Maine Faces 1933 Campaign Of High Stakes and Shifts
As 1933 begins Maine eyes a sprawling political year with primaries in June and state races in September. Governor Barrows faces possible Senate challenge from Fernald while former Governor Brann seeks the Democratic nomination amid a rising New Deal faction. A new party may contest Brann, and congressional contests loom. Eastport’s financial crisis prompts state takeover. Roosevelt’s approaching message to Congress stirs expectations of policy shifts affecting industry, labor, and the economy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Barrows
Fernald
Waldo County
Louis J. Brann
Brann
Congress
Seventh grade Central Grammar hosts party and nativity
Central Grammar seventh graders hosted a large room party with a nativity tableau and play. Students Claire Couture Rachel Matthews Edward Jones and others performed poems readings songs and dances amid costumes and visitors.
Sixth and Seventh Grades Have Party at Weeks Street School
Pupils of the sixth and seventh grades at Weeks Street School closed for Christmas with carols, a guitar solo by Frank Pargurko, and a tap dance by Madelyn Oliver. The seventh grade staged a play Christmas Speaking at Skaggs' Skule directed by Mrs. Anna Severin, featuring a cast including Miss Emmeline Elkins, Elizabeth Whittemore, Myron Craig, and Goldie Harford among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weeks Street
Frank Pargurko
Madelyn Oliver
Skaggs’ Skule
Anna Severin
Emmeline Elkins
Elizabeth Whittemore
Jonah Judge
Girl Scouts Entertain At City Home Christmas Eve
The Pine Cone troop staged an entertainment at 5 30 before a 7 o clock Christmas tree at the City Home. Chairman Edwin F E Pinson gave a talk and later distributed gifts with help from a businessman and others who provided ice cream and cookies. Miss Priscilla Hodge of Portland visited her mother on 732 Middle Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pine Cone
Edwin FE. Pinson
Pinson
Priscilla Hodge
Portland
Marcia A. Hodge
Middle Street
North Grammar School Christmas program highlights on Wednesday
The North Grammar School under principal Miss J Gertrude Silsby presented a full afternoon of Christmas songs, plays, and recitations across grades five to seven. Notable items included cantata The Christmas Story, class plays Do Your Christmas Shopping Early and The Day After Christmas, several solo performances, and a large Christmas stocking themed program with numerous named students and teachers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Grammar School
J. Gertrude Silsby
Siisby
Dike School Pupils Shine In Winter Term Program
Dike pupils from grades 1 to 8 participated in Christmas themed programs with dramatizations, songs, solos, and dances. Notable performances included hand painted posters by Mrs. Horne and dances by Miss Eleanor P. Danforth.
Mitchell School Pupils Present Christmas Program and Tree
Mitchell school held a Friday Christmas program featuring grades 1 through 5A with poems songs and a tree. Notable items include Grade 5A Santa Land Grade 2 Away in a Manger Grade 3 O Neill folk song Norwegian Song and Agnes MacDonald poem The First Christmas. Teachers listed include Miss Wright Miss Palmer Miss Thompson Miss Lewis and Miss Coombs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Land
Bethlehem
Agnes MacDonald
Wright
Marjorie Palmer
Anne M. Thompson
S. Isabell Lewis
Sarah E. Coombs
Lillian F. Fisher
Santa Claus in through window. carolers robbed in Christmas morn
