Garden Club Fountain Project Endorsed by Three Groups
Three organizations back the Bath Garden Club fountain for the city park. Edward F. Cox cites its art value and historic context while Roger M. Luke and Mrs. Edmund Socee affirm planning and federation support. Public donations urged, with donors thanked for contributing to a lasting community landmark.
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Garden Club’s Park
Arthur Bowker
Pine Street
William Dennison
Creen Street
Edward F. Cox
Bath Area
William Zorach
Bath Garden Club
Planning Board
Garden Club
Zorach
Luke
Bath Planning Board
Bath
Zorac
Federation
Socec
The
Garden Federation of
Bath School Board Names Two Teachers and Resigns Mitchell Principal
Bath Board of Education accepted the hiring of two new teachers and the resignation of Mitchell School principal Carl Burnham. John E. Baker was named guidance counselor and fifth grade teacher Ann MacDonald was chosen at North Grammar. Robert Carter and Louise Richmond will swap roles as local transfers.
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Bath
Bath Board of Education
Seen of
John E. Baker
Clinton
Baker
Supt
Loring R. Addison
Dixfield
Windham
Fairfield
University of Maine
North Grammar School
Ann MacDonald
Brunswick
Gorham State Teachers College
MacDonald
Cape Elizabeth
Augusta
North Haven
Richard MacDonald
Bath Iron Works Corp
Freeport
Carl A. Burnham
Mitchell School
Burnham
Robert Carter
North Grammar
Louise Richmond
North Primary
Marjorie Bartlett
Reserve Squadron 914 Reports For Training At NAS Brunswick
Reserve Patrol Squadron 914 reported aboard Naval Air Station Brunswick for two weeks of active duty training starting August 10. The unit trains at NAS South Weymouth prior to deployment.
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Nas
South Weymouth
Naval Air Station
Brunswick
McClure's Car Parts Opens Daily in Woolwich
McClure's Car Parts at Days Ferry Road Woolwich offers parts with a boast of careful treatment for various taxes fees and fines mentioned. The ad claims reliability and urges customers to buy from McClure for authentic rebuilt auto parts and mentions contact number HI 3 9898 and daily hours until dark.
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Maine
McClure
Ferry Road
Woolwich
Weekend Warriors Train At NAS Brunswick For Ops Readiness
The Weekend Warriors stay through August 23 with Patrol Squadron 21 hosting. A four officer briefing team from VP-21 traveled to South Weymouth before reserves depart for Brunswick to explain operations. Lt Ronald H. Marcks aboard VP-914 P2V logged the 40 000th sortie. VP-914 led by LCDR George C Swallow conducts surveillance and will train in anti submarine warfare and mining flights. A mining operational readiness inspection is planned for the week of August 17. Three VP-21 officers who previously served with VP-21 were noted as wet.
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Patrol Squadron 21
South Weymouth
Brunswick
Ronald H. Marcks
NAS
GCA
George C. Swallow
VP-21
Woolwich 200th anniversary tour highlights historic homes
The Aug 7 Woolwich 200th anniversary observance featured a historic homes tour in which venues like the Old Ferry House near Day's Ferry displayed Corliss pottery and period artifacts. Participants in colonial Civil War and Gay 90s costumes toured landmarks, ending with a town meeting reenactment and a lobster bake at Woolwich Central school grounds.
