Dromore local notes cover Braided Rugs meeting
The Dromore Farm Bureau met in the grange hall with Mrs Eva Rogers teaching Braided Rugs. Miss Mary Wright leaves her county agent role for Connecticut, awaiting a new appointment. Several residents appear in personal items including shipyard work, home projects, and family visits. notable news includes Mrs Cecelia Brooks death at 102 and Lester Beals on leave from the Naval Reserve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dromore Farm Bureau
Grange Hall
Eva Rogers
Mary Wright
Connecticut
Dromore Bureau
Alethea Campbell
George C. Pease
J. Milton Warner
Admiralty
Ralph E. Wright
Roa
Dromore
Harry Butler
Sunporch
Herbert Shorey
Camp Lee
Shorey
West Point
U.S. Army
Seavey
Center’street
Bath
Isabel Smart
Speers
Lewiston
Miss Frances Harding Returns From Weekend Visit
Miss Frances Harding of Damariscotta returned Monday after a weekend visit with her parents Mr and Mrs Frank Harding of Bedford Street. Mr Harding is employed at the Bath Iron Works fabrication plant at Harding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frances Harding
Damariscotta
Frank Harding
Bedford Street
Mr. Harding
Bath Iron Works
Hardings
West Bath Farm Bureau Meeting Hosted by Mrs Donnell
Mrs Earl Donnell hosted the West Bath Farm Bureau women at her home on Monday. Miss Mary L Wright explained program planning and wartime buying with emphasis on ceiling prices. The group noted Miss Wright’s upcoming move to New London county Connecticut.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl C. Donnell
West
Edward Thompson
Oscar Adams
Adams
Robert Coombs
Donnell
Small
Coombs
Perry Thompson
Miss Wright
New London County
Connecticut
Norwich
Arthur Brown
Edward Haggett
D. Wylie Lemont
Walter Marco
Douglass Richardson
Charles T. Small
Richard Young
Barbara Adams
Winnegance Community Notes Highlight Local Updates
Captain William Totman’s residence is being repainted. Red Cross First Aid center supplies are ready for emergency use. Speed limit enforcement remains uneven near the schoolhouse. Charles Morse renovates the former Sewall Morse house and plans exterior painting and a sun porch. Dimont area signage appears beyond Pitch Pine Hill. Duck hunting yields fair marshes activity. fewer ducks than some years. Yard waste disposal concerns include garbag e overboard from the causeway and rat risk. Dr Ralph Warren moved his cat boat to the creek for seasonal removal before freeze. Mrs Orman Coggeshall hosts auxiliary Thursday and Squaw club in the evening. A new fire alarm box, number 14, is installed between Sherman L Morse and Charles E Hewitt Jr. Bridge Street box remains numbered 114.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Charles Morse
Sewall Morse
Dimont
Pitch Pine Hill
Ralph Warren
New Meadows
Orman Coggeshall
Squaw Club
Winneganee
Sherman L. Morse
Charles E. Hewitt, Jr
Bridge Street
Wilsons return from Melrose for wedding and visit
Dr and Mrs David L Wilson of 918 Washington Street returned Monday from a week in Melrose Mass with their son Blair C Wilson. They attended the wedding of Marshall Leavitt and Miss Mabel Gilman at the Melrose Unitarian church and joined a 300 guest reception at the church parish house. Blair served as usher and the couple had visited the Wilsons at Bath and Stackpole farm during summers. Ruth Field of Bath Trust Co resumed duties after vacation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Violet Lufkin
Billerica
Mass
George Davis
Lyman Barbour
Kate Barbour
Velma Grant
Portland
Frank Cutting
Dromore
Henry J. Senecal
David
Saratoga
Mr. Senecal
Sendall Green
Bath Iron Works
Harry Shaw
Sabattus
Grace Payne
Egg Hill
Wallace Nichols
Richmond
John Davis
Seavey
Squirrel Point
Nortons
Point
Frank Scott
Small Point
Melba Wright
New York City
Nellie Vaughn
Park Street
Orono
Donald Weeks
F. S. Bowker
Weeks
Kenneth
Wilbur
Morse High School
Bailey
Edward Thomas
Popham
Freemont Street
Bath
David L. Wilson
Washington Street
Melrose
Blair C. Wilson
Wilson
Marshall Leavitt
West Hartford
Parker Head Community Updates and Attendances
At the School Improvement League meeting Barbara Mank was named president and Marie Wyman vice president. Fifteen students achieved perfect attendance for the week. The scrap metal drive proceeds, and a fats collection for USO proceeds net nearly a dollar. Local residents and visitors from Bath and Lewiston are noted with various short mentions of family visits and hospital stays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
School Improvement League
Barbara Mank
Marie Wyman
Miss Packard
Richard Dozois
Mary Wortman
Marion
Iva Allen
Dorothy Cushing
Lorraine Harrington
Barbara
Sandra Mank
Sally
