Phippsburg Community Notes Include Wills Talk and Travel
Congregational arch service attendance drops to a dozen as Johansen of Mere Point preaches. Bath bus runs to Head Beach for workers. cured algae distributed to shipping points. Mrs. Rebecca Minott enters Dromore Farm Bureau in Center. Meeting centers on will making with round-table discussion. Local features cover residents' anniversaries, military assignments, and summer relocations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clement
V. Johansen
Mere Point
Bath
Owths
Algea
Rebecca Minott
Dromore Farm Bureau
Lynette Aides Town Faithful Service Worker Remembered
A former Christian service worker Lynette spent three years conducting services and schools across village settlements. Residents recall her as a welcomed helper who extended a glad hand to those she contacted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brook
Lynette
Meadowbrook Cottage Guests Include Johnsons and Visitors
Mr and Mrs Samuel Johnson of Hartford Conn spend three weeks at their Meadow brook cottage, their first long visit since purchasing the property. Miss Muriel Johnson visited with relatives. Lieut George E Chadbourne Jr on a 14 day Army Air Corps furlough called at Pleasant View farm. Dr Paul Tuttle of Quaker Point visited Maurice Libby camp. The Carl Severins arrived for a two week stay at Meadowbrook camp entertaining Mr and Mrs Car Pinson and family over the weekend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Johnson
Hartford
Quakers Point
Maurice Libby
Carl Severins
Meadowbrook
Car Pinson
Dromore Grange Minutes Show July Social and Preparations
Dromore Grange met Tuesday evening with Robert Metcalf as W M presiding. Applications for membership were heard. Past Masters and Lecturers plan a July 19 gathering at Dirigo grange hall with supper at 6 30 p m and a social hour with dancing. Visitors from Dirigo and Bodwell granges attended. Refreshments were served. Next meeting is July 24 followed by a social. refreshments will be served. The organizing committee includes Clarence Spinney, Kenneth Leonard, Edward Hawkes Jr, Edna Oliver, Carolyn Wallace and Marjorie Rogers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dromore
Robert Metcalf
W.M
Dirigo
Bodwell
Clarence Spinney
Kenneth Leonard
Edward Hawkes, Jr
Edna Oliver
Carolyn Wallace
Marjorie Rogers
West Point Wedding and Fishing at Frank Walls Pier
A wedding reception at Mrs Flora Gilliam home celebrated Mr and Mrs Lawrence Wallace of West Point with gifts and a cake by Miss Golar Scott. The couple’s families included Frank Fowler of Richmond and Omar Wallace. Music and dancing followed, along with a large tuna haul later reported near Frank Walls pier in West Point. Mrs Carlton Scott was summoned home to Belfast due to her mother Ella Carter’s illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flora Gilliam
Lawrence Wallace
West Point
Frank Fowler
Richmond
Hattie Doughty
Omar Wallace
Golar Scott
Fred Hutchins
Leon Davis
Fred Wallace
Albert Davis
Henry Wallace
Brunhilda Scott
Mima Gilliam
Everett Wallace
Frank Walls
Carlton Scott
Belfast
Ella Carter
Personal Notes on Summer Visits and Health in Boothbay Harbor
Miss Minnie White of Washington street left Thursday for a few days in Boothbay Harbor. Miss Virginia Jennings of Washington D C returned there after a month with her sister Mrs E E Ingalls of North Bath. Mrs W N Blake and children David and Karen of Newport News Virginia are visiting Mrs Blake's parents Mr and Mrs Jed F Hallowell on Cherry street. Mrs W L Ham of Sasanoa Bluff and cousin Miss Virginia St Clair of Lisbon Falls who is staying here left Wednesday for a few days at Old Orchard. George Wallace, bedridden since November at his daughter Mrs Lester Campbell's Washington street home, can now go downstairs and outdoors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnie White
Washington Street
