Richmond Lions and church events mark busy week
The Richmond community hosted Lions Club members at a church gathering and celebrated various local activities. Reports include church services, plays at the Opera House, visits by residents, aid society meetings, grange installation plans, and a busy week of social and civic events across Richmond Corner and surrounding towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clara Gilpatrick
Methodist Ladies’ Aid
Samuel Nichols
Richmond
Jackie” Nichols
Johnny Savanna
Quincy
Mass
Moose Hall
Gardiner
Esther Parker
Augusta
Gwendolyn Tarr
O. B. Gray
William Dingley
Mabel Lancaster
Progressive Grange
Richmond Corner
Clifford Gray
Gray
Pomona
H. B. Crawford
Merchants
American Legion
Town Hall
Odd Fellows
Firemen
Northern Baptist Convention
R. A. L. Colby
South Gardiner
Opera House
F. W. Hovey
John Skillen
Hollywood
Jarvis
Pembroke Butler
L. Castner
Messenger
F. McKenney
Tom Garrity
F. Porter
Alan Tremayne
G. Harford
Josie Pembroke
J. James
Princess Dolores
Josie
C. Toothaker
Phyllis Duganne
Harmon's Tavern Grill
Margaret Thompson
Charles Thompson
Blue Romancers
Pownalboro Hall
Dresden
Ethel Riley
Calais
Miss Riley
Wright Shoemakers
Ideal Home
Eva Sherman
Bertha Curtis
Lilla Curtis
Alexander Road
L. Grover
Beulah Rebekah Lodge
Ralph Holt
Irvin Grover
C. W. Gray
Bowdeinham
Dr Edith Patch Publishes New Science Textbook
Orono author Dr Edith M Patch releases Science at Home the fifth in her Nature and Science readers She is the only woman to preside over the Entomological Society of America and a fellow In addition she authored the Little Getaways to Science Series Bird Stories and First Lessons in Nature Study with multiple editions and nature books Holiday Pond Holiday Meadow and Holiday Hill
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edith M. Patch
Orono
Maine
Holiday Pond
Holiday Meadow
Holiday Hill
Fort Fairfield Crowned King of Potatoes in Maine Shipments
The Ft. Fairfield Review boasts Fort Fairfield as the king of kings in potatoes. For 1932-33 Fort Fairfield road traffic totaled 6456 cars and 5280 cars in 1933-34, while Caribou registered 4745 and 4301 respectively, giving Fort Fairfield 13 percent of Maine's 1933-34 shipments and sole share of the prior season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Fairfield
King County
King of Kings
Ft. Fairfield
Fort Fair
Caribou
Maine
Georgetown Social Notes Highlight Local Visitors and Events
Mrs Nettie Gray visited Portland while Mrs Marjorie Higgins started duty at Bath Memorial hospital. A long list of callers, visitors, and weekend trips with families and students fills the Georgetown scenes. The First Baptist church Sunday school elected officers and the Working League plans a Valentine party for February 12.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nettie Gray
Portland
Marjorie Higgins
R. N
Sagadahoc Bay
Bath Memorial Hospital
Melvin Cunningham
Bath
Roy Newman
William Todd
Josph F. Higgins
Seward E. Emmons
West Georgetown
Dorothy Hagan
Yarmouth Academy
L. Earle Hagan
Belle Heal
B. H. Woodside
Thomas Hagan, Jr
Earl Payson
Bay Point
Center
William A. Todd
Joseph F. Higgins
Leon Earle Hagan
Windham
Islands
Lane Hill
Herman Spinney
Gray Road Park
Elizabeth Hunt
Wiscasset
First Baptist Church
Harry H. Heald
Walter Schoepfer
Emma B. Billings
Belle Heald
Alvah Reynolds
Eugene
Thomas M. Hagan
Harold J. Brown
Westport Social Roundup Ties Roads to Bath and Wiscasset
Westport notes show Dorothea Hodgdon returning from a two week visit to Bath aunt Mrs. Samuel Stover. Numerous locals and visitors pass through Wiscasset and Bath including Capt. Thomas McLaughlin, Herbert Cromwell, Archie Higgins, Amos Knight, and Robert Higgins with family. Also listed are Mrs. Ethel Wass, Mr. and Mrs. Colin Dunn, Mrs. Bessie Hessleman, William Mains, Wesley Green, Robert Boothby, the Colbys, Fred Greenleaf, Thomas Woodbridge, Dr. DiPerri, Nellie Little, Jennie Cromwell, and Alice Whitten in various social calls and visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothea Hodgdon
Samuel Stover
Bath
Thomas McLaughlin
Wiscasset
Herbert Cromwell
Archie Higgins
Amos Knight
Sarah Welch
Ethel Wass
Colin Dunn
Bessie Hessleman
William Mains
John Harrison
R. T. Beaton
Wesley Green
Robert Boothby
R. S. Higgins
C. E. Colby
Fred Greenleaf
Thomas Woodbridge
DiPerri
Robert Higgins
Ethel
Robert Greenleaf
Co. L. Cromwell
Edwin
Herbert
Nellie Little
Jennie Cromwell
Alice Whitten
