Wiscasset Social Roundup Sees Wide East Coast Guests
Mrs Marguerite Colby hosted house guests this week plus visitors from Somers Conn and Brighton Mass. Marcia Sewall called from Providence and Cambridge. Rufus Stetson and four children left Washington DC after August at Hodge Street. John Rafter family left for Manhasset Long Island after summer on Bradford Street. Bertha Day enjoys a two week vacation from Marston's Drug Store. Emerson Smith from Stamford visited town. Wolcott Andrews family returned to New York after a Bath Road stay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marguerite Colby
Frank Colby
David
Morey Smith
Somers
Washington, D. C
Davison
Hodge Street
John Rafter
Manhasset
L. I
N. Y
Bradford Street
Bertha Day
Marston
Emerson Smith
Stamford
Wesleys Woman's Society opens fall season with garden meeting
The WSCS of Wesley Methodist Church met Tuesday evening at the Day home on the New Meadows River in West Bath. A 27-member group shared a covered dish supper. mission theme There’s A Light Upon The Mountains was discussed by Mrs. Upham and Mrs. Swearingen. Public luncheons are set for Sept 24 Oct 22 Nov 5 and Nov 19. A rummage sale is planned for Sept 26.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman's Society of Christian Service
Wesley Methodist Church
Walter F. Day
New Meadows
West Bath
Robert Savage
John Sampson
Charles F. Marble
Day
Oliver W. Bell
Society
Walter E. Upham
Missionary Education
John Swearingen
Marble
WSCS
Livermore Falls
Wesley
Committee On Christian Social Relations
Albert E. Whitney
Elnora Oliver
Nequasset Ladies
Congregational Church
Gertrude Stacy
Ruth Leeman
Elta Robson
Louise Gilmore
Ethel Blake
Alberta Brooks
Pourers Named for Inner Wheel Tea on Sept. 17
The Inner Wheel Tea for Bath Memorial Hospital will be held September 17 at 46 Green Street, 3 to 5 pm. Pourers include Mrs. John Thorpe Mrs. Leslie Shumway Mrs. Melvin Henderson Miss Katherine Ames Mrs. Arthur Bowker Mrs. Raymond Small Mrs. Wyatt Albertson and Mrs. Charles Small. Tickets available from members or at the door.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lynn M. Bussey
Green Street
Bath Memorial Hospital
Carl Albee
John Thorpe
Leslie Shumway
Melvin Henderson
Katherine Ames
Arthur Bowker
Raymond Small
Wyatt Albertson
Charles Small
Kenneth Humphries
Coffins Return From Week-Long Worcester Visit
Mr and Mrs Frank C Coffin of Worcester Massachusetts returned Tuesday after a week visiting Mr Coffin s sister in law Mrs Lawrence R Vail and sister Mrs Robert C Mitchell at their Weeks street home He is a Bath native and brother of the late Nathan E Coffin longtime foreman in the Times Company job printing room Before leaving Bath he worked in the drawing room at Bath Iron Works
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank C. Coffin
Worcester
Mass
Wedding Ties Brunswick Couple United in Marine Ceremony
Miss Carol Koerber daughter of Mr and Mrs Fred Koerber of Brunswick wed Paul Racine USMC at St Pauls Episcopal church in Brunswick. The 2:30 pm ceremony was followed by a reception in the Richardson Memorial church hall with Patty Richardson as flower girl and extended family in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loca
Carol Koerber
Fred Koerber
Brunswick
Paul Racine
USMC
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Richardson
Patty Iva Richardson
James Richardson
Bath
Merle Hathorne
Ronald
Neil
Stephen
Tyler
Corey
Sue
Woolwich and Bath residents gather for summer notes
A long list of Woolwich Bath and Days Ferry residents and visitors details numerous summer travels visits family ties and social calls across Maine and beyond as people return from trips to Sagadahoc Ferry Damariscotta Lake Popham Beach Boothbay and other locales with engagements and family updates.
