Forty Years Ago in Bath March 26 1918
Miss Beatrice Welsh visits her aunt Mrs. O E Page in Bath while E T Pinson starts duty at Portsmouth Navy Yard. Raymond Trott of Harvard Law visits Bath. Zina Orne becomes local freight agent for Boothbay division. Various Bath residents travel, work, or study at Tufts, Groton, and local firms. travel and war work dominate daily life with war news via the Times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beatrice Welsh
Boothbay
O. E. Page
Dummer Street
Zina Orne
Boothbay Harbor
Eastern Steamship Company Lines, Inc
Lewiston
Augusta
Waterville St. Ry
Local Notes From Bath March 27 1918 Highlights Many Visitors
A Bath column records numerous residents and visitors including Mrs Edward B Smith in Portland Henry Springer from Waterville and Miss Ada Merrill visiting Lewiston and Bath. Military enlistments and shipyard notes appear with Morse High School students joining offices and ship employers hiring.
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Edward B. Smith
Portland
Texas Steamship hires William B Esmond Gardiner
William B Esmond Gardiner has entered the employ of the Texas Steamship Company. Miss Eva Pratt recently returned from an extended visit in Massachusetts where she stayed with Mrs. Burton Fuller of Melrose. Mrs. Fuller accompanied Miss Pratt back to Bath and has since visited Mrs. Lewis Pepper on Middle Street. Mrs. Florence Robinson and
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillian Oliver
Farmington
John Oliver
High Street
William Temple
Mary Elizabeth
Portsmouth
N. Y
G. A. Cahill
Middle Street
William B. Esmond Gardiner
The
Texas Steamship Company
Eva Pratt
Massachusetts
Burton Fuller
Melrose
Fuller
Bath
Miss Pratt
Lewis Pepper
John Southard
Miles Memorial Hospital
Damariscott
James Birnson
Water Street
Bath Memorial Hospital
Bath area notices touch many lives with travels and tributes
Local telegram of community briefings recounts teachers arriving from vacation in the city noted as M H S. Fire at Capt Scho field home at Cox's Head fought by Popham Beach Coast Guard in about twenty minutes. Residents and visitors, including Small family, McCabrey, Cotton, King, Plummer, Call, Teague, and others, travel, return, or report to Bath and nearby towns amid wartime era activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvey Berry
Popham Beach Coast
Ireland Adopts 1937 Constitution Renaming State Eire
The Irish Free State adopts a new constitution in 1937 and changes the official name of the state to Eire. This move redefines the nation’s political framework and symbols while preserving some existing institutions and governance structures.
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Irish Free State
Eire
Youth Fellowship Council Nominating and Easter Plans
At Wesley church the Methodist Youth Fellowship Council met Sunday evening. President John Haley was authorized to appoint a nominating committee for next year’s officers. Ruth Ellen Hunter will manage the Easter breakfast dining room and Roger Upham chairs the kitchen committee. A Tuesday after school meeting will appoint more committees and discuss Easter breakfast logistics. The group discussed the 1958 University of Life and proposed youth interest groups for submission to John Coombs for Bath Council of Churches planning.
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Methodist Youth Fellowship Council
Wesley Church
John Haley
Ruth Ellen Hunter
Roger Upham
University of Life
John Coombs
Bath Council of Churches
Bath Firemen Respond To Four Calls Monday
The Bath fire department fought four incidents on Monday including a blaze at Dr Jane G Bunker’s Foster Point home caused by defective wiring. Minor damage to a wall. A later fire on Vine Street involved a 1957 convertible. flames were extinguished by police prior to arrival. A flooded carburetor burst into flames causing minor damage. Rescue lights aided searches for possible victims. No injuries reported. The crew also attended the Iron Works dump on Washington Street later that morning.
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Bath
Foster Point
Jane G Bunker
Vine Street
Rock
Edest
Ridge Round
Iron Works
Wastington Street
Bath Lodge B'nai B'rith Elects Officers Sunday
Abraham Greenblatt was elected president of Bath lodge B Nair B Rith at the Sunday night meeting. Elected were Abraham Kramer vice president Jacob Goldstein treasurer Jame Smith secretary Morris Povich and Sam Prawer trustees. Installing ceremonies set for April 13 with Attorney David Klickstein named chairman.
