Bath notes list guests and locals at events
Bath community notes describe Friendship Night guests at Good Faith Rebekah Lodge in Buckfield. The entries name Mrs Bernice Bailey soloist and Mrs Carolyn Thompson musician, with other Lodge members present. The page lists hospital patients, engagements, travels, graduations, weddings, and summer visits across Bath and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bernice Bailey
Carolyn Thompson
Bath
Good Faith Rebekah Lodge
Buckfield
Bailey
Thompson
Elizabeth Hathorne
Woolwich
Noble Grand
Pine Cone Lodge
Wiscasset
Emily Blake
Local Notes on Visits and Birth Announcement in Bath Area
Carleton W Lowell of Granite street returned home after visiting his daughter and son in law Arch ie L Seekins of Portland. Mrs Breese Skillin has returned to Brunswick after a month in San Antonio Texas. She is the former Francena Williams daughter of Stanley Williams West Bath. Mr and Mrs Richard Chadbourne of Woolwich announce the birth of a daughter at Bath Memorial Hospital May 26. She is named Mary Ellen and weighed six pounds 13 ounces. Mr and Mrs Raymond Fowler Jr and children Robert and Theresa of Saratoga Springs New York are weekend guests of Mr and Mrs William A Ail Middle street Bath Memorial Hospital May 26.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kevin David Holt
Daniel Holt
Wesley Jane
Memorial Hospital
Marion Cromwell
Woolwich
Hom
Bucksport
Kenneth E. Cromwell
Stephen Poulos
Center Street
Bath Memorial Hospital
Daniel Poulos
Washington Street
Allen McAllister
Blind Crossing
Scott Anderson
Jeffrey
McAllister
Barbara Burnham
Bath
Henry Gobb
Claremont
Calif
Allen M. Irish
North Street
Cobb
Morse High School
Bowdoin College
Irish
Sabino
Carleton W. Lowell
Granite Street
Archie L. Seekins
Portland
Breese Skillin
Brunswick
San Antonio
Tex
Skillin
Francena Williams
Stanley Williams
West Bath
Richard Chadbourne
Mary Ellen
Raymond Flower, Jr
Robert and
Theresa
Saratoga Springs, N. Y
William A. Ail
Middle Street
Myra Scott
Cochituate
Mass
Dora Waterhouse
Thurman Lord
Kevin
Ernest Oliver
Margaret
Edith
Morse High Auditorium
Leon Fickett
Everett
Alice Gullickson
Grace Cushing
Guy Crowley
Elizabeth Seigler
Greenwich
Gray
Fort Popham
Fort Baldwin
Martha Allen
Betty Lou Anderson
Edith Oliver
George Oliver
Roger Oliver
Marguerite McNulty
William Hodgkins
East Boston
Parker Head
Minnie Aderton
Andy
Nicholas Gianabas
Mildred Wilson
Edward Staples
Emma Newdick
Raymond Harmon
Popham
Popham Beach
Albert Stolpe and Son
Douglas
Winthrop
Atkin’s Bay
Linwood Payson
Barbara Bentley
Boston
John B. Wilbur, Jr
Columbus
Ohio
Stanley Hyde
Hyde
Margaret Oliver
Spinney’s
Robert Stevens
Stuart
Oceanview Park
Shirley Pratt
Bessie Sigler
Harvey Chubbuck, Jr
Bodwell Grange
Vernon Mattson
Newtonville
South Shore
Day
Norris Follett
Naugatuck
Local family notes include graduations and visits
Mrs Annie Longley of Bath visits West Concord Mass to see daughter and son in law Stephen and Ann Marie Lombardo in a dance recital. Samuel Kittredge of 59 Bedford St earns a Bachelor of Science from University of Tampa. Morse HS grad and Navy veteran. Sandra Sinclair returns to Worcester to attend Morse HS graduation events. Joseph Robinson and family return from a Norforks Va trip via Washington Baltimore and New York City. visiting relatives in Farnsworth area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annie Longley
Bath
West Concord
Mass
Stephen Lombardo
Ann Marie Lombardo
Samuel Kittredge
Frank C. Kittredge
Bedford Streets
University of Tampa
Kittredge
Morse
U. S
Navy
Joseph Robinson
Union Street
Norfolks Va
Red Johnson
Joseph
Fisher School
Roy Oxton
Liberty
Robinson
Washington
Baltimore
New York City
Tak- Boas CC
City
Out-of-town guests attend Low-Doran wedding events
Mrs Henry Marsh Judy Marsh Evelyn Stinson and Mrs Robert Spicer were visitors in Lewiston Saturday afternoon. Mrs Maynard Brown Mrs Archie Wishart and Mrs John Harkins hosted a buffet dinner at 50 Granite Street for wedding party members and out-of-town guests of Miss Ellen E Low and Roger W Doran, ahead of the Friday wedding rehearsal at Central Congregational church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Marsh
