Forty Years Ago In Bath April 14 1903 Highlights
Bath notes mirror a busy town with college returnees from Andover. a High School play ticket sale. yacht club ballots. new launches near completion. fishing at Lake Cobbossecontee. a red buoy adrift near Cape Ann. and rail and street activity. Also listed are weather, church events, dances, and local incidents across Bath and West Bath.
Alameda Dance Draws Large Crowd On Saturday Night
The Alameda dance drew a crowd as large as usual with a march led by James Farnham and Miss Jessie Lowell followed by 100 couples. The Hyde Light Guards Armory hosted the same management on Thursday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hyde Light Guards
William Spiett
Ruby Miller
Front Street
Messrs
Edward Gaudreau
L. F. Holmes
Alameda
James Farnham
Jessie Lowell
Hyde Light Guards Armory
American Bonding Company of Baltimore Assets and Liabilities 1942
Baltimore firm reports year end 1942 admitted assets totaling 2,197,333.88 with gross assets of 2,250,381. Liabilities include 248,584.61 in other liabilities. Cash capital is nil with a surplus over liabilities of 749.27.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Bonding Company OF
Baltimore
Maryland
Apartment Blaze Draws Second Box Alarm In Evening
Fire of undetermined origin caused extensive damage to the four unit residence at 740 Washington Street known as the former Dr. Barker home. Engine four fought flames in the kitchen ceiling while crews from engines two and four laid booster lines to control dense smoke and heat. Occupants include Mr. and Mrs. Fuller, the Tarbox family, Lieut. Harold Gibbons, Miss Allyn Jewett, and Miss Edith Hill. Chief Frates suspects the fire started between walls in the Hill Jewett apartment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Street
Byron F. Barker
Engine Four
Vine
J. Horace McClure
Fred A. Fuller
Fred Tarbox
Harold Gibbons
Allyn Jewett
John R. Newell
Bath Iron Works Corp
Edith Hill
The
Iron Works
Richard Frates
Fire Department
Synchronizes Meters by Kollsman in Square D Division
An instrument to synchronize twin engine propellers to equal speeds has been perfected by the Kollsman instrument division of Square D company. It operates electrically by remote control via a wire connected to each engine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oak Street
Grace Church
Bath
H. A. Huse Jr
Kollsman Instrument Division
Square D Company
Insurance company assets and liabilities totals
A historical financial snippet lists the Preferred Accident Insurance Co of New York assets as of December 31, 1912 including real estate 25 019.61 mortgage loans 178 145.00 stocks and bonds 8 610 908.37 cash in offices and bank balances 5 etc. Admitted assets 10 530 044.78 with total liabilities and surplus matching. Also Boston Insurance Company 1942 figures show real estate 11 etc. gross assets 25 754 etc. liabilities include net unpaid losses 2 030 666.20 uneearned premiums 5 509 823.72 and surplus 12 788 915.46 to total 25 711 618.91.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Preferred Accident Insurance CO
New York
Boston Insurance Company
Boston
Massachusetts
Accident and Casualty Ins. CO OF
Winterthur
Switzerland
John Street
OLD Colony Insurance Company
Westchester Fire Insurance CO
William Street
N. Y
Insurance Company Asset Figures from 1942 Ledger
A compiled ledger shows assets and liabilities for several U S insurers as of December 31 1942. BRITISH AMERICA ASSETS total 2 631 068 09 admitted with surplus 1 549 028 75. ACCIDENT AND CASUALTY OF WINTERTHUR assets 6 354 719 11 admitted 5 210 499 23. OLD COLONY INSURANCE asset totals 10 347 993 92 with surplus 6 491 196 33. WESTCHESTER FIRE INSURANCE assets include real estate and mortgage loans with total 19 7? and surplus 7 505 546 55.
