Maine Legislature Opens With Adjourning Start and New Faces
An 87th Maine Legislature session begins with quick adjournment, Gov Brann inaugurated, and shifts in leadership. Republicans outnumber Democrats in the House 96 to 55 led by George Hill, with John Scates as GOP minority leader. Senior figures Weeks and Tomkins preside. many lawmakers are first term. The death of Edgar E Rounds is noted with resolutions. Governor Brann remains largely away from the House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur K. Purington
Augusta
Louis J. Brann
Executive Council
State House
House
George E. Hill
South Portland
John Clark Scates
Westbrook
Hill
Scates
Congress
Washington
Maine
Harold E. Weeks
Senate
Aroostook County
Nathaniel Tomkins
Royden V. Brown
Bingham
Harvey R. Pease
Wiscasset
Clyde R. Chapman
Belfast
Pease
Edgar E. Rounds
Portland
Edgar
Thompson Begins His Seventh Term as Clerk of Courts
The Sagadahoc Superior Court opened its January term marking Fred H. Thompson’s seventh four year term as clerk of courts. A Bath businessman, Thompson has served since 1911 and is likely Maine’s only Democrat with such an unbroken run in a political office. He succeeded Sanford L. Fogg during a December session and has been repeatedly reelected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sagadahoc
Fred H. Thompson
Bath
Thompson
Maine
Sanford L. Fogg
Superior Court
Annual Meetings Of Bath Bankers Hold Routine Vote
Annual meetings of all banks except Bath Savings Institution were held Tuesday afternoon with no changes. Re-elected were Bath National Bank directors and officers led by Arthur Sewall as president and Fred D. Hill as vice president and cashier. First National Bank named Oliver Moses president and William S. Shorey vice president and cashier. Bath Trust Co. re-elected Rupert H. Baxter as president and Rodney E. Ross as vice president with other trustees and officers listed. Executive committee also named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Savings Institution
Bath National Bank
Fred D. Hill
John G. Morse
F. B. Nichols
Arthur Sewall
Sumner Sewall
Langdon T. Snipe
Harry A. Walters
Dunlap A. Hatch
First National Bank
Frederick E. Drake
J. Edward Drake
Arthur J. Dunton
Charles V. Minott
Oliver Moses
Walter E. Plummer
William S. Shorey
Harry E. Stetson
Harry L. Day
Daniel Williams
Bath Trust Co
Rupert H. Baxter
Charles H. Cahill
Charles W. Clifford
Daniel It’. Dougherty
Harvey P. Hat
William B. Mussenden
J. Edward Hughes
William L. Skelton
Baxter
Cahill
Clifford
Dougherty
Irish
Newell
Percy
Ross
Sawyer
Sra
Thebeau
First 1935 fishing and gun licenses issued noted
Councilman Harris Rodick secured the first 1935 fishing license from City Clerk John Gilmore. Vernal Chase and Albert Bonney received the first 1935 gun and year hunting licenses. Lubec lobster fishermen revert to oars as gasoline costs rise five dollars weekly, worsening a lobster shortage amid Canadian competition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harris T. Rodick
Middle Street
John W. Gilmore
Vernal V. Chase
Robinson Street
Albert L. Bonney
Union Street Court
Lubec
Passmore Slugged and Robbed in City Store Room
Harry T. Passmore was struck and robbed of a Waltham gold hunting-case watch in the store room of H. T. Passmore & Co., 99 Commercial street. Police seek a 25 year old stranger in a light suit, brown hat, brown eyes and hair, about five seven, who entered around 4:30 and reappeared at 5.05.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry T. Passmore
H. T. Passmore & Co
Commercial Street
Mr. Passmore
Waltham
Walter L. Whitney
Passmore
Sagadahoc Wins Good Committees
Sagadahoc delegates fared well in committee appointments at the Maine Legislature convening. Senator N Gratz Jackson named chairman of the joint standing committee on banks and banking and serves on library pensions and public buildings and grounds. Representative Wilbur C Oliver of Bath joins joint standing committees on counties prisons temperance and on elections and county estimates. Representative Sumner Sewall takes on aeronautics radio control appropriations financial affairs banks and banking and military affairs. Representative Leon Earle Hagan Georgetown joins manufactures and state schools and reformatories. Representative Ernest A Allan Topsham serves on taxation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sagadahoc
