Multiple Fires Struck North Bath Area With Lambert Park Blaze
Fire crews battled a series of blazes across Centennial Avenue and the Lambert Park housing area, including a two family wooden house and a vacant Lambert Park unit. A separate woods fire on Lover's Retreat road burned about 50 feet before being extinguished. Fires prompted alarms from box 723 at 10.05 and additional calls later. authorities suspected no careless ignition and noted smoke from Lambert Park fire rising to about 50 feet.
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Cemetery Pond
Clark
Lambert Park
Meron
Ras Ul
Aetgrinad
Centennial Avenue
Coort
North Bath
J. E. Hart
Court Recesses In Sagadahoc Proceedings Till November 10
Justice Arthur Sewall of York presided briefly in a Sagadahoc case when the court recessed Wednesday morning. Proceedings will resume at the next term on November 10.
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Arthur Sewall
York
Sagadahoc Ina
Faire Postponed Amid Unclear Scheduling
The Gide Tyme Faire faces postponement as organizers adjust the event plan. Details about new dates and venue remain unclear, leaving attendees unsure of participation and ticketing status.
Fire destroys south end barn early Saturday
A large two story barn at Rose street and Marshall avenue burned out of control early Saturday morning. Firefighters confined the blaze to the structure but could not save it, and a 1939 Oldsmobile plus Cornish tools and gear were lost. Damages total around $3,000 with some insurance coverage.
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South End
Rose Street
Marshall Avenue
Silas Plant
Cee Street
Bation Works Corp
Rose and
High Street
Sven B. Lonn
Edward R. McCabe
Richard J.ee
Fr Moriarty
Unocec
Lart Park
Maine Elks Inspect Home Visit Planned for Sunday
Edward J. McMann state president announces Maine Elks will inspect the Home and its grounds on Sunday at three o clock. A tour will show the rooms and furnishings to be provided one room at a time. About 100 children are staying at the home as guests from several communities. All Elks statewide are invited to attend.
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Edward J. McMann
Maine Elks Association
Maine Elks
I Ieee
Per
Moon Elks
Bath Iron Works Receives World War I Citations
Six Bath built destroyers were honored with fac simile presidential citations for outstanding service in World War I. The ships Wadsworth Laffey Nicholas O’Bannon Spence and Converse received the recognitions. copies were presented to Bath Iron Works and to the navy. William S. Newell president of the corporation praised the team effort and urged continued excellence.
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Banc
Bath
Ares
Hitchcock
Hitchcoats
Bath Built
Wadsworth
Laffey
Nicholas
O’bannon
Spence
Converse
Secon
Bath Iron Works Aonb
Bath Iron Works
Bath considers citizen planning panel on school housing
Mayor Donald N Small proposes a 12 member citizens committee after a Bath Board of Education meeting to study inadequate housing and crowded classrooms. He aims to complete selections by the November city government meeting and to inform residents about the severe school housing crisis.
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Donald N. Small
Board of Education
Citizens’ Planning
Bath
Small
High School Boys Stand Guard to Prevent False Alarms
Acting City Marshal Frank Moriarty Principal Horace Herrick and Athletic Director Henry Small led Morsey High School students in a morning assembly to assign fire alarm box watch duties for Halloween. Mayor urged students to avoid danger and confusion, calling them future city leaders.
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Donald N. Small
Frank L. Moriarty
Horace P. Herrick
Heniy D. Small
Morsey High School
Mented
Wenaseveen
Winter Street Church Annual Meeting Recaps Parish Progress
The Winter Street Church annual meeting reported a strong year with budgets in good shape and significant spending on church improvements including shrubbery driveways and new seating. Officers were re elected and an organ fund was created with a committee named to raise it.
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Winter Street
Grang
Hyman
Ladies Aid Ladies Auxiliary
Ladies Aid
Ladies Auxiliary
Charles B. Doyle
Prudential Committee
Ear
Arthur M. Bowker
John N. Taylor
Christine Curtis
Herbert Cavanaugh
Robert Erskine
John Stickney
Robert Rowland
John Morse
John F. Cooke
William J. Schultze
Fred. J. Higgins
J. O. Purdue
Joseph O. Purdue
Arthur C. Lemont
Clifford Wilband
Fred E. Foote
Ernest Freeman
Clifford Smith
W. Harry McGlinchy
John Crosby
Walter H. Bowker
Arthur Bowker
Milton Trott
Harry Morin
George Sargent
G. Thomas Murphy
Roscoe McFadden
Ralph O. Dale
John Sylvester
Morton Young
Henry McCabe
David Alkazin
Fred Higgins
Carl Albee
Archie Doyle
Alvin Coss
Charles Messenger
Carlanton
Lucy Ann Haggett
Martha Pratt
Barbara Greene
Frances Young
Virginia Parker
Barbara Burden
Ann Wilson
Jean Bradbury
Joan McCloud
Natalie Hathorne
Jean Lermond
Hilda Bowers
Sue Stover
Barbara Danforth
Doris Alexander
Pat O'Reilly
Marjorie Cahill
Marion Snow
Jean McKay
Fifth Suspicious Fire Reported at South End
Bath records its fifth suspicious fire of the week Sunday night around 9:30 in a wooded strip between High and Middle streets near Hunt street. Teenager Wallace A. MacDonald alerted the fire via Box 16 and Richard Johnson helped shelter the blaze until responders arrived. Other unexplained blazes occurred on Centennial Avenue Lambert Park Lovers’ Retreat and High Street behind Johnson’s home.
