Bath Independent Newspaper Archives, Sep 2, 1937, p. 10

Fire crews quell woods blaze near River road

Richmond firemen battled a hardwood fire in the Frank Yeaton woods across from the Camp grounds Saturday afternoon. The blaze burned over three acres before being brought under control. Local residents and visitors, many from nearby towns, were noted in a long list of weekend sightings at homes, cottages, and social events across Richmond.

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Telephone Talk At Bath Rotary Club Dinner

Rupert M Irvine of New England Tel gave a detailed talk on the telephone industry origin growth and global reach from Bell in 1875 to the present Bell System. He noted 14 980 000 telephones and described rural line costs and dampness resistant cables while naming visiting Rotarians and next week’s Augusta speaker.

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Rotary Club Hotel Sedgwick Rupert M. Irvine Bath-Brunswick New England Irvine Big Bell System American Telephone and Telegraph Co New England Tel & Tel. Co Western Electric Co Bell Laboratories Bell System Atlantic Ocean Pacific Bath Oliver L. Hall Augusta Governor Barrows Bangor

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Walsh pleads guilty to reckless driving in Bangor court

James G. Walsh of 3 Drummond street pleaded guilty to reckless driving after a collision with a Florida sedan driven by Grant Purington at Washington and Winter streets. Judge Arthur J. Dunton fined Walsh 20 dollars plus 4.95 in court costs. Several intoxication cases were heard, yielding fines of 10 and 4.95 costs or 5 and 4.95 costs. Daniel E. Ahearn, former Bangor alderman, now in Manchester, N H, discussed criminology and crime detection in articles. Miss Barbara Fisher travels to Pemaquid for a visit and will return to Berry's Mills school duties next Monday.

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James G. Walsh Drummond Street Arthur J. Dunton Langdon FE. Green Walsh Grant Purington Washington Winter Streets Green Washington Street Winter Street Dunton Daniel E. Ahearn Bangor Western Union Telegraph Co Ahearn Manchester N. H The Postal Telegraph Co Barbara Fisher Pemaquid Just Wold Court Street Fisher Berry's Mills

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Georgetown News and Social Roster Highlights

Georgetown society notes list Mrs Bredenberg of Everett Mass and party occupying Walter Williams house over the holiday. Many visitors from Melrose Boston West Roxbury and Bath call on local families. The funeral of Perry Beals at First Baptist Bath is noted along with civic events and a maple cane presentation to William Berry.

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Bredenberg Everett Mass Walter Williams West Georgetown James Higgins West Roxbury Marion Rowe Viola Buzzo Elizabeth Hunt Harold F. Hunt Brunswick Eleanor Cunningham Bath Shirley N. C. Hicks Ruth Hicks Jamaica N. Y Thomas Hagan Augusta E. Rowe Nancy Russell B. H. Woodside Hagan Harry Carlisle Edgecomb Rufus Smith Winslow Melrose Howard M. Trafton Ernest Curtis Scott Wendell Todd Salem Harold Miller Charles MacMahan Walter Beane Five Islands Ernest Heald Dorothy Stuart Richmond Emma B. Billings Alex Cunningham Reid Fellows E. B. Billings Mary Herman Lillian Roach George Foss Boston James Stevens Cecil Edgar Warren Leo Pertell Georgetown Center Bay Point Road Ann L. Reade Kennebec Point Medford Anson Leavitt Roscoe Scott Roxbury First Baptist Roscoe P. Todd Warren Melrose Highlands Clarence Kneeland Rowley Kneeland Leroy Moore Winslow Rouse Cotton Island Holt John Williamsburg Gaston Lachaise New York City Edward Nagle Ralph Butler Robert Waltham Popham Beach J. F. Higgins Crilbert Gunnell John Gilbert Waltham, Mass Thomas Willams

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Prohibition Prophet’s 1851 Maine Act Echo Reaches Portland

City Manager James E. Barlow received a pamphlet from Golden Lake Ontario by Kenneth Lacey claiming to find Mayor Neal Dow’s 1851 prophecy on Maine liquor laws. Dow, famed as Maine’s father of prohibition, warned the act would end traffic in intoxicating liquors in the state.

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James E. Barlow Portland Golden Lake Ontario Kenneth Lacey Neal Dow Maine Dow Prohibition

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Perry Beals 65 Dies After Embolism At Bath Memorial

Perry Chandler Beals aged 65 died at Bath Memorial Hospital from an embolism after a year plus as a patient and two successful operations. A Georgetown native, he worked at Bath Iron Works and once captained vessels out of Boston and Gloucester. He lived on Robinhood estate work in Florida and was active in the Methodist church and Boothbay Harbor Masons. Survivors include his sister Allen Pettengill and relatives in South Portland Saugus Portland and elsewhere.

