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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1947
Page
6
Judge Keegan outlines that landlords cannot raise rents by 15 percent without a lease or notice. Tenants must report suspected increases to the area rent office in Bath, Maine within 15 days. He urges conferences to reach compliant agreements and warns against oral lease provisions bypassing the law.
Fragmentary text describes work on a street foundation with unclear sequence and missing details. The readable bits reference Washington Street and a new foundation project. No confirmable entities or outcomes present in the surviving excerpt.
Librarian Bertha C. Dean presents the 1946 patron statistics with 527 new borrowers, 1187 cards removed, 19 lost books, 26 missing from the high school list, and 750 book Whitmore collection gift. The report notes book week events, new World Book set, 12 new books, and ongoing cataloging and classification efforts.
Dike and upper Washington Street school teachers were guests at a Thursday meeting. The group voted to buy a Victrola and records for the upper Washington school, renew the Activities magazine, and hold a Christmas sale. They planned an ice sports discussion with Rotary, Halloween parties with the Lions, and changed meeting time to the third Thursday at 8 p.m. The program featured Morse School students, music supervisor Abbie Harvey, and Rev. Laforest ins as guest speaker.
The Bath Rotary Club hosted former Maine Governor Summer Sewall at the noon luncheon with about 20 guests. Sewall described his Germany postwar observations, noting food conditions, democratic aims of military government, and German attitudes toward authority and peace, while urging careful aid to Europe.
The October term at Bath opened with Justice Arthur Sewall presiding. Fourteen indictments were returned after a five hour session, including six public charges against James W. Stanton Jr and others for offenses involving mortgage fraud, assault, larceny, forgery, and burglary. Three indictments were secret.
John Cooling, 24, of Gardiner pleaded guilty to assault with intent to kill Mrs. Eliza Mowatt, 73, of Richmond, and was sentenced to 10 to 20 years in Thomaston State Prison for the Aug. 10 offense. A larceny count of an automobile against Cooling was not pressed. James W. Stanton, formerly of Bath and a parking meter company representative, pled nolo contendere on two charges and was sentenced to the Men’s Reformatory with two years probation.
Bath firemen aided by chief Richard Frates contained a woods and building fire near the Brunswick Water District site. The blaze threatened a brick pumping station and burned through a rear section before crews halted flames. A separate Woolwich field fire near Montsweag was controlled with aid arriving.
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