Remembering boat and train travel before the auto era
The afternoon Maine Central train signals a bygone era when steamers, river boats, and local hacks ferried riders to Boothbay Harbor and island resorts. The piece recalls the Henry Morrison and Islander paddle steamers, up-river routes, and bustling Bath Popham routes, contrasting past crowds with today’s sparse passengers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine Central
City Landing
Boothbay Harbor
Rockies
Eastern Steamboat Co
New England
Bath
Boston
Arrowsic Toll Bridge
Hockomock Bay
Hell’s Gate
Boothbay
Henry Morrison
Popham
Creedmore
Laurena
Percy V
Jimmie” Perkins
Popham Beach
Kennebec
Sasanoa
Maine
Voters to receive three ballots in September election
Absentee ballots are available at the city clerk. Voters will use three ballots at the polls: white for candidates, pink for state legislative matters, and yellow for liquor and constitutional questions. Contests include Senate, Governor, Congress, and local offices with several unopposed Republicans. Liquor questions cover package sales, on premise consumption, and tavern rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Margaret C. Smith
Paul R. Fullam
Burton M. Cross
Edmund S. Muskie
Congress
Robert Hale
James C. Oliver
Charles F. Cummings
Alexander Burgess
E. Mason Wright
Charles T. W. Blake
Bath
Louis O. Couture
Rodney E. Ross, Jr
Barbara L. Brewer
Harry E. Cooke
Arrowsie
Phippsburg
Topsham
West Bath
Woolwich
John L. Back
Kenneth L. Snowden
State Liquor Commission
Legion Drum Corps Take Third at Rockland Lobster Festival Parade
The American Legion Junior Drum and Bugle Corps finished third with 85.3 points behind Port O'Rockland Junior and Senior Drum Corps at Rockland’s Lobster Festival parade. Bath unit scored 81.3, with Brunswick and Lewiston also competing. Bath won a $75 prize for third place.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion
Rockland
Port O'Rockland
William Grist
Auburn
Elmer E. Bartle
Antonio Palleria
Bath
Brunswick Drum Corps
Lewiston American Legion
Smith-Tobey Post Corps
William Milliken
Bath Corps
Andover
Bath Industry Boosts City Food Production
A feature on Bath industrial growth highlights Pie Masters Packers Inc and Bath Canning Co supplying pumpkin squash and sardines for both Maine and far markets. It notes 12 000 cases yearly, 30 acres for squash, seasonal employment for about 20 workers at Pie Masters and up to 230 at Bath Canning with canning lines using Commander and Charro t brands. Crew includes 170 women and 50 to 60 men during peak, with fish caught April to July and August to September resumption. processes include salting brining flaking steam drying and retorting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Bath Iron Works
Hyde Windlass Co
Torrey Roller
North End
Kelley, Spear Co
Piemasters Packers, Inc
Maine
Ine
Milwaukee
Norfolk
Honolulu
Bath Canning Co
David R. Rutherford
Destroyer Escort Hammerberg to Launch August 20
The destroyer escort USS Hammerberg will launch from Bath Iron Works Friday evening August 20 at 6 p.m. It is the third and last postwar escort in the current Bath program. Hammerberg displaces about 1850 tons, is 314 feet long, with engines delivering over 20 000 horsepower and a crew of nine officers and 140 enlisted men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hammerberg
Bath Iron Works
Bath
Cromwell
Boston Naval Shipyard
Bath Yard
Bath Junior High Named After City School Opens At $318000
The Bath City Council named the new Bath Junior High School Bath Junior High after August approval. The $318,000 building faced last week’s council actions including traffic light funding, taxi licenses, and a $500 bill for city solicitor Rubin. The meeting also authorized land purchases and paving decisions, with final acceptance of the school largely complete and a one-year guarantee noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Junior High
Bath
Stanley R. Hunter
Hunter
Nathan C. White
Leeman Highway
Washington Street
Eugene Dauphin
Tarbox Street
Council
White
Dauphin
Elwood Legard
Legard
Harold J. Rubin
Peerless Bonding and Casualty Co
Bangor
Rubin
Jesse Allen
Junior High
Donald Perry
Ward 7
Harry Cooke
Philip Oliver
Louis Couture
Ronald Oulton
Harold Sonia
Thomas Allegrin
Brunswick Road
Oulton
Sonia
Allegrin
Vine
Vine Street
Oak Street
Lyman C. Poole
Winship Street
Chester H. Long
North Bath
John J. Pagurko
Edward Erskine
Tallman Street
Jarvis Snider
Meadowway
City Manager's July Report Reveals Police Activity
The City Manager's July report shows 44 arrests by the Police Department, 14 non fatal motor vehicle accidents, and 174 miscellaneous complaints. Parking meter collections totaled $970.70 for the month with $58.50 in meter fines. Sgt. Gaudreau serves as acting chief until a new chief is appointed.
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Gaudreau
Thirty Five Brothers Attend Y M C A Day Camp
A Y M C A Day Camp enrollment lists 35 brothers participating in the summer camping and swimming program. Counselors include Dean and Bobby McDougal and Peter Hanson, with many siblings from local families named alongside their addresses.
