Bath society notes chronicling births visits and travels
Patricia Foss of Morse High among Bath seniors in 1954 class receiving Feb 27 nursing cap at Catherine School of Nursing in Boston. Local residents announce births and family events, visits to Arlington and Louisville, trips to Florida and Boston, and social gatherings including cookie parties and club meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patricia Foss
Morse High School
Catherine School of Nursing
Cathedral of the Cross
Boston
Arch Cushing
Nelson I. Foss
Marie Foss
Elizabeth Carey
Bath
Virginia Wallace
Phippsburg
Memorial Hospital Receives Obedient Patients of Bath Area
Miss Margaret Jane Cressey 12 year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Frank Cressey 262 Front Street is a patient at Memorial hospital under observation. She is a seventh grade pupil at Bath Junior High School. Harry E Peterson of East Brunswick past master and longtime member of West Bath Grange is also a patient at Memorial hospital receiving medicinal aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loring E. Hart
Ellen
Brookline
Mass
Raymond Cummings
Maxwell Street
Elizabeth Hart
High Street
Hart
Harvard
Linda Cleaves
James Cleaves
Woolwich
Memorial Hospital
Linda
Woolwich Central School
Margaret Jane Cressey
Frank Cressey
Front Street
Miss Cressey
Bath Janiior High School
Harry E. Peterson
East Brunswick
West Bath Grange
the Memorial Hospital
Birthday Party for Cathy Young
A pre Easter birthday party for Cathy Ann Young was held at 39 Western Avenue Tuesday afternoon from two to four o'clock. Guests included Cathy and her friends and mothers. prizes were awarded for games and Cathy received many gifts. Adult attendees and relatives joined in the celebration with refreshments and cake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Young
Western Avenue
Cathy.Ann
Morton Kakos
Pamela Bourget
Christy Steen
Cathy
Young
Walter Thayer
Joseph Hart
Jocelyn Sylvester
Gail Stacy
Lani Kakos
Cathy Young
John Reed
Brian Hatch
David Crafts
Richard Hart
Walter Trayer
Stephen Hart
Dean Hatch
Mrton Kakos
Nicholas Kakos
Donald Sylvester
John Crafts
John Reed, Jr
Robert Bourget
Russell Hatch
Madelyn Stacy
Morse High Honors Bath as Basketball Holiday Proclaimed
The Bath City Council declares Saturday March 12, 1955 a basketball holiday in honor of Morse High School after their Western Maine Championship win on March 5 and prior to the state final with Bangor. The move expresses full city support for Morse in the state championship game.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morse
Bath
Bangor
State of
Maine
10th Annual Tea and Fashion Show at Sedgwick Hotel
The 10th annual Tea and Fashion Show, sponsored by Club Forty-Two for Hyde Memorial Rehabilitation Hospital, is scheduled for Sunday March 27 from 3 to 5. The event at the Sedgwick features a fashion show in the upstairs parlors and tea in the main dining room, with Edna Mae Shop providing fashions. Co chairs include Mrs. Everett Cooke and Mrs. Milton Footer, with extensive committee roles for floral design, food, kitchen duties, tickets, and publicity. Tickets will be available soon from club members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Club Forty-Two
Hyde Memorial Rehabilitation Hospital
Sedgwick
Edna Mae Shop
Everett Cooke
Milton Footer
Joseph Mullaney
Edith Small
Robert Footer
James Daly
Lawrence Wyman
Allen Thayer
William Greene
George Sarkis
Harry Allen
Norman Seekins
Edward Jones
David Desmond
Maurice Owen
Milton Savage
Howard Farr
William Ketchum, Jr
Hilton Libby
David Clark
Elliot Hanson
Norman Adams
Paul Hart
Kenneth Jaquith
Bertrand Lavoie
Leonard Smith
Frederick Henderson
John Sturtevant
First Baptist Co-Workers Class Holds Monthly Meeting
The Co-Workers Class of First Baptist met Tuesday at 7.30 in Mrs. Bertha Furber's Bedford Road home with 16 attendees. New member Mrs. Esther Sullivan joined. 47 January calls were noted. next gathering April 12 at Mrs. Sullivan’s Front Street home with program by Mrs. Bernice Oliver and Mrs. Grace Mitchell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Baptist Church
Bertha Furber
Bedford Road
Evelyn Sotheard
Esther Sullivan
Laura Harrington
Nella Stover
Sullivan
Front Street
Madelyn Dunton
Lotta Goodwin
Martha Hall
Bernice Oliver
Grace Mitchell
Garden Club Heads to Boston Show With World of Gardens
The New England Flower Show themed Gardens the World Over runs March 13 to 19 at Mechanics Building Boston. The Massachusetts Horticultural Society sponsors exotic orchids, rose gardens and rare wildflowers with a special azalea display. The Cosmopolitan Garden Club joins March 14 by chartered bus.
