Phippsburg Church Illness Townwide Amid Winter Activities
Sunday attendance dropped due to illness as Rev Charles L Stevens led communion with deacons Ra and Totman assisting. The junior choir sung while Mrs Hele Oliver played. A Sunday school organizing meeting and PTA activities followed as residents spoke of home repairs, school wells testing, and various personal notices. Over 200 veterans were hosted with tea and transportation provided by several women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Ra
Thomas Totman
Charles L. Stevens
Hele Oliver
Phippsburg
Parker Head
Christian Service Committee
Stanwood Gilman
Charles Pye
Robert
Flora Gilliam
Gela Scott
Lewis Coombs
Carl McIntire
Earl Lowell
Ida Nodkilund
Togus
Gilman
MelIntire
Pye
Bath Canning Co
Rock Garden Inn
Meadowbrook Notes of Summer Cottage Activity
Meadowbrook Howard Bowker plans an addition to his Stoneybrook home as cottages on the Totman shore shut for the season. Emma Bickford returns from Woolwich to an indefinite stay at the Bowker residence. Nellie Tracey leaves her cottage for visits in Ayer Massachusetts with her niece Margaret Percival. Several Somerville visitors call at J K Bowkers including Mr and Mrs Karol Myol and Mr and Mrs John Myol and their son. James Little and infant Jeffrey return to Dromore and Allan Little visits. Maurice Libby closes his cottage for the season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Bowker
Stoneybrook
Totman Shore
Emma Bickford
Woolwich
Nellie Tracey
Ayer
Mass
Margaret Tracy Percival
Karol Myol
John Myol
Somerville
James Little
Jeffrey
Dromore
Allan Little
Maurice Libby
Birds, frosts, and neighbors noted in Bay Point diary
The Bay Point entry records birds including yellow bellied arenos, grackles, and a purple finch amid cooler weather with slight frosts. Local activity slows as wells fill and preparations hint at winter. Several locals and visitors, including Rev. and Mrs. Gorton and Mr. and Mrs. Powers, are mentioned along with routine cottage calls and trips to Bath and New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gorton
Brunswick
L. M
Anne Ralph
Stewart
Powerse
Kennebec Point
Alsc
Theodore
Brookline
Mass
Friends
Frank Powers
Bay Point
Furbish, Jr
Arthur Maxwell
Pearl Perry
Richmond
George Renaud
Bideawee
Foster
M. Spinney
Bath
Kenneth Crafts
New York
Hartford
Conn
Walter Moore
Hallowell
Community notes and local greetings from Bath area
Seymour Hayden is confined to his house by illness. Woman's Auxiliary to the Community club holds a business meeting at Mrs. Charles T. Small's home on High Street Thursday afternoon. Last week plans were made to repair the cozy community house. Mrs. Fred L. Parks of Elkins New Hampshire visits her former home and is greeted by friends. Tara Lawrence of Arrowsie, longtime employee of John G. Morse Sons saw mill, is ill at home. Mrs. Alice Rich, former resident, is staying with her son and daughter in Bath along the Woolwich-Wiscasset road where Mr. Rich runs a dairy farm. Rich once helped make many flags for ships in Bath shipyards during the era of wooden ships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arline Libby
Walter Snipe
Georgia Leach
Turner McCarthy
McCarthy
George C. Pease
Ridge
Bath
Elmer Grant
Portland
Barbour
Grant
Grace Dickinson
Lawrence Libby
Lillian Barbour
Lyman Barbour
Lewis Coombs
Scott-Smith
Winter Street
Ernest Rogers
C. L. Stevens
Gordon Alden
Sebasco Estates
Albert Bailey
West Chester
Moon
Patricia Seavey
Bliss Business College
Lewiston
Ernest Rogers Jr
J. Bradford Sprague
Minnie Wallace
James Totman
Bath Memorial Hospital
Irma Gilman
Ashdale
Ellen Blair
Sidney Fitzgerald
Minnie Malcolm
Margaret Milliken
Boston
Malcolm
Basin Road
Seymour Hayden
Charles T. Small
High Street
Fred L. Parks
Elkins
N. H
Tara Lawrence
Arrowsie
John G. Morse & Sons
Alice Rich
William D. Rich
Woolwich-Wiscasset Road
Fiarbara Harrington
Y. Woman
Herbert Dou Iy
Mee
Anees Morong
Inees. Hoar
Frances Barkalow
J. D. Libby
Earl Lowell
Sally Lowell
Sandra Mank
Laura Wyman
Joyce Gray
Albert Gray
Eugene Ross
Lewis Love
Lestie Darling
Nisbet
Leston Harrington
Dorothy Cushing
Herbert Bassett
Itting Club
Leslie Darling
Frederick Libby
Albert Grsey
Sandra
Phippsburg Center
Irene Libby
J. W. Libby
Boothbay
Donald Bachelder
