Specialist outlines new fertilizers and vegetables at Montsweag talk
R M Riley, extension vegetable specialist, spoke at Montsweag grange hall on fresh fertilizer methods and crop varieties. He described turning straw and refuse into fertilizer, recommended tomato and spinach varieties, and noted care with nitrate levels. County agent Charles L Eastman available for guidance. Farm Bureau slated next meeting for January 4.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. M. Riley
Montsweag Grange Hall
University of 2
Farm Bureau
Frank Metcalf
Wilson Bailey
Mr. Riley
New York
Bloomsdale Savoy
King of Denmark
Virginia Savoy
Bonnie Best
Marglebe
Cortland
Riley
Davis
Lowe’s
Champion
Maine
Stokes River
Crosby Egyptiah
Detroit
Mary Washington
Ouinty
Charles L. Eastman
Maine Street
Auburn
New Year's Day Deaths in Brunswick Claims Parents and Infant
Hazel B Colby and James D Colby died within days of each other from pneumonia at Brunswick hospital and Pejepscot. Their infant son Allen Charles Colby survived them. The Colbys, adopted daughter of Judson Langdon, lived in Brunswick and had ties to Rich mond and Topsham. C Nelson Rogers listed as owner of the Coriol anus steel bark tied at Bath Iron Works earlier. A separate Augusta birth notes Miss 1933, born New Year at Augusta General Hospital to Joseph Camipeau and wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Allen Charles Colby
Brunswick
Baby Allen
Hazel B. Colby
James D. Colby
Brunswick Hospital
Mr. Colby
Brunswick High School
Pejepscot
Topsham
James W
Clara Colby
Pejepscot Paper Co
Charles and
Russell
Olive
C. Nelson Rogers
West Africa Trading Co
Boston
Bath Iron Works Corp
Maine Central Railroad
Augusta
Joseph Camipeau
Mt. Vernon Avenue
Augusta General Ad
Extension Work Highlights Challenges Facing Area Farmers
County extension notes multiple farming problems led by low prices high taxes and limited capital. It details improved potato seed work lime campaigns and runout land recovery to raise yields and reduce costs, with figures from 1920 to 1931 and references to seed plots lime tonnage and cooperators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. J. Shaw
River Road
Richmond
East Livermore
Lisbon
Lewiston
Crouth
Atherton
Aroostook
Vermont
Prince Edward Island
Corinna Seed Potato Co
O. N. Palsifer
West Minot
Maine
Androscoggin
West Bath Grange Elects Young Officers for Year
West Bath Grange No. 164 installed a largely youthful slate for the coming year led by Master A. Bernard Henderson. New officers include James A. Thurston overseer and Kenneth Smith steward, with Lillian E. Lewin lecturer and Dorothy A. Welch secretary among others. Continuous service records show long tenures for several veterans, while Henderson is noted as possibly the youngest master in the grange’s history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin C. Patten
Topsham
George Clifford
Harold Hildreth
West Bath Grange
Grange
A. Bernard Henderson
James A. Thurston
Kenneth Smith
Henry J. White
Lillian E. Lewin
William H. White
Herbert S. Ca
Dorothy A. Welch
Charles T. Henderson
Pomona
Albert F. McFadden
Ceres
Scott R. Ward
Flora
Jean L. Danforth
Harold Peacock
Young Henderson
Mr. White
Herbert S. Cavanaugh
East Brunswick
Fred K. Sturtevant
Edwin W. Haggett
Herbert A. Henderson
Legislature Begins as Holmes Receives Votes for Senate President
Augusta reports the opening of the legislative session with 26 Republicans in the Senate. One Republican senator crossed party lines to vote for Democratic candidate Herbert E. Holmes of Lewiston, who drew eight ballots. Senator Harold H. Murchie of Washington County won the presidency with 16 votes, nine Senators abstaining or voting otherwise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta
Senate
Herbert E. Holmes
Lewiston
Holmes
Haroldh. Murchie
Washington County
Murchie
Senate halves senator postage and phone allowances
The Maine Senate cut the $10 monthly postage allowance to $5 and the 50 call limit to 25 for the session, eliminating fountain pens Maine Register copies and daily newspaper subscriptions. The decision followed a closed Republican caucus last night as part of economy moves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta
Senate
Maine Register
Republican Caucus Nominations Headed to Legislature
