Forty Years Ago in Bath November 29 1904
Snow fell earlier inviting fox hunting with 20 sportsmen and 12 dogs on Brunswick Plains where foxes are plentiful Arthur McCullum is among the hunters shooting eight foxes recently Elmer F Campbell works on a 10 by 12 sign for the People’s Safe Deposit on the south wall of the Times building The McIntire of Winnegance fishes bass in his hedge pool while Bath clubs improve interiors at a Times building addition The Center street bowling team and Bath Market win two straight games Bath Iron Works also loses to Bath Market Tug Seguin chases the Mary Olys up river for lumber A C Jones of Rockland resumes duties after a three week vacation Bath Aerie F O E to confer degrees on 15 candidates Moneyed launches number 31 on New Meadows river Twelve years ago Rev Cox of Jericho owned the river’s only launch J N Tibbetts of Melrose grocery shaves a few days east then shoots 20 rab bits Harold M Sewall on business in Augusta Mrs Frank A Welch guest of Mrs N T Rice Captain and Mrs William Preble visit daughter Mrs Lester Perry in Randolph Clinton Newdick visits Georgetown grandfather D W Oliver Addison Jones in Augusta Norman Bradley returns from Bath wedding trip for son Henry A Butler and Miss Orra Small Y M C A plans a ladies gym class Friday at 730.
Colonial club to move rooms in Times building soon
November 30 1944 report notes the Colonial club will relocate to new rooms in the Times building within about two weeks. A regular monthly meeting is planned for next Monday evening. Sam Langford is slated to meet Arthur Cote and Jesse Savage in Portland in six round bouts, Langford must stop them within that distance. The Ladies Sewing Society of Beacon Street Church meets tomorrow at two. Powers Brothers of Riggsville shipped a scow load of herring to Boston by rail, packed in barrels. Bath polo team travels to Rockland Friday for a game amid a series with out of town teams, unlikely polo in Bath this winter. Marine diver W Scott Tibbets begins fall examination of Maine Water Co. main in Kennebec river between Bath and Roahe, crossing started yesterday and to finish this afternoon.
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Colonial Club
Times
Sam Langford
Arthur Cote
Jesse Savage
Portland
Langford
Powers Brothers of
Riggsville
Boston
Bath
Rockland
W. Scott Tibbets
Maine Water Co
Kennebec River
Roa
Bath Daily Chronicle Highlights and Local Happenings
December 1 to 4 1904 Bath Maine items include Mr and Mrs H O Richardson hosting a phonograph party on Washington street. Engineers and tradesmen move to Lewiston and Peppers bowling alleys. Densmore installs on Crosby schooner. Winter Street church marks 109th anniversary with supper for 110. 16 respond by letter. Steam heat pipe break at Sagadahoc block. Daily society notes feature visits, travels and arrivals from Boston Portland and Bowdoinham. Local ships overhauled at Percy Small yard. Turkey card party at Linden Hall. December 2 1904 notes on business, masons to Bowdoinham dedication and officers, injuries, and weather cold with river ice forming.
Ponds Attract Skaters As City Sees Holiday Activity
The ponds near the city drew many skaters yesterday with a lively scene of youth. Dr. R. D. Bibber was observed about town this morning, improving and planning to resume practice soon. S. L. Hern rents the former millinery space starting January first as Christmas displays appear in local stores. H. H. Smith of Bath Automobiles departs this month for Tuskegee Alabama for a visit. The Lisbon Falls Social club also noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. D. Bibber
Real estate transfers listed by Sagadahoc County deeds office
Recent transfers show buyers and sellers across Bath Bowdoinham Georgetown Phippsburg Richmond West Bath and more. Transactions include land and buildings on Willow Brown North Bath and other streets with multiple buyers such as Imelda Tondreau George Brown and Nellie Cobb.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sagadahoc
Leonard R. Wallace
Edward A. Cummings
Harley Dellois
Two Children Die In Fire Victims In Bath Details
Mrs. Doucette recounted that two children perished in a house fire at 220 Oak Street after George reportedly vanished inside while Travis Dillon and Knowles tried to rescue them. Mrs. Doucette leaped from a window to escape as intense heat and smoke thwarted efforts. Knowles, burned, and Travis treated for injuries, while the deaths raise the year's fire toll to six in the Bath area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Travis
Helen M. Yarowick
Bath Iron Works
Oak Street
Lambert Park
William Watson Receives Medal at Shipyard Hall
Pfe. Watson worked for Todd Shipbuilding Yard in South Portland Maine. His father George A. Watson lives at East Brunswick Maine. Patty Conley daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John M. Conley Jr. of Park Street has returned from South Portland where she stayed with her aunt and uncle Charles MacDonald.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pfe. Watson
Todd Shipbuilding Yard
South Portland
George A. Watson
East Brunswick
Maine
Patty Conley
John M. Conley, Jr
Park Street
Charles MacDonald
Thanksgiving Now and Then pageant at Richmond Sunday school
The Richmond Sunday school presented Thanksgiving Now and Then with 25 children under Superintendent Miss Elizabeth Haynes. A about $50 bank offering was collected and refreshments served. Local service members and families are noted with several moves, visits, and military transfers. A Gifts for Those Who Gave project distributes packages to Maine hospitals. Richmond residents urged to donate gift boxes.
