Hermes Set for Launch on Tuesday at Bath Iron Works
Bath Iron Works to launch Hermes, the fifth of seven U. S. Coast Guard patrol boats, on Tuesday Feb 23 with sponsor unnamed. Seguin tugboat undergoes boiler and engine repairs while local steamboat inspectors deem it generally sound. Fire department holds routine meeting. next trial run set for Feb 16. Others arrive for service and assignments related to Coast Guard boats and the destroyer Dewey project.
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Bath Iron Works Corp
Hermes
U. S. Coast Patrol
Seguin
Kennebec
Iron Works
United States
Bath
Iron Works Fire Department
Mayor Small Faces City Budget Critique
The piece defends Mayor Small while criticizing prior administrations. It calls for cutting political influence at City Hall and claims critics are ignorant of true conditions. The article suggests more oversight and openness, including public debate with opponents.
February thrills in California snow storm delight Berkeley readers
Mrs. John H. Davenport of Berkeley writes of an unusual February snow storm bringing two inch snow depths. Schools dismissed as children and adults enjoyed snowmen, sliding, and snowballing in the Berkeley Hills. Davenport recalls Maine winter memories and Maine’s beloved state as Captain Kidd’s tale concludes.
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California
John H. Davenport
Berkeley
Davenport
Georgetown
Frank M. Bowker
Pine Street
Bath
Berkeley Hills
Gordon Davenport
Maine
Maritime Museum for Bath Would Be Great Asset
Mayor Small announced his candidacy for a third term and failed to win a salary raise to 3000 dollars. He attacked critics and newspapers while touting savings in city operations. A proposed maritime museum would chronicle Bath shipbuilding from early English ventures to modern yards, leveraging local collections and patronage to preserve the city’s seafaring heritage.
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Small
Gillis
The
Times
City of
Bath
Pres. E. Mason Wright
Whitney
Finance Committee
Purington
the Times
Land
Cosmopolitan Club observes Washington bicentennial program
The Cosmopolitan club held a Washington bicentennial program during the February meeting attended by 40. The program opened with singing and piano accompaniment, reports by officers, and a plan to form a dramatic department and fundraisers. Attendees heard talks on Washington, a planned Serbia reminiscence event, and a Maine Progressive Union meeting setup with luncheon and entertainment committees.
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Washington
Cosmopolitan Club
Stearns Scott
Carolyn Stackpole
Elsie Trott
Minnie White
Book
Helen Hartwell
House
William Dennison
Masonic Temple
Clinton D. Wilson
Archibald Main
Serbia
Maine Progressive Union
John Butler
Lewiston
District 11
A. E. Chittenden
Federated Clubs of Maine
Reginald Stacy
Ruth Thompson
Bessie Hunt
Roscoe P. McFadden
Isaac Howard
Daniel Dougherty
Frostina Marston
Addie Palmer
Bertha Bellerose
Anne Quinn
Frank Jaqua
Haviland Terrey
R. Clinton McFadden
Marcia Moulton
Christine Curtis
Lillian Lewin
Mildred Nichols
H. Emma Magoun
Jane Murphy
Archibald M. Main
Carl Anderson
Muriel Howe
John Shaw
Mary Campbell
Leonice Morse
Lord Geoffrey Amherst
Elizabeth Ames
Lillian Norton
Cecille Veilleux
Dorothy Welch
Candlyn Stackpole
Sophie Greenblatt
Miss Norton
Miss Stackpole
George Washington
S. Greenblatt
Betsy Ross
Miss Ames
Erla Douglas
Helen Walker
George
Genesta Chapter Installation Praised in Maine
Officers of Genesta chapter No. 73 O E S were installed in the Masonic temple with Miss Mabel J. DeShon of Portland as installing officer. The ceremony featured music by a quartet and an orchestra, floral decorations from local greenhouses, and gifts to retiring matron Mrs. Frieda Bagdikian. A banquet, then dancing, followed the formalities.
