Chasing Sotoe Through Wharf Encounter and Local Community Notes
A pursuit ended with Sotoe captured after a seaworthy chase near the wharf. Local groups discuss clam digging regulations amid claims of discriminatory laws. The high school civics class prepared a mock town report outlining student ideas and a tentative budget. Various town officers and committees are listed. District updates include lodge meetings, a cancelled eighth grade graduation, and Bishop Oliver Loring’s May visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sotoe
4Wi
Franklin
Civics
Wiscasset High School
Robert Fahey
Tillie Colby
Sherry Somes
Roger Cowley
Ann Miete
Mary Smith
Blanche Stickney
Ickie Towne
Carolyn Farnham
Willard Lewis
Mary Webb
Caroline Coffin
Joan Johnson
Garrison Hill
Lincoln Lodge
Turner Gregorie
Oliver Loring
St. Philip’s
St. Philip’s Woman's Auxiliary
Portland
St. Philip's
Burden Wins National Honor Society Scholarship Honor
Morse High School senior E Burden earns a national Honor Society Scholarship. The recognition highlights academic achievement and service, signaling strong performance in extracurricular and community activities.
Morse High senior earns National Honor Society scholarship honor
Charles Earle Burden 17 of Bath Morse High, an NHS member and senior, won a $50 award and is an NHS Scholarship alternate in a nationwide contest run by the National Association of Secondary School Principals. He competed among 6,442 seniors from 1,671 schools and plans to enter Yale in September. He has held multiple school offices, contributed to the student press, and worked at the Bath Times after school and Saturdays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Earle Burden
Morse High School
Bath
National Association of Secondary School Principals
Washington, D. C
Raymond Farnham
Alexander Burden
Middle Street
Yale University
Bath Times
Death of Mrs Susan Dow Stimpson Ward at 68
Susan Dow Stimpson Ward died May 9 at her sister Rose Vaughn’s home in Ojai California aged 68. Born in Wiscasset she taught there after graduating from Wiscasset Academy. She married Elwell Stimpson of Wiscasset and later moved to Skowhegan. Body brought to Wiscasset. services at St Philip’s Episcopal Church with Rev Robert P Frazier. interment in Greenlawn cemetery. Survived by four brothers three sisters two sons a daughter and several nephews and nieces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Susan Dow Stimpson Ward
Susan (Dow) Stimpson
Rose Vaughn
Ojai
Ventura County
Calif
Wiscasset
John H
Rosella Rines Dow
Wiscasset Academy
Elwell Stimpson
Displaced Persons Topic Highlighted At Rotary Meeting
The talk by Mr Bonnell on displaced persons drew attentive listeners, with Vice President Bill Mennealy presiding. Kenneth Francis introduced the guest speaker and Frank Bevan of Albany attended as a visiting Rotarian. Junior guests from Central Grammar school included Lawrence Toothaker, Albert Plummer, Alfred Smith, and Thaxter Trafton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bonnell
Bill Mennealy
Kenneth Francis
Frank Bevan
Albany
Archie Main, Jr
Central Grammar School
Lawrence Toothaker
Old Brunswick Road
Albert Plummer
Central Avenue
Alfred Smith
South Street
Thaxter Trafton
Washington Street
Return from Florida Trip Highlights Family Visits
The Pearl street party returned from St. Petersburg Florida after spending the winter. On the way back they visited their daughter and husband Mr and Mrs E Howard Marshall of Ashland Kentucky and their son and wife Mr and Mrs E Everett Pierce Jr in York Pennsylvania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearl Street
St. Petersburg
Fla
E. Howard Marshall
Ashland
E. Everett Pierce
York, Pa
Woolwich Community Activities Highlight Meeting Plans