Maine
N. Gratz Jackson
Wilbur C. Oliver
Bath
House of Elections
Sumner Sewall
Leon Earle Hagan
Georgetown
Ernest A. Allan
Topsham
Brunswick Representatives Appointed to House Committees
On the committee appointments to day, Representative Clarence E Saw yer of Brunswick was named to the joint standing committee on legal affairs. Representative Laval R Le bel of Brunswick was named to the standing committee of the House on leave of absence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence E. Sawyer
Brunswick
Laval R. Lebel
House
Bridge receipts rise for 1934 over 1933 by $15000
Carlton bridge traffic and tolls increased in 1934 with 41000 more vehicles and 101000 more people crossing than in 1933, lifting annual cash receipts to $162,564.65 from $147,280.20. December gain reached $1,132.60 year over year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlton Bridge
Jimmie Temple Sends Merriest Christmas Greeting
The Bath boy Jimmie Temple writes home from Georgia Warm Springs where he seeks treatment for infantile paralysis. He calls this visit the merriest Christmas ever and thanks his parents for their support and for the gifts and cards sent by friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jimmie Temple
Bath
Georgia Warm Springs
W. B. Temple
Hinckley Street
Een
January Cosmo Club program delights members with music
The Cosmopolitan club met in the club house on Wednesday evening with 40 attendees. Miss Marion T. O'Hara sang her first solo and performed with Miss Alice Magoun as program chair. The meeting featured piano, violin, and readings by Doris Wing and Merton Sprague, along with plans for a Valentine dance, a festival booth, and various committee reports. The group also announced upcoming events including a Feb 28 and Mar 1 production by the Amateur Theatre Guild of Boston and a mid winter Maine Federation meeting in Augusta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion T. O'Hara
Cosmopolitan Club
Ruth H. Farnham
Miss O'Hara
Doris Wing
E. Carl Albee
Merton Sprague
Alice N. Magoun
G. Eunice Whittall
Pines of
Maine
James W. Temple
Morse High School
William R. Freeman
Gardiner R. Deering
Isadore Singer
Carl F. Pierce
Leslé J. Wold
Albert S. Noyes
Edwin H. P. Lowell
David S. Cogan
Merritt A. Mitchell
Farnham
Muriel H. Howe
Phyllis E. Wright
Elizabeth D. McGrath
Evelyne L. Donnell
Addie D. Palmer
Helen E. Hartwell
Sophie G. Greenblatt
Mary Peters
Mary Ellen Chase
Cosmopolitan Players
Oscar Wilde
Lady Windermere
Emma E. Walker
Garden Club
Singing Club
House
Harry B. Briggs, Jr
Henry O. Trowbridge
Stanley Brown
Charles H. Frost
Leland R. Mitchell
N. Gratz Jackson
Carroll A. Deering
Elizabeth B. Deering
Paul G. Bagdikian
Maine Federation of Women's Clubs
Augusta
Frederick W. Humphreys
Carl E. Pierce
Joseph I. Smith
Clinton D. Wilson
Gagnon Indicted On Manslaughter Charge Tuesday
Sagadahoc Superior court convened Tuesday morning with Justice William H. Fisher presiding. A secret indictment charging Louis Gagnon of Brunswick with manslaughter was one of five returned by the grand jury. Gagnon pleaded not guilty and posted $2000 bonds. The death of John F. Bore sak, 35, of Freeport, occurred Monday evening when he was struck by a car he was fixing. The State alleges Gagnon operated the vehicle. Arraignment and pleas followed for all indicted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sagadahoc
William H. Fisher
Augusta
Ernest Heywood
Ralph O. Dale
Justice Fisher
Louis Gagnon
Cumberland Street
Brunswick
Gagnon
Borcsak
George Ackley
Edgar H. Temple
Bowdeinham
Highlights in Brann's address outline state uses and taxes
