Dawn the fast steppers favored at Bath Driving club season
Arthur J. Dunton owns Dawn a black stallion bred in 1912 noted for speed at the Bath Driving club events this winter. Dawn has not trained with a pro yet and has shown promise on the track since age three. Dunton, longtime Bath Driving club president, champions blooded stock and supports two promising three year olds Hazel Dawn and Ella Watts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Speedway
Bath Driving Club
Arthur J. Daunton
Dawn
Mr. Dunton
Toddnut
Todd
Sidnut Belle
Baron Sidnut
William J. Hynes
Woodbrine
Dunton
Hazel Dawn
Ella Watts
Gen. Watts
Peter the Great
Sagadahoc
Driving Club
Rebate Sought by Mayor Drake on Motor Boat Tax
Mayor J Edward Drake protested a $10 fine for late motor boat tax payment. The Portsmouth NH internal revenue office replied that they would not have assessed the penalty had they known the facts. Drake had loaned the boat to Justice Department agents and allowed use of his cottage during wartime, and the notice enclosed an application for rebate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Edward Drake
Collector of Internal Revenue
Portsmouth
N. H
Drake
Department of Justice
Secret Service
Birch Point
Bath Built Craft Is A Total Loss
Word reached New Bedford from Valparaiso Chile that the whaling bark Josephine, built in Bath in 1877, 384 tons, was driven ashore and a complete loss. Once owned by J. and W. R. Wing, she was sold to Chilean interests in 1909.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Bedford
Valparaiso
Chile
Josephine
Bath
Bath woman hears Mrs Hamlin on Americanism and peace
Mrs Merrill Hamlin spoke at the home of Mrs Benjamin M Plummer urging Americans to study and teach Americanism to immigrants. She warned of apathy as a great danger, praised Theodore Roosevelt, and discussed peace conference issues with emphasis on Italy Greece and the Balkans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merrill Hamlin
Benjamin M. Plummer
Col. Roosevelt
United States
America
Hamlin
Greece
Italy
Balkans
Atention
Ben
Tops ham fair funds introduced in senate act
Senate bills named funds for the Sagadahoc Agricultural and Horticultural Society to cover Tops ham fair losses due to influenza in 1978. Other measures include charter changes for Bath related charities and salary adjustments for Bath officials. House actions cover residency and voting requirements as well as liquor law amendments affecting cider sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Rupert H. Baxter
Sagadahoe County
Sagadahoo
United States
Bath
Perley W. Stevens
Old Orchard
Stevens
Harry A. Plummer
Benton
Bath Soldier Boy Sings Patriotic Song “Oh for a Look at Liberty”
Charles T. Edgecomb, Bath boy serving in the air service, wrote the words to a new patriotic song titled Oh for a Look at Liberty. Copies have been sent to his mother Flora Edgecomb. He has been overseas about a year, earlier delivering a car at Metz and spending Christmas Eve in a former German guard house. He recalls traveling through No Man’s Land on Nov 11 and longs to return to the United States, tiring of local customs abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles T. Edgecomb
Air Service
Liberty
Flora Edgecomb
Edgecomb
Epinal
Metz
Motor Mechanics Regiment
No Man's Land
United States
New Cars for Street Railway Meet May Arrivals Soon
A crew installs a turnout at New Meadows Inn as Lewiston Augusta and Waterville Street Railway prepares a half hourly Bath Brunswick service. General Manager Siweeney of IL and W visits Philadelphia on business linked to the cars, with arrivals expected next month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Brunswick
Lewiston
Augusta
Waterville St. Ry
New Meadows Inn
New Meadows
Man. Siweeney
IL. A
Philadelphia
Labor shift noted by Bath contractors in current hiring
Bath contractors report a noticeable change in labor availability with more men seeking morning work, especially carpenters, while bosses also seek workers. Mrs. Fred Corliss of Bath Street is recovering from burial Merrill case and Miss Alice Shaw of Liberty Street shows rapid improvement after hospitalization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Fred Corliss
Bath Street
Wvn
Bury Merrill
This City
New York
Alice J. Shaw
Liberty Street
City Hospital
County Court Terms Open with Small Bath Attendees
A Bath county term opens with Associate Justice J. Dunn presiding. Lawyers attend in small numbers. term may be short or long. Grand jury charged clearly. two juries organized, one proceeding with 11 members, the other awaiting full organization. Settlement reached in Blake v Meyers shooting case. new county attorney and deputy sheriffs take posts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Judicial
Dahoc County
Con
J. Dunn
Orono
Sagad
Charles Fding
Uel A. Evans
Grand Jury
Jug Dunn
Juryo
Charles F. Holbrook
John A. Leonard
Bath
Charles D. Newell
Albert B. Storer
Phippsburg
Alton
B. Thwing
Woolwich
Perley E. Baker
Arrowsic
J. W. Clough
West Bath
Charles B. Day
Richmond
Herbert L. Grinnell
Frank W. Hackett
Bowdoinham
Winfred L. Ham
John Holden
Charles H. Hooper
E. H. Jordon
Bowdoin
Foster B. Meserve
Topsham
Benjamin F. Savage
