Big Reservoir for Use of New Country Club
Work begins on an 1,250 000 gallon cement dam in Boothbay to supply a new golf club. The plan includes a pumping station four miles of piping, trout stocked water for irrigation not drinking, a swimming pool and showers, bunkers and tennis courts, with opening targeted by July 1. Architect Wayne E. Stiles leads, Walter A. Clapp in charge. Parsons supervising course construction. electricity to run the pump.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boothbay
Golf Club
Times
Walter A. Clapp
Boston
Wayne E. Stiles
St. Louis
Clapp
Stiles
Parsons
Busy Week Ahead at the Y M C A
The Y M C A faces a busy week with indoor baseball, volleyball, handball, and social rooms filled with boys ages 11 to 18. Checkers, chess, stacks and billiards attract many, while reading tables draw interest. Howard Cushing, assistant secretary, is a constant presence as a welcoming figure. The organization plans a delayed financial campaign within weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Cushing
Rockland Produces Democratic Candidate for Congress
Hon James B Perkins of Boothbay Harbor will not seek the second district seat clearing the field for Edward C Moran Jr of Rockland Moran, 28, announced from Rockland, is a Bowdoin graduate and former Ivy Orator and council president who won the Bradbury prize and is an insurance agent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James B. Perkins
Boothbay Harbor
Maine
Edward C. Moran, Jr
Rockland
Moran
Bowdour
Flo
Bradbury
Bowdoin
St Peter's Basilica An Icon of Church Architecture
The Church of St Peter, a prime example of church architecture, was completed in the early seventeenth century and said to be founded by Emperor Constantine by request of Pope Sylvester I in the fourth century. Its dome, crafted by Michelangelo, has long attracted pilgrims and tourists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Peter
Constantine
Sylvester I
Michelangelo
Baxter Brothers Lead Maine Convention Buzz
A Portland Telegram staffer notes Senator Rupert Baxter of Bath loomed large at the Bangor state convention. Baxter and Governor Baxter drew the biggest crowds at their headquarters while rumors swirled that Rupert might join the Governor on the council next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rupert H. Baxter
Bath
Maine
Portland Sunday Telegram
Bangor
Sagadahoe County
Frederick Hale
Baxter
Hale
Portland
Senator Hale
Rupert Baxter
Cat of Many Colors Barking Like a Dog Capt Meade’s Pet
Capt Joseph Meade of Arverne Coast Guard station owns Tom a large cat with multicolor fur and dog like tail wagging. The cat emits bark like grunts when approaching people and cries like a cat when hungry. The mixed traits amuse visitors and coworkers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph
Meade
Arverne, N.Y
Coast Guard
Tom
Popular Teacher Leaves Bath Weeks Street School
Friday marked the last day for Miss Margaret Conley as Weeks Street grammar school principal. She resigns to teach in Malden, Massachusetts. Students and teachers presented her with a fountain pen and stationery as tears and affection followed her departure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Conley
Weeks Street Grammar School
Malden
Mass
Conley
Bath
Weeks Street Granmine School
Merchant Marine Hearing Announced for Section 28
Hearings on Section 28 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920, will begin April 21 in Boston. Frederick J Thompson, U S Shipping Board commissioner, leads a regional committee with George F E Chamberlain and Admiral W S Benson. Next hearings will be in New York on April 24, then Norfolk, Savannah, and New Orleans in May, with Great Lakes and Pacific Coast in June.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Frederick J Thompson
United States Shipping Board
Thompson
Gulf District
George FE. Chamberlain
Oregon
Pacific Coast
WS. Benson
Athletic Coast
United States
Mrs Wallsee Back From Visit To Marlboro And Worcester
Mrs Stanley B Wallsee returns from a ten days visit with her husband in Marlboro Massachusetts and friends in Worcester Sunday Mr and Mrs Wallkice and friends motored to Wallingford Connecticut
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanley B. Wallsee
Marlboro
Mass
Worcester
Wallkice
Wallingford, Ct
Five Islands community notes and grange program
Five Islands notes record Capt Melvin Uarford buying fish on the wharf and many Bath visitors at nearby cottages. Geese pass over, households update, and grange activities include musicians rehearsing for a planned play and a Tuesday program with an orchestra, singing, and a debate on earnings versus saving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melvin Uarford
Ladies Aid
Addie Davis
JL. H. Rowe
Bath
Edward Faye
Baby
Fremont Rowe
Elbridge Mains
J. L. Howard
Percy Savage
J.G. Stevens
H. W. Howard
Five Islands
George Rowe
Walter Reed
Alton Reed
C. W. Noeton
Grange Hall
Charles Campbell
Robinhood
Gertrude Leonard
Julia Davis
Davis
Elizabeth Cook
Yyreer Everete Higgins
Georgetown
