Richmond community groups host yearend planning and drives
Rich mond area clubs and church groups report November drives for membership and charity. Progressive 4-H and Junior 4-H recruit high school youth with officer slate announced. Xmas suggestions and Togus veterans gifts planned. Several meetings set at Masonic hall and grange building with officers named. local Y M C A talks and India exhibit. Willow Brook and Auburn twin contest noted.
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Mee
Mt. Prahoma
Veneranda Sanford
Priscilla Riske Frida
Ora B. Farrington
Almon Riske
Priscilla
Royal Arch Chapter
Masons
Masonic ‘Hall
Progressive Grange
Richmond Corner
Sierict
Dresden
Emerson Lane
American Legion
Marion Babb
Esther Foss
Togus Veterans Hospital
Bertha
Audrey Dewitt
Mothers, Friends and
David Dellert
South Central
Erland Curtis
Priscilla Riske
Maynard Brown
Robert Brown
Wayne Lewis
Dorothy Gray
Robert Gray
Jerry Curtis
Edwin Douglass
Thomas LeMont
Jackie Nickel
Janice Humphrey
Richmond Corner Extension Association
Geraldine Brown
Gray Ladies
Togus
India
Erma Raynes
Edna Small
Courtney Hinckley
Richmond Congregational Church
Rahuri
Bath
Marjorie Quipu
Connie Merde
Juliet Plouff
Ruth Champeon
Sagadahoc Cattle Club
Harold Brown
Clayton Waltz
Brown
Philip Dowe
Fred Raynes
Carole Brown
Keith Stinson
Linwood Horne
Fulton Curtis
Auburn
Annual Meeting of Theeanuss Agricultural Society Notice
Notice announces an annual meeting in Court Band on December 7 1953 at 8 p m to elect officers for the ensuing year and discuss other roveries.
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Theeanuss Mee Ag
Zi Agricultural Articultura Society
Community notices and hunting season updates in a Maine town
Police remind residents of winter no overnight parking. Deer open season nears with 70 tagged by Tuesday at Dove's Station. Winners include David Cleveland and Roy Durgen among many from Maine and nearby states. Masonic Lodge held installation. Lions Club set supper meeting with speaker Louis Bartlett. Engagement announced for Mary Pauline Muise.
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Plom
Richie Brown
Priscills “ Riske
Sandra LeMont
Joseph H. Pridham
James Illigan
Wee
Plympton
Dove’s
Socony Station
David and
Marion Cleveland
Chelsea
Roy L. Durgen
Bath
Grover A. Connors
Marcel A. Mevard
Brunswick
Donald Pridham
Augusta
Maynard B. Locke
Windsor
Philip Shackelford
Massachusetts
Alton H. Barter
Leland Smith
Richmond
Alex Lee Wallen
Connecticut
Marguerite van Leeuise
Bowdoinham
Wayne Lewis
Henry A. Vetour
Alfred Tarr
Barbara Cunningham
Fulton Curtis
George M. Umberhind
Harold Warden
Floyd A. Baker
Rhode Island
Charles Leon
Leroy Smith
Wil Violette
Richmond Lodge F. & A. M
R. W
Ralph W. Blakeney
W. B. David Rich
R. W. Roland W. Cornish
Raymond E. Libby
Lara Mansir
Margaret Borjesson
Lions Club
Louis Bartlett
Trust Department
the Depositors Trust Co
Herman J. Muise
Brown Avenue
Mary Pauline
Alfred A. Theibotot
Florence Alexander
County Road
Widow Maude Meserve, 81, Richmond Native, Dies
Mrs Maude L Meserve 81 wife of James F Meserve died Tuesday at Gar diner General hospital after three weeks illness She was born in Richmond October 12 1872 daughter of Thomas A and Mary E Morton Hinckley and lived here all her life Survived by husband two sisters Mrs Carroll Clark and Mrs Bertha Cunningham a brother George Hinckley several nieces and nephews Services Thursday at 2 pm from Roberts Funeral Home with Rev Jesse J Starr Interment Evergreen Cemetery
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Maude L. Meserve
Maud L. Meserve
James F. Meserve
Gardiner General Hospital
Richmond
Thomas A
Mary E. Morton Hinckley
Carroll Clark
Bertha Cunningham
George Hinckley
Idaho Boy Debby Davis Named March of Dimes Poster Child
Debby Davis of Idaho, nearly 37 inches tall and 27 pounds, is chosen as the national poster child for the March of Dimes. Crippled by polio, he has spent most of his life at the Idaho Elks Convalescent Home, aided by more than 15000 dollars in March of Dimes funds.
