Richmond Notes From Town and County Events
Joseph W. Randlett attends International Fire Chiefs convention in Knoxville September 24 27 as a speaker. Richmond high school selects officers for the coming year across senior junior sophomore and freshmen classes. Community notices include club meetings visits, travel, and family happenings with many names and places across Bath Brunswick Gardiner Boothbay Harbor and New Portland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph W. Randlett
New England Fire Chief's Association
Knoxville
Tenn
Randlette
Enterprise Grange Ladies’ Aid
Grange Hall
Penny Keane
Alice Lewis
Myrtle Stewart
Helen Moore
Skowhegan
Chestnut Street
Fannie Watson
Bath
Eula Shaw
Viola Waltz
Beatrice Patten
Mabel Harrington
Round Pond
Brunswick
A. A. Richardson
Felix Thomas
Brookline
Mass
Edna Lovejoy
North Chesterville
Hartley Ranger
Earl Dickinson
Keith McBurnie
Arlene Choate
Arlene Millett
Leona Webber
Margaret Gomer
Robert Carey
Edward McGinty
John McGinty
Annie Deehan
Quincy
William Walsh
Dorchester
John Hurley
Elizabeth Hurley
Wayne Whitmore
Percy
N. H
C.C.C. Camp
Fort Preble
Howard Knight
William Stetson Knight
Bangor
Plymouth
N. H. Skelton
Ernest Williams
Ralph Dickinson
Harry Tabb
Boston
Yvonne Turcotte
Arthur Provost
Alphonse Martel
Harold Harford
Walter Barnes
Evelyn Hanson
Bar Harbor
Cadillac Mountain
Barnes
Richmond
E. F. Pratt
Harry Curran
Gordon
Portland Fair
W. H. Johnson
Gardiner
Tristram Little
Loraine Frances Temple
Sarah Small Temple
East Orange
N. J
Edwin P. Nolte
E. L. Nolte
William F. Frick
Bloomfield
Alexander Cairns
Alice Burnell
Walter Nolte
Edith Pilla Marbar
Maplewood
Mary Davis
Newark
New England
Canada
Marshall Small
Georgie Coughlin
Lillian Johnson
Miss Johnson
Dresden
Harry Whitney
Marilla Tarr
Louise Whitney
Rangeley
Richmond Baptist
Charles Fredericks
Civil Service Open Exam for Blacksmith at War Dept Maine
The Civil Service Commission announces an open competitive examination for Blacksmith Horseshoes in the Quartermaster Corps War Department Portland Harbor Fort Williams Maine. Applicants require a four year blacksmith apprenticeship with six months horseshoeing or four years blacksmith experience plus six months horseshoeing. applications due by October 11 1935.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Civil Service Commission
Quartermaster Corps
War Department
Portland Harbor
Fort Williams
Maine
Board of Civil Service Examiners
Bath
First Civil Service District
U. S. Post Office
Boston
Massachusetts
Massive 600-pound shark trundled through Da.t. Harbor
Foster Ober and Malcolm Leach captured a massive shark after a struggle in Kissell's Cove. Ober found the thrashing giant in shallow water as the tide ebbed, used a clam hoe, and with Leach subdued and towed the creature onto an automobile trailer for townspeople to view.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Da.t. Harbor
Foster Ober
Malcolm Leach
Mr. Ober
Kissell’s Cove
Mr. Leach
Penny Arcade Moves From Landmark Downtown Site
The Penny Arcade long a business, Saturday fixture, was moved from its historic location. Started by A. G. Roy over 30 years ago, it stayed in the same place amid past success. Roy retired, selling to Jean B. Langlois who continued at 243 Lisbon Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. G. Roy
Roy
Jean B. Langlois
Lisbon Street
Georgetown and Bath Area Social Notes Highlight Weekend Visits
Edward Clarey of Robinhood visited Bath on Friday. Genealogy of locals includes multiple aunts uncles and cousins visiting Sagadahoc Bay and Kennebec Point. A Cherryfield reunion features Frank E. Leighton recalling old days and past work in Nahant and Lynn.
