Beulah Rebekah Lodge Plans Aug 16 Supper Sale
Richmond events note Beulah Rebekah lodge committees named for Aug 16 supper and fish pond for children. Arlene Gardner chairs the supper. Viola Glass heads grab bag. Misses Bell Call, Ale Tarbox, Joyce Foster, Norene White organize the fish pond. Various locals attend civic meetings and gatherings across Richmond and area.
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Beulah Rebekah Lodge
1.C.C.F
Arlene Gardner
Clara Foster
Beatrice Webber
Violaglass
Bell Call
Ale Tarbox
Joyce Foster
Norene White
Margaret Mullen
Lillian Nichols
Veneranda Sanford
Laura Lothridge
Lillian Boulger
Richmond Board of Trade
Dresden social notes mention visits and gatherings
Mr and Mrs Glendon Souviney return to Washington after four weeks in Dresden Mills. Local residents travel, visit relatives, and attend events across Dresden, West Dresden, and nearby towns including Rockland and Hallowell.
Polio Death in Dresden Mills Child Nineteen Forty Five
Jane Thorne Perry nine year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Raymond W Perry Dresden died Sunday at Central Maine General hospital Lewiston after illness since Monday She is survived by her parents a brother Harry and a sister Judy Private services were held at 10 am Tuesday in St Johns Episcopal church Dresden Mills and burial followed at Forest Hill cemetery
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Jane Thorne Perry
Raymond W. Perry
Dresden
Central Maine General Hospital
Lewiston
Harry
Judy
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Dresden Mills
Forest Hill Cemetery
First Baptist church speaker presides as pastor on vacation
Rev Franklin S Keehlwetter former Georgetown pastor now residing in Howland spoke at the First Baptist Church. He led a summer religious camp at Harpswell and joined Miss Belle Heald for dinner. The Working League sale at Georgetown Center drew acclaim after 39 years of active fundraising with volunteers. proceeds neared four hundred dollars.
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Franklin S. Keehlwetter
Howland
First Baptist
Cleaves Henderson
Keehlwetter
Harpswell
Belle Heald
League
Willard Dalrymple
Sagadahoc Bay
E. D. Hooker
Georgetown Center
Overlook
Kennebec Point
First Baptist Church
Summer social notes from Georgetown Center and Robinhood
A sequence of local visits and gatherings unfolds around Five Islands and Robinhood Cove. Notable attendees include Thomas Lessor and Miss Beth Storr at Cromwell, Conn., plus many Georgetown residents visiting relatives, hosting dinners, or enjoying trips to Camp Overlook and Five Islands. A sense of community ties the weekend through travel from Boston areas and New Jersey to Maine venues.
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Sagadahoc Bay
Robinhood Cove
Thomas Lessor
Beth Storr
Cromwell, Conn
Stanley Kosalka
Community notices mix parties weddings and visits at Reid State Park
Mrs Paul Thompson hosted a beach party for son Jimmy on a Reid State Park visit with two cars providing transport. Numerous locals attended luncheons and a moss collection display by Mrs Roy Newman of Georgetown. The Good Neighbor club ran a library hall fundraiser serving 125+ people for 54 dollars. The auxiliary sale at Library Association hall featured aprons crafts and snacks. A Malden Island wedding linked residents Cynthia Rugg and Warren Lane Jr with relatives attending in New England. Many guests and visitors from Boston Malden Bath Woolwich Onset and other towns were noted at several houses cottages and churches with several family moves and hospital notices mentioned.
