Richmond Area News Roundup and Obituaries
Richmond news notes include harvest dinner by Ladies Aid at the Methodist parish house, private services for Ida Humphrey with interment in Richmond cemetery, and updates on local residents and visitors. Rev John C Hall, 80, a Bangor native and Bowdoin alumnus, dies in California. Community events feature Amy Bradley Tent D A V supper, South Gardiner Townsend club gathering, and church talks by Rev Lester Norton and Rev Alfred H Ives.婚
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gardiner Worfien
Farm Bureau
George Alexander
Methodist Church
Front Street
Ida Humphrey
Nellie Merriman
Gardiner
Christian Science
Lawrence Bond
Melvin Hutchinson
Fred Lewis
Charles Alexander
Richmond Cemetery
Charles Reynolds
Portsmouth
J. L. Webster
Leeds
L. A. Rideout
Laura Williams
Laconia
N. H
E. W. Churchill
Richmond
John C. Hall
Ralph H. Hall
Claremont
Cal
Hall
Bangor
Clara E. Sawyer
Bangor Theological
George Machiner
Lester Norton
United Baptist Church
Alfred H. Ives
Herbert A. Randlett
Janet Smith
Portland
Central Square Baptist Church
Miss Smith
Charles G. Smith
Deering High School
Pratt Institute
New York City
Randlett
Earl Randlett
Deering High
Girl Scouts
Iver Ring
Edna Lane
Charles Stetson
Norwalk
Conn
Merle Thompson
Oakland
Charles Bell
Riverside
Calif
Bell
Bertha Clifford
North Weymouth
Mass
Carroll Clark
Ethel Perry
Marna J. McCormick
John McCormick
Russell Doane
Hyannis
Fred Moeller
Bessie Lutz
Bridgewater
Seymour White
Eunice Kennedy
Belmont
C. B. Kennedy
Scenic Beauties Along Popham Road
A letter from Herbert J. Kellaway of Boston praises the fall scenery along Popham Road in Maine, notes road conditions from Bath to Phippsburg and small points, and urges improvements like filling low marsh spots with boulders and gravel. He highlights the Convenience Route under construction and hopes for winter completion to aid travelers and residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Independent
Popham
Bath
Phippsburg Center
Small Point
Phippsburg
Parker Head
Spirit Pond
Joe Young
Harpswell
Brunswick
Richmond
Wiscasset
Maine
Blue Kennebec
Herbert J. Kellaway
Boston
Health courses join Bailey Evening School offerings
The School Department and the local American Red Cross branch will run eight health lectures at Bailey Evening School starting Monday Oct 30. Topics include communicable diseases mental health nutrition dental hygiene and safety with Mrs Lillian Fadden offering home nursing and sick care each Monday evening and Mrs Martha Grant presenting first aid classes if enough interest. An interview with Mrs Grant will occur opening night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Red Cross
Bailey
Lillian Fadden
Martha Grant
Red Cross
Grant
Bailey Evening School Offers Courses for Career Preparation
An opportunity to prepare for a business career will be offered at Bailey Evening School during the upcoming school year. Courses include bookkeeping typewriting and shorthand with beginners to advanced levels. Registration for classes is set for Monday evening Oct 30 at Morse High School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bailey
Catherine Huse
Beatrice Jenkins
Seth Snipe
Morse High School
Gertrude Blaisdell
Alice Heald
Alkazin
Richmond Woman on Storm Tossed Ship
Mrs. Sarah E. Champney of Chestnut Street Richmond arrived safely in New York after the President Harding liner was hit by a hurricane en voyage from France and England. With 697 passengers 73 were badly injured. passengers were tossed about as the vessel endured a mountainous sea. Ambulances met the ship at the pier while others returned home. Mrs. Champney is mother of William Sutcliffe, former Bates College Rhodes Scholar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah E. Champney
Chestnut Street
