Summer sale by Ladies Organ Society at church lawn
The annual Summer sale of the Ladies Organ Society of the First Congregational church raised over 125 dollars on the church lawn last Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. John Fisher presided with committees handling embroidered linens, aprons, cooked foods, ice cream, punch, flowers, and tea. Open House Day plans were announced for August 12. Personal items note visitors and neighbors in the area, with several families and individuals mentioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies Organ Society
First Congregational Church
Church Lawn
John Fisher
John F. Jackson
Evelyn Hutchins
Alberta Larrabee
Nina F. Bryan
Edith Day
Grace Cowley
Jennie Gray
Viola Adams
Mary Marston
Grace Pease
Fannie Adams
Mabel Lewis
Alice Taylor
Ruth Keirstead
George Fisher
Elsie Pearson
Mabel Blinn
Gardiner
Nellie Carlin
Federal Street
Stephan Wright
Lincoln County
Cunningham House
Newcastle
George S. Lincoln
Miles Memorial Hospital
Damariscotta
E. Clinton Perkins
Niagara Falls
Perkin
Kate G. Perkins
Martin Andrews
Walcott Andrews
Local Society Notes From Damariscotta Mills And Nearby Areas
Mrs Addie Merry and son Fred Merry visited Miss Delia Mulligan at Damariscotta Mills. Norman Holbrook and wife from South Portland visited Clarence Blagdon. Blagdon’s nephew Stanley Holbrook joined. Andrew Wilband of Fort Lauderdale and Wiscasset are staying at their Wiscasset home and camp at Damariscotta Lake. Clarence Blagdon and son Holbrook saw Blagdon’s father Thomas Holbrook in Portland. Alan Pease has returned home from a month at the YMCA camp on Lake Cobbessecontee. Charles M Erskine and wife welcomed a daughter Wilma Marcia. Clarence Blagdon and family visited Capt. and Mrs. Robert Stockbridge at Ram Island lighthouse on Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Addie Merry
Fred Merry
Delia Mulligan
Damariscotta Mills
Norman Holbrook
South Portland
Clarence Blagdon
Stanley Holbrook
Damariscotta Lake
Holbrook
Wilma Marcia
Stanley
Robert Stockbridge
Ram Island
Sarah Klippell
Bath
Philip Wenz
Florence Vannah
Somerville
Mass
Costello P. Hall
Harold Gilmore
John
Cape Neddick
Gilmore
John C. Gilmore
Claude Cooper
Augusta
Cooper
Lindsey Cooper
Eben Dana
Boothbay Harbor
Edward V. Reed
Bath National Bank
Wilbur Howe
Cape Elizabeth
Chester Howe
John Robertson
Sebago Lake
Geraldine
Beryl Trott
Waterville
Gilbert Hathorne
Wilbur Hagan
Skowhegan
Hagan
Garret Galvin
Roland Raines
Hyde Windlass Co
Henry Dubar
Nequasset
Capital Island
Daisy Bailey
Esther
Old Orchard
Paul McDonald
Harry Short
Columbus
Ohio
Wallace Sheldon
Brooklyn
N. Y
Alonzo Curtis
Wiscasset
John W. Sheldon
Boston
Sheldon
William H. Sheldon
Sagadahoc Ferry
Norman Drummond
Norma Jean
Arrowsic
Alma Fifield
Bucksport
Hazel Morrison
Sedgwick
David G. Reed
Rose Shea
Lemuel Preble
Frank J. Walker
Capital Island Association and Corp
Casino
Harry Shephard's Body Recovered From Kennebec River
The body of Harry Shephard, drowned after falling from City Landing Saturday at 4 p.m., was recovered Tuesday evening by Coast Guard personnel about 50 feet from the landing. The 80 year old, born December 25, 1861 in England, had recently lived at the City Home in Bath. Prayers will be offered at Oak Grove cemetery Thursday at 2 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Shephard
City Landing
Kennebec River
Golden MacDonald
Ward N. Gibbs
Mr. Shephard
England
Bath
Oak Grove Cemetery
Wisharts and Sheas Visit John Wishart at Camp Hinds
Mr and Mrs Archie Wishart and Mr and Mrs Maurice Shea and son Merritt of Oliver street passed Sunday in Raymond where they visited John Wishart who is at Camp Hinds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Archie Wishart
Maurice Shea
Merritt
Oliver Street
Raymond
John Wishart
Camp Hinds
Maine Islands Will Contribute Salvaged Metals
The Maine Salvage Committee announces an August drive to collect salvage across coastal islands. Casco Bay Lines will transport materials to the mainland with local boats and private owners assisting. Island residents, including Monhegan and Cranberry Isles, rally to support war production by turning in rubber and metals and organizing at wharves to ease loading.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta
Maine Salvage Committee
Maine
Casco Bay Lines
Casco Bay
Isles of Shoals Group
Kittery
Cranberry Isles
Southwest Harbor
Mt. Desert
Matinicus Isle
Monhegan Plantation
Isle Au Haut
Monhegan Island
Adolph Stevens
Monhegan
America
War Production Board
Bureau of Industrial Conservation
Washington
Boston
Pittsburgh
Italy
Spain
Pearl Harbor
Far East
Army
Navy
Bureau
Conservation
West Bath Grange program delights crowd with flag theme
About 150 grangers and guests enjoyed a Monday evening program at West Bath Grange hall led by Mrs. Armstrong. The show featured a flag tableau, songs, recitations, dances, a skit, and an assault on patriotic themes. Highlights included a large flag tableau, duet of Youre a Grand Old Flag, Betsy Ross reading, and Stars and Stripes Forever piano pieces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath Grange Hall
