Rod and Gun Club Banquet Showcases Debate on City Manager
The Rod and Gun Club held its annual banquet at Hotel Sedgwick with about 100 sportsmen, featuring a speaker from Maine Inland Fisheries and Game about deer and river pollution. A second debate at People's Church in Bath centered on adopting a city manager form of government, with ex Mayor Robert M. Jackson arguing for and Clyde E. Russell opposing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sedgwick
Sagadahoc Red, Gun & Skeet Association, Inc
Lester S. Brown
George J. Stobie
Maine Inland Fisheries and Game Department
Africa
Stobie
Mr. Brown
Maine
Brown
William T. Donnell
Donnell
Robert Morse
Saw
Samuel Morse
Arline Arsenault
Madelyn Jones
Mary Mulcahy
John J. Mulcahy
Jack
Beacon Oil Co
Hell
Bath
People’s Church
Robert M. Jackson
Waterville
Clyde E. Russell
Winslow High School
Donald N. Small
Harold P. Small
Men's Club of
George B. Wolstenholme
Jackson
Russell
Colby College
Warren E. Kershner
Earle P. Morse
Toulmin
Annual Encampment of G A R in Bath June
The State Grand Army of the Republic plans its possibly final encampment in Bath on June 14 to 16 under T. W. Hyde Camp Sons of Union Veterans. With most Maine Civil War veterans in their nineties, the event faces non certainty as to whether it will occur. Carroll Watson leads the fundraising committee and expects thousands to attend in the Shipping City, drawing descendants of veterans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Grand Army of the Republic
Bath
T. W. Hyde Camp
Sons of Union Veterans
Maine
Carroll Watson
Distinguished Bath Men Make History
Freeman H. Morse twice served in Congress Gen William King Maine’s first governor Admiral Charles F. Hughes headed U S Navy Operations Harold M Sewall served as U S minister to Hawaii Historic list highlights prominent Bath figures and their public roles across politics military and diplomacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freeman H. Morse
Congress
William King
Maine
Charles F. Hughes
U.S. Navy
Harold M. Sewall
U. S
Hawaii
Bath Seeks Bid To Move Old Ship Benjamin F Packard
Westchester County votes to advertise for bids to dispose of the Benjamin F Packard moored at Rye Playland since 1930. Built in 1883 at Bath Maine as a clipper type sailing ship, it later served as a lumber carrier and museum attraction before fading into mud and abandonment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Supervisors
Westchester County
Benjamin F. Packard
Playland
Rye
Board of Acquisition
Bath
New York
Pacific Coast
Panama Canal
American Art Association Anderson Galleries
Goss, Sawyer & Packard
United States
Maine
Cape Horn
Panamar Canal
San Francisco
Seattle
Hague Led Standard Oil Fleet Die at Ritz Tower in New York
Robert Lyons Hague 59, in charge of Standard Oil Co. marine department, died of a heart attack last week at his Ritz Tower apartment. He built the private oil tanker fleet to 205 vessels and 953,999 deadweight tons. Funeral held at the Church of the Transfiguration. Hague rose from deckhand to head of the fleet, joined Standard Oil in 1909, managed the fleet since 1920, and once ordered Esso Baytown to aid Imperial Airways Cavalier survivors in the Atlantic.