Richmond
New York
United States
President Harding
France
England
Champney
William Sutcliffe
Bates College
Autopsy Expected Thursday in Clark Case
A report is expected Thursday from the autopsy on Frank H. Clark a 14 year old Arrowsic boy found Oct 14 in Back River marsh. County officials said the body was found after an intensive search by National Guardsmen Boy Scouts and volunteers under the sheriff's supervision. Dr Arch H Morrell performed the autopsy removing organs to the State laboratory in Augusta for the report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank H. Clark
Back River
Leo Aldrich
National Guardsmen
Sheriff's Department
Arch H. Morrell
State Laboratory
Augusta
Georgetown Notes on Fowler Family and Local Happenings
Georgetown community news covers the Fowler family's move from Miss Thayer's cottage to Boston and New York plans, visits by Mrs Hill and others, church supper changes to lobster stew, birthdays, and local burials. It notes road work, patient discharges, juror corrections, and an upcoming total lunar eclipse with viewing tips.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bertram B. Fowler
Maud P. Thayer
West Georgetown
Fowlers
Town
Charles Mains
Ferris Leonard
Georgetown
Sharon
Mass
Benjamin H. Riggs
Portland
Robinhood
Colleen Rowe
Bath
Ernest Heal
Heal Home
Charlie McMahan
Beane
Melrose
Heal
Arrowsie
Clark
Edward McNulty
Popham
Eddie
Trafton
Myra Trafton
Gardner Hanson
Cambridge
Howard Trafton
Randolph Trafton
Alfred Rowe
Baker
Arrowsic
Woodside
Wendell Stevens
Harry L. Horne
Harry
Chester
Coast Guard
Algonquin
Curtis May
West Bath Red Cross Tackles Two Quilts
West Bath Red Cross completed work on children's clothing and tacked two quilts at the second regular meeting held Tuesday of last week. A noon meal of vegetable soup doughnuts cheese and coffee was served by a group including Mrs. Harry E. Peterson and others. Members from Ernst Brunswick Woolwich and Bath attended, with numerous local women listed as participants and committee members for upcoming meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath Red Cross
Harry E. Peterson
Elmer D. Hodgkins
Melvin L. Comeau
Charles B Doyle
Fred W. Larrabee
Herbert E. Worrey
Owen E. Rogers
Harold Bb. Wing
Ernst Brunswick
William H. Powers
Herbert S. Cavanaugh
Morten
Baker
Woolwich
West Bath
Lincoln Williams
E. W. Haggett
Walter G Marco
Llewellyn D. Rogers
Bath
Lula P. Herbert
Clifford B Wilband
Charles T. Henderson
Charles B. Doyle
Melvin L Comeau
Annie H. Trufant
Carleton W. Andrews
Harold B. Wing
Herbert Simpson
Dike PTA Plans Public Card Party
After a public luncheon at 1328 Washington street Mrs John E Atwood hosted the Dike PTA business meeting. Members voted to hold a public card party on October 27 at Mrs Atwood's with each member responsible for her table. Reports declared the luncheon a success and the next meeting set for November 7 at an announced location.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John E. Atwood
Washington Street
Dike P. T. A
Contested divorce case heard at Sagadahoc Superior Court
A cross libel divorce arising from Woolwich between Melville G Bradley and Mrs Flora O Hunnewell Bradley is being heard by Justice William H Fisher with custody disputes over two children. The trial also highlights an appealed assault case and a separate school case involving Alfred C Condon, who challenges sending his children to Nequasset school over hazardous highway conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melville G. Bradley
Woolwich
William H. Pisher
Sagadahoc Superior Court
Weston M. Hilton
Damariscotta
Bradley
Inlaw
Alice F. Hunnewell
Justice Fisher
Superior Court
Alfred C. Condon
Mr. Condon
John J. Keegan
Sherwood Aldrich
Condon
Nequasset
Veterans cancel indoor circus planned for this week
