Miss Olive Thompson Bath's oldest resident dies at 102
Olive M. Thompson, a 102 year old Bath resident and former tailor, died in the Old Ladies Home after a fall fractured her hip. Born in Wiscasset, she worked in Boston and Bath, lived at the Home 23 years, and remained active in sewing and quilting. Funeral Friday at two in the Home. burial in Wiscasset. She voted in four elections last year and was cherished by fellow residents and family.
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Olive Thompson
Bath
Old Ladies’ Home
Olive M. Thompson
Old Ladies Home
Miss Thompson
Wiscasset
John and
Charlotte ‘Pearson’ Thompson
Boston
Warren Hawthorne
James Hughes
James B. Young
First Baptist Church
Junior Chamber officers elected at Bath meeting
Bath box Co. president James A. Gillies Jr. and Dr. Francis A. Winchenbach were re elected to vice presidencies at the Junior Chamber of Commerce anniversary gathering held at Hotel Sedgwick. Paul B. Wilson became secretary as other officers and directors were named. Mayor Sewall underwent a major operation at Brunswick hospital Wednesday. The group discussed civic matters but time ran short due to a clash with the Colonial club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James A. Gillies, Jr
Bath Box Co
William Ho Gove
John M. Conley
Jr Municips
W Schofield
A. Fariey Maso
Ji Manufacturing
Brewster G. Sedgwick
Harold W. M Elman
Thie Chamber
Hotel Sedgwick
Morse High School
William H. Gove
Chamber of Commerce
Gove
Bath
Rumford
Woodbury
E. Brackett
Oakland
Washburn
Colonial Club
Arthur Sewall
Brunswick Hospital
Carl M. Robinson
Portland
Sewall
Ranger named for Vanderbilt sloop at Bath in 1937
Harold S. Vanderbilt will name his new Class J sloop Ranger, following the naval lineage of Ranger ships from 1777 onward. The Bath built boat, on a Winter trip from Santana, Fla., is set to defend the 1937 America's Cup. The article also reports Club Garret's President's Ball raising funds for the Shipping City infantile paralysis drive, adding about 200 to the local total.
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Harold S. Vanderbilt
Ranger
Vanderbilt
New York
Santana
Fla
Enterprise
United States Navy
John Paul Jones
Continental Congress
Quiberon
France
Drake
Charleston
S. C
Baltimore
Isaac Chauney
Lake Ontario
Navy
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Rockport
Nantucket
Bath
Arcade Ballroom
Club Garret Young Ladies
Emily L. Jordan
Shipping City
Arcade
Nate Gold
Portland
Forest City
Club Garret
Board of Education
Jordan
Randall M. Daley
Elizabeth E. Fuller
Margaret M S
Increased Voters in City Rise to 4757 After Deductions
Voting lists turned over to City Clerk Gilmore show 4757 names, up 297 from last year after deaths and removals. Ward tallies place Ward 1 at 911, Ward 2 at 841, Ward 3 at 700, Ward 5 at 698, and Ward 4 smallest. men outnumber women in every ward. In Bangor, Donald Clendenning and David Priest pled guilty to novel charges of digging into and molesting a tax den in Holden two Brewer nen, each fined $10 plus costs.
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Gilmore
Board of Registration of Voters
City Messenger Child
Fae
Saouriso Nee Eh
Clinton C. Stevens
Bangor
Holden
Brewer Nen
Donald Clendenning
David Priest
Sagadahoc County reports net gain of 9282 for 1936
The Sagadahoc County Commissioners annual report shows year end cash in treasury 3907.41 with liabilities totaling 4781.74, yielding a net gain of 9282.88 for 1936. Receipts list taxes from Bath Bowdoinham Richmond and road lands while credits include loans and various bridge and state obligations. A note mentions land damage payments and two youths visiting Portland with travel memories.
