Unopposed Brunswick Tax Collector Part of Long Record
Wilfrid A. Lapointe, Brunswick tax collector, again runs unopposed in the March town meeting after a strong bipartisan show of support. His latest report shows a total commitment of 241,249.79 with 229,917.62 collected, leaving uncollected real estate and poll taxes totaling 10,992.06. The piece also highlights Sagadahoc county’s low fatalities in the Maine Highway Safety Campaign and notes various local items including a Detroit plant sit down strike, upcoming tax committee hearings, and regional transport and bridge issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilfrid A. Lapointe
Brunswick
College Town
Maine D A R Annual Conference Scheduled in Lewiston
The 39th Maine Daughters of the American Revolution conference will be held March 17 and 18 at the Federated Church Lewiston with Mary Dillingham chapter hosting. Honorary President General Mrs Russell William Mann will attend with a banquet in the Blue room of the Dewitt hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State of Maine
Daughters of the American Revolution
Federated Church
Pine Street
Lewiston
Mary Dillingham
Dewiur Herel
Russell William Mann
Mary Dillingham Chapter
Women’s Literary Union Club
Main Street
Auburn
D A. R
Sam FE. Conner
Dewitt Note
Dewitt Hotel
John E. Cartland
Goff Street
Focal
Catherine Eastman Marshall
Marshall
Fred
C. Morgan
Saco
Rebecca Emery
Mrs Deering Hosts Cosmopolitan Club Officers Social
The Cos mopolitan club held its annual social gathering for officers directors and committee heads at the club house. Mrs Gardner R Deering welcomed guests and thanked members for their cooperation during her term as president with a supper prepared by Mrs Deering and assisted by others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cosmopolitan Club
Gardner R. Deering
Deering
Leslie J. Wold
Esa J Gillel
Marjorie P Troop
Edwin H P Lowell
Tolownie
Derring
Jane C Curtis
Marcia Misitton
Paul L. Boudreau
Loiwise
Bucknanm
Lilian
Miller
Leslie J. Woid
Ru’h H- Farnum
Clinton D Wilson
C. Anderson
Charlies HL Frost
Cogan
Wint
Mice Wars
Percy Marks
Cari F Pieres
Walwith
Resor
Paddy Teuedore Siner
le Psy
Fee
Marsiey
Tresp
Eiddw
Seth
Frank
M. F
Erwie
Bowdoin College to stage The Emperor Jones play
Bowdoin college Masque and Gown selects The Emperor Jones as spring play with a cast including faculty and students. Two performances are planned in Memorial hall on March 9.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emperor Jones
Bowdoin College
Memorial Hall
Home Department to Meet March 30
Plans announced for the eighth annual meeting of the American home department Maine Federation of Women's Clubs to be held March 30 during Farm and Home Week at the University of Maine. The program features speakers from University of Maine, Vassar College, and Michigan State Teachers College with a reception for visitors at four o'clock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Home Department
Maine Federation of Women’s Clubs
University of Maine
Faith Hinckley Powley
Hinckley
Orono
Ferain
Steinmetz
Westbrook Seminary
Henry Noble MacCracken
Vassar College
Howard Bigelow
Michigan State Teachers College
Kalamazoo
Ella Gardner
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Mary Smith
Arthur A. Hauck
Junior Garden Club Valentine Party Held at Meeting
Cosmopolitan Junior Garden club met at the club house on Monday afternoon with leader Mrs. Granville M. Colby back after illness. Members exchanged Valentines, new members Muriel Pouliot Shirley James and Frances Cushing welcomed, and a committee was named to classify gardening points for recognition.