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Abraham Greenblatt
Bath Lodge B'Nai B'Rith
Abraham Kramer
Jacob Goldstein
Jame Smith
Morris Povich
Sam Prawer
David Klickstein
Cox's Head Road Reopens Ahead of Way to Parker Head
Ralph Doughty road commissioner reports dirt Cox's Head road cleared toward Parker Head improving travel. Local social notes list Mr and Mrs Robert F Moore and family moving to mother's house in Phippsburg Center and relatives visiting Bath Richmond St Petersburg St Thomas and Daytona during winter travels.
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Ralph Doughty
Cox's Head
Parker Head
Robert F Moore
Phippsburg Center
Lewis C Moore
Richmond
Forreston Wallace
Edwin C. Will
Stratton
Nathaniel Percy
Richard S. Dozo
Robert F Moors
Stantuen
Florida
C. Warry Hannaford
St. Petersburg
Like Land
Leila Chamberland Wood
Willian Hutchins
Daytona
William W. Marshall Ralph Seeking
Bath
Mer. Frederick 5S Hynes
Auburn
Mass
Stanton Dozois
Elin Ribben
Harpswell
Dozois
Richard Dozois
Horatio Carlisle
Joseph Coffill
Bath Man Dies in Saturday Night Fire
The Bath area records a fatal blaze claiming L Esrle Le Mont, 71, found on a couch in a two room building on Commercial Street. Police, aided by two officers, located him as fire crews arrived. the cause remains undetermined with damage at about 300 dollars. Le Mont, a lifelong Bath resident, ran a small oblique business and previously worked at the South Iron Works.
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Bath
L Esrle LeMont
LeMont
Orrington Haines
Francis MacDonald
Eva Wallace
March
Asa
Richard J. Frates
Ever 'T
Wiscasset Birthday Party and Local Notices
Wiscasset listings note a birthday celebration for Mrs Walter Dodge with Munro and Merry families visiting Old Stone Farm, a funeral in Waltham for William James Young, and various local residents returning from Florida or visiting relatives. Also mentions tax assessor meeting in Augusta and Union Mutual Fire Insurance financials detailing assets and reserves.
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Mero
Munro
Old Stone Farm
Mtrerrs_thooper
Walter Dodge
Bernard Merry
Dodge
William Munro
Elinor Walter
Richard Barker
Carol Barker
Fred Merry
James Merry
Jane Merry
John Merry
Gerald Young
Roland Burckus
Charles Sawyer
Waltham Mass
Wiscasset
William James Young
Richmond White
Igh Street
Venier
Fla
Nataliestown
New York City
J. Kenneth Lincoln
Madgestreal
Trophy honors and certificates at Bath tournament banquet
About 250 attendees watched propotented events as trophies were promised by Edward Cox and Times and Fisher-Mitchell. Certificates to players and cheerleaders were presented by Joseph Marchetti and other coaches, with many staff signing. Probate notices follow the banquet segment, listing administrators and accounts for local estates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eadward Fo Cox
the Times
Fisher-Mitchell
Russell
Joseph J
Chick Marchetti
North Grammar School
Duckson A Drake
Donald H. Bartlett
Toda W Johnson
Richard CG. Milliken
Robert R. McElman
Joan W Lee Kenneth Lo Cheatherland
Robert I. Buck
Nerreion J Farrow
Douglas R. Burns
Dennis L. Belanger
Merritt W. Sargent
Betsey Jo Green
Barbara P. Waynes
Marilyn E. Farrow
Linda Jo Davis
Luria L Douglas
Carol Ann Crist
Sharron
Wooker
Joan L. Ross
Leslie M. T. Ross
Carol S. Dunham
Hunter
Robert Carter
McQuarrie
Bath Junior P High
Thaxter Traffon
Dike
Charles Osborne
Huse
George Sarkis
Fisher Mitchell
Ernest Rogers
Woolwich House
Catherine Powers
Wil
Woolwich Brownie Troop 15 welcomes new members
Kathleen Smith Stephanie Tasker and Sharon Beal joined Woolwich Brownie Troop 15 bringing total to one. Last meeting featured an outdoor project on school grounds gathering strings feathers roots and other materials for bird nests. Materials hung outside the school for birds. A scrapbook of troop activities is in progress and one patrol is preparing a skit for Troop V7.
