Forty Years Ago in Bath Fortnightly Notes
Fortnight of local items from Bath covering Kennebec Yacht Club meeting plans and officer elections, river fish runs signaling cold weather, shipyard transfers, new offices for American Express and updates on vessels and crews. References to social events, fires, injuries, and civic improvements appear alongside maritime commerce and local industry notes.
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Kennebec
Youths from Quoddy NYA school return to NYC
One hundred youths aged 18 to 24 completed five months at the Quoddy Project under the National Youth Administration. They studied varied trades, formed a local government, and held social events, with elections showing vibrant community life.
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N.Y
New York City
Quoddy
Francis McAllister
East Party
Seventh Street
Daniel Hasson
Portland
Don Tortora
Pasgemmaquoddy
Work Projects Administration
Helen M. Harris
Review of year events in Bath and Sagadahoc
A chronological survey lists notable Bath and Sagadahoc happenings from September through December, including incidents at Bath Iron Works, local government actions, fires, court rulings, community events, obituaries, and civic milestones. The timeline highlights labor, safety, infrastructure, and cultural affairs with multiple named places and individuals.
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Bath and
Sagadahoc
Probate Notice for Helen Leavitt Letters Testamentary
Court orders notices to all interested in the estate of Frank P. Leavitt deceased. A probate hearing is set in Bath County on the second Tuesday of January 1940 to contest the will and appoint Helen Leavitt executrix without bond.
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Aton Courh
Probeto
Bath
Adahocoon
Frank P. Leavitt
Phippsburg
Helen
Leavitt
Ovenit
Arthur J. Dunton
Bath National Bank stockholders meeting notice
The Bath National Bank calls a stockholders meeting at 40 Front Street Bath Maine on January 9 1990 at 2 oclock for the election of directors and for other lawful business. The notice is dated December 7 1939.
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ATH National Bank Vie
Pirst National Bank OF Bath
Frst
National Bank of Bath
Bank Ng
Daniel Williams
Bath Maine
Bath
Preferer
The
Bath Trust Company
Maine
Haig Order and Sutton Hoo Find At British Museum
Trustees accept burialship of Saxon king from Mrs Préetty’s Sutton Hoo estate and the Haig’s “back to the wall” order of April 11 1918 from Sir Philip Sassoon estate. The document, dated 1918 and signed D Haig, F M, shows corrections to phrasing and a final toned revision.
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British Museum
E. M. Préetty
Alt Sutton Hoo
Ipswich
Philip Sassoon
Haig
Philip
Lord Haig
Western Front
France
D. Haig
F. M
Wearie
British Empire
Penell
Model House Opens to Public Evenings
The Bath Box Co. builds a modern five room model house at Palmer Park for sale with all electric kitchen by Central Maine Power Co. It will be open 6 39 to 8 39 each evening this week for public inspection. James A. Gillies Jr. says the firm expects a quick sale after viewing and notes four houses completed in 1939 with one more underway at Palmer Park and a fifth in Woolwich.
