Perfect Attendance by Bath Pupils Highlights School Term
A lengthy listing shows Bath pupils from Dike School through Morse High School who had perfect attendance Sept 14 to Dec 16, 1931. It names teachers and many students across sub primary to eighth grade, North and Center Street groups, Weeks Street, Freeland King, Morse High, and post graduates, noting 154 Morse High pupils achieved perfect attendance in the term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Street
Helen Orr
Sara Munsey
Marguerite Rines
Jean Stanton
Paul Hurd
Clifford Goody
Joan Harrison
Rachel Matthews
Shirley James
Edward Jones
Leola Dupont
Alton Maines
John Hinds
Laura Mitchell
Edward Atkinson
Edward Butterfield
Stanley Cressey
Harry Chapman
Joseph Cloutier
Harry Fullerton
Barbara Genthner
James Morse
Shurley Parshley
Wesley Plum
Martin Bean
Ruth Bean
Walter Butler
Doris Chaplin
John Crane
Doris Mains
Robert Mains
Mitchell School
Lillian Fisher
Dale Harper
Madelyn Oliver
Anna Trainor
Carroll Walls
Ernest Walls
Sarah Coombs
John Murphy
Elizabeth Whittemore
Christine Lockery
Everett Comeau
Florence Watson
Ameri
Hortense Boyd
Barbara Chaney
Almeda Genthner
Sophie Johns
Gwendolen Quinn
Roland Staples
Frederick Wallace
Beatrice Adams
Edith Atwood
Lydia Atwood
Gerald Babine
Clement Barter
Harland Booker
Fred Brown
Stanley Brown
Marguerite Brown
Elizabeth Butterfield
Mildred Chaney
Charlotte Colby
Martha Cutting
George Davis
Harold Fuller
Wiley Fullerton
Bernard Gallant
Harold Gilmore
Harold Goodell
Grace Goodwin
Mary Goodwin
Franklin Hallowell
Eva Henderson
Clarence Jean
Dorothy Jean
Jack Magoun
Frank Martin
Donald Marshall
Wilfred Mercer
Lawrence Moore
Adelaide Morse
Richard Morse
Dorothy Parshley
George Pearce
Anna Perry
Margaret Ray
Elizabeth Rice
Nellie Robinson
Harold Rogers
Marguerite Rogers
Henry Sarkis
Kathleen Scott
Catherine Shellenbarger
Maurice Skaling
Dorothea Skillin
Glenwood Snowdon
Ellen Stevens
Linwood Temple
Harry Thebeau
Madeline Thebedeau
Grace Waterman
Stanley Williams
Leola Adams
Herbert Allen
John Atwood
Margaret
Helen Minott
Blanche Moody
Edward Owen
Alfred Parks
Margaret Pierce
Carlton Pye
Marjorie Quinn
Virginia Rines
Rodney Ross
Ernest Sarkis
Crystal Shorey
Doris Spinney
Leonard Tedford
Hubert Wing
Oscar Wright
Florence Wyman
Ira Abbott
Ruth Ames
Hubert Arsenault
Woodbury Bailey
Leon Buck
Katherine Dinsmore
Phyllis Eaton
Marjorie Furber
Virginia Hamilton
Ruth King
Ivan Kirkpatrick
Gwendolyn Leonard
Dorothy Martin
Adeline McAllister
Elsie Moody
Helen Moses
Barbara Norton
Marion Palmer
Alma Pierce
Warren Pinkham
Ruth Powers
Stanley Rogers
Merthine Ward
Alice Bishop
Louise Calderwood
Emma Colby
Mary Dana
Jean Danforth
Barbara Fisher
Mary Gallant
Leon Genthner
Roberta Gordon
Kenneth Hatch
Paul Hayes
Mary Kenney
Nellie King
Edward Larrabee
Irene Lawrence
Clifton Legard
Ruth Mank
Roberta Manson
Franklin Morse
Marjorie Palmer
Carol Stevens
James Temple
Margaret Twomey
Isaphene Dolloff
Herbert Henderson
Edward Lee
Leonard Litchfield
Y M C A Auxiliary Hears Banquet Plans and Purchases
At a Monday meeting the Y M C A Auxiliary voted to buy a tan leather settee and two chairs for the front parlor area. Plans were set for a Mother and Daughter banquet in March. Next meeting is February 8. Mrs Edith Lemont died Sunday in Portland.
