Cosmopolitan Garden Club Meets Monday
Cosmopolitan Garden Club met in the club rooms Monday afternoon at two o'clock with president Mrs Albert W Whitney presiding. They voted to coordinate a program with the June Cosmopolitan club meeting and to decorate for Bath Memorial Hospital auxiliary in April. A contribution to the Red Cross was approved. Members noted reports from the Boston Flower Show and plans for orchid corsage sales to benefit Morse High School urns. Next meeting will be April 11 hosted by Miss Alice Johnson with a penny auction and “Garden Problems” topic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Merrymeeting Grange
Bowdoinham
Walter Knight
State Department of Agriculture
State Grange
Royal Brown
Gardiner
Richmond High School
Richmond
Edward Coughlin
Deborahates
Lloyd Foss
Arthur Harvey
Richmond Odd Fellows and Rebekah Lodges
Harold Dunn
White Road
Friends
Richmond Theater
Robert Wheeler
Russell Perry
Norris Sidelinger
Emerson Grammar School
Progressive Grange
Sagadahoc Grange
Bowdoin Center
Progressive Orange
Carmel
Masonic Hall
Raymond Libby
C. Kenneth Morrill
Lily of the Valley
Weeks
Leon Shepard
Leon Dunklee
Melita Leavitt
Marilla Tarr
Pauline Gilpatrick
Myron Douglass
George Sanford
Nathaniel Gilpatrick
Leslie Roberts
James Fields
Cyrus Kendrick, Jr
Kendrick
Reginald Emmons
Anita Ferguson
Dewey Fisher
Fred Duren
Tristan Little
John Thrower
Wilson Chetley
Perley Clark
Marshal
Courtney Hinkley
Adah
Trott
Ruth
Esther
Cosmopolitan Garden Club
Albert W. Whitney
Cosmopolitan Club
Garden Club
Bath Memorial Hospital
Red Cross Fund
Federation of Garden Clubs
John Parker Reltire
Farm & Home Week
Orono
Vivian Brown
Maude McQuaide
Boothbay
Herbert Harris
Alice Johnson
Nellie Goodrich
Club 42 Spring Tea and Style Show Supports Hyde Memorial
Club Forty-Two hosted its tenth annual Spring tea and style show at the Sedgwick Sunday afternoon drawing a large Bath area crowd. Proceeds will go to the Hyde Memorial Rehabilitation hospital. The event featured a T shaped tea table, spring floral arrangements, and a fashion show with Spring Joggery and Easter hats. Pouring were Mrs. Marie I. Preston and several city and nearby residents. Milady's Spring Joggery highlighted the styles, modeled by prominent local women and two young girls modeled children's wear. Mrs. Preston praised Club Forty-Two for aiding Hyde Home and the Crippled Children’s Pine Tree Society through the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Club Forty-Two
Sedgwick
Bath
Hyde Memorial Rehabilitation Hospital
Marie I. Preston
Portland
G. Baer Connard
Sumner Sewall
Rodney E. Ross, Jr
A. M. Main
Lawrence Katz
Dean Shaw
City
Herbert White
Topsham
Milady
Brian M. Jewett
John Sylvester
Catharine Legard
Marie Smart
Shirley Smart
Peggy Hanson
Anne Amirault
Jennifer Cummings
Donna Burkhardt
Preston
Pine Tree Society For Crippled Children
Hyde Home
Formosa talk by Sgt Clyde Bailey at Bath Junior High
Sgt Clyde Bailey of Brunswick recently returned from Formosa spoke to Bath Junior High students, addressing Mrs Berenice Colby’s class and answering many questions. He was joined by Cpl Raymond Scammon USMC and later shared lunch with the teacher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clyde Bailey
USA
Brunswick
Formosa
Bath
Berenice Colby
Sergeant Bailey
Cpl
Raymond Scammon
USMC
David Brown
Bedford Street
Colby
Corporal Scammon
Pie Dough Size for Edge Fluting Technique
Roll dough one inch larger than the inverted pie pan to ensure enough pastry for sealing and flute edge. This method provides a sturdy crust and a clean finished edge for a fine pie.
