Picnic sites improve Maine highways with shelters and amenities
The state lists well sited picnic areas along Maine roads featuring shelters, tables, rock fireplaces, a spring, cleaned toilets, waste containers, and parking for about a dozen cars. Users are urged to keep sites clean, as some visitors leave rubbish despite the conveniences. Sebasco in Phippsburg grows popular, with N A Cushman planning a new playhouse to enhance summer visits.
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Maine
Phippsburg
Casco Bay
Sebasco
New England
N. A Cushman
Stop signs need clearer sightlines at intersections
A Bath motorist proposes that Stop signs lose value when vision is blocked by bushes or trees on private lots at street corners. He suggests the city arrange with owners to remove or trim vegetation to improve sightlines and reduce accidents.
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Bath
Veterans to hold joint reunion at Gettysburg next summer
The Boys in Blue at the national encampment in Madison Wisconsin voted to meet Confederate veterans in Gettysburg next summer. The resolution allows only the Stars and Stripes to be displayed at the gathering, a friendly gesture by the G A R.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Gettysburg
Parking congestion around Maine Central square prompts street clearance
Residents complain that cars park on both sides of Water street and Depot street from Vine street to Maine Central square, nearly blocking passage to the railroad station. The Maine Central allows property to be used for parking, so proposals urge Water street and Depot street be kept free of cars at all times.
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Vine Street
Maine Central Square
Maine Central
Water Street
Depot Street
Maine Farmers Work Now Schedules For Winter Prep
Maine farmers will be busy harvesting and preparing for winter, delaying interest in politics or legislation. Legislators hope to avoid a special session until fall work is largely completed.
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Maine
Maine Air Conditioning Fashions September Mornings
A nostalgic note extols Maine as ideal for air conditioning and fresh air all year. The piece favors September mornings to enjoy Maine’s clear air and seasonal comfort for residents and visitors alike.
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Maine
School Reopenings Prompt Caution for Drivers
City schools resume sessions as motorists are urged to drive slowly near campuses. Students may be in streets and dart into traffic while returning to classes or playing near buildings. Rural roads display “Drive Slowly School” signs, and drivers should heed them even without visible children.
Rain Ends Forest Fire Hazard and Replenishes Water Sources
Heavy rainfall has mitigated fire risk across the state and revived grass and foliage. The wet spell brightened pastures, benefited crops late in the season, and refilled springs, brooks, wells, and cisterns, though farmers still haul water for families and cattle.
Former Bath Boxer Arrested in Boston on Kidnap Charge
Maurice Andre also known as Maurice Larios, 27, once a Bath boxer nicknamed Butcher Boy Frenchy, was arrested in Boston and held for Olympia Wash. on a kidnapping warrant tied to a taxi driver assault during a 1936 strike. He formerly lived in Hoquiam and Bath, with a history of forged checks and boxing bouts here and in Portland.
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Maurice Andre
Maurice Larios
Bath
Frenchy
Honolulu
Boston
Olympia
Wash
Andre
Pacific Coast
William A. Belzarine
Boston Police
CIO
Rowe's Wharf
Belzarine
Union Hall
Washington
Hoquaim
Deer Island
Scollay Square
Andre, Alias
Larios
San Francisco
Sam Prawer
Farmer” Brown
Farmer
Billy Caron
Portland
Hoqiuaim
Ralph E. Legard
Legard
University of Maine Scholar Returns From Summer Abroad
Dr. E. Faye Wilson associate pro at the University of Maine has returned to her apartment on Maine street Orono after a summer abroad. She left June 10 for Montreal and sailed June 11 on the Duchess of Richmond to London. While away she conducted research in medieval history and visited Paris Belgium and Italy.
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E. Faye Wilson
University of Maine
Maine Street
Orono
Montreal
Duchess of Richmond
London
Paris
Belgium
Italy
Planning Boards Recognized for New England Regional Plan
The New England Regional Planning Commission released the Preliminary New England Regional Plan after three years of study. Victor M. Cutter said the plan guides local and state boards, emphasizing coordinated highways, parks, airways, flood control, and water resources to save public funds and boost regional development.
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New England
New
Giraffes Vocalize When Separated From Mothers
A Kenya game warden reports a young giraffe separated from its mother vocalizes like a hungry calf, challenging the notion that giraffes are voiceless. The creature is noted as the world's tallest mammal with a tough hide and a long tongue suited to feeding amid thorny acacias.
