Bath Forty Years Ago December 8 1914 Naval Battle Report
A Bath Chronicle item recalls the 1914 naval actions in the Southern theater with ships Dresden and other German cruisers and British pursuit. It notes the Kennebec River near Bath freezing up, the Richmond ferry closing for winter, and local weather along with community updates from Morse High and Grace church clubs, mayoral concerns on driving safety, society notes, and local transport changes. The page lists civic events, church officers, and residents traveling to Boston and New York with various social and business notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Page News Today
Isiam
France
Dresden
Bath Notes on Ice Fishing and Holiday Giving
December 9 1914 reports Kenny Edgecomb scouting ice in the creek amid islands with his brother planning to set nets and smelt for winter. Henry Howard, Bath sportsman known as Monarch of the Woods, gives venison and moose steaks to friends from recent hunts. A meeting at the See Chats Association rooms discussed Bath District Nurse project with clubs well represented. Mayor Dunton provided remarks.
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Kenny Edgecomb
Why Thursday
Henry Howard
Bath
Santa Claus
Big Woods
See Chants’ Association
French War Office reports German batteries silenced and trench blows
The French War Office announced today that three German batteries were destroyed and others silenced, several German trenches blown up, and Allied infantry attacks successful as they regained part of the Yser Canal in Belgium after a dire west front fight. Coastal shipping updates note Barge Nequehoninge and a coal schooner expected in Kennebec. Local Bath scenes include the Colonial club basketball team defeating Fort Williams 82 to 6, skating crowds at Mill Pond, and plans for a skating carnival with prizes. Community notes list officers for the Winter Street Men's club and prospective limerock quarry developments near C. B. Savage's well toward Harpswell road.
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French War Office
Yser
Belgium
Bath Iron Works wins two destroyers contract in 1914 bid
December 11 1914 reports Secretary Daniels awarding six destroyer contracts to Fore River Bath Iron Works Cramp Shipbuilding Co and Bath iron Works again follows barge and torpedo test work. mentions Bath prosperity outlook and shipyard activity plus local updates from Kittery Navy Yard to Morse High School baseball league meeting.
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Daniels
Foreiver Shipbuilding Co
Bath Iron Works
Cramp Shipbuilding Co
Kelley-Spear Co Vard
Bath
McDougal
New York
Navy Department
C. L. Smith
Lincoln Farrar
Morse High School Baseball Association
Bowdoin Interscolastic Baseball League
Brunswick
Navy atd last Friday among them
Fragmentary OCR notes mention Higgins and Manion, with references to an AI angle and a fitter role. Unclear context. no identifiable event, dates, or organizations.
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Ard Higgins
Frank A. Manion
German raid shells English towns in first wartime bombardment
December 14, 1914 reports note German warships bombarded Scarborough Hartlepool Redcar and Whitby on the North Sea coast. The damage amount remained undisclosed in early reports. It appears a raid with swift cruisers aimed at a moral effect rather than a full fleet invasion.
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England
United Kingdom
Scarborough
Hartlepool
Red Car
Whitby
North Sea
Germany
Portland notes on residents and local projects
Portland reports a naval officer leasing the Capt Joseph Thomson residence on Washington street and preparing to move in after furnace repairs. Carl C. Troop will supervise a browntail moths campaign with 12 men starting near Vine and Water streets. Local social and sports items include a dress ball planned for Dec 20 and a Morse High versus Brunswick J High basketball game at the Y M C A gym this evening.
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Naval van
J. H. Walsh
Joseph Thomson
Washington Street
Mr. Walsh
Bath Iron Works
Naval
L. 8. Adams
Carl C. Troop
Board of Highways and Sewers
Vine and
Water Streets
Frank Middleton Hebblethwaite
Oliver Moses
C. R. Higgins
E. Stetson
E. M. Fuller
Christmas party and troop meeting notes from Red Rose Troop 6
Girls Scouts of Red Rose Troop 6 held a meeting at Corliss Street church Monday afternoon. President Janice Card led the session with the Promise and Laws recited. Officers and committees were announced, a calendar fundraiser discussed, and plans made for a Christmas party and a Mother and Daughter banquet later in December.
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Girls Scouts
Red Rose Troop 6
Corliss $Treet
Janice Card
Linda Ames
Martha Pratt
Brenda Bennett
Juliette Law
Hyde Memorial Rehabilitation Hospital
H. Macy Whitehead
Ireland
Arlene King
Sue Lutz
Sandra Hathorne
Patty Boulay
Santa Claus
Ellen Oliver
Troop 5 Girl Scouts Christmas Party at Hyde Park
Troop 5 Girl Scouts held their annual Christmas party Tuesday at the Hyde Park Community building. Guest speaker Mrs Evelyne Percy spoke on Juliette Low birthplace and the first troop. Leader Mrs Aubrey Steen Jr led games and folk dancing. Gifts exchanged with Marie Milliken as Santa. Refreshments included punch and Christmas candy. A Good Night Circle closed with the Promise and Laws. Bluebell Brownies met Monday at Dike school and made spatter paint Christmas cards. The meeting ended with the Good Night Brownie Tunnel.
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Hyde Park
Evelyne Percy
Juliette Low
Percy
Aubrey Steen, Jr
Marie Milliken
Santa Claus
Good Wight Circle
Bluebell Brownies
Dike School
Telephone conversion expands Bath Brunswick system to 10 000 accounts
In Bath and Brunswick area the Bell system completes a major upgrade converting to dial calling. Training began in November with a toll center in the new building under Miss Margaret Cripps. New directories outline dialing in the extended toll area and explain that party lines remain though numbers no longer identify lines.
