Richmond Town Report Highlights Wealth and Affairs
The Richmond annual town report lists assessors figures with 607 polls, real estate valued at 777 150, personal estate 134 852, farm livestock including 96 horses and mules and 388 sheep, and various household items. It records 100 fire alarms, 15 out of town calls, 88 high school pupils, 312 Emerson school pupils, 30 marriages, 35 births, and 41 deaths. Community notes cover D A R and grange activities, plays, church events, club meetings, and local visits, with residents traveling to Hallowell, Detroit, and Portland for events and illness updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Emerson
Fort Richmond
D.A.R
Solon Purinton
Ruie Curtis
Charles Wakefield
Samuel Dorrance
Enterprise Juvenile Grange
Merry Meeting
Sagadahoc
Progressive
Enterprise Granges
Enterprise Grange Hall
Progressive Grange
Enterprise Grange
Grandma
Jennie Horne
Lara Leavitt
Methodist
Y. A. Y. F. Club
John Parker
Alberta Sedgley
F. J. Olsen
South Front Street
Townsend
Woman's Society of Christian Service
Methodist Church
Epworth League
Hallowell
Federated Leagues
Carlton Ring
Helen Walton
Esther Ring
Phyllis Choate
Florence Young
Constance Skinner
Robert Sidelinger
Alfred Ives
Howard Knight
Edythe Sewall
Donald Alexander
Thornton Priest
Wayne Rich
Marshal White
Ann Spofford
Lester Norton
United Baptist Church
J. J. Dollinger
Portland
Seventh Day Adventist Church
Dorcas Society
Earle Farley
Hollis Easler
Iceboro
J. F. F. Club
Helen Seamens
Langdon Road
Raymond Libby
Perley Joy
Pleasant Street
Bath students named to University of Maine dean's list
Three Bath residents and four nearby students earned straight Bs or better in the Fall term to be named to the University of Maine dean's list. Names include Dorothy Wing Elizabeth Trott Martha Page Esther Drummond Betty Ryan Virginia Jewett Charlotte White and others with family addresses in Bath Arrowsic Woolwich Westport Bowdoinham and nearby areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
University of Maine
James A. Gannett
Dorothy H. Wing
Harold 8. Wing
North Street
M. Elizabeth Trott
Wilfred C. Tr
Charlotte Z. White
Edward L. White
Bowdoinheam
Luncheon at Blaine Mansion for District and County Committees
Mrs. Raymond McIntirey of Phippsburg and Miss Bessie Dickinson of Bath attended a luncheon at the Blaine house hosted by Gov. and Mrs. Sumner Sewall for District and County committee members. Rep. Elizabeth Deering helped serve. Gov. Sewall chatted with guests. Flowers and photos linked Small Point Beach to Augusta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond McIintirey
Phippsburg
Bessie Dickinson
Bath
Blaine House
Sumner Sewall
Elizabeth Deering
Sewall
Gov. Sewall
James G. Blaine
Small Point Beach
Popham
Small Point
Augusta
Recent Births at City Clerk Office
Records from City Clerk John W. Gilmore note several newborns: a son born Feb 18 to Mr and Mrs John M Kelliher of Woolwich. a son Richard Eldon born Feb 18 to Mr and Mrs John E Atwood of 1328 Washington Street. a son Ronald Walter born to Mr and Mrs Rudolph H Pinkham of Five Islands. a son David Everett born Feb 22 to Mr and Mrs Kenneth E MacDonald of 18 Meadow Way. a son David Harmon born Feb 24 to Mr and Mrs William M Thornton of Woolwich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John W. Gilmore
John M. Kelliher
Woolwich
Richard Eldon
John E. Atwood
Washington Street
Ronald Walter
Rudolph H. Pinkham
Five Islands
David Everett
Kenneth E. MacDonald
Meadowway
David Harmon
William M. Thornton
Bath to revise municipal bookkeeping system overhaul pledged by mayor
Bath officials approved a sweeping revision of city bookkeeping after a state auditors endorsed changes. The 1940 report shows a near 45 thousand dollar saving, but required absorbing 15 thousand in pro rated accounts and 5 thousand in coupon advances. Over 12 appointees were named as constables, with two ineligibles, and a plan to install two 2000 gallon oil tanks was approved subject to fire chief assent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Robert H. Haskell
Haskell
Highway and Sewer Department
Edwin R. Andrews
Hyde Windlass Co
Bath Iron Works Corp
Arthur Pinkham
Forrest A. Barry
Harry M. Frye
Edward G. Ferris
James Russell
Lester Russell
Torrey Roller
Fire Department
Flood Conditions Report From Beverly Hills Home Pits
A reader from Beverly Hills describes flood conditions with bungalow homes built on ground level and no cellars. Furnaces sit in pits that require daily draining by rope and pail. Residents wade to garages in rubber boots, flooding a rainy season note.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. W. Dietrich
