Mary Edge Marries John H MacFayden in Princeton Home
Miss Mary Esther Edge daughter of Governor Walter Evans Edge married John Hayter MacFayden in a private ceremony at Morven Princeton. The couple plans a Maine wedding trip and will reside in Princeton as MacFayden resumes architecture studies in Rome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Engeler
Mary Esther Edge
Walter Evans Edge
John Hayter MacFayden
John A. MacPayden
Duluth
Minn
H. Martin Davidson
Trinity Church
Princeton
N. J
Morven
Benjamin Rush
Philadelphia
Julia Stockton
Elizabeth of
Austria
David G. Farragut
E. Brooke Lee, Jr
Kensington
Art Students* ‘League
New York
National Arts Club
MacFayden
Princeton University
Princeton Graduate School
Maine
Rome
Small Point
The
Edge
Pre nuptial shower for Joan Anderson in Maine home
A pre-nuptial shower was given for Miss Joan Anderson at 220 Oak Street hosted by Mrs. Nellie Hynes. Guests, gifts, and buffet refreshments accompanied the event announcing her forthcoming marriage to Cpl. Thomas J. Curley Jr. of Malden Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joan Anderson
Nellie Hynes
Oak Street
Anderson
Howard LaMonde
Small Point
Cpl
Thomas J. Curley, Jr
Malden
Mass
Lloyd Lesier
Alice McCrater
Margaret Flemming
Beverly Munsey
Joan Edgett
Bettina Snell
Alice Staples
Marion Canacaris
Daphne Cushing
Blanche Blaisdell
Doris Isaacson
Amy Sprague
Barbara Fraser
Paul Saindon
Joanne Estes
Marie Hambiett
Evelyn Moore
Patridge
Winifred McCrater
Costain Serves as Best Man in Lewiston Nuptials
George T. Costain of 47 Granite Street acted as best man for Miss Sylvia Riley of Sabattus and W. John Tardif of Portland at their Lewiston wedding on May 17.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George T. Costain
Granite Street
Sylvia Riley
Sabattus
W. John Tardif
Portland
Lewiston
Bakelite Names New President as West Bath Plant Visit Planned
Morse G. Dial announces Howard S. Bunn will lead Bakelite Company. Bunn’s career spans Carbide and Plastics divisions with leadership roles in Canada England and US testing firms. West Bath plant superintendent Kenneth N. Francisco met Bunn at a Bakelite conference. visit planned this summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morse G. Dial
Union Carbide and Carbon Corp
Howard S. Bunn
Bakelite
Union Carbide
Mr. Bunn
Carbide
Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Co
Carbide and
Carbon Chemicals
Bakelite Company
Canada
Bakelite Limited
England
Canadian Resins and Chemicals Limited
U. S. Testing Co
Philadelphia
Lehigh University
Woolflour
West Bath
Kenneth N. Francisco
Manchester
Bunn
Morse High Teachers Honor Mary Conley at Party
Morse High School English head Miss Mary H. Conley was toasted by about 40 faculty, staff, and friends at the North Edgecomb home of Mr and Mrs Edward J. McCulloch. English teacher Miss Frances Flaherty received a bridal gift as she nears marriage. Principal Raymond W. Farnham and Morse faculty members organized the gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary H. Conley
Morse High School
North Edgecomb
Edward J. McCulloch
Frances Flaherty
Raymond W. Farnham
Catherine E. Leonard
J. Edward Pomeroy
David Y
Clinton D. Wilson
Morse High
Farnham
Modern sealing wax composition explained
A brief note states that modern sealing wax contains shellac turpentine and vermilion but no true wax. The description highlights the deceptive name versus material makeup and hints at common practice in manufacturing.
