Teachers convention in Madison County hosts opening events
The Madison County teachers convention opens Monday with events at the high school gym and Methodist church venues led by Nelson Bailey of New Castle. A reception for teachers is rescheduled for Oct 22 and various civic groups plan activities and memberships.
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Madahoe County
Enterprise Ad
Methodist
Richmond Higherson Grammar School
Methodist Church
Odd Fellows Hall
Nelson Bailey
Newcastle
Lincoln Academy
Elizabeth Haynes
Elizabeth McFee
Richmond Grammar
Funeral for Mrs. Jeanette P. Jordan in Richmond
Funeral service for 91 year old Mrs. Jeanette P. Jordan was held Saturday afternoon at Roberts Funeral Home in Richmond with Rev. Jesse J. Starr officiating. Bear-
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Jeanette P. Jordan
Roberts Funeral Home
Richmond
Jesse J. Starr
Social notes recount visits and gatherings in Bath area
Miss Louise Treat and relatives from Germantown Pa shared a long weekend with Mrs. Newman at Robinhood, hosting dinners and park outings. Guests from out of town included Mr. and Mrs. Donald Field and other local families. A birthday dinner for Miss Louise Peterson linked Colby College friends. A hospital transfer for L Earle Hagan followed a Bath Memorial stay, and a Georgetown P T A sale was planned in Bath.
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Louise Treat
Walter Beale
Germantown
Evelyn
England
W. A. Todd
Roscoe
Lauretta M
Roy M. Newman
Joseph F. Higgins
Harry L. Horne
Walter V. Cummings
Reid Park
Bay Point
Carroll Powers
Robins Hood
Donald Field
Hugh Rockwell
William Bisseth
George A. Powers
L. Earle Hagan
Bath Memorial Hospital
Maine General Hospital
Portland
Bath
Louis Asali
Hagan
Elmwood
Waterville
Louise Peterson
Parviz Chshhazi
Colby
Georgetown P. T. A
Rogers Hardware Store
Ralph Dunton
Robinhood
John St. Martin
Horace Lee
Jack Lee
MacMahan
Charles Gould
Waltham
Nathaniel Hasenfus
Roxbury
Mass
Felix Salomoni
Gordon Clarke
Lynn
Hasenfus
Seguinland
Memorial for Mrs Johran Stetson Held Here
Burial followed at Evergreen cemetery for Mrs Johran Stetson of Richmond born May 22 1861 daughter of Benjamin and Harriet Dinsmore Stetson. She died at her niece Mrs John Parkers Water street home Thursday evening, leaving three nieces Mrs Parker Mrs Blake and Mrs Tibbetts and two nephews Charles Stetson and Frank Stetson.
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Charles Blake
Frank Stetson
Carleton McCobb
Richard Parent
Walter Knight
George Tibbetts
Evergreen Cemetery
Johran
John Parker
Water Street
Richmond
Benjamin
Harriet Dinsmore Stetson
Parker
Charles Stetson
Norwalk
Conn
Winthrop
Funeral service for Charles Jellison in Richmond
Charles P Jellison 18 formerly of Richmond died after an accident in Gloucester harbor Friday. He was born in Boston Aug 18 1934 the son of Almon and Bertena Jellison and had lived in Richmond before moving to Gloucester. The service at Roberts funeral home was led by Rev Carl Small with a large turnout from Richmond High and Gloucester. Burial followed at Bowdoinham Ridge cemetery.
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Charles P. Jellison
Richmond
Roberts
Carl Small
Camden
Gloucester
Mass
Boston
Almon
Bertena Powers Jellison
Beavers
Walter Varney
Ernest Williams
Jack Hurley
Clarence Fickett
Arthur Parker
Ronald Hall
Bowdoinham Ridge Cemetery
Richmond High School
Second Working League meeting at Richards Center
Community notes list attendees and visitors around Georgetown Center. Residents Mrs. Joseph Higgins and Miss Dorothy Oliver hosted and joined weekend guests from Kingston Portland and Brooklyn while others arrived for holidays at Kennebec Point and Robinhood.
