Richmond Area Social and Local News Roundup
Richmond Maine community notes recount home entertainments at the Naylor and Gilpatrick households, births and family milestones, and numerous visits by residents to Lewiston Augusta Boothbay Harbor and Portland. The report covers postwar service, local business changes, pheasant planting by the state, school Christmas programs, firemen’s fair results, grange activities, and upcoming social events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leroy Cleveland
Fred Naylor
FY Street
Harry Sykes
Lewiston
Philip Patch
Beverly
Mass
Patch
Harold Houdlette
Augusta
G. C. Marriner
Freda Marriner
Sidney Hopkins
Charles Abbott
Herbert Rankins
Wilbur Gilpatrick
E. T. Shaw
Lewis E
Richmond
Arlene Green
Portland
George F. Coughlin
Coughlin
Richmond Lodge
Kennebec Valley
United States Mail
Emerson Lane Post
A. L. Ethel Dolan
Springvale
Elizabeth Thomas
Edward Dunn
Depositor's Trust Co
Boothbay Harbor
Seth Watson
John Parker
Bertha
Beatrice
Edna Lane
George Tibbetts
Preston Carver
Eben Baker
Clyde McFee
Theresa Brown
George Crowley
Pemaquid
Jesse Synders
Ann Spotford
William Newell
West Gardiner
Gertrude Baker
Kimball Street
George Dennett
Herbert Corson
Athens
Ernest Hill
Daniel Clough
Dayton
N. L. Williams
Horace Raymond
Woodfords
Jacob Bemis
Dexter
Ethel] Quimby
Cambridge
G. M. Dennett
Oil City
Charles BE. Hewitt
Lilly Sherburne
Attleboro
May Williams
Capt
Hewett
Ernest Higgins
Kittery
Stanley Pera
Newport
Bangor
Reginald Emmond
Roy H. Gilpatrick
Turner & Gilpatrick
Main Street
Arthur Turner
Gilpatrick
Southard Street
Maxwell Quimby
Madison
Mrs. Quimby
Cecil Richards
Philathea class reelects officers at Corliss Street church
Corliss Street church Philathea class reelected officers for the coming year at a December meeting hosted by Mrs. Seth N. Snipe and held at 17 Marshall Avenue. President Mrs. Harold Walker led, names include Velma Cornish as vice president and Eula Fielding as treasurer, with 12 present. Next meeting set for January 14 with Mrs. Ralph Lewis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philathea
Corliss Street Church
Seth N. Snipe
Wilfrid C. Trott
Marshall Avenue
Harold Walker
Walker
Velma Cornish
Arthur Berry
Eula Fielding
Chester A. Plant
Snipe
Clarice Berry
Ralph Lewis
Phosphate Cargo Discharged At Bath Bowdoinham
Steamer Eastern Temple berthed at Gibbons Coal Co to discharge 2 500 tons of phosphate for Sagadahoc Fertilizer Co Bowdoinham. Loaded at Baltimore and arrived from Searsport after partial unloading. Phosphate to be trucked Bath to Bowdoinham as in prior years. Five days expected to unload.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eastern Temple
Gibbons Coal Co
Sagadahoc Fertilizer Co
Bowdoinham
Baltimore
Searsport
Bath
Bowdeinham
Senior class play postponed to January in town theater
The senior class play Seventeen scheduled for Friday evening December 21 is postponed to Friday January 25 due to scenery delays. The change allows better ticket access for Booth Tarkington's popular presentation. Mr and Mrs Roy Parsons of Stratton host an unusual winter guest, a butterfly found outside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Booth Tarkington
Roy Parsons
Stratton
Mrs. Parsons
Local News Wrap Bath Area Church Sale and Social
Mrs Earle Payson of Bay Point and other residents attend a Working League Christmas sale and supper at the First Baptist Church vestry. Community members joins social events, Christmas programs, moonlight skating, family visits, and minor injuries noted around Bath and surrounding towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl Payson
Bay Point
Walter Cunningham
Harold Hunt, Jr
Hamilton Farm
Carroll Deering
Elizabeth Deering
N. Gratz Jackson
Bath
Working League
William A. Todd
Roy M. Newman
E. C. Clarey
Robinhood
Ruth Reynolds
Lester Powers
Woolwich
Ralph Reynolds
Working League of the First Baptist Church
