Richmond Fraternal Installations and Community Notices
Multiple Richmond organizations report recent meetings and installations. Officers sworn in include Mil dred Gilpatrick as president and Mildred Davis as chaplain with Viola James and Dorothy Jones taking multiple posts. Other items note a Richmond Forth Bureau session, a Sportsmen association junior program, Fire Department activities, OES and Library meetings, engagements, YAYF society event, and local property purchases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evelyn Hinkley
Dorothy Jones
Mildred Davis
Alice Wedge
Viola James
Marion McFarland
Fern Perry
Gilpatrick
Local notices and visits feature Brunswick society
Beulah Rebekah lodge members attend a reception for Jessie A Kilbride and Louise W Stevens at Evening Star lodge in Brunswick. Mrs Charles Ulmer returns from a visit in Portsmouth NH. Mrs Minnie Skillins, former local resident and Mt Carmel member, dies in Somerville MA on Jan 4. Henry S Densmore recovers from a Gardiner accident. Clyde Thurlow visits Frank Beedle. Giles Skinner family returns from Cambridge MA. Norris Sidelinger Jr and family visit Charles St Pierre in Brunswick. Neil Powers family spend weekend in Winthrop. Emma Plummer wintering with Della Grondin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beulah Rebekah Lodge
Mt. Carmel
O.E.S. Henrys
Densmore
South Gardiner
Clyde Thurlow
Frank Beedle
Giles Skinner
Cambridge
Mass
Norris Sidelinger Jr
Charles St
Topsham Grangers Install Officers in Candlelit Ceremony
A large audience attended the Topsham Grange Hall event as Lottie York of Maine State Grange installed the 1950 officers with candle light. West Bath Grange sent 44 members and guests from Sagadahoc and Vermont attended. An oyster stew supper followed and Doris Wing previewed a future program with new entertainers.
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Aple
Topsham Grange Hall
Lottie York
Maine State Grange
Bernice McGlinchy
West Bath
Canadian Movies at Winter Street Club Event
At the Winter Street Men’s club meeting two Canadian Travel Film Library films will be shown Lakehead Nipigon Holiday and Rocky Mountain Trout. A church Boy Scout supper fundraises with Harrison Bowie James Clappison and Neil Wilson assisting. supper at 6 30. Dart Ball follows the films for sports enthusiasts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winter Street Men's Club
Canadian Travel Film Library
Lakehead
March of Dimes Color Book Distribution Planned at Philco
A batch of 100 copies of Annie Laurie's Philco Story and the March of Dimes color book arrived Tuesday noon at Stewart's Philco store. Children with an elder may obtain a book by donating a dime or more into the Tron Lung collector at 129 Front Street to support iron lung patients.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annie Laurie
Philco
Stewart
Front Street
Open House Night at Huse Memorial School
Public invited Thursday from six to eight to visit Huse Memorial School and inspect the new addition. The rooms showcase modern school facilities and should interest all attendees.
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Huse Memorial School
Weekend Visits and Moves Highlight Local Notes
Local residents report weekend time at Popham and Boston. Mr. and Mrs Lester Savoie of 161 Middle Street spent the weekend at Popham. Mr. and Mrs Harold Rubin of High Street visited their Popham Beach cottage on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs Wilbur Ketchum moved from 11 Tower Circle to Union Street on Saturday. Miss Katherine Conley of Page Street and Miss Mildred G Nichols of High Street spent the weekend in Boston. Horace Morse the First National Bank cashier resumed duties after a week’s vacation. Miss Joyce Perkins of Cranberry Point Phippsburg has returned there after a period away. Miss Anna Hill of Senter’s Inc will return Monday from a two week vacation. Mr and Mrs Howard Farr and children Donald and Ronald of 6 Marshall Avenue visited Lewiston on Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lester Savoie
Middle Street
Popham
Harold Rubin
High Street
Popham Beach
Wilbur Ketchum
Tower Circle
Union Street
Katherine Conley
Page Street
Mildred G. Nichols
Boston
Horace Morse
First National Bank
Joyce
Harry Bedford
Whitingsville
Mass
West Georgetown
Dorothy W. Stuart
New York City
Faylene Rowe
Eleanor Marks
Bath
Miss Marks
