Revival of herb gardening inspires New England interest
Amateur gardeners embrace pot herbs and kitchen gardens sparked by Mt Vernon revival. The Boston and New England scenes feature knot gardens, herb displays at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and the Herb Society of America driving growth with Helen Noyes Webster’s book and local enthusiasts on Georgetown Island, Arrowsic, and Kennebec Point.
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Mt. Vernon
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
The
Herb Garden, Inc
New England
Boston
Garden Club of
Lexington
Helen Noyes Webster
Massachusetts Horticultral Society
Georgetown
Wester
Georgetown Island
Sagadahoc Bay
Bay Point
Robert M. Reed
Kennebec Point
Woman's Republican Club
Reed
Massachusetts Horticulture and Sullivant
Roy Newman
Ireland
Britain
Treasure Island
J. Otis Swift
Kennebec
Herb Society of America
Helen Noves Webster
Bath Couple Feted On Golden Wedding
A Bath couple celebrated 50 years of marriage with a Thursday gathering at their home 12 Charles street. Mr and Mrs Frederick W Freeman 71 and 75 received post cards and gifts. A family supper featured lobster and chicken salad. The event honored their eight children and 22 grandchildren with carnations from grandchildren and roses from a great grandson, Herbert Anderson III.
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Frederick W. Freeman
Charles Street
Bath
Mary Mathurin
Ansel Mathurin
Topsham
Marilyn Kimball
Joseph Kimball
Georgetown
Mass
Owen and
Frederick Freeman
Owen Freeman
Rutherford, N. J
Miss Alyce Ellis Weds Bryce Dutton at Nazarene Church
Miss Alyce May Ellis of Wiscasset daughter of William E Ellis Foxboro Massachusetts married Bryce M Dutton son of Mr and Mrs Harold Dutton of Wiscasset in a single ring ceremony at the Church of the Nazarene parsonage. Rev E T French officiated in front of a few friends. Mr Dutton works at Bath Iron Works Corp and the couple will reside in Wiscasset.
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Alyce May Ellis
Wiscasset
William E. Ellis
Foxboro
Mass
Bryce M Dutton
Harold Dutton
Church of the Nazarene
E. T. French
Dutton
Bath Iron Works Corp
Erskine Jones Marry Hazel Jones in Boothbay Ceremony
Returns of the marriage show Charles Marshall Erskine of North Street Extension son of Mr and Mrs Alton Erskine Wiscasset wed Hazel Amy Jones daughter of Mrs Ethel Bryden Jefferson and the late James R Bryden. The ceremony occurred September 24 officiated by Rev Plinette Allen in Boothbay.
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Charles Marshall Erskine
North Street
Alton Erskine
Wiscasset
Hazel Amy Jones
Ethel Bryden
Jefferson
James R. Bryden
John W. Gilmore
Plinette Allen
Boothbay
Totman Thibodeau Marriage Returns Filed
Marriage returns filed with Bath City Clerk record Henry C Totman and Irene C Thibodeau. Totman son of Lydia Totman of Bath and Thibodeau daughter of Isaac and Mrs Thibodeau of Van Buren, married by Rev. George B Wolstenholme at 95 Court Street on September 23.
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Henry C. Totman
Lydia Totman
Bath
Irene C. Thibodeau
Isaac Thibodeau
van Buren
Gilmore
Totman
George B. Wolstenholme
Court Street
Hart and Knight Wed at St Marys Church
Paul Julian Hart and Laura Marie Knight wed on September 13 at St Marys Church, Cottage Park. Rev David P. Surrette officiated with attendants Miss Alice Geneau and Nathan W. Watson.
