Richmond Grange holds meeting with officers elected
A regular Enterprise Grange gathering in Richmond featured officer elections and a Christmas tree program. The town also hosted a New England Mills Producers association meeting with an oyster stew supper in Enterprise Grange hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enterprise Grange
James Lothridge
Chestnut Street
Arabel Allen
Arthur Allen
Medford
Mass
Harold Shaw
Freeport
Shaw
George Shaw
New England Mills Producers Association
Enterprise Grange Hall
Edwin Hildreth
Topsham
Annie Allard
Eleanor Allard
Pleasant Street
Hattie Quinnam
Richmond
Emerson School
Prin
Philip Libby
Frank Hovey
C. M. Kendrick
Paul Jack
State Department of Education
John E. Allen
Margaret B. Peabody
Mt. Carmel
Quinnam
Jackson Quinnam
Northeastern University
Boston
Hattie Terrill
Lincoln Street
Richard Ryan
Camden
Fred Dillon
St. Mary's Hospital
Farley-Lawrence
Gardiner
W. H. Farley
George Yeaton
Fred Farley
Guy Farley
Wallace Farley
Susie Wylie
Edson Farley
Wilbur Keene
Herbert Smith
Cora Cook
Madelyn Yeaton
Alice Smith
Beulah Rebekah Lodge
John Skillen
Augusta
Hazel Bennett
Erva Cooper
Chester Bennett
Farmington
Wilbur Cooper
Farmington Normal School
David Graves
County Road
Mr. Grave
Sagadahoc
A. L
Kennebec Voiture
Chef de Gare
Roy Gilpatrick
Harold Libby
Harold Richardson
Roy Dickinson
Owen McGurty
Harold N. Libby
Commissionaire Intendant
Cheminaux
Once More Christmas Bells Return In Faithful Verse
A poem recalling Christmas rituals and divine meaning, urging renewal of faith and charity. A local note adds a humorous anecdote about a Rockland man who dislikes cats and a catnip prank, then a historical remark that Maine’s first Christmas was at Richmond Island with 1634 Yuletide notes by Robert Trelawny.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Richmond's Island
Robert Trelawny
Georgetown Courthouse Christmas Roundup of Local Family News
Local residents return visits and moves as Sagadahoc Bay communities celebrate Christmas. Mrs. John Gordon revisits Sagadahoc Bay. Blackies relocate to Mrs. Hunt's house. Hagan and Heald families travel between Bath and North Yarmouth. Christmas sermons, music, and a Georgetown Center school program highlighted by Mrs. Ruth Powers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Gordon
Co. L. Hinckley
Sagadahoc Bay
Gray
John R. Blackie
West Georgetown
Elizabeth Hunt
Hunt
Topshiam
Ralph Hasty
Bath
Belle Heald
Walter Schoepfer
Thomas Hagan
William Todd
James Stevens
Five Islands
Newman
Howard M. Trafton
Charles Blaisdell
Bedford Street
Roy Moore
Edgar Warren
Redding
Lexington
Mass
Jane McGregor
Harry Carlisle
North Edgecomb
Harold J. Brown, Jr
North Yarmouth Academy
Harold J. Brown
Kennebec Point
Georgetown Center School
Ruth Powers
Carrie Heald
New England Apple Crop Shows A Gain In 1935
The 1935 commercial apple crop is estimated at 91.7 million bushels, up from 73.5 million in 1934 and below the five year average of 97.9 million. New England production is 4.28 million bushels, with Maine New Hampshire Vermont hit by severe winters. Eastern states total 43.5 million bushels, 51 percent above 1934 and 12 percent above five year average. Box states Idaho Washington Oregon California total 31.31 million, seven percent below 1934 and 23 percent below five year average.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Idaho
New York
Pennsylvania
Maryand
Pacific Coast
Central States
Pacific States
New England
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Wealthy
Avenue
Rhode Island
Washington
Oregon
California
Sturgis Family Ties to Mt Tom Cabin and Broad Acres
Mrs. Horace R. Sturgis of Augusta owns a cabin of round logs on Mt Tom overlooking the Kennebec river and an Indian burying ground. The Broad Acres parcel traces to Edward Sturgis and his three sons James Jonathan and Herman, linking Horace R Sturgis to founder James Sturgis. Ira Daggett Sturgis bought eight Civil War mules and equipment at war's end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horace R. Sturgis
Augusta
Mt. Tom
Kennebec River
