Bath Fire Damages Lt Richardson House in Bath
Fire at the dwelling occupied by Lt J R Richardson on Lower Middle Street caused roof damage after starting in the chimney. Alarm at 1 40. excellent water pressure aided response. Richardson lived alone and suffered loss of household goods. Also notes social events and local residents in Bath and Brunswick, including visits, residents, and local clerks.
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J. R. Richardson
Lowerddle Street
Percy & Small
Richardson
Bath Town Hints Winter Dance Plans Amid Hall Conversion
Oct 18 1916 Bath residents consider options for dancing events as Music hall becomes club rooms by Texas Co. Bath remains cut off from the city’s main dancing hub. A Boston boat stayed at its wharf until 11 pm due to strong winds Tuesday night. Miss Harvey’s Wednesday class and assembly move to the Yacht club. Crews arrive from Oxford Mass for Bowker lot lumbering at Phippsburg. The Leonard Mitchell drug sign preserves historic Anderson pharmacy marks. Sailors from Barracouta and Coronet of the Holy Ghost and Us Society anchored in Merrymeeting.
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Music Hall
The
Texas Co
Bath
Maine Tide of Local News From Bath and Vicinity
The Bath area reports a busy slate of small events. Mariners prepare to blow up the Orion wreck with government aid. Morse High students plan a masquerade for senior funds. theater groups tour Maine with Bath-born actors. new homes, hires, and winter quarters appear along Washington Street and Popham.
War relief group to send comfort bags to front line soldiers
Local volunteers assemble Christmas style care packages for troops with playing cards games and gifts to be delivered by a visiting organizer calling herself Mademoiselle Miss during the first week of November. Distinct reports from Litchfield note strong turnout and church invitations as workers progress.
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Mademoiselle Miss
Brunswick plans widening Garnet bridge opening
This morning Brunswick begins work to widen the Garnet bridge opening by 40 feet to reduce water flow from Buttermilk Cove into the New Meadows under ebb and flood tides. The first paving load for Center Street between Washington and Water was laid on Saturday and paving starts this week. Grass covers the thatch beds. hundreds of ducks flock in but hunters are kept out of range. Theatre seats at Bath Opera House were filled Saturday night. Weekend guests at the Sabine summer home of Charles J. Cain included Marion Robbins Charles Foster Lela Blair Parker Worrey Mildred Robbins Jennie Page Marion Dain Edward Coombs. A duck dinner followed a Fall outing in Merrymeeting Bay near Chopp's Point with guests Harry Huse Jim Bonness Joseph Gaudreau Walter Many James Ledyard Walter Whitney Fred Humphreys Gardiner Rogers Richard Marr. Richmond built over a mile of concrete in town this year. The Hockomock ferried 12,000+ autos across the Kennebec last season. Smelt fishing returns as a local industry with 15 cent price. mackerel in market at 18 cents. Portland likely hosts 4,000 teachers at a state convention. Hyde Windlass Co. advances with a new office building and extensions to the machine shop. Bath autos visit Portland. Parker Moulton played for Maine against Bates. Mollie Tournlotte, Colby student, weekend visitor for Bowdoin-Colby game.
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Charles J. Cain
Sabine
D. A. McDonald
Marion Robbins
Charles Foster
Lela Blair
Parker Worrey
Mildred Robbins
Jennie Page
Marion Dain
Edward Coombs
Bath
Merrymeeting Bay
Chopp’s Point
William Elliott
Harry Huse
Jim Bonness
Joseph Gaudreau
Walter Many
James Ledyard
Walter Whitney
Fred Humphreys
Gardiner Rogers
Richard Marr
United Fund Hits Three Quarters of Campaign Goal
Bath United Fund nears its goal with pledges over 30 000 of a 42 905 target after poor weather slowed door to door canvassing. Organizers say the final 25 percent remains and relies on local volunteers and citizen support to ensure success.
