Sagadahoc Pomona Grangers Invited Farm Bureau Trip
Twin County Farm Bureau invites Sagadahoc Pomona Grangers to a field day in West Bath on Wednesday August 17 a tour to show alfalfa practices with a special women program. Cars meet at Lt Rogers farm on the West Bath road at 930 standard time. C L Eastman county agent directs the tour and a lobster dinner costs 30 cents extra with advance orders. Lodewyk Heemskerk of New York visits Small Point Beach for a week with Loyal Sewall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Twin County Farm Bureau
Sagadahoc Pa
Lt. Rogers
Lodewyk Heemskerk of
New York
Small Point Beach
Loyal F. Sewall
World Friendship Conference Planned
The World Friendship Conference will be held at Montweag church over Friday Saturday and Sunday with three and eight oclock sessions. Guests include Saw Chit Maung of Burma a Karen graduate who declined Indian Civic Service and returned from a trip answering Stanley Jones. Co operating pastors will participate with Rev. Frank W. Hovey Rev. H. W. Chamberlain and Rev. James Mac Killop among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monteweag
Saw Chit Maung
Judson
University Colleges
England
Indian Civic Service
Stanley Jones
Montsweag
Frank W. Hovey
Georgetown
H. W. Chamberlain
Toopham
James MacKillop
Nobleboro
Boston professor and family in Bath visit Cambridge link
Prof Theodore Woods Noon of Northeastern University and his wife Mrs Noon with their sons Robert and Samuel and Mary Atkinson Noon visited Miss Alice May Douglas who summers at 10 Appian Way Cambridge. The Noon family has strong ties to Latin teaching and Bowdoin College history. Northeastern is Y M C A run on Huntington Avenue. The Cambridge group headed to Pittston to see Prof Noon's sister, and the note mentions regional school links and high expectations for students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore Woods Noon
Northeastern University
Boston
Bath
Noon
Laurenceville High School
Clifton Page
Kinsman Atkinson
Beacon Street
Atkinson
Woods
Leonard Woods
Bowdoin College
Cambridge
Pittston
Indiana
Huntington Avenue
Bath couple marks fifty seventh wedding anniversary
Mr and Mrs John Trull Parris of Upper Washington street celebrated their 57th wedding anniversary. The couple, long rooted in Bath, planned a week long trip to Mt McKinley with their daughter Mrs Edward Gaudreau, her husband, and grandson. The Parrises have two daughters, grandchildren, and great grandchildren, and will host visitors in the afternoon and evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
John Trull Parris
Upper Washington Street
Parris
Innes-Trust
Kennebec River
Edward L. Gaudreau
Gaudreau
Edward L. Gaudreau, Jr
Mt. McKinley
Gaudreaus
Portland
Quincy
Parrises
Mr. Parris
Albion
Carolyn (Trull
Paris
Charles Albion Parris
Brockton
Mass
Edwin B. Parris
Lucretia E. Morton
South Dresden
James and
Martha
Austin) Morton
Universalist Church
Ethel Parris Goff
Evelyn Goff York
Ormand York
Patricia
John Parris York
Rifle Believed Used by Ram Runners
A high powered rifle tied to the liquor truck seizure was found on the Elmhurst estate by Clarence Pendleton. It matched the weapon described in the Buick coupe escort and is held as evidence with prints taken. Authorities flagged rust and recovery near the Hyde residence, with two cartridges in the chamber.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Willows
Clarence Pendleton
High Street
Elmhurst
John H. Hyde
New York
Winneganee
Bath
Phippsburg
Walter L. Whitney
Hyde Estate
Chief Edwards Buys Wood for Brunswick Needy Families
Brunswick police chief William B Edwards purchased about 15 cards of standing wood from Bonds in College to aid local families this fall and winter. The wood will be distributed under conditions requiring designated cutting and piling of brush and prohibiting sale. The land between Garnet and Bath road burned over last summer, marking the season's worst local forest fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garnet
Bath Road
William B. Edwards
Brunswick
Edwards
Funeral for Gertrude Perkins Maxwell
Miss Gertrude Perkins Maxwell Morse high graduate and Junior League member dies Monday after admission to a Portland hospital. Funeral Thursday at 11 AM at her mother Mrs. Herbert Maxwell 103 Commercial Street Boothbay Harbor. Burial in Maxwell family lot Oak Grove Cemetery Bath. Many Bath residents plan to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gertrude Perkins Maxwell
Morse High
Junior League
Portland
Herbert Maxwell
Commercial Street
Boothbay Harbor
Bath
Maxwell
Oak Grove Cemetery
Gardiner Pastor Appointed Amid Public Board Remains
