Careless Politics Highlight Public Confidence Calls
Voters urged to demand careful checks on officials as Maine faces embezzlement allegations against a state controller and a county commissioner in Androscoggin County stands trial for bribery. In Bangor, police chief choice sparks protests over past ties to a gangland figure and the council-manager system prompts calls for a referendum.
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Maine
Androscoggin County
Charles Barnes
Bangor
Evanston
Illinois
Jack Zuta
Bangor Daily News
Bangor City Hall
Bath
Sewall push for efficient Maine government at Rotary event
Senator Sumner Sewall of Bath urged Maine Republicans to adopt airline style management, saying government should be run by efficient personnel with close supervision and daily worker contact. He contrasted corporate practice with state pay and hours, arguing productivity and cost savings require focused leadership and not token gestures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sumner Sewall
Bath
Rotary Club
Old Town
Sewall
Maine
Turemigh
Wemeelyns
State Controller audit to determine funds handled
The State's financial scandal fuels rumors about Controller Runnells and funds in Maine. An audit by experts is underway to determine exactly what funds were handled by his department before concluding.
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Runnells
Maine
Red Cross
Salvation Army
Calais man pleads not guilty to drunken driving
Everett W. Quinn of Calais a U S Lighthouse Service employee pleaded not guilty in municipal court to drunken driving after a witness reported erratic driving. The case was continued to 10 am with $200 sureties. Police found blood stains on the car and a damaged bumper. Authorities suspect a possible animal impact or other unreported collision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Everett W. Quinn
Calais
U.S
Duckholds
Southport
Gardiner R. Deering
Quinn
Carlton Bridge
Charles W. Messenger
Boothbay Harbor
Philip A. Davis
Red Beach
Ellsworth
Camden
Sheepscoot
Battery H Passes Federal Inspection in Maine
Battery H of the 240th Coast Artillery Brigade passed the annual federal inspection with high praise. Maj. Robert DeMerritt of the Massachusetts National Guard commended the unit after inspecting the armory and personnel. A complimentary dinner followed at Hotel Sedgwick with local officers hosting, attended by Maine National Guard officials and prominent city and county figures.
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Brunswick
Robert H. Haskell
Henry W. Owen
J. Horace McClure
Alexander A. Burgess, Jr
Board of Aldermen
Gardiner R. Deering
Donald N. Small
Forrest ©. Legard
William O. Robson
Scott Morse
Joseph W. Larrabee
West Bath
Sherwood Aldrich
Topsham
Four intoxication cases heard in Bath court
Four men faced intoxication charges in Bath municipal court before Judge Gardiner R. Deering. A Lewiston resident’s warrant was filed. One Bath man serving parole violation got 30 days in Kennebec county jail. Others faced fines and jail terms varying from six days to one half a day plus costs.
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Bath
Lewiston
Gardiner R. Deering
Kennebec
All-gusta
Augusta
Dunton files papers for Sagadahoc county attorney nomination
Frank O. Dunton of Bath filed primary nomination papers Saturday with the Secretary of State as a Republican candidate for Sagadahoc county attorney. His papers show up to 138 signatures and were filed in four Bath area sections. A separate incident reports Winslow the dog defending hens, leaping through a window to confront a suspected thief, as the Greens awoke and saw the man flee toward a waiting car after discovering the henhouse door opened.
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Frank O. Dunton
Bath
Secretary of State
Sagadahoc County
Winslow
Charles H. Green
Durham
Green
Stephen Foster Fund Benefit by Les Camarades Musicaux
Les Camarades Musicaux held a Stephen Foster Musicale at Mrs. Louis A. Dole’s home to raise funds for the Stephen Foster Memorial. The program featured a female chorus and multiple solos, duets, and trios celebrating Foster works with performers including Margaret J. Melcher, Merton Sprague, and Mimi Magoun, among others.
