Wiscasset Academy Holds Class Exercises in Men's Hall
Exercises of the class of Wiscasset Academy were held at Men's hall on Wednesday afternoon. The program featured recitations, music, and a class poem, with diplomas, trophies, and a graduation ball that evening. Doc Harmon's 10 piece Portland orchestra provided the music.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wiscasset Academy
Henry W. Webb
Roland 8. Bailey
Verna M. Southard
Nina Y. Browne
Forest E. Morris
Eunice L. Lewis
Nina Yvonne Browne
Marion Dickinson Grover
Eunice Laura Lewis
Dorothy Dodge Reed
Lillian Louise Rines
Verna Mary Southard
Fernald Roosevelt Bailey
Roland Smith Bailey
Natalie Ruth Hayward
Bernard Andrew Merry
Forest Ellsworth Morris
Olive Gertrude Tarbox
Carolyn Letitia Trask
Leonard Waldo Verney
Verna Southard
Wiscasset Alumni Meet Features Speakers and Honors
The Wiscasset Academy Alumni Association held its annual meeting at Masonic Hall with 85 attendees. Guest speaker was Harrison Lyseth from the State Department of Education. New officers were elected: President Mrs. Mary M. Marston, Vice-President Charles S. Sewall, Secretary-Treasurer Miss Ruth Jones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wiscasset Academy Alumni Association
Masonic Hall
Harrison Lyseth
State Department of Education
Charles S. Sewall
Theodore Gagne
Academy
Charles S. Sowder
Mary M. Marston
Town Summer Notes Include House Moves and Visits
Town residents plan summer moves and visits including Leon G Flood purchasing the Emery Gibbs place on the Bath road and moving there in summer. Families like Metcalfs at Damarin and the Hiltons in Boston over the weekend are noted. A large First Congregational school picnic at Crescent Beach, 65 attendees, is recorded with local clergy and helpers. Additional items include visitors to and from Portland and Augusta, a temporary baggage master, and a funeral for Clara Crommett with services in Albion and burial at Maple Grove.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alberta Larrabee
The
Organ Society
Wiscasset Academy
First Congregational Church
Charles S. Sowder
Robert E. Merry
St. Philip's Episcopal Church
Sowder
Nazareth
Madeline Fisher Reed
Gertrude Kidder
Everett
Mass
Lara Coffin
Hooper Street
Allston Crommett
Albion
Coffin
Leon G. Flood
Richard
Brewer
Flood
Helen Sargent
Milton Vose
Brooklyn
N. Y
Edgar Rankin
Bath
Harry E. Rines
Maine Central Railroad
Rines
Fort Hill Street
Leon H. Grover
Birch Point
Ralph Homer
South Portland
B. F. Blagdon
Richard R. Maloy
Gardiner
J. F. White
Fred Nutle
Harold Quinnam
Perry Fowle
Boothbay Grange
Southport
Sheepscot Valley
Mystic Grange
Connecticut
Clarence Blagdon
Portland
W. M. Smith
Damariscotta
David Clifford
Hanover
N. H
J. H. Smith
Squirrel Island
Emery Gibbs
Bath Road
Mary Metcalf
Damarin
Edgar Hilton
Boston
Parker B. Stinson
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Albany
Registrars of Vital Statistics
Washington
National Bureau
State of Maine Bureau of Health
Augusta
Alderman
Simon D. Crosby
Rockland
Harvey R. Pease
Pease
Cyprian Bryant
Josephine Tucker
Doris Colby
Mary Aines
Gladys Sherman
Mary Hobson
Federal Street
N.Y
St. Philip's Church
Cincinnati
St. Philip’s Church
Kelton Southard
Monroe
N. C
John Southard
Ellsworth Holbrook
Long Island
Gertrude Sortwell
Frances
Charles Barnes
Palermo
Merle Day
Day
Carleton V. Haskell
George Hobson
Georgianna Lilly
Day's Ferry
Joseph P. Tucker
Joseph Neal
Dexter Fowles
Dexter, Jr
Randolph
John Jackson
Churchill Street
Clara H. Crommett
Everett Crommett
Doggett
Westport
Mr. Doggett
Grace Dayton Doggett
Richard Taylor
Brewster
Julien
Squirrel Angered by Robin Nest Drives Off Visitor
Ex mayor Albert C. McLoon’s Grove Street Rockland property hosts a cherry tree nest. Mr and Mrs McLoon fear squirrels will harass the robins. A swift racket outdoors followed as a squirrel fledpanicked with a robin clinging to its fur. The incident likely ends the tree’s squirrel visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert C. McLoon
Grove Street
Rockland
Mrs. McLoon
Florist Receives Order for Three Carnations Beside a Pet's Coffin
