Richmond clubs host meetings and plans for May events
Last week Richmond groups held annual meetings and planned upcom- ing activities. Emerson Lane Post Auxiliaries aimed to install officers May 12 at the Legion Home, with Marion Babb named refreshments chair. Richmond Sportsmen and church groups announced suppers and festivals, while bands from Richmond High and Emerson Grammar prepared for the Western Maine Music Festival in Brunswick. A local birthday marked 86 years for James F. Reserve, noted for long town service, and various lodge memberships were listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia Wakels
Dent
Marionade
Georgia
Irving Ipp
Tral Maine General Hospital
Lewiston
Emerson
Lara Mansir
Ideal Home Corner Club
Main Street
Richmond High
Emerson Grammar School
Roscoe Whitten
Brunswick
Methodist
James F
North Pleasant Street
Richmond
Enterprise Grange
Richmond Masonic Lodge
Mt. Carmel
Beulah Rebekah Lodge
Maude L. Hinkley
Pushard-Guiou Post, V. F. W
Odd Fellows Hall
Vincent Jones
Liam Kelcher
Walter Ander- Winfield Hull
Charles Watson
Richmond High School
Progressive Grange
Sagadahoc Grange of
Bowdoin
Merrymeeting Grange
Bowdoinham
Edna Small
Penny March
Robert Wallace
Fort Richmond
Mina Clark
South Pleasant Street
Genevieve Quinnam
Maxine Waltz
School Benefit Marks Pins for Litchfield Students
Esther MacWhinnie of Litchfield Academy and Mrs Doyle MacWhin received pins and certificates at a school benefit event. A cake donated by Genevieve Quinnam supported a can- co-hostesses were Ky Derby. The Richmond High minstrel show at Odd Fellows hall will be performed to raise funds for athletic equipment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Esther MacWhinnie
Litchfield Academy
Doyle MacWhin
Genevieve Quinnam
Ky Derby
Wal
Richmond High School
Odd Fellows Hall
Officers of W. F. W. in Richmond Seated
Perthard Guiou Post of Veterans of Foreign Wars and its auxiliary held their annual installation of officers at the post home Friday evening April 24. District Commander Vincent Jones officiated as installing officer. Guests included Past Dept. Comdr. Eddie Morisette and Dept. Hospitalization Chairman Charles Batchelder with other district officers. After installation a social hour and buffet luncheon followed. A mock necktie auction for the Togus Veterans Fund raised a tidy sum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perthard-Guiou
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Vincent Jones
Dept
Eddie Morisette
Richmend
Charles Batchelder
Augusta
Moore
Bath
Wilder Fossett
New Harbor
Knight
Tarr
L. Morisette
Department of Texas
E. Hunter
Abelene
Texas
John Waltz
Charles Watson
Edward Crosby
Winfield Howe
Flvert Pooler
Oscar Smith
Henry Alexander
Clowes Guiou
Donald Knight
Carl Watts
Glendon Wahue
Comdr. Moore
Togus Veterans’ Fund
Bowdoinham Baptist Association to Meet at Corliss Street
The Bowdoinham Baptist Association holds its annual meeting at Corliss Street Baptist Church with sessions at two and seven. Rev. E. T. Fletcher of Rangoon Burma will speak at both sessions. Fletcher is noted for 27 years of Karens and Burmese evangelism and education work. Ralph Champlain of Bowdoinham will deliver the association sermon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowdoinham Baptist Association
Corliss Street
E. T. Fletcher
Rangoon
Burma
Fletcher
all-Burma Baptist Convention
China
Cornell University
Colgate- Rochester Theological Seminary
Berkeley Baptist Divinity School
Ralph Champlain
Bowdoinham
Inscriptions Record Hittite History to 3 000 B C
