Phippsburg Town Meeting Debates Road Project and Elections
Phippsburg held a daytime town meeting with heated debates on several warrant articles including the West Point road project valued at 22 000 and financed by a town loan. Mark Harrington won re election to the board of selectmen, and Theresa Wyman was chosen town clerk to replace ill health incumbent Everett Harrington. About 250 voters participated, with 150 attending the business session and numerous local notices of school and community activities published.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
John G. Morse, Jr
Theresa B. Wyman
Everett A. Harrington
Mark W. Harrington
Board of Selectmen
Arthur Murphy
Howard Bowker
Ralph Doughty
Albert Henderson
Leo Hamel
Etta Bartlett
Elmer E. Hilton
Consolidated School Fund
West Point
Small Point
Sebasco
Maine Publicity Bureau
Meadowbrook
Basin Road
Popham Road
Parker Head
John Wallace
Coast Guard Station
Wallace's
Gene Hooper Cowboy Show And Dance Saturday
Tickets go on sale for the Gene Hooper cowboy show and dance this Saturday from 8 to 12 pm at the Bath Community Center. Proceeds aid the Memorial Foundation for children of deceased Eagle war veterans. sales at local stores and Sears. Guests included Mrs. A D Houdlette and several Bath residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gene Hooper
Bath Aerie of Eagles
Memorial Foundation
Hallet’s Drug Store
Sagadahoc Fruit Store
Carl’s Drug Store
Pecci Fruit Co
Murals, Inc
Steeves’ Market
Lewis & Gasser Jewelers
Boston Shoe
Joe Harper
Sears, Roebuck & Co
WLAM
Lewiston
Eagle War
Phippsburg Sees Nine Mills Tax Cut At Year Start
Phippsburg residents cheered after the annual town meeting approved trims that cut the tax rate by about nine mills based on current valuations. The new appropriation totals about 45,602, down from 51,590, with road reserves trimmed and road, school, and snow care funding adjusted. Elections favored Mark Harrington, Howard Bowker, and Leo Hamel, with Theresa Wyman as town clerk and Henderson reelected treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phippsburg
West Point
Treasury
Consolidated School Trust Fund
John G. Morse, Jr
Mark W. Harrington
Arthur Murphy
Howard S. Bowker
Ralph Doughty
Leo Hamel
Etta Bartlett
Theresa D. Wyman
Albert B. Henderson
New Meadows Regatta Names Its Committees for Year
The New Meadows River Regatta Association names its 1950 committees at a directors meeting at Commodore Elmer Williams home Foster's Point. Key panels include Regatta, Constitution, Race, Membership, Eastham Guild, House, Buoy, Finance and Design with chairs listed. A April 20 meeting at South End PTA hall will review plans, and new boats by Archibald Main Jr and George Cary II are under construction for the season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Meadows River Regatta Association
Elmer B. Williams
Foster’s Point
Harold P. Small
Woodbury
Owen H. Williams
Warren Hawley
Maurice B. Shea
Eastham Guild, Jr
Maynard D. Lee
Kenneth N. Francisco
Carl H. Pinson
Charles E. Blaisdell
Jacob Verheus
Alvah A. Morse
James Thurston
George F. Cary, II
Archibald M. Main
George F. Cary
Carl M. Langbehn
Roger McAleer
South End
P.T.A. Hall
Washington Street
Archibald M. Main, Jr
Robert L. Brownell
Basin Point
Meeting of Ra mona Council Degree of Pocahontas
The Ra mona Council Degree of Pocahontas will hold a meeting Thursday at 8 p m. Refreshments will follow the meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ramona Council
Pocahontas
Parker Head Community Notes and Births and Deaths
Parker Head residents shared news of gatherings church planning meeting and a birthday party for Judy Hamel. Birth of a son to Mr. and Mrs. Bergeron and the death of Mrs. Frank Wyman were reported along with hospital updates and various visits and calls across town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Gilman
C. L. Stevens
Dale Mank
Eva Hoar
Patsy Wyman
Mary Ann Wyman
Earl Hamel
Judy Hamel
Herbert Doughty
Bill Lowell
Charles L. Stevens
Parker Heal Vestry
Jimmy
Diane Hamel
Carole
John Rolling III
Dudley Barkalow
Patty Anne
Marcia Wyman
Arthur Nisbet
Jane
Ruth Gray
Diane
Martha Ross
Patsy Paulin
Ramon Hamel
J. F. Mezenski
W. H. Wyman
John Rollins
Parker
Frank Wyman
Bath Memorial Hospital
Bay Point Weather and Local Life Report
Cold icy winds keep temperatures near zero all week and roads remain slick. Bay Point residents miss the town meeting due to weather while school resumes after vacation. grosbeaks linger at feeders and chickenhawks stir local yards amid winter sounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bay Point
