Forty Years Ago in Bath A Busy Summer Scene
Town items recount Bath families returning from Baltimore with the Worcester degree team winning top drill prize, 10 000 Eagles in a parade, a $300 lost ring case, a London Medical Congress banquet collapse, and local sports including Bath beating Damariscotta 9 to 1. Also notes on ships, fires, visits, and upcoming events in Bath.
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Thomas B. Perry
Harry S. Farrell
Baltimore
Bath Aerie
Worcester
Atlantic City
Newark
Richmond
Oliver
Aderton
Bath
Fires rage across Phippsburg with heavy smoke and reinforcements
Aug 20 1913 reports state reinforcements arrive to aid firefighters as fires spread in all directions around Phippsburg. Barns and several properties including the Merritt and Storer holdings face destruction while Wil liam Benner’s estate and Meadowbrook Inn risk damage. Wind drives the flames toward Basin Day Mountain and Bowker’s pasture.
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Phippsburg
Freeman H. Merritt
Sebasco Estates
Albert Storer
Mr. Doughty
William Benner
Fred H. Brigham
Phippsburg Fire Keeps Crew Busy as Town Braces
August 21 1913 report details a large firefighting effort in Phippsburg Upper Town from Phippsburg Center to Meadowbrook Road. Residents recount miraculous escapes as flames threaten J F Upton and J H Pease properties. About 200 selectmen and workers battle the blaze while local residents return from travels and guests enjoy summer visits.
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Phippsburg
Phippsburg Center
Meadowbrook Road
M. J. Frye
Meadowbrook Inn
J. F. Upton
J. H. Pease
Phippsburg Fire Strains Maine Town and Fort Williams Practice
Aug 22 1913 reports long burning forest fire near Basin Phippsburg from berry picker carelessness. Fort Williams gun salvos rattled Bath windows at 35 miles distance during target practice. Labor Day Garnet Bridge celebrations planned with ball game boat races and sports as Black ducks gather at Merrymeeting Bay.
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Phippsburgh
Basin
Portland
Garnet Bridge
Popham Beach
Coast Artillery Band
Fort Williams
Sugar Loaf
Kennebec
Society Hall
Local notes on staff returns and harvests in Maine
Nichols area report notes Laura Barstow Harriet Morrison and other staff back from two week vacation with Barstow in Portland and others in Boston Bangor. Berry crops face drought with many blueberries burned and fewer shipments to Boston. blackberries promising if dry spells ease. Waterville Sentinel reports Floods guests at China Lake gathering. superintendent honored with gold watch. Bath growth projected for ferry traffic on Peoples Ferry between Bath and Woolwich.
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Waterville
Clarence N. Flood
Winslow
Benton
C. H. Crommett
China Lake
Daniel W. Getchell
Remembering Lime Industry's Old Pace in Maine
The Ioydependent notes a repair job on tug Fred R. Richards of Rockport & Rockland Lime Co. A Rockland Courier-Gazette piece recalls old lime burning days with wood kilns giving way to patent kilns using coal and steam. The shift ended the era of wood burners and their cargo schooners on Penobscot Bay.
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Fred R. Richards
Rockport & Rockland Lime Co
Bath Iron Works
Ioydependent
Rockland Courier-Gazette
Bath
Atlantic
Fred E. Richards
Penobscot Bay
Picnic Winners Shine at Harpswell Event
Hundreds gathered for a village picnic in Clare with winners listed across multiple age groups in events such as races including backwards and crawling, a bean jar game, beanbag tournament, and talent shows. Awards highlighted by top finishers Frances Rush Lorraine Brewer Sharon Downing and Dennis Ring among others. Local retirees Mr and Mrs Linwood Carr noted with family ties to North, Harpswell, and Clearwater Florida.
