Phippsburg Notes On Local Activity And Visitors
Phippsburg community items describe preteens at Dromore grange and Mr Catterson from Damariscotta and Florida finishing work then joining family for winter. Gunners hunt ducks and deer. several out in search Saturday but only for meat. Tommy Morse returns home from U S service after visiting France and Germany. reports Berchtesgaden ruins and snowy slopes. Various locals attend funerals, visits, and home improvements. many mention residents at Bath and Small Point, with reflections on winter readiness and community ties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dromore
Catterson
Damariscotta
Florida
Catter
Flor
Tommy Morse
U. S
Tommy
King
France
Germany
Algium
Normandy
Edges
Hitler
Berchtesgaden
Bobby Wilson
Dickeyckson
Richard Morse
Blaisdell
Ashington Street
Bath
Walter C. Rogers
Emmy Wyman
Anton Wyman
Wilburman
Rufus W. Lombard
John Moore
Hn Davis
Maurice Pye
Charles Pye
Carl McIntire
Loyall Sewall
John Kyne
Andere
Petlock Family Weekend Visit to Boston
Mr and Mrs Louis Petlock of Raymond Court spent the weekend in Boston with their daughter who is attending school there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Petlock
Raymond Court
Boston
Bath Veterans Service Center debated by Maine officials
The Bath Veterans Service Committee chairs a plan to establish a local Veterans Service Center with selective service guidance. State officials from Selective Service and Veterans Affairs endorse local information centers in larger communities and propose a $5,000 annual budget to staff a center serving Sagadahoc County residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Frank H. Reinoehl
Fred W. Rowell
Division of Veterans’ Affairs
Rowell
Reinoch
Harold M. Hayes
Selective Service
Veterans Administration
Veterans Service Committee of Maine
Maine Council of Veterans Affairs
Reinoehl
Sagadahoc County
Maine
Sanford
Westbrook
Saco
Biddeford
Lewiston
Old Town
Portland
Bangor
Maine court sets record with fifty divorces in a day
Sagadahoc Superior Court Justice R B Williamson adjourned after issuing a record fifty divorce decrees in a single session. Decrees cover Cruel and Abusive Treatment and Non-support with names of spouses, towns, and some foreign addresses among the cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sagadahoc Superior Court
R. B. Williamson
Williamson
Elizabeth Strangfeld
Bath
Henry G. Strangfeld
New Rochelle
N. Y
Arthur E. Brown
Madeline H. Brown
Bessie G. Sedgley
Richmond
Raymond Sedgley
Evelyn F. Herrick
Samuel E. Herrick
Honolulu
Frank W. Chase
Carolyn M. Chase
Shirley E. Bishop
Arthur W. Bishop, Jr
Farmingdale
Harold F. Hunt
Georgetown
Marjorie M Hunt
Shirley L Safford
Byron S. Safford
West Bath
Elaine F. Norton
Nelson A. Norton
Sadie B. Hansen
Sigurd Hansen
Brooklyn
May K. Preble
Woolwich
Clarence A. Preble
Mabel E. Ansett
Charles H. Ansett
Dorothy E. Paulin
Joseph G. Paulin
Rose F. Jean
Alfred L. Jean
Ralph H. Robinson
Mae Robinson
Vivian A. Beal
Frank A. Beal
William E Chapman
Nellie E. Chapman
Mary L. Womack
Olan M. Womack
Winthrop
Mass
Florence A. Jones
Clyde M. Jones
Thelma L. Zizka
James J. Zizka
Fairhaven
Lillian D. Boyd
Harry W. Boyd
Portland
Gladys E. Fleming
Donald F. Fleming
Ruth E. Pinkham
Joseph A. Pinkham
Esther A. Wildes
Bowdoinham
Gilbert W. Wildes
Elsie L. Jordan
George E. Jordan
Staten Island
Frederic M. Henderson
Shelby
Miss
Hollis E. Small
Doris H. Small
Ernestine M. Lebel
Phippsburg
Edmund J. Lebel
Gladys I. Cunningham
Curtis C. Cunningham
Etta C. Stinson
Arthur P. Stinson
Donald C. Laney
Esther M. Laney
Ida C. Nordlund
Raymond V. Jordan
Phyllis A. Kingsbury
William R. Kingsbury
Brunswick
Beatrice E. Harmon
Topsham
Ernest R. Harmon
Rebecca J. Doten
Floyd E. Doten
Dorothy H. Knight
Sidney B. Knight
Evelyn L. Pushard
Otis L. Pushard
Marjorie I. McRae