Commander Joseph G Kelley of Dyer Flaherty Post VFW announced the indoor circus at the new State Armory was canceled after claims of misused 15 percent receipts and unaccounted funds tied to advance agents. Bangor reports cited $1,200 missing as potential embezzlement. The Post will host a Thanksgiving Eve ball at the Armory, tickets honoring circus receipts, and refunds offered via Harold L Jorliss, 18 Bailey St. Call 1173 M.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph G. Kelley
Dyer-Flaherty Post
New State Armory
Post
Kelley
Bangor
Albert C. Blanchard
Veterans of Foreign Wars
VFW
Blanchard
Bath
Dwyer- Flaherty Post
Harold L. Jorliss
Bailey Street
Junior Hospital League Elects Officers and Plans Dance
Mrs Frank A Given was elected president at Miss Marcia Moulton s home 1019 Middle Street. Mrs Royal A Johnson became vice president and Mrs Harry L Day secretary and treasurer. Mrs Edwin R Andrews named chairman of the work committee with plans for the annual dance and a December 29 date. Mrs James A Gillies Jr to host group November 7 at 507 Washington Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank A. Given
Junior Hospital Leagueing
Marcia Moulton
Middle Street
Royal A Johnson
Harry L. Day
Edwin R. Andrews
James A Gillies, Jr
Washington Street
Five Islands Visitors and Local Fire Incident
Five Islands hosts Francis Bacon family and visitors from Washington and Boston over two weeks. A fire in juniper bushes behind Lincoln Campbell's house was contained by the Five Islands Fire Department as strong winds raged. Local residents and guests frequent cottages, with social gatherings noted at the library and various weekend visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis Bacon
South
Walter Beane
Charles MacMahan
Malden
Mass
D. L. Howard
Myrna Deschaine
Milford
N. H
Ada MacGillivary
Harbor View
Five Islands
Bath
Susan Briggs
Winter Hill
Carl Welling
Woolwich
Percy Savage
Walter E. Reid
New York
A. W. Butler
Lincoln
Orville Rowe
Victor Pinkham
Horace Rittall
Good Neighbor Club
Charlie Bugress
Otis Baker
Norwood
Ralph Davis
Richard Potter
Potter
William McGrath
McGrath
George Laskey
Robinhood
Boston
Fletcher
Georgetown
Library Hall
Theodore Campbell
Joseph Sorensen
Cambridge
Briggs Cottage
Sedgemere Road
Westport Residents Socialize and Seasonal Moves
Westport area residents enjoyed weekend visits and cottage stays at The Cedars The Hideout Harriman Point and Rialto Farm. Several families including Tilton Stevens Knight and Jewett relocations to winter homes were noted along with road improvements at Ferry Hill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Addie Tilton
Belle Tilton
South Portland
Brian M. Jewett
Albertine Knight
Bath
Beatrice Colby
Fred I. Greenleaf
Foxboro
Mass
Ferry Hill
Brian Jewett
Ann Louise
Ralph Jewett
Edith Campbell
Thomas D. Powell
Springfield
Rialto Farm
Violet Colby
Marie
Jed
Wiscasset
New York
R. T. Beaton
Colby
Needlework Guild Exhibition Next Week in Bath
The Bath Needlework Guild holds its annual exhibition and sale Thursday Nov 2 from 3 to 6 at Mrs Arthur Sewall 2d 963 Washington St. Public invited. The charity aids other charities and asks for clothing and bedding donations including union suits, pajamas, shirts, overalls, sweaters, mittens, dresses, stockings, baby items, diapers, quilts, blankets, and blankets. Membership requires two donated articles yearly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sea of the
Dromore Grange Halloween Night Program Staged
Dromore Grange held a neighborhood night Tuesday with two ladies from each of ten ST counties attending. After a business session a literary program was given by visiting officers. Supper followed the meeting as the hall wore Halloween decorations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dromore Grange
