Richmond Area Social News and Local Visits
Edmond Gamache buys Elmer Yeaton farm on the River Miss. Maude Billins moves to South End house after Winter at Wilson on Kimballi Street. Local residents gain telephone service at Clarence Lang’s Water Street home. Numerous visits, entertainments, and club activities fill Richmond life with dances, granges, rummage sales, and church events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edmond Gamache
Elmer Yeaton
Maude Billins
Wilson
Kimballi Street
Clarence Lang
Water Street
Ray Merrifield
Danforth
Bert Merrifield
Lewis Gaubert
Ruth Cheakon
Charles Abbottho
Front Street
Jesse Haley
Auburn
Amy Bradley
Daughters of Union Veterans of the
Augusta
Arthur Dickey
California
William Smith
Bangor
Leslie Graffam
Gardiner
Neweed Telephone Co
Carroll Bryant
Eddie
Maude Purinton
Millard Jack
Addie Hartford
Dirigo Grange
Progressive Grange
Pretty Maid
Maine
Bro. E. A. Rogers
Piigrange
Metry
Frances Hatch
Bowdoinham
Patty Duren
Carl W. May
Mechanic Falls
Fred Strout
Italy Hatch
St. Ambrose Hall
Perley Clark
Somerville
Mass
Carroll Clark
Brial Merrifield
Durand Shoe Factory
Lincoln Street
Harry Duren
Greenfield
Emerson-Lane Post
A. L
Legion Hall
Charles B. Day
Capital Island
U. W
C. W
Wedge Studio
Main Street
Sadie Waltz
Ida Hutchins
Ina Douglass
Daisy Mealey
Minnie Waldron
Martha Totman
Alfred Alton Williams
Wiscasset War Relief Aid Continues Support Drive
A continuation note credits continued contributions to relief and rehabilitation for veterans and families still contending with war related physical and financial hardships.
Senior Brotherhood Night at First Baptist Church Meeting
The Senior Brotherhood of First Baptist held a Tuesday night meeting with a half hour optometry talk by Dr A I Stuart and songs led by Freeman Crosby plus a Bible talk by Edwy A Sotheard after a prayer by Rev Charles R Sims. A supper at 6 30 was served under Arthur H Price Lloyd L Hooker Vernon W Miller and Freeman Crosby. The next meeting on June 12 will elect officers with nominating chair Harry W Moulton. Program committee includes L L Hooker Leon Eaton and Rev Sims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Handbook of American Genealogy
Institute of American Genealogy of Chicago
Kennebec Rose Garden
Young Peoples Society of the Baptist Church
Baker Pond
Ladies’ Aid
Enterprise Grange
Richmond Sportsmen's Association
Lions Club
Enterprise Grange Hall
Guy Slegars
Augusta
Harold Lancaster
Maynard Brown
Margaret Thompson
Portland
A. Reed Walker
Hartford
Conn
Murrey Shepard
Mt. Carmel
O. E
H. A. McKenna
Lewiston
Everett Trask
Melvin Hutchinson
Dresden
Nellie Thomas
Livermore Falls
Manuel Mascott
Boston
The
Baptist Church
Hattie Purint
Adelaide Dolley
Augusta General Hospital
George Clark
Philip Nadini
Richmond
Robert Ordway
Skowhegan
Fred Duren
Charles Hull
Hull
Quinn Webber
Erlon Umberhind
Gardiner
Umberhind
Gardiner Motor Co
Edward Bellgardi
New Jersey
al Sanford
Leroy Cleveland
Fred Naylor
Cleveland
Gladys Purinton
Helena Naylor
George Ritchter
Elva Purinton
Geraldine Cleveland
Mariina Pashard
Arthur Terrell
Juanita Baker
Charles Thompson
Brunswick Road
E. C. Guptill
Cherryfield
Mrytle Gordon
Newcastle
A. I. Stuart
Freemaa Crosby
Edwy A. Sotheard
Charles R. Sims
Brotherhood of First Baptist Church
Arthur H. Price
Lloyd L. Hooker
Vernon W. Miller
Freeman Crosby
Harry W. Moulton
L L. Hooker
Leon Eaton
Mr. Sims
Mohiba breakfast Friday morning in Morse cafeteria
The Mohiba breakfast is planned for Friday May 18 from 7 to 9 30 in the Morse cafeteria with oranges cereal bacon and eggs coffee doughnuts toast and muffins. The Mohiba dance follows Friday night from 8 to midnight. Mr and Mrs Walter M Potter returned home after a weekend trip reporting poor road conditions. Friday rummage sale at Salvation Army hall Water street set for 2 pm with contributions requested through Ensign Tripp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morse
Walter M. Potter
High Street
Fairfield
Skowhegan
Newport
Topsham
Waterville
Salvation Army
Water Street
Tripp
Social and Family Notes From West Georgetown
West Georgetown residents share visits and gatherings from May baskets to church services. Notables include Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Blackie, the Hinckleys, the Hunt family, Alex Cunningham, and Emmett Billings. Local events mention May basket parties, cottage stays, new homes, and community milestones.