Varnum Returns to Penobscot for Lodge Anniversary
Bernard Varnum executive director of the Bath Housing Authority spent a night in his boyhood home in Penobscot. He attended Rising Star Lodge of Masons, receiving a Twenty Five Year Pin as a 43 year member. The lodge meets atop the Town Hall built by his father Albert E. Varnum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bernard Varnum
Bath Housing Authority
Penobscot
Rising Star Lodge of Masons
Varnum
Pre-nuptial Shower for Gloria Young in Modest Family Event
Mrs Rupert Snowdon hosted a surprise shower at 10 Andrews Road for Gloria Young daughter of Mr and Mrs Louis H Young of 1369 Washington Street. Gloria will wed William E Milliken son of Mrs Ada Milliken of 133 Oak Street Friday at Winter Street church. Rev Richard J Schaper will perform the ceremony with immediate family present. Gifts were arranged around a white birch tree decorated with snapdragons and a central table holding a paper wedding gown mounted picture of the bride.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elden Emerson
Robert A. Milliken
Washington Street
Louis Young
Ada Milliken
Robert Milliken
Sally Snowden
Rupert Snowden
New York City
Washington
Virginia
Oak Street
Milliken
Morse High School
Ratheon Manufacturing Co
Newton
Mass
Shead Memorial High School
Eastport
Bath Iron Works
William Catlin
Peter Levesque
Portland
Clifton Sprowl
Harold Smith
Damariscotta
Fred Abbott
Wayne
Boothbay Harbor
Gloria Young
Rupert Snowdon
Andrews Road
Miss Young
Louis H. Young
William E. Milliken
Winter Street Church
Richard J. Schaper
Thespians Plan Next Season and Civic Links
The Thespians meet at Mrs. Hill’s home and elect officers led by President Dr. Benjamin Zimmerman. They discuss a June 22 meeting at 390 Washington to choose a play for next year, plan a workshop style organization with director Gus Huse, and coordinate with Brunswick Workshop efforts. The group schedules a July 4 clambake at Marshall camp Small Point and invites new members interested in any program phase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thespians
F. D. Hill
American Red , Cancer Society
The
Lions Fund For
Polio Fund
Benjamin Zimmerman
Bruce Wright
Frances Grainger
Richard Haskell
Albert Thompson
Nathan Watson
F. Waldo Marshall
Pauley Eliason
Sebasco
Beta Sigma Phi
New England
Marshall Camp
Small Point
Constance Carlisle Given Pre Nuptial Shower Before Wedding
Miss Constance Carlisle daughter of Mr and Mrs Horatio Carlisle received a May basket shower Tuesday at the home of Mrs Oscar Adams 12 West Street. Guests included Mrs Eva Quimby and daughter Caro Mrs Margaret Coffill and others. She will marry Joseph Coffill in Georgia after finishing beauty culture school in Lewiston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Constance Carlisle
Horatio Carlisle
Lincoln Street
Oscar Adams
Betty Adams
West Street
Miss Carlisle
Morse High '51
Lewiston
Georgia
Joseph Coffill
Margaret Coffill
Farrin Street
Oscar Coffill
Morse High
Everett Quimby
Carol
Harold Adams
William Adams
Anne Haggett
Beverly White
Gloria Johansen
Lucille Babbige
Carolyn Stackpole
Beverly D’austolo
Beverly Adams
Bath High School Alumni Banquet Scheduled for June 12
At a Bath committee meeting the Bath High School Alumni Association voted to hold the annual banquet on June 12 as requested by the graduating class. Tickets can be purchased or reserved at the office of the superintendents of schools in Bath city, telephone 230. Mrs Dorothy McKenna is in charge of tickets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath High Schoollumni Association
City All
Dorothy McKenna
Bowdoinham Community Notes Include Bird Club and Members
Town meeting planned for June 3 at 7 30 p.m in Town hall with five articles to vote. Pine Tree All Bird Club formed May 25 at Geneva Aera Post Road home. officers include Jacques St. Vice President Mary Wood Winthrop Christine Tobin Augusta Secretary Iman Gardiner Treasurer Cunningham Augusta Governing Board members listed. Refreshments by Jacques and Ruth Palmer. Next meeting June 15 at 2 p.m. at Alice Hanson’s Belgrade Lakes home. Also reports on Progressive 4 H Club supper for mothers with 44 attending and local student Miss Sheila Brown elected to Barry College student office. Several personal notices and obituaries follow including Georgie M Pratt's death with service in Bowdoinham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pine Tree All Bird Club
