Double Ring Wedding in South Portland and Community Notices
Edith L Wallace and Coleman Richard Palmer wed in a South Portland ceremony on Sept 1 in a double ring service. The event included family attendants, a reception at the bride’s mother’s home in Sebasco Estates, and a large guest list with many local residents. The paper also notes church schedules, Girl Scout activities, Grange meetings, and various town notices and personal items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edith L. Wallace
Celeste .B. Wallace
Carl Wallace
Sebasco Estates
Coleman Richard Palmer
LeRoy Palmer
South Port
South Portland
Margaret Jane Wallace
Neal Grimaldi
Robert S. Fuller
Farmingdale
Thornton Henderson
Bath
Germaine Bonney
Neil Grimaldi
Chester S. Wilson
Ida Nordland
Victor Wallace
Moses Wallace
Everett Lowell
Lafayette Wallace
Gerald McKenney
Sebasco
Everett Wallace
Betty Wallace
West Point
Katherine Frates
Gardiner Rogers
Maurice Libby
Frank Reinoehl
al Bonney
James Bonney
Maurice Smart
Ralph Houston
Aubrey Steen, Jr
Brian Jewett
Lemuel Preble
Day’s Ferry
Edward Geary
Portland
Loren Thorndike
Mary. Geary
Richard Anderson
Catherine Foley
Margaret Foley
Robert Fuller
Joan Carole
Gardiner
Henry A. Sturm, Jr
Katonah
N.Y
Cora Lane
Elsie Gilbert
Melrose
Mass
Carl Colbert
Somerville
Joseph Coleman
Medford
Malden
Small- Point
Girl Scouts of
Arlene Hamel
Ashdale
John Moore
Small Point
Dromore Grange
Aletha Campbell
Eveline Beals
Bodwell Grange
Stanwood Gilman
Sebasco Primary
Sebasco Grammar
Winnegance
Parker Head
West Point Grammar
Center
Lincoln and Sagadahoc
Waldoboro
Phipps
Visitors at Parker Head School Include Numerous Locals
Local item lists residents and visitors at Parker Head school and nearby homes, noting a photo session by Alston Studios, church services, Sunday school plans, and upcoming Girl Scout troop. Several trips and calls among families from Bath, Wiscasset, Brunswick, Windham, Lewiston, Topsham, and Sebasco Estates are detailed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parker Head School
C. Gilman
Russell Turner
Herbert Doughty
Florence Rollins
W. H. Wyman
Eugene Ross
Alston
Clarence Sheffield
Beatrice Denningham
J. D. Libby
Bath barbers union elects its officers
Ralph York was elected president of Local 729 International Barbers Union AFL at the annual meeting Monday. He succeeds Gordon B. McBrine, who was elected secretary treasurer. Other officers named were John H. Freeman vice president Joy Colby guardian and Emery Freeman guide. The Maine State Barbers Association convention will be hosted on Oct 21.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph York
International Barbers’ Union
AFL
Elisha
Gor B. McBrine
John H. Freeman
Joy Colby
Emery Freeman
Maine State
Barbers’ Association
Properly store pressure saucepans with air exposure
Instruction advises keeping pressure saucepans uncovered after use to allow air circulation. It emphasizes avoiding placing the lid on the pan during storage to prevent moisture buildup and potential corrosion.
State Elks Officials and Wives Guests at Woolwich Home
Maine State Elks Association officers and wives gathered at Day's Ferry for a lawn luncheon hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Brian M. J. The event opened Fall meetings with strong interest in youth programs and Crippled Children Home sponsorship. A business session led by John McComb outlined Fall and Winter activities. Attendants included C. Dwight Stevens, Grand Esteemed Loyal Knight. Edward Twomey and others from Portland Augusta Bath Waterville and Bangor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brian M. J
Day's Ferry
Maine State Elks Assorciation
Crippled Children Home
State Association
John McComb
Grand Lodge of
Portland
Rald Ferland
Ferland
Waterville
Edward Twomey
Twomey
Maine West
Josh Cummings
Augusta
Chelsea Waldron
Charles Goldberg
William Mennealy
Bath
Arthur Day
Bangor
Winnegance Ladies Auxiliary opens Fall with supper and bridge
The Winnegance Community club Ladies Auxiliary held a supper at Witch Spring Inn with 14 seated and served a chicken and seafood menu. Afterward they met at Mrs. Edwin F. Small’s home for auction bridge. first prize went to Mrs. Elmer Morse and consolation to Mrs. Leon Pennell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnegance
Seymour Hayden
Ralph Rice
John Burgess
Charles T. Small, Jr
