Phippburg Moths Ravage Orchards and Parish News
The brown tail moth caterpillars have defoliated many apple trees and left bare branches across Phippsburg. Rev. Robert C. Whitehead preached at the Vernon Heights Congregational church on fear and faith, while next week Rev. Chester B. Oliver will speak in Bath. The town board logged aliens registering, noting twelve by 4:30 p.m. Saturday, with some residents unaware of the process. Fireworks over Casco Bay at Brightwater colony marked the Fourth with sky rockets seen from Dunday's Harbor to Small Point. Personal notes mention neighbors visiting, sailing, and cottages in Brightwater and Small Point, plus local building and maintenance projects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cutting-Campbell
Robert C. Whitehead
Vernon Heights Congregational Church
Mount Vernon
Phippsburg
Chester B. Oliver
Wesley Methodist Church
Bath
Board of Selectmen
Elijah Bartlett
Raymond MactIntire
Raymond Wyman
Maine
Brightwater Colony
Han Island
Emma Perry
Casco Bay
Dunday’s Harbor
Harpswell
Orrs Island
Small Point
Walter Pierce
Kittery
Cora Campbell
Pierce
Navy Yard
George Penton
New York City
George Davis
Pierre Lambert
Miss Perry
Lauriston Trott
James
Brunswick
Donald Preble
Cranberry Point
Jhhey
Preble
George M. Bonney
Brookline
Mass
John Rogers
John Clark
Walter Stevens
Howard Bowker
Stoneybrook
Theodore Beven
Manchester
N.H
Istromore
James Jenkins
Jordan Cottage
William Grievers
Rockville
N. J
Hezekiah Harrington
George Knotton
Claremont
Harrington
Knolton
Teddy Lee
Mrs. Delano
Lee
Exeter
N. H
George W. Larrabee, Jr
Dromore
Personal Notes on Local Marriages and Visits
Howard Brenton Barter 89 Dum mer street and Hazel Eva Bold Georgtown filed marriage intentions. Mr and Mrs Albert Alley plan to Boston where they will reside. Mr Alley works at Charlestown Navy Yard. Mrs Leslie P Whitten Union NJ visits her father in law L Arthur Whitten 204 Washington street then goes to Hallowell to visit her mother Mrs Ernest Shepard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Brenton Barter
Dummer Street
Hazel Eva Bold
Georgtown
Albert Alley
Boston
Alley
Charlestown Navy Yard
Leslie P. Whitten
Union
N. J
L. Arthur Whitten
Washington Street
Hallowell
Ernest Shepard
Greenleaf to Start Clam Farming on the Depleted Flats
Sea and Shore Fisheries Commissioner Arthur R. Greenleaf announces a Maine coast program to plant clams on two acres per county this summer. Seed stock will come from crowded beds, flats will be closed for two years, and propagation will follow successful methods from other states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Arthur R. Greenleaf
Greenleaf
Massachusetts
Dlam
Winnegance Notes and Local Improvements Highlight Community
A New Meadows river cruiser owned by Charles E. Hewitt 3d of Winnegance was launched Saturday built by F. W. Larrabee of West Bath. Residents report woodchucks damaging gardens and Fred Oliver of Bath Iron Works enjoys a paid week’s vacation. Charles Rogers paints his house while Herbert Morse advances a High street project opposite Harold E. Rogers. Frank Perow clears a giant horse chestnut stump and builds a stone wall. A camp was moved near Pitch Pine hill. road crews should repair railing damaged by a past crash. Harry Butler progresses on his Dromore home as Mrs. Butler plans to join him later this month. Women’s Auxiliary of Winneganee Community club meets Thursday with Mrs. Winfield W. Morse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Meadows
Charles E. Hewitt 3d
Winnegance
Bath Iron Works
F. W. Larrabee
West Bath
