Forty Years Ago in Bath Items From the Files
This Bath Daily Time column from January 24 1900 notes birthdays for Margaret Whitehouse and Ellen Ham at Enos Whitehouse's Granite Street home with phonograph and magic lantern. It reports shipyard activity including S P Hitchcock discharging pine at Percy Small's yard and caulkers at work, voter lists posted by Clerk Edward H. Turner, and various local social visits and incidents such as a municipal court case involving Henry Tripp and G F Barnes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Whitehouse
Ellen Ham
Enos Whitehouse
Granite Street
Allie Manion
Charles Whitehouse
Miss Jennie Harvey series assembly at Armory hall
The third assembly of Miss Jennie Harvey's series held at Armory hall featured Columbia orchestra under A. P. Denham with waltz two step and schottische. Local patrons included Mrs. Rupert H. Baxter Mrs. J. Walter Hiwains and Mrs. Fred F Blaisdell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jennie Harvey
Armory Hall
Columbia Orchestra
A. P. Denham
Rupert H. Baxter
J. Walter Hiwains
Fred F Blaisdell
Mill accident leaves man with injuries in fall
A man recalls slipping from a timber while walking in a mill, injuring his left wrist and sustaining multiple head and body cuts. Separately a baby girl weighing 11 pounds is born to Mr and Mrs Dorion. Truck driver John Brown loses control on Center Street Hill as his heavily loaded sleigh slews. Brown jumps off to keep the horse from being thrown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred P. Ring
Dummer Street
York
Mr. Ring
West Bath
George Smith
Smith Farm
Brunswick Road
Bert W. Lewis
Lewis
Smith
Iron Works
Peter Dorion
John Brown
Center Street Hill
Mr. Brown
Four Thousand Rabbits to Be Transferred Statewide
The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Game plans transferring about 4000 wild snowshoe rabbits from Hancock and Washington counties to depleted southern and central areas. Joseph Stickney says rabbits will be bought from box trappers at 40 cents each and released by fish and game associations, with associations covering express charges. Rabbits released in groups of two males and three females.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hancock
Washington
Department of Inland Fisheries and Game
Joseph Stickne
George J. Stohie
Fish and Rame
Stickney
Ayymond Morse
Ellsworth
Lloyd Clark
Calais
Down East
William T. Donnell
Sportsmen’s Club
Department of Inland Fish & Game
Bath Club
Donnell
Duck Hunter argues for New Meadows lake as waterfowl sanctuary
In a Bath Daily Times column the writer relays a long letter from Duck Hunter urging analysis of New Meadows Lake to support wild duck feeding and possible sanctuary status. He cites federal funding for refuges, historic canal channels, and local trout stocking, plus 200 rabbits available to Bath club for release to boost local hunting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ducck Hunter
Duck Hunter
Forest
Brookfield
Bath Daily Times
U. S. Dept. of Agriculture
Kennebec
New Meadows
Biological Survey
North Bath
Merrymeeting Bay
Wesley church Old Folks concert preparations under way
January 20 1900 report notes Wesley church plans a Old Folks concert for Washingtons Birthday in their new building. It recalls a larger event from over a decade earlier at the burned old Wesley church. Also included are brief items on ice boating on the Kennebec a barge launch coming to Davis Coal Co and local accidents and incidents involving residents and workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley Church
Washington
Wesley
Local group seeks funding to stock area with rabbits
