Bath News Roundup Tells of City Funds Transfer and Local Doings
Bath records detail the transfer of trust funds totaling 154 323.14 from former custodians to the city. The piece notes local scenes including ships on the Kennebec, relics collected by Miss Alice May Douglas, vacations of post office clerks, and plans for military reinforcements at Fort Baldwin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Small
Samuel Welch
Hall
City of
Bath
Arthur J. Dunton
E. P. Briggs
C. S. Brown
First National Bank
Alice May Douglas
Kennebec River
Post Office
C. E. Plaisted
L. Gkins
Gustavus Pease
M. H. Douglas
William J. Perry
Lily S. Pray
H. L. Day
Parker M. Banks Elected Mayor of Webster City Iowa
The city notes Parker M. Banks has been elected mayor of Webster City Iowa. The report recalls his boyhood ties to Winneganee and visits to his childhood scenes years ago. The item also covers local club officer elections, Masons installations, city employments, and various social notices from Parker and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parker M. Banks
Webster City
Iowa
Mr. Banks
Winneganee
Harringtons Return From Florida and Local Developments
Mr and Mrs Charles Harrington and Mrs Cahoon returned to Bath from Wauchula Florida where they wintered on a 13 acre tract Harrington praised the southern climate but crops faced hardship The Fidelity Trust Co of Portland elected William D Sewall as director and executive committee member Arthur Sewall Bosworth also joined the board Bath street crews began replacing a Washington street sidewalk with a concrete walk The city lacks a flag staff atop the federal building remaining without one for two years and the issue noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles H. Harrington
Fidelity Trust Co
Portland
William D. Sewall
Arthur Sewall Bosworth
Bath
Washington Street
Maine Central
Custom House
Brunswick High School rebuilt contract awarded
George H. Wilbur & Son of Bangor win the Brunswick High School rebuilding contract for 26,699 dollars. Work starts immediately with emphasis on local labor where possible. project excludes heating plumbing and other included items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George H. Wilbur & Son
Bangor
Brunswick High School
Steam lighter Sagadahoc towed upriver toward Garnet bridge
April 16 1915 report details the Sagadahoc being towed by the Ariel and resuming under steam, heading to Garnet bridge after being met near Horse Island. Ebblane dock trial at Bath Iron Works with next week river tryout anticipated amid local naval activity. Goose and duck populations noted at Merrymeeting Bay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sagadahoc
Ariel
Horse Island
Garnet Bridge
Ebblane
Bath Iron Works
Salvation Army Opens New Headquarters at Center Street Crossing
On April 18 1915 the Salvation Army establishes its new headquarters in the Swett store near Center Street RR crossing. Nearby the Pentecostal church sits opposite the crossing. Frank Muse becomes boss driver for the Howard Coal Co and has moved his family into the up rough area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salvation Army
Swett
Center Street RR
Pentecostal Church
Frank Muse
Howard Coal Co
Winter Harbor
Boothbay
Pierce & Hartung
Norman II
Wiscasset
Bath Area Daily Notes On Local Events And Arrivals
Mr and Mrs James Campbell and family left for Chicago from the Delano residence on Washington street. Sailors launched boats at Sewall shipyard and others overboard. Morse team gets clothing gifts from Deermouth Co manager Coffin. Rev Milan J Smith named Woolwich pastor. ships face head winds delaying Portland bound freights. Hyde makes a Boston trip to visit his mother. Windlass Co board appoints Magoun to fill vacancy after Andrews death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Campbell
Delano
Washington Street
Chicago
Hyde Windlass Co
H. A. Magoun
New York Ship Building Co
Camden
N. J
J. R. Andrews
New Books Arrive at Bath Library Featured Titles
Patten Free Library adds 17 fiction 4 general 3 teen and 10 juvenile titles. Notable works include Act of God by Margaret Kennedy and Doctor in the Family by Elizabeth Seifert along with adventures for younger readers and biographies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patten Free Library
Margaret Kennedy
Cyril Hare
Elizabeth Seifert
Geoffrey Household
Lionel White
J. D. Broughton
C. S. Forester
Sherman Baker
Storm Jameson
Octavus Cohen
Louis Brennan
Alice L. Covert
Agatha Christie
Howard Swiggett
Marc Brandel
Alice Tisdale
Hobart
E. Bearside
Central Church Ladies Aid Plans Rummage Sale
The Ladies Aid of Central Church met at the parish house Thursday at two o clock with President Mrs Eugene Sprague conducting. They arranged plans to hold a rummage sale in the near future and concluded the meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies Aid of Central Church
Eugene Sprague
South Portland Beats Morse 6-2 to Open Season
South Portland High opened its 1955 baseball season by defeating Morse High 6-2 under cloudy skies. Charley Aubut took the loss for Morse as South Portland built a 3-0 lead in the second inning and added singles and errors for a decisive victory. Dick Leeman drove in two runs with a triple, while Morse’s Johnny Helfpap earned a walk with the bases loaded for Morse’s first run.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Portland High
Morse High
South Portland
Dennis Murphy
Charley Aubut
Red
Hank Richards
Bob Plummer
Charley Hill
Richards
Plummer
Hill
Dick Leeman
Morse
Johnny Helfpap
Totman
Don Files
John Whalen
Harry Wilson
Wilson
Capers
Aubut
Gerry Parker
Parker
Kelley Field
Gardiner High
Tigers
Gardiner
Tiger Field
This Is Month for Auto Inspection Stickers
State Police remind motorists that only eight days remain in April to obtain required auto inspection stickers. Officials urge planning ahead to avoid delays and embarrassment and to fulfill legal responsibility.