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Commercial Department
Bath
Portland
Margaret A. Cripps
Brunswick
H. Fisher
Georgetown
Phippsburg
Bath Exchange
Fisher
Bath- Brunswick
National Bell Telephone Company
Maine
New England Tel. and Tel
National Bell
Magneto
Helen H. Fields
Old Office to be stripped and salvaged at 72 Front Street
Old Office Goes Fisher announced that after the cutover the central office at 72 Front Street will be stripped of all equipment including switch boards central office frames cables test boards and electronic toll circuit gear. Salvageable items will go to Western Electric for reconditioning and possible reuse. unsalvageable gear will be sold for scrap.
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Fisher
Front Street
Western Electric
Walker aims 25000 mile trek around the earth total
Dick Cook completes 17400 miles through 48 states before reaching his goal. He plans to extend his journey with a homemade home on wheels to cover 25000 miles, matching the earths equatorial distance, as he continues walking across the country.
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Midland
Mich
Dick Cook
Scientists Estimate Six Billion Tons of CO2 Emitted
Scientists estimate about six billion tons of carbon dioxide enter the atmosphere annually from burning coal and oil, highlighting ongoing concerns over fossil fuel emissions and climate impact.
Water Use in Steelmaking Requires Vast Volumes
A steel production fact notes that about 65,000 gallons of water are needed to produce one ton of steel. The figure highlights the industry’s water intensity and environmental considerations tied to metallurgical processes.
Foreclosure Notice on Bath Maine Property Mortgage
Howard Leavitt and Eleanor Leavitt mortgage the Bath property dating to 1954. Breach of mortgage conditions prompts First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Bath to seek foreclosure, with detailed chain of past deeds and lot description in Sagadahoc County records.
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Howard Leavitt
Eleanor E. Leavitt
Bath
Sagadahoc
State of Maine
Federal Savings and Loan Association of Bath
Hulda Chadbourne
Liberty Street
Charles DeWolfe
Ezra Hume
Smiley
Lydia W. Gould
Gould
Mary Arsenault
Chadbourne
Otis Card
Charles Dewolf, Jr
Eleanor Pierce Et al
Mary Fef
Pinkham
Sasgadahoc
Mary E. Pinkham
Sagadahoc County
First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Bath
J. Frank Hunt
Maine
Federal Savines and Loan Association of
Probate notices appoint executors and guardians in Sagadahoc estates
Lillian H. Heal Register of Probate lists appointments dated December 7, 1954 for multiple Maine estates. Benjamin P Coombs and Edward W Wheeler named executors. Ansie P Hutchins and Rebecca L Kenney named administratrices. Addiella Palmer and Allan Swear named administratrix and executor respectively. Names appear for Bath Lakeland Bath Rowdioinham and related heirs.
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Lillian H._ Heal
Sagadahoc
Annie L. Coombs
Bath
Benjamin P Coombs
William D. Hutchins
Lakeland
Florida
Ansie P Hutchins
Russell L. Kenney
Rebecca L. Kenney
Jane Hazel Lausier
Clara Aueusta Palmer
Addiella Palmer
Stella M. Randall
Rowdoinham
Edward W. Wheeler
Erelyn F Ward
Allan Swear
Probate Court Notice and Estate Actions in Bath
A Bath probate court order requires notice to all interested parties for three weeks in the Bath Independent. Proceedings include third and final accounts for estates of Susan Bates William Hall and others, and petitions for licenses to land convey Woolwich real estate. Multiple administrators executors and guardians present accounts and seek allowances as district probate officer presides.
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Bath
Pear
Susan Elizabeth Bates
Elizabeth M. Shumway
William T. Hall
Lillie M. Rd
Alice Cs
Edward W. Brid m
Carlotta B. Minard
Catherine Shaw Hoover
Ellach Nichols
Barrett C. Nichols
Myers Reed
Oerwich
Woolpre
Myers E. Reed
Woolwich
Susie May Ben Reed
Pepe
Oristine C. Snipe
Fant Dall F. Cook
John J. G
Gardiner R. Ring
Probate Court notices from Bath regarding wills and executors
In Bath Maine a Court of Probate announces actions on several estates including Annie R Hodgdon Mary A Brightbody and H F Merriman. It lists petitions for probate letters testamentary without bond and accounts by executors and administrators with changes in guardianship for Judith Frances Robinson.
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Bath
Annie R. Hodgdon
Nellie L. Hodgdon
Mary A. Biighthody
Charles T. Small
C.t.a
Henrietta Reed McKay
James Alfred McKay
H. Failing Merriman
Topsham
Ray S. Merriman
Judith Frances Robinson
Judith Frances Holbrook
Doreen K. Holbrook
Jennie R. Sanborn
Lynn M. Bussey
Frederick N. Sanborn
George F. Willis
Woolwich
Elwood A. Hathorne
Elwood Iene
Bath Trust Company Stockholders Annual Meeting Notice
Bath Maine December 8 1954 notice to Bath Trust Company stockholders announces annual meeting on January 11 1955 at the Banking Rooms for the election of trustees and other business with R H Baxter president signed.
First National Bank Bath Maine Stockholders Meeting
The annual meeting of the stock holders of the First National Bank Bath Maine will be held at the ing Rooms on Tuesday January 11 1955 at two o clock in the afternoon to elect directors for the ensuing year and to transact any other business that may come before this meeting. Daniel Williams cashier.
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Bath Iron Works
Shawmut Steamship Co
F. J. Lisman
Lisman
Newport News
Boston
First National Bank OF
Bath
Maine
First National Bank
Ing
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Fred Daley
Albee
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Alex Cochran
Altimore
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Harry Beals
Direct Importing Co
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Fairview
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