Arrowsic Bridge To Be Replaced By Steel Structure
The Arrowsic Georgetown span over Back River will be replaced by a modern steel bridge with concrete abutments under the National Recovery Secondary Highway Project NRS 154. Bids to Maine State Highway Commission due by 10 a.m. November 22. two bids expected for substructure and steel superstructure. projected work includes substantial concrete, ledge excavation, and fill with minimum wage rates set.
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Back River
Arrowsic
Georgetown
Maine State Highway Commission
Arrowsie
Highway Commission
Runaway Dodge Damages Olympia Spa Front
A riderless Dodge coupe owned by Samuel Fortin crashed into the Olympia Spa on Center street damaging east and west windows. Fortin, who had started the car, jumped on the hood to avoid being struck. Total damage estimated near $1,000.
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Olympia Spa
Samuel Fortin
Middle Street
Center Street
Spa
Fortin
Center Street Market
Olympia
Maine Highway Commission to Buy Land for Vine Street Widening
The Maine State Highway Commission will pay Rep. W. C. Oliver 7250 dollars for a land strip on Vine street between Water and Washington and 2000 dollars to the Maine Central Railroad for a strip near Washington to widen Vine street as an approach to the Carlton bridge. Earlier complaints cited traffic congestion on the short widening. No Bath-Brunswick highway decision yet. Mrs Archibald M Main leaves for Groton to attend her niece’s wedding.
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Maine State Highway Commission
W. C. Oliver
Vine Street
Water
Washington Streets
Maine Central Railroad
Washington Street
Carlton Bridge
Water Street
Bath-Brunswick
Brunswick Town Hall
Archibald M. Main
Middle Street
Groton
Conn
Morse Captain Races 60 Yards To Beat Brunswick
Ernie Sarkis, Morse captain, raced 60 yards on the 40 yard line to score the lone touchdown as Morse defeated Brunswick 6 to 0 on Armistice Day. Parks added a extra point, and Morse defensestopped Brunswick in the final period. The crowd of over 300 watched a chilly, hard fought game at Whittier field in Brunswick.
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Brunswick
Ernie Sarkis
Morse High
Brunswick High
Whittier Field
College Town
Morse
Bath
Chick” Pouliot
Sarkis
Heskett
Capt
Parks
Pouliot
Paul Stinson
Phil Oliver
Stan Curtis
Stubby King
Murray
Orange and Black
Maine Street
Bus and Auto Collide on Wiscasset Bridge
Michael Gottwell of Wiscasset was injured lightly when his eastbound Ford hit a Rockland to Portland Maine Central bus on the Wiscasset bridge Tuesday afternoon about 2 50. The driver said a second car parked on the bridge tried to pass and collided with the bus. Sortwell received concussion and facial cuts, treated by Dr. DeForrest S. Day. The bus, not badly damaged, continued to Wiscasset with passengers sent by taxi to Portland as required for checks.
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Michael Gottwell
Wiscasset
Wiscasset Bridge
Rockland
Portland
Maine Central
Mr. Snow
Sortwell
Ford
DeForrest S. Day
Armistice Day Talks Liven Bath City Hall Program
About 250 people heard Armistice Day exercises at City Hall in Bath led by the Roland Smith Post American Legion. Rev Joseph O Purdue delivered a memorable address on peace, with remarks from Sumner Sewall and Mayor John A Lord.
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City Hall
Roland Smith Post
American Legion
Joseph O. Purdue
Winter Street
Sumner Sewall
Roland Smith
Sewall
Mayor Lord
Bath
America
Purdue
League of Nations
Mr. Purdue
United States
Church
David L. Wilson
Central Church
Roland Smith Post Hall
Old Folks Home donor visits Bath native Thomas G Plant
Thomas G Plant of Moultonboro NH visited Bath toons, touring the Old Folks Home he founded in 1917 with endowment. He praised its care, discussed admissions with Bath Trust Co directors, and noted the home aids aged poor. He toured, had lunch at the Colonial, and left around 2 30 p.m.
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Thomas G. Plant
Moultonboro
N. H
Plant
Lynn
Roxbury
Mass
United Shoe Machinery Co
South End
R. Percy
The
Bath Trust Co
Colonial
James O. Lincoln
Golden Wedding of Bath Couple
Mr and Mrs Alfred R Pratt of Bath celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary at home on Friday Nov 10 with children grandchildren readings by Rev Charles R Sims and daughter Miss M Helen Sims. Attendants served ice cream cake and punch. many relatives attended and gifts were exchanged.
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Alfred R. Pratt
Bedford Street
Charles R. Sims
First Baptist Church
M. Helen Sims
Annie Arline McCabe
Nathan J. Copeland
Portland
Nathan Jr
Paul
Janice
J. H. Thorburn
Priscilla
East Orange
Everett P. Messer
Percy Pratt
Pratt
the Times
Bath
Thomas H
Sarah J. Pratt
Hyde Windlass Co
Old North
Water Street
George W. Dean
Annie Temple
Samuel
Caroline Temple
T. F. White
Arthur P. Pratt
Hollis H. Pratt
South Portland
Percy A. Pratt
Henry O. McCabe
N. J
Arthur Pratt
City airs plan to sell or lease former shipyard site
The municipal committee on public buildings aims to sell for cash or lease for industrial use the former Kel ley Spear Co ship yard at the North end now vested in the city. The Board of Trade sees the site as a potential manufacturing location providing cash revenue. The panel also extended time to move the old Erudition school house and condemned a vacant dwelling at 1 Dummer Street.
