Wormwood's Rise and Maine School Leadership Career
Liman Wormwood, long associated with Maine education, rose from rural beginnings near Crawford to lead a major teacher organization. The piece traces his schooling at Washington Academy, Bowdoin, Machias high school, and leadership roles as superintendent in Old Town and Orono, then Bangor and beyond, highlighting a life devoted to advancing country schools and college systems.
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Liman Wormwood
Masie Teachers Assation
noSape Wormwood
Sears
Pols
Crawford
Maos
Wormwood
Maine
Comwood
Washington Academy
Machias
Bowdon
Iss Hecht
Whityeaville Grammar School
Oldtown
Orono
Terville
Stupt Tiiron
Bangor
Cosmopolitan Club to Host Thanksgiving Food Sale
The November philanthropic committee of the Cosmopolitan Club will run a home cooked food sale at the clubhouse on Wednesday. A variety of Thanksgiving dinner items will be available and a large supply has been promised. Mrs Grace Sampson is the committee chair.
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Maine
Quillcote-on-Saco
Kate Douglas Wiggin
Dorcas Society
Orchard Lake
Michigan
Miss Wiggin
Sinclair Lewis
Detroit Free Press
Hollis and
Buxton
Fair
Countryside Improvement Association
Lake
Soil’ Movement
Edward W
Florence Smith Stoddard
Cosmopolitan Club
Haseen
Grace Sampson
The
John A. Morse
Ladies Aid profitable session at Winter Street Church
The Winter Street Church Ladies Aid met yesterday afternoon at Mrs. Charles Taylor’s home. Hostesses were Mrs. Taylor and Mrs. Henry White. Members are preparing for the annual holiday sale in the chapel on December 12.
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Aid
Winter Street
Charles Taylor
Fortnightly Club hosts Eben Thompson on Omar Khayyam
Mrs. Sewall hosts Fortnightly Club at York Hall with Eben Francis Thompson of Worcester as speaker on Omar Khayyam and The Rubaiyat. Opposed to mystic views, Thompson highlighted Fitzgerald and displayed Elihu Vedder slides. The event drew a large attendance before Bowdoin College preacher Dr. W. W. Fenn visits Brunswick services tomorrow.
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William D. Sewall
York Hall
Sewall
John A. Morse
Eben Francis Thompson
Worcester
Mass
Thompson
Massachusetts
Omar Khayyam
Omar
Edward Fitzgerald
Elihu Vedder
Vedder
Persian Garden
John McCormack
Lehmann
Punch
Margaret Sewall
Catherine Torrey
Maxwell Powers
Harry F. Morrin
Pbies Thompson
Bowdoin College
W. W. Fenn
Harvard Divinity School
Brunswick
Miss Hannah McCormick Weds Charles Booth at St Denis Parsonage
Miss Hannah Teresa McCormick daughter of M J McCormick native city, married Wednesday morning at 10 30 in North Whitefield. Charles B Booth acted as bridegroom with Rev Dennis McCabe officiating at St Denis parsonage. Bride wore blue travelling suit and matching hat. Ethel Lundrigan was bridesmaid in white serge. Best man was Channey Booth of Auburn. witnesses were close relatives. Wedding breakfast followed at bride's mother's home. couple departed on 4 16 train for parts unknown and will reside in a newly furnished Gill Street Auburn flat. The Dowling Cunningham wedding at St Mary's church on Tuesday morning also noted.
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Hannah Teresa McCormick
M. J. McCormick
North Whitefield
Charles B. Booth
Dennis McCabe
St. Dennis
Ethel Lundrigan
Channey Booth
Auburn
Gill Street
Consolidation of Bath Baptist Congregations Completes
The North Street Free Baptist Church and the First Baptist Church in Bath merged this week. North Street property transferred and its members joined the First Baptist, bringing total Bath members to over 185. North Street Church had been closed for over a year.
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North Street Free Baptist Church
First Baptist Church
North St. Society
First Baptist
North Street
Bath
Marriage Announcements and Local Society Notes
Marriage cards note Helen Cromwell York Sargent wedding to Lawrence Pratt Parkman on November 19 at Falmouth Foreside Maine. Bishop Robert Codman officiated with family attendance. Parkman Bowdoin graduate. Other items include club events church notices and social gatherings around Portland and Brunswick.
