Bath Chronicle A mix of local feats and city notes
Sixty-two Rotary members and ladies prepared for a Portland trip with dinner at Preble House and reserved seating at Keith's theater. William Lacy, 15, swam across the Kennebec to the Arrowsic bridge and plans a Beach Lighthouse swim, as Bath plans a big army recruiting display at the police parade with a band and an airplane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Lacy
F. A. Lacy
South End
Kennebec River
J. W. Cummings Feldspar Co
Arrowsic Bridge
Young Lacy
Bath
Camp Devens
Pidgeon
Portland
Portland Art Museum
O. P. T. Wish
Last Water Main Link To North End Project Laid
August 21 1919 crews finish the final connection from the North End housing project to the city main at Washington and Pearl streets. The new pipe runs down Dummer Street and York Street to the east side of Washington Street near Dr Harry F Morin residence. Within weeks streets torn up all summer will be restored and large surface mains removed. The surface pipes caused several minor automobile accidents but are now largely out of sight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North End
Washington and
Pearl Streets
Dummer—street
York Street
Washington Street
Harry F. Morin
Toll exemption for Arrow residents sparks 40 year dispute
Aug 22 1919 Bath Maine report notes Arrow residents allegedly exempt from tolls for four decades on the bridge linking the island to the mainland. If tolls had been paid, funds might have kept the bridge repaired and avoided the current financial strain after a steel span was dropped. Also covered: military spectacle for Bath from Rockland with Army units and equipment, Boulds Orchestra at Armory, and local notes on Sagadahoc bridge controversy between State Highway Commission and Sagadahoc County commissioners over Cathance stream and Millbrook bridges, plus Bath ship trial and local commerce notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arrowsie
Woolwich
State Highway Commission
Sagadahoc
Bath hosts first municipal bargain day sale at Shaw Auto Co
Aug 24 1919 Bath prepares for a nine o clock start as Mayor Drake opens kitchen showroom sales at cost plus freight of war department provisions. The event aims to handle record crowds at Front and Ferry streets with a carload of goods. Also noted are fishing feats, local dances, theater plans and public notices across Bath and Woolwich including theater runs in Portland and the Jefferson production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Drake
Shaw Auto Co
Front
Ferry
War Department
New Arcade
Gibson’s Orchestra
Portland
New England
Collision as Chaplin signals turn off highway
Mr Chaplin attempted to turn off the state highway when the Brackley car failed to see his signal. The collision occurred but no one was injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chaplin
Navy Recruiter Seeks Trades For Swasey Cruise
Joseph Mahoney, on duty at the Navy Recruiting Station Bath, attached to the U S S Swasey, announces vacancies for machinists copper smiths blacksmiths carpenters seamen and firemen aboard the destroyer for a three months European waters cruise Young men in Bath may enlist for two three or four years and go directly from Bath to the Swasey Seamen and firemen are ratings obtainable without experience. A kitchen grease fire near the Texas Steamship Co yard caused minor damage and was extinguished by the pony chemical from Combination 4.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Mahoney
Navy
Swasey
Chief Mahoney
Bath
Texas Steamship Co
Texas Yard
Pony Chemical
Combination 4
I A
Georgetown Farewell Party and Travel Farewells
A Georgetown farewell party was hosted at the home of Mr and Mrs James Oliver on Friday night with guests including Cathy and Buddy Brown Ricky Woodruff Pamela Reed and others. Sunday featured a farewell picnic at Reid State Park attended by the Olivers Harod Brown and family Pamela Reed Ricky Woodruff and others before Jimmie began his western journey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Oliver
Cathy
Buddy Brown
Ricky Woodruff
Pamela Reed
Fred Karhl
Arce Webster
Jane Oliver
Nancy Holland
David Salmon
Bridgeport
Oliver
Jimmie
Boston
Arthur Gilman
Bath, Memorial Hospital
Howard Roberts
Litchfield Wer
Erfs
Ernest Roberts
James R. Hersey
Winthrop
Mass
Harold Hersey
Robinhood
S. T. Petoskey
Witea
Mich
Tester Cannar
St. Petersburg
Fly
Alonzo Thibodeau
Petoskeys
Beane
Canaars
Kelsea
Residents and Visitors Around St Petersburg and Nearby Areas
