Richmond Scene Notes Obituary and Summer Campground News
Benjamin P. McKay 76 died at the home of Mrs. Sadie Beals on Plummer Road. He was a retired M C R R gate tender born in Portland, with no surviving relatives. Campground visitors include R A L Colby and family, Gardiner and South Gardiner residents, and five daughters from South Gardiner. Various townspeople travel, visit, and attend events, with rifle shoots, two-way trips, and social gatherings at Richmond Campground and local halls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benjamin P. McKay
Sadie Beals
Plummer Road
Mr. McKay
Portland
John
Sarah (Cook) M
Richmond
Beals
Robert
Brown’s Cemetery
R. A. L. Colby
Campground
Gardiner
Merton Small
South Gardiner
Walter Haskins
New York
William R. Stacey
Farmington
N. H
Elmer King
S. M. Preble
Harvey Goodwin
Skowhegan
Lucille Utter
Charles Utter
Bernard Hall
Loraine
Whitman
Mass
James Sencabaugh
Southard Street
Bertha
Elsie Hinkley
Maretta Lowell
Augusta
John Riley
Brighton
Riley
Louise Riley
Henry Hersey
Winthrop
Fredericine Fellows
Frances Blenkhorn
Elizabeth Alexander
Bath
Charles Blair
J. H. Barrows
Joseph, Jr
Alexandria
Barrow
Gilbert Edgett
Eva Gott
William Cressey
Woolwich
John C. Rice
Alexander Road
Byron Ludwig
John Parker
Charles Blake
Edna Lane
Willis
Lewiston
Walter Wakefield
Juanita
Richmond Sportsmen's Association
Sidelinger
Hoyt
Savoie
Alexander
Wing
Martel
Beedle
Lord
Woodman
Sutcliffe
Waltz
E. McFee
Watson
Hanson
Carr
Bishop
Emerson Lane Post
A. L
Eugene Purington
Litchfield
Frank Reynolds
Gertrude Baker
Abner Gibbs
Main Street
Spaulding House
Boyton Street
William Newall
Mr. Reynolds
Candy’s Harbor
Bailey's Island
Emma Bowley
John Hoyle
Card House
Fred Lewis
Front Street
Winnifred Gilbert
Delina Gilbert
Selectmen's Office
Fred Curtin
Fred, Jr
Paul
Patricia Curtin
West Roxbury
A. D. Gaudet
Halifax
N. S
Densmore House
Orrin True
Mildred Berry
Bertelle Skinner
Minnie Skinner
Frank Beedle
Rich
Whiskeag Lake Still Popular With Bathers
Duncan H. Farrell reports Whiskeag Lake drew 805 visitors in the week of July 22. Peak attendance was 180 on Wednesday, with 80 on Saturday. daily counts included 120 Monday 140 Tuesday 175 Thursday and 110 Friday. Seven minor first aid cases occurred and two people were assisted from the water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duncan H. Farrell
Farrell
Georgetown Summer Notes Bring Visitors From Several States
Miss Georgia Randall of Cambridge arrives from Kearsage NH to open her cottage in Georgetown. Mr. and Mrs. Robert West of Middleboro MA visit Abbie Reynolds and Ralph Reynolds in Woolwich. Numerous guests and summer residents from Maine Massachusetts Rhode Island and Delaware are listed with routine visits and social events around Georgetown Sagadahoc Bay and Kennebec Point.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia Randall
Cambridge
Mass
Kearsage
N. H
Robert West
Middleboro
Abbie Reynolds
Ralph Reynolds
Woolwich
Frank Brown
Virginia
Carol Lee
Riverside
R. I
Hillcrest
Arthur Todd
Lisbon
Jennie Todd
West Georgetown
C. L. Hinckley
Malden Island
Sagadahoc Bay
W. T. Schoepfer
First Baptist Church
Georgetown
Fugate
Arrowsie
Robinhood
Albert Towne
Margaret
Janice
Winfield F. Rowe
Waltham
Popham
Bertha Scott
Augusta Rowe
E. B. Billings
Little River Beach
Robert B. Waller
Kennebec Point
Richmond
Laura Boyd
Islington
J. C. Bearse
Marilla Tarr
Ida Oliver
Portland
Harry Horne
Keene
Gilbert Gunnell
Popham Beach
