Wiscasset Community Notes and Upcoming Services
Wiscasset and nearby towns host various social visits and church activities. Indefinite visits from Mrs. Charles Vaughan of Oxnard and multiple local families share weekend gatherings, services planned for May 31, and a Memorial Day observance. Upcoming events include joint West Alna Westport church social, Family Nights at Sheepscot vestry and South Newcastle chapel, and a large graduation program at the Wis casset rammar school with a slate of speeches and prizes.
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Morrill M. Smith
Damariscotta
Charles Vaughan
Oxnard
Cal
John Dow
Roy Dow
Brunswick
Earl Dow
Woolwich
Allan Week
Weeks
Idelbert Ogilvie
Stuart Bailey
May Hume
Helmi Miete
West Anna
Huntoon Hill Grange
M. C. Quinnam
Portland
Harry Quinnam
Wiscasset
Sheepscot
South Newcastle
West Alna
Westport
West Alna Grange
Anne Miete
Wiscasset Methodist Church
Wis- Casset Rammar
Eva Rines
Shirley Cushman
Ruth Jones
Phyllis Quinnam
Hilda Brandt
Mildred Grover
Virginia Pease
Lee Merry
Arlene Hill
Elinor Sproul
Shirley Reid
Edith MacMahan
Phyllis Lewis
Helen Lewis
Robert Bailey
Arthur Bryant
Sydney Beane
George Beane
Harold Dowling
Lawrence Greenwood
Llewellyn Ifis
Ellsworth McPhee
Western Nichols
Ethel Reed
Simon D. Crosby
Rockland
H. R. Pease
Augustus P. Lewis
Davis Island
Long Bridge
Lewis Spa
Lewis
American Legion Auxiliary
Legion Rooms
Lawrence Haggett
George Coleman
Boston
Horace Day
Wesley C. Day
American Salesbook Co
Springfield
Mass
Rochester
N. Y
Josephine Plumstead
South Portland
Birch Point
Eugene Drake
Fred B. Dunn
Rock Island
Quebec
Used Cars In Stock At Universal Credit Company
Low cost time payment plan offered for a selection of used cars including 1930 Tudor Sedan 1930 One half ton Pick up 1930 Sport Coupe 1929 Tudor Sedan 1928 11 ton Truck Closed cab 1926 Ford Touring 1924 Dodge Touring and more. Prices advertised as right with emphasis on dealer behind the sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Universal Credit Company
Shad Market Opens as Season Continues in May 1892
From the Old Files Shad are in the market as local trade stirs. F E Johnson and family are in Boston. Anna A Jackson traveled to Boston today. F A Creamer visited Lewiston Wednesday. David McRitchie U S N has been home for a week. Rev Mr Wyman and wife of Augusta have been in town this week. The Masons in Wiscasset plan celebrations for their hundredth anniversary with fitting exercises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheepscot Echo
F. E. Johnson
Boston
Anna A. Jackson
F. A. Creamer
Lewiston
David McRitchie
Mr. Wyman
Augusta
Masons
Wiscasset
Wiscasset Echo May 86 1806 Cowls and Visitors at Town
Frank W. Jackson enjoyed a Sunday at home from Bates College. Miss Jennie Greenleaf and Marion Dodge visited Bath. Cold weather produced window glass like ice Sunday night. Dr Bernard Bailey and family arrived from New York for the summer stay. Amorys of Boston opened their summer home on Davis Island likely to remain till fall. R A Macurdy from Lynn Mass with wife and daughter Priscilla spent a few days here. Wm D Patterson attended a Lincoln County Fire Underwriters meeting at Damaticcotta last Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Portland
Clarence Blagdon
E. Fred Albee
Maude Clark Gay
Waidoboro
Horace Day
Olin Benson
Springfield
Mass
Day
Wesley C. Day
Washington Street
Misses Knight
Portland
Charles Legrow
Island
Clarence A. Richards
Bangor
Grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias
Ethel Barbour
Wm. D. Patterson
B. A. Bailey
Donald Wilband
Boston
Dorcas Club
May Committee of Ways and Means
Woman’s Club
Rose Baker
Marguerite Hall
Edith Day
Sarah Sherman
Elsie Blagdon
Kate Perkins
Katherine
Ernest G. Spinney
John H. Southard
Lewiston
Barbara Southard
J. H. Southard
Lincoln Association
Congregational Churches
Congregational Church
Rockland
Odbury M. West
Boothbay Harbor
Charles West
Charles Reed
Boothbay
Forest Preble
Bradford C. Redennett
Kent's Hill
Bradford, Jr
Co. C. Blagdon
Damariscotta
Luther Hall
Hall
Capt. Hall
Katherine Ames
R. N
A. FE. Ames
Harry Luck
Norway
W. C. Day
Carl A. Brandt
