Community notices and obituaries from Richmond area
A Tuesday Emerson Lane Post Auxiliary meeting at the American Legion hall appointed committees for child welfare rehabilitation and membership. A rummage sale planned for Sept 13 with next meeting Sept 11. Various grange and Ladies Aid activities noted with a baby moose sighting and Sunday school outing. Funeral for Sharon Prescott reported. Beasley Prescott family named. Dozens of local visits, engagements and travels listed with multiple residents and visitors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emerson Lane Post Auxiliary
American Legion Hall
Izetta Clark
Hazel Libby
Fern Perry
Marcia Baker
Grace Dickinson
Josie Baker
Elizabeth McFee
Charlotte Drinkwine
Mildred Brown
Enterprise Grange
Clarence Dunbar
Swan Island
Martell
Peacock’s Tavern Beach
Sagadahoc Pomona Grange
Woolwich Grange
G. C. Mariner
Raymond Kelley
Frank E. Rice
Ernest Chadbourne
Clinton Hinksey
Marry Rice
Arlene Siegars
Dorothy Jones
Lee Harold Jones
Alice Gilpatrick
Helen Bishop
Alberta Haynes
James Meserve
J. W. Randlette
Sagadahoc Pomona
Sagadahoc Grange
Bowdoin Center
Sharon Lee Prescott
Ernest Gomer
Water Street
David Hickland
Methodist Church
Sharon
Ellery
Beatrice Cargill Prescott
Richmond
Beatrice Beasley Prescott
Howard Beasley
U.S.A
Philippines
Dorothy
Delmar
David
Alberta
Shirley
Sylvia
Kenneth Beasley
John Cargill
George Cargill
Bristol
Gardiner Street
Edith Wake
George Yeaton
St. Petersburg
Fla
Muriel Frizzell
Patty Frizzell
West Barrington
R. L
Melvina
Thomas Borjesson
County Road
Shik Chien-Sheng
Municipal Court Busy After Weekend With 11 Respondents
A holiday weekend filled Municipal Court Tuesday morning as Judge Gardner Deering presided over 11 respondents. Four intoxication cases pled guilty with fines and costs. Virginia Savage of Arrowsic paid 25 dollars and 4.70 costs for leaving the scene of an accident near Oakhurst Dairy. Elmer C Doughty of West Bath admitted to digging unsuitable dams and paid 5.10 costs. Five speeders including Everett Garland Gardiner, Joseph R Galarneau Brunswick, Stanley Jackson Gardiner, J P Germain Veilleux Waterville, and Ernest W Holmes Lynn Mass pled guilty with 10 dollar fines plus 4.70 costs. State Trooper John DeWinter handled the cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gardiner R. Deering
City Hall
Virginia Savage
Arrowsic
Oakhurst
Center Street
Elmer C.,doughty
West Bath
Everett Garland
Gardiner
Joseph R. Galarneau
Brunswick
Stanley Jackson
J. P. Germain
Veilleux
Waterville
Ernest W. Holmes
Lynn
Mass
John DeWinter
Bicycle Race Entries Due Thursday For Bath Event
Entries for the big bicycle race sponsored by the USC athletic committee must be in by Thursday noon. The race Sunday afternoon starts at two from Lincoln street north of Center street, with two classes for ages 12-15 and 16 and over. Prizes include war bonds, store credits, and theatre passes for top three in each class. The six and seven tenths mile loop goes from Lincoln street to North Bath road past the Country club and back to Bath ending at the USO hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athletic Committee
USC
Lincoln Street
Center Street
Bath
Bath Road
Country Club
Brunswick Highway
USO Hall
Labor Day Fades as Georgetown Sees Early School Openings
Georgetown residents wrap up summer quietly as many cottages close early due to the school start on September 10. The report notes local families hosting picnics and visits, plus school openings with teachers named, and numerous hometown social arrivals and departures around Bath and Five Islands.