Governor Gardiner appoints Bath residents to the State Military and Naval Children's Home board. Dr. Willis A. Moore begins Universalist ministry in Gardiner, plans parsonage work at 43 Lincoln Street and will reside there after Oct 1, after returning home from 14 years in industrial work. He was born in Gardiner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gardiner
Henry W. Butler
Charles R. Farnham
Jane S. Murphy
Frank B. Nichols
Joseph Torrey
Bath
Military and Naval Children’s Home
Willis A. Moore
Universalist
Lincoln Street
Juniper Point
West Boothbay Harbor
Moore
Miss Gertrude Maxwell Dies in Portland after Illness
Gertrude P. Maxwell died in Portland after several weeks ill with ulcerated colitis possibly linked to a typhoid illness eight years earlier. Born Feb 2 1909 in Boothbay Harbor she lived in Bath and attended Morse High School and Sapere Seminary. She was loved by friends and active in local charity groups and Universalist church activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Maine
Miss Maxwell
Boothbay Harbor
Louise
Herbert D. Maxwell
Bath
Maxwell
Middle Street
Oak
Morse High School
Sapere Seminary
West Bridgewater
Mass
Florida
Charles Maxwell
Maine Society
St. Petersburg
Junior Hospital League
Young People’s Christian Union
First Universalist Church
Will Give Concert for Red Cross Benefit Bath
Les Camarades Musicaux under Allan H. Ramsay will present a Red Cross benefit concert at Winter Street church in Bath on Wednesday night August 17 at 8 15. Proceeds aid the Bath chapter as winter approaches. Arrangements are led by Mrs Edward W Hyde and Mrs Arthur Sewall 2nd with ticket sales through a long list of local volunteers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Les Camarades Musicaux
Allan H. Ramsay
Bath
American Red Cross
Winter Street
Maas
Edward W. Hyde
Arthur Sewall
John H. Hyde
Marcia Moulton
Gladys Olm
Frederick E. Drake
Carrie Shaw
Daniel T. Dougherty
James B. Lemont
Arthur Norton
Grace Dickinson
Carolyn Moses
Arthur Crockett
Frederick Edney
Ruth Henry
William R. Freeman
Anna Trott
W. S. Sewal
Mary Newell
Carolyn Plant
J. A. Redlon
Charles R. Farnham
Herman Crocker
Jane Spinney
Henry Owen, Jr
Daniel Perry
Alden G. Smith
Harriet Lord
Barbara Ross
Charles Hewitt
Morse High Students Narrow Escape After Car Rollover
Six Morse high school students escaped serious injury when a Buick sedan driven by Elwood Legard overturned on Witch Spring road. Legard and Robert Burgon suffered cuts, while Alfred Parks Alfred McCabe Ruth Dale and Isabelle Gallant were shaken but unhurt as the car landed upside down after skidding to avoid cows. Glass from the windshield cut two occupants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morse High School
Elwood Legard
Morse High
Witch Spring Road
Ralph E. Legard
Legard
Robert Burgon
Alfred Parks
Alfred McCabe
Ruth Dale
Isabelle Gallant
Young Legard
Witch Spring
Mrs Strong of Kobe Arrives in Maine for Visit
Mrs Wilmot E Strong of Kobe Japan arrives Saturday at Popham Beach to remain until October with her daughter Mrs Charles J Donnell and Mr Donnell. Strong came to the United States in July after visiting Tacoma Washington and Kalamazoo Michigan. SURVEYOR S. Litchfield Civil Engineer and Surveyor Bath Brunswick phone 285 M 6 9 tf
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmot ’E. Strong
Kobe
Japan
Popham Beach
Charles J._.Donnell
Donnell
Strong
United States
Tacoma
Wash
Kalamazoo
Mich
Maine
Bowdoinham Daily Social Page News Roundup
Bowdoinham residents attend social visits and church events while 4-H clubs plan a Bear Pond field day. Weddings, relocations, and home fires are noted with community updates across nearby towns including Richmond, Auburn, Topsham, and Wellesley.
Visitors From Boothbay Harbor Stay With Dodge Family
Their guest motored to Boothbay Harbor Sunday as guests of aunt Mrs. C. F. Dodge. Adams will remain with sister Mrs. C. F. Dodge for an indefinite period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boothbay Harbor
C. F. Dodge
Adams
Civil War veterans visit Bath for day
Weymouth Mass door keeper at the House of era in Massachusetts wait discusses Civil War service with Capt. John Blake of Richmond both Maine veterans met by chance aboard a steamer in 1931. Blake and Henry enlisted August 1862 in the First and Fourth Maine and were discharged the same day in 1865. They shared many coincidences including a burning bridge near Richmond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weymouth
Mass
House of Aera
Massachusetts
Bath
Bath City
City
Boothbay Harbor
Henry
John Blake
Richmond
Gen
Lee
Virginia
Farmer
Maine
Eastport
Blake
Second August Term of Sagadahoc Probate Court
Records show limited action with wills allowed for Charles H. Jordan Damasc Boucher and Julia P. French, executors named, bond status. Administrations filed for Henrietta S. Williams with bond approved, inventories and accounts for multiple estates, and final administrations for several Bath and Topsham residents.
