Varying Local Happenings From Bath and Vicinity
Excursion steamer Bow Dingham passes Bath Islands this morning as river traffic flows. Improvements in the vestry of 1m Street Church and street-area complaints cited. Briggs Potter closes cigar store on Front Street possibly to open a local restaurant. Gunboat No. 15 stern now in position at Bath Works with planking underway. Continental Guards plan Thursday meeting to prepare for campaign. Inn business strong at New Meadows shore. 40 dine there yesterday. Pleasant Point whist party last night at Kwood Inn. a concert prior evening. Iron Works workers pay five cents weekly for ice in warm season. Queen Esther lodge Daughters of Rebekah members touring Gowell’s Grove with meals served, planning trip to Phippsburg next Tuesday. Deering schooner near completion. launch expected Monday afternoon between 1 and 2. No name yet chosen. Local coach plans state league entry to form a team. Miss Jennie Merrill away two weeks, visiting Foster’s Point and home. Hattie Brown vacationing in Maine. RE. 8, Pity, Boston, an assistant superintendent of Postal Telegraph Co., in city yesterday.
Local items from W c Avery at Riggsville to new hires in town
August 6 1896 notes report the Avery family summering in Riggsville. Miss Margaret Desmond visits her brother John in town. A Democratic caucus is planned for tomorrow in the common council room. Jesse Savage and Charles Chestra f set for a sparring night at the Onarock Theatre Boothbay. A horse and carriage arrives from New York for Dr A B Hervey. Fred C Footer receives a full blooded fox hound pup for next winter hunts. Kennebeck Fire Company plans to rent Front street hall after tendering resignation. Ward 5 delegates receive brass desk plates. Rogers Curtis contracts to build a Hallowell granite monument for Mrs William E Payne’s grave. Hyde Light Guards prepare for Augusta state muster opening the 22nd and drill thrice weekly. Captain Anthony Sprague leaves the Islander. Capt Cyrus Thompson of Westport to take command. War fren Coffin of Wiscasset to be mate. Mr and Mrs George Hagan of Otter Cliff House visit town.
Revival of Polo League Proposed in Maine Cities
The 1896 plan aims to form a six club polo league with Bangor Lewiston Portland Rockland Augusta and Bath. Augusta backers led by William Long push a September meeting to organize the league and Bath may field a team to uphold Bath’s historic polo prominence.
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Maine
Bangor
Lewiston
Portland
Rockland
Augusta
Bath
William Long
Times
Alamedas
Chapman
Carr
Pond
Butler
Scanlon
Rocklands
Walthams
Murphy Balsame
Bill” Pond
Jack” Chapman
Brown
Jk Pembroke
Bath through the week August 8 1896 news highlights
August 8 1896 reports progress on Hyde Windlass Co buildings a Berlin coach arrival Joseph Avery hosts open air Park meeting at 4 weather permitting River Belle ferry service between Richmond and the camp ground to begin for about a week and many city visitors and events including baseball planning boat launches and local excursions all described with local names and places.
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Richmond
Camp Ground
Migratory trees move long distances in freshes and floods
The article explains how floods and strong winds shift trees along rivers, uprooting and relocating roots and trunks. It cites a 400 foot bank slide where fifteen soft maples moved about twenty two feet, with trees surviving and adapting to new banks. It notes such migrations are rare but documented along the Mississippi and other flood plains.
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New England
Mississippi
Aldermen Walk Out At Midnight Contained In City News
Residents urge police protection after a series of fires in a Texas yard. petition discussed by the council committee. Then social notes recount births, visits, and travel of Bath residents, plus a note on Vanessa Easton and Glenn Easton preparing for West Point.
Texas Co Fire, Rebuilding Plans In Satna Yard
City cites Texas Co efforts to rebuild and fence yards after a fire as it petitions the police committee for action. Texas Co representative Quicksall says the incident likely incendiary with trespass or fireworks as causes and notes company will replenish lost fire hose and play pipe. He details fencing, gate between Sewall and Texas yards, and ongoing trespass prevention measures.