Boothbay Harbor
Virginia Jennings
Washington, D. C
E. E. Ingalls
North Bath
W. N. Blake
David and
Karen
Newport News
Virginia St. Clair
Lisbon Falls
Old Orchard
George Wallace
Lester Campbell
Washington © Street
Bertha Harding
Carroll Hunt
Crawford Drive
Lydia Hutchins
Noble Avenue
Lewiston
Smith
Larrabee
Florence Welch
Office Drive
Pittsfield
Boston
John Welch
Welch
Charles Welch
Oklahoma
Orono
Lores McCloskey
Gloucester
Mass
Charles Chapman
Mathews Avenue
Parker Head Hymn Sing and Community Picnic Gather Local Residents
The Bailey Camp of Three Fevers at Small Point join Miss Harmon for a 7 30 p.m. hymn sing at her home after a 6 p.m. picnic at Weiner Rock. The PTA picnic hosted by Mrs. Lawrence Thayer drew 28 attendees, with many local families and guests listed. Other community activities include 4H club meetings, visits to Small Point school, and numerous local residents visiting relatives and attending church services despite rain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Harmon
Bailey
Weiner Rock
PTA
Lawrence Thayer
John Rollins
Grace
Billy Kraft
Mary Wortman
Lois
Bradley Rollins
Earl Lowell
William
Harriet
Carolyn Wyman
H. N. Doughty
Warren
Seymour Hunter
Bonnie
Sandra Mank
Orlando Tibbetts
Douglas
Roger
Raymond
Beryla Nisbet
Albert Gray Jr
Beverly
Mary
Robert
Lewis Moore
Frances Shepherd
Brunswick
Leona Harmon
H. D. Mank Sr
Leslie Logan
Frank Wyman
Stephen Thayer
Freeman
Lorraine
Barbara Harrington
Small Point
Seekins Family Buys Preston Clark Cottage for Summer
Ralph Seekins of Washington Street Bath bought the Preston Clark cottage for a summer home and they are spending the weekend there. Their son Archie Seekins and family joined them on Sunday. Mrs Frank Wyman visited several days with her daughter Mrs Robert Jewell in Bath before returning home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Seekins
Washington Street
Bath
Preston Clark
Archie Seekins
Frank Wyman
Robert Jewell
Jewell
Children Conduct Services at Nequasset Church Sunday
Children who have attended for two weeks will lead the Nequasset Congregational church worship this Sunday, showing their work and handicrafts. The school averages 25 attendees. closing picnic is set for Wednesday, July 25. Rev. Showet Milliken directs with Mrs. Milliken and Mrs. Harold Gilmore assisting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nequasest Congregational Church
Weks
Showet Milliken
Milliken
Harold Gilmore
Beatrice Beal
Geraldine Fogg
Patricia Maass
Marguerite Cromwell
Woolwich
Mr. Milliken
Nequasset Church
Ferry Congregational
Lipper Ship Launches at South Portland
In South Portland on July 18, the Liberty type steamship Samuel R. Aitken was christened at New England Shipbuilding Corp. by widow Margaret E. Aitken. The vessel is the third of 12 ships for transporting airplanes, named after former Moore-MacCormack official Samuel R. Aitken born in Belfast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Portland
Samuel R. Aitken
Moore-MacCormack Steamship Co
New England Shipbuilding Corp
Aitken
Margaret E. Aitken
West 12Th Street
New York
New England
Sip
Belfast
Northern Ireland
U.S. Shipping Board
Moore-MacCormack Organization
F for Famine London Aid Packs by RAF
The Royal Air Force speeds relief to liberated areas with pre digested food in labeled E Treatment Packs F for famine designed for starving patients unable to assimilate normal foods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Royal Air Force
Mrs Gray and kin travel to visit Massachusetts kin
Mrs Edgar Gray and her son Franklin of Tower circle with Mrs Gray's mother Mrs Mabel Eaton left on Wednesday to spend a week with Mrs Eaton's sister Mrs Lymen McKay in Winthrop Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edgar Gray
Franklin
Tower Circle
Gray
Mabel Eaton
Wilton
Eaton
Lymen McKay
Winthrop
Mass
Naval blockade tightens Japan shipping lanes from Okinawa
