Police Committee Defers Charges and Receives Resignations
The September city council session approved police board actions after hearing on Patrolman Dean R. Bonney with no grounds found for charges. Patrolman James DeCapua resigned to join Bath Iron Works. New constables Hershon D. Oliver and Thomas B. Oliver were appointed, with future hiring to depend on a pending civil service decision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald N. Small
Dean R. Bonney
Donald Sterling
West Bath
Bonney
Sterling
Small
Alderman Small
James DeCapua
Police Department
DeCapua
Bath Iron Works Corp
Sewall
Hershon D. Oliver
Thomas
Oliver
Butler
Police Civil Service
Merritt A. Mitchell
H. Martin Powers
Powers
Powers, In His Capacity As Chairman of the Committee On Water and Water Works
Bath Water District
Maine Central
Water District
Thomas A. Donaldson
Stephen E. McPhee
Middle Street
Shaw
Pleasant
Highway Board
Forest C. Legard
Bath
Alderman Legard
Legard
Committee On Finance
Bessie L. Mikels
Elm Street
Louis Silverman
Fighting Committee
Mitchell
Hazel Oliver
Washington and
Harvard Streets
Tax Committee
Lillian G. Plummer
Washington, D. C
Wilfred Rousse
Bath Opera House
Michael Zoome
Front Street
W. L. Ham
Water Street
Harold J. Ru‘bin
Alexander Burgess Jr
Alexander A. Burden
Ward A. Footer
Harold H. Harrington
Alfred A. Parks, Jr
Stanley E. Wallace
Iron Works Ladies Have Their Outing
The Bath Iron Works Corp women in the main office enjoyed a day at Shore Acres Sebasco with golf tennis boating and swimming followed by shore or chicken dinner at Sebasco Lodge Special prizes included an electric roaster to Mrs Ellery Doyle and a compact to Miss Beatrice Duprey Other attendees included Mrs Lawrence A Lowell Mrs David P Mullin and many others Dr Brewster G Sedgwick of Springfield Mass was a weekend guest of Mr and Mrs Ralph O Dale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Iron Works Corp
West Bath
Shore Acres
Sebasco
Sebasco Lodge
Ellery Doyle
Beatrice Duprey
Doyle
Westinghouse Co
Duprey
Brown- Wales Co
Lawrence A. Lowell
David P. Mullin
Casper F. Hartleb
Winnifred V. Quinn
Lile M. Niles
Isabelle
Bath to Welcome New Teachers for 1939 40
Bath announces the coming school year with new staff assignments led by Miss Hazel Feere who will teach Latin at Morse High School in place of the resignation of E Sheldon Wright. Other newcomers include Miss Charlotte Sawyer Miss Louisa Tupper and Leslie Ross. The list covers Morse High School Dike School North Grammar and Primary centers and Weeks Street and Central Grammar schools with several principals and teachers changing posts and others continuing after recent resignations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hazel Feere
Morse High School
University of Maine
Morse
E. Sheldon Wright
Feero
St. George's High School
Lisbon High School
Charlotte Sawyer
Louisa Tupper
Leslie Ross
Sawyer
Ellsworth
Roberta Thurston
Center Street School
Washington State Normal School
Machias
Northeast Harbor
Paul V. Mason
Weeks Street School
Miss Tupper
Lisbon Falls
Farmington Normal School
Brownville Junction
Central Grammar School
Bessie M. Hunt
Gorham Normal School
Ross
Bath
Biddeford
Birch Street
Alfred
Horace P. Herrick
Prin
Mary H. Conley
Katharine Conley
Gertrude J. Wdiggery
Amy A. Irish
Hester M. Rose
Nathan W. Watson
M. Agnes Fahey
Alma S. Kirkpatrick
Frank A. Given
Henry D. Small
Harold E. Brown
John FE. Madden
Catherine E. Leonard
J. Edward Pomeroy
David Y. Alkazin
Janette W. Smith
Duncan H. Parrell
Margaret M. Mackinnon
Lillian H. Fadden
Dike
Bernice S. Staples
Eleanor P. Danforth
Mary Brown
M. Jane Feere
Edith B. Horne
Ella R. Jaquith
Mabel F. Libby
Jean L. Danforth
North Grammar School
J. Gertrude Sibsby
Helen L. Hayes
Enidi M. Sawyer
Center Street
Ethel L. Higgins
Hope
Hersom
Florence A. Hawley
Frances Small
South Street
Laura Mitchell
Eleanor Ferguson
Dorothy D. Plummer
Marjorie T. Bartlett
Weeks Street
Anna M. Severin
Mitchell School
Effie C. Wright
Anne M. Thompson
Isabell Lewis
Marjorie Palmer
Sarah E. Coombs
Lillian F. Fisher
Bath schools open with 1815 total enrollment
Bath opened its school year with 1815 students, up from 1782 on opening day last year. Morse High School reported 540 pupils, nine fewer than last fall’s record. Officials expect numbers to rise toward 550. Read across Morse and Dike to Central Grammar Mitchell and North/South streets, with detailed grade counts by school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Morse High School
John Parker
South End
Dike School
Central Grammar
Mitchell School
South Street
Red Cross to Start War Work at Once in Bath
Miss Carolyn Moses of Bath chapter announces that women nationwide are called to volunteer for Red Cross war relief in Europe. The Bath Chapter will organize an enlarged program to prepare surgical dressings garments and similar supplies as war continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carolyn Moses
Bath
Women of America
Red Cross
