Center P T A announces Riverside hall program year
The Center P T A executive committee lists meetings at Riverside hall for the school year with topics from September to June. Items include Past Present and Future, Not Too Young to Share, When Is a Child a Real Problem, and Election Of Officers among others, plus committee notes on a research group and welcome parties for teachers in several towns.
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Center P. T. A
Riverside Hall
All Children Ce
Thomas L. Totman
Mark Harrington
Small Point
West Point
Sebasco
Phippsburg Center
Curtains and Drapeties Farm Bureau meeting topic
The September Farm Bureau meeting will feature Curtains and Drapeties presented by Mrs Clarence Kofield the home management leader at Dromore Grange Hall next Wednesday. Local school reopenings list staff by primary and grammar teachers including Mrs Winthrop Blair Mrs Carl Wallace Miss Maud Thayer and others. The Center P T A meets this evening at Riverside Hall plus various personal items from Bath Windegance Sebasco and Winnegance households.
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Farm Bureau
Clarence Kofield
Dromore Grange Hall
Basto
Winthrop Blair
Sebasco Grammar
Carl Wallace
West Point
Elkanah Wyman
West Point Grammar
Maud Thayer
Small Point
Maude Lincoln
Parker Head
Earl Lowell
Phippsburg Center
Mary Whittemore
Winnegance
Margaret Childs
Alna
Riverside Hall
Marjorie Palmer
Bath
Orman Coggeshall
Windegance
Framingham
Mass
Framingham Teachers’ College
Gordon Alden
Leigh
Sebasco Estates
Leeds
Alice Minott
New Brunswick
N. J
Clifford Robinson
Bath Memorial Hospital
Arthur Totman
Arthur
Winneganee
Meadowbrook
Bernard Henderson
M. and
M. Bakeries
West Bath
Maurice Skillin
John G. Morse
Mutual Savings Banks Association of Maine
Rangeley-Sheraton Hotel
Rangeley
Clayton Hanson
Alexandria
Hanson
Mr. Robinson
Auburn
Phippsburg Votes Against Malt Beverages Referendum
The Times corrected an error about town votes on the liquor referendum. Phippsburg had allowed off premise malt beverage sales but voters rejected it along with three other questions. West Bath supported summer wine and liquor sales for on premise consumption, diverging from its 1948 dry vote.
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the Times
West Bath
Phippsburg
Dromore Burying Ground Association Elects Officers
The Dromore Burying Ground Association met Sunday afternoon at 2:30 to elect new officers Elmer W Rogers was named president Mrs Ernest Rogers vice president Walter C Rogers treasurer and Bessie E Dickinson secretary The group praised spring cleanup by local boys and mourned Miss Grace P Dickinson former secretary A granite slab marking the Allen grave was noted and a plan for perpetual care was discussed
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Dromore Burying Ground Association
Elmer W. Rogers
Ernest Rogers
Walter C. Rogers
Bessie E. Dickinson
Grace P. Dickinson
Association
Allens
David Allen
Frances Allen
Capt
David Allen, Jr
Ann Allen
Mary Parker
Jordan Parker
Allen
Boston
England
Ireland
Club Forty-Two Opens Fall Season With Plans for Corn Roast
Club Forty-Two held its first meeting after a Summer recess in its Front street club room. Plans include a corn roast set for Sept. 27 at Mount Ararat. Miss Pat O'Reilly and Mrs. Joseph Mullaney were named to the September house committee, with Mrs. Mullane tasked on the club's Christmas project. Attendees included Mrs. Norman Adams, Mrs. Domenic Cardosi, Mrs. Arthur Sturtevant, Mrs. Edward Jones, Mrs. Robert Foote, Mrs. Milton Foote, Mrs. Eliot Hanson, Mrs. Lawrence Wyman, Mrs. Joseph Mullaney, Mrs. Leon White and Mrs. Harry Allen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Club Forty-Two
Front Street
Mount Ararat
Orr
Pat O'Reilly
Joseph Mullaney
Mullane
Norman Adams
Domenic Cardosi
Arthur Sturtevant
Edward Jones
Robert Footer
Milton Footer
Elliot Hanson
Lawrence Wyman
Leon White
Harry Allen
Voters at Phippsburg Center Polls and Community News
A busy Monday at Phippsburg Center included voter turnout assisted by Mrs Herbert Doughty and George Morong Jr and ballot clerks like Mrs Frances Hoar. Local school opened with 27 students, the Improvement League funded sports gear and Viewmaster reels, and church attendance was small yet services slated for 9 45 a m.
