Forty Years Ago in Bath April 15 1902
A Bath column reports Grace Church St. Mary's guild held a charity sale at Miss Mollie Gibbons home on Washington street with pinks and daffodils for decorations. About $65 was cleared. The piece also notes city fire department planning changes and local exploits from fishing to boating, plus repairs and local business notes.
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St. Mary's Guild of Grace Church
Mollie Gibbons
Washington Street
Linda Tarbox
Bessie Gibson
Charles F. Magoun
T. W. Hall
J. M. Footer
Front Street
Nelson's Market
Mr. Footer
Brunswick
Portland
Mr. Woodbury
Pond Bros
Columbia Hotel
Imperial Ginger Ale Debuts From Bath Bottling Co
The Bath Bottling Co introduces Imperial Ginger Ale promising pure Jamaica ginger and fruit flavor with no injurious drugs. The report notes a new five masted schooner Cora F. Cressey launched and to load coal at Newport News for Boston, Capt. Harding at the helm.
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Bath Bottling Co
Jamaica
Cora F. Cressey
Social events and civic notes highlight Bath society in 1902
The April 17 city report covers St Marys society tea with 500 700 attendees at St Marys, 14 tables run by Miss Maggie Mahoney, and 300 supper tickets sold by John Kane. Club members gathered with guests at the Huckabuck house for music dancing and refreshments. A buggy wheel damaged by an electric rail near S. S. Sewall is noted with no injuries. A Bay Bridge reconstruction push to connect Bath with northern towns is reported as a business board topic. A 30 person party rode to New Meadows Inn for a banquet with music dancing and merriment under Miss Nellie Blondell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies of St. Mary's Society
Maggie Mahaney
John Kane
Nan Nolan
Kitty Kane
Annie
Julia
Katherine Conley
Amanda Mahoney
Annie Belanger
Isabelle Keaton
Mary Murray
Marguerite
Agnes McPhee
Mary
Maggie Gillis
Nellie Biggins
Bay Bridge
Board of Trade
Bath
New Meadows Inn
Nellie Blondell
Bath News May 1902 Local Notes and Club Openings
April 18 1902 reports S H Rogers crew finishing wall work at Arthur Sewall estate Bath heavy repairs on George M Winslow along with engine trials. Bath ship Arthur Sewall sails from Hiogo to Honolulu and local social events including Colonial club rooms opening and merchant club talks.
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S. H. Rogers
Arthur Sewall
Washington Street
G. F. Way
T. B. Gibbons
H. C. Webber
Emma Chestra
Anna Palmer
F. C. Scribner
R. Rogers
C. W. Clif
Macreces
Eag Owen
F. Campbell
E. Franks
H. Gould
C. Lightbody
F. W. Dumphreys
R. G. Gray
R. H. Duncan
T. P. Black
Vocas Furbers
Od. True
E. Motley Fuller
Frank Perkins
H. E. Williams
F. C. Cox
A. E. Buckman
J. M. Meloney
Clarence Johnson
E. D. Savage
Nomad Sold to Summer Resident for Kennebec Waters
On April 20 1902 M W Sewall sold the aleo vapor launch Nomad to George Sayward of Winchester Massachusetts a summer resident at Squirrel Island. Nomad 33 feet long with a seven horsepower engine is currently stored in Sewalls boathouse on the Kennebec. Fishermen anticipate shad runs next week with a May 12 usual peak likely earlier due to warm weather. The two masted schooner A F Kinberg discharges 1700 barrels of cement for Read Nichols Co at Drummond's with cargo hauled to the warehouse because depth prevents close landings.
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M. W. Sewall
George Sayward
Winchester
Mass
A. F. Kinberg
H. S. Nye
Drummond's
Read Nichols Co
Nichols
James A. Davis & Co
Jersey City
Nye
Salvation Army Leaders Predict War Echoes Across Seas
Captain Walter Lamie says history repeats as Salvation Army units mobilize with U S troops. He notes 1400 centers and 2100 officers in Australia with chaplains and welfare workers serving bravely in Libya and Greece, offering homefront support to American doughboys abroad.
