Arrowsic Leader Collingwood Shea Honored for Long Service
Collingwood C. Shea has collected taxes for 43 years and served as Arrowsic town treasurer for 36 years. He began as collector in 1892 after Jason McFadden resigned and has held multiple offices with strong cross party support. He owns 100 acres and continues farming, with family ties including daughter Lora and siblings in Arrowsic and nearby Greenland New Hampshire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Collingwood C. Shea
Arrowsic
Selectmen
Jason McFadden
McFadden
Shea
Collingwood Shea
Grover Cleveland
James M. Shea
Lora R. Shea
Jennie T. Smith
Greenland
N. H
South End P T A Sets June 11 Meeting
The South End P T A plans its next meeting for June 11 in Washington Street rooms to avoid graduation day conflicts at Morse High. Annual reports and officer elections are on the agenda along with a tele phone bridge set for Monday evening. Mrs J Albert Redlon, district president, reported on district meetings in Wells, South China and Brunswick.
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Washington Street
South End
Morse High School
J. Albert Redlon
District P. T. A
Wells
South China
Brunswick
District One
Education chief predicts curriculum shifts for future student needs
Dr. Bertram E. Packard, state commissioner of education, forecast major changes in school curricula over the next decade. He urged tailoring instruction to individual students to prepare them for future life duties, noting public high schools face a new development.
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Bertram E. Packard
Teachers elected by school board in postponed meeting
Fifty four teachers were elected for the ensuing year by the Board of Education at a postponed monthly meeting that lasted over three hours. New pay scales and several committee actions were decided, including Greek language instruction and campus activities.
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Board of Education
Edna McAvoy
Morse High
Charles Venus
Venus
Greece
South Street
Supt. Wilson
Arthur B. Scott
Horace P. Herrick
Lynnette Walker
Katharine Conley
Mary H. Conley
Hester M. Rose
M. Agnes Fahey
Mary L. Lord
Cecile Veilleux
Edward S. Wright
Harold E. Brown
Blair C. Wilson
Catherine E. Leonard
J. Edward Pomeroy
David Y. Alkazin
Janette W. Smith
Carrie E. Shaw
John H. Grindell
George B. Wolstenholme
Bernice D. Staples
Mary Brown
Edna Hallowell
Edith B. Horne
Ella R. Jaquith
Mabel F. Libby
Eileen Hayes
North Grammar
J. Gertrude Silsby
Helen L. Hayes
Amy A. Irish
North
Martha E. Hooper
Margaret T. Mulligan
Beatrice W. Black
Carrie C. Smith
Central Grammar
Bessie M. Hunt
Margaret J. Adams
Elizabeth McGrath
Marian Jaques
John E. McCole
Almena Jaques
Eleanor Danforth
Center Street
Ethel L. Higgins
S. Isabel Lewis
Joan M. Harrison
Laura Mitchell
Eleanor Ferguson
Dorothy Davis
Marjorie Troop
Mitchell
Effie C. Wright
Evelyne Donnell
Anne Thompson
Margaret E. Huse
Sarah Coombs
Lillian Fisher
Weeks Street
W. Hazel Cunningham
Pine Tree Circle marks 30th anniversary in 1905
Pine Tree circle No. 826 of the Companions of the Foresters of America celebrated its 30th anniversary on May 17 1905 at Red Men hall with 80 attendees including a state officer and guests from Portland Flowers and pine trees decorated the hall and the degree team wore white and carried flags The circle initiated a class of ten candidates and welcomed new members including several from Portland Casco circle No 1236 sent a delegation The gathering praised Mary F Murphy for 29 years as financial secretary and noted the circle’s 1905 origin with Florence McGillicudy installing officers and Mrs Louise McDuffy acting as chief companion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pine Tree Circle
Companions of the Foresters of America
Red Men's Hall
Portland
Kennebec
Alice Burgess
Catherine Durgin
Mary E. Gallant
Minnie M. Dall
Mabel
Alice M. Rideout
Ella May Dingley
Eva Sanford
Edna A. Carter
Annie Johanson
Annie M. Wilson
Annie Maude Wilson
Harriet Smith
Annie E. Buckley
Maine
Casco Circle
Mollie Flaherty
Foresters’ Hall
Front Street
Plorence McGillicudy
Augusta
Jennie Farrin
Mary Carey
Ethel Parshley
Josephine Cavanaugh
Murphy
W. A. O Brien
Gardiner
Kennebec Circle of
Order
the Companions of Foresters of America
Louise McDuffy
James Cullinan
Mary Mullaney
Mary Caine
Marie Tracey
Nellie Tracey
Delia Levett
Mary Trainor
George H. Johnson
Josie Mulverhill
Joseph Mullaney
John Tracey
John McMann
Miss Moody
Armory Hall
Pine Cone Circle
Pine Tree
Mary P. Murphy
Evelyn Sawyer
Philadelphia
Jennie E. Parrin
Elmer C. Clark
New York
Supreme Financial Secretary
Two Bath Pastors Oppose Naval Maneuver Resolution
At the Congregational Christian Conference in Winter Street church, Rev. David L. Wilson and Rev. Joseph O. Purdue opposed a resolution against Pacific naval maneuvers. The plank passed 98 to 31. The conference also directed Rev. Charles D. Paul to notify President Roosevelt and the Maine Congressional delegation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David L. Wilson
Central Church
Joseph O. Purdue
Winter Street Church
Pacific
Congregational Christian Conference
J. Edward Drake
Ronald P. Bridges
Sanford
Bridges
Wilson
Mary A. Hurd
Sangerville
Hawaiian Islands
Purdue
Congress
Japan
England
France
Navy Department
Charles H. Blatchford
Charles D. Paul
South Portland
Roosevelt
Paul
Maine
Conference considers union of Congregational and Methodist churches
The conference endorses in principle the amalgamation of the state Congregational and Methodist bodies and asks for study of steps toward union. It also urges closer cooperation between Young People committees and explores a joint State Young People's conference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congregational
Organization of
Congregational Churches
Methodist Churches
Prohibition Plank Endorsed by Conference Delegates
A revival meeting debate over liquor traffic led to a motion to add a prohibition plank to resolutions. Reverend John H. Hunt of Mexico framed the measure calling for total abstinence education and the ultimate eradication of intoxicant trafficking, referred to resolutions and later unanimously passed.
