Forty Years Ago in Bath 1899 Bath Daily Times items
Fortnightly Bath Chronicle summary of events on April 18 19 20 and 21 1899 including Har1ey Goddard bicycle accident Bert Redion cigars Frances Shubert schooner arrival and repairs Oakes Ames vessel painting Bath Iron Works Connecticut monitor keel laying early spring shipyards river ice vessels and local society notes April 22 1899 update with barge No 14 launch and town news
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Bath Iron Works
Chesapeake
Annapolis Cadets
U. S
Connecticut
W. D. Sewall
Philadelphia
Arthur Sewall
Consolidation Coal Co
Baltimore
New England Co
Consolidation Co
Water work and ship movements tied to Philadelphia
The Arthur Sewall ship will soon depart Philadelphia for San Francisco. Ballast discharge occurred at a Camden pier opposite Philadelphia. Bath post office clerks will take a government paid vacation this summer. A river water main was tested and Woolwich pipe repairs passed. River water flushed from the main via a Commercial Street hydrant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Sewall
Philadelphia
San Francisco
Camden
Bath
Woolwich
Commercial Street
Injuries From Dynamite Explosion Reported At Local Works
A dynamite blast at a local works injured a man identified as Mr. Welch, resulting in loss of sight in one eye while he was employed by the company. Ken Arthur Lindsay has returned to Bur Dette Business College in Boston after a few days at home. Albert Patterson left for Bangor for a visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry W. Dunton
The
Burdett Business College
Boston
E. S
A. P. Davis
W. M. Erwin
Kennebec
Alfred Tarbox
John Madden
Marshal Kittridge
Reynolds
George Shattuck
Water Street
Joseph Shattuck
William A.day
Atlanta
Georgia Electric Co
Lincoln Litchfield
National
Togus
Maj
Lendall Litchfield
Horace Litchfield
Amos L. Allen
Washington Street
Mrs. Allen
Brunswick
Bath
Portsmouth
Allen
W. P. Merrill
Beacon Street
M. E. Church
C. F. Parsons
Cummings and Redmond
Wesley M. E. Church
James Roscoe Day
Syracuse University
Topsham
Ada Frances
Frank C. Whitehouse
Harry Hamilton Wood
Wood
Estabrook and Co., Bankers
Heroh
Ind
Welch
Arthur Lindsay
Burdette Business College
Probate Notice and Company's Assets Reported
A Bath Sagadahoc probate notice orders publication for a May 1939 hearing on Katherine M Loach estate with Charles C Low named executor. The document also includes an asset and liability summary for Federal Union Company dated December 31 1938 showing total assets around 3.08 million dollars and total liabilities plus surplus about 2.87 million.
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Marba
Bae
British America Assurance Company
Toronto
Canada
U. S
William Street
New York
N. Y
Arrests Follow Spectacular Chase In Bath
City Marshal Joseph A. Butler and Night Captain Jo D. Pennell chased a drunken driver who leaped from a patrol wagon and later arrested another man found at the wheel of a car. Both men faced charges in Municipal Court with continuances granted. A separate case involved assault and battery on Clarence Clark amid drift of intoxication cases and a vagrancy plea for an elderly Dover man.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph A. Butler
Bath
Gardiner R. Deering
Edward W. Bridgham
Jo D. Pennell
Middle Street
Pennell
Water Street
Center
Clarence Clark
Marshal Butler
Clark
High Street
John Nelson
Lewiston
Nelson
Memorial Hospital
Kennebec County
Augusta
Dover
N. H
Old Mansion at Phippsburg Ends of an Era in Maine
The Minott house and shipyard figures illuminate Phippsburg history. James McCobb and Charles V. Minott led local enterprise, with ships lost to fire, ice, and seas including the St. Charles and Marcus L. Urann. Inventory records reveal ornate furnishings, antique brass, a 1789 banquet set, and a front hall chair from China.
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Minott Yard
Alaska
Minott
St. Charles
Marcus L. Urann
Azores
James Drummond
United States
Maine
Alice M.minot
West Point
Charles Minott
Boson
James McCobb
James Mc- Cobb
Thomas Mc Cobb
James
France
Abbie Minott
China
Samuel McCobb
Reuben Colburn
Kennebec
Gardinerston
Pitston
Maj
Benedict Arnold
Quebec
Bateaux
Arnold
Dead Rivers
Samuel M.cotb
Relix
Probate notices for multiple Bath, Maine residents and executors
Probate notices list various estates and parties including Horace W. Swett, Abbie F. Reynolds, Sara Elizabeth Oliver, Otto Frullmann, Anselm A. Lauriat, James F Bonness, Eugene W. Freeman, Annie E. Riley, Kendall and others. Hearings set for May 1939 in Bath County Probate Court. guardians, executors, administrators named. letters testamentary without bond sought in several cases. balances and transmissions to foreign representatives noted.
