Richmond Community News Highlights Local Events
Richmond reports include a Child Welfare Clinic at the Methodist church, Emphasizing Epworth League social with old fashioned costumes, and updates on residents such as Rufus Maxwell and Miss Ruth Curran. Shorthand and typewriting certificates awarded at Richmond High, plus local marriages, obituaries, and club meetings across town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Epworth League
Methodist Church
Rufus Maxwell
Ben
Roy Varney
Thelma Higgins
Bath
Joan Smith
Lincoln Street
E. O. Tarr
Litchfield Plains
Gregg
Richmond High School
Christine Toothaker
Josephine James
Edith Hatfield
Glenys Terrell
Elinor Curtis
Evelyn Farley
Dorothy Witham
Lara Leavitt
Donald Mosher
Ella Meserve
Franklin McKenney
Stanley Griffin
Hilda Toothaker
Dorothy Averill
Velma Longley
Billa Tarr
Ethel Robin
Tarr
Ida Oliver
Portland
Thomas James
Dresden
Adelaide Dolley
Augusta General Hospital
George Clarke
River Road
E. B. Dunn
Depositors Trust Co
Spring Cove
Pleasant Pond
A. C. Seavey
Randolph
Richmond
Charles Hackett
Bowdeinham
Emerson Grammar School
Earl Dickinson
Robert Carey
Helen Walton
Howard Bodwell
Augusta
MacMillen
WRDO
State House
Number Five
Sewing Club
May Alexander
Inez Stinson
St. Ambrose Church
Tristram I. Lattle
Ada Ruth Anderson
Main Street
C. P. Bryant
Adelaide Hamilton
Carl Anderson
Harry Cole
Quincy
Mass
Mrs. Little
Boston
Front Street
Favor House
Mr. Little
Herbert L. Stuart
Tar bucket Day recalls quiet Washington birthday in Saco
Old timers call the day Tar bucket Day and note its quiet observance as banks closed and flags flown. Horns sounded from morning to night in Peppere] square bonfires lit up the city while Rev. Percy L. Vernon and Rev. Charles W. Helsley debated censorship and morality at the Lewiston church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Saco
Peppere] Square
Board of Control
Percy L. Vernon
Lewiston United Baptist Church
Charles W. Helsley
High Street Congregational Church
Legion of Decency
Georgetown Town Notes on Taxes Roads and Bridge
Georgetown officials report a heavy year from town expenses including poor relief and fire costs. Harold F. Hunt issues town identification cards for free Carlton bridge tickets. Various residents’ activities include schooling, travel, moving, and social visits. Town meeting set for next Monday and local events at Bath Carnival and Morse high school vacation noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold F. Hunt
Carlton Bridge
Lester Powers
Center School
Harry Heald
Portland
Leo Pertell
Thomas
Joseph Higgins
Working League
William A. Todd
Roscoe P. Todd
Warren
M.lrose
Alice Cromwell
Five Islands
T. M. Hagan
Eleanor Cunningham
Morse High School
J. H.brown
Sumner
West Newton
B. H. Woodside
Nancy Russell
Frank Hollis
Dorothy
Hagan
Yarmouth Academy
Ruth Farnham
Bath
C. L. Hinckley
Raphael Rowe
Marion Hunt
Aileen Hunt
Edward Wren
Boston
T. M. Hagan, Jr
Auburn
N. Williams
Williams
Alec Cunningham
Carlton
Cunningham
Arrowsie-Georgetown
Marr’s Island
Harold J. Brown
Westport Social News Highlights in Wiscasset Region
Arch ie Cunningham and Mr and Mrs Thomas Woodbridge visited in Wiscasset on Tuesday. Many neighbors and relatives were mentioned visiting homes in Wiscasset Newcastle Bath and Washington with events ranging from errands sick visits and a carnival ball to a winter road effort and a dance canceled by a storm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Archie Cunningham
Thomas Woodbridge
Wiscasset
Herbert Cromwell
Lawrence Colby
Frank Thomas
H. A. Swanton
Joseph Hodgdon
Amos Knight
Mechanic Falls
Capt
Thomas McLaughlin
Memorial Hospital
Damariscotta
G. D. Pastorious
Newcastle
Sarah Welch
Hodgdon
Ann Louise
H. M. Jewett
Washington Street
Amos Greenleaf
Robert Higgins
Ethel
