Damage at Popham Beach Cottages From Storm
A nor' easterly storm devastated Popham Beach causing nine riverfront cottages to suffer major damage and losses estimated at 75000. The Ralph Small and Harry Day cottages were left wrecked with underpinnings washed out. Debris filled the beach as power lines and a transformer failed and roads washed away while some properties had already been repaired after November storms.
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Popham Beach
Ralph Small
Harry L. Day
Allan Spear
Popham
Coast Guard
Frank Freeman
Spear Cottage
Coast Guard Station
Gaten
Buchanan
Rowe
Donald N. Small
Gilbert Atwood
Atwood
Edward W. Bridgham
Charles Shepard
Bridgham
Bath committee reports federal aid for school growth
Bath's special committee on public school construction urges federal funding for 1950 51, detailing an entitlement around 123 316 dollars and proposing city support of 76 000 for eight classrooms and 37 000 for six at Dike and Huse schools. It calls for bond authorization and rapid building plans with Feb 15 1951 filing.
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Bath City
Ross
Office of Education
Stanley Hunter
Etta Thurlow
Arthur Sturtevant
Edwin R. Andrews
Loring R. Addison
Archibald M. Main, Jr
Stout
Pew
Huse School
Dike School
Bath
Washington
A. Brunswick
B. Hyde Windlass
Citizens Planning Committee
Rotary talk highlights progress of agriculture
Tuesday's Rotary meeting featured a Poultry Farm from Phippsburg and guest speaker Wilfred Jones of the Ralston Farina Company of St. Louis. George W. Larrabee ran the program with a songfest, and the discussion focused on the industry’s advancement and its national reputation.
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Rotary Club
George W. Larrabee
Phippsburg
Wilfred Jones
Maine
Ralston Farina Company
St. Louis
Bath City Council Hears Reports on Salaries and Federal Aid
Bath City council discussed reports on Salary Schedules Insurance for city property and employee hospitalization Police seniority and Street Lighting at the February meeting. Action was deferred pending public review and final decision by the incoming government in March.
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Bath City
Arthur E. Hutchins
Tonight’s Times
Mately
Arthur E. Sturtevant
Stanley Hunter
Police
Sturtevant
March of Dimes Drive Grows Stronger in Bath and Sagadahoc
The 1951 Bath Sagadahoc March of Dimes drive has raised 2196.96 with over 400 from Special Gifts. Chairman John Conley predicts surpassing 500 as contributions continue. The Mother's March, led by Mrs. Nostall, Shorette, Flaherty, and Bath Teachers Club, mobilized 200 workers to raise about 1900, two-fifths of Portland's total, amid polio cases in 1949 and 1950.
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Bath
Sagadahoc
John Conley
Conley
James Nostall
Algernon Shorette
Andrew Flaherty
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
James A. Gillies, Jr
Flaherty
Bath Teachers Club
Nostall
Shorette
Portland
Nathan Watson
Raymond Farnham
Morse High School
Loring R. Addison
Miss Redding
Richmond
Sagadahoc County
Arthur Sewall II
Damage at Popham Beach Draws Hundreds Sunday
Hundreds visited Popham Beach Sunday to view storm damage from Wednesday night’s assault. The latest seas battered cottages from Ralph Small to Allan Spear, with many foundations washed away and roads eroded.
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Popham
Allan Spear
Explorer Troop 52 Camps Overnight in City Park
Explorer Troop 52 of Corliss Street church braves cold as part of Boy Scout Week, camping overnight at City Park. They arrive Saturday morning, erect tents, build a fire, and welcome visitors who shiver but stay curious.
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Explorer Troop
Explorer Troop 52
Boy Scouts of
Corliss Street Church
City Park
the Park
Refrigerator
Boy Scouts
Donald Kenny
Robert Potter
Robert Reynolds
Lloyd Coombs
Victor Lonn
Harold Fuller
Warren Kenney
Rusty
Reverend Maney Celebrates Fifty Years in Priesthood
Rev Fr Timmothy C Maney marked his golden jubilee in the Roman Catholic priesthood this Saturday. He has served as pastor of St Marys Church from 1901 to 1904 and again from 1929, now a longtime Bath resident active in civic life. He is cherished by Catholics and Protestants for his gracious greeting and cheerful presence.
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Timmothy C. Maney
St. Mary's Church
Bath
Maney
Congress Shirt Factory
Mrs Marion J Smith Reelected To Bath Board Of Education
In Bath the municipal election yielded Mrs Marion J Smith as the sole repeat winner on the Board of Education, defeating rival candidates and carrying every ward. Ward Five saw Wilmer Voorhees defeat Maude Dowling, Ward Seven reelecting Alfie Jacobs over Kathryn Syde, and tied write ins in Ward Four. Other council seats went unopposed or with light voting, totaling about 1800 city votes. Taxi stand measures also won support in a February traffic ordinance referendum.
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Bath
Wilmer I. Voorhees
Maude B. Dowling
Alfie Jacobs
Kathryn B. Syde
Charles Shaughnessy
Roy Getchell
Etta Thurlow
Jesse W. Allen
Merritt A. Mitchell
Eastham Guild
Harold J. Sonia
Chubbuck
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Augustus A. Percy
Dike
Huse Memorial School
Gmac Finance
Center Street
Harry F. Day
Mr. Atwood
Donald N. Smaill
Hill Cottage
St. Mary’s
Timothy C. Maney
Marion J. Smith
Board OF Education
Couture
DODGE
Plymouth
BUICK
Bath Auto CO
Front Street
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