Winnegance Community News Highlights Local Notices
Warm spell clears Winnegance creek of ice enabling smelt fishing to resume. Local residents Mrs. Jennie Rogers and Mrs. Harry Oliver recover and plan visits, while John Morse Jr. regains outdoors activity. Community party at Lemont hosted by Almon Perry and Arthur Co Lemont with 50 guests and future dances planned. Augusta meeting on bridge options draws Phippsburg Bath county and State Highway Commission. Illness delays Women’s Auxiliary meeting. Edgar Oliver returns to clerk duties. Isle au Haut residents visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillian Parks
Lewiston
Jennie Rogers
Bath City Hospital
Parker O. Rogers
Harry F. Ol'ver
Brunswick Hospital
Sy Percy Plant
John G. Morse, Jr
Almon R. Perry
Arthur Co. Lemont
Seymour Hayeen
Augusta
Phippsburg
Bath
State Highway Commission
Winnegance Creek
Women's
Winnegance
Sherman L. Morse
Edgar Oliver
Elmer Lufkin
Isle Au Haut
Jackson Candidate for Senator's Berth
Representative N Gratz Jackson of Bath seeks the Republican nomination for State Senator from Sagadahoc County to fill the vacancy caused by Ellis L Aldrich of Topsham not seeking renomination. Jackson, a two term House member, pledges to serve county and state if supported and to assist the chosen successor if another is preferred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. Gratz Jackson
Bath
Sagadahse County
Ellis L. Aldrich
Topsham
Jackson
Representative Oliver Seeks Another Term In Legislature
Representative Wilbur C. Oliver announces he will seek renomination in the June Republican primary. He declines mayoral interest, stating he prefers a second term in the Legislature, citing his past record as sheriff and in the Legislature. He pledges to work for constituents and for the state if renominated and elected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilbur C. Oliver
Oliver
Representative Wright Seeks Republican Renomination for Bath Seat
Representative Henry C. Wright of Bath announced Tuesday his candidacy for Republican renomination at the June primary. He has twice represented Bath in the Maine Legislature and served on appropriations and financial affairs, public health and engrossed bills. He pledged to consider all questions of public moment carefully to best serve citizens and the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry C. Wright
Bath
Wright
Maine
Moran visits Bath en route to Bowdoin luncheon guest
E C Moran Jr of Rockland, twice a Democratic candidate for governor, paid a visit to Bath on his way through to Brunswick where he would lunch with Pres Kenneth C M Sills of Bowdoin College.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. C. Moran, Jr
Rockland
Bath
Brunswick
Pres
Kenneth C. M. Sills
Bowdoin College
Popham and Dromore Neighbors Share Local News
Community notes from Phippburg Dromore cover new Grange officers installed by County Deputy Harry Rackley plus family attendance and refreshments. Amid updates, Capt. Sprague of Plum Island light spends vacation in Popham with the Crowleys. Residents return, travel, injuries, illness, and a Lewiston wedding as Helena Hinds marries George Betts Jr in Lewiston with Betts joining the Maine Central Railroad in Bath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dromore Grange
Harry Rackley
Topsham
Frank Oliver
Walter Oliver
Bath
Popham
Lester Oliver
Burnt Island
Oliver
W. R. Bowie
Howard Bowker
Vnes
W. R. Bowker
Charles McNamara
South Gardiner
C. B. Oliver
Livermore Falls
William W. Farr
Orville
Mechanic Falls
Ann M. Bowker
H. Alvena Oliver
W. G. Jefferson
John E. Blaisdell
Quincy
Mass
Frank Smith
J. Harry Blaisdell
Gilbert Wcodman
Samuel Belanger
Guy Crowley
Walter Williams
G. E. McNulty
Eugene Sicver
Hattie Bowie
W.R. Bowie
Lisson Falls
Helena Hinds
J. A. Harmon
George S. Betts
Lewiston
