Forty Years Ago in Bath Daily Chronology Highlights
Forty years ago in Bath dated June 2 1943 reports Mendelssohn club to perform at Winter chapel under Prof William R oman. Town arrivals include Mrs H D Bacon and Miss Mabel, and work aboard ships Kennebec City of Eland Fuller union. Local events mention steamers Ransom B Ner aquid and S S Thorpe repairs, plus dances and social notices at Y M C A auxiliary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mendelssohn Club
William R.oman
Win
Teward Searles
Kennebec
Ransom B. Ner
C. H. Vaughn
Kenee
Davis, Orly
City of Eland
Dirnt
Bath History and Harbor News June 1903
Fire near the West Bath brick yard risks 275000 bricks to be baked next week at the Read Nichols yard in East Woolwich. Bath High School Alumni plan a June 22 reunion at the Casino Merrymeeting Park. Eighth graders enjoyed a Lewiston trip, and shipbuilding updates include the John B. Blemiller launching June 13. Damarin and Winter Harbor repairs affect local routes. Community events cover a lobster sale, art exhibition and kindergarten fund drive, plus a Lawson of local teaming business and a YMCA youth event. A street accident involved Mrs Fogg and Hervey Fogg. a large North End field will be sold in plots. truant officer status remains unsettled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath
Nichols
East Woolwich
Bath High School Alumni Association
Merrymeeting Park
H. Emma Magoun
Charles H. Greenleaf
Ann M. Robinson
Emma J. Small
Julia Watson
George Moulton, Jr
Walter E. Chase
Entertainers Shine at Murtaugh event and shipyard scenes
A large crowd attended a gathering with Miss Retta Smith and Mae Snow entertaining. Columbia orchestra provided music for dances while Dewey and Dairy lunch rooms were crowded during intermission. A BHS graduating class committee led by John Leydon organized the annual excursion and reception with a noted lineup. Last night a well dressed woman created a scene at the Boston boat wharf with an inebriated man. both strangers to town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Er Murtaugh
Retta Smith
Mae Snow
Your Ladies
Dewey and Dairy
Columbia Orchestra
John Leydon
Sophia Mikelsky
George Buchannan
Phillips Kimball
Fred Haggett
Harold Small
Lyman Fisher
Aileen Percy
Rena Dunton
Arthur Gould
Boston Boat Wharf
Parlor car ride planned and church lawn event postponed
Misses Margaret McKay and Belle Poole will ride the Merry meeting parlor car Wednesday evening June 10. The lawn party at Captain Robert Goodman’s residence, run by the First Baptist church Young People’s Society, has been postponed. The Richmond camp meeting runs August 7 to 17 with Rev I T Johnson of Vermont and Rev H P Smith of Boston leading. The new monitor Nevada built at Bat Iron Works is at Old Point Colfort awaiting orders for repairs after a gun explosion during target practiceoff the Capershore. The incident prompted the monitor’s return and official notification of the accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret McKay
Belle Poole
Merry Meeting
Robert Goodman
Young People’s Society of the
First Baptist Church
Richmond
I. T. Johnson
Vermont
H. P. Smith
Boston
Nevada
Bat Iron Works
Old Point Colfort
Old Point
Women volunteers urged to lead youth in wartime
Miss Thelma Trott of the national Girl Scout staff urged women from all backgrounds to volunteer as youth leaders as part of wartime needs. She cited a goal of "A Million or More by Forty-Four," with about 400,000 girls and 20,000 women required, noting 600,000 Girl Scouts already served by 140,000 adults. The organization began Service Bureaus in 1940 to connect girls with volunteer openings and support war-related welfare work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thelma Trott
Bath
Girl Scout Organization
Miss Trott
Girl Scouts
America
Girl Scouting
Red Cross
Girl Scout
Morse Class Day Echoes Across Morse High Farewell
Morse High students close the 1943 class year with the ode penned by Charlotte Cook Day. The ceremony honors the class of forty three as they prepare to depart, pledging loyalty to Morse High and support for classmates serving in the war. Round Top Farms in Dianaris cotta reports official Holstein Friesian type classification by Thomas E. Elder. The herd earns multiple good plus scores as part of a certification effort. The Liberty ships Robert Treat and Eugene Hale join the cargo fleet in launching ceremonies at Winterport, Maine, with Miss Margaret Ellen Clifford and a university student linked to Senator Hale involved in christening events.