P.T.A
Huse
Morse
Harry Carlisle
Everett
Elmer Palmer
Aubrey Fullerton
Ernest Heal
Edward C. Clarey
Vernon E. Gray
Five Islands
Roy M. Newman
Cecelia
Phoenix
Roosevelt Dam
Carroll Powers
Robinhood
Boothbay Harbor
Fred Davis
Maud P. Thayer
West Point
Vernon Gray
J. R. Blackie
Gilbert Standish
First
Georgetown Working League holds winter meetings
The Georgetown Working League met at Mrs. Joseph F Higgins home with Mrs J R Blackie and Mrs Walter Cummings hosting. Officers were elected including Mrs J R Blackie president Miss Belle Heald vice president and Mrs Harold Brown second vice president. Plans call for meetings every two weeks through winter and a buffet lunch followed the session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph F. Higgins
J. R. Blackie
Walter Cummings
William A. Todd
Belle Heald
Harold Brown
Earle Hagan
James Oliver
Melvin Cunningham
Irving Hunt
Roland Peterson
Russell Pinkham
Flower Fund
Todd
PTA
First Baptist Vestry
Thomas J. Cummings
Mr. Cummings
Bath
Nichols Pond
Howard G. Heald
Baptisms Highlight Brunswick Sunday Services
Elizabeth Harris visited Brunswick Sunday morning. Faylene Rowe was among attendees baptized during the Berean Baptist church service Sunday evening in Brunswick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Harris
Brunswick
Berean Baptist Church
Faylene Rowe
Cosmopolitan Garden Club Reorganizes for Year
Members of the Cosmopolitan club met to reorganize the Garden club with Miss Alice Johnson appointed chairperson until April 1 when a president will be elected. Officers include Linwood Boardman as vice president and Raymond Hutchins as secretary, with an advisory board and revised by-laws to be presented January 23.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cosmopolitan Club
Garden Club
Elizabeth Moffatt
Harold Fish
Alice Johnson
Linwood Boardman
Raymond Hutchins
Allenable
Fred Quimby
Margaret Foote
Frederick Moffatt
Emerton Gross
West Bath Grange Hosts Pomona Meeting
West Bath grange opened its Monday meeting with “Beautiful Grange” and announced Sagada hoc Pomona will meet Jan 25 at West Bath with a 6 30 supper and the conferring of the fifth degree. The program featured songs by William McNamara a question on Winter impact on Spring planting a contest won by David Henderson and more readings and a guest granger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath
Alice Smith
Marguerite Mulcahy
Bertha Palmer
Fred Cary
Bernice McGlinchy
Irving Broadbent
Mercie MacFadden
Cecil E Paine Retires From Hyde Windlass
Cecil E Paine longtime vice president and director of Hyde Windlass Company retires after joining the firm at its 1897 organization He is a Portland native and MIT graduate of 1893 earlier worked at Bath Iron Works and Sewall Company Central Church Ladies Aid to meet Thursday at parish house at two with a 25 cent swap party item donation expected
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cecil E. Paine
Hyde Windlass Company
Portland
Paine
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bath Iron Works, Ltd
Sewall & Company
Central Church Ladies Aid
Five Islands Weather and Local Happenings Recap
The report notes rain and ice clearing followed by a warm spell and seasonal temperatures over the weekend. It covers a cancelled Good Neighbor club meeting due to weather, court activity with Francis Pierce and P B Savage on juries, baptisms at Berean Baptist in Brunswick, funeral services for Clyde Pinkham, and various local visits and gatherings at households across Georgetown, Brunswick, Kittery, Derby Line, and Bath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Good Neighbor Club
Francis Pierce
Sagadahoc Superior Court
P. B. Savage
Berean Baptist Church
Brunswick
Faylene Rowe
Alfred Rowe
Georgetown
Rudolph Pinkham
Victor Pinkham
North-Center PTA Meeting Highlights School Nurse Report
North-Center PTA met at Grace church parish house with Mrs. Marjorie Boucher substituting for guest speaker Velda Gordon. Boucher reported 1256 children inspected in Bath schools between 1948 and 1949 while Dr. John F. Dougherty examined 963. The North Grammar school earned the highest dental certificate percentage. fire chief Frates donated two cots for children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North-Center
PTA
Grace Church Parish House
Marjorie Boucher
Velda Gordon
Boucher
Bath
John F. Dougherty
North Grammar School