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Ervin Davis
Debby
March of Dimes
St. Alphonsus Hospital
Boise
Idaho Elks
Fooding
Elks Home
Idaho
Sagadahoc Rod Gun and Skeet Club Meeting Set
Sagadahoc Rod Gun and Skeet Association will meet at 7 30 p m Thursday in the North Bath clubhouse announced by President Kenneth Jaquith.
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Sagadahoc Rod, Gun and Skeet Association
North Bath Club
Kenneth Jaquith
Georgetown parsonage house up to date with water system
A Georgetown Baptist service at First Baptist honored the new water system at the parsonage with Rev. Elmer N. Bentley as guest speaker. The rebuilt residence features a bath, indoor furnace access, a new septic system, and a completed interior still awaiting one bedroom papering. The project cost 1179.22 dollars, borne by church members and the Working League. Open House followed.
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Georgetown Baptist Parsonage
First Baptist Church
Elmer N. Bentley
Waterville
Northern Baptist Convention
Bentley
Otis Baker
Norwood
Mass
John Reedy
Reedy
Working League
Roland E. Peterson
William Bisseth
M. Belle Heald
William A. Todd
Clarence B. Hill
Georgetown Center
Richards Library
The
Library Association
Charles Kelley
Central School
Charley Spear
Richard Stevens
Marcia Cunningham
Marion Steward
Virginia Moore
Patricia Clark
Brenda Panley
Donna Tibbetts
Carolee Clark
Lois Stevens
Virginia Stevens
Georgia Watson
Melvyn Kelley
Richard Harrison
Byron Campbell
Sherry Rowe
Victor Pinkham
Carol Tibbetts
Cleon Mains
Bath area notes on Stevens and local life
The Bath town column recalls Stevens a veteran deeds clerk and local musician, fondly remembered by Bath and nearby towns for help at the courthouse and for private dances with Stacy. It also lists deer tagging by Penley, Williams, and Chase, plus various personal visits, birthdays, and holiday plans across Bath, Arrowsic, Georgetown Center, and nearby communities. Edwin Adams of Auburn visited his Bath cottage Thursday.
More Birds Appear at Merrymeeting Bay
Fall waterfowl migration begins with small flocks sighted near sunrise along the Kennebec river as observers note birds moving toward Merrymeeting Bay. Hunters predict fuller action this season while deer hunting remains strong in Northern Maine counties and slows in some southern areas.
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Kennebec
Maine
Kennebec River
Five Islands Stork Shower and Local Socials
Mrs. Thomas McCorr a surprise stork shower at Library Hall hosted by Mrs. Franz Stevens J Reginald Church and Mrs. Gene Reynolds guests included many Five Islands residents. The issue also notes a successful rummage white elephant and candy sale at Library Hall and plans for a Thanksgiving service at the Nazarene church in Bath with Rev Lyal Calhoun speaking.
