mrs Voorhees, Mrs Kirk Roberts, and Mrs Alfred Carrigan with several assistants and helpers handling Brownies, dancing, dramatics, sketching, nature, music, and general support activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pine Haven
Sewall’s Woods
Edward Sewall
Wilmer I. Voorhees
Girl Scout Council
Muriel White
Richmond
Ind
Linwood F. Carr
Bath
William Sanders
Gertrude Dole
Grace Crowley
Kathleen Harkins
Frank S. Saunders
Morton F. Young
Caroline Carpenter
Lyndon V. Plummer
Clinton D. Wilson
Frederick D. Burditt
Francis B. Carrigan
Maurice A. Libby
Carl Y. Kennedy
Kennedy
Arthur M. Bowker
Jacob Smith
Bowker
Theatre Ticket Racket Exposed by Local Police
Police and officials from the Opera House and Uptown theaters disclose a ticket theft and resale scheme by nearly a dozen former employees. Ushers allegedly concealed whole tickets and sold them on the street, leading to multiple confessions and potential reform school charges for some, with more arraignments possible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Opera House
Uptown
Percy W. Kingsbury
Lois Halliwill Receives Civilian Protection School Diploma
United States Regional Director Joseph M. Loughlin congratulates Lois J. Halliwill of Bath on graduating from the War Department Civilian Protection School at Amherst College. The letter notes her qualification to serve as an instructor or organizer for Air Raid Precautions Services within Civilian Defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Joseph M. Loughlin
Lois J. Halliwill
Liberty Street
Bath
War Department
Civilian Protection School
Amherst College
Amherst Mass
Loughlin
Amherst
Massachusetts
Mrs Tarbox Emergency Head Appointed War Demonstrator
Mrs John Tarbox of Bowdoinham is named War emergency home demonstration agent in Sagadahoc county by the Maine Agricultural Extension Service for July and August. She will aid Miss Mary Wright in food preservation demonstrations across rural Sagadahoc, teaching canning drying salting and storing fruits and vegetables for winter. The program aligns with a national wartime effort by the U S Department of Agriculture. Mrs Tarbox has long been foods leader on the Twin Androscoggin and Sagadahoc County Farm Bureau executive committee and is skilled in pressure canning. Edward W Vaughan of 66 Oak Street is visiting Benson friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Tarbox
Bowdoinham
Sagadahoc County
Maine Agricultural Extension Service
Tarbox
Mary Wright
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Twin
Androscoggin and
Sagadahoc
County Farm Bureau
Birthday Lawn Party for Carole Lermond in Winnegance
A birthday lawn party for Carole Lermond marked her sixth birthday hosted Monday by Mrs. Herbert Lermond in Winnegance on the Morse grandparents grounds. Guests enjoyed games, cake, ice cream, and a hunt for peanuts, with prizes awarded to Marjorie Rogers and for the donkey pin. Attending were Jeanette Atwood, Marjorie Rogers, Lucy Ann Haggett, Arthur Totman Jr., Nancy Brown, Barbara Morse, Billy Morse, Marion Holbrook, Susan Farrell, Marilyn Spinney, Jean Lermond, and Brunswick visitors Nancy Fournier and Mary DeChane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carole Lermond
Herbert Lermond
Brunswick
Bath
Walter Morse
Winneganee
Marjorie Rogers
Carol
Jeanette Atwood
Lucy Ann Haggett
Arthur Totman Jr
Nancy Brown
Barbara Morse
Billy Morse
Marion Holbrook
Susan Farrell
Marlene Morse
Marilyn Spinney
Jean Lermond
Nancy Fournier
Mary DeChane
Winneeanee
Orman Cogueshall
Waterman Announces Engagement of Dorothy Waterman
