Local Notices and Community Happenings in the Parish
Walter B. appointed as assistant manager amid community thanks. Robert Frazier returns from Devil Isle and preaches at Squirrel Island chapel while Philip's holds 11 o clock service led by Eugene McGrath and Charles Lew. Local group hosts a Sandwich sale Saturday at 2 pm. Head Tide church holds seventh annual service. Tax bills issued. year’s commitment 38,555 with 50 per 1000 valuation, down from last year. A near drowning leads to rescue. Dr. Nichols revives victim and patient improves at Miles Memorial. John sells property on Lee Street to an oil firm. possible house move or demolition planned. Organ Society sale set for July 31 at parish. Personal notices include Carrie Knight moving home on Bath Road. Rev. Colby attends ministerial conference in New York. neighbors visit St. Mary’s rectory. fifty‑year anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Hutchins noted. Paul Miete sustains leg injury in woods and is taken to Miles Memorial. Stanley P. Dalton has been in…
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whealth
Walter B
Asnt
Robert Frazier
Devil Is
Squirrel Island
Philip’s
Eugene McGrath Charles Lew
Sandwich
Old Head Tide
Robert P
Ted Ae Cee
Teches
Nichols
Miles
John
Lee Street
Organ Society of the Contchurch
Carrie S. Knight
Bath Road
Charles
Ain Street
Rensel H. Colby
New York
Union Seminary
Frank H. Hutchins
Frederick Payne
St. ’S Rectory
Donald Frazier
Englewood
N. J
Henry C. Scott, Jr
Naugatuck, Conn
John B. Johnson
Westport
Conn
Charles Lincoln
Upper Montclair
Alfred L Groves 85 Dies at Baring Home
Alfred L Groves 85 died at the home of Mr and Mrs Frank Wakefield in Baring. A native of Wiscasset he worked in Massachusetts as an inspector for a large business before returning to Wiscasset. Survived by brother Walter in California. Services held Wednesday in Congregational church. interment in Greenlawn cemetery family lot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred L. Groves
Lx Groves
Frank Wakefield
Baring
Mr. Groves
Wiscasset
Massachusetts
Munsey
Walter
California
Congregational Church
Greenlawn Cemetery
Bath Garden Club Enjoys Tuesday Meeting at Summer Home
Bath Garden Club met with Mrs Arthur Sewall at her Small Point summer home Tuesday afternoon. Dessert and coffee followed a business session. Plans were made for the August 5 trip to Hog Island Nature Camp and another trip August 8. A No 3 Judging School was announced for September in Portland directed by Anne F Hodges. Dorothy Washington of North Edgecomb spoke on birds and her hand carved birds and craft were shown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Garden Club
Arthur Sewall
Small Point
Hog Island
Camden
Seth Mullin
William Dennison
Cornwell Rogers
Frank Reinhoehl
Togus
Audubon Junior Club
Rotarians Debate Probation Reform Plan
Rotarians discuss probation system changes to reduce costly reform school sentences. Speaker Mr. Rubin answered questions on improving the old system. President Carl Albee led a brief business meeting with Wyatt Albertson directing the program. Guests included Frederick Haggett of Bath and Edward Hall of Bridgeport Conn. visiting Rotarians John Burkley and Percy Smith of Bridgeport Conn, Frank Cubley of Potsdam NY, J Herbert Fishian of Bridgeton NJ.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rubin
Carl Albee
Wyatt Albertson
Frederick Haggett
Bath
Edward Hall
Bridgeport Conn
John Burkley
Bridgeport
Kindergarten Pupils Counted as Half Units in Minnesota
Minnesota Education Commissioner Dean M Schweickhard asked Attorney General Burnquist how to compute tax levies for kindergartens. The attorney general ruled that each half day kindergarten pupil constitutes one half pupil unit for levy purposes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul
Minn
Minnesota
Dean M. Schweickhard
Burnquist
Social notes from Day's Ferry club gathering
Members of the Day's Ferry social circle hosted a party at Mrs. Frank J. Walker's home with guests from Portland Boston and Arlington. Activities included croquet horseshoes and slides by Carroll Morse. Lois Day returned after a hip injury. August plans and summer visits were discussed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank J. Walker
S Ferry
William O'Connell
Arlington
Herbert Munsey
Eben Dana
Frank Allegrin
Fred Brown
J. Howard Whittum
Fred White
Marthew Doak, Jr
James Thorpe
Janet
Lois Day
Guy Reed
Mabel Jack
Blanche Littlefield
Guest
Cousins
Portland
Carroll Morse
William O’ Connell
Ae Va
Russell Boyd
Boston
Center Sermon and Canasta Club News Summary
Center sermon by Daniel W. stand a subject Mitchuk Son of a Saga of Alaska. Sunday school at 10 at Wookwich home. Receiving their 1952 tax rate reduced to 78 mills from 84. Mrs. Mason Carter entertains Canasta club at Day's Ferry home Thursday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel W
Community notices and social updates from a Maine area
The piece lists local events and people including a food sale for the Methodist WSCS at Mills, planned St Johns Auxiliary Summer sale on July 24, service call ups, and various visits. It notes district grange degrees conferred, a Fort Devens move, and residents moving or traveling to Dresden Boothbay Harbor, Schenectady, and Detroit with family and community connections.
