Condon Sentenced to Kennebec Jail in Bath Case
Herbert E. Condon, 45, of 105 Court street, after pleading innocent, was found guilty by Judge Gardiner R. Deering and sentenced to 90 days in Kennebec county jail for assault and battery. He also faced intoxication and disturbing the peace charges, which were filed after conviction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert E. Condon
Court Street
Bath
Hilda Condon
Gardiner R. Deering
Kennebec
Condon
Deering
Carroll W. Coffin
Fred Potter, Jr
Newcastle
Kennebec County
Coffin
Potter
Columbia Hotel
Donald Belanger
Front Street
Orchestra to Play for Friday's Dance
The Center plans a Friday evening dance with Jimmie Footer's orchestra from 8 to 12 to meet public demand. A revenue goal will support Center operations, with a snack bar open all night and admission at a reasonable price. Proceeds fund future Center events and attendance is expected to be strong.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commu
Jimmie Footer
Christmas Party Helpers at North Grammar School
Assisting in the Christmas party for the pupils of the North Grammar school were Mrs. Louis Annis as chairman and Mrs. Gordon Allen, Mrs. Leland Green, Mrs. Joseph Long, Mrs. Edward Le Moine, and Mrs. Hollis Garey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Grammar School
Louis Annis
Gordon Allen
Leland Green
Joseph Long
Edward LeMoine
Hollis Garey
Hyde Park Sunday School Christmas Party Shines
The Sunshine Sunday school of Hyde Park held its annual Christmas party and program at the Community hall, featuring candlelight processions, solos, duets, and a Christmas tree. Led by Miss Marshall and Miss Caden, the event praised by attendees and noted for strong 1948 season attendance inviting new families to join next Sunday at 11 o'clock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sunshine Sunday School of
Hyde Park
Priscilla
Christine Lews
Emma
Esther Russell
Beverly
Barbara Robinson
Judith
Verna Lee Watts
Jean Goody
Evelyn Southard
Judith Watts
Ellen Goody
Larry Garside
Carol Lee Mains
Patsy Hill
Mary Flemming
Dickie Grindle
Jackie McKinnon
Annette Pendexter
Sandra Perkins
Geneva Russell
Carol Lee
Sandra Maine
Carroll L. Clark
Faith Flemming
Carol Sue Richards
Linda Gibberson
Bobby Brennan
Dianne Bertrand
Chipper Bartley
Joan Lewis
Jean Flemming
Charlene Hawes
Nancy Garside
Marijane McKinnon
Charlie Holmes
Anna Hawes
Sharon Lee Holbrook
Nancy D’austolo
Marilyn Giberson
Penny McKinnon
Judy Minott
Dream Flowers
Beverly Knight
Jesus
John Minott
Jackie Boody
Jean Fleming
Carol Clark
Marijane
Anna
Carroll Lee Mains
Faith
Mary Fleming
Rita Trask
Martha Holmes
Lewis Carter
Shirley Staples
Christine Lewis
Lillian Canales
Marion Holmes
Priscilla Lewis
Marylin Giberson
Jacqueline Grindle
Marshall
Miss Caden
Gustafson Wedding in Brunswick Monday Evening
Miss Ann Elizabeth Gustafson of Brunswick married Raymond Dudley Hamlin Jr. Monday at 7 p.m. in a single ring ceremony at Rev Dr Davdl L Wilson's home on Washington street. The bride wore grey with pink roses. attended by Mrs. Florence Rose. best man Paul Gustafson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ann Elizabeth Gustafson
Brunswick
Raymond Dudley Hamlin, Jr
Davdl L. Wilson
Washington Street
Florence Rose
Paul Gustafson
Karl W. Gustafson
Raymond D. Hamlin
Smith Merrifield wedding at Ferry Street Church in Bath
Hadley Eugene Smith of Bath and Miss Carolyn Mae Merrifield of Bath wed in a double ring ceremony at Ferry Street church with Rev. Joseph O. Purdue officiating. Attended by Mr and Mrs Clifford O Colson of Rockland. An automatic bottle making machine was invented in 1903.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hadley Eugene Smith
Bath
Ellery E. Smith