The Sagadahoc Rod, Gun & Skeet Association, Inc expresses willingness to underwrite extra rabbits for stocking a specific area. Arrangements can be made through the association to coordinate the effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sagadahoc Rod, Gun & Skeet Association, Inc
Unusual Exhibits at Sportsmen's Show in Boston
The New England Museum of Natural History will display extraordinary items at the Sportsmen's Show in Mechanics Building Boston from Feb 3 to 11. Highlights include a 189 pound Massachusetts tuna jaws of a gigantic right whale and antlers of a large Irish elk. The tuna was landed in Massachusetts Bay last August by Bennie Crowninshield and donated to the museum five months ago. The exhibit also features a twelve foot long whalebone tusk and other rare specimens as part of a special display expanding the show’s science pages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts
New England Museum of Natural History
Spertson
Mechanics Building
Boston
Massachusetts Bay
Bennie Crowninshield
Crowninshield
Sthortemen
S. Shiov
Stanley Jack Wins Checker Tourney Senior Division
Stanley Jack won the senior division of the checker tournament and Kenneth Wilson won the junior division. The article lists round results, semis, and finals with scores such as Jack defeating Quirk 3 to 1 in the final.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanley Jack
Kenneth Wilson
Carleton Stover
Edward Cummings
Robert Levin
Richard Fleming
John Quirk
Robert Ingraham
Paul Leeman
Maurice Puffer
Bruce Wright
James McDonald
Stewart Day
Clarence Warner
William Pinkham
Millard Green
Robert Bowers
Stover
Levin
Quirk
Leeman
Jack
Wright
Warner
Green
Ernest Walls
Nick Kekos
Bursess
Nick Pontos
Robert Tabor
Alfred Perow
Kenneth Hill
Ralph Maciinnes
Walter Butler
Edward Potter
Andrew Flaherty
Wilson
Kakos
Poulos
Peron
MeacIn
Movie star Madeleine Carroll aids war orphans in France
British actress Madeleine Carroll arrives in New York en route to France with seven trunks of garments for sixty orphans at her Paris estate. The collection is part of her Knits for Orphans effort, inspired by the grandmother’s sheltering during the Russian revolution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madeleine Carroll
New York
France
Paris
Madeleine
Central Press
Probate Notice for Margaret B. Lufkin Bath Deceased
John L. Jack Register of Probate of Sagadahoc certifies the will and appointment of Abbie M. Morse of Bath as executrix after the death of Margaret B. Lufkin of Bath on January 6, 1940. Judge Arthur J. Dunton signs the order as true copy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John IT Jack
Sagadah
Margaret B. Lufkin
Bath
Abbie M. Morse
Arthur J Dunton
Why January Cold Stuck United States, Blue Hill Notes
The Christian Science Monitor explains the prolonged deep freeze with Blue Hill observations. Dr. Charles F. Brooks details how a cold east wind, a warm Gulf air clash, and snow reflectivity kept temperatures low from Christmas through January, with a later thaw beginning around January 14 to 19.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian Science Monitor
United States Weather Bureau
Blue Hill
Charles F. Brooks
Harvard
Greater Blue
United
Tates
Der
Dr. Brooks
Heaas
United States
Gulf of Mexico
Missouri
Kentucky
Virginias
Atlantic Seaboard
New Faeland
Mt. Washington
St. Louis
Louisville
New England
Brooks
Record gold mining surge in South Dakota yields high 1939 output
Preliminary figures from the Denver office of the Bureau of Mines show South Dakota mined about 628000 fine ounces of gold valued at 21289000 and 168000 fine ounces of by product silver valued at 114444 in 11 months with December estimate. Copper and lead outputs were negligible since 1935 and 1938 respectively. The era price controls and aging population death statistics follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Dakota
Denver
Bureau of Mines