Betts
Indian Tomahawk Owned by Bath Man in The Independent
A Stone tomahawk owned by Benjam in L. Cressey of 373 Washington street was found by his son Stanley and a Leash boy while digging at the foot of Hitchcock's hill at the South end. The relic, bound by thongs to a wood handle, measures about six by four inches and rests in Dead Man's Gulch once a Indian refuge. The gulch lies near Trufant's Point, site of Bath's early mills and shipyards, with the area rich in history from 1804 onward and tied to local figures like Seward Porter and John Gordon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Independent
Benjamin L. Cressey
Washington Street
Stanley
Hitchcock's Hill
Dead Man's Gulch
High Street
Trufant’s Point
Bath Box Co
Harry Hitchcock
Dennell and Crosby Yard
Trufant
Gulch
Bath
David Trufant
King David
Pine
John Henry
C. Wilson
S. Jewell
Joseph Berry
George Robinson
M. G. Shaw & Sons
Hitchcock
Broad Cove
Dead Man’s Gulch
South End
Christmas greetings reach Rev Matilda Atkinson Minthorn
Rev Matilda Atkinson Minthorn of Metlakahtla Alaska reports a joyful Christmas and sends greetings from friends worldwide. She notes June Moy Ko, once in Augusta and under her care, now lives in Canton with a daughter named Matilda attending high school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Matilda Atkinson Minthorn
Metlakahtla
Alaska
Augusta
Two Life End Attempts Cast Shadow On Bath Woman
A 19 year old married mother of a two year old from Five Islands faced Bath court on a lasciviousness charge while two suicide attempts were revealed. She drank iodine to end life and later tried to kill herself with a butcher knife after learning of Bath confinement. The judge sent her to the Woman's Reformatory in Skowhegan as the most charitable remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Five Islands
Thomaston
John J. Keegan
Skowhegan
New Hampshire
Keegan
Reformatory
Bath Man Injured By Rolling Log At Farm
Harry A. Plummer 53 a North Bath farmer was taken to Bath City hospital in critical condition after a heavy log rolled off a double horse sled at Charles H. Rogers farm on Whiskeay road. Dr. E Motley Fuller said x rays would determine injuries and possible internal trauma. Rogers stated Plummer tried to stop the log but was unable and was crushed while loading logs on the sled on a slanted surface.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry A. Plummer
North Bath
Bath City Hospital
Charles H. Rogers
Plummer
E. Motley Fuller
Mr. Rogers
Ito
Clue Leads Officers to Visit Harpswell
Clues in a breaking and entering at Walter Libby’s cottage in Phippsburg led Meadowbrook Jed Deputy Sheriffs Abram C. Oliver and Lering D. Small, joined by Chief William B. Edwards of Brunswick police, to Harpswell as they investigated an outboard motor and cottage equipment theft. The case may link to a separate burglary at the Webster house in West Bath. authorities could not confirm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Libby
Meadowbrook
Jed
Abram C. Oliver
Lering D. Small
Harpswell
William B. Edwards
Brunwick
Webster House
West Bath
Thes $ Department
Ancient Elms Cut Down After 156 Years
Two venerable elms in front of St. Mary's parish house on High Street were sawed down as they neared the end of their life. One stump counted 156 rings, indicating an age of at least 156 years. Stump removal is underway, with one estimated to weigh three tons. Other old elms along Washington Street near the city park are linked to Bath's first mayor, David C. Magoun.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Mary's Parish House
High Street
Washington Strees
City Park
Bath
David C. Magoun
Henry C. Wright Re elected Report of 1931 Financials
