Fire Prevention Week Parade Opens Bath Observances
The Keep Maine Green float led Bath Fire Department Fire Prevention Week parade on Sunday. A large turnout included Marines, Morse High School band, Bath Iron Works pumper, Brunswick Naval Air Station truck, and fire service veterans. The event promoted home safety with a safety program at the Bath Opera House and demonstrations on fire causes and extinguisher use.
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Maine
Bath Department
Foster's Point
Bath
Fire Department
United States Marines
Portland
Smith-Tobey
Legion Drum and Bugle Corps
Ma‘ne_ National Guard
Morse High School
Bath Fire Department
Bath Iron Works
Brunswick Naval Air Station
Torrent Veteran Firemen
Kennebec
John Hinds
Fred Pecci
William Dutton
Wilard McCabe
Charles Swearingen
Walter Longley
Millard Green
Newell Swain
Richard Frates
Scott Morse
Stanley Turner
Bath Opera House
Pecci
Lorelei
Lailani Pecci
Peci
Phyllis
David Farley
One Of Original Fire Alarm Boxes A Demonstrator
A former demonstrator explains that Fire Alarm Box 65 in Central Station may be an original Gamewell box from the 1891 installation. The article details its history, relocation, and local fabrication, with notes on how the early system relied on hand rung bells and city bells to relay alarms across Newburyport.
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Central Fire Station
the Times
Edward W. Vaughan
Oak Street
Vaughan
Spring Street
Washington Street
Engine 2
Gamewell Co
Winter Street
Beacon Street Church
Old Wesley Church
City Hall
Court House
Beacon Street
Wesley
South End
Mrs Lois Hawes Leaves Summer Home For Birchlandville
Mrs Lois Hawes of Birchlandville Pa has been at her summer home in Harpswell and leaves this week for her home. She attended a meeting as a Tuesday guest of Mrs H Kenneth afternoon with Col Dummer Sewall Chapter D A R. Hawes is a former member who after her mother's death was transferred to a Pennsylvania chapter.
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Lois Hawes
Birchlandville
Harpswell
H. Kenneth Afternoon
Col. Dummer Sewall
Hawes
Pennsylvania
Genesta Chapter Observes Guest Officers Night
Genesta Chapter OES hosts Guest Officers Night with Maine and Massachusetts members filling the chapter room. Synopsized honors go to Grand and Past Grand Officers while invitations from Winneganee and Iona Chapters set dates for upcoming visits. Welcome remarks, corsages, gifts, and a large guest roster mark the evening, plus a October work committee appointed and a Sick committee reappointed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Genesta
Masonic Ti
Maine
Massachusetts
Leah Page
Hazel K. Libby
Richmond
Martha
Gertrude Powers
Freeport
Edna Purington
Lisbon Palls
Sarah A. Shaw
Bath
Raymond Mitchell
Auburn
Grand
Mississippi
Louise Stevens
Hawthorne
Brunswick
Winneganee
Bessie Frangedakis
Iona Chapter
Portland
Ruth Crowley
Greenville
Alice Stilphen
Anne Minott
Rockland
Beulah Pratt Dunton
Pioneer
Lisbon Falls
Page
Dunton
Androscoggin
Durham
Adah
Pearl Flint
Golden Sheaf
New Gloucester
Ruth
Helen Taylor
Queen Esther
Hallowell
Esther Gertrude Powers
Casco
Maida Hall
Iona
Electa
Ruth Leighton
Garrison Hill
Wiscasset
George Wheaton
Deering
Sentinel
Leah Merrill
Marie Berry
Christine Ledyard
Doris Berry
Doris Aikenhead
Marion Ashe
Sarah Shaw
Athena Gillespie
Dorothy Wood
Ruth Hathorne
Beulah Dunton
Mr. Lindquist
Pomona Grange Meets Wednesday at Bowdoin Center
Sagadahoc Pomona arts a full day meeting at Bowdoin Center with 121 members from county granges. State Treasurer Charles M White and Mrs Viola White attended with talks on state projects and home and community welfare. Activities included exhibits, auctions, solos, quizzes, skits and a harvest tableau, with next gathering set for Oct 28 at Bodwell Grange Small Point.
