Albert Haggett recalls Bath police and shipyard days
Albert Haggett 91 recalls a lifetime in Bath as ship joiner and a long police career. He worked in many shipyards including Kelley’s Sewall’s New England Morse’s and Percy & Small and joined Torrent 2 fire company before joining the Bath police for 21 years. He describes 19th century firefighting and river traffic with diverse crews and lively nights on the waterfront.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin Wright
Albert B. Haggett
Dummer Street
Haggett
Bath
Edgecomb
Kelley ’S
Sewall’s
New England
Percy & Small
Morse’s
Phippsburg
Mr. Haggett
Torrent 2
Bath Fire Department
John Swett
Nat Hill
Front Street
Grove Street
Center Street Hill
Blue
Bath Drum Major Invests 2100 in Bright Uniforms
Edwin L. Emmons, Bath's revered drum major, leads the American Legion unit in Memorial Day events wearing a collection of 15 uniforms costing about 2100 dollars. His outfits feature varied colors, blue velvet capes, astrachan hats, plumes, and matching accessories, reflecting a lifelong dedication to parade spectacle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin Wright
Bath
New England
Edwin L. Emmons
American Legion
Mr. Emmons
Eddie
Old City Guards
Battery H
Portland
Boston
Brocton
Springfield
Salem
Bunker Hill
New York City
Philadelphia
Columbus
Ohio
Miss Jane S Murphy Seriously Injured In Road Crash
Miss Jane Sewall Murphy was injured Wednesday while riding with Mrs Sumner Sewall en route to Belfast for a regional garden club meeting. She was operated on Thursday in Bath Memorial Hospital for a fractured left leg four broken ribs and several lost teeth. Mrs Sewall suffered a minor jolt in a Warren collision. husband and political candidacy noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jane Sewall Murphy
Sumner Sewall
Belfast
Bath Memorial Hospital
Carl C. Carson
Portland
Harry F. Morin
Bangor
Bath
Spelling Prize Winners Named Across Grades At Bath
Bath Board of Education sponsored spelling match held in Morse high school auditorium Friday evening. Prizes of 4 and 2 dollars awarded per grade from Edward C Plum mer Fund. Winners include Barter Dike Ruth Williams Muriel Kenderdine Carmen Huse George Poulos Eunice Perry Louise Oliver Beryl Garneau and others with illness replacing Robert Rice in grade eight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Board of Education
Morse High School
Barter
Dike
Ruth Williams
North Primary
Muriel Kenderdine
Riva Greenblatt
Mitchell
Carmen Huse
Central Grammar
George Goule
Eunice Perry
Louise Oliver
Beryl Garneau
George Poulcs
Robert Rice
Edward C. Plummer Fund
Bernice Staples
Dike School
J. Gertrude Silsby
North Grammar
Martha Hooper
Bessie Hunt
Anna Severin
Weeks Street School
Ethel Higgins
Center Street
Effie Wright
Mitchell School
Laura Mitchell
South Street School
Nathan W. Watson
Amy A. Irish
Henry W. Owen, Jr
Beatrice Avery
Virginia Gallagher
Goldie Harford
Edward Jones
LeForest Cunningham
George Poulos
Malcolm Varney
Evangeline Canacaris
Poppie Kakos
Edward Babine
Marie Robinson
Lucille Geneau
Beverly Lander
Frances Flaherty
Barbara Stodder
Richard Godfrey
Donald Williams
James Haines
Doreen Higgins
George Soule
Louise Sullivan
Haze
Betty Hill
Reginald Barter
Philip Ames
Teddy Sturtevant
Camelia Deering
John Haywood
Myrtle Lodge Anniversary Banquet Marks 39 Years
Myrtle lodge No. 8 U O of S O L celebrated its 39th anniversary with a banquet and entertainment. charter member Mrs Lizzie B C Chaney recounted the lodge history and 51 charter members were noted, seven living. Notables included Mary S Curtis and Mary Connell among guests from Merrymeeting lodge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Myrtle Lodge
LL. O
Lizzie B. C. Chaney
Mary S. Curtis
Gertrude Stewart
Maude Clark
Lizzie French
Carrie French
Mary Curtis
Supreme Board
Mary Connell
Viola McCrum
Portland
Merrymeeting Lodge
No. 7
Brunswick
Mrytle Lodge
Velma Neilson
Bertha Cullinan
Emma Haley
Myrtle Stimpson
Alice Soule
Mabel Rumrill
Lillian Goodrich
Etta Walker
Annie Carlton
Alice M. Dunning
Elsie Alexander
Vesta Hackett
Stella Gustafson
Nellie Hunt
Sadie Savage
Edward Mansur
Kathleen Harkins
Edna Besaw
Jeannette Colby
Bertha Ward
Alice Smith
Bath Iron Works Lowest Bidder on Two Destroyers
The Navy received bids on three submarines like the Squalus and on four 1600 ton destroyers. Bath Iron Works of Maine submitted the lowest bid for two destroyers at about 4.813 million each after adjustments, with other bidders including Electric Boat and Bethlehem Steel proposing higher totals and adjustments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy
Electric Boat Co
Groton
Cown
Bath Iron Works
Maine
