Forty Years Ago In Bath Chronicle and local notes
A Bath historical page recalls William Pond clerking in Gilman Webber's cigar store on Center street. It notes river card gains, hotel proposals, property sales, school board pay debate, social events, marriages, repairs, and local industry with references to the Percy & Small schooner, Peregrine yacht, and a Patten lodge mock trial.
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William Pond
Gilman Webber's
Cigar Store
Center Street
Bath Area Briefs Include Docks, Trolley, and Social Plans
Sagadahoc bar members to share a shore supper at Jake's, while N W Hamm plans entertainment in Winnégance. The Kennebec will resume Boston service next Tuesday after spring overhaul. Steamers Percy V. and Lizzie M. Snow cleared for summer work after repairs at Moulton's Marine Hospital. Center Street hill work continues amid frost delays. A Bath Street Railway trailer will become a trolley car this summer, increasing open and closed cars to six. Sagadahoc driftwood haul steady as pilot marks river channel changes. Masked poverty carnival of Pattenlodge to be held May 1 at Alameda with poverty era costumes. Bath gun club members aim for Boston Fast Day tournament. Portland gun club joining. Hyde Light Guards return 10 condemned rifles to the state and expect 100 new ones soon.
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Bath Gun Club
Boston
Boston Shooting Association
Wellington Grounds
Bath
Portland
Portland Gun Club
Local news highlights from April 21 1896 town events
The report covers Morse Co tugboat paint updates baker Seth Hobart installing a new oven on Elm Street and the Nottingham tug drawing harbor attention. It notes river repairs on mud diggers marine railway work on a Washington Street barn and Hyde Light Guards drill at Armory Hall. It mentions millinery opens on Center Street and fast day excursions planning. Community appeals include Bath Benevolent Union grocery donations for a deserving family. Also reports the Fly cottage opening New Meadows and ice harvest at Phippsburg plus central railroad traffic and No 3 fire company muster in Augusta.
Family Visit Over Holiday Weekend
Mrs. Stanley Antworth and her children Vinton visit Waterville relatives as Mrs. Antworth stays with her mother Mrs. John O. McBean and her son Herbert Antworth in the city during the holiday weekend.
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Stanley Antworth
Vinton
Waterville
Antworth
John O. McBean
Washington Street
Herbert Antworth
Eighth Grade Baseball League Formed by Bath Y M C A
The Bath Y M C A starts an intermediate baseball league for eighth graders, first of its kind in the city. Four teams from Central Grammar and St. Marys will play six games, with captains Emocrat John Clyde Stilphen and Thaxter Hill leading the Reds Blues Whites. Schedule includes games April 25 to May 16 at Kelley field and Goddard's with venues decided after a meeting.
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Bath
Central Grammar
St. Mary's
William C. Perkins
Emocrat John
Central Reds
Clyde Stilphen
Central Blues
Thaxter Hill
Central Whites
Y.M.C.A
Frank Hinds
Robert Anderson
Barton Morrison
Clayton Thibodeau
Leon Pennell
David Gavagan
Wesley Plummer
Henry Middleton
Frank Gallagher
Morton Holbrook
Arthur Warner
Fred Hoffman
Raymond Belanger
John Bourque
James Sutherland
Charles Staples
William Stilphen
Emerson Webster
Harold Drake
Richard Hogan
Henry Gallant
Jerry Desmond
Clarence Arsenault
Richard Cummings
Richard Madden
John McLaughlin
Louis Arsenault
Albert Desmond
Russell Turcotte
Kelley Field
Goddard's
Mitchell's Murads take second in Colonial Club bowling roll-off
Merritt Mitchell and the Murads defeat Allie Jewett's Camels 3-2 to claim second place after leading early then losing the middle strings but finishing strong with high total pinfall. Homer Potter led the losers with 408 while Mitchell posted 403 for the victors.
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Merritt Mitchell
Murads
Allie Jewett
Camels
Park Alleys
Homer Potter
Mitchell
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