Leslie M. Robbins Funeral Details
Leslie M Robbins funeral set for Thursday afternoon at two at his home 36 Pine Street following his death on Monday. Local officials arranged service and final rites, with burial to be at a later date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leslie M. Robbins
Pine Street
Teachers Hear Biology Talk By Dr Alfred Gross
Bath teachers club held its first 1939 40 dinner meeting at Morse High School with Bowdoin College biology professor Dr Alfred Otto Gross presenting an illustrated report on Kent Island expeditions. Over 60 attended as seven new members joined and plans for February's talk by Senator Sumner Sewall were announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Teachers’ Club
West Bath
Morse High School
Alfred Otto Gross
Bowdoin College
Kent Island
J. Edward Pomeroy
Margaret J. Adams
Central Grammar School
Alice N. Magoun
Christine Cummings
Hazel Lowell
Frances Smith
Evelyn Nickerson
Margaret Flaherty
Pomeroy
Sumner Sewall
Teachers’ Club
South End
Gross
Aids to Clothes Buying Discussed at Farm Bureau Meeting
The Farm Bureau held an all day session at Mrs. E. K. Thompson's West Bath home on Aids to Clothes Buying with Miss Mary L. Wright in charge. Dinner featured pot roast and Swedish rye bread as guests included Mrs. Lula P. Herbert and others. Next meeting November 23 at Mrs. William Davis's home will cover Designs In Handicraft. Twin County meeting announced for Oct. 31 in Topsham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farm Bureau
E. K. Thompson
West Bath
Mary L. Wright
William Davis
Ellery E. Whittemore
Loring D. Small
William A. Coombs
Topsham
Granite Street
E. D. Donnell
Walter Marco
Farm Bureau Annual Session Presents 1940 Budget and Reports
The Farm Bureau annual session continues with awards in fabric identification, new business by Mrs Bertha Haskell, an introduction to the 1940 Extension Work program, and presentations by Huber, A Bowie, and Mrs Louise Boothby. A campaign progress report, nominating committee report, and officer elections are included.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bertha Haskell
Huber
A. Bowie
Louise Boothby
L. Everett
Superintendent Parker at Maine Congress of Parents and Teachers meeting
Superintendent John Parker attended a Friday afternoon panel discussion in Augusta on home and community relations at the Maine Congress of Parents and Teachers. Participants included Harrison Lyseth Augusta and Harold Clifford, Boothbay Harbor, with elementary education supervisor Miss Baker and Augusta officials Mrs. Lena Shepard hosting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Parker
Maine Congress of Parents and Teachers
Augusta
Parker
Harrison Lyseth Augusta
Harold Clifford
Boothbay Harber
Miss Baker
Obituary: Sarah Williams of St. Petersburg dies after illness
Word has been received of the death in St Petersburg Florida of Sarah Princess Heacock Williams 30 wife of Capt John Franklin Williams US Army from a short illness following an emergency operation She was the only daughter of Mrs Laura Heacock and the late J and Mrs Adelbert F Williams of Augusta formerly of Phippsburg Center by her mother and one brother King Heacock St Petersburg Capt Williams is well known locally He was a grandson of the late John H Stacey of Popham Beach a Hebron Academy alumnus and West Point graduate News of her sudden death reached friends Oct 13 Funeral services were held Oct 14 in the Palms Memorial Parlors St Petersburg
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Petersburg
Fla
Sarah Princes Heacock Williams
John Franklin Williams
Laura Heacock
Adelbert F.williams
Augusta
Phippsburg Center
King Heacock
St. Petersburg
Williams
John H. Stacey
Popham Beach
Hebron Academy
United States Military Academy
