Save Joshua Tree by Creating a California National Monument
The Joshua tree, a desert lily reaching up to sixty feet, faces preservation through a new Joshua Tree National Monument in California. About 825,430 acres in San Bernardino and Riverside Counties are set aside south of the Mojave Desert, bounded by the Little San Bernardino Mountains and the Colorado River aqueduct near Palm Springs Coachella Valley. The report details the tree’s biology, habitat, and historical uses by Indians and early settlers, noting a century or two of potential life and diverse wildlife depend on the protected area.
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California
San Bernardino
Riverside Counties
Mojave Desert
San Bernardino Mountains
Palm Springs
Coachella Valley
Pinto Basin
Desert
Scott
Pup
United States
England
Wiscasset Easter services planned at church building
Next Sunday the Congregational church in Wiscasset will hold all services including church school in the church building. The Pioneers plan a surprise service reenacting the Easter Story and, if weather allows, on the church steps. otherwise inside. Service starts at 5.09, before sunrise, followed by a Faster Sunday collection for Cent-A-Meal boxes in the vestibule. The annual Foster concert of the church school is set for 7:30.
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Congregational Church
Bath Quartet Sings for Wiscasset Club
Bath quartet with Ms John Shin accompanist and Rev Joseph O Purdue entertained Wiscaset Woman's Club Friday evening in club rooms. Members included Luther S Thompson tenor Mrs Frank A Hodgon alto Miss Kathleen V Leonard soprano John Shaw bass. Rev Purdue spoke on Distinguished Men of Norway. Musical program featured D Harelot The Night Has a Thousand Eyes Nevin quartet solo My Heart at Thy Dear Voice St Saens One Golden Day Kathleen Leonard Winter Song Ballard Memories Cadman Join Shaw Calling Me Home to You Out of the Dusk to You Dorel Lee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harriet Jackson
Grave Dow
Ruth Gough
Ruth Jones
Beverley Hamlin
Doris Club
Harret Jackson
Churchil Street
Worans Cind
Wisrasset
B Michell
Bowdoin College
Joseph O. Purdue
Winter Street
Bath
Mitchells Place
Central Congregational Church of
Phe Niel
Kathleen Wile
John Shaw
Winter Lone
Sinub
Henry W Web
Norway
Meade
Lu Her S. Thompson
Kathleen V. Leonard
Frank A. Hodgdon
Anna Flood
Carrie S. Kniish
Sarah Keirstead
Neliig Munsey
Ethel Bailey
F. Murray Senter
Boston
New York
Alfred Gorham
Federal Street
Toews
Carl Caion
William Catsn
Ani
Wiscasset Academy
Connecticut
Legion Civic Club
Clarence Gough
Walter W. Leavitt
Attleboro
Mass
N. Robinson
Steven
Robinson
Charles S. Sowder
Timothy Atkinson
Wiscasset
North Dakota
Emma Hilton
Childran
Whey
West
Donna Stinson
Che Iire
Corerana
Emma Stansom Miah
Bean
Tne
Mosheteer Spudent
Beenie
Federal
Bradford C Redounett Ts
Paese
Bane
Ae Hee
Tro
James M. Jack- Mehr
Dee
Bat
Forest Prebie
Press
John Shin
Woman's Club of
Wiscasseet
Luther S. Thompson
Kuthleen V. Leonard
Retreemen’s
F .D'Hardelot
Nevin
North End Club Men Win at Damariscotta
North End Community Club rifle team upset Lincoln County Rifle Club at Dam aris cotta or Dam ariscotta scoring 803 to 773 led by Jake Crooker and Bob Sturtevant with strong prone and offhand marks. West of the home team took top honors with 175. Crooker and Petit posted high totals for Bath in a tight Offhand and prone totals show Bath 803 Lincoln 773, with Crooker dominant.
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North End Community Club
Damaricotta
Lincoln County Rifle Club
Jake Crocker
Bath
Lincoln County
Couch ¢Arner
Beys
Bob Sturtevant
iWorth Enners
R. Stureevens
W. Crocker
R. Christianson
Ca . Ie
Aree
Huntley i
Webb Sarees
West Bath party marks Waterman daughter’s ninth birthday
West Bath Fhel L Waterman of Foels Point celebrated her ninth birthday with an afternoon party Saturday from two to five. Guests included Nancy Coombs Marilyn Booker Barbara King Eleanor King and Everett W Waterman. Activities featured pinning the tail on the donkey and a peanut hunt won by Barbara King. Ice cream cookies cake fudge and chocolate milk were served. A Red Cross note from the West Bath branch meeting at the grange hall was sent to Edwin W Haggett at Faulkner Hospital Jamaica Plain Massachusetts. Birthday greetings were extended to Annie H Trufant of Trufant’s Crossing while Wintering in Portsmouth New Hampshire with Mr and Mrs Arthur Fr Baum. Approximately 25 attended.