Visitors and seasonal notices fill Georgetown update
Arrivals include Mr and Mrs James Stuart of Penns Grove New Jersey and Roy Moulton with Raymond Reid at Seguinland. Georgetown PTA to hold a food sale at Rogers Hardware Store in Bath Friday at 2 p.m. School bus breakdown canceled classes at Central School in Georgetown last Friday. Passerine birds and migratory ducks noted at dawn over Merrymeeting Bay. Charles Winn and family from Waltham Mass vacationing at Marrtown. Harry Bedford and Luella Ballantine visitors from Whitinsville Mass. Ballantine sang in the First Baptist church choir.
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Malden
Mass
James Stuart
Penns Grove
N. J
Heald Home
Central School
Georgetown
Merrymeeting Bay
Roy Moulton
New York City
Seguinland
Raymond Reid
Moulton
Charles Winn
Waltham
Marrtown
Harry Bedford
Whitinsville
West Georgetown
Luella Ballantine
First Baptist Church
Solar Lodge Past Masters Night Draws Large Masonic Gathering
Solar Lodge No 14 observes its 42nd annual past masters night at the Masonic Temple with many members and visiting Masons present. A baked ham dinner followed, and the Past Masters degree was conducted by Edwin H P Lowell with officers named. Irving C. Trufant conferred degrees, Genesta Chapter hosted the supper, and Frederick Rowland of St Louis visited. Solar Lodge plans a school of instruction on Oct 20 with chicken pie suppers on subsequent dates.
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Solar Lodge No
Masons
Masonic Temple
Genesta Chapter
R. W. Bro
Edwin H. P. Lowell
Ralph L. Blakeney
Cecil L. Fullerton
Arthur W. King
Karcher S. Jackson
Henry G. Shaw
John W. Gillespie
Charles S. Bartlett
Herbert R. Morse
Arah E. Richmond
Duncan H. Farrell
Vernon B. Lake
Tyler
R. W
David E. Rich
Paul M. Holmson
Harry E. Ring, Jr
David Y. Alkazin
Paul D. Moore
E. L. Stiles
William H. Daley
Irving C. Trufant
Genesta
Athana Gillespie
Rose Rogers
Nellie Smith
Celina Small
Evangeline Sparks
Leah Page
Evelyn Morse
Viola Osgood
Margaret Lonn
Ruth Fuller
Irene Rice
Marie Berry
Freda Bagdikian
Beatrice Coombs
Solar Lodge
Temple
Star
Frederick Rowland
St. Louis
Sylvester Rowlard
Stork Shower Honoring Mrs Blaine Trafton at Meadow Way
Mrs. Blaine Trafton was guest of honor at a stork shower Friday evening hosted by Mrs. Richard Footer at 34 Meadow Way. Gifts in a pink and blue bassinet were presented, with refreshments served after the unwrapping. Assistants included Mrs. Kenneth Snowden and Mrs. George Coffin. many friends attended.
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Blaine Trafton
Richard Footer
Meadow Way
Footer
Kenneth Snowden
George Coffin
Herbert Anderson
Elton Trafton
Sadie Davis
Vernon French
Herbert Anderson, Jr
Ernest Freewman
Frederick Gowell
Margaret Mulligan
Edgar Leavitt
Il Fullerton, Jr
Harold Tobey
Nicholas Kakos
Aubrey Steen, Jr
Jane Smart
Gloria Barnes
Five Islands News: church work weddings and road repairs
The Five Islands column reports a Ladies Bible class with eight members, a church cleanup day with dinner provided, and a wedding set for Sally Roy and Irving Kaiser in Laconia. It notes road repairs around local homes, a retirement party for Arthur Marr of Malden, and extensive visits among residents and visitors from Bath to Melrose. New Mexico claims El Camino Real as the oldest road, dating to 1581.