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Kenya
Montreal Herald
Rouse Property Sold to Mrs Vamvakias
Mrs Katina Vamvakias a dress maker of 59 Vine Street buys the Rouse property at 20 to 26 Front Street opposite the federal building. Sale arranged by Fred H Thompson. New owner will move dressmaking into Arthur Gilley’s former space and the barber will relocate upstairs. Other Thompson agency deals include three West Side dwellings and several Andrews Road transfers.
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Katina Vamvakias
Vine Street
Rouse
Front Street
Federal Building
William J. Rouse
Winslow Rouse
Roxbury
Mass
Viamvakias
Fred H. Thompson
Arthur Gilley
Barber
Mr. Thompson
West Side
Andrews Road
Hyde Windhill Co
Paul
Dorothy Boudreau
M.de Zoome
William Potter
Hide Windlass Co
Francis J. Eastman
Eastman
Dromore Grangers Gather For Tuesday Meeting
Dromore Orange held its regular meeting Tuesday night with 22 present including two visitors. One member was reinstated bringing year to date reinstatements to 12. The program included songs readings poems medleys a bean bag contest won by Mrs. Perkins' team and refreshments for the losers at the next meeting.
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Dromore Orange
Edna Carter Rolieall
Minnie Woodman
Hubert McCarty
Grace Kenney
Joe
Alfreda Perkins
Marion Rafnell
Chester Kingsley Retires After 30 Years with Maine State
Chester S Kingsley director of the State branch laboratory in Caribou and longtime health officer for Aroostook County has completed a 30 year career with the State of Maine. A Bowdoin graduate class of 1907 his work included milk inspection and infantile paralysis response, with duties at Cary Memorial Hospital and training for student nurses.
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Chester S. Kingsley
Caribou
Aroostook
Bath
Maine
Augusta
Kingsley
Cony High School
Bowdoin College
William 8. Linnell
J. B. Drummond
E. E. Holt
Patton J. Redman
Portland
Thomas FE. Hackett
Fort Fairfield
C. F. Thomas
Calibou
Robert A. Cony
Frank L. Bass
Bangor
Bowdoin
State Board of Health
U. S. Public Health Service
Cary Memorial Hospital
Ethel M. Smiley
Cony High
Virginia
Colby College
James E. Kingsley
Maine in Autumn booklet issued by Maine Development Commission
The Maine Development Commission distributes a new booklet titled Maine in Autumn. It highlights autumn vacations with leaf color, favorable weather, and activities like mountain climbing, horseback riding, hunting, fishing, touring, canoeing, and yachting. Front and back color plates depict Maine autumn scenery and maple foliage.
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Maine
Maine Development Commission
Nature
Klir Beck
New England Potato Crop Totals Near Sixty Million Bushels
New England potato crop is estimated at 59,904,000 bushels based on September 1 conditions, compared with 60,942,000 expected last month. Maine's outlook is 59,225,000 bushels, about four percent below prior forecasts but roughly 12 percent above 1936 and the five year average. The state and regional figures show a nine percent rise over 1936 harvest statewide and a three percent dip from last month’s New England projection.
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New England
Maine
South End P T A to Resume Fall Meetings
South End P T A announces its regular meetings will resume in fall. The first meeting is Tuesday Oct. 5 at the Washington Street schoolhouse with committees to be named. A subsequent all day gathering is set for Thursday Sept. 23 at Mrs. J. Albert Redlon’s Lemont Street home. Members to bring lunches.
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South End
Washington Street
Alfred E. Carpenter
Perley FE
Dunbar
J. Albert Redlon
Lemont Street
Farewell Party for Mrs Mank Before New York Move
Mrs Henry Mank nee Stella Jewett bid farewell Tuesday at Miss Hazel Cooke’s Willow street home before departing with daughter Judith for New York City to join her husband Mr Mank after summer with her parents Mr and Mrs Erastus Jewett Winslow street. Guests included Miss Alice Mulligan Virginia Wright Vanona McDonald Eleanor Mullaney Alice Davis Mrs Herbert Pierce Mrs Ronald Smith Barbara Fisher Barbara Grout from Syracuse NY Phyllis Chaney and others amid cards and refreshments.
