Bath to Host Second Annual Winter Carnival Events
About 250 competitors from Maine New Hampshire and beyond are expected for Bath Maine's Winter Carnival sponsored by the Rotary Club to fund a Community Playground. Schools represented include Caribou Rumford Bridgton Academy and Bowdoin and Bates colleges provide exhibition skiers. Governor Brann will crown the queen at a Grand Ball with a ski slope review stand for dignitaries.
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Maine
New Hampshire
Bath
Rotary Club
Community Playground Fund
Caribou High School
North Land
Berlin
N. H
Granite State
Rumford
Rockland
Cony High
Augusta
Gardiner
Norway
Yarmouth Academy
Mexico
Bridgton Academy
Lincoln Academy
Union High
Deering High
Morse High
Brunswick High
Francis A. Winderbach
N. Gratz Jackson
Fred D. Hill
Caribou
Harold Brown
Bathman
Edward Sewall
Mill Pond
Bowdoin
Bates
Bath Y.M.C.A
Army of Visitors
Louis J. Brann
Exhibition of world church architecture at University campus
An exhibit in South Stevens hall basement features architectural pictures of famous churches in English French Italian and Spanish styles. A separate display in the University of Maine library showcases pencil sketches by advanced descriptive drawing students, with studies of campus buildings. Both shows are open to the public.
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South Stevens Hall
U. of M
University of Maine
Evolution of Education as Told by Miss J Feero
Miss M Jane Feero of Dike fourth grade presented her paper The Evolution of Education at the Dike P T A meeting in the school Teachers room. She traced Greek Roman and Christian contributions, Dame schools, 18th century reform, Pestalozzi and Dewey, noting education shifts from memorization to observation and active learning.
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M. Jane Feero
Dike
Dike P.T.A
Rome
Greece
America
Europe
England
Shenstone
Amatron
Pestalozzi
John Dewey
Dewey
Jimmie Temple Donates Dollar For President's Ball
A letter from James W. Temple explains his donation and praise for the Bath President's Ball aiding infantile paralysis treatment. He recalls recovery at Warm Springs and urges local support to fund care, urging Bath residents to buy tickets and contribute to the foundation's work.
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John P. Carey, Jr
Bath
James W. Temple
University of Maine
Morse High
United States
Loune Temple
William B. Temple
Warm Springs Foundation
Ladies Sandals and Leather Shoes at Special Prices
Advertises ladies footwear including low and black patent leather sandals with silver and gold options. Also lists silver and black high ski shoes priced from 1.10 to 5.00 with a note about stairs.
Masons honor 50-year member with engraved medal in Bowdoinham
The Grand Lodge of Maine A F and A M presents a finely engraved 50 year service medal to a longtime Mason. A village lodge delegation visited Harry Cornish and then Franklin Jack as Master Caleb Mitchell awarded the medal. Several local residents, visits, and social notes follow, including illness, travel, and a minor injury from a coast accident near Norman Curtis.
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Grand Lodge of
Maine
Village Lodge
Harry Cornish
Franklin Jack
Caleb Mitchell
Jack
Burdens and Birthdays Noted on Bowdoinham Post Road
Manfred Nelson works at a filling station in Richmond Corner. E D Cornish has been sick the past week. Mrs. Mary Graves, longtime Bowdoinham resident, celebrated her 91st birthday and now lives with her son’s family in Mexico. She is a readers’ enthusiast with one son Sherman and three grandchildren. son James died years ago.
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Lottie Cobb
Portland
Elisha Webber
Ezra Webber
Belmont
Mass
John Holden
Lowell
Donald Hackett
Brunswick Hospital
Carrie Merrill
James
Brunswick
Ida Fowle
Charles Hackett
Clara Fogg
The
Eastern Star
Masonic Hall
Eleanor Webber
Mary Heenie
Edward Sprague
Blanche Graves
Adah
Helen Mitchell
Ruth
Ethel Hackett
Esther
Martha
Cora Denham
Electa
Stella Given
Mildred Given
Marshal
May Heenie
Dorothy Dickinson
Caleb Mitchell
Wallace Hatch
Bowdoin
Frank Jack
Phillip Rideout
Karl Hatch
Harold Rollins
Norman Curtis
New Hampshire
Randall Coombs
Lisbon Falls
Coombs
Erland Rogers
R. D. Purington
Purington
Herbert Stewart
Richmond
John Purington
Charles Hill
L. P. Temple
Auburn
Auburn Sunday Visiting Mrs. Temple
Grace Hooper
Hartford, Conn
George Sedgley
Manfred Nelson
Richmond Corner
E. D. Cornish
Mary Graves
This Road
Mexico
Peleg Tallman Foremost Citizen of Bath
The Bath shipyard era features Peleg Tallman as owner of a 21 sail fleet with many builders. Tallman’s properties stretched from Oak Street to near Summer Street, with wharves and docks forming the Tallman shore line by 1851. The Tallman yard stood north of McLellan’s dock opposite the park, with Commercial Street later reaching the property. To be continued.