Smith
Wiscasset
Carolyn Mae Merrifield
Herbert Merrifield
Denny Road
Friter Street
Joseph O. Purdue
Clifford O. Colson
Rockland
Record of Baths Early Firemen and Companies
This third installment outlines early Bath Fire Department records focusing on Engine No. 1. It details routine exercises, penalties for absences, early by laws, social events, and evolving company sizes through 1805–1807, plus notes on Engine No. 2 and its original members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Fire Department
George Shepard
Swanton
Ebed Lincoln
Jacob Robinson
Company No. 1
E .Swanton
Elizabeth
William Swanton, Jr
Washington Street
Federal
Albion L. Corliss Honored at Hyde Windlass Banquet
Albion L. Corliss of Woolwich, retiring lathe department foreman at Hyde Windlass Co., was feted at a Sedgwick hotel banquet with a wrist watch presentation by Edwin R. Andrews on behalf of management. The lathe crew had already given him pipe tobacco and lighter, as Frank Barker of Brunswick to succeed him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albion L. Corliss
Woolwich
Hyde Windlass Co
Sedgwick
Edwin R. Andrews
Corliss
Zina M. Eaton
Donald B. Hopkins
Earl P. Cahoon
Mr. Corliss
Bath
Frank Barker
Brunswick
Burden Not to Run for School Board in Bath
Alex Burden of Bath Savings Institution will not seek re election to the Bath Board of Education this year. C Lloyd Hooker has nomination papers and may face others. For city council Delmar Bates has nomination papers, Leburton D Sheldon will not run. Several others filed for council and ward positions. all papers due by midnight January 10.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alex Burden
Bath Savings Institution
Bath Board of Education
C. Lloyd Hooker
Hooker
Delmar Bates
Leburton D. Sheldon
Candidates file nominations for city council and school board
Harold J. Sonia of Ward 7 filed for City Council, becoming the first candidate to file. C. Lloyd Hooker seeks a seat on the Board of Education, joined by Fred Dwyer as Ward 2 constable candidate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold J. Sonia
C. Lloyd Hooker
Board of Education
Fred Dwyer
Soldiering in West When Indians Roamed Topic Of Talk
Bath Rotary club heard a talk on traditional soldiering experiences. Thomas Murphy recounted his father George Murphy’s army service starting in 1879 at Fort Slocum and Cheyenne, noting Indian threats to supply trains and a fatal night encounter. The talk, led by Earl Farnham, was given in place of the absent speaker as President Loring Addison urged action on crowded Bath school rooms and possible wings to Huse school. Junior guests included Dennis Gaudet, Robert Anderson, and Alvan Reynolds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
West Point
Murphy
Bridgeport
Conn
George Murphy
Earl Farnham
Tom
Loring Addison
Huse
Dennis Gaudet
Western Avenue
Robert Anderson
Court Street
Alvan Reynolds
Washington Street
Herbert Morse Announces Candidacy for Bath Board of Education
Herbert Morse age 28 of 28 High Street has filed for nomination petitions to run for the Bath Board of Education in the February 14 municipal election. The seat becomes vacant with Alex Burden not seeking re election. C Lloyd Hooker postal worker also has papers filed. Morse is a Morse High School graduate, married with three children, and an operating engineer at Bath Iron Works Corp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert Morse
High Street
Bath Board of Education
Morse
Alex Burden
C. Lloyd Hooker
Mr. Morse
Morse High School
Bath Iron Works Corp
Oliver Oliver announces engagement of Madelyn Kathryn Oliver
