Wiscasset Club Notes and Local Events Highlight Spring
Wiscasset scenes include the Garrison Hill O E 8 meeting at Masonic hall with degree work and a birthday cake for Helen Haggett. The Woman's Club luncheon at Quinnam's Tavern drew 39, with officers elected and Carroll T Berry presenting vocational training insights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garrison Hill
O. E
Masonic Hall
Helen R. Haggett
Edgecomb
Wiscassett Woman's Club
Quinnam's Tavern
Middle Street
Nellie Munsey
Sarah Keirstead
Grace A. Cowley
Maude Clarke Gay
Waldoboro
Federation of Women's Clubs
Boothbay Harbor
Laura Evans
Lois Frye
Helen Haggett
Alice Taylor
Priscilla Campbell
Bernice Blagdon
Minnie Bemis
Gay
Munsey
Carroll T. Berry
Maine Craft Guild
Berry
Maude Clark Gay
Ethel Redennett
Ruth Jones
Grace Mitchell
Mary Hobson
Miss Bird
Lilia Dusseault
Helen Day
Edna Southard
Dorothy Fischer
Kate Sewall
Nellie Dowling
Mary Rich
Marion Ingalls
Harriet Jackson
Carrie McKenney
Ethel Bailey
West Bath social round extends through weekend visits
Fred Williams and family gathered at Cape Elizabeth cottage preparations for occupancy. Numerous visitors from Long Island to Augusta spread across towns, visiting relatives and friends in Bath South Paris Topsham and Lisbon Falls. Guests include the Dobbins and Rose families with relatives in Boston and New York City. multiple visits documented through Sunday and Tuesday engagements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Williams
Fred, Jr
James
David
Cape Elizabeth
Lincoln Williams
Dorothy Waterman
Augusta
Forrest Hills
Catherine Gayne
Maine
Gayne
Washington, D. C
Waterman
Boston
Nellie Whitmer
Elmhurst
Long Island
N. Y
Chester G. King
Fred J. Rose
Harvey C. Dobbins
Indiana
Richard H. Dobbins
U. S
Helena
New York City
Rose
Robert C. van Arminge
Rufus W. Lombard
Samuel Blackwood
Blackwood
Bethel
Annie H. Trufant
George R. Booker
Charles Wright
South
Paris
J. E. Mayo
Elmer D. Hodgkins
Bath
Helen Rogers
Longmeadow
Mass
Llewellyn D. Rogers
I. B. Neiley
Florence
A. B. Snow
Albert Merriman
Harpswell
James Brawn
Peggy
James, Jr
Eugene Brawn
Cooper's Mills
Walter W. Larrabee
Walter
Joseph
Topsham
F. W. Larrabee
Roger Pariseau
Cooper
Larrabee’s Grove
James B. Lemont
Massachusetts
George Furbish
Sarah
Melford N. Perham
Janice
Lisbon Falls
Edward Mank
Irvin Lewis
Wiscassei
Ernest E. Rose
John Kenney
Lynn
Augusta Friends and Weekend Travels Across Maine
Augusta residents and visitors filled weekend schedules with social calls. Miss Gunda Danielson, recovering from a January hip fracture at Bath Memorial Hospital, returned to Mrs. Martha Tarbox’s home. Herman and Mrs. Sherer visited Lawrence, Massachusetts, to see his mother. The Blagdons and their son Jay Libby spent time with Mr. and Mrs. Webber in Thomaston. Bob McLaren traveled to Wiscasset briefly. Lewiston’s Mrs. Archie Webber visited the Ingalls home, and Merle Day spent Tuesday in Brunswick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta
Gunda Danielson
Martha Tarbox
Bath Memorial Hospital
Tarbox
Herman Sherer
Lawrence
Mass
Sherer
Patrick Condon
John L. Blagdon
Jay Libby
Blagdon
Benjamin F. Webber
Thomaston
Bob McLaren
Wiscasset
Archie Webber
Lewiston
Edmund Ingalls
Merle Day
Brunswick
Arthur Delano
Clarence Kneeland
Popham
Merline Thompson
Ralph Spinney
Timothy Perow
Sylvia Warren
Maurice Burns
Islands
LeRoy Moore
Edward
Sumner Hawley
Kenneth Vennett
Bath
Everett Stevens
H. A. Spinney
Allen Little
Plea and bond set in Bath Iron Works larceny case
