Winnegance Creek Scene and Other 1932 Local Notes
A Sunday scene shows four canoeists on Winnegance Creek amid mentions of Brigham's Cove and New Meadows River. The piece recalls ancient Seals Nose bounty schemes, then details Massachusetts advance tax payments for local taxes and Orleans Vermont’s tax-free year. It closes with spring hopes, job outlook, and a controversial Soldiers Bonus debate in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnegance Creek
Brigham’s Cove
New Meadows
Kennebec
Winneganee
Casco Bay
Portland
Massachusetts
Lowell
Dike School P T A Plans Annual Play The Spinsters Convention
The Dike School P T A ready for its annual play titled The Spinsters Convention features a cast of local women who transform from old maids to maidens on stage. Rehearsals run through mid April with performances on April 13 and 14 at the old Dummer Street School, followed by a dance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edna Wallace Hopper
Old Dummer Street School
Ralph Dunbar
Jophine Jane Green
Albert McFadden
Priscilla Abigail Hodge
William
Fogwill
Jane Higgins
Rebecca Rachel Sharpern
David Henderson
Tiny Short
Clifford Wild
Ann Fraddler
Jerusha Matilda Spriggins
Elmer Avery
Patience Desires Mann
John Conley
Juliet Long
Annie Hackett
Betsy Bobbett
Daniel Perry Charity Longface
John Howe
Cleopatra Belle Brown
Everett Lemont
E. Mason Wright Teplica
Fred Hoffman
Lena Shepard
Two Boston Hotels Offer All Inclusive 3 Day Weekend
L C Prior of the Brunswick and Lenox announces a three day two night package for two or more at either Back Bay hotel in Boston. For ten dollars guests receive meals, room and bath, entertainment, dancing to Leo Reisman orchestra, theatre, and city sightseeing with tickets provided at check in.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. C. Prior
Boston
Massachusetts
Brunswick
Lenox
Back Bay
Lenox Palm Room
Liberty
Metropolitan Theatre
Wesley Church Ladies Hold All Day Session and Meeting
The Wesley M. E. church ladies held an all day session with a noon dinner. Officers elected for the year include Georgia Ripley president Eva Lemont vice president Dora Lowell secretary and Davis treasurer. Committees were named for various tasks and monthly fundraisers. The group plans another all day session in two weeks on April 22.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies' Aid of
Wesley M. E. Church
Lydia Cook
Carrie Conley
Carrie Sampson
Aid
Cook
Conley
William Davis
Davis
Cahill
Webber
Lemont
Plorence Rogers
Littlefield
Emma .Sears
Ma Pierce
Law
Weks
Current Events Club ends season with critical Civilization talk
The Cosmopolitan club Current Events department held its final meeting of the season presided by Mrs. Charles H. Frost. Judge Walter Glidden spoke on Civilization, warning of rising defects and political apathy as civilization’s fate hangs on public interest. Plans for next year were deferred. three members may reconvene in fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cosmopolitan Club
Charles H. Frost
United States
Maine
Bath
Glidden
Judge Glidden
Oliver Goldsmith
Emma E. Walker
Bath State and County Taxes Set for 1932
State tax assessed against Bath for 1932 totals 70 986 96 a rise of 4 730 67 from 1931 due to a half mill levy. County tax remains 26 207 95. Total for Bath and Sagadahoc towns plus wild lands on Perkins and Alexander Islands is 42 118 60 apportioned among Attowsic Bowdoin Bowdoinham Georgetown Prippsburg Richmond Plodsia West Bath Woolwich Witditlantie with 77 18 listed for wild lands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Sagadahoc
Perkins
Alexander Islands
Attowsic
Ccessereeies
Bowdoin
Bowdoinham
Rane
Georgetown A
Prippsvurg Esses
Doctor William Rouse Celebrates 86th Birthday in Bath
Dr. William J. Rouse, a reclusive Bath resident aged 86, marked his birthday Friday at Bachelor's Hall on Front Street opposite the post office. He spoke several languages, recalled pre Civil War Bath history, and cherished memories of local families, shipping firms, and prominent figures, while enjoying a breakfast of apple pulp, whole wheat bread, and milk with eggs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William J. Rouse