Federal Biliding and Drydock Co
Kearney
N. J
Bethlehem Steel Co
Quincy
Mass
San Francisco
Bath Iron Works welders resume after union walkout
Approximately 182 welders and 32 cleaners returned to work at Bath Iron Works after a suspension prompted by Local No. 4 demands for better working conditions wages and seniority. A peaceful rally and police presence accompanied the reentry as directors prepare to review the welders demands including wage increases and ventilation upgrades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Iron Works Corp
Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America
C.I.O
Water Street
Lucien Koch
Quincy
Mass
New England
C.I.O. Union
Koch
Archibald M. Main
Nurses Graduate Amid Floral Display at Bath Memorial Hospital
Seven women from the Bath Memorial Hospital School of Nursing received diplomas in a ceremony attended by friends and hospital officials. Dr Francis A Winchenbach presided, Rev Charles M Tubbs offered congratulations, and Mayor Arthur Sewall spoke. The Florence Nightingale pledge was recited, and graduates wore new white uniforms with crimson bouquets and hospital-pledged vows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Memorial Hospital
School of Nursing
Francis A. Winchenbach
Charles M. Tubbs
Grace Church
Helen V. Downing
P. M. Olm
Kennebec
A. D. Stetson and Son
Sumner Sewall
Grace Adams
Livermore Falls
Barbara Bartlett
Izetta Bartlett
Danforth
Ethel Gunn
Aberdeen
N. S
Mabel Russell
Vassalboro
Eleanor Stanhope
Calais
Alice Stothart
St. John
N. B
Arthur Sewall
Mayor Sewall
Langdon T. Snipe
First striped bass of season caught on Kennebec river
The first striped bass of the season in the Kennebec river was caught Monday by Arthur L. Plant and presented to Governor Barrows. Ralph K. King followed with a second catch on Tuesday. Both fish weighed about two to three pounds and were landed with rod and reel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur L. Plant
Rose Street
Kennebec River
Ralph K. King
Chestnut Street
Times Company
Lewis Oo. Barrows
Augusta
Frank B. Nichols
The
Times
Mr. Plant
Merrymeeting Bay
Ocean
Percival W. Plant
High Street
Bath Iron Works Corp
Arrowsic
Spinney’s Mills
Bluff Head
Plant
King
Preble’s Eddy
Hyde Windlass Co
Two Wiscasset Houses Featured In June Issue Of Magazine
The June double number of House & Garden highlights New England past and present with 75 notable houses and gardens. It traces architecture from 1620 to 1850 and shows interiors, crafts, and regional life across towns along rivers and seacoast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wiscasset
New England
Connecticut River Valley
Grand Banks
South
Gov. Gore
John Brown
New
Tristram Coffin
Old Newbury
Jeremiah Lee
Marblehead
Barstow
Salem
Pickering- Dodge-Shreve
Robert Hooper
Harrison Gray Otis
Boston
Seven Gables
Pingree
Pierce-Knapp-Perry
Newburyport
Whitman
Farmington
Connecticut
Old Ironworks
Saugus
Mass
Paul Revere
John Ward
Parson Capen
Topsfield
John Balch
Beverly
Short
Newbury
William King
Suffield
Conn
Isaac Royall
Medford
Ropes
Nichols-Lee
Cambridge
Jabez Wilder
Hingham
Jacob Caldwell
Watertown
Edward Phillip
Taunton
Moffatt c
Nickels-Sortwell
Maine
House & Garden
Nickels- Sortwell
Bath Bound Collier Aids Fishing Vessel In Distress
A Bath bound collier Berwindglen aided the fishing smack St Peter, stranded 23 miles south of Seguin Island after engine trouble. The Thetis Coast Guard boat dispatched from Portland to assist as Berwindglen stood by and returned to Bath. Separately, 16 year old Byron Hallowell died from skull fractures after his bicycle was struck by a light truck on the Bath Brunswick highway. The Portland bound accident occurred near the Texas Steamship Co. storehouse with Bonneau driving the truck and Highway Patrol investigating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berwindglen
S.O.S
Coast Guard
Thetis
St. Peter
Seguin Island
Grant Rawding
Kennebec Wharf & Coal Co
William Morgan
Boston
Navy
Algonquin
Portland
Portsmouth
Bath, Iron Works Corp
Byron Hallowell
Brunswick High School
East Brunswick
Memorial Hospital
John J. Bonneau
Cumberland Avenue
Texas Steamship Co
Bath-Brunswick Highway
Hardings
Robert Hallowell
Department of Commerce, Lighthouse Service
Bonneau
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Albert Haggett
Eddie Emmons
Jane S. Murphy
Alex St. Pierre
Mr. St. Pierre
Emil St. Pierre
U. S. Naval Service
Coco Solo
Panama
Dosithee St. Pierre
Brother George
Federal Shipbuilding Co. of
Kearney, N. J
Victor L. Pert
Alice Anania
Washington Street
Winter Street
Joseph O. Purdue
Perleston L. Pert
Gov. Barrows
Carl Y. Kennedy
Ernest G. Rogers
Earl Oliver
Charles L. Haggett
Cutter
Seguin
Lad
John P. Crosby