Phippsburg Weekend Visits and Community Notes
Phippsburg residents shared visits across Bath and surrounding towns. Families from South Portland Bath and Brunswick were guests at Rogers camp Meadow Brook. Armistice Day deer hunting reported. Social events included beano night at Arcade Bath and Welfare club fundraisers. Community updates cover relocations, hospital news, and Thanksgiving offerings collected by local committee chair Mr Purud.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gordon Davidson
South Portland
Thomas C. Hughes
Gardiner D. Rogers
Sally Sue
Edward Hawkes
Edward, Jr
Edith
Bath
Rogers Camp
Meadowbrook
Vernal Chase
Omar R. Perry
Arthur
James E. Perry
Arthur Perry
Arrowsic
Frank Higgins
Annie Bowker
Elliott Ray
Woburn
Mass
Muriel Smith
Somerville
Jay K. Bowker
Leon Eaton
Elizabeth
Alice
Martin Wyman
Belle Lowell
Cora Campbell
Percy R. Lowe
Granite Street
Ray F. Campbell
Roland Smith Post
A. L
Arcade
Parker Head
Angie Mank
Harry
Pierce
John Libby
Herbert Bassett
East Boston
Edwin Wyman
Bath Memorial Hospital
Carl McIntire
Small Point Road
Fred A. Oliver
Roland Eaton
Swarthmore
Sebasco Estates
Maine
Carl Maloney
Houstesses
Evelyn Beals
J. G. Percy
Boston
Phippsburg
Harold Woodward
George
Jennie Woodward
North Bergen
N. J
T. E. McCarthy
Malden, Mais
Phippsburg Gets Trained Worker For Young Religion Work
Rev Joseph O Purdue reports progress in Phippsburg where 800 residents and 300 youths gain religious training across six centers Sebasco West Point Small Point Phippsburg Center Parker Head and Popham Miss Lynette Caverly a Hartford School graduate leads weekday religion lessons reaching 160 children weekly She has established two new Sunday schools and will support existing denominational work The Congregational Conference of Maine funds two months of her work and Winter Street church urges a special Thanksgiving offering to sustain the project long term
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Joseph O. Purdue
Winter Street Congregational Church
Phippsburg
Sebasco
West Point
Small Point
Phippsburg Center
Parker Head
Popham
Sea Coast Mission
Bath
Congregational State Conference
Lynette Caverly
Hartford School of Religious Education
Miss Caverly
Congregational Conference of
Maine
Purdue
Winter Street Church
Armistice Day Program At Dromore Grange Meeting
Dromore Grange held an Armistice day observance at its hall in last week’s Tuesday meeting. Notable guests were Ele anor P Ripley of Topsham and her husband Justus Ripley. The program featured readings, songs, a tableau with veterans, and multiple readings by Mrs. Perkins and Mrs. Malcolm, followed by a social period.
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Deomore Grange
Eleanor P. Ripley
Topsham
Pomona
Justus Ripley
The
Grange
Humphrey A. Owen
John H. Perkins
Elbridge B. Malcolm
Ralph Trask
Frances Leavitt
Mrs. Perkins
Miss Hunt
Ray Campbell
Mrs. Malcolm
Jehosaphat
Dyer Flaherty Post Members Travel for Installations
Veterans of Foreign Wars reports active travel across Maine as posts including Dyer-Flaherty No. 2197 and Forest J. Pare No. 1285 install officers in Waterville and Rockland. Floyd H. Preble and Christopher J. Cushing highlight ceremonies with Lucille Betts and Lucy Kelley assisting as department leaders oversee multiple installations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dyer-Flaherty Post
Veterans of Foreign Wars
United States
Waterville
Forest J
Floyd H. Preble
Christopher J. Cushing
Thea J. Beaudoin
Frances C. Prele
Jesse T. Sanders
Harold L. Corliss
Joseph G. Kelly
Mike Roman
Lucy Kelley
Evelyn Snow
Huntley Hill
Rockland
George McLane
Rumford
Lucille Betts
Gardiner
Veterans’ Facility
Togus
Bowdoin Professor Discusses Germany at Fireside Club
The Winter Street Fireside Club drew 55 attendees for Prof. Fritz A. C. Kolln of Bowdoin College as he concluded a trio on Germany and its government. Kolln described his Hamburg years and observation during visits in 1932 and 1936, with Miss Pauline McNeill introducing him. Next, Bowdoin’s Prof. Vernon Miller will discuss Russia on Sunday Nov. 21.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winter Street
Fritz A. C. Kolln
Bowdoin College
Germany
Kolln
Hamburg
Pauline McNeill
Vernon Miller
Miller
Russia
Maine Aero Club Set to Elect Officers Thursday Evening
The Maine Aero Club will meet at eight o’clock Thursday night at the Silver Slipper in Auburn. An officers election will occur and colored motion pictures of the Augusta rendezvous last Summer will be shown. About 40 sessions and banquet are planned as visiting pilots discuss aviation advances. Silas Hamilton, age 85, celebrated his birthday at Pleasant street Bowdoinham and recalled work in Tyng Fogg’s saw mill. He and his wife later ran a Gardiner restaurant and a summers meal house at Capitol Island.
