Annual Short Course for Maine Gardeners
The third annual Short Course in Gardening will be held at the University of Maine on May 4 and 5 for Garden Club Federation of Maine members and other interested adults. Fred P. Loring directs the program, with Horticulture building as the venue and topics shaped by past attendees and the federation committee. Members of the federation horticulture committee include Mrs. Edward F. Merrill, chairman, plus Mrs. Harry Shaw, Mrs. Jesse Ross, Mrs. Frank W. Bastow Jr, Wentworth Shackleton, Miss Lou B. Crane, Mrs. Rodney W. Dyer, Miss Louise Washburn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Maine
Garden Club Federation of Maine
Fred P. Loring
Federation Horticulture Committee
Edward F. Merrill
Skowhegan
Harry Shaw
Houston
Jesse Ross
Rangeley
Frank W. Bastow, Jr
Oakland
Wentworth Shackleton
Boothbay
Lou B. Crane
Dexter
Rodney W. Dyer
South Portland
Louise Washburn
Eastport
Augusta
Funds from Ball to Help Hospital Renovation
Proceeds from the annual New Year’s ball hosted by the Junior Hospital League fund a Memorial hospital reception room on the first floor. The space features buff walls, a green rug, Maple furniture, and Cape Cod chair within brown glazed chintz upholstery. Venetian blinds drape the windows. Proceeds from the dance financed a shower in the doctors’ wing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Junior Hospital League
Memorial Hospital
Mrs McKenzie Hosts Co-Workers Gathering
Mrs Ruth McKenzie entertained coworkers of First Baptist church Friday at 3 Court Street. Future meetings are set for the third Friday of each month. After a brief business session, refreshments were served. Seven attended. Mrs Laura Harrington will host next meeting with Miss Lucy Resers and Miss Irma Groves in charge of entertainment. Refreshment committee listed: Mrs Herringon, Mrs Flossie Martin, Mrs Cora Soheard, Mrs Oliver A. Carter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth McKenzie
Firs Bapts
Court Street
Laura Harrington
North Street
Lucy Resers
Irma Groves
Herringon
Flossie Martin
Cora So’ Heard
Oliver A. Carter
Maine Chapter Postmasters Meet in Augusta House Banquet
State and County officers of the Maine Chapter of Postmasters gathered at the Augusta House for a Saturday meeting. A banquet for thirty postmasters and their wives followed at 12:30. Postmaster Weeks, president, reported on a trip to Greenfield Massachusetts with Mrs Blanche Brown, Dover Foxcroft postmaster and Maine Chapter secretary, in conference with National Association president George Purcell. Attendees then shared remarks on county membership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Postmasters
Augusta House
Weeks
Maine Cha’t
Greenfield
Mass
Blanche Brown
Dover- Foxcroft
George Purcell
National Association
Richard Hallet to Speak at Farm and Home Week Banquet
Boothbay Harbor writer Richard Hallet, famed for sea stories and a Saturday Evening Post contributor, will headline the University of Maine Farm and Home Week banquet on March 30. His varied career includes police work, a stint aboard a Standard Oil rigger, and service as third mate on a mule transport to France during the war. The exact topic of his talk remains to be announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Richard Hallet
Boothbay Harbor
University of Maine
Mr. Hallet
Saturday Evening Post
John L. Sullivan
Bath
Quincy
Hallett
Hallet
Sydney
Australia
France
Honolulu
Dow McEachern Dow Wedding in Westbrook
Mr and Mrs Roscoe E Robinson announce the marriage of their daughter Dorothy Laura McEachern to Elmer J Dow of Portland. The ceremony occurred Friday at First Universalist church Westbrook with single ring rites. Attendants were Mr and Mrs Everett C Leighton Portland. The couple reside at Bellevue Apartments 766 Congress Street Portland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roscoe E. Robinson
High Street
Dorothy Laura MecEachern
Elmer J. Dow
Portland
First Universalist Church
Westbrook
Harry E Townsend
Everett C Leighton
Portland Theyxroom
Rudy Vallee
Elizabeth Dow
Ballot Inspection Narrows Ward 6 Council Race
An inspection at City Clerk John W. Gilmore office reviewed Ward 6 ballots after a petition by defeated candidate Waldo R. Weston. The process found Footer 186 to Weston 183, with 131 Democratic and 116 Republican straight ballots and split tickets set aside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John W. Gilmore