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South End
Bath
High
Middle Streets
Hunt Street
Wallace A. MacDonald
Lower Middle Street
High Street
Hunt and
Washington Streets
Richard Johnson
Middle Street
Centennial Avenue
Lambert Park
Lovers’ Retreat
Johnson
North End
Rotary District 199 chief visits Bath club
John D. Carson past president of Windsor Locks Rotary and former district governor tours six Maine clubs in one week. He notes Rotary changes and World War era impacts, urges aid for fire victims in Maine, and highlights Heritage clubs in New Zealand to assist veterans’ children. Bath honors him as Jacques Normand departs for Le Havre.
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Bath
Rotary
New Zealand
Heritage Club
Carson
Frank Freeman
Maine
Richmond
Charles B. Doyle
Jacques Normand
le Havre
France
Bath Rotarians
the Lions
Odd Fellows Hall
L. A
Bath Rotary Club starts drive to aid fire victims
Bath Rotary aims to rehabilitate families burned out by recent statewide forest fires. The project, announced at a noon meeting, names Frank Freeman as chair and includes William Skelton Hollis Garey and Dr Milton Stephenson on the committee. Organizing donations will be arranged to feed and support affected families.
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Bath Rotary Club
Frank Freeman
A. G. Page Co
William B. Skelton
Bath Trust Co
Hollis Garey
Sears-Roebuck
Milton C. Stephenson
Central Church Annual Meeting Highlights Parish Progress
The Third Parish of Bath held its annual Central Congregational church meeting with emphasis on fellowship and growth. Officials reviewed finances, approved a budget, and elected Archibald M. Main as Prudential Committee chair along with a slate of officers and committee members.
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Bath
Central Congregational Church
Central Church
Duncan McInnes
Howard McPhee
Horace Morse
Ralph Bertrand
J. Haviland Torrey
Edward McMann
Llorence Clifford
Theodore Burns
William Daley
Edward Cummings
Dana McIntyre
Clyde Mallett
Harold Avery
George Hartsgrove
Harold Brown
Maynard Brown
Howard Steen
James Henderson
Lawrence Lord
Merritt Mitchell
Leonard Litchfield
Arthur L. Pratt
Jame Anderson
Eroderatée Karcher S. Jackson
Jackson
Clerk McInnis
George Moses
F. H. Kimball
Hodgkins
Fred Lord
Arthur Pratt
Hiram Stevens
Rudolph McRae
Archibald M. Main
Prudential Committee
John R. Newell
Alexander MacDonald
Paul Bagdikian
George Stacey
Karcher S. Jackson
Victory and Defense Medals Awarded at State Armory
At the State Armory ceremony on Thursday night Battery B of the 103rd Anti Aircraft Artillery received Victory Medals and American Defense Medals. Captain Fred Haywood, commander of Battery B, accepted the medals from Master Sergeant Roy Morin who also helped present the awards to other veterans. The battery had just alerted for duty as fire but was not called to active service.
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State Armory
103Rd Anti-Aircraft Artillery
Fred Haywood
Roy Morin
United States Army
Haywood
Morin
Co. B
103Rd National Guard
Bath
U. S. Army
Richmond Village Saved by Turn of Wind During Fire
Fire swept along the Kennebec river bank near Richmond, burning eleven buildings on the River road and threatening homes. Volunteers and owners saved furniture and fixtures. a Bowdoin student injured by a falling tank was hospitalized with possible fractures as a relief canteen served over 200 fighters.
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Richmond Village
South Gardiner
Richmond
Kennebec
George Johnson
Fred Groves
C. N. Kennedy
Warren Patton
Minter Cain
Joseph Riley
Robert Taylor
George Clark
Groves
Richard Acker
Bowdoin College
Gardiner General Hospital
Pitts Center
New Road
Enterprise Grange Hall
Brunswick Re Cross
Louis Lemieux
Grace Purinton
Philip Wilder
Brunswick Chapter
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