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Maine Aero Club
Silver Slipper
Auburn
Augusta
Silas Hamilton
Pleasant Street
Bowdoinham
Tyng Fogg
Popham Beach Residents Return Home After Weekend
A long list of Popham Beach residents and visitors recount weekend travels and local events. The report notes Armistice Day gatherings, Bath theatre outings, radio interviews, and several calls on friends in Bath and Lewiston. Weather left beaches covered in fog and wreckage, with sidewalks washed away and surf reaching cottage basements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Barlow
Robert
East Boothbay
Marie Leonard
Betty
Charles
Kenneth
Bath
Stephen Etnier
Gilbert Head
Boston
Etnie
Gilbert
Fred Greenlaw
Moses Chandler
Fra Dobbin
Lewiston
Gertrude Martin
Central Maine General Hospital
Joseph Oliver
Washington Street
E. W. Osgood
Walter Sprague
Marine Hospital
Portland
Barbara Sprague
Blanchard Crowley
North Yarmouth
Fred Osgood
John Carter
Woolwich
Popham
Charles Small
Auburn
Fort Popham
Christopher Marr
Seaman Drake
Carol
David
Milliard Urquehart
Seguin Island Light
Leon Fickett
Pond Island Light
Clarence Perkins
Virginia
Arlene
Karl Hentz
Eleanor Lowell
Marguerite McNulty
Millie Sprague
George E. Hoyt
Richmond
Edna M. Coolidge
Fred Haminston, Jr
Camden
Irma Huntley
Maurice Burns
Bay Point
Ralph Spinney, Jr
Fred
George Popham
Driving charge leads to guilty plea for unlicensed truck operation
Archie Clancy, 21, Dresden, pled guilty in municipal court to operating a motor truck on the River road Woolwich without an operator's license. Judge Arthur J. Dunton fined him costs of court $6.75 after State Highway Patrolman John P. Crosby reported an accident scene where a truck left the River road and was abandoned. In Augusta, Barbara Gates, five, was injured when a wheel from a truck’s left rear axle struck her at Bangor and Quimby streets after bolts snapped, the wheel rolling across the street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Archie Clancy
Dresden
Woolwich
Arthur J. Dunton
John P. Crosby
Clancy
Barbara Gates
Ernest Gates
Riverside Drive
Augusta
Bangor
Quimby Streets
Supreme Lodge Night for Maine Pythians
Maine Knights of Pythias plan Supreme Lodge Night in Auburn City Hall with 6580 members expected. Eureka lodge officers lead opening and closing. about 100 candidates to be ranked by Wescastago team. Justice Harry M Manser to give main address. numerous lodge officers and guests to be introduced.
