Iron Works Chief Relates History of Big Industry
W. B. Newell chronicles Bath Maine shipbuilding from Popham Colony beginnings to modern yards. He details Kennebec shipwrights, early contracts, Sewall and Bath Iron Works milestones, including Diana and Dirigo launches, Machingas and Castine gunboats, Ranger triumph, and six destroyers under construction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iron Works
W. 8. Newell
Maine
Bath
Plymouth Rock
George Popham
England
Plymouth
New England
Sagadahoc
Kennebec
Popham
Phippsburg
Fort St. George
New World
Virginia
George Take
Royal Navy
William Swanton
Earl of Bute
Sewall
Boston
William D. Sewall
Diana
Dirigo
Sewalls
Bath Iron Works
Machias
Castine
United States Navy
United States
Dahlgren
J. Pierpont Morgan
Ranger
Endeavor TI
Dromore Burying Association Holds Annual Meeting
The Dromore Burying Ground Association met in the enclosure at the Allen tomb with eight present. President James Edward Drake presided before resigning. Miss Bessie FE Dickinson named as successor. Treasurer Edwin L. Rogers reported a healthy balance for perpetual care. Mrs. Donald Preble appointed assistant and trustee additions were made.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dromore
Drake
Bessie FE. Dickinson
Miss Hill
Mr. Drake
Donald Preble
Rogers
Bath
H. W. Butler
Grace Dickinson
Abbie Minott
C. V. Minott
C. W. Rogers
J. Edward Drake
Ernest Rogers
Association
William Pelham Larrabee
Metro
Philadelphia
Capt
Robert Larrabee
Coolidge
Vermont
Larrabee
Cranberry Point
Isaac
Ike) Lincoln
Lincoln House
Broneybrook
Wiscasset
Cranberry
New England
Schoolhouse Coal Contracts Awarded at July Board Meeting
The Bath Fuel Co. won an anthracite bid at 12.90 per ton and Kennebec Wharf and Coal Co. won 6.98 per ton for bituminous coal as the Board of Education approved supplies for 1940 41. High School Activities fund balance and routine accounts were noted. The Ledyard and Givin couple returned from Saint John Moncton and Houston after touring border posts with wartime signs observed in New Brunswick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Education
John Parker
Kennebec Wharf and Coal Co
Bath Fuel
High School Activities Association
Bath
Horace P. Herrick
Morse High School
University of Maine
Nathan W. Watson
Bates College
Amy A. Irish
Bates
Gertrude J. Diggery
University of New Hampshire
John E. Madden
Gorham Normal School
Warren F. Hawley
Center Street
Gorham
Bernard L. Phummer
South Street
Laura A. Mitchell
Mael F. Libby
Dike School
Allan Spear
Arthur J. Dunton
Edwin R. Andrews
Selwyn H. Towne
Owen J. Ledyard
Frank Givin
San Brunswick
St. Andrew
St. John
Moncton
Houston
City votes to lease and sell property for Bath Iron Works plan
City council approved selling a triangular lot on Washington and Cedar to William 8 Newell of Bath Iron Works and leasing a former Kelley Spear mill yard to BIW for five years with a ten year renewal. The body also authorized yard expansion, hydrant moves, tax abatements referrals, and routine accounts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William 8. Newell
Bath Iron Works Corp
Emma C. Greenleaf
Charles H. Greenleaf
Washington and
Cedar Streets
Washington Street
Kelley, Spear Co
Haskell
Iron Works
Lord
South
Bath Water District
Water Street
the Transport Co
Bowery Street
W. 8. Blair
Bath Marine Band
Sagadahock
Committee On
Gerald F. Atkinson
Court Street
Hazel Young
Harvard Stree
M. A. Brann
Cottage Park
Committee On Taxes
City Treas. Young
Hunt
Parks
Day
Dunton
Kingsbury
Mullin
Snowden
Tabor
Bath seaman killed aboard schooner North at Isle of Shoals
Allison Stanley Wakem a 21 year old seaman born in Bath Feb 27 1919 was murdered aboard the auxiliary schooner North moored at Isle of Shoals Saturday night State Policeman Iristram Eaton reported at York Village that 22 year old John Fields of Monhegan Island confessed striking Wakem who slumped lifeless on the deck Wakem son of Harold A and his wife lived at 15 Maxwell Street He skippered a small Portland fishing boat last year and joined the North on June 1 His boyhood spent in St Louis Missouri He is survived by his parents and a sister
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allison Stanley Wakem
Bath
North
Isle of Shoals
Iristram Eaton
York Village
John Fields
Monhegan Island