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Genesta
O.E.S
Masonic Temple
Mabel J. DeShon
Portland
Grand Chapter
Maine
William H. Ohler
South Portland
Kate Perkins
Kathryn Smith
South Easton
Mass
Nellie C. Congdon
Horace W. Ward
Doris I. Leavitt
John Wishart
Carrie Thompson
Annie Cox
Edith Rich
Mabel Fullerton
Bessie Clark
May Ward
Marshal
Mildred Morse
Ina Small
Ada
Bernice Carr
Ruth
Annie Stacy
Esther
Olive Tait
Martha
Marilla Morse
Electa
Catherine Leonard
Warder
Frank S. Wakefield
Sentinel
Ernest Wood
Luther S. Thompson
Jack Shaw
Lloyd G. Daley
Shaw
John H. Grindell
Emery Freeman
Woodbury Bailey
Kennebec
Perkins
Miss DeShon
Wood
Miss Congdon
Ohler
Cora Mae Hunter
Genesta Circle
Annie Deering
Emma Ehlers
Elizabeth Jackson
Effie Heald
Annette Merrill
William G. Congdon
Bruce Street
Mabel DeShon
Harry Passmore Holds Rotary Club Attendance Record
Harry T. Passmore, secretary of the Bath Rotary club, maintains the district attendance record with ten and a half years of uninterrupted meetings. He often travels long distances to attend away Rotary gatherings, reflecting his dedication. Oliver P. Wish of Portland, a former Bath attendee, died last week, and his memory was praised by Bath Rotarians.
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Harry T. Passmore
Bath
Portland
Figurehead on Ship Belle of Bath
The Belle of Bath figurehead, carved by Mr. Sampson near the Kennebec area, is a renowned 19th century work depicting a richly dressed woman. Built in 1877 at the New England yard later owned by The Texas Steamship Corp, the 1477 ton vessel drew hundreds of spectators to view its elaborate craftsmanship.
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Virginia
George Popham Colony
Popham Beach
Bath
New York
New Amsterdam
George Popham
England
Kennebec
Arrowsic
Wiliam Phips
Woolwich
Belle of Bath
Sampson
Kennebec Coal and Wharf Co
Charles T. Jackson
Belle of
Texas Steamship Corp
Federal Land Bank loans in Sagadahoc total $68200
Pres E H Thomson says losses amount to seven tenths of one per cent and Sagadahoc records show $68200 loaned on farm property in the county over the past decade. Major sums went to Bath and Topsham, with North Bath foreclosure noted on the Arthur P Wright farm. Loans to Arrowsic Bath Bowdoin Bowdoinham Phippsburg Richmond Topsham Woolwich listed. Continued on Page Eight.
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Pres. E. H. Thomson
Federal Land Bank of
Springfield
Mass
Sagadahoc County
Sagadahoc
Georgetown
West Bath
Arrowsic
Bath
Bowdoin
Bowdoinham
Phippsburg
Richmond
Topsham
Woolwich
Arthur P. Wright
North
Bath Country Club
Woolwich budget at town meeting to ask $13 443
Woolwich voters will seek appropriations totaling 13 443.90 in the annual town meeting warrant on March 7. A special budget committee meeting in Nequasset reviewed the panel’s recommendations, cutting the prior year’s total by about 5000 and discarding nonessential items.
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Woolwich
Special
Nequasset
Duncan MclIntosh
Harry Fitch
John Brown
Asa Hathorne
Frank Bailey
John Carter
Gertrude L. Marston
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Winton Engine Co
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Gustave Gustafson
U. S. Coast Guard
Wiliam S. Newell
New York City
Charles W. Avery
Groton
Harold P. Small
Mayor Small
Captain Kidd
Front St
Maritime Museum
Sasanoa
Merrymeeting
Winneganee
Percy & Small
Corsair
Caroline
Kennebec River
Samuel R. Percy
Wyoming
Patten Library
Percy
John A. Lord
Harold M. Sewall
Jonathan Philbrook
Samuel Swanton
McLellan’s Wharf
William King
Brunswick
Custom House
John Peterson
New Meadows
Peleg Tallman
City Park
Levi Houghton
South Street
Jonathan Davis
Samuel Davis
William M. Rogers
Nathaniel
William Sprague
James McLellan
Dwelly Turner
Joshua
Samuel
John M. Moody
Johnson Rideout
G. J. Spear
Kelley, Spear Co
Charles E. Moody
C. J. Jenks
E. K. Harding
William Rogers
J. P
B. W
C. W. Morse
Alexander Robinson
John McDonald
William T. Donnell
G. G. Deering
George Hawley
C. B. Harrington
Adams and Hitchcock
B. C
S. D. Bailey
D. C. Magoun
Cosmo Club
Harry Passmore
Figurehead
Federal Land Bank
Registry of Deeds
Wonder
Johnson Brosco