Pine Cone Lodge votes for May food sale funds flag purchase
Wiscasset Pine Cone Rebekah lodge met Friday voting a May 20 2 p m food sale at Lanes Main's Sandwich Shop to fund a flag. Five members attended and Mrs Franarnes was appointed.
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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1950
Page
10
Wiscasset Pine Cone Rebekah lodge met Friday voting a May 20 2 p m food sale at Lanes Main's Sandwich Shop to fund a flag. Five members attended and Mrs Franarnes was appointed.
Archie Ray Heale aged 43 was taken into custody by a U S marshal after being held by Bath police on an improper motor registration charge. Heale faces a federal narcotics indictment in Burlington Vermont and was returned there with his wife released by federal authorities.
West Bath members met at the Lowell school house and made surgical dressings. Harvesters 4-H club entries earned ribbons at Auburn county style revue with Waneta Estes winning county championship. Local visits include Bath students, bear sighting cautions, and several residents visiting relatives or recovering from illness.
Cleveland P. Curtis of Bowdoinham toured Bath on Tuesday as part of his campaign for the Republican nomination for State senator representing Sagadahoc county.
Mrs. Annie Malcolm and Mrs. Myra Pennell visited Freeport Monday. Mrs. David Dickson hosted a contract club on Washing ton Street. Amy Canales returned home to South Portland after a weekend with George and Mrs. Clough of Woolwich. June Gill left Gorham State Teachers College after a vacation with her parents at 2 Bailey Street. Fanny Clements, Albert Desmond, Priscilla Perkins, Frederick Brown, Oscar Marsh, and George A. Gallant joined Theta Chapter Beta Sigma Phi in a Ritual of Jewels ceremony at Mrs. Marsh’s Corliss Street home with Xi Beta Chapter guests and a buffet.
Sherry Robinson an 11 year old sixth grader at Huse Memorial school will represent Bath in Sagadahoc county finals of a state wide spelling bee conducted by a Portland newspaper. She defeated her sister Shirley 13 last year s city champion to win the Bath berth. The county finals set for Tuesday May 9 at Huse Memorial school will be judged by Mrs Louis A. Dole Principal Raymond W Farnham Morse High school Mrs John Parker and Rev Laforest E Hodgkins.
A school gym banquet honored the Huse squad and cheerleaders with Moody Flint and Alfred A. Parks Jr. as special guests. A 6 30 home supper followed by talks. Letters awarded to players and cheers, a gift to Coach Parks, and flowers sent to ill cheerleader Joan St Pierre.
Mrs. Lottie York state grange lecturer was guest speaker at the Sagadahoc Pomona all day session at Dromore grange. She urged grange cooperation. A host dinner followed with beans salads cold meats hot rolls pie and coffee. Readings music and stunts filled the program. Mrs Esther Andrews of West Bath grange was pianist. West Bath grange won this month’s Pomona attendance trophy cup with a total of 23.
Woolwich P T A and Woolwich mothers clubs plan a May 5 dance at Tuessie hall to raise funds for sending a Woolwich Scout delegate to the National Boy Scout Jam boree in Valley Forge PA. Winnell's orchestra will provide music and lighting will transform the hall into a ballroom. A neighborhood ticket canvass is underway with hopes for strong advance sales.
Mrs. Marie I Preston of Washington street returns home after visiting her son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs Dudley Fay in Baltimore Md. Ambrose M Curran and spouse dined with Mr and Mrs Miles B Hagan at the Hagan Summer home in Georgetown. Miss Sharon Holbrook daughter of Mr and Mrs Gordon Holbrook celebrated her ninth birthday with a party at home. Mrs Muriel Preble attended a Lincoln county Farm Bureau tea linked to National Home Demonstration Week at Damarscotta Maytag store. Alice Baker of Montsweag received an award during the event.
Woolwich First Congregational and Montsweag Center churches publish a series of weekly activities and services. Junior and Senior Christian Endeavor meetings, Sunday school, and a joint Montsweag worship with a guest speaker from Saco are listed, along with a May 13 Riverside Cemetery Association meeting and Memorial Day plans.
