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Newspaper

Bath Independent

Location

Bath, Maine, United States of America

Date

Dec 06, 1956

Page

6

Bath Chronicle Notes Busy Winter in Aingoin? Ham Hill Rock Work

In Agoing Bath on November 28 1916 crews continue rock extraction for road filling at Ham Hill with winter work planned. A State Highways official noted Hockomock ferried about 13000 cars this year. Stories cover local farming, road changes, post delivery by Ford, lobster price, Hyde Windlass Co office ready, Miss Anne Kimball to Boston, local gunning trip, Morse High football victory parade, and various social events at Bath.

Ham’s Hill

Poole Cutler Co Forms Awning Center in City

Nov 29 1916 Alexander M Cutler buys E A Pooles half interest Portland to form Poole Cutler Co specializing in awnings. Al Ridley shot 10 black ducks and H W Delong plus 14 in bay last week. George Sanford buys two raccoons weighing 11 pounds each. Rumors swirl about land deal at Center and Middle streets with no public details yet. Old North removal triggers new plate shop work at Texas yard. Captain Perry A Colby artist on Seguin painting seen in Times window.

Alexander M. Cutler E. A. Poole Portland Poole-Cutler Co al Ridley H. W. DeLong Center Middle Streets Perry A. Colby Hockomock Times Seguin Gor

Thanksgiving notes and local lives in a small New England town

A collage of Thanksgiving family visits and local happenings. John Sampson leaves for Baltimore to join Lord Baltimore Press with a Masonic token from coworkers. Yale student Milton Kimball to travel home for the holiday. Local dinners, encounters with dignitaries, college dances, and neighborhood industry scenes fill the day.

John Sampson Res Times Linotype Force Lord Baltimore Press Baltimore South Mr. Sampson The Times Linotype the Times Sampson

Crossing Work With Limited Horses At Low Tide

Workers plan to complete the crossing when the tide is low using two horses already on site and adding a third later, with five to six feet of water noted as the current condition.

Bath community enjoys holiday theater and concert events

An audience packed the Columbia theater for a Colonial club presented comedy A Full House with a strong Bath amateur cast. Thanksgiving happenings included Mischa Elman’s Portland concert, neighborly visits, charity work by Grace Church auxiliary, and local figures sharing meals and tales of the holiday in Bath and surrounding towns.

Bath Columbia Theater Colonial Club Egether Illiam P. Marks Miriam W. Bintaom Tracy Carolyn Percy H. Augustus Huse Lyle K. Johnson Walter A. Murtaugh Robert M. Dunton Edward G. Burke Mary S. Spear Frances L. Parks Alice N. Hyde Walter S. Glidden Portland Mischa Elman

November Snows Dim Phippsburg Roses and Local News

The Bath area reports roses hit by November snows with five blooms and 15 buds extinguished. The piece notes visits by various locals including Miss Ida Voorhees, a nurse in Massachusetts, and Miss Mary Washburn returning from Farming ton Normal. It mentions gatherings for Thanksgiving, school openings delayed by illness, the Colonial Club play A Full House, and local social notes including Stetson's return to Bath and civic developments at the Texas yard.

Phippsburg

Nazarene Church Holds Dedication Service for New Building

About 400 attended a Sunday dedication of the First Church of the Nazarene on Lincoln and Center streets. The ceremony featured Rev. J. C. Albright delivering the sermon, musical selections, greetings from local ministers, telegrams from Nazarene churches, and tours of the new brick edifice.

First Church of the Nazarene Stuart Bailey A. J. Back Church of the Nazarene Lincoln and Center Streets Perley E. Baker J. C. Albright Melrose Mass North The Nazarene Church J. Byal Calhoun Oliver W. Bell Wesley Methodist Church Bath Ministerial Association Stanley Judkins Malcolm Moore Ruth Wagner Gwendolyn Dutton Nazarene Curtis Stanley Fitchburg Alton Stetson Springfield Wilfred Mulley Yarmouth Lucien Ames

South End PTA Votes to Install New Furnace

At a South End PTA meeting, members voted to have an oil burner furnace installed this month. The group announced the Junior PTA Youth Group’s first meeting for Wednesday evening December 12 at 7 p.m. Founders' Day plans for February were discussed and two classes earned attendance banners.

