Rines 91 dies at home after illness relapses
Nate Rines 91 longtime Wiscasset resident died at his Churchill street home early Tuesday morning after months of illness. He worked at Haines sawmill Birch Point and ran a barber shop on Main street for 54 years. Survived by son Henry Rines two daughters four grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Funeral at home Thursday with Masonic service at Greenlawn cemetery.
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Nate Rines
Churchill Street
Wiscasset
Haines
Birch Point
Wavenock Block
Main Street
Rines
Arambic Lodge of Odd Fellows
Knights of Pythias
Lincoln Lodge of Masons
Henry Rines
Marion Lint
Rosa L. Chase
Robert H. Heigham
Greenlawn
Daniel Pushard
Effie Arguin
Alberta Garland
Esther Atkins
Levina Cormier
Norma Chase
Gardiner
Nina Atkinson
Bath
Anna Main
Portland
Mrs Charlotte Konelick Visits Bath From Thomaston
Mrs. Charlotte Konelick of Thomaston recently visited Bath, enjoying the sights and social bustle of the city during her stay.
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Charlotte Konelick of
Thomaston
Bath
West Bath notes school closure and community picnic
West Bath pupils and teachers gathered at Mrs. Litchs beach for a Friday school closure picnic with mothers. Refreshments were donated by Mrs. Litch and teachers, and the PTA funded ice cream. A fall meeting is planned and a hospital visit to Mrs. Alton Mitchell was noted alongside a clock donation to Littlefield school.
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Lowell
Litch
Alton Mitchell
Brunswick
Louis A. Dole
William White
Littlefield
Eugenia Swanton
Lowell School
Miss Swanton
Miss Lowell
John Larrabee
Hansel and
Gretel
Talking Trees
Doris White
Joyce Stover
Elaine Renshaw
Audrey Hogan
Francis Perkins
Hansel
Emery Greenleaf
Weepine
Claudette Albert
Richard Legasse
Sherry Grindie
Roland Lagasse
America
the Beautiful
Doris
White
Victor Full
Social notes from Bath and nearby communities
A string of visits, weddings, weekend gatherings, and summer plans across Bath Maine and surrounding towns. Notables include Miss Dorothy Williams returning to Columbia University as a dental hygiene assistant, several family calls to Lecaws and Sabine cottages, and service members like Cpl. Carlton Bailey stationed in Germany and George Moore USN visiting from Arlington.
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Dorothy Williams
Columbia University
New York
Elmer Williams
Charles Dunham
Marshall Boudreau
Dorothy Bubier
Lowell School
Litch's Beach
Samuel F. Bates
George Bailey
Cape Elizabeth
Sabine
R. W. Lombard
Small Point
John Dunham
Lewiston
Clement Yates
Danvers
Mass
A. G. Fisher
Bath
F. W. Larrabee
F. W
Portland
Merton Wright
Billy
Bobby Haggett
Edwin Haggett
Orrin Varney
Edward Burns
Carolyn Rogers
Charles Treat
Auburn
Stanley Rose
Marion Rose
Nell Whitmer
Phippsburg
Fred Rose
Harvey Dobbins
Albert Reno, Jr
Albert Reno
Austria
Eddie Larrabee
William Bailey
Lena Larrabee
Ellen Oliver
John
George Moore
USN
Moore
Arlington
Clarence Moore
Bath Safety Patrol Awards Honor Merit Recipients
About 75 Bath School Safety Patrol members received Awards of Merit in Friday afternoon exercises at City hall auditorium. Lt. George I Shaw praised their safety work in the city. Deputy Marshal Warren F Cooper and Superintendent Loring R Addison spoke. Maine Automobile Association signed awards. Unawarded recipients may collect at the Superintendent's office. USN personnel from Dennysville visited Bath for the weekend with Olin Closson and family, returning to Rhode Island Sunday.
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Bath School Safety Patrol
City Hall
George I. Shaw
State Department of Police
Lt. Shaw
Bath
Warren F. Cooper
Loring R. Addison
Maine Automobile Association
A. E. Bernard
Marshal Cooper
Addison
USN
Dennysville
R. L
Olin Closson
Winter Street Court
Adrian Cloutier
Florence Foss
Brunswick
Rhode Island
Woolwich and area church notices and local events
Woolwich First Baptist and Woolwich Center hold morning services at 10 with Mrs. J. M. Gowdey speaking on Gods Passive and Active Tenses. Evening service at 7.30 on Tenth Chapter of Acts. Montswag and Nequasset churches schedule services. baccalaureate sermon at Moatsweag Baptist well attended.