Fred Oliver
Bath Iron Works Corporation
Charles Rogers
Herbert Morse
High Street
Harold E. Rogers
Frank Perow
A. D. Adams
Pitch Pine Hill
Harry Butler
Dromore
Boston
Humphreys
Granville Colby
Richard Hersom
Carl Serberina
Kenneth Smith
Almena Jacques
Hazel Cunningham
Bernard Plummer
Clifford Smith
Mexico
Ruth Trueworthy
Robert ‘Toothaker
Caroline
Brunswick
Agnes Humphreys
Charles Morse
Horace Morse
Sebasco
Rhyncer
Reading
Penn
Horace Savage
Shirley Pratt
Foster Pratt
Bath
Herbert Kellaway
Ida Kellaway
Newton Center
Jean Fletcher
Newton
Kellaway
Miss Fletcher
Boothbay
Charles Chapman
Richard Tibbetts
Popham
Peter Isaacson
Irving Isaacson
Boothbay Harbor
Alton Cheney
Royal Cheney of
Seguin
Portland
Portsmouth
Eastport
Linwood Haynes
Omar King
Edward Bridgham
Frank Jones
Ory
William Briggs
Jones Cottage
Elkaneh Wyman
Margaret
Spruceville
Bernice Carr
Barbara
Nancy Hyde
Mary
Betty Anderson
Janice Towne
Philip Lane
Melrose
Mass
Florence Carson
West Somerville
William Cupit
Brookline
Frank Scott
Irving Dobbin
Marine Hospital
Clarence Perkins
Rufus Lombard
Floyd Harding
Gilbert Cormier
S Gilbert
Auburn
John Dudley
Augusta
Ida
Theron Preston
Way Dudley
Donna Blair
William Wallace
Freeman Oliver
Woolwich
John Coughlin
Sarah Coughlin
Florence
Betty
Janet
Jean
Beverly
Walter Coughlin
Albert Comeau
Malden
Herbert Lerman
Grace Lerman
Carole
Clarence Spinney
Fred Fitch
Prudence Fitch
Ketch Water Witch Grounds Off Perkins Island
The 40 ton ketch Water Witch from Gloucester with M F Hammond and friends aboard grounded off Perkins Island in the Kennebec near West Georgetown as tide fell. Coast Guard at Popham Beach rescued the scene crew who expected the vessel to float free on the flood tide. Water Witch reached port Tuesday noon. Also notes Mr and Mrs Peter Stewart of Atlantic City NJ visiting relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gloucester
M. F. Hammond
Perkins Island
Kennebec
Niles Cameron
Parker Head notices brighten summer town events
Fireworks display by the Boy Scouts drew strong crowds on the town wharf in Parker Head. Religious services shift to Phippsburg Center with a Sunday song service and a July 7 start. Vacation Bible school begins July 15. A wide mix of local residents and visitors are listed at cottages, visits, and weekend gatherings, with several trips to Bath, Lewiston, Old Orchard, and Mt. Desert Island noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parker Head
Phippsburg Center
Bible Society of Maine
Sam Sternberg
Allan
Marilyn
Ashton Nickerson
Ashton, Jr
Lorna
H. D. Mank, Jr
Barbara
Sandra
Earl Lowell
Lloyd
Sally
Bill
Edwin M. Wyman
Lynette Caverly
Arlene Bassett
Eleanor Gushoe
Wiener Rock
Harold Rogers
Bath
Eugene Harrington
James Kerwin
Lewiston
Helen Cushing
Williams Cottage
the Basin
John Libby
Fred
Sanford
Burleigh Williams
Thornton
Popham Beach
George Morong
Old
John Terrill
Lowell
Mass
Walter McCourt
Leston T. Harrington
Olive Deejay
Albert Fuller
Wayne
Leola
Robert
Marjorie Knight
Edward Hemingway
George Woodward
North Bergen
N. J
Frank Wyman
Leston Harringtons
Charles Blaisdell
Leston Harrington
Beatrice Denningham
John D. Libby
Maurice Blaisdell
Maizie Wallace
Elwood Hathorne
Pearl
Norma
Natalie
Boy Scouts
Karl Stiles
Richard Orvis
Merrill Bassett
Samuel Sternberg
Clarence Wallace
Lown
Truman Taylor
Georgetown
Friends
Allie Rollins
Lesten Harrington
Robert Arndt
John Rollins, Jr
James Chambers
Waterville
James, Jr
William Temple
W. T. Wyman
W. H. Wyman
Carolyn
Harriet
Kenneth Wyman
Mt. Desert Island
Bob Alexander
Boston
Herby Doughty
Roland Eaton
Phippsburg
