Richmond Daily Social News Recap
Richmond column highlights visits and moves among residents. Bangor residents Sherwin Ricker and Mrs Leighton Gardner host relatives. Charles Soule and Mrs Florence Ricker travel to Augusta and Sabattus. Local moves include Milton Woodman to Front Street and Henry Lancaster’s death in Augusta. Birth, death, and church event notices accompany community happenings.
Westport Summer Visitors and Local News Notes
Loretta Hodgdon of Auburn and nephew Carl Hodgdon of Milford Mass spent a few days at a Summer home. Bessie Burt visited her sister Mrs Ernest Anderson. Dr and Mrs James Williams entertained friends at Green Mountain Cove. Annie Dunton is ill and under Dr DePerrie care. Dresden residents Mr and Mrs William Clancy and Archie Clancy visited the Island. Forrest Cromwell injured his leg in a motorcycle accident. Melvin King and Virginia hosted by his parents. Royden Colby family moved to the Island with Charles E Colby parents. Wesley Cromwell and friends weekended on the Island. Robert Higgins bought a Ford V-8 truck. Norman Greenleaf and family from Massachusetts at A E Gove Summer home. Lester Hodgdon built a skiff for Robert Greenleaf Jr. Golden and Claire Greenleaf visiting relatives Fred and Mrs Greenleaf. Harland Worthley and two children of State College Penn visiting his mother Mrs Melvin Cromwell. Albert Perkins of Roslindale Mass at his cottage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherwin Ricker
Bangor
Concord
N. H
Richmond
Southard Cemetery
Frank Stickney
Edward
Frank Greene
Peabody
Mass
Boston
Camp Ground
May Williams
Center Street
Courtney Hinkley
Ora Reed
Port Clyde
Florence W. Kirkpatrick
Cleveland
Ohio
Charles Howes
Main Street
Kirkpatrick
Erie Railroad
Percy Baker
Alice May Williams
Baker
Gardiner
Phyllis Irene Sykes
John Sykes
Paul Tutino
F. W Kirkpatrick
Morrison Heights
H. E. Houdlette
Lake Block
Young’s Spa
Goodspeed
Fitzpatrick
John B. Curtis
Orange Heights
Fla
Arthur Randall
Carlton
York Beach
Pleasant View Farm
Merle Lilly
Robert Allen
Beverly
Lilly
Abbie Tarbett
Stoneham
Ralph Goodwin
Nelson Lewis
Everett
Sammie Nichols
Lewis Baker
Wallace Nichols
Young Nichols
Portland
Billy Wallace
Buffalo
Enterprise Grange
Pemaquid
Lillian Hill
Augusta
E. F. Pratt
Laurence Bond
Lakewood
Willard Lane
Massachusetts
Westerly
R. I
Gwendolyn Tarr
Northey
Margaret Thompson
Fred Joice
Lisbon Falls
Mary Page
Page
Sherwood Metzler
Greenfield
R. B. Fowler
Richmond Corner
Howard Bodwell
Emerson School
Charles Weymouth
Cony
Deerfield
Bowdoin College
Bates
Augusta Grammar
William R. Smith Grammar School
Farrington School
86Th Brigade
Maine National Guard
Leslie Reed
Pittsfield
Arthur Reed
Elizabeth Boyce
Gordon M. Campbell
Louis
Jackie
Cambridge
Boyce
Emma Lou
John F. Grant
William Wilson
Charlotte White
Grace Lancaster
Miss White
Raymond E. Northey
Lewiston
Robert J. Brack
Evelyn I. Barker
Waban
J. Albert Brack
Nellie Witham
Sanford
Virginia
Cymbrid Hughes
Green Street Methodist Church
Lytle Lint
Harry Lancaster
Temple
Gray Lot
Gray
Annie Cushman
Hallowell
William Dingley
Brunswick Road
Elizabeth Hathorne
Front Street
Pasquell Cardenelli
Bath
Frank Marshall
Annie Hosmer
Paul
Brunswick
Pearl Perry
Harry Allen
Anne Francis
Harpswell Center
Rebecca Rogers
Milton F. Woodman
Kennebec Rose Garden
River Road
Mary Moore
Richard Strout
Methodist Ladies Aid
G. B. M. Soule
Frances Blenkhorn
William Newell
Loretta Hodgdon
Auburn
Carl Hodgdon
Milford
Bessie Burt
Ernest Anderson
James Williams
Green Mountain Cove
Annie Dunton
DePerrie
William Clancy
Archie Clancy
Dresden
Forrest Cromwell
Melvin King
Jonas Knight
Royden Colby
Charles E. Colby
Wesley Cromwell
Robert Higgins
Norman Greenleaf
A. E. Gove
Lester Hodgdon
Robert Greenleaf
Golden
Claire Greenleaf
Fred Greenleaf
Harland Worthley
State College
Penn
Melvin Cromwell
Albert Perkins
Roslindale
Beatrice Abbott
Everett C. Higgins
Howard M. Trafton
Emery
Melrose
Elizabeth Hunt
Elwin Hennesey
Blair
Braintree
John R. Blackie
Westgetown
Arrowsidgetown Bridge
Arrowsic
Georgetown
Working League
Overlook
Kennebec Point
Martha Bowen
Charles T. Brewster, Jr
Iowa
First Baptist Church
Brewster
Emma B. Billings
Richard Beyer
John Wilson
Hooker
Edward Wren
L. Earle Hagan
Boothbay Harbor
Bertha Scott
Augusta E. Rowe
Nancy Russell
B. H. Woodside
