Woolwich Boys Win Second Grammar School Basketball Game
Woolwich grade schoolers win their second game in Morse High School’s boys league after a year of growth. Co coaches Dick and Richard McElman praise improved ball handling and the use of Morse gym as the team trains weekly. The Woolwich PTA funded new uniforms and players travel miles to compete.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woolwich
Bath
Morse High School
Morse High
Duncan Farrell
Richard E
Harold W. McElman
Woolwich Pta
Morse
Dick McElman
McElman
Guy Reed
Terry Ramsay
Bob Ramsay
Jimmy Beck
Bill Fogg
Carter
Tommy Creamer
Dec Stewart
Bob Reynolds
Paul Crocker
Bob Oliver
Bruce Baker
David Dodge
Erinie Abet Werren Baker
Clyde Cressey
Jerry Hanson
H. Seegar
Jimmy Baker
Richard E. McElman
Iarold W. McElman
Weeks Street
Two Morse Seniors Receive Scholarships for Naval ROTC
Morse High School seniors Hugh E. Madden and Frank Warren earned four year college scholarships at 52 leading U S colleges. They excelled in the Navy College Aptitude Test and earned acceptance into the Naval Reserve Officer Training Course pending a Navy medical exam. The award includes 600 dollars per year for room and board. Upon graduation they will receive commissions as an ensign or a second lieutenant with a two year active duty and four year reserve obligation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugh E. Madden
H. Joseph Madden
Katherine Frates Madden
Dike Road
Frank Warren
Ralph D. Warren
Washington Street
Morse High School
Navy College
Navy
Marines
Nightingale Club Tea for Hospital Benefit a Success
The twelfth annual Nightingales club tea drew about 150 guests Tuesday from 3 to 5:39 p m at the Cosmopolitan house reception room. Decor included mixed flower bouquets and lavender cloths with yellow candles while performances by Mrs. Farr Fornsten and Mrs. Carlene Suslovich accompanied by Mrs. Richard Burks Bunny Stanwood elevated the event. The donation presented by Miss Agnes Trowbridge Maroneck of New York supported the hospital fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cosmopolitan House
Farr Fornsten
Carlene Suslovich
Richard Burks Bunny Stanwood
Brunswick
Duncan HL Barrell
Agnes ‘Trowbridge Maroneck
N. Y
Beth
Martha Small
Emery Footer
Former member Donald Lewis returns to Les Camarades program
Wednesday night’s Les Camarades gathering welcomed back former member Donald Lewis, home from Bowdoin and Yale music training. He performed two piano pieces and now directs school music in Belfast, with involvement in church, orchestras, bands, and services. The event at Mrs. Harry McGlinchy’s featured Ramsay, Watson, Hill, Carey, and others in a long sequence of solos, duets, quartets, and choral items, ending with Australian Aboriginal selections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald Lewis
Allan Ramsay
Lewis
Bowdoin College
Central Congregational Church
Brunswick
Ile
Dr. Warr
Yale Music School
Belfast
Harry McGlinchy
Westport Island Ferry Shutdown Sparks Crisis
Litigation over a repair bill halted the Westport Island ferry, leaving 150 residents cut off from the mainland. The wooden scow, hauled out by county officials after a dispute with operator Everett Cromwell over an $800 bill to Frank Sample shipyard, may be sold to Boothbay Harbor. A bridge proposal under Westport-Wiscasset District consideration could take years, raising fears over fire protection, medical access, and essential supplies until any new link is built.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westport Island
Sheepscot River
Lincoln County Commissioners
Arthur E. Swanson
Board of Selectmen
Westport
Frank Sample
Boothbay Harbor
Everett Cromwell
Swanson
Cromwell
Sample
Sheepscot
Wiscasset
Fines for digging clams in restricted Kennebec flats
Roy Green of Phippsburg pleaded guilty in Municipal Court to unlawfully digging clams from Kennebec river flats closed by order of Department of Sea and Fisheries official Richard E. Reed. Judge Gardiner R. Deering fined Green $10 plus $4.70 costs. Four intoxication cases also heard. all fines were $10 with varying costs and possible jail terms if unpaid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Green
Phippsburg
Kenneobec
Richard E. Reed
Department of Sea and Shore Fisheries
Green
Swansea G. Burns
Gardiner R. Deering
Deering
Kennebec County
Records of Bath Firemen and Early Engine Companies
This last in a Bath Fire Department series chronicles early engine company personnel and organization from 1804 to 1844. It lists Directors, Sub-Directors, and Clerks for three companies, notes name changes for foremen, and details fire ward structure and equipment such as ladders and hooks. The text also traces alarm methods from bells in 1804 to evolving civic offices and fire wardens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Fire Department
