Wiscasset Glee Club shines at Waterville festival
The Wiscasset grammar school Girls' Glee club under Katherine Lewis with pianist Frederick Pendleton performed at the State Music Festival in Waterville on May 11. A large group of students traveled by car led by Winona Leavitt and others, while Hunton Hill Grange showcased a full program including musical numbers and skits. Nearby events include Woolwich Grange degree work, Union meeting in Waldoboro, and Memorial services planned for May 26.
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Grammar School
Katherine Lewis
Frederick Pendleton
Waterville
Winona Leavitt
Helena Hodgdon
Viola Grover
James Knight, Jr
Richmond White
Dorothy Thompson
Jean Hutchins
Margery Grover
Dorothea Morris
Lorcan Hodgdon
Elaine Monte
Carlene Shea
Clara Dow
Marilyn Petrie
Valeria Bean
Thalia Bailey
Kay Dow
Helen Petrie
Barbara Merry
Aurolyn Rines
Margery Holbrook
Marilyn Bailey
Wilberta Nichols
Billie Ingram
Geneva Sherman
Frances Callahan
Mary Lou Soule
West Bath pupils to receive health certificates and pins
Six Lowell school pupils Conrad Larrabee Marilyn Booker Mary Deehan Allen McAllister Dorothy Bubier and Billy Deehan will receive Seven Point Health certificates and pins from the State Department of Health and Welfare for qualifying in teeth sight hearing birth registration posture growth and threat Androscoggin Valley Breeding Association met Tuesday evening in West Bath grange hall West Bath Red Cross will meet next Tuesday in the grange hall Personal Items Mrs Harriet Johnson Ramsdell Lewiston was a Monday guest of Mrs J E Mayo etc.
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Lowell School
State Department of Health and Welfare
Conrad Larrabee
Marilyn Booker
Mary Deehan
Allen McAllister
Dorothy Bubier
Billy Deehan
Androscoggin Valley Breeding Association
West Bath Grange Hall
West Bath Red Cross
Grange Hall
Harriet Johnson Ramsdell
Lewiston
J. E. Mayo
James Brann
Eugene Brann
Cooper's Mills
E. W. Haggett
James Kaler
David
James G. Jenkins
Bath
Kaler
Portland
F. W. Larrabee
Samuel Cole
Percy Marriner
Topsham
Odie M. Rich
Harry J. Rich
Loring D. Small
Harry Williams
Marion Williams
New Meadows
James B. Lemont
Memorial Hospital
Sophia Gatchell
Ambrose Curran
Joseph A. Avery
Myrna M. Avery
Ceneral Maine General Hospital
Gilbert Heath
Ernest Rose
Warren Kenney
Warren, Jr
Woolwich
Larrabee’s Grove
Kenney
Bath Iron Works
Estelle Strait
Anne Boland
Biddeford
Northeastern University
Lincoln Williams
Battle Royal wrestling match refereed by Jack Dempsey
Mr and Mrs Bernard McFadden and daughter of Bangor visited Sunday to see Mrs McFadden sister Mrs Merle Day and Mr Day Harold E Chase of Dover-Foxcroft came to town Saturday on the death of his father Eben Chase formerly of Edgecomb
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Jack Dempsey
Bernard McFadden
Bangor
Lincoln County Superior Court Opens New Term With Docket
Lincoln County Superior Court opened with Justice Raymond Fellows presiding. Grand Jury reported while Traverse Jury to report Thursday. Fifty four new matters entered. new divorce libels list fourteen cases including Graffam, Stevens, Morton, Williams, Alley, Monaco, Burk, Stevenson, Tripp, McAbee, Steele, Cloutier. court officials present include C A Richards clerk J Blenn Perkins Jr county attorney Ralph W Miller sheriff Fred L Wilson stenographer and Rev Henry W Webb chaplain.