The National Geographic Society says inscriptions document Hittite history back to 3000 B C. The claim highlights ancient writings as a key source for early Anatolian civilization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
National Geographical Society
Georgetown Bath events mix church meeting and town life
John Reedy announces Bowdoinham Association meeting at Corliss Street church in Bath today. Georgetown PTA holds monthly meeting at Georgetown Central School with officer installations for the coming year. Carl Williams promotes a May 15 eighth grade food sale at Rogers Hardware in Bath. Community notes cover local visits, travel, wells in Seguinland, and several residents’ weekend activity amid spring weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Reedy
First Baptist Church
Bowdeinham Association
Corliss Street
Bath
Georgetown Pta
Georgetown Central School
Carl Williams
Central School
Rogers’ Hardware
Roland E. Peterson
William Bisseth
Peterson
Robinhood
Hazel Gay
Seguinland
Donald Stewart
Oakley Thibodeau
Nathaniel Hasenfus
Roy Clark
Everett Stevens
Edward P. Goff, Jr
Lisbon Falls
Indian Point
Wilfred E. Jones
Brunswick
Clara Fawcett
Everett
Mass
English Brother Visits Bath Resident John Phillips
James B. I. Phillips of County Cornwall England visits his Bath brother John Phillips and wife at 16 West Street. They reunite after 45 years, meeting briefly in World War I in Plymouth. James, a retired farmer, oversees a Cornwall dairy and market garden now run by his son.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James B. I. Phillips
County
Cornwall
Eng
John Phillips
London
Bristol
England
Phillips
Maine
United States
Boston
John
Bath
Medford
Five Islands Community Notes Highlight Local Activities
Mrs Alec Cunningham drove the school bus during the drivers illness. The church voted to cancel this week's prayer meeting to allow attendance at Bowdoinham Association sessions in Bath. Junior Young People held a social with 20 participants. Reid State Park drew summerlike crowds after a recent visit. Various residents visited family and friends in Richmond Portland North Anson Ogunquit and Derby Line. Narvie Stevens of New Gloucester named salutar ian at New Gloucester High.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alec Cunningham
Percy MacGillivary
Bowdoinham Association
Corliss Street Baptist Church
Bath
Alan Pinkham
Reid State Park
Lloyd Pinkham
Lester Lewis
Richmond
Francis Pierce
Portland
Lawrence Perow
Thorne
North Anson
Lermond Davis
Vincent Strout
Southport
William Marr
Marr
Harold Cranshaw
Mareena Butts
Butts
Malden Island
D. W. Staffeld
Luke Roy
Laconia
N. H
Tony Nicholas
Harold Rowe
Harold, Jr
Ogunquit
Derby Line
James Stevens
Stanley Lewis
Jill
Onset
Mass
Victor Pinkham
Orville Rowe
Vernon Gray
Narvie Stevens
New Gloucester
Five Islands
New Gloucester High School
Four youths to pay for meter smash in municipal court
Four Bath youths appeared before Judge Gardiner R. Deering in Municipal court to answer charges of smashing a parking meter. The case was continued to May 8 to permit restitution of $50 to the City. Edward Driscoll pleaded guilty to overtime parking on Union street and paid $4.70 in costs. Patrolman Joseph Babine was the complainant. Tarpy T. Schulten pleaded guilty to burning brush without a permit in Woolwich on April 4, found guilty and fined $5 plus $5.50 costs. Maurice K. Weaver was the complainant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Gardiner R. Deering
City of
Edward Driscoll
U.S.N
Philadelphia
Union Street
Joseph Babine
Tarpy T. Schulten
Woolwich
Maurice KK. Weaver
Bay Point Community Notes Births and Local Activities
