Installation of Polar Star Lodge officers in Bath
Fortnightly Bath notices report the Polar Star Lodge installation tonight. Edward Biggins joins the Bath post office clerking force as a new staffer. The Young Men's Business club holds a monthly meeting at City Hall. High Street closure continues due to water works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Biggins
Young Men's Business Club
Local notes from 1887 city meetings and incidents
April 14 1887 the Joint Standing Committee on Water Works meets to locate fire hydrants while two nickel guard rails are installed at Fogg's store. Frank P Wildes predicts stronger building moving business this summer as committees discuss electric light poles. James Fish sustains a deep wrist wound at a mill. Solon S Cahill resigns from Maine Central after 16 years to take a lucrative new post. Polar Star lodge officers installed with a lodge banquet. April 15 J B Drake returns from At the Knox Lincoln repair shops baggage car varnished and a locomotive overhauled. Olympian club meets to discuss the day’s question. April 16 M G Shaw Son mill to start May or June. Harry A Hyde closes singing school with a concert. George M Shepard sells grocery to Andrew R Cahill. transfer next week. Tug Charlie Lawrence to get a new boiler. Two six ton granite bed stones arrive for Bath Water Works pumps. Pawtuckets polo club wins Massachusetts Central League. George Knapp narrowly avoids death at Brunswick station. Funeral held for Caroline T widow of Herman A Johnson. Visit from Mr and Mrs Charles Cook of Wolaston Mass.
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John H. Stacey
Thepham Teach
Stacey
Florida
St. Petersburg
Hale
Mountain Lake Park
Lake Wales
G. KE. Macomber
Guy Gannet
Maine
Municipal Pier
Tampa Bay
Tampa
Sarasota
Pasengers
St Petersburg Hosts Record Visitor In Florida Winter
A Bath, Maine linked letter reports vast visitor draw in St Petersburg Florida with the winter colony, note on new municipal pier costing 1 million, open public access, and weekly entertainments. It mentions Babe Ruth signing for 70 000 a year, Billy Sunday’s Tampa visit, and Maine society events amid a bustling tourist season.
Water works crew expands as 20 join shovel brigade
April 18 1887 mayor Wakefield plans return to Bath from Jennington next Saturday. About twenty men added to the water works shovel and pickaxe brigade. A town meeting warrant was posted for next Monday. Center street trenching uncovers a long resting city seal foundation. M and M steamer to have machinery repaired. New choir forms at Universalist church. Samuel Dillaway and wife injured when wagon axle breaks on Center Street. child unharmed. Alameda entertainment raises funds for Rev O'Brien at St Mary’s.
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Wakefield
Bath
Jennington
Water Works
Samuel Dillaway
Center Street
Washington Street
Vine
Center Streets
Dilkiway
TD. O. Foye & Covs
the Alameda
St. Mary's Church
Sr. John O'Brien
Coast Artillery Training Benefits Highlighted
Adams J I participates in 18th Brigade maneuvers in May. The 9 coast defense gun crew uses mathematical charts for aiming. Enlistees at Fort Monroe Coast Artillery School learn surveying, photography, mapping, electrical trades, radio, operation and maintenance of power plants, clerical work, and military paperwork.
Coast Artillery enlistment info from Portland station
Information on proper procedures to enlist in the 8th Coast Artillery is available at the United States recruiting Station at 453 Congress Street, Portland, or by writing to the recruiting officer there. Mrs. Ellen Hagan, visiting her daughter Mrs. Ida Hinckley at Turner Court, is a patient at Bath city hospital.
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8Th Coast Artillery
United States
Congress Street
Portland
Ellen Hagan
Ida Hinckley
Turnercourt
Bath City Hospital
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Polar Star Lodge
Granite
John McKiever
C. W. Longley
Lewiston
Grand Lodge of Good Templars
Sagadahoc
Lincoln Lodge of
Odd Fellows
Brunswick
Bath Odd Fellows
New Town
Hell
Bangor Opera Company
William ST. McKenzie
Detroit
Mich
South End
Peter Marr