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Dorothy Hagan Farr Hagan Georgetown North Yarmouth Academy Perry Beals Robinhood Bath Memorial Hospital First Baptist Church Doty Robinhood Church Oak Cemetery Perry Chandler South Portland Mr. Beals Levy S Nancy (Richardson) Beals Boston Gloucester Mass Bath Iron Works Albert Diamont Chipley Fla Beals Masonic Lodge Boothbay Harbor Allen Pettengill Lawrence Vail Saugus Malcolm L. Jewett Portland Myron W. Jewett

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Death of Capt G W Goodman in Jamaica New York

Bath reports the death of Captain G W Goodman born July 25 1863 in Calais He served as an officer with Red D line from New York and commanded the S S Caracas before retiring five years ago He had worked at Bath Iron Works and served briefly in the Bath police department He is survived by wife and four children William D Goodman Samuel A Goodman Mrs George Calder and Mrs Stuart Ross Also noted is the late Captain Robert Goodman of Bath as a brother and Miss Jane A Goodman as a Bath niece.

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Bath G. W. Goodman Jamaica Long Island N. Y Capt. Goodman Calais George and Amelia Duncan Goodman New York S. S. Caracas Bath Iron Works William D. Goodman Brooklyn Samuel A. Goodman George Calder Garden City Stuart Ross Hampstead L. I Robert Goodman This City Jane A. Goodman

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Miss Harriet M Tewksbury Dies In Bath At 58

Harriet M Tewksbury a Bath dressmaker of 18 Wesley street died suddenly Tuesday noon after months of poor health with a recent improvement. Born in Bucksport she came to Bath in 1904 and belonged to the Church of the Nazarene. The body was taken to Arthur F Mayo funeral residence 819 High.

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Harriet M. Tewksbury Bath Wesley Street Miss Tewksbury Bucksport Church of the Nazarene Arthur F. Mayo High Street

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Obituary and local notices from Georgetown and Boothbay

Funeral for Perry C. Beals at Georgetown Center Baptist Church drew relatives from Maine and Massachusetts. Interment was at Oak Cemetery. In Boothbay Harbor a guest speaker will address church services and music events, while the 50th wedding anniversary of Charles Metcalf Metcalf is noted with details of their California move and Maine connections.

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Charles Ciordon Gilkey University of Chicago Sumner Boothbay Harbor Boothbay Center Baptist Annie Laurie Hetsen Bremen Somerville Mass Alna Frederick Chapman Damariscotta Boothbay Charles Cutts Metcalf Augusta Metcalf Grant Street Berkeley Calif California Maine Georgia E Metcalf

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Return from White Mountains Employed in Boston

Miss Koughan returns to Boston after a tour of the White Mountains with her uncle and aunt Mr. and Mrs. William H. McGlinchy Mr. and Mrs William Armstrong and daughter Doris.

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Mr. Koughan Boston White Mountains William H. McGlinchy William Armastrong Doris

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Five Islands community season wrap and social shifts

The Five Islands Improvement Association held the season’s final meeting with a covered dish supper. Officers elected for the year include Mrs Norman Howard president, Philip O’Brien vice president, Miss Caroline Anderson secretary, Miss Betty Staffeld treasurer. The group will relocate meetings to Howard’s hall next season. The note also lists numerous local visits and summer residents at Five Islands, updates on library activity, and regional travel and socialization among residents and visitors.

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Five Islands Harriet Worrell Serepta Pinfold Lovell Pinfold Percy Savage James Winn Jamaica Plain Mass Mary Norton Daniel Sexton Eugene Augusta George Yeo Winchester New York City Parson’s School of Fine and Applied Arts Norman Dubois Paul Kelley Stoughton F. P. Bartlett Marjorie Bartlett Sedgemere Road Storr Conn Winnifred Briggs Winter Hill Rockland Hale Massachusetts Lum Clayton Rowe Bath J. E. Blaisdell Vernal Chaney Kittery Harold Rowe T. N. Williams West Georgetown Gilbert Gunnel Waltham Arthur Webster Boothbay Camp J. C. Briggs Everett Hennan George Hennan Watertown Horton Cottage Carrie Stevens C. F. Knight Leonora Knight Waterbury Maynard Hinckley Ambrose Thibodeau Theodore Campbell Rockport Thibedeau Erland Miriam Wilkens Sally Quincy D. W. Staffeld Edward Wren Georgetown J. G. Stevens Frank MacMahan MacMahan Island Somerville Mattie B MacMahan Friends Chester Pinkham Westbrook Ells Elbridge, Jr A W. Butler Elizabeth Barbara Lincoln Butler Walter E. Reid Seguins Rockmere Margaret Sylvester Denver Cal New York Edward Anderson Bellingham Wash Alfreda Hance Worrell Ogden Bert Hall Acton Mass Leonard Gould Gould St Petersboro Fla Hall Cottage

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Obituary for Howard Beedy 47 in New York

The obituary notes the death of Howard Beedy age 47 at his home in New York, listing brothers including Carroll and others. It mentions his roles as president and treasurer of the Oxtor Paper Co and lists surviving relatives and a Lewiston connection. The fragmentary text preserves names and minimal context of survivors.