Sunshine Bible School closes a successful term
Sunshine Vacation Bible School at Hyde Park Terrace wraps up after three weeks with a closing program in Community Hall attended by many parents and friends. Miss Marshall and Miss Caden thank the students for their help with gifts, Davenport Fund trustees are praised for support, and diplomas for perfect and attendance are announced amid songs, prayers, and memory verses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sunshine Vacation Bible School
Hyde Park Terrace
Marshall
Caden
Davenport Fund
Elsie Peabody
JoEllen Butler
Marion McCarthy
Mildred Alley
Priscilla Lewis
Corrinne Lund
Frederick Crocker
Joyce Bracy
Evelyn Perry
Irene Crocker
Helen McCarthy
Joan St. Pierre
Maxine Fish
Christine Lewis
Donna Flewelling
Melvin McCarthy
Charlene Cogswell
Sandra Foster
Joan Lewis
Sherrill Duker
Joan Vose
Ralph Grant
Mary Harriet Traverse
Robert Billington
Jean
Sally Ann
Joan Abbot
Arnold Ish
Janice
Beverley Knight
Dorothy
Nancy Woods
Leland Peabody
Edward Foley
Donna Foster
Dianna Lund
Joan Ferris
Father
Crumble Street
Jesus
Personal Notes From West Bath and Surrounding Towns
Mrs. Fred French and husband welcomed a son at Bath Memorial hospital on Tuesday. Wendall Dobson of Caribou departed after a visit. Arthur and Mrs Davis returned from Port Clyde. Mrs. Wilbur Burns came back from Bar Harbor. Mr and Mrs Roy Marr hosted weekend guests Burton Lewis and family. Ham and Julia Field spent the weekend on Monhegan Island. Edward Cummings and son Edward Jr returned from St Johns New Brunswick. Iola Litchfield and son David visited relatives E C Donnell West Bath. Alpert Thayer and former Bath resident visited weekend with Paul Moore Washington Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred French
West Bath
Bath Memorial Hospital
Wendall Dobson
Caribou
Arthur Davis
Port Clyde
Wilbur Burns
Washington Street
Bar Harbor
Burton Lewis
Auburndale
Mass
Roy P. Marr
Wallace Ham
High Street
Julia Field
School Street
Monhegan Island
Edward Cummings
Edward, Jr
St. Johns
N. B
Iola Litchfield
David
Portland
E. C. Donnell
Alpert Thayer
Braintree
Bath
Paul Moore
Madge O'Brien
Boston
Arthur Dolan
Dolan
James Connellon
Rockland
Leo Carey
Clarence Carey
Carey Cottage
Victor Carey
D. W. Staffeld
Betty
Quincy
Skippy
David Stevens
Lisbon Falls
Dickie Davis
Harold A. Rowe
Kittery
Richard Potter
Brookline
Edith Davis
Audrey Pinkham
Leroy
Bay Point
Ellsworth Pinkham
Emma Blenn
Sedgemere Road
Lermond Davis
Melburn Stevens
Melvin Comeau
Orville Rowe
George Yeo
Ted Yeo
USNR
Mae Johnson
Waltham
Herbert Moore
Ann
the Waves
Washington, D. C
Beatrice Baird
Ethel Stevens
Harbor Home
Allen Huntington
South ‘Danville
N. H
Marion Stevens
Walter Savage
P. B. Savage
Olive Williams
L. H. Rowe
Francis Pierce
Europe
Pfc. Pierce
Martha Thompson Washburn
Wave
Jean Thompson
Arlington
Paul Thompson
Martha
Jane
Ralph Gay
Russell Stoddard
Fred Hunt
Brunswick
Fred Hayward
Lowell
Pine Street
Felix Solomoani
Clark
Barbara
MacGillivary House
Stinson Davis
Ellen
Rosemary Cunningham
Augusta
Zetta Higgins
Wakefield
Five Islands seaside notes on dances and visitors
Friday night dance at Howard's hall drew a good crowd with Pauline Rasmussen selling many tickets. A four piece orchestra provided music until midnight. Labor Day shown peaceful after years of struggle. Numerous visits and cottage stays noted at Sagadahoc Bay and surrounding towns with many named residents and guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard's Hall
Pauline Rasmussen
Eath
Sagadahoc Bay
Allie Hinckley
Bay
Ernest Pinkham
Leona Love
Portland
Gene Hall
Bert Hall
