Wiscasset News Lightly Touches Local Happenings
Local notes report a possible fishway at Head Tide dam to aid alwife and salmon runs in the Sheepscot River, plus boat tests, beagle trials, band concert, school openings, town audits, and community events in Lincoln County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Head Tide
Lincoln County Fish and Game Association
Sheepscot River
Yacht Club
Wylie Munsey
Boothbay Harbor
John Fahey
Farmington Teachers College
Bath Junior High School
Main Street
Ledges Inn
Huntoon Hill
Grange Hall
Hawes
State Auditor’s
John Macfarlane
Charles Cowley
John L. Blagdon
Charles Sewall
Lincoln Home For the
John Blagdon
Macfarlane
Wiscasset
Neighbors share visits and events across Kennebec
Social notes from Day's Ferry Woolwich and Bath detail visits by the McKeands Walker and Boyd families and travelers from Boston Berkeley and California. Dale Howe marks his 14th birthday with a Morse High debut on a program joined by Connie Howe. The Three-Quarter Century Club's Augusta session honors winners and a 101 year old attendee. Farm and Home Week slides from Orono are showcased.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maxwell McKeand
Scituate
Mass
Maine
New Harbor
Frank J. Walker
Day's Ferry
Cosmopolitan Garden Club
Bath
Jennie Howe
Chester Howe
Melvin Howe
Georgie Walker
Woolwich
Maxine Boyd
Boston
Dale Howe
Connie Howe
Dale
Morse High
Edwin Moulton
Wiscasset
Belle Moulton
Haverhill
Day’s Ferry
Paul Roberts
Richmond
Judy Richards
Albert Richards
Russell Boyd
Mae Boyd
Capt
Mr. Boyd
Mary Stinson
Berkeley
Calif
Marcia Stinson
New York
James Thorpe
Damariscotta
Spring Meadow Farm
Thorpe
Bath Memorial Hospital
Twin County Extension Service
Androscoggin
Sagadahoc
Charles Eastman
Joseph W. Larrabee
East Auburn
Days Ferry
Percy Bailey
Lemuel Preble
Forrest Baker
Darrell
William Mennealy
Mennealy
University of Maine At
Orono
Augusta
Maria Savage
Jessie Main
Main
Walker
Open House at Bath New Junior High School
Bath invites all residents and interested readers to tour the new junior high school this Thursday from 4 30 to 9 00 pm. Gov Burton Cross calls the nearly half million dollar building one of the state’s finest and most beautiful. Visitors may view the facilities and meet local residents during the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Burton M. Cross
Small Point Colony Hosts Gay Weekend Events
Small Point Colony enjoyed a lively weekend with out of state guests and many parties. Notable gatherings included tea at Morse's Mountain, readings by Prof. Coffin and Loyd Haberly, and a debut party for Anne Williams and Camilla Sewall hosted by Ex-Gov. Walter Edge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Small Point Colony
George St. John
Morse’s Mountain
Robert P. Tristram Coffin
Loyd Haberly
Coffin
Greece
University of Athens
Haberly
Fairleigh-Dickinson College
Rutherford, N. J
Hellas
Walter E. Edge
New Jersey
Anne Williams
Baltimore
Camilla Sewall
New York
Small Point Beach Club
Topsea
Edge
Sewall Williams
Clif Leeman
Sumner Sewall
Allen Richardson
Arthur Sewall
Richardson
Sewall
Lewis H. Hyde
Winchester
Princeton
N. J
Anne Rodgers
Burlingame
Calif
Amory Wallace
Sarasota
Fla
Berthe Keezer
New York City
Ellen Brooks
Capitol Island
Atheline Wilbur
Cleveland
Ohio
Messrs
Neil Chands
Wellesley Hills
Mass
Peter Kenney
Dedham
Leonard Dursthoff, Jr
Boston
Robert Tell
Whitemarch
Lewis Goetz
Watseka
Albert D. Wells
Southbridge
Jon Piper
Concord
Morgan Gilbert
Washington, D. C
Christopher Stancliffe-Hurst
Kennon Jayne
New Canaan
Local West Bath Sale Sells Well and Club Meeting Planned
A West Bath church sale last week drew strong participation from the community. The Shamrock 4 H club and Extension Group will meet this week at Mrs. Roy Moore’s home. Numerous local residents and guests are listed as visitors or travelers at various cottages and homes, including families from Cape Elizabeth Portland Topsham Melrose and Connecticut.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath
Shamrock 4-H Club
Roy Moore
George Bailey
Cape Elizabeth
Chester Freeman
Portland
William Foster
Topsham
Bailey Cottage
Sabine
Fred Duren
Richmond
Blair Wilson
Philip
