Ambrose's church lawn party and town notices
Richmond area notes report Ambrose's church lawn party on July 24 with various trust committee roles and activities. plus Legion auxiliary sewing project for tots. Local movements include a half ton truck missing from Kimball Street July 14, later found by state police in Litchfield wood road. Several residents and visitors listed with travel, visits, and family events in Bath, Augusta, Lawrence, Cambridge, Old Orchard, and Boston.
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Umberhind Library
Ambrose
Edward Jo
Louis Lemineaux
Edward Morrissette
Maurice Sullivan
Carole Hurley
Shirley Lachance
Jean Lemineaux
Ary Muise
Litch
William Champney
Denham Sutcliffe
Cambridge
Mass
Lawrence
Pasquel Cardenelli
Augusta
Glenn Lamoreau
Pamela
Walter Ware
Old Orchard
Fred Hutchinson
Lynn
Ce Ee
Theodore Young
Naomi
Jerome
Bar Harbor
William Babb
Ralph Pinkham
Maynard Pinkham
Boston
Harold C. Plummer
Navy
Charlestown
R. I
Paul Stilphen
Eric
Neal
New York
Stilphen
Laurun Stilphen
Maxwell Marriner
Douglass
Percy Little
Rodney
Paul McKinnon
Olin
Red Sox
Cleveland
Beverly Cadenelli
Bath Memorial Sopra
Gloria Haskell
Warren
Peep Cadenelli
Ae Cc. Kennedy
Francis Norton
Gerard Buneau
Hollis Kennedy
Bonita
Bath
George Sanford
Richmond
Stoughton
Olive Cooper
Cedar Cove
Dennie Tibbett
Barry and
Bruce
Denver
Colo
Harold Mealey
Randall Young
Kenneth
Winthropee
Thurso
Arthur’Maxwell
Social evening at Front Street home with cake and cards
A Thursday gathering at a Front Street residence featured a cake baked by Mrs. Leland Fours, cut by Mrs. Axwell and shared with guests. Attendees included Mr. and Mrs. Lelah, Mr. and Mrs. Seigars, and Mr. and Mrs. Beerry. Edith Hayes is visiting relatives in Peru.
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Etreet
Camp Pine Haven Enters Second Week With Delays and Activities
ANN US SECOND SCOND WEEK Camp Pine Haven enters its second week with regrets over shortening time. Girl Scouts and Brownies made blueberry pancakes over a fire and served them at luncheon. The Friday rent and beach party is moved to Thursday and parents must send permits. Rain delayed Monday camp, many girls returned home. Under instructors, crafts include scuffs printing and potato block printing. Parents night postponed. Ruth Rottenberger, field advisor, visited with Miss Eleanor Danforth and councilors, then joined luncheon with the camp committee at Hotel Eagle in Brunswick.
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Pine Haven
Ruth H. Rottenberger
Girl Scouts of America
Eleanor Danforth
130 Foot Mast Shipped to Boothbay Harbor Maine
A 130 foot hollow spruce mast rode a trailer into Boothbay Harbor on route to Frank IL Sample Inc boat yard. The Gee Gee III schooner, owned by Orter Johnson of Cambridge, Mass, will be fitted with new decks masts and sails, with about ten days of work before a planned cruise. The mast was built by Pigeon Hollow Mast Co East Boston and traveled from Freeport to Boothbay Harbor via North Street Carlton Bridge and Front Street. The long mast required steel angle plates to negotiate a North Street turn, sliding wheels to gain inches. The Egyptians invented the hook.
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Frank IL. Sample, Inc
Boothbay Harbor
Ee Gee Gee III
Orter Johnson
Cambridge
Mass
Gee Gee III
Maine
Johnson
Sample Yard
Pigeon Hollow Mast Co
Boston
Freeport
Old Brunswick
North Street
Front Street
Carlton Bridge
Sunday Service Amid Storm At Robinhood Church
A strong Sunday attendance despite a storm featured Dr. Earl A. Spencer preaching on God's Divine Grace. The junior choir sang an anthem and Sunday school followed. The Robinhood column notes electric lights installed in the Zorach home, and describes water needs for wild life amid low wells and a dry spell. Personal items list visitors and residents at Robinhood cottages, with multiple regional names and addresses, including Bath, Sagadahoc Bay, MacMahan, Portland, and New York connections.
