Bath Daily Times 1898 items include shipships and weddings
Fortunes shift in Bath with Winship Reed taking mate role on the Seneca, shipyard masts for Winifred, and local social events. A July 29 note covers Bath Brigade lawn party, naval band concert, a wedding at St Marys, and ongoing repairs at Rogers yard amid fire response and public notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winship Reed
New York
Seneca
Ward Line
Reed
Naval Cadet
Dixie
Alfred Rafnell
Rafnell
Calais
Bath Iron Works
Governor Barrows Acts Swiftly on Witch Spring Issue
Maine Governor Lewis O Barrows wrote Bath Independent promising prompt action on a Witch Spring problem caused by highway work. He consulted the State Highway Department and urged immediate remediation if construction caused the condition. The unsigned Bath article prompted the governor to seek a quick, responsible fix.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine L.A.W
Bath
Lewis O. Barrows
Barrows
State of Maine Executive Department
Augusta
State Highway Department
Young Officers Serve On Davis Destroyer
Lieut Thorpe engineering officer and Lieut Enwright gunnery officer aboard the Davis are named. Thorpe, born in Oregon Illinois, an Annapolis graduate of 1927, served on multiple ships before a Bath assignment. Enwright, from New York state, Class of 1929, previously served on Arkansas and Chaumont and joins the Davis with ordnance post graduate study.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lieut. Thorpe
Harlan M. Thorpe
Davis
Oregon
Ill
U.S. Naval Academy
South Dakota
U.S. S. Maryland
U. S. S. Sumner
U. S. S. McLain
U. S. S. Robert Smith
U. S
U. S. Naval Academy
New York State
U. S. S. Arkansas
Lieut. Enwright
Lawrence
U. S. S. Chaumont
Annapolis
Naval Academy In
Ordinance
Lieut
Enwright
Official figures tabulated for Bath and surrounding towns
Republican representatives to the legislature list Bath figures for A Baker 481 J Butler 505 Donnell 259 Dunton 472 Miller 549 Lyde 398 and Bowdoin Bowdoinham Georgetown Richmond towns with Allen Borjesson Gray Moody Dorrance Gardner and others. Other classed towns Arrowsie Phippsburg Topsham West Bath Woolwich show Larabee 440 McIntire 175. Officials including John L. Jack 2043 Harold Small 1208 Fred Thompson 1989 Stanley Wallace 0381 William Furber 1261 Edwin Patten 1878 Charles Messenger 2559 Walter Whitney 917 Sherwood Aldrich 1490 Ralph Dale 1104 Charles Small Jr 795.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
George A. Baker
Jennis S Butler
William T. Donnell
Frank O. Dunton
Justus H. Miller
Charles E. Lyde
Bowdoin
Bowdoinham
Georgetown
Richmond
Weston R. Allen
Thomas W. Borjesson
Clifford W. Gray
Harold P. Small
Fred H. Thompson
Stanley E. Wallace
Fort y Five Naval Vessels Launched From Bath Iron Works
A historic tally notes 45 naval vessels built at Bath Iron Works from 1893 through 1920. The list includes the Georgia and Chester among larger ships, with five launched by the modern Bath Iron Works Corp. under William S. Newell. The Davis was the 30th destroyer, while key figures and dignitaries from New York Boston and other cities attended the launch or visited the plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Iron Works
United States Navy
Old and New
Machias
Uss. Davis
Davenport City Hall
New Meadows River
Bath Iron Works Corp
William S. Newell
Davis
Bath
Castine
Vicksburg
Newport
Nevada
Chesapeake
Dahlgren
T. A. M. Craven
Bagley
Barney
Biddle
Cleveland
Chester
Georgia
Ibuilt
Bath Iron Works, Ltd
Navy
Isabel
John N. Willys
Sampson
Jouett
Newell
Iron Works
Chester Sc
McDouzal
Wadsworth
Allen
Manley
Wickes
Philip
Woolsey
Evans
Buchanan Aaron Ward
Hale
Crowninshield
Preble
Sicard
Destroyer Pruitt
Dewey
Drayton
Lamson
W.L
Page Randlette Sprague Figures From Bath Topsham
Commissioner Marius H. Page of Bath lists figures totaling 786, while Joseph W. Randlette of Richmond records 1 416 and George A. Sprague of Topsham shows 1 191 in a clerical tally of municipal accounts.
