Washington party honors Betty Lou Dillingham at Edge home
Mrs. Walter E. Edge hosted a Monday Washington reception for Betty Lou Dillingham with broad drawing rooms filled for dancing. Guests included international and U S figures, such as the Argentine ambassador, Mme Espil, and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, while Ceilions and gifts highlighted the spring soirée.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter E. Edge
Camilla Sewall
Bath
Harold M. Sewall
Edge
France
Eighteenth Street
Washington, D. C
Betty Lou Dillingham
Beth Blaine
Washington Evening Star
Camilla Edge
Miss Dillingham
Countess Roberts
Anthony Rumbold
South
Chauncey Parker
Carroll Glover
Cecilia
Net
Marian
Marian Trumbull
Richard Wigglesworth
Snowdon Fahnestock
John Williams
Baltimore
George Sloanes
Warrenton
Kay
Countes de Baillet- Latour
Warren Barbour
George Garrett
Mme. Espil
Maisie Howard
Henry Cabot Lodge
Countess van
Mas. Heath
Keyser Manly
George Carey
Washington
Arthur Vandenberg
Warren Austin
Austin
Burton K. Wheeler
Principal speaker at Mother and Daughter banquet
Mrs Sumner Sewall will be the principal speaker at the Mother and Daughter banquet to be held at 6 30 Thursday evening at Winter Street church under the auspices of the Ladies aid. Mrs Clinton D Wilson will serve as toastmistress and the toasts to the daughters and mothers will be by Mrs Joseph O Purdue and Miss Lina Marie Purdue respectively. Reservations should be made by contacting local organizers before Tuesday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sumner Sewall
Winter Street Church
Ladies’ Aid
Clinton D. Wilson
Joseph O. Purdue
Linna Marie Purdue
Fred K. Sturtevant K . Leroy F. Colby
Arthur Dement
Alice Varney
Edgar D. Leavitt
Purdue
Will of Mrs Kenyon Filed in Probate at Washington
Mrs. Kenyon died February 22 in Washington leaving an estate worth 265858 dollars. The will dated 1937 with a 1939 codicil directs burial tokens for her late husband Federal Judge William S. Kenyon and provides gifts to St Marks Fort Dodge Salvation Army and relatives. Rest of estate to church, Salvation Army, and surviving sisters or their descendants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William S. Kenyon
Towa
United States
Washington
Fort Dodge
Iowa
Frederic Larrabee
Frank Maher
John F. Duncombe
Kenyon
American Security & Trust Co
Peelle, Lesh, Crain
Maine
Etta Bartlett
Sebasco
Senate
President Harding
Eighth Judicial District
Veteran rigger Fred M. David visits Bath residents
Fred M. David of Groton Connecticut, a Bath area shipbuilding veteran who helped rig many famous vessels, visits Hon. and Mrs. N. Gratz Jackson at 1 Shaw Street. He recalls rigging the Star of the East Sagadahoc on the Kennebec run and its wartime voyage laden with lumber before capture by Germans. The Star of the East later became Sagadahoc then Greenport, a familiar Bath schooner on three weekly trips with Gardiner Richmond Bath Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald Philbrick
House of Representatives
Maine
Whitehall
Sewall
Philbrick
William D. Sewall
Arthur Sewall
Jane S. Murphy
Murphy
Kennebec River
John A. Lord
Stella Given
Bowdeinham
L. Earle Hagan
Georgetown
Harry Green
Waterville
John Jack
Topsham
John Gilmore
Woolwich
Margaret Peabody
Richmond
Rebecca Rogers
Sherwood Aldrich
Frank Saunders
Miles Hagan
Herbert White
Robert Miller
William S. Newell
Joseph W. Larrabee
West Bath
Fred M. David
Groton, Conn
Damariscotta
Bath
Wiscasset
Waldoboro
N. Gratz Jackson
Shaw Street
Boston
Sagadahoc
David
Groton
Kennebec
Gardiner
Jason Collins
Star of the East
Nichols Family Returns From Florida Six Week Trip
Mr. and Mrs F B Nichols returned Monday from a six week Florida trip. They traveled to New York in February, boarded a Jacksonville steamer, and visited several resorts then returned home gradually. Daughters Dorothy Niven of Brunswick and B C Nichols of Barre VT aided with driving. They spent Easter at Williamsburg Virginia, then Washington and New York, and had a World’s Fair preview in New York. Arthur Parquette of Lewiston visited the city Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. B. Nichols
Florida
New York
Jacksonville
Dorothy Niven
Brunswick
B. C. Nichols
Barre
Williamsburg
Virginia
Washington
Regular Physical Training For Maine Pupils
Duncan H. Farrell, Bath physical education head, spoke at Augusta on a progressive school program from primary grades through high school. He urged detailed, graded, age appropriate plans, noting many skeptics in education and government. He outlined goals for primary grades emphasizing whole body activities, rhythm, storytelling and group games to fit growing children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duncan H. Farrell
Bath
Maine Physical and Health Education Association
Augusta
Bathman
Farrell
Harry