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Earl A. Spencer
Zorach
Robinhood
Mac- Mahan
Edwin Hussa
Rose McClafferty
New York
Lillian Wheeler
Vernon L. Fisher
Andover
N. H
Roy Newman
Marguerite Morrison
Cynthia Trafton
Portland
Howard Trafton
Elise Jordan
Everett Haines
George Manning
Waltham, Mass
Jordan
Herbert Lass
Long Island City
N. Y
Bath Memorial Hospital
Campbell
Alfred Rowe
Arthur Rowe
John Grindle
Bath
Philip Eaton
Roland Peterson
Boothbay Harbor
Augusta Collins
John Lee
MacMahan
John
Horace Lee
Lloyd Beers
Merrill Bowles
Bangor
Roy Campbell
John Rose
Lexington
Mass
Webster Cottage
Sagadahoc Bay
Vira Trafton
Rilla Tarr
Richmond
Friends
Judson Cross
Exeter
Vernon Lippard
Kenebec Point
Ann Wartile
Goderich
Ont
Mary Campbell Toronto
Alexander Taft
Long Island
Rathburn
Mary Hollis
Frank Baker
Philadelphia
Anne Kornblum
Wynwood
Ann
Catherine McCarty
Clara Pierce
Cambridge
Clarence B. Hill
Rosalind Richards
Gardiner
Indian Point
Henry Richards
Madelyn Berry
R.N
Five Island
J. H. Brown
Harry Horne
Norway
Mr. Horne
Montreal
Can
Elizabeth
Thompson
Howard Fletcher
J. F. Higgins
Miss Hicks
de Oliver
Shirley Hicks
Five Islands Seaborn Youth Baseball Emerges After Long Hiatus
A youth driven revival brings Five Islands a junior baseball team for ages up to 16, led by Captain Chester McMahan Jr. and manager Bob Hasenfus. The team has faced Marycliff's squad in two games with close scores, while local fire crews and community groups resume activity after a drought and fires nearby.
Community Notes From Five Islands Readers Gatherings
Mrs. Roy Shackford of Bath visited her brother P. B. Cage. Edward and Stinson Davis family from Kittery visited. Frank Blake plans to spend summer at their cottage after home in Melrose. Bob Yeo returns from California to Five Islands. wife to join in August after four-year service. Rev. Russell Boynton and daughter Martha Ann arrived at Malden Island cottage. wishes for speedy health. Betty Staffeld and George W. Ince invite to wedding at Phillips Congregational Church Watertown MA. Raphael Higgins and daughters Marcia Susanne visiting. Merton Pinkham and daughter spent Sunday with Portland Freeport relatives. Carl Ramusen returned to Wakefield MA after two weeks. Hodgdon family from Malden at Father Hasenfus and Marycliff. A. W. Fuller of West Roxbury at Marycliff. Thibodeau family Bath hosted Oakley Thibodeau. Junior Hinds home from Japan, visited Harmon's Harbor grandparents. Navy discharge noted. July visitors to Rockmere Lodge include Walker, Ferguson, Worrell, Wetherill, Earnshaw, Weaver, Pearson Montgomery, Lewis, Dorothy Lewis, Wilbur Hagaman from various cities.
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Roy Shackford
Bath
P. B. Cage
Edward Davis
Kittery
Stinson Davis
Frank Blake
Melrose
Robert Yeo
California
Yeo
Bob
Five Islands
Russell Boynton
Martha Ann
Malden Island
Betty Staffeld
George W. Ince
Phillips Congregational Church
Watertown
Mass
Raphael Higgins
Marcia
Richard Steele
Susanne
Sagadahoc Bay
Merton Pinkham
Portland
Freeport
Carl A. Ramussen
Wakefield
Robert Hodgdon
Malden
Hasenfus
Marycliff
Boston
A. W. Fuller
West Roxbury
Theodore Thibodeau
Oakley Thibodeau
Sunay
Junior Hinds
Japan
Harmon’s Harbor
Navy
Rockmere Lodge
Evalynn Walker
Jacksonville
Fla
William Ferguson
Ches Plaza
Ralph Worrell
Den
Miriam Wetherill
Carrie Earnshaw
Philadelphia
William H. Weaver
Lansdowne
Charles Pearson Montgomery
Montclair
N. J
Frank Lewis
Dorothy Lewis
Rosemont
Wilbur Hagaman
N. Y
Bath plant to pack fish in cans for steam cooking
A Bath facility progresses with a modern sardine packing setup including a two story boiler building, a hydraulic elevator, new wharf piles, and a pump building. A Bowery street renovation will house offices and rest rooms. Planned operation mid August with about 80 initial packers and later expansion to 200 women packers and 100 men in support roles. Also noted is that roughly 25 percent of world oil reserves are controlled by British Dutch interests.