Bowlers Celebrate Banquet Amid Tight Averages and Records
Dick Frates led individual averages with a slim margin over Al Thayer and Wally Plant. The bowling league charted high strings and totals, noting top single and team marks, while mentions include Miss McCoubrey and Miss Hooper attending Maine Phi Gamma Delta events and a school coloring contest prize for Miss Shirley Higgins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dodge-Zebley
Aikenhead-Besaw
Dick Frates
al Thayer
Wally Plant
Sam Rogers
Foes Bate Ass
Poole
Athens
Williatiov
GSR
J. McCole
A. Thayer
McCole-Wilson
Frates-Plant
R. Frates
W. Plant
L. Pooler
E. Toothaker
S. Rogers
T. Ham
E. Bourgett
H. McDonald
P. Farrar
M. Mitchell
Phyllis L. McCoubrey
Catharine Hooper
Orono
Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity
University of Maine
Five Islands and Georgetown News Briefs
Reports on bridge steel progress at Five Islands Georgetown area with a temporary span nearing completion. Local residents and visitors are noted with multiple social visits from Bath, Portland, and Sta te line towns. A staged eel alewife order, Grange meetings, and Mother's Day programs are also described along with infrastructure repairs and community events.
May Basket Season and Island News Share Local Life
May activities fill the island scene as residents attend visits, hosting relatives and neighbors. Dozens named include the Colbys, Greenleafs, Higgins, Hodgdon, and Was ses with trips to Bath and Wiscasset. Births, visitors, cottage weekends, a new Ford, and a May 14 birth headline the community update.
First Baptists Hold Annual Parish Supper and Meeting
The First Baptist church held its annual parish supper and meeting on a Wednesday evening with a six o’clock covered dish for the Ladies aid and young helpers. Dr. A I Stuart presided, Deacon Harry W Moulton was chosen moderator, and reports showed all church departments prosperous with officers reelected and gratitude shown to retiring treasurer Miss Lily S Pray.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Baptist Church
Ladies’ Aid
A. I. Stuart
Charles R. Sims
Harry W. Moulton
Grace Baker
Lily S. Pray
Alfred R. Pratt
Arthur J. Dunton
Leon R. Eaton
Prudential Committee
Freeman C. Crosby
Bates E. Stover
Stuart
Sims
A. S. Stuart
Cedric A. Martin
Edwy A. Sotheard
Charles Crosby
George McLellan
Clifford F. Harrington
Aid
Fred W. Larrabee
Everett B. Wright
Mary Child
Madelyn Dunton
Elizabeth Eaton
Laura Hall
Alberta McLellan
Linny McNinch
Carolyn Oliver
Elizabeth Pinkham
Rosamond
Home Organization Subject Of Meeting In West Bath
West Bath Farm Bureau held an all day session at West Bath Grange Hall with Miss Jense A Welch Auburn home demonstration agent in charge. Attendees included Mrs. Weston L Bonney and others. dinner featured veal pie and cabbage celery relish. Next meeting set for June 24 at Mrs Small's Berry's Mill road home with Raising and Preserving Foods at Home as the subject.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albion Carr
Charles Campbell
Douglass
Augusta
Chester MacMahan
Albert MacLeNan
Little Sheep Scott
Bath
Alice Gromwell
Boston
Charles H. Davis
Davis
Memorial Hospital
J.G. Stevens
Fred Carr
Percy McGilvary
Clarence MacMahan
Delbert
George Gray
Woodrow Gray
L. H. Rowe
Media Nocton
Charles Lewis
Philip Campbell
Frank Carr
Lewiston
Harmon's Harbor
Ada McGilvary
Walter Moore
Halloway
West Bath
Daniel A. MacDonald
Fred J. Rose
Elmer Sidelinger
Loring D. Small
Walter W. Smith
Loring Small and Son
Dana
Hew
Bonney
Donnell
Day
Haile
Brawn
MacDonald
Small
Berry’s Mill Road