Judy Marsh
Evelyn Stinson
Robert Spicer
Lewiston
Maynard Brown
Archie Wishart
John Harkins
Percy R. Low
Granite Street
Ellen E. Low
Roger W. Doran
Central Congregational Church
West Peabody guest list hosts extended visit notes
Mrs Ronald Atwood and daughters Susan and Judith of West Peabody Massachusetts were weekend guests at the home of her parents Mr and Mrs L Earle Hagan Georgetown Mr and Mrs Ernest Peacock of Delta Alberta Canada are visiting with Mrs Peacock s sister Mr Maud Sidelinger of 177 Middle Street Sunday guests of Mrs Sidelinger were Miss Loretta Peacock and Mrs Alice Hayes of Portland and Mr and Mrs Linwood Palmer of Nobleboro
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ronald Atwood
Susan
Judith
West
Peabody
Mass
L. Earle Hagan
Georgetown
Ernest Peacock
Delta
Alberta
Canada
Bath men among 148 to receive diplomas at MCI Pittsfield
Breese B Skillin a machinist mate of the U S Navy stationed on the USS Wasp at Boston spent the weekend with his mother Mrs Thelma Skillin of Phippsburg. Stewart A Bradway G Thomas Costain Jr Richard D Lord Donald M Page Lee R Shorette and Joseph S Small all of Bath were among the 148 graduates awarded diplomas at commencement ceremonies at Maine Central Institute Pittsfield on Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Breese B. Skillin
U. S. Navy
Wasp
Boston
Thelma Skillin
Phippsburg
Stewart A. Bradway
G Thomas Costain, Jr
Richard D Lord
Donald M. Page
Lee R Shorette
Joseph S. Small
Bath
Maine Central Institute
Pittsfield
Kalamazoo Couple Planned Bath Visit This Week
Mr and Mrs Charles J Donnell of Kalamazoo Michigan are expected to arrive in Bath the latter part of this week. Mr Donnell will attend the Bowdoin college commencement this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles J. Donnell
Kalamazoo, Mich
Bath
Donnell
Bowdoin College
Jean Fitzgerald Returns Home From Gorham State College
Jean Fitzgerald daughter of Mr and Mrs Walter Fitzgerald 102 Court Street has arrived home for the summer recess from Gorham State Teachers College where she will be a junior when she returns in the fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loretta Pouliot
Antonio Pouliot
Robinson June
Jub
Gorham State Teachers’ College
Jean Fitzgerald
Walter Fitzgerald
Court Street
Butts Birth Announcement From Augusta General Hospital
Mr and Mrs John K Butts of Augusta announce the birth of a son at Augusta General hospital Sunday. The newborn weighs seven pounds ten ounces and is named Thomas Moore. They have two other children Daniel and John. Mrs Butts, former Ruth Williams of Bath, also mentioned. Airman Roy E Stuart, son of John H Stuart of 322 Washington street, promoted to June 1. He serves as an assistant postal clerk with Detachment 3 12th Air Postal Squadron in France. Enlisted Nov 14 1958 and joined present duty station in December 1959.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John K. Butts
Augusta
Augusta General Hospital
Thomas Moore
Daniel
John
Butts
Ruth Williams
Bath
Roy E. Stuart
John H. Stuart
Washington Street
Air Force
12Th Air Postal Squadron
France
Stuart
Summer Cottage News From Boothbay And Bath District
Earle S. Thompson and sister Ruth from New York open their Boothbay cottage for the season while Mrs. Walter E. Edge returns to Princeton after supervising Small Point cottage construction. Carl Stinson arrives from Colby College to summer at Bath with his parents and will work at Bath Iron Works. Lyndall Alexander takes a two week vacation from Times Co composing room. Roger Upham returns from University of Maine to summer duties as night watchman at Atlantic House in Scarboro starting June 14.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earle S. Thompson
Ruth Thompson
New York City
Bath
Boothbay
Walter E. Edge
Princeton
N. J
Carl Stinson
Paul Stinson
Dike Road
Colby College
Bath Iron Works
Lyndall Alexander
Bluff Road