Beverly Hills
Calif
Hollywood Studios
Ruth
Dietrich
Maine
California
Francis Oliver
Georgetown
Bay Point
Fort Williams
Francis
Free Travel Film This Amazing America Offered to Groups
Local bus company agent Edward D. True announces free showings of the 35 minute travel film This Amazing America. A full reproducing unit with screen projector sound and a technician is supplied, loaned at no cost. The film cost 60000 to produce and has high critical praise. It features color scenes across the United States including Grand Canyon Niagara Falls Florida Overseas Highway New Orleans Minnesota Lake Region and New England scenes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward D. True
America
United States
Grand Canyon Glacier National Park
Niagara Falls
Florida
New Orleans
Minnesota Lake
New England
Mr. True
Greyhound
No New Developments In Drowning Case
Reopening of the investigation into the October 1 1939 drowning of 14 year old Frank Ho Churk near Arrowsic Buck River reveals no persons held on foul play charges. George O Breech special investigator from the Attorney Generals department questioned two men last week at the request of Attorney General Frank I Cowan. The latest statements open new lines of inquiry but no arrests have been made. Breech formerly worked with a world famous detective agency and previously uncovered evidence leading to convictions in horse racing and a statewide lottery case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Ho
Arrowsie
Buck River
Arrows.c
George O. Hreech
Attorneys Generals Department
Frann I. Cowan
Breech
Wth
Sumner Mains Is Born At Cornish Maternity Home
Cecil Sumner Mains born March 4 weighs six and a half pounds to Mr and Mrs Sumner Mains at the Cornish Maternity Home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cecil Sumner Mains
Sumner Miais
Cornish
Death in Denver of Mae Etta Ellis. wedding at Bath
Notice reports Mae Etta Ellis of Georgetown died in Denver February 21. Funeral held February 24 with cremation. She leaves a son J Harold of Holyoke, two sisters, a brother, and another sister in Massachusetts. Separately Arline Hunt and Clarence Colby wed at the groom’s parents home in Georgetown in a double ring ceremony officiated by Rev. Keehlwetter. They will live in Bath with Colby employed at Bath Iron Works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Colo
Mae Etta Ellis
Ellis
Maine
J. Harold
Holyoke
Josephine Steadman
Elizabeth Howarth
Prescott L. Steadman
Mina Steadman Clark
Sharon
Mass
Amos
Arline Hunt
Georgetown
Clarence Colby
Topsham
Franklin S Keehlwetter
A. S Cunningham
Walter F. Powers
Harold Hunt
Herbert Hunt
Hartley Harley
Washington Street
Bath
Colby
Bath Iron Works Corp
Hardings
Moderator
Harold J. Brown
Clara Brown
George Laskey
Howard G. Heald
Vernon E. Gray
Overseers of the Poor
Clara J. Brown
William A. Todd
Walter V. Cummings
Westport Mourns Death Of Mrs Augustus Pierce In Lynn
Mrs. Augustus Pierce was struck and killed by an automobile while crossing a Lynn street on her return from church. A former Westport resident, she had lived in Lynn since her husband’s death a few years ago, and the community notes several local visits and family movements among Westport, Cambridge, Winchester and Bath residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augustus Pierce
Lynn
Mass
C. P. Dow
Eleanor Dow
Winchester
Westport
Orlando
Morgan Blake
Everett
Navy
Puerto Rico
Blake
James Williams
Margaret Webber
Maud Webber
Marjorie Roberts
Richard
David
Fred S. Bailey
Lincoln Home
Newcastle
Chilean professor speaks at Bowdoin Rotary
Prof. Ernesto Montenegro a native of Chile lecturing at Bowdoin under the Tallman Foundation spoke on The Present Situation in South America before Sedgwick Rotary members. He compared SA nations to the United States, noted trade losses from war, and urged democratic values and increased regional cooperation. Dominique Tardif delivered greetings from Bath England Rotary president about wartime changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernesto Montenegro
Chile
Tallman Foundation
Bowdoin College
Rotarians
Sedgwick
South America
Montenegro
Dartmouth College
University of Chile
Dominique Tardif
Rotary Club J
Bath
England
Prizes Awarded by Central League for Decorated Lunches