In Augusta on January 4 the Republican caucus names Robinson Tobey for secretary of state with 105 votes to 12 for Judge Edgar C. Smith. Harold H. Murchie wins Senate president. Franz A. Burkett is chosen for House speaker with Farris withdrawing. Clyde R. Chapman defeats Hastings and Southard for attorney general. Earl L. Wing leads the House assistant clerk race on the second ballot, with Hayes and Bowers trailing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta
Robinson C. Tobey
Brunswick
Edgar C. Smith
Tobey
Senate
Harold H. Murchie
Calais
House
Franz A. Burkett
Portland
Ralph W. Farris
Clyde R. Chapman
Belfast
Hugh W. Hastings
Fryeburg
Frank E. Southard
Chapman
Earl I. Hayes
Windsor
Maurice A. ‘Bowers
Wing
Hayes
Bowers
County to ask Legislature for $45,500 budget for 1933 34
Sagadahoc county commissioners approve a two year operating estimate totaling 48 000 with 2 500 in receipts leaving a net appropriation of 45 500 for 1933 and 1934 The rise over prior years is due mainly to bridges county aid for roads increased court costs and higher prisoner care costs. The county also taxes Perkins Island for 302 37.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sagadahoc
Perkins
Supreme Judicial Court
Twin County Farm Bureau
Changes in City Charter Discussed by Committee
Six of fifteen charter committee members met to mull a mayor council system with seven councilors and a biennial September election shift. Proposals include at large nominations, three year terms with lot based initial assignments, and future drafting for a legislative act and public adoption at the next election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charter Committee
Small
Board of Education
N. Gratz Jackson
Edward W. Bridgham
Harold P. Small
E. D. Hardin
Harry M. Huse
George C. Quicksall
Brunswick police chief urges plan to study laws for Maine session
Chief William B. Edwards of Brunswick addressed Sagadahoc Pomona grange urging grangers to study proposed laws and repeals. He urged higher gas taxes for trucks and rich drivers, stronger gun licensing, and strict Sunday laws to curb crime and accidents, while noting immigrant opportunities and farm rehabilitation views.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William B. Edwards
Brunswick
Maine
Sagadahoc Pomona Grange
Dirigo Grance
Ford
Congress
Edwards
Massachusetts
Grangers
January Weather Outlook From Lewiston Authority
Sam Morrell of the Lewiston weather authority expects a normal January with a warmest period from the third to the 19th. Three storm spells are forecast: second to eighth, 15th to 21st, and 26th to month end, with fair and cool overall conditions. Mrs. Harold A. Burbank visits family in Middle Street while returning from Hartford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam Morrell
Lewiston Weather Authority
Sam
Harold A. Burbank
Archibald Main
Middle Street
Hartford
Conn
Mr. Burbank
Bath
Sailing Vessel W. R. Grace Reminisced In Grace Liner Santa Paula
A mural in the Grace Liner Santa Paula portrays the W. R. Grace, a Bath Maine built 1873 three deck sailing ship famed in Down East days. The piece recounts its 13 5 day Cape Horn voyages and its last ill fated 1889 voyage from Havre to Philadelphia. The ship’s builders and captains Dudley O. Black and Joseph W. Wallnutt are noted along with William R. Grace and the Grace & Co. trade firm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. R. Grace
New York
San Francisco
Charles R. Patterson
Santa Paula
California
Pacific Northwest
Havana
Panama
Central Americas
Bath
Maine
William R. Grace
W. R. Grace & Co
W.R. Grace
Cape Horn
Dudley O. Black
Searsport
Black
Joseph W. Walmutt
Lewes
Delaware
Havre
Philadelphia
Japan
Arthur H. Clark
Joseph W. Wallnutt
Also Mentioned on This Page
Montsweag
West Bath
Republican
Edith Prince
Dirigo
E. Mason Wright
Alfreda Perkins
Dromore
E. C. Patten
James B. Lemont
Lillian Masse
Ella J. Douglas
George
Martha Washington
Albert Henderson
Merrymeeting Grange
Sagadahoc Pomona
Ella Purington
Merrymeeting
Bessie Snow
John Allan
Harraseeker Grange
Freeport
Winifred Rackley
Chief Edwards
Bertha Wright
Edwin A. Rogers
Milward Patten
Edwin Rogers
Marshall Roydon
Thomas Estabrook
Minnie Estabrook
Lorenzo Masse
Peter Cushing
Annie Cushing
Williams
Congdon
Clara Congdon
Topsham Grange
Island of Wight
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