Local Jottings From Bath and Nearby Towns
A Bath note column reports blooming hydrangeas and red mountain ash berries. A Lewiston party visits Popham and dines Riverside. four new arrivals stay at Riverside. Sheriff captures another liquor dealer down river. bath alarm heard in Boothbay Harbor. U S S Morse provides crews for three schooners. congressman urged to aid shipping interests. The fifteenth Haggett reunion set for Aug 26 at Edgecomb Town Hall. National rifle matches reorganized into five divisions with Marine learning institutions eligible to compete.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewiston
Popham
Riverside
Oliver
Bath
Boothbay Harbor
Morse
Washington
Tuessic
Perkins
Prince
Virginia
Phillip Hubbell Jones
Shelton
Sonia
Popham U. S
Hargett
Edgecomb Town Hall
Haggett
Owen Haggett
Association
Mr. Morse
Boston
Camden
Eastern Steamship Corporation
Bangor
Belfast Bay
United States
New Meadows
Kennebec
Darmstadt
Germany
Summer visitors in town and local court actions
Visitors from nearby resorts occupied Bath and West Bath with extended stays as Bath Aerie hosted a Berlin event. Fred H. Spinney faced a lower court discharge for selling Jamaica ginger while Herman Spinney’s whiskey charge was continued. A West Bath funeral for Mrs. William Henry Brown featured Rev. H. A. Corey and Wesley Church choir. West Bath Grange sent a large delegation. Local sea travelers toured the coast aboard Enare, Zip, and Doris. Hiram Abrams became a Paramount Pictures director. Capt. Tapley promotes a move to the Atlantic coast. Bath Grain Co. prepared its new elevated crib and elevator complex on Commercial Street with 15,000 bushel capacity per bins and large metalwork, planning to move stock from shore factory to open manufacturing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Aerie
F. O.E
Berlin
N. H
Wesley Church
Wesley
William Mitchell
Fred Winter
Everett Mayo
Harry Rich
West Bath Grange
Oak Grove Cemetery
H. W. McFarland
M. W. MacFarland
R. Hennessey
B. McNichols
Beverly
J. H. Griffin
Joseph A. Forest
Lynn
J. D. Daley
Salem
Enare
Zip
Doris
New Meadows
Bath
Hiram Abrams
Portland
Paramount Pictures Corporation
New York
Mr. Abrams
Famous Players Film Co
Jesse L. Lasky Feature Plays Co
Hobard Bosworth, Incorporated
Universal
Bath Opera House
Crawford
Paramount
Robert M. Tapley
West Brooksville
Kennebunkport
Tapley
American-Hawaiian Co
Pacific
Atlantic
San Francisco
Panama Canal
William Tapley
William H. Gould
Savannah
Dustin G. Cressey
Bath Grain Co
Moulton
Commercial St
P. L. Nickerson
A. W. Willard
Watermelons arrive as market activity and shipping continues
A large shipment of watermelons reached the local market while the New York Express ran late. Community notices include a church meeting led by Millard Spinney and engagement of local officials in July vital statistics, with births deaths and marriages recorded, and du ring summer transport by electric cars and shipping operations at Portland and Bath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Express
Winneganee
Louis V. Thebeau
Lillian
Eleanor
Portland
Grassy
Augusta
S. of V
Frye
Court House
Fuller
Bath Maine items note coast fishing and travel
Frank B. Gallison of Portland visits. Hay deliveries, wharf activity, and lobster abundance draw comment. The Perth Amboy coal tug arrives. Coast fishermen report plentiful lobster but small catches. Jamaica ginger case ruled medicinal. Bath Elks meet. vaudeville acts tour Bethel and St Paris. Real estate sale at 21 Lemont St. C. W. Church coal schooner bound for Bath. Maine Central ends Old Orchard excursion. City of Bangor brings summer visitors. Bay Point casino vaudeville fundraiser to reduce debt. Trap rock deliveries for Mill Pond road project. Lumberman eyes Phippsburg timber for Salem mill. Various sightings of birds and fish. Prices: pork up, sugar near five ninety-eight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank B. Gallison