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Falmouth
Maine
Parkman
Bowdoin
Miss Sargent
Thomas Laughlin
Vaughan Street
Portland
Robert Codman
Annual Pound Party and Community Notices
The annual pound party for Homes for Aged Couples and Old Men will be held Monday with gifts of money groceries and clothing welcome at the Home or Leonard and Mitchell and Thompson Bros stores. Christmas sale planning at Wesley M E Church December third with a four to ten pm bazaar features, supper and music. Community notices include church resignations, pastoring changes in Saco First Parish, and local social events. Departments note advances in school staffing, library gifts to Bath Asylum, and travel to the Harvard Yale game.
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Board of Managers
Leonard & Mitchell and
Thompson Bros
Rufus Moulton
Ladies’ Aid
Central Church
Wesley M. E. Church
The
Brotherhood
Boy Scouts
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White Star
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Murphys
Harold M. Sewall
Daudh
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Jise Maria Richardson
Dbine Rebekahs
Porlind
Land Hezekahs Cinquet
Land Lodge and Rebéer
Assety
Misitie Ees
Fidelity Beige Ewiston
Phamimer
Porslend
Eld
AeTe Speeseth
Jolizes
Marion
Richard Jewistion
Harvard
Walter Kennedy
Herbert Kenne- Harr
DL. Eustis
Carl
Tharze
Joseph Ho
Ema
Fred Jarris
Re Eerion Ailtes
Mrs. Jones
Albert ©. Colby
Washington St
Charming
Colbess
Alice Parris
Warren Albert Parris
Gardiner
Myra Whitlam
Caroline Bullman
Harry Ring
Emma I. Shorey
Idella Altekamp
Amy Perry
Lizzie Coombs
Lena Heal
Cornelia Parris
Alice Nortis
Helen Keller
City Hall
Silas B Adams
Board of Trade
Oakley C. Curtis
Bishop Codman
Walsh
E. A. de Garmo
Civic Club
John Brown
Martha Wastinena Sacuet
Leithion
Daughters of
Tie Srre
Alfreed’ Kine
W. L. Cousins
WH Rhodes
Elizabeth Wadsworth
Daughters For the American Revolution
Colonial Chapter
Farmington
Franklin County
Fustis
Stratton
Dead River
Senediet Arnold
Quebec
Fusti and
Sarah Lambert Prescott
Arkansas City
Kan
Phillips
Hootidond
Rosenneest Wauchter Tauet
New York City
Percival Campbell Morgan
J. Campbell Morgan
London
J. H. Jewett
New York
Croom
Tryon
N. C
Mr. Morgan
Effeet
Corrie
Clare Varney
J. R. Andrews
Miss Andrews
Galen C. Moses
Philadelphia
Harry F. Morin
Biddeford
Edna Marr
Vivian Lemont
Harriet Henderson
Helen Moses
Ruth Farnham
Kennebec Yacht Club
Robert B. Hatch
Edward O. Cutler
Carl Troop
Gaudreau
Lucy Patten
Misses Blanche
Margaret Metcalfe
Ronceyt Oviven Im Memorial Hall
Brosewick
Saturda Club
Downer-Eston
Selectioays
Universalist Church
Lydia Moses
Town Hall
Miss McCormick
Elizabeth Grace Dowling
City
Michael J. Cunningham
Lewiston
St. Mary's Church
Horace Martin Sargent
Helen Cromwell York
Lawrence Pratt Parkman
Narsisi Attaya
Addie M. Carlisle
St. Mary's Parish House
J. P. O'Brien
Charles Wetherbee
John McInness
Central Church League
Wilson
Harlakenden
Winston Churchill
Cornish
N. H
Churchill
Guy Murchie
United States
Murchie
Maurice J. Duncklee
Wesley Church
Wesley M. E
George Cdemott
Richmond
8. J. Bailey
Middle Street
Brunswick Dramatic Club
Old Folks Home Association
Adeline Belle Hawes
Wellesley College
Roman Africa
Miss Hawes
Memorial Hall
Thomas Ss. Gibbons
Washington Street
Eben J. Marston
Bailey School
Herbert L. Hopkins
Epworth League
Spring Street
Harry C. Webber
Jeanie Robertson
William Sewalls
Saco First
Chester B. Emmons
Detroit
North Woodward Avenue Congregational Church
Anderson
Emerson
Jack Hyde
Clarence Morse
Grady
Fred Thompson
F. H. Burt
New Columbia
Bath Military and Naval Asylum
Robert Stetson
Alfred I Stetson
United Drug Company i
Prince of Wales
Eleanor Barnard Danforth Gardiner
Grant Fair
Danfor
George R. Gardner
Brunswick High School
Gusta
Cong Hi
H. H. Stuartow
Gardner
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