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Round Top
Dianariscotta
Holstein Freisian Association of America
Thomas E. Elder
Alton
N. Ho
Association
United States
Robert Treat
Connecticut
Eugene Hale
Eugene Wale
New England
Winterport
University of Maine
Margaret Ellen Cliford
Portland
Senator Hale
Souvenir Shield From Shanghai Presented to Shaw
Past Commander J. O. Shaw received a morning gift from Bath boy John A. Lord, carpenter on the U S S Monadnock. The item is a beautiful shield with the United States coat of arms, rendered in colored silks on satin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. O. Shaw
Shanghai
John A. Lord
U.S. S. Monadnock
United States
Bath Memorial Nurses Alumni Banquet Held for 40 Attendees
The Bath Memorial Hospital Nurses Alumni Association held its annual banquet at Sedgwick with 40 members and guests. Guests included Mrs Gladys Wolstenholme R N superintendent and graduates Christine Glendenning and Venesa McKuen. Mrs Torrey spoke on physiotherapy and Kodochrome slides were shown by Mrs Litchfield. Group singing accompanied by Edward Murphy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Memorial Hospital
Charles Torrey
Wiscasset
Children’s Hospital
Boston
Harvard Infantile Paralysis Commission
Carlton Andrews
Association
Raymond C. Hart
John Bowie
Stanley Brown
Appropriation Bill Passed Amid Court of Poor Department Debate
City council approves budget items for Armory and city services while debating a transfer of 2000 from the poor department. Council appoints a special committee for financial investigation and grants licenses for taxis and gasoline sales as the meeting adjourns after debate.
Bath Maine probate and notices involving Eleanor Tubbs Shaw heirs
Public probate notice in Bath Maine lists known and unknown heirs of Eleanor Tubbs Shaw and assigns orders for records and disposal of property. City officials publish the notice for three consecutive weeks and mail copies to Mrs Leslie Kurthy at Swarthmore PA with proof of receipt requested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City of Bath
Maine
Eleanor Tubbs Shaw
Bath
Ray Shaw
Chester Shaw
Mary Patten
Fred Ferrall
Wikhown
Leslie Kurtyholy
Park Avenue
Swarthmore
Topom
Fim
Marie
Walter CO Rogers
Olen
City of
Hess
Leslie Kuttzhus
Walter CC. Rogers Main
City Budget Summary and School Department Funding Note
The document lists allocations including Playground Supervision Registration and Election 1,500.00, City Debt reduction 15,000.00, Repairs City Building 1,200.00, Reserve for Deficit 15,000.00, Revision of Ordinances 3,000.00, State Tax 65,018.93, Salary City Officials 20,500.00, Street Lighting 9,000.00, School Dept 116,000.00, Support of Poor 12,000.00, State Road 3,000.00, WeeNiGo Anta 752.64, and a note to add 29,000.00 to School Department for estimated receipts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armory
Board of Health
Charles Street
Fire Dept
High & Sewer Dept
Keiley Field
Kimball Field
Muiai
Assi
Park & Soldiers
Public Library
Police Department
Legion Auxiliary to Buy More War Bonds at Meeting
At a Legion Aux meeting a satisfactory financial report was given and two more $100 war bonds were approved for purchase. The Maine Department convention is set for June 18 to 20 in Bangor with delegates named. A June 12 dance was voted, sustaining members supper planned for June 6, and June 23 was scheduled for the next meeting. Poppy Day sales were successful with a committee led by Mrs. Earl Risteen and helpers including Mrs. Bernard W. Pratt and Mrs. John Hart. Children assisting included David McKellar Gwen doll y n Nelson Ellen Smith Betty McKellar Richard Robinson Barbara Main Betty Stover Chole Deraps and Shirley Stover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Councilman
Lermond
House of Correction
Poor Department
Oliver and
Thayer
Lermend
Elford A. Stover
George M. Emery
Bath Iron Works Corp
Navy
Washington Street
Union
King
George J. Goodwin
Board of Overseers of the Poor
Dana W. York
Ernest Poulos
J. Horace McClure
School Street
Edward Kelly
Washington
School Streets
Henry B. Schmidt
George R. Crocker
C. S. Milliken
Ralph E. Legard
Bartlett Smith
Sadie Fogg
Edward Cummings
Earl Freeman
Richard A. Moran
Board of Aldermen
Socony Vacuum Co
Cummminss Motor
Front Street
Stanley Turner
Fire Department
Engine Four
Opera House
American Legion Auxiliary
Legion Hall
Department of Maine
Bangor
Earl Risteen
Bernard W. Pratt
John Hart
John Costain
Victor Carey
Ralph Gay
Walter Hill
Edgar Leavitt
David McKellar
Gwendolyn Nelson
Ellen Smith
Betty McKellar
Richard Robinson
Skunk Troubles and City School Visit Highlight News
A West Rock port farmer, E Stewart Oberton, attempted to shoot intruding skunks to protect his corn field but destroyed cornstalks instead. Meanwhile, Manchester grammar school pupils toured Cony High School as part of an annual out of town visit, limited this year by travel difficulties. About 300 out of town students attend Cony with around 75 expected to enter as freshmen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. Stewart Oberton
West Rockport
Stewart
Manchester Grammar Schools
Cony High School
Out of Town
Chance to Become Military Officer
An opportunity for commissioned service in the armed forces offers Outstanding Business Executives and Public Officials a post as Military Government Officers in the Provost Marshal General's Department. Qualifications include 38 to 55 years old, college degree, overseas physical, five years of administrative leadership, with some waivers for exceptional cases. Apply to the Officer Procurement Branch, First Service Command, 80 Federal Street, Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
School of Military Government
University of Virginia
Smilar
First Service Command
Federal Street
Boston
Chamber of Commerce
Mass
June Cosmo Club session features blackface skit and quiz
The Cosmo Club June meeting opened with a blackface skit about a trip to the fair. Mrs Joha Field led a musical quiz, with Mrs Pierce at the piano, offering jokes about wars and nations. The program ended with a group singing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joha Field
Pierce
Ferry Winnie Belle sinks after two weeks afloat
The Winnie Belle ferry sank in the Androscoggin at Rumford while carrying a truck loaded with six to eight tons of feldspar. Both the truck driver and the ferryman made a 50 foot swim to shore as firemen towed the boat to shallow water and pumped it out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rumford
Androscoggin
Williams Brothers Visit Newport During Summer Vacation
Sewall Williams and his brother Arthur Williams of St George's Academy Newport RK 1 have arrived to spend the summer with their mother Mrs John Williams of Washington street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sewall Williams
Arthur Williams
St. George's Academy
Newport
RK. 1
John Williams
Washington Street
Probate Court in Sagadahoc Hears Estate Actions
In Bath Maine a 1943 probate court notice orders publishing for three weeks alerts all interested parties. The Bath Independent will publish the order and a July hearing date to address petitions for administrators and related estate matters involving residents of Bath and New York.
