Community Club Seeks Day's Ferry Sign Project
The Day's Fer community club reported replacing the Day's Ferry sign at the road junction as a club project. An invitation went out for Capt and Mrs Frank J Walker to host the July 7 barbecue at Day's Ferry. The issue also notes a member ill at Bath Memorial hospital and lists numerous social visits and local engagements from Woolwich and surrounding towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Day’s Ferry
Frank J. Walker
Eben Dana
Bath Memorial Hospital
Walker
Howard Kirkpatrick
Richard Campbell
Woolwich Teachers’ Club
Dodge Inn
Edgecomb
Stanwood Gilman
Gilman
Harold Shaw
Florence Temple
Clifford Pye
Harry Donnell
William Thornton
Dwinal Cornish
Jennie Howe
Kenneth Hatch
Alice Galvin
Louise Reynolds
Charles Haley
Jessie Spaulding
Samuel York
Wiscasset Club Reports Honor Roll Bids and Elections
Over 200 attended the Wiscasset meeting presided by Mark Caton. The group mourned nine graduates, elected officers, heard Stanley Tupper speak, and noted a turkey banquet. Community notices include a state primary Monday, voter list corrections, a preschool clinic, and a railroad crossing hearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mark Caton
Charles Lennox
Florence Snell Fisher
Annie Adams
Katherine Sewall
Daisy Jackson Harris
Hubert Ryan
Edgar Hilton
John Greenleaf
Eleanor Sherer
Alice Greenleaf Rittal
Louise Adams Tripp
America
Moody
C. S. Sewall
Alberta Blagdon
St. Philip’s Parish House
Old
Public Utilities Commission
Birch Point
New York
Bradford-Sortwell-Wright Post Auxiliary
American Legion
Irene Metcalf
Nina Gavett
Couple celebrates 60th wedding anniversary at home
Former Wiscasset couple Mr and Mrs Athorne Dutton now of Gonic New Hampshire marked their 60th anniversary May 27 with family visiting at their home. Relatives included Athorne Black and daughter Kendra Norfolk MA James Black and daughter Donna Searsport Harold Dutton Bryce Dutton Sally Dutton Bath Ruth Brown and Doris Gallagher Bath. Rev Marshall Stevenson Dover NH stopped by in the afternoon to share the moment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athorne Dutton
Wiscasset
Gonic
N. H
First Church of the Nazarene Missionary Society
Dutton
Athorne Black
Kendra
Norfolk, Mass
James Black
Donna
Searsport
Harold Dutton
Bryce Dutton
Sally
Ruth Brown
Doris Gallagher
Bath
Marshall Stevenson
Dover
Picnic for Arrowsic pupils at Crescent Beach
Arrowsic pupils joined by teacher John Drayton and family enjoyed a day of outdoor sports bathing and a picnic lunch at Crescent Beach Jefferson. The Mother's club provided watermelon and soft drinks. Visitors included Wylie Mitchell of Arlington Mass and several Arrow sic and Bath residents, with multiple weekend guests and family updates noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arrowsie
Crescent Beach
Jefferson
John Drayton
Byron
Russell Sturmer
Lester Davis
Sandra
Frank Rittall
Raymond Ainsworth
George Stafford
Mother’s Club
Damariscotta Mills
Wylie Mitchell
Arlington
Mass
George Manning
Wellsworth Smith
Franklin Wright
Falmouth
Wright
Ibra K
New York City
Bath
Norman Drummond
Crosby
Ernest Davis
Guy Crosby
Willard Pinkham
Arthur O. Pinkham
Nobleboro
Arthur Pinkham
Edith Campbell
Douglas Larrabee
Rockland
Doubling Point Light
Presidents of Irish Descent
Seven U S Presidents including Jackson Polk Buchanan Arthur McKinley Wilson and Truman are noted as having Irish ancestry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Jackson
Polk
Buchanan
Arthur
McKinley
Wilson
Truman
West Bath PTA installs officers at dinner meeting
West Bath Parents and Teachers Association installed new officers at a Thursday ceremony after a banquet at Hotel Eagle Brunswick. Officers named were Mrs. Wilson Fitzgerald president, Mrs. Everett Comeau vice president, Mrs. Leon Belanger Jr secretary, and Mrs. Loring Small treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward McGuiggan
Bath Central Council of Parents and Teachers
West Bath P. T. A
Littlefield School
Eagle
Brunswick
Everett Comeau
Leon Belanger, Jr
Loring Small
Isabelle Bryant
Anthony Quelette
Harry Larrabee, Jr
P. T. A. Council
