Local residents and events in Phippsburg and nearby towns
Ensign George Nasi and family relocate to Kearney New Jersey for shore duty with the Federal Shipbuilding plant while daughter Elaine works at Western Electric. Dana Bowker runs as Republican for state legislature. A windstorm damages a large tree near the Campbell place. 4 H club set to meet June 26. Vacation Bible schools planned across town with locations in Phippsburg Center Winnegance Small Point Parker Head. Personal items note residents and visits, plus road repairs and cottages open for summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ensign
George Nasi
Elaine
Kearney
N. J
Nasi
Federal Shipbuilding Plant
Western Electric
Phippsburg
Charles Crosby
Androscoggin Women's Republican Club
Lewiston
Dana R. Bowker
Clarence M. Bowker
Bowker
C. M. Bowker Co
Columbia Hotel Co
Campbell Place
Robert
Lawrence Hughes
Robert Hughes
Frances Robie
the Sages
Popham
Central Grammar Pupils Raise War Relief Fund
Central Grammar school pupils raised 200 for war relief sharing 150 to Bath Red Cross and 25 each to Junior Red Cross and British War Relief. Proceeds came from The Eagle newspaper 80, YMCA basketball 42.85, and old paper drive 77.15 under Mrs Doris D Humphreys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Grammar School
Bath
American Red Cross
Red Cross
the Eagle
Y.M.C.A
Treasury
Doris’ D. Humphreys
Bates Grid Star Chaffers Loses 42 Pounds for Lt Appointment
Clarence Chuck Chaffers former Bates College football standout and now U S Army sergeant completed an intensive 30 day training program shedding 42 pounds to meet requirements for direct appointment as a second lieutenant. He is the son of Dr and Mrs William H Chaffers of Lewiston and is eligible for the commission thanks to four years of military school prior to federal service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence
Chuck” Chaffers
Bates College
U. S. Army
Sgt
Chaffers
William H. Chaffers
Lewiston
Recital by Sisters of Mercy Pupils at St Marys Hall
Sister Mary Isabelle presented piano vocal and violin pupils in a Sunday recital at St Marys Hall Augusta to friends and relatives of the students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Isabelle
The
Sisters of Mercy of
Augusta
St. Mary's Hall
Parker Head Community Notes of Last Week
Parker Head and Bath area activities include Girl Scouts meeting with Mies Frances Robie, Brownies on hiatus for summer, and many families attending picnics, visits, and church events. Students Lloyd Lowell and Marion Cushing graduated eighth grade, War Stamps bought by children, and several residents planned summer travel and visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mies Frances Robie
Weasel Cove
Weiner Rock
Fred Libby
Maine State Guard
Lewiston Armory
John D. Libby
American Legion
Legion Hall
Bath
Jean Hamel
U. S. Marines
Stanton Dozois
Richard
Forrest Wyman
Marie
Walter Cushing
Bobbie
Marion
Dorothy
Charles Blaisdell
Earl Lowell
Lowell
Lloyd
Sally
Bill
Leston Harring
Lorraine
Barbara
David
Harold Rogers
Laura Wyman
Raymond Nisbet
Lewis
Beverly
Robert Moore
Sandra
Barbara Mank
Ramon Hamel
William Cushing
Clayton Hoar
Gonnie Lee
George Morong
Laurence
George, Jr
Howard
Stella Packard
Grace
Billy Kraft
Mary Wortman
Leston Harrington
Leston Harrington, Jr
Elmer Hill
Thomas's Point
Stephen
Eugene Harrington
Norman Norton
Patricia
Norton
Lewis Lowell
Phyllis Young
Arthur Bassett
Parker Head
Norridgewock
Frances Robie
Lowells
Currey Stiles
Brunswick
Elsie Champion
John Libby
Lisbon Falls
John, Jr
Bernard Wyman
Cundy's Harbor
Bath Woman Beatrice Reed Adams Engaged to Leroy F. Clarke
Beatrice L Reed Adams of Bath formerly of Woolwich announces engagement to Leroy F Clarke of Bath. The bride is the daughter of Myers E Reed and Mrs Reed of Woolwich and has lived in Bath 15 years. Clarke is son of Bernard Clarke and the late Louise Clarke and works as a chipper at Hyde Windlass Co. No wedding date set.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beatrice L. Reed Adams
