Richmond Grange officers and sports fill busy week
Enterprise grange Ladies Aid met at Mrs Clarabelle Crillen and Mrs Eth el Rankins home for officer election and a business session. Progressive grange installed officers by Charles White of Augusta. Richmond High basketball teams face two major opponents this week while the girls open strong and both teams prepare for upcoming games with Bowdeinham Winthrop Boothbay Harbor. Dorothy Quinn of Dalton Mass engages Gerald C Grondin of New York and Richmond after her engagement announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enterprise Grange Ladies’ Aid
Clarabelle Crillen
Ethel Rankins
Progressive Grange
Charles White
Augusta
Theda Porter Otis
Concord
N. H
Otis
Richmond
Charles
Augusta Porter
Pleasant
Richmond High
Dedham
Mass
Ray Parkhurst
Bill Berry
Winthrop
Winslow High
Waterville
Boothbay Harbor
Litchfield
Bowdeinham
James Connors
Frank Quinn
Dalton
Dorothy
Gerald C. Grondin
New York
Miss Quinn
Massachusetts Normal School
Pittsfield
Grondin
Charles Grondin
Richmond High School
Philathea Class Holds Joke Tree Supper Meeting
Members of the Philathea Class gathered on Corliss Street vestry for a joke tree supper. Mrs. Frederick P. Moffatt led the event with gifts exchanged for the president and teacher. Committee chairmen were appointed and a Valentine box trading post planned for Feb 12 at Mrs. Emerson Glidden’s home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick P. Moffatt
Earl Coombs
LaForrest G. Coombs
Corliss Street Vestry
F. Arthur Berry
Chester A. Plant
Eula M. Fielding
Velma I. Cornish
Bernice F. Achorn
Emerson B. Glidden
Tarbox Street
Steven H. Bracey
Helen Keene
Frank A. Bates
Dwinal E. Cornish
Raymond R. Palmer
Natalie B. McNeil
Melford N. Perham
Courtney E. Stover
Kenneth D. Hunt
Judge Dunton Seeks renomination in Sagadahoc Republican primary
Sagadahoc probate Judge Arthur J. Dunton announces he will seek renomination in the Republican primary. Now serving by governor appointment to fill the late Judge Walter S. Glidden's term, Dunton plans to obtain primary nominating papers. He has long served as county attorney and as Sagadahoc city municipal court judge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur J. Dunton
Sagadahoc
Dunton
Lewis O. Barrows
Walter S. Glidden
Glidden
Judge Dunton
Sagadahoc County
PREDICTS BREAK NEAR AT HAND
Office staff of the Registration Bureau reported for work on Monday morning and Sgt O'Donnell notified the State department and local police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Registration Bureau
O'Donnell
State Department
Enterprise Grange installs officers in Richmond meeting
The Enterprise grange of Richmond met Tuesday night and installed officers with Cleveland Marriner as installing officer. The first and second degrees will be conferred at the January 16 meeting. Miss Alice Reynolds of Brookline Massachusetts returned Monday after a week with her sister Mrs. Kerwin Butcher at 1345 Washington Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enterprise Grange of
Richmond
Cleveland Marriner
Jurer
Alice Reynolds
Brookline
Mass
Kerwin Butcher
Washington Street
Cahill Renominated for Bath Postmaster in Maine
President Roosevelt renominated Charles H. Cahill to be Bath Maine postmaster. Cahill a longtime Bath businessman and pharmacist, ran New Meadows Inn from 1899 until its 1937 fire, and previously led the Colonial club and served seven terms as mayor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
A.P
Roosevelt
Charles H. Cahill
Bath
Maine
Cahill
Henry W. Owen, Jr
New Meadows Inn
Colonial Club
New Era Opening for Officers of Fishing Vessels
The Boston fishing fleet moves from a privileged class to requiring examination and licenses for skippers mates and engineers. The shift, tied to Geneva agreements and U S policy, aims to issue officers competency certificates for vessels over 209 gross tons, with exemptions for war and primitive ships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
United States Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation
United States
Captains Courageous
Yesteryear
International Labor Organization Conference
Geneva
International Labor Conference
Roosevelt
Senate
Committee On Foreign Relations
New England
Edward H Cooley
Massachusetts Fisheries Association
Cooley
Christian -Smenee- Monitor
Mrs Dean Hosts Supper Party in Dummer Street
Mrs. Fred Dean of Dummer Street entertained with a Monday night supper party. Guests included former Mayor and Mrs. Donald N. Small, Mr. and Mrs. James A. Bimson, and Mrs. Lissa Dearborn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Dean
Dummer Street
Donald N. Small
James A. Bimson
Lissa Dearborn
Georgetown petitions for June Primaries reach town
