Maine Keeps Snow Bound Highways Open All Winter
Maine uses 4715 motorized snow plows and nearly 1000 workers to keep over 10000 miles of roads clear with a winter budget exceeding 500000 dollars. The system spans from Kittery to Caribou and Eastport to Jackman ensuring motorist access during storms. The Maine Development Commission notes the program boosts year round tourism and winter sports, with snow fence miles up 1700 percent and state per mile costs rising to 50 dollars from 25.
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King Winter
Maine
State Highway Department
Kittery
Caribou
Eastport
Jackman
Pine Tree
Highway Commission
The
Maine Development Commission
Bridge crossing traffic nearly reaches one million in 1931
A tabulated report shows about one million people crossed the Bath Woolwich bridge in 1931, with motor vehicles approaching half a million. September and October gains totaled 13,616 vehicles over 1930, while July saw a 3,179 drop year over year. The figures cover January 1, 1931 to January 1, 1932 and the preceding year.
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Bath
Woolwich
Jule
Veteran George Marshall tells judge he would take a drink
World War I veteran and Togus home resident George Marshall faced arraignment on an intoxication charge. When asked if he would take a drink that morning he candidly replied he would. Judge John J. Keegan then ordered him to return to the Togus home.
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George Marshall
John J. Keegan
Marshall
Keegan
Togus
Brunswick Trapper Fined for Closed Season Violation
Brunswick trapper Harry L. Crooker was fined 10 dollars and taxed 7.15 dollars in costs by Judge John J. Keegan after pleading guilty to trapping a muskrat out of season. Deputy John Perkins arrested the case after a Bath man reportedly bought muskrat furs. Crooker claimed he set traps for mink and muskrat was incidental.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry L. Crocker
Brunswick
John J. Keegan
John Perkins
East Brunswick
Crooker
Mink
Annual Myrtle Lodge inspection praised by Mrs Hathaway
Mrs Minnie R. Hathaway of Winthrop praised Myrtle lodge U.O. of I.O.L. in Odd Fellows hall after inspecting members led by Zeuleika Kingsbury and Jennie Oliver. Special honors went to the noble lady conductor and junior representative. gifts and a New Year tree followed a candlelit supper for 40. Hathaway and Lillian Bishop stayed at the Phoenix hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnie R. Hathaway
Winthrop
Myrtle Lodge
U. O
Odd Fellows’ Hall
Zeuleika Kingsbury
Pearl Campbell
Jennie Oliver
Lizzie B. C. Chaney
Mary Gillespie
Nellie Hunt
Amelia Mitchell
Frances Clark
Persis Miller
Marion King
Annie Lemont
Edith Nash
Guardian
Lucy Perry
Elie Higgins
Eva Atwood
Mary Lowell
Martha Bridge
Gertrude Stewart
Lodge
Elsie Higgins
Hathaway
Lillian Bishop
Portland
Mary F. Curtis
Georgetown Residents Charge Against Selectmen Ended in Not Guilty Verdict
Judge John J. Keegan ruled not guilty for Mrs. Grace Moulton and six residents, who charged L. Earle Hagan, Orville F. Rowe, and Harry H. Heald with misplacing town books. A separate charge against Hagan for withholding books on December 14, 1931 also ended in not guilty. The Bath municipal court case spanned two days with defense quotes noting harassment of the selectmen.
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John J. Keegan
Georgetown
Grace Moulton
L. Earle Hagan
Orville F. Rowe
Harry H. Heald
Hagan
Bath
Keegan
Community Socials Spark Winnegance Week
Winnegance hosts a string of social events as Mrs Ethel Pinkham and Mrs Della Coggeshall lead supper and auction nights with prizes awarded. The Tuesday Evening Bridge club and Winneganee Girls club share gatherings, while measles, illness, and thin ice on the creek affect village life.