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Supreme Lodge
Maine
Knights of Pythias
Auburn
Order
Eureka
Stanley EF. Bubier
Erlon W Grover
Percys. Prescott
Rober D Thayer
John R Murrill
Fred L. Sylvester
Ellery W. Libby
George FB. Varney, Jr
Edward C. Delazio
George L. Dobson
Wescastogo Lodge
Yarmouth
J. Walter Myers
C. Merton Jones
Elden Bennett
John Leslie
Daniel Frye
Harry L. Porter
Royal
Accident at Blind Crossing injures Portland woman
Miss Anna Carr of Portland was taken to Bath Memorial hospital with a head laceration after a car crashed through a wire fence at Blind Crossing. The driver Leon Jomson 62 Myrtle Street Portland pled guilty to operating under the influence and was fined $100 and $7.20 costs or 30 days in jail. Miss Carr 64 Myrtle Street required four stitches for a scalp wound and a cut on the forehead. Passengers Rita Carr and Harod Brighan were uninjured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna Carr
Portland
Bath Memorial Hospital
Leon Jomson
Myrtle Street
Canning Factory
Arthur J. Dunton
Kennebec County
Augusta
John P Crosby
Johnson
Blind Crossing
Pond
Carr
Rita Carr
Harod Brighan
Stone Street
Real estate transfers spread through Bath area
A Bath real estate roundup lists transfers across Bath and surrounding towns including Bath, Bowdoin, Bowdoinham, Georgetown, Phippsburg, Richmond, Topsham, West Bath, and Harpswell. Notable owner changes include Murphy to Stewart, Baker to McDonald, Spinney to Walker, and Larrabee to Haskell, among others. A separate item reports the marriage of Tra Alley of Southport and Cynthia M Alexander of Harpswell, with a Florida honeymoon planned and ties to Norwegian officials featured in events in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
William A. Murphy
Kerry B. Stewart
Cora S. Baker
Francis G. McDonald
Jennie M. Oliver
Ada McGilvary
J. Fred Tobey
Thelma B. Helmes
Charles A. Coombs
Silas G. Bryant
Robeus A. Douglass
James P. Sutherland
Margaret Tyacke
Roger Guthrie
Emma Spinney
Reuben C. Walker
Bowdoin
FE O. Tarr
Roger Marshall Foster
Farlon I. Rideout
William D. Miller
Bowdoinham
George A. Blodgett
Susan F. Blockett
Georgetown
Emma F. Rittall
Fred H. Rittall
Phippsbury
Annie P. Keyes
Helen Kingsbury
Helen G York
Als
William S. Wilson
George W Larrabee
Mae FP
Larrabee
Hildegarde Haskell
Emma L. Haskell
Marion H. Jenney
Norman von Post Schwab
Richmond
Charles H. Lawrence
Ray W. Baker Topsham
Walter D. Jack
William Kilbride
Mearl K. James
Mary V. James
G. Irving McIntosh
Martha Beal
Ella Hudak
Tra L. Alley
Southport
Cynthia M. Alexander Oe
Harpswell
Eigh
Charles H. Berry
Independent
Full Gospel Assembly
North Street
Alley
Amby M. Alley
Bert L. Alexander
Florida
Bay Point Bay Point Residents Share Storm Warnings
The Bay Point community reports a severe storm with strong winds and high seas observed from Popham and nearby Point. Residents note Coast Guard advisories and describe limited visibility, broken surf, and washed banks. A quiet wedding occurred midweek as locals recount weekend visits and sea views.
Popham S' Dewalk Partly Salvaged After Storm
The river bank boardwalk at Popham Beach was torn from its foundations by a recent storm. Coast Guard crews salvaged about 200 yards and warned of higher tides likely this week. Strong winds from the east and northeast made Saturday night patrols very difficult and fears rose that cottages could be endangered if seas rise further.
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Pophan Beach
Coast Guard
Fron
Only Larch in City Falls During Gale
A handsome English larch believed to be the sole tree of its kind in the city toppled from its roots in Saturday night’s storm at 1141 Washington street, Bath. Planted over 50 years ago by Mrs. Charles W. Taylor, it had roots from Gardiner, bloomed early, and its buds resembled strawberries during flowering. No damage to the dwelling occurred as the tree blew across the walk near Mrs. Sawyer’s front door.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred L. Sawyer
Washington Street
Charles W. Taylor
Gardiner
Wii
Bath
Westport Scots Mets and local social notes mix over weekend
Local society pages record visits and family gatherings at Squam Creek Farm and properties in Sanford Sprinavale and Roche Yo Wa Ht Parbox. Mentions include Miss Adele Tarbox, Adele’s family at Roche Yo Wa Ht, the Smiths and Lews, and several regional homesteads. Coombs High School basketball opens with Bowdoinham defeating Brunswick 34 to 2.