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Bath
Sagadahoc
Horace W. Swett
William B. Mussenden
Charles H. Cahill
Abbie F. Reynolds
Georgetown
Henry N. Reynolds
Sara Elizabeth Oliver
Robert Garfield Gray
Otto Frullmann
Donald N. Small
Marguerite R. Cutting
Anselm A. Lauriat
Medford
Massachusetts
Anne L. Reed
James F Bonness
John P Carey
Eugene W. Freeman
Georgetoys
Joseph G. Stevens
Annie E. Riley
John N. FE. Kendall
Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa- Des Moines National Bank and Trust Company
N. E. Kendall
Iowa-Des Moines Bank and Trust Company
Ar’ J.D N
Frank W. Carlton
Woolwich
Sarah E. Carlton
Harvey Plethorne
John Klippel
Sarah E. Klippel
Charlotte Street Gorrie
Wii
Bath National Bank
F. D. Hill
Samuel
Dike Hooper
Adelaide Sargent Hooper
John H Pease
Phippsburg
Edward W Bridgham
Margaret Jane Pease
Phippeburg
Edward W. Bridgham
James S. McFarland
Arrowsie
Catherine M. McFarland
Sally Hyde
Eleanor B. Hyde
Mabel
Nancy Hyde
Eleanor B Hyde
Mabel A
Georgianna K. Biatr
Elizabeth E. Reale
John A Cavanaugh
Herbert Cavanaugh
Arthur J. Dunton
Augusta Mayor Payne Visits Bath for Meet and Handshakes
Mayor Frederick G. Payne of Augusta, in Bath Tuesday as a business visitor, greeted many friends. He is serving his third consecutive two year term and was recently re elected without Democratic opposition with a full Republican city council.
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Frederick G. Payne
Augusta
Bath
Payne
Appointments of Executors and Administrators in Bath
Charles H. Smith late of Bath died April 11 1939. Ronald Smith of Bath appointed Administrator c t a. The notice records the appointment of executors administrators conservators or guardians on the indicated dates in Bath portions of the estate proceedings.
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Charles H. Smith
Bath
Ronald Smith
Said
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Bath Daily Times
Harley Goddard
Bert Redion
Dougherty’s
Frances Shubert
Arthur Sewall and Co
Oakes Ames
New England
Bowker's Yard
South Gardiner Lumber Co
John Linnell
Ellen M. Golder
Washington
Everett Webster
Rebecca Shepard
Iron Works
Charles Albee
Aphrodite
Fred Snowden
Hyde Windlass Co
Clara Fish
William R. Kimball
Battery D
Savannah
Cuba
Marcia J. Gilbert
Pawtucket
George Terrell, Jr
Lower Washington Street
Baker
Hitchcock's Hill
Terrell
David Hagan
Arthur J. Frye
al Ridley
Back River
James Hefton
F.D. Fisher
Foster's Point
Harold Bibber
Lambers
Bath High School
Lon Fisher
Poster
Winnegance
Galen C. Moses
James McDonald
Hackman
Ida
McDonald
Mendelssohn Chorus
Portland
Festival Chorus
Forest City
Pullman
Williams
Charles DeWolf
Henry C. Tarbox
Front Street
Bliss Business College
Charles Brown
Warren Carr
Avactl
Oliver Moses
M. W. Sewall
Lord's
H. L. Lord
Gen
Thomas W. Hyde
Ai Ee
Fred Billings
Mechanic Street
William F. Stevens
Lowell
Mass
Brooklyn Bridge
Miller, Bull & Knowlton
Brooklyn
Galacia
Porto Rico
L. B. and B. Electric Road
Kaiser
George A. Brown
Roxy
Armory
Hill
Fred
Blaisdell
Miss Roberts
Miss Gibbons
Spic and Span
Kennebec Yacht Club
8. Andrews
Charles Davenport
Pinkham
Maine Central
Bangor
O. E. Page
George Dean
Hyde
Celina
Murray
Drummond
Sewall
Thompson Line
Scott Oliver
Ram Island
Witch Rock
Laurence Tellis
New Bedford
Abigail C
Thomas Whitham
North Bath
Westport
Steven Knight
N. T. Worthley, Jr
Dwight L. Moody
Mt. Hermon
Arthur E. Dunning
Auburn
Congregational Church
Fred Rideout
Morton Cafe
Harry Harris
Rideout
Moses Field
Oliver and
Clapp
Arthur Dunning
Harry Ragon
Electrics
Topsham Woods
Henri Polj
R. P. Chase
Toole
Shaw's Mill
Lowell Assembly
Castlehall
Acadia Lodge
Gardiner
New England Railway
Brewer
E. DeKalb
Harold
Small Point
Navy Department
Tron
W. C. Oliver
Vine Street
General Mattocks
Pythian
C. C . McKeiver
Footer
Edward Gaudreau
J. D. Footer, Jr
May Spinney
Nellie Farrin
Sisterhood
E. H. Gowing
City
Lewiston Water Board
Lake Auburn
R. D. Bibber
John Flanders
West Bath
Maine General Hospital
C. H. Cahill
New Meadows Inn
Whitehouse Wood
Lugano
Lewis
Kennebec Steamboat Co
Charles E. Littlefield
Rockland
John P. Swasey
Canton
Knox County
Littlefield
Knox
Lincoln
N. S. Purington
Henry Merriman
Bowdoin
Jes
Albert Patterson
Frank Wyman
Parker Head
S. H. Erskine
Lincoln County News
Damariscotta
John L. Jack
Federal Union
Aisteastlas
Bar Harbor Aquarium
Gulf of Maine
Mount Desert Bridge
Rainbow Inn
Phoenix Assurance Company, Ltd
Fifth Avenue
Westchester Fire Insurance Company
William St
Charles V. Minott
Phipsburg
Board of Selectmen
Kennedsee
Register
Arthur J Dunton
John 1
Jack
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