Emma B. Billings
Carroll P. Powers
John R. Blackie
Harold J. Brown
Belle M. Heald
Nettie Gray
C. L. Hinckley
John Thibodeau
Thomas Hagan
Earle Hagan
Howard M.trafton
Town
Boston
Vira Trafton
Lincoln Street
Center School
Ruth W. Powers
Gilbert Lewis
George Gray
Morrell Place
B. H. Woodside
Carrie Oliver
Lela Oliver
Thomas M. Hagan
Harry Heald
Walter Schoepfer
Flora Campbell
First Baptist Church
Walter Schoeper
Bertha Russell
Portland
Benjamin H. Woodside
Christmas party marks New England Tel. office rest room
Traffic and commercial department members held a Christmas party with eighteen attendees around a decorated tree. Ella McAllister received a silver cocktail set as a gift. The group planned a separate charity party for poor children, to be held in the rest room Friday afternoon or evening, using the same tree.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England Tel. & Tel. Co
Ella McAllister
YMCA Forms Two More Basketball Leagues For Season
The YMCA grammar school and intermediate basketball leagues announce six teams each with eligibility rules barring players on other teams. League play begins Saturday December 22 with ten two-team rounds, 9 to 11:30 each Saturday, 50 minute games, and a double round schedule through February 23.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Y. M. C. A. Grammar School
Morse High School
Grammar School
Central Whites
Central Reds
Central Blues
Central Greens
North
Central Blacks
St. Mary's
Y. M. C. A. Grammar School Basketball League
Removal of Alarm Proves Disadvantage in City Fire Coverage
An experienced fire department member argues that removing the Winter Street church bell alarm weakens citywide notification. He cites a Wes le y church blaze and notes central areas lose warning while central Maine Power whistle move looms. Also reports 11 year old Rita Dufour rivals Max Andrews for junior high honors in Searsport and Madawaska.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winter Street
Wesley Church
North End
Beacon Street
Central Maine
Rita Dufour
Madawaska
Max Andrews
Z. Andrews
Searsport
Five Islands Social Roundup Includes Visits and Events
Five Islands residents and visitors share a weekend of church services, all day Grange meeting, Christmas rehearsals, and village errands. Notables include the Savages hosting, Hovey, Gray, Pinkham, Berry, and MacMahan relatives visiting in Richmond and Lewiston, with schooling, shopping, and travel between Bath, Woolwich, Freeport, and Portland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Savage
Kittery
Mabel Dickey
Madelyn Berry
Walter Schoepfer
Donald
Orville Rowe
George Gray
Chester MacMahan
Lloyd Pinkham
Lewiston
Grange Circle
Percy Savage
Eugene Rowe
Portland
Zephia Fickett
T. M. Hagan
Georgetown
John Carter
Woolwich
Five Islands
Percy MacGillivary
Everett Cromwell
Gene Stevens
Brunswick
Alton Reed
Lettie Harford
Phyllis Harford
Boston
New York
California
Panama Canal
Stoddard
East Milton
Mags
C. M. Bigelow
Bath
Fine Performance Presented Tuesday
A Tuesday program featured A John Conti Jr Mrs Chester A Roberts Mrs Harry L Horne Mrs Archie Doyle and Miss Alice F Johnson as participants with ushers in costume. Harry L Horne and others assisted in properties while Archie Doyle and Chester A Roberts managed lighting effects noted for unusual beauty. Carrie Hall Mrs Clarence W Morse and Miss Claire Coombs aided in makeup and costuming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. John Conti, Jr
Chester A. Roberts
Harry L. Horne
Archie Doyle
Alice F. Johnson
Freeman
Richard Hersom
Carl Y. Kennedy
Henry McCabe
David Y. Alkazin
Ernest R. Freeman
Merton Doyle
Carrie Hall
Clarence W. Morse
Claire Coombs
Fragmentary item on colored prices and costs
A clipped OCR fragment lists multiple prices in various colors and cents, showing figures like 9c 1.00 1.25 50c 65c and 95¢ 29¢, without clear context or complete details.