Seven petitions for circulating signatures for the June primaries have been received in Georgetown but not widely circulated yet. Church attendance Sunday was small due to severe weather. Several local residents are noted in personal items including visits, illnesses, and minor injuries with family movements between Bath Portland and Marblehead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Koehlwetter
Moffatt
Corliss Street Baptist Church
Bath
Harry L. Horne
Chester B. Horne
Portland
H. M. Trafton
Roy M. Newman
Marblehead
Mass
J. H. Brown
Indian Point
West Newton
Newman
Flower Talk and Garden Club Plans at Cosmo Group
Cosmoopolitan Garden club held a Monday meeting with Mrs G Thomas Murphy presenting Dorothy Biddle's flower arrangement book and demonstrations. Members discussed park benches versus flower beds, a regional flower show, and seed catalogs while over 30 attended and officers rested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. Thomas Murphy
Dorothy Biddle
Cosmopolitan Garden Club
Murphy
Carl V. Kennedy
Wildlife Group
Bowen Torrey
Community Betterment
West Rockport
Medomak
Belfast
Topsham
Hedwig Benedict
Roscoe P. McFadden
Carl Y. Kennedy
Front Street Block Changes Ownership
The three and a half story brick block at 102 104 Front Street, last leased to Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co, was sold Tuesday afternoon from Bath Trust Co to Lewis E Wilson, a druggist. He will convert space into two stores and may remodel the second floor. Wilson owns nearby blocks and has inter est in adjacent property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Front Street
Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co
Bath Trust Co
Lewis E. Wilson
Wilson
Sewall J
William H. Watson
C. W. Clifford, Jr
C. W. Bowers
Y.M.C.A
Mr. Wilson
Hall & Hunt
Burnham Auto Supply
Dromore Grange Holds Regular Meeting With 30 Members
The Dromore grange met Tuesday night in the grange hall with 30 present. A brief program featured reminiscences by Worthy Master Elfreda Perkins, a quartet performance, and a violin and piano accompaniment. Wesley Harrington spoke on a trip to Mississippi. Installation of officers is set for January 22 with Charles M. White of Augusta as installing officer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dromore Grange
Grange
Elfreda Perkins
Linette Caverly
Rachel Scott
Isobel Smart
Martha Beals
Edward Waters
Wesley Harrington
Missisippi
the Wildwood
the Grange
Charles M. White
Augusta
Probate Court Session Records Quietly Proclaims Wills and Appointments
In Sagadahoc probate court top stories show wills proved and executors named without bond for Goud Leavitt Card Reed, with inventories, accounts, and first and final administrations filed or allowed. Conservators appointed for Low and Goodspeed estates. petitions granted for sale, amendments, and conservators in Georgetown. Authorities include Judge Dunton and executors named from Tops ham Phippsburg Bowdoinham Richmond Bath and Georgetown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dunton
Sagadahoc
Arthur V. Goud
Topsham
Nellie W. Goud
Lyman B Goud
Frank P. Leavitt
Phippsburg
Helen M. Leavitt
Joel P. Card
Bowdeinham
Ernest H. Card
Ellsworth B. Reed
Richmond
Effie M. Reed
Grace P. Cobb
Boston
Mass
William T. Plummer
Ardmore
Frederick E. Drake
Bath
James L. Dort
Woolwich
Anna Larrabee
Newton
Elizabeth A Small
Gilbert M. Eliott, Jr
Portland
Guy C. Low
Georgetown
Dorothy Farrow
Senator Sewall Talks on Aviation at Bath Flying Club
Senator Summer Sewall spoke to 18 Bath Flying Club members in Dr Charles F Rush offices about wartime experiences and advances in commercial aviation. He is Maine's WWI ace and served as a United Airlines director. Next meeting plans a public dance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Summer Sewall
Bath Flying Club
Charles F. Rush
Senator Sewall
Maine
Alled Forces
United Airlines
Nine Admitted To Citizenship
The report covers a court session involving multiple civil suits following a car crash on Commercial Street. Claims include $400 damages by Fullerton against Cooper for alleged recklessness, a cross action for $1,000 by Cooper via his father, and a $5,000 suit by Brown against Fullerton. The accident left serious neck and chin injuries, with flying glass from the windshield noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Street
Cooper
Fullerton
Bath Postal Service
Bath Tron Works Corp
Earl
Brown
Bridgwai
Leon Walker
Portland
Fillerton
Rubin
Rank ‘T Powers
Lewiston
Fred Randof Augusta
Carlos W. Messenger
William Stevens Old Topsham
Lorin D Small
Prand Jai Menmibers
Foremain Howe
Ure Arrowsie
Norman JP
Drummond Bath
Arthur Wood
Topsham
Philip GG
Alexander W A. Foster Wett
Bath
Donnell Wooclwich
Frank A
Hodgdon
Econay
John J Keegan
Gardiner R. Deering
Frank O. Dunton
Ellis J. Aldrich
Louis Ao
Jack
Lisbon Falls
Weston M. Hillon
Damuriscotla
Five Islands notes and property sale near Sedgemere