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Maine
Bowery Street
Ralph Pattee Visits Native Bath After 29 Navy Years
Chief Torpedo Man Ralph Pattee USN visits his native Bath for the first time in 22 years on a 30 day leave. He has served 29 years aboard more than a dozen destroyers and three submarines, with service from China in 1924 to 1939, Atlantic Fleet in 1939, and invasions in Europe. He is accompanied by his wife Helen Harbeck Pattee.
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Navy
Pattee
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Atlantic Fleet
Key West
Fla
Boston
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Africa
Turkey
Mr. Pattee
Hiram R. Pattee
Bath
Helen Harbeck
Bangor
Rena Pattee Cushing
Dummer Street
Parker Head Social Notes and Vacation Roundup
Residents report plans for the Farm Bureau white elephant sale and silver tea at Dromore grange hall on Aug 7 at 1 30. Attendees include Mrs. Stanton Dozois and chairman Mrs. Ernest Rogers at Phippsburg. The column lists visits and travels of Bath residents and friends from Swampscott White Plains and Newton Centre among others.
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Percy Lewis
Swampscott
Mass
Edith Perkins
New Jersey
Carrie Smith
Bath
Harry Thayer
Dennis
Robert Jewell
Thayer Cottage
Albert Johnson
Martin F. Goodwin
Massachusetts
Stanton Dozois
Richard
Julia Dozois
Bernard Carlson
Kennebunk Beach
Cape Porpoise
Rankin
Donald
Deborah
White Plains
N. Y
E. M. Wilber
Leslie Lawrence
Newton Centre
Richard Baker
Needham
Jobling Cottage
Little Cox’s Head
Charles N. Vickery
Ruth
Carl Lewis
Lillian Lewis
Percy Cottage
Lewis
Boothbay
Brunswick
Raymond Sorensen
Stoneham
Percy Farm
Port Clyde
Alvin Sortwell Dies at 55. Barre & Chelsea R ailroad President
Alvin F Sortwell 55 longtime Barre and Chelsea Railroad president died July 17 at Massachusetts General Hospital. Navy veteran of both wars, he lived in Beverly Farms Mass with a Summer home on Westport Island. He was son of Mrs Gertrude W Sortwell and the late Alvin F Sortwell of Wiscasset. He leaves sisters Mrs Parker Marean and Miss Francis A Sortwell and brother Daniel R Sortwell. The Sortwell mansion in Wiscasset is a noted Colonial landmark built by a late 18th century shipbuilder.
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Barre
McCarthy
Lower Pleasant Street
Wiscasset
Sortwells
Doora
Clinton W. Hosmer Dies at 64 in Bath New Hampshire
Clinton W. Hosmer, 64, died Tuesday at Memorial Hospital. Born in East Andover, New Hampshire, he moved to Bath 11 years ago and lived with William and Mrs. Wallace at 841 High Street. Former inspector at Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. in Manchester, he belonged to St. Mary’s Catholic Church. Surviving: wife Genevieve of Bath, son William of Manchester, and daughter Mrs. Leo Marcotte of Portsmouth. Funeral set for Friday at eight from St. Mary’s.
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Clinton W. Hosmer
Memorial Hospital
East Andover
N. H
Rufus
Harriet (French) Hosmer
Hosmer
Bath
William F. Wallace
High Street
Amoskeag Manufacturing Co
Manchester
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Genevieve
William
Leo Marcotte
Portsmouth
Mary Renshaw Dies After Long Illness
Mary Renshaw nine year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Richard Renshaw of West Bath died at home Tuesday afternoon after a long illness. Born in Boston July 28 1937 the family moved to West Bath two years ago. She attended Lowell school and was a member of St Marys Catholic Church in Bath. Surviving are her parents a sister Elaine two brothers John and Richard at home and grandmother Mrs Theresa Burgess of Bath. Mass of the Angels will be at 10 Tuesday morning at St Marys church conducted by Rev Archie Gillis.