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Robert Lyons Hague
Marine Department
Standard Oil Co
New Jersey
Ritz Tower
Park Ave
Fifty-seventh Street
New York
Mr. Hague
United States
Kearny
N. J
Chester
Hague
MacMahan Island
Henry Hague
MacMahan
Nealbey
James F. Murphy
Joseph Sewall
Bath
Harry A. Nealley
Cambridge
Mass
Standard
Esso Baytown
Imperial Airways
Cavalier
Atlantic Ocean
Bermuda
Sixty Colonial Club Members Compete In Portland Tournament
An army of 60 colonial club members and participants visited Portland for the second half of their tournament with Woodford Club. Woodfords led 20 7 in bowling the first half, while 52 members were set to compete plus spectators. The event featured bowling billiards pool and card games with a 15 member bowling contingent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colonial Club
Portland
Woodfords
Shipping City
Woodford
Arthur L. Pratt
Horace Morse
Eddie Ramsay
Annual Y M C A Church League Banquet Closes Season
Rev Louis A Dole spoke to 150 at the Fourteenth Annual Y M C A Church Basketball League banquet detailing athletics as part of life, stressing balance with study. He warned against overemphasis and highlighted health, discipline, and teamwork as essential.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis A. Dole
Church of the New Jerusalem
Y Gymnasium
Yale
United States
Dole
Athens
Greece
P. M. Olm
Kennebec
Frank A. Vennett
Opera House
Timothy C. Maney
St. Mary's Church
Donald N. Small
Arthur Sewall
Carl Erlebach
Charles Plummer
Beacon
George McKellar
Central
George Moody
Elm
Clarence Gowen
Grace
James McQuarrie
St. Mary's
Clinton Child
Wesley
Harvie Frank E Harvie
Harvie
Ladies’ Auxiliary
William C. Perkins
Wilmer I. Voorhees
Grace Church
Georgetown Lady to Exhibit at New England Flower Show
Maine featured exhibitor Mrs. R M Newman of Georgetown curates a 70-species moss display, among the show’s main draws including Gardening Down the Ages and a New England House and Garden. Governor Barrows may attend with a Maine Garden Club Federation delegation at Mechanics Building Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State of Maine
New England
Massachusetts Horticultural Society
Mechanics Building
Boston
Edwin S. Webster
Lewis O. Barrows
Garden Club Federation of
Maine
William Sim
North Berwick
Mainé
Abba Coe
Garden Club Federation of Maine
Newman
Georgetown Island
Firemen Called Out By Two Slight Blazes
Fire in the shed behind the Nye residence at 902 High Street called the department at 11:20 PM. The fire was stubborn but did not reach the main house. cause undetermined. Signal cleared at 12:10 AM. Engine 4 responded at 9:45 PM to a supposed major fire at ex-Alder man Morris S. Povich’s home at 980 Middle Street. it proved to be a rubbish fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Street
Norman F. Nye
Morris S. Povich
Middle Street
Mr. Povich
Public beaches plan gained bipartisan support in legislature
Representative Justus H Miller of Bath proposes a recess committee to study acquiring property for public bathing beaches. Backers include former Senator Paul Slocum of Sebago Senator Boucher and Rep. Lyle M. Snow with no opposition noted. Portland visitor Sheldon Bragdon was in town Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justus H Miller
Bath
Paul Slocum
Sebago
Boucher
Lyle M. Snow
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ROD and Gun Club
Arthur L. Plant
Wendall B. Heal
Capt
Walter L. Elliot
Daniel E. Hall
Edward E. Sonia
Pres. Donnell
G.A.R
Henry Tallman
Amos Nourse
Col. Dummer Sewall
William L. Putnam
Circuit Court
Marine Museum
Kennebec Marine Museum
White Plains
N. Y
New York Herald-Tribune
Robert L. Hague
Standard Oil
Lincoln
R. “Maret
John McCole
Donald Wilson
Howard Mayo
Paol
Dave Black
Mark Hayes
Paul Davis
Alfred Parks
Frank Churchill
Eugene Desmond
George Merritt
Everett Neal
Frank Turner
Daniel Williams
Paul Gregware
John Hayes
Alice Josett
Don Jewett
Dudley Leavitt
John Levyn
Dave Mullin
Charles Parks
Raymond Parks
Francis Parry
Arthur Pratt
John Sanborn
Elwood Toothaker
Francis Winchenbach
Carl Dearborn
William Dennison
Dwight Pierce
Dick Hersom
Everett Pierce
Melvin Haggett
Joseph McCole
Alden Smith
Joan Parker
C. A. Berry
Edward Sewall
Harry Day
Edwin Andrews
Billy Adams
Marius Page
Harold Brown
Milton Trott
Warren Hawley
Harold Footer
Alex Burden
Emery Footer
Allan Spear
Clint Wilson
Mr. B
Mr. A
Mr. Dole
Yale University
Georgetown
Sheldon Bragdon
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