Georgetown Baptism Plans and Community Notes
Georgetown hosts a Baptist sermon on Peter and a 3:30 p.m. baptism at Elm Street Bath. The Working League meets, birthdays are celebrated for Miss Roslyn Higgins and Cyril Stevens, and several minor accidents and gatherings across Georgetown Center Bath and Five Islands are reported with local residents and visitors.
Local Social Roundup By Bath-Georgetown Center Residents
Portland visitors and family gatherings appear across towns with visits to Danvers Massachusetts Brunswick and Lewiston. Weddings anniversaries and birthdays are celebrated as Beane MacMahon Powers Thayer and Mains families gather across Bath Georgetown Center and West Georgetown.
D A R Annual Conference Held in Portland March 30 31
The Daughters of the American Revolution hold their annual conference at the Eastland in Portland on March 30 and 31 with Miss Alice R Parsons the new State Regent presiding. Delegates from the Colonel Dummer Sewall Chapter of Bath attend including Mrs Frederick Haggett regent and others such as Mrs Norman Howard Mrs Costello P Hall and Mrs Charles M Tubbs. Alternates listed include Mrs Harold Stanton and Miss Alice Varney among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daughters of the American Revolution
Portland
Eastland
Dummer Sewall
Bath
Alice R. Parsons
Frederick Haggett
Norman Howard
Costello P. Hall
Charles M. Tubbs
Harry E. Ring
Leonard Lord
Percy Bailey
Harod Stanton
Merle Niles
Maynard Carlton
Edward W. Bridgham
Alice Varney
Colonel Dummer Sewall
Albee
American Music
Haggett
Beacon Street MYF Plans Easter Breakfast and Bowling
Beacon Street Methodist Youth Fellowship discussed an Easter morning break fast for April 10 at 6 30 and a bowling date set for April 23. Attendees included Rev Oliver W Bell Richard Crabtree Andrew Crocker Walter Hunt and others with a 10 45 a m vestry meeting announced for Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beacon Street Methodist Youth Fellowship
Oliver W. Bell
Richard Crabtree
Andrew Crocker
Walter Hunt
Wesley McPhee
Ted Andrews
June Green
Alan Church
MYF
Ranger Ivan Irwin Wears Football Style Pad For Collarbone
New York Rangers defenseman Ivan Irwin uses a football style shoulder pad in every NHL game to protect a previously injured collarbone that caused seven games out of action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Ivan Irwin
New York Rangers
Marion Reclaims White Sox Number Four Jersey
The Chicago White Sox retiree number four returns as new manager Marty Marion will wear it, a number last worn in 1949 by Luke Appling. The switch honors past club history and marks Marion’s leadership role.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion
Chicago
White Sox
Luke Appling
Marty Marion
Five Islands Community Notes and 4-H Updates
The Five Islands community reports small turnout at the Good Neighbor club meeting due to a storm, with no business held. Islands 4-H welcomed a new member and discussed leadership changes as Mrs. Ray Grover resigns. county 4-H agent Paul Dorr and Lewiston visitors plan to attend. Funeral services for Lester Lewis affected Sunday activities. The piece lists numerous visits, family moves, birthdays, and local engagements across Bath, Phippsburg, Westbrook, and surrounding towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Good Neighbor Club
Charles Kelley
Robert Snow
Ray Grover
Paul Dorr
Lewiston
Richmond
Lester Lewis
Victor Pinkham
A's Plan Area Fan Clubs Across Midwestern Territory
