Richmond High Honors Seniors in Annual Awards
Principal Charles Jordan announced honors for the Richmond High senior class. Valedictorian Gordon B. Howe, with 95.43 average, leads a class of fourteen. salutatorian Miss Phyllis Merchant, 90.7 average, and honor speaker Grace E. Smith, 89.43. Additional honors named for essays and presentations, plus activities and post–graduation plans. Also notes school events, community notices, and obituaries in the Richmond area.
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End High School
Charles Jordan
Gordon B. Howe
Ernest E. Howe
Boy Scouts
Phyllis Merchant
Edward Murphy
Manchester
N. H
Richmond
Miss Merchant
Grace E. Smith
Arthur G. Smith
Miss Smith
Clyde N. McFee
Roland Alexander
Albert Pinkham
Florence Weeks
Beatrice Tarr
Merle Leavitt
Former Richmond Athlete Visits Family in Brass City
Percy Little, ex-Richmond high school football player from 1896, is visiting his sisters Mrs. Charles Hackett and Mrs. George Hackett of Bowdoinham and Mr. and Mrs. Leon Dunklee. A long-time employee of F. S. Hardy Co. in Boston, he has traveled across the United States and Canada and now is back in Greenfield, Massachusetts.
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Percy Little
Richmond
Charles Hackett
George Hackett
Bowdeinham
Leon Dunklee
Little
Richmond High School
F. S. Hardy Co
Boston
Canada
Greenfield
Mass
Gardiner and Surrounding Folk Gather for Events and Visits
Community notes describe music by His All Star band from Albion, relatives returning from Frances Watson nursing home, University of Maine students visiting home, visits among families in Gardiner Boothbay Harbor and Augusta, a Progres sive Orange meeting with Topsham orchestra, school operettas at the grange hall, and a Boy Scouts flag presentation with a large audience.
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Richmond Lion’s Club
American Legion Hall
Rodney Nash
Department of Agriculture
State House
Augusta
Ernest Stewart
Gardiner Street
Joseph Prey
Bath
Leonard Munsey
Joseph Thurlow
Seth Watson
Grace E. Randolph
Roberts Funeral Rooms
G. E. Edgett
Miss Randolph
Harry P
Medora Cheney Randolph
Boston
Lowell
Mass
I. E. Hatfield
Richmond
Margaret Grover
Gardiner
Inge
The
Baptist Church
Susan Me
Chestnut Street
Roland Grant
Boothbay Harbor
Royce Dunham
Louis A. Rideout
Harry Boston
Hebron
Lewiston
Progressive Orange
Frank Carver
Topsham Grange
Roy Stinson
Bucksport
June McKenna
E. O. Tarr
Mabel Lancaster
Clifford
Allen Waddell
Freeman Waddell
Brunswick Hospital
Marjorie Wren R. N
Haverhill
George Wren
Kenneth Bartlett
Mary Webber
E. Hatfield
Grace Randolph
Herbert Carr
Walpole
Mr. Carr
William Carr
Vital Gilbert
Louis David Gilbert
Banks Preble
Fred Small
Mildred Harford
W. W. Gardiner
John Young
George Leavitt
Bowdoinham River
Bertelle Skinner
Minnie Skinner
Frank Beedle
Everett Douglass
C. E. Knight
Winthrop
T. J. Southard
Emerson School
Grange Hall
Betty
Frances Webber
Bob
Billy McKenney
Peggy
Phylis Choate
Paul
Lynwood Richards
Mother Goose
Ernestine Mayhew
Margaret Limekin
Bo Peep
Eleanor Meéaley
Jack Horner
Victor DeBree
Queen of Hearts
Barbara Bond
Boy Blue
Melvin Chase
Miss Muffet
Louise Webber
John
Arthur Sewall, Jr
Jill
Esther King
Jack
Frederick Richter
Contrary Mary
Theresa Slattery
Harford Malloy
Giant
Edward Pinkham
Florence
Margaret Robinson
Charlie
John Libby
Charles Howes
Howes
Frank Woodrow
Greenfield
John Sykes
Anne Spocard
Frances Watson
Leon Dunklee
Aid of Enterprise Grange
Alice Lewis
Front Street
Fred Elliot
Clara Foster
Emerson Lane Post A. L
Legion Hall
Legion
Richmond Sargent
Edward Mansir
Boy Scouts
J. W. Randlette
Citizens Boy Scouts Committee
Gilbert Edgett
Legionnaires
Bath visitors and local social notes from Georgetown
Bath visitors include Mrs Elizabeth Hunt Miss Marion Hunt and H F Hunt. Families from Melrose Highlands Kingston Rutland and Portland visit or stay with relatives. The article notes Gaston Lachaise visiting and preparing to move to New York City. A Christian Endeavor service with topic Is it practical to live without worry is announced at the First Baptist church with a consecration service. A sudden death in Belmont Mass is reported involving Stuart Rand Jr and Margaret Rand.