The Sedgemere property has been sold to Mr. Eustis of Boston with frontage on Sheepscot Bay and Harmonys Harbor. Community items include building site preparation, library events, and gatherings at Five Islands with residents from Bath Worchester and Boston. Edith Knight sends jig puzzles, and local residents frequent Bath and Woolwich for visits and errands. Vernon E Gray Jr has enlisted in the navy and will depart for Newport via Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sedgemere
Eustis
Boston
Sheepscot Bay
Harmony's
Franz Stevens
James Stevens
Lloyd Pinkham
Anne Saint
Library
Good Neighbor Club
Bath
Farber Davis
Charles Kenney
Alice Cromwell
Harry R. Dougherty
Bellevue
Elizabeth Mae
Frederick Edwin Broad
Charles Knight
Waterbury
Conn
Madeline Berry
Mabel ‘Dickey
Woolwich
M. F. Butts
Worcester
Mass
Five Islands
Carl Breslin
Wollaston
Blenn
Sedgemere Road
George Laskey
J.R. Blackie
West Georgetown
J. Stevens
Georgetown
J. J. Gibson
Gibson
D. L. Howard
Vernon E. Gray, Jr
Navy
Newport
R. T. Vincent Davis
Bath Iron Works
P. D. Wilkins
Lewiston
G. A. Cunningham
Gardiner
Wilkins
John Huskins
Alice Mulligan
Plummer
Ground Fliers Fly Cute Model Planes
Tiny six ounce engines power small planes noted for remarkable endurance and altitude. The model plane hobby draws doctors, lawyers, and professionals, with more than a thousand U S clubs and official records kept by the National Aeronautics Association Contest Board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
L. B. Pope
Scientific American
Natonal Aeronautics Association
NAA
My Friend Abroad Directory for Youth in Boston
A directory listing at 248 Boylston Street Boston Massachusetts describes My Friend Abroad as a contact resource for boys and girls of all nations seeking correspondence with individuals in other countries. It notes availability to schools organizations and individuals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boylston Street
Boston
Mass
Obituary for Judge Henry F. Atkinson a Miami pioneer
Information has reached Miami of the death of Judge Henry F. Atkinson. A frequent Bath visitor, he helped found Dade county’s legal presence by opening the first law office there in 1897. The Dade county bar mourns an illustrious member and Miami’s early citizenry loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
Fla
Henry F. Atkinson
Bath
Dade
Atkinson
John P. Carey, Jr
Humphrey P. Randall Dies in Florida at 72
Humphrey P. Randall of Portland 72 a longtime salesman for Henry K. Wampole died suddenly of a heart attack Saturday in St. Petersburg Florida. He retired ten years ago and spent summers in Maine and winters in Florida. He was active in golf and Masonic circles near Bowdoinham his birthplace. His brother Charles B. Randall and Mrs. Randall traveled to Florida to arrange removal of the body to Maine. Funeral arrangements to be announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Humphrey P. Randall
Portland
Henry K. Wampole
Maine
St. Petersburg
Fla
Mr. Randall
Congress Square
Florida
Bowdoinham
Samuel W
Courtney P. Randall
Charles B. Randall
Randall
St. Petesburg
John D McPherson Former Bath resident dies in Quoddy Village
John D McPherson a former Bath resident died Friday afternoon at the home of his niece Mary E Rich in Quoddy Village. The body was taken to Bath for a nine o'clock mass at St Mary's church and burial in Calvary cemetery. He was born in Prince Edward Island and worked as a ship carpenter in Bath Portland and Quincy Mass. He is survived by a sister Mrs Mary E Bradbury of Portland a brother Thomas McPherson of Bridgewater Massachusetts and a niece Mary E Rich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John D. McPherson
Bath
Mary E. Rich
Quoddy Village
St. Mary's Church
Calvary Cemetery
Mr. McPherson
Prince Edward Island
John
Ellen McPherson
Portland
Quincy
Mass
Mary E. Bradbury
Thomas McPherson
Bridgewater
Magg
Henderson Urged to Seek Sheriff Nomination
Friends of former sheriff Albert Henderson now at Bath Iron Works press him to enter the primary for sheriff but he has not announced plans to run again. Life's Party photos feature Miss Nancy Hyde in Bowdoin Christmas House party scenes with her sister Mrs. Converse G. Fenn. Frances Tuttle conducts a reading demo for Bath teachers as part of a lecture series. A Sagadahoc County drive committee plans events for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis fund raising climaxing with the President's Birthday Ball on Friday Jan. 26.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Henderson
Bath Iron Works
Henderson
Nancy Hyde
John H Hyde
Elmhurst
Bowdoin
Miss Hyde
Converse G. Fenn
Bath
Delta Kappa Epsilon
Bruce H. M. White
Topsham
Life
Frances Tuttle
Lynn
Mass
Center Street
Sagadahoc
National Foundation For
City Hall
You Get All the Gravy Paper Plate with Foil Eating Surface
A new paper plate features an aluminum foil eating surface that is water and grease proof and impervious to heat and cold. The design aims to reduce waste by avoiding the need for picnickers to sacrifice gravy or mayonnaise on paper.
