Richmond Miss Flora Wheeler Weds Pfc Willis Stone
Miss Flora Wheeler daughter of Mr and Mrs Ralph Keeler Richmond and Pfc Willis LeRoy Stone son of Mr and Mrs Irving Stone Lisbon Falls were married September 13 at 7 pm at United Baptist Church. Rev Jesse J Starr presided in a double ring ceremony with bridal party and reception at the couple's home after.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flora . Wheeler
Ralph Keeler
North Pleasant Street
Willis LeRoy Stone
Irving Stone
Lisbon Falls
United Baptist Church
Jesse J. Starr
Paul Roberts
Iph Wheeler
Astors
Beulah Small
Florence
Dorothy Wheeler
Phyllis Humphury
Olin MacKinnon
Charles Welner
Topsham
Rodney Little
Richmond
Carole Hurley
Shirley Humphury
Stone
Richmond High School
Webster
United States Army
Fort Belvoir
John Thower
Local residents share visits and plans across states
Mr and Mrs Percy Chetley return from Chicago after a week with son Lloyd and family. Grandson Warren attends electronic technician school at Co Lakes Naval Training Station. Mrs Elaine Hughes and daughter Joanne visit relatives in Massachusetts after staying with sister Mrs Frank Preble. Miss Pauline Hutchinson begins nursing training in Portland Maine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
New Bedford
Mass
Howard Farwell
Pauline Hutchinson
Richmond High School
Maine General Hospital School of Nursing
Portland
Melvin Hutchinson
Newtown
Whitney
Salem
Fred Stilphen
Seth Ridlon
Edward Hall
Yarmouth
Russell E. Ring
Boston University
Carleton B. Ring
Ontario Veterinary College
Ring
Quelph
Ontario
Bay Point Sea Beats Shore as Traps Go Missing
Bay Point residents report an eight foot sea along the coast with towering breakers between Bay Point and Gilbert Head. Fishermen lost many traps during the rough spell delaying their work. profits from summer gear are gone as they search for remaining traps.
Fall PTA meeting and local notices in Georgetown
The first Fall PTA meeting was held at Central School with refreshments by Mrs. Stanley Lewis, Mrs. Eleanor Thibodeau, and Mrs. Roy Clark. A dinner at the Anchorage honored upcoming birthdays and departures for college. Engagement announced for Miss Margaret Lothrop and Dr Willard Dalrymple, with both families noted. Dr. Dalrymple remains in medicine after Harvard training. Numerous local updates include post office changes, marriages, retirements, and residents traveling or visiting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P.T.A
Central School
Stanley Lewis
Eleanor Thibodeau
Roy Clark
Anchorage
Stuart and
Allen Carlisle
Betty Carlisle
Mary Wren
Betty Ann Carlisle
Lesley College
Cambridge
Mass
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore
Penn
Mac-Mahan
Robinhood
Peterson
Thestmaster
Philip Eaton
Oliver Amey Lothrop
Waban
Margaret Lothrop
Willard Dalrymple
Sidney Collingwood Dalrymple
Brookline
Lothrop
Beaver Country Day School
Bradford Junior College
Garland School
Boston School of Occupational Therapy
Children’s Medical Center
Dalrymple
Phillips Exeter Academy
Harvard
Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts General Hospital
Hill Top
Joan Wilson
Bungunue
Portland
Frederick B. Laskey
Bath
Valley Road
Everett Haines
M. And.m. Company
Ace P
Jack Hallstein
E. A. Junnila
Georgia Randall
W. Clinton Allen
MacMahan
Rye
N. Y
Laura Boyd
Boston
Dorothy W. Stuart
Georgetown
James Hulbert
Lillian Hulbert
Anna
Fayetteville
Ark
George Floyd
Nora Hanna
Roy M. Newman
Downes
Providence
Lillian Wheeler
Marion Clark
Sharon
Clarence B. Hill
Hill
George Kahrl
Kennebec Point
Elmira
Ferris Leonard
Everett Leonard
Ferris
Grace Fullerton
Arnold Corey
Bridgewater
Lawrence Parker
Dorothy Stuart
Parker
Frank Boyd
Roland Peterson
Judson Cross
Syracuse
Robert Graffam
New Jersey
Connecticut
Louise Searle
Mac
Edwin Hussa
Rose McClafferty
Summer social notes round Georgetown area families
West Georgetown residents and guests are cited in a long list of social visits and relocations. Notables include Miss Ruth Patterson becoming academic dean at Highland Manor School in West Long Branch, and Mrs Alice McDonald taking over the Patterson home. Other postings reference travel to Bath, Kennebec Point, and Philadelphia, with several dinners hosted by local families and several trips by car and plane to ends of Maine and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ter