Arrowsic Birthday Bridge Club Hosts Sept Meeting
The Arrowsic bridge club met Sept 3 at Mrs Norman Drummond’s home with members including Mrs Ralph Steene Mrs Perley Ater Mrs Karl Rosenwald and others. Prizes went to Mrs Archie Wishart and Mrs Herbert Craige. Next gathering set for Sept 24 at Mrs Archie Wishart’s.
Reading of Poems by Abbie Huston Evans in Wiscasset
The Lincoln County Cultural and Historical Association presents Abbie Huston Evans reading her poems at the Maine Art Gallery in Wiscasset at 3 p m on September 13. Admission is free. Evans, daughter of a Camden minister, has spent 35 years in settlement work in Philadelphia.
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Lincoln County
Area families enjoy extended Labor Day weekend
Egypt has a population of 24 million. Ents, Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Day Reed of Days Ferry for two weeks, returned home Tuesday. She was joined for the weekend by Mr. Huse, Dr. and Mrs. Paul G. Bagdikian, Mrs. Adolph Ehlers of Bath, and their daughter and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Metcalf of Hollis Center, passed the Labor Day weekend at the Bagdikian Summer home at Phipps Point. Sunday afternoon guests were Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Smith and daughter Lucy Lee of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Lee-Galuza of Hockomock road motor to Lewiston on Monday, where they attended the State Fair. Charles Leveroni, Jr. of Pittsburgh, Pa., passed the holiday weekend with his mother, Mrs. Leveroni at Barley Neck. David and Peter Waltz, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Maynard Waltz of Bethlehem, Pa., who have been passing several weeks with relatives in Damariscotta and Woolwich returned home Mon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woolwich
Jeanette Groves
Bath
Brown
Day's Ferry
Charles Lermond
Kent
Nancy
Lexington
Mass
Bath Memorial Hospital
Clifford Richey
Chicopee
Mary Stinson
Berkeley Calif
Maine
Marcia Stinson
Livermore Falls
Frank Carter
Carle Longfellow
Day’s Ferry
Sanford B. Nickerson
Moosehead Lake
King
Berkeley
Calif
Costello P. Hall
Edward V. Reed
Sagadahoc Ferry
Joseph C. Hecht
Stephen and
Mark
Newport News
Hecht
Frank Cale
Coralee Witt
Canton
N. C
Sagadahoe Ferry
Joseph Hecht
Burton Hodgkins
Augusta
Beltran Crocker
Sagedahoe Ferry
Wool
Lars Louise
Darlene
Elwood
Waterford
United States
Grand Canyon
Glen Canyon
Robert Stevens
Becky Jane
Popham Beach
Woolwich Central School
Gerald Creamer
Herbert McIntire
McIntire
Agnes Gaudet
Percy Peters
Westbrook
Gaudet
Alex St. Pierre
Frank J. Walker
Maxine Boyd
Lemuel Preble
Duay’s Ferry
Walker
Capitol Island
Joseph DeSize
Paul DeSize
Long Island
N. Y
DeSire
Surrey
Swampscott
Dale
St. Pierre
Emile St. Pierre
Brunswick
Forrest Baker
Philip
Dennis
Nequasset
Damariscotta Lake
Clinton Nelson
Kenneth Lawton
Deborah
Waterbury
Sidney Shaw
Sidney, Jr
Lynn
Sasanoa
Robert Huce
Kati
Mary
Bethesda
Birthday Bridge Club
Norman Drummond
Ralph Steene
Perley Ater
Karl Rosenwald
Edward Coombs
Herbert Craige
al Wright
Carl Laughben
Maurice Shea
Archie Wishart
Wilbur Crocker
Zina Eaton
Wilbur Crooker
Sandra Phinney
Robert Phinney
Spinney Mill Road
Miss Phinney
Grace Hospital
Connecticut
Alston
Tice
Edgar Phiney
Robert Harrington
Stevie
Doubling Point Range
George Stafford
Barney Revel
Horace Lee
Boothbay Harbor
Roland Peterson
Hugh Eisenhauer
Michiel Mazeiko
