Malcolm, Parker Head native, dies in Salem at 74
Charles R. Malcolm, chief engineer at Salem High School, died at his Northern Avenue home after weeks of illness. A Parker Head native born 74 years ago, he left a widow Janet, two sons, three daughters, and seven grandchildren. His seafaring career included command of several British steamers and service as chief engineer on ocean liners before joining the Salem High School in 1900. He endured a Haiti crisis aboard the American steamer Haytian Republic, where he helped protect crew and machinery before the vessel was damaged and sold at a loss.
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Charles R. Malcolm
Salem High School
Northern Avenue
Parker Head
Janet
Docican Malcolm
Mr. Malcolm
Mason Street
Salem
Honolulu
Yokohama
Chile
Montana
Bath
San Francisco
Portland
Oregon
Pacific Coast
Cape Horn
North
South America
St. Johnns
Newfoundland
Sitka
Alaska
West Indies
Cuba
China
Japan
Haiti
Legitime
Hippolite
Malcolm
Haytian Republic
Haytian
Boston
Vort Au Prince
United States
Nouvellvoldrody
Morse High Honor Roll Pupils Named by Class
The Morse High School lists merit pupils by class with highest honors and honors for freshmen through post graduates. Notable names include Winnifred Aderton Edith Gotte Sophie Greenblatt Delia Cloutier Minnie Brown Ruth Waryant Harry Vinson and many others across freshmen to post graduates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morse High
Winnifred Aderton
Edith Gotte
Sophie Greenblatt
Edna Hallowell
Mildred Hooper
Amy Irish
Elizabeth McGrath
John Newell
Esther Petlock
Carolyn Plant
Silas Plant
Charlotte Pottle
Phyllis Wright
Roland Trott
Margaret Wheelock
Mary Bryant
Thelma Turleigh
Gertrude Carlton
Jane Edgecomb
Neal Fogg
Duncan Farrell
John Gaudet
Julia Hathorne
Raymond Hathorne
Muriel Howe
Helen Johnson
Thomas Jahson
Russell Kenney
Edward Lee
Marjorie Legard
William Lundrigan
Charles Maxwell
Eda Mercer
Josephine Munsey
Kenneth Orr
Mary Philpot
Gladys Spinney
Courtney Stover
Dorothy Sturmer
Russell Sturmer
Mary Twomey
Sevina West
Emery Wilson
Frances Young
Mary Lawrence
Stanley Clough
Delia Cloutier
Tenry DeLong
Dorothy Smith
Dorothy Thompson
Marjorie Troop
Carolyn Turner
Marie Ayer
Adele Burton
Isabelle Burns
Howard Bates
Annie Chandler
Helen Conley
Eleanor Danforth
Elizabeth Deering
Clarence Eaton
Corrine Fortier
Dernice Gilley
John Hamilton
Fred Wart
Emma Harvey
Hazel Hatch
Mark Hayes
James Jackson
Natalie Jeddrey
Richard Johnson
Frances
Winifred Kennerson
Isabelle Lewis
John Leonard
Evelyn Lord
Donald McRae
Amanda Munsey
Lillian Leeman
Muriel Ayer
Isabel Vaissey
Evelyn Petlock
Mildred Wreble
Elizabeth Rolfe
Helen Safford
John Sheldon
Muriel Spinney
Thelma Staples
Clira Stover
Kathryn Thompson
Hazel Wakefield
Grace Winchenbaugh
Edna Wright
Katherine Donnell
Carl Oliver
William Oliver
Ruby Fullerton
John Roberts
Ruth Waryant
Adelaide Campbell
Mary O'Donnell
Mary Paine
Helen Rogers
Elsie Trott
Alice Whalen
Alice Arsenault
Eleanor Blake
Evelyn Burgess
Virginia Clark
Sidney Cullen
Beatrice Duprey
Francis Duprey
Marion Fuller
Helen Furber
Kathryn Galvin
Alfred Gannon
Doris Genthner
Beatrice Goddard
Gordon Harrington
Helen Hayes
Priscilla Hodge
Mildred Hope
Fernando Hutchins
Earl Kennerson
Florentine Kapowlton
Agatha Lennox
Katherine Lennox
Gertrude Maxwell
Louise Munsey
Ray Rice
Cecelia Richards
Elizabeth Robbins
Susie Robbins
Carolyn Rogers
Shirley Shepard
Marion Skinner
Doris Soule
Harold Safford
Louise Stewart
Richard Stinson
Elwood Toothaker
Lauriston Trott
Vansy Ward
Mabel Whitten
Donald Wilson
Eleanor Webster
Wendall Williams
Redington Reed
Harry Vinson
Edwin Spaulding
Lloyd Hooker
Pauline McDonald
Donis Morse
Gertrude Milliken
Hilelen Harvey
George Scudder
Mary Gotte
Cunningham Dies in Woodlot Accident Near Boothbay
Donald Cunningham age 24 of Boothbay died after a circular saw accident while sawing skids for moving a building. His brother Guy stopped the saw and helped. he died at City hospital about four. Funeral privacy held at parental home Ocean View burial. He leaves a wife, three children, parents, three brothers and one sister.