A's general manager Parke Carroll predicts the Athletics will become an area team with fan clubs in every community over 1,000 population, stretching from Columbia Missouri east to the Colorado line, Tulsa Oklahoma south to Mason City Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A's
Kansas City
Athletics
Parke Carroll
Columbia
Colorado Line
Tulsa
Okla
Mason City
Towa
Bay Point notes on world peace and avian report
Bay Point community reflects on world peace and charity as aviation and transport shrink distances. Audubon Society notes few dead birds. states urge rapid submission of carcasses for agricultural examination. Also includes scattered local notices of residents and visitors in Bath and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bay Point
Audubon Society
William Leeman
Woolwich
Sherman Campbell, Jr
Nina Cummings
Bath
Alice Safford
Bay Point Road
George Renaud
Joseph Pond
Boothbay Harbor
Renaud
Birthday Party for Gregory Moore Fourth birthday celebration at home
Gregory Moore son of Mr and Mrs Raymond Moore celebrated his fourth birthday Monday afternoon at 26 Drayton road with friends and mothers in attendance. The party featured play activities baskets of candies balloons horns a prettily iced cake and ice cream. Guests included Donald Back Janice Candage Sandy Lutz Adale Skillings and others with numerous mothers served tea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gregory Moore
Raymond Moore
Drayton Road
Donald Back
Janice Candage
Sandy Lutz
Adale Skillings
Sharon Coombs
John Wright
Gary Orr
Janice
John Smart
Geofrey Harris
Peter Fullerton
Sharon Bailey
Allan Hanna
Michael Footer
Lynn Cyr
John Voorhees
Ernest Back
Charles Candage
Roy Letz
Erwin Skillings
Robert Coombs
Maurice Smart
Ellsworth Wright
Randall Orr
Lawrence Harris
Cecil Fullerton
Clyde Bailey
William Voorhees
James Footer
Ivan Cyr
Two Attorneys Defend Brunswick Driver in Bath Court
In Bath Municipal Court Judge Gardiner R. Deering acquitted Brunswick attorney David Klickstein after his Bath colleague Lynn M. Bussey defended him in a speeding case on Leeman Highway. Klickstein admitted driving 35 mph but was discharged after the hearing. Patrolman Arthur E Tainter filed the complaint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brunswick
Bath
David Klickstein
Washington Street
Leeman Highway
Lynn M. Bussey
Dog reaches Richmond hospital for injured girl unsure how
In Richmond a young patient with a bleeding foot was assisted by white coated staff who carried her into Retreat for the Sick Hospital. A German shepherd named Queenie, belonging to St Gertrude's convent, was treated at a veterinary hospital and later returned to its owner. Sisters wonder how the dog traveled seven blocks to the hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
St Gertrude’s Convent
Queenie
Driver Becomes Superintendent at Meadowlands Farms
Harness driver Harry Harvey quits racing to become superintendent at Del Miller's Meadowlands Farms near here. Harvey helped Miller as a driver while also owning the farm. Miller is a top national driver and Harvey won the 1953 Hambletonian Stake with the filly Helicopter, a $117,000 race.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, Pa
Harry Harvey
del Miller
Meadowlands Farms
Here
Harvey
Miller
Helicopter
Cake cutting art for pan sized 13 by 9 by 2 inches
Instructions describe slicing a cake baked in a 13 by 9 by 2 inch pan. Cut across into 3 inch strips then subdivide into rectangles triangles diamonds and squares for decorative presentation.
