Richmond Man James Turner Dies at 78 in Seattle
James Turner 78 died at his Seattle home January 7 after months of illness. A Richmond resident for 27 years born in Bridgewater, he lived in Aroostook county before moving to Richmond and later California and Seattle. Survived by his wife and three children Fred Turner of Seattle Louise Bee of Monson and others. The obituary notes services and local community activities in Richmond including church events, D A R meetings, and local visits.
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James Turner
Seattle
Washington
Turner
Richmond
Bridgewater
Aroostook County
California
Onne
Fred Turner
Wash
Louise Bee
Menstone
Calif
Baptist Medh
David and
Bruce Cleveland
Jesus
Leroy Cleveland
Cleveland
Christian Endeavor
Helena Naylor
Kermit Darrah
Ladies’ Aid
Alvina Knight
Center Street
Florence Anderson
Laura Stilphen
Gardiner
Frank van Sickle
Charles B. Day
Fort
Pleasant Street
Continental Congress
D. C
Maine
Augusta
Earl Cronk
Ruie Curtis
Elizabeth Joy
Génevieve’ Joy
Merlin Joy
Georgia Wakefield
E. F. Pratt
Fred Elliott
Staman’s
Fort Richmond
Charles Day
Day
Front Street
Hall of Representatives
State House
Louis J
Argusth House
John Tarr
Harold Langaster
Portland
Nellie Cobb
Walter Douglass
Je. D. Chase
Dora ‘Thurlow
Gardiner General Hospital
J. W. Randlette
Lynn Richardson
Bowdeinham
Seventh Day Adventist Church
Church Street
Bermuda
Land of
Nicaresitars
W. H. Howard
Montreal
Alexander Houghton
E. D. Lamont
John Skillen
Harold Shaw
Freeport
Mr. Shaw
George Shaw
Intercity Rotary meeting and Bath club plans
Bath Rotary club held a noon meeting at Hotel Phoenix with business matters presented by President Passmore and Secretary Owen. Members plan to attend an Intercity Maine clubs meeting at the Falmouth hotel on February 23 to honor Rotary's 29th birthday. The club to host Rev Donald W Adams February 22 and Morse Winslow game attendance was approved. Mr and Mrs Melford Perham visited relatives on Weeks Street.
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Bath
International Rotary
Morse
Winslow
Tonic advertisement from Stonington supplier
An old classified style notice promotes NN-VITA HERB IRON TONIC a system cleanser tincture claiming appetite improvement digestion and constitution support. Offered by a Stonington Maine company pricing at $1.25 per bottle with a promise of free descriptive literature.
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Hd Ne Co
Stonington
Georgetown Notes of Local People and Winter Plans
Georgetown reports show Warren C. Todd recovering from illness and community updates on residents, schooling, skiing tales, bridge and town hall work halted by cold, roads blocked by ice, and bird feeding stations amid deep snow. Residents such as Melvin Cunningham, John Carter, Harold Hunt, Amy Hovey, and Miss Christine Williams appear in social notices and local events with emphasis on town life and upcoming meeting dates.
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Warren C.todd Ares
Melvin Cunningham
T. M. Hagan
John Carter
George E. Smith
George F. Smith
Lexington
Sagadahoc Bay
Amy Hovey
Working League
Emma Billings
B. H. Woodside
Harold F. Hunt
Bath City
Roy Newman
Boston
Burnside Powers
Walter Powers
Robinhood
Nancy Russell
Bath
Ruth Hinckley
Five Islands
Robinhood Cove
Georgetown-Arrowsic
Harold Brown
C.W. A
Christine Eva Williams
John D. Williams
Anne Powers
Lester Powers
Doris
Eugene Reynolds
Alvah Reynolds
Clayton Heald
Harry Heald
Clayton Everett Stevens
Everett Stevens
George Harvey Powers
George Powers
Christine
Board of Education Overcomes Obstacles
Board of Education met Monday to enforce a FERF rule requiring dropping pupils in Bailey Evening School of Industries receiving any compensation from commercial classes. Supt. Wilson found 50 would be affected, so the board approved using the Bailey fund to pay teachers, avoiding class drops. Roll of accounts No. 12 for $677.16 approved.