Mrs Hiram Stevens won for most prettily decorated lunch, Mrs Maynard Brown for oddest, and Mrs John H Harkins for most cleverly decorated. Central Church League met and planned a Ladies Aid and Men's Club program for Monday March 17 with co chairs Mrs Leonard Lord and Mrs Lawrence Lord. Helpers include Mrs Leonard Wetherbee, Mrs W Linwood Haynes, and Mrs Harold Avery. Needlework Guild activity preceded games. Next week hosts are Mrs Oscar Adams and Mrs Cyrus Longley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hiram ‘S
T. Stevens
Maynard O. Brown
John H. Harkins
Central Church League
Ladies Aid
Leonard MM. Lord
Lawrence S Lord
Leonard F. Wetherbee
W. Linwood Haynes
Harold S. Avery
Oscar S. Adams
Cyrus W. Longley
Five Islands News Roundup of Social and Local Doings
Five Islands activity includes nurse visits and library auxiliary meetings with Red Cross tie in March. A posthumous birth at Bath maternity home, car theft and crash near Carlton bridge, Melancholy health updates from Malden and Georgetown visits. Residents recent travel to Bath Boston Boothbay and Portland with family and friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O'Connell
Richmond
Five Islands
Library
O. F. Rowe
Red Cross
Thomas W. Blaisdell
Maurice Pinkham
Joseph G. Stevens
Good Neighbor Club
Lermond Davis
Thomas J. Hanna
Bath
E. M. Horton
New York City
Percy
Birthday Party for Little Gail Sherman
Gail Sherman, daughter of Mr and Mrs Paul Sherman of 35 Park Street, celebrated her second birthdayThursday with a party for little friends and their mothers. The dining room wore pink and white streamers and a pink white birthday cake with flowers was center stage. Ice cream cookies cake and candies were served to guests including Mrs Virginia Sanborn and son Stephen Mrs Henry Arsenault and son Henry Jr Mrs Francis Bertram and daughter Betsy Ellen Mrs Herbert Pierce and son Charles Mrs Arthur Easley and daughter Nancy Mrs Wilbur Higgins and son Wilbur Jr Mrs Norman Adams and son Everett and daughter Beth Mrs Lester Reynolds and son Peter and daughter Beth Mrs Joseph Mullaney daughters Patsy and Sally Mrs Henrietta Sonia and daughter Naninetta Jeanne Groves Arthur Masard and Gay Bonney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gail Sherman
Paul Sherman
Park Street
Virginia Sanborn
Stephen
Henry Arsenault
Henry
Francis Bertram
Betsy Ellen
Herbert Pierce
Charles
Arthur Easley
Nancy
Wilbur Higgins
Wilbur, Jr
Norman Adams
Everett
Lester Reynolds
Peter
Beth
Joseph Mullaney
Patsy
Sally
Henrietta Sonia
Naninetta
Jeanine Groves
Arthur Masard
Gay Bonney
Also Mentioned on This Page
Leland Siegars
Cora Osborne
Marjorie Johnson
James Fields
Myron Heenie
Velmar Berry
Grange
G. C. Marriner
Cora B. Osborne
Delia Grondin
C. W. Messenger
James F. Meserve
J. W. Randlette
Sagadahoc Pomona Grange
Gilbert Maxwell
North Adams
Maas
Glendale
Elva Purinton
Horace Purinton
Jane Harwood
Detroit
Mich
Frederick T. Harward
Joan Foster
Brunswick
Joyce Foster
Elizabeth Watson
Taunton
Seth Watson
C. W. Sylvester
Joseph Morton
Winthrop
Roberta McCarty
Ridge School
Old Orchard
Edith Knight
Bangor High School
Alveena Knight
Barbara Pickings
Fred
Cumberland
Elson Hartford
Ernest Cameron
Robert
Maine General Hospital
Frank E. Preble
Howard Farwell
U. OF M
Blaine
Soule
Mr. Conley
Wiscasset
Common Council
Arnold Doyle
Cambridge
Joseph Patten
Dedham
Frank Flanagan
Arlington
Herman A. Spinney
Edward Wren
Belle Heald
Robert Frye
Owen Richardson
West Point
Friends
Howard O. Nash
Spinney
Mary Campbell
Howard Barter
Vernon Gray
Maurice Burns
Lewiston
Clarence Kneeland
Mr . Possible
Reginald Sturgeon
Brewer
John Gordon
Harold J Brown, Jr
Ripley Motors Co
Stavis
AS Cunningham
Bar Harbor
Carrol Powers
Robinhood
Walter Vo Cumuin
Harry Horne
Bath Wis
Ron Mc Newnan
Mrr Horne
Mere Chester Bo Horne
George Chester
Douglane
Mind P Thayer
Massachusetts
West George
Thomas No Williams
Gilbert Gaunnell
John
Waltham
Boston
E. B. Hunt
Woodrow Gray
Battery
Constance
Gerald
Malden
Keehlwetter
Robert Greenleaf, Jr
Archie Higgins
Ferryhill
James Apt
East Brunswick
Frank Greenleaf
Walter Greenleaf
Fred S Greenleaf
Linn Wood
Waterville
Wood Cottage
Frances Jewett
Norman Nye
Rotary
Central League
Etta Quimby
J. P. Quimby
D. L. Howard
Gilbert Gunnell
T. M. Williams
West Georgetown
Islands
Raphael Higgins
Furber Davis
Walter
George Gray
J. J. Gibson
Laura Harding
Boothbay
Harding
Howard Gray
Merton Davis
Dorothy
Merton, Jr
Mr. Davis
C. C. Davis
L. H. Rowe
Rowe
Herman Barter
Charles Reid
Boothbay Harbor
Orville Rowe
Madelyn Berry
William Chase
South Freeport
Fred S. Curtis & CO
Thomas R. Huston
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