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North End
Kennebec
Husband
Deane Beazhor
Bath Iron Works Corp
Kennebec Bridge
Lewis O. Barrows
Bath Iron Works
Brown's Field
West Bath
Weever Idle Club of People’s Church
Civil Service
Konstantine Gurgiotis
Court House
PW Waa
Sagadahoc
Gun & Skeet Association
John Crawford
Salem Va
Joeph Crawford
Elizabeth
N. J
Edward Kelley
Bath
Emily Stanley Warren
Cambridge
Mass
F. E. Stanley
Stanley Swanner
Woolwich
First National Bank
Senate
Sumner Sewall
Rotary Club
G. Bromley Oxnam
New England
Oxnam
Hughes
Navy Department
Charlestown
E. T
State of Maine
Gov Barrows
Frederick W. Freeman
Charles Street
Maurice A. Libby
John Mall
Barrow
E C. Dunning
Elks Home
Williams. Newell
Bath Lien Works Corp
Lafayette Hotel
Portland
Portland Propeller Club
Jane
Murphy
Dex
Edmund P. Briggs
McCutcheon
Lemont
High Streets
Beatrice Merrill Lee
Augusta
Milton
Barry
Grove Street
Crown and Star Minstrels
Dunlap Commandery
K. T
Masonic Temple
Destroyer Gleaves
Albert Gleaves
Evelina Gleaves van Meter
Annapolis
Clotilda Florance Cohen
Wynnewood
Oscar R. Adams
Chase Block
Washington and
Center Streets
William B. Campbell
Arrowsic
Bath Flying Club
Stanley Harvie
Winter Street
Bath Water District
Volunteer Hose Co.g
Mershall Street
Steeves
William H
Superior Court
People's Investment Association
Lew O Barrows
Bath Lodge of Elks
St. Barnabas Guild
Grace Church
Morse High
Ralph O. Dale
Sagadahoc County
Carl C. Anderson
Ted's
Cosmopolitan Club
Harrison O. Lyseth
Bath Camp
Modern Woodmen of America
Employes of Congress Shirt Co
Arthur H. Price
Cosmopolitan Garden Club
Colonial Club
Knights Templar
Mark Norris
Addison Rice
Earl A. Rice
High Street
Sarah A. Hyde
Maine Central Railroad
Worumbo Manufacturing Co
Oliver Moses
Justus H. Miller
Palmer Park
Bath Box Co
Central Maine Power Co
James A. Gillies, Jr
Gillies
College Impressions From Winter Fireside Meeting
Students recall mixed impressions of college at a Winter Fireside club gathering. Speakers included Clifton Nickerson Martha Page and Dave Rich representing University of Maine Bowdoin Reed Pittman U S Naval Training Institute. Donald McKellar presided and Norma Steussy to lead next week.
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Clifton Nickerson
Martha Page
Dave Rich
University of Maine
Gordon Lake
Bowdoin
Reed Pittman
U. S. Naval Training Institute
Newport
R. I
Donald McKellar
Norma Steussy
Joris Houston
Marion Small
Mary Young
Richard Minott
Robert Minott
Creorge Rogers
John Kimble
Colby College
Foreclosure Notice on Maine Mortgage Case 1939
The Home Owners Loan Corporation claims foreclosure on a deed in Sagadahoc County Maine due to mortgage default. Capl M P Parrabee attorney notices the action dated December 22 1939 in Wiscasset Maine with case details referencing land and buildings and the referenced 1920 deed.
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Howard
Nant
Snarmanhoe
Maine
Zlan Hand Willian
Bevinnin
Benny
Aid Home Owners' Loan Corporation
P. Larrabee
Syxeadahoe County
Home Owners’ Loan Corporation
Capl M. Parrabee
Wiscasset
Hix
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Bath Daily Times
Andrews of
Gorham
Kennebec River
Water Street
Roxy Boland
Jesse Savage
Roderick Brothers
Tom Wilson
This City
M. Sawyer
Rockland
Wilson
Clifton O. Page
Fred Harvie
Hyde Windlass Co
Howard Schaffer
Friend
Boston
Rufus Lombard
Jennie Harvey
Gardiner
Messrs. Heath and
Foster
Monitor
New England Co
New York
Harry P. Sprague
A. C. Sprague
Harry Mank
Santuit
Norfolk
W. A. Atchley
Mrs. Thomas
Lewiston
Capt. McLaughlin
Jennie S. Butler
South End
Isaac F. Chapman
Benjamin Flint
Gardiner G. Deering