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Harry Williams
Bridge Street
Ethel Pinkham
Elizabeth Haley
Ellen Marshall
Grace Hagan
Della Coggeshall
Walter Morse
Winfield W. Morse
Robert P. Manson
South End
Almon R. Perry
Emery Focter
Ormond Ciggeshall
Samuel Jordan
Augustus Small
Sherman L. Morse
Merton Oliver
Charles FE. Preble
Winneganee Community Club
Joseph Charles Foster & Sons
Bath
Joseph Charles Footer & Sons
Winneganee Girls’ Club
Lloyd Rogers
William Brown
Stewart Day
Harold Haggett
George McMann
Edgar Oliver
Funeral services for Philip Gordon Freeman
Funeral services were held at the Universalist church in Brunswick for Philip Gordon Freeman 44 connected with John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co as Brunswick agent. He died Monday night after a surgical operation at Maine General Hospital Portland. Born February 6 1888 in Cambridge Mass he lived in Brunswick 11 years after farming and later insurance work. He is survived by his wife four children his parents four brothers and five sisters. Burial in New Meadows Cemetery.
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Philip Gordon Freeman
John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co
Brunswick
Universalist Church
Freeman
Maine General Hospital
Portland
Mr. Freeman
New Meadows
Cambridge
Mass
Philip Albert Freeman
Horton Academy
Wolfville
N. S
Dalhousie College
Halifax
Florence Doughty
Ruth
Philip A
William
Florence
Brthers
Percy
Cuyahoga Falls
Ohio
Harry
David
Herbert
Sophie Christopherson
Kathleen
Elizabeth Freeman
Clifford Levy
Mildred West
Boston
Harold I. Merrill
Garnet Road
E. Leslie Mooers
Rufus A. Hall
Charles E. Nason
Bernard V. Morrill
Local notes from Phippsburg and nearby towns
Elizabeth Wiley of Lisbon Falls guests with Mrs. Malcolm Berry returns home. U.S.C.G. man Lester Oliver visits Burnt Island and Popham Beach. Stover, Crowley, Alley and others travel between Bath Boothbay Harbor and Portland. Winter term begins at Popham Beach school. funeral for Mrs. Ann M. Bowker in Bath. roads near Dromore are badly rutted with cars meeting at Elbow Hill.
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Elizabeth Wiley
Lisbon Falls
Malcolm Berry
Lester Oliver
U.S.C. G
Burnt Island Light
Oliver
Popham Beach
Guy Crowley
Eugene Stover
Bath
Roland Alley
Boothbay Harbor
Laura Cutting
Meadowbrook
Mabel Ingalls
T. C. Hughes
J. E. Perry
Grace Williams
Ann M. Bowker
Curtis
Henry W. Butler
Roscoe Perkins
Walter McCourt
Rodney Wyman
Oak Grove Cemetery
Emma Perry
George C. Pease
John D. Rogers
Roscoe
Road stretches improve near schoolhouse and summer place
Passage notes easier riding along the route after a long rut. The segments near the stone schoolhouse by Horace Morse’s place and Ford Moran’s summer area are largely smooth and ready for resumed travel.
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Horace Morse
Ford Moran
West Bath Grangers Plan Four Group Contest Event
A West Bath Grange contest divides married and single men and women to present the best program. Sessions begin January 25 with the married women versus single women, then February 1 for the married vs single men. Committees are named for each group and the January 18 meeting is led by Mrs. Elizabeth Haley and others. A roll call reveals tools and household devices as favored chores aids, plus a humorous monologue by Alfretta Perkins and a talk by Major William R. Kimball about Havana trip.
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West Bath Grange
Joanna Hodgkins
Ethel MacDonald
Leona Howe
Esther Perry
Lizzie Haggett
Grace Freeman
Marjorie Cavanaugh
Daisy Oliver
Lillian Lewin
Jean Danforth
Dorothy Welch
Muriel Howe
Eunice Hanscom
Catherine Emmons
Ruby Wilson
Alice O’brien
David Henderson
Sam Povich
Kenneth Smith
Joan Sylvester
William White
Herbert Cavanaugh
Charles Chesley
Albert Henderson
James Thurston
Bernard Henderson
Herbert Simpson
Charles Doyle
Frank Manion
Herbert Henderson
Frederick Henderson
Wesley Lemont
Elizabeth Haley
Evelyn Simmons
Eva Fulton
Alfretta Perkins
Dromore
Reading Sparks Discussion at Meeting
Miss Almena read Dont Quit while questions on cheap food and immigrant chances in city or country drew brief discussion led by Ella J. Douglas and David Henderson. Weather favored a strong turnout for the gathering.