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Woolwich
Brunswick
Waterville
Pittston
Dresden
Richmond
Tallman
Bath
Oak Street
Summer Street
Washington Street
Commercial
Tallman’s
Commercial Street
Front Street
Front Streets
McLellan’s
McLellan
Tallman Shipyard
Widow of Charles Graves Believed to Be Sought Relatives
Mrs. Ralph Wheeler of Topsham aided by care for her mother Emma Temple, while the widow of Charles Graves remains the focus of local attention as details unfold.
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Charles, Graves
Ralph Wheeler
Topsham
Emma Temple
Bowdoin Grange installs officers. past lecturer honored
Sagada hoc grange held installation led by County Deputy Harry Rackley with Mrs Rackley and Miss Christine Rackley assisting. Retiring lecturer Mrs Alice Larrabee received a past lecturer jewel after 11 years of service. An oyster stew supper followed, with dancing and a short program by Miss Christine Rackley and Charles Tompson. Local visits noted and Robert Enman recovers from cataract surgery in Portland.
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Bowdoin Center
Sagadahoc Grange
Harry Rackley
Topsham
Rackley
Christine Rackley
Inez Larrabee
Alice Larrabee
Larrabee
Grange
W. R. Allen
Charles Tompson
Military honors paid veteran Archibald F Carey
World War I veteran Archibald F Carey longtime firefighter was honored in a St Mary's Church funeral with a Roland Smith post guard in uniform. Pallbearers from the fire department included Richard Frates Charles Ridley Charles Cotton and Joseph Couture. Carey died after pneumonia following war service and a fire injury.
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Archibald F. Carey
Fire Department
St. Mary’s Church
David Surrette
Roland Smith Post
A. L
Arthur F. Mayo
High Street
Wilbur Crocker
James Guynn
Eugene Hart
Ernest Heywood
Gardiner D. Rogers
Donald Sterling
Richard Frates
Charles Ridley
Charles Cotton
Joseph Couture
Maple Grove
Carey
Tondreau Block
Brunswick
Bath liquor store in Maine posts $71,708.86 through December 21
The Bath, Maine liquor store No. 18 opened June 14 and has earned $71,708.86 by December 21. Maine now has 28 legal outlets including Augusta wholesale and mail order. total state income for the period is $3,491,472.12. Monthly Bath sales include $5,100.60 in June and rising amounts through September and November.
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Bath
William A. Runnells
Maine
Augusta
Food Relief Supplies Arrive for Bath Welfare Families
Daily welfare relief food arrives in Bath for distribution to needy families. Canned meats lead the meals with trucks delivering to doors. canned milk and flour may follow. Alden P. Denham appointed WPA distributing agent for Sagadahoc county with Bates E. Stover as chief clerk. Over 200 cases of canned meat stored in City hall. President's ball Thursday night aids the infantile paralysis fund.
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Bath
Alden P. Denham
W.P.A
Sagadahoc County
Bates E. Stover
Denham
City Hall
Old City Hall
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Senter’s, Inc
Susanne
Northmont and
Gordon
New Deal
Literary Digest
Auburn Tet Beer
Serees
Arthur Allen Brewster
Sedgwick Optometrists
Center Street
Crocker & Winsor
Boston
Jane Feero
P.T.A
Kennebunkport
Walker
Daniel Walker
Gideon
Kittory
Pearl Street
Daniel R. Walker
Daniel
Gorham
Jimmie Temple
Warm Springs
Bill Hatch
S—U
Bowdoinham
Clayton Lindsley
Evelyn Sedgley Lindsley
Newburyport
Bowdoinham Post Road
Enn
Lloyd Nolan
Peggy Conklin
Coronado
Jack Haley
Alice White
Preston Foster
Jane Wyatt
Warner Baxter
Alice Faye
Gary Cooper
Ann Harding
Peter Ibbetson
Peleg Tallman
Clark & Tallman
Peleg
Jos. Mitchell
John Dunlap
Robert Trevett
Peleg Delano
John Clark, Jr
Ephraim Wilcox William Tallman
Ebenezer Delano Holder
Tallman Holder
William Patten Holder
Ephraim Wilcox
Parker McCobb
John Matthews
Ebenezer Delano
John Crawford
George Clark Bliss Silsby
John Given, Jr
Holder Tallman
Ss. T. Lemont
Theresa Betn
Stranger
Pallas
Hamlet
Savannah
Fame
Franklin
Hector
Trenton
Wildgoose
Swan
Henry Tallman
Maurice Sullivan
Bryson City
N. Y
Bar Harbor
Washington, D. C
Acadia National Park
Arthur Stupka
Gatlenburg
Tenn
W.P.A. Distributing
Bates Stover
Prof
Herman Norge
Raymond Court
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