Auction meeting held with Mrs V Morse as auctioneer
A knick-knack auction conducted by Mrs Horace V Morse sold all offerings. Refreshments were provided by hostesses Mrs James T Bonney and Mrs Eugene Sprague. The next meeting is scheduled for April.
New Meadows Yacht Club Plans Bright Summer Schedule
At a Spring meeting the New Meadows Yacht Club outlined summer plans chaired by commodore Owen Williams. Committees were formed to oversee house, boats, and grounds with repairs and boat painting planned. Sailboat and powerboat racing were discussed including a Basin Point restart and a Kennebec River rendezvous on July 4 with the Power Squadron.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Meadows Yacht Club
South End
P. T. A. Hall
Owen H. Williams
Elmer Williams
Everett Wallace
Leonard Litchfield
Owen Williams
Theodore Watson
Lawrence Small
John E. Barry
John R. Gilmore
Earle F. Burgess
Charles L. Eastman
Harold P. Small
Commodore Williams
Old Place
Basin Point
Wyatt Albertson
Kennebec River Power Squadron
New Meadows River Yacht Club
Waterville
Kennebec Valley
Ford Motor Company
Gloucester
Mass
Marlin Pennington
Augusta
Bath
Montsweag Extension Service Meeting and Activities
The Montsweag Extension Service met Thursday at the Good Will Club House. Members sewed for Hyde Memorial Rehabilitation Hospital and completed 18 restrainers under Mrs Catherine Pert's leadership. A beef stew dinner was prepared by Mrs Adele Mazeiko, Mrs Mary Cooke, and Mrs Edith Rice. Guest Mrs Maria Mennealy of Presque Isle attended. Dinner committee for April includes Mrs Ruth Leavitt Mrs Muriel Preble Mrs Mauflicent Ball and Mrs Harriet Garside. Ruth Loeschner will lead candy making at the next meeting. The note ends with a stock remark about United States seats being full with rear seats empty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montsweag
Good Will Club
Hyde Memorial Rehabilitation Hospital
Catherines Pert
Adele Mazeiko
Mary Cooke
Edith Rice
Maria Mennealy
Presque Isle
Moatsweag Extension Service
Ruth Leavitt
Muriel Preble
Mauflicent Ball
Harriet Garside
Ruth Loeschner
National Hospital Week Observed May 9 to 16
Memorial Hospital Auxiliary outlines National Hospital Week events from May 9 to 16 led by President Mrs. Sumner Sewall. The Hospital Tea aligns with Florence Nightingale's birthday on May 12. Volunteers contributed hours across Cozy Corner sewing and bandage work, with multiple clubs and groups aiding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Hospital
Memorial Hospital Auxiliary
Sumner Sewall
Florence Nightingale
Dean Shaw
Arthur King
Cozy Corner
Courtney Stover
Suburb Civic Club
Ladies Aid
First Baptist Church
Central Church Ladies Aid
West Bath
Harold Small
Roger Luke
Harrison Lakin
Luke
Duncan McInnes
Clearing House
McInnes
North Bath Notes Show Local Visits And Construction
The Bath area reports road work on North Bath streets and a raised former Frank Blake house awaiting a new foundation. Numerous local residents and guests are listed visiting relatives in Bath and surrounding towns including Norfolk Virginia Lewiston Gorham and Portland with multiple family occasions and social visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Highway Department
Bath
Frank Blake
Whiskeag
Mary Quirk
Norfolk
Everett Wing
Oakland
Earl E. Wing
J. Carroll Wing
John DeGroot
Kennebec River Power Squadron
Small's Garage
Sewall Strout
Wiscasset
Elmer Rogers
Earl Haines
Harmon Kneeland
Ricky
David
Earl Haines, Jr
Bobby
E. N. Cole