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Howard Beedy As Congressien Carroll Ain New York Nina Seutid Voce Oxtor Paper Bonds Saat Wits Wal“ Wallee Et Feu Woda Sormice Destine & Futis Idee Gandur Lewiston Aid Tocoustis Rutvard Wo Samason Batti

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Deaths of Lieuts Foltz and Peltz in Northern Pennsylvania

A garbled report notes Lieut Jonathan Cinton Peltz and Lieut Foltz drowned in separate incidents in Pennsylvania. Peltz died at Smal lont Beach after an unspecified event. Foltz perished while attempting to rescue George Wholf from a flood in a swift stream.

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Smallont Beach Juorathan Cinton Peltz Welborn Foltz George Wholf Pennsylvania Swat

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Mrs Albert Petersen dies in Bridgeport at 63

Mrs Hans Sievers of 1226 Washington Street received word of the death in Bridgeport Connecticut of Mrs Albert Petersen aged 63 mother of her former husband Paul Hontsvet who drowned at Popham Beach on June 23 1931 Angina caused death Three daughters and a son survive Funeral held on Saturday at Bath Maine connections noted with Bath visits and acquaintances in the area

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Hans Sievers Washington Street Bridgeport Conn Albert Petersen Paul Hontsvet Popham Beach

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Death of L. T. Collamore of West Appleton

Fred Snowdon of Court street reported the death of his father in law L. T. Collamore of West Appleton, longtime chemist for Merrimack Chemical Co. North Woburn Mass. He retired earlier due to ill health. Snowdon, Mrs. Martha Gross, Alzira Gross, Mrs. Laurence Lowell, and others attended the funeral at the Russell Home in Rockland with burial slated for Achorn cemetery.

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Fred Snowdon Court Street L. T. Collamore West Appleton Collamore Merrimack Chemical Co North Woburn Mass Snowdon Martha Gross Alzira Gross Laurence Lowell Kenneth Snowdon Rupert A. Snowdon Russell Rockland Achorn Cemetery

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Captain Nye's Funeral Rites Held for Local Lighthouse Keeper

The funeral of Capt. Harry L. Nye longtime keeper of the Doubling Point range lights was held Friday afternoon at Curtis funeral home. Rev. Ernest Heywood of Wesley Methodist church officiated. The body was moved to South Orrington for services by Eureka lodge officers and buried in South Orrington. Nye was a native of the town.

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Harry L. Nye Doubling Point Curtis Funeral Home Ernest Heywood Wesley Methodist Church South Orrington Eureka Lodge Orrington Nye

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Funeral for Richard H Staples Jr held Tuesday

The funeral for Richard H Staples Jr took place Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 at the Arthur F Mayo funeral residence 819 High Street with Rev Jess Kenderdine of Bea von Street Methodist Church officiating. He died Saturday at his grandparents home and is survived by both sides including Mr and Mrs Staples and Mr and Mrs Talbot along with several great grandparents.

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Richard H. Staples Arthur F. Mayo High Street Jess, Kenderdine Beavon Street Methodist Church Buin Oak Grove George W Talbot Am A Staples Talbot John Jaquith Heathr Elbridge Worrey

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Cromwell dies after illness at home in Portland

Stanley H Cromwell age 22 died Monday at his home 857 High Street after a period of poor health. He is survived by his mother Maton Burgess and her husband Burgess plus three brothers Kenneth Donald and Wil hit of Bata, grandfather J Herbert Snipe Bath, niece Eiieen Cromwell Wellogt Waonewsch, and Mrs Taivid Machel of Middle Street. Mrs Revert Tren her daughter stayed in Portland for a visit at her apartment on Coneress Street.

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Cromwell Mary Veura High sretHe Maton Burgess Nm Burgess Kenneth Donald Wilhit al of Bata J. Herbert Snipe Nerce Eiieen Crom- Wellogt Taivid Machel Middle Street di Fone Portland Severa Revert Tren Coneress Street

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Death of Capt G W Goodman in Jamaica New York

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Miss Harriet M Tewksbury Dies In Bath At 58

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Return from White Mountains Employed in Boston

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Five Islands community season wrap and social shifts

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Obituary for Howard Beedy 47 in New York

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Deaths of Lieuts Foltz and Peltz in Northern Pennsylvania

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Mrs Albert Petersen dies in Bridgeport at 63

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