Local Club Notes and Community Events Update
Visitors from the West Bath Extension Service demonstrated fabric pattern alteration. Upcoming Extension meeting April 30 features "Fabric Facts" by the home demonstration agent. Boy Scouts meet tonight at the town hall with a "Lifeblood of the Land" conservation movie from the Forest Service. Bodwell Grange held Friday evening with Rev. H Macy Whitehead program on St Patrick and Irish songs. Members from Lincoln and Sagadahoc Pomonas attended a supper and school of instruction at Huntoon Hill Grange. Young people will present two one act plays Friday at Bodwell Grange hall with listed local participants. Personal notes cover multiple local residents' activities and illnesses. Weather signs point to spring with kids and kites a feature. A surprise visit from Franklin Sprague and family from Oregon honors Miss Bessie Sprague Small Point. Sprague a WWII veteran with Silver Star and Purple Heart. More neighbors, social visits, and post office updates noted.
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West
United States Forest Service
Bodwell Grange
H. Macy Whitehead
St. Patrick
Lincoln
Sagadahoc Pomonas
State Grange
Huntoon Hill Grange
Wiscasset
Lillian Blair
William Blaisdell
Raymond ‘Campbell
Thomas Totman
Bodwell Grange Hall
Sylvia Green
Syvilla Wyman
Irma Gilman
Gerald Wyman
Frederick Morse
Sylvanus Moore
Macy Whitehead
Martha Morse
George C. Beals
Irving Harrington
Bath Memorial Hospital
Center
Richard Thomas
Ralph Thomas
John Alden
Leeds
Gordon Alden
Sebasto
Gertrude Blaisdell
Arthur Morse
Willire Bleisdell
Eleanor Ball
Mapleton
Stanwood Gilman
Mark Harrington
George Eversfield
Portland
William H. Gilman
Stanley Spencer
Dana
Debby Spencer
Laconia
N. H
Boyd
Dudley
Richard
Granville Harrington
Billy
Priscilla Rainey
Lawrence Libby
Franklin Sprague
Oregon
Bessie L. Sprague
Small Point
Sprague
386Th Field Artillery
9Th Army
Germany
Herbert Morse
Russell Merchant
Dudley. Leavitt
Bath
Meadowbrook
Card of Thanks from Laura Libby
Mrs Laura Libby thanks Bath Memorial Hospital doctors nurses and aides for wonderful care during her stay She also thanks the Red Men friends and neighbors for kindnesses during her illness March 23, 1954.
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Bath Memorial Hospital
Laura Libby
Cousins Birth in South Portland Named Wayne Victor
Mr and Mrs Gerald Cousins of South Portland announce the birth of a son at Memorial hospital on March 19. The baby weighed eight pounds seven ounces and is named Wayne Victor. Mrs Cousins nee Beverly Black is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Andrew Black of Court Street. Mr and Mrs Edward G Morin of Chatham New Jersey are an...
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Gerald Cousins
South Portland
Memorial Hospital
Wayne Victor
Cousins
Beverly Black
Andrew Black
Court Street
Dromore Extension Meets at Grange Hall on Wednesday
Dromore Extension met at Grange Hall in the St. Patrick era style with green candles and tables. Mrs Eddie Seavey and Mr Anita Gkd field presented Vegetable Fashions and were appointed for the area meeting on March 24 with County Agent Charles Eastman speaking on Better Home Grounds. Public invited, with pies and coffee arranged by Mrs Eva Rogers and team. The afternoon featured Mrs Pauline Belanger and Mrs Moore demonstrating pattern alterations. Next meeting is April 30 with all day session and dinner at noon guided by Miss Haskell and committee members.
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Addie Seavey
Anita Gkdfield
Grange Hall
Charles Eastman
Lewiston
Eastman
Eva Rogers
Evelyn Beals
Annette Sheffield
Pauline Belanger
Moore
West
Priscilla Thayer
Mildred Rogers
Sadie Hiton
Haskell
Bath Sister Honored In Englewood Service
Sister M Consuelo Grainger, daughter of Mr and Mrs John G Grainger of 119 Lincoln, professed at St Michael's Novitiate NJ on March 19. She received the black veil and rosary, and will be missioned at St James High School Penns Grove NJ. Rev William F Furlong of Seton Hall University assisted by George A Boland, STD. No first procession. many relatives attended.
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M. Consuelo Grainger
John G. Grainger
Warning To Truck Owners In Maine Before Inspection
Levi Flint of the Maine Motor Vehicle Division warns Maine truck owners that trucks lacking signal lights will not receive inspection stickers. He notes specific yardstick measurements from the steering post to the body must not exceed limits of 24 inches to the left and 14 feet to the rear. A timely reminder aims to prevent delays and inconvenience from failed inspections.
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Augusta
Maine
Levi Flint
Maine Motor Vehicle Division
Wee
Flint
Parker Head hosts April town event for district spell
Parker Head residents readied for an April 9 district championship spelling test at Woolwich with a 1 30 p m start. The town winner advances to the district meet while families and Scouts gathered at home and nearby towns last weekend for visits and re checks on audiometer tests.
