Richmond News Highlights Local Social Ties and Events
Richmond host of short items covers weekend visits by Miss Stinson and Mrs. Kirk, travels of Dr. Ada Fogg, and numerous local residents in and out of town. Notes on church services, graduations, funerals, fishing contest winner, Grange meetings, and a new Triton cabin cruiser reflect a busy community calendar.
Corliss Street church meets for Bible questions
On Tuesday evening 16 members gathered at Mrs Minnie Tyler's Washington street home. After a business meeting Bible questions were asked and answered. Plans were made for an all day vestry session on Tuesday May 9 with refreshments served. Hostesses were Mrs Jennie Seavey and Mrs Fannie Burden with many members present including Mrs Mabel Shepard and Mrs Jeanette Plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corliss Street
Minnie Tyler
Washington Street
Tyler
Jennie Seavey
Fannie Burden
Mabel Shepard
Jeannette Plant
Jennie Curtis
Nellie Bonney
Emma Daley
Lizzie French
Julia Johnson
Harriet Nocton
Anna Allen
Mabel Coombs
Lena Helm
Maud Clark
Mrs Hodgdon of Portsmouth Visiting Family in City
Mrs Henry W Hodgdon of Portsmouth New Hampshire formerly principal of Weeks Street Grammar School is spending a week in the city with her parents Mr and Mrs Frank W Robbins at 36 Pine Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry W. Hodgdon
Portsmouth
N. H
Louise H. Robbins
Weeks Street Grammar School
Frank W. Robbins
Pine Street
Georgetown social notes from Robinhood cottages weekend
Regionally dense column details visits and movements of residents and guests in Georgetown and nearby towns. Mentions include Mrs. Wilton Campbell, Doris Trafton, Howard Trafton, Bath visitors, summer home openings, road repairs, church meetings, and local civic events with numerous names and places.
Dunlap Commandery Entertains Ladies
Dunlap Commandery K T entertained Wednesday night in honor of the ladies. The committee in charge Albert Henderson chairman J Maurice Haynes and Roy F Shackford arranged an evening with musical and literary numbers plus a drill by the Escort under Harris T Rodick. Performers included the Fisher Quartet and readings by Mrs Rupert Wing and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles W. Avery
C. F. Pierce
Eunice Whittal
Rupert Wing Read
David Henderson
Harold Freeman
Alfred Woolen
William Armes Fisher
Bath residents urge floats at city landing missing
River residents complain about the absence of floating stages at the City landing and the new landing where ferries used to dock. A Bath business owner says floats should be out by now to serve the public at both sites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath 7 River
City Landing
Old City Landing
Broad Street
New Landing
Augusta E Rowe Returns From Portland Visit
Mrs Augusta E Rowe of Georgetown has been staying with her sister Mrs Stearns W Scott at 16 Andrews Road. She returned Friday night from Portland where she spent a week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta E. Rowe
Georgetown
Stearns W. Scott
Andrews Road
Portland
Americanization Day Observed by VFW Auxiliary
In its first city observance, the Auxiliary to Frigate Constitution post No. 2197 VFW staged a patriotic program in the G A R hall on Middle street. Scouts, a flag pledge, Longfellow verse, and demonstrations in first aid and signaling highlighted the evening, with Rev. Charles R. Sims as speaker and about 150 attendees enjoying coffee, cake, and dancing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frigate
Constitution Post
G. A. R. Hall
Middle Street
Perkins’ Greenhouse
Charles R. Sims
First Baptist Church
Boy Scouts
Troop 53
Lillian Clancy
Winfred Scott
Battery H
240Th Coast Artillery Corps
America
Sims
Washington
Lincoln
U. S. Grant
Grant
United States
Mr. Sims
Roland Smith
A. L
Asa A. Wilson
George H. Wilson
Freeman C. Wilson
Charles Dorsey
Loring Edward Hart
Joseph E. Hart
High Street
Lonefellow
Sedgwick Square
Harold Holmes
Dorsey
William Swain
Harold L. Corliss
Brigate Constitution Post
Edith Moody
Ruth Gallagher
Myrtle B. Wilson
Towboat Turecam o Girls to be launched at Bath Iron Works
The towboat "Turecam o Girls" will be launched Saturday at 10 45 am by Bath Iron Works Corp for Brooklyn towing firm B Ture camo Towing Corp New York. Built with elaborate detailing, it will tow barges carrying New York's refuse to sea and may lead to more orders from the Brooklyn owner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turecamo Girls
Bath Iron Works Corp
B. Turecamo Towing Corp
Brooklyn
N. Y
New York Harbor
Turecamp Girls
New York
L.F. Atwood's Medicine Promotes Liver and Bowels Keep
Old reliable remedy advertised as preventing foul digestion and serious sickness by keeping liver and bowels working freely. Promises quick relief with a 50 cent bottle of 60 doses and availability at all dealers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L.F
Atwood
Five Islands Social Roundup Sees Visitors and Developments
Five Islands residents greet guests from Bath Arrowsic and Portland as preparations begin for summer. Renovations at the fish market and Ottercliff hotel plans, plus opening dates for seafood and ice cream venues, surface amid local visits and birthday celebrations.
