Richmond Notes and Local Visitors This Week
Richmond weekly notes tell of illness recoveries at Brunswick hospital with Mrs. Harold Jack and Mrs. Mary Webber improving. Numerous visitors include families from Portland Lewiston Gardiner and Marblehead. A Brunswick hospital patient Mrs. Frances Thompson receives damages in a Cumberland County suit. High school spring program and community events feature. funerals mark the week including Horace Manwaring and N Banks Preble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Jack
Brunswick Hospital
Mary Webber
Henry Flemming
Gardiner
Sanborne
Portland
Walter Baker
Lee Ring
Russell Ring
Charles Soule
Dresden
Harold Turner
Hubert
Roger
Priscilla
Marblehead
Mass
Fred Rogers
Lucille Bailey
Lewiston
Guy Polly
New York City
Swan Island
Katherine Soule
Bailey's
Orr's Island
Thompson
Hern
Percy Baker
Randall Young
Fried Duren
Cobbessee Lake
Pleasant Pond
Gordon Howe
Abbagadessett
Richmond Sportsmen’s Association
St. Mathias Episcopal Church
Mattie Siegars
Mildred Spaulding
Augusta
Guy Siegars
Richmond Corner
Frank Turner
Thomaston
Charles Sylvester
Truman Sawyer
Brunswick Road
Wilbur Tarr
Elwell Briary
Harold Lancaster
Richmond High School
Tharesa Brown
Ruth Alexander
Donald Mosher
George Harford
Christine Toothaker
Stanley Griffin
Lura Leavitt
Elinor Curtis
Doris Sedgley
Carl Alexander
Lytle Lint
Jackson Quinnam
Northeastern University
William Newell
Mr. Bodge
Utter
Mr. Utter
Millard Wade
Joseph Bariste
Passover Program At The Beth Israel Synagogue
Junior and senior departments of Beth Israel Sunday school staged a postponed Passover program in the vestry. A playlet The Vision of Abraham by Mrs. Joseph I. Smith featured children led by Sonny Cogan and Donald Povich. The Silver Cup, a Passover phantasy, starred Hannah Gediman and Ruth Cohen with Edward Cohen and others. Mrs. Smith received flowers. refreshments were served to children by a committee led by Mrs. Morris Povich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beth Israel Sunday School
Vision of Abraham
Joseph I. Smith
Sonny Cogan
Donald Povich
Abraham
Albert Povich
Moses
Ruth Cogan
Ida Cohen
Eleanor Gediman
Bladen Smith
Hannah
Emily Gediman
Benjamin
Robert Levin
Edward Cohen
Isabel Gediman
Ruth Cohen
Ruth Gan
Smith
Morris Povich
Arbor Day program at Center School Georgetown
Center school Georgetown held Arbor Day exercises Friday with Ruth Powers directing. Superintendent John E. Carter of Woolwich attended as a visitor. The program featured pupil performances on drawing painting and music and included poems songs and selections from Gray's Elegy and The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Center School
Ruth W. Powers
John E. Carter
Woolwich
ACAI
Nellie Taft
ASC
DORAG
ELA
Edie
Cere
Betty Taft
Ralph Hasty
Dorothy Hagan
Eva Mains
Marriner
Nellie Taft West
Renal
Elie Swiodepockerg
Dorothy Farrow
Joe
Howard M. Trafton
Melrose
Mass
Howard E. Emmons
Portland
Ardenne Pinkham
Earl Payson
Bay Point
B. H. Woodside
C. L. Hinckley
Sagadahoc Bay
H. G. Heald
Christian Endeavor
Selectmenn
Dr. Winchenbach
Bath
Dorothy W. Oliver
Kingston
W. C. Todd
Sewall Webster
Augusta
Indian Point
George Gray
Charles Lewis
Five Islands
Gilbert Lewis
Harry L. Horne
Ralph Reynolds
Ruth Reynolds
Lester Powers
Orean Cote
Brunswick
Roland Tibbetts
Ferris Leonard
Thomas M. Hagan
Working League
J. H. Brown
West Newton
Joseph F. Higgins
Deorothy W. Oliver
Walter V. Cummings
Grace Hovey
Morse High
F. W. Hovey
Christ
First Baptist Church
God
Salvation Army
Boy Scouts Exhibit Training At Roland Smith Post Meeting
Roland Smith post A L meets Tuesday with five visitors from George T Files post Brunswick. Troop 53 demonstrated Scout work led by Winfred Scott, including flag history by Edward Cohen, signaling by Clifford Varney and Guysbert Vroom, and artificial respiration by Ralph Card with Cohen as patient. Arthur K Purington praised journalism. Coffee and doughnuts followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roland Smith