Edgar Nadine
Frank Perow
Harold Haggett
Summer visitors linger as Bath area enjoys fading summer
The Bath region kept a warm sunny spell with a full moon over Kennebec and sea air extending summer. A fishing party was guided through fog by the Coast Guard at the Kennebec mouth and beached on South Beach until visibility returned. Fort Popham opened for visitors and local residents hosted guests while cottages such as Sea Acres and Ledgewood closed for the season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennebec
Coast Guard
South Beach
Fort Popham
Lillian Johansen
Bath
State Park Commission
Sea Acres
Ledgewood
Pre-nuptial Shower for Jean Anderson
Mrs Richard Footer and Mrs Herbert Anderson hosted a Monday evening pre nuptial shower at 34 Mead ow Way for Miss Jean Anderson in honor of her upcoming marriage to Blaine Trafton of 814 Washington Street. The event featured gifts arranged from the ceiling on an umbrella suspension and buffet style refreshments. Guests included Mrs Elton Trafton Mrs Sadie Davis Mrs Clarence Irish Mrs Wayne Innes Mrs Richard Callan and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Footer
Herbert Anderson
Meadow Way
Jean Anderson
Blaine Trafton
Elton Trafton
Washington Street
Winter Street Congregational Church
Miss Anderson
Sadie Davis
Clarence Irish
Wayne Innes
Richard Callan
William Dutton
Morris Smart
Cecil Fullerton, Jr
Ernest Freeman
Herbert Anderson, Jr
Frederick Gowell
Kenneth Snowden
Robert Anderson
Harold Trask
George Coffin
Marie Smart
Donald Sylvester
Pauline Holmson
Malcolm Varney
Reverend and Mrs Stan to Visit Boston Friends
Rev and Mrs Curtis L Stan will leave Friday morning for a weekend in Boston as guests of Rev Stanleys cousins Mr and Mrs Irving Linscott of 452 Park Drive. In his absence Rev Harland Joyce of Richmond will preach the Sunday morning service at the First Church of the Nazarene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Curtis L. Stan
Russell—_street
Boston
Stanley
Irving Linscott
Park Drive
Harland Joyce
Richmond
First Church of the Nazarene
Cox's Head Road Work Praised From Center to McIntyre's Corner
Dirt road repairs underway with scraping and gravel fill from Cox's Head to Parker Head and McIntyre's Corner. Road Commissioner Ralph Doughty receives praise for maintenance. The tanker Lucy Rennault transported oil up river and back. Dromore Farm Bureau September meeting scheduled Friday September 28 at Dromore Grange hall with dinner committee led by Mrs Clare Goodwin Mrs Helen Quimby and Mrs Bertha Wyman. Mrs Beryl Hill in charge. topic Give Your Home the New Look. Mr P Edward DeBery returns from Boston after visit with William DeBery family. Mr DeBery stayed weekend here.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parker Head
Cox’s Head
Ralph Doughty
McIntyre’s Corner
Lucy Rennault
Dromore Farm Bureau
Dromore Grange Hall
Clare Goodwin
Helen Quimby
Bertha Wyman
Beryl Hill
Aegnt
Weekend Visits and Military Returnes Across Wolfe Borough
Social notes recount visitors and extended stays from Manchester and Wollaston to Bath and Swampscott Massachusetts and Maine towns. Notable mentions include Cpl Edward P. Thomas leaving for Camp Lawton for reassignment to the Far East Command and several families enjoying weekends at cottages in Phippsburg Center, Bath, and Weelwich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Win
Wolfeboro
N. H
Richard B. K. MacLanathan
Marshall Fabian
Ford Cooper
Manchester
Mass
Frederick Thomas
Haggett Home
Phippsburg Center
Leon Smith
Caroline
Jean
Wollaston
Laurence Thayer
Frank K. Wyman
Bath
Thayer Cottage
Carl S. Lewis
Bonnie
Swampscott
Perry Cottage
Ernest Wood
Harry Hannaford
East Lynn
Cpl
Edward P. Thomas
E. P. Thomas
Camp Lawton
Wash
Far East Command
Everett Perkins
Everett
George Stacey
Percy J. Lewis
Edward
Frederick
Charles Hunnewell
Henry Dubar
Anne Dodge
Weelwich
Sadie Harnden
Old Ladies
Concert for Memorial Hospital by Lincoln County Symphony
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Lippman and others met at Mrs. Isa dore Singer’s home to plan a benefit concert by the Lincoln County Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mr. Lippman. The event is set for October 12 at Bath Iron Works Recreation Hall with proceeds for Memorial hospital. Mrs. Ralph G. Stetson will handle ticket sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Lippman