Portland
Kennebec
H. F. Holbrook
Pentecostal Church of Nazarene
Perth Amboy
Farnham
Bay Point
Jamaica
Bath Lodge of Elks
Clarence
Percy Oliver
Bethel
St. Paris
Lemont St
Fitzgerald
Maine Central
Old Orchard
Rockland
Bath
City of
Bangor
Boston
Village Improvement Association
Bay Point Casino
Peabody
New State Road
Mill Pond
York Strand
New Road
Phippsburg
Salem
North End
Sonia
City Landing
Edward Sewall
Philadelphia
Pacific Coast
Bahia Blanca
Honolulu
Seattle
Frank Merritt
Bay
John Wilson
Back River
Hinckley
A. Dyer
Little River
Boston Globe
United States
New England
Portsmouth
Newburyport
Gloucester
Medford
Quincy
New Meadows
Westport Summer Visitors Fill Town Amid Community Life
The Westport column notes every boat brings visitors for one to two weeks and denies claims the town is dead. It highlights dances by the local grange, the Ladies Aid work, a Thursday fair, and a concert with Grace Adams and Kenneth Weeks. Lectures by Rev Pollard on Yellowstone Park and Mammoth Cave draw crowds. Residents chat visits, travel, and local updates including Mr. Pollard’s move to Atlantic Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westport
Grange
Center Church
Kenneth Weeks
E. P. Webber
Marshall Outhuse
Webber
Probate Court Notice of Final Account Bath 1914
Henry M. Heald administrator on Beagy we Ata s Phippsburg in Sagindahoe county presents his final account for the estate. A notice orders publication in the Bath Independent three weeks to invite all interested parties to appear on the first Tuesday of September at nine o clock in the forenoon to show cause why the account should not be allowed. Judge James S. Lowell signs the order with Register Cyrus W. Longley authenticating the copy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel S. Jaques
State OF
Maine
Sagadahoc
Gust
Bath
James
Lowell
Cyrus W. Longley
James S. Lowell
Register
Joseph M. Trott
Sagadahoe
Henry W. Hanson
Ee Enon
Mary A. Sonia
William JD. Coombs
Marion Thompson (Soule
Sagadahor
Fannie EF. Moulton
George Moulton
William I Coombs
Marion Thompson
Soule
Aving
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Rockledge
House of Correction
Edward Robinson
Annie Doughty
Mainesetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
West Virginia
District of Columbia
Seagril
N. J
Henry Larbrie
Julia Muldoon
George R. Stetson
Larrabee’s
Bath and Brunswick Power Co
Kelley- Spear Co
Magnus Manson
Edward B. Winslow
Jane Palmer
Calumet
Galveston
Cape Hatteras
Samuel W
John C. Tourtillotte
K. and G
F. D. Keene
George Greene
Messrs
Keene and
Greene
P. and O. Line
England
Keene
L. V. Harkness
Standard Co
Inste
Mediterranean
Vitti
Pompii
National Museum
Naples
Yellowstone Park
Pollard
South Schoolhouse
Mammoth Cave
Kentucky
Nature
West
California
Mass
Freeman Colby
R. P. Colby
W. W. Beator
G. G. Judkins
Wiscasset
C. L. Cromwell
Horace Lewis
Eldred
R. T. Greenleaf
Rev. C. Jameson
Fred
Mathew Greenleaf
Charles E. Meserve
Topsham
Said
Albion C. G. Meserve
John O. Meserve
Samuel E. Meserve
Richmond
Charles FE. Meserve
Sagadahoc, Ss
N. Foster Trott
E. Susan Trott
George Trott
Muskegan
Mich
Levi Trott
N. Fi. Trott
Sagadahoe, Ss
A. D
Mary E. Dunbar
Agnes A. Woodin
Annie C. Robinson
Mary Ellen Dunbar
Elizabeth E. Dunbar
Sarah R. Tabor
Ralph P. Dunbar
Walter S. Dunbar
Sarah S. Bucknam
Brooklyn
Lettine Do
Bucknaem
Alfred S. Bucknam
Elizabeth Clark
N.Y
Pearl Smart
Boise City
Idaho
Georgie Fish
Wash
Miry Fish
Mary Ke, Dunbar
Mary £. Dunbar
Sagidahoe
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