Mervyn Flanders, a Rockland florist, recalls a strange order from years ago. A man asked for three carnations to be delivered in season and to view the remains. In a parlor a tiny casket held the owner's beloved pet calf, the coffin resting beside the flowers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mervyn Flanders
Rockland
Son Walden
E Inquirer
Cal
Bowdoin Commencement Week Schedule Opens June Fifteenth
Bowdoin College announces a sixteenth annual commencement week from Wednesday June 15 to Saturday June 18. Activities include the Baccalaureate address by President Kenneth C. M. Sills, Class day, alumni meetings, Phi Beta Kappa events, theater, organ recitals, and the Commencement exercises and dinner. Tickets and badges required for the dinner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowdoin College
Kenneth C. M. Sills
First Parish
Thorndike
Moulton Union
Hubbard Hall
Alumni Council
Massachusetts Hall
Delta
Phi Beta Kappa Society
Alpha of Maine
Alumni Association
Society of Bowdoin Women
Congregational
Memorial Hall
Myron S. McIntire
Chi Psi Lodge
Brunswick
Cosmopolitan Club Holds June Monthly Meeting
Mrs Carl F Pierce presided at the Cosmopolitan club gathering at the club house. Delegates to the Federation meeting in Rockland were named. Three new members joined and a director was appointed. The Progressive Union meets June 10 in Freeport with next monthly meeting July 6 ahead of the silver anniversary program July 7.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl F. Pierce
Cosmopolitan Club
Carl Y. Kennedy
Rockland
William W. Dennison
Edmund A. Rothwell
Ruth Farnham
Joseph I. Smith
Carroll A. Deering
E. Everett Pierce
Marguerite Hennessy
Harold W. Delong
Progressive Union
Freeport
David L. Wilson
Mary Aick
Thelma Dearing
Margaret Gordon
Harry B. Briggs, Jr
West Bath Grange Memorial Service Observed
West Bath grange held its annual memorial service Monday night with a program including songs In the Garden a memorial address by Mrs. Herbert Lemont Psalm recitations by the grange and musical pieces. The roll call named deceased members and officers read poems and prayers were offered followed by a benediction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath
Fred K. Sturtevant
Nellie Booker
Local trapper brings in unusually large coyote
Maurice Stevens of South Lincoln, a veteran trapper, said he trapped an extra large coyote near Argyle and Passaduinkeag. Coyotes have remained rare in Maine, confined mostly to Argyle and Passaduinkeag in recent years, and Stevens continues to provide fresh proof to skeptics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maurice Stevens
South Lincoln
Arpyte
Maine
Argyle
Passaduinkeag
Stevens
West Bath Red Cross meeting halts
At the grange hall the Red Cross gathering notes progress on children clothes and a quilt. Dinner was served by local volunteers. The group plans its annual outing at the White Summer home in South Harpswell later this month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Grange Hall
Fred W. Larrabee
J. E. Mayo
Morton Baker
William H. White
South Harpswell
Leslie Mayo
Winterport
Campbell’s Pond
Chester Stevens
Lewiston
Birch Point
Ernest Williams
Stanley
Jay Bowker
Stony Brook Road
A. B. Snow
Albert Merryman
Georgie
Shirley
Harpswell
Gilbert Wilson
Lewis
Kenneth
Freeport
Stanley Bennett
Marilyn
Bennett
The
Baptist Church
Charles Baker
Charles, Jr
June
Phippsburg Center
Henry Rose
Fred Rose
Lester Crocker
Bath
Bethel
Swan and Stearns
Albert Larrabee
Joanna
Delmar E. Bates
Malcolm Doble
Charles E. Hewitt, Jr
Charles 3d
Henry Cotteau
Charles H. Bates
Leon
Beachmont
Mass
Annie H. Trufant
Miss Trufant
Frank Woodside
Fryeburg
Rita Myatt
James Brann
Jefferson
Courtney E. Stover
Lois Palmer
High Street
Priscilla Whittum
York
William Whittum
Wollaston
Sally Johnson
Quincy
Marguerite Donnell
Ida Gowan
Odie Rich
Marion Gatchell
Mary Cunningham
Morse High School
Carlton Andrews
Richard
Waterboro
Charles Andrews
Arlene Hunt
Georgetown
Belgrade
Miss Hunt
Ardelle Cunningham
Willows
Henry W. Colsted
Henry
Hanover
Pratt Cottage
Bath Iron Works
Registration Board Announces Thursday Open Sessions