Donald M. McRae
Gorton
Ethel Kolarik
George T. Kolarik
N.ys
Squirrels Stash Nuts in Tractor Exhaust
A Winnegance man found acorns pouring from his tractor exhaust after a period of disuse. Squirrels had stored a winter supply in the pipe, blocking the exhaust until taps released the load. The anecdote ends with a note about Australia’s first white settlement in 1788.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John G. Morse, Jr
Winnegance
Ut. J. Orse
Mr. Squirrel
Australia
Sydney
1788
Popham Beach art show opens in Boston at Doll and Richards
Stephen Etnier presents twenty nine paintings at 140 Newbury Street Boston opening November nineteen. The collection includes works done at Popham during the summer. Critics praise his landscape style lacking prettiness and ugliness. The show marks a rare New England viewing of Etnier after wartime Navy service and travels to California for a Los Angeles gallery debut.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephen Etnier
Doll and Richards
Newbury Street
Boston
Popham
New England
Mr. Ethier
Gilbert Head
Los Angeles
California
Etnier
Lendall Greene
Popham School
Margaret Wyman
Red Cross
Stanwood Gilman
Red Cross Camp and Hospital Council entertains at naval base
At Brunswick Naval Air Base hospital Friday evening the American Red Cross Camp and Hospital Council presented a program loved by patients who extended it by half an hour. performances included piano solo saxophone pieces, tap dances, baritone numbers and a Hawaiian chant dance, with community singing and strong patient applause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren F. Hawley
Bernard Knight
William McNamaron
Rogers Jewelry
Center Street
Keith Crockett
Ruth Crocker
McNamara
Chloe Deraps
Madeline Oliver
Rockland
Bath
Cub Scouts Meet With Cub One Friday Evening Pack 57
Cub Scouts of Pack 57 met Friday night in Beacon Street church vestry for a lively program led by new Cub master Advah H. Reynolds. Scrapbooks were shown by William Munsey and Robert Lewis, Bobcat Wolf ranks by Hodgkins and Smith demonstrated Kub Kan Kommunication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Advah H. Reynolds
Pack
Beacon Street
William Munsey
Robert Lewis
David Hodgkins
Dennis Smith
Rev
Charles Kinney
Fred D. Pinkham
Leonard Cardosi
Den 6
Lambert Park
Den 3
Humphrey Gilbert
the Thunderbolt
Popham
Humphrey
American Flag Presented at Osteopathic Hospital
T W Hyde Camp and auxiliary presented a beautiful American flag to Osteopathic hospital Sunday afternoon at two. Maurice J Warner, assisted by Auxiliary President Mrs Jennie Miller and Camp Commander Philip Boyd, led the event with poems, remarks, and songs. Refreshments followed. Dr Watts welcomed attendees and Maurice Warner read several patriotic poems.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. W. Hyde
The
Osteopathic Hospital
P. D.C
Maurice J. Warner
Jennie Miller
Philip Boyd
Watts
Evelyn Roberts
Ila Day
Donald Watt
Walter Smith
America
da Day
Lucelia Blake
Warner
Dr Watts
Myrtle Wilson
Edith Miller
Frances Warner
Maurice J Warner
Winter Street All-Ladies Aid Sets Christmas Sale Date
The Winter Street church aid society met with hostesses including Mrs. Frederick Irish and Miss Elsie Folsom. They moved the Christmas sale and supper to Nov 28 due to Dec observances, with next Friday an all day session and luncheon. Miss Claire Coombs will speak on Mexico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winter Street Church
Frederick Irish
Robert Colley
Carl Albee
Elsie Folsom
Allen M. Irish
Alice Varney
Claire Coombs
Mexico
Roscoe P. McFadden
David Black
Parker Head Church Plans After Service and Vestry Meet
Starting Sunday Parker Head will hold church school in the vestry at 3 p m with services at 4 p m. A business meeting will follow to decide on installing a stove and electric lights in the vestry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Wade
