Richmond Fire Alarm No Damage At Blake Residence
News notes from Richmond cover a Tuesday fire alarm at Samuel Blake's home with no damage. Several local updates include illnesses, high school club meetings, holiday visits, and an honor roll listing. Multiple residents, guests, and travelers are named alongside community events and a funeral.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Blake
Carl Bickford
Belfast
Georgia Bickford
Richmond
Gardiner Hospital
Frank Porter
Richmond High School
Herbert Rankins
Wilson
River Road
Paul Jack
Alice Dixon
Clinton
Willam Libby
Livermore Falls
Front Street
Jean Marion
Alton Cooper
Wilbur
W. H. Grant
Waterville
Harry Jordan
Boston
John Jordan
Percy Chetley
Stanford
Gilman M. Clough
Eva Cooper
W. H. Green
Edna Burnell
Edith Hatfield
George Harford
Gordon Curran
Charlotte White
Olive Stilphen
Dorothy Meader
Christine Toothaker
Evelyn Stewart
William
Hazel Martin
Joan Hannebury
Athalie McGinn
Natalie Southard
Phyllis Wentworth
Georgie Wakefield
Fort Richmond
Wakefield
Doris McKenney
Passaic
N. J
Raymond Northey
Rockland
William Wilson
New York
Roland Grant
Boothbay Harbor
John Grant
John Clark
Auburn
William Dingley
Mabel Lancaster
Gardiner
H. A. Tarr
Litchfield Plains
E. O. Tarr
Richmond Corner
Margaret Thompson
Augusta
Town
Kate Smith
Bowdoinham
Margaret Grover
George Leavitt
Catherine A. Wedge
Perley Wedge
James O. Bourassa
Methodist Parsonage
Gilbert Edggett
Frank Reynolds
St. Petersburg
Fla
E. E. Purinton
Litchfield
Gertrude Baker
William Newell
West Gardiner
Ernest Millay
Evelyn Joyce
Bowdeinham
Emma Bowley
Arthur Bowley
Frank
Georgetown community notices highlight baptist pastor ordination
The Georgetown Five Islands area records a week of local happenings. Rev Walter Schoepfer and his wife attend a Boston ordained service while meeting Pawtucket and summer residents. Other items note funerals, visits, repairs, timber work, car purchases, and choir practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Schoepfer
First Baptist Church
Georgetown
Five Islands
Donald
Belle Heald
Boston
Schoepfer
Ruggles Street
Pawtucket
R. I
Joseph F. Higgins
Myra Oliver Sly
Augustus Sly
Waltham
Mass
Brookline Hospital
James and
Betsey Oliver
Walter J. Sly
Newtonville
Alice Oliver
Ruth Hinckley
Sagadahoc Bay
Milo
Ralph Reynolds
Ruth Reynolds
Woolwich
Abbie Reynolds
Walter V. Cummings
Bath
Maude Thayer
Westbrook Seminary
West Georgetown
W. A. Todd
John Thibodeau
Thomas Hagan
R. P. Todd
Melrose Highlands
Eleanor Cunningham
Melvin Cunningham
Arthur Young
Wiscasset
Belfast
Thomas Blaisdell
T. M. Hagan
Christopher Marr
Marrtown
Roland Harford
Edward Wren
Howard Noble
Emma B. Billings
Carroll P. Powers
Robinhood
L. Earle Hagan
Roy Newman
Westbrook
Lincoln Junior prize speaking contest announced
The annual prize speaking contest for Lincoln Junior class will be held next Wednesday evening December 12 in the gym. Try-outs were held Tuesday with six girls and two boys selected for the final. Three prizes will be awarded: the May Randlett Achorn prizes of thirty five and fifteen dollars to the top two speakers and the Joseph M King prize to the best boy speaker, donated by Mrs Walter Boynton in memory of her father.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
May Randlett Achorn
Joseph M. King
Walter Boynton
Helpers Quick Wit's Rescue of Falling Workman