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Lincoln County
Raymond Fellows
C. A. Richards
Damariscotta
J. Blenn Perkins, Jr
Boothbay Harbor
Ralph W. Miller
Waldoboro
Fred L. Wilson
Portland
Henry W. Webb
Wiscasset
Traverse
George S. Graffam
Ruth Eloise Graffam
Marian R. Stevens
Arthur M. Stevens
Winifred L. Morton
Howard S. Morton
Jennie E. Williams
Gardner T. Williams
Evelyn
Cook Arrested At Point Of Gun In Bath
A man named Cook was arrested at a gas filling station in Bath after a gun was wrested from him during a confrontation. He claimed to have spent funds on taxi fares and clothes in Portland before retracing toward Bath in a bid to dodge pursuit. Police noted a .32 caliber revolver with three cartridges in the chamber. He faces hearing with local counsel and officials present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cook
Portland
Damariscotta
Bath
Higgins
Boston
Eastport
Iron Works
Crosby
John P. Carey, Jr
Sher
Bath Men Missing From Their Homes
Two Bath men are reported missing after last seen moments before incidents near the Bath Iron Works and Maine Central wharf. Emil J Anderson, 55, of 7 Franklin Street, believed drowned after hat and line were found near the wharf. John J Preney, 20, of 28 Dummer Street, last seen aboard the destroyer Gleaves en route to drydock in East Boston, with subsequent sightings at the plant. Anderson, Swedish-born, left with five children and a wife, Lillian, while Preney, a tracer, may have been aboard the ship when it cleared the wharf.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
John J. Preney
Dummer Street
Bath Tron Works Corp
Emil J. Anderson
Franklin Street
Anderson
Maine Central
Preney
USS
Gleaves
Iron Works
Boston
Mass
Boston Police Bureau of Missing Persons
Joseph A. Butler
Prency
Emil
Thomas Bowser
Oscarshamn
Sweden
Lillian
Earl Blake
Harold
Dorothy
Arthur
Walter
Kennebec
Bath Rotarians Attend Conference at Augusta
Four hundred Rotarians and their wives attended the 193rd district Rotary International Spring Conference in Augusta. Events included receptions at the Augusta House and Blaine Mansion, a buffet supper, a Bowdoin Choir musicale, and a talk by Fulton Lewis. Bath participants included President Elect Dominique J. Tardif and others. Mon. sessions in the House of Representatives room elected officers, with events at Cony High and a banquet and ball at a local high school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
193Rd
Rotary International
Augusta
Augusta House
Augusta Country Club
Quebec
Chateau Frontenac
Montreal
Bowdoin
Fulton Lewis
Washington
Bath Directory 1949 Shows Population Growth and Expanded Listings
The 1949 Bath Directory enlarges by 50 pages reflecting population growth with 11 extra pages for Bath alone. It offers a complete street and dwelling list plus city and county officers institutions associations and lodges. Includes directories for Arrowsic Georgetown Phippsburg West Bath and Woolwich. Crowley Lunt publish as in prior years. Pros W S Newell of the Iron Works traveled to Boston to monitor the destroyer Gleaves in drydock and MIT Trustees meeting. returns Wednesday. Mrs Thomas B Gibbons Mrs Harry G Deering and Mrs William M Adams went on a brief motor trip to Boston, returning Tuesday night.
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Bath
Arrowsie
Georgetown
Phippsburg
West Bath
Woolwich
Crowley & Lunt
W. S. Newell
The
Iron Works
Boston
Gleaves
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thomas 8. Gibbons
Harry G. Deering
William M. Adams
Community Notes From Woolwich Solidarity and Social Roundup
Woolwich Saturday evening the Day's Ferry Community club hosted a surprise party for Mr and Mrs Howard Whittum who moved into their new home on the State highway with about 40 guests enjoying cards games and gifts. Teachers club plans a Monday meeting at No 1 school with Mrs Florence Temple and Mrs Jennie Howe as hostesses. The Council for Religious Work held a semi annual meeting at Nequasset Congregational church with Rev Roundy speaker on welfare work. Baptist Ladies aid met in daylong session planning a baked bean and salad supper May 24. Good Will club's weekly party featured bridge and whist scores and plans a public supper May 18. Numerous locals and visitors are noted in social rounds including members of the Cromwell Hathorn Reed and Barker families with visits to Bath Dresden Sagadahoc Ferry Small Point and Portland. A birth is noted May 4 at Memorial Hospital.