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Thomas McCorr
Dorothy MacGillivary
Library Hall
Franz Stevens
J. Reginald Church
Gene Reynolds
Harold Rowe
Alton Reed
Dennis Moore
Howard Thomas
Evelyn Campbell
Alvah Reynolds
Philip Pinkham
Thomas Watson
Elaine Stevens
Kathleen Rittall
Lloyd Pinkham
Sylvia Pinkham
Reynolds Grover
Jacqueline Sawyer
John Brown
William Plummer 3d
Vernon Gray
Percy MacGillivary
John MacGillivary
William Marr
Orville Rowe
Harlan Pinkham
Good Neighbor Club
Lyal Calhoun
Church of the Nazarene
Bath
Ronald Thibodeau
George Gray
Harold Pinkham
James Stevens
Victor Pinkham
Five Islands
Bowdoinham Baptist
Montsweag
Gideon Bible Society
Elaine Snow
Robert Snow
Bobby
Jackie Colby
Cleon Powers
Jane
Joyce Oliver
Tommy Watson
Harold
Kathy Brown
Gordon
Roger Pinkham
Carol Cochrane
Edith Moore
Karen MacGillivary
Janice
Evelyn Pinkham
Harold Brown
Sally Mains
Portland
Mrs. Snow
Social notes from South Gardiner and Bath region
Mrs William Campbell of South Gardiner spent last weekend at her cottage. Mr and Mrs Ralph Gay of Bath were at their cottage Monday. Mrs Victor Pinkham Mrs Clayton Doyle Mrs Mary Stevens Miss Sylvia Pinkham and Mrs David Rutherford attended a stork shower for Mrs Donald Hopkins Jr at the Hopkins home in Bath. Mr and Mrs Herman Barter and children were Sunday guests of her parents Mr and Mrs Vernon Gray. Mrs Lulu Hanna and sons Mr and Mrs Dennis Moore and daughter and Ivan Pinkham visited Mr and Mrs Irving Hanna in Bath.
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Mansfield Moore
Alfred Proctor
Bath
Harold Fuller
Reginald Pinkham
Geneva Rowe
Leon Williams
Olive Williams
Waltham
Mass
Stanley Lewis
Bath Memorial Hospital
Izetta Pinkham
James Stevens
Derby Line
Clayton Doyle
Yarmouth
Victor Pinkham
Albert Moore
Orville Rowe
Arthur Berry
Portland
Addie Moulton
Harlan Pinkham
Ardeen Pinkham and Son
Freeport
Margaret MacMahan
Branwell Harford
Russell Harford
Ralph Pinkham
George Lee
Onset
Juanita
Glorene Pinkham
Millie Pinkham
Arthur Marr, Jr
Malden
William Marr
Kathleen Rittall
Harold Pinkham
Donald Hopkins, Jr
Melvin Comeau
William Campbell
South Gardiner
Ralph Gay
Mary Stevens
Sylvia Pinkham
David Rutherford
Donald Hopkins
Herman Barter
Vernon Gray
Lulu Hanna
Dennis Moore
Ivan Pinkham
Irving Hanna
Digging Clams Proves Costly in Phippsburg Case
Robert N. Gilliam and Paul A. Wallace of Phippsburg pleaded guilty in municipal court to digging clams in a closed area at Brigham's Cove. Each was fined $50 plus $3.95 costs, or 60 days in jail, with 30 days probation to pay by Nov 30. Other pleas included Halvor L. Libby of New Castle for overloaded truck on Route 1 in Woolwich, fined $10 plus $5.70 costs. Two intoxication cases ended with guilty pleas. penalties $5 and costs $7.50 or $6.60 and 15 days. A friction case involving Paul Everett O'Farrell was continued to 9 a.m. Tuesday with $500 surety.
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Robert N. Gilliam
Paul A. Wallace
Phippsburg
Brigham's Cove
Swansea Burns
Bath
Gardiner R. Deering
Halvor L. Libby
Newcastle
Woolwich
Philip Wyman
Paul Everett O'Farrell
Center Street
Bath youth given three months in county jail
Eighteen year old Paul Eve rett O'Farrell of Bath was sentenced to three months in Kennebec county jail after pleading guilty to assault and battery on Philip L. Wyman of Phippsburg on Nov 14 in Bath. Judge Deering continued probation from a prior conviction and also fined one case of intoxication $5 with $7.30 costs. Wyman said O'Farrell attacked him on Commercial street after getting out of a car, requiring stitches for a mouth gash.
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Paul Everett O'Farrell
Bath
Kennebecc
Augusta
Philip L. Wyman
Phippsburg
O'Farrell
Gardiner R. Deering
Robert Wagner, Jr
Wyman
Commercial Street
Wagner
Grace church fair adds consign ment table with Indian goods
Grace Church Christmas fair on December 1 introduces a consign ment table featuring India made lace and embroidery from the Whiting India Guilds established 1927 by Miss Gertrude Whiting. Proceeds aid workers, with extra items from North Carolina and jewelry. Chairman Mrs. James L. Grant, assistants Mrs. Arthur Hill.
