Honor Given to Lieut Col Robert E Doe in Washington
Lieut Col Robert E Doe of Montsweag received the Legion of Merit in Washington from Col Omer O Nuer chief of the Military Procurement Service Division Adjutant General's Office. Doe earned the award for meritorious service as Adjutant General of the Third Infantry Division in Korea from Jan 1950 to Jun 1951.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert E. Doe
Montsweag
Washington, D. C
Legion of It
Omer O. Nuerchief
Military Procurement Service Division
Adjutant General's Office
Doe
Utant General's Corps
Third Infantry Division
Korea
Aaron L. Varney
Cieal
Wiscasset
James L. Powell
Vanceboro
University of Maine
St. Philip’s Church
St. Philip’s
Samuel J. Sewall
Lincoln Lodge
A. F
A. M
Villa Munsey
Beagles
Central Maine Beagle Club
Waldoboro
Eastern River
Sue
Daisy Bee
Billy
Dolly
Marguerite Gybbon
John Grant Rafter
Manhasset
N. Y
Huntoon Hill Grange
Brunswick
Bowdoin
St. Jayehtet Hospital
Boothbay
Hart
Mary Grant Rafter
Bath Road
John
Ada Coffin
Ohio
Davis Island
Peter Morrison
Solon
Neil McKinnon
Main Street
Arizona
Richard Foye
Bath
Stanley E. Dodge
Isle Au Haut
Charles Dodge
Alfred D. Dowling
James L. Dodge
Son Ivan
Birch Point
Paul H. Huber Dead at 46 in Local Tragedy
Paul H. Huber, 46, died at a local scene while an investigation continues. Authorities have not released further details about the cause or circumstances surrounding his death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul H. Huber
Quincy Man Rearing Farm After Engineering Career
Quincy Indiana native son of John H and Wellie L Huber. Construction engineer for years then farmer for five. Survived by widow, a daughter Mrs James Harris of Norfolk Virginia, three sons Gordon Ross and Paul Jr all of Wiscasset, a sister Mrs Charles Hale, and brothers Edward Wilbur and William, all of Indiana. Funeral at Amesbury-White Funeral Home Gardiner with Rev Robert P Frazier of St Philip's Wiscasset officiating. Interment Greenlaw Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quincy, Ind
John H. and
Wellie L Huber
James Harris
Norfolk
Gordon, Ross and
Paul, Jr
Wiscasset
Charles Hale
Edward Wilbur
William
Indiana
Gardiner
Amesbury- White
Robert P. Frazier
St. Philip’s Church
Greenlaw Cemetery
West Pointers Change Policy at Town Hall Meet
Phippsburg P T A adopted a policy change adding one reel of a Woody Woodpecker short to pure color educational films. William Blaisdell ran the sound. Bealer Berquist conducted services. playground deed approval grows. local families report fishing and community activities. Halloween square dance planned. Dr Herbert Lamson lecture tickets coordinated by West Point groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berquist
Linda Gilliam
Rose Wallace
Phippsburg P. T. A
Woody Woodpecker
William Blaisdell
Bealer Berquist
Christopher Wallace
Oscar A. Gilliam
Merle E
Mina B
Mr. Wallace
Gilliam
Tuesday Irving
Bew York
York Brothers
Myra M. Wallace
Girl Scout
Everett Wallace
Eastbrook
Jean Scott
Sarah Gilliam
Betty Wallace
Freeman Gilliam
Victrola
Riverside Hall
Morse High School
Esther Alexander
Marion Smith
West Point
Herbert D. Lamson
Gordon Alden
Phipps- Durgew Peat
Winnegance and
Phippsbueg Pe Twas
The
Friendship Club
Vida Gilliam
Arthur Doyle
West Point Community Church
Susan A. Wallace
Mittens
Brunhilda Scott
Scott
Solar Lodge Meeting Set for November Fifth
Solar Lodge F and A M will convene on November fifth at 7 30 p m. Regular business will be transacted and the E A degree will be worked.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Solar Lodge
A. M
Rummage sale set for November 2 at post home
Mrs. Cora DeWolfe announces the VFW auxiliary rummage sale will be held November 2 at the post home with Vera Talbot as chairman and Hazel Grant assisting. Mrs Ruth Champion is named chairman of the annual Christmas fair, now a standout event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cora DeWolfe
Vera Talbot
Hazel Grant
Ruth Champion
Woolwich Benefit Supper Supports Memorial Hospital