Poultry farmer and stargazer in Kennebunk builds telescope
R. G. Stephens of Kennebunk runs a large poultry farm and is an avid amateur astronomer. He crafted a daytime telescope with a 10 inch mirror and 100 inch focal length, plus setting circles to locate planets and bright stars, and at night observes numerous double stars and nebulae visible to the naked eye.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennebunk
R. G. Stephens
Fall festival concert to open Maine Teachers convention
The Eastern Maine Musical Association plans the annual Fall festival concert set for October 23 in Bangor to accompany the Maine Teachers Association opening sessions. Special reduced tickets will be available for teachers attending the convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eastern Maine Musical Association
Maine ‘Teachers’ Association
Bangor
Scarborough Sailors Rout Lewiston Celtics 8 to 6 in Friendly
The H M S Scarborough sailors beat the Lewiston Celtics 6-1 at Kelley field as Archibald Main kicks off. Mills and Neale lead a second half burst with three goals each, while Spaulding and Crowe officiate a fast, clean game before a packed crowd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kelley Field
H. M. S. Scarborough
Lewiston Celtics
Archibald M. Main
Bath Iron Works Corp
Royal Navy
G. Mills
A. E. Neale
Mills
Neale
Lewiston
Rockland
Scarborough
Spaulding
Navyites
J. Campbell
Stonehouse
Navy
Campbell
D. Robertson
Leigh
Sailors
Honey
Dixon
Crowe
Chiberton
P. Campbell
Berries and Spuds Out of Ordinary
William Ketchum reports a rich raspberry harvest on Foster's Point road with six large berries and several immature ones. In Woolwich, pota toes exhibit two odd forms named Mickey Mouse and Oscar by local growers James P. Sutherland and Everson Stinson. C Ervin Cromwell of High Street shows off prize dahlia blooms and a display at The Times Co. grounds. Rupert H. Baxter and ex-Governor Percival P. Baxter, with Mr and Mrs Bruce H. M. White, returned from Moose River fishing near Maynard camps after a week’s trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Ketchum
Foster's Point
Times
Mickey Mouse
James P. Sutherland
Center Street
Oscar
Everson Stinson
Woolwich
C. Ervin Cromwell
High Street
Times Co
Jean Charmot
Laura Morris
Rupert H. Baxter
Bath
Percival P. Baxter
Bruce H. M. White
Topsham
Maynard
Moose River
Baxter
Five Islands Summer Folk Seen At Five Islands
Norwood Massachusetts couple Otis Baker and family visit their summer home while Bath and Georgetown residents drift through for weekend calls. Local residents and visitors are noted at Five Islands with travel to Bath Wiscasset Portland Augusta and Sagadahoc activities. Church services switch to Fall Winter schedule. various residents return to Bath Lewiston and Boston after seasonal visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Otis Baker
Norwood
Mass
Lawrence Bailey
Manchester
N. H
Fred Carr
C. M. Cubbage
Bath
Harry Lishness
Florida
Clarence B. Hill
Georgetown
Five Islands
AG. Stevens
Percy MacGillivary
Everett Cromwell
Gene Stevens
Earland Thibodeau
Gerald
Wiscasset
Fred Pratt
D. L. Howard
Ethel Thonet
Wellsley
Donald Stevens
Stevens
Frank Blake
Somerville
Everett Stevens
Clayton
Robinhood
D. R.evens
E. M. Horton
F. P. Carr
John Thibodeau
Addie Moulton
Gardiner
T. E. Cromwell
Augusta
Bowdeinham
Richmond
Leon Williams
Waltham
Portland
Walter Moore
Hallowell
Nettie Snowman
Joseph E. Blaisdell
Alfred Rowe
Edith Marr
Seguinland
Boston
Walter E. Reid
New York
Chester MacMahan
Gilbert Standish
Percy Savage
Walter Savage
Kittery
L. H. Rowe
Savage
Grange Circle
J. G. Stevens
Madelyn Berry
P. D. Wilkins
Sedgemere Road
Lewiston
Wilkins
Bates College
Forest Hanna
Belle
Carrie Stevens
Katherine Pendergast
William L. Berry
Sagadahoc Pomona
Woolwich
Mr. Pine
Keturah
Providence
R. I
MacMahan Island
Ellsworth Pinkham
Raymond Reid
Bride
Walter Reid
East Pepperell
Reid
D. R. Stevens
Everett
Lester Lewis
Vernon Gray
Charles Pinkham
Southport
Kenneth
Pinkham
Edward Lewis
William of
Auburn
Civil Service Examinations Announced For Various Posts
