Community notes highlight 4-H wins and local events
Local town reports show Illing Workers 4-H club members winning ribbons at Topsham Fair with awards planned Saturday at the county 4-H day. Scouting, church groups, and Grange activities fill the week as plans unfold for a Mother Daughter banquet, Sunday school teaching slate, and inviting bee at Small Point Church.
Dromore Grangers Install Officers Tuesday Evening
Dromore grange held its officer installation last Tuesday with a turkey dinner hosted by the grange ladies. 15 guests came from West Bath and members from Bodwell Merrymeeting Tops ham Capital Readfield and Manchester attended. The event featured Fall flowers and a program by State Treasurer Charles M White and staff.
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Dromore Grange
The
Grange
West Bath Grange
Bodwell
Merrymeeting
Topsham
Capital
Readfield
Manchester
Aletha Campbell
Ada King
Beverly Hughes
Madelyn Holbrook
Alma Holbrook
Lucy Cutting
Mae Dannenfelser
Evelyn Beals
Lillian Blair
Ethel Bobshaw
Florence Rollins
Charles M. White
Winthrop
Viola White
Marshal
Ange
Madelyn Norton
Capis Grange
Brother Trask
Manchester Grange
Trask
Frost
Readfield Grange
Ray Campbell
Henry DeGraff
Thomas Tracey
Elfreda Perkins
Willard Blair
Ceres
Anna Hansen
Pomona
Flora
Edward King
White
Parker Head Community Notes and Listings
Parker Head church and Sunday school had good attendance. No school at the village schoolhouse Monday due to a county teachers convention in Richmond. Next week noon dismissal Wednesday for the State teachers convention in Bangor. Herbst Halloween party for children Wednesday morning with no guests this year. Christmas observance to invite public. Numerous prizes awarded including arithmetic to Carole Mank and spelling to Sharon Turner and others. PTA met at the vestry with Mother-Daughter banquet planned at Dromore grange hall. Many personal visits noted with Millard Nadeau, Frank Burnell, and others visiting Parker Head residents. Five-generation gathering at Mrs. J. D. Libby home. Wardrobe of local births and weddings mentioned. several residents noted for birthdays and anniversaries. Eugene Harrington entered Fairfield sanatorium for treatment. Community guests from Bath, Bedford, St George, and Hollis Center are listed among weekend visitors. Local obituaries recorded with Willard Percy of Bath passing last Tuesday.
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Ana Pdhursdaye
G. Ls" Hamel
Vir Gilman
Gail
Illing Workers
Topsham Fair
Topsham
Re Grange Hall
State Grange
Jes M. White
White
Dromore Grange
Sagadahoc Pomona
Bodwell Grange
Dromore Extension Assocition
Range Hall
Small Point
Dergarten
Ida Nord
Lasbelle Harvey
Philip
Arlene 1
Mil- Wilson
Hacy Whitehead
William Jaisdell
Melvin Pratt
Pratt
Joseph W. Larrabee
Rrabee
Phippsburg Cenr
Harles L. Stevens
Richmond
Bangor
Carole Mank
Sharon Turner
Anne Gray
Robert Gray
Arthur Barkalow
Donald Wyman
Anne
Carolyn
Marilyn
Frank McEachern
Elizabeth Wyman
Judy Moore
Donald
Mary Anne Wyman
James
Martha Ross
Herbert Doughty
C. Gilman
Howard
Claudia
Peter Hutchins
Eugene Ross
Diane
Parker Head
Dromore Grange Hall
Earl Lowell
Millard Nadeau
Portland
Walter Cushing
Florence Rollins
Frank Burnell
Olive Deojay
Bath
Leston Harrington
Deojay
Ethel MacElroy
Everett Gottschalk
Karen
Bedford
Mass
Charles Blaisdell
Leon Ross
J. A. Young
F. P. Young
Howard Hutchins
St. George
Mars Hill
Aroostook
Russell Turner
Laura Lawrence
Paul Dale Lawrence
Bath Memorial Hospital
Willard Percy
Alston Oliver
Herbert Bassett
Albert Gray
Clarence Skelfield
Mary Dannenfelser
Lowell
Center
Charles Stevens
Wilfred Libby
Elsie Sargent
Hollis Center
J. D. Libby
Irene Libby
John S. Libby
Lisbon Falls
Donald Logan
Bernard Wyman
Arthur Learbasco
W. A. Lowell
Lincoln- Sagadahoc
Bridge Academy
Dixfield
Larry Chadwick
Lawrence Gahan
South Portland
Leonard Gahan
George Bailey
Randolph
Leslie Bailey
Dresden Mills
Call’s Hill
Olive Branch
Dorothy Whitney
Machias
Lyndel Good
Horace Gilpatrick
Edward Good
Lila Fitch
Eulelia Pray
Charles McDonald
Ernest Cate
Kennebec County
Waterville
Roland Jewell
Edith Carney
Needle Club
Samuel McDonald
Frank Houdlette
Dorr Woodward
Rockland
Extension Association
Charles Gray
Pownalboro Society
Baptist Church
Damariscotta
University of Maine
Eastern Maine General Hospital
Walter Rittall
Walter, Jr
N. E. T. Barker
Yarmouth
Abbie and
Lois Barker
Cedar Grove
Popham Beach Frost Quiets Fall Foliage Visitors
A frost dampened Popham Beach area foliage as camera fans still flocked to the town for landscape views. Small Point Church holds Sunday services at 11 am, and Pophpsburg schools canceled Monday sessions due to the Richmond Teachers Convention. Many locals and visitors are noted at cottages, weddings, church events, and community gatherings across Popham, Small Point, Sebasco, and surrounding towns.