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Cosmopolitan Junior Garden Club
Granville M. Colby
June Chase
Sally Sarkis
Muriel Pouliot
Shirley James
Frances Cushing
Betty Robson
Marjorie Chase
Colby
North Center P.T.A Founders Day Program Highlights
The North Center P.T.A held Founders Day at Grace Church parish house with Mrs. Bird A Shellenbarger directing a program including a history, a dance solo, piano and vocal numbers, a playlet The Picture, and a silver tea. A business meeting appointed Mrs Walter M Hill to chair a committee aiding the Maine Society for Crippled Children. Dates announced for Bates women class dances include seniors open house March 12 and senior dance at Chaser hall. sophomores and juniors to follow with tentative May 14 and April 22 dates. Wendell Brewster, senior at the University of Maine and son of Mr and Mrs Charles S Brewster, completed his first army flying cadet exam in Boston and plans to proceed to San Antonio for the second exam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bird A. Shellenbarger
North Center
P.T
Grace Church Parish House
Walter M. Hill
Maine Society For Crippled Children
Edward B. Hamblett
Parent-Teacher Association
Shellenbarger
Clinton D. Wilson
William W Dennison
Barbara Stoddard
Edna Besaw
Margaret Brimigion
A. Catherine Shellenbarger
W'son
Bates
Rand Hall
Chaser Hall
Kathryn Thomas
Margaret Andrews
Augusta Ginther
Ruth Merrill
Grace Jack
Dorothy Harms
Wendel S. Brewster
Charles S. Brewster
Dexter
University of Maine
Boston
Brewster
Maine
San Antonio
Texas
Army
Wendell Brewster
A. T
Garden club federations plan Camden meeting date
The National Federation of Garden Clubs will meet in Camden with the New England Federation of Garden Clubs October 18 and 19. Mrs. Fred S. Woods of Portland, president of the Maine State Federation of Garden Clubs, announced the event. The occasion was the monthly meeting of the Federation's executive board at the Bialne House on Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Federation of Garden Clubs
Camden
New England Federation of Garden Clubs
Fred S. Woods
Portland
Maine
Pomona Grange Special Meeting Confers Fifth Degree
Sagadahoc County Pomona grange held a special Topsham meeting to confer the fifth degree with 131 attendees. Delegations from Dirigo Brunswick Dromore Phippsburg Enterprise Richmond Merrymeeting Topsham Progressive Richmond Corner Sagadahoc Bowdoin West Bath Woolwich attended. Framing program featured Eleanor P Ripley and Carver's orchestra with performances by Tarr Lemont White and others.
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Sagadahoc
Pomona Grange
Topsham Grange
Woolwich
Progressive Orange
Carvers Orchestra
West Bath Grange
Arthur C. Lemont
Ernest Snow
Edwin W. Haggett
Lincoln Williams
Mercie McFadden
Edward Jenks
Harry Bennett
Herold Peacock
Missionary Society Meets on Friday in Corliss Street Church
Far and Near Missionary society met Friday afternoon at Mrs. Grace Watson's home on Washington street with 13 members present. The session opened with singing and prayers from the Book of Remembrance. A paper on Rural Work was read, and reports and communications were discussed. The next meeting is scheduled for March 5 as an all day White Cross gathering at Mrs. Frank Prebie's Clifton street home.
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Ladies’ Aid
Winter Street
Elmer D. Hodgkins
Charles C. Low
Elizabeth Bea
Wilbra Billings
David L. Black
Walter H. Bowker
Mary FE. Campbell
Bessie E. Dickinson
Grace Dickinson
Elwina F. Durgin
Helen C. Foster
Edward H. Hawley
Fred C. Hill
Warren E. Kershner
E. Randall Leonard
Sylvester H. Rowland
Langdon T. Snipe
Fred Symes
Alice E. Varney
Corrie H. Varney
Clinton D. Wilson
Arthur C. Lemont
Aid
Joseph O. Purdue
James Gordon Gilkey
Wallace L. Atwood
Missionary Society of Corliss Street Church
Grace Watson
Washington Street
Mrs Edith Andros Injured In Hit and Run Incident
Mrs Edith Andros of East Brunswick was struck Friday afternoon near the Chapel of Our Saviours on Brunswick road. She was walking to her brother Andros Groves home when the crash occurred about five o clock. She was hospitalized with a broken right ankle and a badly bruised left leg.
