Bath City Council backs Seagraves 750 gallon fire pumper
Bath City Council favors purchasing a Seagraves 750 gallon pumper to replace Engine 4 at Central station. The bid, third highest, totals 15000 dollars, with rival bids from Maxim and Oren Roanoke. City Manager White seeks more data but council backs the Seagraves to satisfy the fire department.
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Bath
Seagraves
Central Station
Maxim Motor Co
Middleboro
Mass
Oren Roanoke Corp
Seagraves Corp
Board of Underwriters
Nathan C. White
Fire Department
Melvin —&. Comeau
Ward
Chinese Woman Smith Graduate at Cosmo Club
Mrs. Ti Po Mei of China a Smith College and University of Chicago graduate was guest speaker at the Cosmopolitan club. She discussed Chinese women's history and reforms from 1911 to 1950, noting education, suffrage, and professional roles prior to concluding with a call for American Chinese friendship. The meeting also covered club business and upcoming events.
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Ti Po Mei
China
Geocme
Smith College
University of Chicago
Imann Foundam
Bowdoin
Cosmopolitan Club
Ruth Dennisson
Mei
America
United
Federation of Democratic Women
Sumner Sewall
Maine Federation of Women's Club
Samoset
Rockland
Abbott Redlon
Rachel Messenger
Uncle Sam's Mail Service Through the Years
Joseph Cook reviews the evolution of the U S postal system from early ocean and overland routes to the Pony Express and Pacific Telegraph era. He notes four mail classes, registration and insured mail, money orders and savings bonds, and special delivery as key services, with a nod to ongoing ads and page continuation.
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United States
Joseph Cook
Portland
Bath
Rotary Club
California
Isthmus
Butterfield
St. Louis
Kansas
Wyoming
Nevada
Utah
Pony Express
Pacific Telegraph Service
U.S
Cook
Alumni Banquet at Morse High Gym Thursday Evening
The annual Bath High School alumni banquet will be held Thursday evening in the Morse High School gymnasium. Seven reunion classes 1903 through 1948 plan special seating and rooms are assigned for pre meeting gatherings. Tickets must be bought by Thursday noon at City Hall.
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Morse High School
Superintendent of Schools
City Hall
Dorothy Een Tel
Walter Hill
The
Bath High School Alumni Association
Joe Music
Warren F. Hawley
Frederick D. Hill
Charles W. Swearingen
Morse High School Class Day Opens Graduation Program
Morse High School held the Class Day activities for the class of 1953 with the Will Prophecy and History segments staged around a newspaper office scene. Students read poems and predictions and the band performed under Cecil Rowland before gifts were distributed and the class sang As We Say Goodbye and the Blue and the White.
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Morse High School
Cecil V. Rowland
John C. Hart, Jr
John C. Hart
Charles Street
Elizabeth Prentiss
Lewis Prentiss
Maple Street
Joyce Mitchell
Alton Mitchell
Robert Dorsey
Eugene Her
Robert Ramsey
Thomas Schulten
Mary Donnell
William Donnell
High Street
Donald Colby
Peggy Colby
Washington Street
M.H.S. Band
Morse
Sally Cummings
Charles F. Cummings
Bedford Street
Paul Andrews
Edwin Andrews
Eugene Hersom
Lost and Found
Sargent Legard
Katharine Legard
Louise Allain
John Allain
Sergeant Losier Receives Second Purple Heart Home on Furlough
Sgt. Gerald E. Losier of West Bath returns home on a two week furlough after a year in Korea with a wounded hip. He previously endured a leg wound in Tokyo and was later reassigned to Korean duty. He attended Morse High School and left during sophomore year to join the Army in October. He serves as a first cook at Fort Myers, Virginia. The Notre Dame Cathedral foundation stone was laid in 1163.
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White
Seagraves
Bath
T. W. Cunningham Co
Bangor
Cunningham Company
Harold J. Rubin
Rubin
Era
Justus H. Miller
J. H. Miller, Inc
Miller
Cunningham
Gerald E. Losier
Edward J. Losier
West Bath
Korea
Losier
Tokyo
Japan
Sgt
Sgt. Losier
Morse High School
Army
Hawaiian Islands
Fort Myers
One of Morse High School’s largest graduating classes
One of the largest Morse High School senior classes with 137 graduates received diplomas at the Monday commencement. The United Nations theme dominated the two hour program with prizes awarded by Principal Farnham and board chair H. Martin Powers.