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Henry Mank
Stella Jewett
Hazel Cooke
Willow Street
Alice Mulligan
Virginia Wright
Vanona McDonald
Eleanor Mullaney
Alice Davis
Herbert Pierce
Ronald Smith
Barbara Fisher
Guest
Barbara Grout
Syracuse
N. Y
Phyllis Chaney
Weekly Crossword Puzzle 8 A Classifier Chatter of Objects
Puzzle text lists clues and partial grid fragments across many numbered entries. The readable clues include 8 A 16 Chatter of objects 23 Flock names 24 A weapon 28 Fail to win the officer 30 Japanese 15 A small measure of piece of length rock 1 False Bashan 6 Disembark 20 With 10 A type of prefix community 21 To install drama again 11 Spawn of 25 AS school of fishes whales 12 Eager 26 Female 13 A nebulous sheep mass sur- 27 A dye of surrounding the East Indian nucleus of shrub a comet 29 Mimiced Plait 14 A metal 30 Within per 15 Sip 31 Feminine ae 17 Male humans pronoun TOM el R beings Half wild 18 Seller of horses fells oysters 19 King of pite Wax DOWN 1 A petty 4 Diminutive quarrel of Margaret OQ 2 Biography 5 Follow of saints 7 Agreeable 3 Anguish fragrance Answer to previous puzzle
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School of
Margaret
Dromore Farm Bureau Drops Annual Fair Plan
The Dromore Farm Bureau voted Wednesday to omit this year’s annual fair after four years running. The 15 attendees discussed future events including a planned October program in Topsham and the Twin County membership drive. Aletha Campbell chaired the meeting with Hortense Welch leading a home demonstration on Clothing at Home.
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Dromore Farm Bureau
Winnegance
Hortense Welch
Lewiston
Eveline Beals
Annie Deering
Elizabeth Hampton
Bess Manson
Abbie Minott
Esther McCourt
Twin County
Sagadahoc County
Topsham
Aletha Campbell
Queen Esther Lodge Elects Second Nominees For Officers
Queen Esther Rebekah lodge held its second officer nominations Tuesday at Odd Fellows hall. Nominees named include Pearl Reed as noble grand, Rose Jean as vice grand, Lena C. Shepard as secretary, and Ella Atwood as treasurer with ballots cast. Installation set for Oct 5 with Richmond officers. Sept 21 consolidation with Wiscasset lodge noted.
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Queen Esther Rebekah Lodge
Odd Fellows Hall
Ella Wright
Pearl Reed
Noble Grand
Rose Jean
Lena C. Shepard
Ella Atwood
Richmond
Wiscasset Lodge
Queen Esther
Queen Esther Lodge
Farm Bureau Records Arthur L Deering Maine oldest member
Arthur L. Deering director of the University of Maine Extension Service reports twenty years of consecutive Farm Bureau membership and says his record may be the longest in Maine though a few others may match it.
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Farm Bureau
Maine
Licenses Issued For Maine Containers Use
Maine licenses for users and manufacturers of containers bearing the state trade mark will be printed and distributed to successful applicants. Agriculture marketing chief Charles M White said applications come in fast mainly from the potato industry with some from apples. Licenses carry strict rules and violators lose permits as part of a campaign by the Development Commission and state departments to boost Maine products.
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Maine
Charles M. White
Department of Agriculture
Apple
The
Development Commission
Judge Glidden Delivers Special Probate Session
Judge Walter S. Glidden presided a special session of Kennebec county probate court in Augusta for a guardian petition involving a Gar diner businessman. Joseph L. Ouellette of Biddeford-Saco is said to own a Waltham hunter case watch, among the oldest of its type, carried by a family member for about 75 years and cleaned five times in 72 years, with a three link chain included.
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Walter S. Glidden
Augusta
Kennebec County
Harold E. Cooke
Gardiner
Joseph L. Ouellette
Biddeford
Biddeford-Saco
Scout Officials Meet in Bangor Luncheon Discusses Council Policies
Eleven Katahdin Council officials hosted Donald W. Moyer of Boston Scout Executive Region 1 at a Tarratine club luncheon in Bangor. Moyer succeeds Ralph Nadine as Regional Executive, Nadine moving to the Chicago district. Moyer previously led Robert Treat Council in Newark. Carl P. Lowe, Bangor House night clerk since 1932, leaves for W S Schrafft Co advertising in New England.
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Katahdin Council
Boy Scouts of America
Donald W. Moyer
Boston
Region 1
Tarratine Club
Bangor
Mr. Moyer
Ralph Nadine
Nadine
Chicago
Robert Treat Council
Newark
N. J
Carl_P.Lowe
Bangor House
W. S. Schrafft & Co
New England
Maine
Maine Elks Plan 1000 Dollar Annual Scholarships
The Maine State Elks Association outlined a plan to offer 1000 dollars annually in college scholarships to Maine high school seniors. Three scholarships of 500 300 and 200 dollars would be awarded after competitive exams at one of four Maine colleges. The initiative, supported by national and state leaders, aims to memorialize Elkdom in Maine.