Edwin Johansen and Werner Fields, both 18, pleaded not guilty in municipal court to larceny of junk metal from Bath Iron Works. Judge Deering continued the case to Monday at 10 a.m. with $190 bail each. Earlier, two 16-year-olds admitted theft of lead insulation from cables. one sent to reform school. A 12-year-old pleaded guilty to bicycle larceny and a warrant was placed on file. A Litchfield brush fire burned 400 acres, threatening Parker wood lot before eight o'clock Sunday night. Fifty firefighters plus a Richmond unit fought the blaze. Miss Helen Babine returned home after a week in Chelsea and East Braintree, Mass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin Johansen
Pleasant Avenue
Werner Fields
Upper
Washington Street
Bath Iron Works Corp
Gardiner R. Deering
Mr. Daley
Litchfield
Richmond
Parker Wood
Polly Farm
Little Chapel Moved To New Site In Bay View Park
Willard A. Oliver of Bath moved the Chapel of Our Saviour from Brunswick road to his Bay View Park property on Alternate Route 1. The historic structure, 54 years old, is being renovated with a steel ceiling beaver board walls and a new miniature steeple. Once owned by five heirs, it will now host services for groups seeking to use the site, with Rev. Charles H. Berry already arranging summer services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willard A. Oliver
Goddard Street
Bath
Brunswick Road
Bay View Park
Christian Union Society
Mr. Oliver
Harry E. Peterson
John H. Perkins
George Watson
Austin Hopkins
Arthur Groves
Oliver
Charles H. Berry
Emmanuel Bible Assembly
The
Baptist Church
Anna Pierce
Hartford, Conn
Carlton
Sagadahoc Perry
Leon Kelly
Brunswick
Lorraine Price
Good Will Club
Mabel Jack
Loring T. Maybury
Nelson Rice
Harry A. Walters
Edward Crocker
John Moore
Carl Longfellow
Winthrop
Samuel Buck
Charles Chase
Rockland
Mass
Wilbur Howe
Esmond
R. L
Elwood
Portsmouth
N. H
Chester
Albert Temple
Bowdoinham
Chester Howe
Constance Eloise
Sarah Bagley Wright
Florida
Carrie Hathorne
Waterville
Isaphene Dolloff
Boston
Clara Hathorne
New Bedford
Marcia Stinson
Woodfords
Day's Ferry
Harlan Trott
Moatsweag
Irving Baker
Stamford
Elster Dolloff
Woolwich Center
Loring Maybury
Portland
Day’s Ferry
Fred Brown
Lynn
I. B. Howard
Marcia M. Stin
Ecient
Cosmopolitan Club
Travel Club
Day's Perry
Charlotte Buck
Cleveland Buck
West Bath Grange Mother's Day Plans
Members of West Bath grange held a regular meeting with a What's My Name contest. Next week's program will observe Mother's Day and attendees were asked to bring questions for the question box. Refreshments followed the meeting with 57 present, including ten visitors, as program items included songs, a reading, a short sketch, and an auto-yardstick race.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath Grange
Papa
Alice Darrah
Bertha Ward
Charles Genthner
Eddie Jenks
Penny March
E. C. Haggett
Russell Kenney
Bath Marine Band Concert and Dance headlines evening
The Bath Marine Band hosted a nine minute concert at Masonic Temple Tuesday, followed by dancing, netting about 50 dollars for uniforms and equipment. Nearly 200 attendees enjoyed marches and saxophone numbers led by Ernest W. George Jr, with an after‑concert dance till 11 30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Marine Band
Masonic Temple
Arthurs. Crockett
Percy Leeman
Harvey Hartley
Cecil Rowland
Melvin Robbins
Harold Peterson
Ernest Harting
Woolwich notes and plans across town life
Woolwich and Sagadahoc Perry updates cover church bid sessions and social events. Residents welcomed back winter visitors while homes on River road near the old bridge advance foundation work and future occupancy details.