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Anne . Hutchins
Sharon
Warren Doughty
Woolwich
Farewell Party for Nancy Harvie Hosted by Susan Scammon
Nancy Harvie daughter of Mr and Mrs Louis Harvie of Garden Street was guest of honor at a surprise farewell supper party hosted by Miss Susan Scammon of 1149 Washington Street. The event marked Nancy's move to Mechanicsburg Pennsylvania with her family joining her husband to be transferred. Assisted by Bette Aikenhead the party followed St Patrick's Day themes with shamrock favors and a charm bracelet gift. Attendees included Jean Clancy Joan Clancy Edna Sinclair Patricia Scammon Bette Aikenhead and the hostess.
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Nancy Harvie
Louis Harvie
Garden Street
Susan Scammon
Edwin Scammon
Washington Street
Nancy
Mechanicsburg
Susan
Bette Aikenhead
North Grammar
Harvie
Pennsylvania
St. Patrick’s
Jean and
Joan Clancy
Edna Sinclair
Patricia Scammon
Bette Aikenheed
Active Citizen at 83 Keeping Busy Despite Age
Chester C. Aderton of 2 Bedford Street celebrated his eighty third birthday on March 20. Born March 20, 1871, he has labored as a sparmaker, joiner, deputy sheriff from 1913 to 1926, and served Bath police, with others noting his lifelong activity. He remains a constable of Ward 5, operates a workshop, reads local history, and plans to stay active into 100.
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Bath
Chester C. Aderton
Bedford Street
Dummer Street
Cyrus Aderton
Davn & Wiggin Yard
Grove Street
Kennebec
Sagadahoc
Carl Milliken
Aderton
Times
People’s Baptist Church
Mr. Aderton
Minnie Aderton
Miss Aderton
Carrie Devis
Valley Road
Sonny Munsey suffers hand cut sidelining Blues prospect
Warren E. Sonny Munsey, 18, a former Morse standout now with the Kansas City Blues, cut his left hand after slipping from a chair and falling through a hotel window at Lake Wales Fla. He will miss three to five weeks of spring training, with doctors noting a minor infection. Munsey was conditioning for an inter-squad game when the accident occurred and may be reassigned to Norfolk after healing.
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Warren E
Sonny
Munsey
Kansas City Blues
American Association
Morse
Norfolk Tars
Blues
Lake Wales
Fla
Bath
Times
Norfolk
Popham Beach News and Coast Guard Notices
Popham Circle met with President Mrs Ellison Moody for an Easter breakfast plan after the Sunrise Service on April 18 at Fort Baldwin. A Coast Guard veteran Engineman 1/c Varnard Flemmings, 47, of Bath, retires after 26 years with medals from Kennebec Life Saving Station. Several locals visitings and cottage gatherings noted, including Harry Cressey at Seguin and Gerald Emery in Lewiston, Bath and Freeport residents at Kennebec Cottages, and various visits to cottages and residences in Woolwich, Bath, Kittery Point, and Augusta.
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Popham Circle
Ellison Moody
Scchoolhouse
Fort Baldwin
Ernest Oliver
H. Macy Whitehead
Small Point Church
Sys
Whithead
Lester Oliver
Rockland
Varnard Flemmings
Bath
Kennebec
Harry Cressey
Sally Rainey
Phippsburg Center
Richard Thomas
Meadowbrook
Marguerite McNulty
Ralph F. Small
Peter A. Isaacson
Lewiston
Stonehouse
Blanche Westall
Charles Shepard
Jesse Munsey
Harvey Chubbuck
Woolwich
Frank Florian
Florian
Mark
Boston
Fred H. Spinney
Kittery Point
Ernest Beals
Coast Guardsman
Brown
Pond Island
Pond Island Light, Went To Augusta Monday. ‘Miss Grace Cushing
Guy E. Crowey
Coxs Head Dromore Extension Meetings On Fashions And Landscaping
Dromore Extension held a vegetable fashions program at Grange hall last week. This week Charles Eastman and Hilda Haskell presented Landscaping Your Home Grounds at Grange hall to the public with refreshments by the group. The April meeting is set for Friday April 30 with Haskell leading Fabric Facts. Dinner committee members include Priscilla Thayer Mildred Rogers and Sadie Hilton. Attendees included Olga Carlson of Dix Island and Gladys Dozois. Also noted are Richard B R McLanathan of Boston and Coxs Head giving an illustrated talk at Concord Antiqarian Society. Visitors Laurence Thayer and family of Bath spent Sunday at Wyman Farm. Mrs Stanton C Dozois visited Bath Memorial Hospital. Bernard Carlson of Dix Island called on friends in Parker Head.
