Local residents share weekends and summer plans across towns
Woburn residents Mr and Mrs Elliott Ray spent a weekend with J K and Mrs Allen Little hosted guests. Gardiner Rogers weekended at Meadowbrook camp. Bernard Plummer at his cottage. J Arthur Stevens' niece Mrs Totman and family visited. Susan McDowell moved to Manley cottage at Small Point Beach. Terry family to arrive Searsner Sewall cottage at Small Point Beach. Raymond Trott and family arrived to spend the summer at Small Point Beach. Walter Volmer returned from Ashdale to Larchmont New York. Jean Ardelle Hunt joined Morse High French club at Reid's Park. Richard Cushman of Deer Island visited Sebasco Sunda. George A Sprague of Cham was a Sunday guest of sister Bessie Sprague. Clifford Slocum stays with mother Mrs Jane Bartlett and is employed at Cushmans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elliott Ray
Woburn
Mass
J. K
Allen Little
Bernard Henderson
Gardiner Rogers
Meadowbrook
Bernard Plummer
J. Arthur Stevens
Stevens
Totman
Susan McDowell
Terry Cottage
Manley
Small Point Beach
Jean
Ardelle Hunt
Morse High Lee
Reid's Park
Richard D. Cushman
Eeland
Sebasco Sunda
George A. Sprague
Csham
Bessie L. Sprague
Clifford Slocum
Jane Bartlett
Cushmans
William Harrisnd
Judy
Troy Haverrived
Sebasco
Sumter
Willard Lowell
Memorial Hospital
Elroy
Gon Elroy
Jerry Jarrlett
Coffin
Arthur Wallace
Brunswick
Sumner
Wallace
Irene Humphrey
Jerry Bartlett
Ralph Sleeper
Mechanic Falls
Bath
Ransel Stead
Candy’s Harbor
the Nazarene Church
P. Edward DeBerg
Squantum
Harry Felter
New York State
Sebasco Lodge
Frank Beevan
New York
Beevan
California
Harold Bradshaw
Boothbay
Ledgewood
Bowdoin College
Horse Shoe Beach
Bates College
Lewiston
South Beach
Old Fort
Gilbert Atwood
Theresa Cook
Small Point
Stanley W. Perkins
Roy Green
Sylvia
Phippsburg Center
Marguerite McNulty
Francis T. Parker
Salem
Albert V. Stolpe
Winchester
J. Walter Snipe
Priscilla Rainey
Earle B. Perkins
The
Center
Charles A. Shepard, Jr
Kennebec
Lester Morse
Winnegance
J. C. Perkins
Dixie Oliver
Gail
Satae
Harry L. Day
Harvey Hartley
Popham
Willard
Roger Oliver
Jobe
Everett J. Lambert
Melrose
Raymond Wyman
Perkins
Albert Cook
Portland
Blanchard E. Crowley
Bruce McInnis
Plainville
Alice Weston
Weston Cottage
J. Dwight Kinmouth
Hackensack
N. J
Albert V. Staples
Everett Oliver
Edward P. Thomas
Popham Road
Francis T
Bates Students Win in Atlantic Monthly Essay Contest
Two Bates College students, Beverly Jones and Roscoe C. Winston, placed among the top 20 in the Atlantic Monthly competition out of 242 essays from 100 colleges. Prof. Robert G. Berkelman announced the results from Bates English Department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewiston
Bates College
Atlantic Monthly
Robert G. Berkelman
Bates
Beverly Jones
Westbrook
T. S. Eliot
Roscoe C. Winston
Small Point Beach
Parker Head P T A plans summer sale and school updates
Parker Head P T A holds refreshments social hour and announces a summer sale with cooked food. Rummage and grabs will be sold though fancy work is omitted. The school closes June 12 and reopens in September with grade shifts and new staff. A free movie at Town Hall and donations support film costs. Many local residents visit Portland and surrounding towns as scholarships and community projects proceed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parker
Walter Cushing
H. Macy Whitehead
Moses
Albert Gray
Reginald Gordon
Brunswick
Phippsburg Center
Parker Head
Parker Head School Improvement League
Earl Lowell
Arthur Brown
Portland
Russell Turner
Leslie Wilson
New Hampshire
Joseph
Kenneth
Patricia Paulin
Boyd Bailey and
Perkins Island
Sheffield
Stanton Dozois
Gray
Lowell
Lorraine Skolfield
Helen B. Hemingway
