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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1942
Page
5
Forty years ago in Bath reports detail inspections by U S steamboat inspectors Pollister and Crane of the Sagadahoc lighter and Adelia tug, yacht Palinurus to be launched, Hockomock ferry's summer schedule, and various local visits, works, and social events including weddings and club trips.
June 4 1902 reports William Gallant leaving for Fairfield to fill a hotel clerk post for a week. A 15 mile Alameda running race entertained about 400 with Dineen winning. Miss Mildred Palmer teaches seventh grade amid illness. Shaw's mill closes for a short vacation. Logs expected to arrive. old logs in use. Shipyard activity paused for Mrs Spear funeral. Louise Malley returns from Boston. Silsby & Co. ships a spindle to the New York Yacht Club and works on a storm trysail for yachts bound for Brunswick and Miami. June Merrill leaves D T Percy & Sons. Frances Ward takes perfume dept. A lightning strike hits a barn at Phippsburg Center, damaging the structure and killing a calf. Henry Minott repairs an adjacent house.
The schooner Silas McLean sails Saturday for Perth Amboy with cargo. four-masted Lizzie Parsons arrives from Darien with pine for Kelley Spear Co after leaving Darien on the 23rd. Capt. Thompson drives a five-year-old black horse from Yarmouth. Miss Delia Arata clerks at M Parillo's fruit store. Doctors report attending Portland meeting. carpenter Allen McLellan injures left ankle at Hawley's yard, seeking treatment from Dr Fuller.
The four-masted barge Santi for Staples Coal Co Taunton will go overboard Saturday at about one o clock from the Kelley Spear Co yard. Charles Temple completed a six foot cellar for a new residence for Mrs Tibbetts.
A busy Bath Brunswick roundup details the S P Hitchcock voyage to Darien, a hand injury to steward E M Mallows, clerking shifts at Anderson’s drug store, a Y M C A Ladies auxiliary trip to Lewiston and Auburn, and C C Dennett building a spinnaker for Sea Wolf. It covers new autos, river yard activity, and summer recreation including a large Island Belle passenger list and local fishing news.
John Sheffield, longtime baggage master at the Kennebec wharf, is promoted to an office position. Ernest Russell will start duties on the wharf next Monday morning. Capt. James Bimson plans the Pirates first spin of the season early in the week. President Charles E. Hyde calls ex mayors to a 2:30 PM Monday funeral service for the late James W. Wakefield former mayor.
A light gray monument to Thomas G. Plant rises seven feet in Oak Grove cemetery with family markers nearby. The Old Folks Home on Washington Street, funded by Plant in 1917 at about 75 000 to 80 000 dollars, continues as his enduring Bath legacy for aged residents. Plant wished to be cremated in Bath and set aside a double lot in Oak Grove in 1934. His relatives, including Anthony Plant and William F. Plant, are buried on the Plant lot, marking a prominent Bath legacy in local industry and philanthropy.
Mrs Morrey Greenbaum and her 14 months old son Mark of Brighton Massachusetts are week guests of Mr and Mrs Martin Freeman at 204 Washington Street in the Shipping City during their first visit.
The Sagadahoc Probate Court with Judge Arthur J. Dunton presiding reviewed numerous administrations and estates. Filed and granted administrations include Leavitt families of Bowdoinham, Topsham, Richmond, and Bath. Wills by Wilson and Russell were reviewed. executors and guardians named with bonds and inventories filed.
A girl was born to Mr and Mrs Fred Nickless a box to Mr and Mrs Kenneth Glidden a boy to Mr and Mrs Samuel Soule. Charles Marr, son of Mrs Luke Marr of Upper Washington Street, has left for Panama to enter Government employ after working as a patternmaker at Bath Iron Works.
Local Rationing Board No. 121 issues certificates for new tire and tube purchases within May quota to multiple Bath and Richmond residents including Justus H. Miller James A. Clappison Inc Albert S. Owen Loring D. Stoall Maurice C. Wheeler Norman H. Drummond S. W. Purrington Bath Box Co and others. The report lists recipients for obsolete type tires recapped tires resurfacing and prescribes defense and civilian worker designations across Bath Richmond Woolwich Bowdoinham Topsham and Georgetown.
Fred P Shaw of 18 Green Street Bath received a 90 year veteran service medal from United Lodge F and A M No 8 Brunswick at a meeting led by past masters. Edward W Wheeler presented the medal and paid tribute to Shaw who joined the lodge on June 17 1892.
A 1613 Cervantes folio titled Rare Book A was donated to a library in Columbia. The transfer preserves a historic edition and highlights a notable acquisition by the institution.
The Bowdoinham senator's pure bred Jersey herd completed four years on Dairy Herd Improvement lines with record averages of 475, 493, 488, and 502 pounds of butterfat per cow. The herd exceeds state and national norms, includes 40 head, and features blue ribbon show winners. The Bishops raise their own feed and aim to boost production as part of wartime effort.
Morse High School students have built 120 scale models of aircraft from Flying Fortresses to training planes. The display at N Gratz Jackson & Sons will ship 100 to 120 models to the Naval Aviation Reserve Base in Boston this week. Funding to cover shipping costs is requested from local clubs and citizens. estimated shipping for 100 to 120 planes runs about three dollars.
City council debates naming the new athletic and recreation field with Councilman Morris S. Povich proposing Newell Field but John R. Newell preferring Kimball Field. The council quickly passes an order to keep the Kimball Field name honoring the Kimball sisters for their past generosity and the project benefits.
Federal OPA requires attendees at church or lodge suppers to bring their own sugar. Only groups serving four or more meals weekly may receive a sugar purchase certificate. Individuals may leave ration books with grocers to detach stamps, with receipts advised.
A fire in a clothes closet in a bedroom of William P. McAuliffe’s home at 62 York Street caused minor room damage. Mrs. McAuliffe triggered the alarm from box 73 near the M C R R crossing as firemen battled the blaze with booster gear and a pony engine. The all clear was sounded at 3 29 PM.
A Bath Maine probate court order from 1942 directs publication of probate notices for multiple estates including Nancy I Russell and Fannie F Wilson in Bath Independent. The order details letters testamentary and executors for each estate and sets a July probate date. It lists estates from Bath Chicago Massachusetts and other locales with guardianship and recording actions in Sagadahoc County.
A 1942 probate record certifies Manfred S Delineer of Bath and Ella M Sidelinger as executrix with no bond. The document, dated June 2 1942, is signed by Arthur J Dunton Judge of Probate and John L Jack Register.
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