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Elizabeth Haynes
John Thrower
USN
San Diego
Lawrence Thompson
Thrower
Thompson
John McCormick
Ensign
Oscar Smith
Boston
Emery Purinton
Selfridge Field
Mich
Sheppard Field
Texas
Nathan Fowler
Old Orchard
John T. Witham
Arthur
Belgium
Sgt
Witham
England
France
Fred Withany
Engineers’ Company
Fort Devens
Mass
Fort Belvoir
Fort Benning
Burma
John Witham
Hartford
Conn
Camp McCoy
Wis
Frank Preble
George Kimball
Portland
Arthur Bowley
Emma Bowley
Litchfield
Gertrude Baker
Frank Reynolds
Gerald McGinn
Harvard
Neb
Richmond
Milton Bush
Auburn
Kimball Street
Geneva L. Brown
Robert Spencer
Brunswick
Melville Brown
Jordan Avenue
Spencer
Air Force
Germany
Auburn School of Commerce
Jordan & March Co
Walter Knight
Roy Brown
John Parker
Robert W. Dyer
54Th Air Transport Command
Lillian Irene Whitmore
Justice of the Peace
J W. Randlette
Dyer
Kelley Field
Air Transport Division
Alaska
Aleutians
Emerson Lane
Richardson and Libby
Main Street
Vicinity
Maine
Togus
Kittery
Presque Isle
Bangor
American Legion
Ongoing Fraternal Installations and Local Notices
A fragment from a Maine town column details lodge officer elections with Joseph Randlette as Master and Edward Belanger as Overseer among others. It notes supper served by Tops ham women, installation by Deputy Marriner, and a Y A Y F society meeting with five new members. Also mentions anniversary celebrations, Beulah Rebekah lodge event, and Bernard Bailey resuming as mail carrier.
Dresden Church Sermon and Storm Toll Noted
The article reports on Dr Cairns leading a Children sermon titled Gods Tomorrow at South Dresden church and notes last Sunday's war church service. It mentions a storm washing away culverts and lists local pupils achieving perfect spelling at Middle Bridge School, along with Junior Red Cross efforts and a postponed church supper due to poor roads.
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Alexander Cairns
Crusade For Christ
Cairns
South Dresden
Middle Bridge
Edward Chapman
Howard Chapman
Madelyn Rittall
Virginia
Louise
Ida
Edna Robbins
Dorothy Rittall
Philip Charan
Yvonne Bailey
Billy James
Franklin
Edward
Believe Cigarette Starts Bedroom Fire in Bath Street Home
Sunday at 5 30 a fire in a bed room of a two family house at 674 High Street Bath started from a cigarette. Occupants were Jack Taylor from Bath Iron Works and renters Mr and Mrs Goodspeed. Miss Mildred Henderson awakened others and alerted the fire department. Taylor treated for smoke inhalation. fire suppressed by Engine Four. Upper apartment occupied by Ralph and Mrs Dodge. Fire chief Richard Frates cites cigarette as probable cause.