Social Notes Highlight Portland and Bath Residents
Mrs Albert Bonney and daughter Germaine and other locals passed Wednesday in Portland. Ada Swetser leaves for South Windham to visit relatives. Marjorie Nichols returns from Pierce Secretarial School Boston for Easter with her parents. Mrs Edward True and family visit Boston Roslindale for Easter. Miss Mary Anderson at Pierce School Boston visits parents. Charles Doyle Jr. visits Wa terville for Easter with grandparents. Mrs Edward Daley recovering from operation. Dr Jacob Smith promoted to captain at Fort Bliss. Theron Thibodeau easter with grandparents in Friendship for sixth birthday. Mrs James W Stanton Boston visits Bath. hosts shower. Frederick White Jr USN leaves Bath for Detroit after training at Newport. Lieut Robert LaFleur wounded. air medal recipient, formerly Colby athlete.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Bonney
Germaine
Ralph K. Hall
James T. Bonney
Portland
Ada Swetser
Park Street
South Windham
Marjorie Nichols
Pierce Secretarial School
Boston
Arthur Nichols
Cobb Road
Edward Dale True
Nancy
Edward 3Rd
Front Street
Roslindale
Mass
Edward Daley
Bedford Street
Leighton
Emery Street
Jacob Smith
Medical Corps
U. S. Army
Fort Bliss
el Paso
Texas
Theron Thibodeau
Joseph Thebodeau
Green Street
Chester Havener
James W. Stanton
John Cummings
Oak Street
Mary Carroll
Vanona MacDonald
Richard Haskell
John A. Greene, Jr
Nathan W. Watson
Dorothy Anliker
Louise Trainor
Edith Small
Charles L. Hoebel
Bath
Donald C. Larrabbee
Brunswick
Real Estate Transfers Recorded in Sagadahoc County
Real estate transfers were recorded with the Sagadahoc County Register of Deeds. Transactions include Hiram T. Stevens to Bath Iron Works Corp. and Celia A. Hatch to First Federal Savings & Loan Assoc. along with multiple other land and building transfers across Bath Bowdoinham Georgetown Phippsburg Richmond Topsham West Bath Woolwich and Portland shopping mentions. Several names appear including Ansel L. Jewett E. Stanley Robinson and William Bell among others. Portland shoppers were noted at the end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sagadahoe County Register of Deeds
Hiram T. Stevens
Bath
R. H. Houston Const. Corp
Bath Iron Works Corp
Commercial Street
Celia A. Hatch
First Federal Savings & Loan Assoc
Front Street
Nellie L. Daley
E. Stanley Robinson
Park Street
Ansel L. Jewett
Edward E. Stilphen
West Street
Arthur G. Spear
G. Carl Adams
Oliver Street
Topsham
George W. Stevens
Annie L Hammond
Ulysses G. Cressey
George
Gauthier Tend
Burtdmeres
Henry L. Johnson
Philip Cohen
Richard F. Springer
Dennis
Clara Leavitt
Charles E. Judkins
William Bell
Ernest 2
Tedford
Morton O. Small
Albert Bourassa
Frederick, Robinson
West Bath
Percy C. Bailey
Leon N Belanger
Probate Notices From Bath for Multiple Estates 1943
In Bath Sagadahoc County a probate court orders notices for estates including Annie F Card Mary A O Brien and others. Officials announce appointments of administrators and executors and set hearings for May second at 10 in the forenoon. Public notice appears in Bath Independent for three successive weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bathin
Sagadahoc
Bath
Annie F. Card
Frances I Cromwell
John Leslie Card
Bath Memorial Hospital Birth At Local Cottage Summer
Mr and Mrs Irving Leighton welcomed a daughter weighing 8 pounds born at Bath Memorial Hospital while they stay at their cottage for the summer. Mrs Lincoln Williams visited Bath for a day and had lunch with Mrs Milton H Douglas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irving Leighton
Bath Memorial Hospital
Lincoln Williams
Bath
Milton H. Douglas
Arthur 7 Denton Probate Judge Order Copy
A true copy of the original probate order is presented with attest statement by the clerk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur J. Dunton
Arthur J Dunton
Arthur
Denton
Orginal
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Bath Daily Times
Fred Thompson
Andover College
A. M. McDougall
Duluth
E. C. Stinson
Owen Ledyard