Alfred MacMahan
T. MM. Hagan
Llewellyn Rittall
Kenneth Pinkham
Charles Pinkham
Reed and Savage
Eugene Pinkham
John Hinkley
Drummond Stevens
Donald
J. W. Stevens
Arthur Wilson
Charles Hanna
Ferris Leonard
Clinton Hanna
Southport
Will Boucher
Grange
Mgiveliony Serease
Alten Reed
Fred Rittall
James Stevens
Ananda Blaisdell
Dazie Cromwell
Rae
Rhea
Berets Grange
Second Session Probate Court Grants and Accounts
Judge James S. Lowell during Sagadahoc county probate court April term second session grants administrations for Lemont Covell Mulligan and others. Final and first accounts filed and approved for Waldron Graves Rideout Small and Melee estates. Inventories accepted for Melee minors and Upton and Lewis guardianship. Bonds filed for Covell estate and McGraw divorce granted in Knox County Supreme Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James S. Lowell
Sagadahoc County
Arthur HE. Waldron
Richmond
Marin Graves
Albert M. Graves
Topshams
Henry Bm. Rideout
Edward A. Rideout
Topsham
Edith L. Small
William G. Small
Bath
Earle A. Melee
Mabel A. Meee
Joshua FP. Upton
Phippsburg
Elizabeth M. Oliver
Eleanor Mae Lewis
Everett C. Lewin
Alton —R. Covell
Lillian KR. Covell
Early Mormon Pioneers and California Settlement
The Mormons were the earliest American pioneers who blossomed in the desert amid privations. They were preceded by ancient southwestern peoples whose canals they used. In 1851 they founded San Bernardino in southern California, purchasing twenty seven square miles of the Lugo ranch for 77500 dollars with deferred payments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San
Judge Keegan Again Honored by Knights of Columbus
Judge John J. Keegan of Bath Maine has been appointed chronicle clerk on the staff of the Maine district by the fourth degree Knights of Columbus Cabot Province. This marks his fourth consecutive honor, with a career spanning the Bath board of education chairmanship, wartime draft board service, and multiple K of C leadership roles. He is married to Margaret J. Lundrigan of Bath and has a son, John J. Jr.
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John J. "Keegan
Knights of Columbus
Cabot
District of Maine
Judge Keegan
Trescott
Lubec High School
University of Maine
University of Maine Law School
Charles Keegan
van Buren
Lubee
Keegan
Bath
Winsted
Curtis
Milliken
Board of Education
City of
Sagadahoe
Maine
Tle
Gillise Council
K. of C
Maine State Council
Sagadahoe Council
Tie
Portsmouth
Chroniclers
Portland
Bangor
Lewiston
St. Mary's
Margaret J. Lundrigan
John J, Jr
Dumorite touted as cost cutting explosive in early uso
Reports from several states claim Dumorite lowers blasting costs by about one third in quarry and farm blasting. Users say it shoots as well as 40 percent dynamite while containing more sticks per case, reducing stump removal costs and avoiding headaches. DuPont introduced it as a double base nitroglycerin and guncotton formulation that won’t freeze.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middle West
Worsham
The
du Pont Co
Cox to Lead Pilgrimage to Tri Centennial Conclave
Cox joins Walter and John Pendleton in Boston to accompany Dunlap Commandery on a Panamanian voyage to Kingston Jamaica and Panama Canal isthmus transit. The group tours Jamaica Cuba and New Orleans then returns to New York and Boston after a long ceremonial trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cox
Boston
Panamt Railroad Steamship Co
Kingston
Jamaica
Commandery
Cristobal
Panama Zone
Canal
Ancon
Knights
Atlantic
New Orleans
Hava
Cuba
New York
Visualizing Work Through Three Stonecutters
A stranger asks three stonecutters what they are doing. The first says he earns seven fifty per day, the second mutters a dull line, and the third declares he is building a cathedral. The tale imparts a wisdom about purpose and vision in labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waib
Christian Register
Boston
Georgetown Community Notes and Local Arrivals
Large limousine with Massachusetts plate bound for Five Islands got stuck in mud near Wilder Hagan's place as a cottage visit was planned. Town events include a feldspar quarry inquiry, a working league meeting, and an Eastor concert at First Baptist in WY. Residents report road work by Tierman Spinity and crew, cottage openings, visitors from Brooklyn and Waltham, and various social throughs with the Rowe, Brown, and Hagan families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts
Wilder Hagan
Smith
Topsham
Harold Brown
First Baptist Church
WY. M. Hagan
Little River
Howard Heald
William Thompson
Brooklyn
N. Y
West Georgetown
George Gould
Waltham
Robinhood
Fred Ro Andrews
Kennebec Point
Emma Dallings
John Thibodeau
Arthur Rowe
Stearns Scott
Ruby Moore
Belle Heald
Mleacher Campbell
Tierman
Spinity
Warren
Spinney
Bay Point
Perley Rattleff
Sargent Mains Place
Cora Searles
Marie Thayer
Searles
Arthur S. Rowe
Fitchburg
Mass
Norman Oliver
Clarence Oliver
Ralph Reynolds
Ruth
T. M. Hagan
Mark Marr
Frank Taylor
Vassalboro
W. T. Boyd
John Williams
Clayton Rowe
Ath
A. Bk. Rowe