Walter Williams
Gunnell
Arthur Kishpaugh
West Orange
N. J
M. Belle Heald
Joan Harrison
Bath
Seward E. Emmons
Leonard Boyd
Newton
Emma Stuart Billings
Frank Heald
Melrose
H. G. Heald
Lord
Pemaquid
Elizabeth Thompson
Thomas Shaw Moulton
New York
Seguinland
Overlook Hall
Harland Trafton
Quincy
Rudolph Trafton
Doris Trafton
Howard Trafton
Etta Riddell
Lynn
Trafton
Carrie Heald
North Edgecomb
T. M. Hagan
Gaston Lachaise
Mr. Lachaise
Big City
John Thibodeau
St Mary’s Lawn Party Draws Large Crowd Wednesday Night
St Mary’s annual lawn party on the church grounds drew a large attendance with 20 plus booths in a semicircle. Uncle Henry’s Hot Chicken Lunch and the Busy Beano booth drew steady crowds as committees organized popular attractions and music.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Mary's
St. Mary's Church
Uncle Henry
Henry Biggins
James McLaughlin
Jack Mulcahy
Andrew Flaherty
John E. Hayes
John Mulcahy
Mary Murphy
Edmund Arsenault
Margaret Ingraham
Catherine Kelley
Oscar
Oscar Tanguay
Tanguay
St. Mary's Choir
Grace Cunningham
George Comeau
Elizabeth Conley
Katherine Leonard
Mary Cunningham
Evelyn Gallant
Cat Booth
Henry Arsenault
Ed Sonia
Joseph Allen
Bacon and Haim Booth
Harold MecElman
Earl Allen
James C. Mulligan
Alex Burgess, Jr
Ralph Gay
Eugene Hart
Alex McDougal
Kenneth Smith
Bertha Bellerose
Delia Cloutier
Winnie Quinn
Blanche White
George Costain
Daniel McDougal
Father Melancon
Arch ie C Rolfe Veteran Engineer Dies at 63
Arch ie C Rolfe 63 a lifelong marine engineer died of a heart attack at home 1400 Washington Bath after a day of fine health He sailed on foreign and West Coast ships born Gouldsboro son of Edward K and Margaret Rolfe began seafaring at 17 He worked for The Texas Corporation served as chief engineer of the Shenandoah for seven years and later with Sun Oil Corp During WWII he was a Naval Reserve junior lieutenant He leaves wife three sons Edward Arch ie Jr Merrill and four daughters Leigh Coffin Gilbert Seymour Vernon Getchell and Clarence Glover Funeral will be private Thursday at his home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Archie C. Rolfe
West Coast
Atlantic Seaboard
Washington Street
Gouldsboro
Edward K
Margaret Campbell Rolfe
Texas Corporation
New York
Shenandoah
Bath
Texas Steamship Co
Sun Oil Co
Naval Reserve
Rolfe
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Edward C
Archie C., Jr
Merrill B. Rolfe
Leigh Coffin
Gilbert Seymour
Vernon Getchell
Bangor
Clarence Glover
Bowdoin
Five Islands August meetings and island gatherings noted
The regular August Grange meeting at the grange hall is set for Tuesday August 6 with reports on the Annual Sale planned for August 8. The Improvement Association hosted a Progressive Picnic at Beale's Island featuring several boats and plans for another picnic in August. A bridge party follows at the association room on Thursday August 1 at 2 30 PM. Numerous Bath and Cambridge residents visit cottages and gatherings fill the island calendar with family visits, outings, and birthdays including Marilyn Pearson's fifth, with many names and places in the Bath Five Islands area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grange
Improvement Association
Beale’s Island
D. L. Howard
Herbert Moore
Chriscraft
Charles
Arthur Johnson
Norma
Rolland Hinckley
Brookfield
Mass
Gertrude
Betty Carr
Lucille
Howard MacMahan
Viola Hinckley
Burt Hagan
Bath
Proctor Hagan
William Plummer
Helen
Billy Plummer
Plummer Cottage