Edwin W. Haggett
Veabee W. Brawn
Elmer Sidetinger
MISS MARSTON GIVES GIRLS TALK ON BIRDS
Miss Frostina E Marston spoke to the Girls Friendly Society at Grace church parish house urging care in bird watching as seasonal visitors arrive in Bath. She described local bird families and shared personal observations, with light refreshments served afterward by Miss Barbara Tubbs and Miss Kathleen Pepper. Rev Omar W Folsom and Miss Elsie Folsom arrived from Washington DC to spend the season in Bath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Girls Friendly Society
Grace Church
Frostina ’E. Marston
Bath
Omar W. Folsom
Elsie Folsom
Washington, D. C
Washington Street
Also Mentioned on This Page
Fred S Curtis &O
Omas RR
Huston Cer
R. Bath
Wiscasset
First Baptist Brotherhood
Georgetown
J. R. Blackie
West Georgetown
Grace Ward Stevens
GC. L. Hinckley
Working League
Sagadahoc Bay
Elizabeth Hunt
Marion Hunt
Damariscotta
Emma Billings
Howard M. Trafton
Martha Rich Bowen
Belle M. Heald
Clarence Oliver
Francis
Walter V. Cummings
Maude P. Thayer
Westbrook Seminary
Alex S. Cunningham
Elbridge Cunningham
Leon E. Williams
Gilbert Gunnell
Waltham
T. N. Williams
Williams
Five Islands
F. W. Hovey
Leon Earle ‘Hagan
Emma B. Billings
Carroll Deering
Bay Point
Ernest Heald
Joseph W. Lane
Melrose
Roy M. Newman
Thomas Hanna
Georgetown Center
Edward Adams
Harry Noyes
Lawrence Kimball
Bedford
Arthur Todd
Lisbon
Jennie Todd
John Williams
Will Mains
Burnside Powers
Robinhead
Frank Decker
Ida Oliver
Do. Stuart
Arrowsie- Georgetown
Sewall Webster
Indian Point
Clara Hinckley
Oak Cemetery
Shirley Higgins
Dike School
Ralph P
Dunbar
Boston Post
Georietown and Arrowsie
Lawrence Mullen
Green & Wilson Co
David Standish
Gilbert
Charles MacMahan
Mattie B. MacMahan
Goldie Greenlaw
J. T. MacMahan
Pear Nelder
Barbara Gray
Herman Barter
Edward Clary
Myrtle Fiske
Health Department
MacMahan's Island
Franz Stevens
William Marr
Island
Fred Gray
James Stevens
Ellsworth Pinkham
Harold Finkham
Percy Savage
Frank Carlton
Woolwich
Mr. Young
Lloyd Pinkham
Malden Island
West Harpswell
Colen F. Tompson
Ham
Ivan Pinkham
Popham Beach
Maurice Pinkham
Lester Davis
Arthur
Lermond
Vincent
Florine Elliott
Clinton Hanna
Belgrade
George Hanna
Mr. Savage
Horace Rittall
Nail Key Club
Ernest Fenno
John E. Sonia
Becon Street
D. M. Humphreys & Co
Sagadahock Block
Bath, Me
Westport
Amos
James Greenleaf
Boothby
Herbert Cromwell
Charles Sewyer
Lawrence Colby
Lester Hodgdon
Robert Higgins
Margaret Webber
Maud
Thomas McLaughlin
C. E. Colby
Traverse Jury
Joseph David
Waldoboro
James Apt
Fred Greenleaf
Joseph Hodgdon
Dorothea
Hodgdon’s Island
Frank Thomas
H. A. Swanton
Archie Higgins
Edward Cromwell
Eugene Whitten
Charles H. Colby
Miss Potter
William Rissen
Boothbay Harbor
Joseph Manning
Thomas Manning
Kenneth Bruce
Donald Bruce
Massachusetts
North End
Russell Stodder
Alfred Higgins
Solomon Higgins
Thomas Dickson
Bruce
Inez Rotherwell
George Richardson
Bernice
Florida
Paul Hilton
Pennsylvania
Genevieve Hodgdon
C. P. Dow
George Pierce
Winchester
Willis Pettey
Etta May Colby
Evelyn Colby
Hylan Jewett
Eva Beaudet
Tuessie Hall
Leela Wass
Fdith Campbell
Ethel L. Wass
Lester Spinney
Martha Higgins
Troop’s Hardware Store
Longfellow
Bath Savings Institution
First Baptists
Cosmopolitan Club
Carl F. Pierce
Fred W. Humphreys
Edwin D. Tietig
William
John H. Hyde
Jane Hyde
Mrs. Hyde
Beaconsfield
West Bath Farm Bureau
Miss Marston
Bellevue
Beacon Street
Beacon Hill
State House
Boston Common
Public Gardens
la Carte
Bowdoin and
Beacon Streets
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