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Newspaper

Bath Independent

Location

Bath, Maine, United States of America

Date

Feb 05, 1910

Page

2

Sailor of Fifty-Two Years Emmons Quietly Resumes Home Life

Seward P. Emmons master mariner recounts a full life at sea from Bath area to Georgetown. He joined many ships from Hamburg to Japan, surviving a fierce shipboard fire near the Straits of Lemair and a mutiny episode in Mobile Bay era, before settling into a Georgetown grocery and farm life.

Seward P. Emmons Bath Phippsburg Ezra W Jane Simonton Emmons Long Island Georgetown Back River Captain Emmons Benjamin Emmons Seward Emmons Emmons Hamburg David Cutting Helen Edward Wood Kennebec Boston Young Emmons Gardiner Andrew Bradstreet Liverpool Bradstreet Rainbow Thomas Sampson New Orleans Baltimore Richard Anderson Sheffield John Smith G. F. and J. Patten Brunswick Kentucky Randlett Thomaston B. C. Bailey Laura Almeda Elizabeth James Lambert York Helen Maria Pattens of John Patten England East West Indies George F. Patten Japan Straits of Lemair Straits San Francisco Henry Warner New York Ap2schicola Mobile Bay

Bath Merchants Hold Seventh Annual Dinner at Colonial

About 100 members of the Bath Merchants Association gathered at the Colonial for the seventh annual dinner since 1902. President Harry C. Webber presided, with speakers including Paul D. Sargent and George E. Thompson, as plans for trunk line state roads were outlined by Sargent.

Bath Merchants’ Association The Colonial Cahill Harry C. Webber Paul D. Sargent Augusta Charles W. Clifford, Sr Harry E. Stetson Charles T. Jackson George E. Thompson Howard B. Johnson Joan S. Hyde Webber Fernald Hobbs Maine Central Frank M. Harnden Frank H. Percy James 8. Lowell A. J Grassy Robert H. Hatch Seth T. Snipe Maine Retail Merchants’ Association Charles D. Clarke Charles W. Clifford Sargent Maine New Hampshire Kittery York Wells Kennebunk Kennebunkport Biddeford Saco Old Orchard Scarboro South Portland Portland Falmouth Cumberland Gray New Gloucester Auburn Lewiston Greene Monmouth Winthrop Manchester Vassalboro Winslow Waterville Fairfield Benton Clinton Burnham Pittsfield Detroit Palmyra Newport Plymouth Etna Carmel Hermon Bangor Yarmouth Freeport Brunswick Bath Woolwich Wiscasset Newcastle Damariscotta Nobleboro Waldoboro Warren Thomaston Rockland Rockport Camden Lincolnville Frankfort Winterport Hampden

Freshest Damages After Last Week's Rains

Heavy rains caused wide freshets across the state and a loss of property. The Maine Central railroad bridge between Brunswick and Topsham on the Lewiston division was swept away, delaying service until a temporary bridge could be built. The old bridge’s replacement plans were disrupted, costing the railroad thousands and delaying trains.

Maine Central Railroad Brunswick Topsham Lewiston Maine Central

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