Mr and Mrs Fletcher A Waterman of Foster's Point announce the engagement of their daughter Dorothy Mare Waterman to Ednar Dee Owens son of Mr and Mrs Lee Owens of Norridgewock. Dorothy is a Morse high school 1937 graduate and a Bath exchange operator for New England Tel and Tel Co. Ednar Owens is a 1948 Norridgewock high school graduate who studied at Gates Business College and works at the Bath Iron Works office of Captain William S Blair. Owens lives in West Bath with Mrs Lincoln Williams and the couple spent the holiday weekend in Norridgewock with his parents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fletcher A. Waterman
Foster's Point
Dorothy Mare Waterman
Ednar Dee Owens
Lee Owens
Norridgewock
Miss Waterman
Morse High School
Bath Exchange
New England Tel. and Tel. Co
Owens
Norridgewock High School
Gates Business College
Augusta
William S. Blair
Bath Iron Works, Corp
West Bath
Lincoln Williams
Miss Margaret Tourtillotte Dies in Meriden
Miss Margaret Tourtillotte of Center street passed away last week in Meriden Connecticut while among friends, with funeral arrangements to be announced by local authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Tourtillotte
Center Street
Meriden
Conn
Soldier Marries Parker Head Girl at Parker Head
The wedding of Miss Frances Eleanor Libby daughter of Deputy Sheriff John D. Libby Parker Head and Harold Dewayne Barkalow U S A of Phippsburg son of Fred Barkalow Conifer Colo took place Saturday evening at eight in the People s Baptist church parsonage 95 Court street Rev George B Wolstenholme officiated The couple were attended by Mrs Elizabeth M Wyman and Fred A Libby The ceremony was followed by a reception at the Parker Head home of Mr and Mrs Eugene Harrington Mrs Libby and Mrs Harrington assisted in serving refreshments The bride formerly attended Sanford Morse high schools and the groom is stationed at Popham The couple will reside at Parker Head after the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frances Eleanor Libby
John D. Libby
Parker Head
Harold Dewayne Barkalow
U.S. A
Phippsburg
Fred Barkalow
Conifer
Colo
People's Baptist Church
95 Court Street
George B. Wolstenholme
Elizabeth M. Wyman
Fred A. Libby
Parkerhead
Parker Jtlead
John D. Libby, Jr
Lisbon Falls
Bernard Wyman
Beatrice Denningham
Georgetown
Herbert Hopkins
U.S.N
Los Angeles
Calif
Eugene Harrington
Harrington
Harold M. Rogers
Winnegance
Frances Hoar
Sanford High School
Morse High School
Popham
Holbrook Robinson Wedding Held at Winter Street Church
The wedding of Mrs. Doreen Kelley Robinson and Cleveland Paul Holbrook Jr. took place Saturday at 10 30 AM at Winter Street Congregational Church. Attendants included Mrs. Marshall Willis. couple to begin life in Bath after a Camden honeymoon. bride a former dental assistant and Morse High graduate. groom a Bath Iron Works sheet metal worker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doreen Kelley Robinson
Frank R., Kelley
Cleveland Paul Holsbrook, Jr
Cleveland P. Holbrook
High Street
Holbrook
Winter Street Congregational Church
Joseph O. Purdue
Marshall L. Willis
South Street
George W. Hibbs
Somerset Academy
Athens
St. Barnabas Hospital
Portland
Morse High School
Bath Iron Works
Family heads to Sabine for two week cotlace outing
Mr and Mrs James Jenkins of Academy street accompany Mr and Mrs Charles Hingpeett and sons Bobby and Billy of York street as they depart Friday for Sabine for a two week cotlace outing at the Charles Bates cotlace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Jenkins
Academy Street
Charles Hingpeett
Bobby
Billy
York Street
Sabine
Charles Bates Cotlace
Bowdoinham community notices and events overview