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Edith Andros
East Brunswick
Chapel of Our Saviours
Brunswick Road
Andros
Andros Groves
Memorial Hospital
Motorist Twice Fined In Municipal Court
Ernest P. Harmon of this city pleaded guilty to two motor vehicle infractions before Judge Ar thur J. Dunton. He was fined five dollars and four dollars and ninety five cents in costs for improperly registered car and three hundred forty five dollars in costs for driving without an operator's license. Local police were the complainants. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mooberry of New York City are guests of Councilman and Mrs. Harold F. Schnurle on State street, Augusta. Mr. Mooberry was formerly with the Associated Press in Augusta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest P. Harmon
Arthur J. Dunton
Henry Mooberry
New York City
Harold F. Schnurle
State Street
Augusta
Mooberry
Associated Press
Harold L Thompson Keeps Seat On Kennedy's Board
Harold L Thompson son of Mr and Mrs George E Thompson of Brunswick formerly of Bath remains on the Kennedy's Inc board. Frederick J Kennedy's will prompts sale of new stock with officers and employees subscribing for nearly a quarter of the new common stock. Edward H Presbrey president says store management stays the same aside from W J Kennedy’s retirement and his replacement as president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold L. Thompson
George E. Thompson
Brunswick
Bath
Kennedy's
Boston
Frederick J. Kennedy
New England
Kennedy's Inc
Edward H. Presbrey
Presbrey
Kennedy
West Bath Farm Bureau Holds All-Day Session
West Bath Farm Bureau met for an all day session Thursday with 15 present at 9 Bath street led by Mrs. Ellery E. Whittemore. Dinner was served by Mrs. Coombs and Mrs. Owen. Next meeting is March 18 at West Bath grange hall with joint program on Raising and Preserving featuring Charles Eastman and Hortense Welch.
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West Bath
Charles T. Small
Harris T. Rodick
Mrs Brown
John H. Bryant
Edwin W. Haggett
Herbert Hodgkins
Lermond
Walter G. Marco
Owen
Charles E. Ripley
Sandelin
Rodick
Elmer Sidelinger
Loring D. Small
Whittemore
Morse Freshmen Stage Short Comedy Foiled By Heck
Morse High presented a one act comedy Foiled, By Heck in the auditorium during a Friday morning assembly. Norman Pitcomb led the event announcing characters played by Louis Arsenault Avis Brown Mary Dubble Edward Butterfield Elizabeth Moulton and Harry Fullerton. The plot centers on a mortgaged home farm hand who loves the farmer’s daughter while the mortgage holder also loves her. the trio’s scheme ends with a happy ending.
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Heck
Morse High
Norman Pitcomb
Louis Arsenault
Avis Brown
Mary Dubble
Edward Butterfield
Elizabeth Moulton
Harry Fullerton
Illegal to deposit rubbish by roadsides in Maine
According to Chapter 139, Sec. 31, anyone who dumps refuse on a public way faces a fine up to ten dollars unless authorized by municipal officers. Mrs. Roscoe P. McFadden highlights unsightly highway sections near Bath and cites a 1936 State Highway Commission report on signs, permits, and removals to improve Maine scenery.
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Times
Roscoe P. McFadden
Educational Department
Maine Federation of Woman's Clubs
State Highway Commission
McFadden
Maine
Record Milk Cow Mazie Sets Guernsey Class Mark
Sagadahoc Guernsey Rafton's Mazie, bred by Millay Brothers, tops two and a half year old class F of the American Guernseys Cattle Club with 10683.3 pounds milk and 692.3 pounds butterfat. Ruth Esther Littlefield, age 23, named Casco chapter Eastern Star matron and youngest such leader in Maine, born to Oliver O. Stover family and later living in Bridgton.