Ruth Hall
Acton
Mass
Hall Cottage
Actonia
Spaulding
Howard Bacon
James E White 76 Dies in Bath after Long Illness
James Edward White 76 of Wiscasset died at Bath Memorial Hospital after a six week illness from pneumonia. He had fallen July 20 at work on a barn and was hospitalized. Surviving are wife Anna S Turner White of Whitefield, daughter Mrs Lester Knight of Bangor, son Edwin Turner White of Rutland Vermont, sister Mrs Georgiana Lilly, brother Jesse F White, and three grandchildren. Funeral Thursday at two from his Wiscasset home with Rev Robert Heighman officiating. Burial in Rumwell Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Edward White
Wiscasset
Bath Memorial Hospital
Mr. White
James
Susan White
White
Congregational Church of
Wisset
Knights of Pythias Lodge
Anna S. (Turner
Whitefield
Lester Knight
Washington Street
City
Edwin Turner White
Rutland
Georgiana Lilly
Jesse F. White
Robert Heighman
Congregational Church
Rumwell Cemetery
Mrs. Annie J. Cressey Rites Planned in Bath
Annie J. Cressey 74 of 24 Tarbox Street died Monday at Osteopathic Hospital. Born in Georgetown she was daughter of George and Elizabeth McMahan. Survived by husband Winfield S. Cressey a son Scott and three daughters all of Bath. four brothers and four sisters. grandchildren. Funeral from Mayo Funeral Residence Thursday at two in Corliss Street Baptist church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annie J. Cressey
Tarbox Street
Osteopathic Hospital
Georgetown
George
Elizabeth la Bree McMahan
Winfield S. Cressey
Scott Cressey
Bath
Olio B. Ellis
Margaret Richer
Emerson Glidden
Clement V. McMahan
Howard McMahan
Charles McMahan
Massachusetts
Horace McMahan
Gardiner
Addie Stott
Elizabeth Powers
Ruby McMahan
Woolwich
Nettie Carpenter
Pennsylvania
Corliss Street Baptist Church
Mayo Funeral
George Palmer Hyde Dies in Northampton Mass
Bowdoin graduate George Palmer Hyde son of ex president William De Witt Hyde died suddenly at his Northampton home Monday evening. He graduated Bowdoin 1908 earned Harvard Law 1912 and Bowdoin awarded him a Doctorate of Laws in 1938. He served as Smith College treasurer for 22 years and is survived by his wife two sons in the Navy Lieutenant Richard Hyde and Ensign William De Witt Hyde and two daughters Mrs Nicholas Fish and Miss Prudence Hyde of New Haven Conn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowdoin
George Palmer Hyde
William de Witt Hyde
Northampton
Mass
Harvard
Smith College
U. S. Navy
Richard Hyde
Nicholas Fish
Prudence Hyde
New Haven
Conn
Funeral services for Edmund M. Staples held in city
Edmund M. Staples had funeral services Friday at two o'clock from Curtis Funeral Home. Rev. Dr. David L. Wilson officiated. The service drew many business associates and family friends from Bath and beyond. Burial was in Riverside Cemetery, Brunswick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edmund M. Staples
Curtis Funeral Home
Washington Street
David L. Wilson
Central Congregational Church
Ralph G. Stetson
Donald D. Young
Daniel Williams
Funeral of Mrs. Sophia B Higgins Rice
The funeral of Mrs. Sophia B Higgins Rice was held at Curtis Funeral Home Thursday at 2 p.m. Rev Dr David L Wilson officiated. Bearers were W L Hathorne, Everett Rice, M E Reed and Albert Humphy. Burial followed at Riverside Cemetery Day's Ferry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sophia B (Higgins) Rice
Curtis Funeral Home
David L. Wilson
W L. Hathorne
Everett Rice
M. E Reed
Albert Humphy
Riverside Cemetery
Day's Ferry
Maine coastal resort scene shifts to fall sports and growth