South End P.T.A Richard Johnson Educational TV Association P.T.A. Council Arthur Berry Woodbury Bailey

Retired Teachers Group Meeting Held in Augusta

Mrs. Ella Bates president of Bath Chapter Maine Retired Teachers Association led a delegation including Mr and Mrs Edward Jaquith and Mrs Jennie Howe to a legislative meeting at Maine Teachers Association headquarters in Augusta. A pension increase bill for the 1913 group was prepared for presentation to the State legislature. The group was entertained at luncheon by Mrs Marion Oberly.

Ella Bates Bath Maine Retired Teachers Association Edward Jaquith Jennie Howe Woolwich Retired Teachers Association Maine Teachers Association Augusta Mary Worthly Lebanon N. H Marion Oberly

Student Miss Miriam Adams Returns to Colby College

Miss Miriam B. Adams returned to Colby College this morning after Thanksgiving at home in this city. A temporary wood walk was built in front of the Shaw block last week. A granite lithic walk is planned for spring. Gruby tiling in Mr. Shaw's private office was completed last week by Boston artisans.

Arthur H. Stetson Boston Bath Stetson Miriam B. Adams Colby College Shaw

Plans for Annual New Year's Ball Continue

The Junior Hospital League held a Tuesday meeting at Mrs. Donald N. Small's home 980 Washington St to finalize plans for the annual New Year's Eve ball. A dinner for members and husbands at the Sedgwick was announced with demands to contact Mrs. Harold McElman by December 18 for associate members. Tickets for the dance were distributed and the next league meeting is set for December 18 at Mrs. William Mussenden's 16 Garden St. Dessert and coffee followed the gathering with numerous listed members present.

Junior Hospital League Donald N. Small Washington Street Sedgwick Harold McElman William Mussenden Garden Street George Barker S. Theodore Bertocci Lynn M. Bussey Harold L. Colbeth, Jr Carl R. Dearborn, Jr Hamdi Akar Ralph Stetson, Jr Hildreth H. Fisher Omar King C. Arthur Mayo, Jr William A. Niss Frederick W. Robie Edward Sewall, Jr Eleanor Wilson Eugene P. Eberhard Dean Shaw George _Cary

Dromore and Phippsburg area landmarks and graves

The passage surveys Dromore Grange hall and Old Dromore church sites in Phippsburg, noting the 1833 Bible, land donors Deacon Samuel Rogers, and a prior burial ground. It recalls W A C Rogers as grange chaplain, Captain John Parker buried there, and Parker named places such as Parker Head and Parker's Pond.

Frank Cutting Drummond Cutting Frank Dromore Grange Hall Dromore Church Union Methodist Samuel Sewall Grange Hall Grange Alvert Church Rogers Samuel Rogers Drosnore Burying Ground George L. Rogers W. A. C. Rogers John D. Rogers Owens Maroon Dromore Mary Pelham Hill Miss Hill Wylie R. Dickinson John Parker Parker Parker's

Fire destroys $1,000 policy not covering loss

The Hathorns faced a fire that destroyed about $1,000 in property, which was not insured. They spent the night at the husband’s parents and planned to move into a temporary home today.

Hathorns

Grace Episcopal Adults Group to Meet Thursday

The December Grace Church adults group gathering features a covered dish supper, hot casseroles or salads preferred, with coffee and dessert. Mrs. R L Bisson leads food, followed by a devotional and social program. Eugene Eberhard will share tape recordings from the Laymen's conference.

Grace Episcopal Church R. L. Bisson Eugene P. Eberhard Brunswick Donald N. Small Grace Church

Navy Wives Club Adopts By Laws At Meeting

The Brunswick Navy Wives club adopted by laws at its Tuesday night meeting in the Brunswick Naval Air Station hospital training room. Plans were made for a December 18 Christmas party in the same room and permanent officers will be elected at the next meeting. Hostesses for the session were Marjorie Lowe, Esther Cain and Irene Applegate.