Wakem
Yarmouth
Harold A. Wakem
Maxwell Street
Portland
St. Louis
Student nurses visit family at Roberts home
Miss Ferralyn Roberts, a student nurse at Augusta General hospital, is spending vacation with her parents Mr and Mrs Chester Roberts at 945 High Street. Miss Mildred Murphy and Miss Mildred Farrar, fellow student nurses and classmates, have returned after a brief visit to the Roberts residence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ferralyn Roberts
Augusta Creneral Hospital
Chester Roberts
High Street
Mildred Murphy
Mildred Farrar
Miss Roberts
Roberts
Wisharts Visit Family in Norwood and Birch Point
Mr and Mrs Robert Wishart with daughter Jane and son Robert Jr of Norwood Miass visit Mr and Mrs John Wishart at 70 Oliver Street. They plan a weekend with Mr Wisharts sister Mrs Percy Low at Birch Point.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Wishart
Jane
Robert, Jr
Norwood, Miass
Mr. Wishart
John Wishart
Oliver Street
Percy Low
Birch Point
Summer season opens lively at MacMahan by the Sea
MacMahan by the Sea begins a vibrant summer with the Seal and Porpoise opening on June 29 and a wide list of early arrivals from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, Ontario, and Washington. Including Miss Sara B. Allen, Miss Judith M. Logan, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur, Dr. Larkin, and many other guests. Activities on island feature teas, tennis, boating, and chapel services with clergy from Andover and Antioch College.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MacMahan-by-the-Sea
Sara B. Allen
South Orange
N. J
Anne Hampton Todd
Todd Hayt
Philadelphia
Judith M. Logan
Haverford
Bella Davis
Geneva
N. Y
Herbert D. Cooper
Joyce
Short Hill
J. Ernest Allen
Caldwell
Anne Wurtele
Goodrich
Ontario
Canada
William P. Nealley
Bangor
A. J. Gammack
Newtown
Conn
Gammack
James Gammack
Glen Martin
Baltimore
H. A. Wilbur
Wilbur
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Co
Lewis Russell
New York City
Battolph
Louise Haynes
Cambridge
Mass
W. H. Young
Washington, DC
Talbot Rogers
Bath
Cuthbert
St. Cuthbert’s Episcopal Chapel
Arthur N. Taft
Andover
Short Hills
Paul Jones
Antioch College
Ohio
Frederick A. de Peyster
de Peyster
MacMahan Summ
Edward Clary
Edward Snyder
Oller
Mary Allison Beattie
Carol Snyder
Wellesley
Gage Bailey
Lee
Richard Cross
Peggy Lee
Herbert Painter
John K Lee
James S. Rogers
Nemenikuk
Rogers
George K. Rogers
MacMahan
Rotary club hears Havana conference report and travels
At the Hotel Sedgwick a Summer Rotary luncheon welcomed visitors and new president Dominique Tardif. Dick Vose of Cambridge shared a Havana International Rotary convention summary and described his visit to the Information Please broadcast studio. FB Nichols spoke about a Lake George Lake Placid tour with his wife with the National Editorial Association trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rotary Club
Hotel Sedgwick
Dominique Tardif
Dick Vose
Cambridge
Bath
International Rotary
Havana
New York
FB. Nichols
the Times
Himself
Lake George
Lake Placid
National Editorial Association
Cosmopolitan Garden Club tours Bath gardens
The Cosmopolitan Garden Club conducted a two to three hour garden tour in Bath on Monday, visiting Mrs. Rupert H Baxter, Mrs. Frederick N Sanborn, Blimhurst estate, Mrs. John H Hyde and others. Guests viewed rock gardens on the Kennebec bluff and enjoyed a formal sunken garden, with refreshments served by Mrs Arthur Sewatt during the ferry ride and at Stonehouse. New members were welcomed and guest speakers announced for July 22.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Cosmopolitan Garden Club
Rupert H. Baxter
Frederick N. Sanborn
John H. Hyde
Converse Fenn
Nancy Iyde
Blmnhurst
Frederick N. Sewall
Kennebec
Pichu W. Fullerton
John W. Gilmore
William Yale
Stonehouse
Arthur Sewall
Arthur Srwatt
Clifton O. Pace
Detroit
Mich
W. F. Reisinger
St. Paul
Topsham Garden Club Annual Flower Show Arrives Thursday
Bath area gardeners will attend the Topsham Garden Club flower show on Thursday afternoon from 1 30 to 5 30 at Topsham Town Hall. Judges include Mrs Roscoe P McFadden of Bath. Exhibits cover horticultural blooms vegetables fruit wild flowers arrangements and table bouquets with prizes in several age divided junior and men's classes.