Santa at Wesley church was pulled in through a window after a late arrival as children watched. He handed out gifts from the tree with assistance from Misses Margaret Sampson Edna Besaw and Barbara Hopkins and Robert Besaw. Edwin H P Lowell condemned thieves who used carolers cars during rounds. losses included a scarf sewing box and candy. Alpha Booker is ill at home in West Bath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Claus
Wesley Church
Santa
Margaret Sampson
Edna Besaw
Barbara Hopkins
Robert Besaw
Ernest Heywood
Edwin H. P. Lowell
Western Avenue
Lowell
Dayton Hill
Washington Street
Central Grammar Fourth Division Holds Christmas Party
Mrs Doris D Humphreys eighth grade fourth division at Central Grammar staged a Christmas program for classmates last Wednesday afternoon. A tree and gift exchange followed the entertainment arranged by the program committee led by Ruth E Cogan. The program featured songs, poems, a harmonica solo, and a play with performers including Marilyn Cummings Marion Wagner Geraldine Lowell Shirley Miller Millicent Coombs Ruth King Lena Given Doris Houston Harry Higgins Ruth E Cogan Doris Stickney Hugh Leon Robbins Mary Anderson and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doris D. Humphrey
Central Grammar School
Ruth E. Cogan
Doris Stickney
Mary Anderson
Norma Jean Steussy
Earl Banks
Leon Robbins
Albert Nelson
Marilyn Cummings
Marion Wagner
Geraldine Lowell
Shirley Miller
Millicent Coombs
Ruth King
Lena Given
Doris Houston
Beeee
Gertrude Haskell
Herald Angels
Stanley Coleman
Ars Marion Wagner
Robert Dwyer
Harry Higgins
Bethlehem
Santa Claus
June Stover
Jerry
William Mullen
Jack
Harlan Guynn
Millie May
Hugh
Mary
Winter Street School Christmas Tree Program
Winter Street Sunday school held a Christmas tree event Thursday evening directed by a committee led by Miss Priscilla E Colby. Gifts were given by Santa Claus stand-in Ralph O. Dale Jr. Ice cream cookies and candy boxes followed. The primary department program featured songs recitations solos and a duet under Mrs. Robert H. Haskell including Jolly Santa Claus We Want to Learn of Jesus Santa Claus and other items with student performers listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Grammar
Berenice Quimby Colby
Santa
Claire Couture
Three Kings
Virgin Mary
Horace Melville
Forrest Cunningham
Lawrence Matter
Colby
Lorraine Holmes
Rachel Matthews
Janet Colley
Elsie Doughty
Leonard Snowdon
Gerard Nelson
Ervin Joy
the Jolly Smith
Robert Wagner
Betty Erskine
Phyllis McKenna
Gladys Watson
Marilyn Garneau
Frances Hogan
Edward Jones
Ralph Achorn
Ronald Stone
Warren Atkinson
Buddy Mank
Helen Gallagher
Little Town of Bethlehem
Virginia Gallagher
Paul Pecci
Lea Epere
Helen
Elmer Wallace
Winter Street
Priscilla E Colby
Lydia Atwood
Charles Camack
Warren Higgins
Santa Claus
Ralph O. Dale, Jr
Robert H. Haskell
Richard Hersom
Pauline Holmsen
Carl Langbehn
Carolyn Miller
Philip Haskell
Dorothy Bubier
Robert Rowland
John Alden Morse
Jesus
Robin Hood Brownies Visit Old Ladies Home for Christmas
The Robin Hood Brownies led by Brown Owl Mrs. Bird A Shellenbarger visited the Old Ladies Home for Christmas exercises. Edna Besaw accompanied on piano with Pearl Oliver assisting. The program featured poems songs and reader performances by Norma Hirl Nellie Page Mabel Smith Beatrice Beal Jean Small Roberta Armstrong Hazel Shellenbarger Joan Longley Evelyn Berry Mary Lermond Betty Bourget Beverly Curran Sarah Silverman and others. Virginia Flint Bangor illustrator praised for Pets and Friends artwork in a new humane education series.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
TB Ne
PLC
Hare
Beatrice Avery