Grandma's Pantry Drives State Emergency Food Program
Augusta outlines a statewide Grandma's Pantry drive launching April 4 to build three day emergency food shelves. Green membership cards list food targets for one person, with blue and white Grandma's Pantry buttons awarded on completion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta
Grandma's Pantry
Civil Defense
Kathryn Briwn
University of Maine
Inez G. Wing
Maine Grocers’ Association
Arthur H. Charles
State CD Food Supply Division
Daughters of the American Revolution
Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary
State CC Women's Advisory Council
Grandma’s Pantry
Elizabeth Lawrence Society elects officers at Tuesday meeting
The Elizabeth Lawrence Society Co A R held its monthly meeting at Joyce Ring’s home. Officers elected for the year include senior president Mrs Arthur Wing junior president Anna Lonn vice president Lucy Lee Smith treasurer Ellen Low secretary Susan Bates chaplain Sharon Wing color bearer Marriott Small registrar Joyce Ring. Next meeting April 12. A program featured poems and talks on St Patrick’s day origins with members from D A R nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Lawrence Society, Co. A. R
Joyce Ring
Harry E. Ring
Park Street
Arthur Wing
Anna Lonn
Lucy Lee Smith
Ellen Low
Susan Bates
Sharon Wing
Marriott Small
St. Patrick
Marilla Morse
Ireland
Colonel Dummer _ Sewall
Colonel Dummer Sewall
Church Bells Ring to Mark Start of Cancer Crusade
Bells across Sagadahoc County will ring for three minutes at 1 pm EST on Friday April 1 to launch the Cancer Crusade. A Washington ceremony will invite national pause and pledge to save lives, with about twenty bells from Popham to Bowdoin and Richmond to Bay Point joining the nationwide moment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sagadahoe County
Washington, D. C
Roy Hurry Runs 100 Yard Dash for Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech track athlete Roy Hurry competes in the 100 yard dash on the university team’s track program seeking sprint honors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Hurry
Georgia Tech
Miss Bourgois to represent rural contest at UMaine
Dresden Miss Varity Bourgois of Morse High Bath will represent the Rural Electrification Contest at the University of Maine on April 2. Nancy Bourgois is a daughter of Mr and Mrs Donald Bourgois of Dresden Center. Eleanor Everson of Cedar Grove is named deputy director for Lincoln county Evacuation and Civil War Aid Division, based at the Wiscasset courthouse. Alfred Houdlette and family and Mrs Houdlette's mother Mrs Oliver Getchel of Bath visited West Dresden and Dresden homes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Varity Bourgois
Morse High School
Bath
University of Maine
Nancy
Donald Bourgois
Dresden Center
Eleanor Everson
Cedar Grove
Lincoln County
Miss Everson
Wiscasset Court House
Alfred Houdlette
Audrey
Houdlette
Obituary John C. Herrin of West Bath at 50
John Carleton Herrin 50 of West Bath died Friday at home after a long illness. Born November 1, 1904 in Skowhegan to Jesse G. and Nora E Goodwin Herrin, he lived in Canaan and Bath, worked as a carpenter at Bath Iron Works and later carpentry. He was active in Sons of Union Veterans, Beacon Street Methodist church, and West Bath Grange. Survived by wife May Elizabeth Butterfield Herrin, daughters Mrs. William Dolloff and Mrs. Warren Munsey, son Eugene, sisters Gladys Cates Myrtie Hart Eva Nelson, brothers Kenneth O Hartland Harold Herrin, two grandsons, and many nieces and nephews.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John C. Herrin
John Carleton Herrin
West Bath
Skowhegan
Jesse G
Nora E (Goodwin) Herrin
Canaan
Sons of Union Veterans Camp
Bath
Upper Washington Street
Bath Iron Works
Herrin
Beacon Street Methodist Church
William Dolloff
Warren P. Munsey
Eugene Herrin
Gladys Cates
Myrtie Hart
Eva Nelson
Kenneth O
Hartland
Harold Herrin
Obituary: Lester A. Lewis 75 at Richmond nursing home
Lester A. Lewis, 75, died Thursday morning at Farley nursing home in Richmond after a month as patient there and a prior month at Gardiner General Hospital. Born December 17, 1879 in Georgetown, he was a shipfitter at Bath Iron Works and a former Bath Fire Department member. He moved from Bath to Bowdoinham about 12 years ago and belonged to the Nazarene church of Richmond. He is survived by wife Lilla Gray and sons Fenton I. Moore of Bath, Rupert Lewis of New York, and Lawrence Lewis of Bowdoinham, plus nine grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Funeral was Sunday at Roberts funeral home, Richmond, with Rev. Harland Joyce. interment in Five Islands Cemetery.
