Scallop Fishing A Tough Job With Long Hours
Dick Reed profiles Georges Bank scallop fishing, detailing a 8-member crew aboard the Madeline and Flora and later the Louis A Thébaud. The piece covers 200 mile offshore trips, 24 hour dredging, brutal seas, backbreaking shucking, pay around $80 per trip, and chronic danger from fog, ships, and gales while highlighting the hard lifestyle and isolation of offshore workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dick Reed
Sea & Shore Fisheries Department
Georges Bank
Madeline
Piora
North Atlantic
Siberian
Charlie Carver
Rockland
Flora
Georges
Cook
Matinicus Rock
Carver
Wenchman “Snip
Manning
Paris
Louis A.theband
Lew Wallace
Peer & de Wood
Aese Georges
Louis A. Thébaud
Dory
Wallace
Totman Morse Wedding at Grate Episcopal Church
Miss Ruth Morse and Capt Arthur Totman wed Sunday evening September 13 at Grate Episcopal Church with Rev Charles M Tubbs officiating. The couple will live with the bride’s parents in Phippsburg. Attendants included Miss Frances Morse and Norman MacDonald. An earlier corn roast hosted by Mr and Mrs Joseph Emery in Rockland featured a backyard fireplace feast and indoor cards with Thomaston and Newton Center guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Morse
Arthur Totman
Charles M. Tubbs
Grate Episcopal Church
Frances Morse
Phippsburg
Norman MacDonald
Bath
Milton Morse
Helen Totman
Elisha Totman
Rockland
Joseph Emery
Emerys
Clara Spear
W. E. D. Gray
William Flint
Thomaston
Margaret, Copeland
Newton Center
Mass
Phippsburg Social Notes Include Visits and Travel
Residents of Phippsburg and surrounding towns are noted visiting and returning from travels. Entries mention Cushmans in Portland Sebasco Bath and Bath Memorial Hospital as well as other locals visiting cottages, hunting camps, and camps on Burnt Coat Island and Popham Beach. Several guests from Bath and Portland are listed with weekend trips to Georgetown Cox’s Head and Randolph. People also report homecomings and routine neighborhood activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nathan Cushman
Portland
Sebasco Estates
Sylvéster Cushman
Burnt Coat Island
Francis Jennings
Sebasco Lodge
Alexander Brown
Bath
New York
Williams. Kenyon
Sebasco
Washington, D. C
Ruth Skillings
Sylvester Cushman
Richard Cushman
Cushman
Louise Garth
Boston
Susie Pettengill
Frye
Georgetown
E. J. Oliver
Cox’s Head
Ethel Luke
Barbara
Popham Beach
Lester Oliver
George ©. Beals
George J. Ingalls
Bath Memorial Hospital
George Searls
Charles M. Leavitt
Mildred
South Portland
Frank P. Leavitt
Harold Mott
Harold, Jr
William B. Perry
Cora Campbell
Lottie Wilson
South Eliot
Walter J. Pierce
Portsmouth
John D. Eastman
Hazel Feere
Tenant's Harbor
Edith Atwood
Gorham
Wilard Atwood
Abner Wilson
Campbell Farm
H. P. Terry
Harrison Wright
Small Point Beach
Frank Wyman
White Mountains
Guy Crosby
East Brunswick
Gardiner Rogers
New Meadows
Frank Higgins
Leslie
Willie
Frances
Howard S. Bowker
Edward Glidden
Quincy
Mass
Ralph Hart
Meadowbrook
Bowdoin Ladies' Aid Meeting and Local Visits
Bowdoin community notices report a Thursday meeting of the Ladies' Aid with Mrs. A E Purinton. Local residents Carroll Williams and Rose Goleman visit Bowdoin and neighboring towns, and Leonard Curtis departs for Caribou to teach science and music. Funeral services for George eet are held at the home of Mrs. Mary Rogers with Rev Sheldon Christian officiating. family survivors are listed. Mrs Clifford Starbird and Miss Mary McAfee are mentioned among local visitations and family ties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies’ Aid
A. E. Purinton
Carroll Williams
Portland
Addie Williams
Eonard Curtis
Caribou
Eva Nichols
Sabattus
Grant Woods
Leona Patten
L. €. Starbird
Rose Goleman
Gardiner
John Curtis
Bridgeton
Curtis
N. E. Curtis
Vesta Ackley
George Eet
Mary Rogers
Sheldon Christian
Runswick
William Gould
Bowdoinham
Ralph
Mason Marshall
Vernal David Harmon
Topsham
Erland
Bowdoin
Clifford Starbird
Harry Durgin
Mary McAfee
Robert McAfee
