Bath Brunswick Road decision delays linger in Maine
Maine Highway Commission delays on Bath to Brunswick road decision persist after October hearing. Debate centers on rebuilding the current route versus a straight-line new route with a river bridge, while traffic and safety concerns grow. Also covered are Republican committee changes, election integrity debates, and Bath City Hospital name change proposals.
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Maine Highway Commission
Bath
Brunswick
Augusta
Central Church Club Announces Ladies Night Program
Central Church Men's club under President Marius H Page sets committees for the last meeting of the season on April 24 to observe as ladies night Tickets committee chaired by Owen J Ledyard Supper committee chaired by Thomas R Huston and program committee chaired by N Gratz Jackson with members named for each group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marius H. Page
Central Church Men's Club
Owen J. Ledyard
David L. Wilson
Orville E. Page
Ralph P. Mank
Harold W. Child
Edmund P. Briggs
Sidney B. Lermond
Charles E. Curtis
Thomas R. Huston
Edward Brown
Edward McMann
William Brown
Perry L. Thompson
Harold Brown
William H. Small
Lewis J. Sanborn
N. Gratz Jackson
J. Maurice Haynes
Karcher Jackson
Blair Wilson
One Punch Sends Bath Man to Hospital
A Bath man was punched near Baxter hall on Water street at 10 40 Friday evening after his girlfriend was mistreated by the assailant. He was treated at City hospital by Dr Francis A Winchenbach for a slight shock and discharged early Saturday. The victim did not name his attacker to police.
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Baxter Hall
Water Street
Francis A. Winchenbach
Old Record Book Supplies History of Local Company
The article lists two decades of company leadership from 1803 to 1823 including captains Benjamin Foster and Thomas M. Lewis, lieutenants like Hezekiah Wyman and Charles D. Loring, ensigns such as Joel Ham and Thomas P. Stetson, plus orderly sergeants Horatio G. Allen and others. It also notes corporals, musicians, and drummers named in the rolls.
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Chops Point
Union St
Benjamin Foster
Benjamin Davenport
Dwelly Turner
Daniel Marston
Thomas H. Gage
Thomas P. Stetson
Thomas M. Lewis
Hezekiah Wyman
Enoch Foote
Charles D. Loring
Nathaniel Groton
Benjamin Jones
Joseph Edgecomb
Joel Ham
John Page
Gamaliel Crocker
Benjamin Randall
Theodore Osgood
Levi Hambuglers
David Gay
William Marshal
Joseph Mitchell
Councilman Bickle Narrowly Escapes Serious Injury
Ward 5 Councilman Stanley J. Bickle dodged a serious crash on Front Street when he stepped into the road in front of a sedan driven by Mr Hathorne of Woolwich. Hathorne braked in time, striking Bickle with only a light bruise.
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Stanley J. Bickle
Ward 5
Front Street
Morris S. Povich
Mr. Hathorne
Woolwich
Hathorne
Bickle
Witch Spring Water At Berry's Mill Road Draws Town Interest
Bath residents favor Witch spring water on Berry's Mill road for drinking water amid steady use. The spring received a cement top and new pipe to the long standing watering trough last year. Washington house passes Moran bill granting 1500 dollars to Joseph Dumas, a mail porter injured in Waterville in 1927 when shot in the hip by a loaded revolver left by a railway clerk.
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Bath
Witch Spring
Berry's Mill Road
House
Washington
Edward C. Moran, Jr
Maine
Joseph Dumas
Waterville
Dumas
Excellent Cast for Thespians Play Pomeroy's Past
The Thespians stage a three act comedy Pomeroy's Past at Columbia theatre next Friday evening. Cast includes Huse Miller Rowland Hill and Rowland with Carmen Huse and others. The play follows a rich bachelor trying to adopt a waif as his sister opposes his marriage.
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Thespians
Pomeroy
Columbia Theatre
the Thespians
Clare Kumimer
H. Augustus Huse
Edge
Chiltons
Augustus Huse
Mary Thorne
Hilda Fortesque
Holly
Elsie Tietig
Little Frances
Soeur
Carmen Huse
Thomas Fplynn
Frank Reinoehl
George Baer Connard
Miss Miller
Merton Deering
Harrid Cutting
Cecil Rowland
Mrs. Hill
Mr. Dan
Pom
Isolated tuber unit seed plots for potato virus control
Maine potato growers should note Bulletin No. 370 issued by the Agricultural Experiment Station. The report details isolated tuber unit seed plots to control potato virus diseases and blackleg in northern Maine, with guidance on maintaining seed plots and improving seed stock.
