Local Jottings Chronicle Bath News And Notes
Shingles cost four dollars per thousand and a $25 donation boosts the Nurses' Home Fund now at $508.70. Watson Frye and Co. manufacture special munitions casts for New York clients by night crew. Capt John H Mott leaves tug John G Chandler for illness. Capt Maurice Shaw takes temporary control. Miss Lena Cunningham and Milton Trott announce Aug 20 wedding in Newcastle. Islander delayed by boiler leak. Wyoming schooner sails to Norfolk. Deermont Clothing promos use hidden $1 bills in pockets to boost sales. County Building vane wobble shocks locals then wind shift. Stephen Morse named Bath post office inspector, replacing Leatherman. Pierce reportedly removed. Short lobsters seized at Wells Beach. 2150 count, tied to Boston smacks. A troublesome boy breaks into Percy store. mental exam sought. A travelling man reports ideal May weather in Aroostook County. hay and potato crops good. Mr and Mrs John Parris celebrate 40th wedding anniversary. daughter Elizabeth Gaudreau and grandchildren noted. Parris works at Bath Iron Works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nurses’ Home Fund
Watson, Frye & Co
New York
John H. Mott
John G. Chandler
Philadelphia
Maurice Shaw
Lena Emma Cunningham
Newcastle
Milton Charles Trott
Woolwich
Trott
Kimball Bros
Boothbay
Squirrel Island
Wyoming
Percy & Small Fleet
Portland
Norfolk
McLeod
Coffin
Deermont Clothing Company
Bath
Spokane
Oregon
Leatherman
New England
A. H. Pierce
N. J. Hanna
New Harbor
Isaac Snow
Brunswick
Wells Beach
Cape Neddick Harbor
York Harbor
Boston
Aroostook
John Tt. Parris
Upper
Washington St
Elizabeth Gaudreau
Conductor Gaudreau
Strand Theatre Orchestra
Edward L. Gaudreau, Jr
Evelyn L. Goff
Parris
Bath Iron Works
Bath Iron Works keel stretches for 224 foot yacht
Local notes report Bath Iron Works workers began framing a new yacht keel to yield a 224 foot waterline vessel. The Bath schooner is under construction with gear built in the Newport News yard and the Bath company owning the 204 gross ton towboat Bath in New York City.
Bath News Briefs and Regional Events Highlight Community Life
Community updates note $508 secured for Nurses' Home and a Worcester party touring Bath for dinner. Maine Central announces a Sunday excursion to Old Orchard and Sedgwick Circle meets. Woolwich mill deliveries reach Sebasco Estates while crowds enjoy weather despite. A masquerade at the Recreation Hall and Prof Bonnette's fair balloon ascent are announced. Funeral services for Mrs Putnam are held with Avery pallbearers. Secretary McAdoo travels through Bath en route to Washington. Miss Morrison buys Grand View Hotel Bull Rock to host summer guests year round. Local shouts recount dogs chasing a racoon and a misdirected hotel memory. tug activity details follow with barges and coal transport. Chappelle suffers injuries after horse stumble. repairs ahead. A Bath suburb resident spots a stranger with a bag of six longneck bottles hidden on a hill. man retrieves two, one kept for later use.
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Rockland
Moose
Pemaquid Beach
Thomaston
Dunbar
Portland
Bath
Winter Street
Hackman
Lisbon Falls
Lisbon
Arthur S. Staples
Lewiston Journal
Squirrel Island
Popham
Fox Island
New York City
Newport News
The
Bath Iron Works
Louise Craven
Union Street
Percy Bishop
Hazel Nickerson
Boothbay Harbor
Bishop
William Bishop
Bowdo
Porto Rico
Miss Nickerson
Alonzo R. Nickerson
Phippsburg Road
Bert Cutting
H. E. Cole
Bridgton
Bath and Morse High
Bridgton High School
Sebenon Hall
Sagadahoc Ferry
Woolwich
Roberts Fountain
Frog Pond
Conforth
Christmas Cove
Worcester
Maine Central
Old Orchard
Sedgwick Circle
Hockomock
Sebasco Estates
Recreation Hall
Hebblethwaite
C. C. Bonnette
Maine
Bangor
Horace A. Putnam
George Edward Avery
Academy St
O. W. Folsom
Donald, Elwell
Harold
Randall Avery
Oak Grove Cemetery
McAdoo
New York Express
Enr
North Haven
Washington
Express
Penobscot River
Miss Morrison
Brunswick
Grand View
Bull Rock
New Meadows
Coffin
Deermont Clothing Co
Hubert H. McCarty
Fred P. Hill
Sagadahoc Square
Sagadahock House
Tug Seguin
Hallowell
Canton
Hallowell Granite Works
New York
Seguin
Kennebec
Hamilton
Ariel
Augusta
Flats
Wingate
James Young
South Gardiner
Charles Chappelle
Mr. Chappelle
Bath Era Daily Fragments and Local Notes Summary
Sunflowers bloom as street circus occupies Water Street from depot to Elm. Deputy Sheriff Aderton seizes six quarts of whiskey in transit. A lighter arrives at Reed Nichols wharf with sand from the Bay. Bath band rehearsals and a business meeting occur Monday evening.
