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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1948
Page
4
Forty years ago in Bath details a village meeting at Woolwich with a harmony result listing moderator clerk selectmen and tax officers. mentions a union ball at Five Islands Rowe's hall event attendance and speeches plus club meetings and social visits in the town.
March 4 1908 reports Frank H Percy sold his 33 foot Swastika yacht to unknown parties while in California he plans a 40 foot boat this spring. March school board meeting ends with minor business and new board to organize March 16.
Fragmentary report notes a gun salute at noon from a device described as the lead event of a ceremony. Mentions directing figures and a janitor, with references to a death and a lengthy will of a spouse, leaving property and liabilities to be settled as published.
Community fund allocations include Patten Library and Central Congregational Church each earmarked $10,000 with other gifts for the Old Ladies' Home City of Bath and Aged Couples Home. Morse High faces Lewiston High at the Y M C A tonight in a much anticipated basketball clash followed by a dance in Music Hall. Tank Pond Land and Lumber Co incorporators form in Bath with Harold M Sewall as largest stockholder. Bath figures comment on Chester trials and Union prayer meeting plans.
March 8 1908 report notes the Swastika club arranging a dancing party at Music Hall with Gaudreau's orchestra to provide music and a large turnout expected. Nearby items recount a West Bath milk man defending himself with snowballs and multiple local notices including deaths and accidents.
An OCR fragment mentions a Wednesday event with mixed political involvement and a group of eight leaving for Melisthie and Popham. It references February 29 births not having another Feb 29 for 30 years and notes recent snow.
Ice on the river stands about a foot thick despite warm snaps and river pilots debate when Bath will open. local people travel for hospital visits and nursing training while sports results include Rockport beating Bath area teams 30 to 6 in Rockland Rockport. several social notes and club plans discuss yacht affairs and upcoming meetings.
Graydon J. Fowles now a student at the University of Maine Annex in Brunswick is on the dean's list for the first semester. He led Morse High School's senior class play and was honor essayist in his class. He won the Rensselaer Polytechnic prize for top math rank. He is the son of Dexter A. Fowles of Portsmouth and lives with his aunt and uncle, Mr and Mrs John F. Jackson of Wiscasset.
Probate docket lists wills filed and administrations granted in Bath and Richmond. Names include M Frank Biggins and Fred P Coulombe with executors named. executrices appointed without bond. administrators with will annexed named. and guardians and conservators referenced.
Petition for license to sell real estate filed in estate of Charlotte Anne Southard of Groton Connecticut presented by Mary Eleanor Southard.
In West Bath at the grange hall on Saturday the town elected its major officers. Selectmen Elmer Williams Edward Haggett and Alfred White. Clerk E K Thompson. Treasurer and elector Court ney Stover. Road commissioner Edward Haggett. School Board member Mrs Alice Small for a three year term. A good attendance. selectmen authorized to draft zoning ordinances for future presentation.
Mrs A Howard Mac Ronald of West Bath, formerly Lillian Woodside and J Everett Mayo’s widow, dies after a life of teaching, school leadership, church work, and Red Cross and WCTU service. Jeanne Elliott, longtime Summer resident at Foster's Point road, also dies.
Phippsburg notes show residents concerned as moose again on Elbridge Bowker property and fruit trees in Meadow Brook may be affected. Town reports reference fire protection talks by County Agent Eastman and road plowing after Monday snowfall. Personal items include Captain Perry's recovery, librarian Martha Williams’ return to work, and local visits and deaths shaping town activity.
Clarence G Casey and Clarisa G er of Woolwich Sagadahoc Maine conveyed land by deed of December 9 1946 recorded in the Sagadahoc County Registry. Mortgage condition breached prompting foreclosure claim on the parcel bounded by Vance Mathews land and a main road. State of Maine authority notes March 2 1948 sworn before notary Arriner By Rearing.
Residents share recent visits with neighbors in Dromore. The town considers bus transport from Center to Bath for students. The second annual Father and Son banquet is planned at Bodwell Grange Hall with men urged to bring boys. committees are named and meals organized.
Richmond high school banquet attendees Norris Sidelinger Jr Clifton Toothaker Earle Dick inson Lawrence Knight and Paul Madore attended as active bearers Staff Sgt Tilden Ferguson Akron Ohio accompanied the body from Schenectady New York Philip Densmore Robert Sidelinger Charles Dore Jr Albert Hanson and Charles Dowd aided in the procession to Evergreen cemetery with full military escort.
Edward P Favor died Friday after a heart attack. Funeral services were held Sunday from his Pleasant street home with Rev. A Allen Brough officiating. He was interred at Evergreen cemetery and will be taken to Mt Auburn cemetery in Cambridge for further interment. He was born January 24, 1875 in Cambridge and lived in Richmond 42 years. He is survived by his wife Alice M Oakes Favor.
Funeral services for Mrs. Annie G. Morang were conducted Saturday afternoon at Roberts funeral rooms with Rev. Allen Brough officiating. Bearers were William Meserve Charles Blake Carroll Clark and George Tibbetts. Burial was in Evergreen cemetery with plans for later interment in the family lot. Out of town attendees included numerous Griffins and Manthey from Portland Medford Holyoke Connecticut Lakeport Gorham Sabattus and other areas.
John L. Jack Probate registers notice listing appointed executors administrators and guardians for multiple estates in Bath Newton and Lewiston with dates near March 2 1948 and December 19 1926. Names include Lena C Shepard Yvonne LaRochelle Edmund I Leeds Gerald LaRochelle Oliver F Brown and others with bond qualifications and guardianship details.
Mrs. Louis A. Dole announces a nation wide Clothes for Ship project by the Girl Scouts to send one million garments to Europe and Asia. Bath troops aim to complete ten kits and five wardrobes by March 12 using donated coats, sweaters, and clothing for children ages one to fourteen.
At a late evening meeting in Grown Fire Bay the department elected Victor Pinkham as chief Harold Pinkham as chief Vernal Chaney as lieutenant Engine One Gilbert Standish as captain Andrew Rowe as assistant Engine Two William as secretary and treasurer Carr was named department mascot Joseph Higgins John and Russell Pinkham attended as guests MacMahan slated to leave Friday for the West received a sendoff Lt Chaney cited work with other departments a short hose work petition was also held The department owns a Toma 4 boat with a pump capacity and stationing at Harmons Harbor.
James Griffin Macher Mrs. Thomas Goan af ter N H Mrs rick of Lisbon Center pe Charles Douglass ot Gardiner.
A 1926 probate notice details an order to seal and publish for three weeks, naming Nellie Biggins executrix and Verne Bisgoen as regulator. It asks for license to sell real estate in Bath and Wiscasset Maine, presented by estate administrators and guardians.
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