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Bath
Sagadahoc
Betate Aintin R. Perry
Mauric &. Peorter
Dewtyern
New Yorkly
New York
Maine
William TT Hall
Ori
Path
William Too Phrite
Beth Trost
Fost
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Gineer Ralph Colby
William Harrington
Maine Central
Aquid
Bath Ironks
Rockd
Phippsburg
Newport Vs
Rge Nichols
Newport News Shipbuildingpany
F. M. Richardson
Bath Iron Works
Freeport
Yarmouth
Manists
Pullman
S. S. Thorpe
Marine Railway
New England Co
Schoon Elm City
H. J. McCarthy
Y.M.C.A
Dia Folsom
Misses Adams
Jennie Melcher
Jorge Fowles
Kenne
T. Passmore
Rich’s Mountain
New Meadows
Si Duncan
Ises Mae Clark
Florence Inden
Arthur
Roland Hill
Phipping
S. J. Macy
Perry Colby
Colby
Perry
Thews
Boothbay Harbor
Seth T. Snipe
Herbert S. Harris
Mr. Harris
John E. Ryan
Arthur Gilmore
Eugene Franks
Canoe Club
A. G. Fisher
Fred Footer
Mr. Fisher
Wellington
Boston Shooting Association
United States Co
West Everett
Georgia
Edgecomb
North End
Alderman Hodgdon
New York Life Insurance Co
S. Contre
Columbia Hotel
Lizzie Robishau
Jack McCarty
A. J. Cantwell
Coutre
R. H. Haskell
Western Union Telegraph Co
Brunswick Plains
Richardson
Winneganee
Shaw's Mill
Shaw-Clarke Wood
Lily Pond
Lewiston
Marshall Hyde
Daley
Adams
John B. Blemiller
E. S. Crosby
Damarin
Frank Low
Popham
Winter Harbor
Boothbay
Limekin Bay
Harold M. Sewall
Jennie Murphy
Ann Kimball
J. Harry McLellan
Sewall
Lucy Patten
E. D. Brown
Hannaford Bros
Winter Street Chapel
Young People’s Christian Endeavor Society
H. O. Trowbridge
L. C. Cooper
Fowle & Pearson
Frank E. Southard
Sanford Fogg
Hervey Fogg
Pearl Street
M. G. Shaw
Winship
Washington Streets
William Jack
D. W. Oliver
City
Muriel
Gloucester
Pemaquid
Worrell Carter
Naval Academy
Annapolis
Charles A. Harriman
Rangeley Lakes
Harry Coombs
Rutherford White
Old Morse High
Walter E. Day
Charlotte Cook
Morse High
Morse
Stars and Stripes
Hospital
Shaw
Alderamar Kingsbury
Fenn
Comeau
Oliver
Green
Plummer
Kidder
C. J. Hutchins
Morse High School
City Hall
Woolwich Mutual Fire Ance Company
Woolwich
Drc
Cgross
Neo Cash
Peenioi Mari
Abhaes Ly Ies
Stuart A
Wivson
Bathey Sirois
State OF
Sagadahoe
John R Newell
John F Bowie Charles A Thayer EG Kingsbury
Philip H Oliver
Supadahoe
John F Bowie Charles A. Thayer E G
Arringsbury Pulte HO Oliver At Least
Chesley
Hutchiins City
Cietk
T. Jorn Jack
Sprasne
Jatyator Aserivon
Anna
Peery
Phipps
Percy of
Arthur J Dunton
Joun L Jack Register
School Department
Legion Auxiliary
Cosmo Club
Kosmas
Gaemillar
Arthur J Dun'ton
John J, Jack, Heewister
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