Woolwich P T A meets Monday at the hall for a business session and entertainment. committees include Mrs Ada Cross and William Fogg. programs cover field day fair and spring card party. Also notes repeat of Breeze Inn minstrel at Tuessic hall for church charity. Montsweag and Nequasset Farm Bureaus host sessions on salads and baked beans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woolwich P. T. A
P. T. A. Hall
Ada Cross
Paul Pitman
William Fogg
Brian M. Jewett
Florence Temple
Ivory Strout
Mother's Day Program at West Bath Grange
The West Bath Grange hosts a Mother’s Day program run by the Home and Community Welfare committee with Mrs. Mattie Collins presiding. The event includes readings, a piano accompaniment, a community sing, a discussion on Mothers Day then and now, prize awards for mothers, a penny march, a Scotch auction, and a variety stage show with dancing to Caver's orchestra.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bathora
Home and Community Welfare Committee
Mattie Collins
Edith Parks
Margaret Mulcahy
Ethel MacDonald
Yesteryear
Lucy Simpson
Frances Clark
Alice Smith
Ida Oliver
Lizzie Haggett
Bernice McGlinchy
Alice Burgess
Persis Miller
Bertha Palmer
Mae Bird Hill
Beautiful Eyes
Andrews
Ann Minott
Stella Doughty
Mercie McFadden
Jack Mulcahy
John Slyvester
Nequasset Farm Bureau Plans May Bean Supper
The Nequasset Farm Bureau held an all day meeting at Good Will hall Woolwich with 25 members and two visitors. Plans were made for a baked bean and salad supper at Good Will hall on Saturday May 19 from 5 to 7 pm under the bureau and Good Will club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congregational Church of
Woolwich
Montsweag Farm Bureau
Arrowsie Town Hall
Foods Project
Nelson Rice
Good Will Club
Nequasset Farm Bureau
Shirley Hemingway
Costello P. Hall
Pearl Reed
Bath
Herbert Aldrich
Augusta
Old Orchard
Roy Graffam
Strong
Belfast
Nellie Davis
Friendship
Charles Lowry
Fairfield
Wilson Freeman
Bowdoinham
Good Will Hall
Ruth Cromwell
Good Will Club of
Nina Gavett
Florence Hathorne
Bernice Bailey
Jerry Eldridge
Georgie Walker
Ruth Dubar
Hilda Wetherington
Bernice Soule
Merleen Jameson Wright
Marjorie Woerter
Eldie Wright
Wright
Beryl Hill
Charles Powers
Gertrude Marston
Edna Dana
Apples and Peaches Bloom Delayed Across the State
Gardeners report early planting and high peas in some counties while others struggle with late fruit blossoms. Apple blossoms are scarce this year and peach trees have borne in other years but show few blooms now, signaling a late blooming trend.
Supper Party for Mr and Mrs Pierce Return from St Petersburg
Mr and Mrs David Dickson of Washington street hosted a small Saturday supper for Mr and Mrs E Everett Pierce of Pearl street who have just returned from a trip to St Petersburg Florida.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Dickson
Washington Street
E. Everett Pierce
Pearl Street
St. Petersburg
Fla
Arrowic Mother's Day family picnic honors Edith Campbell
A large Arrowsic family gathering celebrated Mother's Day in honor of Mrs. Edith Campbell with an all day outing at the Campbell home. Activities included croquet horseshoe toss softball and a noon picnic. Gifts were given to Mrs. Campbell by her children and their families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edith Campbell
Campbell
Arrowsic
Larry R. Vail
Charles Paradis
Hinesville
Pfc
Charles W. Paradis
Paradis
Patricia Brann
Bath
Pfc. Paradis
Fort Banning
Richard Dannals
Camp Stewart
Frances Sturmer
Allen Pettengill
Portland
West Bath P T A elects officers at May meeting
The West Bath P T A met May 10 at the Littlefield school and elected officers for the year. President is Mrs. William Hennessey, vice president Mrs. Harry Larrabee, secretary and treasurer Mrs. L. D. Small. Delegates to the council are Mrs. Leon Belanger and Mrs. Larrabee. The June 7 annual meeting will include supper at Witchee Inn. Mrs. Belanger reported on the Maine Congress convention at Lewiston with praise for the national president Mrs. John E. Hayes. The evening closed with refreshments by Mrs. E. K. Thompson and Mrs. Larrabee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath