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Popham
Small Point
Small Point Church
Phippsburg
Richmond
Norman E. Markham
Kennebec
South Shore
Bodwell Grange Hall
Nancy Welch
Fred Olanty
Williard Bower
Buffalo
N. Y
S. Leslie Reid
University Presbyterian Church of
Montreal
Quebec
Jonesport
Dromore Grange Hall
Ernest Shepard
Sally
Fairfield
Harry L. Day
Bath
Carl Bickford
Bruce
Bowdoin
Town
Fred Spinney
Pre
Richard Ewing
Troy
Coxs Head road crews clear obstructing bushes
Richard B. K. MacLanathan was elected secretary of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston last week. He spent the weekend at the stone schoolhouse with Mrs MacLanathan and Mrs M Johnson Fuller. Several local residents and visitors traveled to cottages and seen homes in nearby towns as social visits continued. Edward P. Thomas is a patient at Bath Memorial hospital. Captain and Mrs George Dozois were among callers.
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Cox's Head
Richard B. K. MacLanathan
The
Museum of Fine Arts
Boston
MacLanathan
MacLanfepee
M. Johnson Fuler
Ralph Sorensen
Stoneham
Mass
Arthur L. Percy
Richard MacLanathan
M. Johnson Fuller
John W. LaSalle
Small Point
Martin F. Goodwin
Wolfeboro
N. H
J. H. Chamberlain
Lakeland
Fla
Stanton C. Dozois
Port Clyde
Edward P. Thomas
Bath Memorial Hospital
George
Stanton Dozois
Lincoln Sag Teachers Convention Keeps Schools Closed
Several local items note community events and sports outcomes. Bridge Academy defeated Dixfield 12 to 6 with Larry Chadwick scoring twice including a 75 yard TD after the third period kickoff. Social visits, church society plans, and Extension Association activities fill out a busy period in Dresden Mills and nearby towns.
Rummage Sale Draws Attention At Winter Street Church
Friends in Bath attended a rummage sale at Winter Street Church on a Tuesday, gathering items and socializing as part of the church event.
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Bath
Winter Street Church
Miss Priscilla Magoun Returns From Marblehead Visit
Miss Priscilla Magoun returns to 65 Green Street after visiting Marblehead Massachusetts where she stayed with Mrs. Robert Smyth, formerly Miss Virginia Paine of Bath.
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Priscilla Magoun
Green Street
Marblehead
Mass
Robert Smyth
Virginia Paine
Bath
Five Fortier brothers form Elks bowling team
The Fortier siblings Clayton 43 Earl 37 Leland 34 Carl 32 and Robert to form the Guards bowling team in the Elks league. All five have bowled three seasons, now competing together for the first time. They sit in fourth place among six teams early in the season, with fathers Frank and Mrs Fortier listed at South Street. Clayton works as a cost estimator at Bath Iron Works while Earl serves in maintenance there Leland is in the pipe shop and Carl in electrical maintenance at the local shipyard and Robert runs Fortier's Gas Service on Front Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guards
Elks’ League
Fiveman
Clayton
Earl
Robert
Leland
Carl Fortier
Frank_T._Fortier
South Street
Bath Iron Works
B.I.W
Carl
Fortier's Gas Service
Front Street
This City
Arthorman
Leland Fortier
Elks
Polio drive outlines grim stats and rising hope
The report highlights polio's rising cases with 45,233 total this year by Oct 11, up from 22,791 last year, and a weekly total of 2,864. It celebrates Foundation aid totaling $5,989,243, 1,776 iron lungs, 465 hot pack machines, and 1,224 nurses deployed, while praising early diagnosis and March of Dimes funded research as turning points toward scientific success. Leaders from multiple states attended as Mothers March On Polio plans expand to over 2,000,000 participants.
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Good
National Foundation
Connecticut
Maine
Murphys close Summer home and reside in Bath
Mr and Mrs G Thomas Murphy have closed their Summer home at Sebasco Estates and are at their home in Bath at 9 Linden street.
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G. Thomas Murphy
Sebasco Estates
Bath
Linden Street
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