Wiscasset notes span Legion events and Bowdoin reunion
Wiscasset community reports on Legion Auxiliary activities including officers, a June 18 banquet, and Poppy Drive results. Bowdoin College reunion highlights feature Mr and Mrs Charles Sewall, 50th anniversary of Bowdoin graduation, Commencement Day events, and a speech by Prof. Wilmot Mitchell. Additional items cover library talks, Red Cross meeting actions, and local graduations with student awards and campus ceremonies.
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Rainbow
Wiscasset
Masonic Hall
Garrison Hill
Alton Erskine Moeeenee
Christine Marcia
Douglas Munsey
Clifton Munsey
G. Bradford - Sortwell - Wright
American Legionavy
Mitchell
Bowdoin
Sills
Moulton Union
Eastern Star Club
Wiscasset Inn
Foote’s Island
Elizabeth Webb
Abe Eigand T Oo Sennes
Abene Cone Fase
Franklin Block
Middle Street
Jerusalem
Royal Arch
Allen Curtis
Everard Bailey
Belfast
New Jerusalem
Lincoln Lodge of Masons
American Red Cross
Congregational Vest
Marion Warland
Samuel J. Sewall
Helen Haggett
Frances Sortwell
Hattie Mosher
Kimball
Wiscasset Academy
Congregational Chhurch
Anchors Aweigh
Madeline Reed
Robert H. Heigham
Shirley Wakefield
Geneva Sherman
Beatrice Jackson
Barbara Merry
William Townsend
Helen Petrie
Richard Nason
Marjorie Holbrook
Wilberta Nichols
Stonier
Pease
Red Men’s Hall
Joe Avery
Thaddeus Reed
Phyllis Lewis
Lakeview
Jefferson
Adah
Electa
Robert Queston
Robert Roe
White Mountain
Alfred E. Gorham
Lake Worth
Fla
G. W. Boynton
Boynton
William E. Burton
Birch Point
Richard Burton
From where I sit
Joe Marsh explains that in Our Town farmers who plant windbreaks do so by mutual agreement, maintaining safe distances to avoid legal disputes. He says this cooperative approach keeps streets orderly and avoids court fights, benefiting beverage retailers and community rights.
West Bath Community News Touches Sympathy and Meetings
Sympathy is extended to the family of Ida Mae Water en who resided in West Bath for years. West Bath Sewing group met at the grange hall with many members. a covered dish dinner followed and sewing continued. The West Bath Methodist church announces summer and fall meetings at 2 30 p m each Sunday with invites to the Little Church in the Woods also known as the Singing po. Nearby social notes mention visitors from Portsmouth and Bath residents connected to Morse High School graduates.
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Ida Mae Wateren
West Bath
Maud Reid
Musquodabott
Halifax
N. S
Alfred H. Gray
Alfred E. Gray
Roxbury
Mass
Fred Waterman
Chelmsford
Ae Ramey
Somerville
Betty Boudreau
Hazel White
Mary Lee Dunham
Florena MacEwen
Ada E. Larrabee
Burnita Graves
David and Earl
Ruth A. Fuller
Margaret O. Williams
Peggy Williams
Lillie Donnell
Lizzie Haggett
Daisy McCoy
Ida B. Rose
Gladys Deehan
Friendly Club
Grange Hall
Gardiner Doctor's Wife Margaret Hebert Farrell Died in Portland
Margaret Hebert Farrell wife of Dr Chalmers G Farrell of Gardiner and daughter of Joseph A Hebert of Westbrook died in Portland on June 2. She long served as superintendent at Gardiner General Hospital retiring in 1942 and spent years at a Davis Island cottage she and Miss Whittaker owned since 1933. Funeral services were held June 4 at St Marys church Westbrook with interment in St Hyacinthe cemetery.
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Margaret Hebert Farrell
Chalmers G. Farrell
Gardiner
Joseph A. Hebert
Westbrook
Portland
Gardiner General Hospital
Davis Island
Geneva E. Whittaker
Bath Road
Wiscasset
Miss Whittaker
St. Mary’s Church
St. Hyacinthe Cemetery
Woolwich Grange Confers Degrees and Plans Summer Recess
The Woolwich Grange third and fourth degrees were conferred on three candidates, including Roberta Ames from Burnham Evelyth State. Guests from Enterprise and West Bath granges attended. two members were ill and a member returning from Florida was welcomed back. Recesses were set from June 18 to July 16 and July 16 to August 20. Pomona Grange to meet Woolwich August 27. Silver and gold sheaves will be awarded June 11 to 25 and 50 year members.
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Woolwich Grange
Roberta Ames
Burnham Evelyth
Beatrice Bailey
Marion Bailey
Julia Getcheil
Enterprise
West Bath
Martha Erskine
Chester Leeman
Emma Copeland
Florida
Pomona Grange
Woolwich
Marriner
Woolwich Community Notes and School Activities
The piece lists graduation exercises at the church and various classroom events in Woolwich and nearby towns. It mentions prizes for spelling, awards like the seven-point health certificate for Barbara Thornton, and multiple school outings to beaches or picnics with parents. Local club meetings and scout events are also noted along with residents visiting or returning from Florida.
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Arrowsie
Pleasant Viewt
Smith's Beach
Barbara Thornton
Day
Wedding and Grange Event At West Bath
Readable text describes a Grange event at West Bath with McIntire as best man Myra Scott honored attendees Adelia Gilman Barbara Wyman and Margaret Blair among those listed after wedding poems and duets by Earl Hamel and John Pye Marguerite Blair and E Melvin Pratt invited to Grange offices Pratt played violin Refreshments served by men The note adds a 1939 Britain livestock export fact.
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McIntire
Myra Scott
Wilma
Marie Blair
Arlene Hamel
Bride
Adélia Gilman
Barma Roberts
Kathleen Barbara Wyman
Martin
John Pye
Earl
Leo
Hamel
Aby
Wedding and sea life tale in Bay Point report
The bride cut her wedding cake as guests watched at Bay Point. The couple left around 10 p.m. amid rice and blossom petals. A baby seal, about a month old, and a second large seal were found ashore and are cared for by Kenneth Crafts under Sea and Fisheries guidance at Boothbay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Py
Walter Delano Witten Adams
Kenneth Crafts
Sea and
Gir Fisheries
Boothbay
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Elizabeth Bates
Susan
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Eugene McGrath
McGrath
Edith Bellas White
Helena Ballas
Society of Bowdoin Women
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Joe Marsh
Brewers
the Brewers
Maine
United States Brewers Foundation
Lawrence Burnham
Portsmouth, N. H
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Albert Cornish
Y Reed
Leslie
Roland
Ee Tae . Walker
Alton Crore
Murphy’s Corner
Mary Wright
Bowdeinham
Milton Hathorne
Wallace Savage, Jr
Bodwell Grange
Britain
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Formica
Homart
Phen Dines
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