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Bath
United Fund
Nicoll To Speak At Sagadahoc County Democrats Meeting
Donald C. Nicoll Buckfield executive secretary of the Maine Democratic Party will speak at a Sagadahoc County Democrats meeting Thursday at 7 30 p m in the Volunteers for Stevenson Kefauver Headquarters 132 Front Street Bath The meeting will discuss party plans and the coming presidential election all Democrats and others interested are invited to attend Nicoll recently resigned to become administrative aide to Congressman elect Frank Coffin of Lewiston
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald C. Nicoll
Buckfield
Maine
Democratic Party
Sagadahoc County
Woolwich
Stevenson-Kefauver
Front Street
Bath
Nicoll
Frank Coffin
Lewiston
Hockomock Council Reports State Session Highlights
At the Oct 18 meeting of Hockomock Council No 81 D of P Mrs Marjorie Steel reviewed the Great Council sessions held in Portland Oct 12 13 where she attended as council representative. Mrs Steel and Mrs Mary Anderson received Pocahontas degrees. Ruth Trask and Mildred Roderick were introduced as Great Pocahontas and Great First Scout respectively. A social hour followed with refreshments provided and Frances St Martin honored with birthday cards and gifts.
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Hockomock Council
D. of P
Great Council
Portland
Marjorie Steel
Steel
Mary Anderson
Ruth Trask
Mildred Roderick
Annie Wilson
Sophie McPherson
Frances St. Martin
New Meadows Yacht Club Plans Halloween Party
The New Meadows Yacht Club hosts a club Halloween party for members and guests on Saturday evening at the clubhouse. The event runs from 8 p.m. to midnight with an orchestra, dancing, games, prizes, and refreshments. Commodore Frank E. Hilton chairs arrangements, assisted by Phil and Mrs Staley, Maynard Lee, Kenneth Francisco, Harry Fullerton, and Jack Barry handling decorations, refreshments, tickets, cleanup, and music.
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New Meadows Yacht Club
Frank E. Hilton
Brunswick
Phil Staley
Maynard Lee
West Bath
Kenneth Francisco
Harry Fullerton
Jack Barry
Law Officers Attend FBI Instruction Course
The first in a weekly series began at 7 p m in City Hall Auditorium. Bath Police Department Police Reserves and Sagadahoc County Sheriff's Department members attended. Invites went to Lincoln County Sheriff and Brunswick Police. Special Agent John L Faherty of Boston led the session on Public Relations in Law Enforcement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal Bureau of Investigation
City Hall
Bath Police Department
Sagadahoc County
Troopers to Learn Swimming and Life Saving Skills
A survey of 11 Virginia State Trooper classes found about one third could not swim. The state police plan a course to teach swimming and life saving to all troopers.
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Richmond
Virginia
Gladys McGillicuddy Joins Cape Elizabeth Visit
Gladys McGillicuddy traveled to Cape Elizabeth on Sunday and witnessed the wreck of the steamer Bay State. Dr A A Stott plans a Woolwich residence finished in ten weeks.
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Gladys McGillicuddy
Cape Elizabeth
Bay State
A.A. Stott
Woolwich
Bath Juniors stay unbeaten with 25 14 win at McMann Field
Bath Junior High Destroyers stretched their unbeaten streak to five with a 25 14 victory over Waterville Junior High before a large crowd at McMann Field. Gauvin, McLaughlin, and King starred for Coach Maurice Clark's Green and White. Also at McMann Field, Shipbuilders trailed Waterville High 20-14 before a fourth quarter blocked punt set up a Purple Panthers TD to seal a 26-14 win. Indian Summer reduces waterfowl hunting while geese appear in Merrymeeting Bay in numbers. Two Bath boys, Fred and Allen Elwell, are among five hunters who tagged deer as Maine opened its northern counties season.
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Bath Junior High
Destroyers
Skein
Waterville Junior High
McMann Field
Dave Gauvin
Tony McLaughlin
Charley King
Maurice Clark
Harry Halsey
Waterville High
Purple Panthers
Morse
Merrymeeting Bay
Bath
Fred Elwell
Allen
Maine
Fred
Oakland
Large Corps of Ward Captains List Readied
A long roster lists ward captains and co captains including Mrs Oscar Marsh Mrs Ruth Sarkis and many others across wards 2 through 6 with names such as Mrs Ralph Brewer Mrs Norman Adams and Mrs Francis Winchenbach. The document details leadership for community organization roles.