Front Street
Bath
Dee
Bachelor's Hall
George P. Davenport
Thomas W. Hyde
Bath Iron Works
Sagadahock House
Bath Business
Doc
Tallmans
Sewalls
Houghtons
Mosés
Bachelor’s Hall
Real Estate Transfers Reported in Sagadahoc Registry
Two week record of property transfers across Bath Bowdoin, Bowdoinham, Phippsburg Richmond and Woolwich counties. Names include John M. Cross Annie L Allen Walter E Norton Lizzie Hurd Clinton Pratt Joseph Solovich Celia Connor Emma Spinney Chester Newell Earl Kimble James Yorke Peter Stewart John Weston Walch Ruth Walch Horace Bickford Paul Sparsam Wallace Hunter William Gould Sewall Morse Town of Phippsburg Forest Peacock Ellen McColler John Doyle Elizabeth Haynes Onesime Laucier Maurice Pushard and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sagadahoc
Bath
People’s Investment Association
John M. Cross
Annie L. Allen
Walter E. Norton
Lizzie P. Hurd
Clinton F. Pratt
Joseph Solovich
Celia Connor
Emma Brown
Emma Spinney
Clarence C. Seavey
Chester W. Newell
Earl C. Kimble
James B. Yorke
Peter Stewart
Bowdoin
John Weston Walch
Overseers Organize Year with New Officers Appointed
The Overseers of the Poor name Wilmer I. Voorhees as chairman Roscoe P. McFadden as secretary and Morris S. Povich as third member The board selects Sidney L. Eaton as superintendent and Mrs Eaton as agent for Guardians of Children's Welfare and Mother's Aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmer I. Voorhees
Roscoe P. McFadden
Morris S. Povich
Sidney L. Eaton
Bath man seeks Republican nomination for state representative
Former Sheriff J Horace McClure of Bath announced on Friday his decision to run in the June primary for the Republican nomination as Bath's representative to the legislature. He said nomination papers will be circulated immediately and filed in time for his name to appear on the official ballot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Horace McClure
Bath
Bailey Evening School Highlights Courses And Graduates
Miss Priscilla Magoun completes her second year at Bailey Evening School continuing at Western High Baltimore and Philadelphia art schools. The paper lists many instructors and students across manual training dressmaking hands crafts jewelry launch of arts and crafts, lip reading, home nursing and naval architecture with certificates awarded for lip reading and extensive class rosters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Priscilla ‘Magoun
Bailey
Western High School
Baltimore
School of Industrial Art
Philadelphia
Kenzie Normal School
June Rideout
Janette W. Smith
Bailey Evening School
Simmons College
Morse
John Wishart
Burgh Academy
Dumbarton
Scotland
J. Harvard Biles
M. Lucile Kidder
Miss Kidder
Colby College
Clarke University
Worcester Art Museum School
Maryland Institute
United States
Oak Grove Seminary
Portland School of Fine Arts
Camp Abena
Belgrade Lakes
W. H. Smith and Sons
David Y. Alkazin
Everett L. Pinkham
Edward A. Kenney
Ralph O. Burden
John J. Paguiko
Linwood F. Carr
Raymond C. Small
Harold Peterson
Calvin Kimball
F. E. Emerson
Joseph J. Gaudet
Bradford P. Belanger
Keith Pierce
Stanley F. Richard
Nellie ©. Jones
Delia’ M." Cloutier
Willewen
Julia A. A. Donnell
al- Phyllis
Ey Za
Ora le Parks
Mary Royal
Kane Conley
Rena
Alice BE
Hebld
Hiram Annis
Consuelo Alkazin
Cordelis Clark
Lacey Desmond
Nina Freeman
Georgie McHeffey
Ins
Ruth FE. Webster
Mary Sanford
Harry Rébichaud
Joseph D. Vachon
Jennie Solovich
Sadie Sarkis
Ida Miller
Catherine F. Kelley
Eléony Pellegrini
Antonio Péllegrini
Catherine M. Huse
Marion A. Hunt
Margaret E. Huse
Ralph D. Millett
Arthur J. Preney
Thomas E. Tracey
George H. Wilson
Josephine M. Munsey
Esther Judith Petlock
Muriel A. Spinney
Isabel M. Burns
Irma Burns Perry
Lélia B. Thornton
Thomas E. ‘Tracey
Beatrice Jenkins
Albert F. Austin
Anna Cummings
Leon Belanger
Dominique Tardiff
