Veterans dispute Memorial Day parade leadership in Bath
The Veterans of Roxeign Wars and the Sons of Union Veterans clash over who leads Bath's Memorial Day parade. Nelson F Foss of the Bath VFW says veterans deserve top placement, while Maurice Warner of the S U V cites tradition and G A R resolutions dating to 1931. The dispute ends with the S U V leading and V F W opting out, yet veterans are honored with wreath bearers and disabled veterans in cars.
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Oyer-Flaherty Post
Bath
Post
Bath Times
Nelson F. Foss
V. F. W. Post
Sons of Union Veterans
Foss
Maurice Warner
Department of Maine
Memorial Day Committee
Sons of Veterans
Coopera
Grand Army
Sons of Union
Grand Army of the Republic
Warner
Ralph F. Mittendorf
Names Divisionals Captains Named By Salvation Army drive
Mrs. W. S. Voorhees announces divisional captains and workers covering Bath Winnegance West Bath Woolwich and Phippsburg with first reports due Thursday June 7 A comprehensive list details ward coordinators and co captains across Winnegance North and South divisions East West wards and district areas including Lambert Park Hyde Park Woolwich and Phippsburg centers with numerous volunteer names and affiliations.
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W. S. Voorhees
Salvation Army
Bath
Winnegance
West Bath
Woolwich
Phippsburg
Harold Miller
South Divison
John Stewart
Daniel MacDonald
Eleanor Ferguson
Frank Sylvester
Edward McGuiggan
Walter Snipe
Chester Plant
Isabelle Ae
Effie Wright
Alice Deehan
Cyril Varney
Frederick Pashard
North Division
Wilbur Casey
Helen Moses
Harry L. Cornish
John A. Clark, Jr
Claude A. Mallett
Charles Murray
Thomas Staples
James Knight
Emerson Glidden
Ward
East Division
E. T. Hill
Walter Hunt
Homer Potter
West Division
Mabel Lake
E. B. Wright
Freeman Crosby
Clinton Fleming
Raleigh Glynn
Fred Higgins
William Frasier
Barbara Frasier
John Preney
Arthur Holmes
Henry Albert
Cedric French
Benjamin Sabo
Alphonse Turcott
Frank Hines
James Voorhees
Abraham Shooker
Robert Gallagher
Charles Cummings
Jane Stevens
Edward Hamlett
Maude Dowling
Henry McCabe
Hollis Garey
Leonard Lesier
Margaret Mulligan
Clifford Wilband
Mary Larrabee
Walter James
J. Edward Hogan
Bernard Lewis
Sherman Mitchell
Rebecca Back
John Bowie
Myra Foote
Lambert Park
Raymond Christopher
Leonard Talasco
Hyde Park
Lewis Carter
Margery Belanger
Harry Lait
Delen Bonsey
Redford Christiansen
Marion Loeser
Spanish War Vets to Meet Here June 9
The annual convention of the United Spanish War Veterans Department of Maine and auxiliaries will be in Bath on June 9 with auxiliary headquarters at the Veterans of Foreign Wars hall 807 Middle Street. Registrations open at 8 15 led by Mabel Bonney of South Portland as chairperson. The prudential committee is headed by Agnes Hammond of Brunswick. Morning session at 9 15 with department president Myrtle Wilson presiding. Camp comrades meet at G A R street with Melvin Whitlam presiding. Carnations sold by members to aid relief work. Memorial services conducted by department chaplin Bina Staples at 1 PM.
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United Spanish War Veterans
Department of Maine
Bath
Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall
Middle Street
Mabel Bonney
South Portland
Prudential Committee
Agnes Hammond
Brunswick
Department
Myrtle Wilson
Comrades of the Camp
G. A. R. Tesstreet
Melvin Whitlam
Chaplin
Bina Staples
Bath Honors War Dead With Parade And Memorial Services
Bath observed Memorial Day May 30 with a Washington Street parade and services at the Soldier's monument, the Elks home, and the Bath waterfront. Attorney John P. Carey delivered the Memorial Day address, urging ongoing strength to defend freedom and suggesting daily honor through action. The program included wreaths, a Lincoln Gettysburg Address reading by Morse High School student William Haggett, taps, benediction, and naval remembrances at the Bath Water District wharf.
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Bath
Center Street
Elks’ Home
John P. Carey
Mr. Carey
America
Korea
Washington Street
Harry C. Stone
Admiral Charles F
Rockland City
United Spanish War Veterans
Sons of Union Veterans
American Legion
Navy Club
Sea Scouts
Elks
Morse High School
Salavation Army Sunbeam
Y.M.C.A
Cars
United Spanish War Veterans Auxiliary
Sons of Union Veterans Auxiliary
Bath Fire Department
Rockland
Lincoln
William Haggett
Charles Haggett
York Street
T. W. Hyde
John E. Bellefontaine
St. Mary's Church
Elks Home
Lombard Street
Rockland Band
Naval Service Service
Bath Water District
Gerry Brown
Morse High School Honors Students Awarded Certificates
Principal Farnham presented National Honor Society certificates to ten seniors and four juniors at Morse High School. The event also awarded baseball rifle and track letters, with praise for advisor Nathan W. Watson and director Miss Amy Irish.