University of Maine
Miss Skolfield
U. of M
Smith
Bath
Jeremiah Bartlett
Sebasco
Alston Oliver
Eugene Ross
Augusta
Ross
Leon Ross
Falmouth
Anita King
Herbert Dennison
Beatrice Dennison
Yarmouth
USN
Newport
R. I
Frances Lander
New Haven
Conn
James Chambers
California
W. T. Wyman
Chambers
Survey Division
Army
Ensign L. D. Lowell
Japan
Korea
Titania
Castine
Ensign Sam Gamache
Rockland
Donald Logan
Moran Towing expands Portland operations naming Moore GM
Madison A. Moore, former service supervisor at Cleveland Diesel, named vice president and general manager of Moran Towing Portland. Nathan Thompson named president. Moran takes over Central Wharf Towboat Co. port operations as Christine Moran tug ships in from New York to boost harbor service. Admiral Edmund Moran notes Portland’s growing importance with a Montreal pipeline terminus and oil-tanker traffic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Moore
Portland
Christine Moran
New York City
Maine
Admiral Moran
Moran
New York
Montreal
Bath Canning Co Opens Sardine Packing Season
Bath Canning Co starts the 1951 sardine packing season with 200 workers and 1650 bushels on hand. Fish quality is excellent and will be continued to be brought to Bath by company carriers Ruth and Mary and Lou Anne from Small Point and Kennebec Point.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Canning Co
Bath
Ruth and Mary
Lou Anne
Small Point
Kennebec Point
Lait and Plants Return from Moosehead Lake Fishing Trip
Harry Lait along with Chester Plant and Wallace Plant returned Sunday from Moosehead lake after completing a fishing trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Lait
Chester Plant
Wallace Plant
Moosehead Lake
Sebasco Jottings for Last Week
Sebasco gossip notes arrivals departures and visits at Sebasco Lodge and nearby homes. The Harris family Judy Harris and Willard Lowell welcomed a newborn son at Memorial hospital. Several locals and visitors including Capt Elroy Coffin Rev Ransel Stead and Rev Harry Felter traveled or stayed for the summer season.
Contest Extended for City Envelopes in Bath
The Bath city slogan contest for envelopes is extended one week to June 2. A $5 prize will go to the winner chosen by judges City Council Chairman Rodney E. Ross Jr and H. Rodney Brooke Bath Chamber of Commerce president. Entries must be 10 to 12 words max and may include a small sketch. Mail entries to the city manager.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Rodney E. Ross, Jr
H. Rodney Brooke
Registered Holstein Friesian Bull Change of Ownership
P O Rogers of Phippsburg recently acquired a registered Holstein Friesian bull from Round Top Farms. The Holstein Friesian Association of America recorded the ownership transfer for the animal named Roto Sir Hazel. The association issued 2 612 registry and transfer certificates to Maine breeders in 1950.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. O. Rogers
Phippsburg
Round Top Farms
Holsten-Friesian Association of America
Brattleboro
Maine
Meadowbrook Road in Best Spring Condition in Years
Residents of Phippsburg say Meadowbrook road is in its best spring condition in many years praising the road commissioner's work and the local maintenance effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phippsburg
Meadowbrook
Swanton Reenters U S Army Air Corps Service
Joseph Swanton Bowdoin 50 son of Mr and Mrs Carl B Swanton of Front Street has reentered the U S Army Air Corps. He is stationed at Brookley Army Air Base Alabama as a clinical officer in a large hospital with the Medical Corps. He completed Camp McPherson six week course before reporting to his permanent base and has been commissioned second lieutenant. He served with the Army Air Force over two years in World War II and was about to sail for foreign duty when peace was declared.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Swanton