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Woolwich
Day's Ferry
Priscilla K. Perkins
Kennebec River
Benedict Arnold
Quebec
Old Ferry House
Corliss
Carle E. Longfellow
Edwold Carter
John Corliss
George Washington
Lincoln
Paul J. Graustuck
Bath
Maurice Hathorne
Samuel Soule
Marcia M. Stinson
Fred Brown
Miss Perkins
David Soule
Robert Bateman
Barbara D. Kurz
Paul E. Pitman
Frank J. Bailey
Methodist Episcopal Church
North Woolwich
Middle Road
Milton Hathorne
Hildreth H. Fisher
Leverett C. Welch
Roby C. Welch
Fullerton
Henry McCarthy
Barley Neck Road
Everson Stinson
Gertrude Stacy
Frederick Gilmore
Clayton Stinson
Maurice Meathorne
Lloyd Stinson
Jeannette Stinson Snarks
Leora Dyer
John M. Leonard
George Gavett
Nancy Bruce
Deborah DeWick
First Baptist Church
Woolwich Center
Old Town House
Ernest Hathorne
Clarence Tanner
Moatsweag
Stuart Chapin
Woolwich-Wiscasset Free Will
Woolwich Central School
Charles E. Haley
Haley
Georgia Walker
Walker
Prudence
Susan Reed
Carlton Day Reed
Ruby Stimson
Pearl V. Reed
Marion Chubbuck
Maxine Walker Boyd
Senesta Ham
Isephene Soule
Gladys Hathorne
Muriel Preble
Beulah Crocker
Charlotte Leeman
Susan Howe
Charlene Soule
Janet Bailey
Fernald Bailey
Gerald Hersom
Center Baptist Church
Paul Crocker
Carlton Day Reed, Sr
Great Meadow
Samuel Guptil
Richard MckElman
Harold B. Leeman
Stanley Jack
Chester Leeman
James Dunton
George E. Wright
Davis Soule
Harold Leeman
Charles Haley
Jay
Dike Hill
U. S. Route 1
Central School
Maine Council of Churches Sets Sept 14 Education Con voca
Maine Council of Churches plans a September 14 Auburn Christian Education Convocation marking the Maine State Sunday School Association’s 90th anniversary. Seven out of state leaders will lead workshops for church officers and workers, with seven Maine educators and churchmen on the program. The theme is Christian Education In The Space Age.
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Maine Council of Churches
Auburn
Maine State Sunday School Association
Maine
High Street Methodist Church
H. Travers Smith
W. Randolph Thornton
National Council of Churches
Gusta Ernest Lexen
Bates College
Dwight R. Walsh
Cultural Heritage Department
Bates
J. Thomas Pedlow
University of Maine
Howard F. Boardman
Boston
Mildred C. Widber
Chicago
Henry Tani
Philadelphia
David Jewell
Bangor Theological Seminary
Robert S Brightman
Harrington
Muldred Egan
Nashville
Tenn
Donald W. Henderson
Windham Hill
Kenneth Patton
New York City
Thai Educators Tour Northeast United States and Canada
Forty seven Thai teachers from Indiana University School of Education visit Bath lodging at Sedgwick hotel on Sunday. The group tours Niagara Falls Harvard University White Mountains and Maine coast on a two week circuit to Quebec Montreal Kingston and back to Bloomington.
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United States
Canada
Quebec City
Montreal
Bath
Sedgwick Hotel
Thailand
School of Education
Indiana University
Bloomington
Ind
Niagara Falls
Harvard University
White Mountains
New Hampshire
Maine
Calais
Aroostook County
Quebec
Kingston
Ontario
Annual Bath Cadets Reunion Set For Sept 5
The Bath Cadets Junior Drum and Bugle Corps holds its first annual reunion at Stagecoach Inn on Sept 5 with a turkey supper, films of the corps, and a guest speaker. Co chairs William Milliken and Joseph Marquis urge all ex members and involved adults to attend. tickets via A Hallet Drug Store must be bought by Sept 1.
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Bath Cadets
Stagecoach Inn
William Milliken
Joseph Marquis
Milliken
Marquis
A. Hallet Drug Store
Old Bath History Revealed Through Ledyard Block Postcards
Old postcards found by Charles Prest of D and C Trucking reveal Bath history from the turn of the century. Images show Front street toward City Hall square with Ledyard block buildings including Bert Jack's shoe store and Shaw's Book Store. The era features trolley cars, horse drawn buggies, and now vanished landmarks alongside later replacements like Davenport Memorial hall and the First National Bank building.