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Phippsburg Center
Herbert Doughty
George Morong, Jr
Frances Hoar
Parker
Eugene Ross
Frances Morong
Central Maine Power Co
Morse High Enrollment Drop Despite Record Elementary Figures
After the first day of school Morse High shows a drop of 30 to 35 from last September. Morse enrolled 653 with a small senior class of 119, down from 154 last year, while freshmen 191, sophomores 195, and juniors 148 were present. Elementary schools set a new district record with 1844 students, 23 above the prior 1949 peak, and a late-week rise in senior registration to at least 125 is anticipated.
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Morse High
Morse
Big Beet on Display at Times Office Window
A 4 lb 60 oz beet grown by Mr. and Mrs. Donald Perry of 1051 High Street is shown in the Times office window. The table beet has a circumference of 20 inches and was raised this summer.
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Donald Perry
High Street
Times Office
City considers Kelley Spear property lease and Fire Dept tank truck
At a Bath city council meeting the Property committee was tasked to confer with City Manager Mittendorf and City Solicitor Carey on leasing the Kelley Spear site to Harold Troop of Pie Master Packers, with Bath Canning Co and Pejepscot Paper Co having withdrawn bids. Troop outlined plans to expand and use the building for packing, storage, and land for expansion, while Robert Spicer sought land and a northern barn for metal or wooden bodies and possible residential upper floors. Fire Chief Frates advised purchasing a combined tank truck and pumper for added protection, noting a tank truck alone would not cut insurance rates. the council plans to continue discussion.
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Ralph F. Mittendorf
John P. Carey
Harold L. Troop
Pie Master Packers
Kelley, Spear
North End
Troop
Bath Canning Co
Mr. Troop
Robert H. Spicer
Pejepscot Paper Co
Harry E. Ring, Jr
Ring
Mr. Spicer
Council
Kennebec Crafts
Spicer
Richard Frates
Frates
Frates_ said
Popham Beach clam bake and coastal weather notes
A public clam bake is announced on Popham Beach near Spinney’s store Sunday at 1 30 p m with tickets at Bath City Hall Smoke Shop and Spinney’s. The report also notes hurricane warnings along the coast with gale winds and high seas, plus school openings and local social updates from Bath and Small Point residents.
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Spinney’s
City Hall
Bath
Spinney's
Popham
Small Point School
Martin Eaton
Bruce McInnis
Bruce Bickford
Margaret
Edith Oliver
Local Social and Family Notices From Bath Area
Collier Berwindgale shipped up river with coal to Kennebec Wharf in Bath last week. Beverly Moore and Robert Moore began studies at Morse High School on Tuesday. Mary Moore started Fall term at Parker Head School on Monday. A Hostess party at Mr. and Mrs. Edward P. Thomas home Thursday evening awarded prizes to Mrs. Lewis Lowell and Mrs. Richard B. K. MacLanathan. Refreshments served by the hostess. Attendees included Mrs. Florence Rollins and others from Parker Head and Cox's Head. Mrs. Martin F. Goodwin attended Farm Bureau meeting at Dromore hall where florist Melvin Henderson of Bath led a session on Flower Arrangement. Next meeting is Sept. 20 on Curtains and Drapes. Wesley Lewis and friends of East Douglas, MA, spent a weekend at the Lewis cottage. Dr. Earle B. Perkins of Cranberry Point visited his mother, Edith Perkins, Sunday. Captain and Mrs. George Stacey also noted.
