Veteran Bath captain Blair dies after long illness
Capt. Charles A. Blair 60 longtime Bath steamboat and towboat master died at 691 High Street after a protracted illness. He captained vessels from the B. W. Morse to the City of Rockland and the Governor Cobb on trials at Bath Iron Works. He sailed from Richmond to a merchant marine career, earning honors along coast and inland routes.
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Charles A. Blair
Bath
High Street
Richmond
John and
Elizabeth Staples Blair
Kennebec Towage Co
B. W. Morse
Atlantic
H. F. Morse
Boston
Capt. Blair
Hardings Ledge
Point Allerton
Morses
Bangor
Penobscot
Rockland
Camden
Belfast
Bucksport
Blair
City of Rockland
Isle of Shoals
Wiliam Chisholm
Chisholm
Chester
Georgia
Bath Iron Works
Dewey
Iron Works
J. P. Morgan
Yacht Corsair
Texas Steamship Co
Harvard
Yale
New York
Hudson River
Albany
Key West
Havana
Eastport
Norfolk
Will leaves all estate to friend in York County probate
Frank Baptist of Kittery left no heirs found for his estate valued over 11000 dollars. In his York County probate petition Lee B Lamprey of Kittery is named administrator and claims Baptist born in Portugal naturalized in the United States forty years ago. Baptist says his wife deserted him thirty five years ago and has no claim to the estate.
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York County
Frank Baptist
Kittery
Lee B. Lamprey
Lamprey
Baptist
Portugal
United States
Apple Maine's Spring Greeting Festival at Greene
An official spring greeting event will be held in Greene on May 22 to welcome Summer visitors. Leading Maine organizations will unite to mobilize every state facility to make the blossom festival the outstanding event of the season.
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Maine
Greene
Mane
Lewiston
Maine Development Commission
Maine Department of Agriculture, Extension Service
Maine Pomological Society
Maine Federation of Women's Clubs
Bates College
Lewiston Armory
Barrows
Governors Council
Chésén Quetn
Maine Department of Agriculture
Extension Service
Stanley Painter
Morse high seniors stage Tom Sawyer in auditorium
Morse high school seniors presented Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer directed by Miss M Agnes Fahey in the auditorium before a large audience. Cast members included William W Owen as Tom Sawyer and George Moody as Joe Harper with Becky Thatcher played by Rush Robinson and Aunt Polly by Eileen Jones. The production featured a full evening of acting with a three act setting in Aunt Polly's home, props loaned from local shops, and music by Raymond Vachon Linwood Russell and Vincent Henderson. The Maine Garden Club Federation held an April meeting at the WLU clubhouse in Auburn discussing highway liquor advertising bans and billboard tax bills with telegrams sent to the Legislature.
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M. Agnes Fahey
Morse High School
Mark Twain
Tom Sawyer
Charles George
Fahey
Isabel Gediman
William W. Owen
Henry W. Owen
Charles “Buddy” Plummer
Leland
Plummer
Channing Shorey
Morse High
Huckleberry Finn
Adam Dunningan
James C. Parker
George Moody
George P. Moody
Joe Harper
Eileen Jones
Addison Jones
Col. Dummer Sewall
North Bath Road
Miss Wing
Morse
Tom
Becky Thatcher
William S. Tait
Plorence Tait
Sereny Harper
Polly
Joe
Susy Harper
Susy
Betty le
Edward J. Lee
Phyllis Sandelin
Hugo F. Sanderlin
West Bath
Douglas
James Steen
Aubrey E. Steen
Jim
Ralph Dale
Ralph O. Dale
Aunt Polly
St. Petersburg
Baker's Plays
Boston
Los Angeles
J. Edward Pomeroy
Kathleen Pepper
Miss Gediman
Virginia Jewett
Carl Earlbach
Earlbach
Gediman
Theryl Robbins
Robert Sturtevant
Kenneth Bertrand
Everett Norton
Clement Robichaud
Rebecca Miller
Edythe Barter
Martha Hamblett
Alfred Gallant
Glenys Mank
Laura Craft
Doris Crocker
Doris Lesier
Ida Johns
Maine
Maine Garden Club Federation
WLU
Auburn
Fred S. Woods
Portland
Augusta
Dr Henry L Stickney to observe Coronation trip
Dr Henry Ladd Stickney chief medical officer of the Veterans Administration Hospital and Mrs Stickney leave Friday for a six week abroad trip. They will observe the London Coronation on May 12 and sail from New York on the SS Bremen at midnight for Cherbourg arriving April 23.
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Henry Ladd Stickney
Veterans Administration, Hospital
Stickney
London
Gardiner
New York City
Cherbourg
Bath tourists visit studios during Hollywood trip
Mr and Mrs Oliver Moses and Mr and Mrs F B Nichols toured California on a Panama Canal to Pacific coast trip. They visited a working Hollywood movie studio, Musk surroundings, Grauman Chinese Theatre, Santa Monica, Malibu Beach, and Beverly Hills. They also toured San Diego aboard ships, to Agua Caliente racetrack, Coronado Beach, La Jolla, and Imperial Valley before continuing east from San Francisco.
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Oliver Moses
F. B. Nichols
San Francisco
Pacific Coast
Panama Canal
Los Angeles
Hollywood
Santa Monica
Malibu Beach
Beverly Hills
Mission Inn
Riverside
Cathay Theatre
Joe Brown
San Diego
Samuel R. Percy
Allen M. Irish
Roy Donnell
Irving L. Hopkins
Bath
Arthur Hagan
California
Mexico
Agua Caliente
Isthmian Line
Tus Caloosa City
W. R. Freeman
Marion Hill
Coronado Beach
la Jolla
Laguna Beach
Mountains
Imperial Valley
Moses
Nichol
Canyons
Texas
New Orleans
Dixie
New York
First annual Cony High C Club dance announced
The Cony High School C Club will host its first annual dance in the high school gym on Friday evening April 23. The floor show features popular talents from the Chizzle-Wizzle Fair with Fred Brown performing singing and snake-hips dancing. Mary Lee, Martin Damborg, Ed Barrows, and Ann Gray appear as a comedy trio. Frank Aducci leads the orchestra. refreshments will be served.