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Sagadahoc County
Times Press
Treasury
City of Bath
Bowdoinham
Phippsburg
Richmond
Bath Trust Co
Bath-Phippsburg Bridge
Buth-Phippsburg
Poe
Chorgetown- Arrowsie
Owing Branch
Topsham
Owing State
Sagadahoc Pomona Meeting Highlights at Topsham Grange
Sagadahoc Pomona held its January meeting at Topsham grange with 186 grangers. Speakers included Vincent Canham Auburn and Charles M. White Augusta. E. E. Addison Auburn discussed the state grange bill and income tax. Topics covered soil conservation, dairy markets, butter substitutes, and farm economics.
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Sagadahoc Pomona
Topsham Grange
Vincent Canham
Auburn
Lewiston Sun
Charles M. White
Augusta
State Department of Agriculture
State Grange
E. E. Addison
Eleanor P. Ripley
Topsham
Pomona
Harry Rackley
Alfred
Clifford Gray
Progressive Grange
Richmond
Grange
E. L. White
Bowdoinham
Soil Conservation
Doris Edgecomb
Myrtle Cutler
Christine Pierce
Edward Sprague
W. H. Gould
Maine
Sprague
Frank Carver
Vincent W. Canham
State Highway Safety Commission
Highway Commission
F. F. Addison
Greene
Androscoggin Pomona
David Henderson
West Bath Franee
Cooperative FE
L. White
Lorenzo Masse
Brunswick
Jenny McNeil
Milward Patten
The
Catheriine Sprague
Gertrude Carver
Walstep
Mire Bertha Wright
Sugadahoc Pomona
Popham Colony of 1607 Through Early Visitor Eyes
The article recounts the 1607 Popham settlement led by Capt. George Popham and Raleigh Gilbert aboard the Mary and John and Gift of God. It details the landing near Sagadahoc, the fort, church, and houses, and notes the voyage’s outcome and later discovery of fort plans and Sabino hill origin.
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Popham
George Popham
England
Mary
John
Raleigh Gilbert
Ocean
London
America
Virginia
Sagadahoc
Digby
Sutquin
Seguin
Sabino
Sagamore
Grand Bashaba
Strachey
Capt
Gilbert
James Davis
Richard Seymour
Richard Davis
Harlow
Sabine Hill
B. F. DeCosta
Kennebec Boston Steamboat Line Pioneers of Coastal Travel
Henry W. Owen Jr recounts the early Kennebec to Boston run noting the Ocean and Governor vessels, the Eastern Queen built for the line in 1857, and the Civil War transports. The piece covers ship specifications, crews, service patterns, fare wars with Gardiner, and the postwar shifts including the T F Secor and State of Maine.
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Ocean
Kennebec
Boston
Governor
Samuel Sneeden
New York
Maine
Fall River
Port Royal
Navy
South Carolina
Sabine
United States
Bath
TLF Secor
Portland
Gardiner
State of Maine
Bishop & Simonson
Buster
Boston & Maine
Baner
Pall River
Thomas
Voor de Kennebec
Witter
Eastern Queen
Secor
Kennebec Snd
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Androscoggin & Kennebec Railway Co
Lisbon Falls
Public Utilities Commission
State House
Path Box Co
Maine Central
Androscogem & Kennebec Railway Co
Ceramic Feldspar Co
Thomas J. Cummings
Cummings
Charles Wainford
Cummings Feldspar Co
Garret
U.S
Ourickse
Carl Papin
New Sweden
Union Station
Exchange Street
Hartford
Conn
Lambeth Palace
St. George's Fort
Simancas
Spain
Rockledge Hill
McNulty
Pemaquid
New England
Horsecatch Point
Hunniwell
Hunniwell's Beach
Popham Beach
Fulton
Clermont
Cape Cod
Boston and Kennebec
Henry W. Owen, JR
Jos Feet
Bruni
Windiivenmobv
Sanford
Belfast
Ellsworth
Mount Desert
Bath-Portland
R. Donovan
Charles HH Beck
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