Eugene Cromwell
Woolwich
Maine News Notes and Memorials From Augusta to Bowdoinham
Dana W. Lovejoy of 7 Wyman Street Augusta retires after 44 years with the Post Office, including 38 years in Augusta in the mailing division, and is praised as a former leading marksman who kept a 44 year shooting record. Earl E. Cook of Lewiston Auburn Children's Home dies at 62 feet dragged after a car strike on Jefferson Street Auburn. No charges against the driver Harold R. Osgood. Bangor Girl Scout Leaders plan inter troop contests and trainer Mrs Lester B Howard to train reserve leaders. Bowdoinham residents recall a seismic air quake on January 20 1881 that shook buildings and created a loud sound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dana W. Lovejoy
Wyman Street
Augusta
Lovejoy
New England
United States Postal Department
Earl E. Cook
Lewiston- Auburn
Jefferson Street
Auburn
Washington Street
Harold R. Osgood
West Falmouth
G. W. Twaddle
Osgood
Powers
Bangor
Girl Scout Leaders’ Association
Lester B. Howard
Howard
Portland
Bowdoinham
Judge Keegan's Address Impresses Bath Club Members
Judge John J. Keegan spoke to 40 attending the Winter Street Men's club detailing church and law links and the need for mercy via probation. He condemned hollow religious spectacle and urged police maternal care, supervised recreation, and engaged parenting to curb juvenile delinquency. The gathering featured supper by the boys basketball team, singing, and plans for future events and committees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John J. Keegan
Winter Street Men's Club
Keegan
Cedric Martin
Just Wold
Archie Doyle
Opened an Aroostook Architect Office in Presque Isle
John C. LeVasseur of Presque Isle opens a local architecture office. He previously worked on Morse High School and the Presque Isle abattoir project and is named area government architect for north of Bangor. Noted projects include Masonic Temple Mars Hill Limestone high school Caribou high school and Aroostook Valley Country Club clubhouse. He is 30, married to Doris Huntress of Fort Fairfield with one child.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
John C. LeVasseur
Preque Isle
Morse High School
LeVasseur
N. W. Downing
Presque Isle
Bath School
Aroosto@n
Bangor
Masonic Temple
Mars Hill
Limestone High School
Hackett
Caribou High School
Aroostook Valley
Berwindvale Leaves Friday Morning for Newport News
Steamship Berwindvale captained by Abbott cleared from Kennebec Wharf & Coal Co. Friday morning for Newport News and will return this week via Kearney New Jersey then Bath to load coal. River was ice free to Texas Steamship Co. mouth but departure delayed by river vapor. Marshall B. Hall oil tanker arrived and began discharging for Pennsylvania Petroleum Products Co. at Woolwich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berwindvale
Abbott
Kennebec
Marshall B. Hall
Pennsylvania Petroleum Products Co
Woolwich
Florida friend recalls near eighty and fountain of youth
A reader from Florida quotes Fred Sanborn of the Norway Advertiser noting locals near 80 remain active, including a 103 year old captain and others aged 80 to 100. He mentions a nearby fountain of youth tale and a centenarian who reportedly drank the water and later died of infantile paralysis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida
Fred Sanborn
The
Norway Advertiser
Five Islands Community Notes and Events Summary
Cottage prayer meetings at the Pinkhams and the Grays set the year’s church governance with Luva Gray as clerk and Percy MacGillivary as treasurer. Local visits include Mrs Hanna in Bath and the Perry family wintering in Pass-A-Grille Beach. A Maltby death noted. First Parish Brunswick held a fellowship supper with speeches. An odd carpentry find shows a carpet tack embedded in wood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellsworth Pinkham
George Gray
Luva Gray
Percy MacGillivary
Treas
Lava Gray
Lloyd Pinkham
Edith Marr
Alice Cromwell
James Stevens
Clement McMahan
Woodrow Gray
Izetta Pinkham
T. J. Hanna
Bath
Harry Rodick
Hanna
Leo Pertell
Georgetown
Harmon's Harbor
Walter Moore
Hallowell
Five Islands
Walter Shoepfer
Charles MacMahan
Horace Rittall
B. F. Perry
Pass-A-Grille Beach
Fla
Cora Mae Hanna
Thomas Hanna
Bath Memorial Hospital
Grange Circle
L. H. Rowe
Orville Rowe
Alton Reed
Woolwich
Vernon E. Gray
Roy H. Clark
New Jersey
Elizabeth
Clark
Drummond Stevens
Earl MacMahan
Boston
Percy Savage
