Local Extended News Briefs From Bath And Nearby Towns
Long column recalls church meetings school events and social notices across Bath Phippsburg West Bath Small Point and Wells Beach. It notes meetings led by Mrs Addie Seavey Mrs Richard Schaper and Mrs William Mennealy Bath with slides from Farm aore Week and a June program on Woodfiber Flowers. Memorial Day school closure and a P T A executive meeting are listed alongside fire department call care home notes and a successful Girl Scouts food and rummage sale raising 35 dollars for the troop. Occasional oblique references include a Do nuptial shower for Sylvia Green and local Grange degrees attended by townsfolk. The closing line states the word dollar derives from thaler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clar
Bers
Gladys
I Bsing
Topsham
Richard Schaper
Holland
Thelma Thayer
Priscilla Embers
Phippsburg Christian Service
Lytrem
Small Point
Center Church
Phippsburg P. T. A
Macy Whitehen
Charles Small
Bath
Winneganee P. T. A
Schookhouse
Helen Gagnon
Margaret An
Nailliams
Frances Morse
William Blaisdell
Girl Scouts
Sylvia Green
Maurice K
Donal Hanscom
Aurice Pye
Clifford Tze
Mark Harrington
Hamilton McCourt
Fred Haggett
John Rogers
Eliza Bradshaw
Teena Green
Pauline Seavey
Harold Seavey
Truman Roberts
Truman Roberts, Jr
Clyde P
West Bath Grange
Bernard Henderson
Jack
Winthrop Blair
Ellen
Thomas Totman
Gertrude Blaisdell
Charles Pye
Frederick Morse
Morse High School machine shop earns top award
A Morse High School machine shop project led by Abbott and White won a district contest for its drill press and other tools. The event highlighted student work, industry experience, and strong school support, with Rotary figures noting early yearly contest wins and long term attendance records.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nol
Maine
Shiro
Abbott
Ool White
White
Morse High School
David C. Dickson
Bernard Varnum
T. Tarpy Schulten
Rotary
Portland
George Goodall
Ed Wheeler
Brunswick
H. D. Ruhm
Columbia
Tenn
Stork Shower Honors Mrs Kingsbury at Arrowsic Home
Mrs Richard Kingsbury was guest of honor at a stork shower Tuesday evening hosted by Mrs Clarence Carlton in Arrowsic. Guests included Bath residents and friends from Woolwich Westport and Portland with gifts donated by Bath and area neighbors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Kingsbury
Arrowsic
Clarence Carlton
Carlton
Ernest Smith
Paul Knight
Forest Carlton
Wiscasset
Kingsbury
Christine Watts
Virginia Reed
Irene Harnish
Beverly Dyer
Glenda Farrar
Marlene Pinkham
Bath
Beverly Wright
Abbie Sylvester
Woolwich
Marjorie Bailey
Westport
Mararet Meister
Joan Allen
Una Witham
Rita Mank
Rilla Jovin
Carol Ames
Arlene Anderson
Virginia Staples
Beatrice Lutz
Sebasco Estates
Marion Kitte
West Bath
Managing
Portland
Lena Bailey
Laura Greenleaf
Bessie Carlton
Driving Cases Lead in Municipal Court
In the municipal court before Judge Gardiner R. Deering, Carroll McKay of Gardiner, 21, pleaded innocent to speeding 45 in a 20 zone on Washington Street, was found guilty, and paid a $10 fine plus $8.70 costs. Kenneth Edgecomb, 29, of Skowhegan, faced 70 in a 45 zone on Route 201 at Topsham, was found guilty with $10 fine and $10.10 costs. Raymond Penfold Jr., 26, of South Portland, pleaded innocent to 45 in a 20 zone on Washington Street, was found guilty after a short hearing, and paid $10 and $8.70 costs, appealing to Sagadahoc Superior Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gardiner R. Deering
Carroll McKay
Gardiner
Washington Street
Kenneth Edgecomb
Skowhegan
Topsham
Raymond Penfold, Jr
South Portland
Ashington Street
Olty
Sagadahoc
Community Notes From Phippsburg and Bath
Local society items list church attendance and missionary meetings at Phippsburg. Volunteers report canvassing for the Salvation Army fund, with tentative total reaching 800 aided by Parker Head’s 400 donation. Numerous residents attend services, visits, and family gatherings across Bath, Phippsburg, and nearby towns. social events include birthdays, school activities, and farewells.