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Engine Four
High Street
Frank N. Thompson
Bath
Portland
Jack Taylor
Bath Iron Works
Raymond Goodspeed
Mildred Henderson
Gouodspeeds
Richard Frates
Woman Dead in Fire At Local Factory
A woman died in a fire today at a Bath area works. Fire crews and authorities reported one other person injured. names and exact locations were not fully clear from the fragmentary report. The incident prompted an emergency response and investigation by local officials.
Probate Notice for Morrison Estate in Sagadahoc
A probate order in Bath Sagadahoc County states a hearing on December next for the estate of Robert Morrison, deceased. Distribution and appointment actions may be challenged by interested parties after publication of this notice in a local newspaper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Sagadahoc
Rathy
Iim
Proctor Morrison
Phippesary
West Bath Grange Elects Officers at Meeting
West Bath grange elected officers for the coming year with Arthur C. Lemont presiding as worthy master. Newly elected include William H. Small Jr overseer Thelma Sylvester lecturer Frank Donnell steward Perry Thompson assistant steward Ella Coombs chaplain reelected Bertha Ward treasurer Gerald Weeks gate keeper Annie Lemont Ceres reelected Martha Crocker Pomona reelected Laura White Flora Betty Ann Weeks lady assistant steward Alfred Neal elected to executive committee for three years. The session featured installation and refreshments led by Annie Lemont with other members aiding, followed by dancing.
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Woolwich
Joseph W. Randlette
Enterprise
Edward C. Belanger
Topsham
Eleanor P. Ripley
James W. Jones
Progressive
Helen R. Bishop
Elfreda Perkins
Dromore
Millward G. Patten
Lucy M. Tarr
James F. Meserve
Pomona
Alberta S. Haynes
Ceres
Madalyn Belanger
Stella Given
William H. Gould
Merrymeeting
Topsham Grange
G. Cleveland Marriner
Dora Marriner
Myron Douglas
Gwendolyn Douglass
Evelyn Hinkley
Y. A. Y. F. Society
Archer Terrer
Jimmy
Astrid Borjesson
John Parker
Lillian Haynes
Edward Pickham
Terrell
Methodist
David Hickland
Decs Fss
oNiss Curtis
Perley Joy
Hickland
Beulah Rebekah Lodge
Skawnes
Rebekah Assembly of Maine
Elvan Green
Margaret Peabody
Rebekah of Maine
Archer Terrell
Cy White
Melvin Curtis
Maurice Wheeler
Raron Brown
Charles Kelley
Joli Pinkham
Leslie Gardiner
West Bath Grange
Arthur C. Lemont
William H. Small, Jr
Thelma Sylvester
Frank Donnell
Perry Thompson
Ella Coombs
Bertha Ward
Gerald Weeks
Annie Lemont
Martha Crocker
Laura White
Flora
Betty Ann Weeks
Alfred Neal
Birth of granddaughter to MacDonald family in Darby
Mrs. Wilbur Burns of 1093 Washington street received word on Monday of the birth of a daughter to her son and wife, Mr and Mrs Lawrence MacDonald of Upper Darby Pennsylvania. Lucy Haggett, formerly of Bath and daughter of Mr and Mrs Arthur B Haggett of 5 Marshall street, is visiting her daughter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William H. Perkins
Boothbay Harbor
Bath
Perkins
Upper Washington Street
James B. Perkins
Bowdoin
Wilbur Burns
Washington Street
Lawrence MacDonald
Upper Darby
Annual Meeting Notices and Foreclosure Sale in Maine
Notices announce Bath Trust Co and First National Bank of Bath annual stockholder meetings on January 9 1945 at two o'clock in Bath Maine for board elections and business. Also a Sagadahoc foreclosure sale on January 6 1945 of property in Topsham related to Joe H Avery v Mary Simpson including detailed parcel boundaries and costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Bath Trust Co Ypu