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Municipal Committee On
Dyer-Flaherty Post, V. F. W
Brunswick Road
Cemetery and Park Board
Dummer
City to extend Morse High to 36 weeks for Class A rating
Finance committee heard 798 petitioners urging a two year plan to extend the school year from 32 to 36 weeks to preserve Morse High School Class A rating. Proposals included two week extensions this year and next, with a $1,200 cost for keeping schools open during a shortened Christmas break plus savings from reduced heating and lighting. The committee will report back at the December 6 meeting.
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Morse High School
Daniel T. Dougherty
Lord
John N. Taylor
Stanley M. Brown
Common Council
John W. Gilmore
Donald D. Young
John Hunt
South End P. T. A
Wilmer I. Voorhees
North Center
Hermon Crocker
Dike School
Henry W. Owen Jr
John C. Fitzgerald
Finance Committee
Bath youths to join 26th State Y conference at Lewiston Auburn
Twenty eight Bath youths and young men will attend the 26th annual State Y M C A Boys Conference at Lewiston and Auburn on November 17 to 19. The Bath group seeks higher attendance than last year and plans a 95 percent session attendance. A pre conference meeting is set for Wednesday at 2 16 PM at the Y M C A office. The delegation includes 28 Bath members from groups such as Y M C A Elm Winter and Beacon with multiple representatives from each.
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Y.M.C.A
Lewiston
Auburn
Bath
Wage conference of shipyard men discussed in Washington
The Bath Iron Works union representing ship fitters and others sought a $1.20 per hour wage for 30 hours weekly, citing code changes and weekly pay cuts. Three other eastern yards joined the Washington meeting, with representatives McDermott, McKenzie and Singler. The outcome hinges on a committee decision impacting Bath Iron Works and associated shipyards.
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Bath Iron Works Corp
Washington, D. C
East
New York Shipbuilding Co
Camden
N. J
Sun Shipbuilding Co
Chester
Bethlehem Steel Corp
Quincy
Mass
W. G. Mc
Roosevelt
Gen. Johnson
Archibald M. Main
Navy
Iron Works
Past Masters Night at Solar Lodge Crowns Father in Chair
The twenty third annual Past Masters night at Solar Lodge featured Karcher S. Jackson handing the chair to his father N Gratz Jackson a three decade master. Banquet precedes the meeting with 200 diners and 250 in attendance from lodges near and far including Portland Lewiston and Rockland. Master Mason degree conferred on two candidates as Solar quartet and E P Ackley provide music. Maine figures such as William King Samuel Adams Tileston Cushing and Levi Lemont figure in the lodge’s long line of notable masters. Continued on Page Five.
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Solar Lodge
Karcher S. Jackson
N. Gratz Jackson
Ladies of Genesta
Portland
Lewiston
Rockland
Grace
Joseph O. Purdue
Walter S. Glidden
Edwin H. P. Lowell
Sanford B. Nickerson
W. Scott Shorey
Oscar F. Williams
Langdon T. Snipe
Sylvester H. Rowland
Arthur E. Baum
Roy F. Shackford
David E. Rich
Harry E. Thompson
Vernon B. Lake
Tyler
Wro
Herbert L. Grinnell
Francis G. Cooke
Silver Springs
Solar Quartet
Ernest Wood
Chester Plant
Daniel Williams
Frederick Edney
E. P. Ackley
Brunswick
Maine
William King
Samuel Adams
Tileston Cushing
Nathaniel Coffin
Caleb Lincoln
Zina Hyde
David C. Magoun
Bath
Levi P. Lemont
Henry W. Rugg
Supreme Court of Massachusetts
Larkin Dunton
Old High School
Massachusetts
Horatio Duncan
John R. Knowlton
Howard B. Johnson
Walter S. Glioden
Henry R. White
Arthur J. Smith
W. Scott
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Woolwich
State Highway Commission
Toll House
Reed & Reed of
Lackawanna Steel Construction Corp
Buffalo
N. Y
Wilbur C. Oliver
Legion
Smith Post
Thomas G. Plant Motors
Old Home Town
Home
Kelley
Spear Yard
Davis Hatch
Dunlap A. Hatch
Needham
Davis Hatch, Jr
Clinton D. Wilson
Boston
New England
Caldwell Phillips
Wakefield
Thomas F. Brown
Ralph Card
Ymc.a
Gerald Carr
Douglas Crosby
Carl Dearborn, Jr
Donald J. Emero
Bert Feero
Lawrence R. MacDonald
James McQuarrie
Guy Norton
Wesley
Philip Oliver
Elm
Donald T. Page
Central
William ‘C. Perkins
Charles W. Plummer
Beacon
Theryl S. Robbins
Walter C. Rogers
Durwood F. Shorey
Bath Iron Works
Jackson
Johnson Brosco
Grath-Maine
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