Looking Back
10 years ago: Twenty-two members of the Bethel Senior Citizens Club enjoyed a trip to Augusta. Sherri Cordwell of Gilead was the winner of the Mollyockett Medallion Treasure Hunt.
Deaths: Robert S. Crane, Sr., Peter R. Hooper, Rev. Robert H. Plummer.
20 years ago: Friends and relatives gathered in Bethel to help Ersel Murphy celebrate her 98th birthday. A dedication ceremony was held at the new Hanover boat landing facility.
Births: Josie Adana Forbes, Joseph H. Sicotte.
Deaths: Ola M. Miele, Clara A. Roberts, Scott L. Sampson.
30 years ago: For the second year in a row, gypsy moth caterpillars were defoliating several acres in Gilead. With the construction of the Lombard Baseball Diamond, baseball was returning to Gould after a 10-year absence; Charlie Newell was coach.
Births: Isaac James Burnham, Thomas Dellison Conroy.
Deaths: Gertrude M. Barker, Reta B. Meserve.
40 years ago: The Summer Synchronized Swimming Class at Bethel Inn held its first performance on Mollyockett Day. The Town Highway crew installed “stop” signs at several intersections in Bethel Village.
Births: Lawrence Joseph Ward, Jr., Rebecca Lyn Gorman, Dyani Leonora Dunham-Conway.
Deaths: Mrs. Ethel Clark, Herbert P. (Red) Lyon, Oswald A. T. Gotjen, Edward R. Stanley, Orlando B. George, Jr.
50 years ago: Students from the Hope Training School enjoyed a tour of the Earth Station. Dana Melville, Locke Mills, was participating in the Physics/Astronomy section of the Secondary Science Training Program sponsored by the University of Iowa.
Death: Roderick (Mush) McMillin.
60 years ago: Stanley Davis held a “crew picnic” at the Ames camp on South Pond. Fourteen Bethel Scouts and leaders Carroll Valentine and Erlon Paine spent a week at Camp Bomazeen.
Births: Dana Reginald Meisner, Kirk Patrick O’Brien, Maureen Lynn Coyne.
Deaths: Eugene F. Penley, William Sweatt.
70 years ago: Twenty clubs from Oxford County were represented at a 4-H Field Day at Littlefield’s Beach. Western Maine Firemen’s Association and Cumberland County Volunteer Firemen’s Association held a joint meeting at Norway.
Deaths: Norman L. Jamison, Richard P. Greene, Albert E. Brown, Fred B. Haynes, Elmer Flagg.
80 years ago: Over 100 attended the seventh annual Greenwood City School reunion at the school house. Prizes from the alumni and school club were awarded pupils of the fourth, sixth, and seventh grades during the program.
Deaths: Ashby Tibbetts, Robert Hill, Mrs. Anna W. White.
90 years ago: James D. Alger was sworn in as a cadet at the U. S. Military Academy at West Point.
Teachers for the fall term of Gould Academy included Percy F. Crane, Carroll P. Bailey, Miss Eleanor L. Nelson, and Wilbur R. Myers.
Deaths: Irving Stearns, George H. Stowell.
100 years ago: The Bethel Grain Co. opened on July 25, in charge of L. E. Davis. Work was well underway on the addition to the Woodstock High School.
120 years ago: At the Grafton School, Glynne Brooks was neither absent nor tardy during the 10-week term, and Leslie Davis and Elmer Parker were absent only one-half day.
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