West Bath Extension Service Plans Summer Outing
The West Bath Extension Service held an all day outing and picnic at Sadie Davis's home in West Bath with families. Attendees brought picnics, socialized, sewed crafts, and discussed summer and early fall activities. An August 20 cottage party at Sabine was invited by Bertha Henderson.
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West
Lizzie Haggett
Alice Smith
Persis Miller
Sharron Holbrook
Bernice McGlinchy
Beatrice Leavitt
Tom
Holly
Olive White
Marié Hamblett
Alice Burgess
Mary Gaudreau
Polly Belanger
Bonnie
Beverly Pecci
Sadie Davis
Eva Noyes
Edna Thompson
No Dark Horses Here in Outstanding Thoroughbreds Roster
New York notes the American Manual lists 19 outstanding thoroughbreds with no black or grey horses. Chestnuts lead with eight including Assault and Stymie, browns total six such as Armed and War Admiral, and five bays like Seabiscuit and Citation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Assault
Busher
Bath and Brunswick Families Gather for Weekend Reunions
Local residents share visits and weekend gatherings at Reid Park and nearby homes. Miss Williams of Foster's Point works with Dr. Wilson FitzGerald in Bath while Keith and Brian FitzGerald spent Sunday with relatives. Several couples and families from Bath, Brunswick, Machias, York and Cambridge visited relatives in Reid Park and at Larrabee's Grave.
West Bath Grange Meets With Variety of Acts
West Bath Grange met Monday evening with Lecturer Maroin Mulcahy presenting Whispering Hope a grange reading by Mercie MacFadden harmonica solos by John Howe roll call What Is our Second Ambition Vocal solos Bertha Palmer Over The Rainbow and I ll Walk Alone the Penny March won by Frances Clark a Pauline Belanger poem piano solos by Laforrest Coombs closing thought Alma Sylvester Alice Smith was piano accompanist Gownstairs and Carvers Orchestra played for dancing after the program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath Grange
Maroin Mulcahy
the Grange
Mercie MacFadden
John Howe
Bertha Palmer
Frances Clark
Pauline Belanger
Laforrest Coombs
Alma Sylvester
Alice Smith
Carver
World’s First Libraries Found in Temples
Researchers assert that early libraries emerged within temple complexes, serving as archive hubs for sacred texts and scholarly scrolls. The finding highlights cultural emphasis on knowledge in ancient religious centers and suggests temples functioned as community knowledge bases.
Montsweag Extension Service Holds All Day Work Session
Members of the Montsweag Extension Service gathered at the Day's Ferry homes of Mrs. Florence Prentiss and Mrs. Lillian Benner for an all day session aiding the Hyde Memorial Home. Dessert and beverages were provided for 14 members and two guests, Mrs. Russell Boyd and Mrs. Ernest Graumann. Six sewing machines were cleaned and overhauled while participants cut out 16 pairs of basques for the Hyde Memorial, to be sewn at the August meeting.
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Blanche Littlefield
Portland Insurance Company
Cousins
Portland
Ittlefield
Edward Gallant
Bunker Hill
Damariscotta Lake
Jefferson
Frank J. Walkeree
Day’s Ferry
Russell Boyd
Boston
Bailey Island
Harpswell
Herbert Cornish
Bristol
Janet Thorpe
James
Camp Tanglewood
Lincolnville
Incolnville
Richard Marsh
Bridgton
Kenneth R. Vail
Saugus
Mass
Maine
Mr. Vail
Lawrence R. Vail
Vail
Arrowsie
Brian M. Jewett
Montsweag Extension Association
Florence E. Prentiss
Lillian Benner
Yde Memorial
Ernest Graumann
Westport
Montsweag
Popular Game Bird Shelburne Plan For Fall Release
Sportsmen in Shelburne Nova Scotia outline a large scale effort to introduce Chinese ring necked pheasants next fall releasing about 500 birds sourced from Trappist monks in Quebec. They aim to boost game populations and hunting opportunities in the area.
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Shelburne
Nova Scotia
Quebec
Beaver Skin Trades for Brass Kettle in Fur Trade Era
A historical note recalls beaver skins as a unit of exchange in the peak period of American fur trapping. Traders valued one beaver skin enough to trade it for a brass kettle, illustrating the barter economy of early frontier commerce.
COLLIN WEDDING SUNDAY AT WESLEY CHURCH
The Collins wedding at Wesley Church featured Samuel Collins Jr and bride in a white organdie gown with pastel ribbons. Attendants included Miss Barbara Small as maid of honor, and Barbara Wallace as a sister of the bride, with guests and family listed among Bath Rockland and Caribou residents. The groom, from Caribou, studied at U. of Maine and Harvard Law, and the couple left for a wedding trip after the ceremony.