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Kathleen Smith
Stephanie Tasker
Sharon Beal
Woolwich Brownie
Brownies
Brownies at Dike and Hue schools work on badges and crafts
Bluebell Brownies meet at Dike school making sain dolls lapel pins and handkerchiefs for Mother's Day while six earn Tenderfoot requirements for Fly Up. Troop 19 Mtunin Brownie at Hue school studies health and moral topics and notes were recorded. Raster cards were made last week with outdoor games to follow.
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Bluebell Brownies
Dike School
Mtunin
Hue School
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Bath Daily Times
E. T. Pinson
N. H
Portsmouth Navy Yard
Raymond Trott
Harvard Law School
Edward Hawley
Churchill
G. H. W. Barton
Front Street
South
Dorothy Jewett
F. FB. Seavey
Tufts College
Boston
Horatio A. Duncan
Washington Street
Arthur Pfeiffer
Worcester
Mgss
Texas Company
Aviation Corps
Sanford L. Fogg
Frank
H. F. Ferris
Groton Iron Works
New London
Conn
Rutherford White
Ulysses
Panama
Thurlow Pickham
Maine General Hospital
Charlotte Dow
Hyde Windlass Office
Harvey K. Erskine
James
Capt. Erskine
Fort McKinley
Fred L. Hanks
Texas Steamship Co
City
New York
Mary Pratt
Gardiner
Campbell Clason Camp
Emily Thornton
Bangor
George Chase
Danford MacDonald
M.H.S
Bath Iron Works
Frank Talbot
Gus Small
Robert C. Hannigen
U.S.N.R.F
Alhambra Council
Knights of Columbus
St. Anne's Church
John J. McCoy
Bath National Bank
Beacon
Boy Scouts
Elford Stover
Herbert Douglas
Frank Parks
Edwin Powers
Seguin Island
Times Office
Henry Springer
Waterville
Jason Merrill
Miss Ada Merrill
Joe Cass
John Brown
Merrymeeting Bay
Cass
Edward H. Pierce
Doubling Point
Pemaquid Point
Clarence Marr
Mary FE. Tourtillette
Colby College
Russell Street
Miriam Adams
Fred E. Rowe
Portland Ship Ceiling Co
Sophie Mikelsky
A.M. Cutler
S. A. Evans
Steep Falls
Abbie Minott
Edward Brown
Charles A. Carr
Timothy MacDougall
Frank Clark
Walter Fifield
Vinalhaven
Mrs. Williams Whitney
F. A. Woods
Maine Central R. R
Br. G. Bennett
Idaho
High
Randall Cook
Morse High School
Naval Station
Charles Cook
J. Edward Drake
Andrew S. Merrill
Wilbur C. Oliver
William A. Furber
Edward W. Bridgham
Roscoe P. Ham
Harold M. Sewall
Elwell S. Crosby
Edward W. Hyde
Weston L. Bonney
John A. Morse
Arthur K. Purington
Charles J Dain
Delmar FE. Bates
John N Taylor
Charles Reed
Reed
Maxwell Auto
A. L. Atwood
Norwood
Mags
Arthur Sampson
Frank W. Perkins
Mitchell, Woodbury Co
Mary Cameron
Southport
Richard Quick
Weeks Street
S Ly
Thomas Albee
Machias
A. F. Smith
S. B. Martin
Newington
Shattuck
Somerville
Medford
Harry H. Donnell
Robert Mitchell
Forrest Rogers
Bowdoin '21
Fred D. Hill
Maine Bankers’ Association
Virginia Paine
Zadie Paines
Fred Baker
Philadelphia
Harry A. Walters
Col Roosevelt
Raymond Rogers
William J. O'Brien
May
Christopher Cushing
Elizabeth
N. J
Grace Eggleston
Royal Bank of Canada
Montreal
L. J. Eggleston
North Bath
W.T. Currie
Canadian Army Medical Corps
Mrs
Clarence’ FE Johnon
Marcal Abram C. Oliver
Janet Cutler
Ashburnhem
A. M. Cutler