Moosehead region recreation center plans unveiled by Hinckley
Bangor financier Frank W. Hinckley outlines a $3,000,000 plan to open seventy thousand acres of nearly virgin forest to tourists. The project centers on Moosehead region development with a scenic 35 mile toll road, a lakeside hotel and camps, land leases for private camps, and extensive mountain and lake scenery across 40 lakes, three mountain groups, and area near Moosehead Lake. A cost survey has been prepared.
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Frank W. Hinckley
Bangor
Hinckley
Times Office
Moosehead
Moosehead Lake
Katahdin Iron Works
Lake Onawa
Lily Bay
Katahdin
Atlantic Seaboard
Hinckley Promotes Mountain Pond Club in Maine
Mr Hinckley launches a prospective Mountain Pond Club with an initial cost of 2700000 and an advisory committee of prominent Maine figures from courts banks hotels editors lawyers industry and business. He stresses no stock selling and aims to build broad interest for a post recession project.
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Hinckley
Mountain Pond Club
Maine
One Eee Gees
Supreme Court
Calypso Larder to Be Stocked for Commissioning
The Coast Guard patrol boat Calypso will be stocked with a large supply of meat dairy and dry goods for officers and crew. Sealed bids to supply the listed groceries will be opened at the Bath Iron Works Corp office at two o clock on Thursday afternoon Jan 14. The long inventory includes beef veal ham pork loins bacon sausage butter lard coffee tea cocoa evaporated milk bread potatoes cabbage sweet potatoes lettuce onions celery maple syrup tomatoes peas beans corn meal oatmeal spices and more.
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Coast Guard
Calypso
Bath
Bath Iron Works Corp
Death of J. Frank Trufant of Lisbon Falls at 85
J Frank Trufant of Lisbon Falls aged 85 died Friday. He was a son of Charles and Minerva Trufant born in Durham and the last of a large family. His brother Charles of Harpswell had died six months earlier. Funeral was Sunday at 2 p.m. at his Lewiston road home.
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J. Frank Trufant
Lisbon Falls
Fred S. Curtis
Mr. Trufant
Durham
Charles
Minerva Trufant
Harpswell
Edward E Reed Woolwich farmer dies at 75
Edward E Reed 75 a Woolwich farmer died Wednesday morning at the home of Welden Preble in Woolwich He was a native of Woolwich son of Otis and Sarah Hawthorne Reed and lifelong resident No near relatives survive Funeral Friday at two in the Arthur F Mayo funeral residence Bath Rev J B Shaw Woolwich Union for Christian Service will officiate
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Edward FE. Reed
Woolwich
Welden Preble
Otis
Sarah Hawthorne Reed
Arthur F. Mayo
High Street
Bath
J. B. Shaw
Woolwich Union For Christian Service
Miss Mary A Woods obituary notices Bath resident dies
Miss Mary A Woods, 71, died Wednesday at her home 86 Court Street after long illness. Born in Moose River, she lived in Bath 12 years. Survived by sister Mrs Eric B Haggett of Bath and several nephews and nieces. Funeral Saturday at eight in St Mary's Church.
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Mary A. Woods
Court Street
Moose River
Ann Kerr Woods
Bath
Eric B. Hagsett
St. Mary's Church
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Siena
Brunswick Trapper
L. F.” Atwood
Minnie Hathaway
Philip G. Freeman
Phippsburg
West Bath Grangers
Chevrolet
Bown
Fisher
Flint
Mich
Chevrolet Motor Company
Detroit
General Motors
O. M. McCrown
Edward E. Reed
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