A. KE. Rowe
Bath
W. O. Oliver
William Mains
Harold Hunt
Lewiston
Marie Tagan
Portland
Leah Mains
Navy Radio Stations Expand Global Reach From Cavite
Improvements at Cavite Philippines give the U S Navy the most complete radio system. Cavite Manila Bay now talks directly with San Francisco six thousand miles away and keeps a regular daily service. Direct links with Peking improve communications for Americans in China. The system aids relief efforts in Russia the Near East and central Europe and handled over eight million words for newspapers and six million for government and public organizations between March and November. New circuits open in the Dutch East Indies and French Indo China. Rev Frank H Wall plans to move from Bath and has bought a three apartment house in Woodfords.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cavite
Philippines
United States Navy
Manila Bay
San Francisco
Hawaii
Guam
Peking
China
American Navy
Globe
Russia
Anatolia
Near East
Europe
Navy
Merchant Marine
Shipping Board
Public Press
Dutch East Indies
French Indo-China
Not Quite: The Man Who Insists on Telling Troubles
A brief quote from the Louston Transcript notes that a person who endlessly recounts woes is as disagreeable as one who refuses to hear others. The remark frames social friction in a concise observational voice.
Progress on Y program outlines four fold plan
A Bath Y M C L A annual survey shows progress in a four fold program for boys and young men. It emphasizes physical education and athletics, educational and social activities, religious devotion, and social service. It notes strong engagement in gym games and chess and stresses moral conduct and prohibition of profanity and smoking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Y.m.cla
Christ
Feats by Wireless Sets Highlight Early Radio Powers
Early radio feats include Sunday services heard at homes and institutions, a preacher speaking in three churches at once, a dance in Santa Clara Cuba with music from New York 1,450 miles away, and a Dempsey Carroll ton fight broadcast to sixty halls within 200 miles of Jersey City. Union College students used a baby carriage receiver to lullaby a baby, and a Connecticut amateur outfit reached 2,900 miles to British Guiana. Passengers on the liner America used wireless to talk with New York City 1,000 miles away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Clara
Cuba
Tady
N. Y
Dempsey-Carpenter
Boyle
Thirty Acres
Jersey City
General Electric Company
Union College
Schenerctady
College Station
Acman
Connecticut
Loo Miles
British Guiana
United States
America
New York City
Sme
National prototypes amid meter and kilogram standards
The term prototype in our coralogy means an original standard to which others conform. It may imitate a prior form but defines the nounit. National standards like the metre des Archives and international prototypes become copies yet are adopted as authority for other standards in the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Wishful quips from Jud Tunkins on presidents
The comedian Jud Tunkins quips that every small boy wishes to grow up as president, yet no president desires to be a child again. His playful contrast reflects on power and age in a lighthearted tone.
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Jud Tunkins
Humphreys Co Agents Bath Maine Ledger Summary
The document lists admitted assets liabilities and surplus figures for D M Humphreys & Co agents Bath Maine. It shows total liabilities and surplus around 10 9 and 1 099 182 10 with cash and capital amounts and various listed figures indicating insurance company financial balances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. M. Humphreys & Coq
Bath
Maing
Yellow voile frock for summer gardens and races
Varis designers unveil a French hand crafted long skirt dress in yellow voile. The house style features a full straight skirt with four loose panels, Valenciennes lace trim, floral white embroidery, and a white organdie girdle with rosettes. A georgette picture hat with lilies completes the ensemble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eloise
Varis
Bath merchant leases Lisbon street Lewiston store
Samuel Levin of the Bath Department store leases a Lisbon street Lewiston storefront to expand his business. He will continue the Bath store on Center street Bath and operate a similar line of merchandise in the Lewiston location.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Levin
Bath Department Store
Lisbon Street
Lewiston
Center Street
Bath
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NEW Country Club
Commonwealth Hotel
Bowdoin Street
Beacon Hill
State House
Hotel Avery
Avery Street
Morse Bros. Managing Directors
Beaver
L. Farnham Co, Inc
F. S. Curtis
Bath, Maine
Knox County Supreme Court
Charles J. Dunn
Bernice McGraw
Thomaston
Edward H. McGraw
Dumorite
Frank H. Wall
Woodfords
John J. Desmond
Bath’s
Westchester Fire Ins. CO
William Street
York City
Fstate Reese Real Loans
Balanres
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