Baxter Declines Governor Run To Remain Private Citizen
Former Maine Governor Percival P. Baxter declares he will not seek the 1932 governorship in the June primaries. In a formal statement he pledges to remain a private citizen and to press a program defending the state from socialism and communism while advocating free speech and government efficiency. He says his work will focus on Maine and the public interest, with no political debts to pay.
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Percival P. Baxter
Maine
Toy Orchestra Concert Friday at High School
Pupils from all primary schools perform in five toy orchestras Friday at four in the high school auditorium. About 50 children per group play cymbals tambourines triangles bells toy xylophones with piano or victrola accompaniment. Miss Carrie E Shaw supervises. Admission for parents and children with proceeds for school materials.
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Carrie E. Shaw
Judge J S Lowell Dies On Tuesday
James S. Lowell, 85, longtime Sagadahoc probate judge and Bath Savings Institute vice president, died Tuesday at 12.15 PM at 75 Green Street after a long civic career. Born Feb 13 1847 in Bath he rose from store boy to merchant and public servant, active in Acadia lodge and local education and library initiatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James S. Lowell
Sagadahoc County
Bath Savings Institution
United States
May Morse
Green Street
Judge Lowell
Bath
John C
Celina P. Lowell
Page Grocery
William H. Swett
Front
Ferry Streets
O. M. Redson
Swett
Lowell
Acadia Lodge
K. of P
Lowell Temple
P. S
Grand Lodge
Bath Lodge
Bailey
Des Moines
Patten Free Library
State Librarian Speaks at Rotary on The Six Greatest Books
Rev. Henry F E Dunnack State Librarian of Augusta gave a lunch talk on The Six Greatest Books. He ranked Odyssey Divine Comedy Don Quixote Pilgrim's Progress Job and Faust noting their themes and enduring human interest. Rotarians S S Spinney Robinson C Tobey and Philip W Wiley attended with committee members named for a Rotary tree display.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rotary Club
Henry FE. Dunnack
Augusta
Bunyan
Odeyssey
Job
Faust
S. S. Spinney
Brunswick
Robinson C. Tobey
Philip W. Wiley
Damaricotta
Conti Tos
Old City Hall
Albert Henderson
Eugene Desmond
Ralph Stetson
Chester Plant
N. Gratz Jackson
Confessed youth implicates several in Bath theft ring
Francis Rice 19 of Bath confessed to a string of petty thefts, implicating Arthur Kateen, Herman and Perley Easler, and Marion Morrill in larceny and receiving stolen goods. Warrants issued as officers recover furniture, dishes, tires, and wood from Topsham to Cumberland and Portland.
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Ralph O. Dale
Francis Rice
Bath
Superior Court
Sheriff's Department
Arthur H. Kateen
Front Street
Herman Easler
Shaw Street
Perley Easler
Topsham
Marion Morrill
Cumberland Avenue
Portland
Kateen
Easler
Dale
Sagadahoc County
Dunning
Phippsburg
James Rumrill
Given
Simpson
East Brunswick
William Curran
Bath Street
West Bath
Young Rice
Rumrill
John J. Keegan
Abram C. Oliver Young Rice
Rice
Bath Box Co
Young Easler
Arthur H. Kateon
Kateon
Frank Carver
High Street
Red” Pierce
Pierce
Marion Morrell
Easter Prescott
Easter
Henderson
Morrill
Oliver
Small
President of Senate Burleigh Martin Announces Gubernatorial Bid
Senate President Burleigh Martin of Augusta announced his candidacy for governor as the second avowed Republican challenger. A veteran lawmaker since 1922, Martin has served in the House, the Senate, and was named Senate president last year. Frank P. Washburn, Perry resident and secretary of agriculture, had announced his bid earlier.
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Senate
Burleigh Martin
Augusta
Martin
House of Representatives
Frank P. Washburn
Agriculture
Perry
Delightful talk by Prof Mitchell delights Cosmopolitan club
Prof Wilmot Brookings Mitchell of Bowdoin college spoke before 60 Cosmopolitan club members on Brunswick its books and authors. He traced writers from the graveyard poets to Harriet Beecher Stowe and named figures such as Longfellow Hawthorne and the Abbott family. The event included musical interludes and plans for a December Silver Tea to fund Christmas philanthropy.
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Wilmot Brookings Mitchell
Bowdoin College
Cosmopolitan Club
Prof. Mitchell
Mitchell
Brunswick
Parker Cleveland
Samuel Philip Newman
William Smythe
Thomas Upham
William Allen
Longfellow
Hawthorne
Abbott
Emma Walker
Prof
Alice N. Magoun
Miss Magoun
William W. Dennis
Allan Spear
Carl Andersen
Lillian Miller
Charles R. Farnham
Gardiner Deering
Elizabeth Ames
Lillian Norton
Eileen Hayes
Cecile Veilleux
Mary Lord
Miriam Kimball
E. M. Fuller
Daniel T. Dougherty
William Dennison
Florence Hagan
Haviland Torrey
Frank A. Hodgdon
Paul G. Bagdikian
Arthur F. Mayo
Philanthropic
Walker
Philip B. Eaton
Coast Guard
State Department of Public Welfare
Roscoe P. McFadden
Ruth Thompson
Augustus Perow
Aldermen Block Effort to Raise Mayor Salary in Bath
The Bath city council debated a plan to raise the mayor's salary from 400 to 2000 dollars, proposing full time hours 8:30 to 5 daily. The measure passed in the council 9 to 5 after long committee wrangling, with opposition citing injustice and loss of citizen access.
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George C. Quicksall
Common Council
City Council
Quicksall
Martin
Maine
Fall
Haynes
Knight
McCabe
McFadden
Morse
Robbins
Sheldon
Tobey
Billings
Dyer
Haley
Watson
Aderton
Freeman
Deering
Board of Aldermen
City of
Bath
Board of Assessors
Whitney
Court House
R. M. Millett
Portland
Edmund P. Briggs
Roscoe G. Bailey
Daniel T. Dougherty
Harry —G. Webber
Phippsburg
State Highway Commission
Sagadahoc
Winneganee Creek
Washington and
Pine Streets
Central Maine Power Co
Deering Streets
Albert H. Fowles
Middle Street
Marshall Street
Committee On Water and Water Works
Wilbur C. Oliver
Robinson's Lane
Committee On Public Lighting
Weeks Street Through Time in Bath South End
A vintage view of Weeks street in Bath's South End shows the old picket fence site before houses. The image, likely from the 1870s, includes the Corliss Street church and the brick school building beyond, recalling past playgrounds and baseball games on the lot west of the church.
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Weeks Street
Bath
Corliss Street
Bath Water District elects Newell to trustee post
Chairman William S. Newell was unanimously re elected a trustee of the Bath Water District. The notice notes the decision was made by the municipal officers and indicates continuation on page two.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William S. Newell
Bath Water District
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Baxter
TOY Orchestra
Morse High
Stuart
Optometrist
Front St
J.S. Lowell
Rotary
Geneval
Brigham
Nica
Ian
sAnGrea
Bain Irish
Bath National Bank
First National Bank
Wright
Belanger
Crosby
Cutting
Steeves
Johnson Brosco
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