Phippsburg Strwberry Festival Planned at Center Church
A community strawberry festival benefits Unity Circle will be held on the Center Church lawn Sunday at 2 p m. Attendees may bring a picnic lunch after services. Bodwell Grange meets Friday. civil defense alert tests Friday from 12 55 to 1 05 with church bells ringing. Fire Dept reports a new tank for the truck will be delivered next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Unity Circle
Center Church
Bodwell Grange
Fire Department
Consolidated School Committee
Jewett Renamed to Youth Activities Board Leader
Brian M. Jewett of Day's Ferry is named to a third term as ranking member of the Grand Lodge Youth Activities Committee. The appointment was made by Grand Exalted Ruler Fred J. Bohn of Zanesville and announced through the Chicago Grand Secretary. Jewett chairs the Governor's Highway Safety Committee and will lead the Elks Youth Day program nationwide, with Maine Elks winning top national honors in Youth Day last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brian M. Jewett
Day's Ferry
Grand Lodge
Fred J. Bohn
Zanesville
Ohio
Chicago
Lee Donaldson
Jewett
Elks
Maine Elks Association
New York State
California
Texas
Five-Masted Schooner William C Carnegie Launch Planned
Old paper notes expect arrival tomorrow at noon and a grand launch in the afternoon of the five masted schooner William C Carnegie described as the largest of its kind. An evening water carnival is also planned. Prof Angelo Bertocci and family from Wel lesley Hills Mass were weekend guests of S Theodore Bertocci at 985 High Street on their way to Prince Edward Island for a camping trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William C. Carnegie
Angelo Bertocci
Wellesley Hills
Mass
S. Theodore Bertocci
High Street
Prince Edward Island
Miss Keegan Returns From Girl Scout Camp Wayaka
Miss Nancy Keegan daughter of Mr and Mrs John J Keegan Jr of High Street returns home after two weeks at Girl Scout Camp Wayaka in Oxford with her family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nancy Keegan
John J. Keegan, Jr
High Street
Wayaka
Oxford
Parker Head PTA Sale and Community Notes
Parker Head PTA hosts a cook foods and baked sale August 2 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Parker Head schoolhouse with proceeds aiding Red Cross and other charities. A Baptist church program, Adventurama, and Vacation Bible School events fill the Sunday calendar, plus numerous local visits and travels among families in Parker Head and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parker Head
Harris
Walter Cushing
Lighthouse
Treasury
Popham Beach Fair slated July 24 at village library
The Popham Beach Improvement Association and Popham Circle sponsor the July 24 fair at the Popham library to raise funds for repairs to the village church and library. Attractions include pony rides arts and crafts a book cart food and parcel post sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Popham Beach
Ernest Oliver
Unity Circle
Bath area residents visit relatives and vacation in Cambria era
Mr and Mrs Stanton C Dozois and Mrs Julia B Dozois visited Mrs Horatio L Carlisle of Bath. Miss Jane Thayer visited Robert Jewells in Bath and attended Wakefield outing in Gardiner. The Thayers hosted Roberta Jewell and family visits at their cottage. Mr and Mrs Donald Trask returned to Connecticut from vacation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanton C. Dozois
Julia B. Dozois
Horatio L. Carlisle
Bath