Probate Notices from Sagadahoc Court October 1956
Court of Probate in Bath Maine orders publication of notices for the estates of Fred E Daggett Ralph R Dunton Carrie M Dunton George E Gray Marion Ledyard. Hearings set for November to appoint executors and administrators with or without bonds and to allow final accounts as filed. Judge Harold J Rubin signs the order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred E Daggett
Topsham
Malcolm D Daggett
Ralph R Dunton
Tate
Georgetown
Carrie M Dunton
George E Gray
Luva M Gray Theat
Marion Ledyard
Bath
James C Ledyard
Harold J. Rubin
Annual Kiddie Karnival At Huse School
The annual Karnival by Huse P T A will run Thursday from 2 30 to 4 30 p m at Huse Memorial School with a dance for sixth to eighth graders from seven to ten in the auditorium. Highlights include games fish pond punch ice cream cooked foods and clowns with balloons.
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Huse P. T. A
Huse Memorial School
Huse
Ira Durgan
Jesse Levin
Thornton Percy
Oscar Griffith
Carl R. Dearborn, Jr
Benjamin Sabo
Alice Austin
Manley Grant
Omar King
Phaon Derr
Arthur Sturtevant
James Taggart
Leonard Smith
Norman Seekins
Morris Goldstein
Cedric French
Charles Cahill, Jr
Russell Hatch
Stanley Hunter
William Greene
Edgar Leavitt
Robert Stone
Warren Atkinson
Melvin Comeau
C. Arthur Mayo
Harry Ring, Jr
Philip Wyman
Charles Lee
Bath Teacher Preaches At Boothbay Harbor Church
Miss Natalie Fowle of Mitchell school preached at Boothbay Harbor Methodist on Layman's Sunday. She holds a lay speaker license and studies for a local preacher license. Her father Rev Forrest Fowle and mother Mrs Fowle learn their son George T. Fowle has entered the ministry after leaving Standard Oil Texas. He holds a local preacher license and will study at a university then a theological seminary and has been named pastor of Dell City Methodist Church in Texas.
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Natalie Fowle
Mitchell School
Boothbay Harbor Methodist Church
Miss Fowle
Forrest F. Fowle
Boothbay Harbor
Standard Oil Company of Texas
Mr. Fowle
Dell City
Republican effort offers transport to polls on election day
Republican organizers urge citizens needing rides to polling places to contact Eisenhower headquarters on election day. Names listed include Franklin Morse and numerous local women such as Mrs. Harold Sonia Mrs. Clifford Wilband and Mrs. Charles Haggett.
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Eisenhower
Franklin Morse
Harold Sonia
Clifford Wilband
Charles Haggett
Maurice Puffer
Archie Wishart
James Sharkey
Harry Fullerton
Richard Footer
E. O. Tuker
Wilbur Crist
North Bath
Florence Barker
Carl Dearborn
James Gillies, Jr
John DeGroot
Probate Proceedings in Sagadahoc County Bath Maine
In Sagadahoc County the Bath probate court sets October and November dates for estates large and small. Administrators executors and trustees are named or confirmed for Andrew Bremner Natt F Howe Mildred L Hagan Florence S Mace Bryan J Mace Lilian W Tucker Pauline C Moulton Rupert H Baxter Lydia B Gillette Mary Baxter White Kate M Baxter George B Wetherbee Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company Harold J Rubin signs as true copy Attest date 18 25 1.
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Bath
Sagadahot
Mildred L Hagan
Florence S. Mace
Bryan J Mace
Lilian W Tucker
Pauline C Moulton
Rupert H Baxter
Lydia B Gillette
Mary Baxter White
Kate M Baxter
Lillian H Heal
Sagadahoc
Mildred M Warren
Frank R Warren
Joan M Bussey
Maine
Maude M. Haynes
W. Linwood Hayn
Walter S Dunbar
David D. Tabor
Harold B Cranshaw
Newton
Massachusetts
Colony Trust Campany
John A. Cranshaw
Harold B Cranshaw, Jr
Myra Snow Kelley
John M Allen
Harpswell
Harriet
Ohneoh
Helen Marr
Rit
Harold J. Rubin
Home Nursing Class Offered at Memorial Hospital
Mrs. Wallace Ham R N will lead a six week home nursing course at Memorial Hospital sponsored by the Bath ter American Red Cross. Classes meet Mondays starting Oct 29 in the Red Cross room. registration 7:30 this evening at the hospital or later by calling Mrs Ham Hi 3-4891.
