Bath People Prepare for Defiance Cup Defender Launch
Bath items describe preparations for the new cup defender Defiance with Capt Howell as sailing master and Commodore Clarke of Philadelphia arriving to join the syndicate. Designers say the vessel will launch early May as Hyde Windlass Works builds a 18 ft 8 in diameter propeller wheel and crews work around the clock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silas B. Joe Eelands
N. J
Howell
E. Walter Clarke
Philadelphia
George M. Pynchon
New York
Bathay
George Owen
Hyde Windlass Works
Richmond to reconsider Bay Bridge action at town meeting
A Richmond report urges reversing a town meeting decision on the Bay Bridge project. The piece argues for comity and county benefit, noting the county’s strong stance and calling for the town to act in concert with wider interests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond Way
Richmond
Bath merchants deck streets for St Patrick displays
Bath merchants highlight St Patrick's Day windows in Smith and Shaw stores with green artistic displays. Bath Marine Construction Co. reports strong orders at King's Dock as new ships near launch. Local fund for attracting industries grows slowly due to public indifference. Parents and Teachers plan a Bath school children association to connect homes and schools. A real estate sale at Turner Street in West Bath transfers to Henry Cotteau for a future home. River ice covers the harbor Wednesday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smith
Shaw
Fred Reed
Turner
Middle Street
Henry Cotteau
West Bath
City hastens mayoral inauguration and aldermen select
March 13 report details the upcoming 10 o clock Monday inauguration of Mayor elect Arthur J. Dunton and the new Board of Aldermen. It notes seats filled by ladies, mentions city clerk A. J. Grassy’s re election, and cites comments on canal tariffs and local civic plans amid a broad Maine coastal scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur J. Dunton
A. J. Grassy
City Council Meeting Noted March 15 1914
City Council proceedings from March 15 1914 outline local governance actions and scheduled decisions. Officials discuss ordinances, public notices, and administrative matters affecting the town.
Bath Chronicle Briefs March 16 1914
Foreman H O Richardson injured when his $500 colt fell in a hole while driven in Phippsburg. He suffers a lame shoulder and shock but is recovering. Mrs S D Bailey pays $100 for four shares in Bath Industrial stock to Hon E W Hyde. Margaret Torrey, daughter of Hon Joseph Torrey, is Bath’s sole student at Wellesley in Fiske Hall junior year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. O. Richardson
The
Iron Works
Phippsburg Way
S. D. Bailey
Margaret Torrey
Joseph Torrey
Bath
Wellesley
Fiske Hall
Pine Tree State Seed Co Releases Notable Annual Catalogue
The Pine Tree State Seed Co in this city distributes an attractive annual catalogue crafted by the Times printing department. Credit goes to Major William Kimball, a practical manager whose long labor and straightforward dealings have built the company’s reputation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pine Tree State Seed Co
Times’ Printing Department
William Kimball
Local Notes From Bath and Nearby Communities
Pine Tree State Seed Co. claims leadership in New England. Hutchins returns from Newport to join Sobace hospital ship in Mexico. Postmaster Pond and family settle at 935 Middle Street. Welterweight bout planned in Columbia Theatre between Cracker Jack Butler and Young Jordan. date to be announced. O'Brien family heads to San Diego for a month long vacation. Chamber desks financed by late Mayor Wakefield. Method Laundry upgrades equipment for quality work. Capt Oliver sends coal samples from Popham Beach to Washington. one lump football sized. Marius Page exits Y M C A Waterville post to join his father in Bath and plans Bowdoin studies. Mrs Lucy Pike takes position with W F Senter Brunswick after stints with G A Tuttle Co and Parker Co Bath and R H Stearns Boston.
Bath citizens debate school funding and tuition pupil impact
George Baer Connard and Clarabell Quick Connard urge careful review of new teacher needs for Bath Junior and Senior Highs during 1953 54. They question tuition pupil admissions from West Bath and the resulting capital costs of 59.19 per child for 1954 55 and request state education data.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath
Commissioner of Education
State of
Maine
George Baer Connard
Clarabell Quick Connard
Birth of Harry Warren Halterman III at Walter Reed
Word received of the birth of a son to 2nd Lieut. and Mrs. Harry Warren Halterman at Walter Reed hospital on Tuesday. The baby is named Harry Warren Halterman III. Lieut. Halterman is stationed at Fort Benning, Georgia, and Mrs. Halterman has been staying with her mother, Mrs. Edson Whitehurst, and Captain Kaarg at Georgetown, D. C.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Warren Halterman
Walter Reid Hospital
Halterman
Fort Benning
Edson Whitehurst
Ka Arg
Georgetown
Arthritis survivor offers personal relief cure claim
The writer describes being restored to active life after severe rheumatoid arthritis and rheumatism left hands deformed and ankles stiff. They promise to reveal how they achieved relief if you write, stating immediate reply.
