Forty Years Ago in Bath Evening Gossip and Notices
A Bath Daily Times retrospective from December 16 1891 notes Patten lodge K of P to confer Page and Esquire degrees this eve with city knights invited. Prof Wilsons orchestra will play for a Columbian hall Christmas dancing party. Grand jury work suggests little liquor business in Bath. Frank Norton returns to Swanton Jamesons. Hayden block snow slide. horses frightened but no damage. Ice storm coats yards making work hard. dangerous frost on stages. Custom house safe lock replaced after failure. old lock removed. J Frank Wetherbee heads to Velasco Texas to start blacksmith business. Frank Morse also in Texas building shop. Bath schooner Henry P Mason first vessel at port. Captain Percy plans to settle there. Sleighing good. milk men arrive on runners. High school dancing class opens under Prof Wilson. Kennebec in Boston. Roller skating opens at Alameda next week. poverty ball planned for Christmas Eve. Mason’s shop shod ninety five horses. forty-five in the morning. Smelt fishermen expect to work soon. Back River ice forming. Kennebec ice operations prepped with Knickerbocker Co moving 40 mules and Great Falls Co 15 horses. early ice 12 inches triggers operations.
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J. Frank Wetherbee
Velasco
Texas
Frank Morse
Henry P. Mason
Percy
Capt
Kennebec River
Knickerbocker Co
Great Falls Co
Temperance meeting and festive, late 1891 city notes
December 17 1891 reports a temperance meeting at City Hall eight below zero at sunrise patrols continue no arrests for drunkenness since last week Sagadahoc District lodge Good Templars to meet January 7 1892 topsham horse shearers busy after snow storm sleighing praised J W Wakefield William Rogers and E C Plummer on early train to Augusta dances postponed to Christmas night Patten lodge K of P Page Esquire ranks last evening Acadia lodge to confer Page and Esquire tonight First sleighing of season enjoyed by riders and children at Orphans Home planning New Year entertainment with dress rehearsal Hyde Light Guards visit to Damariscotta with concert drill ball and special Bath train polo opening at Alameda Christmas night Rockland team to play guards drill 18 men expected December 18 1891 window displays holiday dealers festive scenes Mayor Twitchell to Boston Polar Star lodge F and A M special meeting Edwin L Emmons G A R fair in Portland Phippsburg stage driver updates water pipe bursts Sagadahoc three months in Wiscasset tow to wintering port
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Hyde Light
Toamariscotta
Philharmonie Club
Bath
Damariscotta
Bath notes of December 1891 local events and probate notices
The December 19 1891 column lists Christmas services Acadia lodge K of P balloting on three applications South End debating club eight hour system Peter Coughlin and Emeline Arsenault marriage intention County commissioners deadline December 26 Deering yard bilge streaks clamps flooring schooner to be completed in spring James McGovern leaves for Chicago for shipyard gifts received Christmas trade sluggish sleighing good Bath municipal court judge Nathan Coombs sworn in King Bridge Co contract for Merrymeeting bridge Wells drilled at Thompson Brook Fortnightly Club Greece lecture tickets limited Alameda skating and library holiday closings plus multiple notices of probate and public business including letters testamentary sworn statements and method of notice publication in Bath Independent
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State OF Maine
Sagadahoc
J. Houghton McLellan
Bath
James S. Lowell
Horace W. Swett
A. D
Arthur J. Dunton
State OF
Maine
Walter S. Glidden
Sagadahos
Arthur B. Stearns
Ednah Maria Stearns
Bathnsald
Said
Bath National Bank of
L. Theresa Moses
Walter 8S
Glidden
Harry W. Moulton
Bertha E. Moulton
Ellie C. Coombs
Natic
Mass
Walter S
Edward W. Bridgham
Sagadahogc
John J. Keegan
Bathn
Independent
Hiram L. Robinson
Allen M. Robinson
Waid
Minor
Alameda Practice Aims To Replicate Famous Battle
Players practice ahead of Christmas night game at the Alameda against Port Lands and intend to elevate the record made famous by the original Alameda team in a lively showdown.
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Alameda
Portlands
Alamedas
Giants Still Top List With the Shamrocks Close at Their Heels
The Giants remain first in last week's bowling standings with the Shamrocks close behind. The Torrey Roller Rushing Works team sits third and near the leaders. Olympias earned their first points, and observers forecast a climb, while the Big Brother movement in Auburn aims to reduce juvenile cases before the municipal court.