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First Baptist Church
Woolwich Center
J. M. Gowdey
Church
David
Woolwich - Wiscasset Baptist Church
Montswag
Nequasset Congregational Church
Day's Ferry
Lowell Milliken
Moatsweag Baptist Church
Woolwich Grammar School
Woolwich
Nequasset Methodist Church
Number 6 School
North Woolwich
Chopps School
Tuessie Hall
Ellsworth Holbrook
Wiscasset
Fred Willard
Rumford
R. I
Hall Inn
Cyril E. Bousfield
Saddle Back Pond Camps
Rangeley
Miss Berry
University of Maine
Pitman
Muiney
Mass
John Leonard
New York
Percy D. Marston
Bath Iron Works
Phil Staley
Eliot Hatch
Ralph S. Hatch
Edward Murphy
John Perkins
West Bath
War Bond Show Sells $50 575 to Public on Tuesday Evening
A large crowd attended the War Bond premier of Diamond Horseshoe at Bath Opera House Tuesday evening raising 50 575 in bonds. The auction by Brian Jewett added 2 575 more. Two cartons of cigarettes yielded 300 and a bunch of bananas 125 in bond value. A bidder who won two items for 300 raised his bid to 1 000. William J Hudson, nine, won the Jeep prize and 12 theatre tickets. Other students won six theatre tickets.
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Betty Grable
Dick Haynes
Bath Opera House
Brian Jewett
William J. Hudson
North
William Hudson
Dummer Street Court
Opera House
Uptown
Frank Talbot
Center Street
Cosmo Gardeners Elect Officers At Their Session
Cosmopolitan Garden club met Monday afternoon with 21 members. Officers elected: Mrs. Chester Roberts president, Mrs. Melvin Howe vice president, Mrs. Morris S. Povich secretary, Mrs. Fred Quimby treasurer. Hat trimming contest winners announced. Next meeting June 25.
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Cosmopolitan Garden Club
Harriet Anne Hodgdon
Woolwich
Morris Povich
Nellie Goodrich
Alice Johnson
Chester Roberts
Melvin Howe
Morris S. Povich
Fred Quimby
Roscoe P. McFadden
Mabel Harris
Johnson
Carrie Hall
Nellie Thompson
Lena Donnell
R. P. McFadden
Walsh
Daniel T. Dougherty
Pye Wins Air Medal With Three Oak Leaves
Sgt Ralph A Pye Jr USAAF son of Mr and Mrs R A Pye Small Point has been awarded the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters for meritorious bombing missions over Magoya Tokyo Kyushu and other Pacific targets A large Marianna base parade presented the award to him Major C E Zubles USAAF Pye serves as radio operator gunner on the B 29 Tanaka Termite with the 21st Bomber Command 874th Squadron His training spanned Miami Beach Sioux Falls Las Vegas Kearney and Great Bend He went overseas in October 1944 taking part in the first Tokyo raid and is featured in the motion picture Target Tokyo
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Betty Palmer
Georgette Albert
Roland Carlton
the Garden
Lewis Palmer
Bill Burnham
Doris White Trees
Glenda Wallace
Robert Boudreau
Catherine Wallace
The
Evening Mail
David Boudreau
Elaine Renshaw
Lance Fuller
Claudette Albert Mozin Mouse
Francis Perkins
America
Albert
Patty White
Lowell
Errol Clark
Lester Patterson
Charles Dunham
Nealand Pendleton
Kennard Johnson
Shirley Whorf
Dorothy Greenleaf
Littlefield School
Luzon
Mr. Burgess
Margaret
Boston
Richard Renshaw
Scott
Dorchester
Mass
William
Bath
Francis
Navy
West Bath
California
Merton Wright
John Larrabee
Ronald
Conrad
Jennie Larrabee
Portland
Annie Towle
Brunswick Air Base
Rock Hill Inn
Frank Manion
Colan Carlisle
Edward McMann
Joseph Larrabee
Martin Smith
USN
Long Island
N. Y
Graydon Smith
G. C. Smith
Joseph Stetson
Brunswick
Owen Williams
USAAF
Baco Raton
Fla
Williams
Elmer Williams
Foster's Point
Cpl. Williams
Camp Kerns
Utah
Bred Higgins
Ralph A. Pye
R. A. Pye
Small Point
Magoya
Tokyo
Kyushu Island
Pacific
Marianna
Pye
C. E. Zubles
21St Bomber Command
Miami Beach
Sioux Falls
S. D
Las Vegas
Kearney
Neb
Great Bend
Kan
Saipan
Tanaka Termite
Sgt
School Awards Ceremony Names and Recipients
Frances Ricker and others received awards at various schools including South Street, Center Street, Weeks Street, and North Grammar. Those absent Tuesday night should call at the Opera House to claim awards. Dominique J Tar dif, Sagadahoc War Finance chair, presented a model jeep and theater tickets to Young Hudson. Mrs Roscoe Hinckley and Mrs Ozro Weeks with Beverly visited Bath from Waldoboro.