Newcastle
Miss Nancy Small Plans 10 Day Tour to New York City and Canada
Miss Nancy Small daughter of Mrs Elsie Small of Tallman street vacationing from Thompson Insurance office with her aunt Miss Katherine Small of Hallowell. They left Sunday for a ten day trip to New York City and Canada planning some time in Ontario.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nancy Small
Elsie Small
Tallman Street
Thompson Insurance Office
Katherine Small
Hallowell
Small
New York City
Canada
Ontario
Hero of Two Wars Visits Relatives in Freeport
First Lieut. Leroy W. Smith U S A and wife Mrs Smith and son Lee from Freeport visit Smith s brother Keith MacLear and family at 133 Washington Street The officer on 30 day leave after Korea war service plans to return to Fort Dix Bowdoin College alumnus 1949 He earned the Silver Star twice the Air Medal with cluster Purple Heart and other decorations He was wounded in Italy and Korea and later received a Presidential citation Liz Smith and family are vacationing in northern Maine
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leroy W
Fort Dix
N. J
U. S. Army
U. S. Air Force
Bowdoin College
Bowdoin
Lieut. Smith
Smith
Korea
Company H
7Th Infantry Division
Liz Smith
Maine
Mrs Bowker and family visit Cecil Fullerton kin
Mrs. Eugene Bowker and her two children Cindy and Eugene Jr. of Kittery arrived for a weeklong visit with Mrs. Bowker's parents Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Fullerton on Huse Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene Bowker
Cindy
Eugene, Jr
Kittery
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Weiwick Tral School
Supple
University of Maine, Phippsburg
Riverside Hall
Winnegahee
Parker
P. T. As
Irehe Alden
Secasco
Peggy Wyman
Alice Lowell
Thomas Totman
Macy Whitehead
Earle Perkins
Gordon Alden
William Blaisdell
Ces
Sebasco Lodge
Everett Pollard
Brunswick
I. W. Rainey
Timothy Perry
John E. Blaisdell
Virginia
Pemaquid
Blaisdell
J. H. Blaisdell
Forrest Legard
Helen Gagnon
Herbert Lemont
William B. Perry
Cora Campbell
Gilbert Atwood
Popham Beach
Marguerite McNulty
Popham
Diane Leslie Blaisdell
Dudley Leavitt
Meadowbrook
Anne Willims
Joyce Perkins
Cranberry Point
Leon Eaton
Emma Wyman
Anne Williams
Kathleen Wyman
Myron Wyman
George Wyman
Veterans Hospital
Togus
Vicki
Norma
Diane
Henry Gilmore
J. E. Blaisdell
Swanton Wyman
Ernest Rogers
Raymond Wyman
Wilbur Wyman
Swanton, Jr
Gerald
Wyman
Albert Henderson
Earl Cragg
Hollywood
Desmond
Leston Harrington
Alan
Milford Kronk
Wiscasset
Marion Nadeau
Ronald
Walter Cushing
Johnny Moore
Richard Scala
Donald Smoot
Wilfred Libby
Elsie Sargent
Hollis Center
Libby
Ensign L. D. Lowell
U. S. S. Titania
California
Japan
San Diego
Ethel MacElroy
Willard Percy
Clinton _Beals
Stoneybrook Road
Frank Sweeney
Willard Lowell and Son
Lewis Lowell
James Jewett
Francis Lander
Connecticut
Florence Maass
Grace Kenney
Howard Hutchins
Turners
Arthur Winslow
Windham
Dora Crowley
Timothy C. Maney
Leon Fortin
Mary Dannenfelser
Arthur Kreidler
Norfolk
Frances Morjong
Kreidler
USN
U. S. S. Grampius
Portsmouth
Frances Morong
Frances Hoar
Lisbon Falls
Thomas Skeffield
Perkins Island
Morse High
Arthur Williams
Charles Blaisdell
Albert Gray
Royce Young
Topsham
Charles Storer
Bath Barbers Union
State Elks
Woolwich Home
Brien M. Jewett
Winnegance Ladies Auxiliary Party
Witch Spring Inn
Peter J. Phialas
Mark
New Haven
Conn
Horace G. Morse
Leonice B. Morse
Owen Ledyard
Charles H. Cahill
Mary Gibbons
Guy Crowley
Corea
Addison
Jonesport
Stanley Wallace
Norman Perkins
Linda
West Bath
J. Clarence Perkins
Raymond Campbell
Dromore
Warren White
White Spot
Eva Wright
F. D. Scott
George Oliver
Donald P. Severance
South Acton
Stanley W. Hyde
Carl Bickford
Bruce
Elizabeth Webber
Helen Stearns
Cambridge
Webber Cottage
Fred Spinney
Nancy ‘Welch
Robert Pye
Scarboro
Carl Seekins
Shirley McKenna
Ee Stanley W. Perkins
H. Hendly
Toronto
Spinney Guest House
Lester Morse
Judy
Uo Winnegance
J. C. Perkins
S. W. Perkins
Christopher Marr
Grace Barrett
Marr
Herbert Sprague
Frank D. Scott
Elizabeth Rollins
West Somerville
Frank Scott
Vernon M. Mattson
Newton
Mattsons
H. Hendlf
Francis Curran
Massachusetts
Albert Cook
Cox
P. Edward DeBery
William DeBery
Mr. DeBery
Martin F. Good
Lieut
Leroy. W. Smith
Chevrolet
Brooke Chevrolet, Inc
Center Street
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