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Paul Julian Hart
George J. Hart
Walker Street
Laura Marie Knight
Frank C. Knight
Cottage Park
St. Mary's Church
David P. Surrette
Alice Geneau
Nathan W. Watson
Woolwich Book Club Sponsoring Dr Bradshaw Lecture
The Woolwich Book Club sponsors an illustrated lecture by Dr Marion J Bradshaw of Bangor Seminary titled An Asiatic Pilgrim age at 7 30 Monday evening in the Congregational church Woolwich The talk promises wide appeal with unique pictures and a thoughtful synthesis of Eastern mysteries with Western civilization Tickets are available from club members or at the door Also mentioned Mr and Mrs H E Bowie and daughter Miss Phyllis Bowie of Center street have gone to New York to visit the Work's Fair.
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Marion J. Bradshaw
Bangor Seminary
Congregational Church
Woolwich
Woolwich Book Club
Bardshaw
Bradshaw
H. E. Bowie
Phyllis Bowie
Center Street
New York
Bowdoinham
Merrymeeting Grange Hall
Eeesia
Thelma Maloon
Annie Billings
Arthur Curtis
Bertha Hatch
Neil Billings
Fortune Teller
Marline Maloon
Electa
O.es
Pioneer
Lisbon Falls
Pine Cone
Auburn
Genesta
Bath
Lloyd Stevens
Sidney
Guy Emmons
Norridgewock
Harold Conners
Fairfield
Edward Baker
Dexter Stevens
Sylvia
Ezra
Lee
East Bowdoinham
Warwick Neck
R. I
John Sutherberg
Richmond
Bowdeinham
George Hackett
Linwood
Lawrence Hackett
Hampton
N. H
Burton Trask
Hattie Powers
Rumford
R. D. Purington
Clara Ferg
Jane Browne
Pearl Raymond
Charles Hackett
Karl Hatch
Harold Hackett
Ina Gowell
Lexington
Mass
Inez Gowell
W. E. Gifford
Bangor
Carrie Kendall
Abbagadassett River
Luke Crease
Ira Allen
Earl Browne
Charles Devens
Milton
Edward Abbot
Westfield
Robert Randall
Boston
Henry Merrill
Mr. Richardson
Leominster
Lewis Prouty
Brookline
C. C. Brown
Newton
Devens Hamlin
Lithico Devens
Paul S. Banes
Lynn
Raymond Heyer
Andover
Susan Reed
Wollaston
Margaret
Frances Wilson
Henry Bula
Charles Randall
Bridge
Charles Browne
J. Hall Denham
R. D. Purinton
Purinton
Bowcoinham
Abbagadasset
E. D. Baker
Locke Crouse
Ira Alen
Merrymeeting Bay
Helen Dealand
Wellesley Hills
Ida Fowle
Lewiston Girl Weds Bath Iron Works Machinist
Ruth Elizabeth Parker and Merle Lowell Chaney wed at Lewiston United Baptist Church in a double ring ceremony led by Dr. P. L. Vernon. Bride, given by uncle George Dobson, wore white satin. groom is a Bath Iron Works machinist. Reception at the bride’s relatives’ home followed. couple to live at 154 Center Street after a wedding trip to Moosehead and the White Mountains.
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Merle Lowell Chaney
Marion Chaney
Bath
Parker Chaney
Wiscasset
Ruth Elizabeth Parker
Edith Parker
Lewiston
G. M. Parker
Auburn
Lewiston United Baptist Church
P. L. Vernon
George Dobson
Dorothy L. Pugsley
Kenneth P. Chaney
Thomas Garrity
Philip Chaney
Robert G. Berkelman
Ruth Ashton
Carol Ann Stevens
Archie Dobson
Florence Dobson
Millard Stevens
Donald Parker
Chaney
Litchfield
Twin Cities
Lewiston High School
B. Peck Co
North Wayne
Bathchools
Bath Iron Works Corp
Moosehead Lakes
White Mountains
Center Street
Norman W. Hodgkins
Kenneth
Unfavorable Tide Mars Merrymeeting Bay Duck Hunt
The opening morning at Merrymeeting Bay drew the largest turnout in a decade yet yielded few birds due to low water and unfavorable tides. Early shooting was heavy but results were negligible as veterans blamed wild birds and inexperience among newcomers. Russell Stodder returned with four ducks and one car. Anthony Pellegrini reported four ducks at Gurnet.