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Kenneth la Rose
John Callaway
New Jersey
Jacob Kunz
Washington
Richard Carey
Lil Springs
Eleanor Wilson
Brooklyn
N. Y
Robert Snow
Miss Wilson
Thompson House
Ernest Snow
Freeport
Donald Stevens
Seguinland
Orissa Carr
Paul Thompson
Bloomfield Hills
Mich
Snow
Mr. Hyde
Bath Memorial Hospital
William Sherman
Randolph
Helen Huskins
Ray Grover
Tina Hogan
Barbara Cooper
Bath
Henry Moore
Kenneth, Jr
Wayne la Rose
Vernon Gray
Margery Pierce
Christina Harford
David Pierce
Frances Barter
Charles Kelley
Presque Isle
William Marr
Georgetown Central School
Lester A. Lewis
Farley
Richmond
Gardiner General Hospital
Georgetown
Chauncey and
Angeline (Stevens) Lewis
Bath Iron Works
Bath Fire Department
Harland Joyce
Five Islands
Mrs Annie M Chase obituary in Augusta and Chelsea ties
Mrs Annie Mac Chase 69 longtime Chelsea native moved to Augusta 15 years ago died Tuesday at Gardiner General Hospital where she had been a patient. Born March 15 1886 she was daughter of Edward and Florence Robbins survived by son Ernest S Chase Mercer daughter Mrs Harold D Cooper Augusta 11 grandchildren three great grandchildren Funeral services Thursday at 2 PM from 15 Flagg Street Augusta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annie Mac Chase
Frank B. Nichols
North Street
Gardiner General Hospital
Chelsea
Edward
Florence (Durgin) Robbins
Chase
Augusta
Ernest S. Chase
Mercer
Harold D
Bath Fans Attend Lewiston Ice Revue at St Dom's Arena
Bath skating fans join Lewiston Auburn Figure Skating club for the second annual ice revue at St Dom's arena Lewiston Thursday at 8 p m. The show features Bob Pickette of Montreal and nearly 100 additional performers in a regional skating event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Lewiston Auburn
St Dom’s Arena
Lewiston
Goddard's
Bob Pickette
Montreal
Eastern Dog Club Show Highlight Returns to Boston
The 42nd annual Eastern Dog Club Show is set for Mechanics Building in Boston on February 22 and 23 with dogs entered for judging and showcasing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mechanics Building
Boston
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Elizabeth Palmer
Old Ferry Road
Nellie Cobb
Oscar Douglass
Emily Chase
Ellen
Bessie Douglass
Lewis Baker
MassacRusetts
Mr. Lewis
Erland Curtis and Son
George Withee
Velma Withee
South Front Street
Kent's Hill School
George
Club 42
Sgt
Peter
First Baptist Church
Warren Harris
Mr. Harris
Roslyn Higgins
Raphael Higgins
Cyril Stevens
Franz Stevens
Center
Stanley Kosalka
Linda Gordon
Washington Heat
Jason Schoener
Oakland
Calif
Hagan
Eugene Reynolds
Eric
Irving Hanna
Alan
Dennis Moore
Denise
Dennis
Andy MacGillivary
Islands
Ralph Reynolds
Michael
Alvah C. Reynolds
Georgetown Road
Georgetown Parish
Victor Hagan
Yonkers Construction Company
Port Chester
Wyckoff
N. J
Ronald Atwood
Joan Hagan
Colby College Glee Club
Waterville
Longwood Towers
Brookline
Mass
Coast Guard Academy
New London
New School
W. Clinton Allen
Rye
Robinhood
MacMahan
Lee
Lee Cottage
Parviz Chahbazi
Mary Anne
Slatenville Springs
Chahbazi
Cornell University
Chahbazis
Roland Peterson
Perley Keith
Danvers Mass
Inian Poinummer
Sagadahoc Bay
Indian Point Road
Gerald York
Peterson
Carroll Powers
Yorks
Framingham
Charles MacMahan
Walter Beane
George Powers
Powers
Beane
Edwin Pinson
Edgecomb
L. Earle Hagan
Walter Cunningham Jr
Walter Cunningham
Georgetown Center
Diane Field
Donald E. Field
Millie Hinckley
Daisy Mains
Rodney Lewis
Lewis
Orra Mains
George de Wolfe
North Bath
Alan Bean
Addie Loveitt
David Kaler
Richard Harrison
Eva Kakalis
Althea Heffron
Pownal
Cleon Mains
Pearl Harford
D.A.R
Bath Court
C.D
Start Cancer Crusade
Shumway Funeral Service
Dresden
Annie M. Chase
M. H. Page
North St
Dial
Kennebec Greenhouses
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