McKenzie
Mr. McKenzie
Ter
Jay Hamiden
Iliam Fadllerton
Woolwich
James Fish
North End
Charles Robinson
Fish
Robinson
Dr. Bibber
Tath Water Supply Co
Lath
Bath Water Supply Co
W. BR. Olys
Front Street
J. F. Babbitt
National Water Works Syndicate
Sagadahoek
Star of the East
Kennebec
East Boston
Lincoln Wharf
Boston
T Company
Star
Mr. Knapp
Healey
Knapp
Standing Committee
Common Council
Fogg's
Frank P. Wildes
Old Electric Light Company
New Electric Light Company
Wescott
Solon S. Cahill
Maine Central
Bangor
Mr. Cahill
Road
Trunswick
Cahill
Polar Star Lodge No. 114
A. M
John W. Ballou
Fred W. Rideout
William B. Palmer
William H. Swett
Frank A. Palmer
Frank Brown
Albert G. Eaton
George M. Lincoln
Charles Hodgkins
George W. Morse
Augustus N. Sprague
G. Fred Mitchell
Walter Dockendorff
Tyler
Charles T. Turner
Smith
J. B. Drake
Knox & Lincoln Repair Shops
Olympian Club
M. G. Shaw & Son
Harry A. Hyde
Popham Hall
George M. Shepard
Andrew R. Cahill
Charlie
Charlie Lawrence
New England Tron Works
New England
Union Wharf
Waldoboro
Bath Water Works
Thompson's Brook
Frank P. Guthrie
Pawtuckets
Frank
Tie
Alamedas
Greeks
Walthams
Massachusetts
George Knapp
Bath and
Farmington
Federal Union Insur
Ashy Gapitalw
Cern Diesel
NCE Company
Ig Square
New
Walter S. Glidden
William F. Dunstam
State OF
Seneca Tine
A. D
Charles J. Dain
Jennie S. Rideout
Charles F. Rideout
Attes William F. Dunham
Caroline T
Herman A. Johnson
George W. Scudder
Universalist Church
Maple Grove
Charles Cook
Wollaston
Mass
Mr. Cook
Edward Cook
Willow Street
State OF Maine
Etta M. Gaspey
Melose
Annie M. Rideout
Josephine Gaspey
Mélrose
Melrose
Fred H. Thompson
Mijor
Sagadasee
William F. Dunham
Blanche P. Gibson
Lizzie G. Lewis
Georgetown
Annie B. Cutting
Phippsburg
I Herbert W. Cutting
O. B. Clason
Gardiner
Jane M. Wyman
B. Clason
Florida City
New “Florida
William D. Standish
Henry C, Standish
Marriet I’. Standish
Malden
Annie S. Martin
Seattle
Washington
George W. Standish
New York
N. Y
Agnes C. Standish
WM. D. Standisii
Percy R. Low
Batly
Caroline A. Evans
Rath
Said
Samuel A. Evans
John Evans
Quincy
Tennie Evans
James Evans
Belfast
Ireland
Elizabeth Dunlap
Savadahoc
EDWARD W._ BRIDGHAM
Sagadatioc
Edward W. Bridgham
Elizabeth S. Morse
Phipnsburg
Benjamin L Cressey
Pamelia B. Cressey
Benjamin L. Cressey
Richmond Flodgen
Babe
Billy
New Methodist Church
Maine Society
Coast Artillery
Fort Preble
Fort Adams
Rhode Island
Sth Coast Artillery
Fort T
John Miller
Mary Miller
Mary A. S. Felter
Vernon
N.Y
John J. K. Miller
Bellville
N. Kay
Hector FF. Miller
Cape May
N. J
Joan Miller
Samadahoc
Joan J. Keegan
State
Sacadahoc
Fannie Blake
Bridget Wright
Testate
Edward Hl
Wright
Madelyn V
Marion S. Norton
Stradahoc
Arthur J. Dunton
Sagadahioc
At &A
Sagadeloc
Walter. S. Glidden
Sawadahoc
Sidney B. Lermond
Emma FE. Lermond
Clara W. Albee
George S. Albee
Emma EF. Lermond
Sidney RB
Lermond
Edward W. Bridgnam
Walter 5S. Glidden
Rose EK
Leydon
Thomas Leydon
Saul
Rose KE
Rose F. Leydon
William
Lheydon
Brooklyn
Broather Jean Miner
Springfield
John W. Leyden
Chiladelpha
Eleanor M. Mildram
Arthur J. Leyden
Newton Center
Harold W. Leyden
William ‘Thomas Leyden
Thrighton
Margar A. Leydan
Earle Leyden
Annie Sinnott
Rose FB. Leyden
Thomas Leyden
Rosere Lerdon
Avril
A. DL
Rose Lk. Levdon
Olivia J. Bliss
Charles B. Bliss
Maude BR. Lewis
Topsham
Fenn N. Bliss
Maude B. Lewis
Edna N. Bliss
Bond
WM. T. Tall
Saquadahoe
Paul County
Sapadahoe
A. J
William J. Perry
Mary RB. Perry
Mary Abbie Page
William II. Page
I. Hulett
Ernest D. Mulett
Sail County
Anitliam F. Dunham
Sagadahoc, &S Court of County
Hubert N. Meany
Pulpesburg
Popham Beach
John II, Stacey
Sagadahoc County
Saur
Sail
Popham Beach Estates
Herbert Cutting
Despied
Sail Road
Popham Beach Estates, Inc
County Rec Nntiaaronees
Hubert HH. McCarty
Clartha PL
Sewall
Henry W. Owen
Chas. R. Donnell
Court of County Commissioners
L.S
Fred Nt. Thompson
George P. Spinney
Wilbur A. Freeman
Arrowsic
Ltiam F. Dunham
John P. Carey, Jr
William F. Dunham, ———Reeterer
Praterie
Nereea
George J. Hart
Margaret J. Hart
Penobscat
Enghand Iron Works
William C. Duncan
T. A. Gray
George W. Hunt
Jlohn W. Ballou
Miss Kitty Luce
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