the Times Co
Roger Upham
Walter Upham
Floral Street
University of Maine
Atlantic House
Scarboro
Student in Philadelphia to finish finals at MVTL minesweeper project
Clifford Newell son of Deputy Chief Edward F Newell of 972 High Street is in Philadelphia with students and instructors of the MVTL in South Portland. They are working on the minesweeper the school recently bought from the government and he will return to Portland the week of June 12 to complete his finals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clifford Newell
Edward F. Newell
High Street
Philadelphia
M.V.T.L
South Portland
Portland
Fiske Couple Open Summer Farm at Phippsburg
Mr and Mrs Charles Fiske opened their Cold Spring farm at Phippsburg for the summer season inviting visitors and offering farm produce and lodging on the property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Fiske
Phippsburg
Contracts Awarded For Material To Resurface Roads
Bath awards contract to American Bitumals for about 60 000 gallons of asphalt at 0.1325 a gallon for summer road resurfacing. D. & S. Corp of Yarmouth bids tar at 0.2129 a gallon. Bodwell Motors Bath wins two Ford F-800 trucks for 10 462. International Harvester Portland bids 9 667.50 but trucks fail specs. City waits on delivery of two new 12 1 2 ton trucks, bids had ranged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Bitumals” and Asphalt Co
Woolwich
Bath
Stanley W. Judkins
D. & S. Corp
Yarmouth
Highway Department
Arthur Avery
Bodwell Motors of
International Harvester Co
Portland
Judkins
Bodwell
Bates College Student to Spend Summer in France
Henderson a Bates College junior from Phippsburg will join three Bates students in a Europe summer program to gain practical language experience. He will fly June 12 from Boston to Paris to work for the Mahuzies at their chateau near Paris, with duties from 5 30 a m to 6 30 p m and international driving permit required. He will return September 5 by jet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Bates College
Lewiston
Henderson
A. Bernard Henderson
Phippsburg
Morse High School
Bates
Europe
Boston
Paris
Monsieur
Madame Charles Mahuzies
le Chateau de Fief de Breda
Sydney Jackman
History Department
Mahuzies
Alfred J. Wright
College
Switzerland
United States
Mrs Oscar Robertson Visits Bath for Funeral
Mrs Oscar Robertson of Gorham New Hampshire formerly Eleanor Whitlam of Bath spent the weekend as a guest of Mr and Mrs Foster Pratt at 390 High Street Bath while attending the funeral of her aunt Mrs Elizabeth Ferris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oscar Robertson
Gorham
N. H
Eleanor Whitlam
Bath
Foster Pratt
High Street
Elizabeth Ferris
Rainey Alexander couple to wed at Brunswick Naval base
Mr and Mrs Wilson Rainey of Phippsburg announce the approaching marriage of their daughter Sally Jean Rainey to P O Thomas E Alexander U S N son of Mr and Mrs Joseph Alexander of Fort Supply Oklahoma. Sally Jean Rainey attended local schools and Fisher Junior College Boston and works as a clerk typist at Naval Air Station Brunswick. Alexander is a petty officer in the U S Navy stationed at Brunswick. The wedding is scheduled for September 4.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson Rainey
Phippsburg
Sally Jean
P.O. Thomas E. Alexander
U.S. N
Fort Supply
Oklo
Miss Rainey
Bath
Fisher Junior College
Boston
Naval Air Station
Brunswick
Mr. Alexander
Joseph Alexander
Naval Air Station, Brunswick
Phippsburg News Highlights Local Grange Meet and Graduations
Boawell Grange plans an evening meeting at 8 pm to map events for Sagadahoc Pomona masters on June 22. A class of 16 will graduate from Phippsburg Elementary Friday evening. Broad town notices cover a special town meeting, beach area under curfew, and local church and school activities including Vacation Bible School starting June 20.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boawell Grange
Sagadahoc Pomona
Phippsburg
Dromore
Grange Hall
County
HDA
Small Point Church
John Nordland
Edith Oliver
Gloria Pratt