Alex Burgess Jr a ship fitter at Bath Iron Works owes his escape from serious injury to helper Charles Ansert who dropped in front of the ladder to break Burgess fall from a 22 foot descent. Burgess suffered only bruises and a lame shoulder while the tool chest fell away. The incident was described as the most spectacular accident with no dire results in years at the plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alex Burgess, Jr
Bath Iron Works Corp
Charles Ansert
Burgess
Ansert
County Democrats Favor Caucus on Postmaster Choice
Sagadahoc County Democratic committee endorsed Acting Postmaster Edward N. Hartnett for postmaster and voted to recommend a Bath caucus of enrolled Democrats to express their selection. The meeting, held in County Attorney John P. Carey Jr. office, was chaired by Carlton Day Reed. Other business endorsed census enumerators Sam Bowdenham and Alexander Mathurin of Topsham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sagadahoc County
Democratic Committee
Edward N. Hartnett
Simon M. Hamlin
Bath
John P. Carey, Jr
Democratic State Committee
Carlton Day Reed
Woolwich
Sam
Bowdeinham
Alexander Mathurin
Topsham
Grandmother visits grand daughter at local school
Mrs. Georgia Canty, 72, of Glenburn, rode 11 miles to East Eddington Friday to visit a school taught by her granddaughter, Miss Maxine E. Canty of Brewer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia Canty
Glenburn
Eddington
Maxine E. Canty
Brewer
Winter Street Club Hosts Gus Huse Speaking Event
Public speakers admired Huse at Winter Street church Wednesday night. He shared anecdotes from his early days with a five year old recital, on to professional stages with Frank Mayo and Helen Modjeska. A bountiful supper followed. committees were named for upcoming events and a $35.16 contribution was reported for church floor covering. About 50 men attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. Augustus Huse
Winter Street Church
Universalist
Portland
Frank Mayo
Helen Modjeska
Richelieu
Davy Crockett
Puddin’ Head Wilson
Mr. Huse
Lasca
Arthur Lemont
Arthur Crockett
John Conti
Charles Andre
Horace Ward
Chester Roberts
Charles Hewitt
Olney
Winter Street Church Holds Annual Meeting
Winter Street Congregational church held its annual meeting in the chapel. Mrs E W Stafford received a letter of dismissal to Rochester New Hampshire First Congregational church. Officers were reelected and 45 members attended with 16 absent. The church invited the Maine State Conference to meet in May. Rev Joseph O Purdue moderated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winter Street
Charles C. Low
J. Gertrude Silsby
Langdon T. Snipe
Edgar D. Leavitt
Omar W. Folsom
Frostina E. Marston
Janette W. Smith
Marston
Maine
Rum runners suspected after empty truck vanishes on Kennebec
Sheriff Albert Henderson’s department chased a large empty truck that crossed the Kennebec bridge and headed toward Arrowsic. He suspects illicit liquor landings along the coast and notes the difficulty of stopping such operations with many wood roads. On Thursday night patrols checked vehicles on the Bath Brunswick road for non tax paid alcohol.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennebec Bridge
Arrowsi Road
Albert Henderson
Henderson
Sheriff's Department
Arrowsic
John P. Crosby
Abram C. Oliver
Bath- Brunswick Road
Five Islands Grange Supper and Social Highlights
A Grange supper at the Five Islands hall featured clam stew crackers doughnuts and coffee followed by a social with games and ice cream for sale. Committee members were Miss Madelyn Berry Mrs L H Rowe and Mrs J T MacMahan Mrs MacMahan prepared the stew.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grange
Madelyn Berry
L. H. Rowe
J. T. MacMahan
MacMahan