Scallops Dredged In Northwest Harbor Yard Tale
Norman Pressey, living at Northwest Harbor, could routinely harvest a quart to three quarts of scallops from his back yard using a clamhoe on the end of a flounder spearpole, a remarkable seasonal niche noted as the season closed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norman Pressey
Northwest Harbor
Memorable Dates In Etnier Life And Flight Plans
Memoir notes recall Ethier seeking birth in Brunswick and recounts wife’s earlier birth at Gilbert Head. The piece reports Mr Ethier, one of six students to earn a pilot’s license in Portland, after training at Portland Flying Service School. He plans to fly to the West Indies in winter and may sell his sloop Hersilia to focus on flying as a hobby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brunswick
Wilson
Gilbert Head
Ethier
Stephanie
Portland
Royce Kunze
New England
CAA
Peete Ta
Hersilia
West Indies
Einier
Funeral services for George A Tinney
The funeral of George A Tinney, popular high school pupil killed in a Woolwich automobile crash, was held Wednesday at Curtis funeral home. Faculty and student leaders attended, Rev. Moffatt and Rev. Oliver officiated, honorary pallbearers included class presidents, active bearers were six friends. Burial followed at Oak Grove.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George A. Tinney
Woolwich
Curtis Funeral Home
Washington Street
Horace P. Herrick
David Y. Alkazin
J. Edward Pomeroy
Frederick P. Moffatt
Corliss Street
Chester B. Oliver
Wesley Church
Clare Palton
Kenneth Vennett
Robert Huse
Frank Dingley
Earl Tee
Raymond Lozier
Master Tinney
Frank Curran
William Fisher
Gordon Lake
Kenneth Jaquith
Clement Robichaud
Marshall Santos
Portland
Oak Grove
Bridge receipts show April decline in 1940
Cash receipts from the bridge in April totaled 798380 dollars, down 2968.40 from April 1939, marking the first drop this year. For the first four months, receipts total 23739.55 dollars, up 951.20 from the previous year, with 1940 showing improvement January through April.
Tardif Named Rotary Head in Republican Gubernatorial Race
Tardif outlines industrial and agricultural plans to elevate state communities and reduce unemployment, claiming a priceless youth heritage. Rotary aims to have the remaining GOP candidates address members before primaries. Lions club attendees and guests included local officials, with music by three high school performers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rotary Club
Lions Club
John N. Taylor
James B. Lemont
Arthur M. Bowker
Charles FP. Rush
Walter K. Morse
Albert 8. Noyes
William M. Adams
Archibald M. Main
Arthur L. Pratt
George D. Emero
Roland D. McIntosh
Edward D-Pree
Bowen Torrey
Hon. N. Gratz Jackson
Orville E. Page
Frank A. Vennett
Geraldine Nickerson
Ruth Cogan
Alice Dennison
Miss Nicker
Bay Point Community News and Weekend Visitors
Bay Point residents report neighbors reuniting after 32 years while a guard rowed them back to shore. Local sewing circle members craft slips. Next meeting set for 10 am Tuesday. Students resume final term after a week off. churchgoing visitors from Bath and Georgetown attend services. Several Bay Point visitors and locals are noted plus minor illnesses and trips.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bay Point
Priday
Corliss Street
Georgetown
LéRoy Moore
Clyde Pinkham
Audrey
Clarence Kneeland
Charles
Gwendolyn
Barbara
Woolwich Grange Holds Program Contest Night
Woolwich grange met with 60 members and visitors as the final program contest proceeded. Men won the four week event with 1260 points to 1170 for the women. A supper and dance followed with a four piece orchestra providing music.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woolwich Grange