Maurice Pye
Martha Robinson
Margaret Rogers
David Wallace
Tederick Worth
Morse High School
Parker Head social notes list weekend visits and engagements
Parker Head residents welcome visitors from Connecticut Maine and New York with families and friends dropping by for weekends and holidays. Highlights include Mrs Winnifred Ross in Augusta and a Musk of family gatherings from Bath Woolwich and Small Point. Local graduates Ruth Gray Linda Doughty and others mark eighth grade completion. Captain Donald Logan plans to resume work after trips to Warsaw Copenhagen and Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lester Beals
Connecticut
Charles Hughes
Birch Point
Walter Cushing
Winnifred Ross
Augusta
Ross
Earl Eckerson
Merrill Bassett
Lynn
Mass
Herbert Bassett
Neil Page
Frederick Watson
Eugene Edwards
Alan
Kathy Jewett
Bath
Parker Head
Anne Gray
Morse High School
Ruth Gray
Edward Gray
Woolwich
Roger Lewis
W. H. Wyman
Portland
Donald Logan
Capitol Airlines
Leslie Logan
Montreal
Que
Warsaw
Copenhagen
France
Germany
William Hodgkins
J. F. Mezenski
Small Point
Popham Beach
Earl F. Lowell
Earl Lowell
Paul Bourgette
New York State
William Cushing
Sharon Turner
Leeston Lloyd, Jr
Fort Myers
Fla
Fort Gordon Ga
Bath Buccaneers win Maine Open Amvets title in Lewiston
The Bath Buccaneers senior drum and bugle corps returned home Sunday with the Maine State Open Amvets title and placed fourth in the Northern circuit at Bridgeport Conn. They scored 98.7 out of 100 in Lewiston after beating Andrews Post of Portland and Caldwell Post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Mass
Sunrisers
Long Island
N. Y
Buccaneers
Musketeers
Warren, R. I
Fireman Injured As Hose Trolley Falls At Station
Lt. Arthur Brown of Engine Four was hurt when a 40 pound hose trolley fell about 30 feet at Central Fire Station Monday evening during routine equipment tests. He was taken to Bath Memorial Hospital for observation on a possible right shoulder injury after the overhead trolley broke loose. Preliminary X-rays showed no broken bones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Fire Station
Bath
Arthur Brown
Engine Four Company
Bath Memorial Hospital
Brown
Popham Beach wharf plans await Park Commission approval
Popham Construction for a new float at Fort Popham awaits formal Park Commission approval after a meeting between Popham Beach Boatowners Association led by Norman E. Markham and Parks Director Lawrence Stuart. Members will donate time to build the wharf with user contributions addressed to users. A local June ordinance restricting under 21s without an adult near Popham Beach passed by a narrow 20 to 19 vote, with about 10 votes for Popham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Popham
Park Commission
Popham Beach
Popham
Judith Hannaford and Gerome Booth wed at Plainfield church
Miss Judith A Hannaford daughter of Mr and Mrs Harry S Hannaford of Summit New Jersey and Gerome Booth son of Mr and Mrs Stanley Booth of Somerville New Jersey married June 4 in an 8 pm candlelight ceremony at Netherwood Reformed Church Plainfield A reception followed at Old Mill Inn Bernardsville They honeymoon at Coxs Head then plan to reside in Manville New Jersey Substitute names and places appear in town news items including notices of a death and local digger activity near Coxs Head
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Judith Anne Hannaford
Harry S. Hannaford
Summit
N. J
Gerome Booth
Stanley Booth
Somerville
Netherwood Reformed Church
Plainfield
Old Mill Inn
Bernardsville
Cox's Head
Hannaford
C. Harry Hannaford
Shore Acres
New Jersey
Manville
Clifford McCollett
Portland Hospital
Gardiner
McCollett
Morse High School
Bath
D. E. Johnson
Sarah E. Wilbur
Stanton C. Dozois
H. L. Carlisle
Edward P. Thomas
Ilene Percy
Dora Collette
Marblehead
Mass
Percy
Sarah FE. Wilbur
Dorothy Robbins
Minnie Malcolm
Phippsburg Center
Harvey Bergeron
Richard B. K. McLanathan
Rockland
Robert Gray
Parker Head
Richard Keyes
Ricky
Lewis Cottage
Kennebec
Vernon Philbrook
Matinicus Island
Charles Robbins