The Board of Registration of Voters opens public sessions Thursday to register new applicants and enroll voters for the approaching primary. Foreign born residents must bring naturalization papers, noting date and court, with a record of endorsement stamped on the certificate. Sessions run standard time and daylight saving hours: 10am-2pm, 4pm-6pm, and 8pm-10pm. Public sessions close on the 15th.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Registration of Voters
Mrs Ketchum Elected Leader of Local Rural Letter Carriers
Mrs William H Ketchum of this city was elected president of the Ladies auxiliary of the Tri County Rural Letter Carriers association at the annual meeting in North Whitefield with a banquet. Mrs Mamie Bean of North Whitefield was elected vice president and Mrs Ralph Mallett of Topsham secretary and treasurer. The group voted to host the State Association of Rural Letter Carriers in Bath in 1939.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William H. Ketchum
Tri-County
Rural Letter Carriers’ Association
North Whitefield
Mamie Bean
Ralph Mallett
Topsham
State Association of Rural Letter Carriers
Bath
Masons Set to Attend Sun Day Service at Day's Ferry
Members of Polar Star and Solar lodges Masons of Bath will attend a Sunday morning worship at 10 30 at the Day's Ferry Congregational church. It is hoped Woolwich Union for Christian Service members will attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Masons
Polar Star and Solar Lodges
Bath
S Ferry
Woolwich Union For Christian Service
Elementary Spelling Contest Ends at Morse High
Finals of the Edwin C. Plummer awards crown winners in four to eight grades. About 500 attended a two and three quarter hour contest with prizes of 5 3 and 1 dollars. Winners include Riva Greenblatt Bobbie Russell Elizabeth Trott Betty Mullen Carmen Huse Marie Robinson Ruth Cogan Albert Povich Harry Higgins and Billy Hill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin C. Plummer
Morse High School
Mary Conley
Riva Civia Greenblatt
Mitchell School
Bessie Hunt
J. G. Silsby
Henry W. Owen, Jr
Ruth Cogan
Central Grammar
Albert Povich
Central
Harry Higgins
Billy Hill
Central Grammar School
Laura Mitchell
Effie C. Wright
Martha E. Hooper
Delightful Shower for Marjorie Troop
A morning bridal shower for Miss Marjorie P. Troop, hosted by Miss Isabell Lewis and Miss Anne Thompson at 2 Elsinore Avenue, from 11 30 to 1 30, in honor of her forthcoming marriage to Charles Bartlett. Gifts were given. several hosts served refreshments to a list of attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marjorie P. Troop
Isabell Lewis
Anne Thompson
Lewis
Elsinore Avenue
Miss Troop
Charles Bartlett
Laura Mitchell
Fred Higgins
Donald F. Preble
Gardiner R. Deering
Edwin H. P. Lowell
John Parker
Warren F. Hawley
Merritt A. Mitchell
Eleanor and
Jean Danforth
Weather vane replacement at Davenport City Hall
The ship weather vane toppled by January’s gale was replaced Monday evening as painters finish exterior work. O. M. Redlon did repairs and fitting, and the vane is now secured with an adjustable brass pipe assembly. A seven pound son was born to Mr and Mrs Andrew C Flaherty at Memorial hospital on Tuesday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davenport City Hall
O. M. Redlon
Andrew C. Flaherty
Front Street
Memorial Hospital
Woolwich Notices Move In And Around Sagadahoc Ferry
George Cramp and family occupy the former Haley house at Sagadahoc Ferry as many locals move or renovate homes. Roland McIntosh recovers from flu and resumes business. Graduation events at Brunswick High School and Moatsweag church mark town activities while a firelight incident causes minimal damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Cramp
Charles Haley
Sagadahoc Ferry
Roland McIntosh
Jennie Hallet
Brunswick
Brunswick High School
Minnie Rice
Everett Rice
Windham
William Hanson
F. W. Carlton
Clarence Carlton
Anthony Dodge
State Road
Good Will Club
John Lily
Costello P. Hall
J. Gould Bailey
Montsweag
Elbridge Rice
Nelson Rice
Sasanoa Bluffs
Louise Cerica
Swampscott
Mass
Maxine Walker
Miss Cunningham
Morse High School
Laura Blanche
Marjorie Pollard
Bath
William Preble
Harvey Preble
Moatsweag
Woolwich P. T. A
Sebenon
Joseph I. Smith
Vina] Hunnewell
Freeman Oliver
Archie Wishart
James Norfall
Ruth Presley
Pinette
Maine
Lincoln Houdlette
Farmingdale
Adelbert Houdlette
