Local Notes Reflect Winter Hardship and Community Happenings
Town residents report storm damage and wind effects with roofs caved in on new houses. Girl Scouts plan to serve lunches at Town meeting while locals attend social gatherings and housewarmings. Longstanding residents move, work shifts change, and a local engagement is announced as the community adapts to winter conditions.
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P. T
Hazel Mcoe
Spond
Larry Gilmore
Gilmore
Everett Harrington
Morse Mill
Winnegance
Labrador
Nai Mere Ne Ora
Pond
Elliot Gilliam
Raymond Brown
Bath, Iron Works
George Buchanan
Buchanan
Marshall Gilliam
West Point
Holland House
Richard L. Smith
Mildred Smith
Cranberry Point
Town Meeting Discusses Consolidated School Plan in Phippsburg
About 56 residents from Sebasco Ashdale West Point Small Point Popham Parker Head Winnegance and Phippsburg Center met at the Phippsburg town hall on Thursday evening for debate on town warrant articles. Moderator Herbert Stott and assistant Thomas Totman led, with Walter McCourt’s absence noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sebasco
Ashdale
West Point
Small Point
Popham
Parker
Winnegance
Phippsburg Center
Phippsburg
Herbert Stott
Thomas Totman
Earl Lowell
Walter McCourt
LR. Smith
Brunswick
Merrill Oliver
Bath
Llewellyn Oliver
Bert Young
Delia Morey
Minot Percy
Eric Carlson
Bernard Carlson
Dix Island
Portland
Ernest Oliver
Margaret
Edith
Elkanah Wyman
Spruceville
Edward Thomas
Wyman
Robert Moore
Popham Road
Moore
Parker Head
Frank Scott
Lester Oliver
Guy Crowley
Herbert Sprague
Carey Wallace
Clarence Wallace
Maurice Pushard
Mary Newdick
West Bath
Virginia Perkins
Barbara Louise Williams
Edward E. Williams
van Smith
Angie M. Talbot
Richard J. Talbot
Ernest W. Brown
Augusta
Chester R. Talbot Jr
Smith
Wedding in Parker Head Ties Kreicher and Ryan
John B. Kreicher son of Mrs. Frances Morong wed Miss Lorraine Ryan daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dewey of Binghampton New York on Saturday afternoon. The community notices praise card games PTA rehearsals and local social events in Parker Head and surrounding towns with multiple attendees.
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E H “ Ton
J. D. Libby
Fred. A. Libby
Frances Morong
Herrington
Earl Hamel
Lewis Lowell
Francis Lander
Earl Lowell
Walter Cushing
W. T. Wyman
KE. M. Wyman
Florence Rollins
H. D. Mank
Ramon Hamel
Lloyd Lowell
H. D. Mank Sr
John Rollins
PTA
Arthur Harrington
Bert Nisbet
Bart Hamel
Leston Harrington
Charles’ Blaisdell
Eugene Marrington
Leslie Darling
Arthur Brown
Baril Lowell
Albert Gray
Charles Blaisdell
Vestry
Bodwell Grange Hall
Phippsburg
Phippsburg Center
Gilman
Bath City Hall
Harland Ladd
Boston
Hyde Camp Displays G A R Relics and Banner
Hyde Camp S U V hosts a memorial display at Stetson's window on Center Street featuring G A R relics and a new banner. The banner will be used in the Memorial Day parade as Bath prepares for a State initiation event on March 1. To join, one must be 16 or older and a血 descendant of a Civil War Union veteran.
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T. W. Hyde
Stetson’s
Center Street
Stetson
G. A
Bath
A. R. Hall
Middle Street
Grand Army
Maine
Ladd outlines education bills and school housing need
Former Maine official Ladd backs a 2 million subsidy to towns to reduce the school housing shortage, calling for 600 new classrooms now and 1500 more in ten years. He supports the Area School bill in new form and outlines state board of education plans, teacher training, and public understanding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladd
State Board of Education
State Department of Education
Maine
University of Maine
Mr. Ladd
Bath
Bradfords Visit for Morse Westbrook Game
Mr and Mrs Roy Bradford of upper High street were weekend guests of Mr and Mrs Whitman Mitchell of Sherman street Portland They attended the Morse Westbrook basketball game Saturday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Bradford
Upper High Street
Whitman Mitchell
Sherman Street
Portland
Morse - Westbrook
Popham Beach Residents Forecast Busy Summer Ahead
Beach residents and seasonal cottagers anticipate easier marketing with fuller seafood stocks and lower prices. A new meat truck, a future summer camp, and a potential motorboat route between Popham and Bath are discussed alongside town meeting issues and local civic drives.
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Popham Circle
Phippsburg
Popham
Christian Service Committee
Popham Beach
Stanley Hyde
Yarmouth
Kennebec
Bath
Phippsburg Center
Cox’s Head
Georgetown
Wyman Brothers
Small Point
Riverside
East Beach
Donald N. Small
Commission Sustains Dismissal in Thibodeau Case
City Marshal Kingsbury reports the Bath Personnel Service Commission sustained charges against Officer Joseph Thibodeau of the Bath Police Department and dismissed him. The decision, reached after a hearing, allows Thibodeau to appeal to the mayor and Board of Aldermen for a further investigation and public hearing.
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Percy W. Kingsbury
The
Personnel Service Commission
Joseph Thibodeau
Bath Police Department
Kingsbury
Thibodeau
Thiboiteau
Police Department
13Ath
Board of Aldermen
Clam Industry Expansion Sought by Coastal Towns
Dana Wallace of Ellsworth says officials in several coastal towns plan to seek funds at annual meetings for clam propagation and development. The department has offered to provide the latest information to aid these efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta
Dana Wallace
Ellsworth
Wallace
Bath Housing Authority backs Maine Housing Authorities Act
A Bath report to the mayor and county legislators urges endorsement of the Maine Housing Authorities Act. The bill would let municipalities use Federal housing aid without state funding, enabling local disposal of war housing projects if beneficial, otherwise leaving projects under Federal control.
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Bath Vmensing Authority
Bath
Segedahec
Augusta
Weeks
South Portland
Maine
Union
Yogud
City of
Oe County
Bath Musici
Mon
State offers shellfish propagation supervision program
A state service will advise towns on shellfish problems and supervise propagation activity. Experts say dam-area improvements could be funded for a few hundred dollars annually. Wallace expects towns that fund and execute proper work will profit from their investment and will supervise the effort when asked. Fisheries experts say proper management could triple the value of the $1 million clam industry.
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Wallace
Demonstration of new hydraulic ladder device on Front Street
Several hundred people witnessed a staged test of a 65 foot steel ladder carriage by Sed graves Corp engineers from Mass. Charles Blonquist described the machine and its hydraulic operation. Many favorable comments praised its adaptability and the prospect of city use next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Front Street
Eddie
Charles
Blonquist
Sundae Mass
Sedgraves Corp
Fire Department to be commissioned this week at Central Station
All members of Ladder Col of the Bath Fire Department were asked to attend Central Fire Station Sunday morning at 11 30 for a ceremony expected to commission them by the city later this week.
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Bath Fire Department
Central Fire Station
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