Bath Chronicle notes various local happenings and naval events
The column lists Bath Maine civic notes from Board of Registration sessions to lighthouse work and shipbuilding, plus social items. It mentions the commemoration of Cape Cod Canal opening led by a torpedo boat destroyer, lighthouse appointments, vessel launches, a dog’s death, town races, and local civic appointments with several named individuals and firms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Registration
J. S. Committee On
McDougal
Cape Cod Canal
A. R. Savage
Supreme Judicial Court
Walter S. Glidden
Joseph M. Trott
Sagadahoc County
Spar
The
New Historical Magazine
Maine
Sprague
Journal of Maine History
Dover
H. O. Thayer
Thayer
Albert H. Willis
Boston
F. P. Hardy
Harry P. Bassett
Stanton
Front St
Floyd Harry Bassett
Bassett
Bath
Joseph Brierly
Brierly
Fisher’s
Daniel Brierly
M. J. McCormick
Lowell
Supr
Bath Iron Works
W. Johns Manville Co
Joseph
America
P. H. Doyen Co
South Portland
Portland Company
Burtelsen & Petersen Co
East
W. L. Blake Co
Hyde Windlass Co
Death in West Bath Lumber Camp Claims Charles Holt at 70
Charles Holt aged 70 was found dead in bed at Henry W. Howards lumber camp in West Bath. He had worked there with Levi Sedgley as helper and cook and retired Wednesday night. Sheriff and coroner deemed no inquest needed finding death from a shock. Holt was a Civil War veteran and Norway native with no known relatives. An insurance policy was found among his papers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Holt
Henry W. Howard
West Bath
Levi Sedgley
Holt
S Dgley
Howard
Oliver
Jackson
Sherman
Norway
Thomas King
West Bath Social Notes Describe Summer Outings
Mrs. and Mrs. George Hunt return to Waltham after a month at Birch Point with the Williams family. Numerous Bath area residents enjoy visits, launches, shore dinners, and a wide range of summer activities from Orr’s Island to Garnet Point. A mid summer town party in Brunswick raises funds for a parish house. The New Meadows group sails on the Lillian B. to Eagle Island and Commodore Peary’s home with a large lobster weighing display.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Hunt
Waltham
Mass
Birch Point
Oscar Williams
Samuel Bates
Boston
Charles
Silas
Sabine
Beachmont
Trufant's Crossing
Nannie Brown
Lewiston Journal
W. F. Mitchell
Norman Melindy
Dora Austin
Fred White
Will White
Woolwich
James Mains
Alice Humphreys
Bath
Foster's Point
Henry Rose
Waldo Merritt
Herbert IL. Hopkins
Sally
Topsham
Purington
Burns
Lisbon Falls
Hennessy
Edith Hartwell
Erma Farrar
Galen Low
William Farrar
Sabino
Herbert E. Williams
Charles Snow
Miss Snow
Delmar Bates
Joseph Footer
Juliet Laucier
Lewiston
Thomas Saucier
Oakledge
New Meadows
George Harold
New England Telephone Company
Foster’s Point
Alonzo Fisher
Eagle Island
Commodore Peary
Bailey’s Island
Clara Louise Burnham
Maine
Orr
Charles Lee
Charles Bates
Susie
Alice
Evelyn
Frank Jaques
Marion and
Aramena
Annie Butler
Malden
Odie Rich
J. Everett Mayo
Margaret
Edith
Everett
Josie Winter
Fred Winter
John McNary
James French
Donald Chase
Eugene Brown
Marko
Emily
Jack Halliday
England
Staples Cottage
Halliday
May Buckley
Rangeley Lakes
Silas Bates
Beechmont
Jesse Tibbett
Spider Web
Brunswick
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
George Stetson
Federal Street
College Town
M. R. Hinckley
Ledge Lawn Cottage
F. E
Orono
Jessie Melanson
Louis Melanson
Vivian Weber
Lynn
Clifford McNulty
Bowdoinham
Irma Burns
William Hennessey
Grove
Lillian Brown
Mary Brrry
Grove St
Harpswell
Frye
Windlass Wheels Sweep Lake George Regatta
Hyde Wheel dominated the Lake George contests taking the first three places on Algonas boats. The winner set a new world record in the event, according to a telegram from Robert E. Power editor of Power Boating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hyde Windlass Co
Robert E. Power
Cleveland
Fort William Henry
Lake George
N. Y
Hyde
Algonas
Also Mentioned on This Page
Donald MacCullum
Kennebec
Kennebunk
Boothbay Harbor
Pejepscot
Swett
Salmon River
Center St
Briggs Place
Quincy Yacht Club
Walter E. Erskine
Daley House
Calumet Club
Merrymeeting Park
Caterer
Grant
Grassy
Morrell McKenney
Admiral Capps
U.S.N
Philadelphia
Naval
Simmers
McBride
Washington
Naval Board
Morse High School
Montgomery
Natick High School
Bath Shoe Corporation
William H. Whittredge
Joseph A. Ramsdell
Horace E. Thompson
Charles A. Coombs
Bath Industrial Corporation
M. H. Blackwell
Howard Lumber Camp
Indiopendentd
Acte
Dred Pstierr
Brown Brothers Nurseries
Rochester
Leite P
Drummond Cutting
Phippsburg
Marguerite Clifford
Zina Clifford
King’s Point
Grace Small
Arthur O. White
Vivian Webber
Rachel Potter
Madelyn Hunt
Crown Point
A. O. Wright
Moonlight Cottage
Sagadahoe County
New Meadows Inn
C. M. Gardner
Massachusetts
Demeter
C. S. Stetson
C. O. Purington
Eugene Hartnett
Helen Martin
Quaker Point
Thompson Bros
Mustlins
Conley’s Specialty Store
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