Deering
American Express Co
Library Block
Center Street
Kelley, Spear & Co
John 8. Emery
Es.h
T. T. Moores
Upper Washington Street
Samuel Dillaway
Drummond’s
Henry Clausen Jr
Flora Rogers
Walter Kingsbury
Western Avenue
New England Order of Protection
Angle Iron Shop
Iron Works
Sagadahock Block
Company C
E. L. Winslow
Waldoboro
Capt. Gaudreau
Miss Mae Snow
Mrs
Walter Murtaugh
Providence
Scott Frye
Hannah Morse
Frank E. Frazier
San Francisco
Coleman Welch
Sanford L. Fogg
J. M. Trott
Lowell
Lord and
Water Streets
Register of Deeds Office
Taunton
Staples Coal Co
Reynolds
Baltimore
Drummond
George Legendre
Bath Tron Works
Marie Palmer
Rogers Yard
Edwin P. Hyde
W. D. Mitchell
Union
Gowell
Charles MacDonald
Boston Medical School
William R. Kimball
George A. Baker
William C. Perkins
Charles L. Pratt
E. A. Jones
W. A
John W. G
E. O. Dow Ty
Starr
Samuel W Pal
Fred Coffin
J. I
George H Clark
Southend
Woodmen of America
Acadia Lodge
Knights of Pythias
W. H. Carr
H. G. Berry
W. H. White
Fred Sanborn
Harry Mills
Sentinel
John McKiever
E. J. Marston
George W. Dean
Harry
Lord
Fred S. Curtis
Nellie Silsby
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Chesapeake
Charles R. Hanscom
Boston Harbor
Stra Egrag
Harry Dunton
Business College
Iron Works Plate Shop
L. B. Swett & Co
Hazen
Benjamin Sewall
Brunswick
Montivedeo
Lucy Patten
Harry Stewart
Boothbay
People’s Safe Deposit and Savings Bank
Capt
John R. Kelley
David T. Percy
Gordon
Preble
Seth T. Snipe
D. Howard Spear
Arthur G. Gilmore
Maine Board of Pharmacy
Lewis A. Jack
Jack
Siling
Mary Thirtle
City
George W Thistle
Y.M.C. A. Gymnasium
Thompson Brothers
King’s Daughters
Emma Small
Oscar C. Rogers
Josteph Torrey
Prank A. Small
Rosa Brown
American Zaprest Co
Patten Library
Agent Mower
James & Shepard
Dougherty’s
Vielt
Jonn
Hyde
Washington
Etaples Coal Co
Mase
Kelley Spear A. Co
Segitu
Portland Company
M O Glass
Harvard Seismograph
Roger L. Arringdale
L. Don Leet
Harvard
Arringdale
Turkey
Arguite
Frances Shaughnessy
Helen Shaughnessy
Washington Street
David L. Wilson
Central Church
Stephen Ethier
Walker Art Gallery
Bowdoin College
Harold Maguire
Portland Police Department
Dummer Sewall
Scott Morse
Roscoe G. Bailey
Water District
Arthur Sewall
Merritt, Chapman & Scott Corp
New London
Conn
Winnegance Community Club
Maine Progressive Union
Berwindglen
Newport News
Parker Flats
Langdon T. Snipe
Patten Free Library
FL. Nichols
Charles C Low
Monroe
Bath-Woolwichh Bridge
Lincoln - Sagadahoc
Sagadahock
Gloster
Portsmouth
Boy Scouts
Battery H
C. A
Frank Clark
Back River
Georgetown
Chester McMahan
Five Islands
David L. Wiltive
Kent Island
Bath Teachers Club
Albert O. Gross
William H. Fisher
Sagadahoc Bar Association
Sedgwick
William L. Landers
U. S
New York Navy Yard
Maurice B. Rhea
Neil F. Wilson
Archie Wishart
Morton
Baker
Arthur R. Orr
Thomaston
T. Fulton
Electric Night Company
Braintree
Sagadahoe
Arthur Eseley
North Woolwich Woods
Frank H. Clark
Arrowsie
Fred P. Ring Jr
Harold Freeman
East Brunswick
Mr. Freeman
Big Woods
Fort Preble
Joan Parker
Wiliam S. Newell
Segadahoc
Watts Detective Agency
Gurgiotis
Alden
Smith
Janet Murphy
Ecclesiastical Conference of Lincoln Association of Congregational Churches
William Dowling
Rotary Tlub
Harold L. Troop
Alex Burgess
Carl Kronstrand
Court Street
Tom Bowser
Railroad Wharf
Orville E. Page
Fred A Carr
Topsham
Lily
Pray
Fred R. F Deak
Saguadahoer Womairs Republican Club
Cgoverta Ss
Charles Eo Deetan
Bathian
Repealican
Sheriy Oof
Sin Udahoe
Carl Y Kennedy
Qakhurst Darya
Chibh
Sedptck
Fred Brice
Poncapal
Skowingai
Wong
Mi Dee
Hill
L FE. Thebeau
Model House
Winter Street Fireside Club
Povert B. Hatch
Richmond
Stanley Pierce