Harry Heald
Ernest Heald
Leon FE. Oliver
Newburyport
Lois Schultz
Sharon
George T. Williams
West Georgetown
Kenneth Dunlop
Newtonville
Bay Point Road
Camden
Eleanor Cunningham
Melvin Cunningham
Horace Sturgis
Hester
Clayton
Belle M. Heald
Frank Heald
Springvale
Fist Baptist Church
Elizabeth Thompson
Howard S. Fletcher
Kennebunk
Rudolph Trafton
Ralph Reynolds
Woolwich
Lester Powers
Ruth Reynolds
Marilyn Hatch
Gilbert Gunnell
John Gilbert
Waltham
Thomas N. Williams
Gunnell
Sydney Dalrymple
Brookline
Sarah McKenney
Alonzo Hunt
First Selectman
Ernest Curtis
Scott Curtis
Wendell Todd
Salem
Fordham, Webster
Albert
Lexington
Helen Noyes
Sagadahoc Bay
Jacob Horne
Roy M. Newman
Arthur Newman
Memphis
Tenn
Harold Newman
St. Louis
Indian Point
Erlon L. Newdick
Walter T. Newdick
Fred Johnson
Arthur
Carrie H. Stevens
Ocean Point
Everett Cromwell
Beulah Clark
Hartford
Conn
Hilda Williams
Storrs
Frank Bartlett
Alice Cromwell
Charles Kenney
Ellsworth Pinkham
A. E. Holland
F. O. Robinson
Harmon's Harbor
Harry Greenlaw
Edward Lewis
Almon Marr
Edith Davis
Walter Prosser
Walter Hines
Pejepscot
Hines Cottage
Seguinland
Walter Berry
Whitney
Westminster
West Bath
Fred Ried
W. L. Berry
Carl Pearson
Marilyn
Quincy
Crowell Cottage
L. G. Moulton
Albert Rasmussen
Frederick
Medford
Higgins
Pollyanna Lodge
Nehemiah Boynton, Jr
Newton
Malden Island
Sonny
Gene Stevens
Lincoln Campbell
Neilley
Haverhill
Sexton Cottage
Richard Banham
New York
Levi Maddox
Lishness
Betty
Madelyn Maddox
Carlton Hinckley
Medford Hillside
Hinckley
Eleanor Cote
Mary
Rex Bridges
Webster Harley
William Farr
Mrs Stanley Peterson Visits Relatives Across Three Homes
Mrs. Stanley Peterson and daughter Audrey of Portsmouth are spending the week with her parents in Bath, and with his parents in Brunswick, while visiting family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanley Peterson
Audrey
Portsmouth
Carl T. Meister
Bath
Harry E. Peterson
Brunswick
Arrowsidgetown bridge opens. local visitors noted
The new Arrowsidgetown bridge opened for traffic Sunday adding a 35 foot higher roadway and removing two hills. Community visitors include Mrs Beatrice Abbott of Bath and many others from Georgetown, Bath, Melrose and Augusta. Plans advance for the Working League sale and supper on Aug 7 at Overlook Kennebec Point.
Masonic Field Day Set to Draw Bath and Brunswick
A large turnout is forecast for next Sunday as Bath and Brunswick Masonic lodges join for a field day at Harpswell. More than 200 tickets are sold for noon fish chowder and lobster dinner with Bath teams facing Brunswick in baseball and tug of war across a cove. Mayor Harold P. Small leads the Bath committee and tickets are available from him or from John H. Freeman and Harold W. Child. A dog attack at Popham Beach left Mrs. Harold L. Troop bruised. the dog was shot at her request.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harpswell
Bath
Brunswick
Harold P. Small
Bath Committee
John H. Freeman
Harold W. Child
Harold L. Troop
Popham Beach
Mrs Pepper Wins Oldest Member Honor at Maine Field Day
Mrs Elizabeth Pepper of Myrtle lodge No 8 U O of I O L retained the title of oldest member present at the annual field day of Odd Ladies lodges in Maine held at Thomas Point. The event featured entertainment by Brunswick and other lodges, with Myrtle lodge members winning several prizes in horseshoe pitching target shooting peanut guessing and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Pepper
Myrtle Lodge
No. 8
U. O
Odd Ladies Lodges
Maine
Thomas's Point
Merrymeeting Lodge
No. 7
Brunswick
Thelma Miller
Hyacinth Lodge
No. 5
Lewiston
Brunswick Lodge
Zeuleika Kingsbury
Margaret Nelson
Kingsbury
Florence Mank
Clara Donaldson
Rathbean
Maude Whitehurst
Emily Shaw
Field Day Committee
Edith Colby
Grace Sylvester
Elsie Alexander
Janice Sylvester
Gertrude Tarr
Miss Alexander
Gertrude Stewart
Noyes
Lucelia Blakema
Emma Daley
Mmes
Ida Oliver
Mary Gillespie
Fannie Clark
Eva Atwood
Florence Emmons
Alice Bowie
Auburn
Rudyard Kipling
Auburn No. 1
Fort Halifax
Waterville
Pine Cone
Fern
Portland
Bath man jailed for intoxication and furniture damage
A Bath man was arrested Monday evening on a wife’s complaint of intoxication and damaging home furnishings. Before Recorder Owen J. Ledyard, he pleaded guilty, paid $6.30 in costs, and received a suspended 30 day sentence with six months probation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Owen J. Ledyard
