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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1959
Page
6
A Bath page item recounts a special Board of Aldermen meeting to draw three traverse jurors for the Supreme Court term. It notes local events including shipyard activity, fires, personnel changes, military arrivals, road and labor observations, and Bath’s push for a modern hotel.
Jan 30 1919 Bath hosts horse and harness sale at Charles H Jordan stable as Bath Street Stable planned for horse firm use. Bath Iron Works defense output noted with 25 000 tons merchant shipping and five destroyers added to Navy list. William Harding reference and local theater plans appear amid diverse Bath news including gas system update and early straw hat sighting.
February 2 1919 a fire damaged much of the Bath Fruit Co. stock at 39 Chestnut Street the former Farrar store. foil note with details of local firerescue and town business updates including housing shipments and wages for steamship staff.
Mrs. Dorothy Palmer was taken to Bath Memorial hospital and released after a collision between her car and a fire hydrant on Crawford drive. Police estimate damage at $200. Patrolman Horatio Quinn investigated. Mrs. Carlyle Taber remains home ill at 2 Kennebec circle.
Morse and Westbrook clash in a rugged high school boys basketball game with Westbrook edging Morse 58 to 54. Westbrook led 27 25 at halftime and built a 45 38 lead before Morse rallied, but late fouls and free throws sealed the win for the Blazes. Key players included Amoroso Brown and Bradway for Westbrook and Costain McLaughlin and Avery for Morse.
Morse High toppled Cheverus 76 43 in a home varsity game. Key players included Fred Brown 20 points and Eddie Avery 15 with Charlie King returning for Morse scoring 13. Cheverus struggled to keep pace as Morse built leads from early in the first quarter and widened the margin at halftime and beyond.
The First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Bath declares a mortgage breach and fore closes the property at Wool Wiel Wood in Sagadahoc County Maine. The notice records joint tenancy mortgages dated November 20 1940 and transfers among Carleton Reed Alice P Reed Roxford Stover and others with deed details and notary acknowledgment January 1959 in Bath Maine.
The Miss Bath Pageant committee invites Bath Brunswick residents to nominate personable talented young women for the local contest held at Morse High School auditorium on March 28. The winner earns a $250 scholarship and a chance to compete for Miss Maine 1980 in Portland then Miss America 1980 at Atlantic City with a $5,000 scholarship.
Robert P. Melhorn, owner and manager of Troops Hardware, named Bath chairman for the 1959 Heart Fund drive. Griffing announces other Bath area chairmen including Mrs. Raymond Ainsworth Arrowsic Mrs. Reymond Wyman Phipptown and Mrs. David B. Soule Woolwich.
In municipal court Clyde Whittaker 22 Arrowsic pleaded nolo contendere to malicious mischief. He received 11 months suspended jail and six months probation with attorney Ronald Hart. Rodney Walz 26 SAGE pled guilty and paid 25 dollars for driving 60 in a 40 mph zone on Route 1 in Bath. Earle Young 37 BNAS paid 25 for 50 in a 25 mph zone on High Street. Albert Henderson 50 Phippsburg pleaded guilty for failing to stop at Vine and Washington and fined 20 dollars. Leonard Johnson 29 West Bath pleaded innocent but was found guilty for speeding 50 in a 35 mph zone on Route in Bath and fined 20 dollars.
Rubin argued that the verdict would be murder or innocence as a woman in bed behind a door could not have aided manslaughter. Delahanty urged the girl to dissociate from Thomaston's bad influence. The State cites separate trials involving Fredith and the girl’s father in a plot to kill the child. Burbank, a New Hampshire laborer in Woolwich, is charged with slamming the child's head on a bedpost. Rubin offered no defense in either trial.
Nancy P. Driscoll and Fran A. Driscoll Jr. of West Bath are granted divorce. West Bath resident Elvira Oliver of Belfast is awarded separation from Bath’s Willard F. Oliver. Chester D. Pearson of Bath is divorced from Iblen G. Pearson of Lakewood. R. J. Ruby M. Thompson, of Richmond, separates from Laurel F. Thompson.
Police report a second breaking and entering at Hilltop market on Tligh and Center streets around 7:30 this morning. A window sash was removed and about $4.50 stolen, mostly pennies. Authorities link both thefts as connected. The Rochester High School Bowling League begins its 26th season with 12 teams.
Court of Probate in Bath Sagadahoc County orders notices for estates including Ridley Mary Catherine Fuller executrix, Hitchock, Dunton and Whittaker trustees accounts, Marie Jeanne Dare Georgiana Biette name change to Joan Georgianni Brette, and other probate actions. Hearing set for February, with letters testamentary and accounts to be allowed as filed.
Barbara L Brewer registers a list of executors administrators and guardians appointed for Bath area estates. Hazel A Grant named executrix without bond on January 13. Carl G Kronstrand named administrator January 13 1959. Evelyn Mae Witham guardian January 6 1959, bonded January 13 1959. Frederick Farl Burgess listed as deceased.
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