Earle B. Perkins
Augusta
Ralph Seckins
Dromore Grange Members Go On Mystery Ride
Members of Dromore grange took a mystery ride Saturday evening to Sheep Scott grange Anna. The outing was planned by both granges and followed by a social with refreshments. A future mystery ride is planned and the next meeting is June 14. Drivers were Raymond Campbell Melvin Pratt and Ruth Allegrin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dromore Grange
Sheep
Scott Grange
Anna
Raymond Cambell
Melvin Pratt
Ruth Allegrin
Mr and Mrs Almond Jellison Visit South Portland Hosts
Mr and Mrs Almond Jellison of South Portland were weekend guests of Mr and Mrs William F Plummer at 17 Tower Circle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Almond Jellison
South Portland
William F. Plummer
Tower Circle
Weekend visitors and residents at Bath area cottages and beaches
The text lists numerous local residents and visitors spending weekends at cottages and beaches near Bath. Names include Ernest and Mrs Oliver Lynn Bussey Margaret Moody Ilene Percy George Oliver Dixie McCleary Grace Cushing Ida Oliver Marguerite McNulty Charles Shepard Frank Ferrara Guy Crowley Donald Page Lincoln Anderson Dennis Murphy and families from Bath Melrose Wakefield Long Island and Cambridge. It notes Spinney's restaurant opening and various hosts guests at cottages and summer homes along Parker Head road.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Oliver
Lynn Bussey
Bath
Margaret
Portland
Geneva Moody
Spinney’s
Ilene Percy
Percy
Parker Head Road
George Oliver
Willard Oliver
Dixie McCleary
Grace Cushing
Ida Oliver
Irving Varney
Mildred Sprague
Marguerite McNulty
Charles Shepard
Frank Ferrara
Cambridge
Mass
Guy Crowley
Donald Page
Lincoln Anderson
Melrose
Dennis Murphy
Long Island
N. Y
Mazzaro
Massachusetts
Spinney
Roland McIntosh
Also Mentioned on This Page
Alfred J. Back
Carol Eastman
Mabel A. Wade
Peter Clifford McCollett
Gardiner and
Peggy Colby
Aubrey Ramey
Evelyn Tinker
Fletcher A. Waterman
Archie Whalen
Veteran's Hospital
Toygus
James McLuer
U.S.A
George McLuer
Fort Dix
Army
Philip Stackpole
Peter
Blair Wilson
Campbell's Pond
Walter Ayles
Daytona Beach
Randall Merry and Sons
Jimmy and
Jay
T. C. Salimonte
Quincy, Mass
Mr. Salmonte
Newman E. Getchell
West, Bath
Mrs. Erving Joy
Cook's Corner
Robert Hodgkins
Bar Harbor
Howard Moody
H. J. Byard
Hampton, N. H
William Sylvester
Sedgwick and
Brooklin
Raymond Brown
Deborah
Damariscotta
Eben Fisher Low
William P. Doran
Montclair
Robert Mitchell
Lawrence Vail
40 Weeks Street
Charles FE. Doten
Gorham State Teachers College
Judy Ashe
Carol Hooker
Charles Douglas
Ann Miller
Caroline Haskins
Richard Paul Burns
George Lee Lawrence
Manley Hardy Grant
Neil Edward LaRochelle
David Manson Potter
Burns
Grant
Lawrence
College of Education
Potter
College of Technology
LaRochelle
Farmington State Teachers College
Donald G. Egan
Newburgh
Joseph EF. Kocha
Liberty Street
Golden Park Homeowners Association
Egan
Dallas
Texas
FE. 1. duPont de Nemours Co
Alonzo Parks
Portsmouth
William ©. Robson
Western Avenue
Parks-Coombs
Earl C. Donnell
Marguerite Louise
Clement B. Barter
Mary A. Barter
Clement M. Barter
Ann Williams
Brian M. Jewett
Sharon
Commonwealth Road
Watertown
Alan S. Wilkie
Evan
Alanna
Melrose, Mass
Joseph McKenna
George McKellar
Valle’s
Douglas Dearborn
George Dearborn
Sandra Sinclair
Manpower Inc
Worcester
Ernest Sinclair
Gardenstreet
Edna
John C. Phillips
Eleanor Hyde
Van
John S. Henderson
William Blaisdell
Gertrude Blaisdell
Thomas Morse
Togus Hospital
Frederick Haggett
Clarence Sheffield
Famil
Bowdoinham
Thomas Totman
Owen
Ronald Flink
Framingham
Thomas C. Totman
New Haven
Conn
Irma Gilman
Dudley Harrington
Gorham Teachers College
Don Richards
Stanwood Gilman
Diane Pye
Stanley Roberts
Milford
Bridgeport
New England
William B. Perry
Greg
Eva Rogers
Harvell
Ernest Croy
Phippsburg Christian Service Committee
Ashland
Croy
Croy Lived At the Center Parsonage
Scribner Mockler
Sally
Groton, Conn
Parker
Cox
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