Mrs William Kotchedorff of St Petersburg Fla called on the Canaars and the Thibo deans. Mrs R V Woodworth of Dres den entertained her sewing club at the Lobster Pot in Robinhood on Saturday afternoon. Mr and Mrs William Zorach were in Skowhegan last week on business. Dr Melvin Jackson returned from a trip to Miami Fla and with his family left Robinhood for Boston and Miami. John Alexander of New York City left after a week's stay with his sister Mrs Wolfgang Spitzer and Mr Spitzer. The latter with his wife and child have been occupying the Rockwell cottage and is a professor at Sarah Lawrence College. New Dr and Mrs Hanz Nabholtz of Middlebush N J have been guests of Mr and Mrs Guy R Soowe of Marrtown for the past few days. They called on Mrs Ethel B Patterson and daughter on Monday. Mr and Mrs David Calhoun and children of Pennsylvania are vacationing at the Calhoun cottage at Little River. Harold Brown called Sunday on Mr and Mrs Leonard Flint and Percy West in Cumberland, and his mother Mrs Murthi Bowen of Bath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Kotchedorff
St. Petersburg
Fla
R. V. Woodworth
Dresden
Robinhood
William Zorach
Skowhegan
Melvin Jackson
Miami
Boston
John Alexander
New York City
Wolfgang Spitzer
Spitzer
Rockwell Cottage
Sarah Lawrence College
Bronzville
Hanz Nabholtz
Middlebush
N. J
Guy R. Soowe
Marrtown
Ethel B
Maine's Millionth Attends Lobster Cook-Out in Their Honor
A Maine couple, the 39 year old former Aroostook Central Institute teacher and his wife, were honored as Maine’s millionth registrants for a drawing. They toured Portland, Bath Iron Works, Brunswick Naval Air Station, Boothbay Harbor, and Sebasco Lodge, with events at Smith Chevrolet and the Boothbay Playhouse, concluding with a dinner at Brown's Brothers Restaurant and a performance of The Potting Shed after a day of visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hempstead, I. 1
Portland
Pine Free
Aroostook Central Institute
Smith Chevrolet
Chamber of Commerce
Bath Iron Works
Naval Air Station
Brunswick
Sebasco AL
Boothbay Harbor
Brunswick Summer Playhouse
Christmas Cove
Brown’ Brothers
Boothbay Playhouse
Sebasco Lodge
Drainage and Fill Levy for New Lots Project
Crews operate front end loader grader and trucks to raise a site for new lots. Five of nineteen Highway Department workers are on vacation: Lenfest Thompson Bensin Haines Avery. Foreman George Johansen fills in for Avery. Annual department vacations began Aug 10 after reed farming program. last five return Sept 8.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Highway Department
William Lenfest
Albert Thompson
Edward Bensin
Earl Haines
Arthur Avery
Avery
George Johansen
Probate notices from Bath Sagadahoc county 1959
A Bath Maine probate court order directs notice to interested parties for estate matters. It outlines publication in Bath Independent for three weeks and a September hearing to contest wills and administer estates. Executors named Albert L Bonney and others appear. final accounts by administrators listed. Judge Harold J Rubin presides. Barbara L Brewer registers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Sagadahoc
Thouseno
Albert I. Bonney
Hugh J. Madden
Charles T. Small
Nathaniel Percy
Phippsburg
Leslie C. Shumway
Adam L. Anderson
Harold J. Rubin
Sagadahoc probate notes list estate administrators
Barbara Brewer lists executors administrators conservators for Woolwich and nearby estates. Doris T Carter known as Doris A T Carter of Woolwich is named executor without bond on August 11 1959. George C Stacey of Woolwich is administrator, Merauerite A Stacey is administratrix, both qualified by bond that date. Jennie Ely Hamlin of Woolwich with Reginald L Olivier as conservator on August 7 1959. George A Floyd of Groton Massachusetts is administrator without bond, with David F Collier as administrator without bond also noted. Alan C Pease named Maine agent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barbara L. Brewer
Sagadahoc
Doris T Carter
Doris A. T Carter
Woolwich
Mason C Carter
George C Stacey
Mareuerite A Stacey
Jennie Ely Hamlin
Reginald L. Olivier
George A. Floyd
Groton
Massachusetts
David F Collier
Alan C Pease
Maine
Barbara
Brewer
Bath Garden Club Members To Assist At Flower Show