Alfred Hodgdon
Owen Boothby
Wesley Gren
Hatc
Betty Richardson
John Harrison
Southport
Brian Jewett
Dewey Richardson
J. P. Harrison
Orono
M. A. Cromwell
M. O. Webber
Maude
James Apt
William Clancey
Dresden
Former Bath Woman Delivers Paper at Rubinstein Club
Ada C. Holman of Camden addressed the Rubinstein Club of Rockland at the Universalist vestry on a talk titled The development of the dance. She traced pantomime origins through religious and secular dances to ballet, noting its rise in 1439 and highlighting the Russian school and figures such as Nijinsky Pavlova Duncan and Shawn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rubinstein Club
Rockland
Ada C. Holman
Camden
Universalist Vestry
France
Catherine di Medici
Gitano
Catherine the Great
Nijinsky
Pavlova
Ruth St. Denis
Ted Shawn
Isadora Duncan
Edna Gregory
Rebekahs Visit Lisbon Falls from Bath Lodges
A crowd from Bath Rebekah lodges traveled by car and bus to Lisbon Falls to attend a Washington party supper hosted by Nina Rebekah lodge. District deputy president Marie Hoffman and other Maine Rebekah leaders spoke. a candidate received the degree in the evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ae Ee Tere
J. E. Purinton
Doyle McWinnie
Gardiner
Benjamin Irish
Elmer Purinton
Ernest
Brunswick
Bath
Melvin J. Verrill
Dexter
Maine
Richmond
Smith Cemetery
Vérrill
Main Street
Earle
Harry Verrill
Hallowell
Harold Castner
Elmer Scribner
Springfield
Harold Jack
Thomaston
Martha Janet Jack
S. D. White
Brunswick Road
Lewiston
Esther Parker
Portland
Town
Grange
Lincoln
The
Washington
John Gilpatrick
Cora Little
R. N
Massachusetts
Hazel Gardiner
Spruce Street
Miss Gardiner
Marion Young
Wallace W. Gardiner
Florence Young
Leslie Gardiner
Hazel Mealey
Marion Mealey
Florence Weeks
Cecelia Robinson
Bertha Sencabaugh
E. F. Pratt
E. S. Small
Farmington
Richmond High School
Rebecca Rogers
Lalia Card
Noble
Eula Shaw
Beulah Rebekah
Nina Rebekah Lodge
Lisbon Falls
Cora Osborne
Sadie Good
Augusta
Blue Bird
Beulah Rebekah Lodge
Evening Star
Marie Hoffman
Auburn
District No. 9
Laura Hardy
Berwick
Rebekah Assembly of
Hoffman
Elizabeth Ricker
Lisbon
Margaret Peabody
Belle Lewis
Henry T. B. Leeman
District No. 14
Ralph P. Mank
Shirley M. Mank
Leonard M. Munsey
Wallace L. Atwood
Harry L. Knight
Herbert W. McCabe
Clara Donaldson
Lillius Larrabee
Chester W. Clement
Margaret Yates
Charles O. Nelson
Frank J Farrin
Victor Pinkham
Albert H. Thompson
John E. Atwood
Roger Pierce
Herbert Huggard
Howard A. Parks
Charles H. Ansert
Alfred Bunker
Minnie C. Woodman
Harry E. Cornish
Leeman
Otis Card
Lula Herbert
Horace W. Ward
Frank Beal
Rose Gene
Charles Doyle
Warren Parris
Alice M. O'Brien
City drops plan for new fire alarm system
The municipal fire department committee canceled plans to install a new fire alarm system and to apply for $900 in Public Works Administration aid. Estimated costs were about $3,000, and PWA blueprint and bid requirements prompted the withdrawal and revocation of the federal allotment. Maine’s state flower note follows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Municipal Committee On Fire Department
Public Works Administration
PWA
Washington birthday program at Five Islands school draws large attendance
Five Islands school staged a Washington's Birthday entertainment at the Grange Hall on a Thursday. The program featured readings and songs by pupils including Mary Louise Pinkham, Charlotte Gray, Gertrude Carr, Russel Harford, Peggy Gray, and Edgar Carr, among others. After the show ice cream and cake were sold and a good sum was raised.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Five Islands
Washington
Grange Hall
Mary Louise Pinkham
Lincoln
Peggy Gray
Tommy
Tommie Hanna
Charles Carr
Russel Harford
Columbus
Lortie Delbert MacMahan
Marie Rittall