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Les Camarades Musicaux
Stephen Foster
Merton E. Sprague
Carl E. Albee
Polacca
van Weber
Alice N. Magoun
Handel
Dvorak
Nathan W. Watson
Albee
Liebesgram
Schumann
Richard T. Hersom
Ramsay
Miss Melcher
Foster
Fred K. Sturtevant
Watson
Mrs. Hersom
Mr. Sprague
Dole
Mr. Ramsay
Mrs. Albee
Gentle Annie
Leoncavallo
Hatch
al Nostri Minto
Il Trovatore
Verdi
Cary
le Coq D'Or
Rimsky-Korsakoff
O. Susanna Foster
Alice Magoun
Chadwick
Massa
Rice
Boles
Parker
Sturtevant
First Baptist Church Holds Annual Meeting and Elections
The First Baptist Church held its annual meeting on Thursday evening in the vestry. Elected for one year were Mrs. Nella Stover as clerk and treasurer, Miss Evelyn Sotheard as assistant clerk, Rev. Charles R. Sims, Mrs. Stover, and various deacons on the advisory board and committees. Mrs. Stover serves as Messenger reporter. Deacon A. I. Stuart, Mr. Flood, and Mrs. Eaton on the music committee. Other committees named include decorating, baptismal, calling, Sunday School reports, and Woman's Missionary Society. Rev. Sims presided.
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First Baptist Church
Nella Stover
Evelyn Sotheard
Charles R. Sims
Madelyn Dunton
Ruth MacKenzie
Mary Oliver
Stover
A. I. Stuart
C. L. Hooker
Sotheard
Co- Workers
Woman's Missionary Society
Young People’s Union
Advisory Board
Brotherhood
Mr. Sims
Legion Auxiliary Luncheon Honors National VP in Maine
Mrs. Charles Gilbert national vice president from Norwich Conn was hosted for luncheon by Roland Smith Post American Legion Auxiliary led by president Mrs Helen Hill. Gilbert spoke on Americanism and noted Maine needs 75 members to meet its quota while 70 guests heard remarks from other national and department leaders in Augusta and surrounding towns. Tables featured spring flowers and orange candles.
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Charles Gilbert
Norwich
Conn
Roland Smith Post
American Legion Auxiliary
Helen Hill
Gilbert
Maine
Department of Maine
Marietta Greenlaw
Augusta
Olive Tinkham
Lewiston
Emily Dexter
Sara Houdlette
Mary Dumas
Lisbon Falls
Geneva Roberts
Gardiner
Mary Milliken
West Baldwin
Anna Lovely
Oldtown
Irene Metcalf
Wiscasset
Bath W. C. T. U. Meets at Nellie Brown Home
Youth was the topic for both the devotional service and the program at a recent W. C. T. U. meeting held at Mrs. Nellie Brown’s home on 9 Deerin Street. Plans were laid for the county convention in May at the First Baptist church. The society also discussed how to recruit new members for the year and appointed Mrs. Mabel Paquet as chair of the April 23 social.
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Nellie Brown
Deerin Street
First Baptist Church
Mabel Paquet
Neil Bishop speaks before central church men’s club
The Central church men’s club heard Neil Bishop of Bowdoinham discuss the dairy business. Born in Aroostook County, he has lived in Sagadahoc since age five, farms near Bowdoinham, and breeds purebred Jersey cows. A UMaine graduate, he showcased higher butterfat through improved stock and won seven blue ribbons at the 1930 State Livestock show. He opposes federal farm aid and is a Republican state senate candidate.
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Central Church
Neil Bishop
Fast Bowdoinham
Bishop
Aroostook County
Sagadahoc
Bowdoinham
Richmond
Maine Central
University of Maine
Jersey
Highmoor Farm
Winthrop
Fred Humphreys
Alfred Noyes
Stanley Wallace
Past Chiefs Night of Lowell Temple Observed
Lowell Temple Pythian Sisters marked a Past Chiefs Night with 16 past chiefs forming a semicircle around the altar as Marion Darrah, the Most Excellent Chief, presented each with a pink and a gift. Supper followed for about 40, with flowers donated by Kennebec Greenhouses. An entertainment featured a Winter Street church play, songs, a piano solo, and a radio skit by Sara Potter and Jane Shea.