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Maine
Agricultural Experiment Station
Blackleg
Green Mountains
Aroostook
Maine Agricultural Experiment Station
Orono
Thebeau Wing Funded by Local Patrons and History
A ledger lists funds and bequests toward a new wing by Thebeau, naming contributors such as Lucinda Bailey 5000, Charles Clarke 1498.56, George Davenport 5000, Emma Greenleaf 2000, Annie Harris 250, Arthur Hyde and John Hyde 556, Celia Tincoln 1000, David Malcolm 100, George Manson 1000, Sydney Meeker 3000, and others. The Cornhill Magazine prints a Harold Pulsifer poem "Of Little Faith" from Brunswick.
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John S. Hyde
Charles W. Clifford
William D. Sewall
Henry C. Wright
L. Eugene Thebeau
Lucinda Bailey
Charles D. Clarke
George P. Davenport
Emma C. Greenleaf
Annie E. M. Harris
Arthur S. Hyde
Ann Mary Jelly
Celia E. Tincoln
David C. Malcolm
George F. Manson
Sydney J. Meeker
The
Cornhill Magazine
Harold T. Pulsifer
Brunswick
South End P T A Celebrates Twentieth Birthday
South End Parent-Teacher Association marked its 20th anniversary with an all day party at 488 Washington Street. Lunch featured creamed chicken and cakes, with a program honoring early leaders and current officers. Winners received prizes and the group ended with the PTA song.
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South End
Parent-Teacher Association
Washington Street
John H. Hunt
N. Gratz Jackson
J. Albert Redion
Association
Jackson
Harry W. Crosman
James E. Lockery
Leland R. Mitchell
Charles E. Hewitt
Wilfred W. Chaney
Hunt
Chaney
Battery 11 Receives Official Inspection
Battery H of the 240th Coast Artillery received inspection Thursday evening led by Lieut. Colonel Dusenbury as Federal inspector. He praised officers and men for the battery's top rating this year, crediting enlisted men for the success. Recent transfers trimmed strength. annual training at Fort Williams, Portland, is scheduled June 30 to July 14. Machine gun qualifications will begin at Kelley field once the new range is finished.
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240Th Coast Artillery
H.O
M.G.A.A
James Susenbury
Coast Artillery
Y Corps Area Headquarters
Boston
Dusenbury
Elver Stickney
National Guard
William Long
Charles Mitchell
Thomas E. Lyons
William Parks
Fort Williams
Portland
Kelley Field
Thayer Brown couple wed at Central Church parsonage
Charles K. Thayer and Dorothy C. Brown were married Saturday morning by Rev. David L. Wilson at Central Church parsonage in Brunswick. The groom, son of Charles A. Thayer, and the bride, daughter of the late Harry L. Brown, plan to move to Staten Island where he will work for a ship building firm. President Kenneth C. M. Sills and Mrs. Sills recently returned to Brunswick from a Mediterranean trip.
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Charles K. Thayer
Dorothy C. Brown
David L. Wilson
Central Church Parsonage
Middle Street
Charles A. Thayer
Winslow Court
Harry L. Brown
Staten Island
N. Y
Kenneth C. M. Sills
Bowdoin College
Sills
Brunswick
Mediterranean
Kennebec Water High Prompts Big Coal Barges
Clyde Holmes of Consumers Coal Co and partners in Belfast Bath and Augusta report Kennebec water two and a half feet above their Bath wharf. The Augusta coal yards will receive 1600 to 1700 ton barges this season. A six vessel Lime Co. fleet will shuttle lime to New York then return with coal to Maine, boosting business across plants.
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Clyde Holmes
Belfast
Consumers Coal Co
Gibbons Coal Co
Bath
Stone Gooper Coal Co
Augusta
Kennebec
Holmes
Augusta Company
Rockland-Rockport Lime Co
New York
Port Richmond
Elizabethport
N. J
Maine
Lime Company
Coal Company
Grace Church Club Hears Lincoln Talk and Film
Clinton D. Wilson superintendent of schools spoke at Grace Church Men's club in the parish house about Abraham Lincoln and his virtues. He also demonstrated gasoline engine construction and operation after the film. President Harry B. Briggs Jr. announced plans for the ladies night on April 25.
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Clinton D. Wilson
Grace Church Men's Club
Abraham Lincoln
Statesman
Harry B. Briggs, Jr
Everett Neal
W. S. Newell
Stanley Brown
Russell L. Phinney
Carroll Watson
Registration Rule Under Construction Code Authority
Registration of construction projects over two thousand dollars started on or after March 19 is required under the Code of Fair Competition for the Construction Industry. All persons and firms must register with the Divisional Code Authority in their district. Martin B. Brown of 574A Congress Street Portland is the Maine agent, and applications must be made within 15 days of commencing work.
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Martin B. Brown
Congress Street
Portland
Maine
Ice cake blocks road on Chopps Point near Bath
William E. Elliot of Woolwich found a massive two foot thick ice cake on the road near Merrymeeting camp for girls on Chopps Point while driving to Bath. He borrowed an axe to break it into pieces and clear the way. This incident occurred on the 14th of April.