Minnie Berry
Newton
Mass
W. L. Berry
Fred Rittall
E. C. Clarey
Robinhood
Five Islands
B. F. Perry
Sedgemere Road
Boston
Ellsworth Pinkham
Linwood
Everett Stevens
Drummond Stevens
Fred Carr
Charles M. Bigelow
Birch Point
E. M. Horton
Bath
Alice Cromwell
Charles Kenway
Floyd Goodell
Woolwich
Chester MacMahan
Westport Visitors and Bath Outing Noted
Miss Eva Beaudet visited the island last week while Horace Jones traveled to Wiscasset on business. A group including Edwin Cromwell Charles Sawyer Vernon Brewer and Freeman Colby attended Bath cinema Saturday. Messages note visits between West Roxbury Mass and Westport and Bath residents with various relatives and hosts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eva Beaudet
Horace Jones
Wiscasset
Edwin
Herbert Cromwell
Charles Sawyer
Vernon Brewer
Freeman Colby
Moving Pictures
Bath
Paul Meserlan
West Roxbury
Mass
O. P. Jewett
James Apt
Gustaf Ohman
Brighton
Pollard
Medway
Alyn Jewett
Charles Toothaker
Earle Richardson
John McDonough
William Salter
Augusta
Brian Jewett
John Sprague Wins Giant Checker Tourney at Y
John Sprague wins the junior division of a giant checkers tournament at the YMCA finishing with two lossless rounds and a final 3 1 victory over Francis Sullivan. The event marks the first Y winter tournament with weekly plays planned through spring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Sprague
Sprague
Carleton Stover
Manley Ellis
Francis Sullivan
David Alkazin, Jr
Harold MacMahan
Edward Hogan
Epocrat John
John J. Lowery
Frederick E. Glidden
Clarence Arsenault
Henry Gallant
Ernest W. Prest
Maurice Puffer
George Pinkham
Fred Safford
Franklin Melville
John McLaughlin
Richard Cummings
Kenneth Reardon
Clayton Thibodeau
George Hart
Donald Belanger
Sullivan
Stover
MacMahan
John
Glidden
Gallant
Puffer
Safford
McLaughlin
Thibodeau
Belanger
Kingsbury Hafey Marriage Report In Bath
Harold C Kingsbury and Mrs Mabel V Hafey of East Boston have filed returns in Bath city offices. Notary Ralph O Dale performed the ceremony on Tuesday. Kingsbury is the son of Charles W Kingsbury of Bath. Hafey is the daughter of the late Thomas Anderson and his wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John W. Gilmore
Harold C. Kingsbury
Mabel V. Hafey
East
Boston
Bath
Ralph O. Dale
Mr. Kingsbury
Charles W. Kingsbury
Thomas Anderson
Colby plans winter sports center on Mayflower Hill
Colby College announces plans for a winter sports center on Mayflower Hill with an Outing Club base in a converted farmhouse. A toboggan slide and skating rink are envisioned, ski jump possibly next year, and ski paraphernalia storage to support broader Maine recreational use. Alumni groups and student publishers fund furnishings and equipment. A committee of students and faculty will organize activities as part of a larger plan to develop cabins and outdoor recreation nearby Waterville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mayflower Hill
Colby College
Gilbert F. Loebs
Colby Department of Health and Physical Education
Waterville
Oracle
The
Echo
Colby
Maine
Athletic Council
A. Galen Eustis
Frederick T. Hill
Norman C. Perkins
Charles R. Geer
Portland
Charles C Skinner Seriously Injured In Auto Crash
Charles C Skinner age 84 of 46 Winter Street, a long time janitor at First National Bank, is hospitalized at Bath Memorial with a compound fracture of the right leg and general injuries after being struck by a car on Washington Street. The driver, Roland Robinson, 19, son of Gilbert Robinson of 1325 Washington, was hospitalized as he traveled to the business district. Skinner was taken to Mayo Hospital by ambulance and is under Dr. Francis A Winchenbach care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James A. Proctor