Bath Garden Club members will preside at the punch table at the Veterans Flower Show at Togus Hospital. Mrs Seth S Mullen of Bath leads a committee from Bath and Cosmopolitan Garden clubs arranging flowers for hospitals this August. The Silver Trophy will be awarded to ward patients with the most points for floral exhibits. The event highlights Seeds to Gardens to Flower Show, a Garden Federation project aiding veterans in psychiatric wards and hospital therapy programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seth S. Mullen
Maine Garden Club Federation
Veterans Hospitals
Bath Garden Club
Veteran's Hospital
Togus
Mullen
Seryng
Cosmopolitan Garden Club
Garden Club Federation of
Adadarve
Garden Club Federation
Garden Federation
Garde Federation
Garden Federation Club
Veterans’ Arc
Maine
Missionary Society Plans Haiti Box and Fund Drive
The Far and Near Missionary Society of Corliss Street Baptist Church met in the church vestry on Tuesday to announce packing a clothing box for Haiti and sending money at the next meeting. President Mrs. Margaret Vose read sketches on the Dexter family mission in Nalgonda India and communications from state and international members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missionary Society of
Corliss Street Baptist Church
Haiti
Dexter
Nalgonda
India
Margaret Vose
Lucy Thompson
Jolita Mccklhenny
Oklahoma
Christensens
West
Pakistan
Cheun Bongja
Alice Strube
Morton Kakos Receives Trophy at Bath YMCA Summer Program
Morton Kakos son of Mr and Mrs Nick Kakos of 55 Mechanic Street was presented an engraved trophy by Robert McDougal former Water Front Director now in the U S Air Force. The Y Summer program at Bath YMCA concluded last evening with over 200 children enrolled and participating in a highly successful season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morton Kakos
Nick Kakos
Mechanic Street
Morton
Robert McDougal
Water Front
U. S. Air Force
Bath Ymca
Final probate notices and executors listed in Bath paper
The Bath Independent schedules probate matters for the Sep first Tuesday hearing including first and final accounts for Carolyn Hall Dorothy Schulten Raymond Cummings George Wetherbee and others plus wills guardianships executorships and licenses to sell real estate in Georgetown and Sagadahoc County with Barbara Brewer as Register and Judge of Probate listing the August filing deadlines
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Sagadahoc
Catine Carolyn DD Hall
Roscoe Pope-Fadden
Frances M Cooper
Woolwich
Dorothy N. Schulten
Guardian
Raymond K Cummings
Mildred A. Walker
Mildred A Walker
William Weston Patton
Essex
Connecticut
Sagadahoe County
Hartford
Harold J. Rubin
Barbara L
Brewer Register
Three Quarter Century Club Hosts Senior Celebration in Brunswick
The 75 and older group attended a social with games, contests, crafts, and reminiscences sponsored by Maine Publicity Bureau and Lions Clubs of Maine. Bowdoin College provided coffee. local Boy and Girl Scouts assisted as ushers. a Red Cross First Aid Station was set up. notable attendees included John Crosby Preble, age near 100, and elderly couples from Madison Topsham and Skowhegan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine Publicity Bureau
Lions Clubs O
Maine
Bowdoin College
Brunswick
Maine Extension Service
American Red Cross
Presen
John Crosby Preble
Woolwich
Evelyn W. Hennesses
Thomas I Williams
Topsham
James Brown
Madison
Lesley Clark
Skowhegan
Charles Downe
Bridgton
Philomena Bourque
Waterville
Carrie Bouchard
Old Town
Rortiney
Portland
Clinton
Baldwin
Peincor
Bernard M Johntone
Meine
Smalls Garage
Womin's Ford
Warry Thebean
Tony Mananil
Edward Larrabes
Clyde Mallett
Lions Elul
Bath
James McLanchlin
Morse High School Hosts State YMCA Conference for Girls
Local high school girls will participate in a state YMCA conference with sessions in Morse High auditorium on Friday and Saturday. Luncheon and Saturday banquet at the Junior High School. Saturday evening party at the local YMCA. Registration and folders forthcoming from the State YMCA office. Miss Nancy Temple, daughter of Mr and Mrs Linwood Temple of Park Street, will work at Small Point Beach for two weeks and return to Morse for her senior year in September.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morse High School
YMCA
Nancy Temple
Linwood Temple
Park Street
Small Point Beach
Morse
Foreclosure Notice of Bath Bank on Maine Property
Foreclosure notice dated August 17 1959 records the First National Bank of Bath Maine as holder of a mortgage on property in Phippsburg Sagadahoc Maine. The document notes a breach of mortgage conditions and the bank’s intent to foreclose, with notary verification by Frederick M Hargett and public notary Paul R Flaherty.