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Woolwich Grange
John Sutter
George Wilson
Bath
Josephine Johnson
Lorenzo Masse
Dirigo Grange
Dromore Grange
Huntoon Grange
Legion Hall
Charles E. Fortin
Lewiston
Unemployment Compensation Commission
Augusta
Marco Club
First Congregational Church
George E. Millard
Jane E. Hutchins
Edgecomb
Henry W. Webb
Union Cemetery
Hutchins
Madison
Wis
Chancellor C. Blagdon
Sewall B. Strout
Malden
Mass
Freeman Trott
John L. Blagdon
Wis- Cassel
Virginia
Elizabeth ‘Trott
Jay Libby Blagdon
St. Philip's
William S. Warland
Elsworth
W. Halbrok
Charles S Sewall
Charls E. Cowley
Whch
Woman's Club
Carolyn Varney
Laura Evans
Nellie Munsey
Ruth Jones
Zina Davis
Wesley Hyde
Boothbay Harbor
Gertrude DiPerri
Madeline Reed
Emmelyn Weeks
Mary Hobson
Kate Sewall
Alice Taylor
Grace Pease
Elsie Gardiner
Helen Haggett
Cora Groves
Clara Wright
Grace Cowley
Joe Neal
Lois Frye
Edna Southard
Hattie Mosher
Joseph Kennedy
Angie Rines
Louise Adams
Williston Church
Club Galagang
Charles J. DiPerri
Washington Street
Charles Lee
Stanton Sherman
Barbara Dow
Earl Dana Rines, Jr
Albert F. Austin, Jr
DiPerri
Wiscasset Academy
Congregational Church
W. F. Merrill
Wilbur F. Merrill
Juliette Chiera
Burnita Pray
Bertha Dutton
Helen Keirstead Grant
Franklin Pond
Danny Boy
Mary Stuart
Emily Riley
Edna Telephones
Leota Merry
Herman Grover
Harold A. Campbell
Parker Cushman
Cushman
Wiscasset-Edgecomb Bridge
Kathryn Perkins
Portland
Robert Day
East Boothbay
Earl D. Rines
Federal Street
Race
Boothbay Road
Frances Somes
Kate Perkins
Katharine Ames
R. N
Caribou
Jane Redonnett
Bangor
Bradford C. Redonnett
Hodge Street
George Rosie
Louise Rosie Redennett
Jane
Page Johnson
East Morris
Conn
Wiscasset
Sewall
Prank Gray
Camden
Clusrles Metcalf
Eva Gorham Wise
Nellie Dowling
Togus
Fred Cormier, Jr
Aroostook County
Charles Tibbetts
Farle Whitmore
Gime
Charles Head
Edmund Ingalls
Fish and Game Association
Alna
Day's Ferry
Teachers Club
No. 1
Florence Temple
Jennie Howe
Council For Religious Work
Nequasset Congregational Church
Roundy
Maine
Baptist Ladies’ Aid
Good Will Club
Harry Walters
Edward Murphy
Loring T. Maybury
Nelson Rice
Lawrence Putnam
John Moore
Walter F. Abbott
Edward Crocker
Clayton B. Armstrong
Armstrong
Sadie Klippel
Emma Day
Sagadahoc Ferry
Philip Wenz
Lennie Stilphen
Carrie Hathorn
Sarah Hathorn
Ralph Rice
Flossie Beals
Ida Beals
Henry Carlton
Eleanor
Small Point
Christine Hawthorne
Wilmont Dodge
Amy Cromwell
Guy
Priscilla
Dresden
Marcia Stinson
Woodfords
Charles T. Henderson
Fred L. Carlton
Marguerite
Guy Cromwell
Nequasset
Clifton Gainsley
Tuessic Hall
Woodrow Miller
Charlestown Navy Yard
Louise Miller
Albert Temple
Irving
Brunswick
Frank J. Walker
David G. Reed
Maine General Hospital
Portand
Norman Nye
High Street
Sara Bagley Wright
Albert Hathorne
Glenwood Brown
Memorial Hospital
Grace Mae
Clara Hawthorne
Woolwich Center
Harvey P. Hathorne
George Farnham
Wellesley
Bradford Farnham
Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary
Alice King
Capt
David Reed
Eye and Ear Infirmary
Irene King
Herbert Crocker
Miss Alice King
R. T. Beaton
R. L. Fowle
Eben Chase
Chase
Eva Beaudet
Russell Phinney
Trefethen
Addie Tilton
Belle Tilton
South Portland
Damariscotta
John Reed
Peter Alden Reed
Frank W. Packard
Auburn
Stella Wade
Alberta Richard
Day’s Ferry Road
Woolwich
Alberta Rath
Richard
Packard
Alex St. Pierre
Don
Rice
John Burke
Elizabeth Barter
Gardiner
Vinal Hunnewell
Ida M. Beals
Beals
Nathan E. Coffin
Park Street
G. Clifford Madden
Allen Pettengill
Christine Hathorne
Alice Dodge
Hathorne Homestead
Lida Hathorne
State House
Charles Brown
George B. Farnham
William Robson
Isaac Howard
Edward V. Reed
John H. Carter
Carolyn Wing
North Woolwich
Melvin Howe
Costello P. Hall
Albion L. Corliss
James Ryan
Union
Pastor Brown
Nequasset Church
Ryan
Brown
Bangor Seminary
Bowdoin College
North Woolwich Methodist Church
Day's Ferry Congregational
Nequasset Congregational
Nequasset Methodist
Harold Robinson
Andrew Butterfield
Edward
Bay Point
Ralph Spinney
Robert Fry
Elizabeth Deering
F. D. Wren
Tufts College
Kennebec Point
Waldo Brown
Reed
Harry W. Man
A. Peroy
Percy Bailey
Bobby
Ollie Spinney
Popham Beach
Arthur Delano
Lillian White
Seward Emmons
Georgetown
Herman A. Spinney
George Curry
Betty
Merline Thompson
Charlotte Cahill
Eliza Graham
James Graham
Boston
Harry Stone
Frank LeClair
LeRoy Perkins
McNeil
Jack Honsinger
George Worrey
Harry McNeil, Jr
Fales
Donald Avery
Beatrice
Dawn
First Beach
Louise Howard
Edward Wren
Westport Obituary and Local Social Notes Highlight Edgecomb Funeral
Westport residents attend the funeral of Hon. Eben Chase at his Edgecomb home. The column lists numerous locals visiting, nursing updates, and weekend movements across Bath, Sanford, Augusta, and Sagadahoc Ferry, including census sorting, cottages, Mother’s Day events, and Summer plans.