Geneva
Harold Brown
Erland Curtis
Paul Dow
Dow
Paul, Jr
Lewiston
Sheila Brown
Gardiner High School
Gilbert Brown
Bowdeinham
Ladies Fireman’s Auxiliary
Elmer Jordan
Gardiner General Hospital
Avery Fides
Peter
Vermont
New Hampshire
Rodney MacArthur
Warren Lawrence
Litchfield
Sportman’s Club
James Brice
Westbrook
Philip Carr
Donald Mathieson
Portland
Linwood Hackett
George Hackett
Charles Hackett
New Harbor
Bristol
Vera Heath
Gardiner
Wendell Heenie
Clifton Wendell
Brunswick Hospital
Cleveland Curtis
Philip Nealey
Bath
Claude Gillette
Charles B. Randall
Rae LaCroix
Eastland
Bon voyage tea for Charlotte Hilyard prior to Hawaii trip
Mrs. Charlotte Hilyard a Huse Memorial School third grade teacher received a bon voyage tea at 1238 High Street hosted by Miss Alice Austin and Mrs. Carl Langbehn. She departs Saturday for eight weeks in Hawaii as guest of Miss Alta Brooks with Brooks returning to Portland, Oregon next year to teach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlotte Hilyard
Huse Memorial School
Alice Austin
Carl Langbehn
High Street
Hilyard
Hawaii
Alta Brooks
Huse
Brooks
States
Portland
Ore
Bonnie Lee
Marjorie Boucher
Anna Reed
Bath Boy Wins Prize at Phillips-Andover
Earl Robert Warren, a Phillips-Andover student and son of Dr and Mrs Ralph D Warren of 912 Washington Street, receives the Commons Prize for industry cooperation and unselfishness. He attended Morse High School and was class president in his second year. he graduates June 8 and will enter Yale in the fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phillips-Andover
Earl Robert Warren
Phillips-Andover Academy
Ralph D., Warren
Washington Street
Academy
Earl
Morse High School
Yale
Miss Jean Caton Engaged to Cpl Richard Soule
Miss Jean Ellen Caton daughter of Addi and Mrs. W H Jackson of Seattle Washington becomes engaged to Corporal Richard Ellsworth Soule of the United States Marine Corps. Caton is a 1949 Morse High School graduate employed in the Times business office. Soule, a Wiscasset Academy graduate, served 13 months in Korea and now under observation at the U S Naval Hospital Portsmouth New Hampshire awaits orders to Quantico Virginia with no wedding date set.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jean Ellen Caton
Addi
W H. Jackson
Seattle
Wash
Richard Ellsworth Soule
Caton
Morse High School
the Times
Cpl
Soule
Wiscasset Acade ’ Ee
U. S. Ee
Korea
U.&. Naval Hospital
Portsmouth
N. H
Quantico
Sweet Potatoes and Potatoes: A Distinct Relationship
A note clarifies that the term potato applied to sweet potato is misleading as they are only distantly related. The piece explains the botanical distinction and common naming confusion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Geographics
Navy Boot Training News for Edward Dauphin
Edward Dauphin son of Mr and Mrs Octave Dauphin of West Bath has joined the United States Navy and is now stationed at Bainbridge Maryland for boot training.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Dauphin
Octave Dauphin West Bath
United States Navy
Bainbridge, Md
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Madelyn Wetherbee
School of the Dance
Collette Beers
Callie Norton
Claudia Glynn
Virginia Percy
Sandra Daigle
Nan Akeley
Joan Crocker
Sue Ellen Johnson
Linda Elliott
Susan Merchant
Mary E. Edge
John H. Mfayden
New Jersey
Walter E. Edge
John A. MacFayden
Corp
Thomas J.curley, Jr
Malden, Mass
Bath and Vicinity
First Federal Savings
Loan Association
Front ST Sath
Howard S. Bunn President
MORSE
Mrs. M’culloch
Polar
R. G. Seen
Wassaic
N. Y
Aliace
Front St
Corinda Bas
Ly Denham
Herbert Adams
Bowie
Pauling
Richard
Joe
Belfast
Costes
Frank Thorne
Champalin
Hannene Atient
W. Or Nee
Bangor
Georgie M. Pratt
Bowdoinham
Minerva Campbell Pratt
William S. Pratt
Comfort Branch Sunshine Society
Thelma Pratt
Ruth Hanson
Ralph Champlain
Pas Ror
Stooges
Ae Pee
Spie
Tod Sever
Eitt
Ward
Jean E. Caton
Opera House
Esther Williams Ji
June Mlyson Kennedy - Merrill
Yvonne McCreade Carlo
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