Lewiston man pleads guilty to refuse work on relief
Albert Levesque pleaded guilty to refusing to work for the city while on relief in Lewiston. He received a 60 day jail sentence with Supt. of Public Welfare David C. Dickson as complainant. Three intoxication cases followed. one fined 10 dollars plus 6.15 dollars costs or 30 days, the other two 5 dollars plus 6.15 and 6.60 dollars respectively in costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Levesque
Lewiston
Supt
Public Welfare
David C. Dickson
Bay Point social notes include visits and police activity
Bay Point residents and visitors are listed with weekend and weekday gatherings at cottages and homes in Bath Dedham Auburn and Richmond. Two Bath deputies investigated recent break ins. Condolences extend to Byron Safford family. Byron Jr. and Alice Hinckley noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Delano
Richmond
J. P. Townsend
Wood
Fla
Bay Point
Townsend
Claude Dyer
Bath
Madison Moore
Calzabet
Byron, Jr
Harry Stone
Auburn
L. Babb
Sumner Mains
Lillian White
Bath Woman Attends Regis College Week With Family
Mrs. George T. Costain of Inne Street joined daughter Camilla Costain a Regis junior in Weston Massachusetts for Junior Class Week. Judith Costain a Fisher College freshman also attended along with several family members, including Alf onse Turcotte acting as proxy dad. The trip featured a mother daughter tea a fashion show at Regis and the 18th annual Regis Pops in Boston with Camilla’s glee club involvement. Camilla and Judith plan to return to Bath in June for the summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George T. Costain
Inne Street
Regis College
Weston
Mass
Camilla Costain
Boston
San Turce
Porto Rico
Josepha Blanco
Philippine Islands
Alphonse Turcotte
Bath
Costain
Symphony Hall
Camilla
Regis Glee Club
Judith Costain
Granite Street
Girls win lifesaving awards at Bath G A banquet
Eight Morse High School girls received American Red Cross Lifesaving badges at the Girls' Athletic Association banquet on May 25. Instructor Miss Ann Stevenson and water safety leaders Miss Jeanette Pitkin and Miss Gloria Witham are cited for their roles in delivering the course with Bath Chapter cooperation. Mrs Sidney T Wyman of Wallaston Mass is visiting Bath family. his funeral was held in Bangor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Butler
Bath Memorial Hospital
Swanton Wyman
New York
Stanwood Gilman
Mark Harrington
Laconia
N. H
Stanley Spencer
Donald Morse
Boston
Thomas Totman
Pauline Wyman
Totman
Larent College of
Saunders Theater
Harvard
John G. Morse
Leonard Rainey
Massachusetts Radio and TV School
Leonard
U. S. Navy
Ellen Blair
Memorial Hospital
Marilla
Jim Totman
Charles E. Totman
Wells Beach
John Blaisdell
Virginia
James L. Morses
Morse High School
Girls’ Athletic Association
American Red Cross
Jeanette Pitkin
Bath Red Cross
Gloria Witham
Joan Hawkes
Shirley Beal
Janice Lebel
Judy Brown
Betty Bull
Anne Day
Sandra Daley
Lani Cahill
Ann Stevenson
Bath
Pine Tree Society
Hyde Memorial
Sidney T. Wyman
Wallaston
Mass
Phippsburg
William F. Holt
Ruth Whitney
Wyman
Wollaston
Bangor
Popham Beach Socials and Visitors Highlight Busy Season
At Spinney's Store Popham Circle met last week and again this week while Christian service volunteers canvassed residents on Sunday. Many locals and visitors from Winthrop, Lewiston, Boston, and Bath were noted at gatherings, cottages, and the newly opened White Spot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Popham Circle
Spinney
Christian Service
Alice Pye
Popham
Myra Scott
Mark Harrington
Winneganee
Doris Gilmore
John G. Morse, Jr
Small Point
Frank Florian
Sylvia Green
Maurice Pye
Fred H. Spinney
Bates College
Lewiston
Ocean View Park
South Beach
Carrier
Ledgewood
Albert V. Stolpe
Winthrop
Mass
J. Clarence Perkins