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Cony High School
Fred Brown
Mary Lee
Martin Damborg
Ed Barrows
Ann Gray
Junior Red Cross Conference in Bath
The first Junior Red Cross conference in Bath is set for Saturday at 9 30 in Morse high school auditorium. A two hour program will feature community singing, speeches, and exhibits with all Bath schools as members, plus invited guests from Brunswick Woolwich and Phippsburg.
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Central Grammar School
Marjorie P Troop
South Street
M. Jane Feere
D.ke School
Janeite W Smith
Morse High
Haz*l V Cunningham
North Grammar
Margaret M. Mackinnon
Esher Ho Cremmend
Allin Spear
Bazi
ARCG
Miss MacQuaid
Red Cross Weoin
Jo Baws
Ces
Red Cross
Ols
Quimby Family Civil War Memoir Featured in Hall Portrait
A Bar Harbor family memorial highlights William Quimby and four brothers who served in the Civil War. The hall displays a tintype of Robert Quimby and his sons, with Lieut. Daniel and Lieut. James Quimby killed at Fredericksburg, while Lieut. Robert Quimby and Michael Quimby survived. The family note recalls the teens who enlisted and served together after the war.
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Pheograph
Lincoln
William Quimby
Bar Harbor
Quimb
Wilikun Quimby
Robert Quimby
Daniel Quimby
Michael Daniel
Robert
Michael
James Quimby
Fredericksburg
Millinocket Lays Cornerstone for New Post Office
The cornerstone of the new $8000 post office building in Millinocket was laid on Saturday afternoon in a program with government state and local officials and citizens. The event marked a historic moment for Millinocket known as the Magic City.
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Millinocket
Bath Country Club Sets May 1 Opening For Season
Bath Country Club directors meet at Bath Savings Institution announce tentative season start on Saturday May 1 with early opening possible. Jimmie Jones returns from Panama Canal Zone to lead Gatun Locks Golf Club duties by late May as course prep begins. Dining room overseen by Mrs John H Grindel plans to open May 15 with added members and stronger finances forecast.
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Bath Country Club
Bath Savings Institution
Allan Spear
Jearlier
Jimmie Jones
Panama Canal Zone
Gatun Locks
Giated
John H. Grindel
Nno
Meadows
Weeks Ave
Last Tar
Seaay Mietee Hienachoel Boys’ Golf Club
Charc
Spear
Haareld Brown
Minse
Tacuiy
Brown
Ateriors
Bowdoin Music Dept Plans May Ives Chardon Concerts
The Bowdoin College department of MUSIC announces a May 13 concert with Ives Chardon and the Boston Symphony Orchestra performing chamber music by modern composers. A Bowdoin Glee Club concert is planned for May 1 featuring works by Baton Corinne Paine and Dorothy George.
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Bowdoin College Department of Music
Con- Hotsen Om
Ives Chardon
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Bowdoin College Glee Club
Su Vatuuing Aricts
Baton
Corinne Paine
Dorothy George
Methodists Open Conference in Portland Maine
The Maine Annual Conference opens in Portland with Rev. Harley A. Shuttuck on the statistical staff and Bishop Charles Wesley Burns presiding. Attendance by Bath and Portland churches expected all week. An Apple Blossom Festival in Greene near Lewiston May 22 aims to showcase Maine as a spring destinations with a coronation, parade and Apple Blossom Ball.
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Harley A. Shuttuck
Beacon Street Methodist Church
Portland
Maine
Chestnut Street Methodist Episcopal Church
Albert D. Parker
Shattuck
Charles Wesley Burns
D. D
Boston
Ernest Heywood
Wesley Church
Bath
Retirement of Bowdoin Overseer Cobb Cited for Health
President K C M S reveals the retirement of former Bowdoin Overseer and Trustee William Titcomb Cobb due to health reasons. Cobb, a 1977 Bowdoin graduate, served as chairman of the Visiting Committee since 1925 and previously held top governance roles beginning in 1908.
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Willian Titcomb Cobb
Board of Trustes
Bowdoin
Rockland
Bath Woman Joins Pine Tree Society Executive Board
In Augusta on Tuesday the Pine Tree Society for Crippled Children added members to its executive board. New appointees include Mrs Henry Campbell of Augusta and Mrs Donald Payson of Portland along with Dr Herbert R. Robes of Augusta and others. The board plans to focus on access to clinics, transportation, and vocational training for crippled children. The annual meeting is set for May with Mrs Haven Sawyer of Bangor calling the meeting and outlining the committee leadership.
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Pine Tree Society For
Augusta
Tai
Port
Henry Campbell
Donald Payson
Portland
Herbert R. Robes
Sumersewall
Bath
Dhorhe Buckner
Edith Im
Director of Art Interesting Speaker at PTA Meeting
The Dike P T A held a meeting in the North Community Clubhouse with Mrs John M. Conley and Mrs Bee We Crooker presiding. A nominating committee consisting of Mrs John E Atwood Mrs Daniell MillecDonald and Mrs Henry L Adams was announced for the May 14 meeting. A Jun Hl hats CUster Kee Lo is announced for Morse Jug auditorium May 1.
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Mies Helets Viermey
Noth
John M. Conley
Bee We Crooker
Avilly Pollosh RN
John E Atwood
Daniell
Henry L. Adams
Custer
Morse Jug
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