Old Phi Rho paper found in Bath attic volume
Arthur H. Stetson found a bound Phi Rhonian volume from 1884 1885 at his father's Bath home. The May November 1884 issue opens with an In Memoriam for Thomas Sinnott class of 1885, and lists editors managers notes and class officers. Cadet notes and ads list local Bath businesses and student moves, including Miss May Wolston and Fred Swanton. The volume documents Phi Rho Society officers 1885 1886 87, and school activities such as baseball polo orchestra and cadet corps with numerous student names and postures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur H. Stetson
A. D. Stetson
Bath High School
Phi Rho Society
Stetson
Thomas Sinnott
Baseball Association
L. T. Snipe
L. B. Swett
Bosworth
J. S. Hyde
W. P. Leydon
Pred Swanton
Coombs’ Orchestra
Lincoln
Bath Independent
McQuarrie
McLellan
Mastodon Minstrels
South
W. P. Murphy
Texas
Plummer
Hallet
May Dunton
Andover
Walter Turner
H. E. Palmer & Co
W. P. Led
O. Moses
D. T. Percy
F. S. Getchell
P.M
N. H. Campbell
BE. W. Hyde
A. T. Lowell
T. Sinnott
R. S. Harris
E. W. Hyde
R. D. Murray
A. M. McDonald
Langdon T. Snipe
Mary F. Fields
Emma G.small
Jennie D. Cushing
Oliver Moses
Aline B. Colton
Lillian E. Rider
H. E. Cole
L. Barton
Mary E. Cobb
Maud Murphy
Nellie Eames
B.H.S
John 8. Hyde
Andrew T. Lowell
Lewis B. Swett
Fred 8. Getchell
Fred W. Swanton
Robert D. Murray
Angus McDonald
J. P. Welch
Be, Upton & Son
J. C. Higgins
W. H. Given
James E. Haley
Frank Brown
F. R. Shaw
M.H. Loach
A. G. Page Jr
Howland
E. Cornish
Gertie Greenleaf
Eva Wolston
Clark Dunton
Westport
Annie Norton
Hallowell
Aline Colton
Fred W. Kimball
Alameda
William P. Leydon
T. W. Anderson
Astoria
C. W. Briggs
Gorham
N. H
M. F. Biggins
D. T. Percy & Son
E. H. Cobb
Thomas Campbell
Bath
John Connelly
Massachuss
T. Deshon
Portland
C. H. Hooper
Goss Marine Iron Works
T. M. Lightbody
A. K. Gilmore
R. Harris
Frank Light. S Body
T. Percy, Jr
L. B. ‘Swett
May F. Fields
Georgie L. Drake
Alice M. Cobb
Abbie F. Carter
Carrie M. Moses
Mary J. Klippel
Jennie M. Purington
Grace M. Akers
Emma G. Small
Mary L. Klippel
Harriet L. Whitmore
Charlotte B. Stinson
Nellie P. Spinney
Ruth P. Tarbox
Lillian E. Ryder
L. C. Coombs
F. E. Dennett
W. W. Dennett
F. W. Delosche
D. T. Dougherty
S. H. Duncan
J. E. Hughes
F. D. Hill
B. W.hyde
M. W. Sewall
W. C. Soule
F. W. Swanton
W. D. Willis
J.S. Hyde
A. S. Bosworth
E. F. Kelley
B. A. Bailey
C. M. Lincoln
J. H. McLellan
S. L. Farnham
A.T. Lowell
Tar‘box
E. Lowell
Vaughan
Humphreys
D. T. Percy, Jr
Whitmore
McCarty
Anderson and
Leydon
The
Equine Perambulating Association
Euchre Club
Messrs
F. W. Getchell
G. H. Weeks
Annie Gatchell
Chellie Morrison
Gertrude Weeks
A. 8. Bosworth
M. Sewall
Obituary for Amelia A. McGrath of Neponset and Bath
Mrs Amelia A McGrath widow of James A McGrath died Friday night at her son Charles McGrath Neponset after three months illness She would have been 72 on Jan 3 She was born Georgetown P E I and moved to Bath in 1860 She married James McGrath in 1868 and had six children three living Charles A McGrath Neponset Mrs Harry Larrabee Boothbay Harbor and Alderman McGrath of Bath She resided in Bath much of her life and attended Beacon Street Church The obituary notes a large circle of friends and her Christian life. The article also mentions Bath theater listings and a Bangor station coffee price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amelia A. McGrath
James A. McGrath
Charles McGrath
Neponset
Mass
Georgetown
P.E.I
Thomas Marr
Mary E. Batram Marr
Bath
Mary Pattee
Marshal Pattee
James McGrath
Charles A. McGrath
Harry Larrabee
Boothbay Harbor
Alderman McGrath
Hiram T. Pattee
McGrath
Charles
Beacon Street Church
Rockland Local Jottings and Community Notes