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Orville Rowe
Harlan Pinkham
Victor Pinkham
Stevens Brothers
Bath
Library Hall
Sally Roy
Irving Kaiser
Laconia
N. H
Miss Roy
Daniel Staffeld
Capt. Stinson Davis
Prebles, Bakers
New Mexico
United States
el Camino Real
Local notices and social round in Cedar Grove area
Town residents engage in visits and gatherings including Harold Jones recovering after a Oct 4 car accident in Bow Doingham. Arthur Stilphen visits Rockland relatives while neighbors host canasta and PTA meetings. Local clubs and churches schedule harvest supper and magazine drive winnings, with officers elected in several groups and teachers from Lincoln and Sagadahoc counties invited for Oct 20 events.
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Harold Jones
Bowdoinham
Jones
Frances Whalen
Arthur Stilphen
Rockland
Alden Stilphen
Cedar Grove
James Cameron
West Dresden
Canasta Club
James Radcliffe
Portsmouth
N. H
James McCoy
Leonard Alexander
Pownalboro Society
Charles Gray
PTA
Harland McCobb
South Dresden
Methodist Youth Fellowship
Reta Bailey
Ronald Carvie
Natalie Rose
Donna Preble
Donna Souviney
Patricia Frey
David Fitch
Erland Bailey
Pearl Carver
Dolores Door
Methodist Wscs
Leona Jewett
M. E
Bridge Academy
Marguerite Bailey
Robert Chadwick
Eastern River Grange
P. of H
Fred Allen
Ida McPhail
Maurice Pashard
Wilmot Trussell
Esther Bailey
Effie Allen
Irene Lilly
Gloria Jewell
Marjorie Hamlin
Ceres
Evelyn Carver
Flora
Lillian Gray
Pomona
Carolyn Sirois
Alice Pashard
Richmond
Lincoln
Sagadahoc
McPhee
Elizabeth Haynes
Charles Sheldon
H. and
C. Sheldon
Carney’s Point
George Wood
Massachusetts
Henry Bird
Walter Conley
Edward Edwards
Verne Colby
Colby
Ernest Herbert
White Mountains
Varney Kelley
Seattle
Wash
Kelley
Star Club
Masonic Hall
N. E. T. Barker
Yarmouth
Abbie
Lois Barker
Sheldon Homestead
St. John's Episcopal Church
Dorr Woodward
William R. Houdlette
Bath Ministers Hold Fall Meeting at Grace Church Parish House
Bath Ministers Association met for its first Fall gathering at 10 AM at Grace Episcopal Church Oak Street with host Rev. James L. Grant. Two new members welcomed Rev. Louis A. Dole introduced Harold L. Allen and Grant as new appointees. Past losses included Rev. Arvid L. Anderson, Dr. C. Clifford Sargent, and Rev. Curtis Stanley. Devotions led by Rev. Richard J. Schaper. Secretary and treasurer reports accepted. Plans for Reformation Sunday to be arranged by Rev. Laforest E. Hodgkins and Rev. H. Macy White.
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Pushard-Guiby V. F. W. Post
William J. Kelcher
South Street
Richmond
Lions Club
Monday King
Norman Temple
Europe
McKenny
Sagadahoc
Lincoln Counties
Resuscitator Fund
Kescent
Louis Mieux
Winterport Club
Nealowers
Vincent Jones
Emeth Chapter
Royal Arch Masons
Beulah Rebekah Lodge
Laura Lothridge
Eva Douglass
Louise Dunn
Marcia Baker
Elizabeth Haynes
Margaret Borjesson
State Grange
Charles M. White
Winthrop
Progressive Grange
Richmond Corner
Ideal Home Corner Club
Pearl Perry
County Road
Horace Hinkley, Jr
Home Corner Hall
Roscoe Whitten
Gardiner
Pauline Peabody
Sharon Brown
Hyde
Bath
George Sanford
West Dr
Emily Dunn
Topsham
Eva Libby
Herbert Rankins
Maurice
Milford
Mass
Ruth.Worthington
Saramac Lake
N. Y
Mattie Roberts
Elizabeth Thomas
Thomas J. Lagan
White Road
Edward
Anfia Dagan
Bolton Notch
Conn
Hartley Ranger
Jackman Station
Freeman Meader
Hartley Bailey
Stanley Card
Main Street
Cosmopolitan Garden Club Exhibits Panama Slides
The Cosmopolitan Garden Club met to plan for the Christmas sale and heard a program by Franklin Pierce of Gamboa Panama. He shared colorful slides of Panama flora including orchids lilies pride of india and wild cotton as well as New England scenes. Pierce and his mother Flavel Pierce will return to Gamboa after visiting Bath and traveled along the Atlantic coast to Costa Rica. Tea followed the meeting and the floral calendar was presented to Mrs. Pierce.