William Robert Webber
A. Bernard Webber
Webber
H. D. Mank
Edith
Margaret
Noank
Conn
W.T. Wyman
Port Clyde
Coast Guard Exhibit to Highlight Safety at Sea in 1940 Fair
The 1940 World’s Fair will feature a Coast Guard pavilion with a 40-foot Montauk Point lighthouse model, two rescue boats in pools, maps and dioramas, and glass portholes. Fifteen Coast Guard representatives will be on duty for the exhibit, with a special Coast Guard day planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Coast Guard
Fair Corporation
Coast Guard
Samuel F. Gray
New York
Montauk Point
Europe
Coast Guard Corps
Gray
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Palestine
Junior Hadassah
Zionist Organization of Young Women In America
Land of Liberty
Roosevelt
United States
Hanna Named Deputy Supervisor for Explorers’ League
Thomas J. Hanna of Five Islands is appointed deputy supervisor of The Explorers’ League in Denver. The league encourages discovery of fossils shells plants and insects and offers prizes plus possible sale profit. Clubs exist nationwide with Canada and Alaska also represented. Readers may contact Hanna or the Denver headquarters for details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas J. Hanna
Five Islands
Explorers’ League
Denver
Colorado
Hanna
Canada
Alaska
the Times
Local residents return greetings after visits and leaves
Robert Goodridge and Carl Petro of Boston spend weeks with Mrs. Howard Mayo on Milan Street. Warren Bartles resumes duties at Bath Iron Works after visiting his parents in Berlin New Hampshire. Eugene R. Brown USN aboard the Ranger arrives on leave to visit his grandmother. Shirley Mank returns home to 15 Spring Street after visiting her brother Henry Mank in Flushing and Mr and Mrs Edward Thornon at their Cape Cod summer home. Kinda Je, delegate from Pi Beta Phi, to Pasadena California, returns to Bath to visit her parents and work at Staples drug store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Goodridge
Carl Petro
Boston
Goodridge
Howard Mayo
Milan Street
Chester Martin
Beverly
Mass. Thire
Minciin
Prederick Trish
Crestnut Stree
Warren Bartles
Bath Lran Works
Harry Bartlett
Berlin
N. H
Eugene R. Brown
Us.n
Norfolk
Deering Street
Shirley M. Mank
Spring Street
Henry W. Mank
Flushing
L. I
Edward B. Thornon
Hamilton Beach
Cape C Cod
Pasadena
Galil
Pi Beta Phi
Bath
Brian M. Jewett
Westport
Edmund M. Staples
Front Street
Will
Staples Drug Store
Popham Beach Sets Summer Dance and Court Repairs
Tennis court repairs are finished and a net set. fencing planned to stop car access. Summer dances begin at Society hall with Mrs G E McNulty's four piece orchestra, weekly through the season, profits support Society hall upkeep. A community supper and a large social calendar accompany village improvements and safety efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Society Hall
Popham Beach
Fuller and Hathaway
Hathaway Cottage
South Beach
United States
Fort Popham
Clyde L. Pingree
Augusta
Pingree
Popham
Fred Waterhouse
Rangeley Lakes
Louis Gayton
Barbara Rounds
Waterhouse
Coast Guard Station
Henry Leonard
Rockport
Newburyport
John Janvrin
Elizabeth Webber
Miss Webber
White Spot
Jay Bronson
Qwosso
Mich
C. R. Smith
Corenna
Charles S. Walker
Melvin J. Buston
Camden
E. J. Small
Farmington
Allen Dyer
Skowhegan
John Dudley
B. Payne
Philip Fischer
Franklin Square
Long Island
C. B. Hillis
Des Moines
Iowa
O. L. Palin
Cohoes
N. Y
Chenette and
Schenectady
R. T. Dick
Gardiner
Wesley Nichols
Leverett Nichols
Waldoboro
Richard Elliott
Rahway
N. J
William Wallace
Christopher Wallace
West Point
Portland