Ster Morse
Judy
Winnegance
Robert Bentley
Boston
Stanley W. Hyde
Syvilla
Carol Wyman
Stanley W. Perkins
Vernon M. Mattson, Jr
Newtonville
Mattson
J. Dwight Kinmouth
Hackensack
N. J
Walter E. Sprague
Raymond Wyman
Martyn Pye
Spinney’s
Jesse Munsey
Woolwich
Harvey Chubbuck
John Grindell
West Bath
Ernest Shepard
Sally
Fairfield
Gayle Oliver
Bath
Margaret
Edith Oliver
Marguerite McNulty
Doris Wallace
George Mains
George, Jr
Charles Barnes
Wiscasset
Sandy Murray
Portland
Ernest Rand
Brunswick
Ida Oliver
Guy Cromwell
Willard Oliver
Dixie Oliver
Roberta Snipe
Laurence
Harold Travis
Ethel Plant
Coxs Head Dromore Extension May meeting notes
The Coxs Head Dromore Extension met at the grange hall with 15 members and two guests. Mrs Annette Skeffield led a talk on packed lunches and the June program will cover handicraft with Mrs Addie Seavey teaching, plus a flower and plant swap. Attendees included several named members, and local river activity noted with ships and cargo movements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dromore
Grange Hall
Annette Skeffield
Addie Seavey
Clare Goodwin
Gladys Dozois
Helen de Berg
Olga Carlson
Bath Iron Works DE
Berwindvale
Martin F. Goodwin
Wolfeboro
N.H
J. W. Goodwin
Stanton C. Dozois
Richard
Julia B. Dozois
Port Clyde
Arthur L. Percy
Richard Percy
Elmer Tibbetts
Ralph Sorensen
Archie McLaughlin
U. S. Co
McLaughlin
Michele
Keela
Boothbay Harbor
Bernard Carlson Sunny
Edward P. Thomas
Portland
Sarah Wilbur
Eastland Hotel
St. Re Fla
Everett Perkins
Everett
Mass
Ernest Wood
Annual Dinner Caps Year For Junior Hospital League
The Junior Hospital League’s annual dinner at Bath Country Club closed a profitable year, donating 1040.08 to Neko Hospital for 1953. Officers elected include President Mrs. William A. Niss and Treasurer Mrs. William P. Kelley. Associates gained while members praised committees that raised funds from events like a New Year's Eve Ball and a Fall Hospital Fair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Junior Hospital League
Bath Country Club
Neko Hospital
Newburg
S. Theodore Bertocci
Omar King
George Barker
Carl R. Dearborn, Jr
J. Edward Drake, Jr
William P. Kelley
G. Baer Connard
Roger M. Luke
Memorial Hosen
William S. Mussenden
Donald N. Small
Eleanor Wilson
William A. Niss
Lynn M. Bussey
Bertocci
Dean Shaw
Omar R. King
Leslie C. Shumway
Frederick W. Robie
Leonard P. Litchfield
George R. Barker
Eugene P. Eberhard
Edward W. Kinder
Frederick M. Haggett
Priscilla Magoun
Eastham Guild, Jr
A. M. Main, Jr
George R. Carey
Duncan McIinnes
James A. Gillies, Jr
Frank A. Givin
Leon E. Buck
Dromore Grange Memorial Day Exercises Observed
Dromore Grange held Memorial Day rites Tuesday evening with white flowers on the altar and names of deceased members read by Aretha Campbell. Hazel Ellis, Flora Robbins, Flora, Helen Gagnon, Ceres participated as the charter name list included Ethel Robshaw Harriet Hammond Chester Cunningham and Charles M Gardner. The charter drape was placed for the latter. The service concluded with “In the Garden” and plans noted for June 8 guest officers night. A Yarmouth Grange note announced a June 4 daily supper and the lecturer’s program featured Evelyn Beals and a piano solo by Arthur Totman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dromore Grange
Hazel Ellis
Flora Robbins
Flora
Helen Gagnon
Ceres
Aretha Campbell
Ethel Robshaw
Harriet Hammond
Chester Cunningham
Charles M. Gardner
Grange
Ray Campbell
Yarmouth Grange
Evelyn Beals
Home
Mem
Arthur Totman
Ada King
Holbrook
June Wright
Gerett Wright
West Bath Grange Confers Third and Fourth Degrees