Waldo R. Weston
Edward A. Footer
Weston
Jane S. Murphy
Republican State Committee
Footer
Farm Bureau Meetings Outline Poultry and Manure Program
County Agent C. L. Eastman led a Turner meeting Tuesday. The Montsweay parsonage hosted Poultry and Manure Conservation on Wednesday. Topsham grange hall scheduled an oyster stew dinner on Thursday. Friday’s West Bath grange hall program focused on agricultural economics within Poultry and Manure Conservation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. L. Eastman
Turner
Montsweay
Topsham
Grange Hall
West Bath
South American visit delights one Bath tourist
Clare Coombs recounts a voyage starting Jan 9 from Trinidad aboard the Franconia, describing Rio de Janeiro’s harbor lights and Christ statue, Sugarloaf ascent, and comparisons with Buenos Aires and Montevideo. The ship stops at Tristan da Cunha to aid isolated islanders, then heads toward Cape Town with continued reflections on the journey and people met.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Independent
Trinidad
Franconia
Rio de Janeiro
Corcovado
Christ
Rio
Buenos Aires
Montevideo
South America
House of Parliament
Uruguay
Cape Town
Tristan de Cunha
South Africa
England
Solar Lodge Masons Grand Lodge Night Observed
The Solar Lodge A F and A M hosted Grand Lodge Night with Polar Star Lodge and guests. Maine Grand Master George F Giddings led Master Mason exemplification and a sen raised by a Past Grand Master. A banquet followed at 6 30 with Genesta chapter O E S serving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Lodge
Solar Lodge
Polar Star Lodge
Grand Lodge of Maine
George F. Giddings
George F Giddings
Arthur H. Lander
John L. Polleys
E. Leach
A. Francis Walch
David L. Wilson
S. Waldo Burgess
Carroll W. Keene
Edward H. Britton
George W. Scott
Edgar A. Ames
Ervin E. J. Lander
Melvin C. Abbott
Sylvester H. Rowland
John Wishart
William H. Daley
Joseph Saint
Alton L. King
Franklin W. Morse
Louis Catlin
Charles S
Telelphone Talkies Shown At Men's Club
Rupert M Irvine of the New England Tel and Tel Co presented sound newsreels at the Winter Street Men's club detailing city telephone operations, dial systems, and cooperative efforts to restore service after a storm. A guest speaker from Boston-Maine Airways was announced for March 23 Ladies Night dinner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winter Street Men's Club
Rupert M
Irvine
New England Tel
Tel. Co
New York
New England
Texas
Nebraska
Ladies Auxiliary
David Y. Alkazin
J. Frank Hunt
Melvin A. Haggett
Joseph O. Purdue
Elmer W. Rogers
Harry A. Walter
Horace W. Ward
M. H. Anderson
Boston-Maine Airways
Municipal court actions include pleas and sentences
Edgar McNeil pleaded not guilty in municipal court to giving liquor to a person in confinement. His case was continued to 3 p.m. A respondent charged with non support pleaded not guilty. Of three who pleaded guilty to intoxication one was fined 5 dollars and costs another 3 dollars and costs and a third placed on probation for six months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edgar McNeil
For Sale House Near Beaches In Bath Area
Classified ad notes a nine room house with bath hardwood floors third floor pantry pantry good cellar two piazzas near beaches twenty minutes from Bath with excellent roads owned by one family since erected ideal summer residence. Contact White Times Company Box H F 3 1 3 or Fred B Reed Co 93 Front Street Bath Tel 514 W for buying or selling farm city shore property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seltie Estate
Bath
White Times Company
Box H. F
City Shore
Fred B. Reed Co
Jr E. Wallace
Front Street
Death notices and social events in Bowdoinham
Bowdoinham reports Joseph F. Sandford death in Twin Falls Idaho after a short illness. He was born April 3 1850 Bowdoinham Ridge son of James M. and Mary J. Sandford and took part in the Yukon Gold Rush of 1898. The Methodist Ladies Aid held a meeting with 14 present to discuss fundraising. Community members and families are noted across many social gatherings at the Methodist church and local homes, including birthdays, showers, school plays, and weekend visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank P. Webber
Joseph F. Sandford
Twin Falls
Idaho
Bowdoinham Ridge
James M
Mary J. Sandford
Bowdoinham
Yukon
California
Methodist Ladies’ Aid
Frank Siegars
Eulalia Sedgley
Pearl
Brunswick
Percy Blanchard
