Forty Years Ago in Bath Excerpts 1888
Bath Daily Times notes from August 15 1888 report Lois Dunning moving into the Charles Coombs house on Washington street painters work on Galen Moses block and the Morse tug Perry painted. Excursions by Islander and forest Queen. Bath mechanics praised for Ocean Gem speed. Maine events include fishing contests and local baseball between Governors and Front Streets. Lightning strikes 1060 High street with minor damage and no fire, residents shaken.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lois Dunning
Charles Coombs
Washington Street
Merchants
Bath
Brunswick
Mouse Island
Cahill c
Schofield P
Varney
Ledyard
Murphy
Kimballis
Welch Rf
Oliver
Sawyer
Parks c
Lincoln
Mitchell
Spiett
Lermond
Jackson
High Street
Cyrus Dunning
Aldermen Session Set to Revise Voting List
August 17 1888 notices set next day 2 to 4 pm for aldermen to revise the voting list. Names mentioned include Herbert Philbrook Edward Purington and Boston employment moves on the Star. Acadia lodge officers installed by D G C Fritz H Twitchell with C H Mason C C and S Frye vice C.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Acadia Lodge
Fritz H. Twitchell
C. H. Mason
C. C
R. Frye
Visiting notes and local reflections from August 1888
Aug 18 1888 reports John H Tucker visiting from Holyoke for two weeks and lists arrivals including E O Smith Andrews Hallett William Olys W H Crockett G W Luce and G E Thompson aboard the Star. It notes Silas Stearns death from consumption and profiles his life from Pensacola to Bath. Forest Queen excursion steamer carries 228 passengers to Bath with a return moonlit cruise. Star Canoe club hosts a sociable with baked beans and lanterns at their clubhouse after a summer season of paddling and outings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John H. Tucker
Frank Brown
Holyoke
E. O. Smith
Andrews Hallett
William Olys
W. H. Crockett
G. W. Luce
G. E. Thompson
The
Star
South End
Star Canoe Club
Popham
Richmond
August 20 1888 local items and openings noted
The article lists a series of local happenings including the Deering schooner planking nearly finished, Captain Charles Jackson starting a trip to Northport on yacht Flora, an outing by Orphans Home children at Gowell's Grove, a Sedgwick Relief corps meeting at G A R hall, and the Sagadahoc Supreme Judicial Court opening with Judge Foster presiding. Electric light work at the Sagadahock House, cargo movements at Maine Central wharves, a clam bake trip to Pleasant Point, upcoming K T entertainments, and the Sagadahock House opening to travelers with Shannon arranging hotel supper details.
Bath and West Bath Social Roundup and Arrivals
Aug 21 1888 notes show thirty four arrivals at Sagada hock House. Various locals including John Wilson family visiting. Bath Banjo and Guitar club to perform at the Richmond opera house. Round Pond band outdoor concert near Buckley’s hotel. Local clubs discuss a literary contest and plan programs for future meetings. death resolution for Pat Darden to be drafted by D R Wylie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sagadahock House
The
Bath
Opera House
Richmond
Round Pond
Buckley’s
West Bath
D. R. Wylie
Pat Darden
National Grange
Frantic search fails to locate Clara Garey of Bath
A renewed, wide search by Sanford Garey, Sagadahoc sheriff's department, Boston police, and naval authorities tries to find 14 year old Clara Garey of Center Street Court Bath. Gertrude Hudson, 17, was found in Boston with no info on Clara. They had left Bath after a matinee in Brunswick and were last linked to a sailor near the Marblehead during a trip to Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sagadahoc
Garey
Sanford J. Garey
Marblehead
Boston
Hudson
Brunswick
East Deering
Miss Hudson
Sheriff's Department
Mr. Garey
Obituary: Edwin C. Lee Dies in Troutdale at 30
Word of Edwin C. Lee’s sudden death at Troutdale reached Bath on Friday. He was just past 30, married to Bernice Merrill, and left a wife, two young children Virginia and Edwin C. Lee Jr., and his parents in Augusta with several brothers and sisters. A Texas Co. associate in Bath during the war, he later worked for Frank W. Carlton and helped operate Troutdale sporting camps with his family year round.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Troutdale
Edwin C. Lee
Bernice Merrill
Andrew S. Merrill
Garden Street
Virginia
Edwin C. Lee Jr
Harry Lee
Augusta
Lee
Texas Co
Helion Club
Frank W. Carlton
Funeral for Bath man Earl A. Lightbody set in Bath
Earl A. Lightbody, 42, of Quincy Mass died suddenly in Boston on August 15. He was born in Bath and worked at Bath Iron Works machinists’ department. Funeral Saturday 10 30 a m at William C Chadbourne undertaking rooms Broad Street Rev Weston P Holman of Beacon Street Church officiating Survived by father George Lightbody Bath and brothers C A Lightbody Portland and L F Lightbody Bath.
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Earl A. Lightbody
Bath
Boston
William C. Chadbourne
Broad Street
Weston P. Holman
Beacon Street
Mr. Lightbody
Bath Iron Works
Portland
Quincy
Mass
George Lightbody
C. A. Lightbody
L. F. Lightbody
Maine crops show average yields across state
A Maine Department of Agriculture report on August 1 forecasts average to near average yields for most crops. Potatoes rise slightly due to more acres, apples and fruit trails last year, while New England totals edge above last year but below the five year average. Overall conditions, though good, may be tempered by heavy rainfall.