Springfield College
State of Maine Department of Education
Maine
Boards of Education
Mohiba Talent Pupil Show Delights Audience at Mohiba Parade
The Mohiba talent parade at Morse high school drew about 800 in the auditorium and gymnasium with three scenes Outdoor Intermediate and Night Club featuring an orchestra led by Frank Curran plus many soloists dancers and tumblers. The program highlighted Apache dance hillbilly acts and a grand finale as candy sales supported the event with a second night in the gym.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morse High School
Frank Curran
Clement Robichaud
George Tinney
Cecil Rowland
Kenneth Jaquith
Victor Paquet
Gordon Lake
Frances Ginty
Madelyn Jones
Blue Heaven
Bob Morse
Katy D.d
Mary Double
Edward Butterfield
Cornfield
Geraldine Nickerson
Anna Shellenbarger
Edith Berg
Alice Darrah
Georgetta Middleton
Baby Snooks
Irma Wallace
Eddie Hamblett
Jimmie Knights
Aloha
Stanley Cressey
William Marshall
Gordon Holbrook
John Kimble
Russell Snell
Kenneth Vennett
Sir Echo
Penny
Arline Arsenault
Madelyn Oliver
Elizabeth Williams
Kathleen Harkins
Petite Jean Stanton
The
Swingsters
Roydon Haynes
Central Grammar Schools
Marguerite Rines
Myrna Avery
Pat” Bryant
Thelmang
Allan Curtis
Big Painting Job on Carlton Bridge
The Carlton bridge will undergo a six to eight week painting project begun Tuesday morning. A local crew of 10 to 12 workers will apply a dark green paint to all steel work and rusted sections, with red lead primer on cleaned areas. Foreman is Mr. Treadwill from the bridge division of the State Highway Commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlton Bridge
State Highway Commission
Treadwill
Bridge Division
Mrs Smith Family Leaves for Williamsburg with Philadelphia Stop
Mrs Edward B Smith and her daughter Janette with Mrs Pauline Moulton Mrs Maxwel Powers and Miss Gertrude J Diggery departed early Sunday by motor aiming for Philadelphia by night before continuing to Williamsburg Virginia for a few days then returning home later in the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward B. Smith
Janette
Pauline Moulton
Maxwel, Powers
Gertrude J. Diggery
Philadelphia
Williamsburg
Ice era moving houses by horses along Kennebec River
A March 5 1904 photograph shows a boarding house moved nine miles from Thwings Point Woolwich to Cedar Grove Dresden using 44 horses. The piece recalls earlier ice industry activity on the Kennebec with river traffic and lodgings for crews, noting historical points like Swan Island Perkins and Ashley's Point.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thwing’s Point
Woolwich
Cedar Grove
Dresden
Richmond
Thwing's Point
Ashley's Point
Thomas Prince
Plymouth Colony
Kennebec
Maine Exhibit at World's Fair Near Completion
Maine will be first state to have its exhibit ready at the New York World's Fair opening April 30. The Maine Development Commission says visitors will be drawn to Maine after viewing the fair and plans to advertise across key states aim to lure visitors eastward for longer vacations. Officials expect 15,000,000 south and west visitors and hope a small percent tour Maine for recreational revenue and lasting impact on the state’s vacation habits. Two giant thermometers outside the Maine booth will compare Maine and New York City summer weather. Continued on Page Seven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Maine Development Commission
Flushing Meadows
Commission
East
Fair
Everett F. Greaton
New York
New York City
Veteran rigger had many thrills in Palmy days
Veteran ship rigger Frank L. Duley of Bath Maine, born 1866 in Phippsburg, spent a lifetime at sea before settling into rigging for Bath shipyards. He recalls working on many vessels including the Charles E Moody and the Benjamin F Packard, with Packard later moored as a museum at Rye New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin Wright
Frank L. Duley
Beacon Street
Mr. Duley
Phippsburg
William
Rachel Duley
Carrie Bailey
Sewall
Atlantic
North
South America
Mediterranean
Bath
Francis Deloche
Charles E. Moody
Goss, Sawyer & Packard
Benjamin F. Packard
Playland
Rye
N. Y
Packard
Portland
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mrs. Sumner Sewall
Maine Senate
Lewis O. Barrows
Charles H. Cahill
Wilber G. Cahill
John P. Carey
Abigail Carter
Isabel Carter
Alfred G. Carpenter
Harold J. Carter
Wilfred W. Chaney
Harold W. Child
George A Churchill
Charles W. Clifford
Nathan E. Coffin
Granville M. Colby
Leroy F. Colby
George Baer Connard
Arthur Crockett
Hermon Crocker
Wilbur Crocker
Thomas J. Cummings
Marion Dain
Ralph O. Dale
Harry L. Day
Walter F. Day
Fred R. E. Dean
Carroll A. Deering
Elizabeth Deering
Gardiner R. Deering
Harold W. DeLong
William W. Dennison
Bessie Dickinson
Arthur Parquette
Lewiston
Mohiba
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