Bath
Woolwich
Leroy F. Clarke
Myers E. Reed
Clark
Bernard Clark
Louise Clark
Hyde Windlass Co
Ill at Memorial Hospital and summer home plans
Herbert Closson of 8 Winter Street is very ill at Memorial hospital after an illness at home last week. Mrs. Harrison Wright of Radnor Pennsylvania has arrived at Small Point Beach to open her summer home for the season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert Closson
Winter Street Court
Memorial Hospital
Closson
Harrison Wright
Radnor, Pa
Small Point Beach
Phippsburg Grammar Graduates 1942 Celebrate Tonight
Graduation exercises at Cen ter church for Phippsburg Grammar School honors the class of 1942 with a full program of essays recitations music and oaths. Delegates include Frances Robie Evelyn Katula Marian Alexander Lorraine Gillies Lois Thelma Atwood Merle Gilliam Charles McIntire Arthur Doyle Donald Williams Esther Wallace and others as diplomas are presented by Supt. Stanwood Gliman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phippsburg
Frances Robie
America
General MacArthur
Evelyn Katula
Fannie Games
Maine
Alfreda Gilliam
Clara Barton
A. Louise Alexander
Calvin E. Smith
West Point
Patrick Henry
Marian Alexander
Lorraine Gillies
Lois Thelma Atwood
Merle Erwin Gilliam
Robert York
Charles McIntire
Arthur Doyle
Charles Hart
America the Beautiful
Winneyance School
Donald Williams
Esther Wallace
Lloyd Lowell
Jane Mitchell
Marion Cushing
Ralph Wright
Stanwood C .Gliman
Charles Stevens
Central Grammar honors seven point health pins and five year awards
Central Grammar School awarded seven point health pins and five year certificates to students across grades six to eight. Notable multiple awardees include Merton Merry and Bernard Ferris for seven consecutive years of recognitions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Grammar School
Ivanetta Newton
Philip Haskell
Ray Small
Rita Sullivan
Joyce Arata
Eunice Jewett
Donald McRae
Betty Jane Willis
William Pomeroy
Robert Higgins
Eileen Trainor
Marguerite Driscoll
Richard Cahill
Robert Hinds
Jane Jones
Phyllis Gray
Merton Merry
Bernard Ferris
Merton
Lois Bridges
John Henderson
John Lewis
Carolyn Olmstead
Elwyn Knowlton
Kathleen DeLong
Dorothy May
Walter Longley
Jean Anderson
Wesley McPhee
Charles Andre
Charles Andre, Jr
Moody Flint
Pearl Taylor
Jean Small
Eugene Cunningham
Gerald Cogan
Dora Bridges
Annie McCabe
John Wishart
Ann Hartnett
Beverley Curran
Margaret G. Scott
Dorothy Wilson
Sarah Silverman
Joanne Heal
Doris D. Humphreys
Jo Darling
Malcolm Moore
Richard Jackson
Betty Anderson
Almena A. Jaques
Edward Mosher
Margaret Grant
Beatrice Murray
Eugene Burgess
Wayne May
Alan Gregware
Maine Garden Club Federation meets in Portland on war theme
The 11th annual convention of the Garden Club Federation of Maine met in Portland Tuesday and Wednesday with the theme The Responsibility of the Garden Club in Time of War. National authorities spoke on conservation food preservation and gardening while chairmen planned activities aligned with Maine's war emergency program. Mrs. E Stewart Orbeton presided and Mrs. John L Mitchell led the regional Saco Region clubs meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garden Club
Garden Club Federation of Maine
Portland
Maine
E. Stewart Orbeton
West Rockport
Federation
John L. Mitchell
Eliot
Saco Region
Popham Beach News and Local Gatherings
Popham school closed Friday and children enjoyed a shore picnic at Atkins Bay. Sunday services at Popham library were led by Rev. Chester B. Oliver with organist Edna Besaw and trumpeter Victor Paquet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Popham
Atkins Bay
Chester B. Oliver
Wesley Methodist Church
Bath
Edna Besaw
Victor Paquet
Fitch Cottage
Harold Thayer
Catherine Powers
Marilyn Cummings
Grace Crowley
Millicent Coombs
Mary Cook
Pauline Thayer
Diane Thayer
Bettie Bowers
Alice Dennison