City Council Begins Deliberations on Annual Budget
The Bath city council held a three hour first session to review the 1954-55 appropriation bill aiming to cut items sufficient to avert a nine mill tax increase. Assessors and Recreation commission discussed requests. some cuts totaling 1517.70 were approved, including trimming assessor pay and clerk costs and removing a cemetery chapel tent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Assessors
Recreation Commission
Bath
Ernest G. Kingsbury
Dike
Hyde Park
Perry
Lambert Park
Huse
Edward J. McMann
Recreation Department
Harold J. Rubin
Philip H. Oliver
Oliver
Board of Education
Stanley R. Hunter
Probate Court Notice of Estates and Hearings in Bath
Notice to interested parties for probate in Bath County outlines March 1954 hearings. Estates include Bowker Doyle Gordon Madden Moses Scott and McKay with executors and appointees named. Also pardon petition for Hollis D Henscom set for April 8 1954 in Augusta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grandee
Bath
Lucy C. Green
Lucy M. Green
Lucey C Green
Lucy M Green
Frank D Scott
Phippsbore
Myra E. Scott
Myra E Scott
Nellie McKay Thayer
Elizabeth McKay
Arthur Udge
Attech
State OF Maine
Anensta
Hollis D Henscom
Beth
Augusta
Dorothy Weeks Hosts Contract Club Luncheon at Home
Miss Dorothy Weeks entertained her contract club with a luncheon at her Middle street home on Wednesday noon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy Weeks
Middle Street
Foreclosure Notice In Bath Maine 1954 Mortgage Breach
Alice May Blair of Bath Sagadahoc County Maine faces foreclosure by First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Bath due to breach of mortgage condition on real estate described in deed from 1932 and quit claim from 1945. Foreclosure action dated February 25 1954 with public record details and boundary description included.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice May Blair
Bath
Sagadahoc
State of Maine
Federal Savings and Run Association of Bath
State of
Maine
Mrs. Knight
Cummings
Knight
Charles Cox
Cox
S. S. Jordan
Jordan
Mark Chick
First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Bath
Jank Hunt
First
Federal Savings and Loan Association of Bath
J Frank Hunt
Probate Notices of Executors and Administrators Named
Lists estates in Bath Kingston and Maine with appointed executors and guardians. Warren Fitch estate executrix named February 24 1954 Mary A Welch estate probate John P Carrey appointed February 24 1954 Winifred B Wardwell estate Allan Spear appointed February 24 1954 Elizabeth Alton estate Kingston New Hampshire Arthur E Alton appointed executor Maine March 2 1954.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. Healter
Gadaho
Ge Sinema
Warren Fitch
Bath
Mary A Welch
John P Carrey
Winifred B. Wardwell
Allan Spear
Elizabeth Alton
Kingston
New Hampshire
Arthur E Alton
Maine
Morse High School Wins annual Morse cheerleading tourney
Lewiston area Morse High School won the annual cheerleading tournament held in Morse gymnasium with eight schools competing including Boothbay Harbor Brunswick Mexico Rockland and Scarborough. Judges evaluated appearance teamwork timing and leadership as teams performed an extra cheer after a close vote to determine final placements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewiston
Morse
Morse Ing
Old Orchard
Sighey Od
Aterville High Schoo
Boothbay Harbor
Brunswick
Mexico
Rockland
Scarborough
Jude Ing
Marilyn Brown
Akien
Voles Clark
Adena Smith
Gloria Witham
Morse Facilty
Robert Frink
Bob Frink
Poea Wetherbee
M Nba
Raymond
Balloons Released at Rochester Grocery Reach Sundridge Shore
