Phippsburg Town History and Local Notes Spur Reflections
Town narrative recalls Winnegance and Stoney Brook shipyards, mills, and tavern-era trades. Mentions residents like Sedgeberg, Bowker, Morse, and Wyman, with 200 year old Walter Mall house and several century houses. Road work, tax rates, and community updates mix with weather and personal items from Small Point Beach to Bath area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnegance
Egance
Tom Bath
Stoney Rock
Abbie Bowkeruilt
Ans Sedgberg
Sedgeberg Cuse
Maurice Oshard
Tomas Sedgeberg
Stoneyrook
Etta Cloughnd
John Frisbee
Wilson
Oward ‘Bowker
Stoney Brook
Mill Hill
Long Hill
Shdale
Fort Agasta
Small Point Harbor
Popham
Henry Wyman
Lee
Walter Mall
Percy+Leach
Morse-Minott
Weeks- Whitmore
Frank Cutting
Pease- Heald
Wyman Percy
Malcolm-Thomas
Thomas
Parker Head
Seven Hills
William Wilson
Nazarene Church
Cushman
Mercen Farm
Chester B. Oliver
Nathaniel Morse
Bath Memorial Hospital
Morse
Honor Roll and road projects shape town plans in Phippsburg
The Honor Roll committee will prepare a World War I and II veterans memorial site at Phippsburg Center. The town selectmen plan bi monthly meetings at Town hall to handle payrolls and business. Howard Bowker widens Stony Brook road ditches to prevent washouts. A stolen Warren Gilliam car from Sebasco was recovered in Bangor with all items intact. State Aid work starts at Sebasco to tar the road toward Cushman estate. Bowker and selectmen inspect the Popham Beach dike to restore it after flood damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phippsburg
Phippsburg Center
Howard Bowker
Birch House
Stonybrook Road
Warren Gilliam
Sebasco
Bangor
Dromore Farm Bureau Holds All Day Meeting on Landscaping
Dromore Farm Bureau hosted a full day session at the Grange Hall with morning business on plans for June 20 and a noon covered dish dinner. County Agent Charles L. Eastman led an afternoon program on landscape gardening with slides, including shrub and tree placement and wild cranberry varieties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dromore Farm Bureau
Grange Hall
Topsham Library
Alice Lowell
Doris Young
Charles L. Eastman
Saunders
Ruth ‘MacGregory
Auburn
Twin Counties
Margaret Rose
Eastman
West Bath Farm Burau
Warren Davis
Win W. Heggett
Walter
Cyr Returns Home After Boston Visit
E. J. Cyr of High street, who had been in Boston since Sunday, returned home Tuesday afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. J. Cyr
High Street
Boston
Village PTA Activities Highlight Community Efforts
Parkers Head reports a busy week with fingerprinting for children, a baked bean supper raising funds for the Boys Club, a rug prize won by Mrs George Morong, and multiple PTA events. Local residents attended Farm Bureau talks, district PTA meetings, and a hymn sing despite weather.
Local notes from Parker Head Bath and Dix Island
Mrs. Della Morey visits brother J. A. Young in Parker Head while recovering from surgery. Miss Phyllis Young resumes duties at Bath Memorial hospital after weekend with parents. Mrs. Julia Dozois and Mrs. Stanton Dozois attend Farm Bureau. Stanton also at Bath PTA district meeting. Laurence Thayer and son of Bath at their cottage Sunday. Dozois family spent weekend at cottage. Williams Mains of Bath visits Nathaniel Percy. Frances Parker and a friend from Massachusetts weekend at their cottage. Jane rs George Acey visits Mrs. Bernard Carlson, Dix Island. Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Wilbur return from Waltham wintering there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
PTA
Boy's Club
Forest
George Morong
Stella Packard
Earl Lowell
McCarty
Farm Bureau
Eastman
Extension Bureau
Albert Gray
Leston Harrington
District Pta
Bath
Harrington
Lowell
Albert Freeman
Freeman
Ames
Sally Lowell
Grace Kraft
Beverly Moore
Lorraine
Barbara Harrington
Blair
Small Point
H. D. Mank Sr
Charles Blaisdell
Bert Nisbet
Francis Luke
John D. Libby
John W. Libby
Clarence Blaisdell
Parker Head
Robert
Brunswick
Topsham
William Hallett
Herman
John Long
Willis
Ernest Doughty Jr
Falmouth
J. A. Young
Arthur Lear
Bath Iron Works
Harold Rogers
Bernhard Carlson
Dix Island
Marion Cushing
Rumford
Bob Amberg
Burleigh Williams
Thornton
Leroy Perkins
Allie Rollins
Walter Cushing
Lewis Sowell
Harpswell
Della Morey
Phyllis Young
Bath Memorial Hospital
Julia Dozois
Stanton Dozois
Laurence Thayer
Dozois
Williams Mains
Nathaniel Percy
Frances Parker
Massachusetts
George Acey
Bernard Carlson
Monroe Wilbur
Waltham
Stephen Etnier
Stephanie
Victoria
Gilbert Head
New York
Minot Percy
Jamaica Plain
Mass
Roberta Estes
George Parks
Francis Parker
Salem
Popham Road
Donald Small
Silver Lake
Portland
Walter Oliver