Bath Trust Company
Maine
W. L. Skelton
First National BA OF Bath
First National Bank of Bath
State OF Maine
Sagadahoc
Sagacahoe
Joe. H. Avery
Topsham
Sagadahoe
Mary Simpson
Portland
Cumberland
Peleher
Pelletier
Pelchy
James
Edward C Belanger
Sherif
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Brunswick Plains
Arthur McCullum
Sela As
Elmer F. Campbell
People’s Safe Deposit Building
D. A. Bishop
Center Street
J. P. Squire
Bath Public Market
Seguin
Mary Olys
Lawrence Brothers’ Mill
South Gardiner
A. C. Jones
Knox & Lincoln
Bath Aerie, F. O. E
New Meadows
New Meadows In
Mr. Cox
Jeiriseay 2
J. N. Tibbetts
Melrose
East
Harold M. Sewall
Augusta
Frank A. Welch
Lewiston
N. T. Rice
Captain
Mrs
William Preble
Lester Perry
Randolph
Clinton Newdick
D. W. Oliver
Georgetown
Bia Hotel
Rumford Falls
Addison Jones
Norman Brackley
Lynn
Henry A. Butler
Orra Small
Ladies Sewing Society of
Beacon Street Church
Mrs. Hewitt
W. J. Jacobs
Pepper's Alleys
Shawmill
George F. Coleman
Georgia
Stirling Co
Barbarton
Ohio
New York
J. A. Winslow
Newton Highlands
A. R. Cook
M. J. Hennessey
E. L. Gee
the Colum
H. O. Richardson
Charles Nutting
Bath and Lewiston
Maine Central
J. M. Downs
I. H. Slocum
I. Salasman
Pepper’s Bowling Alley
Atee
H. E. Densmore
Densmore
Winter Street
Times Company
Sagadahock Block
Bonney
J. J. Chase of
the Phoenix
Carrie Woodworth
Bowdeinham
Sheriff Ballou
Charles R. Hill
Curtis & Rogers Granite Works
American House
Charles Owen
Westport
Silas Owen
Kennebec
George Smith
South End
D. D. Clark
Hartley Jackson
Mary Stewart
Sabea T. MclLellan
Hannah Blasland
E. E. Albee
Henry Smith
Deer Isle
John Bossert
Kelley Spear Co
S. C
W. M. Potter
Small Point
Oscar Sewall
Reed Cottage
John Trainor
Henry Weiler
John S. Hyde
Amy Prency
Lucy Ham
Emma Sanger
The
Phelan Comedy Company
M. D. Cressey
Percy & Small Yard
Linden Hall
Sagadahook Block
J. Fred Tobey
Eastern Steamship Co
F. Wilbur Brown
Ferrin Street
Walter Kingsbury
Sabattus
Bowdoinham
Village Lodge
W. R. Lewis
Calvin Austin
James T. Morse
Front Street
W. H. Watson
Angus
Roland F. Raymond
H. P. Delano
Passmore Mill
Thompson Bros
Farrar
Howard
Commercial Street
George A. Tuttle Co
Bath Auto & Gas Engine Co
E. C. Plummer
Washington, D. C
Alfred L. Bruce
Kelley, Spear Co
Bristol
Halford
Senior Association
Eugene Footer
Music Hall
New Meadows Inn
Hamilton
Kalamazoo, Mich
A. Hallet &Co
National Vaporizer Co
Irving Stilson of
Wiscasset
D. T. Percy & Sons
Myrtle French
Chef McCutcheon
Bay State
Rice
Columbia Theatre
James Brothers
Missouri
George Corbin
Ransom B. Fuller
Arthur Searles
Eugene Searles
Fuller and
Messrs
Charles Peacock
Theodore Card
John Kennedy
Fred Danforth
Horace Brown
Mr. Jones
A i
Solar Lodge
Wesley M. E. Church Epworth League
E. S. Crosby
Ss. A
S. L. Hern
H. H. Smith
Bath Automobile and Gas Engine Co
Tuskegee
Alabama
Lisbon Falls
William Watson
Sagacshoe Pomona Orange
Farrell
Morse High
Duncan Farrell
al Sawervice
Morse High School
Donald Hinds
Aubrey Steen
Ray Bourget
John Some
Dom Carracaris
Farre
Earl Good
Bernard Bailey
Dresden
Alton Reed
Nritvur F. Mayo
Donste
Fisher
Sedan
Bath Tron
Niss Yhroswick
Aluhtr
Telimena Kava
Yorosewsk
Millinecket
Miss Fisher
Elbradse
Cink Evin
Josselyn) Pisier
Reekisid
Depwy Marsial
Frank L. Moriarty
Purdy
Sh. Sbeoctiity
Arthur J. Dunton
John
Jack
Daniel Williams
Cahier