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Street Circus
Water St
Depot Square
Elm St
Aderton
Hattie
Reed Nichols
Bath
1St Maine Cavalry Association
Bucksport
Fort Knox
Alfred C. Strout
Thomaston
David Walsh
North Bath
Auburn
Sam Belanger
Guy Stevens Callendar
Sheffield Scientific School
Branford
Conn
Callendar
Oberlin College
Yale
Wellesley
Harvard
Bowdoin
Woolwich
Marble
Lake Nequasset
Nequasset Lake
Center St
Weather and town notes mix in Bath area sights and events
Seventeen patients at City Hospital, hay prices at 22 to 25 a ton, and sanitary work at Dummer Street School. Bath reports show crowds at Mode Show, 17 ferried autos on Hockomock run, fog delaying fishing, and a busy waterfront with tinker mackerel and berry harvests. Center Street mud removal costs locals dear as Block paving hopes fade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dummer St
Bathites
Highway progress reports on Bath to Hillside route with delays
Motorists inspect the new federal highway from Brunswick to Hillside three miles west of Brunswick. Completion to Hillside is imminent though weather may push public opening past Oct 1. Detours exist via Durham and marsh river bridge repairs slow progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Brunswick
Freeport
Hillside
Hudson
Durham
Portland
Yarmouth
Marsh River Bridge
Bath City Keeps Busy With Visiting Friends And Relatives
A parade of visitors and travelers unfolds in Bath as residents host guests from Boston Perth Amboy Trufant's Crossing Salem and Boston while locals tour sights. Mentions include Wilson OBrien Murray Bonney Heckleworth Dowling and Bartlett among others with dates and transport notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson O'Brien
Boston
Charles A. Murray
Perth Amboy
Chester Freeman
Boothbay
Bath
Eleanor Jewell
Gardiner
Haraden
High St
W. L. Bonney
Bowdeinham
M. O. Glass
City
Wilson Bailey
Woolwich
Frank W Perkins Home On Weekend In Bangor Duties
Frank W Perkins, a traveling salesman for a large Boston wholesale house, is also directing affairs of a major store in Bangor during the weekend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank W. Perkins
Boston
Bangor
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Capt
Wallace
Doctor Peaslee
Solovich
Ferry St
Lewis
Damariscove Island
Oscar
Washington Sts
M.C.R.R
Knox & Lincoln
Elks Home
Lombard St
Robert T. Ramsay
Boston Express
Water
H. E. Heckleworth
Bayonnue
N. J
C. C. Seavey
Trufant’s Crossing
Salem
A. Pidgin
Phillip
Lynn
John L. Dowling, Jr
Burlington, Vt
John Dowling
William H. Shea
Beacon St
Martyn F. Bartlett
Waterville
Bartlett
Laurence Hodgdon
Trevette
George F. Warren
J. F. Schofield
Phippsburg
C. M. McCormick
Manchester
James Farrell
McCormick
Sheepscat
Wallace Ham
Chum
Ham
P. P. Rood
West Dresden
Gladys Jordan
J. E. Schools
Charles Jordan
Forest Hill Hospital
Newburyport
Paul Blackwood
William Blackwood
Long Island Sugar Refinery Co
Bayonne
Lloyd H. McFadden
Doris McFadden
Culberson
Ohio
W. E. Rogers
Bay Point
George W. McFadden
Ernest Hunt
A. C. Briggs
Mary Helen Ridlon
Florence Briggs
Stoneham
Mass
Marcy
Viola
Medford
Happy Nook
Charles Curtis
Damariscotta
Red D Line
John R. Kelley
Falklands
F. W. Silver
Roland
New Bedford
G. A. Dickinson
York St
Silver
United States Shoe Machinery Co
West
Dickinson
Jack McGrath
Anna Louise
John B
Dorchester
Roger Guthrie
Middle St
Jack
Congress St
Young’s
Edward Everett Grammar School
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