Happy Christmas and New Year Greetings From The Independent
The Independent wishes readers in Sagadahoe county and beyond a Merry Christmas and prosperous New Year. It urges generosity and help for others, urging the spread of peace and goodwill through the season and into the coming year. It reflects on home ties, distant Maine natives, and the shared spirit of helping one another.
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Independent
Sagadahoe County
Maine
Maine Shipyards Past Present and Future Reflections
The piece contrasts Maine shipbuilding history with modern craft and technology. It notes the romance of grand square riggers, shifts in communication, and the craft’s changing oversight. It praises congressional praise for Carroll L Beedy defending President Hoover in Congress. Moderate emphasis on historical and political context.
Resentment Over Attacks on the President
The piece argues Americans should oppose unwarranted attacks on the chief executive and praises Representative Reedy for his censure. It suggests disposing of old magazines by donating them to the Salvation Army, which will collect and distribute reading material to those in need.
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America
Pennsylvania
Reedy
House
Salvation Army
Army
Shipyard talk at Grace Church Men’s Club by Bath Iron Works leader
More than 50 members packed Grace Church to hear Pres. William S. Newell of Bath Iron Works discuss shipbuilding, show yard launchings since re opening, and compare wooden yard methods with modern practices. He spoke of payroll, state money remains from the firm, and answered questions on a new destroyer for Uncle Sam. C D Kellar of the U S Bureau of Engineering attended. lunch followed, hosted by Rupert H Baxter and Henry C Wright.
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Grace Church Men's Club
Pres
William S. Newell
Bath Iron Works Corp
Herbert Douglas
Newell
Pres. Newell
Bath
Iron Works
Aphrodite
Maine
Mr. Newell
Uncle Sam
C. D. Kellar
U. S. Bureau of Engineering
Norfolk
Rupert H. Baxter
Henry C. Wright
Dike School PTA Hosts Christmas Party for 215 Children
Dike School P T A organized a joyful Christmas party at Dummer Street School with 215 children attending. Edwin L Emmons entertained with imitations and acts, five year old Constance Morrill presented a gift, and Edward Babine and Marcia Hoffman sang solos. Gifts and candy followed, with praise to the committee led by Mrs. William A Armstrong. City records note Mayor Frank Foss referenced fire alarm installation costs in 1895.
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Dike School
P.T.A
Dummer Street
Fred Hoffman
Edwin L. Emmons
Constance Morrill
Emmons
Edward Babine
Marcia Hoffman
William A. Armstrong
Everett Lemont
Charles Henderson
Wilbur Crocker
Lena Shepard
Chester Worrey
Mercie McFadden
Walter Smith
Ralph N. Perry
Saco
Frank Foss
State assessors report Maine cattle rise in 1931
The state tax assessors annual report shows Maine had 217237 cattle on April 1 1931, up 9645 from 1930. Livestock value reached 11241021 with 366757 domestic fowl, exempt livestock worth 1850259 including 969280 fowl. total 13091280 down 1023091 from 1930. City county valuations totaled 650652433 up 4998895 while several counties declined.
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Maine
Gardiner
Boards of Assessors
Androscoggin
Cumberland
Franklin
Lincoln
Oxford
Sagadah
Morse High School Honor List Issued Friday
The Morse high school honor list covering Oct 28 to Dec 11, issued by Principal Arthur B. Scott, lists seniors such as William Bryant and Louise Calderwood, juniors like Edwin Bates and Dorothy Bryant, and all freshmen with highest honors Ruth Cohen and Beatrice Adams.