West Point
Capt. Williams
Palms Memorial
Death of Mrs Grace Plummer Cobb Is Reported
Mrs Grace Plummer Cobb died suddenly Monday in Boston. Daughter of the late Benjamin and Martha Plummer of Bath, widow of Palmer Cobb Chapel Hill, she had lived in this city for years and traveled extensively. Surviving are sister Mrs Frederick E Drake of Bath two brothers George Plummer of Upper Montclair New Jersey and William T Plummer Ardmore Pennsylvania and several nephews and nieces. The Christian Science church was a major influence in her life and the funeral was held at 2 pm Wednesday at the home of her brother in Ardmore Pennsylvania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grace Plummer Cobb
Boston
Cobb
Benjamin M. Plummer
Bath
Palmer Cobb
Chapel Hill
N.C
Frederick E. Drake
Drake
George Plummer
Bath shipfitter Leslie M. Robbins dies at 43
Leslie M. Robbins, 43, a leading Bath Iron Works shipfitter who retired last January due to ill health, died suddenly Monday at home in Bath. Born in Bath, he was the son of Frank W. and Nellie Robbins and worked in various shipyards along the Atlantic coast. He resided in Bath most of his life and is survived by four brothers and three sisters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leslie M. Robbins
Bath Iron Works Corp
Pine Street
Bath
Frank W
Nellie (Biggins) Robbins
Atlantic Seaboard
Robbins
George E. McNulty 57 dies at Popham Beach home
George Edward McNulty, 57, died Thursday morning at his Popham Beach home. Born in Bath, he lived in Phippsburg and Popham for 53 years, worked 28 years as a purser on Kennebec steamboats, and previously managed John H. Stacy store before owning it. Survived by wife Marguerite and sisters Sarah Wall of Bath and Annie W. Sharpe of Brooklyn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Edward McNulty
Popham Beach
Bath
Edward
Mary
Baker) McNulty
Phippsburg
Popham
Kennebec
John H. Stacy
McNulty
Mrs Joseph W Higgins dies in Portland at 67
Mrs Joseph W Higgins 67 died at her home 78 Woodmont Portland after a two week illness. Born Harriet Estelle Larrabee Sept 28 1872 she was Brunswick native and Maine Central engineer husband died three years ago. Survived by son Joseph W Higgins Jr two sisters and two brothers. Funeral from residence with burial in Evergreen Portland cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph W. Higgins
Woodmont Street
Portland
Higgins
Harriet Estelle Larrabee
John C. Larrabee
Brunswick
Maine Central Railroad
Maine Street
Washington Street
Bath
Walter H. Larrabee
Fred W. Larrabee
West Bath
Evergreen Cemetery
Funeral services for George E. McNulty held in Popham
The funeral of George E. McNulty of Popham was held Saturday at Curtis Funeral Home. Rev. Joseph O. Purdue officiated with bearers Hiram T. Stevens J Arthur Stevens Everett W. Oliver Howard Spinney Augustus Hodgkins. Burial followed in Oak Cemetery Georgetown. Mrs Julia Fletcher of Portland arrived to visit daughter Mrs Henry T. B. Leeman at Somerset Place.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George E. McNulty
Popham
Curtis Funeral Home
Center Street
Joseph O. Purdue
Hiram T. Stevens
J. Arthur Stevens
Everett W. Oliver
Howard Spinney
Augustus Hodgkins
Oak Cemetery
Georgetown
Julia Fletcher
Portland
Henry T. B. Leeman
Somerset Place
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Popham Road
Bailey Evening School
Dike P-T-Ad Meeting
Woolwich School
Westport
Needlework Guild
Arthur Sewall
Biology
A. 0. Gross
West Bath Farm Bureau
John H. Bryant
Humphrey A. Owen
Joanna M. Hodgkins
Daniel O. Blaisdell
Charles E. Ripley
E. W Haggett
Harris T. Rodick
Leon Dennett
E. Maud Smith
Lena Shepard
High Street
John F. Williams
St. Petersburg, Florida
Mrs
Grace Cobb
Bath Iron Works
Dness
G. E. McNulty
We Council
Fred S. Curtis & CO
Thomas R. Huston