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Newspaper

Bath Independent

Location

Bath, Maine, United States of America

Date

Jul 29, 1954

Page

7

Forty Years Ago In Bath July 21 1914 Theater Kept by Garrity

Bath friends learn M J Garrity of Portland has leased the Jefferson Theater from Julius Cahan. Regular season opens Labor Day with The Quaker Girl. barge Iron Queen delivered 1957 tons coal for Gibbons Coal Co. Locals report car accidents, tours, fishing, berrying, theater talk, and seaside social notes.

Bath M. J. Garrity Portland Jefferson Theater Julius Cahan New York Garrity The Jefferson New England Iron Queen Newport News Gibbons Coal Company

Sunday School Outing to Casco Castle With Electric Cars

July 22 1914 two open electric cars carried the People's Church Sunday School group for their annual outing to Casco Castle this morning Pastor and Mrs Evans and school teachers accompanied the children and they passed Sagadahoc Square on route. Work on the new State highway at Mill Pond extension saw barriers removed early this morning near Lemont Creek bridge allowing several teams to pass over the west end of the section.

James L. Dempsey Cortland N. Y Myrkle Harder Stock Co Syracuse Dempsey Mr. Dempsey People’s Church Casco Castle Mill Pond Lemont's Creek Bridge Edward H. Jewett Toledo Ohio Bath Damariscotta Jewett Fred Willis U. S. Coast Survey Boothbay Harbor Charles Williams

Bath Gun Club marksman's lone outing at Brunswick shoot

Merton Webber represented the Bath Gun Club solo at a Brunswick shoot, scoring 19 and 20 of 25. News notes report boats, rescues, a missing berry picker, a revival at Corliss Street church, a bold bridge encounter, and famed English actors renting a Birch Point cottage.

Merton Webber Bath Gun Club Brunswick Merton Corliss Street Church Harold Holbrook China Jesus Christ

Bath party admires young woman at hayfield demo

A Bath automobile party at Hillside witnessed Maud Muller drive a large mowing machine while men worked hay nearby. The group cheered her as the first woman they had seen operating modern haymaking methods, and she smiled and waved.

Hillside Maud Muller

Blueberry Crop Decline Tied to Pasture Use and Flies

A Maine report notes sharp blueberry declines in Phippsburg and Bath. Pickers found scarce berries, few quarts per trip, as pastures without cows reclaim fields and fruit flies damage crops. Rain washes away dust mised for fly control per University of Maine findings.

Phippsburg Picker Georgetown Maine Oakhurst University of Maine Agricultural Experiment Station Attenon Ueberry

Blueberry Industry Faces Rain Woes and Dust Advice

The Maine Agricultural Experiment Station urges repeating a 50-10-40 dust treatment within 48 hours if washed off by rain. Eastern blueberry growers, a major industry, have watched crops closely to protect harvests while cannery sales lean on careful management. Bath notes a party of four picking 50 quarts in Woolwich.

Maine Agricultural Experiment Station

Maine Elks Meet Sunday with National Dignitaries

Maine Elks Association hosts a summer meeting with national Elks leaders and guests from the Los Angeles Times Examiner and Herald. Notables include trustees and exalters from Portland Rumford Bath Old Town and other towns. A lobster salad noon party honored guests. Winter meeting set for Feb 6 1955 in Waterville and 28th convention at Rockland June 10 11 12 1955.

Los Angeles Los Angeles Times-Examiner The Herald Maine Elks Association Jerrick Elkhom Association C. Dwight Stevens Portland John E. Galvin Millinocket Arthur Fernald Rumford John Nugent John Nahra Old Town Joseph J. Cummings Augusta Edward R. Twomey Maine West Henry J. Parent Bath Lawrence J. Murphy Robert Donovan Gardiner James Colby Waterville James E. Mulvaney Bangor Charles Cowan Mahlon Spruce Neale Houston Leon F. Jones Biddeford Cecil E. Burns Harold O Merrill, Jr E. B. Denton Robert King Emile J. Godin Leslie J. Rhoda Mrs. Jewett Samoset Hotel Rockland Maine Belgrade Hotel John F. Malley Elks National Foundation John Waller Helen Niles Waller Veterans’ Service Committee

Probate notices from Bath court in Sagadahoc County

At a Bath court of probate on the first Tuesday of July 1954, notices are issued to interested parties. Final and first accounts are presented for Marion Moody Bath, Jeanie Sanborn Bath, Clinton Strout Woolwich, and Nancy Turat Bath. Frederick N. Sanborn named executor. Alma Strout administratrix. petition to change Nancy Turat to Nancy Leavitt. Judge Arthur J. Dunton signs.

Bathin Sagadahoc Bath Frederick N. Sanborn Clinton I. Strout Woolwich Alma M. Strout Nancy Turat Nancy Turate Nancy Leavitt Angelina Leavitt Arthur J. Dunton

Brilliant Comedy at Lakewood For All Next Week

Lakewood Theatre hosts Stalag 17 a rib tickling comedy drama from Stalag 1 authors Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski set in a Nazi camp. Richard Poston Lothar Rewatt Robert Shawley Tom Maier Otto Simanek lead the touring cast with Bill Story as resident juvenile star.

Bill Story New York Lakewood Theatre Syracuse Lakewood Donald Bevan Edmund Trzcinski Richard Poston Lothar Rewatt Robert Shawley Tom Maier Otto Simanek Joseph Eliz Addison Poweth Robert Fitzsimmons Stewart"Bradley Eugenhé Stuckmann Louis Girard Michael Livy Willard Giles William Kronick Dan Butt Hilmar Sal

Elevator jam traps fourteen teen women at UC Berkeley

Fourteen teenage women crowded into a University of California elevator with a 2000 pound limit. The car stuck between floors for 45 minutes but no one was injured. The article also notes U.S. coal reserves at about 35 percent of world total and Russia at 23 percent.

Berkeley Calif University of California United States Russia

Probate notices from Bath Maine 1954 estates hearing

Court of Probate in Bath Saradahoe County July 1954 hearings on wills for Gordon Berry Goldier Greenblatt Mabel Underwood Winifred Wardwell and estate matters. Executors named include Leslie Sawtelle Berry Edward Wilson Allan Spear and others with letters testamentary sought and final accounts presented.

Bath Saradahoe Gordon Berry Worcester Massachusetts Sagadahoc Maine Leslie Sawtelle Berry Thene Enny Goldier Greenblatt Abraham JE Greenblatt Iscar Greenblatt Qwen Lee Greenblatt Mabel W. Underwood Edward C Wilson Edward Co. Wilson Winifred B. Wardwell Allan Spear Arthur J. Dunton

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