A. L
George T. Files
Brunswick
Winfred Scott
Edward Cohen
Clifford Varney
Guysbert Vroom
Ralph Card
Arthur K. Purington
Bath Daily Times
Associated Press
Maine
Eugene M. Desmond
Roscoe H. Shaw
Ralph Gay
Timothy B. Wagner
W. Emery Chase, Jr
Past Ladies' club meets at Myrtle lodge home
Mrs Mary Lowell hosted the Past Ladies' club of Myrtle lodge No 8 U S O L on Monday at 57 Academy street with Lois T McKiever as hostess. Attendees included Mary Curtis Gertrude Stewart Annie Johnson Eva Atwood Margaret Nelson Emma Jacobs and Emma Daley. Next meeting set for May 22 at 685 Middle street with Pearl Campbell and Jacobs hosting refreshments served.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Lowell
Myrtle Lodge
No. 8
U. S
Academy Street
Lois T. McKiever
Lowell
Mary Curtis
Gertrude Stewart
Annie Johnson
Eva Atwood
Margaret Nelson
Emma F. Jacobs
Emma Daley
Mrs. Dorris Lovenberg Returns Home After Visit
Mrs Dorris Lovenberg has returned to her Providence Rhode Island residence after a several day visit with Mr and Mrs Ralph G Stetson on Washington Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorris Lovenberg
Providence, R. I
Ralph G. Stetson
Washington Street
Forrest S. Hamilton once champion skater dies
Forrest S. Hamilton 41 native of Bath and former New England roller skating champion for two and three miles died after six weeks illness in Biddeford hospital. Funeral at King Henry funeral home South Portland then Bath burial. Survived by five children, four uncles, one aunt and other relatives. Nickname Hammy, famed roller polo and indoor racer in Maine. Recently worked as a South Portland taxi driver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forrest S. Hamilton
Bath
New England
King & Henry Funeral Home
Ocean Street
South Portland
Oak Grove
Hamilton
Alonzo
Lavinia Hamilton
Biddeford
Sidney
Ernest
Rita
Doris
Harlan Hamilton
Matthew McPherson
Stewart
John McPherson
Mildred McPherson
Needham
Mass
Exposition Building
Portland
Maine
Majestic
Peaks Island
Lowell
Kennebunk
Woolwich Grange program marks Better Homes Week event
Woolwich Grange No 68 P of H announces Saturday night observance of National Better Homes and Garden Weeks with a lecture by Mrs Maurice Hathorne and a program including songs solos papers on Beautification of Highways Gardening Patriotism and What My Garden Means to Me plus community remodeling discussions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woolwich Grange
Maurice T. Hathorne
the Grange
Merle Jameson
Fred Soule
Percy Bailey
Harold Bailey
Harry Bradford
Alton Smith
America
Paul Revere
Leona Weeks
Ceres
John H. Carter
William Bradford
Melvin Bailey
William Robson
Porpoise Visit Draws North End Fishermen’s Attention
North end fishermen recall a rare inland porpoise sighting as it chased alewives toward spawning grounds and wowed locals with leaps and smooth curves. Old reports mention cod in Whiskeay creek nets and shad scarce in the region, with some planning a Spring fishing attempt. Reverend Chauncey W. Goodrich preached at Winter Street Church to a large audience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North End
Eastern River
Ridley
Chauncey W. Goodrich
Brunswick
Paris
Winter Street
Five Islands social and visitors note busy week
Five Islands items show many visitors and residents socializing, with town residents and guests from Bath Lewiston Portland and Boston. The record notes weddings births Grange meetings and church services alongside cottage stays on Seguinland Gotts Cove and Malden Island as well as small trips to Bath and Portland.