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Richard Renshaw
West Bath
Boston
Mary
Lowell School
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Elaine
John
Richard
Theresa Burgess
Bath
The
Angeles
Archie Gillis
St. Mary’s Church
Mrs Mallard Lilly Dies at 84 in Bath Memorial Hospital
Mrs Rose F Lilly 84 widow of Mallard Lilly died Tuesday morning at Memorial hospital after a period as patient. Born in Ireland Aug 23 1861 daughter of Frank and Fannie Flood she lived in Bath many years. Funeral from St Mary's church Thursday at 730 AM with calling at Arthur F Mayo Son Funeral Residence 819 High St. Burial in Oak Grove. Mr and Mrs George Bertrand relocate from 722 High St to Lloyd Hooker house on Washington St.
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Rose F. Lilly
Mallard Lilly
Memorial Hospital
Ireland
Frank
Fannie (Brady) Flood
Bath
Lilly
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
St. Mary’s Church
Mrs Lily Snowden of Woolwich Dies at Home
Mrs Lily Snowden of Woolwich died early morning at her Ferry Road home. Born in New York City in 1868, she married Dr Cyril Bousfield in China where they were medical missionaries. Surviving are two sons Neal and Weston. a third son died. Funeral at Woolwich Center Church with burial at Laurel Cemetery.
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Lily Snowden
Woolwich
Ferry
Cyril Bousfield
Bowen Ort
Bath
New York City
E. P. Snowden
Baptist Missionary Training School
Chicago
China
Dr. Bousfield
Neal Bousfield
Maine Seacoast Mission
Weston Bousfield
University of Connecticut
Bousfields
Woolwich Center Church
F. H. Johnson
Mrs Alice V Strout Dies at Home in St George
Mrs. Alice V. Strout wife of Stewart A. Strout of 8 Libby Court died Saturday evening at the home of her parents Albion H. Johnson and Marie Wallasey Johnson in Brunswick Street St George. She is survived by her husband, her parents, one son George S. MacKinnon of Falmouth, two brothers Carleton D. Johnson and Albion H. Johnson Jr. of Bath, and two sisters Mrs. James Pettee of Rockland and Mrs. Lucy Thorn of South Thomaston.
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Alice V. Strout
Stewart A. Strout
Libby Court
Albion H. Johnson
Brunswick
St. George
Albion H
Marie Wallasey Johnson
Geo
MacKinnon
Falmouth
Carleton D
Albion H. Johnson, Jr
Bath
James Pettee
Rockland
Lucy Thorn
South Thomaston
Death of James W Thompson at Small Point
James Warren Thompson died at Small Point early Friday morning. Born December 31 1875 in Brunswick he was the son of John and Lydia Lowell Thompson and longtime caretaker of estates at Small Point. Survived by his widow and one son Albert the funeral was Sunday at two at Curtis Funeral Home conducted by Rev Joseph O Purdue. Burial followed in Oak Grove.
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James Warren Thompson
Small Point
Brunswick
John
Lydia Lowell Thompson
Albert
Curtis Funeral Home
Joseph O. Purdue
Oak Grove
Mrs. Alice V. Strout Funeral Held
The funeral for Mrs. Alice V. Strout was conducted Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock at Mayo Funeral Residence by Rev. David L. Wilson. Bearers were Albion H. Johnson Jr, Carlton D. Johnson, Jamies Petee and Leland Seavey. Burial followed in the family lot at Oak Grove.
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Alice V. Strout
Mayo
David L. Wilson
Albion H. Johnson, Jr
Carlton D. Johnson
Jamies Petee
Leland Seavey
Oak Grove
Local Bombardier Returns Home From Overseas Duty
Lieutenant Bruce H. M. White Jr arrives at his Topsham home on terminal leave after two and a half years of service overseas as a bombardier in the Air Service. He is a son of Bruce H. M. White of Topsham and grandson of Hon. Rupert H. Baxter.
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Bruce H. M. White, Jr
Topsham
Air Service
Kite
Bruce H. M. White
Rupert H. Baxter
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