West Bath Grange conferred the third and fourth degrees on a large class with 176 attendees including 44 visitors from other granges. The degree team led by Alton and Mattie Collins performed under the direction of Collins. 22 candidates from West Bath and four from Dirigo received the degrees amid four tableaux and harvest tableau performances by members, with a harvest supper prior and notices of upcoming May Ball and memorial service plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath
Lucy Armstrong
Ceres
Mary Gaudreau
Pomona
Helen McNelly
Flora
Mattie Collins
Alice Lewis
Florence Farnham
Bernice McGlinchy
Ceres Court
Doris Doughty
Alice Smith
Mary Farnham
Estella Doughty
Margaret DeMerchant
Harvesters
John
Thelma Sylvester
J. Bazin Lemont
Charlotte Doyle
Paul Lemont
Martha Crocker
Veryl McNelly
Marie Holmes
Eugene Burgess
Doris Pecci
Charles Doyle
Elizabeth Young
Dirigo
Alice Burgess
Albert Brown
The
Bonnie Belanger
Joan Burgess
Brown
Sagadahoc
Joseph W. Larrabee
Richard Barker
Lincoln County
Mrs. Barker
Anita Totman
Bodwell
John Wyman
Huntoon Hill
Wiscasset
Irving Crocket
Eureka Grange
Durham
Topsham
Presumpscot
Dromore
Merriconeag
Woolwich
Eureka
Skowhegan
Pauline Belanger
Ethel MacDonald
West Bath Grange
Sagadahoc Pomona
Dirigo Grange
Eighth Graders Present Assembly at Morse High
Central Grammar eighth graders gave a special assembly at Morse High School on Monday morning under music supervisor Mrs Herry L Day. Performers included Jean Shumway and Barbara Adams on piano, Patty Guynn Marjorie Horne on vocals Dale Howe on violin Nan Emero on trumpet Lucy Lee Smith on horn and a Do Lord chorus with Susan Bates and others. Susan Bates hosted, closing with songs by the entire eighth grade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Grammar
Morse High School
Dixie Oliver
Susan Grevers
Judy Commeau
Betsy Bertrand
Dawn White
Susan Bates
New Boston TV Station Heads to Regional Coverage
H Norton announces Mt Washington TV’s new manager Paul Raymer Jr son of Paul Raymer Sr and Jane Newell Mrs William S Newell. Raymer has 15 years in advertising and TV, previously with Script Howard and Time Magazine. The station aims to cover Maine New Hampshire and Vermont.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eeeam
Boston
Seereeneington TV
H. Norton
Vision
William S .Newell
Paul, Jr
Dartmouth College
Jane
Skidmore
Tiemers
Beacon Hill
Mt. Washington TV
Brunswick College
Howard Neworeine
New York
Fice
Time Magazine
Ed Paul Raymer Co
Rayn
New England
Tiemer
Bertha Brannon Co
Mt. W. Tv, Inc
the & Television Advertising Ecutives
Club of New
Bath Drum and Bugle Corps Announces Busy Schedule
William J. ken directs Bath Corps through May to July with parades at Brunswick and Bowdoinham, Memorial Day drills, Pony League opening, Tag Day fundraising, a Lewiston 40 and 8 event, Fourth of July music in Bath, and a Sunday visit to Hyde camp for crippled children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William J. Ken
Brunswick
Will Ney
Bowdeinham
American Legion
Armory
New
Smith-Tobey Post
Legion
Pony League
McMann Field
Morse High School
Nathan White
Bath
Lewiston
Bath Corps
B S
Hyde Camp
Corps
American Legion Hall
State Army
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Morse
Linwood Abbott
Rotary Club
Mrs. Kingsbury
Earl Fowl
Leston
Salvation Army
Stanford
Russell Turner
Charles Rollins
J. F. Mezenski
William Hodgkins
Leslie Logan
Herbert Doughty
Walter Mann
Staten Island
N. Y
Parker Head
Ramon Hamel
Ramon Jr
Angie Mank
Henry Hartleb
Lewis Lowell
Mary Moore
Don Trask
William Mains
Frank Burnell
Somerville
Maine General Hospital
George Watson
Levi Brann
Coopers Mills
Irene Libby
Lisbon Falls
Hazel Young
Mereen Robinson
Albert Gray
Howard Hutchins
Hutchins
Arthur Winslow
Melvin Winslow
North Windham
Clarence Sheffield
Leston Harrington
Lorraine Sheffield
Perkins Island
Earl Lowell
Eugene Ross
Clarence Blaisdell
Augusta
Peter Bush Jr
Leslie Darling
William Cushing
Rock Gardens Inn
Hyde Windlass Co
Bond
Popham Beach
Cox
Television Office