Richard J. Frates
Arah Richmond
North Primary
Center Street
Linwood Haynes
Russell Kenney
Homer Potter
Fred Davis
Maine GOP Leader Mrs Wing Visits Sumner Sewall
Mrs Earl Wing of Kingfield Maine and wife of Justice Earl Wing is introduced as a Republican National Committee woman. She visits former Governor and Mrs Sumner Sewall on Washington Street, signaling party connections in Maine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl Wing
Kingfield
Sumner Sewall
Washington Street
Wing
Maine
Five Islands Plan Get Together Second Annual Event
The Five Islands Community Club and Five Islands vacationists host their second winter gathering at Cham berlayne Junior College in Boston. Nathaniel Hasenfus will describe the Otter Cliff house fire, with slides at 8 30 followed by Echoes from the Minstrel Show and dancing. Bridge and whist run concurrently, with refreshments at 10. Members and prospective members invited. those with slides asked to mail them to Hasenfus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Five Islands Community Club
Five Islands
Chamberlayne Junior College
Commonwealth Avenue
Boston
Nathaniel Hasenfus
Chamberlayne Board of Trustees
Otter Cliff House
Herbert Moore
Arthur Long
Gordon Clarke
Felix Salamone
Nat Hasenfus
Kirk Street
West Roxbury
Topsham Grangers Plan Saturday Variety Program
Topsham grange will host a Saturday evening variety program led by lecturer Doris Wing. The event features community singing, a surprise number, a Donald Coombs saxophone solo, Mary Burgess tap routine, Carver's orchestra selections, and a closing thought by Cleora Tarbox. A cast for Farmer's Frolics to be staged in February will be announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topsham Grange
Doris Wing
The
Grange
Donald Coombs
Mary Burgess
Carver
Cleora Tarbox
Funeral services for Nellie Marr Card
Nellie Marr Card funeral services were held Wednesday at 2 from Curtis Funeral home. Rev. Joseph O. Purdue of Winter Street Congregational church officiated. Bearers were Harrison Mc Caffrey Alphonse O. Burnham Allen McAllister and Ambrose F. Curran. Entombment in Oak Grove cemetery with burial planned later in spring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nellie Marr Card
Curtis Funeral Home
Joseph O. Purdue
Winter Street Congregational Church
Harrison McCaffrey
Alphonse O. Burnham
Allen McAllister
Ambrose F. Curran
Oak Grove Cemetery
Funeral Service For Charles T Jackson At Mayo & Son
Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at two from the A. F. Mayo & Son Funeral residence in the 819 High street complex. Rev. David L. Wilson and Rev. Laforest E. Hodgkins officiated with bearers Richard Hallet Walter Day Rudolph McRae Harmon Eliason and George Lansetter. Body entombed in the family lot at Oak Grove in the Spring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles T. Jackson
A. F. Mayo & Son
High Street
David L. Wilson
Laforest E. Hodgkins
Richard Hallet
Walter Day
Rudolph McRae
Harmon Eliason
George Lansetter
Oak Grove
Requiem Mass for Councilman Thomas J. Cummings
A high mass for Councilman Thomas J. Cummings was sung at St Marys Church by Rev Fr Timothy C Maney. Bearers were J H Torrey Heyward Chessman D L Lord Edward Footer K G Lennox and Ray Parker. The body was entombed for burial in the spring at Oak Grove.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas J. Cummings
St. Mary’s
Timothy C. Maney
J. H. Torrey
Heyward Chessman
D. L. Lord
Edward Footer
K. G. Lennox
Ray Parker
Oak Grove
Funeral services for Edgar N Drake
Funeral services for Edgar Nelson Drake were held Monday afternoon at two from Curtis Funeral Home Washington Street with Rev. M A Gordon of Beacon Street Church officiating. Interment was at Oak Grove Cemetery with burial planned in Oak Cemetery Georgetown in the spring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edgar Nelson Drake
Curtis Funeral Home
Washington Street
M. A. Gordon
Beacon Street
Oak Grove Cemetery
Oak Cemetery
Georgetown
Charles T Jackson Dies in Manchester New Hampshire at 87
Bath friends mourn the sudden death of Charles T. Jackson aged 87 at the home of his daughter and son in law in Manchester New Hampshire. He was born in Bath in 1863 and left a long career in clothing retail bicycles steamboats and auctioneering. Survived by his widow Elizabeth Stover Jackson daughter Mrs Francis Hill of Manchester and four grandchildren.