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Salvation Army
Walter Lamie
United States
MacArthur
Australia
Australian Imperial Forces
Libya
Greece
Uncle Sam
Grangers Have Fine Program At Meeting
The Grangers held a meeting featuring readings and musical numbers. Mrs. Greenblatt Friedman delivered a humorous reading, Mrs. D Wallace MacDonald read a paper on Excellence, and performances by Mrs. Frederick Morton and Wesley H. Lemont included Moonlight Cocktail and Chattanooga Choo Choo.
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Berlin
William A. Armstrong
Greenblatt Friedman
D. Wallace MacDonald
Frederick Morton
Daisy
Wesley H. Lemont
Er. Mason Wright
Charles Genthner
Mr. Lemont
Chattanooga
Lewis D. Carter
Aloha
Lemont
Allen McAllister
Armstrong
Edwin W. Haggett
Bath
Bishop Loring Holds Service and Bath Visit
The bishop conducted a service and after closing prayers met congregants. Mrs. Loring accompanied him on the Bath visit. He later addressed the Church school gathered in the church.
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Loring
Bath
Uncle George Oliver dies at Popham Beach village
Obituary notes the death of George Oliver known as Uncle George a longtime local craftsman who built and repaired homes in Popham Beach and Point and contributed to Fort Baldwin. Survived by son Earl Oliver of Waltham Mass a brother Lyman Oliver and a sister Mrs Jennie E Buell with grandchildren and great grandchildren.
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Boston
Small Point
Popham Beach
Society Hall
Stanley Hyde
Christopher Marr
Fort Baldwin
Sabine Hill
George
Earl Oliver
Waltham, Mass
Lyman Oliver
Jennie E. Buell
Waltham
February Draft Registrants List Reaches 11,149 Names
A continued page lists February draft registrants with numerous Bath Woolwich Bowdoinham Topsham and Richmond entries. Names include Alvin Bond Harold Brown Ralph Smith Oswald King and many Bath residents, with registration numbers ranging from 8 to over 1100 and multiple towns represented.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lemuel Carter Preble
Woolwich
Alvin F. Bond
Bath
Harold Alexander Brown
Richmond
Ralph Ammsie Smith
John Edward Lyden
Russell Amasa King
Harry Lawrence Jones
Lorimer Safford Thomas
William Edward Smith
Charles Marston Staples, Jr
John James Lowery, Jr
Roscoe Ham Shaw
Daniel William LaMarr
Otis Lufkin Douglas
Moses Ring
Freeman Alfred Trott
Caleb Reed Mitchell
Bowdeinham
Calvin Ervin Cromwell
Oscar Edwin Douglas
Bowdoin
Henry William Dorsey
Henry Martin Powers
Roland Seward Bonney
Carlton Day Reed
Herbert Hall Scott
Phippsburg
Ellery Carlton Kidder
Walter Ernest James
Linwood
Benjamin Stevens
Georgetown
Oscar Emery Hatch
Edward St. Martin
Eric Raymond Blair
Bowdoinham
Thomas Bernard Henderson
Ernest Russell Eaton
Topsham
Emile Arthur Tourigny
Benjamin Moody
Matthew Worthley McPhee
Daniel Meyer French
Louis Donat Schinck
Alvah Augustus Morse
Fred Dana Pinkham
Randell Joseph Ashline
Alvin Lorenzo Presley
Clarence Ira Houston
Hollis Leonard Leeman
David Soles Cogan
Allen Moses Packard
Clayton Alfred Rowe
Donald Roland Lachapelle
Ernest Edward Cameron
John Parker Crosby
Francis Norman Titcomb
Ivan Maurice Pinkham
Five Islands
John Elias Barry
Chester Howard Worrey
Carleton Merle Mooers
Clarence Augustus Holmes
Francis Whitehouse MacKinnon
Ralph Adelbert Pye
Small Point
Alton Lawrence Stimpson
Maurice Eldridge Glidden
John William Sonia
John Francis Cooke
Ralph Duncan Warren
Hadley Chester MacKenzie
Arthur Moses Bowker
Bath lage RAQ_ Beank Mlackl Tanshonn
Edward Thomas O'Hara
Howard Sheridan McPhee
Probate Notices Record of Executrices and Administrators
Sagadahoc Probate records list locais estates with appointed executors and administrators. Names include Jeannie W Merritt Bath and Phippsburg deceased appointments on April 7 1942 with bonds or without bonds. Other appointments include Nellie M Cutting Myrtie E MacGuire Fred Black Fred W McCutcheon George P Albee Mildred M Albee Martha E Tibbetts and Ralph A Spinney. Arthur J Dunton Judge of Probate certified true copy Attest John L Jack Register.