Bowdoin ‘50
Carl B. Swanton
Front Street
U. S. Army Air Corps
Brookley Army Air Base
Alabama
Camp McPherson
U. S. Army
Air Force
Mrs Anne Palmer a Guest at 390 Front Street
Miss Anne Palmer of Harpswell Center visits her brother and wife Mr and Mrs Ralph Palmer at 390 Front Street as a guest of the family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne Palmer
Harpswell Center
Ralph Palmer
Front Street
Popham Beach Community Edges Through Summer Weekends
Sunday church services were led by Rev H Macy Whitehead with follow up by Rev George Cole of Portland at Parker Head. Fostered by local clubs, many residents and visitors from Bath and various towns enjoyed cottages, clam bakes, and scenic tours along Popham Beach and Horse Shoe Beach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. Macy Whitehead
Parker Head
George Cole
Portland
Popham Circle
Lobster Supper Benefits West Point Recreation
Good attendance at Bodwell grange lobster supper Friday served by West Point residents. Proceeds go to benefit the West Point Recreation association. Various locals from Cox's Head Bath Swampscott Gray Parker Head Five Islands and nearby cottages visited or called over the weekend including Mr and Mrs M F Goodwin and Mr and Mrs Ernest Wood. Continued on page seven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bodwell Grange
West Point
M. F. Goodwin
Cox’s Head
West Point Recreation Association
L. H. Thayer
Bath
Wyman Farm
Ayer
P. J. Lewis
Swampscott
Mass
Sarah E. Wilbur
Martha Sanborn
Stanton C. Dozois
Julia B. Dozois
Nathaniel Perry
Bay Point
Five Islands
Robinhood
Ernest Wood
Perkins Island Light
Gray
Earl Lowell
Parker Head
Dozois Cottage
Jesse Allen, Jr
Allen Cottage
Mrs
Vernon Phil
Bath area to hire more day haul workers for bean harvests
The Bath Maine Employment Security Commission office announces expanded recruitment for day haul workers as snap beans and other crops expand. Manley H. Grant returns as Farm Placement Representative to coordinate school-based enlistment, with supervision, transportation, and daily pay for youths, plus invites parental registrations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Brunswick
Seth W. Thornton
Maine Employment Security Commission
Manley H. Grant
Thornton
Grant
Bath Chamber Seeks Local Listings For Rentals
The Bath Chamber of Commerce reports many inquiries from out of state residents about hotel rooms furnished cottages chartered fishing boats and small motorboats. The secretary asks interested parties to mail details to Box 311 per the advertising column in the daily paper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Chamber of Commerce
Daily Paper
Soldier and wife arrive for furlough from Fort Bliss
Pfc. Hugh E. Madden and his wife have arrived from Fort Bliss El Paso Texas to spend a two weeks furlough with his father H Joseph Madden on Dike road. Mrs Madden is the former Muriel Beal of Woolwich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugh E. Madden
Fort Bliss
el Paso
Texas
H. Joseph Madden
Dike Road
Brownies Troop 10 Meet at Corliss Street Baptist Church
Bluebird Brownies Troop 10 met at Corliss Street Baptist Church vestry led by Mrs. Zylpha Richardson assisted by Mrs. Duncan Farrell and Mrs. Vinal King. Dues and attendance were recorded, with a session on Tenderfoot work and a game period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluebird Brownies
Bluebird
Corliss Street Baptist Church
Zylpha Richardson
Duncan Farrell
Vinal King
Martha Pratt
Juliet Low
Judith Libby
Linda Ames
Sandra Hathorne
Janet King
Farrell
Olive Scammon