E. W. Hall
Cedar Grove
Carroll Houdlette
Gardiner
Hall
Charles E. Haley
Marston
Eben Dana
Danjiariscotta
Woolwich Good Will Club Meets Monday
Sagadahoc Good Will club announced gifts for a community building at its Monday meeting at Mrs. John Lillys home. George G Hathorne donated land near Sagadahoc Ferry and Laura E Farnham left funds for the project. Plans proceed with a June 22 incorporation meeting hosted by Mrs Edward Reed. 16 members attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sagadahoc
Good Will Club
John Lilly
George G. Hathorne
Laura E. Farnham
Sagadahoc Ferry
Carlton Bridge
Bath
Kennebec
Edward Reed
Woolwich Grange Holds Regular Meeting and Dance
Woolwich grange met at the Montsweag grange hall last Wednesday for a program that featured songs readings and a lecturer. Rosamond Stover Elsie Bailey Anna Soule Jessie Spaulding and others performed readings and songs including The Biting Smile Climbing A Hill I Saw God Two Small Roosters Home and Old Black Joe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woolwich Grange
Montsweag Grange Hall
Grange
Etene Rosamond Stover
Elsie Bailey
God
Anna Soule
Jessie Spaulding
Black Joe
Laurel 4-H Club Holds Folk Dances at Dromore Grange
Laurel 4-H members enjoyed folk dances and games at Dromore grange hall. The girls club leader hosted muffins for judging and at the next meeting a real muffin judging event is planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laurel 4-H Club
Dromore Grange Hall
Woolwich Church to Mark 180th Anniversary Celebration
The First Congregational church of Woolwich observes its 180th anniversary with a June 12 gathering at Mr and Mrs Wilson Wrights. Mrs Leonard M Lord of Bath will discuss early church history and town ties. copies of old records and the communion set will be displayed. The event honors founding members with cakes for the oldest and youngest descendants. an offering for the debt of honor benefits retired ministers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson Wright
Woolwich
First Congregational Church of
Leonard M. Lord of
Bath
Benjamin Shaw
Lord
England
Wright
National Council of the Congregational Denomination
Charles T. Brown
Winifred S. Wright
Percy C. Bailey
Wilson M. Wright
Mary L. Dodge
Lois M. Day
Charlotte L. Buck
Nequasset Farm Bureau Plans July Picnic at Bay Point
At last week’s Nequasset Farm Bureau meeting 50 insignias were sewn for 4-H, shrubs around Nequasset church thrive, and a July 6 picnic at Bay Point was set with Mrs. Augustus Perow in charge. Sports committee includes Mrs. Maurice Hathorne and others. dinner served by local members. Nineteen members attended with three guests, Mrs. Allen Richards, Miss Alberta Richards, and Mrs. Allen Mills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nequasset Farm Bureau
Bureau
Nequasset Church
Bay Point
Augustus Perow
Fred Thompson
Maurice T. Hathorne
Henry T. Dubar
Carolyn Wine
Pirnic
Alton Reed
John C. Gilmore
Maurice Hathorne
Allen Richards
Alberta Richards
Allen Mills
New State Librarian Addresses Bath D A R
Mrs. Percy C. Bailey hosted Col Dummer Sewall chapter D A R at her Woolwich home Tuesday afternoon. Oliver L. Hall new State Librarian and past SAR president spoke. Three new members joined, officers for the year installed, and a new Elizabeth Lawrence club for Children of the LD A R was announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Percy C. Bailey
Woolwich
Col. Dummer Sewall
Pemaquid
Oliver L. Hall
The
Sons of American Revolution
Ethel Blake
Charles M. Tubbs
Robert C. Winthrop
Margaret R. Foote
Tobeys Return Home After Week With Wakefield Relatives
Mr and Mrs George W Tobey return to their home at 20 Western Avenue after visiting their son and daughter in law Mr and Mrs Hiram A Tobey in Wakefield Massachusetts for a week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. Tobey
Western Avenue
Hiram A. Tobey
Wakefield
Mass
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Down East
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Norma Steussy
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Daniel Hatch
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Edith Walker
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