Carol Farron
Ethel B. Patterson
Ruth Patterson
West Georgetown
Mrs and Mr Root Return From Vacation to Auburn
Mr and Mrs Ilenry G Root return to their Auburn home after a vacation with Mr Root’s parents Mr and Mrs Percy Root of Jackson Ss TS Root, former Claire Martin daughter of Mr and Mrs Edwin A Hemingway of Woolwich begins fall classes Saturday at Claire’s School of the Dance Lisbon Falls Mrs Root joined the architectural office of Alonzo Harriman in Auburn
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ilenry G. Root
Auburn
Mr. Root
Percy Root Ofackson
TS. Root
Claire Martin
Edwin A. Hemingway
Woolwich
Claire
School of the Dance
Lisbon Falls
Root
Alonzo Harriman
Fall PTA Meeting and Community Notes at Central School
Five Islands residents attended the first Fall PTA at Central School. Sympathy to Capt William Plummer and wife on the drowning death of their son Frank in the Kennebec River near Bath. Local church and library activities fill the week with meetings, speakers, and plans for a youth supper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central School
William Plummer
Frank
Kennebec River
Bath
Kennebec
Carleton Bridge
Five Islands
Bowdoinham Association
Library Hall
Good Neighbor Club
Vernon Gray
Victor Pinkham
Beulah Miller
Franz Stevens
Georgetown
Gilbert Lewis
Library
Henry Strube
Laconia
N. H
Columbia
South America
Rev
Strube
Colombia
Beulah Miller dies at Georgetown parsonage
Mrs Beulah Miller passed Monday at the Georgetown parsonage. Mrs Thomas Watson and her son Tommy plan to leave Thursday for Quincy Massachusetts to visit her mother Mrs Bina Marr at the home of her sister Mrs Kenneth Dell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beulah Miller
Georgetown
Thomas Watson
Tommy
Quincy
Mass
Bina Marr
Kenneth Dell
Many Towns Seek New Schoolhouses in Maine Area
The region faces widespread school facility shortages as enrollments rise. Georgetown built a new district school, Woolwich without one, Boothbay Region votes on a $390,000 bond for a new school, and Wiscasset rejected seven bids totaling $116,400 to $130,000, prompting plan cuts to fit budget.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
United States
Woolwich
Georgetown
Boothbay
Wiscasset
Missing Bath Man Found in Lancaster New Hampshire
An 80 year old Bathman Guy Flanders who vanished in Portland at 2 p.m. Thursday was found in Lancaster New Hampshire sitting on a bank steps awaiting opening to withdraw funds. Police said he had been taken from the porch of a Federal street home by his son and daughter in law to seek a health checkup in Portland. He registered at a Portland hotel but did not occupy the room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guy Flanders
Portland
Lancaster
N. H
Flanders
Federal Street
Joseph Flanders
South Street
Dresden P T A Meets at Mrs Souviney Home
Dresden P T A held a meeting at Mrs. Leslie Souviney’s residence with Mrs. John Firey presiding. Reports noted Christmas card samples and an Oct 4 Child Health clinic at the Methodist vestry. Next meeting Sept 26 covered forming a Health Council with Mrs. Hawkins directing public health nurses in district No 3.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leslie Souviney
John Firey
Harland McCobb
Methodist Vestry
Hawkins
Ray Perry
Edward Good
George Allen
Farm Bureau
Rockland
Burton Boyington
R. N
West Dresden
California
Bennett
Herbert Toms
South Dresden
Connecticut
Elizabeth Sterrill
Carrie Cornell
James McCoy
Cedar Grove
James Cameron
Andred Dewitt
Richmond
Maurice Hall
Burton Boynton
Forest lands managed by U S Bureau of Land Management
The U S Bureau of Land Management administers 125 000 000 acres of forested public land. The agency oversees vast tracts across multiple states, balancing recreation, conservation, and resource use with federal oversight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of Land Management
Drowning of Frank L. Plummer After Bath River Incident