Sally Lowell
Barbara Harrington
East Auburn Grange Hall
Hubert Bowie
Lisbon
Arthur Higgins
Yale Divinity School
Higgins
Local Social News and Visit Highlights
Mr and Mrs Vernon Philbrook and daughters of Martini Cove visited their relatives, Mr and Mrs Monroe Wilbur. Al Johnson of West Bath stayed at his cottage. Mrs Julia Dozois and Mrs Stanton Dozois visited Mrs Lawrence Thayer of Bath. Edwin Hill of Bath saw Nat Percy. Arthur Stinson spent the weekend at his cottage. Lawrence Thayer attended Charles Rollins of Parker Head funeral services Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Brown
Brown
Portland
Marion Huskins
Southport
Marion Cushing
Jerry Bartlett
John Forbis
W. A. Lowell
Lewis Lowell
L. Forrest Wyman
Rosalie Richards
Abbie Hilton
Rockland
Mertie Shepherd
Brunswick
Parker Head
Bob Moore
Francis Lander
Maass
California
Walter
Navy
Earl Pike
George Eltmann
Bernard Wyman
Arthur Lear
Frederick A. Libby
Bath Iron Works
Eleanor Bertrand
John Kriedler
George Morong
Morong
Arthur
USN
Okinawa
Leroy Perkins
Burleigh Williams
Winneganee
Allie Rollins
Elmer Allard
Als
Vernon Philbrook
Martinicus
Monroe Wilbur
al Johnson
West Bath
Julia Dozois
Stanton Dozois
Lawrence Thayer
Bath
Ralph Seekins
Edwin Hill
Nat Percy
Arthur Stinson
Charles Rollins
Great Parents at South End PTA Meeting
Mrs. Orris Ames chaired the event as Morse Hiza school hosts a joint PTA session on November 27 with Dr. Harry Gison, State Commissioner of Education, announced for South End. South Street teachers demonstrated the Visual Education machine and Weeks Street hosts the December 4 program led by Mrs. Mary Niles with a demo of the device. Social hour and tea followed hosted by Mrs. Everett Quimby and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orris Ames
PTA
Morse Hiza Senool
Harry Gison
Als Pta
South Street
Weeks Street School
Mary Niles
Mrs Shackford and brother visit relatives in Kittery
Mrs Roy Shackford of Turner court and brother Percy B Sav age of Five Islands spent the weekend in Kittery as guests of Mr Walter Savage and his wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Shackford
Turnercourt
Percy B. Savage
Five Islands
Kittery
Mr. Savage
Walter Savage
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Helen Gagnon
RFC
Clarence Spinney
Gagnon
Carrie Pye
Nettie Wallace
Formalnd
Bertha Wyman
Josephine Haskell-Stevis
Inest Haskell
West Point
Apt. Stevens
Morse High School
Ath
Charles V. Minott
Walter Bowker
Minott
Cen
Morton Young
David
Peter
Hunt House
Bar Hafr
Young
Elizabeth Parks
Stanley Hutchins
Meadowbrook
J. Hutchins
W. M. Mattison
V. M. Mattison
Newtonville
Popham Ach
J. K. Bowkers
Carlton Brown
Meadowbrook Road
Harry Butler
Remote
Rock
Robert Beal
Ailey Evening School
Frank Barker
Wilson Godwin
Phippsburg Woods
Selective Service Center
Ecrees
Alma O. Merry
William P. Merry
Blanchard E. Crowley
Mary C. Crowley
Gertrude W. Hunter
Arrowsic
Leroy L. Hunter
Pensacola
Fla
Warren Danforth
Josephine Danforth
Parts
Royal A. Thompson
Theo S. Thompson
Skowhegan
Marsha P. Thorburn
John Thorburn
Elizabeth
N. J
Popham Beach
Stephen Ethier
Stephanie
Victoria
New York
Ethiers
Gilbert
Karl Hentz
Long Island
J. Dwight Kinmouth
Hackensack
Walter Sprague
Clarence Wallace
Bath Memorial Hospital
Orville Small
Atkins
Bay Shore
Henry Phaneuf
Kennebec River
Moses Chandler
Betty Wright
Alvin Pushard
Peter Isaacson
Camp and Hospital Council
Naval Air Base
Air Port
Rupert Irvine
North Street
Thomaston
Paul Bubar
Roseburg
Oregon
Arthur F. Mayor
John Reynolds
Winter Street
Parker
Aroostook
Harold Rogers
Viola Arsenault
Edith Hemmer
H. D. Mank
Hawaii
Earl Hamel
Mississippi
Osgood
Perkins Island
COX
South End
Lan
Syma
Wgan Daily
WGAN
Spot-the- Stars
Spot-their
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