Maine voters face three constitutional questions September 11
Maine residents will vote on a constitutional convention election the use of voting machines and a two million dollar bond for relief. The Direct Initiative Act proposes a two percent excise tax on electric light and power companies, payable by the firms and ultimately borne by consumers.
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Maine
Light and Power
Public Utilities Commission
State of
Electric Light and
Light and Power Company
National Light and Power
Light and Power Companies
Two Hallowell youths sail Kennebec river sloop
Earle Tibbetts Jr built a 15 foot sloop last year and tested it at Ward pond. This summer the boat is active on the Kennebec with Elwin Bartels as mate, making frequent trips up and down the river with success.
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Hallowell
Kennebec River
Earle Tibbetts, Jr
Soa
Ward Pond
Elwin Bartels
Robin Nest Found On Rails Aboard Freight Car Route
A telegram to yard masters on the Peterboro to Toronto line reports a robin's nest on the rods of freight car No 403102 with worms ready at each terminal. The note, told to a Lewis ton woman, mentions Mother in charge and dinner awaited the hungry robins at every stop en route to the World's Fair.
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Canadian National Railway
Lewiston
Peterboro
Toronto
Bath Iron Works adopts new 32 hour week schedule
Bath Iron Works announces a 32 hour work week under the National Industrial Recovery Act code. Workers will clock six and a half hours for four days and six hours on Friday with a lunch break. Two shifts run 7 am to 11 am and 11:30 am to 2 pm for morning. 2 pm to 6 pm and 6:30 pm to 9 pm for afternoon, with Friday early closures. Archibald M. Main signs.
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Bath Iron Works Corp
Congress Shirt Co. Adopts Five Day Week Schedule
Congress Shirt Co. announces a five day work week starting Monday with closing all day Saturday. Hours are 7 30 a m to 4 30 p m.
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Congress Shirt Co
Redlon’s Announces 39 Hour Week Schedule
At M. Redlon's the new 39 hour weekly schedule begins Monday. Weekdays run 8 to 4 with a one hour lunch break and Saturdays from 8 to 12 noon.
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O. M. Redlon
Winners of Grange Contest Dined After Program
Winners in an 11 week Grange contest at West Bath were entertained by the losers after the weekly meeting. 131 members, including 33 visitors, attended. Winners led by David Fields and Edwin Haggett. losers led by Herbert Cavanaugh and Alice Johnson.
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West Bath Grange
Lillian E. Lewin
The
Grange
David Fields
Edwin W. Haggett
Alice F. Johnson
Fred K. Sturtevant
James B. Lemont
Everett G. Lemont
Herbert S. Ca
Haggett
Chester E. McCrater
Holbrook
Topsham
West Bath
Peculiar Law Case Involving Horse Sale
A dispute over ownership of a work horse named Jerry pits Thaddeus Hedrick and Harvey Bates against Mrs. Allen L. Cates after a spring sale. Cates claims the horse was bought with her money and that the sale to Hedrick was invalid following a divorce. Judge John J. Keegan reserved his decision after hearing five Maine Reports cases cited by both sides.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerry
Thaddeus Hedrick
Bath Truckman
Allen L. Cates
West Bath
Cates
Hedrick
Bates
John P. Carey, Jr
Edward W. Bridgham
John J. Keegan
Maine
Keegan
WinneganceProgress: Roosevelt Park Gets Major Additions
Charles Leeman advances improvements at Roosevelt Park on Winnegance lake with 100 steps to the water, 20 bath houses, a novel diving platform float, a 100 foot pier, and a sandy, screened children’s beach. Vacation church school capped a week with 32 registrants and an exhibition in Winnegance chapel. Alton Reed to open Parker Head store, Elmer Coggeshall crews gravel near Dickinson place.
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Charles Leeman
Roosevelt Park O
Winnegance Lake
Sason
Winnexgance Chapel
First Baptist Parsonage
Winnegance
Bath
Jesus
M. Helen Sims
Charles R. Sims
Leah Merrill
Miss Sims
Eleanor Wright
Anna Perkins
Alton P. Reed
Parker Head
Elmer Coggeshall
Phippsburg Center
Dickinson Place
Rotary talk praises voting machines for faster counts
Bath Rotary heard A R Bailey of Automatic Voting Corp discuss the lever operated machine ballot. In use since 1895 with 30 000 in operation, it costs about 900 per unit and uses seven machines per city ward. Demonstrations precede elections and Bill Harris of Waterbury shared success stories.