A Woolwich Good Will Club benefit supper realises a $50 pledge for the Memorial Hospital. The annual event features baked beans salad and home made pie with Miss Florence Getchell directing dining and Mrs. Edith Rice kitchen. Proceeds fund Sagadahoc Ferry street lights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memorial Hospital
Good Will Club
Hospital
Florence Getchell
Harry Fitch
Clarence Campbell
Margaret Sylvester
Percy Bailey
Pearl Reed
Edith Rice
Mary Hall
Maud Orr
Gertrude Marston
Ethelyn Johnson
Beulah Crocker
Evangelist Rev Weiss To Lead Nazarene Revival Here
Rev A G Weiss of Olathe Kansas an evangelist with the Church of the Nazarene arrives Thursday to conduct revival services at the local Nazarene church each evening except Saturday through Nov 11. He has ten years in pastoral work eight in Alberta Canada and two in Olathe. He is a musician and singer and will share his 1917 18 Russian revolution escape story. Evening services at 730 pm with Sunday mornings at 11 and evenings at 7 on Nov 4 and 11. Public invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. G. Weiss
Olathe
Kansas
Church of the Nazarene
Nazarene
Weiss
Alberta
Canada
D. Swarth
Elm Street Welder Thomas Malia Visits Parents
Thomas F. Malia, a welder in the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard welding department, spent the weekend with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Malia of Elm Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas F. Malia
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
Thomas Malia
Elm Street
Record of AJRCA Membership Surpasses Nineteen Million
The American Junior Red Cross reports a membership total exceeding 19 million, reflecting broad youth engagement and nationwide outreach during the period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Junior Red Cross
West Bath church closes season with service
West Bath Methodist church completed its services Sunday afternoon marking a successful season led by Rev. Dr. C. C. Sargent of Bath. The town's West Bath P T A plans a Thursday meeting at Littlefield schoolhouse and many local families were mentioned in visiting and greetings.
Central League Parish Supper Held at Central Church
The Central League of Central Congregational church hosted its annual parish supper at the parish house on Monday evening. Mrs Edward J Mann presided as general chairman with a well arranged dining room featuring fall centerpieces. Mrs A George Moses served as chair, assisted by Mrs Percy Low and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
League of Central Church
Central Congregational Church
Edward J. McMann
A. George Moses
Tee
Percy Low
Arthur D. Brown
Frank Sylvester
Edward. Clifford
Wall Street Named for 1653 Dutch Wall
The article notes Wall Street earned its name from a wall built in 1653 by Gov. Peter Stuyvesant of New Amsterdam. The wall marked the city's furthest protective boundary and became the street's historic origin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wall Street
Wall
Gov
Peter Stuyvesant
New Amsterdam
West Bath Extension Service Meeting at Grange Hall
West Bath extension group met at Grange Hall for an all day session led by home demonstration agent Mrs. Beryl Barton Hill from Lewiston. She discussed giving the home the new look with lighting and picture placement. A noon health square meal cost 50 cents per person. The afternoon covered lighting changes and switches. A short business meeting approved a $5 token to Grange for hall use. Plans to attend Maine Extension Association in Turner on Nov 1 with a bus from Nequasset. Nominating committee named for next officers. next topic Pressing Pays Dividends. 16 members attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bousfield
Keers
Robert Tanner
Long Beach
Calif
Achors College
Clarence Tanner
Robert
Cyril Bousfield
Bar Harbor
Neal Bousfield
Maine Seacoast
Maine State Cemetery Association
DeWitt Hotel
Lewiston
Portland
Days Ferry Community Club
Heard Whittum
Lemuel Preble
Days Ferry
Bath Memorial Hospital
Woolwich Grange
Grange Hall
Thaddeus Reed
Lincoln County
Reed
Huntoon Hill Grange
Herbert Leeman
Chester Leeman
Wayne
Barley Neck
Mrs
Norris Waltz
Mr. Waltz
Emma Waltz
Waldoboro
West Bath Extension Association
Beryl Barton Hill
Lily Donnel
Lula Lemont
Mildred Card
Lizzie Haggett
Pauline Belanger
St Bath Grange