Local items report a quiet Christmas season in Rockland with town events including Arrowsic Mining Co incorporation fifty years ago, Morse High School basketball vs Lisbon Falls Jan. 5 in Lisbon, and routines of residents. A shipper trip by the steamer Nahanada brings shoppers, while Bath area firms busy on Texas Co. projects. Community happenings cover a ban on open bars, osteopath Dr. Wadsworth visiting Bath, past and current civic concerns, a large mail day, a naval hospital patient, a Redmen win, and local incidents from vandalism to a four year old housekeeper, with multiple social and business notes through the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rockland
Arrowsic Mining Co
Morse
Lisbon Falls
Lisbon
Francis McNeal
Texas Steamship Co
Quincy
Texas Co
Nahanada
Boothbay
E. J. Murphy
Bangor
James S. Wadsworth
Portland
Bath
King Tavern
Harry Madden
Maine Central
Frank M. Smith
Carpenter
U. S. Navy
Naval Hospital
Charlestown
Mass
Redmen
Hurékas
L Redmen
Billings
Washington St
Water St
F. C. Hill
Bath National Bank
Biddeford
Charles A. Moody
First National Bank
Maine Bankers’ Association
J. Harry Blaisdell
Boston
Ontario
New York
Hyde Windlass Co
Christmas week city notes mix of events and arrests
Drug stores closed from noon to six. Hood Rubber official Herbert Swett visits town for Christmas. New Meadows Boat Club holds annual meeting on Wednesday evening January 3. Winter Street Sunday School show with film slides. Harry M. Huse becomes Recorder of Municipal Court after Charles A. Corliss resigns. Extra streetcar service runs for Christmas shoppers. Venues issued for 30 jurors for January term of the Supreme Judicial Court. Court starts January 23 with Associate Justice George M. Hanson. Parcel post set Christmas record with 5 teams and 9 workers handling volume. Rachel W Stevens aboard ship bound from Lisbon to Philadelphia, vessel J E Hayes captain of Belfast built in 1898 for L J Stevens. Rev Francis W OBrien installed as Greenwood Baptist pastor in Brooklyn. Cortland Myers preached. Local drunk found in Summer Street rain after Panama Canal stunt. taken to station. Bath Galvanizing Works shows massive metal block to be remelted in new tank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert Swett
The
Hood Rubber Co
New Meadows Boat Club
Winter Street
Harry M. Huse
F. H. Thompson
Supreme Judicial Court
George M. Hanson
Clarence Lightbody
Scott Morse
Tne
Rachel W. Stevens
Lisbon
Philadelphia
J. E. Hayes
Belfast
Stevens
New England Co
L. J. Stevens
Francis W. O’brien
Greenwood Baptist Church
Brooklyn
Cortland Myers
D.D
Tremont Temple
Boston
St. Court
Sears
Bath
Christmas Week Notes From Brunswick and Nearby Towns
Christmas shopping filled streets while offices closed for the holiday. Towns report storms delaying late shopping, fresh news of a comet summer prediction, and local charity gifts. A major transfer of the Sebago Lake steamboat line occurred as Woodard and Sawyer acquired control from Goodridge.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Fannie R. Thompson
Hyde
May Wolston
City Hall
Barry
Cox
Luce
Hughes
U. S. Naval Academy
Hunt
Beacon St
Bos
Fletcher
Castoria
Lways
Per Bonal Asmaceinm
Ory
Mis
Bath Theatre
Golers
Thomas H. Ince
Herbert Brennan
Nazimova
Columbia
Marshall
Champ Clark
James R. Mann
Chicago
Bangor Station
Tall Stove Club
Jack Fitzgerald
Pine Tree A. A
Brunswick
Bath Iron Works
Everett Pratt
Standard Oil Company
Congress Street
Sewall Mill
A. W. Viden
Hall
Ib. I. W
E. J. Jolicoeur
Quincy Water Department
Lewiston
Brunswick Road
New Meadows
Gardiner
Leonice Morse
Water’ St
Spinney
Maine
Sebago Lake
Songo River
Bay of Naples
Charles L. Goodridge
C. W. Woodard
Capt. Sawyer
Greenville
Coburn Steamboat Co
Moosehead
Texas Yard
Wellman
Moody Mansion
Uncle Diffin
Augusta
Fidelity Trust Company
Eee See Nee Daterdays