Annabele
Harold Bubar
Lewiston
Cole
Edwin Hemingway
Guy Swan
Dawnalyn
Eliot
Joseph Craig
Norwich
Conn
Arthur Williams
Phippsburg
Frank Ward
Ed Jacquith
Dresden
George and
Orrin Perkins
Harold McDonald
Adolph Best
Gorham
Henry G. Root
Jeffery
Auburn
Probate notices from Bath court April five nineteen fifty five
Court at Bath Sagadahoc delivers orders for notices on estates of Tillie Wold Roseana Chamberlain Joy Ralph L Palmer Sylvia Palmer and Harry J Hich among others. Administrators executors and trustees named for estates Woolwich Bath and West Bath. Final and first accounts set for hearing with license to sell real estate and guardianship actions noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Sagadahoc
Tillie Wold
Thelma P Atkinson
Leslie J
Wold
Eta Fstate
Myers E* Reed
Woolwich
Susie May Benner Reed
Roseana Chamberlain Joy
Huth Wiliams
Ralph Lo F Palmer
Charles T Small
Rhoda L Palmer
Ralph Lo
F Palmer
Charles T Simall
Ralph R Palmer Jr
Ralph I. FO Palmer
Sylvia AO Palmer
Harry J. Hich
West Bath
Guardian
Admiral MacMillan Set for April 28 Speech in Bath
Rear Admiral Donald B. MacMillan renowned Arctic explorer will lecture at 8 p.m. in Morse High School auditorium Bath under Bath Teachers club auspices. He will present color films and talk on Greenland and the Far North, sharing tales from 30 Arctic trips with Bath residents. Tickets available through Bath teachers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald B. MacMillan
Bath Teachers Club
Arctic
MacMillan
Bath
Morse High School
Greenland
Far North
Elizabeth Lawrence Society Holds April Meeting and Plans Tea
The Elizabeth Lawrence Society met at Mrs. Milliken's home to plan the May Mother's Day tea at Lillian Fisher school auditorium. Invitations go to all mothers of members. A committee will organize refreshments and entertainment includes band selections, dance, songs, recitations, and a film Easter Origin and Customs. Floral treats were served. a stray home tip notes foil lining broiler to ease cleaning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Lawrence Society
C.A.R
Robert Milliken
Kennebec Circle
Lillian Fisher School
Percy Low
Bert Lown
Raymond Small
Horace P. Morse
Kenneth Smith
Wilbur Casey
Anna Lonn
Lucy Lee Smith
Susan Bates
Christel Cornish
Sharon Wing
Ellen Low
Marriott Small
Linda Morse
Carol Cornish
Sandra Hathorne
Sharon Milliken
Arthur Wing
Probate Court notices from Bath Sagadahoc 1955
Court of Probate in Bath Sagadahoc County lists matters for April and May 1955 including probate of Timothy Claney and Elinor B Percy estates, executors named, petitions to sell real estate in Bath and Wiscasset, first and final accounts for Evelyn Wuard Harold Rubin and others, and guardianship for Bath minors. register notice by Arthur Dunton and Lillian Wear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Sagadahoe
Ath
Rause
Timothy Claney
Alice A Maney
William H Maney
Elinor B Percy
Katonah
New York
Sagadahoc County
Maine
Donald B. Percy
Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company
Allan Spear
Carolyn M Moses
Lucy M Green
John F Curran
Loretta Ro Curran Peters
Donald C Bailey
Wiscasset
County of
Lincoln
Sadie G Bailey
Probate appointments in Sagadahoc estates
Lillian H Heal, Register of Probate for Sagadahoc County, certifies appointees in Bath estates. Lena Douglas Donnell: Harry J Day named executor on April 1955. Winfred S Snowden Jr: Louise Madeline Snowden named executrix, without bond, April 1955. Ada McGilvary: George M Carlton Jr named administrator, April 5 1955. Ethel Glidden: Carl A Bee named administrator, April 5 1955. Arthur J Dunton, judge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillian H Heal