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F.hel L. Waterman
Fletcher A. Waterman
Foel's Point
Nancy Coombs
Marilyn Booker
Barbara King
Eleanor King
Everett W. Waterman
West Bath
Bath
American Red Cross
Grange Hall
Edwin W. Haggett
Faulkner Hospital
Jamaica Plain
Mass
Annie H. Trufant
Trufant’s Crossing
Portsmouth
N. H
Arthur Fr. Baum
Owen F. Rovers
North Bahchrimnen
Bar
C. Donneil Eid
J. Byververs Maso Wert
Invitiee
Karry EF. Peterson
Herbert 8
Lewis. Barrows
Binnie Mansio
Augusta House
Sumner Sewall
Charles M. White
White
Department of Agriculture
Emily Rideout
Bowdoinham
Augusta
Harry EB. Peterson
Brunswick Road
Red Cross
Melvin L. Comeau
Peterson
Maine
Massachusetts
Leon Berry
Brower
Charles L. Haggett
Billy
Berry's Mill
Harold J. Haggett
Lacey Ann
Hagget
Edwin W. Hagett
Enrollment drives CCC Dyer Flaherty Post alert
Veterans of Foreign Wars are urged to enroll in the CCC from April 1 to 20 with contact to the Manager at the Veterans Administration Facility in Towns Maine. A Dyer Flaherty post meeting is set for Thursday at 8 PM in the Dummer Street home. Susan Glaspell, Pulitzer winner for Alison's House, has been selected by Rockland High for the One Act Play Contest with cast members including George Henderson Gordon Richardson Henry Peters Werneley Black Lewis Hale Frederick MacDonald Mrs Peters Virginia Wood Mrs Hile and Shirley Stanley.
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Dyer-Flaherty Post
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Wil
CCC
Veterans Administration
Toyns
Maine
Dyer-Flahert Post
Dummer Street
Susan Glaspett Winener
Alison
Rockland High
George Henderson
Gordon Richardson
Henry Peters
Werneley Black
Lewis Hale
Frederick MacDonald
Peters
Virginia Wood
Hile
Shirley Stanley
Dresser admits rocky marriage and westward move in screen plan
Judith Edwina Ford Dresser, wife of Charles Van dervoort Dresser and widow of Col. How Rogers, prepares to depart for the West Coast. She reveals marital strain after a year of marriage and says she intends to pursue a screen acting career.
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Charles Vandervoort Dresser
Col. How Rogers
Judith Edwina Ford Dresser
West Coast
Central Press
West Bath Farm Bureau Holds Joint Meeting
West Bath Farm Bureau and the men’s group meet at the West Bath grange hall for an all day joint session. Miss Hortense Welch and Henry Anderson led discussions on preserving foods at home and soil conservation with committees serving both groups and a luncheon menu of meat loaf, cabbage salad, wheat bread, cottage pudding and coffee.
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West
Hugo F. Sondelin
Harris H. Redick
Charles T. Small
Humphrey A. Owen
William A. Coombs
Walter G. Marco
Loriie D Small
Grange Hall
John H. Bryant
Harold J. Haggett
Lucy Ann
Piccent
Bryant
Lina M. Higgins
Herbert Hodgkins
James B. Lemont
Fore
Woolwich Book Club Deliberates Africa Works and Life
The Woolwich Book Club met at Mrs. Carlton Day Reed's Days Ferry home with twelve members. Lois Day reviewed Out of Africa and Congo Crosses while Mrs. John Gilmore discussed Julia Kellerberger's Congo Crosses and related works.
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Carlton Day
Reed
Africa
Woolwich Book Club
Carlton Day Reed
Days Ferry
Lois Day
Emery Ross
Gene MacKenze
John Gilmore
Julia Kellerberger
Congo
Edlgar Batley
Janet Miller
Wilbur Howe
Basil Matthews
George Wright
Albert Swetzer
Forest of Lamberene
Wilson M. Wright
Shorthouse
Sir Percival
Mackaye
Uganda
Herbert Munsey
Mabel Jack
Carolyn D. Wing
Isaac B. Howard
Percy Bailey
Universalist Church Holy Week Service Planned
Universalist Church announces Holy Week services Thursday at 8 pm. The Fellowship service invites all upright, sincere people to partake in the sacrament. W C Margedan of Hamilton, Ohio designs the communion table crest, candles, and a Last Supper illustration. Music features Paul Bliss’s Sacred Love Crivale Mars performed by Mrs. Fred D Hill. Thorburn, delayed by illness in Hamilton, will lead services upon arrival. Glenn McIntire oversees in his absence.