The column surveys summer and fall activity in Sebasco, Bath, Popham Beach and surrounding towns. It notes rising football and basketball interest, expanding highway work, peak fishing and clam markets, new summer camps near Popham, and weather as autumn approaches. Prominent locals include Charles B. Rugg and others linked to war era housing and local governance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sebasco Lodge
Rock Garden Inn
Sebasco
Maine
New England
Popham Beach
Birth Announcement for Joan Carol Dauphin in Quincy
Cards announce the birth of a daughter to Mr and Mrs Lindsey Dauphin of Quincy Massachusetts named Joan Carol. Mrs Dauphin formerly Miss Virginia Oliver of Bath on Washington Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lindsey Dauphin
Quincy
Mass
Joan Carol
Dauphine
Virginia Oliver
Washington Street
Bath
Also Mentioned on This Page
Genevieve Lynch
Margaret Creegan
Jamaica Plain
Pleasant View Farm
Mabel McFee
Julia Watson
Detroit
Robertanovsky
W. E. Whitney
River Road
John Parker
Waterstreet
Esther Parker
Howard Lincoln
Leeds
Grace Conant
Washington
D. C
Congressman Hale
John Mealey
Conrad Johanson
Stoughton
Leslie Burnell
Mildred Skinner
James Sturge
Cambridge
Marion Purinton
Boothbay Harbor
North Front Street
Arthur Stilphen
Sanford
Donald Shoff
North Stratford
Laura Stilphen
Main Street
Frederick Richter
U.S.N
U.S.S
England
Cardiff
Wales
Blackpool
George Wilson
Winthrop
Pfc
Frank Roberts
Harold Roberts
Leslie R. Roberts
Roberts
Charles H
Richmond High School
Blue Romancers
Donald Mosher
Nts
Freeman Osher
W. H. Johnson
Frank Beedle
Darrrah Street
Library Association
Charles M. Gardiner
E. Carroll Bean
Topsham Grange
Deering
Philo Calhoun
Gally
Sonie Thibodeau
Miss Roberts
Edgeccanb
Place
Indian Point
Calhoun
Charles Shain
Augusta Rowe
Ernest Heal
Howard Trafton
J. C. Bearse
Walter Powers
Carroll Powers
Lauretta M. Jones
Roscoe P. Todd
Margaret Oliver
Hilda Oliver
Mary Nutter
Melrose Highlands
William A. Todd
Roy E. Newman
Merrill Bowles
Bangor
Roy J. Campbell
Allen Laskey
Richard
Jack Dillon
Everett
George Laskey
Robinhood
Laskey
Edwin Adams
Auburn
Reynold
Aubrey Fullerton
Lillian Morse
Jordan House
Fullerton
Winnie McCrater
J. A. Beyea
North Yarmouth
Howard Heald
Esther Hargrave
West Newton
J. H. Brown
Charles’ Shain
Milton
Kaufmann and
Lawson
Campbell
New York
Gertrude Kossoff
Esther Tane
Zorach
Alex Skoland
West Orange
N. J. Rudolf Trafton
Howard M. Trafton
Robert Jordan
Vincent MacMahan
Alonzo Thibodeau
Orono
Carl Williams
Thomas Williams
Sally Calhoun
Bridgeport
Edward Rowe
Frank Brown
Rumford
R. I
Brown
Chester Woodbury
Medford Hillside
Dorothy Oliver
Kingston High School
Kingston
Peterson
Harry Peterson
Marblehead
Roland R ;Ter
Murray Peterson
Roger Peterson
William Strang
Albert Brookings
Randolph
Peter
Robert Weman
Verne Sota
U.S.C.G
Sgt
William Bisseth
N. J
Frank Boyd
Hillsboro
Boyd
Elizabeth Hunt
Hunt
Coulter
H. W. Raymond
N. Y
George Kharls
Kennebec Point
Elmira
Sunshine Bible School
Denton
James Edwin White
E. M. Staples
Mrs. Rice
Marius H. Page
North St
Kennebec
Charles B. Rugg
Admiral Kimmel
Pearl Harbor
Dyke Bridge
Charles W. Messenger
Lambert Park
Phippsburg
Bath Country Club
Kennebec River
Frank Scott
Bath Iron Works
Popham
Scott
William Hill
Naugatuck
Coast Guard
Rosalie Richards
Parker Head
Hyde
Federal and
Washington Streets
Lendall E. Greene
Board of Selectmen
Greene
Court House
Japan
John C. Berry
Worcester
Empire
Winter Street
Times
Sagadahoc Real Estate Association
Mercury
Cox's Head
Morse
Birch Point
Hartnett
Clarence Merrill
Labor Day
Back River
Capitol Island
Fred S. Curtis & CO
Washington &T