Opening Day Duck Season Yields Big Totals At Merrymeeting Bay
Unusually many birds at Merrymeeting Bay on opening day of duck season. W E Pogey Elliot and Charles Draper led with limits and seven respectively. George W Rooks reported six, Col Lowe party bagged 40, and several others scored in double digits. Local council actions included bids to widen safety and public works, salary moves for the Overseers of the Poor, and a debate on nuisance abatement and municipal track agreements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merrymeeting Bay
W. E. “Pogey” Elliot
North Woolwich
Charles Draper
Belmont
Mass
Mr. Elliot
Draper
Theodore Babcock
Reading
al Ridley
Ralph F. Small
Bernard McCausland
Sagadahoc Red, Gun & Skeet Association, Inc
Mr. Small
George W. Rooks
North Bath
Big Brick Island
Rook
George Conway
Vin Henderson
Sumner Sewall
Harold Sonia
Nick Michalos
Lawrence Lowell
Edgar Oliver
Thornton Bates
Edward Sonia
John McCarty
Paul McCole
Howard Mayo
Harold E. Brown
Paul Stinson
John McCole
Georgetown
Mr. Foster
Mr. Merriman
Topsham
Bay
Col. Lowe
Philip G. O'Hara
Sturgeon Island
Frank E. Lowe
Portland
New York
Philadelphia
William Tudor Gardiner
Phipps Point
Cemetery and Park Board
Sewall
Finance Committee
Alderman Fortier
Committee On Public Safety
Charles T. Small
Bath Box Co
Maine Central
Maine Central Railroad Co
Congress Shirt Co
Washington Street
King and Wesley Streets
Committee On Police
Kesley Athletic Field
Fitts
Tallman and
Bakley Streets
Committee On
Dyer- Flaherty Post
Post
Beacon
Washington
Gahan's Bridge
L. Eugene Thebeau
Andrews and
Dike
Board of Highways and Sewers
Newell Re-Elected Bath Water District Trustee For Three Years
Five Bath aldermen vote unanimously to re-elect William S. Newell as trustee of the Bath Water District after a private meeting. Judge Pattangall’s opinion supports that Frank H. Turner is ineligible due to overlapping city council service. Mayor Sewall presided. absentees were Aldermen Robson and Emery.
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Frank H. Turner
Williams
Newell
Bath Water District
William S. Newell
Kennebec Wharf & Coal Co
Bath Water
Board of Common Council
William R. Pattangall
Supreme Court of Maine
Pattangall
Bath
Water District
United States
Maine
Turner
Sewall
Haskell
Pinkham
Fortier
Drake
Bragg
Robson
Emery
Annual YMCAs Boys Conference Dates Anticipated
Local YMCA notes inquiries about the State Boys Conference set tentatively for November 19 to 21 likely in Augusta. The piece highlights Bath youth participation with 24 attendees last year and a 94 percent average attendance, while urging funding to sustain religious youth work.
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Augusta
Bath
Maine
Harold W. Kuppp
Boston
Norman V. Peale
New York
Bath Boys
Clifton S. Nickerson
Bath Group
Fashion show draws Lewiston ladies to Knights of Columbus
Mrs Alice Lewis Mrs George Stangel Miss Mildred Comeau Mrs Octave Breton and Mrs Lester Knight attended a Thursday evening fashion show in the Knights of Columbus auditorium Lewiston promising a stylish local event for residents and guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice Lewis
George Stangel
Mildred Comeau
Octave Breton
Lester Knight
Knights of Columbus
Lewiston
Delightful Rotary Club Address Delights Members
Rotary club luncheon at Hotel Sedgwick featured Frank P. Johnson, publicist and former Kankakee Ohio club president, delivering a world troubles overview with humor and a hopeful note. He cited 35 million farmers facing economic issues and urged optimism through research and Yankee ingenuity. Guests included Parker N. Moulton and others. Miss Nellie M. Smith underwent abdominal surgery in Jamaica Plain after 45 years as librarian, with friends in Saco and Biddeford informed.