Father Gruillettes
Kennebec
Edward Sturgis
James
Jonathan
Herman
James Sturgis
Ira Daggett Sturgis
Duplicate income tax returns required in duplicate for 1936
The Bureau of Internal Revenue announces that for taxable years beginning after January 1 1986 every filer must submit a complete duplicate of the return on a green form or approved copy. The duplicate will exclude certain affidavits and certain schedules. Access to inspected copies is limited to state tax administration officials and requires a governor designated request. Public access is not allowed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Guy T. Helvering
State Insurance Department
Collector of Internal Revenue
Busy Days Ahead for Honor Society Dance and Meeting
National Honor Society members plan a Christmas season schedule with a dance on December 26 from 8:30 to 12 in Music Hall featuring Ernie George and his Arcadians and refreshments. A December 30 meeting at Winter Street Church includes a Christmas program tree games and a business session with a gift exchange and ten cent refreshment fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Honor Society
Music Hall
Ernie George
Arcadians
Jeannette F. Shackford
Janet Bridgham
Priscilla E. Colby
Helen Hayes
Robert C. Feere
Winter Street Church
Sophie G
Hayes
Morse High Forms Its First Junior Varsity Team
Morse High will field a junior varsity basketball team coached by Duncan Farrell. Eighteen candidates are practicing as the squad plans a schedule against other junior varsity squads and will travel with the varsity. The first game is expected January 3 against Biddeford jayvees in a Morse Biddeford prelim. Only undergraduates are eligible for the JV team to build for the future.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morse High
Duncan Farrell
Springfield
Morse
Farrell
Biddeford Jayvees
Five Islands Christmas Concert and Community Notes
The Five Islands Christmas concert at the church featured songs such as Anthem A Vision of Beauty Do You Know and The Baby Jesus. The program included readings, violin offertory, and a large group of young performers with many local residents contributing and aiding in gifts distribution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schoepfer
Jeanette Pinkham
Mary Frances Hanna
Mary Louise
Mary Pinkham
Ida McGillivary
Charlotte Gray
Mary’s
Betty Carr
Maes Teant
Betty Rittall
Chester McMahan
Barbara Pinkham
Charles Carr
Olive Williams
Plains of Judah
Russell Harford
Leon Williams
John McGillivary
Thomas Hanna
Gene Stevens
Cora Mae Hanna
Hix ‘Bestar
Peggy Gray
Vincent McMahan
Baby Jesus
Grace Pierce
Irving Hanna
Dennis Moore
Albert Moore
Mary Louise Pinkham
Donald Schoepfer
Marie Rittall
Offertory
Walter Schoepfer
James Stevens
Bethlehem
Russell Harford Olive
Cora Mar Hanke
Lermond H. Rowe
Georgetown Parish
Everett Cromwell
Bath
Ada MacGillivary
Portland
Percy
MacGillivary
Clarence MacMahan
Portsmouth
N. H
Helen Rowe
Yarmouth Academy
L. H. Rowe
Addie Moulton
James T. MacMahan
William Belanger
Lincoln Campbell, Jr
Bath High School
Everett Stevens
Clayton
Robinhood
Earland Thibodeau
T. E. Cromwell
Lena Higgins
Cambridge
Mass
Higgins Ters
Frank MacMahan
Somerville
Charles MacMahan
Five Islands
Higgins
Gertrude Carr
Grange
Roy Newman
Alice Cromwell
Boston
Navy Yard
Lincoln Campbell
Drummond Stevens
Roland Oliver
Gerald
Herbert
Five Island
Congress Shirt Co Employees Celebrate Christmas Party
Employes of the Congress Shirt Company held their annual Christmas party on Friday afternoon. The shop closed at four, about 80 staff attended. Ladies decorated a Christmas tree with gifts, workers exchanged names, and each employee received a 1.5 pound box of Page and Shaw chocolates. Arthur H. Price, manager, supplied ice cream and a "spread" for all. He received a group gift funded by the employees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress Shirt Company
Boston
Page and Shaw
Arthur H. Price
East Port Schools Face Shutdown Amid Finances