Boothbay
Coast Guard
Bay Point wedding and holiday notes from Bay Point
A Sunday wedding at the Russian Orthodox church in Springfield Mass joined Alden Eames to Euphrosynia Evoshko with a reception at the bride’s home on Cayenne Street West Springfield. The Fourth of July brought a rain saved crowd and many visitors from Georgetown Bath and Boston scenes with family and friends roaming Bay Point and nearby cottages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alden Eames
Euphrosynia Evoshko
Springfield
Mass
Cayenne Street
West Springfield
Eames
Alden N. Eames
Wilmington
Mags
Bay Point
Walter Coombs
Blanche
Ruth Keen
Henry
Keen
Winifred O'Connell
Valley Stream
N. Y
Don Begeman
Peekskill
W. R. Chamberlain
Mount Vernon
Bridgton
Percy A. Bailey
Gardiner
Jamaica
Reta Murphy
Arlington
Kenneth Dunlop
Boston
Kenneth, Jr
Natalie Arnold
Allen Carlisle
Kennebec Point
Allen
Ralph Carlisle
Carlisle
David Waller
William
Chester Dalrymple
Bath
Elizabeth Hunt
Georgetown
Irving Hunt
Dorchester
G. A. Dodge
Brighton
Earl B. Bowman
Harry
Oak Park
Ill
Bowman's Island
Henry 8
Gang
New York
Ann
Ann Shirley
Ruth Dietrich
Levine
West Georgetown
Herman A. Spinney
Gwendolyn Hanna
Edward Coombs
John
Ruth
Nina Alexander
Birchwood
Mabel Redson
Elizabeth Deering
John McConnell
Richmond
Ben Parrish
George Langill
Shaker Glen
Woburn
Cotton Island
E. R. Wright
Bruce
Carroll Deering
Franklin Koehlwetter
Small Point Beach welcomes summer guests and visitors
Walter F Edge Jr of Chemical Bank and Trust Co returns from Spain after 18 day trip aboard a tramp steamer. Mrs Palmer Mellon and two London children stay at Manley cottage with Mrs Chase Mellon. Rich assortment of Boston New York and Connecticut guests arrive for cottage season across Small Point and Prout's Neck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Fe.dge, Jr
Mr. Edge
Chemical Bank and Trust Co
New York
Spain
Madrid
Bilboa
Edge
United States
Palmer Mellon
Daniel
Joseph
London
Michael
Chandler Cottage
Walner E. Edge
Canada
Restigouche
Frederick C. Perey
Henry Forbes Bigelow
Barbara Bigelow
South Lancaster
Mass
Z. B Adams
Conrad Hobbs
Brookline
N. R. Sturgis
Boston
Ting
Storage plant work begins and housing demand grows
The article notes a storage plant project starting, with increased employment raising rent demand in Bath and nearby towns. It mentions out of town interest in housing expansion possibilities and a scaled project to meet future housing needs. Also reported is the engagement of Miss Moore and James Watrous, with timing for Providence Bible Institute in the fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
James Watrous
Mystic
Conn
Moore
Wilson Moore
Corliss Street
Miss Watrous
Groton
Morse High School
Providence Bible Institute
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Peter Stewart
Atlantic City
John Wishart
Oliver Street
Parker
James B. Drake
Gantes’ School
Hagerstown
Prederick FE. Drake
P. V. Harta
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Man
M. C. Fischer and Sons
Frederic
Charles
Marsh
Fischer
Carmel
Dorothy Mattson
Vernon Mattson
Walter S. Cousens
John W. Whittemore
Whittemore
Priscilla White
Gardner S. Gould
West Newton
Harvey Hartleb
Hartleb Cottage
Paul McCole
Harold Watson Smith
Cumberland
Voorhees
White Mountains
Norman Murphy
Frank Pfeiffer
Worcester
Neuschater
Sylvia Davidson
Jo Prankle Brown
Howard Gayton
Wakefield
Wellesley College
Buchanan
D. L. Doherty
Douglas
Joan
Charles Hathaway
Harvey Waker
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Small Point Beach
Mark W. Sewall
Edward Sewaull
Donald S. Sewall