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Es Yard
Texas Co
Kelley, Spear
Special Committee On Police
Quicksall
The
Texas Yard
Sewall Yard
Texas
Rogers
Cedar Street
Texas Company
Kelley
Spear Yard
Sewall
Police Vacation Battle Delays 14 Day Paid Leave
City officials clash over granting 14 days vacation with pay to regular police and city marshal at city expense. Aldermen Haskell Gediman favor the move amid a split council. Robbins Turner Woodman oppose. Finance committee previously approved pay terms. pending action postponed to next meeting.
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Haskell
Gediman
Robbins
Turner
Woodman
Pres. Emery
Bragg
Finance Committee
Committee On Police
Police Department
City approves annex project cost for Congress Shirt Co plant
Chairman Emery led a special committee to raze a Kelley Spear Co yard building and rebuild it as an annex to Congress Shirt Co. The city spent 4 079.56 with land at 450 and labor 2374.56 plus 600 for heating, 475 for sprinklers, and 180 for lighting. The work, aided by City Treasurer Young, yields a busier factory through next spring.
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Emery
Kelley, Spear Co
Congress Shirt Co
City Treas
Young
Middle Street
R. E. Seekins
City Fire Department Committee Extends Petitions and Notes Snowman Proposal
The committee on fire departments and public buildings granted more time on Mrs. W. M. Hilborn’s petition to buy land east of the Marshall Street hose house. The finance committee recommended keeping Abbie J. Snowman’s petition in abeyance, noting she proposed city support in exchange for deed of her property.
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W. M. Hilborn
West Minott
Marshall Street
Abbie J. Snowman
Imade
Mrs. Snow
City council considers street layouts and tree removals
The committee on streets reports on Crescent court layout and removal of trees on Washington Elm and Oak streets. A Rotary playground proposal is referred to the tax committee. Relief accounts are paid and the treasurer’s report accepted. appropriations total 385,104.61 with credits 23,968.80.
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E. Blake
Crescent Court
Alderman Woodman
Washington and
Winter Streets
Washington Street
Elm Street
Oak Street
Edward Street
Edward W. Bridgham
Rotary Club
F. A. Winchenbach
People’s Investment Association
Haskell
Y.M.C.A
North End
Committee On Police
G. ©. Frost
Dyer- Flaherty Post
Dummer Street
Lower Middle Street
Robinson and
Lemont Streets
Hunt and
Robinson Streets
A. E. Burden
Highland Street
Board of Highways and Sewers
Clarence A. Warner
Middle
Getchell Streets
Little Hill
Bath City Officials Grant Utilities and Sign Permits
Before a regular meeting Bath municipal officers granted Central Maine Power Co. a permit to set 20 poles on lower High Street extending service to Birch Point. They scheduled a hearing for a rear annex at 22 Center Street and referred overhead sign permits to a committee. The Yankee Exposition Shows license request was referred to the licensing committee, and a film operator license was approved. Absent members and neighbors from Massachusetts visited the Hotel Phoenix. Sagadahoc probate creditors to present claims, with six months from May 12, 1936, allowed for proof in the Ellers estate case.
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Central Maine Power Co
Lower High Street
Charles T. Small
West Bath
Birch Point
John H. Currier, Jr
Center Street
Turner and
Haskell
O. M. Redlon
Leon Sonia
Florence Bakery
Center
D. Cogan
Academy Street
Board of Highways and Sewers
Gardiner R. Deering
Bdo
GHES
J. Edwards
Roosevelt Unit Hails Roosevelt Record at Bath Event
Speakers praise Franklin D. Roosevelt for social justice and relief programs. Judge Curran urges a Democratic landslide in Maine on Sept. 14 as a national test. Miss Straus argues working men cannot vote against Roosevelt. Mary F. Gibbons travels to Saunderstown Rhode Island for a ten day visit with cousin Mrs. J. Prescott Farnsworth.
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Roosevelt
Judge Curran
Miss Straus
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Maine
Mary F. Gibbons
Washington Street
Hammond Farm
Saunderstown
R. I
Probate notices and guardianship actions in Sagadahoc 1936
Multiple probate orders published from Bath Maine outlining final accountings for Ada Manson Nellie Parker Mary M Parker Laura W Payne and Frances C Merry and appointments of Addie E Terrell guardian and Arthur J Dunton administrator. Notices request interested parties appear in September 1936 to show cause why accounts should be allowed and petitions granted.
