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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1955
Page
5
A wide bath of city life is covered from fires to politics to social events. Fire consumes the New Meadows Brown bungalow as observers glimpse a red glow from City Hall. Hon. T. F. Callahan tours Bath amid gubernatorial hopes. school penmanship courses and local trips to Boston, New York, and Portland headline a busy week of civic activity, sports, and society notes.
Captain Perkins reports hundreds of wild ducks on Bald Head flats after a night sighting. Local events include Scotney-Lermond recital with several named ushers and attendees. City Forester Sewall notes shade tree plantings and South End school land geome. Furniture moved from Damariscotta to Auburn by motor truck. Local hunters Ridley and Webber with ha setter Captain discuss partridges in Woolwich. A Times window curios collection features an 1828 carrier bag once used by a carrier named J. Robinson.
Crowds queued at the Bath Opera House box office last evening for the new attraction The Electrical Ven featuring Mabel Burnell billed as the perfect woman. An eventful night included a raid at a nearby hotel, described as a beehive of activity.
The Dreamland theater in Maine will open on November 21 1915 Thanksgiving Day after a fire destroyed the old building. A reunion of former patrons is anticipated as the new up to date theater debuts. In Bath the steamer City of Rockland is slated for its last Bath to Boston trip of the season next Tuesday. The Winter Street Men’s class invites men to join with Dr L T Snipe leading at 11 45 in the club room. University of Maine Athletic Association nominators propose Mark Langdon Hill and Howard L Jenkins as football manager candidates. Center street requires gravel to fill a hollow near the recently planked M C R R section.
Promoters continue consideration of a new railway with a city terminal after reviewing the route last week. A meeting of road promoters is planned in a nearby town this week. Porter Lewis Spicer finished the Portland to Brunswick run in 25 minutes on a motorcycle last Sunday.
Dr Marian Buzzell of the University of Maine spoke at the Delta Kappa Gamma Society November luncheon at Sunset Terrace Boothbay. As state president she highlighted the Northeast regional convention in Chicago and previewed next summer’s New Orleans gathering.
Mrs. Coleman recalls island isolation aboard Boone Island with the captain who spent 32 years as a doryman and kept steady watch. The couple managed scarce mail, limited company, and a life of work with rugs gardens and animals, ending in a shore Thanksgiving after coastal service with no major accidents and high praise for the captain.
Duncan Farrell says basketball profit supports other sports and that last year basketball earned $2,600 while baseball lost $800. He notes track has no income and urges Morse to build a school track as the team now practices in Brunswick.
The Pilgrims set aside a day of prayer and feast in 1621 to celebrate their first harvest in the new land. President Lincoln in 1864 designated the last Thursday in November for general observance of Thanksgiving in the United States.
The discussion covered two years of planning for football, noting expenses exceed $100 per player to outfit the team. Critics of the athletic department were deemed mostly unjustified and the school aims to stretch resources, offering tickets only to school personnel. Morse High’s athletic program was described as well rounded, with Brunswick and Salem guests attending. A Brunswick Rotary ladies night was announced for December 5 with ticket contact through Harmon Eliason.
Surveyors report a possible new roadway along a ridge to remove sharp turns at low cost with work starting soon. By mid 1956 the first reconstruction stretch could be finished and further Route 127 128 improvements to follow as funds allow. A probate notice in Bath orders publication for Mary Jane Main estate probate with executors named and letters testamentary to issue.
At 1.30 p.m. the Knights and their ladies gathered for dedicatory exercises as Rev Fr Morrissey blessed the new building. The Holy Rosary was recited by all in attendance.
Wiscasset items list weekend travel and visits including Mrs Ralph Hilton and Holly to Lewiston to see Mrs William Hanlon, Todd Preble visiting grandparents Ralph and Mrs Preble, Mrs Mae Caswell visiting Clinton Harris family, and Captain Arthur Fugene Dodge of Newcastle at Sailors' Snug Harbor with Ava Barton visiting him.
A Bath court of probate orders publication for three weeks in the Bath Independent. The notice covers estate actions for William Richards Cotton Woolwich Ethel Glidden Bath Mitchell King Bath Eva Mahoney Bertha Curtis Emma M Oliver Woolwich and Freeman L Oliver executor with dates set for December and a final hearing, with names of administrators and executors.
Former Bath resident Trott held diverse roles including director at United Fund and Providence Governmental Research Bureau trustee of Providence Lying-In Hospital and co chair of the Rhode Island Seminar on Human Relations He served as Mount Hope Bridge Authority chairman and Rhode Island director and vice president of the New England Council with a wide network of business and civic appointments He and wife Elizabeth Houghton have three children and eight grandchildren.
Lillian H Heal Register of Probate certifies executors and administrators appointed in multiple Sagadahoc estates including Berniece D Staples Bath Osgood M Redlon Bath Frank G Aderton Bowdoinham Edward Brown Bath Lena P Ketchum Bath John W Riley Topsham Mary M O Connor Cambridge Mass Vernon Hitchins Frank A Lynch named executors Maine without bond in November 1955 true copy of the original order dated 17 24 1.
Register Lilian H Heal certifies appointments in Sagadahoc County estates. Samuel Armstrong of West Bath names Katherine Armstrong executrix on November 1 1955. Kate M Baxter of Bath with Rupert H Baxter Mary Baxter White and Lydia Baxter Gillette named executors on November 1 1955. Ralph Goss Stetson Sr of Bath names Dorothy D Stetson administratrix in November 1985. Walter E Taylor of Bath names Ann L Taylor executors without head.
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