Navy search planes operating from Okinawa have nearly sealed the vital sea route across the Korean and Tsushima Straits between Fusan and southwestern Japan. Admiral Price, newly assigned to command at Okinawa, says only a trickle of enemy shipping can still move.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Okinawa
Japan
Asia
Korean and
Tsusuhima Straits
Fusan
Admiral Price
Popham Beach Summer Residents Weather Toll on Roads
Rain floods the back road to cottages on the south shore forcing cars to stay outside while residents walk in with supplies. Ocean water remains unusually cold this year with less sun, keeping visitors to Silver Lake for fresh water swimming. Coast Guard warnings about unsafe Kennebec shore near Fort Popham are highlighted as low tide caves form. Local residents and visitors, including Lt. Col. George Percy and the Percy family, plus numerous guests from Bath, Waltham, and New York, linger at Ledgewood and Marsh cottages for the season with many returning to summer homes in Maine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Popham
Silver Lake
Atkins Bay
Stanley Hyde
Ledgewood
Coast Guard
Fort Popham
Kennebec
George Percy
U. S. Marines
George Percy, Jr
Baltimore
Minot
Percy
Iwo Jima
Donald
Ance
Caro
Newton
Mass
Wood
Verance
Massachusetts Insitute of Technology
Carroll Watson
Bath
Charles Donnell
South Shore
Malcolm Jordan
Mechanic Falls
Walter Sprague
T. Arthur Caine
Carolyn
Priscilla
Waltham
L. E. Gayton
Auburn
Robert Lorber
Vineland
N. J
Charles Hobbs
New York
Petersham
N. H
Silas Plant
John A. Clark, Jr
Hennessy Cottage
Horace Morse
John
Robert Cody
Milton
Anne
Vermont
D.L. Doherty
Jean
Douglass
West Newton
Buchanan Cottage
Martha Carrel Merwin
Marsh Cottage
Leotha Blodgett
Orange
Robert Erskine
Ernest Oliver
Elizabeth Livingstone
Winchester
Hanni Herzbaum
Shirley Isaacson
New York City
Herzbaum
Vienna
Europe
University of Wisconsin
Mrs Grant and others leave town on Tuesday trips
Mrs Charlotte Grant of Deering Street left Tuesday to visit her daughters Mrs Dorothy Smith and Miss Helen Grant in town. Mrs James Sharkey and children Janet and John Way also left Tuesday to spend weeks with relatives in Ville Massachusetts. Mrs Thomas A Love and granddaughter Marilyn J King returned Monday after a week at Bailey's Island. Mr Edward Carter of Washington DC visits his sisters Miss Abigail and Isabelle Carter on Green Street. Mrs Vivian Brown Weeks Street left Tuesday to stay with her mother at Maine General Hospital Portland. Mr and Mrs William P Drake and children James B Margaret and Anne of Berwin Pennsylvania arrived Saturday to spend time at Birch Point. Mrs C E Herrick of Rockland, living on High Street while employed in Bath, left Tuesday to visit her brother Lez Cousins in Holyoke Massachusetts for a week. Miss Mary Sewall returned to Stone House Farm Thursday night after a trip to the West Coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. P. Dickinson
Oakland
Wis
Islness
Mrckinson
Army of Occupat
Germany
Mr. Dickinson
Phippsburg
Agnes Cutting
Lizzie Minott
Lyman K. Lee
Dover-Foxoft
Ms. Lee
R. Lee
Akland High School
Foxcroft Academy
Maine
John Malcolm, Jr
John Malcolm
Erason
John
Malcolm
James Norton
Ewagen
Harold Sevey
Squirrel Point
Harles Pelka
Juanita Pavey
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Pelka
Harold Tavey
Pelkas
Conecticut
Bess Dickinson
Charlotte Grant
Deering Street
Dorothy Smith
Helen Grant
C. E. Herrick
Rockland
High Street
Bath
Lez Cousins
Holyoke
Mass
Mary Sewall
Stone House Farm
West Coast
Birds and neighbors share Lambert Park life notes
A Lambert Park column reports on a bird sanctuary at the Lerette home with a robin and tame pigeons, plus a backstory of past birds. It notes local canning volunteers, summer illness recoveries, family visits, and residents moving to Gloucester and Bangor, with community updates and contact figures.