Jane Thayer
Robert Jewells
Wakefield
Gardiner
Donald Trask
Connecticut
Lawrence Thayer
Earl Lowell
Parker Head
Roberta Jewell
Thayer
Robert Moore
David
Linda
Thayers
Ruth Canfield
Cape Elizabeth
Boothbay Harbor
P. J. Lewis
Swampscott
Mass
Norman Dubie
Thayer Cottage
Vernon Philbrook
Patricia
Verna
Wilma
Matinicus
Sarah E. Wilbur
Ralph Seekins
Martin F. Goodwhee
Wolfeboro
Seymour Bigelow
Wiscasset News Roundup and Local Events
Wiscasset Local Selective Service Board 8 closed July 17 during a conference with Major General Lewis B. Hersey in Augusta. Community notes include Child Health Clinic, sympathy to Mrs. Caroline Farmer, death of Clara Hodgdon by drowning, new planning board sworn July 10 with Brewster Doggett as chair and Donald Brackett as secretary. Red Cross swimming classes at Biscay Pond and bus schedules, Fire Society Ladies Night, births, engagements, travels, and church services led by Lay Reader Eugene McGrath. Open House planned August 15 and Bishop Oliver Hart to preach at St Philip's.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Selective Service Board No
Augusta
Lewis B. Hersey
Selective Service
St. Philip’s Parish House
Wiscasset
Caroline Farmer
Clara Hodgdon
East Boothbay
Little River
Selectman
Brewster Doggett
J. William Schulze
Donald Brackett
Walter Sherman
Conrad Peters
Red Cross
Edgecomb
Biscay Pond
Robert Sutter
Amaco
Graydon Fowles
Painted Post
N. Y
John Jackson
Churchill Street
Daen Milton
Everett D. Schubert
Miles Memorial Hospital
Damariscotta
Delmas Leighton
Rowe
Wilton
Barbara Higgins
South Carolina
Camp Chewonki
Robert P. Frazier
Bella
Devils Island
Eugene McGrath
St. Philip's
William P. Merry
Old Bath Road
Pauline Florence
Oscar Cronk, Jr
Oscar Cronk
A. G. Varney
Roslindale
Mass
Leslie A. Sullivan
Sullivan
Clinton Harris
Edward
Malvern
Penn
St Philip's Church
Oliver Hart, DD
Pennsylvania
Popham Beach hosts annual arts and crafts fair
The Popham Beach Improvement Association and the Popham Circle sponsor a town fair at Popham Beach featuring arts and crafts paintings special gifts books miniature gardens and children activities including pony rides. The event supports the chapel and library maintenance funds and runs from 1 to 5 p.m. next Tuesday with a rain date of the next fair day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Popham Beach
Local Residents Visit Friends and Relatives
Mansfield Connecticut and Sebasco Estates seen as visitors host Ruth Canfield Miss Ruth Can field hosted by Mansfield and Sebasco Estates. C Harry Hanna Ford and East Lynn visitors stayed at their home. Edward P Thomas Jr and Bath family visited. Arthur Lilly of Portland joined Friday calls. group traveled to Reid State Park amid general social visits. note mentions box car floor covered with white lime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert FitzGerald
Weston
Mass
Vernon M. Mattson
Dorothy Mattson
Vernon M. Mattson, Jr
Newton
Herbert Sancomb
Wellesley
Linwood Payson
Wayland
Payson
Myra Scott
Allan Rogers
Manchester
N. H
Mildred Sprague
Sea Acres
Koopman
Army Information
Fort Slocum
N. Y
John Gaines
Oneida
Roland Sawtelle
South Paris
Paul Laignon
Laconia
Robert A. Fiske
South Portland
Marguerite McNulty
Irving Varney
Bath
Ida Oliver
Philip Wade
New Canaan
Walter F. Gilmore
Della Gilmore
Framingham
Paul McBride
Herbert R. Sprague
Mildred Wallace
Candy’s Harbor
Harold Leeman
Everett
Robert Sprague
Memphis
Tenn
Carrie Stone
Augusta
Lawrence Olsen
Marblehead
Sprague House
Cox's Head
Roger Oliver
Allan Spear