Breaks At Quaker Point and Whiskeay Creek Reported
Two burglaries are reported. At Quaker Point a Cobb residence and upstairs bedroom were entered, $43 in hinge and silver dollars and $20 in new four dollar bills were stolen, with the entrance believed through a milk storage box. In Whiskeay North Bath an empty house owned by James Rockefeller shows a smashed window but no interior damage observed. Patrolman William E. Cummings investigates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quaker Point
Stone
Wiliam E. Cummings
Whiskeay
North
Bath
Police
James Rockefeller
Ncident
Rockefeller
Omeone
Sailor Killed in White House Crossing Crash
A Navy civilian employee found a car wreck early this morning on the White House Crossing. The collision near Topsham involved a vehicle traveling south and rolling over several times, killing a sailor and marking the year’s second fatality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White House
Aad
Pi Jepscot
Navy
SeLuin
Selancer
Toplam
Foreclosure Notice on Main Street Bath Property
Ralph M Pratt and Ruth B Pratt, joint tenants of Bath, Maine, mortgage owners, face foreclosure by First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Bath due to breach of mortgage conditions on a West Bath parcel bounded by Atlantic Highway and a brook. The property, tied to prior deeds to Hartzell and Gowen interests, was conveyed February 1956 and June 1953 with records in Sagadahoc County Deeds. Foreclosure dated August 12, 1959, in Bath Maine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah Albertson
Phippsburg
Satehihoe
State of Maine
Lewis Collins
Sagadahoc
Bath Trust Company
Bath
Sapadahoc
Sugadshoe
Mirine
Tada Ridley Wallace
New Meadows
Jacob PO Bartlett
George MeMann
Vrantor
Sara Ridley Collins Waite
Sara Ridley Collins
Sagadahoe — County
Sagadahoe
First National Bank of
Maine
United States
Bath Maine
First National Bank
Bath, Maine
Sealy
Frederick M. Hargett
Ralph M. Pratt
Ruth B Pratt
Norigate
Sagadahoc County
Path
United States of America
Tocathe
State of Tyne
Tate
West Bath
State of
Tine
Ind
Sumuidahoe
Atlantic Highway
Atlan- Tinhway
Othe Tirde Estate
Ronainesontherry
Atlantic Highwas
Helaning
Samuel B. Hartzel
Frances
Hartzell
John Edward Gowen
Savadahoe
Bridget Ratichaud
Samuel B. Hartweil
Frances Z. Hartzell
First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Bath
Frank Wint Named Treasurer of Bath Savings Association
In Sagadahoc County on August 12 1959 Frank Wint was named Treasurer of the First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Bath and acknowledged the instrument in his said capacity and the free act and deed of the corporation. Notary Public Gardiner Ro Deering witnessed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Wint
Ud First Federal Savings and Loan Aesociation
O. S Id Corporation
Mortgage Foreclosure Notice in Bath Maine
Legal notice states William F Stilphen and wife relinquish mortgage on property in Bath Sagadahoe County Maine. First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Bath seeks foreclosure after breach of condition of mortgage dated March 28 1958, recorded in Sagadahoe County deeds. Property boundaries described adjoining Frank W Ramsey Archie Doyle and Ramsey land.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William F. Stilphen
Stitphen
Bath
Soradthoe
State of Mone
Sagadanhoe County
Htradale
Federal Savings and Loan Association of
United States of Amenen
Sagadahoe
State of Maine
Satadahone
Sath
Savedahoe
Broiley Street
Frank W Ramsey
Archie Doyle
Archie F Doyle
Doayle
Ramsey
Bewinning Meanine
Floyd M Carter
First Federal Savings and Loan official acknowledgment
On the twelfth day of August 1959 in Sagadahoe County Maine the treasurer J Frank Hunt of Bath acknowledged the instrument as his free act and deed for the First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Bath. The notarization confirms the corporation’s consent and authority.
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The
Batt
the Times
Times
North Street
Bedford Street
Lincoln
Watson, Frye Co
John Diffon
Front Street
Kennebec Towage Co
Kennebec
E. C. Dunning
Winneganee
Chenago
Devon
Middle Street
Howard Coal Co
George Reed
Chandler & Co
Music Hall
Charles A. Harriman
Ethel Hawley
Washington, D. C
Capt
James W. Hawley
Deering Street
Miss Hawley
Hartnett
Bath Motor Mart
Alonzo G. Fisher
S. F. Dukeshire
Lee Hooker
Harley True
Emily Ingalls
Perley Meserve
Charles Wakely
E. Chapman
Arrowsic Island
Gov. Milliken
Executive Council
A. Leblanc
Lake Nequasset
High Street
Navy Department
John Philips
Rockland
Motor Transport Corps
Medical Department
Signal Corps
36Th Infantry
Driviny
Bould
Armory
Nice
Bath Mercantile Co
FE. W Scott
Cape Small Point
M. J. Flaherty
Portland Pier
Arrowsie Town Hall
William McFadden
Lightburn
Earl Collins
Depot Square
Squirrel Island
Southern Maine
the Athletic Association
Uamouth
Jefferson Theater
Jefferson
William A. Brady
Philadelphia
Chicago
St. Louis
Cook's Corner
Edward Chaplin and
Harpswell
Fast Brunswick
Fred L. Brackley
Gertrude A. Hanson
Winnefunee
Harold M. Sewall
A. B. Hervey
Charles Hervey
W. A. Lowell
William Shaw
Wiscasset
Tuessie Hall
Thomas Hanna
Georgetown
Bank and Library Co
Bath Trust Co
Bath Rotary Club
King Tavern
Jackson
M. H Beverwort
Fred P. Shaw
Garnet
Walter FE. Chase
Entertainment Committee
Bald Head
Savadahoc
Frederick M. Hagecct
First National Bank of Bath
Paul R. Flaherty
Yas Sailor
Gardiner Ro Deering
Notary Public
Aunst
J Frank Hunt
First Federal Savings and Loan Association of
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