Police Department
Augusta
Ledyard
Fred Merryfield Dies From Injuries at Gardiner Hospital
Fred Merryfield, 70, died Friday after being injured when he stepped from a truck in Bowdoinham near his home last Wednesday. The car that struck him was driven by Pearl G. Rittall of Dresden. He is survived by a daughter Mrs Will Meserve of Richmond and a son Albert Merryfield of Hallowell along with several grandchildren. Mrs Raymond C Hart of 16 Park Street is ill and confined to home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Merryfield
Bowdoinham
Gardiner General Hospital
Pearl G. Rittall
Dresden
Merryfield
Will Meserve
Richmond
Albert Merryfield
Hallowell
Five Islands Grange Fair Set With Notable Committees
The annual grange fair and entertainment will be held at the grange hall on Aug 16. Mrs. Madeline Berry chairs, with Kitchen Mattie McMahan, Fancy Work Addie Moulton, Cake and Candy Forest Hanna, Fruit Punch Media Nocton, Dining Room Carrie Stevens, Snip Line Katharine Pendergast, Entertainment Percy Allen, Publicity Lermond H. Rowe. A meeting of Grange Circle is planned for next Tue at 2 PM and 8 PM for the main Grange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grange Hall
Madeline Berry
Mattie McMahan
Addie Moulton
Forest Hanna
Media Nocton
Carrie H. Stevens
Snip
Katharine Pendergast
Percy Allen
Lermond H. Rowe
Grange Circle
Grange
Bank Deposit Insurance Boosts Confidence Says F D I C Official
C E Riddell Special Representative of the F D I C spoke to Bath Rotary about the Banking Act of 1933 and its insurance features. He praised deposit protection 98 percent insured through the F D I C and Maine showing 66 77 percent coverage with 14 000 banks nationwide. He contrasted 1923 1932 bank closures with 1934 stability noting not a single failure so far this year. Mrs Guy Crosby and Mrs Ruth Farnham visited in Portland Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. E. Riddell
Washington, D.C
Rotary Club
Riddell
Bath
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Maine
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
United States
Friday Fight Promises Packed Arena and Sailors’ Section
Promoter Nick Mihalos sells 40 ringside and 60 bleacher seats in Lewiston for Friday’s title bout between Paul Junior and Glafiro Castillo. A sailors’ section will be added with 100 more ringside seats. Curtain raiser features Pete Lamarre and Kid Cloutier. prelims include Young Tardiff vs Delaney and Cardiff-Brown noted. Friday night opens Bath festivities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arcade Arena
Paul Junior
Lewiston
Glafiro
K. O.” Castillo
Bath
Nick Mihalos
Junior
Mihalos
Pete Lamarre
Brunswick
Kid Cloutier
Young Tardiff
K. O. Tardiff
Young Delaney
K. O. Cardiff
Steve Brown
Lowell
Mass
Changes Underway at Maine Central Canopy Reduction
The Maine Central station wooden canopy is being removed except sections in front of the waiting room and express baggage buildings. The platform will be narrowed from about 20 feet to 10 feet and edge tapering will use crushed rock and ashes. The change aims to cut maintenance costs due to wind and weather exposure as part of transport industry economy moves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine Central Railroad
Also Mentioned on This Page
Fred S Curtis
Feneral
Thomas R.huston
Westport
Masonic
Myrtle Lodge of Odd Ladies
Thomas’ Point
Raymond C. Hart
Park Street
D. M. Humphreys & Co
Sagadahock Block
Bath, Me
Room
North Whitefield
S. A. Haskell
Addie Stevens
John Hammel
George Gray
Bert McCabe
Alfred Rowe
J. E. Blaisdell
Rowe
Clinton Hanna
Belgrade
Roger Thompson and Son
Danvers
H. H. Richardson
B. F. Perry
Frank Perkins
Frank Biggins
Frank Blake
Donald and
Philip
Somerville
M. I. Houghton
F. W. McDonald
Burt Hall
Arthur Marr
Barbara
Tucker
Malden
Marr
Edgar Warren
Bay Point
Warren
Branwell Harford
Harford
Lettie Harford
Russell Harford
William Marr
Improvement Association
D. L. Howard
Marie Peters
Roland Oliver
J. G. Stevens
John Lundquist
F.D.I.C
Guy Crosby
Ruth Farnham
Wwe
Bellevue
Beacon Street
Beacon Hill
State House
Boston Common
Public Gardens
Restaurant A la Carte
Bowdoin and
Beacon Streets