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Cosmopolitan Garden Club
Carville Douglas
Cosmopolitan Club
Alice Johnson
Bernard MacDonald
Harry Young
James Knights
Franklin Pierce
Gamboa
Panama Zone
Panama
India
Pierce
Flavel Pierce
Bath
Sadie Coombs
Corliss Street
Atlantic
Costa Rica
New England
Maine
White Mountains
Mr. Pierce
United church canvass planned for December Loyalty Sunday
Five local churches join in a fall united canvass led by Bath Council of Churches. Elmer B. Williams chairs with Rev. James Leslie Grant as vice chair and others handling publicity and treasurer duties. A planning meeting November 23 at Winter Street church will organize teams of two from each church for the campaign.
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United
Elmer B. Williams
Foster’s Point Road
Beacon Street
Bath Council of Churches
United Canvass
James Leslie Grant
Walter E. Upham
Dean R. Bonney
Richard J. Schaper
Rodney E. Ross
Winter Street
Williams
United Canvass Committee
Birthday Party for Mrs. Morton at Middle Street Home
Mrs. Fred R. Morton was honored with a birthday party at her home 378 Middle Street Thursday evening. Attendees included her sister Mrs. Bradley Fernald and Mr. Fernald of Kittery, sister Mrs. Mary Towle of Winthrop, Mr. and Mrs. Larry Towle and son Bobby of East Brunswick, and Mr. Morton. The Fernalds have been visiting for several weeks. He is a retired toolmaker and die maker for 39 years at the Portsmouth Navy Yard.
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Fred R. Morton
Middle Street
Bradley Fernald
Fernald
Kittery
Mary Towle
Winthrop
Larry Towle
Bobby
East Brunswick
Morton
Mortons
Portsmouth Navy Yard
Association meeting notice for November 3 at Cornliss Street Church
The next regular meeting of the association will be with Cornlis Street church on November 3. The service on October 26 at 7:30 pm has the place to be announced.
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Cornliss Street
Beatrice A Pendleton 68 Dies at Memorial Hospital
Beatrice A Pendleton wife of Clarence A Pendleton of 8 Pleasant Ave died at Memorial hospital last week after sudden illness at home. Born Feb 18 in Back Bay New Brunswick she is survived by husband a son Dennis Leslie two daughters Mabel Meehan and Marion Hooper two sisters Tena Kent and Victor Leslie 17 grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Funeral at Arthur F Mayo & Son on Saturday at 1 pm with Salvation Army chaplain officiating. Burial Oak Grove family lot.