Cook
North Carolina
Edward Marsh
Charles J. Donnell
Kalamazoo
Mich
Mas
Joseph Rogers
Anniston
Ala
Lloyd Jermain
Victoria
B. C
Donnell
Connors
Gladys
Dorothy Connors
Judith Lewandos
White Plains
Ralph Marsh
Victor Roberts
Pottstown
Hennessy
Mary Ray
Moore
Linwood
Walter F. Gilmore, Jr
Joyce
Oakland
N. J
Merton Wright
Susanna Bluls
Reid State Park
Woolwich Community Notices and Social Scenes
Woolwich social notes recount visits and visits to Day's Ferry and Bath, with families staying at camps on Damagiscotta Lake and at Capitol Island. Local events include Canasta Club banquets, Retired Teachers Association meeting in Brunswick, and Elks conventions in Chicago. A neighbor, John Preble, nears 97, holder of Boston Post gold cane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank J. Walker
Day’s Ferry
Russell Boyd
Boston
Belfast
Lincolnville Beach
Linda Skillings
Erwin Skillings
Bath
Miss Smith
Walter Smith
Middle Road
Forrest Baker
Patricia
Dennis
Philip
Nequasset
Damagiscotta Lake
Baker
Rosa Shea
Albert Poole
Glenda
Martha
Charlotte
Woburn
Mass
Poole
Carroll Morse
James Thorpe
Day's Ferry
Bath Memorial Hospital
Frank Thorpe
Webster
Kenneth Thorpe
Auburn
John Preble
Lemuel Preble
Hopkinton
Irving Miller
Preble
Boston Post
Douglas Seaver
Stephanie
Malcolm
Middleton
Capitol Island
Southport
Frank J. Wiker
Alice Galvin
The
River Road
Frank Bailey
Richard Andrews
Malden
Ralph Champion
Woolwich
Brunswick Hospital
Alice Norris
Lawrence R. Vail
T. Tarpy Schulten
Woolwich Center
Kennebec
Deer Island
N. B
Philip Beaney
Nequasset Extension Group
Cosmopolitan Club
Jean Spearin
Lewiston
Ruth Murphy
Montsweag
Jeanette Groves
Washington Street
Avis Duncan
Elsie Stinson
Doris Carter
Rita Fleming
Rita Flemming
Grace Smith
Gertrude Brown
Pegay Hathorne
Brian M. Jewett
Chicago
National Elks
Jewett
Grand Lodge
Maine Elks Association
Wilbur Presley
Rosalie Hathorn
Charles Presley
Residents and visitors share Maine summer scenes
A flurry of social notices lists visits and gatherings across Arrowsic, St Johnsbury, Rochester, Spinney Mills, Bath, Wiscasset, and surrounding towns. Families such as the Emersons, Ellises, Dodds, and Presbys appear among out-of-towners and locals at cottages, camps, and private homes with trips to Damariscotta Lake, Camp Hinds, and Bath Memorial Hospital.
Bath Iron Works vacation hosts Small family at Robin Hood cottage
Mr and Mrs Edwin Small and their children Terrance Nancy and Laurie of Bailey street stay this week at Robin Hood cottage while Mr Small takes a vacation from Bath Iron Works Corp duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin Small
Terrance
Nancy
Laurie
Bailey Street
Robinhood
Mr. Small
Bath Iron Works Corp
Art Festival in Brunswick Promises Two Regional Shows
The Woman's Auxiliary of St. Paul’s Church in Brunswick hosts an summer art festival at Codman House on Pleasant Street featuring Edythe Laws July 24 to August 7 and Dahlov Spear August 14 to August 28. Teas will be served on opening days with additional civic sponsors from Auburn Bath Bowdoinham Freeport Portland Tops ham and Wiscasset.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brunswick
St. Paul’s
Codman House
Pleasant Street
Edythe Laws
Maine
Bowdoin
Colby
University of Maine
Farnsworth Museum
Rockland
Miss Laws
British West Indies
Dahlov Spear
Robinhood
Sppear
Marguerite Zorach
William Zorach
Cadman House
Woman’s Auxiliary
Auburn
Bath
Bowdoinham
Freeport
Portland
Topsham
Wiscasset
Cosmopolitan Drama Club Enjoys Picnic Party