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Sagadahoc
Walter 5S. Glidden
Charles H. Jordan
Bath
Affie E. Jacobs
Damasc Boucher
Topsham
Regina Roy
Julia P. French
West Bath
Earle E. French
Alfie E. Jacobs
Joseph H. Rousseau
Brunswick
Roxy C. Merry
James E. French
Henrietta S. Williams
New York City
I. Latimer Lawrence
Pennington
N. J
Bond
Annette Smith
Bowdoin
John N. Small Guardian
Theodore W. Pease
Blanche A. Ease
J. Houghton McLellan
Jamess. Lowell
Henry Dufresne
Claude Chambard
Edwin L. Rogers
William S. Rogers
Rachel Farnham
James K. Farnham
Bowdoinham Ladies Aid Hold All Day Meeting
The Bowdoin Ladies Aid and the M E church group met at Mrs. Harry Purington’s Aug 4 for an all day gathering. A noon picnic lunch was served, croquet played in the forenoon, and a 2 pm meeting led by president Mrs Palmer. Eighteen members and two visitors attended. three moose were sighted on Cornish farm ridge, and Miss Evelyn Heath left last week with a friend for South Portland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leroy Cleveland
Richmond
Baptist Church
Arthur Staples
Auburn
Ralph Harvey
Wellesley
Mass
Staples
Cora Wilkinson
Locke Crouse
Gertrude Robinson
Farmington
Methodist
Wesley Williams
Shore
Bay
Harry Sumner Pitts
Ella Jane Graham
Bowdeinham
Leroy V. Cleveland
John Purington
Olive Andros
Boothbay
Ralph Cameron
Lambert
George Hackett
L. A. Pennell
Newport Lake
A. S. MacDougal
George Cutler
Hellen Britt
Stella Given
Della Rideout
Florence Siegars
Barbara
Methodist Ladies Aid
Harry Purington
Dingley Road
Roger Robinson
Topsham
R. D. Purinton
Will Willes
Co. L. Browne
Minott
Williams
Lauris Wilson
Philadelphia
Edward Wilson
George A. Hackett
Main Street
F. K. Jack
Litchfield
Lorene Rogers
Merry Workers Girls 4-H Club
Elva Curtis
Samuel Dorrance
Vermont
David Graves
Theresa Pottle
Waterville
Ivan Lang
Nora Brown
Rumford
Charles Fogg
Robert G. Reid
Wollaston
Margaret Wilson
H. E. Cornish
Brown
Pleasant Pond
Clara N. Fogg
Hudson Bay
Timmins
Ontario
Lawyer Wing
Leila Hunnewell
Kingfield
Mary Hall
Gorham
John Beals
Matilla
Kissimee
Fla
Bay Road
Wayne
L. P. Temple
Betty Finerty
Edith Glidden
Camden
Amelia Reid
Gardiner
Esther Brown
Popham Beach
Belle Baker
Miss. Millay
Howard F. Adams
Carrie C
Ladies Aid
Bowdoin
M. E. Church
Palmer
Evelyn Heath
South
Portland
Popham Beach Folks Call For Public Wharf At Fort Park
Herbert J. Kellaway argues for a public wharf at Popham Fort Park to boost boating and tourism on the Kennebec River. He notes state ownership of historic sites and proposes surveying and funding for a new landing, leveraging a state stone fund as seed money for construction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Popham Beach
George Popham
Sabine Hill
State of
Maine
F. W. Carlton
Winneganee
Atkins’ Bay
Kennebec
Fort Popham
Popham Fort Park
Herbert J. Kellaway
New York Writer Finds Indian Pottery Relic
J Otis Swift of New York City long a nature writer for the World and Herald-Tribune, found over 100 worn Indian pot pieces in Androscoggin sand opposite Boxers Island while visiting Bay Point. The fragments show woven reed marks and a rounded rim with smooth interior, likely washed downriver from the bank. Swift, founder of the Yosians, leads 75,000 nature enthusiasts and hosts large weekly talks in the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Otis Swift
New York City
New York World
Herald-Tribune
Mr. Swift
Bay Point
Agnes Peabody
Androscoggin
Boxers Island
Swift
New York
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Farm Bureau
E Paramount Publix Theatre
Doug Fairbanks. Jr
Ann Dvorak
Buck Jones
Hell
Edmond Lowe
Victor McLaden
Barbera Stanwick
George Brent
Theodore Woods
John T. Parris
Chief Edwards
Board OF Visitors
Gertrude P. Maxwell
RED Cross
Winter Street Church
S.” Litchael
Otil
Bowdoinham
Glidden
Bowdoinham Post Road
Wharf Ae
Bank of
Hatch’s Shoe Store
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