Wardrobe meetings aid high school girls in four towns
Five hundred thirty five women and girls attended Wardrobe for Girls of High School Age meetings in Skowhegan Farmington Livermore Falls and Sanford. The program covered posture fashion planning budgeting and dress demonstrations with 4 H club involvement and school department cooperation. Sanford hosted the final event with 250 attendees and Bath Memorial hospital received new dishes from a Nurses alumnae association party proceeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Skowhegan
Farmington
Livermore Falls
Sanford
Helen C. Spaulding
Normal School
Miss Gates
Bath Memorial Hospital
Estelle Bowden
Colonial Club Christmas Fund Card Party Aids Children
Women committee led by Mrs Allan Spear organized a Colonial club room card party that added 65 to the Christmas tree fund for children. Thirty tables played contract and auction with prizes donated by local merchants. refreshments were served as the Camden Board of Trade invites Maine State Grange to hold its December 1935 convention in Camden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colonial Club
Allan Spear
Harold P. Small
Senter's, Inc
Thomas Pankhurst
A. Hallet & Co
Warren M. Stilphen
Carl F. Pierce
Edna Mae
Daisy Murphy
Hall & Hunt
William W. Dennison
Arthur B. Scott
Roger D. Skillings
Harry L. Day
Everett Quinlan
Dwight Pierce
Freeman A.trott
Milton C. Trott
Edward D. True
George A. Hunt
Camden Board of Trade
Maine State Grange
Camden
Cony honors coach Ray McCluskey and Dr. Berube at assembly
At the Thursday morning assembly Cony high school honored Coach Ray McCluskey for his service to the Cony football program and Dr. David T. Berube for his two seasons of follow along with first aid aid to injured players. Earle Curtis presented a fountain pen and pencil set on behalf of the 1934 squad, while John Manter delivered a leather kit bag for Dr. Berube.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray McCluskey
Cony
David T. Berube
Cony Grid
Earle Curtis
McCluskey
John Manter
Dr. Berube
Ces Sb Ag Ray
Also Mentioned on This Page
Emily Rideout
Percy Little
Oakland
Richard Huntington
Adelbert Huntington
Water Street
J. T. Witham
Ridge Road
Harris Hutchins
Roy Varney
Progressive Orange
C. W. Gray
State Grange
Progressive Grange
Raymond Northey
I. B. Northey
Jacksonville
Fila
John Clark
Auburn
William Dingley
Timothy Corners
Crazy Plattes
Guy Siegars
Florida
Saco
Biddeford
Yarmouth
Alfred
Baco
Beatrice Lamont
Ina Douglass
Sadie Waltz
Viola Waltz
Ida Hutchins
Kennebec
Inez Gowell
Carrie Kendall
Joseph Morton
Fred Scurtiseo
Teenas R. Huston
D. M. Humphreys & Co
Sagadahock Block
Bath, Me
Room
Westport
Lawrence Colby
Albertine Knight
Spencer
Willis Colby
Colby
Eugene Cromwell
Nequasset
Herbert Cromwell
Annie R. Colby
Josie Wardwell
Colin Dunn
Dorothy
Ellsworth
Etta Mae
Evelyn Colby
Alice Whitten
Richard Fowle
Archie Cunningham
Dora Harrison
Brian Jewett
Alyn
Royden Colby
Royden Jr
John Harrison
Southport
Wellman Knapp
Boothbay
Edith Campbell
Waterville
Jonas Knight
Hyannis
Tass
Melvin Knight
Dewey Richardson
Wiscasset
James Apt
Brighton
Medway
Pratt
Harper
Massachusetts
Lester Hodgdon
Verlie Greenleaf
Walter Greenleaf
Lawrence
Margaret Webber
Maud Webber
O. P Jewett
Walter
Frank Greenleaf
Martha Higgins
Y.M.C.A
North Grammar Dike
North Grammar
Dike
Dike Weeks
St. Mary's North Grammar
Maine
Atwood
Beacon
Max Kutz
Elm Street
the Working Men's Store
Merry Christmas
Bath Savings Institution
Hospital
Bellevue
Beacon Hill
State House
Boston Common
Public Gardens
Bowdoin
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