Earl Coombs
Morse High School
John Apolon
Jamaica Plain
Roco DeMonte
George Schmidt
Lewiston
Sweden House
East Wilton
Kingfield
Sugar Loaf Mountain
Perleyster
Jones’s Eddy Cottage
John App
Ents
Carlton Day Reed
Days Ferry
Huse
Paul G. Bagdikian
Adolph Ehlers
Charles E. Metcalf
Hollis Center
Phipps Point
Kenneth Smith
Lucy Lee
Chester Lee- Galuza
Hockomock Road
Charles Leveroni, Jr
Pittsburgh
Leveroni
Barley Neck
David
Peter Waltz
Maynard Waltz
Bethlehem
Damariscotta
Williams
New Harbor
Harold Peters
Helen
Anne
Susan
Georgetown
Ipswich
Charles Shain
Northfield
Minn
Georgetown Center
Pierce Fuller
Norwe'l
Thomas Watson
Kenneth Well
Quincy
Parker Stern
Melrose
Marr
Gott's Cove
Kenneth Dell
Tom
Cheechako
Damar
Ccotta
Boothhay Playhouse
John Thibodeau
Florida
Maynard Thibodeau
Hartley Harley
Cundry’s Harbor
Brian Davis
Lawrence Cloutier
Richard Arnold
Weymouth
David Hasenfus
Boston
Nathaniel Hasenfus
Harmon’s Harbor
Victor Pinkham
Harold Pinkham
Kathleen Rittall
Windsor Fair
Warner Eustis
Newton
Ledgewood
Harlan Pinkham
Litchfield Baptist Church
Alvin Mitchell
Patrick Moore
Shirley Howard
Lynnfield
Barnacle
Irving Hanna
Hanna
Lulu Hanna
Edwin Clare
Malden Island
Athol, Mass
Russell Patten
Quincy Wales
Lincoln
Douglas Cottage
Sedgemere Road
Enterprise Grange
Dana Sullivan
Donald Little
Donald Grant
Preston Carver
Olive Little
Della Grondin
Florence Schultz
James Meserve
Ceres
Charlotte Sullivan
Pomona
Victoria Little
Flora Ruth Shakelford
Mildred Phinney
Bernard Thyng
William Sullivan
Veneranda Sanford
Barbara Griffin
Stanley Griffin
Augusta State Hospital
Richmond High School
Miss Griffin
Central Maine General Hospital School of Nursing
State
Odd Fellows and
Rebekahs
Fort Richmond
D.A.R
United Baptist Church
Baptist Youth Fellowship
Cynthia Anderson
Walter Anderson
Myrtle Street
Maine Medical Center School of Nursing
Portland
Maine Medical Center
Richmond
Jane
Martha
Florence Anderson
Carl Anderson
Josiah White
Margaret E. Jones
Glenn Lamoreau
American Legion
National American Legion
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Glenn White
Scott and
Dana
Gloucester
Pleasant Street
George Anderson
Kathy
Carol
Camp Rotary
Jan Ts. É
New York
Massachusetts
Alton Curtis
Whitinsville
Wesley Webber
South Front Street
Doris Leibowitz
Syracuse
Grant King
Mark Lusk
William Sulli
Open House At West Bath School Thursday Night
West Bath hosts an open house for the new school Thursday at 8 p m with Ker mit S Nickerson Augusta deputy commissioner of education Maine as principal speaker. Following dedication exercises tours of the first modern school in West Bath will be held. The school opened Wednesday with over 130 students registered, marking the first time in eight years local pupils attend their own school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath
Kermit S. Nickerson
Augusta
Maine
Bath
West Bath Families Welcome Newborn and Visitors
West Bath marks an arrival as S Sgt Bernard Holmes and Mrs Holmes of the U S A F welcome son Mark Richard born Aug 29 in a Rio de Janeiro hospital. Other local families host and visit, including Kinney family from Quebec and Portland and Burns families from Brunswick and Bath, with guests at Brigham's Cove and Bear Pond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bernard Holmes
U.S.A.F
Mark Richard
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Holmes
Marie White
Herbert White
West Bath