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Donald Wyman
Peter
Robin Hutchins
Anne
Jane
Ruth Gray
Mary Carolyn
Charles Wyman
Arthur Barkalow
Albert Gray
Brooklyn
N. Y
Boston
David Snow
Clarence Sheffield
Thomas
Harold Seavey
Frank Burnell
Bath
Olive Deejay
Harrington
Eugene Ross
Peter Bush, Jr
Augusta
J. A. Darling
Judy
Jay Lee
Edith Clough
Mount Vernon
Lewis Lowell
Carl Peaslee
Dresden
George Watson
Brunswick
Bob Perry
West Bath
Frances Morong
Frances Hoar
Walter Cushing
John
Howard L. Hutchins
Gordon Alden
Russell Turner
Portland
Eva Hoar
Leslie Logan
Parker Head
William Hodgkins
East Boston
J. Frank Mezewski
USN
East Weymouth
Mass
W. H. Wyman
Mellon
Gardiner
Earl Hamel
Edmund
Mississippi
Jean Hamel
USMC
Parris Island
S. C
California
Mabel Pushard
Rederick Palmer
Phippsburg Center
Arthur Moore
Dromore Extension
Grange Hall
Charles Eastman
Hilda Haskell
Dromore Extension Group
Priscilla Thayer
Mildred Rogers
Sadie Hilton
Olga Carlson
Dix’s Island
Gladys Dozois
Richard B. R. McLanathan
Department of
Decorative Arts
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Cox
Concord, Mass
Stephen
Wyman Farm
Stanton C. Dozois
P. Edward DeBery
Bath Memorial Hospital
Bernard Carlson
Dix's Island
Friends
Parker Head Village
Engagement Announced for Evalyn Moulton and Harry Friedman
Mrs. Dewey Daniels of Warm Springs Georgia announces the engagement of her daughter Mrs. Evalyn V. Moulton to Harry F. Friedman Jr of Palermo. Moulton trained as an Army nurse at Baptist Memorial hospital School of Nursing Memphis and works for the Veterans Administration at Togus. Friedman studied bacteriology at UMass Amherst and mechanical engineering at Northeastern, formerly a research engineer at MIT, now farming with hatching eggs interest. A summer wedding is planned.
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Dewey Daniels
Warm Springs
Evalyn V. Moulton
Harry F. Friedman, Jr
Palermo
Moulton
Baptist Memorial Hospital School of Nursing
Memphis
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
York Yankee Contract and KC Spring Training Invite
York Yankee contract details noted while the player joined Kansas City for spring training workouts. Also mentioned is Mrs. Chester Smith of Frederickton New Brunswick visiting as a guest of her childhood friend and the White family at 1506 Washington Street.
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Chester Smith
Frederickton, N. B
J. A. White
Washington Street
Archive yearbook dedicates to Mrs Alden Bass at Bridge Academy
The Dresden yearbook Archive honors Mrs Alden Bass for guiding students toward a fuller life with a curatorship spanning teaching since 1943 and roles as assistant principal and girls activities director. It highlights Farmington State Teachers College reps, student leaders, and faculty contributors. A Dresden Millis Paint Day contest at the variety store, with Clifton Smith as demonstrator, awards prizes to local residents. The Cate family era at the post office ends with Mrs Horace Gilpatrick as postmaster.
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Bridge Academy
Alden Bass
John Weldon
Evelyn Budge
Joel Weldon
Jack Brown
University of Maine
Priscilla Allen
U. of M
Thomas B. Bourgois
Willis MacComb
Anna Tobey
Pat Kelley
Mary Brown
Chester Dorr
Harold Austin
Carnival Queen
Vici Allen
Gardiner High School
Lincoln County
Thomas Bourgois
Paris High School
Carolyn Thayer
Avis Bickford
Keith Perkins
Dresden Millis
Clifton Smith
Randolph
Clarence Moody
Richard Rackliff
Samuel McDonald
Stanley Meserve
Bert Hasson
Elmer _ Bailey
Ernest Cate
Cate
Horace Gilpatrick
Corradetti Lowell Wedding Announced in North Carolina
Mr and Mrs Earl F Lowell of Phippsburg announce the marriage of their daughter Sara Pearl Lowell AKAN a WAVE stationed at Norfolk Virginia to Chief Petty Officer Trima John Corradetti USN of Chicago Illinois stationed at the Naval Air Base Norfolk. They wed March 19 at 730 PM in Elizabeth City County North Carolina. The bride wore a blue gown with white accessories. Bridesmaid Ruth Williams Elmira NY wore navy with white accessories. Chief Petty Officer James Gil USN AF was best man. The couple honeymooned at Virginia Beach and plan to remain in service.
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Earl F. Lowell
Phippsburg
Sara Pearl Lowell
Norfolk
Trima John Corradetti
U.S. N
Chicago
Naval Air Base
Elizabeth County
N. C
Ruth Williams
Elmira
N. Y
James Gil
Corradetti
Virginia Beach
DeMolay Mother Club to Meet at Masonic Temple
DeMolay Mother Club plans a Thursday evening gathering at the Masonic Temple at 7 30 with president Mrs Ruth Fuller. Agenda includes finalizing plans for the April rummage sale. Refreshments will be served.
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DeMolay Mother Club
Masonic Temple
Ruth Fuller
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