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Maine
Maine Department of Agriculture
New England
New Hampshire
Vermont
United States
North Central States
Iowa
Nebraska
Kansas
Polar explorers wear parkas of Worumbo camel hair
Oliver Moses 2d of Bath reports that Commander Richard E Byrd will outfit about 50 yards of Worumbo camel hair for parkas to be tailored aboard his supply ship. The Polo Blizzard cloth parka by D Siegel Co weighs four pounds and is hooded to knee length with three pattern units. Captain Sir George Wilkins and Lieutenant Eielson will wear a hooded flying coat from the Dartmoor Coat Co. in the Arctic venture.
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Oliver Moses 2d
Worumbo Manufacturing Co
Bath
New York Daily News Record
Richard E. Byrd
Worumbo Co
Parkas
Byrd
D. Siegel Co
Antarctic
OD. Siegel Co
George Wilkins
Arctic
Wilkins
Eielson
Dartmoor Coat Co
Mrs Parris and Mrs Bennett Visit Buckfield Pair
Mrs Edwin Parris of Upper Washington Street and her daughter Mrs M E Bennett returned from a trip with Mrs Susan Hammett of Buckfield. They were guests in Buckfield and toured the White Mountains by automobile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin Parris
Washington Street
Buckfield
M. E. Bennett
Testamentary Capacity Found for Mrs Cornish
The judge rules Mrs. Cornish had testamentary capacity when she signed her will despite frailty and deafness. He finds no undue influence by Dora or Carleton Lowell or others and notes the testatrix acted with awareness of her property and beneficiaries. The proceeding rejects claims of coercion despite family tensions and hospital setting.
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Maverick
Reynolds
Brads, Sur
Cornish
Secrivener
Rogers
Dora Lowell
N. Gratz Jackson
Dora
Carleton Lowell
Testatrix
Bath
Lowell
Bath City Hospital
Mrs. Lowell
Mr. Lowell
Mrs. Cornish
Lowells
Probate Trustees Publish Notice of Estate Administration
In Sagadahoc Maine at Bath a Court of Probate orders trustees under George Davenport late Bath to publish notice of their first account of administration. The order requires three weeks of publication in the Bath Independent before a September first probate hearing at nine o clock in the forenoon to show cause why the account should not be allowed.
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State OF Maine
Sagadahogc
Bath
Sawadahoe
A. B
Arthur J. Dunton
J. Edward Drake
William OS. Shorey
George DP. Davenport
Sazadahoe
Walter S. Glidden
Sagadahoc
Arthur I. Dunton
William S. Shorey
George 1
Davenport
Saradalioe
Sant
Mosant County
Shaw
Justa
Sapadahoc
John T. Carey
D. Ob
Helen Grant
Jail County
Sat
Eleock
Walter S
Glidden
Alice May PY Roung
Dover
New Hampshire
Nellie F. Dunteen
Bathinsand
Georgia D. Foye
Gardiner
Carrie PL Fossett
Randolph
Ernest Dunton
Whitefield
Wellington FP. Dunton
Hattie Brown
West Bath
Mary A. Dunton
Camerota Bee
Angie M.D. Purrington
S. Portlanderthiit
AL D
Alice May Therce Young
Strafford
Clyde Kerfe
Uwast
A. D
Sagadahoe
Arthur E. Hodgkins
Admr
William T. Trodgkins
Jane T. Hodgkins
Hathinsaid
Saysalahoe
Saul
Bathinsas County
Bathmy Osad
Walter Ss. Glidden
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bath Daily Times
Galen Moses
Morse
Perry
Mabel Bird
Moulton’s
Fort Popham
Col. Taylor
Bath Mechanics
Lombard and Cox
Gardiner Y. M. C. A
Squirrel Island
Squirrel Club
William Farrin
Fred Getchell
Baptist Society
Harpswell
A. R. Gilmore
the Star
Lovejoy
Center Street
Belfrey
Bangor
E. B. Neally
Bath Division
Bank
K. of P
No. 5
K. P. Armorial Crest
K.P
City Hall
Gen. Dow
William Shaw
Dow
I. A. Harris
P. H. C. Upton
M. A. L. Totman, Jr
O. G
Henry Hartley
A. M. Franks
Herbert Philbrook
Wakefield
Edward Purington
Star of the East
George W. Luce
Fred Shaw
John Purington
James Cook
Mamie Cook
Sturgeon Bay, Wis
Turner McCarty
Westport
Silas Stearns
South
Wiliam B. Stearns
W. S. Shorey
Silas
Pensacola
D. P. Low
Forest Queen
Anr
Peaks
Cushings
Little Diamond
Chebeague Islands
White Hat Brigade
Aptain
Charles Jackson
Northport
Flora
Orphans Home
Gowell’s Grove
Sedgwick Relief Corps
G.A.R. Hall
Supreme Judicial Court of
Foster
Maine Central
Woodwards
Hiram Cornish
Pleasant Point
Ae Tate
Sagadahock
Shannon
Shannon's Hotel
John Wilson
Harry M. Rogers
Jamaica Plains
8S. O. Rogers
Baths
Scott Frye
Elmer E. Weeks
Addison & Strout
Hallowell
Frank Small
J. Houghton McLellan
Bar Harbor
Charles D. Emery
F. W. Rideout
Julia Coombs
Dr. Bibber
Small Point
Rosa Brown
Brown
William Lewis
Joseph White
Clara Garey
O.K
L. F
Atwood
L. F. Medicine Co
Portland, Me
Duntnam
William FO Dunham
Jennie Gertrude Silshy
Rinna Gertrude Savage
Jennie Gertrude Silsby
William F. Dunham
Register
Ieee
Ruge
Lawrence B
Greenwoo
Massachusetts
Susan Jane Perkinslave
Anni
William F. Dunuam
Morgan
North Street
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