Bay Point residents share news of birthdays and family visits. John Conley of Somerville died Sunday at Bay Point. Dwight Furbish celebrates birthday with family. Dana Allen Hinkle y born April 30 at Bath Memorial Hospital weighing near ten pounds. Cottage visits include Taylor and Dunrobin households. new electrical wiring installed by Central Maine Power Co. Members of the Hagan, Powers, and Stone families are also noted with trips to Bath, Harpswell, and Rockland. U.S.S. Mitscher trial cruise referenced with Kennebec River passage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Conley
Somerville
Mass
Bay Point
Dwight Furbish
Donna
James
Fred Morse
Bruce
Woolwich
Carrie Carlisle
Wiscasset
Thomas Hagan
New Meadows Inn
Karen
Rockland
H. Martin Powers
George Renaud
U. S. S. Mitscher
Maine
Captain Farmer
Portland
Kennebec
Fred P. Taylor
Richard Hagan
Walter Wilkinson
Auburn
Taylor Cottage
Wilkinson
Central Maine Power Co
Bath
Forrest Drake
Dunrobin
Pierce
Bowdoin Drive-In
Harpswell
Foster’s Point
Maurice Hinckley, Jr
Bath Memorial Hospital
Dana Allen
Pre nuptial shower honors Barbara Parks in Bath area
Miss Barbara Parks was honored at a surprise pre nuptial shower hosted by aunts Mrs. John W. Shorey Jr and Mrs. Isabel Seavey in Phippsburg with 40 guests. Gifts included linens and kitchen items while a bridal doll display was given to the bride elect. Guests from Bath West Point Newcastle Portland attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barbara Parks
Dana T. Hagerthy
John W. Shorey, Jr
Small Point Road
Phippsburg
Isabel Seavey
West Point
Shorey
Edith Parks
Ellen Talbot
Carl Graves
Bernice Oliver
Dixie Oliver
Virginia Wallace
Mrs. Seavey
Bride
Bath
Gayle Oliver
Dorothy Roderick
Harriet Carter
Leora Dyer
Mary Gaudreau
Alice Burgess
Marie Young
Bunny Graves
Nancy Roy
Margaret King
Virginia French
Vanona Sparks
Bertha DeWitt
Lorna Newcomb
Ora Parks
Jean-Ann Gaudreau
Ruth
Kathryn Alexander
Minerva Wallace
Lucy Smith
Golar Scott
Esther Alexander
Alice Wallace
Margaret Wallace
Susie Wallace
Martin Doyle
Ruby Wallace
Brunhilda Scott
Elizabeth Wallace
Mary Gilliam
Jane E. Gilliam
Sybil Scott
Marion Smith
Carrie Shorey
Newcastle
Albertina Thompson
Portland
John W. Shorey, Sr
Miss Parks
Police Chief Moriarty Returns After Five Week Absence
Police Chief Frank L. Moriarty was welcomed back to duty Monday morning following a five week absence that included a stay at Memorial Hospital. He resumed leadership of the department and addressed staff upon his return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank L. Moriarty
Memorial Hospital
Dresden Litchfield softball loss and community notes
Dresden Litchfield Academy fell to Bridge Academy 8 to 1 in softball. The column lists local residents visiting, returning, and social notes from Cedar Grove, Dresden Mills, Dresden Center, and surrounding areas, including hospital stays, guests, minstrel plans, and geese sightings west of Middle Bridge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Litchfield Academy
Bridge Academy
Arthur Stilphen
Rockland
Alden Stilphen
Cedar Grove
Carrie Cornell
Daytona Beach
Fla
Arlen Johnson
Gardiner
Ashley
Fred Weeks
Stanley Meserve
Linda
Blinn’s Hill
Irving Meserve
Richmond
Cedric Hamlin
Maine General Hospital
Portland
Call's Hill
Clayton Mayers
Dresden Center
Frank Lemarr
Arthur
Mattapan
Mass
James McCoy
William Judkins
Kittery
Herbert Stewart
John Gowen Rest Home
Y.A.Y.F
Eastern River Grange
Huntoon Hill Grange
Charles Gray
Flora
Fred Allen
Wilmot Trussell
Edith Carney
Ida McPhail
Benjamin Wentworth
J. Robert Foster
Florida
Massachusetts
Middle Bridge
Obituary William F. Williams 61 Bath resident dies