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Marius H. Page
Bath
Joseph W. Randlette
Richmond
George A. Sprague
Topsham
Destroyer Davis Launch Reveals Detailed Test Recording
Thousands witnessed the U S S Davis sliding into the river at Bath Iron Works while a contact device and camera recorded the moment from strap release to afloat. The system will measure declivity changes and conditions for future launches. Guests included Gov Barrows, ex Gov Brann, and numerous Maine and out of state officials and executives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. S. Davis
Bath Iron Works Corp
Harold K. Vanderbilt
Ranger
Barrows
Brann
Maine
Wingate F. Cram
Bangor
W. S. Warland
Wiscasset
New York City
Grant Rafter
Henry W. Webb
Sewall Metcalf
Hale Pulsifer
Helena Bellas
Charles S. Sewall
Elizabeth Sortwell
Daniel R. Sortwell
S. L. Allen
The
National Bank of Portland
Allen
H. Nelson McDougall
National Bank of Commerce
Portland
McDougall
Charles Ricker
Frank H. Willard
Poland Spring
George B. Wood
Rockland
Sherman L. Kiser
Fifth Infantry
U.S. A
Whiting Washington
North Edgecomb
Navy reveals destroyer dimensions from launch
The Navy Department releases the ship's measurements for the new destroyer launched today, listing a waterline length of 372 feet a beam of 36 feet 2 inches and a draft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davis
Navy Department
Mrs Sherman Morse Returns Home From Boston Visit
Mrs Sherman Morse has returned to her Winnegance home after several weeks with her husband the chief engineer on the steamer Bear Mountain which plies on the Hudson River. She visited her sister and brother in law Mr and Mrs Frank Oliver in Quincy Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J.crowman
Ellsworth
E. 8. Smith
Gardiner
Boston
Sagadahoc
St. Mary’s Church
Charlotte Eleanor
Joseph McLeary
Thomas J
Patrick H. Olys
Fall River
Mass
O’brien
Olys
J. L. P. Burke
Bath Street
W. B. Olys
Sherman Morse
Winnegance
Bear Mountain
Hudson River
Frank Oliver
Quincy
Reduced Rates Sought for Westport Ferry Hearing
The Westport ferry rate debate featured a clash between John J. Roche of Watertown and Harvey R. Pease of Wiscasset. County Commissioner Lincoln Harris ruled Pease out of order as the gathering adjourned with no further actions.
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John J. Roche
Watertown
Mass
Harvey R. Pease
Wiscasset
Roche
Lincoln Harris
Boothbay Harbor
Mr. Pease
Notice of Foreclosure On Maine Mortgage Deed
Notice recites foreclosure of a mortgage held by Pauline E. Douglas on a Bowdoinham property in Sagadahoc County Maine. The 1936 deed from George D Gott to Douglas, detailing parcels in Bowdoinham and bound by Dingley Road and nearby lands, is cited as the security. The breach occurred, and Benj B Douglass signs dated July 14 1938.
