Forty Years Ago in Bath Highlights April 1891
The Bath Daily Times itemizes 1891 happenings from the port and streets. Keel for the Drake schooner at New England yard, local dances at the armory, and civic events fill the week. Kennebec steamer arrivals, a noted Dunlap Commandery installation, and plans for a spring upturn in harbor activity frame this snapshot of Bath society and industry.
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Ferry Union ready for service by week end in 1891
The April 12 1891 item notes the Union ferry nearing service this week while Varneys lumber yard sidewalk floated about 20 feet. Reports on school committee visits, May flowers, river traffic dullness, summer craft prep, new boats on the Kennebec, Dunlap Commandery installation and Alameda social dance, GAR Fair opening, and Ba ton artists program. Seamer Kennebec voyage to Boston touched as well.
Surprises at Box Sale Prompt Vote for Repeat Sale
The event ended with surprises and the ladies voting to hold another sale in two weeks. Some young ladies consider petitioning for a small bridge at the Washington Street Garden Street crossing, a move deemed wise.
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Garden Street
Arthur H Magoun Dies After Heart Attack in Dover-Foxcroft
Arthur H Magoun 67 native of Bath died suddenly from a heart attack at the Lincoln hotel Dover-Foxcroft while on business. He was a son of Thomas P L Magoun and Maria Littlefield and grandson of Bath’s first mayor David C Magoun. Survived by wife Abbie Wheeler, daughter Lowie Mazoun, sister H Emma Mazoun, brother Hedbert W Magoun, and many relatives. He had worked as a crockery salesman and traveled for Schiotterbeck and Fossier Portland. He was a Mason and member of the Traveller's Union of Portland, home at 4 Lencrest Street Woodfords station. Wayne FE. Stiles and John R. Van Kleek were overnight guests for John H Hyde at Elmhurst.
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Lincoln Hotel
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Bath
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Maria Littlefield Magoun
David C. Magoun
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Masons
Traveller's Union of
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Woodfords Station
Abbie Wheeler
Boothbay Harbor
Lowie Mazoun
Emma Mazoun
This City
Hedbert W. Magoun
Belmont
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F. A. Maccu
Watertown
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Herold I. Magoun
Scottsbluff
Marion Gillett
Sendai
Japan
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Richard
Theoders Magoun
Harold Magoun
Prohibition arrest seizes Buick with liquor near Kennebec Bridge
State Highway Officer John P. Crosby stopped a green Buick roadster near the Kennebec bridge and found 33 pints of whiskey seven quarts of gin two gallon cans of alcohol plus a loaded 25 caliber pistol and shells. James J. Farren of East Boston Mass faced arrest with Edward J. Keough. authorities suspect shipment to Boothbay Harbor. Keough denied knowledge. Crosby filed for arrest and searched the car revealing hidden liquor in the rubies seat and back cushion. The incident occurred Thursday noon at 12 15 with various nautical and criminal connections noted.
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Bath
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John J. Kergan
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Farrein
Maine
Boothbay Harbor
Infirmary Plan for Orphans Home Budgeted at Five Thousand
A new infirmary for the State Military and Naval Children's Home is funded in the state budget. It will be built and equipped for $5,000 with plans to add a story to the playhouse. Major William R. Kimball and trustees have long sought the addition, debated earlier against a heating plant, and await the administrative code consolidation before work begins.
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Military and Naval Children’s Home
William R. Kimball
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