Stanley Marr
Waterville
Marjorie Rice
North Street
Helen Herbert
Freda Dearborn
Roger Gibbs
Leona Lemont
Donald Knight
Loraine Jewett
Yvonne Sidelinger
Shirley Bishop
Dorothy Baker
Ernest Richards
Dorothy Patten
Phyllis Lemont
Ethel Rankins
Ida Watson
Florence Watson
Augusta
Thomas Glynn
Richmond
Helen Haskell
Fred Groves
George M. Dennett
Maine General Hospital
Portland
Mr. Dennett
Dayton
Stroughton
Mass
John P. Squire Co
Methodist Church
Odd Fellows
The
Lions Club
Emily Williams Dennett
George
Pennsylvania
Lions
Esther Bailey
Auburn
Albert Darrah
Rebecca Rogers
Pleasant View Farm
Lucille Utter
George Bacon
Merchants National Bank of
Boston
Carl Swanson
San Francisco
Cal
Laurence Bond
Enterprise Orange
G. C. Marriner
Seth Watson
Myrtle Stewart
Edith Edgecomb
Arthur Dickey
Minnie Batchelder
Charles Alexander
Ceres
Ann Spofford
Pomona
Ina Douglass
Flora
Daisy Mealy
Gordon Howe
Evelyn Stewart
Leon Batchelder
Robert Dickermas
Dwight L. Moody
Hampton
N. H
Charles C. Skinner
Winter Street
First National Bank
Bath Memorial Hospital
Washington Street
Roland Robinson
Gilbert Robinson
Skinner
Mayo Ambulance
Francis A. Winchenbach
Sterling Brotherhood Plans Santa for Sunday School Tree
Sterling Brotherhood of Corliss Street church met Monday night with president John Russell on Russell Street and voted to provide a Santa for the Sunday school Christmas tree. The meeting opened with prayer by Pastor Rev. Charles H. Berry and refreshments were served. Miss Doris Perkins of West Bath has entered the employ of Senters during the holidays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sterling Brotherhood of
Doris Perkins
West Bath
Bath built ships may become Jap munitions
Three of the last square riggers built by Arthur Sewall & Co. of Bath are bound for Japan to be scrapped and their metal repurposed for Japanese munitions. The four masted steel bark names are Star of Lapland Star of Zealand and Star of Shetland, with origins and tonnages listed. Miss Marjorie Trott spent the weekend with friends in Lewiston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Sewall & Co
Bath
Japan
Star of
Trans-Commercial Co
Star of Shetland
Edward Sewall
Kennebec
Alaska Packers Association
San Francisco
Cal
Star of Zealand
Astral
Star of Lapland
Atlas
Lapland
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Elmer Garason
Melrose
John Coughlin, Jr
Malden
Sarah Coughlin
Clifton Melvin
Freeport
Julia Richards
Lawrence
Edward Coughlin
Brunswick
Paul Clark
Paul, Jr
Clark
E. C. Ryder
Harry Whitney
Franklyn Sweatt
Mary
Hazel Bennett
Mary Carr
Wallace Gardner
John Stuart Young
Central Street
Clarence Lang
Shirley
Lewiston
Carl Mayo
Mechanic Falls
Greenfield
Duren
Fred Duren
P. E. McCarthy
McCarthy
University of Maine
E. E. Durand
Hermine Corriveau
Chester Call
Natalie
Ethel] Rankins
John Dixon
Wesley Cray
Madison
Pearl Perry
Marguerite Beauregard
Norway
Leavitt
Everett Pollard
Esparto
Mark Pollard
Solon
Jack
Fred S Curtis
Thomas R.nhuston
Plete Lacy
R. Bath
D. M. Humphreys & Co
Sagadahock Block
Bath, Me
Room
Helper
Iron Works
Gus Huse
Winter Street Club
L. F
Atwood
Westport
Kingsbury-Hafey
Christmas Club
Bath Savings Institution
Department of Physical Education
Memorial Hospital
Sterling Brotherhood
Marjorie Trott
Bellevue
Mea
Beacon Street
Beacon Hill
State House
Boston Common
Public Gardens
Restaurant A la Carte
Bowdoin and
Beacon Streets