Brunswick Navy Wives Club Brunswick Naval Air Station Hospital Marjorie Lowe Esther Cain Irene Applegate

Probate notices for numerous Bath estates

Court of Probate in Bath Sagadahoc County on the second Tuesday of November 1956 ordered notices to interested parties by weekly publication in Bath Independent. Proceedings include final accounts, petitions for probate, distributions, and appointments of executors and administrators for multiple estates listed, with hearing info for December and letters testamentary without bond where indicated.

Bathm Sagadahoc Bath Independent

Annual stockholders meeting notices from Bath banks

Notices advise Bath Maine stockholders of the Bath Trust Company and First National Bank of Bath to meet January 8 and January 1957 at two o'clock in the afternoon to elect directors or trustees and to conduct other lawful business. The notices are signed by Cashier READIES WILLIAMS and President R BAXTER respectively.

Bath Iron Works Daniels First National Bank of Bath Maine Bankmye Williams Bath Maine Bath Trust Company Bath Maine R Baxter

Appointments in Bath and Woolwich Estates

Lillian H Heal Register of Probate records appoint executors administrators and guardians for multiple Bath and Woolwich estates with dates ranging November 1956 October 1958 and bonds filed by December 1968 indicating official qualification and bond status for Grace A Blair Bertha Louise Soule Robert H Haskell Everett B Wright Sidney A McPherson Catherine G Dougherty Celia Eaton and Rath A Jewel as listed in the true copy of the original order.

Lillian H. Heal Sazadahoc Williams Blair Bath Grace A. Blair Bertha Louise Soule Robert H Haskell Everett B Wright Eleanor M Wrieht Sidney A McPherson Joseph C. Giv Catherine G Dougherty John F. Dougherty Celia Eaton Levenson Robert Coddington Jewell Woolwich Harold J Rubin Lillian HF Heal

New Bell Museum Opens in Baddeck Nova Scotia

A new museum in Baddeck Nova Scotia features many works related to Alexander Graham Bell inventor of the telephone. Baddeck was Bell s summer home and the site of his research and leisure activities.

Baddeck Nova “Scotia Alexander Graham Bell Bell

Foreclosure Notice by First Federal Savings Loan Association

The First Federal Savings Loan Association of Bath Maine forecloses a mortgage on a land parcel in Topsham Sagadahoc with Tedford Road frontage. The action cites breach of mortgage conditions and names Ulysses G Bossie and Peter Aloisio in related deeds and chain of title.

Foreclosure Notice on Topsham Real Estate Mortgage

First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Bath declares foreclosure due to breach of mortgage condition on a half undivided interest in Tedford Road property in Topsham Sagadahoc County Maine. The action targets lots tied to Peter Aloisio Rita Aloisio and Norman Aloisio with prior deeds and road access rights referenced. failure to cure triggers sale.

Germaine Mre Merly Germaine A. Aloisio Ham Maine Fed Sloan Association Owte Follo Tedford Road Fopsheas Couty Sagadahoc An Tedford Ulysses G. Ba Bossie H. White Ulysses G. Bossie Inadahoc Arthur D. Pelletier Peter Aloisio Sagadahoc Songcall Molaesehea Topsham OWS Ulyssis G. Bosse Ford Road Ulyssis G. Bosse Lucien H. White Peter Aloins Dahoc Offord Road Maing F. Cheetham Cheetham Ray C. Leavitt Leavitt Tedf George Nicotina Ulyssis G Teave and Loan Association of J. Frank Hunt Bath Germaine A. McClure Peter A. Aloisio Rita A. Alo Norman A. Aloisio Danton Kate Mort Peter A Norman R Ral Savines and Loan Association of State of State of Maine Edtora Said Ulysses G Bossie Sragadahoc Arthur D Pelletier State ‘of Proerty T Road Ulyssis G Bosse Seid Tedford Road Ulvesis G B Others of the Property Convey Illyssis G Bosse By Lucien H. White Peter Alovsin Henry Fo Cheetham Ulyssis Rosse Rav C Teavitt Bosse Genaree Nicotina Peter Alotein Federal Savines and Loan Association of Bath Maine Federal Savines Ay Loan Association J Frank

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