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Bath
Charles T. Jackson
Francis Hill
Manchester
N. H
Jackson
Crocker
Rice Brothers
Boothbay Harbor
Farmington
Bath Merchants’ Association
Brewster
Carlton Bridge
U. S. Employment Service
Sagadahock Block
Telephone Company
Central Church
Elizabeth Stover Jackson
Manchester, N. H
Torrey Couple Observe 25th Wedding Anniversary
Mr and Mrs J Haviland Torrey of 912 Middle Street marked their twenty fifth wedding anniversary on Tuesday with friends and neighbors stopping by. Four of their five children Joseph Richard Frank and Edward were home while daughter Mrs Fred O Hayward Jr and grandson Stephen Hayward of South Portland could not attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Haviland
Charles Condos Dies in Memo rial Hospital at 65
Charles Condos 65 died suddenly Thursday night at Memorial Hospital after a brief stay. He owned Washington Street Fruit Co. Inc. at 716 Washington Street and was a longtime city merchant. Born in Greece, son of Louis and Mary Condos, he lived at 716 Middle. He is survived by sister Mrs Josephine Karellas of Danvers and nephew Louis Kondos of Bath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Condos
Memorial Hospital
Washington Street Fruit Co. Inc
Washington Street
Middle Street
Greece
Louis
Mary Condos
Josephine
Karellas
Danvers
Mass
Louis Kondos
Bath
Bath City Councilman Thomas J. Cummings Dies at 50
Thomas J. Cummings 50 longtime Bath municipal figure died after a period of ill health. Born Pottsville May 12 1899 he lived in Bath since 1912 serving on the old City Council and as Ward 6 councilman. He worked at Bath Iron Works and was active in Elks Knights of Columbus and local politics. He is survived by his wife Helen and daughter Elizabeth along with several siblings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas J. Cummings
Memorial Hospital
Pottsville
John
Mary McGarn Cummings
Bath
Old City Council
Helen Powers Cummings
Elizabeth Reed
Mary Cummings
Frances Desmond
Margaret Flaherty
Robert
Edward Cummings
Rita Stanton
Boston
Bath Lodge of
MRS NELLIE MARR CARD DIES AT 82 IN BATH AREA
Mrs Nellie Marr Card 82 died at the home of her granddaughter Mrs Ambrose Curran on old Brunswick road after an illness beginning after Christmas Born December 11 1867 in Ashdale Phippsburg she spent most of her life in Bath Surviving are one daughter in law nine grandchildren and ten great grandchildren with several in Bath Union N J Philadelphia and Baltimore and two in Bath and Worcester Mass Funeral arrangements were not listed
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nellie Marr Card
Ambrose F. Curran
Old Brunswick Road
Ashdale
Phippsburg
Nathaniel Benner
Julia Morton Benner Wallace
Bath
Gladys McCaffrey
Madelyn Curran
Kenneth Dodge
Union
N. J
Dorothy Dillihunt
Crawford
Keith Dodge
Philadelphia
Virginia Huber
Baltimore
Card
Captain Edgar N Drake 72 Georgetown Resident Dies
Captain Edgar Nelson Drake a longtime Georgetown fisherman and former captain of feldspar lighters and coastwise vessels died Friday night at Memorial hospital after five days as a patient. He was born August 22 1878 and survived by two sons a daughter three sisters and several grandchildren and great grandchildren. Mr and Mrs Waldron Troop of North Street visited in Boston recently.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edgar Nelson Drake
Georgetown
Memorial Hospital
Drake
Horatio N
Ellen Moore Drake
Edgar L
Bath
Forrest
Herbert Jones
Phoenix, Ariz
Dorothy M. Drake
Washington, D. C
Phyllis Wheeler
Wellesley
Mass
Alwida Cunningham
Boothbay
Nellie Nagle
Lebanon
Penn
Frances Cooler
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Richmond Forth Bureau
Bertha Gibbs
Sunhill Farm
Brunswick Road
Beryl.Barton
Paul Dowe
Earl Lewis
Albion Raynes
Gibbs
Emerson Lane Post
A. L
Kenne
Horne
Alexander Road
Harold Averill
Lincoln Street
Harris Hutchins
Atendance
Ernest Anderson
O.E.S
Masonic Hall
Umberhind Library Association
Carl Anderson
South Front Street
Emery Purinton
Langdon Road
Edith Vigue
Leo Michaud
Aurore Michaud
Augusta
Miss Vigue
Harold Cheney
Gardiner Street
Michaud
Hallowell
Sea Bees
Pacific
Y.A.Y.F. Society
John Parker
Charles Leon
State Fire Chiefs Association
Winthrop
Wordsworth & Woodman
Fort Richmond
Paul Roberts
Muriel Pratt
Adelaide Anderson
Leslie Roberts Weer
Continental Congress
Washington
D. C
Legion Hall
Girl Scout Committee
Maurice Sullivan
Gordon Howe
Alice Favor
Topsham Grangers
Winter Street
March OF Dimes Books
Cosmo Garden Club
West Bath Grange
Pomona
County Grange
Hyde Windlass
Harold Rowe
Kittery
James Stevens
Derby Line
E. E. Pinkham
Clyde Pinkham
Ida Pinkham
Franz Stevens
Branwell Harford
Sylvia Warren
Stinson Davis
Lester Davis
Lloyd Pinkham
Edith Pinkham
Mansfield Moore
Ruby Steward
Edward Clarey
Henry Peterson
Howard House
Tony Nicholas
Woodrow Gray
Otter Cliff
Harlan Pinkham
Dennis Moore
Paul Stevens
Mary Stevens
George Gray
William Marr
Merton Pinkham
Kathleen Rittall
Betty Rittall
Bereau Baptist Church
Alton Reed
Woolwich
Jeanette Pinkham
North Yarmouth Academy
Ward
World Globe
Angus Ward
U. S
Mukden
China
State Department
Listening
James E. Webb
International
Topsham Grangers Plan
Nellie M. Card
Co. T. Jackson Funeral
Edgar N. Drake
Marius H. Page
Kennebec
Bath, Maine
Present
Mrs
Edgar N, Drake
Mrs. Waldron Troop
North Street
Fred S. Curtis & CO
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