Phippsburg Summer Guests at Local Homes and Camps
Local notes list numerous visitors and seasonal residents. Families from Topsham Bath Portland and Freeport converge on Summer homes at Small Point Beach Dromore Brightwater Sebasco Lodge and Burnt Coat Island with birthdays visits and weekend stays across June.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louise Garth
Huntsville
Als
Ralph J. Walker
New York
D. C. White
Lewiston
Joseph Brazier
Joseph, Jr
Edward
Portland
Francis Jennings
Sebasco Lodge
Sylvester Coahman
Burnt Coat Island
Miss Murphy Elected Head of Garden Club
Miss Jane 8 Murphy was elected president of Cosmopolitan Garden Club at the annual meeting. Other officers chosen include Mrs. Roscoe P. McFadden as vice president and Mrs. Herbert R. Lemont as secretary. The group voted to hold the July flower show and to buy a lawn mower. Twenty one members attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jane 8. Murphy
Cosmopolitan Garden Club
Roscoe P. McFadden
Herbert R. Lemont
Bowen Torrey
Fred R. E. Dean
Carroll A. Deering
Edmund A. Rothwell
McFadden
Club
Miss Murphy
Memorial Hospital
Alden G. Smith Resigns From School Board
Alden G. Smith resigns after six years on the Board of Education. He was first elected in 1934 and reelected in 1938. The meeting also reviewed a $2,333.34 High School Activities balance, awarded coal bids, and Roll of Accounts No. 4 for $1,486.95. Attending: William L. Skelton, Allan Spear, Smith, and Supt. John Parker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alden G. Smith
Board of Education
City Hall
Parker Head Notes Show Graduation and Community Life
Parker Head residents share in graduations church services and field days at Phippsburg Center. Local youths win contests at field day while Scouts tie knots and the community club plans hot dog roasts. Visitors arrive, shop reopenings and Bible school starting, with many neighbors hosting and attending events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maude Powers
Perkins Island
Boston
Truman Taylor
Marrtown
Bath
Frank Wyman
Bernard Wyman
North Berwick
Arthur Lear
Sanford
John Libby
Phippsburg Center
Turner McCarthy
Georgie Leach
Walter Cushing
Dean Farnham
Edwin M. Wyman
Allie Rollins
Bernard Carlson
Dix Island
Mary Hunt
Lloyd Lowell
Jean Hamel
William Hallett
Arthur Kreidler
William Cushing
Ramon Hamel
Angie Mank
Harry Mank
Barbara
Sandra
Southport
Phyllis Young
Bert Young
Ait Morse High School
Phyllis
Jeannette Hallett
Parker Head
Phippsburg Center Church
Earl Hamel
Frances Libby
Lynette Caverly
Betty Logan
Harry D. Mank
Small Point Beach
Herman Hallett
Small Point Church
Parl Lowell
John Terrill
Wayne
Lowell
Mass
Ida Burnell
Sadie Sullivan
Olive Deejay
Lou Webber
Lillian Temple
Ruth Blaisdell
James Temple
Miss Pinkham
Temple Cottage
Olive
Frank
Leston Harrington
Grace Williams
Ross Perkins
Clarence Blaisdell
Elmer Blaisdell
Raymond Woodward
Raymond, Jr
New York
Jennie Woodward
Mark Harrington
Francis Cook
Duncan Rogers
Northport
George Savage
Eugene Harrington
Phippsburg
Jane Baker
Ceres McCourt
Gerald Mc
Seniors' Class Trip Delightful Affair
The Morse high School Class of 1939 with 106 students and ten chaperones returned from a two day trip to Squaw Mountain Moosehead Lake. They traveled by Maine Central buses Friday, danced Friday night, sheltered in cabins, and visited Greenville for a fish hatchery tour. John Michael MacDonald, born June 3 at Memorial hospital to Mr and Mrs Charles MacDonald of Oliver street, is noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morse High School