Henry F. Smith
Joseph G. Stevens
Georgetown
Maynard Tarr
Travers
Frank D. Pike
William W,es
George F. Jackson
H. Randall Leonard
Maurice McKay
James C. Mulligan
Wil M. Thistle
Loring C. Gilman
Blodgett
Benjamins
Clark
Ernest B. Purington
Henry G. Shaw
Bion F. Shea
Arrowsie
Albert Staples
Lemuel
Stinson
John G. Soule
Harry E. Whitehouse
W. L. Williams
Oscar R. Adams
Charles Allen
Fred H. Brigham
William J. Downing
William F. Fairclough
Ralph A. Mallett
M. D. Pratt
Bowdoinwam
Henry N. Reynolds
Thomas J. Osouthard
Edwardb. Sprague
George E. Thompson
Edward A. Blake
Elmer
Ernest 5. Meyers
Blake
Edward W. Bridgham
Ralph O. Dale
George W. Heselton
Bridgham
Sagadahock Hotel Fire Destroys Bath Buildings in 1894
A major blaze in Bath on January 28 1894 destroyed the Sagadahock hotel stables and extensive stores on Front Street and Center Street reaching City Hall. Firefighters lacked water from a broken main, aid came from Brunswick Lewiston and Portland, and militia units protected the ruins until Tuesday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Sagadahock House
Sagadahock
Front
Webber's Drug Store
Times Office
Sagadahock Stables
Brunswick
Lewiston
Portland
Times
Kennebec River
Center Street
City Hall
State—militia
Co.d
North End Project Nears Completion With 67 Houses
The North end housing project for the Emergency Fleet corporation is nearly finished. L. P. Soule & Son Co. has built 67 brick houses for 117 families, with 300 workers racing to finish interior tasks before roads, grading, and trunk sewer are completed by spring. Two to three months remain for sewer work and winter piping. 26 families already occupy homes with modern amenities. Leighton & Mitchell Co. also fast-tracking colony buildings for the United States Housing corporation, with about half the houses plastered and soon to be occupied.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North End
Emergency Fleet Corporation
L. P. Soule & Son Co
Leighton & Mitchell Co
Lincoln
Academy Streets
United States Housing Corporation
Bath Chamber Considers Reorganization Plan And Membership Drive
About 50 people met at Morse High School to discuss inviting the American City Bureau of New York to reorganize the Bath chamber and lead a membership drive. A special committee will study the proposal. debate focused on raising the annual fee to 25 dollars and reaching 300 members for a flourishing group. President William T. Cobb of Bath Iron Works pledged support, and a follow up meeting is set in about ten days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morse High School
Chamber of Commerce
American City Bureau of New York
Bath
Chamber
Kershner
American City Bureau
William T. Cobb
Bath Iron Works
Bath Chamber Commerce
Contractor Tripp Buys Buildings for Planned Machine Shop
A. L. Tripp, a contractor, purchased five wooden structures including the Jordan livery stable from Scott R. Frye of Watson Frye Co. The lot between Front and Commercial streets opposite the City park will host a modern machine shop and foundry. The stable, a dwelling, a blacksmith shop frame, a vacant barn, and a carriage house were bought. Most structures will be torn down. Tripp plans to dismantle the Jordan stable for possible rebuilding elsewhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jordan
A. L. Tris
Scott R. Frye
Watson, Frye Co
W. H. Page
Thieves Break Into Sporting Camp at Blackwater Cove
Thieves busted into Wylie Rogers camp at Blackwater Cove Merrymeeting Bay North Bath on two occasions. They first pried the door and took a gunning vest and groceries in December. more recently they pried open shutters and stole 125 heavy loaded ten gauge shells. No suspects named, but a locally familiar offender is suspected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wylie Rogers
Blackwater Cove
Merrymeeting Bay
North Bath
Captain Hussey writes from across the Rhine front
Captain William F. Hussey of the 301st Engineers reports from Brohl on the Rhine after a 206 kilometer Moselle march. He notes health, quarters, a successful St Mihiel drive, a few casualties, influenza in Luxemburg, Christmas in New England style, and souvenirs including an iron cross and a Von Hindenburg image.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Hussey
Washington Street
William F. Hussey
Co. Fy
Brohl
Rhine
Moselle
76Th Division
Fourth
Dickman
Hussey
St. Mihiel
Luxemburg
New England
Kennebec
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Stepper
Arthur J.dunton
Portland Sunday Telegram
Pres. Dunton
Florida
G. E. Preble
Daytona
Fla
Bath Built
Mrs. Hamlin
Theodore Roosevelt
Plummer
H. D. Cunningham
Corn Maine Power Co
Central Maine Power Co
Waterville
Senator Baxter
Joseph M. Trott
Edward C. Plummer
William T. Hall
Edward W
Walter S. Glidden
Arthur J. Dunton
Franklin P. Sprague
Ralph W. Crockett
Edward W. Wheeler
Clarence E. Sawyer
Louis A. Jack
Lisbon Falls
Mina Rowe
Sherbourne Rowe
Charles J. Dunn
Supreme Court
Edward
Chamber Commerce
Morse High
Tripp
John L. Otis
Richardson Street
City
Mr. Otis
Fairfield
W. F. Hussey
Joe Coss
Edward Burns
Texas Yard
Cass
Naval Reserve Force
Bumkin Island
Johnson Bros. Co
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