Members of the Cosmo Drama Club gathered at Mrs. Madelyn Pierce’s Cumberland Center home for an afternoon and evening picnic. Guests shared hot dishes and salads, desserts and beverages, with summer flowers decorating the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cosmo Drama Club
Cosmopolitan Club
Madelyn Pierce
Cumberland Center
Paul Marchant
Damariscotta Lake
Mrs. Pierce
Mary Leonard
Elinor Matter
Adelaide Raynes
Ruth Farnham
Demerise Hart
Nellie McCabe
Grace Bonsey
Dorothy Eseley
Thelma Knight
Pierce
Nightingale Club Supper Party at Mary Perry Home
The Nightingale Club held a supper party on Wednesday at Miss Mary Perry's Center street home. Flowers decorated the room as Mrs. Arthur King led a business meeting planning the summer. Card prizes went to Mrs. Harold Small first, Mrs. Arthur King second, and Mrs. Edward Footer third.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nightingale Club
Mary Perry
Center Street
Perry Gardens
Arthur King
Carroll Davis
Bay Point
Harold Small
Edward Footer
Herbert Cavanaugh
Arlene Footer
J. Arthur Burgess
Emery Footer
Joseph Cyr
Club 42 Holds Annual Dinner Meeting at Edgecomb
Members of Club 42 met July 11 at Emerson's Smorgasbord in Edgecomb for their annual dinner meeting. Plans were laid for a similar gathering August 22 at the Summer Kitchen on Westport Island. Guests included Mrs Ira Durgin Mrs George Hart and Mrs Francis Doyle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Club 42
Emerson
Smorgasbord
Edgecomb
Westport Island
Ira Durgin
George Hart
Francis Doyle
Arthur Sturtevant
Maurice Owen
Edward Jones
Norman Seekins
David Desmond
William Greene
Harry Allen
Milton
Former Bath Family Sets Course for Mt Edgecombe Alaska
Mr and Mrs John Moore and daughters Rachel and Jessica will leave Bath area for two years as Mr Moore takes a Civil Service teaching post with the U S Bureau of Indian Affairs at Mount Edgecombe Alaska The family has lived in Stonington while Mr Moore taught industrial arts at Stonington High School They will depart July 20 from Bangor to Seattle then plane to Juneau and Mount Edgecombe Mrs Amelia Mitchell Mrs Merritt A Mitchell entertained the Moores during a farewell supper with local relatives and officials including City Council chairman Merritt A Mitchell
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Moore
Rachel
Jessica
Stonington
Moore
Stonington High School
Merritt A. Mitchell
Dike Road
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Maine
Alaska
U. S
Mount Edgecombe
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Higgins Classical High School
Charleston
Gorham State
New England
Amelia Mitchell
Morse High
Dummer Sewall
Gorham State Teachers College
Mootre
George Moore
Waldoboro
Bath
Weeks Street
City Council
Mrs. Mitchell
Surprise Stork Shower for Mrs. James W. Gilman
Mrs. James W. Gilman of Phippsburg received a surprise stork shower on July 10 at the home of Mrs. James Chambers in Phippsburg. Guests from Popham Beach to Hingham Mass attended and gifts and refreshments were shared, with a pink and blue themed shower cake prepared for the occasion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James W. Gilman
Phippsburg
Mpss
James Chambers
Gilman
Popham Beach
Sebasco Estates
Phippsburg Center
Ashdale
Small Point
Winnegance
Bath and Hingham
Mass
Maurice Blair
Stanley Hanscom
Martin Wyman
Mark Gilliam
Leo Hamel
Sandra Cavanaugh
Lester Morse
Judith Morse
Joseph C. Perkins
Linda Perkins
Clifford Pye
John McCourt
Maurice Pye
Ramond Pye
Clyde Pye
Fay Pye