Olive Williams
Leon Williams
James McKay
Bates Stover
William Chase
Lewiston
Chase
George Stevens
Maltby
Wash
Stevens
Joseph
Sarah Stevens
Belle Stevens
Charles Knight
Waterbury, Conn
Carrie
Isabel Stevens
Joseph G. Stevens
Pastor and Wife Guests of Central Church Celebrate Wilson Birthday
Rev. and Mrs. David L. Wilson were honored at Central Church with a turkey supper in parish houses as the minister enters his 22nd year. Cakes with lit candles marked Wilson and the start of his tenure, joined by birthdays of Ernest Wood and his daughter Priscilla, and Wood's wedding anniversary. A social and rehearsals followed with decorations and flowers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David L. Wilson
Central Church Chook
Central Church
Wilson
Edward
Brown
Carol Wood
Priscilla Wood
Andrus L. Coleman
Ernest Wood
Luther S. Thompson
Howard A. Parks
Jack Shaw
Frank A. Hodgdon
Edward S. Brown
Fred J. Hoffman
Shirley M. Mank
Thomas R. Huston
Coldest Morning of Winter Sets New Record
Thursday brought the coldest morning yet this winter with unofficial readings near 40 below at Cook's Corner Brunswick and 28 below at Ward 7 home of Councilman Horace B. Woodman. Outlying thermometers showed single to mid thirties below. In Holdenville Oklahoma, long-time Indian medicine man Sardy Deacon, near 100, died recently.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cook's Corner
Brunswick
Horace B. Woodman
Middle
York Streets
Chase’s Corner
Eben Dana's
North Woolwich
Weston L. Bonney
Merrymeeting Bay
Jerry Haile
Fred Brown
Hardings
M.S. Purington Farm
West Bath
Trueworthy
Brunswick Road
Winfiesld Morse
Winnegance
Parker O. Rogers
Harry E. Peterson
Fred B. Kittridge
High Street
Dike School
Dummer Street
Duncan MclIntosh
E. W. Haggett
Coast Guard
Popham Beach
Sardy Deacon
Holdenville
Okla
Sea Gulls Perch on Local Chimneys
Seagulls move into town seeking warmth as ice blocks the Kennebec River flow. Workers at Acme Supply Co. report gulls landing on nearby chimneys including O M Redlon Co and gulls gather at the city dump for scraps. Residents watch the birds flutter between roofs and refuse piles, chasing them only briefly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennebec
Albert F. Austin
Acme Supply Co
Commercial Street
O. M. Redlon Co
Mr. Austin
Stunt Night Amusement At Beacon Street Church
Beacons Street church hosts a Stunt Night with many groups performing sketches songs and pantomimes. Jesters Meijerdrama Ladies aid choir Epworth League and Brotherhood present acts while candy table duties and thanks are noted. Also Joseph C. Hickson resigns as Bangor Federal Re-employment Service manager to return to engineering with Maine Central Railroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beacon Street
New York
Don Jewett
Carl Meister
George Wallace
Epworth League
Brain Fever Academy
North End
Chester Worrey
Charlotte Robbins
Samuel Morse
Margaret Strack
Brotherhood
Martin and
Sam
Arthur C. Norton
John M. Howe
Harley A. Shattuck
Joseph C. Hickson
Bangor
Federal Re-employment Service
Maine Central Railroad
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mae
L. H. Lamoreau
Veterans’ Administration
Togus
Helen Graves
George Yeaton
Boynton Street
Pasquell Cardinelli
Kennebec River
Hollice Easler
Leslie Roberts
George Leavitt
Lion's Club
Spaegia
Leighton Gardner, Jr
Miss
H. A. Tarr
Litchfield
E. O. Tarr
Verona Pinkham
South Pleasant Street
Barbara Bond
Leighton Gardiner, Jr
Grace
Sarah Nelson
Hilda
Annette Harford
Lawrence Bond, Jr
Marguerite McGurty
Edward Pinkham, Jr
Seventh Day Adventist Church
God
Paulina Rideout
Brunswick Hospital
Pomérleau
Katheryn Arnold
George Waters
Lincoln Street
William E. Choate
Miss Arnold
Winthrop
Richmond High School
Kennebec Shoe Co
Choate
Harry D. Choate
China
A. E. McMaster
Helen Herbert
Lorraine Jewett
Marjorie Rice
Dorothy Patten
Phylis Strout
Patricia Hurley
Gloria Andrews
Courine McKenney
Charles B. Day
Maine Publicity Bureau
Herbert L. Swett
Lakewood Theatre
Day
Mary Carey
Hazel Libby
Grace Smith
Elizabeth Gould
Billa Tarr
Elizabeth Alexander
Sadie Wood
Fred
Curtis
Westport
Maine News Notes
Judge Keegan
Winter Street
Georgia Strout
Thompson Ashby
Chauncey Goodrich
Frank Morse
Percy Graves
Andrew Pennell
Alaric Haskell
J. O. McDowell
C. A. McAvery
D. M. Humphreys & Co
Sagadahock Block
Bath, Me
Bath Savings Institution
Beacon Street Church
Uae
le Fe
Atwood
L. F
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