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Arthur A. Marr
Malden
Mass
Five Islands
Marr
Alice Tucker Marr
Almon, Jr
Parker
Melrose
J. G. Stevens
Paul A. Thompson
Lewis Austin
Falmouth
Orville Rowe
Raphael Higgins
Bath
Arthur Patstone
Fred Gullicksen
Quincy
D. W. Staffeld
William Marr
Arthur Marr
Almon Marr
Herman Barter
Vernon Gray
Beulah Miller
Malden Island
Russell Boynton
Newton
George Smith
Miss Gertrude
Dorchester
Frank Blake
Gerald Beals
Topsham
William Grady
West Roxbury
Sedgemere Road
Clayton Stevens
U. S. Marine Corps
Everett Stevens
Seguinland
Robert Snow
Somerville
Felix Solomons
Gordon Clark
Lynn
Nathaniel Hasenfus
Parker Start
Marr Cottage
Richard Potter
David
Deborah
Cohasset, Mass
Davis
Beatrice A. Pendleton
Clarence A. Pendleton
Pleasant Avenue
Memorial Hospital
Back Bay
N. B
Edward
Charlotte (French) Loveitt
Dennis Leslie
St. John
Mabel Meehan
Ontario
Canada
Marion Hooper
Tena Kent
Victor Leslie
Mento
Arthur F. Mayo & Son
High Street
Salvation Arm
Oak Grove
Deaths of Benjamin Getchell and Edward Brennan Linked in Firemen Circles
Word has been received of the death of Benjamin H. Getchell at 87 in Salem Massachusetts on October 7. He was a prominent active worker in handtub musters and other firefighting activities across New England and served as a judge in musters for the New England Firemen's League. Edward A Brennan, former president of the New England Veteran Firemen's Association, died in East Greenwich Rhode Island, marked by his prominence in veteran firemen circles. The notices link Brennan's death to Getchell’s as two recent losses among New England veteran firemen.
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Salem
Mass
Benjamin H. Getchell
Ben” Gettchell
New England
New England Firemen’s League
Ward
East Greenwich
R. I
Edward A. Brennan
Veteran Firemen’s Association
Brennan
Benjamin Getchell
Fred Percy Young 62 Dies at Parker Head Home
Fred Percy Young born July 10 1890 in Phippsburg died at his Parker Head home Saturday night after living in Parker Head 15 years and previously in Boston. He worked in Bath Iron Works Tin Shop and was a Solar Lodge Mason. Survived by widow Irene MacDonald Young sister Della Moore Bath brother Joseph Bath and John Augusta plus two nieces.
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Fred Percy Young
Parker Head
Phippsburg
Joseph
Mary Rooke Young
Young
Boson
Bath Iron Works
Solar Lodge
Masons
Irene MacDonald Young
Della Moore
Bath
John
Augusta
George W Benson dies after long illness
George W. Benson aged 64 died Sunday morning at Memorial hospital after a lengthy illness. Born May 8, 1888 in Bowdoin to Frank and Abbie Gowland Benson, he attended Bowdoin and Brunswick schools and spent the last nine years as a paves at the Hyde Windlass. He is survived by eight cousins.
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George W. Benson
Memorial Hospital
Bowdoin
Frank and
Abbie Gowland Benson
Brunswick
Hyde Windlass
Funeral services for Mrs Bernice Jones
Funeral services for Mrs Bernice Dunning Jones were held last Wednesday at 2 p.m. from Curtis funeral home with Rev Richard J Schaper of Winter Street Church officiating. Bearers were Charles F Cummings J Horace McClure Ralph G Stetson and Edwin H P Lowell. Burial was in the family lot at Oak Grove.
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Bernice Dunning Jones
Curtis Funeral Home
Richard J. Schaper
Winter Street Church
Charles F. Cummings
J. Horace McClure
Ralph G. Stetson
Edwin H. P. Lowell
Oak Grove
Girl Scouts Visit Bath Fire Department for Safety Lesson
Ten Girl Scouts from Troop 1 toured Bath’s Central Fire Station learning firefighting equipment and fire prevention rules. Accompanied by Mrs. Frank Butcher, the group later gathered at Lambert Park to pursue Home Health and Safety badge or Second Class rank under Mrs. Everett Fraser, Mrs. Harold Graffam and Mrs. Chester Mason. The article also notes Noah Webster’s royalties extended Webster’s dictionary writing time by 20 years and mentions a large US production of The Anna Mik.
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Bath
Central Fire Station
Frank Butcher
Lambert Park
Everett Fraser
Harold Graffam
Chester Mason
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