William Francis Williams 61 longtime Bath resident died Tuesday at the Veterans hospital in White River Junction VI. Born February 9 1892 in Bowdoinham he was a machinist with Hyde Windlass Co. and served in WWI. Survived by mother two daughters two sons four sisters one brother two grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. Funeral Friday at Curtis Funeral Home with burial in Oak Grove.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Francis Williams
Bath
Veterans’ Hospital
White River Junction
Bowdoinham
Seldon
Annie Given Williams
Hyde Windlass Co
U. S. Army
Dyer-Flaherty Post
Lebanon, N. H
American Legion Post
Louis Beliveau
Lebanon
N.H
Daniel Wright
Gloucester
Mass
Talbert Williams
Aberdeen
Alan Williams
Korea
Gertrude Allen
Wakefield
Katherine McKenney
Lee Sheldon
Portland
Charles Blaisdell
Phippsburg
Samuel Williams
Somerville
Curtis Funeral Home
Oak Grove
Margaret E. MacDonald 88 Dies at Bath Home
Mrs. Margaret E. MacDonald aged 88 widow of Mathias MacDonald died at her home 8 Huse Street Monday evening. Born August 24 1864 in Grand River P E I she was a daughter of Patrick and Katherine MacNeil MacDonald. She was a member of St Marys Roman Catholic church. Surviving are son Francis MacDonald Bath two daughters Elizabeth C. MacElman and Margaret L. MacDonald Bath a sister Mrs William E. Cameron Quincy Mass and several grandchildren. Funeral from St Marys church Thursday morning at eight. Friends may call at A F Mayo Son Funeral residence until service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret E. MacDonald
Mathias MacDonald
Huse Street
Grand River
P.E.1
Patrick
Katherine MacNeil MacDonald
St. Mary's
Francis MacDonald
Bath
Elizabeth C. MacElman
Margaret L. MacDonald
William E. Cameron
Quincy
Mass
St. Mary’s Church
A. F. Mayo Son
Mrs Adeline Gingue Dies. Daughter Receives Notice
Mrs Henry A. Alix of 969 High Street learned Monday morning of the death Sunday in North Providence R I of her mother Mrs Adeline Gingue a former Bath resident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry A. Alix
High Street
Providence, R. L
Adeline Gingue
Bath
John F Trainor 69 Bath resident dies after illness
John F Trainor of 37 Crescent street Bath died suddenly Wednesday at Memorial hospital where he had been a patient for a few days. Born August 30 1883 in North Whitefield he was a former chauffeur for John S Hyde and Mrs William D Sewall. He is survived by a son Philip Trainor a daughter Louise Trainor a brother a sister two grandchildren and other relatives. He was a member of St Marys church and a former Knights of Columbus member.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crescent Street
Memorial Hospital
Trainor
North Whitefield
Archibald
Ellen McNally Trainor
Bath
John S. Hyde
William D. Sewall
St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church
Knights of Columbus
J. Philip Trainor
Louise Trainor
Louer J. Trainor
Whitefield
Catherine Mullaney
Cambridge
Mass
Harry C. Bloxsom
Ann
Jeff Trainor
Brunswick
Mary Ellen Gordon 89 Dies. Bath Widow Had Long Local Ties
Mary Ellen Gordon age 89 widow of Charles E. Gordon died Friday morning at Griffin Convalescent Home in Topsham after four years as a patient. Born January 15, 1864 in Lewiston she lived in Bath 65 years and was educated in Lewiston schools. Survived by two sons Charles E. Gordon of Bath and Robert E. Gordon of Pittsfield Mass and St. Petersburg Fla, and five grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Ellen Gordon
Charles E. Gordon
Griffin
Topsham
Bath
Lewiston
John Hazelwood
Bedford, Street
Oak Street
Robert E. Gordon
Pittsfield
Mass
St. Petersburg
Fla
Irving L. Matson 85 former Boston electrical contractor dies
