Phippsburg Fishing Scene and Local Wartime Notes
In Phippsburg fishermen report strong herring catches for the past week with about 3000 bushels landed in io Creek near Newbury dint and Allequippa Otman Beach. The piece notes veterans in service in Iwo Jima and Manila and a guard at a German concentration camp. Families from Parker Head, Bath Iron Works workers heading to Washington, and local residents with home moves and camp visits are described amid wartime travel restrictions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maurice
Charles Ye
Io Creek
Newbury
Allequippa
Otman’s
Pye
Clifford Andaymond
Iwo Jima
Raymond Manilla
Clyde
Germany
Oys
Walter
Arthur Percy
Ames Percy
Frank Percy
Parker
Parker Head Group
Atlantic
Cphew
Tolts Spend Week at Small Point Cottage
The Raymond Tolts spent several days last week in their cottage at Small Point. Samuel Jordan and son Dean were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. William Grevers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Bonney
J. F. Beach
Buchanan
Sally Rogers
Barbara Zoo
Deering
Perry’s Cove
Horace
Robert Whitelead
Windham
Brightwater
Acy
Haverford Edge
Haverford
Martha Beals
Bath Iron Works
Ashington
D. C
Bealsas
Harles Rogers
Winnegance
Baileys
Totman Beach
Evers
Gardiner Rogis
William Revers
Raymond Tolts
Small Point
Samuel Jordan
Son Dean
William Grevers
Mrs Povich Travels to Boston to Visit Son in Hospital
Mrs Morris S Povich of Middle Street left Tuesday for Boston to visit her son Donald S 1/c USMM who is a patient at Haynes Memorial Hospital in Brighton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Webber
Morris S. Povich
Middle Street
Boston
Donald
S. 1/c
USMM
Haynes Memorial Hospital
Brighton
Parker Head Village School Hosts Friday Picnic and Event
Parker Head held a Friday school gathering on Weiner Rock attended by all children and staff. The program included student readings, songs, a play, and a farewell party for Miss Stella Packard with gifts and refreshments. Local families like the Lowells, Warrens, and Morrises joined in and many residents appeared at subsequent social and cemetery events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weiner Rock
Miss Packard
Earl Lowell
Harriet
Carolyn Wyman
Carol Galarneau
Robert Cushing
Joyce Gray
Mary Moore
Laura Wyman
Obert Cushing
Harriet Wyman
Lola Robinson
Bernard Wyman
Ee Freitchie
Sara Lowell
Lewis
Robert Moore
Billy Galarneau
William Kraft
Edward Gray
Raymond Nisbet
Danny
William Alfred Lowell
Beverly Moore
Arthur
Francis Gray
Lucy
Barbara Harrington
Amaryllis
Grace Kraft
Sandra Mank
William Lowell
David Harrington
Albert
Stella Packard
Leston Harrington
John Rollins
H. D. Mank
H. D. Mank, Jr
Albert Gray
Charles Blaisdell
Turner McCarty
Bert Nisbet
Bob Moore
John Wilder
Norridgewock
H-H Club
Bodwell Grange Hall
Bath social notes recount local calls and visits
Nat Percy called on Mr and Mrs Ed Thomas of Bath while Mr and Mrs Francis Mac Donald of Massachusetts spent the holiday at their Summer home. Mrs Catherine Johnson and son Percy of Bath also called on her.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eric Carlson
Robert Jewell
Bath
Martin Goodwin
Concord
Mass
Ivan Philbrook
Wilbur
Lawrence Thayer
Wyman Farm
Nat Percy
Ed Thomas
Francis MacDonald
Massachusetts
Catherine Johnson
Son Percy
Girl Scouts Award Year End Honors at Hyde Park hall
Sacajawea Girl Scouts Troop No 5 held its last meeting of the year in Hyde Park Terrace Community hall where members received year end awards. Irene Lait Joan Burgess Janice Knight and others earned first and second class badges world trefoil and various craft honors. Attendance stars were awarded and mothers and Mrs Louis Cole attended as guests. Cookies and punch were served.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knights of Columbus
Sagadahoc
Melvin Comeau
Parady
State Council
Louis Ayock
Fort Fairfield
John Daley
Father Putnam
Edwin L. Emmmons
Father Druillette
Old Town
Richard Cummings
U.S.M.C
Mary Cummings
M. L. Cohen
Carl Anderson
Bath Hellcats
Ernest Kingsbury
Frank Moriarty
Arthur Bourque
North Andover
Mass
St. Mary’s Parish
Sacajawea Girl Scouts
Hyde Park Terrace
Irene Lait
Joan Burgess
Janice Knight
Joan Longley
Doris Stanchfield
Beverly Fish
Rose Marie Pulsifer
Constance Carlisle
Beverly D'Aiutolo
Lorraine Denaco
Rita Harrington
Marilyn Keefe
Marilyn Kimball
Marilyn Longley
Louis Cole
Dole
D’aiutolo
Carlisle
Scout Committee
Boys Sign Up to Do Farm Work This Summer
A group of high school boys met with Raymond Story to discuss signing up for farm work to support the war effort this summer. They will receive a week of training at the University of Maine before placement on farms, under Farm Labor supervision, with employers paying accident insurance and starting wages at a dollar per day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond Story
Victory Farm
Harold Brown
Morse
Charles Eastman
University of Maine
Farm Labor Office
Dominique Tardif Resigns as Bath Trust Assistant Treasurer