Jessie L. Thibodeau
John P
Archie Wishart
Ferdinand Dtmais
John Leonard
Wilfred W. Chaney
Priscilla Magoun
Ada Blaisdell
Linwood F. Carr, Jr
Lida Clark
Katherine M. Day
Lena M. Eaton
F. D. Hill
Mildred C. Hill
Katherine Parks
Harry T. Passmore
William J. Perry
Ownership and management data for Bath Independent April 1 1932
Notarized statement by Frank B. Nichols Business Manager of Bath Independent lists publisher The Times Company Bath Maine editor Harry C. Webber and owners including Ella D Nichols Dorothy Nichols Niven Barrett Nichols with addresses in Bath Cambridge Belmont and Belmont MA. No bonds or other security holders over 1 percent. Sworn April 7 1932 before Notary P Carey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ae Ee
Bath
Sach Maine
State of
Maine
Sagadahoc
Frank B. Nichols
Mgr
Ublsher
the Times Company
Harry C. Webber
Frank B. Ers
North Street
Bath, Maine
Ella D. Nichols
Dorothy Nichols Niven
Colonial Terrace
Belmont Mass
Barrett C. Nichols
Cambridge
Mass
Mort- Sentee
Frank
P. Carey
Boston Visit Highlights of Rev George B Wolstenholme
The Reverend George B. Wolstenholme has recently visited Boston, drawing attention from local congregations and community leaders during his stay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George B. Wolstenholme
Boston
Marshal Clears Up a Dozen Minor Breaks
A Maine marshal tied a group of boys aged 10 to 17 to a dozen minor break ins around the city. The suspects confessed to vandalism at Senter's Inc and several nearby offices, and four other youths implicated in earlier cases were detained. The largest alleged haul was $6 from the Maine Central ticket office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Y Mahal
Walter J. Whitney
Ae Bath
Barcena
Seturdsg Mérrithe
Marshal
Iit
Senter’s, Inc
Liberty Bottlinng Co
Maine Central
Maine
Central
Atitvntié ‘ Express Central Grammar ‘School
Dike
Oakhurst
Tobey’s Market
John J.’ Keegan
Morse High School
Royal Arch Masons Install New Officers
Montgomery and St. Bernard R. A. C. officers were installed in a private ceremony led by Past High Priest Walter S. Glidden with Grand officiants present. The year’s roster includes Edwin H. P. Lowell as high priest and J Maurice Haynes as king, among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
St. Bernard
Walter S. Glidden
David L. Wilson
Arthur B. Stilphen
Charles E. Helah
Edwin H.P. Lowell
J. Maurice Haynes
King
Charles‘o. Nelson
William Sturtevant
Maurice Shiea
Royal Arch
Harold EB. Cutting
Sojourner
George J. Goodwin
Donald D. Young
Benjamin J. Murray
John H. Freeman
John Wilson
Harris T. Rodick
Elmer W. Rogers
Tyler
Belmont native Earl K. French rises in West Bath pedagogy
Earl K. French a successful Belmont Mass native and West Bath teacher of English mathematics and manual training, daughter of James E. French of Berry's Mill road, graduated Morse high Bowdoin 23 Keene NH normal 27. He taught there before taking his current post and made many friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl K. French
Belmont
Mass
West Bath
James E. French
Berry’s Mill Road
Morse High School
Bowdoin
Keene, 'N.H
Normal School
Cross Word Puzzle From Early Almanac Sees Few Clues
A dense word puzzle listing across and down clues covers terms from send forth to antique measures. The grid includes references to continents coins and various linguistic hints, aiming to tease knowledge across ages and languages.
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Bath-Independent
B. Mighola
End Treen
WaRwy
Wehbbem
Baiter
Ier
the Postatics
Orleans
Vermont
Calvin Coolidge
Washington
Congress
Treasury
Dike School
P.T.A
Spinsters’ Convention
Polly Jimne Pratt
Charles Henderson
Chester Worrey
Frances Touchmend
Hannah Biggerstaff
Frank French
Hackett
Miller
As- Sha
Charles MacDonald
Killemoff
Harold Miller
Wesley Church
Currene Events Club
Dice Serace
Thomas R. Huston
D. M. Humphreys & Co
Sagadahock Block
Buth; Me
Room
Sehoge
Royal Arch Masons
Sotutlor
Pazzie
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