City finances deteriorate forcing school closures last Friday with no definite reopening. Without external aid, schools may shut permanently or run under severely limited conditions, jeopardizing student access and district operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eastport
Evangelist Billy Young Visits Bath With Mobile Mission
Billy Young a 61 year old evangelist known for rope work with cowboys and ties to Chippewa and Sioux communities arrived in Bath on an outreach of mercy. He travels in a self built water tight trailer attached to his car offering cast off clothing to the poor on Wednesdays Fridays and Saturdays at the Church of God Free Mission in Lisbon Falls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billy Young
Southwest
Minnesota
Montana
Billy
Church of God Free Mission
Lisbon
Morse High School football letters awarded at Friday assembly
Fourteen Morse high school football letters and certificates were awarded at Friday morning assembly. Recipients included seniors Robert Footer Warren Hawley Iscar Greenblatt Fred Gaudet Henry Sarkis and juniors Carl Earlbach Martin Eaton Alfred Gallant Haviland Chaney John Belanger sophomores Maynard McFadden George Sarkis Harry Thayer and freshman Franklin Melville. Warren Hawley, on behalf of the Student body and Athletic association, presented Coach Alden G Smith a pair of dress studs as thanks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morse High School
Henry Sarkis
George Sarkis
Athletic Association
Warren Hawley
Alden G. Smith
Robert Footer
Iscar Greenblatt
Wilfred Gaudet
Carl Earlbach
Martin Eaton
Alfred Gallant
Haviland Chaney
John Belanger
Maynard McFadden
Harry Thayer
Franklin Melville
Thornton Academy Football Team Honored at Banquet
The Thornton Academy football squad attended a complimentary banquet hosted by Athletic Director Henry Levallee and Miss Alfreda Skillings. Guests praised the event, with many saying it was the best banquet in years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thornton Academy
Henry Levallee
Alfreda Skillings
Sagada hoc Women’s Republican Club Maintains Star Spangled Banner Endorsement
The Sagada hoc Women’s Republican club met at Mrs. Henry W. Butler’s home with prayers and America sung. They discussed the Townsend Plan, Maine delegates, and endorsed the Star Spangled Banner as national anthem. News included a Maine delegate bonus slogan and a traveling men’s comment on party power. Two Augusta residents, dancer Devina Slosberg and athlete Norman Merrill, were injured in a Boston Worcester highway crash. Slosberg suffered a broken nose and leg, Merrill cuts and shaking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sagadahoc
Hughly
Ethel Barrymore
Maine
Republican Party
Devina Slosberg
Augusta
Norman C. Merrill
Worcester
Mass
Boston-Worcester
Slosberg
Dora Slosberg
Bridge Street
Miss Slosberg
Merrill
Helen
New York City
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Emerson-Lane Post, No. 132, A. L
Whch
Pson
Alton
William Meserve
Santa Claus
Nathalie Southard
Possible
National Rifle Association
Little
Webber
Hoyt
Sidelinger
Randall
Carr
Small
Hanson
Waltz
E. McFee
C. McFee
Watson
Beedle
Martel
Alexander
Bishop
Wing
Lord
Dillon
LeBaron
Blanche Graves
Susie Frederick
Iron Mine Hill
Gardiner General Hospital
Ruth Walton
Delmar D. Trott
Winslow
Raymond Holman
Main Hill
Esther Parker
Evelyn Lovejoy
Bert Stinson
Amesbury
Stinson
William Stinson
Victor R. E. Carey
Annie Tyler
F. R. Stuber
Belfast
Elizabeth Kelley
Elkins Park
Prinston
N. J
Edith Hayes
Brunswick Road
Richmond Corner
Gardiner Supply Co
Lee Stilphen
East Andover
Russell Ring
Main Street
Earle Farley
Nettie Lawrence
Ernest Lawrence
C. M. Bunker
Arlene Lawrence
Moose Hall
Minot
D. M. Humphreys & Co
Sagadahock Block
Bath, Me
Room
Christ
Evangeline A. Gormley
Rockland North End
Georgetown
HONOR
Maine Fire Departments
State Association of Fire Chiefs
Buxton
Buxton Medicine Company
Abbot Village
Congress Shirt CO
Bath Savings Institution
Great Southwest
CLUB
Star Spangled Banner
Segadahoc
Townsend
St Tre
Maine Central Railroad
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