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Morse High School
Arthur B. Scott
Nsaphine Colliff
Robert Hatch
Pauline Rogers
Hubert McCarty
William Bryant
Louise Calderwood
Emma Colby
Evelyn Coombs
Clinton Fleming
Ada Greenblatt
Eleanor Hall
Edith Mackinnon
Christine McCourt
Cynthia Rogers
Carol Stevens
James Tempie
Margaret Twomey
Edwin Bates
Oscar Wricht
Ruth Cohen
Beatrice Adams
Marguerite Brown
Elizabeth Butterfield
Charlotte Colby
Marshry Haskell
Frank Martin
Shirley Moore
Mary Nickerson
Elizabeth Rice
Nellie Robinson
Kathleen Scott
Catherine Shellenbarger
Linwood Temple
Elizabeth Trott
Young men plead no lo contendere and get probation
Three youths pleaded no contest before Judge Keegen after being charged with stealing a cigar vending machine outside a diner. They received six months in Auburn jail with probation conditioned on paying court costs, damages, and employment. The machine, owned by Paul B. Davis of 14 Dike Road, was reported stolen Sunday night. the proprietor and two diners identified the suspects.
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Nolo
John J. Keegen
Auburn
Paul B. Davis
Dike Road
Dairymaids Elect Officers Thursday
The Dairymaids elected officers for the ensuing year after Ramona council, D. of P., met in Red Men's hall. Officers named include Mrs. Lucelia Blake past chief dairymaid, Mrs. Florence Robinson chief dairymaid, Miss Catherine Durgin assistant chief dairymaid, Mrs. Mildred Avery secretary, Mrs. Eleanor McDonald guard of the dairy. Installation set for Jan. 14. Ramona council approved a New Year’s tree for New Year’s Eve, with committee led by Mrs. Florence Robinson, Mrs. Mildred Avery, and Mrs. Annie Johnson.
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Ramona Council
D. of P
Red Men’s Hall
Lucelia Blake
Florence Robinson
Catherine Durgin
Mildred Avery
Eleanor McDonald
Annie Johnson
Good attendance at Wesley supper at church vestry
A well attended Wesley supper was held last Wednesday in the church vestry under the official board. Organizers Mrs D Wylie Lemont Mrs Bird A Shellenbarger and others ran the event with George Hopkins ticket sales Ellery C Whittemore in the kitchen and several named waiters. A separate report notes strong paint fumes in the court house corridor followed by an alcohol odour after deputies spilled several hundred gallons of rum by court order.
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Wesley Church
D. Wylie Lemont
Bird A. Shellenbarger
Charles Ripley
William Davis
Oliver F. Brown
George Hopkins
Ellery C. Whittemore
Earl B. Lermond Willard McLean
Andrew Butterfield
Mr. Shellenbarger
Lloyd Daley
Wesley
Court House
Harding
Ludwick and
Cavanaugh
West Bath Farm Bureau holds all day meeting
West Bath grange hall hosted a combined Farm Bureau session with 32 attendees including 32 adults and four children. County Agent Eastman presented filmstrips, then officers were elected for both the men’s and women’s groups and plans for the year were set. Thirty-nine appointed officers were named across groups, with specific leadership for clothes and food projects, home management, crops, orchard, forestry, poultry, dairy, and club projects. Also noted, Androscoggin county will consider 40 naturalization petitions at the January term after two prior court terms.
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West Bath Grange Hall
West
Edith Haggett
Maude Haile
Annie Trufant
Marguerite Lemont
Superior Court
Androscoggin County
Leavitt and Stilphen Wed in Brunswick Ceremony
Howard Leavitt of Brunswick and Eleanor E Stilphen of Orrs Island were married Saturday December 12 at the Methodist parsonage in Brunswick. Rev W H H Taylor officiated. Leavitt, son of Charles W Leavitt, works at the Brunswick Record office and is a former Morse high pupil. The bride was attended by Mrs Charles W Leavitt. She is the daughter of Mrs Myra E Stilphen of Orrs Island.
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Howard Leavitt
Brunswick
Eleanor E. Stilphen
Orr’s Island
Methodist
W. H. H. Taylor
Leavitt
Charles W. Leavitt
Kennebec
Brunswick Record Office
Morse High
Myra E. Stilphen
Bathman Awarded Accident Compensation
Industrial Accident Commission ordered weekly compensation for Bath man Arthur Lebel at 7.63 from July 25 to August 19 1931 for a thumb and wrist injury while employed by Bath Iron Works. Ruby Blanchard of Brunswick receives 7.61 weekly from May 5 1931 for a hernia at Cabot Manufacturing Co. Mrs Stephen Nolan and family from Brooklyn visit Bath over the holidays with her parents on South Street. Mr Nolan will stay for Christmas.