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New England
Cosmopolitan Garden Club
Boston
Langan Hutchins Wed in Lynn Mass at Home Wedding
Thelma Oliver Hutchins wed Michael Langan in Lynn Mass on February 17 at six o'clock. The ceremony at Rev Frederick G M Driscoll's home followed by a Bermuda honeymoon. Mrs Langan presides over the Girl Scout Council of Greater Lynn and holds church and club positions. Mr Langan works in GE Lynn turbine division.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Lynn
Mass
Thelma (Oliver) Hutchins
Joseph Oliver
Michael Langan
John Langan
Frederick G. M. Driscoll
Lincoln Academy Captures Abraxas Cup At Bowdoin College
Lincoln Academy has won the Abraxas Cup at Bowdoin College for the first semester of the freshman year. Phillips-Exeter Academy finished second with Ford A Stover Jr of Bath among its four representatives. Stover, son of Elford and Mrs Stover, was active in freshman basketball and football and is an Alumni Fund scholar in Bowdoin ROTC.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln Academy
Newcastle
Bowdoin College
Nathaniel C. Kendrick
Phillips-Exeter Academy
Flford A. Stover, Jr
Bath
Bowdoin
Stover
Elford A. Stover
Dummer Street
Psi Upsilon Fraternity
Reserve Officers Training Corps
Phillips-Exeter
Wer
City budget details propose clerk salary reform and fee surrender
The budget sets $716 865 55 to be raised by taxes and $423 711 66 from non tax revenues. City Clerk Harry E Ring Jr would be paid 3816 with all clerical fees accruing to the city. He notes fees rose in recent years due to licenses and recording purchases. Council chair Oulton and others are unopposed. Three candidates for City Manager will be interviewed Thursday. A $824 transfer from Zoning Studies to Highway and Sewer Department is approved.
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Harry E. Ring, Jr
White
Ring
Oulton
Lowell
Parker
Personnel Service Commission
McFadden
Bath Maine City Budget Message for 1955
City Manager presents Bath budget showing a larger total than last year but not as large as anticipated. He warns reductions should come from services not maintenance and emphasizes maintaining repairs to avoid higher future costs. The proposal includes about 27000 dollars for non recurring capital items and supports department recommendations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Council
Bath
Maine
City of Bath
Recreation Department
Budget highlights 1955 tax plan and projected levy
The budget calls for 716 865 55 to be raised by taxation with 902 polls at 3 00 each 8 706 00 and 708 159 55 to be raised from personal property and real estate tax Based on 1954 valuations 10 909 625 plus 116 000 increase the expected valuation is 11 025 625 yielding a 64 23 mill levy to cover the budget.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Les Steins
Garden Clubs Exhibit Set for April 6 at Orono
Garden Federation of Maine plans a Flower Exhibit on Garden Federation Day April 6 during Farm and Home Week at the University of Maine. Exhibits require no judging and will be displayed in three divisions in the university library. Mrs. Donald W. Tozier of Augusta leads the event with help from Bangor and Brewer clubs. Reservations for the dinner on April 5 must be made by March 28.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garden Club Federation of Maine
University of Maine
Federation
John Parker
Bath
Donald W. Tozier
Davenport Street
Augusta
University Library
Tozier
Parker
Bangor
Brewer
Balentine Hall
U. of M
Garden Federation Executive Board
Arthur H. Colby
Academy Street
Slides On Indian Mission Shared At Winter Street Club
The Rev Robert Frazier of the Wiscasset Episcopal church presented slides and spoke on his missionary work with American Indians at a couples club meeting on Winter Street. A covered dish supper for 20 couples was hosted by Mr and Mrs Wallace Gower and others with St Patrick’s day decorations and a busy program committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Frazier