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Sagadahoc Pomona
Bowdoin Center
Ladies of the Grange
Charles M. White
State Home
Violat White
Woolwich
State Committee
Merrymeeting
Topsham Granges
Bodwell Grange
Small Point
Home and Community Welfare Committee
Margaret Morse
Millward Patten
Aretha Campbell
Viola White
Bertha Palmer
Mabel Heenie
Jackie Stilphen
Marjorie Curtis
Gwendolyn Douglas
Ila Day
White
Wendell Heenie
Annie Malcolm
Charles Soule
Daisy Bickford
Ira Day
Clifford Gray
Sagadahoc County GOP Raises 1430 At 50 Plate Dinner
Sagadahoc County Republican Finance Committee reported a successful recognition dinner at Hotel Eastland in Portland. Chairman John G. Morse Jr. noted $1430 raised, $430 over quota, crediting Young Republicans, Women’s Republican Club, Mrs. Etta Thurlow of Bath, Cleveland Curtis of Bowdoinham, and others who aided the campaign.
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Sagadahoc County
Republican Finance Committee
LST 1160 Launches by Iron Works Yard
The LST 1160 was launched Saturday morning at 9 45 from the yard of its builders the Iron Works Corp Mrs Omar King wife of the yard manager was the sponsor The 1160 is the last of a five craft contract
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Th Iron Works Corp
Omar King
Bath Iron Works declares dividend for dockholders
At a director's meeting Bath Iron Works Corp declared a dividend of 50 cents per share payable Jan 4 1954 to dockholders of record Dec 14.
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Bath Iron Works Corp
Fluoridation Plan Discussed by State Officials
State Department of Health officials met Bath Health department and Bath Water District representatives to discuss adopting water fluoridation. Proponents cite reduced tooth decay and cost efficiency, while opponents warn of health risks and insufficient study.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Department of Health and Welfare
Bath Health Department
Water District
Maine Department F Health and Welfare
United Staes Public Health Service
R S. Harris
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Maine Department of Health and Welfare
Roscoe C McFadden
Bath Water
Maurice
Alta Ashley
Earl T.bbetts
Department of Sanitary Engineering
Augusta
McFadden
Libby
Sewall Chapter Opens Fall Session in Central Congregational Church
The Fall meeting of Colonel Summer Sewall chapter D.A.R. met at Central Congregational church chapel Tuesday with strong attendance. New member Evelyn Young was welcomed, plans for 1953 54 discussed, and regent Ada Minott Haggett reported on state board highlights. Guests included Harold B Clifton Boothbay Harbor and others as the guest speaker addressed the group.
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Summer Sewall
D.ar
Central Congregational Church
Regio
Ada Minott Haggett
Ie Niles
Grace Lawrence
Lena Ring
Evelyn Young
Carrie Smith
D.A R
Hageett
Hallowell
Horatio Baker
Crossner School
North Carolina
Florida
DAR
Baker
Silk Niles
Myrle Stanton
Dhcep Ter
Cty
Nelle Lord
Lana Ring
Hallowell City Hall
Sewall
Alee Varney
Opporunty Farm Committee
Lera Shepard Harnden
Pasadena
Calif
Harold B Clfford
Boothbay Harbor
Louise Garth
Alabama
Sebiasco Estates
Les Hawes
Birch
Hawes
Pennsylvania Chapel
Harold
Bath Riding Club members return from trail ride
Bath Riding Club members completed the three annual trail ride of the Horse Association, covering over 50 miles through casco area woods to Songo Locks. Seventy-two riders from multiple Maine towns plus New Hampshire and Florida towns attended, with meals at Sebago and a Quaker Ridge finish.
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Arthur J. Dunton
Sidney L. Eaton
Ruth Fuller
Richard Carlson
Bath Riding Club
The
Horse Association
South Casco
Pees
Lake
Songo Locks
Bath
Frank Ferrin
Freedom
N. H
Florida
Rita O’brien
Auburn
Naples
Sebago
Bridgton
Harrison
Sebago Lake
CCC
Quaker Ridge
Thomas House
Judge Dunton
Frank Farrin
Mr. Farria
Maine
Vermont
Fimer Blackwell
South Portland
Brunswick
Sanford
Waldoboro
Cape Elizabeth Cumberland Center
Portland
Whitefield
Westbrook
Gardiner
Scarborowgh
Kezar Falls
Boston
Redington
Mass
Beveriye Mass
Danvers
Peabody
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Thomaston State Prison
Kit” Totman
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Marie Darling
Gladys Page
Frances Pletts
Abe Kramer
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Loring J. Brown
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Harold Carter
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