Damariscotta Road
Sheepscot Echo
Frank W. Jackson
Bates College
Jennie Greenleaf
Marion Dodge
Bath
Bernard Bailey
New York
Amorys
Davis Island
R. A. Macurdy
Lynn
Macurdy
Priscilla
Lincoln County Board of Fire Underwriters
Damatiscotta
Brunswick School Caravan Club on WCSH broadcasts
A St John school group from Brunswick known as the Caravan Club shared a program on station WCSH in Portland Tuesday evening. Members presented piano and vocal pieces including Wynette and Lachance performances, with Miss Yvette Carlsen opening and all praised for clear enunciation and refined delivery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. John School
Brunswick
WCSH
Portland
Caravan Club
Yvette Carlsen
Violetta Levesque
Rita LaChanite
Anita Lachance
Waikiki
Alpha Oc
Gertrude Cloutier
Jean Pouliot
Oil Tank Installed at City Landing
The Howard Coal Co property at Broad street foot is being converted into a fuel oil plant. A 25,000 gallon tank from Pittsburgh is installed after tearing down the old steamship quarters and coal shed. Yachts previously fueling here led to Portland for fuel oil, prompting the new plant. The Samoset Steamboat Co and the steamer Virginia affected seek alternate waterfront landing sites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Coal Co
Broad Street
City Landing
Pittsburgh
Penn
Bath
Down River
Gardiner
Augusta
Portland
Samoset Steamboat Co
Virginia
Howard
Mrs Sewall Donates Flowers To City Hospital
Mrs William D Sewall donated several dozen geraniums with ivy to 18 hospital window boxes in memory of Mr Sewall, former hospital president. The gesture aims to brighten wards and enhance the hospital’s look, reflecting the calming effect of flowers on patients.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Hospital
William D. Sewall
Sewall
Funeral of Mrs Rebekah Stinson at Arthur F Mayo residence
The funeral of Mrs Rebekah Stinson was held at the Arthur F Mayo funeral residence on High Street Wednesday afternoon. A profusion of flowers and large attendance marked the service officiated by Rev David L Wilson. Bearers were Charles Small Walter Perry David Heald and Morris Potter. Burtar was in Oak Grove. Charlotte Cahill, employed in New York, is expected to arrive Memorial Day to spend the summer with her mother Mrs Lucy Cahill on Robinson Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wiscasset Academy
Congregational Church
Charles S. Sewall
Las Pregram
Freeman D. Southard
Warren Dorr
Mary Bailey Washington
Charlotte Rittall
Nansen Ae
Grandma Keeler
Grandpa Keeler
Hazel Mayo
Frances Fossett
America
Rebekah Stinson
Arthur F. Mayo
High Street
David L. Wilson
Charles Small
Walter Perry
David Heald
Morris Potter
Burtar
Oak Grove
Charlotte Cahill
New York
Lucy Cahill
Robinson Street
West Bath Community Notes Across a Busy Day
West Bath residents attend services visit kin and travelers at cottages in Birch Point Sabine and Sabino while Red Cross members plan a Wednesday meeting at Miss Annie Trufant’s home. Local grads Hayden Rogers and Courtney Stover near year end exams as families camp at cottages and plan Memorial Day visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annie Staples
Bath
Staples
Birch Point
West Bath
Red Cross
Annie Trufant
Laura Lemont
Belle Donnell
Abner Johnson
Chester Colby
Cooper’s Mills
Ida Colby
J. Everett Mayo
Hayden Rogers
University of Maine
Orono
Courtney Stover
Bates Stover
Maine
Hallowell Rogers
Llewellyn Rogers
Rogers
Hartford
Conn
Eugene Curtis
Portland
William Bailey
Bath City Hospital
Julia Hilton
Bailey
B. H. Stackpole
Carolyn
Campbell's Pond
Augusta
Memorial Church
Kent's Hill
Philip Stackpole
Woolwich
Merton Wright
Fred Daly
Harry Wallace
Granite Street Bath
C. C. Chesley
Edward Footer
Edward Jr
Mary Jane
Hyde Park
Mary McLellan
Boston
J. B. Lemont
Linwood Chadbourne
Herbert Hodgkins
Spring Street
Percy Holbrook
J. Edward Drake
Drake Cottage
Ralph Dunton
Charlie Small
Harold Cutting
Brigham's Cove
Chester Stevens
Auburn
Stevens Cottage
Chester Freeman
Scn Donald
George Bailey
Eleanor Bates
Samuel F. Bates
Sapino
Sarah MacLucas
Adelaide Foster
Rumford
Emma Cox
James B. Lemont
Harry Rich
Odie Rich