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Grace Church
India
Whiting India Guilds, Inc
Gertrude Whiting
America
Whiting
North Carolina
James L. Grant
Arthur Hill
Dresden Note Continues at Niece’s Home
A fragment notes that Dresden’s subject returned to the home of her niece, Mrs. Benjamin Went worth, as the page two continuation.
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Benjamin Wentworth
Funeral Services for Hiram T. Stevens in Bath
Funeral services for Hiram T. Stevens longtime Register of Deeds for Sagadahoc county were held Sunday at Central Congregational Church Bath with Rev. Laforest Hodgkins officiating. The service drew many friends and business associates. Honorary bearers included lawyers and professionals such as Edward W. Bridgham John Quarrington John J. Keegan John P. Carey Arthur J. Dunton Harold Rubin Lynn Bussey Frank Dunton Judge Gardiner R. Deering Charles T. Small George Carlton Jr J A Aldred Clement Robinson Leon Spinney Carl Larrabee Carl Y. Kennedy William W. Dennison Arthur L. Pratt G Thomas Murphy Dr Francis A Winchenbach Loring Small Ralph Wright H Augustus Huse Archie Doyle George Stacey Foster Pratt Charles B. Doyle E Mason Wright Edward Belanger Fremont Rowe Active bearers included Lincoln Anderson J Arthur Stevens Jr James Stevens Frank Cummings Hiram Tobey Carroll Meader Burial was in Oak Grove family lot.
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Hiram T. Stevens
Register of Deeds
Sagadahoc County
Central Congregational Church
Laforest Hodgkins
Bath
Stevens
Edward W. Bridgham
John Quarrington
John J. Keegan
John P. Carey
Arthur J. Dunton
Harold Rubin
Lynn Bussey
Frank Dunton
Gardiner R. Deering
Charles T. Small
George Carlton, Jr
J. A. Aldre
James Stevens
Frank Cummings
Hiram Tobey
Carroll Meader
Oak Grove
Freeman Smith 74 Dies After Illness at Bath Home
Smith Freeman aged 74 died Monday evening after a long illness at a Bath convalescent home where he had stayed two weeks He moved from Turner with his wife two months ago to live with daughter Gladys Southern in Bath Born in Maitland Bridge Annapolis County Nova Scotia May 4 1879 he learned carpentry and worked in shipyards in Bath New York and elsewhere Survived by wife Lillian Beane Freeman five daughters one son a sister and a brother grandchildren and great grandchildren Funeral Thursday at 10 30 from Curtis Funeral Home burial in Readfield Corner Cemetery
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Smith Freeman
Bath
Turner
Gladys Southern
Spring Street
Maitland Bridge
Annapolis County
Nova Scotia
Robert
Dorothy (Luxton) Freeman
United States
Freeman
Yarmouth
New York
First Baptist Church
Lillian Beane Freeman
John Drury
Kenmore
N. Y
William Mecoff
Washington, D. C
Freeman Bartlett
Lisbon Falls
Laforest Coombs
Otis Morse
Clarence Freeman
Revere
Mass
Aluta Minard
Caldonia
N. S
Wilson Freeman
Bowdoin
Curtis Funeral Home
Readfield Corner
James M. Munsey dies in Augusta at 82
James M. Munsey 82 died Wednesday in Augusta where he had lived four years. Born July 4 1871 in Wiscasset, he was a son of David and Nancy Rundlett Munsey. He moved from Woolwich to Augusta and worked as a lumberman for J G Bailey. Surviving are a brother Jesse G Munsey of Popham Beach and several nieces. Funeral is Saturday at Crowley Funeral Home Wiscasset, burial in the family lot in a Wiscasset cemetery.
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James M. Munsey
Augusta
Wiscasset
David
Nancy (Rundlett) Munsey
Woolwich
J. G. Bailey
Jesse G. Munsey
Popham Beach
Crowley Funeral Home
Extensive alterations at Bath Elks Home on Lombard Street
Extensive exterior changes are underway at the Bath lodge of Elks on Lombard Street. The south veranda is removed and much of the east porch is torn down. A remaining east veranda will become the floor for a storage room linked to the main building with new cement walkways and cement block foundations added to the south and east sides. Mr and Mrs Arthur Young of Gorham New Hampshire visited Bath and spent the weekend with her parents, Mr and Mrs Frank Lemont of Washington Street.
