First Bath library holds record 150 in first children's hour
Bath's Patten Free Library hosted a record crowd of 150 children from first through fourth grade for the first story telling hour of the fall season. Mrs. Russell S. Hitchcock narrated Clemie the Clam with visuals by Edythe Laws and Isadore Singer, amid PTA support and growing parent participation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russell S. Hitchcock
Edythe A. Laws
Stephen Singer
Gerald Small
Carol Witham
Norma Ball
Laura Hastings
Elaine Turcotte
Bath
Clemie
Clam
Patten Free Library
Drunken driving cases burden Boothbay offenders
Robert E. Pottle, 21, of Boothbay pleaded guilty to drunken driving in municipal court before Recorder John W. Quarrington. He paid a $100 fine and $12.30 in costs after a 5:15 p.m. Sunday arrest by State Trooper George C. Buzzell on Water Street. Two other Boothbay men with Pottle admitted intoxication and paid $10 fines plus $6.30 costs each. Edward B. Bragdon of Bowdoinham pleaded innocent to leaving the scene of an accident on Route 24, Topsham, and was acquitted after testimony by defense attorney Edward W. Bridgham and County Attorney Harold J. Rubin. The accident involved Bragdon and Lawrence Morang of Bowdoinham. Morang was complainant. Five Bath men pleaded guilty to intoxication. four paid $10 fines with costs, one with a second-offense penalty of 60 days in Augusta jail. Complainants were Chief Frank L. Moriarty and Patrolman John Marks, Jr.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert E. Pottle
Boothbay
John W. Quarrington
Pottle
George C. Buzzell
Waterstreet
Buzzell
Edward B. Bragdon
Bowdoinham
Reading
Edward W. Bridgham
Harold J. Rubin
Quarrington
Bragdon
Augusta
Frank L. Moriarty
John Marks, Jr
Officials Regain Large Portion of Bath Woman's Cash
County Attorney Harold J. Rubin and Chief of Police Frank L. Moriarty returned from New York City with a major portion of $5,000 recovered from a Bath handkerchief switch fraud. The pair said the pursuit of George Adams and Madame Dawne yielded money but no Bath return for the suspects, as New York authorities hold the woman on an $18,000 grand larceny charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold J. Rubin
Frank L. Moriarty
Bath
New York City
Metropolis
George Adams
Madame Dawne
Mrs. Adams
New York
Rubin
Moriarty
Mina Hayden
Adamses
Hayden
Mr. Rubin
Admiral Gillette and Mrs Gillette Visit Portland
Admiral and Mrs. Claude Gillette drove to Portland for a day trip on Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Admiral
Mrs
Claude Gillette
Portland
Phippsburg Girl Scout Troop elects officers and plans books
Phippsburg Girl Scout Troop 1 names Diana Pye as patrol leader Gleni Eaton as assistant leader Ellen Blair scribe Dane Hamel treasurer Irmalee Gilman librarian. Members begin on My Troop Badge and plan book donations while Pfc Arthur Morse prepares for Far East embarkation after a farewell dinner at his home.