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Lowell Temple
Pythian Sisters
Marion Darrah
Kennebec
Winter Street
Roscoe P. McFadden
Amos Keene
Lois Knight
Sara Potter
Jane Shea
Bath to Organize a Flying Club
A Bath flying club of about 20 members, largely Bath Tron Works employees, is forming with 15 enthusiasts ready. An organizational meeting is planned at the armory, aiming to secure a plane and instructor from Airways Inc. of Waterville, with a sea plane preferred due to nearby landing field issues. Leaders include Robert Maass, Kenneth Cain, Everett Wallace and Franklin Skillin.
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Bath Tron Works Corp
Airways, Inc
Waterville
Oes
Robert Maass
Kenneth Cain
Everett Wallace
Franklin Skillin
Health complaints to board must be written at City Hall
The Board of Health at its organization meeting last Wednesday elected John J. Mulcahy as chairman with Dr. Joseph I. Smith as secretary and N. Gratz Jackson as members. It pledged to faithfully investigate all written complaints and to attach reports to the records.
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Board of Health
City Hall
John J. Mulcahy
Joseph I. Smith
N. Gratz Jackson
Sportsmen Grateful for New Moving Picture Projector
The Bath Rod Gun and Skeet Association thanks Bath residents for donations that funded a moving picture projector. Mrs Milton C Trott and her three daughters Barbara Priscilla and Jane left Saturday for Washington DC and Cambridge MD to pass the school vacation.
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Adaboc Rod, Gun & Skeet Association, Inc
Score Bath
Association
Amneses
Milton C.trott
Barbara
Priscilla
Jane
Washington, D. C
Cambridge
Mikado Matinee Delights Morse Pupils at School
About 376 Morse high school pupils watched a matinee of The Mikado staged by the Music Club. Students played roles with skill while Morsey school orchestra provided music and Ruth Cogan assisted. Costumes and scenery came from Tracy Music Library Boston and a Friday evening performance was set in the same auditorium.
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Morse High School
Morton Holbrook
Edward Atkinson
Russell Snell
Stanley Brimigion
George Tinney
Edward Hanson
Elliston Estes
Harold Avery
John Voorhees
Stanley Coleman
George Poulos
Guy Hynes
Robert Mitchell
Robert Besaw
Gertrude Dole
Barbara McMann
Barbara Walker
Edith Walker
Elizabeth Williams
Gertrude Haskell
Jennie Middleton
Pauline Nickerson
Marjorie White
Marie Bennett
Rachel Mathews
Edna Besaw
Glenda Wright
Phyllis Bisson
Louise Avery
Geraldine Andrews
Marilyn Turner
Evangeline Canacaris
Ursula Wandel
Kathleen Harkins
Janet Beardsley
St Barnabas Guild meets Thursday night at Grace church
St Barnabas Guild for Nurses met in Grace church parish house to view colored moving pictures of a Mediterranean trip presented by Mr and Mrs George Baer Connard. Refreshments were served by a committee and the next meeting is set for Sunday May 12 to hear Rev Ernest Kenyon address the group.
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George Baer Connard
St. Barnabas Guild
Grace Church
Connard
Jane H. Hillgrove
Joseph Hecht
Josephine Moore
Alfred P. McCabe
Florence Nightingale
Ernest Kenyon
Rockland
Charles M. Tubbs
Arthur Sewall
Helen V. Downing
William 8. Blair
Dorothy M. Milliken
Stanley M. Brown
Tubbs
Blair
Verna Bowie
Hecht
Margaret Chandler
Martha Shaffer
Bewall
J. R. Andrews
Archibald M. Main
Hillgrove
McCabe
Evelyn McMann
Fay Bartlett
Brown
Christianna Clendenning
Doris Mahoney
Dorothy Milliken
Winter Street Ladies' Aid Holds Sale
Winter Street Ladies' Aid held a successful rummage sale Wednesday of last week in the church men's room. Mrs. Wallace L. Atwood chaired a luncheon, with Mrs. Arthur C. Lemont and Mrs. Fred Sturtevant guiding sale efforts. The group plans a turkey banquet June 28 for Maine Rural Mail Carriers and wives.