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Wallace Ham
R. N
Memorial Hospital
Bath Ter
American Red Cross
Red Cross
Ham
Stork Shower for Mrs Willard McCabe at Washington Street
Mrs Willard McCabe was guest of honor at a Saturday evening stork shower hosted by Mrs Carl McCabe and Miss Betsy Douglas at 248 Washington street. Gifts were displayed in an old fashioned mint green cradle as refreshments were served by the hostesses assisted by Mrs Chester H McCabe. Attending were Mrs Charles Swearingen Mrs Gladys Cochrane Mrs Jane Dutton Mrs Walter Longley Mrs Newell Swain Mrs Clarence Browne Mrs Norman Kenney and Mrs Leland Green. Gift givers included Mrs John Hindsom and Mrs Priscilla McGuiggan.
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Willard McCabe
Carl McCabe
Betsy Douglas
Chester H. McCabe
Washington Street
Newell Swain
Clarence Browne
Norman Kenney
Leland , Green
John Hindsom
Priscilla McGuiggan
Engagement Notice for Nancy Emily Dube and Carl Moore
Mr and Mrs Clarence J Dube announce the engagement of their daughter Nancy Emily to Carl E Moore U S Navy stationed aboard the USS Barry docked at Charlestown Navy Yard Moore is the son of Mr and Mrs Clemie Moore of Columbus O No date for the wedding has been set.
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Clarence J. Dube
Huse Street
Nancy Emily
Carl E. ‘Moore
U. S. Navy
Barry
Charlestown Navy Yard
Moore
Clemie Moore
Columbus, O
Central Maine golfer backs youth sports at Bath event
Mr Keach a leading golfer in Central Maine champions sport value for youth. A Saturday night banquet and dance are set for Waterville High School gymnasium as part of a weekend conference for boys.
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Ing Service
Keach
Maine
Waterville High School
ILO Says Global Working Population Near One Billion
The International Labour Office reports about one billion people are currently employed worldwide. The figure highlights the scale of global labor participation and underlines ongoing employment trends across regions.
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The
International Labor Office
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Western Maine Wellesley Association
Henry Johnson
Miss Potter
Hatch
Fish
Haskell
Elliott
Miss Torrey
Miss Thompson
Edith Howard
Allston
Mass
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Ida Manson
Mac Mahan
Miss Howard
Percy Clerks
Laura Barstow
Henry M. Biggins
Martin O’laughlin
Frank K. Hawkes
Maine Central
R. R. Yard
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Pine Street
Bangor
Norman McCabe
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Edward Hyde
John H. Hyde
Peskebegat Lodge
Lobster Lake
L. A. McDonnough
Alice E. Varney
Elmer Rich
Maxwell Powers
Henry W. Hanson
Curtis
Stone House
Arthur Sewall
Rodney E. Ross
Kennebunk
F. N. Ross
W. A. Morse
Anna
Morse High School
Assembly Hall
Madelyn Desmond
Ruth Goodwin
Carmen Atkinson
Herbert Douglas
Anna Lynch
D. T. Percy & Son
Muslin
Charles P. Wetherbee
Bath Iron Works
Washington
Harry Cressey
Hagan
Waton Street
Hyde Windlass
Cressey
Francis Weeks
New Hampshire
Safford
Evie Weeks
Charles E. Doten
Gertrude Reed
Mechanic Street
Doten
Laura Baker
Clary'’s
William W. Robinson
Shaw
Chaffee Brothers
Oxford
Phippsburg
Leonard & Mitchell