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Elizabeth Hunt
Marion Hunt
H. F. Hunt
Bath
Walter Williams
Earle Pottle
Popham
Roscoe P. Todd and
Warren
Melrose Highlands
Mass
Dorothy W. Oliver
Kingston
W. C. Todd
Amy Hovey
E. D. Marsh
Rutland
Walter W. Cummings
Portland
Gaston Lachaise
New York
George Willis
Woolwich
Owen Marr
Edward Wren
Ruth Hinckley
Walter Cunningham
Levi Powers
Robinhood
Victor Hagan
L. Earle Hagan
Madelyn Berry
R. N
Five Islands
Stuart C. Rand, Jr
Belmont
Ida Hooker
Cambridge
Margaret Rand
Christ
First Baptist Church
Morse Team Set to Open Season April 28 in Kennebec League
Morse high baseball begins the Kennebec Valley League Southern Division schedule at Gardiner on April 28 with Cony of Augusta visiting Kelley Field on May 2. The Bath squad faces tough tests early, with key games against Gardiner, Brunswick, Hallowell, and Augusta through May.
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Morse
Morse High
Gardiner
Cony High
Augusta
Kelley Field
Cony
Bath
Hallowell
Brunswick
Fuel Oil Tax Opposed in Consumer Petition
A petition signed by 103 fuel oil consumers opposing any tax on fuel oil was submitted to Rep N Gratz Jackson to take to the Legislature. The effort was led by Mrs Ambrose S MacFadden and Mrs John Burgon of 26 Deering St. The signers protest the proposed tax and include Mr MacFadden as a leading figure.
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N. Gratz Jackson
Ambrose S. MacFadden
John Burgon
Deering Street
MacFadden
Tolls on onds bridge taken up on Friday
In Maine the House discussed tolls on the Richmond Dresden bridge as an economy measure for winter. Representative Carleton of Portland moved to table H P 667 L D 199, arguing Public Utilities and Ways and Bridges committees should convene to decide toll policy. The House divided 59 to 28, tabling the matter.
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Richmond- Dresden
George A. Hawkes
Richmond
Maine House
Carleton
Portland
Maine Kennebec Bridge
Mr. Carleton
Hawkes
Mr. Hawkes
Speaker
Ways and Bridges Committee
Public Utilities Committee
Public Utilities
Former Bath resident praises Bath Independent in letter
A Bath, Maine subscriber expresses strong affection for the Bath Independent. He sends 75 cents for renewal and recalls reading each Friday to stay connected with the Shipbuilding City. He commends Bath’s cleanliness and homey streets shaped by shipmasters.
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Independent
Sagadahoc
Bath merchants join regional opposition to sales tax plan
Maine legislators face coordinated merchant resistance as Bath, Lewiston, Portland, and others oppose the proposed sales tax. Regional meetings in Lewiston and Portland signaled unified stance, while Bath merchants affirm support for the opposition to Sagadahoc lawmakers. Phi Beta Kappa lists eleven seniors and two juniors from the University of Maine for 1933 with names and hometowns.
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Maine
Bath
Lewiston
Portland
Sagadahoc
University of Maine
Phi Beta Kappa
Albert Turner
Pauline
F. Brown
Bangor
Pauline Cohen
Luthera H. Burton
Thomaston
Harold W. Fleischer
Chelsea
Mass
Evelyn M. Gleason
Arlington
Robert B. Lorimer
Grace A. Quarrington
Pauline Siegal
Rose Snyder
Laurice M. Stevens
Plymouth
Wesley N. Walgatt
Rockland
Martha I. Tuomi
Rosston
Ruth S. Walenta
South China
Five Islands Grange Forms Circle Elects Officers
The Five Islands grange organized a circle on Friday with President Mattie B. MacMahan and others elected to roles including vice president Madeline Berry and secretary Vesta Rowe. The group reported large attendance, active quilting, and a completed quilt with two more in progress.