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Universalist
Thorburn
W. C. Margedan
Hamilton
Ohio
da Vinci
Paul Bliss
Fred D. Hill
Bath
Tus
Glenn McIntire
Bowdoin College
Universalist Church
Fund Drive Underway For Cancer Control Bath Unit
Mrs James A Gillies Jr chairs downtown Bath fund drive for the Society for the Control of Cancer through the Women s Field Army. Assisting are Mrs Williamy W Dennison Mrs R Clinton McFadden Mrs J Edward Drake Jr and Miss Netta Briggs. Boxes are in four Bath banks Hallett s Drug Store and Centers Inc. No house to house drive. members of the committees executive committee or Mrs Arthur Sewall 2d captain will accept one dollar memberships. Miss Marcia Moulton is Bath unit treasurer.
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James A. Gillies, Jr
Bath
Women’s Field Army
Society For the Control of Cancer
Gillies
Williamy W. Dennison
R. Clinton McFadden
J. Edward Drake, Jr
Netta’ Briggs
Hallett’s Drug Store and Senters, Inc
Donald N. Small
Ruth Field
Marcia Moulton
Christine Curtis
Edwin V. Reed
Arthur Sewall 2d
Moulton
Treasuerr
Woolwich Notes Include Visitors and Local Endeavors
Woolwich community items highlight health updates with Master Robert Simpson improving from pneumonia and Mrs. Albert DeLong’s thank you card. Visits include Rev. Plinette Allen and Miss Laughlin MacInnis from Boothbay, and Miss MacInnis’ return from Brooklyn. The Good Will club supports cancer control and plans a May fair, while Sunshine baskets go to ill residents. Community meetings, church events, and upcoming Easter activities round out a snapshot of local life in Sagadahoc Ferry and surrounding areas.
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Robert Simpson
Sagadahoe Ferry
Arthur Williams
Plinette Allen
Boothbay
Laughlin MacInnis
Woolwich
Allen
Brooklyn
N. Y
Frank J. Walker
Boston
Maxine Walker
Elwyn Comstock
East Brownfield
Comstock
Maine
Charles Hunnewell
Sagadahoc Ferry
Carroll Houdlette
Farmingdale
Lincoln Houdlett
Isapnhine Dolloff
Colby 36
Harvard
E. A. Dolloff
Wilbur Hagan
Skowhegan
Molagan
Latle Alberta DeLong
William DeLong
Bath Memorial Hospital
Harry Fich
South
John Carter
Edwin Comstock
Brownfield
Eugenie Hunnewell
David G. Reed
Walter Harrington
Somerville
Mass
Harringon
Albert Bailey
Hitl
Daugher
Patricia Jeanne
Damaricotta Hospital
George Gainsley
Clifton
Karl
Torus
Geinsley
Bernard Bailey
Bath
Samuel Morse
Whiskeay
Clara Reed
Willard J. Rand, Jr
Woolwich Union For Christian Service
Winter Strcer
Charles Sowder
Wiscasset
Woolwich Methodist Churches Conference Friday Evening
The fourth quarterly Woolwich Methodist conference met Friday at the Mall home. Officers for South Woolwich and North Woolwich churches were elected, reports by Rev. Willard Rand Jr. noted average services, Sunday schools, and memorials. The pastor reported 335 calls, five marriages, six funerals, and ongoing civic youth and reading programs. Lenten services with visiting ministers were scheduled, ending Good Friday.
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Methodist Churches of
Woolwich
Costello P. Mall
A. A. Calasnan
A. Jis Rick
South Woolwich
Susan L. Howe
Jonnie Howe
Carolyn D. Wine
Carolyn D. Wing
Ervette E. Bailey
Carolyn D Wing
Clarence EF. Baker
Wilbur Howe
Ervette EF. Bakey
Maria E. Savage
Clarsney F. Baker
Jennie Howe
Donald Preble
Chester Howe
Clarence E. Bater
Willard J. Rand, Jr
Sagadahoc
North Woolwich
Bertram Crocker
Sagadahoc Ferry
John H
Clinton Muckler
Harry Muckler
Ayadul
Meethng
Tyre
Wilson M. Wheat
Reading Club
Maine
Chrisian Pioneers
The
Christian Pioneers
Woolwich Pilot
National Religious Press of
Grand Rapids
Mich
Pilus
Pasor
Stace
Maine Conference of Religious Education
Nequasset
Day's Ferry
Meithrdisi
Ellen R. Warren
Harley . Shattuck
Joseph O. Purdue
Bath
Charles S. Sowder
Wiscassel
Fishermen Reel In Kings And Grouper Off Sarasota
Robert Pazzard, a Gardiner manufacturer, and companions were among the first to fish near Sarasota after a two week absence. Fishing with two companions, Hazzard landed a 19 pound kingfish and the party totaled 18 kings and one black grouper by day’s end.
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Robert P.azzard
Gardiner
Sarasota
Plaoberes
Hazzard
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