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John Richards
Rosalind Richards
Gardiner
Indian Point
Gilbert Gunnell
Waltham
Mass
West Georgetown
Vincent MacMahan
Lewiston
Sigurd Carstrom
Hansen
Everett
William Bisseth
Robinhood
Five Islands
Bisseth
Carl Peterson
West Orange
N. J
George Harvey Powers
Elizabeth City
N. C
Oceana
Edith
Memorial Hospital
Bath
Roland Peterson
William Strang
Bowdoinham Ridge
Peterson
C. W. Small
Branwell Harford
George Manning
Aubrey Fullerton
Karl Seeger
Carroll P. Powers
Capstan Grill
Roscoe P. Todd
Anchorage
Kennebec Point
Kensington
Roy Newman
William A. Todd
Harriet Worrell
Carrie Carlisle
Race
North Edgecomb
Maureen Davis
Augusta
William Zorach
Adolph Spear
Bobbie
Charlie
Tessim Zorach
Timothy
Peter
Jonathan
Herbert Gleitz
Herbert
Cleveland
Gleitz
Harold Gray
Zorachs
Capt. Plummer
Zorach
Robert Folley
Lou Trakis
Irene Ayrovainen
Skowhegan
Brooklyn
N. Y
Leigh Vanausdall
Carleton College
Minnesota
Charles Shain
Georgetown Center
Charles F. Cojardie
Paul Thompson
Reid State Park
Jimmy
Harriett Worrel
Georgetown
Islands
D. W. Staffeld
David Rutherford
Edgar Osborn
Pennsylvania
Library Hall
Good Neighbor Club
Constance Gray
Brenda
Carol Pearson
Dorothy
Marilyn MacGillivary
Beverley Rittall
Marlene Pinkham
Sylvia Pinkham
Rosalyn Pinkham
Library Association
Franklin S. Koehlwetter
Howland
Robert Brackley
Hallowell
Malden Island
Boston
Cynthia Rugg
Warren C. Lane Jr
M. Russel Boynton
Newton
Edward C. Boynton
Essen
Conn
Deborah Rugg
Nancy Butts
Mareena Butts
China
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Miss Boynton
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Hollis Leeman
Leon Kelley
Woolwich
Janice
Allan Carr
Harry Swift
G. Roland Smith
Cape Elizabeth
Cheney House
George Ince
Pekin
Ill
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William McGrath
McGrath
Francis Bacon
Ralph Gay
Norman Norton
Lewiston Hospital
Martha Perow
Lawrence Perow
Bath Memorial Hospital
Leon Williams
Johnson Cottage
Orville Rowe
Portland
John V. Blasi
Brookline
Victor Pinkham
Kenneth Pinkham Jr
Southport
Victor Pinkham Jr
Cleon Pinkham
Yarmouth
Marion Stevens
Exeter
N. H
J. G. Stevens
Narvie Stevens
Lisbon Falls
Marion
Carr
Hutchins
Social News From Ocean Park and Nearby Visits
Booher and Lin da Fettig are tied to Hallowell and Gardiner families. Nat Hasenfus attends the 11th Maine writers conference at Ocean Park and speaks there. Southard Menzel vacations in Mexico, with several New England visitors and guests in the Hasenfus circle. News of travels, visits, and a promotion from Korea round out local social notes.
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Booher
Linda Fettig
Fred Elliott
Hallowell
Moulton
Gardiner
Nat Hasenfus
State of
Charles White
Watertown
Mass
Christopher Kiley
Lawrence Kiley
Arlington
Madeline Creedon
Hasenfus
Albert Moore
Henry Moore
Erland Moore
Hudson, N. H
F. E. Samson
Medford
Blake Cottage
Edith Kanter
Blake
J. L. Hendrickson
Blake Camp
Portsmouth Man Found Dead In Car In Bath Area
James F. Farnham 46 of 214 Mertle Avenue Portsmouth N H was found dead Sunday evening in his car in the woods near Bath Country Club. Police said death by self inflicted gas poisoning with a vacuum cleaner hose fitted to the exhaust pipe and blanket around the hose. Sheriff Loring D Small and County Medical Examiner Dr Joseph I Smith investigated and returned a death by own action verdict. Relatives reported he had not returned to the home he was visiting.
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James F. Farnham
Mertle Avenue
Portsmouth
N. H
Bath Country Club
Loring D. Small
Joseph I. Smith
Obituary for Esther Gibbs Oliver 92 Widow of Ex Sheriff
Esther Gibbs Oliver 92 widow of Wilbur C. Oliver former Sagadahoc County sheriff died at 39 Union Street Bath after a long illness. Born in Chatham New Brunswick September 20 1859 she moved to Bath as a girl and lived there over 80 years. She was active in Genesta Chapter O E S Grace Episcopal Church and leaves grandsons and relatives including Warren D. Oliver Wilbur C. Oliver and others. Funeral Saturday at Curtis Funeral Home with burial in Oak Grove.
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Esther Gibbs Oliver
Wilbur C. Oliver
Sagadahoc County
Union Street
Chatham
N. B
Arthur
Esther (MacDonald) Gibbs
Bath
Oliver
Curtis Funeral Home
Washington Street
Canon Charles M. Tubbs
Oak Grove
Australian wool industry seeds from 1804 Merino import
The Australian wool industry began in 1804 with Merino sheep from King George III's English flock, establishing the foundation of a dominant export sector. The term woolsack refers to the seat of the...
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George III
England
A Star Density Lifted as Earth Vacuum Idea
A science note discusses bringing a fragment of a star to Earth and explains that its density would be about a millionth that of air, suggesting it could function as an excellent vacuum.
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Earth
Bath Man Dies After Heart Attack At Local Ball Game
George E. Kingsbury 62 of 17 Bailey Street died shortly after a heart attack while watching the Bath Sanford Junior Legion state playoff game. His son Louis played third base for Smith Tobey Post. He worked at Bath Iron Works and Harding fabrication plant, and formerly for James C. Mulligan Co. Survived by widow Mary Wakefield Kingsbury four sons and a daughter plus four brothers and three sisters. He was a World War I veteran and charter member of Bath Aerie.