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State OF Maine
Sagadahoc
Bath
Parker N. Moulton
Ada Manson
Nellie Joyce Parker
Mary M. Parker
Newsaper
Walter 8S. Gudden
Roland W. Payne
Laura W. Payne
Isagadahoc
Daniel Williams
Frances C. Merry
Harvey J. Given
James Dwight Curtis
West Bath
C.t.a
Walter
Glidden
Adahoc
A.D
Merton O. Webber
Walter S. Glidden
H. L
Sagaea
Seneca
Incomplete Probate Notice from Agedaie County
The fragment lists names and residences for heirs of a deceased, noting widow Lena Tucker and son George B. Tucker. It details next of kin, residency, and relationships, including a Pittsford address and mentions a brother and other family ties. The text is garbled and partial.
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Aeghedaie fAengi
Lea Tucker
George B. Tuckers
South B
Pittsford
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Briggs Potter
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Gowell’s Grove
Woolwich
Phippsburg
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Haan Pean Tone
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Maine Atero
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Pity
Boston
Postal Telegraph Co
W.c. Avery
Riggsville
Margaret Desmond
John Desmond
Jesse Savage
Charles Chestra
Onarock Theatre
Boothbay
New York
A. B. Hervey
Fred C. Footer
Kennebeck Fire ‘Company
Torrey
City Council
Rogers & Curtis
Hallowell
William E. Payne
Hyde Light Guards
Anthony Sprague
Sprague
Cyrus Thompson
Westport
Warfren Coffin
Wiscasset
George Hagan
Otter Cliff House
Five Islands
An Hyde Windlass Co
Berlin
Joseph Avery
W. 8. Jameson
Pueblo
Mexico
R. Jameson
Mexican Herald
Albert Pinkham
G. P. Larrabee
Mrs
J. L. Thompson
Farmington
Ed Brown
Bath Boys
Auburn
Charles Hagan
American Steamship Line
Thomas Potter
South End
James Dike
Lucy
Margaret
Braintree
Mass
Christmas Cove
George Wakefield
Providence, R. I
Lynn
Kennebunkport
Alfred McIsaacs
Chicago
Singer Sewing Machine Co
Joseph Nicholson
Frank Luce
Mr. MecIsaacs
Kennebec
T Wharf
Kate Jones
Morse’s
Hook
Camarin
Gardiner G. Deering
John G. Deering
Deering Yard
Bath Memorial Hospital
Leroy V. Honsinger
Cobb Road
Howland Bottomley
Camden
N. J
Squirrel] Island
J. R. Andrews
Roland R. Hill
Jane Killian
A. McCammon
Wilbur J. Thrush
Shaw
Kenneth Trask
Western Union Telegraph Co
Gardner, Mass
Fitchburg
Carl F. Pierce
Sebasco
William T. Nanney
Lowell
Fred G. Nanney
South Portland
Ernest A. Fenno
Somerville
Harold J
Edward E. Sonia
Beacon Street
Fenno
Vanessa Easton
Glenn H. Easton, Jr
F. M. Delano
Feeport
L. I
Easton
Washington, D. C
Columbian
United States Military Academy
West Point
Harold W. Child
Camp Comfort
Edward Cassavant
Brunswick
Congress Shirt Factory
Bathe
Bath National Bank
Ee Eees
First National Bank
Weer
Hart
Henderson
Pierce
Pinkham
Rodick
Savage
Tardif
Wallace
J. William Wickwire
Woellaston
Phoenix
Fred R. E. Dean
Sedgwick
Wickwire
Dean
Dorchester
State OF
Walter 8S, Glidden
John L. Jack
Register
Walter 5S
Addie E. Terrell
Collingswood C. Shea
Arrowsic
Ea~dahoc
Theat Band
Lora Rea
Collingswood C
Arthur J. Dunton
County of Sagadahoc
Arthur J. Dunton Toe
Elvira A. Trafton
Sarah Levina Kingsbury
George E. Webber
Vassalboro
Maude V. Webber
Vassaloro
Benjamin W. Webber
Robert R. Webber
Chelsee
Peel
Hiram T. Stevens Bath
Sagacahoc
John L.jack
Harry A. Starbird
Ella Ellers
Harry A Starbird
John 7
Tack
Saradalone
Albion F. Smith
Saen
Sield
Walter 8. Glidden
Ee Tucker
New York City
Deceas
Lillian W. Tucker
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