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Bath Rotary Club
A. R. Bailey
Automatic Voting Corporation
Jamestown
N. Y
Bill’ Harris
Waterbury
Conn
Harry T. Passmore
Charles P. Wetherbee
Shaw Mansion Eyes Sale Turned Hotel Prospect
Bath residents discuss the Shaw estate sale of the Center and High streets mansion once occupied by Mrs. Shaw. With the furniture largely removed and no will disposal, speculation grows that the dwelling could become a profitable hotel site in a prime traffic area overlooking the Kennebec River. Fr ego Hill of Worcester visits Miss Sybil Coates at Small Point Beach.
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Bath
Albert H
Kennebec River
Frances Hill
Worcester, Mass
Sybil Coates
Small Point Beach
Probe Continues Into Bowdoin Killing Suspects
The Bowdoin case involving Chester Fowler of South Portland and Joseph Curtis of Lisbon Falls remains open as authorities press to identify a mysterious Slavish man said to have died there six months ago. Sheriff Henderson and special investigator Cooper pursue tips and canvass Bowdoin farms to locate a possible victim.
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Chester Fowler
South Portland
Joseph Curtis
Lisbon Falls
Bowdoin
Fowler
John Prp. Carey
Albert Henderson
Cooper
Waldo County
Clyde R. Chapman
Belfast
John P. Carey, Jr
Bath
Mr. Carey
Henderson
Chapman
Bowdwin
Bowdoin Farms
Sagadahoc
Auburn
Saco
Sullivan
Annual Bubier Family Reunion Honors Officers and Attendance
The 33rd Bubier family reunion was held at Ditch Field Fair Grounds with a prenic dinner at noon and events including quoits and a baseball game between married and single men. Officers elected were Kenneth Bubier president Walter Bubier vice president Carre Ricker secretary and Blanch Bubier treasurer. Attendance reached 80 with seven guests among many relatives listed from multiple towns. The next meeting is planned for the first Sunday in August 1934.
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Bubier
Ditchfield Fair Grounds
Kenneth Bubier
Walter Bubier
Carre Ricker
Blanch Bubier
Elton Ricker
Stanley Bubier
Fernley Bubier
Rue
Conant
Gladys Atkins
Auburn
Fred Bubier
Willis Bubier
May
John Scott
Pawtucket
R. J
Carrie Ricker
Erlon
Eleanor Ricker
Margaret Bubier
Marion Bubier
Chester Small
Charles Bubier
Winfield Bubier
Litchfield
Ernest Millay
Bowdoinham
Dorothy Atkins
Brunswick
Mary Bubier
Bath
Lewis Bubier
George Burke
Lisbon
Ralph Cornish
Forest McIvers
Livermore Falls
Karl Sewall
Portland
Lester Bubier
Gorham
N. H
David Smith
Harry Burke
Retiring President Honored by WCTU at Farewell Reception
The W C T U and guests hosted a farewell reception for retiring president Mrs Howard P Jett at First Baptist Church parlor. Decorated with flowers, a handbag was presented by county president Mrs Wilfred Chaney. A program featured piano duets, vocal solos and readings, followed by tea and crackers. Rev and Mrs Jett and their son plan to move to Tennessee later this week.
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Howard P. Jett
First Baptist Church
Jett
Wilfred Chaney
Chaney
Omah
Beth Trott
Ellen Hodgkins
Lucy Bragg
M. Helen Sims
Two Lewiston Women Sail for England on Cunard Autonia
Miss H. Catherine Paul of Western Promenade and Miss Claire Dostie of Pinestreet Lewiston depart Tuesday for Montreal to sail Friday aboard the Cunard liner Autonia bound for England. They plan a three month tour of England France and Italy by motor and will return in October on the SS Samaria.
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H. Catherine Paul
Western Promenade
Claire Dostie
Pinestreet
Lewiston
Montreal
Cunard
England
France
Italy
Miss Dostie
Samaria
Phippsburg PTA Dance Draws Notable Local Crowd
The Phippsburg town hall hosted a Friday PTA entertainment and dance with a good turnout. Mrs Sturtevant impressed with her singing while the Comic orchestra provided the music. Mrs Helen Driscoll and Miss Grace Dickinson hosted guests from Portland. Many local families and visitors from Maine, Ohio, Indiana, Florida, New York, Boston, and New Hampshire gathered for the event and subsequent church offerings. The note also lists numerous summer guests at Parker Head, Squirrel Island, and nearby locales, plus plans for church services and a parish picnic after services.