Bowdoinham reports a full day Farm Bureau meeting at Knights of Pythias hall where Margaret Prindall demonstrated kitchen utensils. Town clerk Jessie Ames notes ten registrations for the 5th Selective Service. Vacation Church School enrolls 123 children at the Baptist church. Merry Meeting Grange held a Friday session with a program and invite to a Baptist service on July 12. A speeding case on Route 201 resulted in a $10 fine plus costs. Numerous personal items recount visits, travel, and hospital entries, with residents from Bowdoinham and nearby towns visiting family or staying at summer homes, plus local social notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farm Bureau
Knights of Pythias Hall
Margaret Prindall
John Palmer
Frank Heath
Ralph MacEwen
George Hamilton
Leighton
Lewis Lucy
Harry Purington
Jessie Ames
Selective Service
Bowdoinham
The
Baptist Church
Merry Meeting Grange
Sarah Frye
Grange
Mildred Given
Cleveland Curtis
Chester Hobart
John Mattie
Roslindale
Justice Ames
John DeWinter
East
Erland Rogers
Shirley Humphrey
Brunswick
Lancaster School
Gerald Mayo
Donald and
Robert
Auburn
Pye Farrar Wedding Held In this City
The wedding of Mrs Myrtle Nettie Farrar of Boothbay and Clarence Wilson Pye of this city took place Monday evening at 8 30 in the Corliss Street Baptist parsonage. Rev Frederick P Moffatt officiated. The couple's attendants were Elmer F Blake and Mrs Carlton Pye. They will honeymoon in Boothbay and reside on Pine street after returning. Mr Pye works for Hyde Windlass Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Myrtle Nettie Farrar
Boothbay
Charles A. Campbell
Clarence Wilson Pye
Nichols Street
This City
Edgar Pye
Sebasco
Elizabeth (Wilson) Pye
Corliss Street Baptist Parsonage
Middle Street
Frederick P. Moffatt
Elmer F. Blake
Carlton Pye
Ox Horn
Mr. Pye
Pine Street
The
Hyde Windlass Co
Wallace Coffin Wedding at Pye Home in Wallace-Naming
Mrs Ethel Coffin daughter of Edgar M and abeth M Pye married Arthur G Wallace son of late Mr and Mrs Washington J Wallace Friday evening at the bride’s brother Carlton Pye’s home 58 Winship Street Rev Charles R Sims of First Baptist performed the double ring ceremony. The couple will reside at 3 Nichols Street and both work at the Y M C A.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ethel Coffin
Edgar M. Pye
Sebasco
Elizabeth M. (Wilson) Pye
Arthur G. Wallace
Washington J. Wallace
Carlton Pye
Alex Robertson
Robertson
Free man Family Leaves for Westfield Home
Capt. and Mrs. William Free man and their two children Prisetta and Billy departed Tuesday for Westfield New Jersey. After visiting Mrs F D Hill several days they stayed the weekend at the Merrow House in Hampton Beach New Hampshire with Mr and Mrs Arthur Nichols and Mr and Mrs Charles F Cummings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Freeman
Prisetta
Billy
Westfield
N. J
F. D. Hill
High Street
Arthur Nichols
Cobb Road
Charles F. Cummings
Merrow House
Hampton Beach
N. H
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Senter
Ss. Inc
Growin
Ly Child Smith
Alice True
Ross
Steves
Hiram T Stevens
Burt Osgood
Birthday Bank
Stanley Peterson
Audrey
Portsmouth
Bernadine Dall
Edgar G. Hancox
St. Mary’s
Mrs
Edward W. Vaughan
Oak Street
Benson
Boothbay Playhouse
Sherwood Keith
Philadelphia Story
Marjorie Helen Peggs
Katharine Hepburn Role
Wiscasset-Boothbay Highway
Maine
Holly Farm
Pemaquid
New Harbor
Parker
Frances E. Libby
Lilliabell T. Hart
Gardiner
Ce Oo
L. M Newevoiman
Ledgewood
Ocean Beach
Stanley W. Hyde
Frank B. Nichols
North Street
Bank
Wiscasset
Fred B. Reed Co
Mannuer Stanley E. Wallace
Front Street
Lauris Wilson
Edward
Philadelphia
Wilson
Edward Wilson
Kathleen Turner
Lawrence Morang
Arthur Carr
Phillip
Donald
Hazel
Beverly
Pleasant Pond
Wesley Baxter
Ashland
Wallace Hunter
Alvin Purington
Scarboro
Lottie Purington
Gene Me
Autry
Nyoka
Laraine
Barry Nelson
Yank
Burma Road
Gy Laeold
Lionag Atwill
Patai Knowles Anne [Gwynne
Clifton Babb
Corliss Street Parsonage
Rev
Wallace-Coffin
Cy, Tus
Veronica Lake
Robert Preston
Pra
LeTree
Henry Fonda
Tanyts
Ineson Os
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