Peter Pan Brownies Meet At Grace Church
Troop 11 leaders Mrs. Ralph Caré and Mrs. Thomas supervised budget jars as Ann Russell and Edna Sinclair watched. Girls submitted cookie money and are reminded to bring funds next week. Tenderfoot work continued and younger Brownies colored designs for a party napkin project. Applications for Day due by June 4 to Mrs. Card or Mrs. Aikenhead. Meeting closed with the Good Night Tunnel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Pan Brownies
Grace Episcopal Church
Ralph Caré
Thomas
Ann Russell
Edna Sinclair
Fiy-Ups
Card
Cub Scouts Pack 57 Holds Final May Meeting
Cub Scouts Pack 57 led by Carlton Pye meets May 25 at Beacon Street Methodist Church for a circus themed program with a circus movie. All members and parents urged to attend a planning session for June and a day outing to Small Point is planned for June.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlton Pye
Beacon Street Methodist Church
Small Point
Scouts Cleanup Trip at Narrows Lake Camp
Seven Scouts from Troop 57 Beacon Street Methodist church joined Rev. Howard F. Cramer to clean the Narrows lake camp site of the Methodist Conference. They relaunched a wintered swimming float, cleaned grounds, and swam in Narrows lake. Explorer Patrol plans a Lambert Park Hall dance from 7 to 11 with chaperones. proceeds fund a late spring camping trip to Alla in June or July.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beacon Street Methodist Church
Winthrop
Howard F. Cramer
Narrows Lake
Glenn Carter
William Chubbuck
Richard Crabtree
Fred Fox
Walter Hunt
Edgar McBrine
Richard Towle
Troop 57
Lambert Park Hall
Joint Meeting Highlights for Local Scout Troops
A joint meeting was held Wednesday afternoon by Bobolink Brownies Troop 17 and Pine Tree Intermediates Troop 1 at a local venue. Leaders reported collaborative activities and plans for upcoming community service projects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bobolink
Pine Tree
Winter Street Troop 55 Camporee Call and Court of Honor
Scout troop 55 requires all attendees for the Camporee at Camp Hinds to attend the Monday 6:30 meeting. Food and transport provided. only registered boys qualify. A Court of Honor will award merit badges and advancement pins. George Langbehn to receive Life and Star awards. Explorer Crew attends Boothbay Harbor rendezvous this weekend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winter Street
Camp Hinds
George Langbehn
Explorer
Boothbay Harbor
Troop 93 and 99 Meet at General Congregational Church
Scouts met Tuesday evening at General Congregational Church with flag salute and Scout laws. Troop 99 is a new group with Don Lockhart as Scoutmaster and a full upcoming schedule. Regular meetings are Tuesdays at Rendezvous Boothbay Harbor. Four boys will attend Memorial Day parade on May 30 and June 1 2 and 3 Scout trips to the Council Camporee at Camp Hinds Panther Pam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armory
Shean
Ceneral Congregational Church
Ceneral Church
Don Lockhart
Boothbay Harpor
Camp Hinds
Panther Pam
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Victor Stevens
Arlington, Mass
Burt S. Lonn
Rose Street
India
George Stacey
Florence Rollins
Helen Gagnon
Gloria Robinson
Leroy Perkins
Dennis
William Schreiter
Stephen Hirster
Lisbon Falls
Leo ‘Hamel
Ashdale
H. D. Mank
J. Frank Mezenski
Quonset Point
Rhode Island
Eva Hoar
Frances Morong
di Costa
Thornton Percy
Turner McCarty
George Wilson
W. A. Lowell
Charles Storer
William Kraft
Desmond’s
Dad
Graduation
van Heusen
Phoenix Sport Sox
Desmond
Madison A. Moore
Moran Towing Co
Port of
Flying Service
Popham Beach
Cox
Dugway
Utah
International
Peter Pan
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