Mrs. Frank P. Lemont 81 died in Park Ridge Illinois
Mrs. Frank P. Lemont of Park Ridge Illinois aged 81 widow of Frank P. Lemont died December 24 in Park Ridge after a long illness. She was born May 10 1858 in Bath daughter of Andrew and Harriet Jackson and attended Bath High School class of 1878. Survivors include son F Harold Lemont daughter Gladys Lemont Hall and one granddaughter Mrs W F E Knock. Burial was in the Hall family lot in Park Ridge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank P. Lemont
Park Ridge
Ill
Bath
Andrew and
Harriet Crocker Jackson
Lemont
Old
Bath High School
Charles F. Hathaway
Cambridge
Mass
Charles T. Jackson
Sooth Street
West
Waltham,Mass
F. Harold Lemont
New Orleans
Gladys Lemont Hall
Everett A. Hall
Big Western Electric Co
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
James L. McQuarrie
Western Electric Co
Hall
Hezekiah Harrington 84 of Phippsburg Dies
Hezekiah Harrington 84 of Phippsburg lifelong fisherman co founder of Nazarene churches in Bath and Sebasco died January 3 at Bath Memorial Hospital after working in Georgetown wholesale fish and grocery business. Survived by wife Hildred three sons Everett Irving Edward. six grandchildren including Mark Harrington of Philadelphia Irving Jr Wesley Arthur. Gertrude Dwyer Brunswick and Ralph Pye Phippsburg. 11 great grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hezekiah Harrington
Phippsburg
Nazarene
Bath
Sebasco
Bath Memorial Hospital
Georgetown
Hildred Harrington
Everett
Irving
Edward Harrington
High Street
Mark Harrington
Philadelphia
Irving Harrington Jr
Boston
Wesley
Arthur Harrington
Gertrude Dwyer
Brunswick
Ralph Pye
Death of Bath resident Cora E Feltis widow of Lorenzo Feltis
Mrs Cora E Feltis died in Bath on Saturday after living in the city for several years. She is survived by four children, 12 grandchildren, 21 great grandchildren, two nieces and three nephews. Her husband Lorenzo Feltis, a former Bath police officer, died two years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
South
Bristol
Cora E. Feltis
Lorenzo Feltis
Harrington Funeral Held in Phippsburg Center
Hezekiah Harrington of Phippsburg Center died recently and was buried in Oak Grove Bath after a Friday funeral at Curtis Funeral Home with Rev. Earl T. French officiating. Bearers were his sons Edward Irving and Everett Harrington and grandson Wesley Harrington. Aroostook Republican requests car Carnival photos as six weeks remain before the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hezekiah Harrington
Phippsburg Center
Curtis Funeral Home
Washington Street
Earl T. French
Church of the Nazarene
Edward
Irving
Everett Harrington
Wesley Harrington
Oak Grove
Bath
Scout Landry Receives Golden Palm at Dexter Court of Honor
Clifford Landry of Troop 51 Boy Scouts of America earns the Golden Palm after completing ten merit badges beyond the Eagle requirement of 21 and previously achieving Eagle in April 1938. In November 1938 he received the Bronze Palm for five more merit badges. His friends expect the Silver Palm as next.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clifford Landry
Troop 51
Boy Scouts of America
Dexter
Scout Landry
Undertaker Receives New Year Call In Midnight Joke
A Rockland undertaker was awakened by a caller saying an old man had died. The undertaker learned it was a joke about the old year. Nearby resident Mrs. Elsie Piarinen reports two crows in a pasture signaling an early open winter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rockland
Elsie Piarinen
Quell
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Philathea
Enterprise Grange
Cosmo Garden Club
William H. Haskell
Sherwood Aldrich
Marcellus W. Adams
Carne C. Adams
William H. Wyman
George M. Wyman
Ernest L. Goodspeed
John Hall
Carrie C. Adams
Mary Arline McNeil Gay
Margaret A. Sylvester
Sewall
Henry Atkinson
John D. M’pherson
Park Ridge, Il
MR. Harrington
The
Aroostook Republican
Fred S. Curtis & CO
Thomas R. Huston
Tuneral Service
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