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Board of Education
Bailey Evening School of Industries
FERF
Federal Educational Relief Fund
Wilson
Bailey
Death notices for Edith from Southard and Rowe families
In a Bath newspaper obituary Edith, wife and sister, is mourned by Elbridge Southard Lermond H. Rowe and families. Sympathy and kind words are gratefully noted amidst the sorrow.
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Edith
Elbridge Southard
Lermond H. Rowe
Trustees consider reinstating doctor to Bath City Hospital staff
The Bath City hospital trustees debated reinstating Dr. Harry F. Morin after his removal nearly nine years ago at their annual meeting. A full attendance is sought at an adjourned session to decide, following a Jan. 20 directive from the corpora tors. Committees were formed for the year with changes replacing two resignations. The staff list includes physicians from Bath, Wiscasset, Augusta, Portland and Lewiston, along with several registered nurses and specialists.
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Harry F. Morin
Bath City Hospital
Owen
Morin
Charles P. Wetherbee
Henry C. Wright
Arthur J. Dunton
Frederick H. Kimball
Charles H. Cahill
J. R. Andrews
Mary F. Gibbons
Samuel R. Percy
William D. Sewall
Oliver Moses
Hubert H. McCarty
John A. Morse
Frederick E. Drake
J. Albert Redlon
Supply
Charles W. Welch
Harry W. Crosman
John. A. Morse
Langdon T. Snipe
James O. Lincoln
Hugh D. Grant
Bath
F. S. Day
B. A. Bailey
Wiscasset
E. M. Fuller
A. A. Stott
Warren E.kershner
L. H. Dorr
Dresden
Irish
Bowdoinham
C. W. P. Foss
G. J. Roy
G. M. Elliott
E. G. H. Stetson
Brunswick
Helen V. Downing
R. N
Phyllis. Gilpatrick
Nora Brown
Helen Merrill
Grace Alen
Ape Centaring Chase
Winter Street Ladies' Aid Annual Meeting Recap
The Winter Street Ladies' Aid held its annual meeting in the church ladies room on Friday afternoon. Officers elected include President Mrs Walter H Bowker and First Vice President Miss Alice E Varney with a long list of treasurer secretary and board members. Isabel E Carter received a violet bouquet from Mrs Charles E Plaisted for six years as president. Hostesses were Miss Bessie E Dickinson Miss Grace P Dickinson and Mrs Langdon T Snipe. The group will meet again next Friday.
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Paulin
Annie
Bucksport
Elie
Chandler
Elizabeth Foss
Augusta
Shepard
Harold Richardson
Richmond
A. E. Small
Aterville
A. E
Parent-Teachers' Association
Cere
Carroll Young
Charles Clements
Norris Clements
Winterport
Daisy Young
Portland
Orrin Thompson
Bar Harbor
Carl Anderson
Anderson's Market
Frank P. Anderson
Tuella Bickford
Dresden Mills
Sidoe
Bureau
Extension Service
Progressive Grange
Lucy. Tarr
Charles Eastman
Eastman
Herbert Stuart
Wade
Swan Island
Thadieus Card
Charles Hill
Roy Varney
Henry Tarr
Richmond Corner
Margaret Thompson
Augusta Pe
Cal
Lila Janes
Austin Blair
Hichmond
Lion's Club
Asta Hain
Manufac Charles Wede
Capitol Alend
Beedy
Dover-Foxcroft
Frank Lancaster
Alfred Rand
Barbara
John
Lewiston
Harold Wade
Pleasant Street
Methodist Ladies Aid
Gilbert Edgett
Murray Shepard
Sergi
Leon Shepard
Boy Scouts
Gardiner
Carmel
Arabel Allen
Arthur Allen
M Dford
Mass
Patrick Dillon
River Road
William Taylor
Jean Taylor
Richard T. Littlefield
Kenne
Ladies’ Aid of
Winter Street
Walter H. Bowker
Alice E. Varney
Allen M. Irish
Warren E. Kershner
Clifford B. Wilband
Isabel E. Carter
Flower Fund
Grace P. Dickinson
J. Edward Drake
Elmer D. Hodgkins
Arthur C. Lemont
Charles C. Low
Clarence W. Morse
Samuel R. Percy
Joseph O. Purdue
Arthur K. Purington
Sylvester H. Rowland
Edward B. Smith
Langdon T. Snipe
Charles E. Plaisted
Rural Letter Carriers seek patrons' help on wage bill
National officers of the Rural Letter Carriers association urge patrons on rural routes to write to their Congressman in Washington to protest a bill adjusting rural carrier wages by 12 million dollars in the next fiscal year. Patrons can contact carrier William H. Ketchum for details.