Solar Lodge
Ashbury M. Blake
Lisbon
Mary Flaherty
Edith Wold
Cora Minard
D. M. Humphreys' & Co
Percy Miller
Morse
Alvin Cobb
John Hackett
Neal Stenley
Texas Steam*hip Company
Lydia Baxter
Eleanor Moulton
City Hospital
James P. King
James Sumner
Mr. King’s
Homs
Peabody
William Teague
Court
L. J. Mosley
Electric Storage Battery Co
City Hall
James A. Connors
South Street Grammar School
Center Street Grammar
South Grammar
Murray
Miller
Kingsbury Ib
Johnson
Deering
Hayes
Curran
Fielder
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Linckin
Callahan
Whitten
Butler
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Lynch
McCabe
Leon S. Knight
Navy
W. H. Hewitt
U.S. N
Beverly
Mas
Dr. A. M
Rachel Kellct
Court Street
Florence Robinson
Charles T. Small
Edith
James W. McCabrey
Grace Cotton
Revere
James E. Lockery
Ernest King
Henry Claywood
E. C. Plummer
Fred King
Alfred Call
Eastern Steamship Co. Lines
Camden
Lucy Teague
Harry Haynes
Maurice Haynes
A. W. Grassy
Bridgeport Conn
Halifax
Maritime Telephone Co
James P. Ledyard
John J. Desmond
Mr Ledyard
Howard Webber
Rumford
Charles Webber
Lincoln Street
Frank Williams
Phippsburg
United States Court
Ccorp
John Crosby
Guy H. Crosby
New York. Corp
Crosby
Fort Levitt
France
54Th Company
Heavy Artillery
Fort Williams
Harry M. Huse
Joseph L Huse
Hazel. Borls Stickney
Corp
Elva Stickney
Poal
George Brookings
Hardings
East Deering
Percy Johnson
Sckness
Galen Watson
Newport
R. J
Hyde Windlass
Col
Edward C. Plummer
Washington
Washinton
George T. Coombs
U.S.N.R F
Lillian Mason
Frank Mason
Percy Leighton
Hallowell
Willam Faulkner
Everson Stinson
Montsweag
Walter Potter
Dresden
Youth Fellowship Council
Bath Lodge B’nai B'rith
Cox
Leyen TerRelita
A. Hallet & CO
McFadden’s Pharmacy
Harvey R. Pease
Thomas Murray
Oak Grove Seminary
Vassalboro
Alan C. Pease
Clarence Race. Edgecomb
Zina Davis
Leland Foster
Richard Kine
Harold Campbell
Earl Colby
Augussia
Meee
Union Mutual Fire Insurance Company
Montpelier
Vermont
Connie Toner
Geore FC Mahoney
State of Maine
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Tuma
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Ken Pole
Eddie Avery
Tony McLaughlin
Stewart Bradway
Fred Brown
Manley Grant
Carl Jurraham
Lloyd A Pond
James Callins
Florence Temple
Olive Crabtree
Thaxter Trafton
Joseph J. Marchetti
Edward F. Cox
Loring R Addison
James McQuarrie
George Sar
Roy Bradford
Rusell Farrow
Edward Lee
Richard Johnson
Arthur Jackson
Edward Thomas, Jr
Forrest Baker
Leon Beal
Thomas Back
Lawrence Edwards
Frank Sparks
Bart O’donnell
Charles Benoit
Jascha Frenen
Leon Buck
Ettore Sinibaldi
Donald Bowles
William Greene
Sagadahoc
Kaiulant
SS Williams
Popper
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Sewall
Veil Sewall
Arthur F Williams
Chariles H Brown
Woolmoeh
Glenwood C Brown
Harold J. Rubin
Barbara L. Brewer
Phorhara de Brewer
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Arthur HO Prick
First National Bank of Math Moone
Mareh
Barbara T. Brewer
Broadway
Commissioner of Insurance
Dor
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