A line of nine toy balloons washed ashore on Lake Bernard in Sundridge Ontario. An attached card tied to a balloon release indicated they were giveaways from a Rochester Minnesota grocery store over 650 miles away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sundridge
Lake Bernard
Isobel Brimacombe
Rochester
Minn
Probate notices from Bath and Georgetown courts
A mounted set of probate entries and petitions from Bath and Georgetown, listing estates of Byron F Barker, Mary Hall Rhodes, William Hall, Ida Hinckley, Sarah J Hitchcock, Dora L Howard, Flora B Savage, and others. Includes accounts, administrators, guardians, adoptions, licenses to sell real estate, and dates for hearings in April 1954. multiple minors and executors named, with court actions and appointment requests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sneadahar
Nati
Sires
Bath
Byron F. Barker
Ba Company
Mikived T.wright
Florence F. Ant
Florence F. T
Win
U. Gilman
Frances V. Day
W Guy Green
Harry Edwarden
James DeCapua
Esley Guy Green
Wesley G. Green
Ou Renee Eaereypousa
Wesey G. Green
Wesley Guy DeCapua
Edna DeCanen
Geraldine DeCapua
Mae
Neat Hall
Ath
Bath Trust Company
Mary Hall Rhodes (Jackson
Mary Hall Sparrowe
William T. Hall
Lille M. Leonard
Ida. Hinckley
Georgetown
Vesta Ewe
Sarah J Hitchcock
Catharine M. Hitchcock
Dora L. Howard
Bath ‘Ust Company
Unnewell
Woolwich
Flora O W
Daisy V. Elwell
el A Noughton Fickaten
James A. McLellan
Flora B. Savage
Melvin H. Savage
Guardian
Pyle Estate
C. A
Ruth Decker
Hume
Mary B Williams
Williams
John H Williarfia
J .B. Yates
Garet Yates
Marga
Yates
Praro
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bath Daily Times
City Scales
Phippsburg
Bowdeinham
Popham
Small Point
Ham
Yesterda
Frank Starkey
W. E. Chase Co
Paden
Bath Iron Works
Frank Young
Chase's
Gardiner Rogers
Clyde McKinnon
Lewis H. Goward
Delaware
Boston
Porto Rico
Camp Midget
Board of Highways and Sewers
James P. Ledyard
Front Street
June Rideout
Profesekmel
Edward Sewall
General Electric Corporation of
L. Mass
Pacific Coast
Williams, Diamond, Co
San Francisco
Sewall
Mark W. Sewall
Susan
Amy
Alice
Annie Shaw
Ruth Thompson
Sydney Potter
Ruth Turner
Polar Star Lodge No. 114
Fordeacon
Loren M. Smith
Wallace
City Hall Corner
Walker Hill
Nelson
Joseph Oliver
Bath Marine N Co
Rece R
York Street
Morse High School
Kenneth Weeks
Charles Firard
Secler
Columbia
Clarence A. Reed
J. T. Bonney
Hyde Windlass
William Lane
Wallace Atwood
Horace Morse
Harold Cutting
Times
Common Sense
Ivon House
New Meadows
Colonial Club
Calumet Club
North Enders
E. S. Thompson
Charles Wee
Bath Marine Construction Co
King’s Dock
Megraven
Lincoln County
John S. Hyde
Panama Canal
Pres- Taft
America
Mrs. See Curent Eres
Frederick Lowell
Bish
Randall Leonard
Samuel Anderson
Anna
Pejepscot
Portland
Nova Scotia
John R. Knowlton
Board of Overseers of the Poor
George M. Sanford
Center
Lincoln Streets
Lincoln Street
Epi
England
Scotland
Ireland
Kennebec
Maine Water Co
Virginia
Down River
Round House
Dingley
Kennebec Yacht Club
Hallowell
Cedar Grove
Owen Ledyard
K. Y. C. House
Anchorage Grounds
City Hospital
J. Edward Drake
Pleasant Point
St. John
Ray Parker
Ferdinando Gorges
New England
C. Leroy Hutchins
Newport
U. S
Sobace
William F. Pond
William Leydon
This City
Columbia Theatre
Cracker Jack Butler
Brockton, Mass
Young Jordan
William J. O’brien
J. Wilson
San Diego
Calif
Aldermanic
James W. Wakefield
Method Laundry
Anson Oliver
the Times
Washington
Geological Survey
Marius H. Page
Waterville
Bowdoin
Page
Waterville Sentinel
Lucy Pike
W. F. Senter
Pike
G. A. Tuttle Co
Walter O. Parker Co
Batham
R. H. Stearns
Connard
Lela S. Wier
Arbor Hills Drive
P. O. Box
Jackson 7
Mississippi
William E. Milliken
George Perry
Pforate Notices
Lillian H Wear
Lillian H. Heal
Register
Lallian
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