Forty Years Ago in Bath Deep Bath Daily Times Minute Items
The Bath Daily Times items from 1889 note Harriman at night with a severe cold, Mrs. Lois Dunning planning Club rooms in Adams Block, and ship slips and street conditions. Bath ball club players Brown and Dunning train daily, a sewer overflows a lockup, prison floor damp, Beacon Street church social planned, Dunlap Commandery officers installed, Grand Commander E M Fuller officiating, list of new officers. Grand jury reports no indictments in Sagadahoc, a sea spider displayed in Savages window, John Coffin ill at marine railway, Miss Hogan teaching stenography, Union ferry to be repaired, lawyers missing from term, police pay dispute, Bath police paid $1.50 nightly.
Bath Grows Busy as 1889 River Trade Expands
April 4 to April 9 1889 reports gas for Holly Tree Inn and street work, shipyard activity, and ferry repairs. Captains Collins Baker Thompson plan command shifts on the Star of the East and Kennebec. M. G. Shaw & Sons crews return from Dead River with future mill yard work. Local fishing, shad nets, timber shipments, and new carpeted sheriff office room noted amid weather delays and public notices.
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Local News Highlights From April 5 1889
April 5 1889 records show E G Parsley confined to house with chest and head trouble. A crowd of out of town people attended the Supreme Judicial Court. Lois Dunning works on a mythological painting in Olympian hall studio. S C Sawyer signs a wall over a bakery on Center street. About 40 Lincoln lodge Odd Fellows visited Golden Rule lodge Lewiston Thursday. Riggers raise the big shears at the Southern Division under supervision. George F Reed and wife enjoy a few days in Massachusetts.
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Lois Dunning
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West Bath monthly meeting and Grange anniversary actions
The town notes a W. C. T. A. meeting set for Tuesday April 9 at 3 PM in the Front and Vine room. It also marks the 8th anniversary of West Bath Grange with reminiscences, memorial eulogies on members lost since founding, and a supper as part of the program plus local road and frost updates and town news.
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Obituary: Bath Native John Wagstaff Dies After Chicago Accident
John O Wagstaff formerly of Bath died in Chicago from injuries after being struck by a truck on Jan 18. He worked for Armour Packing and earlier Texas Steamship Co. during the war. A deacon and Sunday school teacher at First Baptist Bath he cared for youths and the aged, calling on the sick. Survived by father and two brothers. Burial in West New York New Jersey.
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Assault Case Heard in Municipal Court
A municipal court on Monday found the defendant guilty in an assault case from a Sunday incident at the South End. The complainant sustained a broken nose. The defendant was fined and costs totaling a modest sum and placed on probation.
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