Dragging operations continued for Frank L. Plummer 46 after he fell overboard from a Bath skiff on the Kennebec river. Floyd Smith, 38, attempted rescue but sank. Paul Thomas 40 was the third occupant. Plummer, father of six, disappeared a half mile above Carlton bridge near Bath. Survivors include wife Grace Boyce Plummer and children Joseph 17 Albert 14 Bernard 12 Frank Jr 8 Alice 15 Frances 10. The body was sought by U S Coast Guard, sheriff's department, Bath police and volunteers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennebec River
Frank L. Plummer
U. S. Coast Guard
Sheriff's Department
Bath Police Department
Plummer
Floyd Smith
Paul Thomas
Bath
Carlton Bridge
Harry H. Watson
Front Street
Smith
Grace Boyce Plummer
Joseph
Albert
Bernard
Frank, Jr
Alice
Frances
Milan Street
William F. Plummer
Bernard L
Helen C. Huskins
John McGrath Dies in Boston. Bath Native Was Local Barber
Word has been received of the death in Boston on September 13 of John McGrath a Bath native and longtime barber in Bath and Boston. He worked with Melvin Haggett in Bath and later served as the Colonial club’s first custodian and barber before returning to Boston to operate a shop. He is survived by his wife Mary McGrath a son John and daughter Anna, plus nieces and nephews. A committal service will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. in Calvary Cemetery Bath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
John McGrath
Bath
McGrath
Melvin A. Haggett
Front Street
Colonial Club
Young’s Hotel
Mary McGrath
Dorchester
Mass
John
Plattsburg, N. Y
Anna McGrath
New York City
Calvary Cemetery
High Street
Mrs Alice M Crafts Dies After Long Ill Health
Mrs Alice M Crafts 65 wife of Frederick B Crafts of 37 Court Street died Sunday at Memorial hospital after a long illness. Born Bath April 17 1885 she was daughter of Charles and Catherine Alley Colby. She belonged to Wesley Methodist church Nina Rebecca lodge Lisbon Falls and Lisbon Falls grange. Surviving are her husband a daughter Mrs Alice F Bennett Bath two sisters Mrs Lillian Gelin Boston and Mrs Clara Coombs Lisbon Falls and three grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice M. Crafts
Frederick B. Crafts
Court Street
Memorial Hospital
Brunswick resident Burleigh E. Danforth dies at 61
Burleigh E Danforth 61 of Brunswick died Sept 13 at his Cook's Corner home after a short illness. Born Sept 16 1889 in Perkins son of Emery and Lydia Danforth he married Maude Taylor in 1911 and moved to Bath in 1919. He owned a Cook's Corner lunchroom for 30 years and was a member of Morning Star lodge F and A M. Survived by wife two sons Carl E and Burleigh D Danforth of Brunswick, brother Lester of Farmingdale sister Hattie Dearborn Monmouth and uncle Fred Danforth Litchfield. Funeral from Law's Brunswick Saturday at 2 with interment in Litchfield Plains cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burleigh E. Danforth
Brunswick
Cook's Corner
Mr. Danforth
Perkins
Emery
Lydia Cromwel Danforth
Litchfield
Maude Taylor
Bath
Morning Star Lodge
Carl E
Burleigh D. Danforth
Lester Danforth
Farmingdale
Hattie Dearborn
Monmouth
Fred Danforth
Law’s
Litchfield Plains Cemetery
Dr Charles E Helah Dead at 85 in Wakefield Home
Dr Charles E Helah 85 died suddenly at his home 113 North Street this noon after returning from his Summer home New Harbor Thursday. A retired dentist he lived here 30 years and recently received a 60 year pin from Columbia lodge Odd Fellows Stoneham Mass. Born Farmingdale November 4 1864 he was a son of William and Hannah McGoon Helah. He practiced dentistry in Wakefield Stoneham and Reading Mass. He had no surviving relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles E. Helah
North Street
New Harbor
Helah
Columbia Lodge of Odd Fellows
Stoneham
Mass
Farmingdale
William and
Hannah McGoon Helah
Wakefield
Reading
Theophile P. Robichaud, 72, West Bath Man Dies
Theophile P Robichaud died Sunday night at St Marys hospital Lewiston. He was 72 born December 13 1877 in Rosebank New Brunswick. He worked for Bath Box Co and was a St Marys church member. Survived by wife Bridget three sons Prine New York Harry West Bath Theophile Jr West Bath a daughter Adell Mansfield New London Conn a brother Joseph West Bath and a sister Mrs Margaret Smith Tarrytown New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theophile P. Robichaud
West Bath
St. Mary’s Hospital