Bath area notes travel and hospital news
Miss Joyce Collins of Bu on returned Tuesday after a week with Mr W Brown of Woolwich. William F Murphy towed to his home at 9 Linden Sunday after a vacation in Bridgeport Conn and New York City. He has resumed duties at Bath Memorial hospital. Lt Geneva A Russell ANC of Vanceboro visited Bath friends over the weekend and was transferred to Camp Miles Standish Taunton Mass. Mr and Mrs Walter Stover returned Tuesday after five days in Boston visiting Dorchester and Revere. Mrs Etta Stuart of South Portland is visiting Bath for two weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joyce Collins
W. Brown
Woolwich
William F. Murphy
Linden
Bridgeport
Conn
New York City
Murphy
Bath Memorial Hospital
Geneva A. Russell
ANC
Vanceboro
Bath
Memorial Hospital
Camp Miles Standish
Taunton
Mass
Walter Stover
Granite Street
Boston
Dorchester
Revere
Yanks Will Miss Hyde Park When Leaving Britain
London dispatch notes GIs now stationed in Britain will miss Hyde Park the most, a public space where the poor once found solace and free speech. The piece recalls crowd scenes around outspoken ladder speakers, cross-Atlantic nostalgia, and shared rituals from Rock of Ages to Old Rugged Cross as soldiers settle back into civilian life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yanks
Hyde Park
Britain
G. I's
Market Street
Greenwich Village
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Grace Malcolm-Paine
Jean Malcolm
Egg Hill
Theummer
Wollasmm
Minie Sparks-Malcolm
Victoria Jewellfutler
Dromore Grange
Red
Eva Hitler
Berlin
Eva Braun
Hitler
International
Parker
Sally Lowell
Joyce Gray
Bailey Camp
Sam Young
Dracut
Sam Wilfred
Gar Russell
Linda
Small Point Cottage
Walter Cushing
Bobby
Machinsport
Clayton Hoar
Solange Reno
Rosalie Richards
Marie Wyman
Richards
Ruth Westene
East Boston
J. Ashton Nickerson
Bernard Webber
The
Merchant Marine
Nickersons
Elwood Hathorne
Natalie
Sandra
Charles Blaisdell
Alan Williams
Tommy Cressey
T. O. Percy
Brooklyn
N. Y
Roy Donnell
Turner McCarty
Frank Burnell
Olive Deejay
Walker Street
Leston Harrington
Burnell
Eugene Harrington
Jones
Everett
Blanche Logan
W. Gage
Wilma Hodgkins
Winnifred Whately
H. D. Mank Jr
Medford
Thayer
Cox
Sgt
Leonce Libby
Topsham
Sgt. Libby
Francis Luke
Perkins Island
Mr. Luke
Osgoods
Portland
Eddie Hill
Bob Moore
John Kreidler
Eleanor Bertrand
Lorraine Kenyon
Arthur Harrington
George Morong
John W. Libby
Camp
Shoemaker
U. S. Naval Training and Distribution Center
Wyman
Stanton Dozois
Diana
Ival Garvin
Holliston
Constance Carlisle
James Hutchins
Institute of Living
Martin Goodwin
Edith Perkins
Monroe Wilber
Vernon Philbrook
Leslie Lawrence
J. E. Jopling
Little Cox's Head
Pulpis
Lipper Ship Launches
Manchuria
Pacific Ocean
Yellow Sea
Korea
China Sea
Formosa
Sea OF Japan
Popham Beach
Lambert Park
Henry Lerette
Lerettes
Hallowell
Patricia
Largay
Thurle Gray
Denny Road
Helen Camp
Hal Boyle
Times Square
Main Street
States
Marble Arch
Greensward
SEARS
Pennsylvania
Ian
Berne
Ger
Allstate
Jonser
Chevrolet
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