Wiscasset Episcopal Church
Winter Street Church
Wallace Gower
William Gove
Manley Grant
Loring Addison
George Barker
Horace Morse
Robert Brownell
Carl Offermann
Harold Colbeth
Wallace Ham
Bernard Knight
Harry Ring, Jr
Merritt Shea
Union Bridge Mothers Club Plans April Public Supper
Union Bridge Mothers' club met Friday at the home of Mrs. Carolyn Stilphen with Mrs. Lorraine Stilphen presiding in the absence of Mrs. Gladys Small. They tentatively planned an April public supper and shared a social evening with refreshments. Attendees included Mrs. Dorothy Rattleff, Mrs. Gladys Hathorne, Mrs. Sylvia Hathorn, Mrs. Eleanor Jameson, Mrs. Lorraine Stilphen, and Mrs. Carolyn Stilphen. A note on frying safety advised using a kettle of adequate size and not filling it beyond two thirds, plus adding fresh fat when reusing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Josephine Pinkham
Social Eight Club
Court Street
Dinin
Phyllis Dauphin
Susie Darrah
Viola Melzard
Lucile Stilphen
Mary Stover
Pinkham
Union Bridge Mothers’ Club
Carolyn Stilphen
Lorraine Stilphen
Gladys Small
Dorothy Rattleff
Gladys Hathorne
Sylvia Hathorn
Eleanor Jameson
Renlana
Train Tickets To Waterville Now Available
Tickets for a special Saturday evening Bath to Waterville train and return for the Morse Bangor State championship game go on sale at the Maine Central Railroad ticket office. Sales run 7 am to 12 noon and 1 to 4 pm through Friday, with a 400-ticket minimum. if met, sales continue Saturday. Lunches provided. student tickets $2 and adult $2.75 round trip tax included.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Waterville
William Milliken
Milliken
Maine Central Railroad
Ex-Gov Cross Files Libel Suit Against Papers
Former governor Burton M Cross sues Guy Gannett Publishing Co for 100000 libel over a Jan 1 story about his relations with the state Liquor Commission. The suit targets Portland Press Herald Daily Kennebec Journal Augusta Waterville Morning Sentinel. Cross had protested the piece and the papers printed his statement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Guy Gannett Publishing Co
Burton M. Cross
Peter M. Damborg
Cross
State Liquor Commission
Portland Press Herald
Kennebec Journal
Augusta
Waterville
Dentists and Doctors Earn Modest Incomes in Early 20th Century
The Twentieth Century Fund reports dentists running their own practices in the United States averaged net incomes of 7820 dollars yearly before taxes while physicians averaged 13432 dollars. The figures reflect earnings before tax across small private practices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Twentieth Century Fund
Beacon Hill Origin of Boston Name Traced to Warning Beacon
The Beacon Hill neighborhood name reflects an early practice of maintaining a warning beacon on the hill to signal danger. This lighted beacon helped alert residents and travelers to approaching threats in the colonial era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Beacon Hill
Foreclosure Notice in Sagadahoc County Maine 1955
State of Maine March 8 1955 Sagadahoc refers to Jeannetta M Lounsberry of Phippsburg and a mortgage deed from November 12 1957. Charles S Gomes as holder claims foreclosure on a described Phippsburg parcel after breach of mortgage terms. Includes exceptions to premises and prior deeds. Signed by Charles S Gomes and sworn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sagadahoc
Jeannetta M. Lounsberry
Phippsbore
Sagaahoc
Maine
Charles S Gomes
Phippsburg
Sivadahoc
Gordon Preble
Herbert W. Cutting
Kiscre
York
Arles Gomes
Randall F Wallace
Sagadshor
Charles Gomes
Treman Gomes
Charles
Gomes
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Lila Place
Garden Club
Langan-Hutchins
Wee
Orono
Union Bridge Club
GOV. Cross
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