Wood Family Inquiry Seeks 1790 Lineage Roots
Wailer A Wood of Racine Wisconsin seeks descendants of John Wood living in Sandy River Lincoln County Maine in 1790. John had a wife three sons and four daughters. Simeon Wood family in Littleborough Maine also listed. He requests any Weed Wood or Wceeds family records and invites correspondence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wailer A. Wood
Wood Building
Racine
Wis
John Wood
Sandy River
Lincoln County
Maine
Simeon Wood
Littleborough
Weed
Mrs Haliburton Falt and Edith Leave Staples Guest Home
Mrs James Haliburton Falt and her daughter Miss Edith Falt have finished a week of visiting Mr Edmund M Staples and Mrs Staples at 329 Front Street and have returned to their home in Northeast Harbor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Haliburton Falt
Edith Falt
Edmund M. Staples
Front Street
Northeast Harbor
Talk on Porto Rico by Mrs Bregger at Dike PTA
Mrs Thomas Bregger of Porto Rico formerly Marie Anderson spoke to Dike PTA at the old Dummer street schoolhouse about four years living in Porto Rico. She described island life agriculture foliage and living conditions. The program included plans for an all day session May 16 with district teachers as luncheon guests and a forthcoming summer round-up under Mrs Hoffman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Bregeeer
Porto Rico
Marie Anderson
Charles L Anderson
Washington Street
Dummer Street
Bregger
Herman W. Crocker
Frissy Erskine Sidelinger
William A. Fogwill
Walter W. Smith
Ralph P. Dunbar
Hicksville
West Bath Grange Hall
Treasury
Willam A. Fogwill
Carl B. Swanton
Fred B. Kittridge
Frederick J. Hoffman
Harold L. Miller
D. LeRoy Lord
Raymond M. Clark
Sidelinger
Crocker
Chester H. Worrey
Lisbon Falls Masons Host Fine Meeting Program
Dunlap commandery K T meets in Lisbon Falls with large attendance. Oliver Moses 3rd chaired the Lisbon Falls program featuring Bowdoin trainer Jack Magee and Bowdoin swimming instructor Robert Miller showing Olympic film reels from Los Angeles. A lobster stew supper followed, served by Edward E. Morse, Lewis J. Sanborn, and Herman Wilde.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dunlap Commandery
K.T
Lisbon Falls
Oliver Moses
Carl Kiesling
Osman Bailey
Jack Magee
Bowdoin College
Robert Miller
Bowdoin
Los Angeles
Edward E. Morse
Bath
Lewis J. Sanborn
Herman Wilde
Phippsburg Notes on Era Shipbuilding Romance
The column recalls past shipbuilding demand for faster larger ships, suggesting a new business could arise to rival the old industry. It laments the loss of romance and beauty once found in vessels, with reflections on decaying bed logs and memories of craft from earlier days.
Teams Deadlock For Fourth Time In Bath Interclub
In the Bath Interclub League Modern Woodmen and Knights of Columbus remained tied for third place after a final play-off attempt. Eight tables were in use, and at ten o clock the scores again showed a tie with four wins each. The Woodmen invited the Knights to a similar rematch next Wednesday to seek a winner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Pine Tree Girl Scouts Honor Officers at Final Meeting
Pine Tree Troop of Girl Scouts holds final association meeting on May 16 with about 25 scouts attending. They performed Specialties a humorous Swedish playlet translated into German then arranged in English for scouts. Girls acted in costumes, with Katherine Shellenbarger at the piano.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Association
Sweden
Charlotte Blensdorf
Dorothy Wing
Mary Map
Ruth Shellenbarger
Carrie Compass
Barbara Freeman
Nellie Knotty
Mary Darrah
Cathy Cook
Alice Coleman
Minnie Meade
Phyllis Darrah
Bertha Button
Barbara Kenney
Betty Bandage
Ruth Robinson
Flossie Forest
Katherine Shellenbarger
Catherine Shellenbarger
Charlotte Page
Margaret Cook
Mary Josephine Ferrell
Walter M. Hill
William R. Freeman
Carl C. Anderson
Arthur J. Nichols
Mrs Noyes Visiting Hodgkins Family in Everett
Mrs Edward B Noyes of Everett Massachusetts is spending a few weeks with her sister Mrs Elmer D Hodgkins at 937 Middle street She joined Mr and Mrs Hodgkins and Miss Ellen Hodgkins upon their return home after they spent last week with her.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Inez Stinson