Georgetown
Kenneth Simmons
Waldoboro
Alice Hinckley
Eleanor Mains
Bath
L. E. Hodgkins
Central Congregational Church
Maurice Burns
Kay
L. M. Spinney
Eugenia Cromwell
Spinney
Edna M. Cooldige
Mrs Clayton Churchill Visits Mrs Arthur McDonald
Mrs Clayton Churchill of South Portland was a guest of Mrs Arthur M McDonald of Denny Road on Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clayton Churchill
South Portland
Arthur M. McDonald
Denny Road
Popham Beach Meeting Delays and Local Voter Turnout
Popham Circle postponed Wednesday meetings due to cold and storms. Voters faced gale winds and cold Monday at the polls. Town meeting drew a large crowd with discussed items including road funds to the U S Coast Guard Station and to Ernest Oliver's area. Local residents noted among attendees and departures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Popham Circle
Carl Bickford
Riverside
Popham
U. S. Coast Guard Station
Wiliam Walace
Ernest Oliver
Laurence Taylor
Nancy Welch
Herbert Sprague
Guy Crowley
Ellison Moody
William Wallace
West Point
Ilene Percy
Minot Percy
Marblehead
Mass
Henry Leonard
Liberty
Kennebec
Stanley Hyde
Yarmouth
Death of Mrs Elizabeth Wyman Ward in Bath Maine
Mrs Elizabeth Williams Wyman wife of Frank K Wyman died at Bath Memorial hospital after a long illness. Funeral services were held at Curtis Funeral Home in Bath. She had lived in Bath 35 years on the Wyman farm by the Kennebec river and spent winters with daughter Mrs Robert Jewell in Bath while visiting with another daughter Mrs Lawrence Thayer in summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Small Point Parsonage
Bodwell Sewing Circle
Perley Quimby
Maurice Pye
Dromore Farm Bureau
Beryl Barton
Bodwell Grange Hall
Small Point Girl Scout
Sebasco
Winneyance Pta
John Williams
Chicago
Donald Williams
Lester Morse
Maude Lincoln
William Rader
Harold Hart
Richard P. Morse
Charles Hart
Stanwood Gilman
Clifford Pye
John G. Morse, Jr
Yarmouth
Mark Harrington
Center
Durne
Mary Whittemore
Bath
Dwinal Cornish
Henry Senecale
Saratoga Springs
N. Y
Victor Hughes
Alvin Wallace
West Point
Bath Memorial Hospital
Jean
Betty Bowker
Adele Hunt
Lewiston
Robert C. Whitehead
Windham
Jessie Spaulding
Winneganee School
Elizabeth Wyman Ward
Elizabeth (Williams) Wyman
Frank K. Wyman
Curtis Funeral Home
Wyman
Mr. Wyman
Kennebec
Robert Jewell
Sun day snow melts yielding ice as temp drops
A small town meeting Monday discussed a 357 appropriation for third class roads, aiming to improve Parker Head to McIntyre’s Corner. Attendees included Edward P. Thomas Jr and Mrs. Dozois. Religious services Friday featured Rev. Stevens with music by local singers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parker Head
McclIntyre's Corner
Edward P. Thomas, Jr
Frederick Thomas
Stanton C. Dozois
Sewall C. Moore
Charles L. Stevens
Phippsburg Center
Audrey Pinkham
Reginald Gordon
Perley Alexander
Brunswick
Clayton Moore
Linda Joyce
Clyde Moore
Rose Marie
Dorothy Pinkham
Nancy
Curtis Cunningham
Bath
Edwin Hill
Dinny Johnson
Moore Home
Malcolm Batchelder
Stratton
Dix's Island
James Pettee
Rockland
Ralph Seekins
Norman Seekins
Seekins
Richard Dozois
West Point
Beverly
Mary Moore
Lewis Lowell
Camp Lee
National Guard
Eric Carlson
Bath Memorial Hospital
Otis Morse
S. C. Moore
Hyde Home Show Brings Farmer Frolics Players to Bath
Hyde Memorial Grangers presented a program for patients with numbers from the Farmers Frolics under Doris Wing. A Bath Elks bus, led by Edward J. Mc Mann, brought the Topsham players to Bath. Mrs Esther Andrews accompanied the revue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hyde Memorial Grangers
Cosmpolitan Club Elects Officers and Plans Activities
The Cosmpolitan club met to nominate officers for the year with Mrs. Frederick Moffatt as president and Mrs. Charles T. Small as vice president. The installation will occur at the March 15 banquet, with reservations due by March 8. The program featured songs, a one act playlet, and a philathropic collection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cosmopolitan Club
Arthur S. Eseley
Frederick Moffatt
Charles T. Small
Abbott Redlon
Harold Fish
Paul Marchant
Alice Ramsey
Madeline Small
Leslie Wold
Ruth Fobes
Dallas Crabtree
Y M C A World Service Meeting Held in Bath
The State Y M C A World Service committee met at the Augusta House led by Archibald M. Main Bath Y M C A president. Main announced Kenneth J. Smith a Maine boy heads Y M C A work in Italy with Rome headquarters and introduced speaker J Hartley Fowler secretary of World Service in Canada and the Northeast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Y.M.C.A. World Service Committee