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Bath
Topsham Garden Club
Topsham Town Hall
Roscoe P. McFadden
Ida Leh
Harold Libby
John H. Pennell
Mary Pelham Hill
Nellie Merriman
John A. Cone
Arthur Johnson
Frank Morrison
Mary Scribner
Pembroke Edgecomb
Barbara Collins
Wilfred Hart
Walter Furbish
John Jack
Mary W. MacKinnon
Youngster Saved From Drowning In Phippsburg Pond
Six year old John Maines son of Mr and Mrs William Maines of Stonybrook road Phippsburg narrowly escaped drowning in the pond at Phippsburg Center Saturday. Frank Lin Melville 22 of 18 Hulse street Portsmouth Navy Yard employee dived to rescue the boy and artificial resuscitation saved him. Others in the party included Shirley Holbrook Louise and Fallsworth Darling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Maines
William Maines
Stonybrook Road
Phippsburg
Phippsburg Center
Franklin Melville
Hulse Street
Melville
Portsmouth Navy Yard
Young Maines
Oattler
Shirley Holbrook
North Street
Louse
Fallsworth Darling
Center Street
Work begins at Hardings storage plant for Bath Iron Works project
Work has started at Hardings on alterations to the storage plant leased by Bath Iron Works Corporation for five years with option to renew. Crews are laying spur tracks from the Maine Central Railroad to connect the plant with the main line to handle shipments and house machinery for plate processing. The facility is expected to store large plates for the Bath shipyard and provide employment as the project progresses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hardings
Bath Iron Works Corporation
Iron Works
Texas Company
Bath Driving Park
Maine Central Railroad
Bath
Hyde Windlass Co
Torrey Roller
Aval Craft
Recount Petition Filed by Aldrich Challenging Primary Result
County Attorney Sherwood Aldrich of Topsham filed a recount petition with the Secretary of State after losing the Republican nomination for State Representative by one vote to Raymond McIntire of Phippsburg. The dispute centers on ballot cross placement and whether certain votes should stand or be discarded.
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Sherwood Aldrich
Topsham
Raymond McIntire
Phippsburg
Arrowsie
West Bath
Woolwich
Aldrich
Edward W. Bridgham
Bath
McIntire
Supreme Court of Maine
Maine
McEntire
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Kennebec River
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Dromore Burying Association
Schoolhouse
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Mmahan
Antarctic
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Admiral Byrd-U. S. Antarctic Service
North Star
Marguerite Bay
Antarctic Circle
Central Press
Cosmo Garden Club
Walpole
Nellie
Pegey Brown
David and
John
Wolliston
Brown
Berry's Mills
Mr Hennessey
Phippsburg Center Pond
Ernest J. Parkman
Benjamin F Savage
Font Kent
Funice Perkins
William C. Perkins
Camp Laughling
East Waterboro
Maine Central
McIintire