Anderson Pharmacy
Atnderson
Percy & Small Yards
Morse’s River
Popham
Charles Stinson
John Scott
John and
Joseph Fitch
Wincemos Parker Head
Popam
Horace Mitchell
Scott W. Tibbetts
Career Harbor
Mt. Desert Bay
Orion
William Bridges
H. Burnham
Thad Roberts
Small Point
Eugene Desmond
A.H. Woods
Waterville
Rockland
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Roscoe H. Shaw
Palace
Berkshire
Hudson Navigation Company
Albany
James L. McQuarrie
Western Electric Company
Charles E. Curtis
Philadelphia
Mr.Curtis
Myers Sutherland
Ikey Coombs
Phi Rlios
Iron House
W. J. Burnside
Pemaquid Point
Mr. Burnside
Owen J. Ledyard
Arrowsic
Frank Clark
Morsé High School
Bath Dance Orchestra
Court Street
Hyde Windlass Company
Rachel Milkelsky
Mt. Sinai Hospital
Charles Henry Butler
Butler
Miss Flagg
Montsweag
Washington, D. C
Butlers
Beacon Street
Miles M. Merry
Fg School
Myrle ‘Strong
Edna Pepper
Martha
Texas Yard
Morse High
Webber Pharmacy
Leroy Dickson
Perth Amboy
Kennebec
Langdon T. Snipe
Dr. Lothrop
Alton Hathaway
Hathaway Cottage
Madeline Desmond
Eugene M. Desmond
Common Play Co
Manchester
N. H
Gardiner
Augusta
Alonzo Harriman
Lester Morse
University of Maine
Anne Ever
Desmond
Goodwin
Atkinson
L. L. Hooker
Ds Ieto
Daughters of Hygeia
W. E. Kershner
Williams
Kershner
Garnet Bridge
Buttermilk Cove
Water Streets
Center
Bath Opera House
the Bee
Hockomock
Hacker
Hyde Windlass Co
Windlass Co
R. H. Baxter
W.S. Newell
Parker Moulton
Bates
Mollie Tournlotte
Colby
This
Mrs. Harrison , Bowie
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Bernice
Hosmer
P.C
County Democrat
FBI
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Oscar Marsh
Ruth Sarkis
Leonard Litchfield
Robert Mayes
Duncan Bragg
Thomas Gallagher
Maurice Owen
Leon Wyman
Joseph Kocha
Robert Jewell
James Haley
Theresa Hill
Joan Marsh
Judy Marsh
Henry Rogers
Burt Osgood
Joseph Robinson
Charles Swearingen
John Hagegett
Stanley Wallace
Donald Freeman
Ray Thomas
Waldron Troop
Amerise Bourque
Leon Robbins
Harold Rubin
Oscar Adams
Arthur Hall
Roger Robinson
Wallace Gower
George Perry
Elmer Avery
Charles Cahill
Ward
Francis Winchenbach
William Green
Joseph Belanger
Patrick Dawson
H. H. Hartley
Lewis Prentiss
Arthur Wing
Walter Longley
Eugene Hart, Jr
Joseph Dube
Leon Buck
Jane Stevens
William F. Mussenden
William A. Niss
Christopher Boyle
C. A. Mayo, Jr
Frederick Robie
Harold McElman
E. O. Barsness
Evelyn Percy
Eleanor Wilson
Joseph Long
Harold Brown
Richard Johnson
Edward Hamblett
Hollis Walker
Bertram Reed
L. M. King
Edith Eberhard
Ruth
James Jenkins
Joseph Marchetti
Eugene Rouillard
David Y. Alkizin
David Clark
Harold Perry
Katherine Powers
Richard Haskell
Herbert Douglas Ward
John Conley
Eleanor Danforth
Paul Akeley
Stanley Commeau
Edward Collins
Paul Scanlin
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Cate
Lillian H. Heal
Huse School
Republican City
Michael M . Zoomie
Mike Zoome
Alice Zoomie
Susan A M_ Peterson
Harry L Day
Lillian Areai Register
Shastletop
Perley Fyens Baker
Byward W. Bridgham
Catherine Dougherty
John P Carey
Sidney A. McPherson
Joseph C Given
Joseph C
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Freeman L Oliver
Ava Maria Whitney
Verona
Hancock
Edward W. Brideham
John E Young
Philipsbore
Joseph A Young
Joseph A. Young
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