Maine Congress
Lewiston
Belanger
John E. Hayes
E. K. Thompson
Larrabee
Dexter W. Allis
Florence Stickney
James Neville
Stanley Bickford
David
Suzanne
Beachmont
Mass
Brigham’s Cove
Lewis H. Gifford
Newton Center
Fred Larrabee
Larrabee's Grove
Carl Graves
Bath Area Social and Family Notices Highlight Local Visits
The Bath region features a series of family and social notices with visits and gatherings across Harpswell Bath and Brunswick. Linda born May 8 at Bath Memorial Hospital is noted as a new arrival in the area. Local residents Mr. and Mrs. Donnell, Davis, Robichaud, Deehan, Burnham, and Perkins are cited visiting relatives and attending events including a Methodist conference in Bath and a lecture at Memorial Hall in Brunswick. Gerald Boudreau serves in Korea and attends his father’s funeral.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boel
Resden
Harpswell
David Ring
Larrabee’s Grove
Maine
Bangor
Marieville
By Henderson, Jr
Linda
Bath Memorial Hospital
Wilbur Ketchum
Earle Donnell
Bath
Warren Davis
Daniel MacDonald
Cole
Pembroke
Everett Comeau
Campbell’s Pond
Edward Robichaud
F. W. Deehan
Ethel Burns
Burns
Putnam
Brunswick
Irving Burnham
Billy
Robert Burnham
Stanley
Laurence Burnham
Kittery
Laura Whitmore
B. F. Whitmore
Gardiner
Ronnie Perry
William
Harold Perkins
Stevie of
Fred Rose
Whitman Family Ties Noted in Duxbury Obituary Snippet
A fragment notes E nce F Whitman of Duxbury Massachusetts and her uncle Frank Donnell of Whitman Massachusetts. The line hints at a family obituary context or tribute within a local notice segment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ence F. Whitman
Duxbury, Mass
Frank Donnell
Whitman, Mass
Bay Point Visitors and Social Calls Across Maine
Bay Point hosted a flurry of Sunday visits with the Carroll Deering Moffatt and Oliver families, Hagan and Perry households, and locals from Woolwich to Bath. Notable gatherings included Annie Wilson and the Avery and Anderson families touring Exeter for D P I O R M events honoring Farrenkopf States. a banquet followed at a Swampscott hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Renaud
Carroll Deering
Frederick Moffatt
Bay Point
James Oliver
Maurice Burns
Thomas Hagan
Francis Oliver
Central Maine Power Co
George Powers
Pearl Perry
Jean Reed
Arthur Ashton
Woolwich
Eugene Butterfield
Bath
Sumner Mains
Harold Robinson
Auburn
Annie Wilson
Great Council of
Maine
D. of P
Ernest R. Avery
Robert F. Anderson
Exeter
N. H
Farrenkopf States
William R
San Francisco
Calif
Swampscott Hotel
Wrights Leave Bangor After Conference Visit
Rev and Mrs William Wright of Bangor who have stayed with Mr and Mrs Edward M Butterfield at 1033 High Street depart Monday for South Paris before returning home. Wright is pastor of the First Methodist Church of Bangor which will host the Maine Methodist Conference in 1952.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Wright
Bangor
Edward M. Butterfield
High Street
South
Paris
Wright
First Methodist Church of
Maine
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Marco Club
George Stetson
Federal Street
Charles S. Sewall
Donald B. MacMillan
Lincoln
Marston
Fred B. Engert
The
Ledges Inn
Par
E. Burden
Morse High
Charles E. Burden
Ker Marean
Main Street
Mother’s Club
Red Brick
Katherine Ames
Caribou Hospital
Alton Ames
Stanley W. Dodge
Florida
Dodge
Davis Island
Dodge Inn
Julis B. Lewis
Worcester
Mademoiselle
Front Street
Woolwich Grange
Fernald Bailey
Grange
Alberta Bailey
West Bath Grange
Nequasset Farm Bureau Meeting
Esther Hinckley Drummond
Norman H. Drummond
Arrowsie
Warren Frederick Hawley, Jr
Warren F. Hawley
Grace Episcopal
Frank Rittall
Ronald
Viola Beane
Horatio L. Baker
Franklin Wright
Ibra K. Lawrence
Old Stage Road
Ralph Jewett
Jewett
Westport Junction
Mary McCrater
Boston
Kraftmaster
Automotive
Electrica
Nsee
Psycote
Aluminum
Center Street
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