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Bath Lodge of Elks
Lombard Street
Arthur Young
Gorham, N. H
Bath
Mrs
Frank Lemont
Washington Street
Hiram T Stevens Dies at 72, Bath Historian Of Deeds Office
Hiram Tanner Stevens 72 longtime Bath native and register of deeds, died at Memorial Hospital after a short illness. Born in Georgytown October 1881 he studied violin, led his own orchestra and wrote marches including Harding Memorial. Elected register of deeds 34 years ago he remained unopposed. Survived by widow Harriet McDonnell Stevens two sons Hiram C. and Robert D. and three daughters R P Burke Jr Washburn Burt S. Osgood Jr Jane W. Stevens and four grandchildren.
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Hiram Tanner Stevens
Sagadahoc County
Re Deeds
i+tal
Georgytown
Hiram C
Mary Heath Stevens
Bath High School
Grand Banks
Stevens
Frank G. Harmon
Fred A. Given
Portland
Harding
Ent Harding
Sousa’s
United States Marine Bands
Office of Register of Deeds
Hite
Bath Memorial Hospital
Colonial Club
Harriet McDonnell Stevens
Robert D
Bath
R. P. Burke, Jr
Washburn
Burt S. Osgood, Jr
Jane W. Stevens
Ethel E Little 56 Brunswick Resident Dies at Home
Ethel E Little wife of Hartwell E Little died at her Cook's Corner home Friday after months of illness. Born in Bath July 13, 1897 she lived in Brunswick since 1921. She belonged to Dirigo Grange Rebekah Lodge Alfaretta Council D of P and is survived by two brothers Herbert and Walter Groves. Funeral was Sunday at Brackett Funeral Home Brunswick with burial in Hardings Cemetery.
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Ethel E. Little
Hartwell E. Little
Cook's Corner
Bath
Charles
Jennie (Jones) Groves
Brunswick
Dirigo Grange
Rebekah Lodge
Alfaretta Council
D. of P
Little
Herbert
Walter Groves
Brackett Funeral Home
Hardings Cemetry
Mrs Blanche M Joy Dies At 64 In Bath Area
Mrs Blanche M Joy 64 of 505 High street Bath died last week at Memorial hospital born Georgetown July 9 1889 daughter of Daniel W and Grace Lewis Webster lived in Brunswick before moving to Bath 28 years ago for years she worked as a housekeeper at the home of William Newell former president Bath Iron Works Corp. She was a member of Hockomock Council Daughters of Pocahontas Surviving are her son Lloyd Joy and daughter Grace M Joy both of Bath and half brother Robert C Sherman of California
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memorial Hospital
Bath
Blanche M. Joy
Five Islands
Robinhood
Georgetown
William S. Newell
Lauretta M. Jones
Carrell Powers
High Street
Daniel W
Grace Lewis Webster
Brunswick
William §. Newell
Bath Iron Works Corp
Hockomock Council
Daughters of Pocahontas
Lloyd Joy
Miss Grace M. Joy
Robert C. Sherman
California
Infant Death Reported After Ambulance Call
Baby Donna Gallant two months old, child of Mr and Mrs Edward Gallant of 50 Spring Street, died on arrival at Memorial hospital after police rushed her there. Officers attempted revival en route, but physicians pronounced her dead upon admission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donna
Edward Gallant
Spring Street
Memorial Hospital
Funeral for Mrs Blanche M Joy Held at Mayo Funeral Home
Funeral services for Mrs Blanche M Joy were held Friday afternoon at 1 30 at A F Mayo and Son Funeral Home with Rev Richard J Schaper of Winter Street Congregational church officiating. Cares were Chester McCabe Fenton Moore Jack Brown and Arthur Boulay. Burial was in the family town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blanche M. Joy
A. F. Mayo & Son
Richard J. Schaper
Winter Street Congregational Church
Chester McCabe
Fenton Moore
Jack Brown
Arthur Boulay
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