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Winter Street
Aid
Wallace L. Atwood
Arthur C. Lemont
Fred K. Sturtevant
Fred E. Foote
James Farnham
Archie E. Doyle
Edgar D. Leavitt
Henry
Addison F. Pendleton
Walter H. Bowker
Abigail F. Carter
Charles W. Walsh, Jr
Charles Baker
Elmer W. Rogers
Maine
Grace Church Men’s Club Dines on Turkey
Grace Church Men’s Club met in the parish house for a turkey dinner served by St. Mary’s guild led by Mrs. W J Voorhees. County Attorney Sherwood Aldrich spoke on juvenile delinquency in Bath, urging a trained full time probation officer. final season meeting set for April 24 with W Dayton Hill chairing and honoring the ladies.
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Grace Church Men’s Club
St. Mary's Guild
W.J. Voorhees
Francis Holmes
Edward Sewall
William P. Adams
Sherwood Aldrich
Topsham
Bath
Aldrich
Snug Harbor Inn Sold to Louis Valle of Portland
The Snug Harbor Inn at Dunstan Corner Route No 1 formerly part of the Ethel V. Rowe estate has been sold to Louis Valle of Portland. The 14 room house with five baths large dining room seating 200 four garages maids quarters and one acre of land will undergo extensive alterations. Valle plans to continue operating as a tourist home serving shore dinners.
McKenney Couple’s Cat Returns Home After 25 Mile Ride
The couple Mr. and Mrs. William McKenn ey of Limerick housed Felix the cat who longed for his village butcher’s hideout. In about 24 hours the feline traveled 25 miles and earned a double hamburger portion upon arrival.
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William McKenney
Movier
Limerick
Felix
Music-Drama Club Elects Its Officers
The Music-Drama Club held its annual meeting and banquet at Hotel Sedgwick naming officers and committees. Mrs Leonard PF Wetherbee as vice president. Eleanor P Danforth re-elected secretary treasurer. other officers include Mrs Ernest R Avery Mrs Edwin M Fuller Jr and Mrs Rupert M Irvine on the advisory board. Mrs David Graham to give two readings May 7 and May 21 with the first The Sky Lark. Tickets managed by several members and a song contest planned with another department. A special meeting April 24 at 7 30 p m for Mother's day tea. 17 members were present.
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Sedgwick
Leonard PF. Wetherbee
Eleanor P. Danforth
Ernest R. Avery
Edwin M. Fuller, Jr
Rupert M. Irvine
David Graham
Joseph I. Smith
Earl P. Cahoon
Elizabeth A. Colby
Isadore Singer
Connard
Irvine
Cahoon
Singer
Ladies Auxiliary of Nequasset Meeting Recap
Ladies Auxiliary of Nequasset met Thursday at Mrs Maurice Hathorne s home to work on items for the annual Summer sale An all day session is planned for April 25 at Mrs Arthur Williams s home A notice will announce any change in meeting place Guests included Mrs Dora Bailey the oldest member not seen since Winter and many others sharing a dinner of meat pie salads and desserts
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Nequasset
Maurice Hathorne
Arthur Williams
Dora Bailey
Hathorne
Hollis Leeman
Prank Bailey
Percy Bailey
Alton Reed
Frank Bailey
John Gilmore
Henry Dubar
James Ryan
Carleton
Walter Libby
William Robson
Edward Shaw
Loring Soule
Ralph Bowers
Emily Williams Elected President of Twin B's Club
Mrs Emily Williams of Lowell Temple was elected president of the Past Chiefs Twin B's club of Bath and Brunswick at a Thursday meeting hosted by Mrs Annie Bowie. Officers include Iola Lombard Brunswick vice president Mary Curtis Bath secretary Florence Jackson Brunswick treasurer Gertrude Stewart Bath press correspondent. Fourteen Brunswick and twelve Bath members attended. Next meeting set for May 2 at Ava Storer 64 Pleasant Brunswick with supper at 6 30 p m followed by installation of officers.