Eddie Carr
Audrey Pinkham
George Washington
George
Ehence Howard Chase
Ida MacGillivary
America
Leon Williams
Prue Apr Nee
Dennis Moore
Olive Williams
Irving Hanna
Lena MacMahan
Walter Moore
Hallowell
Sedgemere Road
Percy Savage
Lermond H. Rowe
Bath
Helen Rowe
Harold Pinkham
Grange
L. H. Rowe
Cora Mac Hanna
Bath Memorial Hospital
Harry Rodick
Charles MacMahan
Horace Rittall
Georgetown Center
William Chase
Freeport
Chase
Howard
Gertrude Carr
Charles Jampbell
Arrowsie
George Gray
Herman Barter
Gilbert Lewis
Georgetown
Thomas M. Hagan
Hagan
Herbert
Raymond Belanger
James T. MacMahan
Chiester MacMahan
Clinton Hanna
Belgrade
George Hanna
Alice Cromwell
Thomas Hagan
Percy MacGillivary
Woodrow Gray
Charles Lewis
Portland
Savage
Orville Rowe
George Laskey
Robinhood
Islands
Boston
T. E. Cromwell
Friends
Grange Circle
Franz Stevens
Joseph G. Stevens
Carlton Bridge
James M. Stevens
Yarmouth Academy
Theo McNeil
Chester MacMahan
All-Grammar School Teams Chosen by Six Captains
The six captains in the Y. M. C. A. Grammar School Basketball league selected first and second all-Y Grammar teams from 18 players. Clayton Thibodeau and Steeven John were named co captains of the first team. Arthur Warner was picked by every captain for a guard spot. Central Blues and Central Greens supplied multiple players, with Weeks Street and St. Mary’s also represented.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Y. M. C. A. Grammar School
Henry Gallant
John McLaughlin
James £Aling
Maurice Puffer
Frank Gallagher
David Gavagan
William Stilphen
Clayton Thibodeau
Steeven John
Arthur Warner
Weeks Street
Epocrat John
North Grammar
Clyde Stilphen
Central Greens
Weeks
Harold MacMahan
North ,Grammar
All-Intermediate League Teams Picked
The league officers named two honorary teams from votes by captains who could not select players from their own squads. Freshmen placed six players and Central Grammar Eighth graders four, totaling nineteen players. Ten earned top votes for first or second teams. three others earned minor honors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Grammar
Earle Brown
Earl Lowery
Manley Ellis
City clears 1933 state tax payment to avoid conservator
The city paid the overdue 1933 state tax of 24 398.78 on Feb 20 to avoid a state conservator. The treasurer reported 95 875.82 owed on state and county taxes for 1933 and 1934 at Feb 7. The city still owes 47 452.88 to the state for 1934 and 24 024.16 to Sagadahoc County for 1934 and 1933 taxes totaling 71 477.04.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holley
Small
Finance Committee
Treas
Young
Sagadahoc County
Also Mentioned on This Page
Joseph L. Hackett
Hartley Ranger
New Vineyard
Leon and
Deborah (Ridgeway) Hackett
Herbert Hackett
North Anson
Union Church
Fred 8 S. Curtis & Co
Fred S. Curtis & Co
Westport
James A. Gillies, Jr
Washington Party of
Nina Lodge
Fay Hyland
University of Maine
Maine Floral Emblem Society
Arthur Sewall 2d
Woman's Auxiliary of
Grace Church
Harold DeLong
Frederick E. Drake
St. Mary’s Guild
Kentucky
R&d Cross
House of the Good Shepherd
Fred D. Hill
Harry L. Day
Paul Mason
Central Church League
Adolph H. Ehlers
Lulu H. Turner
David L. Wilson
Horace Morse
Charles Soule
Perry L. Thompson
Bath Savings Institution
Harold Footer
St. Mary's
Morton Holbrook
Central Blacks
Alonzo Curtis
Frank Lee
Edward Hogan
Wesley Plummer
Tie
Thaxter Hill
Central Blues
George McKellar
Grays
Franklin Melville
Robert Lee
Central Whites
Harold Stanton
Oranges
Herbert Closson
Charles Grace
Edmund Guynn
Maynard MacFadden
Franklin County Association of
Court House
Ralph E. Eustis
Strong
Eustis
Willis Hardy
Phillips
C. H. Leighton
Clarence A. McCully
L. F.” Atwood
Century Indemnity Company
Hartford
D. M. Humphreys & Y
Federal Mutual Fire Insurance CO
Tremont Street