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Kennebec
William E. Elliot
Woolwich
Chopps Point
Bath
Merrymeeting
Mr. Elliot
Mrs Sewall Speaks Before Al Auxillary On Russia
Mrs Sumner Sewall wife of Commander Sewall spoke to the Roland Smith unit A L A on Russia her talk covering home life and the Russian revolution. The meeting followed sewing and a 6 30 supper for 24 served by the menu committee. The next unit gathering is set for April 25 with social activities and a card party planned.
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Russia
Sumner Sewall
Sewall
Roland Smith Post
No. 21
A. L
Roland Smith Unit
Legion Building
Guy Crosby
Perry L. Thompson
Gardiner D. Rogers
Edward J. Murphy
John W. Costain
John E. Hart
William R. Freeman
Baltimore
Louis M. Silverman
Sewing Circle
Walter M. Hill
Hill
North Street
Eugene M. Desmond
J. Parker Crosby
Helen M. Shaughnessy
Tanker Georgene Arrives With 200000 Gallons Of Oil
The tanker Georgene docked at the Woolwich storage plant of Pennsylvania Petroleum Products Co from Tiverton Rhode Island and discharged about 200000 gallons of range oil before returning to Tiverton. The collier Berwindglen then arrived from Newport News with 6800 tons of bituminous for Kennebec Wharf & Coal Co and cleared Tuesday afternoon for Hampton Roads. Traffic increases on Garnet bridge as road work continues for several weeks.
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Georgene
Tiverton
R. I
Woolwich
Pennsylvania Petroleum Products Co
Berwindglen
Newport News
Kennebec
Morse High Dramatic Club Stages Girl Shy Play
Morse High School dramatic club staged the three act comedy Girl Shy in the school auditorium Friday. The show yielded a comfortable treasury intended to fund next season and a dance followed in the gym with Grindell’s orchestra.
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Morse High School Dramatic Club
Jane S. Donnell
Elizabeth Deering
John H. Grindell
Morse High School
Grindell
Beads From Palestine Enter Mr Madden’s Curio Trove
Michael J. Madden of Brunswick received rosary beads made from an olive tree and touched by a fragment of the cross. Father Jerome of Chicago presented the relics, joining Madden’s famous collection of curios.
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Michael J. Madden
Brunswick
Palestine
Jesus
Mr. Madden
Father Jerome
Chicago
Judge Glidden Declines Nomination Then Accepts After All
Judge Glidden has filed for the Democratic primaries after Democrats urged him to run for Judge of Probate. He said he would not allow his name unless no Democratic attorney sought the ticket. After learning no Democrat would run, he stated he would accept the nomination as a personal endorsement of his eight years in office.
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Judge Glidden
Fle
Morse High Alumni Sponsor Appreciation Dance
Morse High alumni plan an entertainment and dance at Mars High gym Friday April 27 to thank John H. Grindell musical director who served two years without pay after vacancies led to his voluntary service. Blair Wilson will appoint a committee for the event and a matinee for grade school pupils will also be held.
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John H. Grindell
Morse High School
Bath High School Alumni Association
Mars. High School
Blair C. Wilson
Board of Education
Grindell
Mayor Small Arrests Driver in Bath Coal Load Case
Mayor Harold P. Small acting as automobile inspector ordered Thaddeus Hedrick to court for allegedly operating an overloaded coal truck. Hedrick, licensed for 4,000 pounds, had over 5,060 pounds. case dismissed after Hedrick agreed to license for two and a half tons with a $15 payment.
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Harold P. Small
Bath
Thaddeus Hedrick
Coart
Hedrick
Owen J. Ledyard
Hawaiian condiments and arctic word list puzzle results
Horizontal clues include Hawaiian food and dead language while vertical hints cover male descendant organ of hearing and a sharp fastening tool. puzzle promises solution in next issue with numerous entries across words like paradise vegetable open courtyard and a severe atmospheric disturbance.
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the Times Company
Pront Street
Bath, Maine
F. B. Nichols
Pres
Treas
Harry C. Webber
Brunswick Road
New Meadows
Republican State Committee
Daniel F. Field
Phillips
Eva Mason
Dover-Foxcroft
A. Eugene Sewall
York County
Lena Day
Gorham
Alice Plummer
Lisbon Falls
Ralph O. Brewster
John G. Utterback
Utterback
Brewster
St. John's River
Bath City Hospital
Bath Memorial Hospital
New England
Sune
Central Church Club
Man
Thebeau
South End P.T
James S. Dusenbury
Thayer-Brown
Kenngbrc
High Point
Grace Church Club
Lincoln
Clinton BD. Wilson
Mrs. Sewall
AL. Auxliary
Legion
Garnet
Garnet Road
Piccadilly
High School Dramatic Club
Glidden
Morse High
Mayor Small
Fio
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