Charles Dodge
Winthrop Blair
Stanley Perkins
Willard Lowell
Ida Nordlund
Martha Robinson
Martin Eaton
Gordon Alden
Mabel Slocum
Truman Roberts
Ralph Williams
Bath elects new faces as council shifts in Bath politics
Hutchins is not a special election and the scene features Harvey V. Rowe former Councilman Roy Bradford and Frank E. Harvie, all newcomers to Bath politics along with Hutchins and Mrs. Blair. The footer lists numerous named residents including Mrs. Paul Hart and Mrs. Leonard Smith in the local scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvey V. Rowe
Roy Bradford
Frank E. Harvie
Hutchins
Mrs. Blair
Bath
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Sally Rainey
Religious Education Department of the
Home Missions Board
S. W. Rainey
Robert Ewing
Brightwater
Dudley H. Leavitt
Meadowbrook
Gloria Eaton
Charles Bullfinch
Dover
Bennet Cottage
Winn
Methuen
George Larrabee, Jr
William Blaisdell
John Blaisdell
Grace Parks
Pemaquid
Charles V. Minott
Edward Breare
West Peabody
Thomas C. Totman
Sebasco Lodge
I. W. Rainey
Walter Rainey
Long Island
Youth Activities Board
Parker
Florence Rollins
Lester Beals
Popham
Leroy Perkins
Leston Harrington
W. H. Wyman
Richmond
Ramon Hamel
Winneganee
J. F. Mezenski
Dot Frangello
Archie Erickson
William Hodgkins
Wilma Hodgkins
Frederick Watson, Jr
F. A. Libby
Gail Driscoll
Adele LeMont
Helen LeMont
Neill
Teddy
Neill Page
Rickie Libby
LeMont
West Bath
Ruth Freitag
Washington, D. C
Malcolm O'Brien
Edward O'Brien
Arlington
Mahlon Atwood
Front Royal
P. J. Corra
Marion Quinley
East Boston
Don Fundeburg
North Augusta
S. C
Canada
John Locke
Dedham
Bassetts
Bassett
Sternberg
Kamp Kingswood
Bridgeton
Albert Epstein
Maurice Blaisdell
Clarence Blaisdell
Basin
James Ross
Jane Gray
Edward Gray
Forreston Wallace
Don Trask
Wesley Cray
West Point
Lewis Moore
Carleton Jensen
Union New Hampshire
Ralph Payne
Brockton, Mass
Oliver
Frank Allen
Charles Blaisdell
Frank Percy
Getz
Cox
Popham Beach Fair
Lester Holbrook
Leona Rines
Alvin Hathorn
Leona Hathorn
Hartley Hathorn
Leah Hathorn
Ernest Stilphen
Samuel Soule
William Emerson
Eleanor Emerson
St. Johnsbury, Vt
R. G. Sherman
Rochester, Vt
Nora Lawson
Arrowsic
Everett Ellis
Alabama
Ellis
Tina Ellis
Arrowsie Point
Paul Bailey
Mount Vernon
George Bailey
Carroll
South Gardiner
Ralph Jewett
Arthur Pinkham
Willard
Nobleboro
Edith Campbell
Raymond Ainsworth
Leslie
Bion
Spinney Mills Road
Ainsworth
Viola Beane
Frank Rittall
Spinney Mills
Raymond
Rittal
Ronald
Camp Hinds
Charles Emmons
Westport
Lester Davis
Sandra
Robert Dow
Dow
Peggy Tufts
Union
Davis
Leo Carene
Rose Carene
Portsmouth
Carol Ainsworth
Lawrence Rothwell
Fran Ellen
Worcester
Andrew T. Pray
Norwood
R. I
Franklin Wright
Falmouth
Roy Lawrence
Barbara
Deborah
Elmer Lawrence
Grace Preble
Howard O. Frye
Black House Point
Allen Frye
Minard
Essex
Frye
Chester Leeman
Grace Brown
Merle Hathorn
Clarence Tanner
Lida Hawthorne
Christine Hawthorne
Milton Hathorne
Roy Wilson
Harpswell
Rosalie Hathorne
Alvin Hathorne
Charles Presly
Wilbur Presby
Wesley Methodist Church
Oliver W. Bell
Presby
Morse High School
Wiggin Mechanical School
Wiggin Airways
US Air Force
University of Vermont
Presley
White Mountains
New Hampshire
Lloyd Shaw
St. Paul’s Church
Cosmopolitan Drama Club
Mt. Edgecombe
Truman Roberts, Jr
Norman Dube
Ellen Blair
Kathleen Robson
Swanton Wyman
Wendell White
Etta Bartlett
Fred Spinney
Clifford Robinson
Dianne Hamel
Keye Kidder
Phylis Eaton
Thomas Totman
Marilla Totman
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