Arthur Kinney
Quebec
Canada
Portland
William Ketchum
Robert Burnham
Brunswick
George Burnham
Bath
Irving Burnham
Oliver Wass
Patricia
Bear Pond
Robert Killiam
Gardiner
Francis Deehan
Carl Hague
Arthur oCrmier
Morse High School
Trust
James Neville
Chris
Beachmont
Mass
Brigham's Cove
B. F. Whitmore
John Hurley
Richmond
Francis Dechan
Owen Thompson
Waterville
Kenney Frankie
Annie McKay
Perey Holbrook
United Fund allocations unchanged for 1960 in Bath area
Bath Area United Funds retains the same administrative budget of 5 684 dollars with uncollectible pledges rising to 2 847 dollars based on prior year experience. Allocations for 1960 include Red Cross 4600, Bath Memorial Hospital 9500, USO 654, YMCA 9000, with several groups receiving increases and a 400 dollar vehicle replacement allotment for Red Cross. Also noted are organizational changes and United Fund Month set for October 1 31. Yemen joins United Nations as 57th member nation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Red Cross
Bath Memorial Hospital
National Association For Mental Health, United Service Organizations
USO
YMCA
United Fund
Salvation Army
United Service Organizations
Mayo
Raven
George Costain
William F. Mussentry
Mussenden
Five Islands social notes highlight summer visits and guests
The community pages list visits and stays by residents from Ipswich Boston and Malden including Mr and Mrs Williams of New Harbor Mrs Harold Peters and daughters Helen Anne and Susan Mrs Shain of Northfield Minn and Georgetown Center dinner guests of the Watsons and others. Revelers from Mattapoisett join a weekend at Sedgemere Road while local families return to Massachusetts after summer al frescoes.
Entertain Friends With Clambake At Small Point
Mr and Mrs Carlyle A Taber hosted a lobster and clambake at their Small Point camp on Sunday. Guests enjoyed swimming and boat rides with boats provided by Mr Taber and Dean Mc Dougal. Attendees included Russell Kenney family Philip Hodgkins Mallard Pelligrini and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlyle A. Taber
Kennebec Circle
Small Point
Taber
Dean McDougal
Russell Kenney
David
Robert
Barbara
Philip Hodgkins
Lloyd
Geoffrey
James Mallard
Marilyn
Clarke
Robert Pelligrini
Sabrina
Charles Mains
Founder Of And Guests Plans For November Sale
Founders and guests discussed future event details and a pledge sale to run the first week in November. Members should contribute articles such as cooked food and fancy work with submissions by October 15. Melvina Vachon was named chair of arrangements for the project. Birthday calendars are in distribution and contacts are asked for nonreceivers. October program committee includes several named members. a covered dish supper occurred last week with supper committee members listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melvina Vachon
Gerard T. Bill
Frank M. Saunders
William Davis
James Knight
Herbert Harris
Mildred G. Nichols
Louis Silverman
J. Arthur Burgess
Ernest J. Bailey
Donald Burton
Ada Y. Greenblatt
Rosalys Kondos
Reunion Highlights of Cur tis and Douglass Families in Richmond
The Cur tis clan held a Sunday reunion at Mrs Mary Cur tis home with a lobster and clam bake by Carl Waltz. The 33rd Doug lass reunion gathered in Richmond with Harry Douglass 85 the oldest descendant and Hugh Lancaster Jr the youngest, as dozens from Steep Falls Raymond White Rock Camden Lisbon Falls and other towns joined at James Nelsons home for noon picnics and music.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Curtis