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Phippsburg
Philip Jacob
Bessie Sprague
Ralph Pye
Nton Beals
Dalton Baker
Frances Hoar
Dromore Farm Bureau
Melvin Henderson
Bath
Robert C. Whitehead
Windham
Small Point
Macy Whitehead
Winnegance P. T. A
John Williams
Maurice Skillin
Donald Williams
Norman McDonald
Wilbur Casey
Donald McKinnon
Harold Hart
Shirley Edward Green
Merom
Ind
Phippsburg Christian Service Commit
Ll Point Parsonage
Green
New Hampshire
Dartmouth College
Chicago Theological School
Council of Social Action
Congregational Churches
Christian Service Committee
Clifford Robinson
WIRQR
Christmas Cove
Bowdoin
Boothbay
Robinson
Bowdoin College
Frank Marden
Concord
Mass
Peter
Donald B. MacMillan
Bodwell Grange
Phippsburg Christian Service Committee
Winnegance
John G. Morse, Jr
Sagadahoc Past Masters’ Association and
Dromore Grange
Leston Harrington
Charles Blaisdell
J. Frank Mezenski
Leslie Logan
Albert Gray
J. D. Libby
Parker Head
Edward Thomas
Earl Lowell
Clarence Sheffield
Lorraine
Farm Bureau
Herbert Bassett
Florence Rollins
Charles True
Bassett
Ethel MacElroy
Edna Perry
James Goullard
Carole
July
Claire
Boston
H. D. Mank, Jr
Beatrice Denningham
Frances Morong
Wilfred Libby
Elsie Sargent
Hollis Center
Spinney
Popham Beach
Harrington
Frank Burnell
Bath Memorial Hospital
Lawrence Thayer
Charles Murray
Perley Quimby
Earl F. Lowell
Lee Sheldon
Katherine McKenney
Portland
Ensign L. D. Lowell
Japan
Harold Barakalow
Millard Nadeau
Sally Lowell
Rock Gardens
Sebasco Estates
Christian Service
Small Point Parsonage
Phippsburg Center Church
Harold Seavey
Topsham
Ricki Libby
Elwood Hathorne
Berwindgale
Kennebec Wharf and Coal Co
Beverly Moore
Robert Moore
Morse High School
Mary Moore
Parker Head School
Edward P. Thomas
Lewis Lowell
Richard B. K. MacLanathan
Wesley Lewis
Friends
East Douglas
Lewis Cottage
Earle B. Perkins
Cranberry Point
Edith Perkins
George Stacey
Bath Residents Return From Summer Cottages
Mr and Mrs Lawrence Thayer and children Jane Stephen and Frank K Wyman, move back to Bath after summer at Wyman shore. Stephen Thayer begins Bath schools Monday. Ernest Wood and family from Bath spent weekend at their cottage. Dozois family and Percy group motor to New Harbor and Port Clyde, visiting Percy and L Richard. Ralph Seekins and Ralph Robinson from West Bath return to Bath after weekend at cottages. Edward Thomas and son Frederick visited in Portland.
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Lawrence Thayer
Jane
Stephen
Frank K. Wyman
Bath
Wyman Shore
Stephen Thayer
Ernest Wood
Stanton C. Dozois
Richard
Julia B. Dozois
Nathaniel Percy
New Harbor
Port Clyde
Arthur L. Percy
Richard Percy
Ralph Seekins
Ralph Robinson
West Bath
Edward P. Thomas
Son Frederick
Portland
Cottage Weekend Visitor Mix at Bay Point
Bay Point residents report weekend cottage guests from Auburn Garden City New York Jackson and Bath as summer ends. Several families, including the Renauds Dukes and Powers, enjoy seasonal stays at local cottages while others return home after summer visits. Notable updates include John Powers recovering mobility after eight weeks with a broken foot from a Sequin Isle picnic and Louisa Howard's discharge after eight weeks in Bath Memorial hospital for a broken pelvis and nervous shock.
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Fred P. Taylor
Auburn
E. J. Spadino
Garden City
N. Y
Lors Linquist
John
Jackson
N. H
Swift
Madison Moore
Bath
George Renaud
Robert Renaud
Renaud
F. Dukes of Lewiston
Richard Tragan
Long Lake
New Bedford
Hebron Academy
John Powers
Labor Day
Forrest Drake
Birchwood
Mr. Powers
Seguin Isle
H. Martin Powers
Eugene Foster
Happy Landing
Louisa Howard
Bath Memorial Hospital
City Schools Open for Fall Term Across the District
Enrollment hit a record 1844 as 1844 children attended the opening. Superintendent Loring Addison reported the rise over last year’s 1821 with 23 additional pupils. Reports show Dike North Ormar North Primary Huse Memorial School South Weeks Mitchell Washington Primary and Central Grammar among sites with varied class counts.
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Loring R. Addison
Dike
North Ormar
North
Huse Memorial School
South
Weeks
Mitchell
Washington
Central Grammar
Morse High School
First Wesley Methodist Quarterly Conference Held
The First Quarterly Conference for Wesley Methodist church met Sunday evening with Pastor leading worship and Rev. C. D. Wentworth presiding as district superintendent. Reports summarized church progress and fall winter plans while Dr Wentworth outlined the Methodist Advance program. The session closed with a filmstrip titled I Give Myself.
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Wesley Methodist Church
C. D. Wentworth
D.D
Dr. Wentworth
Methodist Advance For
Christ
McCabe Son Enlists in Navy for Newport Training
Carl O. McCabe, son of former Alderman Chester H. McCabe and his wife, departed this week for initial Navy training in Newport Rhode Island. A Morse High School graduate, he previously worked in the family plumbing business with his brother Willard McCabe and their father.
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Carl O. McCabe
Chester H. McCabe
Navy
Newport
R. I
Morse High School
Willard McCabe
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