Erhhool
Mary Dodge
Neal Bishop
Harold Cheney
P. Webber
Maurice Bedge
Myron Heenie
Edward Starabelle
Louise Baxter
Albert Smith
Neal B.shop
H. S. Dodge
Clifton Babb
Robert Chase
Walla2ce Rideout
Bertha
Eva
Frances Baker
Mmes
Ernest Millay
William Babb
Edison Lynam
Ralph McEwen
Karl Hatch
Wilford Jones
Frank Heath
George Brown
Norman Rowe
John MecCart
Lillian Chare
Raymond Blodgett
Ella Purington
James H. Ames
Mur) Downing
Arthur
South Portland
Downing
Ida
Louisa Given
Steve Hamilton
Avery Fides
Hotchkiss
Georgie Fides
Jose
Charles Carras
Johnny Sloan
Lloyd Skelton
Dell Slattery
Mary Browne
Daley
Margaret Read
McCart
Joseph S. Sanford
Bowdeinham Ridge
Sanford
New England
Merry Meeting Grange
Home Welfare Department
William Gould
Sony
Deteree
John Palmer Sk
Milton Given
Louise
Charles Sherman
Gould
Blodgett
Charles Hobart
Obituary of Bowdoinham Resident Robert H Webber
Robert H Webber died Saturday noon at his Bowdoinham home after a brief illness. Born November 9, 1870, in Bowdoinham, he was the son of Olcott F and Mary E Webber and spent his life there. He worked for the Maine Central Railroad until retirement due to ill health. His wife Emma Cromwell Webber died about ten years ago. Survived by one daughter Mrs Maurice Libby of Litchfield, three sons Richmond and Merton at home, two sisters Mrs Harold Cheney and Mrs R A Douglass, and three grandchildren. Mr and Mrs Joseph Cyr of Augusta have returned after visiting Mrs Cyr’s parents, Mr and Mrs Herbert Calderwood, Middle Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Webber
Freeport
Merton Webber
Ralph MacEwen
Roger Robinson
John Palmer
Ida Fowle
Frances Hatch
Gladys Raymond
Lennie Bishop
Windham
River Road Bridge Club
Harry Woodbury
Mildred Webb
Edward of
Gray
Neil Bishop
Bertha Tibbetts
Portland
Richard Denham
J. N. Palmer
Frederic Cheney
Cumberland Mills
Cheney
Harold Cheney
Charlotte Smart
Clifton Babb
Robert Chase
Margaret Henry
A. S. Blodgett
Raymond Rendall
Alfred
R. A. Dickinson
Edward White
Augusta
Robert H. Webber
Bowdoinham
Olcott F
Mary E. Webber
Maine Central Railroad
Emma Cromwell Webber
Maurice Libby
Litchfield
Richmond
Merton
R. A. Douglass
Mid Lentene Dance At Brunswick High
The Brunswick High School Alumni Association stages a mid Lenten dance in the new auditorium Friday night with Rudy Wallace and his orchestra from Wilton. The event runs nine to one with semi formal dress and green St Patrick’s Day decorations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brunswick High
New Brunswick High School
Rudy Wallace
Wilton
Bath
J. Z. Ouellette
New England
Mrs Sewall Addresses Topsham Garden Club
Mrs Sumner Sewall Maine wildlife restoration leader and Cosmopolitan Garden Club president spoke at the Topsham Garden Club framing civic action for Maine’s natural resource conservation. She urged support for Wildlife Poster Stamp sales and protected propagation of game. Mrs Roscoe P McFadden echoed the call for cooperation with local clubs and schools as Bath attendees joined the gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sumner Sewall
Sagadahoc County
Cosmopolitan Garden Club
Topsham
Roscoe P. McFadden
Maine Federation of Women’s Clubs Committee On Conservation and Gardens
Sewall
Parrises of Portland Passes Away in Family Home
Mr and Mrs Albion K Parris of Portland passed Sunday with Mr Parris's parents Mr and Mrs Edwin W Parris on Upper Washington Street. This distant regional obituary notes a quiet family gathering and the recent death of Albion K Parris as the central event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albion K. Parris
Portland
Mr. Parris
Edwin W. Parris
Upper
Washington Street
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Senter's, Inc
Linen Department
BALL
Dow-M
Eachern
Farm—Bureau
Clare Coombs
Africa
Solar Lodge Masons’ Grand Lodge Night
Winter Street Men’s Organization
Joseph Cyr
Stetson
Pel
America
A. D. Stetson & Son
Alumni Association
St. Patrick’s
Ashland
Linwood A. Winslow
A. B. Hagerthy
Mr. Winslow
Winslow
Robert Montgomery
Charlie Ruggles
Mary Boland
W. C. Fields
Charley McCarthy
Edgar Bergen
Joan Crawford
Jim Stewart
Mrs. Sewall
Topsham Garden Club
Herbert White
McFadden
William Yule
Carl Y. Kennedy
Herbert Lemont
Secret Service
Ronald Regan
John Litel
Gene Autry
Ralph
Dick Tracy
Arkansaw
the Weaver Brothers
Elviry
Humphrey. Bogart
King OF the Underworld
Kay Francis
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