Augusta House
Archibald M. Main
Bath
Main
Y.M.C.A
Maine
Italy
Rome
Kenneth J. Smith
J. Hartley Fowler
Fowler
Ymc.a
World Service
Canada
United States
YMCA
China
Beacon Street Service Highlights Laymen Sunday
Morning worship led by Franklin Howe with responsive reading by Jane Shea and scripture by Arthur Packard. Choir members Marguerite Beard sley Ethelyn Barter and Ralph Champeon joined Carol White at the organ. Nightingale singers performed four selections at evening service and the pastor preached on the Giant With Six Minggers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin Howe
Jane Shea
Arthur Packard
Clifton Tedford
Marguerite Beardsley
Ethelyn Barter
Ralph Champeon
Carol White
Nightingale Singers
Low House as Landmark in Riggsville History
The Low family legacy in Riggsville centers on the Julia Baker and its captains. Captain Francis, known as Frank, sailed from Richmond Maine to New York then up the James River to load oysters, was captured after his vessel burned, and died in Andersonville in 1865. Brother Warren built a Riggsville home and business ties while Llewellyn and Guy Lows left lively marks on village life with eccentric deeds, mail runs, and wood切work. The house, later owned by Aubrey Fullerton and family, remains a coastal landmark with ties to Boothbay Harbor and local lore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julia Baker
Nehemiah Baker
Wendell
Riggsville
Francis
Frank
Richmond
Maine
New York
James River
Virginia
Low
Warren
Andersonville
N. C
Gilman
Riggs
William Berry
Five Islands
Herbert
Aubrey Fullerton
Margaret Tarr
Llewellyn
Guy
Trafton Knight
Georgetown Center
Richard Hagan
Clarey Farm
Hagan
Clarey
Sasanoa
Eastern Steamship Camper
Katherine
Boothbay Harbor
Elizabeth
Christopher Gardiner
William Hollis
Hollis
MacMahan
Boothbay
Melvin Brooks
Westport
Gage
Massachusetts
Gilman Joins Boothbay Harbor Row-Dory Route
Herbert's youngest brother Gilman moved to Boothbay Harbor in the 1960s and married Frank's widow. A man ran a row-dory boat service from Boothbay Harbor to Bath, and Captain Gilman began making regular trips on the route carrying passengers and freight by sailboat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert
Gilman
Boothbay Harbor
Frank
Bath
Sai Beat
Four 4-H Clubs Display Work During National Week
The four 4-H clubs in the Bath area showcase their projects in Roger's Hardware window this week. Leaders and assistants include Mrs. Bernice Colby, Miss Caroline Stackpole, Mrs. Viola Chappell, and Miss Jacqueline Chappell. The Harvesters and Happy Hearts and Helping Hands clubs report active projects across sewing cooking dairying chick raising gardening and wood working with 15 and 13 members respectively. Leaders attended a full-day conference in Auburn where Colby led the roll call.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roger
Bernice Colby
Caroline Stackpole
Bath
Viola Chappell
Jacqueline Chappell
Daisy Ireland
West Bath
the Harvesters
Pauline Belanger
Vaneta Estes
Woolwich
Happy Hearts
Helping Hands
Raymond Crocker
Colby
Stackpole
Chappell
Mrs. Belanger
Auburn
Mrs. Colby
U S Bureau of Mines Seeks Fuel Cost Reduction
The Bureau of Mines aims to cut federal costs by testing various fuels. This effort evaluates efficiency and potential savings for government energy use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Bureau of Mines
Also Mentioned on This Page
Eetistacdeeey
Haan
Morse High School
Dromore Grange
Phippsburg Christian Service Committee
Mereen Robinson
Dike Minstrels
Arthur Moore
Stoneybrook Road
Lebel
Pitch Pine Hill
A. D. Houdlette
Getchell Street
John Houdlette
Meriden
Conn
A. T. Perkins
M. P. Houdlette
Dresden
Jennie Oliver
Ida Getchell
M. G. Carson
Fall
Windows
A. P. Denham, Jr
Corliss Street
General
Bath, Maine
West Point Road
NEW Meadows Regatta Association
Simmons
Grove
Leslie Wilson
Francis Lander
Bessie Halpern
Alvin
Ashland
Haveveral
Mr. Halpern
Lorna Fay Kramer
Abraham L. Kramer
Court Street
Popham Beach
Cox
Jones
Raymond Chubbuck
Wood
Alfred McCabe
Perry
Janice Knight
Melinda
Richard Sherwood
E. P. Brown
Bernard Knight
Philanthropic Fund
Dolly Howe
Revere Ware
Richard Dennison
Janet Gilmore
Charles B. Doyle
Harriet Stevens
STATE
Ymca World Service Committee
A. M. Main
Beacon Street Service
LOW House
Levi Powers
Odh
Serehe
Blue Cross
Bath National Bank
Associated Hospital Service
Temple Street
Portland
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