Parker Head community notes and hunts in Dresden
Parker Head PTA plans a meeting with Mrs Earl Lowell on the eve of November 28. Local hunters David Harrington and George Morong Jr. brought home a seven point buck. Albert Gray reported another deer sighting. school notes show American Education week visitors and junior choir members from Parker Head. Several weekend visitors stopped by the Gray and Wyman households. a baptismal birth is noted in Bath Memorial Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florence Rollins
Dudley Barkalow
Connie Hoar
Albert Gray
Royce Young
Topsham
Reginald Gordon
Brunswick
Wallace Plant Jr
Bath
Bernhard Carlson
Dix Island
Roslindale
Mass
Joyce Gray
Sandra Mank
Small Point Parsonage
Thomas Skolfield
Gray
Arthur Kriedler
USN
Portsmouth
N. H
Florence Maass
Kenneth Woods
W. T. Wyman
Winfield Lewis
Herbert Bassett
Earl Lowell
Small Point
Parker Head
Dale Mank
Anne
Robert Gray
Arthur Brown
Alston Oliver
William Cushing
Bath Memorial Hospital
Bailey Muise Bailey Wedding at Boothbay Harbor
Adele Leona Muise daughter of Mr and Mrs Joseph Muise of Boothbay Harbor and Set Lincoln G Bailey son of Mr and Mrs Clarence Bailey of Wiscasset were married Nov 10 at 7 30 at the bride’s parents home by Rev Forrest F Fowle. Sgt Bailey recently returned from overseas duty and leaves for new assignment Nov 13. Attending were Clayton Bailey Louis LeMay and other relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adele Leona Muise
Joseph Muise
Boothbay Harbor
Lincoln G. Bailey
Clarence Bailey
Wiscasset
Forrest F. Fowle
Bailey
Sgt. Bailey
Wiscasset Academy
Air Force
John Hickson
Oakland
Clayton Bailey
Louis LeMay
Bath
Christy Thomas Returns Home for Thanksgiving
Christy Thomas has returned to Meadow Ledges in West Bath from Washington to spend the Thanksgiving holidays with family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christy Thomas
Meadow Ledges
West Bath
Washington
Popham Beach Thanksgiving Services and Local Notices
Popham Beach held Thanksgiving services at Small Point church with Rev. H Macy Whitehead as pastor. The next Christian Service meeting will be at Winneganse with Mrs. John G Morse Jr on December 10. Popham Circle hosted a pot luck supper with guests from Phipsburg Center Woolwich Sebasco Parker Head and Small Point. Driftwood has collected along the bay and river shores after recent high tides from storms. Mrs. Ernest Oliver Mrs. Frank Scott and Mrs. Nancy Welch attended a meeting at the Small Point parsonage. Roger and Williard Oliver Miss Gail and Dixie Oliver John Mitchell and a Bath boy visited on Sunday. Coast Guardsman Smiley Balston is on leave from Pond Island Light. Blon deau of the Kennebec Station will be in charge while away. Mr. and Mrs. J Walter Snipe of Bath visited Marguerite McNulty. Charles Shepard of Bath visited his cottage this weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Small and Mr. and Mrs. Royal Johnson of Bath visited their cottages. Ellison Moody went to Harpswell Sunday. his mother Leoline Moody returned to Popham with him for a few days. Carl Bickford of Lisbon Falls visited Sunday. Mrs. Florence Carson returned to Allston after visiting Myra Scott over the holiday weekend. Marguerite McNulty played piano with Snipe’s orchestra at a Bath Community Center dance Saturday. Mrs. Nancy Welch and Fred Spinney visited Beverly Mains of Wiscasset at the Osteopathic Hospital in Portland, where she is a patient, on Sunday. Mrs. Earle Perkins of Cranberry Point was a Wednesday visitor at McNulty’s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Small Point
H. Macy Whitehead
John G. Morse
Winnegance
Popham Circle
Phipsburg Center
Woolwich
Sebasco
Parker Head
Ernest Oliver
Frank Scott
Nancy Welch
Small Point Parsonage
Roger
Williard Oliver
Gail
Dixie Oliver
John Mitchell
Son
Bath
Coast
Marguerite McNulty
Charles Shepard
Ralph Small
Royal Johnson
Ellison Moody
Harpswell
Leoline Moody
Popholm
Carl Bickford
Lisbon Falls
Florence Carson
Allston
Myra Scott
Snipe
Community Center
Fred Spinney
Beverly Mains
Wiscasset
Osteopathic Hospital
Portland