Woolwich Union Holds Annual Meeting and Call for Pastor Brown
The Woolwich Union for Christian Service met in Nequasset Congregational Church and voted unanimously to extend Charles Brown’s call for a fourth year as pastor. Rev. Rodney Roundy spoke, officers were elected, and delegates named. James Ryan thanked the union for aid after the Dec 24 explosion, while Brown advances toward a Bowdoin finish this June. Tea followed the session as Captain Goldthwait noted improved Saco River conditions due to reduced dye stuff pollution.
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Clarence Goldthwait
Fort Hill
Saco River
York County
Bay Point Gull Arrivals and Local Visits Highlight Week
Gulls return to May 8 each year on Sugar Loaf inland coast as National Geographic researchers study nesting sites. Bay Point hosts numerous visitors and residents, with numerous cottages and local families seen at cottages, hospitals, and beaches. The report notes a car accident near the Kennebec river, lobster traps set by locals, and a parade of Bath and Auburn residents visiting Bay Point and Kennebec Point during the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Geographic Magazine
Burton Cunningham
Frank Morgan
Kennebec
Maurice Burns
LeRoy Moore
Clyde Pinkham
Bay Point
Popham Beach
Arthur Delano
Ernest Spinney
Bath Memorial Hospital
Spinney
Sylvia Warren
Five Islands
Echo Valley
Warden Owen Richardson
West Point
Morse High Announces Annual Junior Prom Friday
The Morse high school junior class sponsors this year’s annual Junior Prom, to be held Friday evening in the gym. Art Lee, who played at last June’s Senior reception, will lead the orchestra for the semi formal dance. Committees are led by Miss Barbara Freeman and Mrs. Amelise Bourque with members handling dances, decoration, advertising, tickets, and social duties. The armory will not host its weekly dance that night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morse High School
Art Lee
Armory
Barbara Freeman
Barbara Trott
John Gilmore
Amelise Bourque
Priscilla Trott
Bill Hill
Jeanette Varney
Robert Fortier
Margaret Sampson
Sumner Hawley
Pauline Nickerson
Marie Bennett
Louise Avery
George Rogers
John Coombs
Edward Sewall
Eunice Perkins
Dorothy Durgin
Auditors' Wives Score Big On Maine Fishing Trip
Three members of the Maine auditing corps investigated state finances then fished Long Lake with wives who drew the results. Mrs. Lindberg of Boston landed a 6 pound salmon, first of the season at Belgrade. Mrs. Wilkinson of Boston caught a 4 14 pound squaretail trout, and Mrs. Noon of Portland netted squaretail. The men returned fishless. Also noted: Robert Packard of Rockland Highlands owns three foot scrapers and two boot jacks about 80 years old, one used recently to remove rubber boots.
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Corps of Auditors
Maine
Long Lake
Ernest E. Lindberg
Boston
Belgrade
Alvin T. Wilkinson
J. Arthur Noon
Portland
Robert M. Packard
Rockland Highlands
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Huntoon Hill Grange
Fred Allen
Robert Commeau
Alexanders
Blanche Fowles
Elaine Dow
Olive Dow
Vinnie Quinnam
Beulah West
Olive
Phyllis Quinnam
Game
Rosie
Grange
Joe
Harriet Jackson
John Jackson
Hope
Anna White
Ruth
Naomi
Harvester
Florence Sproul
Doris Foye
Gertrude Munsey
Diocese of
St. Mark's
George G. Chierna
St. Philip's Parish
Charles E. Cowley
Chiera
Milbile
Tahlcen Pedae
Galialier
Harvey R. Pease
Wiscwasset
Leon
Flood
Gordon Kimball
Rockland
Hotel Rockland
Harvey Bean
Margaret
Lincoln County Superior Court
Clarence M. Minott
North Street
Frank L. Minott
Annie B. H. Murray
This City
A. Lincoln Hagan
Bristol
John Kelly
Jessie Kelly
Eben Dana
Harold Roberts
Portsmouth
N. H
Westport
Woolwich Union
Morse