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Giants
Shamrocks
Torrey Roller Rushing
Olympias
Auburn
Morse Minstrels Please Audience at Bath Sagadahoc
The long notice describes a petition by Fred E. Daggett executor of Ida M. Pierce’s estate in Bath seeking license to sell real estate to settle debts and expenses. It lists two Bath lots tied to Swanton deeds, estimates debts, legacies, and sale needs, and notes a $2800 offer. A probate order schedules a public hearing January 5, 1932, in Bath.
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State OF Maine
Sagadahoc
Fred E. Daggett
Topsham
Ida M. Pierce
Bath
Penn
Theresa M. Williams
H. W. Swanton
John B. Swanton
Court Street
C. A. Corliss
N. W
Louisa M
Mabel Coombs
Court St
Coombs
Theresa M. W. Hathaway
J. B. Swanton
City of
Corliss
Bath Bowlers Defeat Brunswick By Narrow Margin
Bath team from Park Alley league defeated Brunswick by 99 pins. Myer Canter led with 295 total and Whitey Lothrop added 289. Bath built an early lead, Brunswick narrowed it in second string, but Bath finished strong to win the match.
Local Resident Sells Property in Freeport to Neighbor
Rose F Murphy of this city sold her Freeport property to Lewis M Strout of that town. The transfer follows a private sale recorded in the recent real estate notices.
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Rose F. Murphy
Freeport
Lewis M. Strout
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Page
Esquire
Wilson
Columbian Hall
Grand Jury
Frank Norton
Swanton & Jameson's
Hayden Block
Custom House
le Companion
Kennebec
Boston
Messrs. Thompson and
Leavitt
C.H. Mason
Back River
Good Templars
J. W. Wakefield
William Rogers
E. C. Plummer
Augusta
Columbian
Prof. Ryser
Frank Lightbody
Mary A. Blake
Patten Lodge
K. of P
Acadia Lodge
Orphans’ Home
Rockland
Twitchell
Polar Star Lodge F
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Edwin L. Emmons
Portland
Phippsburg
Ragerr
Wiscasset
Acadia Lodge K. of
South End
Peter Coughlin
Emeline Arsenault
Court House
Deering
James McGovern
Chicago
Nathan Coombs
Francis Adams
Joseph M. Hayes
N. Cowdrey
Wakefield
King Bridge Co
Cleveland
Ohio
Merrymeeting Bridge
Alice Freeman Palmer
Greece
T. W. Hyde
S. A. Hyde
Riggs
Malanl
Vulour
Beoreme
William F. Dunham
Winfield
Joy
Thomaston
Auasta
Edgar OC. Smith
J. Ed Stinson
Bangor
American Express Co
Temperance House
Marshal Minott
George S. Brown & Sons, Cawkers
Donnell’s Yard
Carrie A. Norton
Delahanty
New York
M.W. Sewall
Sapt
Newhall
Enfield
Thompson's Brook
Small
Bath Lodge Good Templars
Charles Perry
Williams
Bath Lodge
John P. Carey of
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John P. Carey
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Fred B. Haggett
East Orange
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Dorchester
Elizabeth A. Haggett
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Fred B. Cone
Teddy Ham
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Bowdeinham
Raymond A. Linneken
Bushway
Rawdoinham
Carroll Mahoney
John W. Mahoney
Biddeford
Gulf of Panama
Propate Court
Charles H. Borchers
Salem
Rockingham
New Hampshire
Etta F. Borchers
Charlies H. Borchers
Annie B. Garvin
Epping, New Hampshire
State of New Hampshire
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Morse Minstrels
Roland
Isabel Mackinnon
Herbie
Dido
Carol Stevens
Hope Rowe
Jeannette Shackford
Katherine Dinsmore
Roberta Gordon
Evelyn Trott
Mary Kenney
Margaret Austin
Elizabeth
Beth” Trott
Miss Trott
John H. Grindell
Ada Greenblatt
Elizabeth Trott
Edith Meckinnon
James Temple
William Levin
Cheser Leeman
Bath Trust Co
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L. E. Thebeau
Bath National Bank
Front St
City of Bath
County of Sagadahoc
F. D. Hill
Cashier
Bath, Me
First National Bank OF Bath
William S. Shorey
Jennie M. B. Spinney
J. Clifford Spinney
Julia A. Watson
Walter. S. Glidden
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Henry A. Magoun
First National Bank
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Woolwich
Cora E. Stephens
Herbert S. Stephens
Marjorie S. Brodis
Rockport
William F. Duntam
Alfred M. G. Soule
Frances J. Gilmore
Register
Harry H. Robbins
Ida May Robbins
Walter
Sidney L. Eaton
Fred E. Tardif
Mary S. Curtis
Charles E. Trufant
Grace E. Preble
Arrowsic
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William F. Qunham
Celia A. Hatch
Mira F. Arnold
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Katherine F. Neagle
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