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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1952
Page
7
A Bath Chronicle items page recalls Allied gains in the western war, U S shipyard shifts and policy shifts, local social notes, school affairs, holiday travel, and a string of Bath residents' activities including Miss Grace Coombs, Miss Dorothy Nichols, Earl Collins, L. F. Holmes, and local trades and transport updates amid a brisk prewar economy.
December 23 1914 report details intense fighting in the East and West with little strategic change except possibly East Prussia. French gain and German recapture of trenches in France described. artillery nearly obliterates trenches. Weather notes from Woolwich and Bath report extreme cold. Maine smelts command higher prices. fishermen pack fish for wholesale markets. Anthony Coombs of George Coombs returns from Boston for the holidays as Pittsburgh Plate Glass ties appear in hometown narrative.
Local items recount community happenings in Bath Maine including horse trades, fishing and boating notes, postal mail volume, theater workers gift, ice cutting on Lemont's Creek, and public notices. Mentions of residents like Arthur Shorey Bowdoin04 and Percy Barbour, plus transportation by Hockomock ferry and a Dorothy Palmer collision near Cape Cod.
The new male choir at St Marys church under Napoleon Pineau debuted on Christmas Day and again at the 10 30 mass Sunday morning with a polished program. Members include Henry M Biggins James McNeil Edmond Arsenault Francis McDonald Bert Bouter Charles Vaschon Rudolph Roy William McNeil Munroe Royal Eugene Hart and Andrew Gallant. Clifton and Marius Page returned to Boston after Christmas with their parents. C M Reynolds returned to North Monmouth where he is employed as foreman contractor C E Hacker of Iswick. Reynolds works on a large concrete dam for a blanket bill built by Contractor Hacker.
Fragmentary notice from a Bath bank lists ANIEL WILLIAMS as cashier with unclear date 9 16 25 90 in a room where annual events and year tunes are referenced. The readable portion names a bank and positions but lacks full details or outcome.
HAL BOYLE’s year end briefing surveys 1954 as a muddle through year with modest gains in war peace, stock markets, and sports. It notes Roger Bannister’s 3 58.8 mile, two Everest summits, Liberace jokingly mocked, and J Fred Muggs as a TV chimp.
In Quincy Mr and Mrs J R Andrews left for a trip to New York and Philadelphia after spending the weekend at home. James Trott of New London was a Christmas guest in Woolwich.
Due to the New Year’s holiday landing on Saturday both barber shops will stay open on Thursday instead of closing as usual. This adjustment keeps services available ahead of the weekend observance.
A 25 year old man from McKowns Mountain was ordered by Magistrate Claude M Mullinax to attend church each Sunday for six months or face 30 days on the chain gang after a public drunkenness charge. The defendant promised to comply. Also notes Koreans produced metal type as early as 1232 AD.
Lillian H Heal Register of Probate certifies guardians and executors in several estates on December 7 1954. Annie L Coombs estate lists Benjamin P Fecal as guardian without bond. Russell L Keny estate lists Rebecca L Ken administrator with bond. Jane Hazel Lausier estate lists Joseph W Lausier executor without bond. Stella M Randall estate lists Addiella Palmer administrator without bond and Evelyn Lee Ward estate lists Allan Spear executor without bond.
New York analysts urge individuals to treat personal finance like a corporate balance sheet. They advise tracking assets and liabilities, building emergency funds in banks, using savings bonds prudently, and choosing adaptable insurance policies to reflect changing needs. The piece promotes cautious stock purchases and long term planning.
A probate court in Sagadahoc County schedules hearings on multiple estates from Bath and nearby towns. Included are will petitions for Annie R. Hodgdon and H F Merriman, and final accounts for Mary A. Lightbody and Henrietta Reed McKay. Names Nellie L. Hodgdon and Ray S. Merriman as executrix and executor respectively. A name change petition for Judith Frances Robinson is also noted.
A court order schedules a December notice in the Bath area for multiple estates in Sagadahoc County. It directs publication in the Bath Independent for three weeks and a January hearing to contest the estates of Bates Hall King Minard Hoover Nichols Reed Wade Snipe and others with guardians, executors, and administrators named.
Ni American Indian Club of troit president Chester Swallow estimates Detroit's Indian population at 1,500, says Detroit homes 14 tribes and three more arrive each year, totaling more than at Cadillac's founding. He notes growing numbers and ongoing migration.
A group of 150 robins wintering in Knoxville Tenn is noted after neighbors fed them. The report mentions a Moss comer and local sighting while another line discusses air poisonings and probate actions in Bath.
Notice of foreclosure against Howard Lona ies joine and others by First Federal Savings in Bath Maine. Describes lot in Bath Sagadahoc County with bounds starting at drill hole end of Li street and tied to Hulda Chad Lydia Gould and Arsenault holdings. Mortgage recorded in Registry of Deeds Book 7. 1950. breach of joint tenancy cited. action by J. Fra Hunt for Bath.
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