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METS
Ann Patisss
Austin
Widnes
Ort Harrison
Thurison
Cree
Jamts Hirper
Hoelision Mire
Ap Meir
Squam Creek Farm
Ames Kanth
Prate
Dorshester
Strndus
Brian Jewett
Coombs
Bowdoinham
Brunswick
Bowdoinham Boys
Maine Turkey Quality Trademark Promises Genuine Local Birds
Maine turkey advertising touts a state trademark guaranteeing quality and origin. Officials insist on Maine insignia to curb mislabeling while proceeds support the Red Cross. White notes breeding diversity and improved methods reduce disease mortality, urging citizens to buy branded birds for true local product.
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Maiine-poown
Fonim Hero Wien Crile
Lavisten
Maine
E. N. Jirgiad
Maunehoter
Nee White
P White
Hiliaide
White
Jacques
State of Maine
Morse High adds five candidates to 1937 38 squad
Morse High expands its basketball program under coach John Madden and assistant Duncan Farrell. Five new players Edward Atkinson Henry Middleton Edward Sewall Philip Chaney and Alton Munsey join to bring the count to 45 with expectations of up to 60 before the first cuts. Coaching will focus on the 11 first year players as varsity graduation and a building program loom next June.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morse High
John Madden
Duncan Farrell
Edward Atkinson
Henry Middleton
Edward Sewall
Philip Chaney
Alton Munsey
Morse
Madden
Fragmentary historical note with unclear names
Unreadable OCR text presents a fragmented historical note with numerous garbled names and phrases. The readable content does not yield a coherent event, date, or place to summarize beyond suggesting personal names and a possible social or civic context. Further restoration needed.
Three Books on Life Along the Kennebec River
Herbert J. Kellaway reviews three Bath area works: The History of Bath by Henry W. Owen Jr.. Kennebec, Radio of Americans by Robert P. Trisham Coffin. and On Gilbert Head by Elizabeth Binner. Kellaway notes their regional insight from local authors and recalls changes in shipping, lifeboat service, and water quality, asking if fertile fishing times can return.
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the Independent
Bath
Phippsburg
Arrowsic
Georgetown
Kennebec
Henry W. Owen, Jr
Robert P Trisham Coffin
North Woolwich
Merrymeeting Bay
Gilbert Head
Elizabeth Binner
Long Island
Popham
Kennebec River
Joseph M. Kellaway
Arthur Sewall
Coast Guard
Boston
Winnegance Squaw Club Hosts Guests in Sanford Visit
The Winnegance Squaw club met Friday evening with Mrs. Winfeld W Morse and planned a meeting next Friday with Mrs. Robert P Man San. Guests this week included Mr and Mrs Manfred Knight and Mrs Grace Trask. Ralph Dodge, grandson of Mr and Mrs Knight, returned with them. Mrs Totman arrived home after two weeks in Boston with her husband Capt Arthur Totman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Squaw Club
Winfeld
W. Morse
Robert P. Man- San
Manfred Knight
Grace Trask
Sanford
Smith Beatrice Fletcher Wed in Lewiston Home
Robert J. Smith and Beatrice Fletcher, longtime DeWitt hotel employees in Lewiston, wed Friday afternoon at the bride’s mother Mrs Sirah Kietcher’s home 88 Bartleert Street. The couple departed Saturday for Moore Alabama, with the now Mrs Smith born in and educated at Witsonton and son of John J. Smith of Oieontico New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert J. Smith
Beatrice Fletcher
DeWitt Hotel
Lewiston
Sirah Kietcher
Bartleert Street
Smith
Moore
Ala
Battle House
City
John J. Smith
Oieontico N.Y
Wits Wieton
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Purud
Dromore Grange
Winter Street Fireside Club
Popham Beach
Pythians
Alexander
H. O. Heistad
Rock- New York
Rolf Heistad
Hardan Kohl
Foremn
Seaman's Church
Brooklyn
Waldorf Astoria
Carleton G. Cole
Thordis Heistad
Oakdale
Thelma Davis
Mary Campbell
Ferman
Iiean Popuuim
Arthur Smith
Tee Hern
Seguin Bean
Popham Bell
Popham Iron
Tt Touk
Oth
Dorohy Mtes
Sherman Campbell
Lawrence Poros
Freddie Spinney
Buddy Spinney
Lewire Howard
Earl Patsson
H. A. Spinney
Popham S'Dewalk
Washea
Coast Guardsmen
Westport
Bern
Baits Hay Weil
the Kennebec
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