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Donald Cunningham
Boothbay
City Hospital
E. J. Hutchinson
Boothbay Harbor
Charles R. Cunningham
Ocean View
Cunningham
Guy
Sagadahoc Court Adjourns After Ten Day Term
The October term of the Sagadahoc Supreme Court adjourned after a ten day session presided by Chief Justice Scott Wilson. Defendants faced fines for lobster possession and peddling hot frankfurts. A string of divorces was granted and a mistrial was declared in State versus Greenleaf, with case moved to the January term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sagadahoc Supreme Court
Scott Wilson
Wesley Wallace
Phippsburg
Municipal Court
Wallace
Edward W. Bridgham
Bath
David Finklestein
John E. Gowen
Gladys L. Gowen
James C. Gowen
Gladys E. McLellan
Amory P. McLellan
Hazel M. Richardson
Richmond
Edwin M. Richardson
George Cook Stacey
Whippsburg
Marguerite A. Stacey
William G
Edward J. Stacey
Inez M. O'Neil
Topsham
James A. O'Neil
Grice McGarity
Ralph McGarity
Ida M. Field
Charles A. Field
George D
Ruth Field
Hazel M. Presby
Woolwich
Bernard H. Presby
Norma Louise
Emma A. Bishop
Thomas A. Bishop
Ella M. Coulombe
Adelard Coulombe
Gross
Donald E. Coulombe
Libellant
Elsie Mae Rose
Ray E. Rose
Harriett L. Rose
Edith M. Hagan
Herbert F. Hagan
Edith M. Morse
State
Scott K. Greenleaf
Kagadahoc Supreme Court
Greenleaf
Walter Dingley
Vine Street
Wilson
George W
Spider) McLean
Grand
McLean
John Rucker
Henry Gedman
Smaller Apple Crop Reported This Year
The United States Department of Agriculture notes per capita apple consumption is about half an apple daily. The total crop reaches 164 million bushels vs 179 million last year, with strong quality offsetting some loss. Commercial crop 30.134 million barrels, up from 28.587 million. Northwest shipments peak as federal inspections rise over last year.
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United States
United States Department of Agriculture
Northwest
Boothbay Harbor Road Added to State Highway System
The State Highway Commission voted to add the Edgecomb to Boothbay Harbor road to the state system. This coastal route serves as the main thoroughfare to the Summer resort and figures in debates about a bay crossing from Wiscasset to Davis Island. Reverend Weston Holman officiated Frank Cowan’s funeral in Oakland on Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Highway Commission
Edgecomb
Boothbay Harbor
Wiscasset
Davis Island
Bath and Rockland
Castine
Oway
Weston I’. Holman
Oakland
Frank
Cowan
Highway marker thefts prompt warning from Maine Highway Commission
The Maine Highway Commission reports widespread approval for its 7500 route markers but notes ongoing thefts. Eleven signs were removed in a single day between Hallowell and Brunswick with repeat thefts in several towns. The department warns perpetrators and cites new luminous signs and a York county theft case leading to a 60 day jail sentence.
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The
Highway Commission
Maine
Maine Publicity Bureau
Maine Automobile Association
State Highway Commission
United States
Commission
Hallowell
Brunswick
Augusta
York County
State Highway Police
Transformation Underway at Bath Opera House
Workmen rebuild the Bath Opera House after a March 1925 fire. The project adds a concrete foundation two new exits and widened floor exits two dressing rooms and new two-screen projection systems. A New York firm will reseat the theater with a 1200 capacity and a December opening targeted by Manager Huse.