City Playground Picnic Closes 1954 Season With Fun
More than 100 boys and girls enjoyed the annual City Playground Picnic at Kimball field near Huse aay school despite morning drizzle. Weather cleared at noon as contests, wheelbarrow races and dashes entertained youths from Lambert Park Fisher and Goddard areas. Prizes were awarded to numerous winners in boys and girls events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kimball Field
Huse Aay School
Lambert Park
Fisher
Goddard
Eddie Albert
Valarie Nesbitt
Linagene Ennis
Donna Lee Ennis
Bobby Decker
Ronald Bailey
Paul Webster
Willard
Bruceer
Sandra Chaplain
Joe Robinson
Richard Milliken
Joanne Roseberry
Mildred Fletcher
Harold Ames
Ronald Reed
Ray Bergerson
Jerry Bowser
Huse
William Milliken
Auto trip visitors to Boothbay Harbor noted
A family outing took parents to Boothbay Harbor and included a call on cousin Mrs. Etta Tibbetts of Westport. Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Deehan, Mrs. Robert Farnham and two children called on Mrs. Laura Whitmore and Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Whitmore on Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kevin
Popham Beach
Robert Thompson
Debbie
Connecticut
Percy Holbrook
Margaret Herbert
James Herbert
Richard Rice
Newton
Mass
Eva Frazer
Lynn
Robert
Clarence Johnson
Machias
G. C. Smith
Frank Smith
Portsmouth
N. H
Donald Weed
U. S. Army
Lawrence Burnham
York
Mrs
Irving Burnham
Boothbay Harbor
Etta Tibbetts
Westport
F. W. Deehan
Robert Farnham
Laura Whitmore
B. F. Whitmore
Mrs Doten Reaches Portland After Concord Visit
Mrs Laura B Doten of Portland formerly of Bath returned home Wednesday from Concord New Hampshire where she had stayed ten days with her sister and husband Mr and Mrs Whitman Mitchell
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laura B. Doten
Portland
Bath
Concord
N. H
Whitman Mitchell
Starbird School pupils entertain at West Bath Grange program
At West Bath grange a Starbird School of Music program featured 25 Lewiston area children with accordions and saxophone numbers. Guests included Frank Carver and Mr. Shea of Starbird School of Music. the event closed with refreshments for participants and families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath Grange
Grange
Grandma
Ladies Aid
Grange Hall
Fontaine
Mrs. Carver
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Albert J. Myer
Albert Myer
Gorham
Louise Stickney
Marcia Wilson
Leona Bailey
Julia Barker
Eva Rankin
Kenneth E. Munsey
W. Philip Munsey
Munsey
Boston University College of Music
Richard Tucker
Brookline
Jane Tucker
Castle Tucker
Edgar Sewall
Edgard
Massachusetts
William Bradford
Bath Road
Samuel J. Sewall
Lee Street
Edwin H. Moulton
Edwin
Moulton
Gardiner
Edith M. Rowe
Gertrude Leveren
Medford
Federal Street
Charles G. Chase
Farnsworth Museum
Chase
Austin Snedecker
Walter Schofield
Trenton
Ralph Preble
Ralph Preble, Jr
Ipswich
Ralph Ames
Ralph, Jr
Alton
Hooper Street
Carlisle Peckham
Carol
Bradford
Walter H. Peckham
Melrose
Charles Macurda
Lermond
Ralph Hilton
Wiscasset High School
John Rafter
Harold Campbell
Orothy . Rle
Kennebec
Betsy
Ithaca
N. Y
J. William Schulze
Schulze
Peter Darling
Chicago
Philip Darlin
Henry Darling
Small Point
Robert Charles
St. Louis
Sargent Cottage
The
Point
David Sewall
A.F
Fort Campbell
Julian Mason
Cold Spring Harbor
S. 1
Terry Cottage
Starbird School
Lewiston Music School
Eral
Coun
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Executive Council
Opera Cresses
Suecess
State of
96Th
General Fund
Public Works Reserve
Liquor Research Committee
Office Building Authority
94Th
Fore River
Waldo-Hancock Kennebec Bridge
Pat
Weet
Reir
Inland Fisheries and Game Fund
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Ada
C Treasury
Avwegusta Toll Bridge
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Omce Building Authority
Totel
Deer Isle-Bedgwick Bridge
Office of the State
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Consolidated
Eveved
Wolves
Working Trust
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Ruth Mathias
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Broadway
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