Squaw Mountain
Moosehead Lake
Maine Central
Squaw Mountain Inn
Greenville
John Michael MacDonald
Charles MacDonald
Oliver Street
Memorial Hospital
Pimer Prey
Melrose
Mass
Mrs Prey
W. Fred Wetherbee
Edgar C. Murphy
Washington Street
Orono
Prey
University of Maine
Miss Jear
the Univerty
Allan Little
Bath
Town
Lawrence Taylor
Seaman Drake
David
Carol
Mr. Drake
Edgar N. Drake
Georgetown
Madelyn Bridges
Marion
Fred Humphreys
L. G. Gaton
Lewiston
George Morong
Popham
Thomas Sedgeberg
Alvah O. Light
Walter Sprague
Herbert
Marguerite McNulty
Stanley Hyde
North Yarmouth
Hyde
Sedgemere
Lester Oliver
Spruceville
Perley Chandler
Bay Point
Andrew Bremner
Melville Robbins
Muriel Huntley
Debra
Popham School
Lubec
Lynette Caverly
Sebasco
Lillian Gomes
Ceres McCourt
Phippsburg
Capt
E. W. Osgood
Light House
Philip Wyman
Floyd Bridges
Guy Crowley
Everett Leonard
Henry Leonard
Phippsburg Grammar School Graduates Honored at Phippsburg Center
Large crowd attends Congregational church graduation for Phippsburg grammar school pupils. Supt. John H. Carter awards diplomas to 18 graduates including McCourt, Doughty, Bowker, Pye, McIntire, Hill, Huff, Hamel, Gomes, Gilman, and Libby. Program features recitations, essays, prophecies, and class gifts. Colors blue and white with flowers mark the ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congregational Church
Phippsburg Center
Phippsburg
Lynette Caverly
Charles L. Stevens
Alfred
John Carter
Carol Hildreth McCourt
Ethel May Doughty
Eugene Robert Bowker
Lillian Louise Gomes
Beers al
William Edwin ‘Hallett
Clara May Hill
Eat Eugene Robert Bowker
Maine
Eaintern
Carol Elva Drake
Stanley Winter Perkins
Lewis Franklin
Jean Harry Hamel
Thelma Jean Morgan Huff
John H. Carter
Persis Eiteasttece Nekt Tney
Raymond Ralph Pye
Baccalaureate Sermon on Sunday at Central Congregational Church
Dr. David L. Wilson delivered his 17th baccalaureate sermon for Morse High School seniors class of 1939 in a full Central Congregational Church. The service featured a 30 voice choir, student processional, guest soloist Betty Ryan, and musical selections with organ accompaniment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Congregational Church
David L. Wilson
Morse High School
Wilson
University of Maine
James W. Skaling
Buck
Anna Elizabeth Gaeng
Betty Ryan
Bath Elks Flag Day Program Recalls Nation’s Symbols
Bath Lodge of Elks hosts Flag Day observance with American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars participants. Officers lead prayers and songs, with remarks by Sumner Sewall and Hector Staples, plus a patriotic address. Guests from Melrose and a family visit precede plans for a Maine reunion trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Lodge
ELKS
Bath Lodge of Elks
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign War
Bath Iron Works Corp
Grace Cunningham
George B. Wolstenholme
Leon Genthner
Joseph Doyle
Esquire
Sumner Sewall
Jos G. Kelly
W.F.W
Wilbur Crocker
Hector Staples
American Legion America
Popham Beach social round includes many visitors
Local notes show Mr. and Mrs. John Pye and Mr. Frazer from Augusta visiting friends in town. Numerous arrivals and outings from Portland Schenectady Bath Lewiston and Bath people. Highlights include Popham school graduates Carol Drake and Stanley Perkins at church exercises and Laura Harding teaching at Popham planning a Worlds Fair trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Pye
Freeman Oliver
June
Edna
Roberta
Robert
Woolwich
Oliver
Capt
Llewellyn J. Oliver
C. H. Marr
Hallowell
Susie Cirone
Kenneth
Dean, Elliot