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Dean
Bobby McDougal
Billy
Charlie Hanson
Peter Hanson
Robert
Steve Berry
Harry A. Berry
York Street
Larry
Mike Brown
Ernest Brown
Y.M.C.A
John McGuire
Edward Wagner
George Wagner
Fred Jackson
William Jackson
Ronald Farr
Donald Farr
Richard Sinibaldi
Gary Fitzgerald
David McGuire
Ernest Quinn
Douglas Quinn
Jesse Chubbuck
Peter Chubbuck
Robert Berry
George Pushard
Ronald Pushard
Wayne Fitzgerald
Dean McDougal
Larry Brown
Arthur McDougal
Teen-age Players At Small Point Show Real Talent
A youth troupe the Small Point Playhouse presented a three sketch fundraising variety show in Miss Peters barn, featuring Shakespeare Twain and Poe. The cast of seventeen included Katherine Motley as Aunt Polly and Tommie Motley in blackface humor, with proceeds benefiting Hyde Memorial Home for Crippled Children in Bath.
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Small Point Playhouse
Miss Peter's
William Shakespeare
Mark Twain
Edgar Allen Poe
Hyde Memorial Home
Bath
William Archer
Katherine Motley
Miss Motley
Aunt Polly
John McMann
Tom Sawyer
Tom
Tommie Motley
John McNann
Nixon may headline Maine Republican rally in West Bath
Vice President Richard M Nixon, resting near Ogunquit, is invited to speak at a Friday evening Republican rally at Rock Hill Inn in West Bath. If he attends he will join Senator Margaret Chase Smith, Rep. Robert Hale and Governor Burton Cross after a 6 15 clambake.
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Richard M Nixon
Ogunquit
Rock Hill Inn
West Bath
George L. Blanchard
Topsham
Sugadahoe County
Republican Committee
Nixon
U.S
Margaret Chase Smith
U S
Robert Hale
Burton M. Cross
Larrabee
New Meadows
Bath
Rotary District Governor Audette Visits Bath Club
Bath Rotarians heard an address on Rotary Its Aims and Purposes by Roger G Audette governor of Rotary International District 285 during his annual club visit. Audette, CN Rail agent at Trois Rivières, has served since 1945 and led local civic groups, including the St Maurice Valley crippled children society.
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Bath
Rotary
Iits
Sedgwick
Roger G. Audette
Rotary International
Quebec
Maine
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Audette
Canadian National Railways
Trois Rivieres
Que
Rotary Club of
Victoriaville
Canadian Commercial College
Rotary Club
St. Maurice Valley
Quebec Society For Crippled Children
Open House Planned for New Bath Junior High
Superintendent Addison announced paving and drainage work at Bath Junior High will finish just before the September 7 opening. A public open house may be held after the sidewalk, drive and parking areas are completed and desks and furnishings are installed, likely in the first week of September.
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Bath Junior High
Loring Ro Additon
Additon
Addison
Brunswick trooper injured as speedER escapes Friday chase
State Trooper George C Buzzell of Brunswick escaped serious injury after a Route 1 collision with a truck during a 75 mph pursuit. Buzzell suffered head and leg bruises, was hospitalized briefly, then discharged. the truck driver Herbert Simpson and his wife Mrs Simpson received minor injuries.
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George C. Buzzell
Brunswick
Route 1
Buzzell
Bernard Holdsworth
Bowdoin Pines
Herbert Simpson
Simpson
Holdsworth
Miss Ethel L. Hooper Resigns From Military Home
Miss Ethel L. Cooper a food service worker at the Military and Naval Children's Home retires for health reasons and plans to live with her brother Ernest Cooper in Arlington Massachusetts. A farewell dinner was held with staff, gifts and thanks for her service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ethel L. Cooper
Food Service
Military
Naval Children's Home
Arlington
Mass
Ernest Cooper
Merna Foulkes
Miss Cooper
Katherine Busch
Grace Ulman
Charlene Guynn
Antoinette Clark
Arlene Brown
Foulkes
Margaret Hutchins
Myra Pennell
Louise Squires
Earlene Libby
Alice Stilphen
Phoebe Grant
Sigbert Busch
Bath Home
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Islands
Legion Drum Corps
Lime City Units Cup
B.I.W
Cooke
Frank L. Moriarty
City of
Moriarty
Donnelly Advertising Co
Arthur Gediman
Robert Brewer
Stanley Hunter
Eastham Guild, Jr
Harvey Rowe
Merritt Mitchell
Shaw Street
Mike
Steve Brown
Alan and
David Church
Shaw Church
Bowman Street
Jesse
Pete Chubbuck
Wiscasset
Harvey Chubbuck
Donald
Howard D. Farr
Marshall Avenue
Gary
Walter B. Fitzgerald
Court Street
Frederick and
Billy Jackson
Office Drive
Arthur
John McDougal
Joseph McDougal
Plum Lane
David
Central Avenue
Earle
George Moore
Fenton Moore
Cherry Street
George
Frederick Pushard
Middle Street
Douglas
Richard
Norman Sinibaldi
Ettore Sinibaldi
Snow Park
Edward
Clarence Wagner
Noble Avenue
Hyde Home
New Junior
Speeder
Ethel L. Hooper
Orphan’s Home Staff
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