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Industrial Accident Commission
Arthur J. Lebel
Bath
Ruby L. Blanchard
Brunswick
Lebel
Bath Iron Works
Ruby Blanchard
Cabot Manufacturing Co
Stephen Nolan
Jean
Stephen Jr
Brooklyn
N. Y
John Footer
South Street
Mr. Nolan
Unpaid Bath and Georgetown Taxes 1931 Notices
The notices list unpaid real estate taxes on non resident owners in Bath Sagadahoc for 1931 and in Georgetown for 1931. It warns taxes plus interest and charges may be sold at public auction on the first Monday in February 1932 at 9:00 am at the Bath collector’s office and Five Islands Grange hall. The long list names numerous property owners, cottages, land parcels, and bounds across streets and waterways in Bath and Georgetown.
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Bath
Maine
Georgetown
Five Islands Grange Hall
Blen
Catherine
E. Bishop
Sedgemere
Fitzgerald
John E
Carey
Leo
C. H. Bassett
Town Road
Clough
George E
Harold Deering
Sheep Island
Hoskomock Bay
Cummings
John W
Alfred Hinckley
Self
Donohue
Marguerite M
MacMahan Island
Elliott
Florence A
Flings Head
Georgetown Associates, Inc
Rogers Farm
Atlantic Ocean
Same
Sagadahoc Bay
Rogers
Sadie Drake
Little River
Harley
Lilly C
Fred Reid
H. D. Harley
Hinckley
Alfred
Cromwell
J. Cummings
M. Bancroft
I. Hooker
H. Flanders
J. W. Berry
Viehives
Esate de Hourwich
Rebecca
W. S. Campbell
A. E. Williams
Jewett
Marion M
Jewett Heirs
Ketchum
George B
Five Islands
Marr
Albert
Cottage
J. M. Harford
Chauncey Lewis
Rowe's Point
Deack Ren
F. Lapham
Chols, Grace
Sheepscott Island
Ewman
Mary A
Todd’s Point
Great Pond
Fred H. Stilphen
Stilphen
Martin Conley
Cee Cere Reconeero
Roland
Hockomoc Bay
Carroll Powers
Ohek
Marguerite
Carrie P. Howe
Great Marshes
C. Mason Road
Back River
Mill Island
Adlefs
Thos. N
A. Marr
Vincent T. Lathbury
A. P. Reed
Indian Point
Annie F
Alton P. Reed
W. O. Oliver
Breeeres
E. Fields
W. Davis
P. Cromwell
C. W. Lewis
A. Campbell
A. Cromwell
A. K. P. Oliver
Sato Yo
Ore Stinson
Rufus P
Taylor, Truman
Susan Williams
Kennebec
Walier Sro Oure Ranalee
Sche Williams
Susan D
J.N. Ratliff
S. Mereen
Kennebec River
Thompson
Helen O
E. Oliver
Blaine S
Newman
Mill Pond
C. N. Oliver
A. Macmahan
Time extension for auto registrations limited to private owners
Secretary of State Edgar C. Smith warns that the March 1 extension for pleasure autos and trucks does not apply to dealer and jitney bus registrations or to operators licenses. Public notice stresses new applications must be filed.
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Edgar C. Smith
Operation Filing Date for Potential Effectiveness
The text states that an operation must be filed before year end if holders anticipate its effectivity on or after the new year. It emphasizes timing to meet a year boundary and the perceived onset of the operation’s legal effect.
Miss Francis Lée Lord Visits Family for Christmas
Miss Francis Lée Lord a teacher at the Maine School for the Deaf arrived Friday to spend Christmas at the home of her parents Mrs. John A Lord 50 Pearl Street Portland.
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Francis Lée Lord
Maine School For the Deaf
Street
Portland
John A. Lord
Pearl Street
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