Mary Ellen
Jonesport
Carol Drake
Stanley Perkins
Popham
Ae Burg
Maine
Fred Osgood
Bath
Bion Bowie
Lewiston
Esther Perkins
Perkins
Bertha Newdick
Popham School
George E. Hoyt
Richmond
Ethel Osgood
Portland
Phippsburg
Clarence Perkins
Virginia
Arlene
Madelyn Bridges
Marion
Seaman Drake
David
Lawrence Taylor
Harry Spencer
Laura Harding
Frank Scott
Elizabeth Oliver
Emma Newdick
New York
Boothbay Harbor
Free Will Workers Plan Christmas Sale and August Break
Mrs Edward R McCabe hosted Free Will Workers of Corliss Street church at 23 Marshall Avenue. President Mrs Harold S Walker led a business session voting a December 6 Christmas sale and apron making activity. Sixteen members attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward R. McCabe
Free Will
Corliss Street
Marshall Avenue
Harold S. Walker
Benjamin P. Coombs
Sterling Bible
King's Point
William J. Paisley
Frederick P. Moffatt
Robert C. Mitchell
Frank Knowlton
Abbie McCabe
McCabe
City Council Considers Bicycle Safety Ordinance
The council may enact a bicycle safety ordinance addressing sidewalk riding traffic signs lighting and speed. A draft outlines penalties, seizure by the city marshal, and a bicycle registration or licensing system to aid recovery of stolen bikes and curb juvenile bike crime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Temple
Memorial Sunday Observed by Bath Firemen in Oak Grove
Firemen from Bath and surrounding departments joined by the Brunswick American Legion and the Bath Iron Works brigade observed Firemen's Memorial Sunday. A parade through the business district ended at the Oak Grove cemetery memorial lot where prayers, a speech, and benediction marked the event. The observance was praised as one of the most successful in years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles E. Parks
Harry Y. Cressey
David L. Wilson
Elmer W. Rogers
Timothy C. Maney
George B. Wolstenholme
Central Fire House
Frank J. Farrin
Stimpson Chasse Wedding Announced in Skowhegan
Announcements reveal the marriage of Earl D. Stimpson son of Mr and Mrs Elwell Stimpson Skowhegan to Miss Patricia Chasse of Caribou. Stimpson works at Bath Iron Works and stays with Mrs Charles Hunnewell at Sagadahoc Ferry. The couple begins their honeymoon at Bailey's Island.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Skowhegan
Satane
Earl D. Stimpson
Elwell Stimpson
Patricia Chasse
Caribou
Stimpson
Bath Tron
Charles Hunnewell
Sagadahoc Ferry
Earl Dow
Sagadahoc Ferry. Mr Ond Mrs. Stimpson
Bailey's
Bay Point Notes From Bay Point Community
Bay Point residents report Charles Hanna found two rare Moccasin orchids on the woods, one white and one pink twin blossoms. Numerous locals from Bay Point and nearby towns are listed as visiting or traveling, with mentions of illness, travels to Portland, a World’s Fair trip, and a fatality in Massachusetts. The Summer post office hours will begin, and local fixtures like the Tryton boat and a Gift Shop are noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Hanna
Clarence Kneeland
Bay Point
Charles
Perlie Chandler
Ebb
Sherman Campbell
Rose
Phippsburg
B. Campbell
Harmon‘s Harbor
Sherman
Karl Hentz
the Willows
Portland
Harry Stone
Auburn
Green Pastures
Robert Stone
Radio City
New York
Ralph Carlisle
Massachusetts
Carlisle
Kennebec Point
Kennebec
Arthur Maxwell
Pearl Perry
Gardiner
Maxwell
Tryton
Ellsworth Chandler
Bath
Andrew Bremner
Perlié Chandler
Fred P. Taylor
Richard Taylor Hagan
Harry Moses
Harry Crosman
Lou
Frank LeClair
Everett Stevens
Georgetown
Thomas Hagan, Sr
Friends
Chester McCabe
Harry Oliver
Walter Quance