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Bath
Ledyard
Charles Prest
D and C Trucking and Salvage Company
Prest
Shaw's
Front Street
City Hall Square
Pierce Block
Bert Jack
First National Bank
Charles H. Cahill
Charles T. Jackson
Maine State Liquor Store
Watson Plumbing Shop
W. H. Watson
Shepard’s Shoes
Charles W. Harriman
Hall & Hunt's
Watson's
Sagadahoc Bank
Lombard Street
Paul Revere
Old North Church
High Street
Universalist
Old City Hall
Center Street
Davenport Memorial Hall
King Tavern
Post Office Square
William King
Maine
Carlton Bridge
New Meadows Inn
Merriconeag
Harpswell
Merrymeeting Park
A. H. Shaw
Sedgwick
Royal A. Johnson
Georgetown
Winneeganee
Woolwich
Popham
Hyde Memorial Hospital adds 146000 wing
J H Miller Inc won the $146 112 bid to build a new 122 by 65 foot one story wing to Hyde Memorial Rehabilitation Hospital. The project adds therapy departments and a pre vocational evaluation unit for Maine handicapped children and adults. Other bids ranged to 181 079, with Gerard Construction and Kibler Storer among bidders. Architect is Alonzo J Harriman of Auburn.
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Hyde Memorial Rehabilitation Hospital
William ST. Dalton
Pine Tree Security
High Street
DiBiase Company Inc
Porthind
Kibler & Storer, Inc
Yarmouth
Alonzo J. Harriman
Auburn
Hyde Hospital
Maine
Pine Tree Society
Additon Urges New Bath Students To Register Soon
People moved to Bath during the summer and who have not registered their school age children are urged to do so as soon as possible. Supt. Loring R. Additon said recently.
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Bath
Fire Inspection Of Downtown Bath Underway
The Bath fire department is inspecting buildings in the downtown business district. Fire Chief Richard Frates says the checks are performed by crews of two men each.
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Bath
Bath Fire Department
Richard Frates
Morse High appoints new science teacher Mr Cozner
Supt Loring Additon announced the hiring of Mr Cozner to fill the Morse High science vacancy caused by John Choate's resignation. Cozner, formerly Islesboro High School science teacher, has 13 years experience and a Master’s in Education from the University of Maine. He plans to move Bath for the school year.
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Morse High School
University of Maine
Colby College
Waterville
Cozner
Belfast
Bath
Choate
Wilton
Morse
Margaret Choate
Bowdoin College
Lexington
Mass
Choates
Office Drive
Massachusetts
110 Foot Yacht Vedusein Visits Water District Wharf
The 110 foot Vedusein owned by Mr and Mrs George Lauder of Greenwich Conn arrived last week from Portland. Likely the largest pleasure craft docking here in years the vessel built four years ago in Landing Gor by Aaleking and Rasmessen Boat Builders and sold to Geird Hendel of Camoon. With 138 gross tons and two 910 hp diesels the yacht sleeps six plus crew of six. It carries 2600 gallons fresh water and 2300 gallons fuel limiting range to about 800 miles. Capt Lewis Conrad notes mahogany hull and upper works upkeep. The Vedusein left the Water District pier Thursday for Bristol Northeast Harbor and Camden on a general cruise. The ship drew crowds with as many as 10 to 12 cars at the pier and up to 20 observers.
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George Lauder
Greenwich
Conn
Portland
Lanwerder
Gor
Alecking and Rassmesen
Geird Hendel
Camoon
Lewis Conrad
Vad
Water District
Bristol
Northeast Harbor
Camden
Two Army Tanks Arrive In Bath For Local Guard
Two large tank type vehicles arrived at the State Armory on Lincoln Street Friday morning for local guard duties.
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Bath
State Armory
Lincoln
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William Phips
Gardiner
R. Stanley Aitken
David B. Soule
Phips Point
Robert DeWick
Pierce
Hyde Memorial Hospital
Gerard Construction Company
Lewiston
Additon
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