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John-T Jack
Sagadahoc
Jeannie W. Merritt
Phippsburg
William Jason
Nellie M Cutting
Charles E. Lee- Man
Bond
Myrtie E MacGuire
Bath
J . William MacQuire
Fred Black
Clara E. Corliss
Fred W McCutcheon
Lillian M. Marshall
Effiel L. Spinney
Ralph A. Spinney
George P. Albee
Mildred M. Albee
Martha E. Tibbetts
James W. Tibbetts
Mrs Sewall Hosts Guests Including Loring and Tubbs
Mrs Arthur Sewall II entertained several visitors at her home Sunday afternoon. Bishop Oliver L Loring and Mrs Loring attended the luncheon with Rev Charles M Tubbs and their companion. Mr and Mrs Eliot Williams and their son Danny of Vassalboro were guests of Williams sisters. Mrs Alonzo G Fisher of Park Street and Mrs Arthur Clowes of Hyde Park Terrace also noted.
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Theodore Ear
Middle Street
Arthur Sewall II
Oliver L. Loring
Eliot Williams
Danny
Vassalboro
Williams
Alonzo G. Fisher
Park Street
Arthur Clowes
Hyde Park Terrace
Probate notices and estate actions from Bath court
In Sagadahoc County probate court held in Bath notices issued for multiple estates. Hearings set for May on administrator appointment for William S Hanson Woolwich and licensing sale of real estate for John Mains Phips burg. Final accounts filed for Owen Rogers Sally Hyde Arthur Stilphen Alonzo Hunt guardianships and others with distribution petitions and published order.
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Adan
Bath
Sagadahoc
Bath Daily Times
Phippsburg
William Gillman
Owen E. Rogers
Lillian S. Rogers
Sally Hyde
Eleanor B Hyde
Mabel A. Thwing
Nancy Hyde
Wond Tor
Eleanor B. Hyde
Arthur B. Stilphen
Lena T. Stilphen
Alonzo T. Hunt
Georgetown
Thomas N. Williams
Arthur J. Dunton
Civilian Defense Meeting in Brunswick
Mrs. Sumner Sewall and Mrs. Donald Payson attended a Sagadahoc Area Municipal Chairmen meeting at Mrs. Morgan Cushing’s Brunswick home on Monday evening April 20. Payson outlined new Civilian Defense tasks including Salvage and Food Conservation and noted progress in Community Services Day Care and Recreation. Attendees listed including local matrons and several named towns, plus guest Mrs. Ralph Dunton of Portland.
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Sumner Sewall
Maine
Donald Payson
Sagadahoc
Morgan Cushing
Brunswick
John Parker
Payson
Margaret Berry
Georgetown
Norman Drummond
Frank Rittall
Arrowsic
Fred Rose
West Bath
Jean Bangs
Harry Saulman
Mildred Cribsby
Solon Purington
Richmond
Beatrice Adams
Topsham
Ralph McEwen
Bowdoinham
Marshall Merryman
Bowdoin
Parker
Sewall
Probate Court actions in Bath for several estates
A Bath court of probate on the first Tuesday of April, 1942, considered wills and administrations for numerous estates including Searle, Palmer, Higgins, Dobbins, Freeman, Rogers, Goodwin, Royal, Ward, Beland, Markson, and others. Notices call for publication and appearance May 1 to contest or address matters, with executors and administrators named for each estate. Also included are financial statements from insurers Old Colony and Boston Insurance Co. and related assets and liabilities.
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Trerenyarrer
Bath
Sagadahoc
Mabel Antoinette Searle
Georgetown
Harriet Louise Searle
Wiliam E. Palmer
Addiella D. Palmer
Everett C. Higgins
William A. Todd
Joseph F. Higgins
Evelyn Dobbins
Vena Dobbins Mitchell
Vena Lobbins Mitchell
Josephine H. Freeman
Frederick W. Freeman
Peron
John H. Freeman
Lilly M. Wright
Rose B. Rogers
Bion Roach
George J. Goodwin
John Royal
Samuel B. Ward
Wool- Wich
Scott Ward
Meddie Beland
Grace Billier
Eldar Markson
Brookline
Massachusetts
Yoland D. Markson
Robert T. Markson
Mae
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