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Town Hall
Sturtevan
Helen Driscoll
Portland
Grace Dickinson
Under-the-lee
Bess Dickinson
J. F. Leeach
the Lindens
M. S. Paulson
McKeesport
Penn
Phippsburg
Roy Chamberlain
Dartmatth College
Ohio
Indiana
Florida
New York
Boston
New Hampshire
Maine
Walter Percy
Turner McCarty
Parker Head
McCarty
Leeach
Percy
Ellen Coombs
Keith Coombs
Alice
Abbie Minott
Francis Faxon
Wappinger Falls
New York City
Faxon
F. S. Sawyer
Sawyer
Miro James Potter
W. F. Forbes
Cap
W. B. Perry
Doris Perry
Cora. Campbell
Mabel Spear
Roslindale
Mass
Squirrel Island
Gilbert
Edith Atwood
Squirrel Inn
Charles E. Spear
James Frizzell
Dorothy
Daniel Moss
Buffalo
N. Y
Campbell Farm
Dayton Hill
Audrey
William
Bath
Hatch Camp
Popham Beach
William Hill
Nangatuck
Conn
Harold Campbell
Hebert Kellway
Frank Percy
Lafayette Oliver
Nathaniel Percy
F. C. Bowker
Jay Bowker
James Perry
Old Orchard
Edward Breare
Revere
Maass
Harry Gilmore
Ernest Gibby
Gertrude
Ernest
Gibbys
George Gunn
Nottingham
N. H
Edith Wheeler
Maurice Libby
Boothbay Harbor
Olive Porter
Eleanor Brown
Leon Eaton
Small Point
Margaret Kelley
Newark
N. J
Walter Libby
Joseph J. Smith
Ernest Rogers
George Durwent
Popham Beach Directors Meet on Proposals and Plans
Popham Beach Improvement Association directors met at the library to discuss road work with federal reemployment funds, a possible wharf on Fort Popham, taking over the library, rebuilding the boardwalk, and Fort Baldwins reservation issues. The group, about 60 members, set August 12 for its annual meeting and rehearsals for a Beach play on August 18 and 19.
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Popham Beach
Owen
Popham Road
Stacey
Fort Popham
Society Hall
Albert Willard Smith
Popham Beach Notes Highlight Summer Visitors and Local News
Boston Herald editor John Clair Minott will spend a week at Popham Beach with family, while many guests from Massachusetts, Maine and New Jersey enjoy cottages and weekends. The repaired dike is back in place under Lyman Oliver, and a Riverside tea room project has become a new store run by Frederick Humiston. A 16th birthday party for Miss Jane Donnell drew numerous Bath and area friends.
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John Clair Minott
Boston Herald
Popham Beach
Popham
George Percy
Salem
Mass
Stanley W. Hyde
Yarmouth
Ralph Marsh
New Jersey
Riverside Hotel
Humiston's
Frederick Humiston
Herbert J. Kellaway
Newton Center
Harold Campbell
Mildred
Portland
Jane Donnell
Ruth Powers
Frances Shaughnessy
Carol Stevens
Ellen Stevens
Marjorie Trott
Kathleen Scott
Barbara Donnell
Edward Delong
John McCarty
William Gove
Robert Hatch
Edward Owen
Wesley Marco
Linwood Haines
Robert Burgon
Robert Stevens
Hiram Stevens
Leon Buck
Bath
Arline Young
Dorothy Mattson
Betty Mattson
Newtonville
Corrine Doane
Wakefield
James Kelsey
Jersey City
N. J
Mrs Marstin Barter Rites Held After Boothbay Harbor Death
Mrs. Marstin L Barter 47 a former Boothbay Harbor resident died Thursday at her home after a long illness Born Eva Merry she was daughter of William and Jennie Merry Survived by husband four children and seven grandchildren three sisters and three brothers Funeral services were held Sunday at E J Hutchinson funeral home Boothbay Harbor Attending from this city were Capt and Mrs Thomas Haley Mr and Mrs Thatcher Pinkham and Clement Barter
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Marstin L. Barter
Boothbay Harbor
Eva Merry
William
Jennie Bennett Merry
Boothbay
Methodist Church
Doris
Royce Johnson
Mason
Harmon
Georgia
Arline~Barter
Boothbay—Harbor
Julia Tibbetts
Elmer Bergquist
Sherburne D. Stevens
Lyman
Zina P. Merry
Edward Merry
Portland
Clement M. Barter
William Barter
Thomas K. Haley
E. J. Hutchinson
Oak Street
Thatcher B. Pinkham
College Players stage Milne farce The Perfect Alibi
Several hundred attended Memorial Hall Bowdoin College for The College Players premiere of A A Milne detective comedy The Perfect Alibi. Cast includes Paul Killiam Dorothy Church Willard Travis Edwin G Walker and Margot Russell with a Columbia Theatre showing under Junior Hospital League and Samuel French.