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Emily Williams
Lowell Temple
Twin B’s Club
Bath
Brunswick
Annie Bowie
Drummond Street
Iola Lombard
Mary Curtis
Florence Jackson
Lombard
Gertrude Stewart
Ava Storer
Pleasant Street
Drake Announces Candidacy for Bagadahoc County Commissioner
J Edward Drake Jr of Bath announced Friday his bid for the Republican nomination for Bagadahoc county commissioner. He is the son of J Edward Drake a former Bath mayor and state senator, and has been associated with his father in the J B Drake & Sons insurance firm for years.
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J. Edward Drake, Jr
Bath
Bagadahoc County
Mr.Drake
J. Edward Drake
J. B. Drake & Sons
Cosmopolitan Home Arts class on block printing held
Mrs Linwood F Carr led the first block printing class at a Cosmopolitan Home Arts meeting with needlepoint continued. Twelve members attended. The next meeting is scheduled for April 24.
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Linwood F. Carr
Cosmopolitan Home Arts Department
Co-Workers Costume Party At First Baptist Vestry
First Baptist church co workers held a costume party in the vestry last Wednesday after a business meeting. Mrs. Julia Worrey and Mrs. Rose Wade led games, with refreshments by several members. Upcoming entertainment is headed by Mrs. Lotta Eaton and Mrs. Laura Harrington. Attendees and guests include numerous members and several Reverends, with Miss Mabel Reed and Miss Johanne Heel among the guests.
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First Baptist Church
Julia Worrey
Rose Wade
Julia Moore
Irma Groves
Harriet Wright
Florence Woodside
Lotta Eaton
Laura Harrington
Edith Miller
Nellie Hynes
Nella Stover
Effie Legard
Harrington
Helen Hall
Ag Moore
Rebecca Burnham
Worrey
Bernice Oliver
Ace Smith
Jennie Cameron
Elsie Crosby
Helen Pratt
Lila Place
Elizabeth Moore
Eleanor Mills
Wade
Wright
Mary Sims
el Bickmore
Lisa Carter
Jessie Erskine
Florence Martin
Lizzie Haggett
Annie Oliver
Miss Groves
Evelyn Sotheard
Woodside
Gertrude Nichols
Mary Armstrong
Helen Overiman
Mabel Reed
Berthia Ward
Eleanor Wright
Marjorie Stover
Harriet Grant
Mary Pinkham
Johanne Heel
Charles R. Sims
Vaughn Overman
Bowdoin Professor Delivers Public Talk on The American Dilemma
Prof Athern P Daggett of Bowdoin College spoke on The American Dilemma in the municipal auditorium. He reviewed Europe war conditions, neutrality law and America's hoped stance of staying out of war. Daggett contrasted Allied and Nazi viewpoints and potential American impact. Hon John P Carey Jr presided as the Democratic club sponsors the series.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athern P. Daggett
Bowdoin College
Municipal Auditorium
Daggett
Europe
America
John P. Carey, Jr
Democratic Club
O. C. Holme
Kennebec River Open to Navigation
The Kennebec River is believed open to navigation from Augusta to the sea. Ice broke from Augusta to below Richmond, jammed the narrows near Swan Island, then cleared as great fields moved downstream. Observers report clear waters north and south, with drift ice pushed west by a southeast wind and ebb tide. Tankers expected to replenish upriver supplies.
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Kennebec
Augusta
Richmond
Swan Island
Woolwich
Summer Round-up Plans Discussed by Local P T A Leaders
Representatives of the P T A groups and school nurse Lillian Fadden met with Superintendent John Parker in City Hall to map the annual Summer Round-up. The event, backed by P T As Red Cross and health departments, is slated for the week of May 6. Chairwoman Mrs James Noftall presides with repeated involvement from South End, Dike, North Center, and St. Mary’s P T A members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillian Fadden
Ity Hall
John Parker
Red Cross
James Noftall
South End P. T. A
F. W. Holmes
Dike P. T. A
Daniel H. Matter
North Center
Arthur W. Bowker
Edward B. Hamblett
St. Mary's P. T. A
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Wanderer
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