Mrs Maurice E Oliver of 9 Robbins Street announces the engagement of her daughter Madelyn Kathryn Oliver to Wayne Bryant Drinkwater son of Mr and Mrs Leland Drinkwater of Rockland The couple’s wedding date is not set Miss Oliver a Morse High School graduate and dance instructor in Rockland Camden and Brunswick Drinwater a Rockland High School graduate attends Lowell Textile Institute in Lowell Massachusetts State Rep Howard C Larrabee left for Augusta to attend today’s Legislature opening with a Gardiner room reserved for the session and weekends at home
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maurice E. Oliver
Robbins Street
Madelyn Katheryn
Wayne Bryant Drinkwater
Leland Drinkwater
Rockland
Miss Oliver
Morse High School
Camden
Brunswick
Drinkwater
Rockland High School
Lowell Textile Institute
Lowell
Mass
Howard C. Larrabee
Liberty Street
Augusta
Gardiner
Myra Dunn
Pownal School
White Road
Robert Brown
Gardiner Hospital
Robert Bowden
Leon Dunklee
New London
Conn
Alice Whittier
Maine General Hospital
Portland
Enoch Gilpatrick
Mercy Hospital
Henry Libby
Albert Libby
Bowdoinham
Yokohama
Japan
753D
Libby
United States
Bowdoinham Schools
Bowdoinham Couple Celebrate 50th Wedding Anniversary
Mr and Mrs Alvadh Powers observed their 50th anniversary at home in South Portland. They were married in Bowdoinham January 1 1899 and later moved to Gardiner where Powers worked 50 years for Commonwealth Shoe and Leather Co. Their daughter Miss Maxine Powers of Portland and son Basil live in Gardiner. The item notes multiple family moves and local ties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alvadh H. Powers
South Portland
Bowdeinham
Gardiner
Powers
Commonwealth Shoe and Leather Co
Maxine Powers
Portland
Basil
Mr. Powers
Miles and
Mehitable Millay Powers
Bowdoinham
Woodbury
Marilyn Goodwin
Arthur Goodwin
Richard Lambert
Emanuel Lambert
Lewiston
Episcopal Church
Donald Chesley
Betty Thompson
Lambert
Edward Baker
Connecticut
Mr. Lambert
Smith Merrifield Wedding Details On Friday Evening
The Smith Merrifield wedding occurred Friday evening with the bride escorted by her aunt and uncle Mr and Mrs Clifford Colson as matron of honor and best man. The bride wore aqua crepe with black accessories and a red rose corsage. Helen Wilkie and Mrs Robert Newman served as matron and attendant. A recorded musical program featuring Miss Williams as disc jockey ran between 1 and 2 15 o'clock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clifford Colson
Helen’ Wilkie
Robert Newman
Miss Williams
Kent student Terry Carney returns for second year
Terry Carney son of Col. and Mrs. Harry B. Carney of Green Street returns to Kent's school in Kent Connecticut for his second year as a student.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terry Carney
Col
Harry B. Carney
Greenstreet
Kent's
Kent, Conn
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Senter’s, Inc
DuPont
Flannelette
Northmont
Loan Association Pa 10
RAP
Terrace
Francis W. Crocker
John Richardson
Capt
Peases
John Bernard
Engine Co. No
William Couillard
Thomas Trott
William Donnell
the Baker
William
John
Elijah Low
Richard Parshley
William Lowell
Samuel Springer
William Allen
Robert Trevett
John Donnell
William S. Crocker
Tileston Cushing
Thomas Kimball
Kimball
H. M
J.C. Steen
Howard and
Jim
Timken
Washington ST
South St
Albion L. Corliss Guest OF
Hyde Windlass
Rotarians
Burker Atwood
North St
Bath, Maine
Power King Home Workshop
Montsweag
THE
Melody Makers
Nazarene Church
J. C. Albright
Melrose
New England
Ray Estabrook
Lithco Allen
Rose Almy
Laura Temple
Harland Joyce
Richmond
Universalist Church
Young People
Leo Gorcey Ax
Superman
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Fim
Cusses
Winter Street Church
Lambert Park
FBI
Ford Pleyae Ay
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