Malden
Mass
Edwin Hill
Mose Chandler
Ella Sue Chandler
Alvin Pushard
Florence Rollins
William Hodgkins
Arthur Bergeron
Billy Hodgkins
St Boston
H. D. Mank
Virginia Leone
Fred Watson
F. A. Liby
Alston Oliver
George Peery
East Kingston
Oliver
Percy and
James Canton
Waban
Frank Percy
Brooklyn
N. Y
Walter McCarthy
Chicago
John Leach
Jordan Percy
Turner McCa
Wilfred Libby
Elsie Sargent
Hollis Center
Lewis Lowell
Carl Peaslee
Dresden
W. T. Wyman
Florence Maass
James
Peter Bushr
Bath Pastor Heads Methodist Advance Meeting
Rev. C Clifford Sargent will lead Wesley Methodist church members to a Chestnut Street church gathering in Portland on October 14 as part of Methodism’s nationwide Advance for Christ and His Church. The event introduces Faith booklets for nine million members and features bishops, ministers, and lay leaders with discussions and a youth banquet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Clifford
Sargent
Wesley Methodist Church
Chestnut Street
Portland
America
Christ
William C. Martin
Dallas
Texas
Advance
E. Harold Mohn
Chicago
G. Bromley Oxnam
New York City
Personal Notes On Families From Summer Residences
Mr and Mrs Charles F Cummings and daughters Juliana Carol and Sally passed Sunday at their summer home at Five Islands. Mr and Mrs George E Sar have as guests Mrs Jessie Loring and her daughter Aire Bingeurniss of Needham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles F. Cummings
Juliana
Carol
Sally
Five Islands
George E. Sar
Middle Street
Jessie Loring
Aire. Bingeurniss
Needham
Brigham's Cave Return to Bath Home for Winter
A brief note records Brigham leaving a cave and returning to their Bath residence for the winter season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brigham's Cave
Senter's Inc Guests At Brea Weekend Visit
Mr Paul Ames and Au Ave weekend guests of Huston Washington returned to Brea after a three week business trip, with activity noted at Senter's Inc and related affairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senter's, Inc
Brea
Paul Ames
Huston
Washington
Traverse Jurors Drawn for Superior Court
Traverse jurors for the October Sagadahoc County Superior Court and grand jurors for the October January and fuse terms were drawn. Names include J Baty, Delaney, Elake Jr, Dunning, Jackson, Morse, Small, plus many jurors from Bowdoin Bowdoinham Georgetown and other towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Esther E. McRichaseod
Earl A. McFee
Russell Ring
Hollis Trott
Topsham
Russell Barrows
Charles Blackie
Roy Colby
West Bath
Frank A. French
Woolwich
Harold Leeman
Mary M. Jack
Traverse
Artowsic
Joseph Lawrence
Bath
William A. Armstrong
John H. Freeman
Charles T. Henderson
Vernon B. Lake
Ena B. McLean
Florence Soule
Eleanor T. Voorhees
Bowdoin
Roland Cornish
Bowdoinham
James H. Brice, Jr
Jessie Frye
Pororeetown
Helen M. Traf
Phippshore
Wilbur H. Wyeichmond
Christine Densmore
Fred DeRoche
Carroll Farrington
Lee Stinson
Warren Adams
Ernest Cunningham
Vesper Ordway
Maretta Wilson
Warren K. Davis
Maurice Hathorne
Frances M. Jewett
Rich's Mountain Sold to Burt S. Osgood
Burt S. Osgood, Bath contractor and builder, has bought the Watrous property at Rich's Mountain West Bath a 175 acre estate with 2.5 miles of shore on the New Meadows river near Winneganee bay. The main 2.5 story house features cedar interiors, 3 fireplaces, and views over the bay. The sale includes guest houses, maid's house, boat house and four car garage. Osgood plans include cottage lots sales, cottage building and possible main house community center for a summer colony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burt 8. Osgood
Bath
Martin W. Watrous
Rich’s Mountain
West Bath
New Meadows River
Winneos Bay
Winneganee Bay
New Meadows
Rich's Mountain
Silas H. Duncan
Charles A. Harriman
Watrous
Osgood
Farm Bureau Topics For This Month
October meeting schedule shows multiple Farm Bureau groups hosting slip cover sessions led by Miss Beryl Barton Home Demonstration Agent. Demonstrations include materials measuring pattern cutting welting pin fitting and cover assembly. Other meetings cover Christmas gift ideas clothing purchases for men and boys and related crafts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Women’s Farm Bureau
Beryl Barton
Bowdoinham