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Morse High School
United Nations
Raymond W. Farnham
H. Martin Powers
Board of Education
Graeme Hanson
M. H. S. Orchestra
Seniors Told Alternative Of Action Is Theirs
Colby College history professor Paul Fullam addressed 137 seniors at Morse School auditorium as the Baie High laureate speaker. He urged seniors to harness inner resources to counter evil and warned democracy faces internal threats from complacency and social corruption. The ceremony featured music, prayers, and a class of 1953 procession, with faculty and volunteers involved in program details.
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Paul Fullam
Colby College
Baie High Laureate
Morse School
Professor Fullam
Fullam
Mrs Hodgkins Undergoes Major Friday Surgery
Mrs Hodgkins wife of Dr Hodgkins of Augusta is a patient at Augusta General hospital after undergoing major surgery on Friday. She is née Henna Dana daughter of Eben Dana of Saga dahoc Ferry.
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Burton Hodgkins
Hodgkins
Augusta
Augusta General Hospital
Henna Dana
Eben Dana
Sagadahoc Ferry
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Maine School Housing Authority
Donald Perry
Recreation Commission
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Recreation and Recreation Commission
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Couture
Oliver
Edward J. McMann
Kimball Field
City Manager and Recreation Commission
McMann
Commission
James W. Temple
Lawrence Boardman
George P. Perry
Smith
Cosmo Club
Uncle Sam
Morse High
Elliot Hanson
Elizabeth Mary Norma Prentiss
Audrey Ann Durant
Frank Durant
Center Street
Richard Warren Greene
Stanley W. Greene
Valley Road
Frances Vivia Norton
W. Herbert Norton
Lark Street
Sergeant Losier
Purple
Notre Dame Cathedral
Paris
General Assembly
International Court of Justice
Security Council
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Economic and Social Council
Secretariat
William Lothrop
Robert Reynolds
Frances Vivian Norton
Louis A. Dole
Robert Leslie Oliver
Roberta Claire Oliver
James Everett Seavey
Pauline Seavey
Judson Earle Cromwell
Marjorie Alan Cromwell
Irene Constance LeBrun
Mary- Jane Lucille LeBrun
A. Robert Frink
Catharine Leonard
J. Edward Pomeroy
Farnham
Henry Eames Wood
Eugene Frederick Hersom
Fred H. Hersom
Beverly Anne Coombs
Laforest Coombs
Cherry Street
Joyce Audrey Stover
Courtney E. Stover
Herbert B. Cromwell
Westport
Huse P.T.A
Ruth Bryan Owen
Doris Helen White
Herbert White
Col. Dummer Sewall
South End
P.T.A
Bath Teachers’ Club
Teachers’ Club
Glenda Beatrice Steele
Sewall Steele
Commercial Street
Lioness Club
Graeem Hanson
Elliot C. Hanson
North Center
Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute
Woolwich P.T.A
Woolwich
Leslie William Fogg
William Fogg
Patricia Ann Crocker
Bertram Crocker
Frances Jacobs MacNeil
Cecil R. MacNeil
Spring Street
Suburb
Civic Club
Adele Marshall Hunt
Thomas L. Totman
Phippsburg
Vivian Eloise’ Clark
Clarence Clark
Oak Street
Band Boosters Club
Cleora Mae Perkins
Mary Carlton
Park Street
Richard Appleton Sherwood, Jr
Richard
Prof. Fullam
Howard F. Cramer
Beacon Street Methodist Church
Laforest E. Hodgkins
Central Congregational Church
James L. Grant
Grace Episcopal Church
John E. Bellefontaine
St. Mary's Catholic Church
Robert Ramsay
Patricia MacFarland
Pauline Kelley
Julianna Cummings
Margaret Hanscom
Doris White
Anne Singer
Beverly Coombs
Barbara Parks Hagerthy
Esther Leeman
Elizabeth Newell
Audrey LeVasseur
Adele Hunt
Carol Foss
Lucille LeBrun
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