William Belanger
James T. MacMahan
Fred Pratt
Poole
J. E. Blaisdell
Earl MacMahan
Ralph Thompson
Damascove
Lake Maranacook
Merton Davis
Portland
C. C. Davis
Leon Williams
L. H. Rowe
George Yeo
Winchester
Yeo
Roscoe Knowlton
St. Petersburg
Fla
Hall
Carrie H. Stevens
North Hampton
N. H
Paul Darnell
Marjorie
Jean
South Orange
N. J
J. B. Horton
George Ainley
Marion Ainley
Cambridge
James Stevens
Derby Line
Stevens
Ellsworth Pinkham
Hume
Melrose
Albert Rasmussen
Fred Albert
William Farr
Somerville
Rock Crest Cottage
James
F. Wilson
Merritt Mitchell
Gardiner Deering
Barbara Lou
Edwin Cummings
Leonard Lord
Paul Bagdikian
Paul, Jr
Anieta
Adolph Ehlers
Paul Gregware
Reginald Stacey
Fred Johnson
Waltham
Charles Jones
Leslie Ainley
Virginia Ainley
Charles McMahan
Arthur Walker
Malden
Hiram Tobey
Wakefield
Arthur Pratt
Carlton Lowell
Mary
Bartlett
Norman Howard
Marlene Evelyn
Bath Memorial Hospital
Harold Pinkham
Elbridge Southard
Elbridge, Jr
Marie Peters
Jewett
Boothbay Harbor
Helen Oulton
Ruth Pratt
Frank Doland
Sterling Cottage
S. M. Cubbage
Frederick Pope
Boothbay
Esther Wyman
Arlington
F. M. Biggins
Herbert Moore and
Herbert, Jr
Belmont
Chase
Orono
Elizabeth Chase
Harbor View
Carl Nelson
Richard Anderson
Rose Cunningham
Brookline
Doland
Edward Lewis
Augusta
Five Islands
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Pleasant Pond
Shepard Cottage
George Shaw
Joseph Costellow
Harold Shaw
Freeport
George S. Shaw
Doris Coltart
Rockland
Robert Hoyle
Methuen
J. R. Hoyle
Raymond Hoyle
Charles Kennedy
South Lancaster
Eva Gomer
Ideal Home Corner Club
Water Street
Belle Call
Beatrice
Geneva Brown
Topsham
Parker
Pearl Stevens
W. H. Johnson
South Dresden
Sadie Good
Dresden
Ora Reed
G. C. Pierce
Rhode Island
White Mountains
Samuel Blake
Katherine Curtill
Dorothy Doane
Horace Hinkley
Boston
Sally Karra
Fred Strout
North Front Street
Bertha Cunningham
Pearl Dove
Alice Wedge
Ruth Robinson
Curtis
Madelyn Douglass
Helen Douglass
Florence Curtis
Virginia Stratton
Margaret Hinkley
Phyllis Wentworth
Vernice Emmons
Mabelle Crillin
Mildred Leavitt
Lincoln
Rachel Strout
Frances Rand
Roland Lord
Donald Morrison
Roxbury
County Road
Philip Morrison
Blake
Elva Purinton
Helena Naylor
Arlene Guiou
Marion Dickey
F. S. Curtis & Co
Red S Curtis &Ob. Meral
Thomas R. Huston
R. Bath
D. M. Humphreys & Co
Sagadahock Block
Bath, Me
Room
W. A. Millett
Glens Falls
N. Y
Bessie Lancaster
Jessie Richardson
Revidence
Alma L. Reid
Russell Street
George H. Dole
Wilmington
Del
Mr. Dole
Wayne
Edward H. Kimball
Lincoln Street
Jimmy Hodges
Nina
Victor McLaglen
Charles P. Shaw
Ridgewood
Harry L. Day
Green Street
Mrs. Shaw
Maine
New Hampshire
Richard
Cove Cottage
Carrie Ambach
Wilton
Farmington Normal School
Kingfield
Russell Upson
Adele Upson
Williams
Frank MacMahan
Marilyn Pearson
MacMahan Island
Paul Thompson
Dorothy
Joseph
James Comellan
James and
Leo
Comellan
Madge O'Brien
Burgess
Nat Hasenfuss
Harry
Alrick Pearson
Edgecomb
T. E. Cromwell
Willian Patton
Betty Patton
Glen Ridge
Alfred Stevens
Mr. Milliken
Scarboro
D. R. Stevens
Alton Reed
Reed
Mr. Reed
Percy Savage
Henry K. Dow
Priscilla
Rochester
Lightbody
Mr. Dow
Mary Dow
Nealley
Haverhill
Sexton Cottage
Christine Carey
Alexander Marr, Jr
Everett
Bath Savings Institution
Kay Brothers
Mary Ellen
Bumpsy Anthony
Reldy
Wells Brothers
Silverlakes
LA Glenn
Millers
Captain Walker
Running Elk
Buck Steele
Wonder Horse
Prince
Hollywood
McKay Field
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