Europe
Anna Severin Named Principal at Weeks Street School
Mrs Anna Severin, a Weeks street school teacher, was appointed principal to replace Paul V Mason who resigned at the Bath Board of Education meeting in the superintendent Johns Parker office. Miss Bessie M Hunt was granted a one year leave from Central Grammar school principalship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna Severin
Weeks Street
Paul V. Mason
Bath Board of Education
John Parker
Bessie M. Hunt
Central Grammar School
William L. Skelton
Edwin R. Andrews
Allan Spear
Maine Bond Issue Defeated in Popular Vote
Unofficial counts show Maine voters rejected a constitutional amendment raising the debt limit to 46 million dollars to permit a 9 million dollar five year highway program. Only four cities including Portland and Augusta supported the proposal. rural areas favored against it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Francis H. Friend
Legislative
Friend
Portland
Augusta
Industrial
Lewiston
Greene
Machias
Windham
Vassalboro
Manchester
Wiscasset
Wells
Lewis O. Barrows
Rey L. Fernald
Winterport
Fulton J. Redman
John E. Willy
Falmouth
Roy L. Fernald
Fernald
U. S
Clyde H. Smith
Skowhegan
Bath Voters Reject Bond and Charter Change Despite Sunday Movies
In Bath and surrounding towns a statewide referendum saw less than half of qualified voters cast ballots. The $9,000,000 highway bond failed, the council-manager charter proposal lost by about two to one, and the police bill was defeated. Sunday movie showings won a small majority with ward results detailed. local political figures faced criticisn and a few unsigned anti charter leaflets were circulated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Bowdoin
Topsham
West Bath
Arrowsic
Bowdoinham
Georgetown
Phippsburg
Richmond
Woolwich
Butler
Harold P. Small
Mr. Small
Justus H. Miller
Merchants’ Association
Miller
Sro Pye Utila
Plans for statewide mobilization in Maine disaster case
Maine lines up a statewide mobilization plan for emergency use with four regional points. The American Legion, U S Navy Reserve, Coast Guard, utilities, railroads, and citizens will meet September 19 at the American Legion hall to organize and receive instructions for posts and districts. A trial mobilization is planned for October with area commanders to coordinate equipment, personnel, and volunteer craft from Bath and Bar Harbor, while Bath Iron Works leaders take key committee roles. This effort supports Red Cross relief and maintains police power and traffic control in the disaster zone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
American Legion
U. S. Army
National Guard
Coast Guard
American Legion Hall
Portland
Kittery
William Blair
U. S. Naval Reserve
Bath Iron Works
American Legion State Finance and Banking Committee
Thomas Allen
Bath
Lance Cooper
Legion
Bath Post
Rupert Irvine
American Red Cross
Red Cross
Frank S. Vennett
Bath Opera House
Sagadahoc County
Albert 5. Owens
Army Medical Reserve Corps
Roland Smith Post
Physicians and Surgeons Committee
Albert S. Owens
Bar Harbor
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Police Committee
Complaint
B.lw
Cynthia Anne
Memorial Hospital
Fred A. Osgood
J. P. Fernandez
Arrowsie
Everett E. Pierce
Edward Pinson
George Young
Alexander Burgess, Jr
Edward A. Footer
Alex Burgess
C. Pinkham
Walter P. Kingsbury
Kaler
J. B. Ellis
Gordon A. Lake
Albert H. Humphreys
William Stacey
Charles Haggett
Frank Wakefield
Everett Crocker
J. A. St. John
Clarence Pecci
J. Beaudoin
J. Wilkinson
Kendall P. Lord
Harold Lyden
C. A. Sullivan
K. Reed
Vinal King
L. Crocker
John Mullaney
Frank Thompson
W. Snowden
H.C. Stone
A. Burgoin
W. A. Sanders
H. Fowles
A. Frost
Lloyd Rogers
Omar R. Perry
Harry F. Oliver
J. B. Merrill
H. N. Gallant
J. G. Grainer
Harry W. Smith
Hart Fortier
W. Hemmer
Lovell Staples
Francis W. Holmes
E. Brown
I. Arik
EB. Mank, Jr
Guy Yates
Thomas F. Malia
J. Parent
George MacDonald
L. N. Liverman
G. Bertrand
W. Arsenault
Almon L. Goss
George Costain
Harry MacDonald
Selwyn Towne, Jr
A Reynolds
Redford Christiansen
Robert Gallagher
William Clemons
Ernie Sarkis
Edward Gallant
Nippie J. Guerrette
Joseph Leavitt
Wilfred Chaney
George Sarkis
Henry W. Schofield
Edward, Hogan
Warren McNeil
Warnie McNeil
Henry Schofield
Aston Shorey
Iron Works
Brewster G. Sedgwick
Springfield, Mass
Ralph O. Dale
Middie Street
Vilna
Central Press Radiophone
Adolf Hitler
West Bath Lowell
Roberta B. Hathorne
Littlefield
Barbara E. Fisher
Norman W. Hodgkins
Percy E. Hodgkins
Drummond Street
Barbara Louise
Marion Chaney
Parker Chaney
Edward Curtis
Small Point Beach
Rochester
N, Y
North Grammar
North
Houghton Trott
Providence, R. I
William D. Sewall
Stonehouse
Sumner Sewal
Alexandra
David
Nicholas
Madge Staples
Plinton Nelson
Alberta Nelson Talbot
Robert Frye
Yarmouth
Donald Dyer
Gardiner
Lawrence
Mass
Providence
Rees
Beess Owen
Civil Service
Seevars
Bowdoin Setee Rere
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