Bath School Board meets in October discusses texts and fair
The Bath School Board held its October meeting at City Hall with several motions. It authorized purchase of a new German grammar and Steadman’s Graded Lessons in Writing for the high school and considered updating the physics text. Schools may be suspended Oct 12 for Topsham fair or Portland festival. Superintendent Freeman notes enrollment down about 100 from last year. A new school directory has been published and is available from the superintendent or school committee.
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Steadman
E. F. Kelley
Ward 3
Carhart-Chade
Portland
Freeman
Two new boats to boost Boothbay line and local bids
Oct 5 1910 notes Eastern Steamship Co will add two faster ships next season, praising the move but criticizing Bath shipbuilders for missing bid chances. Other items include Cubs at Wiscasset, a 14 10 win over the Tigers, a Hub Center street bootblacking relic exhibit, Captain L S Wiley selling his Isabel B Wiley schooner interest, and William Shaughnessy departing for Empire Panama to work as a government machinist.
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Eastern Steamship Co
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Cub
Wiscasset
Wiscasset Grammar School
Cubs
Tigers
Sheldon
Snowman
Router
Lord
Thorne
Jackson
L. Robbins
Nelson
Savage
Fred Wakefield
William Shaughnessy
Empire
Panama
October 1910 Water Street peddler wagon incident and town notes
A Times man found a rug laden peddler’s wagon rolling on Water Street without a driver and delivered it to the police station. Owner arrived, claimed the wagon, and resumed his seat. The rest covers council, staff changes, travels, society events, and local updates from October 1910.
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Times
Water Street
Marshal McFadden
Reasons for the Winter
A brief note mentions plans related to winter circumstances with associations to the summer in New York and Pennsylvania.
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Ressones
New York
Pennsylvania
Morse High Faces Rockland With Key Injuries
October 9 1910 Morse High crippled by Capt Spear illness and Sturtevant injury for today’s game against Rockland. Lineup listed including Hawley Hunt It Thompson etc. Also brief notices on brick kiln opening Read Nichols Co and local social events at New Meadows Inn and Front Street clubs.
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Morse High
Rockland
Capt
Spear
Sturtevant
Hawley
Hunt
Thompson
Shore dinners draw visitors to Newdows Inn for the season
October weather brings guests from a wide radius to Newdows Inn for famous shore dinners. Landlord Cahill will close the hostelry in three weeks. Bath residents mourn the Cuban Harvey's departure after a valued period of hosting officers and agreeable sojourners. Topsham Grange program features readings by James Williams and Esther Hall, vocal solos by Sarah Drew and Marion Hall, piano by Belle Rackley, with conundrums and a posed question on hay sale profits.
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Cahill
Bath
Topsham Grange
Reading
James Williams
Sarah Drew
Esther Hall
Percy Wright
Marion Hall
Mabel Drew
Belle Rackley
First spruce logs raft arrives at Winneganee tide mill
The 2250 log spruce raft from Hollingsworth & Whitney Co. for John G. Morse & Sons arrived by tug Harold of Brunswick after being cut on Moosehead Lake borders. The logs include some over 50 feet long and mark the first arrival for sawing in 15 years.
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Winneganee
Hallowell
Harold
Brunswick
John G. Morse & Sons
Hollingsworth & Whitney Co
M. G. Shaw
Moosehead Lake
Duck Hunting Season Opens at Merrymeeting Bay
Despite poor conditions many hunters gathered at Merrymeeting Bay for the 1950 season opener. Teals blacks and ringnecks were plentiful in ponds. inland waters may yield better luck. The Maine season runs Friday through the day before the next opening on Nov 24. Mrs Edward Smith and Mrs Pauline Moulton of Middle Street travel to Lunenburg Massachusetts to visit Mrs Smiths daughter and husband and Mrs Stephen Woodury.
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Edward Smith
Pauline Moulton
Middle Street
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Bathman Wins Bride in Germany
M/Sgt. Maurice C. Brown Jr. and Miss Dorothea Feigert wed in Landshut Germany with a civil ceremony by the Landshut mayor and a formal Army Base service. The couple plan a later wedding trip to Bath. Mrs. Brown is the daughter of the late Gertrude and Paul Conrad Fiegert of Breslau and Hamburg.
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Center Street
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Landshut
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Arkansas
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Breslau
Hamburg
Ninth Army
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Munich
Anniversary Road Trip Traversed Forty States and Canada
The couple toured capitals in Maryland through New Hampshire and visited Juarez and Lake Louise. They covered 17 595 miles visiting educational sites and Mrs Walker wished she had made the trip while teaching for her students.
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Canada
Probate notices from Bath court in Sagadahoc County
Court of Probate in Bath Sagadahoc County orders publication for three weeks in Bath Independent. Hearings set for November first at ten in the forenoon to contest estates of Harry S. Wallace Sarah Eleanor McAllister Margaret M Holbrook and Ethel M Thompson. Executors and administrators named or proposed include Stanley E Wallace Roy E McAllister Morton T Holbrook and Alexander Burden.