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Merrymeeting Bay
Russell Stodder
Westport
Bath
Anthony Pellegrini
Gurnet
Cosmopolitan club hosts exchange program in Boothbay Harbor
The Cosmopolitan club presented an exchange program to Monday club members at Mrs. Bertha Carlisle’s home in Boothbay Harbor Monday afternoon. Last year’s program committee ran the event with Mrs. Rupert M. Irvine singing with Mrs. George Baer Connard at the piano. Readings included George Bernard Shaw’s The Millionairess. Tea followed the program with Bath attendees listed among the participants. Joyce Cook, senior at Portland High, elected president of the Blue Mountains P L H S Riding Club and VP of the Philatelic Society, had won ribbons at a Cape Elizabeth gymkhana.
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Cosmopolitan Club
Boothbay Harbor
Bertha Carlisle
Rupert M. Irvine
George Baer Connard
Ibor Novello
Little Damerel
Stephen Foster
Jeanie
Isadore Singer
George Bernard Shaw
Bath
Roscoe P. McFadden
Irvine
Singer
Dennard
Joyce Cook
Portland High School
Morse High School
Blue Mounties
P.lh.s. Riding Club
Philatelic Society
Cook
Cape Elizath
Apples and farm sale notices from Brunswick Bath area
Classifieds list Apples with McIntosh to 4 on sale Saturday morning September 30 at 1.00 per bushel and cooking apples at 0.50 per bushel. Also a five acre farm with eight room house double garage two hen-houses and raspberry orchard one mile from Topsham Post Office on Lewiston road. Contact George Wright Bath 10-5-21p. Additional line about selling city share property and contact Fred B Reed 93 Front Street Bath 4-8 12-30-1f.
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Topsham Post Office
Lewiston Road
Brunswick
W. George Wright
Mator
Fred B. Reed Weir Bi Wallace
Front Street
Bath
Bible Class Rolls Call Supper at Rock Hill Inn
Sterling Bible class of Corliss Street church held its annual roll call supper at Rock Hill Inn West Bath with 31 attendees and six more joining for a vestry meeting and program. Birthday bank contributions totaled 18.60 and 25 was voted to fund the new baptistry.
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Sterling Bible
Corliss Street
Rock Hill Inn
West Bath
John H. Hunt
Arthur L. Plant
Carroll A. Deering
William P. Hatch
Lester G. Campbell
Clarence F. Knowlton
George H. Preble
Birthday Bank
Coombs
Bath Priest Attends 28th World Series
At least two Bath residents, Rev. Timothy C. Maney of St. Mary's church and merchant John J. Mulcahy, attended the opening game of the World Series at Yankee Stadium in New York City. Maney, a former college baseball star, marks his 26th World Series attendance, missing only one in 29 years due to illness.
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Bath
Yankee Stadium
New York City
Timothy C. Maney
St. Mary’s Church
John J. Mulcahy
Father Maney
Girl Scouts Troop Gathers at YMCA Meeting
Wise Owl Troop No. 3 of the Girl Scouts met after school Tuesday at the YMCA with Mrs. Bowen Torrey in charge. Jane Trott was elected treasurer and Luise Dole, secretary. Next gathering set for Oct 10.
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Wise Owl
Y.M.C.A
Bowen Torrey
Jane Trott
L Tuise Dole
Former Bowdoinham Youth Writes Poem for Kendall
Rev. Arthur B. Patten of Claremont California a former Bowdoinham youth penned lines for William B Kendall who died in July The poem urges fearlessness for the voyager west and envisions the New City where tears and stains fade and strength eternal awakens.
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Bowdoinham
Arthur B. Patten
Claremont
Calif
William B. Kendall
Earth
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Laura Mansir
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Girl Scouts
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William Frawley
Richard Greene
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