Popham Beach Socials and Local Highlights
Annie Oliver Stacey returns from Bath visit as local society notes detail gatherings. Freshman Barbara Sprague elected freshman class president at the North Youth Academy. Mr and Mrs Floyd Bridges wed at Central Church parsonage with Rev David Wilson officiating. Numerous Bath and Popham residents visit cottages and shores, tide delays at Popham Beach, lighthouse keepers and families noted, with travel to Bath, Georgetown, and Montreal mentioned. These items capture community ties, cross-town visits, and seasonal events in a single update.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annie Oliver Stacey
Bath
Barbara Sprague
North Youth Academy
Walter Sprague
Miss i
Académy
Carrié Wyman
Philip and
Lawrence
Kennebec River
Bridges
Hatch Cottage
Frank Scott
Worcester
Elzabeth Rollins
West Somerville
Mass
Myra Scott
Rollins
Eva Wright
Freeman Oliver
June
Edna
Day's Ferry
Oliver
Parson Cottage
Francis Luke
Luke
Popham Light
Capt
Osgood
Eugene Osgood
Maine
Vermont
Montreal
Canada
Florence Carson
Charles Talbot
Sea Grille
Milliard Urquehart
Seguin Island
Horace Morse
Phippsburg
Marguerite McNulty
Popham Beach
Leon Fickett
Pond Island
Robert D. Morse
Portland
Isaac Voorhees
South Shore
Moses T. Chandler
Forrest Legard
Maurice Hinckley and Son
Georgetown
George E. Hoyt
Richmond
Edgar N. Drake
Beachwood
Edgar L. Drake
Nealley Hopkins wedding in Cambridge First Church
Announcement of Miss Marjorie Louise Hopkins and Edward St John Nealley marrying on Saturday October 3 at the First Church Congregational in Cambridge Massachusetts. Attended by sister matron of honor and best man with ushers, couple to reside in Bayonne New Jersey after November 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge
Mass
Marjorie Louise Hopkins
Arthur T. Hopkins
Lancaster Street
Edward St. John Nealley
Henry A. Nealley
Craigie Circle
MacMahan
Raymond Calkins
D.D
C. Leslie Glenn
Julian Danford Anthony
Prescott Winkley
Medford
Walnut Hill
Miss Wheelock
Nealley
Country Day School
Harvard College
Bath
Cambridge Boat
Speakers Club
Harvard
Colonial Club Bowling League Opens Annual Tournament
The Colonial Club Bowling League begins its annual tournament with nine teams split into three groups. The schedule has three-man groups bowling weekly, as reported at the monthly meeting. Members approved a members-only dance in the club rooms, date to be set by a committee appointed by the president. Donald Perry and Arthur J. Sarkis were admitted as members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colonial Club Bowling League
Donald Perry
Arthur J. Sarkis
Boston Pair Visited Cahill Family Over Weekend
Mr and Mrs Samuel McGarrell of Boston spent the weekend with Hon and Mrs Charles H Cahill and Mr and Mrs Charles H Cahill Jr in a social gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel McGarrell
Boston
Charles H. Cahill
Charles H. Cahill, Jr
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mark Hennessey
Harold Small
Marion
Winneganée Bay
Partridge
Gary
An Eee
H. Small
Raymond Small
Perry's Cove
John ©. Clark
Thorndike
Aurin Wallace
Ingalls
Clark
John D. Rogers
Galvin W. Rogers
Randolph
Rogers
Lester
Grace L. Parks
Alfred Cornish
Harding’s
J. Harry Blaisdell
James K. Morse
Gertrude Blaisdell
Owen Richardson
West Point
Ida Hinckley
Five Islands
James L. Morse
Perry Farm
Marguerite Hennessey
Edwin Ramsay
James Herbert
South Berwick
Silas Bates
Bickford
West Bath
Omar Perry
Arthur Perry
Alvah
John Holbrook
Colby
Eugene Harrington
Meadowbrook Road
Welfare Club
Harry Gilmore
Tyleston Oliver
Jane Feere
M. N. Jennings
Nancy Thomas
Eric Carlson
Ofpsham
Topsham Fair
Cne
A. F. Brehaut CO
Francis Hill
Mrs. Hill
Ella Marr
So Vehy
Seeela
M. Coltage
Donnell
Waldo Western
Bud
Herbert Sprague
CCC
Fred Spinney
North Yarmouth Academy
Ernest R. Spinney
Alfred Doughty
George Howard
Land
Nathaniel Perkins
Harry Spencer
Susie Oliver
Athea Oliver
Leon Merrill
Gloria Oliver
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