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Richard Smith
Buffalo
N.Y
Reginald Fickett
Bath
Malcolm Bownes
Laconia
N. H
Marilyn Seekins
Cumberland Center
Fla
Eleanor Butterfield
Donald Collins
Cares Ae
Douglas Collins
Bow Bosedge
Donald Frederson
Samuel Collins
Jeannine Leach
Rockland
Kay Residon
Augusta
Alice Johnson
Jane Eee
Jane Nile
Joan Snowden
Evelyn McPhee
Georgie Merriman
Y Douglas Collins
Boston
Bar
David Collins
Caribou
Edward Morse
Wallace Kendrick
Boothbay Hall
Reginald Dews
Dexter
Caru
Mexico High School
Morse High
Farmington State Teachers College
Rockland High
Caribou High School
U. of M
Harvard Law Sae
Alan L. Bird
Delta Tau Delta Fraternity
Young Repo Club
Maine
Knox County
American Bar Association
Universalist Church
Collins
Broadway
Eeland
Mabel Oop
Edward Pi
Don
Crystal
Harr Ahern
David Colling
Boacks Collins
H. Douglas
Family Names and Addresses in Rock and
Wiles Piper and children of 3 Stone Keeble Senter Mr and Mrs L Garrett Dorothecarine Derry Mrs W F Senter Mrs Harold Jackson Mr and Mrs Donald Calderwood Mr and Mrs Bob Gregory Mr and Mrs Charles Bicknell Mrs Lenora Cooper Mr and Mrs C B Cooper Jr Dr and Mrs John Smith Lowe Rev and Mrs Charles and son Charles Jr Mr and Mrs Robert Lindquist and Robert Annils all of Rock and
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wiles Piper
Steeg
Stone
Keeble Senter
L. Garrett
Doro
Teneterine Derry
W. F. Senter
Harold Jackson
Donald M. Calderwood
Bob Gregory
Charles Bicknell
Lenora Cooper
C. B. Cooper, Jr
John Smith Lowe
Chaser
Charles, Jr
Robert E. Lindquist
Robert B. Annils
Rock and
Wedding Reception Lights Up Saturday in New York and Bath
A sequence of events marked a wedding celebration with guests from Ardmore Pennsylvania to Schenectady New York and Bath Maine. Mrs Henry C Wright hosted a bridal party supper on Washington Street. Rear Admiral Cooke and family attended weekend events. Wedding breakfast for out of town guests followed at Summer home in North Bath.
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John F.yst
Ann. Griffin
New York
Ward Sewall
Henry J. Gibbon
Ardmore
Henry Cowre
Valer
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Paul Miete
Miles Memorial
Stanley P. Dalton
Beacon Street
Shepard Richmond
Tel
Tts
Rtoed
Kennebec
David Brown
Frank Leteearate
L. B. Gahan
George Sproul
Francis Blake
W Casset
Daisy Harris
Capitol Island
Audbrey West Boothbarry
Bawhey
Omersant
Southerd
Methodist
WSCS
Mills
John Frey
St. John's Auxiliary
Eastern River Grange
Richard MacComib
Fort Devens
Alviary
Carrie Cornell
Grove
South
Arene Scoffield
Detroit
Oorris Lord
Dresden
Delmar Stinson
West Dresden
Aes Purington
Gorham
Capera
Reid P
Ustley School
Alice Ond
Colby
Bridge Academy
al Carleton
Schenectady
Carle Longfellow
Day's Net
Carolyn Sheldon
Boothbay Harbor
Monay
West Bath Extension
Larry
Reid Park
Emery Rideout
Edith Burnham
Lawrence Burn
York
Pera Perents
Sare
Bret Blair
Wilson
Philip
Philip Stackpole
Strimer
Metcalf
Sut
Charles Peters
Larrabee
Leon Belanger
Bakelite Corp
Percy Holbrook
Owen Thompson
Waterville
Ae and Panne
Virgil Libby
Oakland
Eva Frazer
Lynn
Robert Thompson
Ere
Percy Joe
Cynthia
Doreen Frey
Dresden Mills
Carl Graves
Ruth Fuller
Leona Condon
New Meadows Inn
Mary MacLellan
Ard
Robert Jewell
Rite ‘Sullivan
Stephen Zimmerman
Benjamin Zimmerman
Robert W. Sullivan
Martha Hall
Annie Sullivan
Marion Wakefield
Anna Dionne
Miss Sullivan
Sullivan
Oth
Bane Bote Ahd Arecon
Benjamin Zimme
Morse High School
Union Carbide & Carbon Co
West Bath
U.S.N.R
Hampton Beach
N.H
Lemont Street
George W. Sotheard
Franklin Weight
No Ellis
Frank Bronson
Tonawanda
N. Y
Winnifred Clark
Vida Grant
Andrew Pray
Norwood
R. L
Henry Dionne
Somerville
William Lundrigan
Topsham
Carl Kittridge
Freeport
Ibra K. Lawrence
Arrowsic
Punch
Bureau
Collin
Wesley Church
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