Gsenhwbert
U.c
Bladen Smith
Polk Dancer Area Grand
Horne
St. Nicholas
Eleanor P. Danforth
Jean L. Danforth
June Belanger
Joan Bradford
Robert Boucher
Gloria Douglass
Eliza Estabrook
Shirley Hamlin
Carl Langbehn
Anastasia Mihalos
Paul Petit
David Pinkham
Carl Pinson
Beverly Ryder
Willard Thurston
Beverly van Buren
Dexter Vigne
Mabel F. Libby
Roscaline Cormier
Donald Footer
Louis Mihalos
Emery Mitchell
Norma Nickerson
Beverly Piper
Eugene Ryder
Donald Staples
Harold Staples
Ella R. Jaquith
Mary Brown
Hazelle Belanger
Paul Bradford
Marjorie Cushing
Elmer Doughty
Harold Doughty
Marian Jordan
Helen Kakos
Roberta Renaud
Gladys Reynolds
Annie Staples
Gladys Worrey
Herbert Belanger
Margaret Elliott
Geraldine Estabrook
Melvin Ferris
Evelyn Guynn
Franklin Howe
Gerda Langbehn
Martha McShane
Phyllis Mitchell
Herman Whitlam
Bernice D. Staples
Paul Baker
Kenneth Crocker
Richard Footer
George Garnett
Leona Henderson
Poppie Kakos
Gerald Lemoine
Robert Linnell
Alice MacDonald
George Poulos
Richard Poulos
Tina Reynolds
Merritt Shea
Brownies
Robin Hood Pack
Bird A. Shellenbarger
Old Ladies' Home
Edna Besaw
Miss Pearl Oliver
Shellenbarger
Norma Hirl
Nellie Page
Mabel Smith
Emma King
Beatrice Beal
Jean Small
Marion Corliss
Roberta Armstrong
Hazel Shellenbarger
Joan Longley
Evelyn Berry
Mary Lermond
Group
Alex Sewall
Betty Bourget
Beverly Curran
Sarah Silverman
Norma Smith
Little Town of
Bethlehem
Norma Hill
Central Church Sunday School Holiday Entertainment Program
A large turnout at Central Church Sunday school event on Friday afternoon December 24 featured Major William R. Kimball and a committee including Mrs. Carl Severin Miss Irma Groves Miss Charlotte Page and Miss Elizabeth Deering. The program began with school song and prayer followed by Rev. David L. Wilson’s Christmas story and ended with candy and tree presents for each child. Numerous recitations songs and musical numbers by students and classes concluded with Silent Night performed by Miss Ferguson's class.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Church Sunday School
Wiliam R. Kimball
Carl J. Séverin
Irma D. Groves
Charlotte F. Page
Elizabeth B. Deering
Mary Ellen Cyr
Mrs. Hiram R. Annis Visits Laconia for Christmas
Mrs. Hiram R. Annis departed Thursday to spend Christmas in Laconia New Hampshire with her daughter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hiram R. Annis
Laconia
N. H
Girl Scout Troops Entertain Old Folks
Wise Owl troop No 3 and Red Rose troop No 6 staged a Christmas program at the Old Folks Home on Washington Street. They sang carols, performed solos and duets, read aloud Christmas pieces, and distributed homemade candy to residents, with many named performers and soloists from both troops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wise Owl Troop
Girl Scouts of America
Red Rose Troop
Washington Street
Elizabeth Williams
Patricia A Chiet
Maxine Tinney
Arthur M. Bowker
the Herald Angels Sing
Wild Rose Girl Scouts Entertain Old Ladies Home
Wild Rose troop of Girl Scouts entertained residents of the Old Ladies Home on a Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. George L. Nasi led as captain with Ma Leroy F. Colby at piano. The program featured Christmas carols sung by Elaine Nasi and others, a reading on carol origins, Birch bark calendars given to residents, and a final Scout circle and good night song.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Ladies’ Home
Wild Rose Troop
Girl Scouts
George L. Nasi
Leroy F. Colby
Bethlehem
Elaine Nasi
Mary Double
Carrie Saunders
Gerda Langbehn
Barbara Matter
Weekly Crossword Puzzle .