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George E. Kingsbury
Bailey Street
Togus
Bath-Sanford Junior Legion
Louis
Smith-Tobey Post
Bath
Alexander
Jennie C. Hall Kingsbury
Bath Iron Works
Harding
James C. Mulligan Co
Down East
Kingsbury
Bath Aerie
Order of Eagles
Smith- Tobey
American Legion
Mary Wakefield Kingsbury
James R
U.S. Air Force
California
George E. Jr
U.S. Army Engineers
Pine Camp
N. Y
Louis A
William H
Isabella C. Cornier
Lawrence
Freeport
Henry
William
Harry
George Middleton
Abraham Shooker
John D. O’connell
Portland
Farnham Rites Held for James F. Farnham
James Franklin Farnham 46 of Portsmouth died suddenly while weekending with in laws at Maple Street. Born October 8 1904 in South Portland he worked for Norcor Manufacturing Co and Bath Iron Works as a welder. Survived by wife Irene and sister Eleanor Chambers of New York.
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James Franklin Farnham
Portsmouth
N. H
Arthur Perkins
Maple Street
South Portland
James S
Maud (Rice) Farnham
Bath Iron Works
Funeral services for Silas M. Oliver held at Curtis Funeral Home
Funeral services for Silas M. Oliver were from Curtis Funeral Home at 942 Washington Street Monday afternoon at two with Rev. Charles R. Sims of the First Baptist church officiating. Bearers were Fred Summerton Harold Summerton Edward Sampson Charles Coombs Alfred McCabe and James McLaughlin. Burial was in the family lot in Oak Grove.
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Silas M. Oliver
Curtis Funeral Home
Washington Street
Charles R. Sims
First Baptist Church
Fred Summerton
Harold Summerton
Edward Sampson
Charles Coombs
Alfred McCabe
James McLaughlin
Bural
Oak Gove
Preparing a Guest Powder Room at Home
The host should designate a small vanity space for guests with a powder jar lip rouge cotton balls hairpins and cleansing tissues. This thoughtful setup offers convenience and welcome comfort for visitors.
U S Wool Use Versus Production Gap
The United States typically consumes about 800 million pounds of wool annually but domestic production reaches only around 200 million pounds. This 600 million pound shortfall highlights reliance on imports to meet demand.
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U. S
Bath man Silas M. Oliver Dies at 69
Silas M. Oliver 69 longtime Bath resident and former Bath branch American Railway Express employee died Friday afternoon at Memorial hospital after a two week stay. Born in Phippsburg he moved to Bath 37 years ago and earlier sailed on coastal trade ships. He and wife Martha lived with their son William W. Oliver. Survived by wife Martha two children William W. Oliver and Mrs Henry Rogers two brothers Frederick A. Oliver Albert E. Oliver a sister Mrs George Fraser and four grandchildren John E. Oliver Richard W. Oliver Henrietta Jane and John H. Rogers.
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Silas M. Oliver
Bath
American Railway Express
Memorial Hospital
Phippsburg
William S
Jane Jack Oliver
Oliver
The
Express Company
Washington Street
William W
North Street
Martha
Henry Rogers
Frederick A. Oliver
Albert E. Oliver
Falls Church
George Fraser
Portland
John E
Richard W. Oliver
Henrietta Jane
John H. Rogers
Warrant Officer Edward E. Reynolds Dies in Korea War
Edward E. Reynolds U S N Warrant Officer died July 31 in the Korean war zone from asphyxiation after smoke filled a ship storage compartment. He was about 31 and formerly resided in Farmingdale Maine with his family. He leaves widow Dorothy and two children Karl and Susan. Reynolds had been a Bath visitor while stationed in Augusta and was born in Bonaparte Iowa where the body will be returned.
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Edmund E. Reynolds
Bath
Reynolds
Maine
Farmingdale
Dorothy Reynolds
Karl
Susan
Augusta
Bonaparte
Iowa
Mrs. Helen M. Robertson Dies After Illness at 76
Mrs Helen M Robertson wife of Alexander Robertson of 85 School street Manchester Massachusetts died Friday after six months illness at 76. A native of Woolwich she lived in Manchester over 40 years and is survived by her husband son John R Robertson of Topsfield three granddaughters four nieces and a nephew. Funeral was Sunday at 2 30 from Curtis H Gentlee Beverly at Ellis square.
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Helen M. Robertson
Alexander Robertson
School Street
Manchester
Mass
Woolwich
Farnham Funeral Held for James F Farnham
Funeral services for James Franklin Farnham were held Tuesday at 1 PM at Curtis Funeral Home 942 Washington Street with Rev Joseph O Purdue officiating. Bearers Nat Howe Jack Connor John Parker and Percival Griffin. Burial in the family lot.
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James Franklin Farnham
Curtis Funeral Home
Washington Street
Joseph O. Purdue
Congregational Church
South Dartmouth
Mass
Winter Street
Roebuck’s Clothes Fumes Kill Prize Plants at Home
Norman Roebuck of Yorkton Saskatchewan sprayed weed killer on a neighbor’s field. Returning home, fumes from his clothing killed most of the prize plants inside his house.
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Yorkton
Sask
Norman Roebuck
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