Uses bed comforter to screen his beer
City Marshal Walter L Whitney and Patrolman John Place inspecting a bed comforter found 16 bottles of alleged beer wrapped inside. The two men were arraigned in municipal court the following Monday with the holder placed on one year probation and his companion ordered to leave town. The charge was intoxication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South End
Walter L. Whitney
John Place
Clergy Leader Denounces Prohibition Propaganda
Prominent clergyman John Haynes Holmes of New York City’s Community Church criticized anti prohibition rhetoric in a World article excerpt. He warned the wet movement risks repeating past harms, urging relentless exposure of liquor industry tactics and calling for decisive action against bootleggers and corruption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amd
John Haynes Holmes
Community Church of
New York City
Voltaire
Massachusetts
Plan to discontinue lighthouse criticised by Southport
Southport residents protest a report that the U S lighthouse service plans to end the current illumination at Hendricks head lighthouse on the Sheepscot river and replace it with an automatic light and a bell buoy. The head light near Bath’s Five Islands attracts tourists and seamen, who fear automatic lighting may fail with wind direction. nearly 1,000 visitors came last season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southport
U. S. Lighthouse Service
Hendricks
Sheepscot
Hendricks Head
Bath
Funeral for Roberta Douglas Held at Mayo Residence
The funeral for Roberta B. Douglas daughter of Mr and Mrs Arthur R. Douglas of 19 Richard Horton Street takes place Tuesday morning at 10 at the Arthur F. Mayo funeral residence 67 Medi Worth. Rev David L. Wilson of Central Church officiates burial in Onn Grove. A detestor named Lie Huse was born recently at Newark Ohio to Mr and Mrs H Austin Huse of this city. Mrs Huse has visited Ohio with her parents and will return mid May.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnson Seed Potato Co
County Road
McBurnier
Sheldon
Carding Machine Road
N. Banks Preble
C. E. Bryant
Cotton's Cemetery
Mr. Preble
North Front Street
Richmond
Joseph Thatcher
Jane (Trott) Preble
Beedle Road
Richmond Village
Edith P. Preble
Earl B. Preble
Marjorie
Dorothy Preble
True Morrison
Jean
West Medford
Mass
Viola Duren
Roger Pierce
Dorchester
C. H. Curtis
R. M. Ordway
Robert Simpson
Skowhegan
Lawrence Bond
Harold Hinchliffe
England
Raymond Libby
Roberta BE. Douglas
Arthur R. Douglas
Richard Hon Street
Wis
Arthur F. Mayo
Medi Wtreckh
David L. Wilson
Central Church
Onn Grove
Lie Huse
Newark, O
H. Aunuttin
Hues
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Dover
Mema Curtis
Phyllis Merchant
Clinton Bishop
Donald Little
Gordon Curran
Harry Curran
Baptist
Glen White
Geraldine Cleveland
Young People’s Choir
Hattie Purington
Leroy Cleveland
John Doyon
Hartley Ranger
Olive King
Paul Stilphen
University of Maine
William Siegars
Everett
E. L. White
A. R. Palmer
E. E. Purinton
Horace D. Manwaring
The
Baptist Church
Leroy Victor Cleveland
J. W. Ranchette
Clifford E. Seekins
Charles Blake
Charlies W. Messenger
Richmond Cemetery
Mr. Manwaring
Shelter Island
New York
Gilbert and
Alice
Griffin) Manwaring
Kennebec Valley
S. O
Marguerite
Harold
Inez
Emma Manwaring
Giles
Westbrook
Gilbert
Stacey
Belle
Bessie
Avis
Wilmington
Josephine
Mary
Red S Curtis & Funeral Service
Thomas R.huston
R. Bath
Georgetown
BOY Scouts
American Legion
L. F
Atwood
A. W. Hunt
G. H. Smith
B. F. Perry
Boston
P. B. Savage
J.P. Davis
Young Peoples Meeting
Ralph Davis
Little Sheepscot
Mr. Davis
MacMahan Island
H. M. Faucett
Berlin
N. H
Gotts’ Cove
J. P. Lewis
Medford
Nettie Snowman
Walter Moore
Halliwell
Walter MacMahan
Bustoen
Grange Library
Earl MaccMahan
Percy Savage
Eugenia Freeman
Wallace Freeman
Miss Freeman
J. P. Davis
Alfred MacMahan
William Marr
Grange
Otis Baker
James
Norwood
Maes
Linwood Stevens
Robinhood
D. R. Stevens
Everett Cromwell
Nathaniel Hassenfuss
Seguinland
Will Field
Donald Stevens
J. A. Folsom
Orville Rowe
Mr. Rowe
Zephia Fickett
Eugene Rowe
Mrs. Fickett
Harold Pinkham
C. H. Minchen
Percy McGilvrey
Herman Barter
Wiscasset
Mina Wilson
Myra Thibodeau
Charles Hanna
L. H. Rowe
Horace Rittall
Woodrow Gray
Acroid
Cambridge
Frank MacMahan
Clayton
Somerville
Carl Pearson
Quincy
MacMahan
Waller Moore
Tallowell
Charles Kenney
Kenney
I. F E. Cromwell
H. B. Cranshaw
L. W. Wales
Malden Island
H. J. Eisenhauer
D. L. Howard
Marshal
Bath Savings Institution
CULAC
Wendel
Childran
Dusits
Omar W. Folsom
Robert Douglas
Beacon Street
Beacon Hill
State House
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