Phippsburg News Roundup Reflects Community Life
Mount Vernon pastor regrets missing a Christian Service meeting at Mrs. J F Leach's home as Mirian Whitehead wedding nears. Moose sightings sweep town while residents relocate, travel, and assist in Bath and Maine towns. 4-H club members attend Auburn county contest. Frances Robie leads Lincoln Association service at Popham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Whitehead
Mount Vernon
N. Y
Christian Service
J. F. Leeach
Whitehead
Mirian
Town
Moose
Basin Hill
Elbridge Bowker
Avery
Mel Wallace
Meadowbrook
Winchester
Mass
Susie Barbour
Portland
J. Milton Warner
the Ridge
Frank Higgins
Bath
Bowker
John Schottler
Small Point
Stanley Hutchins
Ernest Rogers
Dromore
John
Eliot
Kittery
William B. Perry
Cora Campbell
Walter Pierce
Minnie Wallace
Pearl Williams
Miss Wallace
Sebasco
Irving Cromwell
Lower High Street
John Davis
Frank Allegrin
Mary Bowker
Phippsburg
4-H Club
Auburn
Lawrence Scott
George Larrabee, Jr
Harvey Bates
Robert
Lawrence Hughes
Frances Robie
H. B. Wyman
Georgia Leach
Emma Perry
Grace Dickinson
Lincoln Association of Churches
Winter Street
Popham
Parachutist Enlists in Navy as Parachute Rigger
Marshall Chick Taylor a veteran jumper with over 400 jumps enlisted Saturday at Pearl Street Recruiting Station in Portland as a second class parachute rigger. He is noted for early Maine exhibitions and the first parachute rigging license issued in the state. Taylor previously packed and repaired parachutes in Hartford and has ties to Frank Simpson’s old Powers airfield. Mrs Wyman of Mechanic Street returns from Popham Beach visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshall
Chick
Taylor
United States Navy
Portland
Pearl Street
Frank T. Simpson
East Brunswick
Old Powers
Bath
Brunswick
Maine
Ford
Fire in Kitchen of New Meadows Restaurant Quickly Checked
A kitchen fire at New Meadows restaurant on Front Street drew the fire department at 9 a.m. Tuesday. Engine Four found the smokepipe ignited a plywood wall. a small wall section was removed and a chemical tank controlled the flames. Chief Frates ordered wall replacement with better material due to heat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Meadows
Front Street
Engine Four
Richard Frates
Frates
Front
Broad
Haganfield
Walter Powers
Georgetown
Center Street
Evening school registrations and staff for Bath programs
Evening classes at Morse high school prepare for registration next Monday night with three levels in office work first aid shop math and ship fitting led by Martha Grant Donald Freeman Steven H Bracey and others. Open to locals and nearby towns with no tuition. 18 enrollees needed to start. Also obituary: Harry S. Thompson dies in Augusta at 84.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ing
Martha Grant
Donald Freeman
Robert Gallagher
Steven H. Bracey
Alexander MacDonald
Morse High School
Bath
Parker Head church school fundraiser and community notes
Parker Head church school meetings discuss electric lights funded by family contributions with Miss Packard in charge. Local events include Billy Lowell's sixth birthday party at the schoolhouse with numerous attendees and a Civilian Defense alert urging everyone to draw shades after sundown. Numerous personal notices report moves, visits, births, and family happenings in the Parker Head area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frances Robie
Leston Harrington
Miss Packard
Billy Lowell
Mary Wortman
Grace
Billy Kraft
George Morong
Howard
Laurence
George, Jr
Diane
Barbara Harding
Sandra
Barbara Mank
Laura
Bernard Wyman
Raymond
Beryla_ Nisbet
Harold Rogers
Stephen
Loraine
David
Barbara Harrington
Clayton Hoar
Connie Lee
Dorothy Cushing
Marie Wyman
Richard Dozois
Mary
Beverley
Lewis
Robert Moore
Harold Fish
Patricia
Rhoda
Earl Lowell
Sally
Stella Packard
Laurence Morong
Rhoda Fish
Master Bill
Office of Civilian Defense
Parker Head
Osgood
Perkins Island
Francis Luke
Luke
East Boothbay
George Allen
East Stoneham
Bonney House
Charles A. Rollins
Portland
Ernest Doughty
Carol Jean
Webber Cottage
Bath
Donald Logan
Marlene
Leslie Logan
East Boston
Bound Over for Uttering Threat in Topsham Case
Gordon Strout of Topsham was bound over to Sagadahoc Superior Court after a preliminary hearing found probable cause for a charge of communicating an oral threat. He pleaded not guilty and was ordered to post $500 sureties for appearance. A State Police arrest followed reports of intoxication and threats, with an automatic pistol shown as part of testimony. The docket also noted a Bath Iron Works employee, Frank Carlton of Woolwich, charged with loud and unnecessary noise after blowing a car horn in Bath. Carlton paid court costs. Additional defendants faced fines or jail terms for intoxication and disturb ing the peace while others paid fines for intoxication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gordon Strout
Topsham
Sagadahoc Superior Court
Gardiner R. Deering
Strout
Robert Whittemore
State Police
Frank Carlton
Woolwich
Bath Iron Works Corp
Donald H. Crosby
Carlton
Water Street
Crosby
Augusta
Maine Farm Bureaus Begin Meetings Soon
The Maine Farm Bureaus schedule a series of county meetings starting in Oct and Nov. Knox-Lincoln meet Oct 24 at Waldoboro high school with all-day sessions. Evening events follow in Waldo Kennebec Somerset Penobscot and others across the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Knox-Lincoln
Waldoboro High School
Franklin County
Farmington
Androscoggin-Sagadahoe
Topsham
York County
Sanford
Oxford County
South Paris
Washington County
Machias
Cumberland Country
Piscataquis County
Dover-Foxcroft
Aroostook County
Presque Isle
Waldo County
Ellsworth
Kennebec County
Augusta
Somerset County
Skowhegan
Penobscot County
Bangor
Ocean meets Navy pair in unexpected Pacific clash
En sign Frederick Lawler of Bristol and Lieut Pauline Reilly of New Harbor met unexpectedly somewhere in the Pacific not long ago. The brief encounter marks a rare crossing of lives amid wartime sea patrols and distant duty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick Lawler
U.S.N
Bristol
Lieut
Pauline Reilly
New Harbor
Pacific
Also Mentioned on This Page
NAVY
Chick” Taylor
Percy Wyman
Mechanic Street
Popham Beach
New Meadows Cafe
Harry S. Thompson
Dexter
Benjamin Thompson
Thompson
Kennebec Journal
Modern Woodmen of America
Augusta Typographical Union
Parker
Ora Hallett
Lisbon Falls
Phyllis Young
Joseph A. Young
Falmouth
Doughty
Geological Survey
Fred P. Young
Boston
Curry Stiles
Elsie Champion
Bill Lowell
Ronald Fish
Phippsburg Center
Frank Burnell
Olive Deejay
Eugene Harrington
Lewiston
Donald William
W. H. Wyman
John Collins
John, Jr
Frank Wyman
Robert Jewell
Maine Farm Bureaus
Knox-Lincoln Association
Men’s Suede
Flance
Santrrst
Kaen
Romeo
Grove
Regon
Dou
Bend
Cotton Union
T& Bomb
Sears, Roebuck
Bath, Maine
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