Irving L Matson 85 of Brookline Mass died suddenly of a heart ailment at home April 24. He had worked as an electrical contractor on Summer Street Boston for 55 years and remained active until three days before his death. He belonged to the Columbian Lodge of Masons F and A M. He was the son of Charles H and Lydia Linscott Matson. Survived by sister Mrs Emma Matson Abbott of Springfield Mass brother Arthur E Matson of Brockton three nieces Mrs F L Damon Miss Helen Abbott both of Springfield and Mrs David Bradford of Newington Conn and a grandnephew William Bradford of Connecticut.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robinhood
Lauretta M. Jones
Clarence
B. Hill
Boston
Boston University
Hunt
Harry L. Horne
Georgetown
John W. McArthur
Doris Reynolds
Augusta
Memorial Hospital
Alvah C. Reynolds
Eugene Reynolds
McArthur
Carrie Carlisle
Wiscasset
Mac Hagan
Georgetown Center
Harry Carlisle
Horace Lees
MacMahan
Portland
Roland Peterson
Ag L. Matson
Bath
Brookline
Mass
Matson
Summer
Columbian Lodge of Masons, F.,& A.M
Charles H
Lydia Linscott Matson
Emma Matson Abbott
Spfield
Arthur E. Matson
Brockton, Mass
F. L. Damon
Helen Abbott
Springfield
David Bradford
Newington, Conn
William Bradford
Connecticut
Reverend Fred A Haggett Dies at 50 in Washington Street Home
Reverend Fred A Haggett of Wiscasset died April 30 at Presley Convalescent Home in Bath after a long illness. Born March 12, 1903, he was a Moody Bible School graduate and A Wisconsin native, survived by wife Edith, brother Lawrence, a niece and nephew. Funeral services were held Saturday at Cowley Funeral Home in Wiscasset.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred A. Haggett
Wiscasset
Presley
Washington Street
F. Burton
Louella (Evans) Haggett
Wiscasset Academy
Moody Bible School of
Chicago
Haggett
Bath
Edith
Small) Haggett
Lawrence B. Haggett
Cowley Funeral Home
Wiscassect
John F. Trainor Funeral Rites Held at St Marys Church
High mass for John F. Trainor was held Saturday morning at eight from St Marys Catholic church with Rev Fr John Bel Fontaine officiating. Bearers included Joseph Trainor Leo Trainor Harry Bloxsom Joseph Mullaney John Mullaney and Edward McAuliffe. Burial followed in Calvary cemetery Whitefield with committal by Rev Fr McPephyns for North Whitefield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John F. Trainor
St. Mary's Catholic Church
John Belfontaine
Joseph Trainor
Leo Trainor
Harry Bloxsom
Joseph Mullaney
John Mullaney
Edward McAuliffe
Calvary Cemetery
Whitefield
Fr. McPephyns
North Whitefield
Memorial service for Mrs Mary L Sylvester held in Maine
Mrs Mary L Sylvester was funeralized Thursday afternoon at Curtis Funeral Home with Reverend Macy officiating. Pallbearers included John Stevens William Dunning Ernest Meserve and Truman Roberts. Burial followed at Rogers Cemetery in Topsham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fabagl
Mary L. Sylvester
Curtis Funeral Home
Macy. Whiteleg
Phippsburg
John Stevens
William Dunning
Ernest Meservé
Truman Roberts
Rogers Cemetery
Topsham
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Bowdoinham Baptist Association Meeting
Freda Cunningham
Percy MacGillivery
McNeely
Lincoln Walton
Mt. Vernon
Nellie Gray
Walton Cottege
Weymouth
Miss Jones
Ralph Dunton
Blount
Orr's Island
Dorothy Stuart
Laura Boyd
Martha Bowen
Belle Heald
Boothbay Harbor
Ocean Point
Miss Boyd
Leo Pertell
Arrowsic
Walter MacMahan
William Zorech
Brooklyn
Warren S. Todd
Stoneham
W. A. Todd
Roscoe P. Todd
Bert’s
Leeman
Esso Servicenter
Expert Service
Everitt
Pierce’s Marine Service
John Shorey
Dresden
William F. Williams
Mrs. Adeline Gingue
Ps Situary Cd.venture
Irving L. Matson
North St. Tel
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