William Merry
Lake Cobbossecontee
Tom Cobb
Hallet
William Temple
Farrar & Norton
Stacey and
Smith
Kennebec Yacht Club
Commodore Hyde
Bibber
Commodore Cook
Nathan Stiles
James W. Savage
James A. Ham
D. P. Briggs
Theodore Hoyer, Jr
Ernest Thunburg
Einar von Feilitzen
Cecil E. Payne
Blaisdells
Mr. Payne
Cecil Crocker
Kimball Bros. Co
Eastern River
Houghton Sewall
Concord
Concord School
Taft School
Watertown
Conn
Ladies’ Aid and Society of
Lower West Bath
W. P. Merrill
Merrill
Beacon Street
Frederick W. Payne
United States
Payne
William E. Payne
Edward E. Carter
Yale School of Forestry
New Haven
Frank D. Prescott
W. H. Rogers
Hon
A. M. Penley
Auburn
Cape Ann
Marr
Kennebec
Norfolk
George W. Wells
Eleanor A. Percy
Wells
Boston Light
F. S. Wakefield
Frank W. Ramsay
H. A. Qwen
Elmer D. Hodgkins
Harvey K. Erskine
Ed McAuliffe
Kelvin Riggs
Riggsville
Genesta
Order of the
Eastern Star
New Meadows Inn
la Square
Dr. Rugg
Providence, R. L
Oliver Moses
Phil Coffin
Margaret Metcalf
Pond Cove
Maine
Phillips-Exeter Academy
Miss Longley
Chicago
Edith Rice
Bath Street
Miss Rice
Winter Street
John Shaw
Thomas B. Reed
Augusta
South Gardiner Lumber Co
Boothbay Harbor
E. Barter
Augusta Lumber Co
A. C. Morse
Bernice
Pauline Golder
Lewiston
Wesley Church
D. B. Holt
D. M. Humphreys
Miss Grace
George Robert Ballard
Cox’s Head
A. A. Percy
Marcia
Charles H. Adams
New England Telephone Co
George Hemmingway
Bath Iron Works
Charles H. McLellan
North End
Marine National Bank
Howard Coal Co
Seabird
C. A. Hooker
Lee L. Hooker
People’s Church
Mr. Hooker
O’brien
J. F. Tobey
Elm Street
George Henry Dole
Popham Beach
Kinco
H. M. Sewall
F. C. Whitehouse
Mr. Whitehouse
Bowdoin Paper Co
Winter Harbor
Popham
Meloney and
Stacey
Pythian Hall
O'Hara
Capt. McFadden
H. A. Duncan
Charles E. Hyde
Hyde Windlass Works
F. W. Carlton
Eastern Steamship Co
New London
Ransom B. Fuller
Steward Searles
H. S. Lord
New England
Kelley, Spear Co
Ferry Street
Fred Baither
F. Ballard
Henry Howard
John Currier
Frank Dunton
William Decoste
Hockomock
Tors Pollister and Crane
Bath Slip
Henry Carlton
Merrymeeting
Lisbon Falls
New
Knights of Columbus, Sagadahoe Council
Henry M. Biggins
Chietnut Street
Knights of Columbus
Water Street
Massee
Sedgwick
State Armory
Lincoln Street
Timothy C. Maney
Father Cummings
Lieut
Broderick
Usn
Father Maney
Mr. Biggins
City Hall
St. Mary’s Church
Sumner Sewall
Walter C. Rogers
Comdr. Vincent Grady
R. S. Hitchcock
Harry Langdon
J. T. Parris
E. B. Parris
Brockton, Mass
A. C. Parris
Bath Naval Cadet Band
Paul Beckett
Colonial Club
Norridgewock
Ellery Tuttle
Ralph Berry
William Tuttle
Dr. B. F. Barker
British America Assurance CO
U.S
N.Y
Frederick George White, Jr
Frederick G. White
Detroit
Mich
Newport
R. I
Lewiston High School
Adelaide Flewellyn
Robert LaFleur
Colby
Daniel K. LeFleur
Waterville
War Department
Lt. LaFleur
U. S. Air Force
England
LaFleur
Sagadahoc County
Bowdoin
Harold Williams
Bradford
Earl Tasker
Barbara Tasker
Forest Road
Dudley S. Leavitt
Center Street
John E. Hatch
Artland
Rogers
Perso
Denis O'Sinnelat
Mary A
O'Br Nenna
Charles Henry Vonal
Fred S Curtis
Harry Ll. Day
Jase
West
Joseph
Burward
John P Carey
Tver
Luctet Ro Ames
John BP Carey
Betate
J Bejle Briggs
Couners
Edward FB
Henry M Biggins
John L. Jack
John
Jack
Probat
Sagadahoche
Phippsburg
Maria Vo
Llams
Emma P Williams
Marilla Vo W.lanes
Tinson Ro Armstrong
Louie C Armstree
John L Jack
Nettie
Iter
Potter
Potie
Watter
Whitney
Marri
Beth
Dunton
John L. Jack Regi
Ter
Pfe Roy T. Pease, Jr
Summit
N.J
Camp Polk
Pease
New Jersey
Aps
George William Morse
Boonton
Dshoc County
Manon A. Morse
Marion A. Morse
J. Clifford Woodhull
City of
Lahor County
It Trust Compan
Nelle M Scot
Loring D. Small
Loring D Smail
Harry M. McIntire
Helen E. McIntire
Helen E McIntire
Rutherford
Parrish
Mabel Ane
Ma A. Dionne
Ate
Nantsi
Russell
Bertha A. Russell
Esme Lewis P Burges
Arthur F
James Lockery
Angie G. Stinson
ArroWsic
Edith M
Berand
Bertrand
Edith
Wilbur
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Petrie
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