Rhode Island
Betty Harper
Stanley Perkins
Lester Morse
Judy
Winnegance
Clarence Perkins
Peter A. Isaac
Mrs Wright and Mrs Brown Return From Visit
Mrs. E. B. Wright of Bath and Mrs. Harold Brown of Gardiner have returned home after visiting their brother Dr. Carter in South Portland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. B. Wright
Bath
Harold Brown
Gardiner
Dr. Carter
South Portland
Juniors Stage Camp Calamity Play At Morse High
The junior class play Camp Calamity delighted a large Morse high school audience Tuesday night. William Barter led as Hammy Merryweather with Riva Diva Greenblatt as Mrs Merryweather. The cast included Charlehorse Edwards Edmund Hagan Hank Evans and many others. The Morse orchestra accompanied, and thanks were given to Miss Elizabeth Coombs director and Miss Muriel Pouliot assistant director.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morse High School
William Barter
Hammy’ Merryweather
Merryweather
Riva Diva Greenblatt
Richard Godfrey
Rochelle Rhodes
Rocky
Vivian White
Caroline Grey
Carrie
Valerie Nickerson
Hamilton Merryweather
Riva
Muriel Pouliot
Fitz
Nathan Watson
Maine Lobster Catch Shows Big Increase in 1944
Boothbay Harbor Maine lobster industry reports a sharp rise in 1944 with 14 million pounds caught. A new monthly statistical report tracks production value, fisher counts, traps and boats, highlighted by October’s peak and February’s low. Commissioner Greenleaf notes rapid expansion and many new entrants joining the trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boothbay Harbor
Maine
Sea and Shore Fisheries Department
Department
Lewis Cates
Arthur R Greenleaf
The
Greenleaf
No Western Maine Ball League Abandoned This Season
Portland officials confirm the Western Maine baseball league will not field a season due to insufficient skilled players. Bath Iron Works will field a team and seek outside opponents while the Stadiu m hosts opening game on Sunday against the Caseys of Boston. Hank Washburn is likely to be the Iron Works moundman. Mrs. John A. Greene Jr. returns from a brief visit to Waterville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Maine
Joe Conley
Portland
Loop
Conley
Bath Iron Works
Massachusetts
Caseys
Boston
Hank Washburn
Iron Works
Moundsman
Popham Beach Passion Play Screens at Library
Popham library will show pictures of the Passion Play on June 4 at 7 p.m. A church service will be followed by a business meeting. The issue also notes various local society items including meetings, visits, and a Bath baseball win over the Coast Guard 23 to 16 with home runs by C. Ryndak and H. Phenan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Popham
Popham School
Bert Nisbet
Harry Spencer
Bertha
Mary
Ellen
Walter Newdick
Ernest Oliver
Robert
Richard Small
Robert Morong
Bath
Coast Guard
C. Ryndak
H. Phenan
Ernest Spinney
Fred Spinney
Germany
Bath Leading State in Visual Education
Bath leads the state in aids for visual education, a fact shared with Rotarians by a Stanley Dana Corporation representative. The program, begun last year by Superintendent Ladd with PTA support, features picture projection machines that show texts, notices, and constructed objects, aiming to teach through sight. The school department already operates seven machines of one type and six of another, funded partly by waste paper sales and a picture library.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Stanley Dana Corporation
Portland
Ladd
Addison
Rotary Club
Sedgwick
Barta
George B. Wolstenholme
E. H. Kingsbury
Boothbay Harbor
Keith Crockett
Huse School
Genesta Sewing Circle Reports Lobster Salad Supper Success
Genesta sewing circle met with Mrs. Carl B. Swanton to discuss a successful lobster salad supper and card party. Plans were set for Past Matron and Past Patron Night, Beano prizes were donated as white elephant items, and afghan proceeds were discussed for a Winter fundraiser.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Genesta Sewing Circle
Carl B. Swanton
Bedford Street
Genesta Chapter
Edward LeMoine
David Alkazin
Lawrence Lord
Carol Drake
Francis Bertrand
Harold Cutting
Verna Southern
Eleanor Danforth
George Rogers
Harold Tobey
Frank Danforth
Fred Osgood
Roy Francis
Ralph O. Burden
Clifford B. Smith
Pine Cone Troop Plans Hike To Dead Horse
Pine Cone Girl Scout Troop met at Morse High cafeteria after school led by Mrs R Clinton McFadden and Mrs Alex Burgess. Three patrols worked on projects then planned a hike to Dead Horse next Wednesday with a cook-out at the camping grounds. The session ended with the Good Night Circle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pine Cone
Morse High School
R. Clinton McFadden
Alex Burgess