Berry's Mills
Samuel F. Kats
Sabine
Lowell School
Dreamore Grange Hall
C. S. Lemont
Fred Brown
I. B. Neiley
And
A. J. Snow
Miles Purington
Ada Larrabie
J. B
Everett Lemont
Fred Kittridge
Lemont
Sabino
K. G. Nelson
Hilda Cameron
Beachmont
Retiring Massachusetts Maine Daughters Leader Feted at Boston Meeting
Mrs. Samuel Blackwood former Charlotte Lombard of Bath presided at the annual Massachusetts Maine Daughters meeting in Boston at the Hotel Vendome and hosted a bridge gathering at Brookline’s Hotel Beaconsfield. A gift of gold pieces in a flowers basket honored her for her service, while Mrs. Walter E. Coburn was elected president at the luncheon preceding the meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Blackwood
Charlotte Lombard
Bath
Massachusetts Maine Daughters
Hotel Vendome
Boston
Hotel Beaconfield
Brookline
Bridge
Massachusetts Maine
Charles Jennings
Blackwood
Bethel
Bethel Inn
Beaconsfield
Hundreds of Poppies Sold at Poppy Day Sale
Auxiliary to Roland Smith post No. 21 American Legion disposed of 2300 poppies on Poppy Day, matching 1930. Rain reduced remaining 700 from 3000. Volunteers, including Mikelsky’s Music Store and Senter’s Inc., sold poppies made by disabled veterans. Names of girl and boy volunteers listed. two prizes awarded for best showings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roland Smith
American Legion
Mikelsky’s
Standard of the Legion
Mikelsky’s Music Store
Senter's Inc
Frances Desmond
Helen Shaughnessy
Charlotte Anderson
Venus Crosby
Florence McClure
Bessie Mikels
Evelyn Snow
Anne Stevens
Jane Stevens
Lucille Johnson
Kathleen Scott
Connie Morin
Catherine Shellenbarger
Mary Goodwin
Marjorie Trott
Lydia Atwood
Elizabeth Pinkham
Ruth Shellenbarger
Isabel Mackinnon
Betty Lee
Mary Hodgkins
Dorothy Saff
Flora Hagopian Wins Barnard Scholarship for 1929
Flora Hagopian, Madison high school graduate class of 1928 and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hagopian, has been awarded the Barnard New York City scholarship. The prize includes 700 dollars in cash and free tuition for next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison High School
Flora Hagopian
Miss Hagopian
Barnard
New York City
Harry Hagopian
Woolwich Calendar of Local News and Events
Woolwich notes tell of Mrs. Sarah Bagley Wright in Bath hospital, family visits, gatherings, and illnesses. Community members travel to Augusta and Portland, with church services featured by solos and a sermon on Jesus as Good Shepherd. Upcoming talks by Rev. Rodney Roundy in Nequasset and a Farm Bureau meeting on meat selection and cookery.
Judge and Mrs Dunton return from Kentucky
Judge Arthur J. Dunton and his wife of 823 Washington street have come back from a two week trip to Kentucky. They stayed with Dunton’s niece in Taylorsville and the judge bought two American five gaited saddle horses to be shipped home. He missed attending the Kentucky Derby but followed it by radio. Weather varied from 90 degrees to frost in three days, and a snow storm challenged their New York return drive. In Auburn two women lingered on a railroad track as a passing train approached, prompting startled onlookers and a dramatic scare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur J. Dunton
Washington Street
Kentucky
Judge Dunton
Herbert Howerton
Taylorsville
Bath
Louisville
Judge
Dunton
New York
Auburn
Wage Cut In Rumford Paper Mill Affects 8000 Workers
Notices posted in the Oxford paper mill in Rumford state a ten percent wage reduction to take effect June 1. The order affects about 8,000 men and women employed at the plant, one of the world's largest book paper makers, operating around the clock to produce 21 carloads daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oxford
Rumford
Docket set for Sagadahoc Superior Court June term
Sagadahoc Superior Court will convene Tuesday June 2 with Judge Arthur Chapman presiding. Ten criminal cases include three bound for grand jury and seven appealed, plus one civil case Wallace Quint versus Charles Kennedy over a note.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sagadahoc
Richmond
Ira Smith
John H. Rucker
Lawrence Kingsbury