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Memorial Hall
Bowdoin College
College Players
A. A. Milne
Columbia Theatre
Junior Hospital League
Paul Killiam
Jimmy Ludgrove
Dorothy Church
Susan Cunningham
Ward
Arthur Ludgrove
England
Mr. Childs
Tileston Perry
Edward Laverick
Ludgrove
Dudley
Wyman Holmes
Edward P. Carter
Arthur
Major Fothergill
Philip G. Parker
Walker
Willard Travis
Mallet
Scotland Yard
Arthur Ludgrave
Heron Place
Samuel French
Columbia
Philip S. Wilder
Uncle Dudley
Miss Russell
Mrs Ellen Trainor 85 Widowed Mother Passes After Illness
Mrs Ellen T Trainor 85 widow of Archibald Trainor died Friday morning at 37 Crescent Street after a long illness. Born in North Whitefield to Irish immigrants, she married in 1886 and leaves seven children Roger Thomas John Katherine Mullaney and Harry Bloxsom all of Bath, plus 21 grandchildren and three great grandchildren. She was a member of St Marys Catholic church.
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Ellen T. Trainor
Archibald Trainor
Crescent Street
Mr. Trainor
Roger
North Whitefield
Thomas
John Trainor
Katherine Mullaney
Harry Bloxsom
Bath
St. Mary's Catholic Church
Ralph E. Battison Dies in Hollywood Auto Crash
Ralph E. Battison, 31, former Old Orchard resident and Bowdoin College alumnus, was killed in a Hollywood California automobile accident. He leaves a wife Claire Parker of West Barnstable, Mass., his father and a brother Harold in Chicago.
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Ralph E. Battison
Old Orchard
Howard Battison
Hortense Emmons
Bath
Hollywood
Calif
Bowdoin College
California
Claire Parker
West Barnstable
Mass
Harold
Chicago
Mrs Percy's Funeral Held at 726 High Street
Funeral services for Mrs. Sarah H. Percy wife of William V. Percy drew a large gathering Friday at the family home 726 High street Rev David L Wilson of Central church officiated The bearers named were Harry W Cros man Owen J Ledyard Fred Lord and Wallace Ham Burial followed at Oak Grove
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah H. Percy
William V. Percy
High Street
David L. Wilson
Central Church
Harry W. Crosman
Owen J. Ledyard
Fred Lord
Wallace Ham
Oak Grove
Mrs Hannah E Stevens Dies at 86 in Five Islands
Mrs Hannah Elizabeth Stevens 86 widow of Benjamin S Stevens of Georgetown died Monday at her son James M Stevens home in Five Islands. She was born in Georgetown and was the daughter of Edward and Mary Synnot. She lived there most of her life.
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Hannah Elizabeth Stevens
Benjamin S. Stevens
Georgetown
James M.—Stevens
Five Islands
Edward and
Mary Synnott
Augusta man bets five years out of court after drink fine
William O’Brien of Augusta nearly beat a bet by staying out of court for almost five years after paying a $4 intoxication fine to Judge Frank E. Southard. On Thursday he faced the same charge again and a new 30 day sentence was imposed as he spoke of finding work.
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William O'Brien
Augusta
Frank E. Southard
O'Brien
Bill
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Archibald M. Main
M. Redlon
West Bath Grange Hall
Shaw Mansion
Sagadahoc County
W.C.T.U
City
H. W. Cutting
Annie Cutting
Dromore
Arthur Kreidler
Bath City Hospital
Vivian Schneiter
Cathance
William Hallett
Ora Hallett
Stockton Springs
Leslie Logan
East Boston
Bridge Club
Logan
Virginia
Betty
Donald
Ella Bonner
George Bonner
Paul
Douglas Wilson
Thomas McLean
Joseph Kane
Rita
Edward
Lewis Leary
Arlene
Michael Scanel
Peggy
Barbara
Chelsea
Mrs. Marstin L. Barter
Mrs. Percy
Hannah E. Stevens
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