Condensed financial report shows Henry C. Wright re elected. Includes operating expenses 1931 with items such as X ray payments, repairs totals, cash received for services 23 099 75, telephones omission 10 percent, balance of radio assessment 89, operating deficit 11 939 66. Ordinary income from state Maine dues investments and other receipts reduces overall deficit to 11 988 30. Cash on hand Jan 1 1931 and 1932 listed along with deposits in Bath Trust Co. Savings Dept. and various estate receipts. Respectfully submitted, Bertha Bellerose treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State of Maine
Small Point Summer Colony
Mary E. Nugen
Annie E. M. Harris
Theresa Mose
Nurses Graduate and Hospital Receives Gifts in Annual Report
The superintendent notes seven student nurses entered training, two completed obstetrics and pediatrics at Boston City Hospital, and others pursue study. Donations include a Brady Light for the operating room and an electric refrigerator. The report thanks contributors from the Junior League, the Woman’s Auxiliary, and Sewall family, and cites patient numbers, averages, and days of care for the year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen V. Downing
R. N
Cone
Boston City Hospital
Phyllis Gilpatrick
R.N
Appo. Die Do Arsistant
Catharine O'Z
Nora Prown
Junior Hospital League
Central Main Power Co
H. T. Twitchell
Portland
Mrz. Downing
Arthur Sewall
Sewall
William D. Sewall
Hospital
John K. Dayne
New Canaan
Conn
Nancy Sewall
Langdon T. Snipe
James OC. Lincoln
Byron FP Barker
American College of Physicians
Woman” Auxiliary
St Marys Guild
Girls’ Friendly Society
Grace Episcopal Church
Dummer Sewall
Da.r
Henry C. Wright
Bath hospital births and annual admissions by origin and occupation
There were 92 births 52 male 39 female in the year. Admits by month peaked in August and November. The report lists resident origins with Bath leading 339 admissions and dozens more from nearby towns and out of state from Arlington to Weymouth. Occupations include 176 housewives 83 students 30 child and 11 carpenters among admitted patients.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ale Gases
Laan Sistine
Ieee
Bath
Wiscasset
Woolwich
Brunswick
Georgetown
West Bath
Arrowsic
Popham Beach
Phippsburg
Portland
Westport
Islands
Alna
Camden
North Bath
Sebasco
Small Point
Topsham
Damariscotta
East Brunswick
East Harpswell
Edgecomb
Preedom
Lisbon Falls
North Edgecomb
Parker Head
Southport
West Point
Bailey Island
Bangor
Bowdoinham
Bucksport
Camariscotta Mills
Dresden Mills
East Boothbay
Head Tide
Lewiston
Robinhead
Sheepsco
South Newcastle
Melrose
Mass
Needham
Northboro
Ossining
N. Y
Plandom2
L. T
Roxbury
Rutland
Scarboro
Sharon
Taunton
Watertown
Weymouth
Bowdoin Quill Opens Year With Poems and Essays
The Bowdoin Quill new issue arrives from The Times Co presses late last week. Editor Philip Ahern leads a roster including Stephen Lee and Albert Davis Jr. Contributions spotlight Prof Wilfred Crook with Bad Business and The General Strike, plus pieces by Timson Davis Bolling Moustakis and others. Veterans of Foreign Wars event in Biddeford included 14 initiates led by Cant. Frank Hulett’s degree team.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowdoin
Bowdoin College
Times Co
William Warren Stearns
Philip Charles Ahern
Stephen Francis Lee
Albert Samuel Davis, Jr
Edward D. W. Spingarn
Christy Constantine Moustakis
Louis Colby Stearns
Carl F. A. Weber
Charles Lincoln Kirkpatrick
John Henry Gordon, Jr
Wilfred H. Crook
P. HH. L
Philip W. Meterve
William Mitchell
Harold Corliss
John Otis
Burt M. Dyer
Biddeford
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Cant
Frank Hulett
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Dike
Celia McElman
Jackie Hopkins
Nicky Kakos
Maurice Brown
Eileen Hayes
Jean McKay
Bertrand Miller
Phyllis Mitchell
Bryce Minott
Eunice Perry
Gladys Reynolds
Thelma Strout
Joseph Swanton
Mabel F. Libby
Geraldine V. Corliss