Earle B. Perkins
Cranberry Point
Local river traffic and shore visits noted this week
Activity on the Kennebec includes M S T S Col. William J. OBrien delivering guns to Bath Iron Works for destroyers. Tug Captain George Stacey guides a Hughes barge to Bath then to Norfolk. Berwindvale discharged coal at Bath. A J Cummings discharged oil at Howard Coal Co. Social visits include Mr and Mrs Edward Thomas at Murphy's Corner Woolwich and others in Bath and Windham. A river voyage from Seoul to Tokyo Rest and Recuperation is described for Cpl Richard S Dozois and Sgt Lemian Farrand with plans to visit radio facilities in Japan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William J. O’brien
Bath Iron Works
George Stacey
James Hughes, Inc
Bath
Norfolk
Berwindvale
Ken
Washington Street Thanksgiving Plans with Belmon t Family
Mrs. Washington street will spend Thanksgiving with Mrs. Gillette and her daughter Mrs. William Spann and family in Belmont Massachusetts. They will be joined by Mrs. Gillette's son Thomas Smith a Webb Institute senior studying Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at Glen Cove L I.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claude Gilette Washington Stree
Gillette
William Spann
Belmont
Mass
Thomas Smith
Webb Institute of Naval Architects and Marine , Engineering
Glen Cove
L. I
Prices From Bath 1850 Bill Reveal Cheaper Food Then
A preserved bill to John Beals dated April 1850 lists groceries bought by Harris and Hildreth, showing parsnips sugar tea fish butter eggs veal rice bacon coffee sugar meal salt pork with a total of 3.69 dollars. The document notes Beals’ ties to Bath City Grays and Hyde Foundry, illustrating historical cost of living.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
John Beals
Bath City
Grays
Hyde
Harris & Hildreth
Cummings Buys Augusta Property For Bath Auto Plans
Charles F. Cummings of Bath Auto Inc announces the purchase of Wayside Furniture Store at 472 Western Ave Augusta for 40000. The Cummings firm will operate Bath and Augusta dealerships with the Augusta site to become a sales service garage. New cars will be shown there soon and dual stock will aid buyers amid anticipated shortages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles F. Cummings
Bath Auto, Inc
Augusta
Wayside
Western Avenue
C. F. Cummings Co., Inc
DeSoto
Plymouth
Bath
Jacob Verstein
Cummings
Capital City
Christmas Seal Sale chairmen named in Sagadahoc
Twelve community leaders in Sagadahoc county have accepted chairmanships for the 1951 Christmas Seal Sale conducted by the Four County Tuberculosis Association. The county campaign runs Nov 19 to Dec 25 to fund the 1952 tuberculosis prevention and control program, with chairmen named in Arrowsie Woolwich Bath Bowdoin Bowdoinham Georgetown Phippsburg Sebasco Popham Beach Richmond Topsham West. Each chairman cited the importance of tuberculosis control work funded by the sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sagadahoc County
Four County Tuberculosis Association
Pearl E. Reed
Arrowsie
Woolwich
John Conley
Bath
Robert Coombs
Bowdoin
Cecla McEwen
Bowdoinham
Ralph W. Davis
Georgetown
Prisvilla Rainey
Mary Perkins
Phippsburg
Philip H. Jacob
Sebasco
Ellison Moody
Popham Beach
Sadie M. Wood
Richmond
Robert B. Miller
Topsham
Loring Small
West Bath
May Craig to Speak in Bath at Huse Memorial School
May Craig, Washington correspondent for Gannet papers and Korea veteran, will speak in Bath on December 19 at the Huse Memorial school. Sponsored by the Bath Teachers club, the event includes a dinner meeting with the public invited to hear her. The South End P T A will serve the meal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
May Craig
Washington
Gannet Papers
Korea
Bath
Huse Memorial School
Bath Teacher’s Club
Miss Craig
South End P. T. A
Hill family hosts in Naugatuck Thanksgiving weekend
Pierce of 1011 High street departed today for Naugatuck Connecticut to be Thanksgiving weekend guests of Dr. and Mrs. William E Hill. Mr and Mrs William E Hill Jr and daughter Susan of Philadelphia will also be guests of the Hills.