Maine Extension Association
Turner
West Bath
Nequasset Association
Ida Stover
Ella Coombs
Miller
Persis Miller
Priscilla Estes
Emily McMann
Eva Kenney
Emma Larrabek
West Bath Grange Installs Officers and Hosts Supper
West Bath Grange held a Monday meeting announcing a semi public installation of officers on November 5 with a supper for members before the business session. The public will attend the installation at 8 30. Cleveland Mariner will install. A grange paper drive is ongoing. The sewing group was served a turkey supper by Joseph W. Larrabee prior to the meeting. The program featured Lucy Armstrong assisted by Dora Collins with a varied lineup of vocal, piano, saxophone and harmonica pieces, a question and answer stunt, recitations, and instrumental solos. The evening closed with refreshments and dancing by Carver's Orchestra.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath
Lucy Armstrong
the Grange
Dora Collins
Esther Andrews
Barbara Parks
Doris White
Ivan Trever
Mrs. Andrews
Laura Mulcahy
Madelyn Kronstrand
James McDougal
Donald Coombs
Peter Pinson
Harry Lauder
Grannie
David Fields
Alice Smith
Anne Emero
Claire de Lune
Major Bowes
Carver
Pakistan Eyes Record Wool Export This Year
Pakistan aims to export 25 million pounds of wool this year to world markets. Strong demand follows reduced supply as China halts exports, India bans wool shipments, and Tibet remains unable to export amid regional tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Karachi
Pakistan
China
India
Tibet
Church Family Night at Wesley Church Friday
Rev. Harold C. Bonnell will speak on Out of Great Tribulation at 7 p.m. at Wesley Methodist church. The event promotes sponsorship of a displaced family and includes singing, recreation, and refreshments. Mrs. A B Butterfield urged attendees to call before Thursday noon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold C. Bonnell
Wesley Methodist Church
Central Square Baptist Church
Portland
Wesley Church
Bonnell
World Council of Churches In
Europe
United States
Germany
Austria
D. P
States
New England
Bath
Church Board of Missions
A. B. Butterfield
Visitors Attend Sheldon Home Weekend Gathering
Guests from Presque Isle and Bangor attended at the Misses Harriette and Carolyn Sheldon home last Sunday. A Methodist church sermon by Rev. Frank M. Fellows addressed The Validity of Faith in Time of Upheaval. A baked bean supper at Mrs. Emily Lilly’s Friday funded school playground equipment. Senator Margaret Chase Smith received a United Nations cake with six candles and a flag for each nation during the Knox Lincoln Extension event in Thomaston where Mrs. Harland McCobb gave the cake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sagadahoc Ferry
Woolwich
Shirley Hemingway
Good Will Club
Montsweag
D. W. Staffeld
Salvation Army
United States
Center Baptist
Daniel W. Staffeld
Montsweag Extension Association
Knox-Lincoln Counties Extension Association
Brian M. Jewett
Norman Drummond
Karl Rosenwald
Gertrude Phinney
Perley Ater
Zina Eaton
Forrest Baker
Frank J. Walker
Elizabeth Hathorne
U. S
Margaret Chase Smith
James Hay
Sagadahoe Ferry
Bath Memorial Hospital
Carroll Perkins
Days Ferry
New England Baptist Hospital
Boston
Emily Gainsley
James Thorpe
Caldonia
N. S
Burton Packard
Sebec
Bonita Springs
Fla
Packard
Arthur Beane
Florida
Moosehead
Ronald Oulton
Bath
Eleanor Casey
Maurice Mallard
Elva Edwards
Mary St. Pierre
Edith Rice
Merice Mallard
Cynthia Phillips
Sagadahoec Ferry
Center Baptist Church
Christine Hawthorne
Clarence Tanner
the Sun
Harriette
Carolyn Sheldon
Thurl Hewes
Presque Isle
Stanley, Jr
Nancy
Charles Carson
Bangor
Frank M. Fellows
Methodist Church
Emily Lilly
United Nations
U.N
Knox-Lincoln County
Thomaston
Smith
Harland McCobb
South Dressden
Dresden
Surprise party honors Mrs Jennie Rice in Bath
Mrs Jennie M Rice of Bath was feted with a surprise birthday Halloween party at her daughter’s 9 Noble Avenue home. Guests included relatives from Bath East Brunswick Wiscasset and North Whitefield as well as four grandchildren, gifts and buffet refreshments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jennie M. Rice
Bath
Ciro di Conzo
Noble Avenue
Rice
Ida Richardson
Alice Sawyer