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Bath Opera House
New England
Center Street
Bath
New York
Nouth
Washington Street
Huse
Halloween party entertains PTA room guests on Washington
Miss Carolyn Vlant and four other young women hosted a Halloween sheet and pillow slip party in the PTA rooms on Washington street. After the march unmasked, attendees enjoyed games stunts fortune telling and music with ice cream and cake. Prize winners included Elizabeth Deering Theodore Veilleux and Jack Wilson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carolyn Vlant
Edna Hallowell
Mildred Hunt
Elizabeth Deering
Phyllis Wright
Parent-Teachers Association
Washington Street
Jack Wilson
Raymond Small
Theodore Veilleux
Winifred Aderton
Elizabeth McGrath
Muriel Howe
Jessie Colby
Irene Coombs
Madeline Coombs
Elivor Coombs
Isabel Paisley
Josephine Hamblen
Annie Chandler
Dorrce Campbell
Lelia Thornton
Josephine Munsey
Serving West
Charlotte Tuttle
Edna Potter
Margaret Chaney
Susie Robbins
Thelma Rich
Carolyn Plant
Silas Plant
William Oliver
Charles McDonald
Emery Wilson
Mark Jackson
Lloyd Hooker
Wilbur Oliver
James Jackson
Donald Stewart
Victor Paquet
Fernando Hutchins
Hudson Fowles
Linwood Russell
Clifford Russell
Harry Pinson
Harry McIntire
Carroll A. Deering
John H. Hunt
J. F. Hallowell
C. A. Plant
E. R. Wright
Board votes support for World War II memorial and school funds
The Board of Education voted moral support for raising funds for a World War II veterans memorial connected to the high school. It approved $100 for Allan Spear for girls basketball equipment and personal services, elected Nancy Creamer as teacher, and approved a $1 007.95 roll of accounts. Most members attended. Rev. Samuel A. Evans was absent. Mayor Cahill attended for the first time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Education
Allan Spear
Nancy Creamer
Nobleboro
Mitchell
Langdon T. Snipe
Furber
Committee On Accounts
Samuel A. Evans
Charles H. Cahill
Additional Divorce Decrees Granted in Sagadahoc Court
Chief Justice Scott Wilson signed multiple divorce decrees from the Sagadahoc superior court. Bessie J. MacInnis of Bowdoinham divorced Joseph F. MacInnis over extreme cruelty and custody of Leona E. and Roy F. and Harold G.. Annie E. Chapman of Richmond divorced J. Blanchard Chapman for intoxication, Chapman to resume her maiden name Annie E. Burnham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott Wilson
Sagadahoc Supreme Court
Bessie J. MacInnis
Bowdoinham
Joseph F. MacInnis
Leona E
Roy F
Harold G
Annie E. Chapman
Richmond
J. Blanchard Chapman
Annie E. Burnham
Auto crash kills Phipsburg painter Ernest Haskell
Ernest Haskell 49 renowned painter and etcher died from injuries after his car went off a narrow windy road near West Point. A 14 year old passenger assisted in moving the car. Haskell died en route to Bath City hospital. He leaves a widow two sons and two daughters. The accident is under investigation by local police.
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Ernest Haskell
West Point
York Beach
Haskell
Brit
Roscoe Verkins
Green
Police
Bath
Woodstock
Conn
London
Paris
New York
California
Jail sentence for manslaughter in Rumford fatal car crash
Emery Budge of Rumford, formerly of Bath, died after a Bretton's Mills outing crash. Charles Albert Henry of Madison received eight months in Androscoggin county jail after pleading guilty to manslaughter for the automobile accident that shocked the community. Henry W. Oakes sentenced him on Saturday following the plea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emery Budge
Rumford
Bath
Charles Albert Henry
Madison
Androscoggin County
Auburn
Superior Court
Henry W. Oakes
Bretton’s Mills
Henry
McCarthy
Pomona Grangers Oppose Grade A Milk Proposals
Segaduhoe Pomona grange at its Oct 12 session with Bodwell grange unanimously opposed the proposed Grade A milk law. A referendum in December will determine opposition. A committee was formed to mobilize support against the act, which grangers call unjust and costly for consumers and producers alike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Segaduhoe Pomona Grange
Bodwell Grange
Small Point
Miles
Purington
West Bath
E. C. Patten
Topsham
Horace Marshall
Bowdoin
Pomona
Sagadahoc
Julia Johnson
Rieck
West Th G Range
William H. White
Harry Rackley
Fred A. Curtis
Bodwell
Lincoln Williams
Maine
William W. Hosmer
Fred Moseley
Fred Curtis
Lillian Hosmer
Emma Sylvester
Marrs Welcome Daughter Loraine Gertrude Marr
Cards from Mr and Mrs Chester N Marr Ashland New Jersey announce the birth of a daughter named Loraine Gertrude Marr. Mr Marr is a Bath boy and Mrs Marr formerly Miss Myrtle Todd of Philadelphia who has visited Bath frequently.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chester N. Marr
Ashland
N. J
Loraine Gertrude Marr
Marr
Bath
Halloween Surprise Honors Madelyn Summerton at Middle Street
A Halloween party Friday night at Madelyn Summerton’s Middle Street home featured games like peanut hunt won by Mary Tumey and pin the tail on the donkey won by Pauline Russell. Guests enjoyed a decorated dining room, cake and candy, and a surprise ring for the hostess.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madelyn Summerton
Middle Street
Mary Tumey
Pauline Russell
Exarh
Vessel William Thomas Grounded Near Gloucester in Gale
The two masted schooner William Thomas from Dresden Mills bound for New Bedford ran aground on Annisquam bar near Gloucester early Wednesday. The ship is leaking badly but considered not in immediate danger. It lost mainsail and foresail in recent heavy gales while crew assisted but the vessel pressed on. Sloop Albert King of Portland passed Bath on business.
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William Thomas
Dresden Mills
New Bedford
Gloucester
Annisquam Bar
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Everett
MORSE
Boothbay Harbor Road
Pomona Grangers
Dresden
Albert King of Portland
Johnson Brosco
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