Grange
John Jackson
Huntoon Hill Grange
Wiscasset
Humason
Sheepscot Valley Grange
Woolwich Wiscasset Church Sees Elections At Meeting
At the Woolwich-Wiscasset church annual meeting in the Montsweag parsonage Marion Berry was elected clerk and Mary Hunnewell treasurer. A pulpit committee and business committees were named, several members elected to missionary and other roles, reports were approved, and plans for a mother and daughter banquet on Mother's Day were discussed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion Berry
Mary Hunnewell
Woolwich-Wiscasset
Montsweag
Alton Berry
J. G. Bailey
Richard Hunnewell
Samuel Soule
Ella Shaw
Fred Soule
Harold Bailey
Gertrude Gowdey
Florence Hathorne
Fernald Bailey
Anna Soule
Film of Armstrong Henry welterweight title fight screens in Maine
Opera House manager announces May 7 and 8 showings of moving pictures from the Paul Junior Henry Armstrong bout at Boston Garden. Lewiston boxer lost in a seventh round technical knockout to the world champion. film to be shown in full to Maine audiences who missed the live event. Miss Margery C. Haskell spent the weekend with Miss Alma Allen in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank A. Vennett
The
Opera House
Paul
Henry Armstrong
Boston Garden
Boston
Sports
Lewiston
Vennett
Maine
Bath
Also Mentioned on This Page
Woman's Club
Lawrence B. Haggett
Charles Lee
Harvey Pe
Harry E. Rines
Bradford C. Redennett
Marco Club
Blanche Fowles
Vinnie Quinnam
Olive Dow
Reading
Your Grange
Doris Foye
Mildred Morris
Gertrude Munsey
Mothers of Men
Game
Elaine Dow
Alberta Boudin
Fred Allen
June Wade
Huntoon Hill
Athletic Club
Dan Clifford
Shaere
Carl M. P. Larrabee
Court House
Church of Our Saviour
Club Galagang
Louise Adams
Olive Austin
Barbara Dow
Celia Rines
Alberta Sherman
Maine Federation of Women's Clubs
Congregational Church
Mary
Monday Club
Maine Federation of Women’s Clubs
Ruth Ellingwood
Educational Fund
Priscillas
Nina Murray
Katherine Lewis
K. Weston Farnham
Emmonds
Warren
Elizabeth F. Reed
Federation of Women’s Clubs
Julia T. Reed
Bertha Carlisle
Charles P. Blinn
Waterman Chapel
Commonwealth Avenue
Mt. Hope Cemetery
Mr. Blinn
McPhail Manufacturing Co
East Milton
Charles Payson Blinn, Jr
Philadelphia
Estella Bailey
Jesse F. Bailey
Water Street
Greenlaw Cemetery
Bailey
Pittston
Ernest Bailey
Gertrude Stilphen
Anna
George G. Chiera
Gardiner Road
Charles Quinnam
Oscar Bailey
Sherman
New Town
Charles Barnes
Somerset
Ford
Hamilton
Haggett
al Gorham
Gorham
Kathryn Perkins
Kate Perkins
Federal Street
Fred Cormier
Robert
Union Street
Belfast
Carl Main
Frank Adams
Lester Conley
Andover
Arthur Frost
Mechanic Falls
Ray Cheney
Eilene Leighton
John
East Pittston
Leighton
Thomas Yarborough
Donald Dodge
Miles
James L. Dodge
Birch Point
Ralph Brewer
Colby College
Colby
Bowdoin
Margie Monro
Merchants Mutual Casualty Co
Augusta House
George Studley
Wilband
Summer Street
Fessenden Chase
Colby-Bowdoin
A. F. Sort
Beverley Farms
Westport
Walter Adams
West Southport
W. Seaver Warland
Cambridge
Charles Sigison
Catherine Pinkham
New York
Metcalf
Brown Place
Everett Jackson
Aina Road
Knight
Parker B. Stinson
West Bath
Harold J. Rubin
Robert W. Laley
Helen Babine
Chelsea
East Braintree
Little Chapel
Bath- Brunswick Road
Lewiston High School
School Alumni Association
Poland Spring House
Armory
E. L. Grant
Hermon
Riverside Drive
William S. Hodge
Stuart and Williams, Inc
Highland Avenue
Pettengill’s
Unity Arts and Crafts Club
Bangor House
Izora Knight
Bangor
Julia Parnell
Georgia Grant
Frances Taylor
Agnes Adams
Fell Ow Nee
Etnier
Wwe
Engers
Eeessionee
Tardif
Rotary Head
Margery C. Haskell
Alma Allen
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