Fred Lacey
Pascal Harper
Joseph and
Paul Karkos
Lisbon Falls
Wallace G. Quint
Topsham
Charles B. Kennedy
Quint
Kennedy
John J. Keegan
Superior Court
Charles P. Biglin
Emmett Bryson
Fr. Biglin
Bryson
Joseph
Karkos
Bath
John Houghton Wins Colonial Tourney at Sebasco
John Houghton won the Colonial Club golf tournament at Sebasco with rounds of 38 44 39 totaling 121. William Oliver nearly matched him, finishing within a stroke for second with a 42 41 39 plus six golf balls. Class B winner Benny Stover posted 130 for 27 holes, with Wally Marshall and George Hunt tied second at 142. Class C leader Arthur B Scott shot 48 46 48 for 142, with Paul B Davis second at 151. Thirty golfers competed. prize included a copy of Golf in Maine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Houghton
Colonial Club
Sebasco
William
Oliver
Houghton
Benny Stover
Wally Marshall
George Hunt
Arthur B. Scott
Paul B. Davis
Harry C. Webber
Maine
Memorial Service at West Bath Grange
Rev. T. W. Horsfield of the Universalist church spoke at West Bath grange Monday night during a Memorial day program. A tableau In Memoriam opened, with other numbers including a vocal duet by Ann Perry and Daisy Oliver, and readings by Margaret Rich and Virginia Wright. The program closed with a social hour and plans for a Topsham grange three act comedy drama Here Comes Patricia at West Bath grange hall next month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. W. Horsfield
The
Universalist Church
West Bath Grange
Horsfield
Grange
Ann Perry
Daisy Oliver
Margaret Rich
Marion Plummer
Alice Mulligan
Memorial Day Plans By Sons Of Veterans
Plans for the Memorial day observances are in the hands of T W Hyde camp 8 of A V and call for the usual parade. Lines form on Washington street near Elm street and proceed south through Center Front Linden Washington Oak Middle and North streets to Oak Grove cemetery for a patriotic service at the Soldiers monument. Returning the parade passes Lincoln Green High streets to Soldier s monument for the usual salute then to G A R memorial hall Middle street and disbands.
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T. W. Hyde Camp
A. V
Washington Street
Elm Street
Center
Front
Linden
Washington
Oak Middle
North Streets
Oak Grove Cemetery
Soldiers’ Monument
Lincoln, Green, High Streets
Soldier's Monument
Portland Firemen to Receive First Aid Certificates
Elever Portland firemen who completed First Aid courses led by Dr Grant Hartzell of Washington DC will receive certificates at a Lafayette hotel dinner next week. Fifty certificates will be presented.
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Elever
Portland
Grant Hartzell
Washington, D. C
Lafayette Hotel
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Parker Marean
Gertrude
Harwood Ellis
Charles Sewall
Sol Holbrook
Julia Lewis
M. A. Giffin
St. Lukes’ Cathedral
Frances Sortwell
Joseph E. Hubbard
Somerville
A. W. Keirstead
Leland Bryant
Herbert Payson
Falmouth
Woman's Auxiliary
Philip A. Means
Elms
Sortwell
Cambridge
H. v. B. Nash
Episcopal Diocese of
President Sills
Harry Manser
Lincoln Superior Court
Harold L. Kennison
Thomaston
Kennison
Adelbert Miles
Manser
Haggett’s Garage Company
Brunswick School
Stinson
L. F
Atwood
L. F.” Atwood’s Medicine
S. L. Blackwood
Sarah Bagley Wright
Milton Hathorne
Leon
H. T. Fernald
Emma Head
Henry Carlton
Vernon Ayer
Winthrop
Christine Hathorne
Wilmot Dodge
Clarence Baker
John Savage
Emma Barnes
Ralph Rice
E. W. DeWick
Hockomock Farm
Phipps Point Road
Rachael Gilmore
Cyrus Gilmore
Edwold Carter
Green Street
Wendell Nelson
North Woolwich
Bowdoinham
Cornwell Rogers
Murphy’s Corner
Fred Carlton
Edgecomb
Sagadahoc Ferry
G. M. Stinson
Marcia
F. W. Carlton
C. P. Hall
Edward V. Reed
Millicent
Joseph Hecht
A. R. Grimme
New Hartford
Ashland
First Baptist Church
Mary Dana
Merle Jameson
Jameson
Albert Hathorne
Fernald
Jesus
Isaphene Dolloff
Rodney W. Roundy
Congregational-Christian Conference of Maine
Nequasset Church
Men's Forum
Roundy
Federated Churches of Maine
Nequasset Farm Bureau
Grace Norton
Hortense Welch
Mrs. Dunton
Arthur Chapman
William Oliver
Memorial Day Plans OF
Sons OF Veterans