Dominique J Tardif resigns from his assistant treasurer post at Bath Trust Company. William L Skelton announces the move noting the resignation is not immediate. Tardif, former Wiseman Farms branch manager 1929 to 1940, will join Suit able Life Assurance Society of America and travel statewide. He graduated Lewiston High School in 1928. There is an ongoing statistic: an accidental death in the United States every five and a half minutes and an injury every three seconds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dominique J.tardif
Bath Trust Company
William L. Skelton
Tardif
Wiseman Farms
Suitable Life Assurance Society of America
Bath
Lewiston High School
United States
Popham Beach Community Notes and Local Meetings
Sunday events at Popham Library included motion pictures of the Passion Play by Bert Nisbet and a church business meeting led by Miss Leona Harmon. A repairs committee was formed with named members and a 5 PM meeting scheduled at the library.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Popham Library
Bert Nisbet
Leona Harmon
Lyman Oliver
Ernest Oliver
G. E. McNulty
Frank Scott
Guy Crowley
Laurence Taylor
Naval Airman Guest Speaker At Rotary
Lt Commander Anderson of Brunswick Naval Air Station spoke at the Bath Rotary luncheon. He described Pacific air combat from Pearl Harbor to Leyte Gulf, praising air power gains and Filipino guerrilla cooperation. The club endorsed George B Wolstenholme for District Governor in 1946 and appointed a committee to inform other clubs. Portland Rotary visitor Joe Wigan attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anderson
Brunswick Naval Air Station
Rotary Club
Naval Air Forces
Pacific
Pearl Harbor
Navy
Far East
Alaska
Manila
New Guinea
Saipan
Leyte Gulf
States
Oarthefs
Stockholm
Maine
Naval Academy
Amatopis
Bath
Commes Distries
George B. Wolstenholme
George
Bath Club
Royal Johnson
Sedgwicar
Wolstenholme
Dominique Tardif
Jud Miller
George Musk
Joe Wigan
Portland Rottary Club
Jitterbugs at the USO Cast for Sunset Camps Visit
The article lists performers for Jitterbugs at the USO with Marion Bridges Betty Jones Char lene Rogers Peggy Bull and others. James Bonney appeared in a hula costume during a special number as two large pines toppled onto a cottage after high waves at Damariscotta Lake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
USO
Marion Bridges
Betty Jones
Charlene Rogers
Peggy Bull
Lois Bankus
Robert Tabor
Mary Stilphen
Elaine Rogers
Juanita Leeman
Thelma Kingsbury
James Bonney
Ann Desmond
Frances Callan
Jane Trott
Doreen Higgins
Eleanor Grainger
Eugenia Mazeiko
Marjory Maybury
Ruth Small
Allene Jones
Rosalie Preble
J. Horace McClure
Heather Jean
Jefferson
Damariscotta Lake
New York
New England
Lt Col Hazeltine Begins 45 Day Belfast Leave
Lt Col Charles B Hazeltine Jr U S Army arrives in Belfast for a 45 day leave with wife at their home Mrs Hazeltine daughter of Clyde B Holmes of Lincoln street Bath. Hazeltine served in China and the Burma theatre. His father Col Charles B Hazeltine U S Army will visit the old home in Belfast and stay with Mr and Mrs Richard Shaw in Bath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles B. Hazeltine, Jr
U. S. Army
Belfast
Hazeltine
Clyde B. Holmes
Lincoln Street
China
Burma
Charles B. Hazeltine
Richard Shaw
Bath
Local Navy Seaman Artland G. Rogers Jr. Missing From Home
Artland G. Rogers Jr. of 1190 Washington Street left May 28 for Navy service. A Morse High School alumnus and former Steeves Market employee, he was well liked. He would be glad to hear from friends at U S M S T S Section 218 Sheepshead Bay New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Artland G. Rogers, Jr
Washington Street
Navy
Morse High School
Steeves’ Market
Artland K. Rogers
Sheepshead Bay
N. Y
Camden guests honor West Bath hosts at Sunday dinner
Mrs. Frank Smith and Mrs. Paul MacDonald of Camden visited Mrs. and Mr. Walter Kingsbury in West Bath for Sunday dinner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Smith
Paul MacDonald
Camden
Walter Kingsbury
West Bath
Also Mentioned on This Page
Phippsburg
Center Street
PTA Sewing Circle
George Morong
Brunswick
John Libby
Lisbon Falls
JoAnn Nisbet
Caribou
Chester Jones
East Boston
Orlando Tibbetts
Roger
Parker Head Friends
A. Bernard Webber
Parker Head
Rose Hunt
Burt Manson
William Temple
Elwood Hathorne
Charles Soule
Maurice Blaisdell
Ira Rice
Harold Rogers
Stephen
Rogers Farm
Noreen Murphy
Woolwich
Packard
Leslie Logan
William Hodgkins
James Gilman
Leo
Jack Loring
Edgecomb
COX
Girl Scouts
Equitable Life Assurance Society of America
Popham Beach
Vernon M. Mattson
Newtonville
Popham
Harry Spencer
Ripley
Norman Perkins
Lester Morse
Judy
Betty Harper
Stanley ‘Perkins
Clarence Perkins
Peter A. Isaacson
Lewiston
Ernest Spinney
Lester Oliver
Spruceville
Jank Scott
George Barnes
iNorth Brookfiell
Mary Barnes
iHe
Orville Small
Charles Small
Jacqueline Pert
Jack Cooke
Marjorie Maybury
Norma Cummings
Harold Armes
Edward Cogan
Richard Andrews
Gerald Cogan
Edward Morse
Ernest Hamblett
Ted Sturtevant
William Pomeroy
Claire Martin
Ruth Williams
Boss Bankus
Maxine Tinney
Millicent Hecht
Norma Drummond
Farrell
John Sonia
Ray Bourget
Aubrey Steen
Warren Rogers
War Department
Lake View
Oregon
Archie Mitchell
Wes
Patterson
International Soundphoto
Sears Roebuck
Sears
Pennsylvania
Isa
Ared
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