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Raymond W. Farnham
Morse High School
Nathan W. Watson
Amy Irish
Lucille Babbidge
Constance Carlisle
Kathryn Cousins
Thomas Elliott
Gene Farrar
Walter Fullerton
Barbara Greene
Wilbur Loveitt
Natalie Ridyard
Marie Travis
Joan Hagan
June Labbie
Eleanor Marks
Sally True
Charles Burden
Camilla Costain
Rollande Girard
Melvin Hodgkins
Roger Ketchum
Virginia Parker
William Worden
Warren Munsey
Lewis Kingsbury
Elford Stover, Jr
Gerald Jack, Jr
Richard Jackson
John Oliver
Carl Black
Robert Carmichael
Joseph Marchetti
Henry Henrikson
William Haggett
Victor Ponziani
Melvin Tukey
Lawrence Bridges
Norman Morse
James Breton
Donald Kenney
Dennis Murphy
Morse
Reader's Digest Association
Farnham
Burden
Reader's Digest
Mr. Burden
Ralph Mank
Machine Shop
George Biette
Biette
Maine
Waterville
John Parker
Bath Chamber of Commerce
Doris—White
Courtney Prentiss
Rodney Sirois
Raymond Bechard
Emily Post
Bath Teacher Chosen for Nine Weeks in England
Mrs. Bere Nice Colby a Bath seventh grade teacher at Central Grammar school is among 25 U S teachers chosen by the Oxford University Department of Education for a nine week study trip to England. She will study English education methods and exchange ideas with other teachers.
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Bath
United States
Quebec
England
Berenice Colby
Central Grammar School
Oxford University Department of Education
Commissioners of Education
R. England
Oxford Department of Education
Colby
Liverpool
London
Oxford
Morse High School
Gorham Normal School
Boston University
Harvard
University of Maine
Phippsburg
Woolwich
Maine
Maine Congress of Parents-Teachers
Maine Teacher's Association
Lincoln- Sagadahoc
St. Louis
School Housing Appears Problem For School Board
Bath boards face a looming school housing crisis with no new construction expected before September. Enrollment will rise due to postwar birth rates, requiring extra Grade 5 and Grade 3 rooms, and more preprimary pupils. Grade 8 capacity limits threaten complete enrollment, pushing proposals to reopen Center Street schools.
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Bath
Board of Education
Central Grammar
Center Street
Center
Bath resident visits Europe via Rotary talk
Vice President J William Schulze of Bath Iron Works spoke at Rotary Tuesday. He and Mrs Schulze relayed a combined business and pleasure trip to France Germany England and Scotland with color pictures. He described austere England with food and fuel shortages and concern over another war while noting better conditions in France and active life in Germany.
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Rotary Club
J. William Schulze
Bath Iron Works
Labor Party
England
France
Germany
London
Thames River
Oxford
Cambridge
Stratford
Versailles
Schulze
Bill Skelton
Central Grammar School
Rotary
Clarke
Nathan Cohen
W. H. Farrar
W. R. Clemons
Edward W. Wheeler
Brunswick
Lincoln Anderson
Keenes Iburg
Colo
New Bath Teachers Assigned for September
Three new Bath School System teachers were elected by the Bath Board of Education for the coming school year. All will graduate this June from state teachers colleges. Miss Lillias Sullivan of Rockport will teach the extra third grade. Miss Carolyn Howard of Rockland will fill the first grade vacancy caused by Mrs Bonn ie McKenna. Miss Marjorie Joy of Rumford will teach the extra fifth grade.
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Bath Board of Education
Lillias Sullivan
Rockport
Gorham Teachers College
Carolyn Howard
Rockland
Gorham
Bonnie McKenna
Marjorie Joy
Rumford
Farmington State Teachers College
Sewall Chapter Guests Feted At Baker Home Arrowsic
Colonel Dummer Sewall chapter D A R members and friends gathered at Mrs Horatio L Baker home in Arrowsic for the annual picnic marking the chapter’s end before summer recess. Hostesses included Janet Bussey Barbara Torrey and others with an auction by Miss Elizabeth Reed and a patriotic program honoring Flag Day.
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Sewall
BAKER
Arrowsic
Dummer Sewall
Horatio L. Baker
Arrowsie
Like Niles
Bertha Davis
Lucy Armstrong
Bernice McGlinchy
McGlinchy
Mildred Swanton
Almena Jaques
Elizabeth Reed
Boothbay
Janet Bussey
Barbara Torrey
Marjorie Hopkins
Caroline Cary
Elizabeth Jackson
Ruth Hathorne
Central Church Parish House
One Bath Racer Enters Second Annual Kennebec River Race
Howard Kirkpatrick plans to race a Class A-B outboard designed with a Long Beach hull 11 ft 2.5 in long and 3 ft 11.25 in wide at Gardiner on Sunday. About 75 top drivers from the East expected for a 60 mile marathon with trophies from local towns and a $500 lead of trophies from a Boston motor distributor.
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Howard Kirkpatrick
Bath
Kennebec
Kirkpatrick
E. R. Lindberg
Long Beach
Calif
Kirrick
Als A
Gardiner
City Landing
Avold P. Small
Augusta
Hallowell
Boston
Outboard Motors
Bill Heminway
Camden
Heminway
American Power Boat Association
Stanley Wallace
Richard Footer
Wallast
Whiskeag Creek
Footer
Boothbay
Merrymeeting Bay
Hopp Related to NL Record Setter Gettman
Johnny Hopp of the New York Yankees is a nephew of Jake Gettman who once made 10 consecutive hits in the National League.
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Johnny Hopp
New York Yankees
Jake Gettman
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