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Rural Letter Carriers’ Association
United States
Washington, D. C
William H. Ketchum
Annual Abstract of Hartford Insurance Company Finances
Abstract shows unpaid losses unearned premiums and reserves for dividends contingencies and surpluses for the Hartford Insurance Company. It lists figures including capital aggregate total 45 634 783 90 surplus for policy holders 22 073 8 761 38 and losses paid in 115 years. D M Humphreys is listed as resident agent in Bath Maine.
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D. M. Humphreys
Bath
Maine
Yency
Edith Southard Dies In Malden After Five Islands Roots
The Five Islands community mourns Edith Southard wife of Elbridge Southard who died Sunday evening Feb 4 at her Malden Massachusetts home. Born at Five Islands she lived there before moving to Malden 25 years ago and spent summers here. She leaves her husband a son Elbridge Jr a brother Postmaster Lermond H Rowe of Five Islands and a half sister Mrs Julia Boyd of Bath. A graveside service at Oak Cemetery Georgetown drew relatives and friends from Five Islands Georgetown and Bath.
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Edith Southard
Elbridge Southard
Malden
Mass
Five Islands
Elbridge, Jr
Lermond H
B. F. Perry
Grange
George Gray
MacMahon Island
Everett Cromwell
Wallace Freeman
Gene Stevens
Razorville
Alice Cromwell
Gilbert Standish
Charles Lewis
Bath
Grange Circle
Mabel Dickey
Percy MacGillivary
Linwood Stevens
Robinhood
Drummond Stevens
Chester MacMahan
Horace Rittall
Victor Pinkham
Walter Moore
Hallowell
Harry Jones
Gardiner
Charles Davis
Augusta
Moore-Davis
Sedgemere Road
Clinton Hanna
Belgrade
George Hanna
Helen Rowe
Arrowsie- Georgetown
Donald Stevens
C. W. Nocton
D. R. Stevens
Orville Rowe
Georgetown Center
Resignation of Westport Rural Carrier Cromwell after 28 years
Charles L. Cromwell, rural mail carrier in Westport, resigns after more than 28 years of service. The town notes various local movements including visits by Ruth Cannon, a Stoneham teacher, and gatherings at the homes of Samuel Stover in Bath and the Hodgdon and Higgins families. Local residents attend services by Rev. Charles Titus, with social visits by Stanley Bailey of Dresden and Archie Higgins in Wiscasset.
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Charles L. Cromwell
Ruth Cannon
Stoneham
Mass
James N. Cannon
Robert Greenleaf, Jr
Samuel Stover
Bath
Lawrence Colby
Memorial Hospital
Damariscotta
Joseph Hodgdon
Lester Hodgdon
Stanley Bailey
Dresden
Plans Set for Y M C A Church League Banquet
At a Monday Y M C A auxiliary meeting in the Y building plans were approved for the church league banquet in early March. About 250 young men and guests will dine in the Y gym with 20 ladies at tables and 8 to 10 in the kitchen. Last year used 350 pounds of turkey and other supplies. this year an extra case of peas and ten more dozen rolls are planned. Mrs. William H. Small will manage the banquet room.