Alfred Niles
Brunswick
Lee Kirk
Buckroe Beach
Ada Odiorne Fogg
May Hathorne
Peaks Island
Ira Ingraham
Rutherford, N. J
Warren Lemont
Edith Knight
Bangor
Alvena Knight
Center Street
Leslie Seekins
U. of M
Town
Olive King
Dorothy Hatfield
Oakland
Charles Hackett
Maine Central Railroad
Bowdoinham
Maine Central
Richmond
John Dailey
Ray Stinson
Augusta
N. Banks Preble
Ada White
Bert Briery
Wallace Curtis
Randolph
Charles Trott
South Gardiner
Franz Hutchins
Wallace Bickford
Gardiner
Carl Bickford
Julia Chalmers
Belfast
Georgia Bickford
A. E. Small
Sarasota
Fla
Mary Gaubert
Elizabeth Small
Epworth League
Paul Given
Philip Dinsmore
Gordon Curran
Florence Finnegan
Olive Stilphen
Beatrice
Bertha Parker
Marion Jack
Amy Bradley
Daughters of Union Veterans
Odd Fellows
Richmond Fish and Game Association
Durand
Boston
New York
Joseph Alexander
Pleasant Street
Alexander
Richard Derby
Winchester
Mass
Edward B. Noyes
Everett
Elmer D. Hodgkins
Middle Street
Mrs. Hodgkins
Ellen Hodgkins
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Joe Wadell
Charles Sylvester
Pridance
Charles ‘H. Cobb
Little Robert
A. 8. Cobb
Earl C. Brown
Richmond Wood Heel Co
Richardson Grocery
Main Street
Harry B. Curran
August Wenzell
Pine Tree Academy
Lewiston
Alfred Wenzel
Elmer Purington
John Skillin
Progressive Grange
Harry Anderson
Freeport Grange
Maine Farmer
Josie and
Margaret Temple
Amesbury
Frank Alexander
Frances Thompson
Brunswick Hospital
Vincent Marchese
Worcester
George B. Kimball
Henry Alexander
White Road
E. S. Bowdoin
Frank Connor
Harold Baker
Waldoboro
Earl Hackett
Brunswick Road
Ray E. Northey
Florida
Lytle Lint
Walter Reed
Woolwich
James Malloy
Maurice Reynolds
Little Son
Reynolds
Charles Reynolds
Ernest Ridley
Mary Ridley
Joyce
Mary Page
Carroll E. Farmington
Hackensack
N. J
J. Weston Walsh
Arthur Maxwell
Triton
Fred Lewis
John E. Hall
H. B. Sanderson
American Legion Auxiliary
Legion
Legion Hall
Oliver T. Banborn
Portland Fire Department
Chief Sanborn
Guy Farnham
Farnham
Fred Duren
Russell King
Genevieve Joy
Rose of Sharon
O. E
Boyd Boston
Augusta General Hospital
Fred S Curtis
Uneral
Thomas R. Huston
LAU Ibalance
R. Bath
Wilton
Campbell
Sabattus
Robinhood
Doris M. Trafton
Melrose
Howard M. Trafton
Charles W. Clifford, Jr
Burton Radley
J. E. Oliver
Maude Thayer
Waltham
Thomas N. Williams
West Georgetown
Gilbert Gunnell
E. W. Adams
Joseph F. Higgins
William A. Todd
Roy M. Newman
H. G. Heald
Harry Heald
Annie M. Jones
W. V. Cummings
William Zorach
H. M. Trafton
C. L. Hinckley
Sagadahoc Bay
Marjorie
Warren
Melrose Highlands
Todd
Amy Hovey
The
Lander
Belle M. Heald
Working League
Bowdeinham United Baptist Association
Freeport
Jennie Todd
Noah
Martha Rich Bowen
L. Earle Hagan
Belle Heald
Masonic Temple
G. Curran
James H. Rogers
Avery Reading
Rupert Wing
Frederick K. Logan
N. B. Sprague
A. Gretchaninoff
Charles P. Scott
Rupert Wing Drill
H. T. Rodick
Edgar B. Smith
V.F.W
G.A.R. Hall
Bath Iron Works
Atwood’s Medicine
Carrie Stevens
Katherine Pendagast
Belle Stevens
Charles H. Campbell
Irving
David Lawrence
Frank
Arrowsic
Fred Carr
Lloyd Pinkham
Five Islands
Rutledge Frost
Freemont
Mosses Stevens
Carr
George Floyd
Groton
Myra Thibodeau
Mina Wilson
Charles Hanna
Elliott Bold
Bold
George Gay
Woodrow
Henry More
James Stevens
William Marr
Joseph Davis
D. L. Howard
Walter Savage
Alton P. Reed
Percy B. Savage
Harol Pinkham
Southport
Charles Pinkham
Kenneth Pinkham
Furber Davis
T. W. Scott
Percy McGilvary
Clara Hinkley
Fenton Moore
Frank Locke
Percy Savage
Edward Lewis
Roy Boucher
Mr. Bold
Norman Howard
Oscar Snowman
Cromwell Cottage
Maurice Pinkham
Burleigh Pinkham
Charles Davis
William Belanger
Howard House
W. FB. Reid
Mr. Reid
New York City
T. Everett Cromwell
Marie Rittall
Olive Williams
Grange Library
Stevens Farm
Ottercliff
Bath Savings Institution
Mrs. Bregger
Dike P.T.A
Elizabeth Libby
John Libby
Nowrekking Morne Wa
Parker Head
Wymen
Phippsburg
Knights of Columbus
Bath Camp
Modern Woodmen
Pine Tree Troop
Girl Scouts
Beacon Street
Beacon Hill
State House
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