Bill Lowell
Robert
Lewis
Beverley Moore
Laura Wyman
Raymond Nisbet
Church
Frances Robie
Wayne
Parker Head
Mary T. Hunt
Allie Rollins
Bath
A. Bernard Webber
Milton
Mass
W. H. Wyman
Bath Memorial Hospital
Donald William
Rhoda Fist
Dresden Social Notes and Local Visits Highlight Week
Rural Field Supervisor Gladys Patrick and Superintendent Stanwood Gilman visited area schools. A newborn, Jane Thorne Perry, arrived at Mrs. John Mayers home. Weekend guests included Miss Carolyn Sheldon at Day's Ferry and Carol Morris with Mr. and Mrs. George Morris of South Portland. Clayton Mayers left Dresden for Reading Massachusetts. Charles Sheldon traveled from Rockland to Merrymeeting Bay for duck hunting. Olive Branch chapter O E S schedules inspection on Oct 20, Jane Bond of Jefferson serves as district deputy. Mrs. Norris Lord of Boston visits Dresden Mills briefly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladys Patrick
State Department
Augusta
Stanwood Gilman
John Mayers
R. N
Jane Thorne Perry
Ray Perry
West Dresden
Carolyn Sheldon
Carle Longfellow
Day’s Ferry
George Morris
Carol
Mizpah Class Hosts Mrs. Greeley Supper Shower
Mrs. Herbert F. Greeley of Englewood New Jersey guest of honor at Mizpah class supper and shower hosted by Mrs. J Russell Grant at 26 Liberty Street. Gifted with many items including a chenille bedspread. list of attendees includes Eleanor Mills president and several members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert F. Greeley
Englewood
N. J
First Baptist Church
J. Russell Grant
Liberty Street
Greeley
Grace B. Spaulding
Elton Pinkham
Milo Fitzpatrick
C. Kenneth Thayer
Eleanor Mills
H. Chester McKenzie
William Parks
Arthur L. Freeman
Frank Chamberlain
Gilbert Young
C. Lloyd Hooker
White
Hill Cousins Attend Bowdoin Williams Game and Dance
Miss Betty Lou Hill daughter of Mr and Mrs Walter Hill of North Street visited the Psi U fraternity house Saturday for the Bowdoin Williams football game and gym dance. Her cousin Miss Audrey Hill daughter of Mr and Mrs W Dayton Hill also attended the game and dance with Bowdoin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty Lou Hill
Walter Hill
North Street
Psi U
Bowdoin-Williams
Audrey Hill
W. Dayton Hill
Bowdoin
Popham Beach News Highlights Local Life
Pvt Jean Hamel of Parker Head, 18, is named one of the Marine Corps youngest instructors at Parris Island teaching recruits to fire rifles. Scrapping and repurposing the Civil War cannon from Fort Popham to aid the war effort is approved. School attendance reports and community notices cover services, birthdays, letters from soldiers, library group meetings, and local family news from Bath to Yarmouth. Memorial Hospital announces birth of Martha Elizabeth Foster to Foster Pratt at 1 High Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Popham Beach
Pvt
Jean Hamel
Parker Head
U. S. Marine Corps
Parris Island
Bath Iron Works
Phippsburg
Fort Popham
United States
Harry Spencer
Bertha Newdick
Mary Newdick
Walter Newdick
Ellen Newdick
Gloria Oliver
Ernest Oliver
Martha Elizabeth Foster
The
Memorial Hospital
Foster Pratt
North End Housing Beehive Rush Transforms Bath Area
The Federal Government builds 156 permanent houses and 100 demountables at the North End project along High Street from Oliver to Park, with autos and heavy equipment busy day and night. The influx of defense workers will add hundreds to Bath’s population and school enrollments, though no on site schoolhouse is planned, as current facilities will serve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North End
High Street
Oliver Street
Park Street
Sewall and
Hagan Fields
Bath
Maine Central Tracks
Hish Street
Also Mentioned on This Page
Hiram B. Rich
Westbrook
Mr. Rich
Times
S. D. Warren Paper Co
West Bath Farm Bureau
William Totman
Ruth Field
Bath Trust Co
Parker
Stanton Dezois
Cox Head
Diane Harding
Edwin M. Wyman
Lloyd Lowell
Cleveland
Ohio
Lewis Lowell
East Harpswell
Harold Fish
L. Forrest Wyman
Solange Reno
Sally Lowell
Dresden
Mizpah
Englewood, N. J
Paul Davis
Fred Spinney
Harry Pashard
Camp Devens
Camp Edwards
Lester Oliver
Spruceville
Harry Gifford
William Bowie
Elkanah Wyman
Margaret Wyman
Elisha Bridges
Marion Bridges
Nancy Hyde
Popham Circle
Stanley Hyde
Yarmouth
Ledgewwood
Stephen Culper
Holyoke
William Love
Malden
Fisher Cottage
Dora Bridges
Guy Crowley
Ellison Moody
Norris Young
Blanchard Crowley
Woolwich
Herbert Mitchell
Seguin
Clarence Skeffield
Portsmouth
Mitchells
Wendell P. Clare
Arlene Small
North Yarmouth Academy
Charles Small
Marcial Trottier
Seggeberg Cottage
Preney
Davis House
N. H
Markson
Markson Bros
Center Street
Bath, Maine
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