Lewiston
Bath Box Co
St. Mary’s Church
Rosebank
N. B
Bridget
Prine
New York
Harry
Theophile, Jr
Adell Mansfield
New London
Conn
Joseph
Margaret Smith
Tarrytown
N. Y
Funeral services for Dr Charles C Helah
Funeral services were held Monday at 2 pm at Arthur F Mayo & Son Funeral home officiated by Rev Laforest E Hodgkins. Bearers from Lincoln Lodge I O C F included Harold Carter Lawrence Lord Harrison Rodick Ivan Bates Walter Norton and James Knights. Burial followed in Oak Grove cemetery Gardiner family lot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles C. Helah
Arthur F. Mayo & Son
Laforest E. Hodgkins
Lincoln Lodge
I.0.c.f
Harold Carter
Lawrence Lord
Harrison Rodick
Ivan Bates
Walter Norton
James Knights
Oak Grove Cemetery
Gardiner
Funeral services for Robert L Baldwin held Thursday
Funeral services for Robert L Baldwin were held Thursday afternoon at two from Mayo Funeral Home with Rev. Dr. David L Wilson officiating. Bearers were Kenneth Bailey Harold Tasker Lloyd Cunningham and Malcolm Hasson. Interment followed in Riverside Cemetery Woolwich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert L. Baldwin
Mayo Funeral Home
David L. Wilson
Kenneth Bailey
Harold Tasker
Lloyd Cunningham
Malcolm Hasson
Riverside Cemetery
Woolwich
Funeral for Miss Charlotte B. Stinson
Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon September 13 at Curtis Funeral Home in Day's Ferry. Rev. Dr. David L. Wilson officiated. Burial followed in the family lot at Riverside Cemetery Day's Ferry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlotte B. Stinson
Curtis Funeral Home
Washington Street
David L. Wilson
Riverside Cemetery
Day's Ferry
Attorney Sherwood Aldrich Visits Bath on Tuesday
Brunswick attorney Sherwood Aldrich arrived in Bath as a business visitor Tuesday, meeting local officials and discussing regional legal matters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherwood Aldrich
Brunswick
Bath
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Russell A. Ring
Manchester
N.H
Dionne
Marion Young
Hazen Aucoin
Wallace Gardner
Spruce Street
Kenneth Rodrigue
Romeo Bellarance
Camp Lejeune
N. C
Howard Wilson
Kimball Street
Belmont
Lillian A. Johnson
Ralph Hodges
East Orange
Bay Point
Gilbert Head
Johnnie Hamilton
Andrew Butterfield
Thomas Hagan
William Adams
L. W. Dietrich
Edna M. Coolidge
L. M. Spinney
William White
Dedham
Abbis
Lower Newton Falls
Sturgis Leavitt
North Carolina
Frederick Moffatt
Bath Memorial Hospital
Louisa Howard
Dwight Furbish
A. P. Denham, Jr
Bath, Maine
Corliss Street
Alice McDonald
Georgetown Central School
Patterson
J. H. Brown
Roscoe P. Todd
Melrose Highlands
Robert Waller
Eugenia Bradshaw
Newton
Bert M. P. Leefman
Shanks Village
Orangeburg
Ralph E. Carlisle, Jr
Allen and Stuart
Betty Lou
Winchester
Clarina Michelson
Thomaston
Seguinland
Tidewater Oil Co
Philadelphia
Roy M. Newmen
Clara Fawcett
Harry Stone
William Todd
George Blackwell
Harpswell
William Brown
MacMahon
Andover
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Guy Forbush
Mr. Brown
Jeneke LeMair
Moore Institute of Art
Charles MacMahan
Malden
Beane
Daniel Bliss
Howard
Molly
Greenwich
Culch Reef
Miss Bliss
Near East
R. E. Carlisle, Jr
Blisses
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Edward C. Clarey
Mr. Clarke
Farrow
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Hagan
Robinhood Cove
Hillsboro
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Morse High School
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Chalet
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Strang
Washington, D. C
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Clifford
Gaieve
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Marr
Rose Wilkins
Livermore Falls
William Tinkham
Medford
Nat Bond
C.P.O
Athens
Jones's Inn
Nova Scotia
Marion Ainley
Wiley
Ainley Cottage
John Blackie
Percy Wilkins
William Plummer, Jr
Howard Bason
Wilkins
Sedgemere Road
Waltham
Everett Hennen
Watertown
Charles Kenney
Walter Reid
Alton Reid
Cutts
Kittery
Harold Rowe
Woodrow Gray
Nashua
Boothbay Region
Dresden
Marius H. Page
Fred S. Curtis & CO
Funeral Service
Burleigh
E. Danforth
Cook’s Corner
DR. Helah
Robert Baldwin
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