William A. Armstrong
Columbia
Will Carlton
Gloria Leavitt
Barbara Ormsby
Doris Wing
Kathryn Hodgkins
Marilyn Booker
Imelda Lapointe
George M. Cohan
Girard Hodgkins
Gertrude Palmer
Lewis Carter
Edwin W. Haggett
Marion Corliss
Esther Andrews
Betsy Ross
Everett Lemont
Rosemary
Ruth
Rose Mary
Topsham Grange
Barbara Frietchie
Frederick Morton
Percy Hodgkins
Carter
MacArthur
Bernice Sturtevant
Hope Ward
John Philip Sousa
Tachowsky
J. L. Hudson Co
Detroit
David Henderson
Nellie Booker
Alice F. Johnson
J. Franklin Howe
John Sylvester
Philip Burns
Mabel Tibbetts
Marjorie Carter
Nell Kelsey
Baxter Burnell
Melvin Pratt
Shirley Pratt
Wesley Lemont
Arthur C. Lemont
Ceres
Annie Lemont
Soldier Firman Visits Saco-Lowell Shops in Biddeford
It was learned in Biddeford Monday that Sergeant Firman, a light-officer and gunner with Brigadier General James H. Doolittle's Tokyo raiders, who dropped bombs on Tokyo war plant areas, was to be in Biddeford Monday morning visiting the Saco-Lowell Shops with other army men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Biddeford
Firman
James H. Doolittle
Tokyo
Saco-Lowell
Perkinses from Gardiner Visit Bath En Route to Waterville
Mr and Mrs Arthur Perkins of Gardiner were in Bath Saturday on their way to Waterville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Perkins of
Gardiner
Bath
Waterville
Reverend MacColl to Speak at Kennebunkport Bluff Service
Reverend Alexander MacColl of Philadelphia will address the morning service at the Bluff Kennebunkport Sunday at 11 o'clock. He has spent summers with Mrs. McColl at their cottage on South Maine Street for several years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander MacColl
D.D
Philadelphia
Penn
Berlin man returns home after Bath visit
J. W. Riley of Berlin New Hampshire returned to his home Friday after spending a few days in Bath. Edwin Sturgis of Cooper's Mills was in Bath Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Riley
Berlin
N. H
Bath
Edwin Sturgis
Cooper's Mills
Canning Demonstration and Community News in Woolwich
Woolwich Emergency Home Demonstration Agent Mrs Cleora Tarbox led a neighborhood canning demonstration at the Good Will club house Sagadahoc verry with sessions on pressure cooking bath canning and storage. Community schedule features Aug 4 Mothers club Aug 8 baked bean supper and a reception for new pastor Mrs Mable Tracy. Local residents including Miss Avis Marston Mrs Georgie Walker Mrs Alice Dow and Mrs Carolyn Wing are listed among participants and visitors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleora Tarbox
Topsham
Good Will Club
Sagadahoc Verry
Nequasset Farm Bureau
Georgie Walker
Alice Dow
Sagadahoc Ferry
Carolyn Wing
North Woolwich
Gilbert Hathorne
Mable Tracy
Nelson Rice
Edward V. Reed
Avis Marston
Quaker Lecturer Rufus M. Jones Speaks at Maine
Rufus M. Jones, noted Quaker lecturer and author, addresses the University of Maine Summer session morning assembly at 10 o clock in the Little Theatre. His talk is titled The War Time for the event on Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rufus M. Jones
University of Maine
Sixth Mid-Summer Ball benefits St Andrews Fund
The sixth annual Mid-Summer Ball under the St Andrews Free Bed Fund will be at Hayes Casino Boothbay on August 12. Co chairs are Mrs Frank L Sample Jr and Mrs Robert W Frost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Andrews
Hayes Casino
Boothbay
Frank L. Sample, Jr
Robert W. Frost
Signist Cohen Bound Over To October Term
Max L. Cohen a Lewiston sign maker pleaded not guilty in Municipal court to obtaining money by false pretenses. Judge Deering bound him over to the October term of Superior court after deeming probable cause. Cohen previously received $60 from Leroy Black for a neon sign and a $100 loan from Barry, but delivered no sign. The case unfolds with testimony from Mrs. Black and Black, Barry, and Cohen himself, noting delays, delivery disputes, and questions of material supply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Max L. Cohen
Lewiston
Gardiner R. Deering
Cohen
Harris M. I. Dixon
Max
Ralph O. Dale
Leroy Black
Black
Attorney Dixon
Dixon
Rubin
John E. Barry
Front Street
Barry
Portland
Boston
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Frank S. Lambert
Joseph Andc
Lambert
Mr. Lambert
Betty Burton
William Burton
Birch Point
Harry Shepard
Maine Islands
Mae Sern Co
EVE
C. C
Pennsylvania
Sears, Roebuck & Co
Center Street
SEARS
West Bath Grange
Dodge's Mountain
Chickawaukee Lake
Maine State Guard
Rockland
George M. Carter
Woolwich
Ernest Stimpson
Earl Stimpson
Carle Longfellow
Day's Ferry
Paul Pitman
Wollaston
Day’s Ferry
Lee Chaput
Gerald
Randolph
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