Today's uncharted puzzle starts with No 1 across a five letter word and 1 down a four letter word Fill in squares at end of each word and check with tomorrow s solution 16 Northeast 30 A market abbr 31 Holiday 18 Stories Hebrew 21 Amusement 383 Note of the centers scale 23 Tear 85 Sacks 24 Distant 37 A wager 26 Trails of 38 Observe wild animals 41 Depart 27 Scrapped 43 Personal 29 A Hebrew pronoun ACROSS 1 Aphorism 27 A deep broad 5 Expel 10 Viscid 12 Below ornamental naut 15 The hemp 30 Gloomy plant 32 Goddess of India the harvest 17 Greek letter 33 To winnow 18 Except 34 Weep Answer to previous puzzle very 21 Foot like 36 Exclamation AGO Genos organ 22 Noblemen 36 F U L A young hog 14 Color DOWN 1 Snatch 7 Any power 2 Cry of painful heit any es 1 To notch 14 Color
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Genos Organ
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bath
the Times Company
Front Street
Bath, Maine
P. B. Nichols
Tress
Harry 0. Wesber
Ation
Eastport
State Board
Roosevelt
Betty Dauphin
Corabelle
Tiny
Marie MacDonald Mahuldy
Florildy
Charlotte Brown
Eleanor Munsey Rastus
Alden Thomas
Satay
Mary Boardman
Barbara Page
Shirley James
Geraldine Corliss
Robert Levin
David McDonald
Marion Fairhurst
Eleanor Woodman
Robert Gilchrist
Sao Felina John Tripp
Pauline Prest
Pauline Prest Cornet
John Tripp
David MacDonald
Charles Colby
Evangeline Canacari
Son Panes
Betty Lou Hill
Evelyn Young Pisner
Helen L. Hayes
Asinounco
Pasos
Warren Hogan
Jane
Frances Flaherty
Marjory
Lydia Smith
Madge
Arline Philbrick
Arlene Haley
Almon Haley
Marguerite Durgan
Dorothy Staples
Hilda Staples
Lucy
Martha Torrey
Johnny
Bernard Pratt
Doctor
Clifford Kelly
Carol
Mr. Vinson
Ralph Houston
Vinson
Sally Hyde
Barbara Stodder
Susan
Rhoda Kutz
Mary Morse
Ben
Clinton Colburn
Bates
Betty Anderson
Katie
Nancy Sewall
Patsy
Norman Guynn
Ted
Ralph Dawe
Linna Marie Purdue
Will
Frederick Andrews
Nell
Betty Small
James
Lewis Wilson
Ruth
Dorothy Gilchrist
Hallowe'en
Mary Furber
Tommy Morse
Lyndall Corliss
Joseph Swanton
Glenda Howard
Judith Dennison
Kenneth Wilson
Tree
Joe
Kenneth Hill
V. Hazel Cunningham
Gloria Leavitt
Ann Desmond
Andrew Flaherty
Harold Sewall
Helen Henderson
Ralph Stetson
Marjorie Tanner
Joseph Perow
Donald Povich
Winnifred Dorr
Richard Green
Theo M. McNeil
Dorothy Maass
Elizabeth Trott
Martha Pratt
Lois McLellan
Jane Trott
Patricia Erskine
Billy Voorhees
Boy of Bethlehem
Marlo Bennett
Donald King
Ea Folk Song
Edwin Small
David Crockett
Albion Fleming
Frank Davis
Ernest Walls
Richard Gilmore
Junior
Richard Andrews
Six Dolls
Harrie Alyce Frye
Mary Clappison
Jeannette York
Robert Hart
Dike School
Catherine Pert
Velma Rogers
Alma Tait
Louise Carver
John Sonia
Mitchell School
Wesley
Alpha Booker
West Bath
Richard McDonald
Happy Warren
Perleston Pert
Billy Donnell Boos
Lia Annaires
Eunice Pert
Billy Pomeroy
David Mitchell
Jack Stickney
Robin Hood Brownies
OLD Ladies
Virginia Flint
Bangor
Emma A. Myers
D. C. Heath
Animal Books
Frances E. Clarke
Flint
Charles L. Flint
Kossuth Street
Bobby Small
Betty McGuire
Dort
Edwin Pinson
Paul Bagdikian
Virginia Emery Pater
Mickey Snowden
Billy McKellar
Donald McRae
Frank Sutherland
Marilyn Longley
Mr. McKellar
Freddie Andrews
Erst Vial
David McKellar
Bruce Butterick
Billy Kelley
Dickie Andrews
Walter Longley
Eugene Qgolburn
Victor Grace
Kathleen Harkins
Nelie Page
Fay Freeman
Bertha Sutherland
Audrey King
Virginia Hartleb
Miss Deering
Anita Bagdikian
Ecr
Ruth Small
Emma Hartleb
Dorothy Dunn
Miss Ferguson
Girl Scout Troops
Ruth Cogan
Wise Owl
Eugene Field
Norma Cummings
Good King
Katrina Moffett
Barbara Ring
Rosamund Tinney
Wilmer I. Voorhees
Charles M. Sawyer
Gertrude Dole
Patricia Webster
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!