Shirley Jane Foote
Richard Footer
Robert Gilchrist
Alfred Green
Lloyd Hudson
Dorothy Mitchell
Paul Perry
Herman Whitlam
Ella Jaquith
Paul Avery
Helen Cormier
Robert Goodridge
John Kakos
Helen Mosers
Barbara McDonald
Harold Perry
Tina Reynolds
Harold Strout
Helen Tabor
Edith Horne
Philip Chaney
Frank Danforth
Constance Gilmore
Catherine McAllister
Robert Marston
Francis Perry
Camilla Pratt
John Quirk
Margaret Sampson
Geraldine Smith
Irving Talbot
Carolyn E. Turner
Doris Crooker
Mildred Footer
Fred Hoffman
Eugene Lewis
George Perry
Mary Brown
Clarence Atwood
Kenneth Chaney
Arthur Cormier
Hazel Crooker
Manley Ellis
Marjorie Fisher
Henrietta French
Emily Furber
Harold Harrington
Virginia Ingalls
Harold Marston
Pauline McNeil
Howard Reynolds
Leona B. Huestis
Edith Armstrong
Doris Henderson
Melvin Henderson
Ruth McAllister
Melvin Rogers
Marie Smith
Clifford Varney
Bernice D. Staples
Jewell Chaney
Laura Craft
Dorothea Lewis
Rebecca Miller
Margaret Minott
Doris Perry
Ruth Robinson
Marjorie Stewart
Marion Talbot
Florence Hawley
Chester McIntyre
Edward Perry
Lewis Simmons
Grace Thurston
North Grammar School
Katherine I. Trott
Mary Fox
Clare Fulton
Dorothea Fulton
Thelma Green
Philip Haining
Barbara Hopkins
Doris Houston
Epocrat John
Herbert King
Jack Lowery
Barton Morrison
Walter Mosher
Mary Oliver
Viola Rideout
Barbara Scott
Rita Sullivan
Gerald Thornton
Helen L. Hayes
David Alkazin, Jr
Ellen Cyr
Edmund Furber
Warren Higgins
Isabelle King
John McLaughlin
Robert Minott
Louise Norton
Martha Page
Robert Perry
Charles Robinson
Mary Robinson
Frances Spicer
Frances FE. Sprague
Norman Atwood
Margaret Brimigion
Herbert Clossom
Howard Holmes
Ida Joy
Virginia Kingsbury
Jennie Middleton
Katherine Milliken
Clifton Nickerson
Steeven Nicholas
Augustus Perow
Ruth Pratt
North
Carrie C. Smith
Judith Dennison
Nancy Fitzgerald
Audrey Hill
Scott Holmes
Robert Kaler
Ada Rideout
Margaret Staples
Martha Torrey
Lewis Wilson
Beatrice W. Black
James Guynn
Elizabeth Lou Hill
Ralph Houston
Eleanor Oliver
Barbara Page
Carlton Rideout
Joseph Spear
Margaret T. Mulligan
Mary Anderson
Allan Atwood
Stanley Brimigion
June Burton
Margaret Guynn
Lorraine Holmes
Roberta Lewis
Alberta Morrison
Marjorie Nichols
James Voorhees
Pauline Wright
Martha E. Hooper
Greta Anderson
Norman Alkazin
Eva Kingsbury
Irvine Mank
Ruth Murphy
Pauline Nickerson
Edith Seavey
Edward Sewall
Robert Staples
Richard Sullivan
Barbara Trott
John Voorhees
Eleanor Wilson
Central Grammar
Genevieve
M. Duprey
Charles Genthner
Robert Lee
Marjorie McNeil
George Parshley
William Phillips
Francis Sullivan
Almenea Jaques
Lillian Goodwin
Edwin King
Pearl Oliver
Ferne Pettingill
William Puiin
Arthur Young
Lester Young
Harold Brown
Virginia Armstrong
Maynard Carleton
Edith DeLisle
Hester Foss
Leonard Lesier
Mary Lee
Rita Lewis
Everett
Doris P. Dyer
Mary Child
Ellsworth Darling
Marion Harmon
Dorothea Nash
Barbara Nickerson
Nellie Perry
Channing Shorey
Grace Swain
Barbara Tubbs
Alice O’brien
Marie Cotreau
Dorothy Dauphin
Betty Lee
Helen Oulton
Ronald Oulton
Muriel Quinn
Beatrice Rideout
Rachel Scott
Patria Stapies
Bessie M. Hunt
Theodore Berry
Grace Brown
Mary Coffill
Dorothy Farley
Osear Greenblatt
Richard Jenkins
Estelle McCabe
Jeannette Roy
Mary Sprague
Ruth Sprague
John Trainor
John Wakefield
Center Street
Marjorie P. Troop
Eleanor Fulton
Dorothy Davis
Grace Middleton
Clifford Aplin
Rober Wagner
Isabel Lewis
Earle Banks
Myra Burns
Russell Gasser
Nellie Groves
Daniel Hatch
Barbara Morse
Priscilla Parshley
Barbara Stanton
Marian Wagner
Elizabeth Williams
Ann Thompson
George Fox
Robert Huse
Millard Warner
Albert Whitney
Frances Whitten
Phyllis Young
Ethel T. Higgins
Marian Anderson
SO Frank Lee
Martin Lozer
Y. M. C. A. Auxiliary
Edith Lemont
Aldrich
Bath Man
Hitchcock’s Hill
Norway Meprerme Co
Norway
City Hospital
Clue
Bath Trust Co
Bertha Bellerose