Walter
Evelyn
Ardene Pinkham
Leila Cunningham
Earle Payson
Gusta Rowe
Baker
Glenda Wright
Ocean
Kennebec River
Bay Point Road
Wylie Stackpole class initiation at West Bath Grange
At a West Bath grange meeting the Wylie Stackpole class was initiated by the young people's degree team. Members listed include Blair and Blair, Shellenbarger, McGuire, Booker, Young, and Robichaud with 64 attendees from 14 visitors. Committees were formed to schedule the annual lawn party and third and fourth degrees to be worked next week. Dorothy Kenney leads dining, Grace Waterman chairs kitchen with assistants. A Pilot Curtain Threader Co. paper is read and Annie Wylie Stackpole writings presented. Harvesters rehearse at 7 30. Harold Peacock treasurer pro tem.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath Grange
Wylie Stackpole
Williams
Blair
Grace Allen Blair
Agnes Shellenbarger
Bird A. Shellenbarger
John McGuire
Patricia Booker
Evelyn Young
David Young
Geraldine Robichaud
Harold Peacock
E. Mason Wright
Herbert Simpson
Dorothy Kenney
Grace Waterman
Rose Jean
Annie Williams
Ida Rose
Ida Oliver
Pilot Curtain Threader Co
Annie Wylie Stackpole
Grange
Nurses Alumni Banquet Set By Bath Memorial Hospital
Plans are under way for Bath Memorial Hospital Nurses Alumnae Association’s largest banquet, to be held June 22 at 7 30 p m at the Sedgwick. Invitations go to all graduate nurses in the city to join the association. Attendees should notify Louise K. Rogers or Margaret Chaney and meet at the hotel by 5 30 that evening. Miss Bertha L. Soule of Brooklyn arrived and reopened her Grove street home for the summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Newell
Junior Hospital League
Francis Hill
South Street
Newell
Eastham Guild, Jr
Anna Trott
Dwight Pierce
Donald N. Small
Memorial Hospital
Bath Memorial Hospital Nurses
Sedgwick
Louise K. Rogers
Margaret Chaney
Bertha L. Soule
Brooklyn
N. Y
Grove Street
Also Mentioned on This Page
George A. Sprague
George, Jr
Gloria
Topsham
J. Bradford Sprague
Bessie M. Sprague
George Davis
George Penston
Charles Hinkle
Fuller Potter
Owen Wallace
South Portland
Raymond McIntire
Franklin Sprague, Jr
Weat Bath
J. B. Sprague
Maude Holbrook
Annie Bowker
William Cullity
Bucksport
Nathaniel Percy
Susie Barbour
Center School
Carol McCourt
Milton Webber
Chebeague Island
Walter Rines
Raymond Jackson
Freeport
Kenneth Bailey
Chares Koski
Stonybrook
Bowker Cottage
John D. Rogers
James Perry
Rose Wyman
Daugter
Pauline
Allston
Abbie F. Minott
Ada Catherine Minott
Roxbury
Calvin W. Rogers
Dromore
Grace Parks
Providence
R. I
Guy Crosby
East Brunswick
Gardiner Rogers
Carrie Little
Allen
Eric W. Schutt
Jean Bowker
Betty
Emma Bickford
Hazel Higgins
John Schottlier
Meadowbroock
Bertha Nickerson
Nickerson
Lois Woodman
Minnie
Roscoe Woodman
Gilbert Woodman, Jr
Elbert
Bobby
Ann Wilson
Morse Farm
Franklin Sprague
West Bath
Jay K. Bowker
Leon Pennell
Leon, Jr
Robert Dennison
Horace Holton
John
Frederick Blachly
Rachel
Howard
Washington, D. C
Brightwater
Nathan A. Cushman
Harry B. Briggs
High School Activities Association
Edward Clarence Plummer
Er Eeel
Henry W. Owen, Jr
Full
the Times Company
Front Street
Bath, Maine
Parker
Phippsburg Mar
America
Ramed Earl Edmond Hamel
Charles Lindburgh Sear
Zezl Pratt
Hari Cane
Ellen Marie McIntire
Frances Eleanor Libby
Pepe Bertha May Doughty
James William Gilman
Morse
Central Church
Popham Beach
Pauline Thayer
Albert Thayer
Park Street
Shirley Morong
American Legion Band of Brunswick
Oak Grove
Nurses’ Alumni Association
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