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Edith Pinkham
George Gray
MacMahan Island
Percy Bailey
Woolwich
Five Islands
Bath
Wesley Church
Homer Grimes
Clinton Hanna
Belgrade
George Ilanna
Paul Stevens
Groton
Mass
Earl MacMahan
Boston
Grange
Hall
Walter Moore
Hallowell
Chester MacMahan
Moore
Rex Bridges
E. A. Cote
Auburn
Mary Cote
E. A. Freeman
Alfred MacMahan
Ellis Ellingwood
South Paris
Otter Cliff
Olive Rowe
Bliss Business College
Lewiston
C. E. Hanna
Everett
Raymond Reid
New York
W. E. Reid
Acroid
Cambridge
Harmon's Harbor
A. D. Wilde
No Further Action On City Property Sale
City council took no additional steps regarding the disputed sale of land at North street extension Lincoln street and Brunswick road to Leroy L. Burnham after Judge John J. Keegan ruled the action illegal. City Treasurer Young refused the deed pending the opinion and several aldermen opposed the sale while others supported it. councilman Arthur L. Pratt presided and did not vote.
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City Council
North Street
Lincoln Street
Brunswick Road
Leroy L. Burnham
John J. Keegan
City Treas
Shipping Services of the Port of Boston noted for businesses
A booklet compiled by Capt. George P. Lord and Edmond F. Bemis outlines Boston port transportation facilities for New England manufacturers. Free copies are available from the Boston Port Authority or the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.
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George P. Lord
Boston Port Authority
Edmond F. Bemis
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
New England
Boston
Port of Boston
Customhouse
Belfast 4-H Girl Finds Hen Egg in Bed During Poultry Project
Virginia Ladd of Belfast, a Sunny Side Up 4-H member, recounts a hen laying an egg in her bed while she raised 312 day old chicks in 1932. She details starting the project April 25, costs of chicks at 18 cents each, care routines, sale of broilers for 63.67 and pullets for 143.50 with a 58.30 profit and 20 losses from disease, skunk, or overcrowding.
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Virginia Ladd
Belfast
Carleton Doak
Percy Johnson Injured When Truck Hits Tree
Percival Owen Johnson of Times Co. was hurt Sunday afternoon when a Ford truck driven by Donald Emero overturned after striking a cavity in Oliver street where a water main was installed. Emero escaped unharmed. Johnson, taken to City hospital, had one stitch over the right eye and injuries to the thumb, left finger, and right leg.
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Percival Owen Johnson
Times Co
Donald Emero
Oliver Street
Emera
George Emera
Johnson
Langdon Green
E. Motley Fuller
Ice Company Shifts to Pond Ice Over Twelve Inches Thick
The Saco Janson Ice Company abandons river ice and harvests pond ice twice thicker than a foot. They have been cutting for some time and their houses are nearly filled. Despite higher costs, the pond ice is clearer and higher quality.
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Saco Janson Ice Company
Saco River
Girl Wins Potato Race at YMCA Meet
Kathaleen Lewis, 13, Central Grammar, set a boys’ division potato race time of 24 seconds flat at the YMCA Guluminar school track meet, as Central Reds led the boys with 23 points. Merton Reynolds won the boys 50 foot dash in 24 1 5 seconds and Fraser of Dike took the 600 yard, while North Grammar won the girls with eight points led by Durgin in the 50 foot dash.
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Y. M. C. A. Guluminar
Kathaleen Lewis
Central Grammar School Pic
Merton Reynolds
Central Reds
Miss Lewis
Central Whites
North Grammar
Dike
North Grammar Lassies
Charlie Grace
Fraser
Dike School
Grace
Reynolds
Reds
Burns
Earlebach
Earl Lowery
Central Blues
Owen
Miss Durgin
Conta Recs Eee
Noromegoin Ithe Eeeriey
Nee Enet
Dirg Rochon Et
Genta le Wanes
Central eBlnés
Cat Ce Care
Central Ynitessesens
Enya
Central “Blues
Central Ros
Esac
Kingsbury
Nickerson
Durgin
Donnell
Ferrell
Davis
Lewis
Guynn
Jeffersonian Simplicity as NYC Mayor Salary Cuts
The Boston Transcript notes New York City faces a new era of frugal governance with the mayoral salary reduced to 30000 dollars a year signaling a metropolitan model of austerity and reform.
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New York City
Boston Transcript
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