Miss Margaret Troop returns home to 962 Middle Street after visiting her parents in Camden. Roy G. Stewart, proprietor of Stewart's Philcp Bates, and a Republican state senate candidate from Sagadahoc county, visits Augusta for business. Mrs. Edward Smith and sister visit son-in-law and daughter Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Woodbury in Lunenburg Massachusetts. Mrs. Woodbury known as former Morse High School Home Economics teacher Janette Smith.
A committee from the Republican County committee and Saga dahoc Women’s Republican club met in City hall to plan Speakers’ Nights inviting Republican candidates to attend and speak. Four towns have expressed interest with Bowdoinham hosting May 10, Woolwich May 17, Topsham May 24, Bath June 14, and other towns possible until June 24. A keynote speaker from outside the county is planned with district and state candidates invited to speak at events.
Morse High School students presented the one act play Gray Bread directed by David Wetherell at Brunswick High School with cast members Patty Barrows Carolyn Rice Yoland Sue Watt Motka Anita Deering. Novelty numbers accompanied the program including Elaine Rackley Nancy Wilmer singing Frankie and Johnnie Warren Raynes Old Man River Jackie Snipe Linda Lovely and Dearie.
Postmaster general curtails regular directory mail and shortens window hours in Bath. From May 1, window service runs 8 a.m. to 5 30 p.m. Monday through Saturday, with money orders 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closing at noon on Saturdays. Experts will sort nonperishable mail. City surveys push toward route consolidation and halving residential delivery per House Appropriations Committee guidance.
Miss Betty Comeau of the Old Bath Brunswick road passed Sunday with friends in Portland. The Ran man family of 12 Valley road will move to their Summer home at Seguinland Georgetown this weekend. Mrs Elsie Small 19 Tallman street employed at Shepards is a patient under treatment at Memorial hospital.
Misses H L and C E Sheldon return from Massachusetts with family friends. Mr and Mrs Fred Weeks come back to Cedar Grove after wintering in Mass. Hardworking locals visit grandchildren in Richmond Corner. The annual prize speaking crowned John Weldon first Kay Lavallee second Priscilla Allen third. B A Day on May 9 invites nearby towns. A Masonic Hall minstrel show in Dresden Mills featured six Richmond Legionaires.
Carol S Hagerthy a seventh grader at Mitchell school in Topsham found a billfold containing checks totaling 174 56 dollars on Washington street and turned it in with Principal Manley Grant. Edwin L Rogers owner of Rogers Fuel Co awarded her 10 dollars as a reward at school. Carol is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Albert Hagerthy.
The Maine coast area near the park promises expansion as Mr. Reid plans to donate marsh land on the west side of the current park. A deed already transfers a small plot with a stone building to the State. The Park Commission aims to preserve the building and possibly establish a museum there, extending park boundaries to Little River.
Parker Head P T A met at the vestry Thursday evening electing Mrs Earl Hamel president and Mrs Eugene Roges co president with Mrs Charles Blaisdell as treasurer and Mrs W H Wyman secretary The Sunday School will join the Mother s Day service at Phippsburg Center Congregational church May 14 at 230 p m Transportation will be provided From Parker Head church The past week included visits from Mrs Mertie Shepard of Brunswick and Mrs Frieda Cloutier and Mrs John Warner to Mrs L F Lowell Other social visits and family travel are noted including service members and residents returning from work assignments in New Haven Portland New London and Key West plus local social visits and a burn recovery of Dudley Barkalow.
At West Bath grange Monday 29 candidates received first and second degrees under Gladys Deehan. Officers named include Geraldine Driscoll master and Peter Pinson treasurer with a mixed-voices choir and tableaux by Martha Crocker and others. A drill featured edmund Parady and others. Members urged to attend Lewiston grange school of instruction Wednesday at 7 30. Third and fourth degrees set for next Monday.
Mrs Clinton A Flemming of 17 Andrews road entertained members of the Women's Auxiliary of the Gideon Association Monday evening. May baskets were made for children at Memorial hospital and refreshments were served.
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