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Susanne Downing
Christine Gregory
Ricky McMahan
Richard Milliken
Myra Drummonde
Richard McMahan
Donnie Drummond
Margaret Bell
Cheryl Brown
Neil Mason
Valarie Nesbitt
George Shaw
Diane Perkins
Peter Knight
Andy Knight
Bunny Knight
Betsy Goldstein
Judy
Mabel Ash
Merline Osborne
Kathleen Stewart
Ruth Doughty
Linwood Carr
Harpswell
Harold Carter
North
Gerald Carr
Carr
Clearwater
Fla
New England Tel. & Tel. Co
World Premier Next Week at Lakewood
Lakewood Players will stage the world premier of Walter Hart and Richard Maibaum's The Paradise Question at Lakewood on August 31 with Leon Ames in the lead role. Barbara Robbins stars opposite him as the wife, under Hart's direction with George Jenkins designing sets. The show explores a United Nations committee seeking independence for the Paradise Islands now under France, amid domestic comedy. The final week features The Moon Is Blue with a cast including Martha Rendall and Eugene Stuckmann.
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Leon Ames
Walter Hart
Richard Maibaum
Lakewood
Lakewood Players
Elaine Perry
New York
St. Louis
Tokyo
the Waldorf
Tobacco Road
Barbara Robbins
Aldrich
Mr. Hart
George Jenkins
United Nations
Paradise Islands
France
Appleton
Long Island
Martha Rendall
Eugene Stuckmann
Bill Story
William Hughes
Adv
Bath Garden Club Meeting Highlights Winter Bouquets
Bath Garden Club discusses river fish abundance issues and past delicacies like Kennebec salmon shad sturgeon and bass. The club notes trash barrels in the city park aid disposal while Mrs Frank W Sparks Jr presents a paper on drying materials for winter bouquets and dried grasses for arrangements.
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Frank W. Sparks, Jr
Probate Notices In Sagadahoc County Maine 1953
Public probate order schedules notices for estates of Florence M Wiggin Clara T Hodgkins Christine C Snipe with final accounts, and alerts creditors to appear in Bath Probate Court. Foreclosure notice against Lester P Reynolds for a Bath restaurant mortgage to Nicholas J Gianibas details property, goods, and restaurant goodwill at 85 Front Street.
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Sagadahoc
Bath
Sid
Florence M Wiggin
Doris C Haggett
Clara T Hodgkins
Rexford G Clark
Christine C Snipe
Randall F Cook
State OF Maine
Lester P Reynolds
Natick
Maesex
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Nicholas J Gianibas
Bath Maine
Ises
Front Street
Maine
New Meadows
Rosy Kafe
Good Will
Ager
City of Bath
Nicholas
Coronation Pageant memories during a European tour
A visitor recalls touring Wernher collections in Fordshire and Cambridge universities, viewing Ipswich and Constable country, and watching the Coronation Pageant Merrie England with international stars. He notes a July 5 coronation review in Hyde Park, later Westminster Abbey and St Pauls, and ends with travel home to Bath via Southampton and Cherbourg.
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Fordshire
Harold Wernher
Merrie England
Wernher
Cambridge University
King’s College and Chapel
Trinity College
St. John’s College
Felixstowe
Suffolk
Ipswich
East Bergholt
Hyde Park
Duke of Edinburgh
Westminster Abbey
St. Paul's Cathedral
Bath
London
Southampton
Cherbourg
New York City
Probate Court in Bath Orders Publication for Estate Hearings
An August 1953 probate court in Bath Sagadahoc County orders notices to all interested parties for estates including William F Williams Mary E Robinson Ruth Lucile Hintzen Edith M Cornish Edward E Morse and related matters. Katherine W McKenney is named executrix and Mildred M Sprague is considered as potential administrator without bond. A sale of real estate for Edward E Morse is authorized under license to sell. Arthur J Dunton, Judge of Probate, issues the order.
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Bath
Sagadahae
Beth Aackenien
William F Williams
Katherine W Neneeacy
Katherine W McKenney
Mary E Robinson
Phippsburg
Haskell C Todd
Mildred M Sprague
Ruth Lucile Hintzen
Richard F Hintzen
Edith M Cornish
Daniel W . Lan
Edward E Morse
Jeesie I Kain
Jessie I Main
Jessie Main
Arthur J Dunton
Lillian Ho Heal
Clarence c Seavey
Seavey
Walter H Bowker
Edith M Bowker
Herbert B Luce
Mary A_ Luce
Eats Et Velmaneersen
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