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John H. Hunt
Mexico
Committee On
North-Center PTA Elects Officers For New Year
The North-Center PTA reelected Mrs. Frederick W. Humphreys as president and Mrs. Harold S. Avery as vice president at Grace church parish house. New secretary is Mrs. Frank F. Colburn Jr. and treasurer Mrs. Theodore Watson. Committees were named including finance, membership, benevolent, publicity, recreation and program with Mrs. Joseph I. Smith and Mrs. Clinton D. Wilson among key members. Community guest William C. Perkins of Bath YMCA spoke on youth development and the YMCA’s history and aims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick W. Humphreys
P.T.A
Grace Church Parish House
Harold S. Avery
Arthur W. King
Frank F. Colburn, Jr
Theodore Watson
Roy W. Putney
William W. Dennison
King
John C. Fitzgerald
Humphreys
Colby
Dennison
Watson
Joseph O. Purdue
Putney
Milton C. Trott
Fitzgerald
Joseph I. Smith
Dwight Pierce
Daniel Williams
Dayton Hill
Francis Hill
David Y. Alkazin
Ernest Freeman
Ruth H. Farnham
Bird A. Shellenbarger
Ralph Bragg
Mrs. King
David S. Cogan
Arthur S. Crockett
Wilmer I. Voorhees
P. T. A. Magazine
Marius H. Page
Clinton D. Wilson
Leslie J. Wold
Richard Hersom
Morris H. Cohen
Avery
Arthur B. Scott
Blair C. Wilson
W. Percy Marks
Brunswick
Frances Hays
Division of Information
National Congress of Parents and Teachers
Hays
Parent Teacher
William C. Perkins
Bath Y.M.C.A
Bath
Charles C. Low
Perkins
Blair Wilson
Hill
Dike School PTA Holds Business Meeting
Dike School PTA held a short business meeting after the Mothers and Daughters banquet committee session at Summer Street Rooms. Mrs Charles Henderson was elected vice president and Mrs Arthur Gilmore was elected secretary to fill vacancies from resignations. The final meeting of the season is set for June 4 at the Summer Street Rooms. The Boulder City report notes the Black Canyon contingent of Boulder Dam. The dam rises over 766 feet and its base spans more than two city blocks.
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Dike School
P.T.A
Mothers and Daughters
Summer Street Rooms
Charles Henderson
Frank Reinoehl
Arthur Gilmore
Raymond Smith
Gilmore
Boulder City
Nev
Black Canyon
Boulder Dam
Byrd Expedition Member Visits Mother in Phippsburg
Prof. Earle Bryant Perkins, a member of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, spends the weekend with his mother Mrs. Horace Perkins at their Summer home Percrest Cox's Head. He recalls 13 months in the Antarctic circle without illness and notes the crew's resilience, polar conditions, and scientific finds while sharing memories of seals penguins and the ship life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earle Bryant Perkins
Horace Perkins
Popham Road
Atkins Bay
New Zealand
Dunedin
Perkins
United States
Rutgers University
Antarctic
Arctic
MacMillan
Arctic Circle
Popham Beach
Antarctic Circle
Admiral Byrd
Little America
Tropics
Prof
Pond
Seguin Islands
Kennebec
Prof. Perkins
Earlington P. Chaney
Freeport
Chaney
Rosaline
Boston
Prof.Perkins
Statler
Curley
Channeys
South Portland
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Collingwood C. Shea Arrowsie
South End P.T.A
Congregationalists
Phippsburg
Earle B. Perkins
Little
America
Jacob Ruppert
Barkentine Bear
Oakland