Health Council
Augusta
West Bath
Sherry Grindell
John H. Grindell
Association
Maine P. T. A. Bulletin
National
Parent Teacher Magazine
University of Maine
Lawrence Babine
Wilson Fitzgerald
Maine
Bath
Bath Junior High School
Morse High
McGuiggan
Alice Smith
Marion Farrow
Arrowsic Eighth Grade Graduation Scheduled for June 5
Four boys, Enos Gaudet Darryl Lawrence Robert Phinney and Ronald Rittall, will graduate from Arrow sic Grammar School at the annual ceremony on June 5. Superintendent Stanley C Gilman will present diplomas. The program includes processional invocation history poem class gifts will prophecy and recessional with Frances Greenleaf singing and a marshal guiding graduates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arrowsic Grammar School
Stanley C. Gilman
Enos Gaudet
Darryl Lawrence
Robert Phinney
Ronald Rittall
J. Lyal Calhoun
First Church of the Nazarene
America
Frances Greenleaf
Gilman
Shirley Day
Rainbow Assembly committees named by Worthy Advisor
Miss Phyllis Warner announced several committees at the Rainbow Assembly No. 6 meeting at the Masonic Temple. Finance picks were Geraldine Robbins Loretta Bailey and John Gillespie. sick committee includes Nancy Garside Joyce Ring with Mrs Ralph Card as advisor. Initiation set for June 22 with 2 pm rehearsal. The article notes that in 1955 about seven of ten American women born in 1890 reached age 65.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phyllis Warner
Rainbow Assembly No. 6
Assembly
Masonic Temple
Geraldine Robbins
Loretta Bailey
John Gillespie
Nancy Garside
Joyce Ring
Ralph Card
Community Notes and Social Visits in West Bath
West Bath social scene highlights a family gathering for George Everett Boynton’s third birthday with cake and gifts. Nearby residents and visitors are noted at cottages in Rosedale and various weekend calls to neighbors, including the Babkirk, Burns, Adams, Belanger, Baker, and Stover households, plus hotel and college connections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Boynton
George Everett
Harland Boynton
Everett Peaslee
George Biette
Mary Baker
Linda
Catherine
Kenneth Josslyn
Augusta
Mabel Nelson
Elisa Pinston
Rosedale
L. Coombs
Harry Babkirk
Florida
Ethel Burns
Andrew Babkirk
F. Deehan
Russell Lowell
Newcastle
Oliver Wass
Arthur Cormier
Marjorie
Willard Adams
Boothbay
Mildred Bowie
Leon Belanger
Ralph Baker
Reta Hennessey
J. Hennessey
George Roundy
Walpole
Mass
Joyce Stover
Gorham State Teachers’ College
Courtney Stover
Robert Killiam
Gardiner
West Bath Grange Dairy Supper Set for June 18 Meeting
West Bath Grange announces a dairy supper to accompany its June 18 meeting. Monday’s session opened with community singing and readings. Members and guests took part in a honeycomb of skits, readings, a quiz, relay necktie race, penny march, and musical performances before noting a nearby Past Masters and Lecturers Council gathering on June 21 in Woolwich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath Grange
Persis Miller
Doris Doughty
Phyllis Gagne
Roger McNelly
Frances St. Martin
Woolwich
Woolwich Woman Reaches 90 With Family Birthday Celebration
Mrs. Winfield Wright of Woolwich marked her 90th birthday with a buffet hosted by her son George E. Wright and wife. Attending were four nieces, relatives from New Jersey and Westbrook, her husband the Rev Mr Clark, granddaughter and husband Ernest Rogers Jr, two great grandchildren Sally and John Rogers, and Mrs. William D. Rich. Born June 10, 1866, she moved from Boston to Woolwich 54 years ago and remains active and well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winfield Wright
Woolwich
George E. Wright
Nellie
Mary Dodge
Earl Colby
New Jersey
Clarence H. Clark
Westbrook
Mr. Clark
Ernest Rogers, Jr
Sally
John Rogers
William D. Rich
Wright
Boston
Philathea Class Plans Lawn Party at Corliss Street Baptist
Corliss Street Baptist Church Philathea class met Monday evening to discuss final plans for a lawn party on July 9. Entertainment featured clarinet quartet by Mary Baird Anna Lonn Richard Crabtree and Donald Ring. Linda Ames and Sheridith Waters sang a duet The Lord Is My Shepherd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corliss Street Baptist Church