Sagadahoc
Lena Douglas Donnell
Bath
Harry J. Day
Winfred S Snowden, Jr
Louise Madeline Snowden
Ada McGilvary
George M Carlton, Jr
Ethel Glidden
Carl A'bee
Arthur J. Dunton
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The
Bath Daily Times
George Harrison
K. and G. Bakery
Alex B. Blake
Frank Lightbody
Columbia Theater
George E. Lovejoy
Daniel Bishop
Popham Beach
Mary L. Baxter
Buccaneer
Good Will Record
Harold M. Sewall
Mme
Emma Eames
Kate Douglas Wiggin Riggs
Ralph Gay
Roscoe H. Shaw
Boston
Ransom B. Fuller
Kenney Edgecomb
Seattle
Union
Carolyn Parris
Quincy
Berlin
N. H
Parris
Forest C. Legard
Legard
Gladys Holbrook
Manuel
Randol
Popham
Fort Baldwin
Conledge
Music Hall
E. M. Fuller
Arthur K. Purington
Rupert H. Baxter
Jennie Silsby
H. A. Walters
J. E. C. Sawyer
Jennie R. Morse
Lucy Patten
Cecil E. Paine
William E. Kershner
Allan Irish
Polar Star Lodge No. 114
Masonic Hall
N. Gratz Jackson
William A. Furber
Olmier P. Coffin
E. 8. 8S. Co
William F. Hodgkins
F. J. Lisman
Parker Head
City Landing
Mark Hall
Tibbetts
Leeman
Boothbay Harbor
Dorothy Sewall
York Hall
John H. Hyde
Finance Committee
George Curtis
Small Point
L. P. Wright
National Trade Exchange
Frank Erskine
Boston City Club
Woman's Club
Charles V. Minott
Rupert, H. Baxter
John A. Morse
Washington
National Congress of the Daughters of the Revolution
James F. Murphy
Jane Murphy
Whiskeay Creek
Stony Cache
Howard Day
Robert Wagner
Earl Coffin
Mrs. Smith
Rumford Falls
Montgomery and
St. Bernard Royal Arch
Masonic Temple
M. E. Champion
Charles W. Dingley
Elmer W. Rogers
Howard B. Johnson
Albert L. Strout
Raymond C. Brown
Arthur E. Bishop
Thomas W. Coss
Royal Arch
Charles E. Ripley
Felix A. Stinson
Harry E. Cornish
George W. Thistle
Sentinel
Carlton
Brunswick
Brunswick High
Farrar
Sprague
Willis
Merrymeeting Bay
William
Bob” Millet
Barre
Millet
George P. Davenport
Paul Ragan
California
Southern Pacific Railroad
Frisco
Pathe News
Columbia
U. S
Chester
Vera Cruz
F. H. Thompson
Arthur B. Stilphen
C. A. Peaslee
Knights A. F. Larrabee
Charles E. Curtis
David H. Curtis
Dunlap Commandery
K. T
St. Alban’s Commandery
Mineola
Eastern Steamship Corp
Atwood
Boardman
Robert Gilker
J. J. Cavanaugh
J. P. Callahan
Portsmouth
Francis B. Torrey
Gov. Curtis
Board of Registration
Sewall
Dover
Milan J. Smith
Alicia B. Crosby
George E. Walcott
Clara A. Donnell
Edward Sewar
Quick
Dublin
Ireland
Newport News
E. W. Hyde
Thomas W. Hyde
Hotel Vendome
Opera House
Jim Bishop
Turkey
David Lodge
Elmer Davis
Robert Kinger
Francois Logan
Richard Gordon
Homer
Robert Graves
Mr. Mocker
Thornton W. Burgess
Shores of
Silver Lake
Laura Wilder
Susan
Janet Lambert
Haunt Fox
Jim Kjelgaard
Jenny
Mary Kennedy
Justice Morgan
Marguerite Henry
Manorama Modak
Dorothy Clowes
Samuel H. Adams
Catherine Barr
Central Church Ladies
Libby
Richard
Files
Gonya
Whalen
RBI
Helfpap
SB Haggett
Brown
Bb—Demille
Riley
Soule
So— DeMille
Roberts
Rhey HO
DeMille
Bailey
Ridge
Redmond & McGouldrick
H A Totman
Lucey
S Gonya
P DeMille
paAiwood
Morse Ab Wilson
Allen
Crooker
Trafton
Carter
C Parker
P Sewall
Haggett
Ramsey
Coombs
Hellpap
Onee
N. M. Yacht Club
United States
North Bath
Arthur J. Dlnton
Lillian H Heat
Register
Admiral MacMillan
Elizabeth Lawrence
Arthur
Dunton
Lillian Sf Wear
Lillian H Hea
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