United States Department of the Interior
United States
I Tamir
Pacis
Congress
TG Way
Probate Notice Names Bath residents as executors in petition
A probate notice from Bath court announces petitions for estate administration with Sarah A Hyde and Mabel P Blaisdell named as administrators under will annexed. The order requires publication of the notice three weeks in succession and outlines hearing dates before the judge. The document lists related parties including Arthur J. Dunton, judge of probate, and references to bond and administration terms in a formal court setting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rand
Jarvay
Bithin
Padimary
Pgh
Ten
Bath
Hout Bond
Sarah A Hyde
Huh
Sarah A
Adams
Beil
Hildreth
Dackcongitte
Plorida
Arthus J. Dunton
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Bath Daily Time
S.P. Hitchcock
Percy & Small’s
Board of Registration
Edward H. Turner
John Small
Sewall's
Kaiuliani
Henry Tripp
G. FE. Barnes
Phippburg
Tripp
Emma £ Rnall
Mrs. C. L. Fogg
Westbrook
Freemont Kimnall
Annie F. Kimball
Hame
William FE. Given
Brunswick
Bath Friends
The
Trou
Nequasset
Jake
Flueene Franks
Arthur Gilmore
Harold Hunt
Fred Dunton
John Footer
Pleasant Point
Everett Trafton
Holt Water
Woodbury & Moulton
Portland
Ardon W. Coombs
Coombs J
Judge Coombs
Small Point
Fuller's Rock
Seguin
Marion Street
Private
Front
Commercial Street
Arch
Ferry Streets
Bucksport
Rockland
Jane Coombs
Brunswick Friends
Walter Norris
Limerick
James Biggins
the Iron Works’ Copper Shop
Joseph Thurlow
Leroy S. Ames
Hallowell
May Willis
O. W. Folkom
Center Street
Sehous House
Elmer Adams
Lewiston
Mrs
James Brewster
Caroline Jameson
John C. Jameson
Wsq
High Street
H. W. Swanton
Michael Fisher
Charles L. Turner
Charles H. Matson
Turial
Maple Grove
Harry Leask
Frank A. Palmer
Frank T. Stinson
Palmer
Newport News
Stinson
Norfolk
Enterprise
J. F. Upton
Maine Press Association
Bangor
Ath
International Brotherhood of Blacksmiths
Brick Masons' Hall
Back River
Jane Moulton
Frank E. Bouchard
Mrs. W. J. O’brien
South Lincoln
Messrs Hooker and Barron
McGregor
Thomas Passmore
Knox & Lincoln Railroad Co
Ebenezer Haggett
Newcastle
George Fisher
Charles E. Patten
W. L. White
F. H. Low
Lucius Tuttle
Franklin A. Wilson
Joseph 8. Ricker
George F. Evans
John Ware
Joseph H. Manley
George P. Wescott
Walter Witney
J. Wilder Murphy
Pullman
Frisco
Sidney
N.S
James Murphy
Sewall
Arthur Sewall
London
Herbert W. Fullerton
Woolwich
the Enterprise
Sagadahoc County
Charles Jordan
J. W. Tarbox
Charles Cheltra
Auburn
L. B. & B. Electric Railway
Chestra
J. B. Wescott
Standish
Charles
Charles H. Norton
Clinton Childs
Mr Norton
Robert H. Curtis
Obed Curtis
Drummond Street
Henrietta C
John B. Worth
Fsq
Middle Street
F. S. Bowker
Phippsburg
J. W. Parker
Washington Street
Frank Thompson
Gardiner
EF. W. Robie
Arthur H. Stetson
A. A. Percy
San Francisco
Pacific Coast
Hawaiian Islands
Honolulu
John Moulton
W W. Mason
Philadelphia
Fred Morse
McIntire
George E. Hughes
Fred E. Pond
Wiscasset
John Gilmore
Gilmore
Bath High School 1900
Herbert L. Hall
Maurice Owen
Harold C. Roberts
Arthur C. Shorey
Clarence Lindsay
Bowdoin
Rev
J. T. Crosby
Lagrippe
Capt
Eugene W. Johnson
Cuba
Lord
Kelley, Spear & Co
John Emery & Co
Harry Sprague
Department of Fish and Game
North Country
Bill Turgeon
Turgeon
Dexter
Stobie
Department
Allagash
Lester Brown
Rappers
Aso
Conservation &Cavity
Maine
Augustus
Doco Wiggin
China
WABI
Mayo Duca
Duca
Forest Brookfield
Dueck
Merrymeeting
Meada Lake
Bev
Elk Garden
Davis Coal & Coke Co
Sebasco
Ashdale
W. S. Gilbert
Noah Mayo
York Street
E. Plummer, Esq
Washington, D. C
Roberta Black
Bernard
Seth Coffin
Center
D. C. Shaw
City
William H. Melcher
John Card
New Fhyland Co
Bedford Street
Card
Deavern
Horth
Atlarie
Uingue Wuessine
Omiest- Vin
Europe
John L. Jack
Register
Dover-Poxesotter