Marie Andrews
Polly Heffron
John Doyle
Sunny Saunders
Charles Haley
Edward Hudson
Arline Trainor
Betty Trainor
Thomas Trainor
William Davenport, Jr
LeRoy Card, Jr
Gail de Conzo
Theodore Downs
East Brunswick
LeRoy Card
Wiscasset
Wilpare Davenport
North Whiteeld
Length of Amazon River Measured from Mouth to Source
A record notes the Amazon river stretches about 2 900 miles from its mouth to the distant sources where its three far tributaries begin. The figure reflects a historic measurement in the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amazon River
Fishermen arrive at Favorite for herring trip with Capt Pete Burns
Alvin Brewer Ira Alley and Carlton Scott reached the Favorite with nets and boats to join Capt Pete Burns and crew for a herring catch. The Royal River Canning Co carrier arrived Friday to take the catch to Yarmouth. Various Bath area residents visited Bay Point and nearby cottages, with health updates and social notes including a Bath Memorial hospital patient improving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alvin Brewer
Ira Alley
Carlton Scott
Pete” Burns
Royal River Canning Co
Pete Burns
Yarmouth
Carroll Davis
Son
Bath
First Beach
Kenne Crafts
Mechanic Falls
Stanley Crafts
Crafts
Kenneth Crafts
Bay Point
George Renaud
Bath Iron Works
Andrew Butterfield
Blanche Butterfield
Merle Niles
Thompson
R. Gordon
Brunswick
L. M. Spinney
Nina Cummings
Walter Delano
David
Talbot
Dianne Evelyn
Jack Harmer
Philadelphia
Hope Reed
Arthur Ashton
Woolwich
George Dutil
Paul Berry
Auburn
Berry Cottage
Thomas Hagan
Frederick Jackson
Jefferson
Beverly Townsend
Portland
John Hart
Bath Memorial Hospital
John
Charles Burgess
Eugene Butterfield
Butterfield
Sumner Mains
Harold Miller
Brattleboro
Road to Dresden begins in Wiscasset project
Contractor Ralph Romano Jr of Portland starts 3.3 miles of Route 27 road work in Wiscasset stretching toward Dresden Mills. Culverts are being installed ahead of grading as crews rush to place the surface next summer. Project runs one mile north of Wiscasset village to Dresden Mills with 20 foot pavement and 3 foot shoulders. Robert G Martin named resident engineer by State Highway Commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Romano, Jr
Portland
Wiscasset
Wiscasset Village
Dresden Mills Village
State Highway Commission
Robert G. Martin
Bath visitor’s aunt Mrs. Giggey dies in St John
Mrs. Paul Moore of 473 Washington Street received word of the death of her aunt Mrs. George Giggey of St. John New Brunswick. The notice states the death occurred on Tuesday after visits to Bath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Moore
Washington Street
George Giggey
St. John, N. B
Giggey
Bath
Mrs Churchey Guests Aunt in York Street Visit
Mrs Bertha Churchey of Gar diner was a guest Tuesday of her aunt Mrs Charles A Corliss on York street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bertha Churchey of
Gardiner
Charles A. Corliss
York Street
Car Franchise Available to Local Auto Firms in Cambridge
R. S. Robie, Inc announces a rent a car franchise available to a responsible automobile agency garage or filling station. For information or appointment write 120 Potter Street Cambridge 42 Mass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. S. Robie, Inc
Responsible Automobile
Potter Street
Cambridge
Mass
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Mademoiselle
Front Street
West Pointers
Cash
Ier
Nazarene Church
West Bath Methodist Church
C. C. Sargent
Owen Thompson
Waterville
Percy Holbrook
Mable Parker
Haverhill
Eva Fraser
Bobby
Lynn
Robert Thompson
F. W. Deehan
Laura Whitmore
B. F. Whitmore
Robert Killiam
Warren Davis
David King
Joan
Mary Lou
Carl Robinson
Leon
Robert Burnham
Stanley
Irving Burnham
Trafton Swain
York Village
Senator
Joseph W. Larrabee
Fred Larrabee
Harold Swain
Florence Neiley
David Small
L. D. Small
Dana Small
Leon Bates
John McNary
Beechmont
Bernice Oliver
Lucy Ann Brown
Eulelia Pray
Carl Graves
Arlene Pendleton
Islesboro
Warren Babbidge
Rangeley
Philip Boudreau
Leonard Smith
A. A. Hitchcock
Strackville
Bath Council
Huse Group
Maine Association
West Bath Grange
Wesley
Jennie Rice
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