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Rochester
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Morton T. Holbrook
Ethel M. Thompson
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John L. Jack
Alden P. Denham
Eleanor A Nichols
John Clark
Martha A. Clark
Lucy M. Mellen
Phippsburg
Chase Mellen
Wiscasset Briefs Personal Items and Local News
Wiscasset items note Carl M. P. Larrabee elected Maine Gladiolus society president in Pittsfield. Town officials discuss plans for a new schoolhouse in Portland. Local residents travel, attend universities, or visit relatives. a wedding occurred at a home with Rev. Robert Frazier officiating. Mrs. Nellie Donnell Carlin dies at 71 with services held locally.
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Pittsfield
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Portland
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Roy Marston
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Fort Dix
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Raymond Farmer
June
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Alan C Pease
Graydon J. Fowles
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Wiscasset
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University of Arizona
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Robert MacQueston
Robert
Boston
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Virginia Rines
Barbara Merry
Beverly Main
Georgia Abbott
Joan Dalton
Laura Main
Bernice Bailey
George Main
Bertha LeBourdais
Probate notices from Bath and surrounding towns
Court to hear petitions for probate and administrator actions on estates including Gilmore Dickinson Vickery Kellaway Bowker Dearborn Hanson Butler and guardianship matters in Bath Richmond and Phippsburg with licenses to sell and final accounts filed by executors trustees and guardians Judge Arthur J. Dunton presiding and Joan L. Jack recording clerk date 12 19 26
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Bessie E. Dickinson
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Forest T. Putnam
Lutle Fern Kellaway
Newton
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State Street Tract Company
Olive A. Bowker
Walter P. Wass
George D. Dearborn
Phippsburg
Canal National Bank of Portland
Sadie Hanson
Richmond
Leslie F. Roberts
Jennie S. Butler
Bertha E. York
Arthur J. Dunton
Joan L. Jack
Golden wedding anniversary noted at Walker home
Arrowsic residents celebrate the golden wedding anniversary of Captain and Mrs. Frank J. Walker. Nearby, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence R. Vail and Miss Flossie Beals visited Mrs. Ada Sweetser in South Windham. Ralph Jewett spent time at the Jewett homestead in Westport Junction. Edith Campbell traveled to Waterville to visit her daughter and son in law Everett Pollard. The Pollards and Mrs Campbell also visited their uncle Ralph Jewett.
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Lawrence R. Vail
Flossie Beals
North Street
Bath
Ada Sweetser
South Windham
Edith Campbell
Waterville
Everett Pollard
Pollard
Mrs Oscar Marsh Hosts Theta Chi Betas Tuesday
Mrs Oscar Marsh of Corliss Street will host members of Theta Chi and Beta Sigma Phi Tuesday evening in a neighborhood social gathering.
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Corliss Street
Theta Cheater
Beta Sigma Phi
Equity Bill Seeks Sale Of Sagadahoc Real Estate Interests
Mildred Dugas files suit in the Sagadahoc Supreme Judicial Court seeking a court order to sell undivided nine tenths of several parcels in Phippsburg and divide proceeds among defendants Margaret Greene Beatrice Densmore Agnes Greene and heirs of Sidney Greene. The action notes that the property cannot be divided without harm and a master may oversee disposition.
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S.S
Margaret Greene
Phippsburg
Helen Koehling Webster
Bath
Sidney Greene
Maine
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Portland
Cumberland
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Supreme Judicial Court
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Lisbon Falls
Lisbon
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Lea
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Androscoggin
New Meadows
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Jonathan S. Young
Joe Jack
Jack Sherman
Sherman
Lendall L. Greene
Earl E. Tobey
Sagadahoc County
Herbert Seaverns
Elliott W. Keyes
Elliot W. Keyes
Matilda Young
George Harris
Matilda
A. Keyes
Joneth
Bagadahoc
E . Keyes
Harris
Jilda Young
Seacase
Lendall L. Pean
Helen Kochling Webster
Four-H Clubs Win Prizes at Topsham Fair
Four-H clubs exhibited calves on Tuesday at Topsham Fair and captured major prizes. Robert Belanger and Bert Barter earned first prizes. Herbert Estes, Robert Belanger, and Edwin Estes took seconds. Robert Belanger and Bert Barter also won additional placings. Robert Belanger entered the adult division and won third prize.
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Ene
Ate Ae
Robert Belanger
Cit Ant
4Bert Barter
Herbert
Aie Ter
Moe Sell Estes
Edwin Estes
4Land Barter
Robert Be
Miss Harriet Todd Honored With Party
Miss Harriet Todd of Bedford street, a Woolworth clerk at Bath for two years, completed duties Saturday and left Sunday for Hartford Conn where she has work. Mrs Carl Pye hosted a surprise going away party with co workers present and gifts.
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Hartford
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Randall Daley
Jean Caton
Ethel Foucher
John Hazen
Estelle Boutin
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Minerva Skillin
Helen Witham
Marilyn Wright
Mrs Ada Cross Returns from Motor Trip to Canada and Bangor
Mrs Ada Cross visited her daughter and son in law Mr and Mrs William Fogg in Woolwich after a motor trip through Aroostook into Canada and a week visiting friends in Bangor and returning Saturday.
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Wiliam Fogg
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