Mary Baird
Anna Lonn
Richard Crabtree
Donald Ring
Linda Ames
Sheridith Waters
Lord
Shepard
West Bath Fire: Dust Pile Fire Near Brunswick Line
West Bath volunteers were summoned at 7 p m to a sawdust pile blaze on the Bath Brunswick road near the town line. Chief Dauphin said the fire caused no damage and was started by a cigarette. The all out sounded at 7 30 p m. A note adds that about four million Americans yearly suffer home accidents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath
Bath-Brunswick Road
Brunswick
Charles Dauphin
Woolwich Central School Graduates 23 On Thursday
Twenty three graduates from Woolwich Central School received diplomas Thursday night at Nequasset Congregational church. Supt. Stanwood C. Gilman awarded the diplomas as Rev. Stephen Sidebotham offered the invocation and the program featured music, speeches, poems, and gifts for boys and girls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woolwich Central School
Nequasset Congregational Church
Supt. of Schools
Stanwood C. Gilman
Stephen Sidebotham
Georgiana Hawes
Barbara Baker
Francis Nickerson
Wayne Hatch
Jean Blake
Martha Allen
Maine Travelogue
Clark Mallard
June Willis
James McElman
Sidebotham
Brenda Cunningham
Geraldine Robbins
Jesse Harriman
Jesse Chubbuck
Robert Chandler
County Agent Addresses Rotary on Soil Bank
Charles Eastman County Agent for Kennebec County spoke to Bath Rotary Club at Tuesday noon about the Soil Bank. He noted limited Maine impact, with reform options allowing 15 percent seed allowance and grass or forest conservation, and warned such limits could hinder progress by restricting crop acreage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Maine
Odd Ladies Honor Lady Governess Rogers Reception
The United Order Independent Order of Odd Ladies held a Saturday quarterly session at the G A R hall with morning and afternoon meetings. A reception for Lady Governess Louise Rogers and conductress Mrs Alice Lewis followed later at Central Church parish house with gifts from district lodges and a musical program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Order
Independent Order of Odd Ladies
G.A.R. Hall
Middle Street
Louise Rogers
Alice Lewis
Portland
Waterville
Auburn
Brunswick
Bath
Central Church Parish House
Nellie Hunt
Gertrude Stewart
Charles R. Sims
Melvin Pratt
Marguerite Brackett
Bertha Palmer
Robert Palmer
West Bath Dramatic Club Meets Thursday Evening
The West Bath Dramatic Club met Thursday night with President Bonnie Belanger presiding. Plans for the forthcoming variety show were discussed. Refreshment committee members named for next week are Arvella Holbrook and Jacqueline Frost. Attendees included Jack Lander Doris Doughty Jean Belanger Loretta Barter Brenda Brewer William Garand Jr George Gammon Phyllis Gagner Robert McNelly Rita Hennessey Virginia Wallace Sylvia McCorr Joan Chambers Cecile Garand and Carol Worden. Visitors at the session were Mrs Susan Wallace Mrs Margaret DeMerchant Gerald and Nancy Holbrook Marilyn Cotton and Richard Carter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath
Joan Chambers
Cecile Garand
Carol Worden
Susan Wallace
Margaret DeMerchant
Gerald
Nancy Holbrook
Marilyn Cotton
Richard Carter
Summer Playground Program Opens June 18
The city recreation department announces a 10 week Summer Playground Program starting Monday June 18. Two major sites at Fisher and Huse schools will run with daily bus transportation from outer districts. Weekly swimming trips begin in the second week, under supervisor Miss Jane Breton with a team of assistants. A twilight basketball league will be added at Kimball Field led by Eugene Hunter and Morse High alumni. Other activities include baseball softball badminton and horseshoes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Recreation Department
Fisher
Huse
Jane Breton
Gorham State Teachers College
Miss Breton
Elvira Pecci
Robert Billington
Jack MacDonald
Catherine Larrabee
Calvin Coolidge College
Boston
Mass
Huse School
Fisher School
Quinda Pecci
Kimball Field
Eugene Hunter
Morse
Hunter