Governor Louis J Brann calls for using liquor fund for old age relief and proposes a one man highway commission. He seeks a state tax commission, Maine labor priority on work, buying Maine products, and a non salaried interstate compact commission. He favors $1 fishing hunting licenses for hatcheries, broader Maine Development Commission, and deems highway bonds unnecessary. He urges restraint on taxes and real estate burden, preserving thrift and economy with no tax rate increase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis J. Brann
State Liquor Commission
State Highway Commission
State Tax Commission
Maine
Grey
Kokadjo
Commissioner of Health and Welfare
Maine Development Commission
Operatic and semi classical program in Lewiston concert
A varied program by the FERA music groups was presented Sunday evening in Lewiston City hall with operatic and semi classical tunes. Josafa Morin conducted the orchestra and Miss Alice Flood directed the chorus. The program featured selections from Straus Chocolate Soldier and Schubert Blossom Time to come January 20. Contralto Miss Anna Deshaies sang My Hero as the finale the chorus and orchestra united for the same piece.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FERA
Lewiston City Hall
Josafa Morin
Alice Flood
Schubert
Straus
Anna Deshaies
Hero
City Council debates overdrafts and department budgets
At the January meeting George J. Goodwin was elected to the board of assessors. Alderman Donnell pressed for explanations of a $163 overdraft and for separate budgeted orders for Fire Department and Highway & Sewer, faulting past budgeting failures. The discussion touched on fire equipment costs, driver wages, and long-term neglect of equipment as causes of current overdrafts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George J. Goodwin
Common Council
Board of Assessors
Highway & Sewer Board
Fire Department
Charles J. Donnell
Donnell
Edwin R. Andrews
Ward Seven
Highway & Sewer Department
Edward F. Miller
Ward
Committee On Fire Department
Finance Committee
Hese
Fortier
Ward Two
Board of Engineers
Texas Yard
Mr. Miller
Alderman Fortier
Brunswick
Bath
Lewiston
Andrews
Cahill Named for Postmaster
The endorsement of Hon. Charles H. Cahill has been officially recognized and he is the choice of Postmaster General Farley for appointment by President Roosevelt. Cahill, seven time Bath mayor, succeeds Henry W. Owen Jr. and faces Hartnett who acted as postmaster during the interim. The Democratic city committee endorsed Cahill 23 to 5 on December 14, with Sagadahoc County backing Hartnett a few days earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles H. Cahill
Farley
Roosevelt
Cahill
Henry W. Owen, Jr
Edward Nolan Hartnett
Democratic City Committee
Ernest A. Allan
Topsham
Frank R. Bailey
Woolwich
Bequests From Bath Man Include Four Churches
William D. Oliver, veteran Bath Iron Works joiner turned razor blade sharpener, left $4400 in public bequests to four churches and Dunlap Commandery, K of T, in his probate will. Each of the four received varying amounts with the residue shared among three churches and Beacon Street Methodist, totaling significant gifts. Oliver died in January at 79, after a career at the shipyard and a noted local Masonic and K of T involvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Dunlap Commandery
K. of T
William D. Oliver
Beacon Street Methodist Church
Oliver
Old Bath Iron Works
Solar Lodge
St. Bernard
Dunlap Commandery, K. of T
Democrats to Name Municipal Ticket
Democratic city committee members met in the common council chamber to decide on a complete ticket for the March nation. A subcommittee will canvass citizens for mayor and alderman candidates while the group plans a festival booth at the Jimmie Tem Festival in the high school. The next meeting is set for the 28th.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Democratic City Committee
Common Council
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Sagadahoc County
Sewall
Carlton
Highway Commission
Brann
Bath National, First National and
Democrats
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