Postoffice
West Bath
Ee Park
Richmond Corner
Grange Hall
Quasset
Good Will Hall
Richmond
Topsham
Dromore
Phippsburg
Georgetown
Popham Beach community notices and events
Fragments show a lobster stew event at the schoolhouse on Friday 6 p.m. Oct 14. Notables include postmaster changes, a wedding reception for Mr and Mrs Leon Fickett, and multiple regional visits and vacations among locals and visitors from Maine New Hampshire Massachusetts and New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Popham Ae Ranch
Robert Stevens
Marguerite McNulty
Roger Oliver
Bath and
Popham
Leon Fickett
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
New York
Coast Guard
Pond Island
Alvin C. Brewer
Sebasco
Autumn weekend travels across Maine towns and coast guard duties
Residents reported lovely Autumn foliage along the Dead River region route. Charles Small and family vacationed at a cottage. Archie McLaughlin of the Kennebec River Coast Guard Station left for new duties as officer in charge at Damariscove Station. Mrs. McLando daughters Michele and Ia remain, having moved from Bath. Ethel Forman visited Winterport with the Prescott family. Gerald Weidel and wife departed for New York after a two week vacation at Sea Acres.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dead River Region
Charles Small
Richard
Auburn
Ous
Archie McLaughlin
Kennebec River
Coxs Head road work slows as crews haul gravel
Road Commissioner Howard Bowker has brought several loads of gravel to Noble Rock hill washed by heavy rains. Electric line work continues toward the Wood cottage on Little Coxs Head as crews clear for extensions. Friends note Mrs. Frank Wyman remains hospitalized after a Bath accident last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Bowker
Noble Rock Hill
Wood Cottage
Little Cox's Head
Torrent No 1 Handtub Hosts Lobster Supper For Members And Guests
Fifty three Torrent No. 1 Handtub members and 23 guests attended a lobster stew supper at the G. A. R. hall to honor the association's strong season. Speakers included Bath fire Chief Engineer Richard Frates and area councilmen as the group praised the tub's achievements in the New England Hand Engine League.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Torrent No. 1
Richard Frates
Bath Fire Department
C. M. Tubbs
Timothy Claney
Harold W McElman
Stanley R. Hunter
Weston Bonney
Torrent No. 1 Association
William Dwyer
John Dwyer
Verne Miller
John Marks
Melbourne Miller
Chester H. McCabe
Mary Pickens
Fife
Bath Iron Works couple become Portland parents
Mr. and Mrs. Watson Clark of Portland formerly of Bath are the parents of a child born Tuesday in a Portland hospital. Mr. Clark formerly worked at Bath Iron Works Corp and now is a clerk at the Sears Roebuck store in Portland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Watson Clark
Portland
Bath
Mr. Clark
Bath Iron Works Corp
Sears, Roebuck
Tukey Returns Home After Hospital Stay
Melvin Tukey son of Mr and Mrs Egbert Tukey of 1060 High Street has been a patient at Memorial hospital and returned home Sunday where he is recovering satisfactorily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melvin Tukey
Egbert Tukey
1060
High Street
Memorial Hospital
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Edwin Hart
East Boston
Sam Ster Ominberg
Na- Kern
Bill
Laurence Morong
Allen Sternberg
Morse-Brunsaon
Ath
Midshipman
L. D. Lowell
Castine
Lloyd Lowell
Herbert Moughty
Francis
Albert
Raymond Nisbet
Tommy Sheffield
Harpswell
Perkins Sland
T School
Eva Hoar
Dale Mank
Mary Anne Wyman
Patty Pauling
Supt. S. C. Gilman
George Larrabee
Tingle
Starwood
Wi Ren
Superior Court
Burt S. Osgood
Farm Bureau
Popham Beach
F. D. Scott
Herbert Sprague
Abbie Wallace
N. J
Downing Cottage
Blanche Westall
Ethel Forman
Vernon M. Mattson
Dorothy
Newtonville
South Beach
Arthur Preney
Davis
Norman Markham
Terry
Cox
Frank Wyman
Perry
Edith
Howard Spinney
E. C. Perkins
Ernest Wood
Helena Oliver
Spruceville
Jennie Woodward
E. P. Thomas
Ralph Seekins
Munsey
Sonny Munsey
Morse
Cowley
Morse-Brunswick
Kelley Field
Pickens
Kathryn Pickens
Arthur Rideout
Chester H. McCabe, Jr
McCabe
Association
Roland St. Pierre
Chevrolet
Fisher
Fisher Unisteel
Brooke Chevrolet, Inc
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