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Y.M.C. A
William H. Small
Parish reception at Central Church draws large attendance
The annual church and parish reception at Central Church was well attended last Wednesday. A formal 7:30 to 8:00 reception opened with a distinguished line of church and parish representatives. A rich musicale followed with choirs, quartets, and readings. Mrs Doris P Wing entertained with readings and tableaux. The program, guided by Mrs Rowe and Miss Lord, pleased the audience. Refreshments of ices and cake were served. An orchestra from the Men's Club provided dancing later with many participants enjoying the evening. Ushers included Russell Kenney Omar King and Franklin Hallowell.
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Central Church
David L. Wilson
E. P. Briggs
J. Ledyard
Everett Lord
Alfred J. Rowe
Leonard Lord
Marius Page
William R. Kimball
Shirley Mank
Belle Welch
Ladies’ Aid
The
League
Rowe
Tobey
Miss Lord
Morse
Avery
Wilson
Jenkins
Church School
Russell Kenney
Omar King
Franklin Hallowell
Robert Feero
Real estate transfers recorded in Sagadahoc registry
Recent deeds show transfers in Bath and Bowdoin with multiple owners. Georgetown sees Elbridge Cunningham to Freda Cunningham. Richmond lists Joseph Haley to Harry Roberts. Topsham records Lyndon McMackin to George Stetson. Woolwich notes Percy Bailey and George Frost et al toownik.
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Sagadahoc
Bath
Abraham Miller
Ida Miller
Charles W. Talbot
Frank M. Talbot
Lorin J. Eggleston
Brice H. Booker
Bowdoin
Annie Sheloske
Michael Sheloske
Hattie M. Purinton
Pierre Lebarge
Georgetown
Elbridge M. Cunningham
Freda F. Cunningham
Richmond
Joseph L. Haley
Harry E. Roberts
Topsham
Lyndon A. McMackin
George E. Stetson
Woolwich
Percy C. Bailey
George E. Frost Et al
Bath Industry Seeks Relief on Employment Rules
Arthur H Price of the Shirt Co and Sherman Mqualde of the Commercial Trading Co urged relief before N R assistant administrator Gorton Jaunds. They seek raising the employment restriction from six percent to twenty five percent, arguing current limits prevent a minimum wage and force competition with metro areas. Delegates from Bath Rockland Belfast and Bangor cited labor shortages and warned plants may close or move to larger cities if rules stay.
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Arthur H. Price
The
Shirt Co
Sherman Mqualde
Commercial Trading Co
John V. Fitzgerald
Roscoe Clinton McFadden
Eer
Board of Trade
Gorton Jaunds
N. R
Bath
Rockland
Belfast
Bangor
Old Bath school Erudition to be razed under plan
Bath officials decide to demolish the 1794 Erudition building with the manual training department guiding the project. Much usable material will go to the manual training shop, with sentimental parts saved for a historical society upon request. Netta Briggs, wife of Harry P. Briggs Jr., finishes university study and returns home to Bedford Street.
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Bath
Joseph Charles Footer
Wilson
David Y. Alkazin
Netta Briggs
University of Maine
Harry P. Briggs, Jr
Bedford Street
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Thomas R. Huston
Rotary
Melford Perham
West Paris
Winter Street Ladies’ Aid Annual Meeting
Peter
Beuvepvie
UN Sueu Pinon van
Vue
W. Ross’ McCain
Preside
Isiness
Bush
Westport
Y.M.C.A
Sumner Sewall
North Street
Bath Savings Institution
NRA
Beacon Street
Beacon Hill
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