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Frances Ricker
Mary Talbot
Tie
South Street
Archie Gillies
North Primary
Charles Doyle
North Grammar
Herbert Poland
Mildred Alley
Center Street
Shirley Ricker
Mitchell School
Everett Ricker
Jean Gardiner
Weeks Street
Sylvia Cohen
Carolyn Miller
The
Central Grammar
Mary Burgess
Huse School
Opera House
Young Hudson
Dominique J. Tardif
Sagadahoc
Bay Point Community Notes Highlight Local Life
Bay Point residents report young chicka and tree swallow chicks arrived with both parents feeding. Fishermen fish daily off the sea, selling most catch at Boothbay. Post office opens Saturday for the season. schools close Thursday for the summer with exercises. Items note Mrs. H S Keen as postmaster arrival, families Keen and Henry Keen from Jamaica Y, and local arrivals and visits including Ruth Keen, Adeline Hinckley, and Louise Howard.
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Boothbay
H. S. Keen
Henry Keen
Jamaica
Keen
Esler Field
Louisiana
Owen Richardson
Fish Warde
West Point
Ruth E. Keen
Jamaica N. Y
Howard O. A
Butterfield-Sampson
Bay Point
William Adams
Kennebec Point
Audrey Pinkham
Clyde Pinham
Yarmouth Academy
Firemen Memorial Service Held After Bath Parade
The Bath Firemen's Association held its annual Memorial Service and parade Sunday afternoon starting at Central Fire Station and ending at Oak Grove Cemetery Memorial Lot. Rev Father T C Mackay and Rev Dr David L Wilson spoke with band music from the Naval Air Station Brunswick. refreshments followed at Water Street headquarters.
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Bath
Central Fire Station
Oak Grove
Ceetery
T. C. Macy
St. Mary’s Church
George B. Wolstenholme
David L. Wilson
Lobster Banquet For Corliss Street Church Choir
A lobster banquet for 14 members of the Corliss Street church choir and Rev. and Mrs. Albert R. Freeman was served last Wednesday after the monthly business meeting in the vestry. Mrs. Harold Walker presided. Mrs. William J. Knowlee, soon to move to Danforth, was presented with a picture. Refreshments were provided by several members. Cut flowers decorated the tables. The Wednesday meeting will feature an all day quilting session.
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Wiscasset
St. Philip's Rectory
Messrs. Townsend and Alden
Bath
U. S. Employment Agency
A. D. Gray
Waldoboro
Wiscasset Academy
First Congregational Church
Mary Hobson
Robert Heigham
Organ Society
Lincoln Lodge
No. 3
St. Philip's Church
Dunlap Commandery of
Oliver Loring
Diocese of
Maine
St. Philip’s Church
Robert McQueston, Jr
Chester Merry
Maizie Colby
Ann Quinnam
Gail Foster
Natalie Dowling
Samuel J. Sewall
Red Cross
Frances A. Sortwell
Harry Mosher
Grace M. Sewall
Edgecomb
Corliss Street
Albert R. Freeman
Harol Walker
William J. Knowlee
R Side
Danforth
Walker
Warre McIntire
Walter Taylo
Grace Block
Joh Hunt
Bridal Shower for Miss Lois Bankus at Plan Street
A surprise bridal shower honored Miss Lois Bankus, Morse High School senior, whose marriage to Gerald LeMoine is planned. Held Thursday at Miss Juanita Leeman’s Plan Street home, hostesses Miss Leema and Miss Ann Hartnett arranged a spring floral decor with a buffet. Guests included Edith Wallace, Ben Ulmer, Ann Jewett, Elaine and Charlene Rogers.
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Lois Banku
Morse High Schoo
Gerald Lemoine
Juanita Leeman
Plan Street
Miss Leema
Ann Hartnett
Edith Wallace
Ben Ulmer
Ann Jewett
Elain
Charlene Rogers
Hamlin Grandchildren Head East For Summer Visit
Miss Magella Mamiin daughter of Mr and Mrs Herbert Hamlin Nichols street and Miss Lorraine Hamlin with Mr Albert Thompson grandchildren of Mr and Mrs Harold Blair Washington street left Tuesday to spend the summer with Mrs Hazel Lee mother of Mr Thompson in Exeter New Hampshire.
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Magella Mamiin
Herbert Hamlin
Nichols Street
Lorraine Hamlin
Albert Thompson
Harold Blair
Washington Street
Mr. Thompson
Hazel Lee
Exeter
N. H
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