Morse High
City announces playground buses and swimming trips for children
The South End will provide bus transport to Fisher and Huse schools with pickup points at several street corners and parks. Buses start at 8:30 and return at 11:30 with a supervising playground assistant. Swimming trips begin June 28 for ages eight and up, with a 10 cent fee to cover extra bus costs and required Wednesday registration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fisher
Huse
Spring
Washington
Marshall
Lemont Street
Marshall Street
Pine
High
York
Oliver
Park
Lambert Park
Local birthdays and community notices in North Bath
Linda Wing celebrates her sixth birthday with a party at her grandparents home attended by family friends and neighbors. Donna Gurney marks her ninth birthday with a home party and gifts. Sukeforth children join drum and bugle corps trip to Old Orchard and Manchester New Hampshire. Community members visit travel and hospital notices, meetings, and weekend visits across Bath Bangor and Lewiston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linda Wing
Burton Wing
J. Carroll Wing
Linda
Sharon
Ann Marie Bailey
Robert
Ronald Wing
Pamela Wright
Sandra
John Lutz
Dennis Tardiff
Michael
Richard
Vicky Sue Wing
Eleanor Wing
Alberta Bailey
Hazel Tardiff
Marilyn Wright
Claire Lutz
Doris Wing
Donna Gurney
Donald Gurney
Donna
Virginia McCabe
Beverly Reed
Pamela Johns
Penny Cyr
Stephen Johns
Reginald Cyr
Bertram Reed
Gurney
Dana Sukeforth
Cedric Sukeforth
Old Orchard
Manchester
N. H
Frankie Moore
Clarence Moore
Bangor
Wing
Henry G. Root
Boston
Root
Jeffrey
Edwin Hemingway
Joseph Craig
Orlando
Fla
Odd Fellows and Rebekahs Plan Conclave in Boston
More than 5,000 Odd Fellows and Rebekahs are expected to attend the first annual conclave of the Northeast Odd Fellows Association at the Boston Arena June 29 and 30. A catered banquet Friday night invites New England governors and premiers of the Maritime Provinces and Quebec. Crack drill teams from New Hampshire, Maine, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, Massachusetts, Quebec and the Maritime Provinces close the session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odd Fellows
Northeast
Odd Fellows Association
Boston Arena
New England
Maritime Provinces
Quebec
New Hampshire
Maine
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Vermont
Massachusetts
Chimney Fire At New Meadows Inn West Bath
Still alarm rang at 7 35 a m Tuesday for a chimney fire at the New Meadows Inn Route 1 West Bath. No damage reported and recall logged at 8 25 a m. Jockey Willie Hartack owns a farm near Charles Town West Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
New Meadows Inn
Route 1
West Bath
Willie Hartack
Charles Town
W. Va
Also Mentioned on This Page
Sherwood Francis
Arolyn
Pamela
Niles Perkins
Rumford
Pleasant Pond
Caratunk
Perkins
Bath Iron Works
Deborah Harding
Frank Harding
Canton
Percy Marston
Sagadahoc Ferry
Stanley Whitehouse
Dana
Paul Gilmore
Joseph Belanger
Gilmore
Nequasset
Roy Francis
Bingham
Arolyn Francis
William Stevens
Lexington
Billerica
Mary Wright
East Hampton
Wellesley Wright
Irving Doughty
Yarmouth
William Clarke
Damariscotta
Sagadahoe Ferry
Helen Trask
Lynn
William Fogg
Ada Cross
Aimee von Heyne
Germany
Sigrid von Heune
Stuttgart
von Heune
Chester Leeman
Barley Neck Road
Norris Waltz
Leeman
Richard McElman
Edward V. Reed
Costello P. Hall
Albion Corliss
Dale Hupp
Stanley Soule
Robert Stevens
Morse High School
Kermit Bennett
Glenice
Craig
Guilford
Bennett
Albert Temple
River Road
John Pinkham
John Franklin, Jr
Memorial Hospital
Brunswick Naval Air Station
Wold
Melanie
John Leonard
Sagadahoc County
Foster M. Pratt
West Bath Pta
Arrowsic
Rainbow Assembly
West
Philathea
Rotary Club
Rogers
John Sylvester
Patricia Atwood
Pearl Campbell
Sadie Savage
West Bath Dramatic Club
North
Merle Joselyn
Gail Sukeforth
John DeGroot
Kennebec River Power Squadron
Alfred Neal
Elmer Rogers
Royden Haines
Sadie Fogg
Lewiston
Odd Fellows and Rebekahs
Senate
House of Representatives
House
Sewall
State Milk Commission and
Grange
Charles F. Cummings
Frank R. Bailey
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