The Civil Service Commission announced open competitive exams for card punch operator alphabetic duplicating punch operator junior tabulating machine operator junior blueprint operator junior photostat operator under blueprint operator junior photostat and blueprint operator Telegraph operator Policewoman at 1 800 to 1 900 a year Chief of rate group 3500 Federal Communications Commission Experience required All information from Milton H Douglas Secretary U S Civil Service Board of Examiners at the post office or customs house in this city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Civil Service Commission
Metropolitan Police Department
Washington, D. C
Federal Communications Commission
Milton H. Douglas
U. S. Civil Service Board of Examiners
Custom
City
Ten Thousand Dollar Bequest For City Welfare
Continued from page one a $10,000 bequest was set for city welfare. Since the will was drawn Dr. Palmer has died and Henry F. Palmer has declined to act as executor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palmer
Henry F. Palmer
Maine milk men urged to stick to Boston price
Dairy farmers in Maine are urged to uphold the Boston price by remaining with the New England Milk Producers' Association and refusing to sell to dealers trying to undercut stabilized prices. The open letter warns that illegal sales and improper withdrawals threaten market stability and could hurt all members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Boston
New England Milk Producers’ Association
New England
Maine Supreme Court
NEMPA
Associa
Leeman-Magoon Nuptials In Bangor Ceremony
Miss Nellie V. Leeman and Norman O. Magoon wed in a Bangor double ring ceremony officiated by Rev. L. Staples. Nellie, Morse High School graduate 1931 with honors, Gorham Normal 1934. Norman, Ellsworth High School graduate, works with his father in Osborne. The couple will reside in Osborne.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry T. B Leeman
Somerset Place
Nellie V. Leeman
Norman O. Magoon
Lee Magoon
Osborne
Bangor
East Winthrop Opens Public Access To Lake Shore
For four summers youths in East Winthrop gained safe swimming along the Lake Cobbesseecontee shore now leased to Frank A Hunt and his daughter Gertrude Hunt. The pair provide a dock, float and bath houses with Gertrude, an accomplished swimmer, serving as a swimming judge and teaching a daily class when weather permitted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Cobbesseecontee
East Winthrop
Frank A. Hunt
Gertrude Hunt
American Athletic Union
Also Mentioned on This Page
Charles Linden
Setheb Ten Ee
Danube
Sagadahoc
Lincoln County
Boothbay Harbor
Marriner
Winchester
Maas
Willis Sylvester
Eustis
Lilia Anne Ginn
Norway
Wesley H. Ginn
Wesley Ginn
Roslindale
Ideal Home Corner Club
Annie Thompson
Charles Brown
Danvers
May Williams
William Haynes
Frank Beedle
Ethel Rankins
Mabel Crillen
New Sharon
Farmington
Orange
Bertha Gray
Charlotte White
Raymond Northey
Jack O'Donnell
Presque Isle
Charles Sylvester
Brunswick Road
Gwendolyn Tarr
Aline Smith
Kate Smith
Lottie Cobb
Bowdoin
George Pennell
E. O. Tarr
A. G. Baker
Bowdoin Center
B. Rowe
Franz Hutchins
Amy Bradley
U. W
C. W
Mabelle Crillen
Enoch Tomlinson
Perley Wedge
Bertelle Skinner
Minnie Skinner
George Leavitt
Gilbert Edgett
D. M. Humphreys & Co
Sagadahock Block
Bath, Me
Civil Service Examination
Edward Clarey
Walter Schoepfer
Donald
Thomas Hagan
Edgecomb
C. L. Hinckley
Sagadahoc Bay
Elizabeth Hunt
Gertrude Short
Walter Williams
Popham
Thomas Williams
West Georgetown
Roy M. Newman
Walter V. Cummings
William A. Todd
Joseph F
J. C. Bearse
Malden
Emma B. Billings
Seward E. Emmons
Edward J. Stewart
Kennebec Point
Newton
Theodore
Bertha Scott
Augusta Rowe
First Baptist
L. Earle Hagan
J. C. Onderkirk
Des Moines
Harry L. Horne
Dorothy Stuart
Frank Heald
Melrose Highlands
Belle Cutting
Annie Cutting
Hattie Rowe Butler
Butler
Alexander
Margaret Rowe
Ralph Butler
Nellie Hull
Winfield Rowe
Harold J. Brown
Harold, Jr
Yarmouth
William Zorach
Frederick A. Laskey
Mary Diffin
W. A. Todd
Harry Heald
Winthrop Riggs
Woodfords
William Mains
Merrimac
Drummond Stevens
Wilton Campbell
Linwood Stevens
Frank E. Leighton
Cherryfield
George Small
Gwen Wilson
Leighton
Lynn
Nahant
Old
Buxton
Buxton Medicine Company
Abbot Village
Civil Service Examinations
al Powinson
Bath Savings Institution
Magoon
Leeman
Fred S. Curtis & CO
Thomas R. Huston
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