Wil, Ochers
Joseph Torrey
John B. Swanton
Joshua Trufant
Samuel S. Sloan
John Bosworth
Levi Houghton
Andrew Heath
William Donnell
Samuel Pattee
Jeremiah Robinson
William S. Murray
Joseph Corliss
George W. Duncan
William S. Blasland
George Shepard
Edward Wood
Abraham Kimball
William Pettingill
William Weeks
Charles Crocker
James Moody
Robert Babb
Samuel Swanton
Gilbert Deblois
Thomas Baker
William Stevens
Green Richardson
Jacob Robinson
Joseph Babb
Noah Crocker
Andrew W. Beckett
William Couillard
Tileston Cushing
Baker
John Donnell
William C. Donnell
Robert Trevett
William Lowell
William B. Larrabee
Thomas Trott
Larrabee
Caleb Leavitt
Ebenezer Arnold
Edward Wedgkins
William Low
Mathew Bright
Samuel Donnell
William V. Moses
Levi P. Lemont
Otis Kimball
John Low
Amasa W. Marr
Ira Moore
David Ingalls
John Lambard
Eben Ayers
George W. Kendall
Henry C. Donnell
James Mitchell
George Wood
Edward A. Hodgkins
Albert G. Page
P. M. Reed
Torrey
Bath Fire Society
William King
Samuel Davis
Jonathan Hyde
Joseph Sewall
William Richardson
James McKeskin
Civ
Center Street
South Street
No 3
North Church
Bath Memorial Hospital Approved by Surgeons College
The Bath Memorial hospital joined 3,150 hospitals in the United States Canada and a few other countries approved in the American College of Surgeons thirty first Hospital Standardization Report A new Point Rating System aims for precision in evaluating hospitals emphasizing professional service quality and patient care Dr Malcolm T MacEachern praises progress in organization control and efficiency noting shorter average stays from 18 20 days to 8 10 days and death rate cut from 6 8 percent to 3 4 percent He says approval requires a well trained ethical staff and good facilities and that hospitals invest in equipment and trained personnel despite rising costs
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Memorial Hospital
United States
Canada
American College of Surgeons
Malcolm T. MacEtchern
Chiccago
MacEachern
Dr. MacEachern
John R Newell Addresses Rotary Club Meeting
Vice President John R. Newell of Bath Iron Works spoke at the Rotary luncheon at Central church parish house. He discussed shipbuilding instability, wartime employment levels, attempts to diversify products, a vocational training program, and praise for Bath mechanics and safety records. President Loring Addison chaired a brief meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John R. Newell
Bath Iron Works
Rotary Club
Central Church Parish House
William Skelton
William S. Newell
Cristobal
Canal Zone
John
Harding
Pennsylvania
Bath Mechanics
Washington
Iron Works
Loring Addison
Woolwich Maine Gifts Reach London Borough Woolwich
A Maine town Woolwich sent nine parcels of food and clothing to the London Borough of Woolwich. Mayor J F Parker notes the gifts go to needy families and old age pensioners via a central pool and council committees. Messages thank the senders, including a widow with four children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul K. Niven, Jr
London
Woolwich
Maine
J. F. Parker
London Borough of
South
Royal Arsenal
Parker
New Zealand
Tanganyika
Fiji Islands
United States
England
Former Presidents Honored at South End P T A Meeting
At a South End P T A gathering on Founders Day, a special observance and reception honored the association’s past presidents. The group notes its 1914 founding with officers including Mrs. Charlotte Redson as president and Mrs. Warry W. Crosman as vice president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South End
Ty Az
Bath to seek school district bonds in new bill
Councilman Rodney E. Ross Jr. said the final draft of Bath’s school district bill is completed and likely to be presented to the State legislature this week. Rep Howard C. Larrabee will present the measure, with only minor changes from the original. The bill provides for Bath to issue bonds for school purposes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rodney E. Ross, Jr
John P. Carey
City of
Bath
Howard C. Larrabee
Mr. Carey
City of Bath
Also Mentioned on This Page
Nightingale Club
LES Camarades
Mr. Ramsay
Leon Cavallo
Watson
Hill
Mr. Royal
Bathsearly
Surgeons College
Ith
Woolwich, Maine
Paul Kendell Niven, Jr
Bowdoin
London School
F Economics
Bath Independent
Niven
Paul K. Niven
Frank B. Nichols
Kendall
Manchester Guardian
Pan
Front St. Tel
Bath Auto Company
C. F. Cummings
Prop
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