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Peterborough
N. H
Rafton
Mazie
M. H
Maiie
American Guernseys Cattle Club
Millay Brothers
Richmond
Ruth Esther Littlefield
Casco
O.es
Eastern Star
Maine
Littlefield
Oliver O. Stover
Ruth Esther
Stover
Freeport Village
Bridgton
Freeport
Wives of Kennebec Senators Host Tea at Oak Grove
The event honors Mrs Lewis O Barrows with hosts Mrs Leroy F Hussey Augusta Mrs H Chesterfield Marden Waterville and Mrs Robert E Owen Oak Grove organizing a tea for the senators wives and Kennebec delegation. Briggs hall parlors open 3 30 to 5.
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Kennebec
Oak Grove
Lewis O Barrows
Leroy F. Hussey
Augusta
H. Chesterfield Marden
Waterville
Robert E. Owen
Briggs Hall
Weekly Cross Word Puzzle Across and Down Clues
A dense list of crossword clues mixes across and down entries for a weekly puzzle. Clues cover varied topics from fabric and wooden items to mythic figures and geography, indicating a traditional newspaper puzzle page format with theme entries and cross-references.
Nicaragua Canal Topic Highlighted By Winter Street Club
Lieut LeRoy V Honsinger spoke at the Winter Street Men s club about the Nicaragua Canal from its beginnings 90 years ago to the Vinson Bill in Congress. He outlined the project s huge cost and strategic value, plus a chalk sketch of the proposed canal. Forty seven members attended and a creamed haddock supper followed.
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Winter Street Men's Club
Lieut
LeRoy V. Honsinger
Nicaragua Canal
Vinson
Atlantic
Pacific
United States
Lieut. Honsinger
Ladies’ Auxiliary
J. Edward Drake
J. Albert Redson
Mary E. Campbell
Arthur
Crockett
Fred K. Sturtevant
Charles W. Walsh
Edgar D. Leavitt
Edward Brown
Honsinger
Harry Walters
Boy Scouts
Leavitt
Elbridge R. Wright
Fred J. Higgins
Joseph O. Purdue
Women's Field Army for Cancer Control in Bath Unit Meets
The Bath Unit of the Women's Field Army for the American Society for the Control of Cancer held its second meeting at Mrs. Seth S. Mullin's home in Bath. Captain is Mrs. Arthur Sewall 2d. officers include Miss Newell secretary and Miss Moulton treasurer. Maine Commander is Mrs. William Holt of Bangor. The nationwide effort aims to aid cancer treatment and join the successful tuberculosis fight with similar community support.
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Bath
Women's Field Army
The
American Society For the Control of Cancer
Seth S. Mullin
Washington Street
Arthur Sewall 2d
Mullin
Stella Dolloff
Alfred Carpenter
James A. Gillies, Jr
Wilmer I. Voorhees
Howard Bates
Joseph I. Smith
Moose Hoax at Sears Port Ends in Horns from Tree Stump
Local residents laughed at a mystery in Sears port where a frozen pond seemed to show contamination of drinking water by a moose. Officials later revealed the hornlike shapes were actually an uprooted tree stump buried in the ice.
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Searsport
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the Times Company
Front Street
Bath, Maine
B. Nichols
Treas
Harry C. Webber
On &P 9
Postoffice
Walter J. Brennan
Maine Highway Safety Campaign
Sagadahoe County
Detroit
Legislative Committee On Taxation
Phlire
Ranger
Worx. Corporation
Westport
Wierase
Washington and
Schoostrer Crossings
Public Utilities Commission
Alvin O. Lombard
D.A.R
Mrs. Deering
Cosmo Club
Pruettt Railway
Juidars
Qysiti
Wil
Rhode
Arkett
Main
Massachusettes
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Vermont
Home Department
Junior Garden Club
P.T.A. Founders
Topsham Grange Hall
Winter Street Ladies
Missionary Society
Big Boston Clothing Store
West Bath Bureau
Morse
Special Assembly
Guernsey
Asia
Norway
Denmark
Winter Street Club
Woman’s Field Army For Cancer Control
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