Ervin Waltz
Carl Waltz
Neal Powers
Hallowell
Marshall White
Bowdoinham
Carl Watts
Maurice Budge, Jr
Everett Stevens
Gilman Hinkley
Karen
Barbara Crosby
Norman Curtis
Fulton Curtis
Clayton Waltz
Ervine Waltz
Douglass
James Nelson
Harry Douglass
Thomas J. Douglass
Eva Ward
Mae Bedlon
Steep Falls
Warren Douglass
Lamworth
N. H
Hugh Lancaster
Curtis Warren
Maurice Graffam
Harry Hanscom
Faith Graffam
Elaine Graffam
Lawrence Partridge
Jeanie Douglass
Durwod Douglass
Raymond
Eugene Knight
Lewis Douglass
White Rock
Orman
Bay Point residents honor UNC professor as honorary mayor
Prof Sturgis E Leavitt of the University of North Carolina, longtime Bay Point summer resident, is named honorary mayor of Zalamia de la Screma in Spain for his many years teaching the drama of Spain’s Golden Age. Windham native and Bowdoin College graduate, he taught 43 years and authored several works on the subject.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sturgis E. Leavitt
University of North Carolina
Bay Point
Zalamia de la Screma
Spain
Leavitt
Windham
Bowdoin College
Kenneth Young
Roosevelt
N. Y
Robert Miller
Albert Coombs
Belmont
Mass
White Mountains
New Hampsire
Pittsburgh
F.C
Eric Shutt
Cuba
Walter Flynn
Whnmtington
Butterfield Cottage
Babara Swift
Ruth Norton
New York City
Harry Stone
Mildred Montag
Columbia University
Ruth Hawley
Adelphi College
Ruth Keen
Garden City
Norman Swift
Deborah
Donald
Keren Zimmerman
Dobbs Ferry
Washington, D. C
Guided Missile Bath Iron Works Ceremony Honors Adams Legacy
The Charles F. Adams destroyer marks Bath’s first guided missile ship. Secretary underlines link between national survival and freedom of seas while lauding Adams lineage from John Adams to John Quincy Adams. Mrs. Robert Homan sponsors the ceremony, with the Robbins family noted nearby after a summer at Meadow Brook.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Iron Works
Charles F. Adams
Bath
Bantz
Charles Francis Adams
Massachusetts
America
Navy
United States
John Adams
John Quincy Adams
Adams
Robert Homans
Travelers and residents update from local area
The text notes a van returning from a gaspe moosehead trip. Alton Leavitt and wife plan to Endicott to study for four months then live in Concord New Hampshire. Silas Perkins and daughter Martha return to Hartford Connecticut after visiting Mrs Perkins mother Mrs Felix Crocker. Miss Mary Parent returns to Hallowell after visiting Oscar and Mrs Douglass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Van
Gaspe
Moosehead Lake
Alton Leavitt
Endicott
Concord
N. H
Silas Perkins
Martha
Hartford
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Spinning Wheel Club
Merle Jameson
Middle Road
Loring Edgerly
Barley Neck Road
Jordan Wright
Hollis Leeman
William Berry
Maurice Hathorne
Gilbert Hathorn
Labor Day
Rolland Canton
Winthrop
MacDougall
Longfellow
Fred P. Corliss
New England Tel. & Tel. Co
Charlotte Corliss
Central Congregational Church
Ladies Aid
Canasta Club
Grace Smith
North Edgecomb
Peggy Hathorne
Gertrude Brown
Rita Fleming
Elsie Stinson
P.O. Box
Egypt
West Bath School
Bath Area United
Yemen
United Nations
Emery Rideout
William Adams
Robert —Mitler
Emma Holmes
Thomas Hagan
Rickie Hagan
Auburn
Hempstead
N. A
Madison Moore
Madison, Jr
Tabor Academy
John Robbins
Gerry
Ned
Meadowbrook