Dead Horse
Huse Memorial School
Rotary Anns Meet at Craft Home in Washington Street
The Rotary Anns gathered Thursday at Mrs. William Craft's Washington street home. President Mrs. Charles B. Doyle led a business session and welcomed new member Mrs. George B. Wolstenholme. A Boy Scout drive contribution was approved and Camp and Hospital Service needs were outlined. Donations of rugs lamps chairs tables bookends and playing cards are requested via Mrs. Hill. Next meeting May 31 at 1 15 p m at Witch Spring Cafe with luncheon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rotary Anns
William Craft
Washington Street
Fred D. Hill
Carl Kennedy
Dominique Tardif
Charles B. Doyle
George B. Wolstenholme
Hill
Twin Bees Club Holds All Day Session with Potter Leadership
The Twin Bees met Thursday with Sarah Potter of Oak Street. An election re chose Alta Storer president and Sarah Potter vice president. Bessie Stimpson Brunswick and Gertrude Stewart Bath named secretary and treasurer respectively. Ora Lombard Brunswick and Williams Bath were noted on floral committee. Installations planned for June banquet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Twin Bees
Sarah Potter
Oak Street
Sadie Garcelon
Annie Williams
Alta Storer
Brunswick
Bath
Bessie Stimpson
Gertrude Stewart
Mary Curtis
Ora Lombard
Bath Club
Rose Jean
Viola Mejnard
Louise Munroe
Sophie Mikels
Suzue Daley
Addie Garcelon
Nelie Dunning
Central Ladies Aid Ends Season With Luncheon
The Central church Ladies Aid met at the parish house on Thursday afternoon with a large gathering. They voted to recess for the summer after next week's meeting and will close with a noon luncheon. Mrs Rose Rogers was named chair of the kitchen committee and Mrs Edith Rich heads the dining room. Several members were reported ill. A successful service table, organized by Mrs Jennie Thompson, Mrs Ada Wallace and Miss Grace Lord, disposed of articles and cooked foods. The monthly event has been popular.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies Aid of
Central Church
Rose Rogers
Edith Rich
Jennie Thompson
Ada Wallace
Grace Lord
Social hour served to freshmen by two hostesses
A social hour followed and freshmen were served by Mrs. Alice Tosex, hostess, assisted by Mrs. Ada Wallace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice Tosex
Ada Wallace
Alumnus of Bath Memorial Hospital Hosts Tea for New Administrator
The Alumnus of Bath Memorial Hospital held a Friday tea in the hospital solarium for Miss Yelena Seevers new administrator. Alumni and staff attended with Mrs Roberta Parris and Mrs Frederick E Drake pouring assisted by student nurses. Theta chapter of Beta Sigma Phi hosted a Sunday tea at Meadow Ledges West Bath honoring Mrs John Leeds serving with the American Red Cross in England. Proceeds from the drive have surpassed last year by nearly 100 percent with Bath area contributing 1778.01 to date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Memorial Hospital
Yellena Seevers
Roberta Parris
R. N
Frederick E. Drake
Wood
Cavanaugh
Graham
Bachelor
Bowen Torrey
Theta Chapter
Beta Sigma Phi
Meadow Ledges
West Bath
John Leeds
Mary Carroll
American Red Cross
England
Edwin R. Andrews
Leeds
Russell S. Hitchcock
Stephen Bruce Helstad
Than Watson
Richard Burke
Jane Stevens
Linwood Haynes
Harry Ring, Jr
Helen Hayes
William Turpie
Richard Haskell
Eleanor Danforth
Brewster Sedgwick
Catharine Legard
John Greene, Jr
Harmon Eliason
Roberta Hathorne
Stanley Hatch
Barbara Kenney
Roland Trott
Albert Coombs
Burton Preston
The
Crippled Children’s Association
Sewall
Torrey
Bath
Cosmopolitan Club Hosts Third Card Party Friday
The Cosmopolitan club invites members to a Friday card party at the club house. Committee members contact members and invite non contacted attendees with a small table charge for non members. Hostesses provide refreshments and prizes while the club serves coffee. A high score prize will be awarded.
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Cosmopolitan Club
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Janet Gaudett
Yarmouth
Head Beach
Yarmouth Academy
Academy
Elisha Bridges
McLanathans
Small Point Beach
William D. Sewall
Col. Watson
Frank McLanathan
McLanathan
Chase Mellon, Jr
Sumner Sewall
David
Nicky
Si Bathae M Dyer
Leslie Dyer
Timber Island
Kathleen Wyman
Rebecca Minott
Walter Bow
Ker
Thatcher Pinkhams
Margaret Shorey
West Point
Wyman Brothers
Parker
Francis Lander
COX
Western Maine Ball League
John A. Greene, Jr
North Street
Waterville
Popham Beach
Central Ladies Aid
Camp Hinds
Hinds
William Hinds
Raymond
Harmon Smith
F. Arthur Berry, Jr
Cecil J L. Fullerton, Jr
Miss Seevers
Seersucker
America
W. We Grant
Center Street