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George D. Gott
Bowdeinham
Sagadahoe
Maine
Pauline E. Douglas
Brunswick
Cumberland
State of Maine
Bowdoinham
Sagadahoc
B. B. Douglass
John McCarthy
Ernest Silvester
Randall Heirs
Charles Randall
Millay Brothers
Daniel B. Cornish
Milla
Benj
B. Douglass
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Waterville
West
W. A. Jack
Pete
Winifred
Emma Mayo
Conley & Crosby's
Charles Campbell
Damariscotta
Baxter
Neckan
Marine Railway
S. J. Macy
James A. Parsons
Allen H. Lester
Elmer Hodgkins
White Mountains
Capt. Besse
City
Rogers Yard
Bath Boys’ Brigade
A. D. Stetson
Washington Street
Margaret Wilson
Jennie Morse
Morandy
New England
Ernestine
Consolidation Coal Co
Baltimore
Jennie S. Butler
William B. Drummond
B. W. Hathorn
J. D. Lazell
Henrietta Hanford
macMahan’s Island
Lewiston
Solon S. Andrews
Water Company
Randolph
Bath Boys
U. S. S. Wyandotte
Dunlap Commandery
Knights Templar
Harry Mason
Harry
Heis
West End
Corliss
Palmer Lot
Center Street
Edwin W. Haggett
Lizzie A. Lemont
West Bath
Thomas Black
Moses Black
South End
Thomas
Phippsburg
Everett J. Lovejoy
Popham
Annie Longfellow
Juno
Houghton
Erskine M. Phelps
Chicago
Agnes Osgood
Alice Greenleaf
Happy Nook
Fred D. Andrews
Columbia Hotel
Fred Williams
Mora Company
John S. Hyde
Edward P. Donnell
S. R. Percy
Michael M. Finnegan
Timothy
Hon. William Rogers Ship Yard
Rogers’ Yard
Kelley, Spear & Co
Hoxie
Portland Harbor
Portsmouth
N. H
Kennebeck
Fort
Cuba
Orchard Hill
Santiago
Sewall
Roanoke
Thompson
San Francisco
Bet Lom
John Desmond, Jr
Thompson Bros
Providence
John
D. C. Preble
Jee
Popham Beach
John A. Parsons
Arthur Rowe
Court Street
Clarence Irving Lord
Sadie Agnes Snowman
J. T.crosby
Wesley M. E. Church
Alice Snowman
Lyman Lord
Lord
Kennebec
the Times
Times
Mr. Tuttle
Varney
Harriet and
Clara Morse
Haverhill
Gowell
Louise Harding
F. H. Twitchell
D. T. Percy
Boothbay
Islands
Maynard
Wellesley
Flora Belle Hearn
George Hearn
Lewis Totman, Jr
W. A. Mayo
Mattapan
de Bein
Jennie May
Charles Melville Boyd
Bright
Lincoln
Mary Barnes
Drummond Street
E. H. Spinney
George H. Patten
Fort McPherson
Atlanta
Patten
Gen
Lawton
Jaragua
Tampa
Florida
George A. Tuttle
Bath Brigade
Ladies Auxiliary
Witch Spring
Highway Department
Bath Independent
Bath, Maine
Davis’ Personnel
Casset Inn
William A. Furber
Edwin C. Patten
Charles W. Messenger
Walter L. Whitney
Sherwood Aldrich
Ralph O. Dale
Charles T. Small, Jr
City Hall
W. W. Watson
W. &. Collins
William Binley
Edward ©. Geehr
James B. Hunter
Elson H. Bigelow
C. M. Simmers
Frederick D. Herbert
Kearfott Engineering Co.,Inc
Herbert J. Kenneth Hall
Hemphill & Noyes Co
Joseph Hayden
James L. Nolan
Bank of Manhattan
J. Lewis Luckenbach
William L. MacQuillan
Gibbs & Co
Naval Architects
E. B. Williams
B. F. Sturtevant Co
Williams
Elmer C. Anderson
American Employers’ Insurance Co
H. D. Sharp
Edward W. Supple
Supple
Merchants’ National Bank
R. H. Young
Allan H. Crosby
Hugh Johnstone
William Ireland
Ireland
Rockland National
Harold B. Emery
Lamington
York County
Congress
Emery
Ralph C. Covel
Naval
U. S.S. Davis
William G. DuBose
George P. Enwright
William Granat
Erskine A. Seay
Herold
William N. Price
Price
Arthur F. Folz
Portsmouth Navy Yard
Easton
McCall
USS. Jouett
Sims
Hughes
Gleaves
Niblack
Department
James L. Boyle
American Legion
Quincy, Mass
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Co
Fore River
Westport Ferry
Emery Freeman
Wendall
Sally Jane
Herbert Anderson
Herbert
Rosedale
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