Bath Man Elected President of National Draftsmen Council
Donald B. Wilson, 21 Street, Bath Works drafting room, elected president of the National Council of Marine Draftsmen at the fourteenth annual convention held in Boston on Sunday November 18. First England-born to win the post, honoring Bath Iron Works and Bath city. Wilson has served as regional vice president for three years and previously as a vice president of the organization. Harry L. Deering of Bath was elected regional vice president. Wilson is son of Rev. Dr. and Mrs. David L. Wilson, educated at Morse High and University of Maine, and has worked at Bath Iron Works drafting room for 11 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald B. Wilson
Street
Dra
Bath Works
National Council of Marine Draftsmen
Boston
England
Wilson
Bath Iron Works
City of
Bath
The
Iron Works
Harry L. Deering
David L
Paul Wilson
Bath Iron Works Drafting Room
Reginald C. Small
John J. Keegan, Jr
Frederick Robie
Real Estate Transfers Across Sagadahoc and Nearby Towns
Recent transfers filed in Sagadahoc County show a series of land and building conveyances. Notable moves include Plummer to Gibb on Marion streets, LeMay to Freeman on High Street, and King to King on Middle Street, with multiple transfers listed in Bowdoinham Georgetown Phippsburg Richmond Topsham and Woolwich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Register of Deeds Office
Sagadahoe County
Bath
Marion A. Plummer
William Gibb
Dummer Street
Marion Plummer
Frank Borski
Albert E. Lemay
Edward E. Freeman
High Street
Alice E. King
Everett A. King
Middle Street
Nellie G. Gre
George A. Hackett
Liam David Clark
Georgetown
Clarence H. Sanford
William F. Grady
Harold Rowe
David R. Rutherford
Georgetown Associates, Inc
Alice Gardiner
Phippsburg
Rebecca B. Minott
Anita Williams Totman
Allegra Blaisdell Bick
Christmas carols from Winter Street church tower
Advent services at Winter Street church will feature music and Christmas carols from the tower. C Harding Ayer, who has aided before, will soon install the electronic system with Kirk Roberts assisting. Music will play at interludes during Advent and Christmas, starting December 2 on the first Sunday of Advent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winter Street
C. Harding Ayer
Kirk Roberts
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Clem the
Charles T. Small
Bath P.T.A. Council
Singer
Florence R. Calderwood
Arline P. Troop
Small
Oscar Griffith
van Chick By
Desmond
van Heusen
Diana Pye
Gleni Eaton
Ellen Blair
Dane Hamel
Irmalee Gilman
Arthur E. Morse
James L. Morse
Morse
Fort Monmouth
N. J
Washington State
Far East
Gertrude Blaisdell
Marion Pagurko
Freddie Morse
John H. Blaisdell
William Blaisdell
Vicki
William Cummings
Margery
Eleanor
Caroline
Skipper
Bill Cummings
Albert Cummings
Bob Wilson
Thomas Morse
Greg
John E. Blaisdell
Virginia
Pemaquid
Cora Campbell
Pfc
Winneganee P. T.A
Shirley Pratt
Winneganee and
Phippsburgh P. T. A
Lamson
Greg Morse
E. Thomas Morse
Elsie Ratliffe
Craig and
Ryan
Althea LeMay
Julienne
Robert Beals
Atison
Johnny Hughes
Clinton Beals
Bodwell Grange
Maine Sea Coast
Maine
Boy Scout Troop 90
Fred Haggett
Macy Whitehead
Fred Thomas
Jim Chambers
Mark Harrington
Small Point Church
Arlene Hamel
Ida Nordland
Peggie Gilman
Mabel Moore
Dromore Grange Hall
Dromore
Minnie Wallace
Thomas Totman
Diane Leslie Blaisdell
Jean and
Adele Hunt
Morse High School
Rockland High School
Henry Senecal
Melba LaRose
Victor Hughes
Violet Logan
Eugene Hawkes
Anita Totman
Robert Beals, Jr
Merchie Tibbetts
Nellie Tibbetts
Millinocket
Earl Harvey
William B. Perry
Walter Pierce
Kittery
Pfe
Gordon Harvey
Harvey
Fort Devens
John G. Morse, Jr
Frances
Colleen Cooke
Terry
Rutland
Rodney Wyman
West Point
Raymond Wyman
I. W. Rainey
Albert Clark, Jr
William Sanford
Earl
Arlene Libby
Meadowbrook
John Rogers
Leeds
Gerald Wyman
Swanton Wyman
Leo Hamel
Topsfield
Martin Wyman
Fort Hancock
Constance Peters
Brookline
Small Point Club
Millie Rogers
Barbara Wyman
Orono
Parker
Cox
Edward P. Thomas
Frederick
Edward Shaw
Murphy's Corner
Stanton C. Dozoie
Cook’s Corner
Landers
L. E. Simmons
Howard Hawkes
Windham
Martin F. Goodwin
Goodwin
S. C. Desis
Julia Dozois
Cape Elizabeth
Cpl
Richard S. Dozois
23Rd Reg. Service Co
Seoul
G. I
Ninth Regiment
Tokyo
Japan
Lemian Farrand
Presnet Day
Rec
Payt
Bath Man
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