Eleanor Gediman
Kay Harkins
White Spot
Warren White
Gus Mancuso
Mattson Cottage
Vernon Mattson
Dorothy
Bette Mattson
Jacqueline Hand
Newtonville
Mass
Walter Cousins
Carol Dryer
Newton
Nils Mattson
Newton Center
Vernon Mattson, Jr
Herbert Hartman
Brunswick
Stephen Etnier
Gilbert Head
South Shore
Allan Spear
Joseph and
Donald
James Farnham
Alvin Gediman
Spear Cottage
Elizabeth Myers
New York
Barbara Sprague
Farmington Normal School
Walter Sprague
Page Wyman
Evelyn Goding
Laurence Wyman
Elisha Bridges
Wilmer I. Voorhees
Eleanor Voorhees
Rachel Seawood
Nassau College
Barbara White
John
James
William Voorhees
Donald King
Voorhees Cottage
Anna Cal
Nellie Kay
Portland
Joseph Horne
Owen Cottage
Christopher Dumaine
Rachel Gordon
Readfield
Gordon Cottage
Peter Isaacson
Shirley Isaacson
Stone House
Isaacson
Arlene Small
Auburn
Charles Small
Orvil
Mayor urges rubber salvage drive across the United States
Bath Mayor Walter C. Rogers announces a nationwide scrap rubber campaign running through June 30. The drive targets wartime shortages as Pacific theater disruptions cut imports, urging citizens to donate rubber from common items and household goods with payments to collectors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter C. Rogers
Bath
United States
Meyer Rogers
Pacific
Rogers
United States of America
Bureau of Industrial Conservation
War Production Board
Rubber footwear rules and reclaimable items guidance
The council outlines acceptable and non reclaimable items. Leather shoes with rubber soles must have the rubber removed. Rubber stamps require wood or steel removal. Rubber footwear remains acceptable. most other rubber items like ashtrays are non reclaimable.
Pine Cone Troop Closes Its Year With Party
Girl Scouts of Pine Cone Troop No. 4 ended its year with a party at leader Mrs. R. Clinton McFadden’s home 21 North Street. The girls cooked, played Airplane pilots tests led by Mrs. John R. Kimble, and awarded prizes to Betty Anderson Kathleen DeLong Edith King Barbara Lothrop and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Girl Scouts of
Pine Cone
No. 4
R. Clinton McFadden
North Street
John R. Kimble
Betty Anderson
Kathleen DeLong
Edith King
Edith King; Flying the Mail
Barbara Lothrop
Betty Jane Wittis
Lorraine Fortier
Jane Lehman
Joan Longley
Eleanor Gotte
Phyllis Gray
Grace Thayer
Marilyn King
Jeanne Briggs
Gloria Johansen
Maine Pharmaceutical Association Convention Returns to Maine
Mr and Mrs Carl C Anderson of Green Street return home Wednesday night from Poland Spring where they attended the Maine Pharmaceutical Association annual convention. The meeting opened Monday and the banquet was Tuesday night with Governor and Mrs Sumner Sewall as honor guests. Anderson, owner of Carl's Drug Store, is a former association president. The convention opened Monday and closed Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl C. Anderson
Green Street
Poland Spring
Maine Pharmaceutical Association
Sumner Sewall
Anderson
Carl's Drug Store
Also Mentioned on This Page
Laura Cutting
Karol Mijers
James Jenkins
Charles Haggett
Gardiner Rogers
Meadowbrook
Tommy Morse
Bath Iron Works
Clinton Beals
Meadowbrook Road
John Blaisdell
Emna Cummings
Cummings
Robert Wilson
Arthur Morse
Reach
Howard MacRonald
Harry Blaisdell
Blaisdell
Pleasant Cove
Wynburg- Brightwater
Blonday
Horace Holton
Minott
Wynburg
Robert Whiteheads
New Hamphire
Fred Percy
Small Point
Howrd
Adams
Jay Daley
Central Grammar
Justus Miller
Warren Whites
Nantasket Beach
Dromore Bay Farm
Popham Beach
Phyllis Bowie
Bald Head
Ernest Rogers
Hyte Wyman
Katherine Berry
Ellis
Defense Workers
National Defense
Marden Motor CO
State Street
Parker
Maine Garden Club Federation Meeting
Bath Aerie
Aerie
Cam
O. E. Page
Middle Street
Boothbay
Rubber Reserve Co
Federal Reconstruction Finance Corp
Petroleum Industry War Council
Saturday Evening Post
Collier’s
Arrow
JONN
Front Street
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