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Maine State Elks Association
Maine
John P. Carey, Jr
Maine West
State Association
Lewiston
Bath
Elkdom
Carey
Edward J. McMann
H. Joseph Madden
Joseph Breault
Albert McMann
Leon Genthner
Jay Povich
Edward N. Hartnett
Spindle City
Bath Attorney Weds Cohasset Native in Nova Scotia Honeymoon
Harold J. Rubin and Dorothy Muriel Golden Rubin married last Wednesday in Cohasset Mass and are on a wedding trip to Nova Scotia. Both lawyers, graduates of Boston University Law School, Rubin plans to reopen his Bath office in Bank Block on September 20 after finishing exams and prior studies at University of Alabama.
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Harold J. Rubin
Cohasset
Mass
Nova Scotia
Bath
Jacob Rubin
Bank Block
Maine
University of Alabama
Rubin
Couple Celebrates 63rd Wedding Anniversary in Topsham
Mr and Mrs Joseph Coulombe of Prospect Street Topsham observed their 63rd wedding anniversary with a family party last Saturday evening. Attendees included Mr and Mrs Alfred Barville and son Patrick of East Jeffry NH Mr and Mrs Elzear Belanger Mr and Mrs Joseph Pagurko of Pejopscot Mrs John MacDougall of Boston Mass Mr and Mrs John Lowe and daughter Frances and son Oliver.
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Joseph Coulombe
Prospect Street
Topsham
Alfred Barville
Patrick
East Jeffry
N. H
Elzear Belanger
Joseph Pagurko
Pejopscot
John MacDougal
Boston
Mass
John Lowe
Francis
Oliver
Bangor High School Class of 1901 Reunion at Conduskeag
The class of 1901 held its annual reunion Wednesday at the Conduskeag Canoe and Country Club. About 50 members started the class, and after 36 years more than half attended, the only class sustaining regular reunions.
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Bangor High School
Conduskeag Canoe and Country Club
Kindergarten Opening In City October 4
Mrs. Charles E. Miller and Miss Arik will open a kindergarten for aged three to five on October 4 at 1037 High Street. Sessions run nine to 11 30 mornings five days weekly with lunch served. Transportation available. Both organizers hold strong qualifications for early education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles E. Miller
Arik
David S. Cogan
High Street
Miller
Miss Arik
Catherine McMorrow
Dorchester
Boston Teachers’ College
Boston Public Schools
Stephens High School
Rumford
Stephens High
Julia Murphy
Auburn
Co-Workers Class Picnic Supper at First Baptist
The Co-Workers class of First Baptist Church gathered Friday afternoon at Mrs. Willis B. Hall’s home for a picnic supper and a regular business meeting. Twelve members attended as Mrs. Edwy A. Sotheard presided and Miss Evelyn W. Sotheard served as secretary. Irma D. Groves led a games program after the meeting, with planning for October 8 duties assigned to a committee led by Mrs. Clifford F. Harrington and including Mrs. Willis B. Hall, Lila Place, Zadoc F. Brown. Refreshments were provided by Mrs. Cedric A. Martin and Mrs. Ralph E. Legard.
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First Baptist Church
Willis B. Hall
Corliss Street
Edwy A. Sotheard
Evelyn W. Sotheard
Irma D. Groves
Clifford F. Harrington
Lila Place
Zadoc F. Brown
Miss Sotheard
Frederick Gundel
Cedric A. Martin
Ralph E. Legard
Hobby horses center of speech at Augusta Kiwanis meeting
Merton G. L. Bailey of Vickery and Hill Publishing spoke to the Augusta Kiwanis club on the care and feeding of hobby horses. He chairs the First Annual Augusta Hobby Horse Show to be held October 22 at City Hall under the Augusta Tuberculosis Prevention Society auspices. He defined a hobby as an outside activity pursued with effort but not required by daily life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merton G. L. Bailey
Vickery & Hill Publishing Co
Augusta Kiwanis Club
Bailey
Augusta
Topsham Grange elects new assistants to fill vacancies
Mattie Collins and Alton Collins became lady assistant steward and assistant steward respectively Saturday night at the Topsham Grange meeting to fill the vacancies caused by the resignations of Elizabeth Alexander and William Wilson. The charter was draped and a short memorial service was held for William Tate, who died this Summer.
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Mattie Collins
Alton Collins
Topsham Grange
Elizabeth Alexander
William Wilson
William Tate
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Bath, Maine
B. Nichols
Trea
Barry G. Webber
Planning Board
Dromore Grangers
Chester Kingsley
South End P.T.A
Fiz
Leo
Innegance
Glidden
Dorothy Muriel Golden
Cohasset, Mass
Charles Miller
Mary Arik
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