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Rotary Club
Hotel
Sedgwick
Frank P. Johnson
People’s Auditorium
Rotary
Johnson
Kankakee
Iowa
Parker N. Moulton
Middletown
Conn
Donnell Carr
Dover
N. H
Bathboys
Jay Wilson
Meriden
Charles Sawyer
Nellie M. Smith
Osteopathic Hospital
Evergreen Street
Jamaica Plain
Mass
Saco-Biddeford
Fall foliage prompts "New England" travel and library news
The piece surveys autumn color across Maine New Hampshire Vermont and Massachusetts noting scenic drives including Kennebec Moosehead Lake and Rockwood. It highlights rail publicity push and a Cannon Mountain aerial tramway opening in 1938 as well as Maine literary titles and a library board election at Patten Free Library where Charles C. Low retires after 32 years and Allan Spear is elected.
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New England
Maine
White Mountains
New Hampshire
Green Mountains
Vermont
Berkshires
Massachusetts
Kennebec
Moosehead Lake
Squaw Mountain Inn
Rockwood
Kineo
Jackman
Moose River
Maine Development Commission
Boston & Maine Railroad
Boston
Boston & Maine
North Station
Pullman Company
North American
Franconia
N. H
Cannon Mountain
Franconia Notch
Taft
Kinsman Range
Lonesome Lake
Lost River
Charles C. Low
Patten Free Library
Low
Allan Spear
Walters. Glidden
George P. Davenport
Treas. Law
Omar W. Folsom
Arthur K. Purington
Hubert H. McCarty
J. Houghton McLellan
W. Scott Shorey
Frank A. Small
Harley A. Shattuck
Archibald M. Main
Alfred L. Tarbox
Selwyn H. Towne, Jr
Donald N. Small
John Parker
Walter 8. Glidden
Daniel Williams
Spear
Patten Free Library 1936 37 Annual Report Highlights
The Patten Free Library reports its 46th annual year ending October 1937 with 36 099 volumes in stock and a total circulation of 31 100 volumes. Adult circulation 25 013 and juvenile 6 087. January was the busiest at the circulation desk with 2 380 volumes checked out. Interlibrary loans and acquisitions are noted, including 520 purchases and 580 bindings. The Book Committee approved 507 books from ten meetings and continues building a broad, useful collection with interlibrary loan support from Maine State Library and other libraries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patten Free Library
The
Book Committee
Maine State Library
Wheelers Held in $10,000 Bonds for October Court
In Bath, seven year old Betty Seavey testified in municipal court about brutal abuse by her mother Pearl Wheeler and stepfather Clyde Wheeler. Recorder Deering set $10,000 bonds for each in the October term of Sagadahoc Superior Court. Betty described burns, scalds, and beating while police and doctors detailed injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty Lorraine Seavey
Bath
Pearl Wheeler
Clyde Wheeler
Gardiner R Deering
Sagadahoc
Betty
Ralph O. Dale
Dale
Kenneth A. Rollins
Farmington
Wheelers
Superior Court
Morin
Deering
Bath Memorial Hospital
Langdon EO Green
Dirswi
Wistaint Jo Currie
Robert P Hatch
Washingson Street
Curran
Washington Street
Washington
Miss Wheeler
Hatch House
Rollins
Wheeler
Pearl Wheeler Clyde Wheeler
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Board
W. C. Nielson
Water Board
Allan
Northwest Passage
Kenni'h Roberts
Robert P
Robert Thayer Sterling
A Hyatt Verrill
Felix Riesenberg
Cape Horn
A. J. Puller
Margaret R. Foote
Bertha R. Dean
Arline Troop
Walter S. Glidden
Langdon T. Snipe
William 8. Shorey
Snipe
Margaret J. Adams
Mary Brown
Malcolm L. Doble
Judge Glidden
Anne Kimball
Frostina E. Marston
Clarence W. Morse
Jane 8
Charles M. Tubbs
Carroll Watson
David L. Wilson
Librarian's Report
Juvenile Department
Bee
Richmond
Vaericarar
Weary, Vae
Public Library
Patten
Gardiner Public Library
Alee
Pift
Pet
Dr. Morin
Recorder Case
Harry F Morin
Mammy Curtis
Fred Curtis
Carmel
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