Forty Years Ago in Bath A Shipyard Boom Begins
Thomas Spence of the Texas Co arrives in Bath as preliminary work starts at Arthur Sewall & Co shipyard. Texas Co leases Sewall yard to build four 9,000 ton steamships with first due in about 15 months. Local hires preferred. many details cover yards, equipment, and community notes across Bath in early February 1916.
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Thomas Spence
The
Texas Co
Arthur Sewall & Co
John A. Small
the Times
Bath
Texas Company
Sewall
Town notes on steamship voyage and bell incident
The Walter D. Noyse sails for Newport News with Capt Calhoun taking a brief vacation. Mrs. Chestra visits daughter Mrs Scribner in Portland. The Paul Revere bell tong dropped out at noon Tuesday during dinner hour and was replaced later. William Rich to pattern Watson Frye foundry work in Jackson block. A coal barge for Howard Co. is due in the river.
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Walter D. Noyse
Newport News
Capt. Calhoun
Paul Revere
Bilaisdell Leeman
William Rich
Watson Frye Foundry
Jackson
The
Howard Co
M. A. Harnden
Eastern Steamship Co
Boston
Haunted House Prank Triggers Police Raid In 1916
On February 4 1916 a disturbance at a Commercial street house drew police as a citizen claimed the place was haunted by a former landmark ghost. He slept while furniture moved and chairs were jerked by pranksters. Long Beach 8S F E Co No 2 plans a March 2 concert at Music Hall to raise funds for fire helmets and smoke protectors.
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Commercial Street
Long Beach
Fi Fi coming to town in Broadway style extravaganza
Feb 6 1916 note describes Fi Fi of the Toy Shop a flirtatious French doll to be produced this month by John B Rogers famous producer under Cosmopolitan club alleys. It notes the dazzling spectacle being staged in the city and the show’s long running history of over 1200 performances.
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Board of Education
John B. Rogers
Cosmopolitan Club
Dreamland Theatre Reopens With Farrar Temptations Feature
February 7 1916 Bath Maine notes say Dreamland Theatre under new management reopens with Geraldine Farrar in Temptations tonight and tomorrow New Powers motion picture projector installed at Bath Opera House while Columbia theatre work begins for reopening War Relief committee ships another box to New York with 430 bandages 325 compresses 30 binders and more Local notices cover ship company trips day cruiser being finished in Cambridge and several community updates including a P T A entertainment plans and health notes on Bath Iron Works president Hyde patient status
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Dreamland Theatre
Geraldine Farrar
Powers
Bath Opera House
Columbia Theatre
The
War Relief Committee
New York
Mme
Eames de Gogorza
Bath
Times
New York War Relief Committee
Harold M. Sewall
John S. Hyde
Bath Iron Works
Sewall
Hyde
Scouts Of Troop 55 Hike To Scoutland
A Troop 55 group accompanied by Scoutmasters Horace G. Morse Jr A Dent Caton and C A Mayo Jr hiked to Scoutland at Whiskeay. They spent the day passing advancement tests with the cooking test among the highlights. Present were Scouts Bill Leavitt Dick Mayo Scott Alexander Gary Fitzgerald Bion Allinsworth Ronald Rittall Jim Barnes David Church Lee Stafford Christopher Buck and Donald Humphries.
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Troop 65
Whiskeay
Horace G. Morse, Jr
A. Dent Caton
C. A Mayo, Jr
Bill Leavitt
Dick Mayo
Scott Alexander
Gary Fitzgerald
Bion Allinsworth
Ronald Rittall
Jim Barnes
David Church
Lee Stafford
Christopher Buck
Donald Humphries
Court official laments lack of juvenile rehab options
Dolloff and Judge Deering recount a troubled youth's path from home neglect to detention. Despite no local facilities, the boy's violence and need for psychiatric care led to commitment to South Portland. They praise Doctor Bell and local police but fault insufficient reform resources. They urge early intervention to curb delinquency.
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Bath
South Portland
Dolloff
Gardiner R. Deering
State School
Judge Meeding
Doctor Bell
Temple
Reform School
Doiloff
Baptist chapel near Old Town seeks funds to stay open
A Baptist church started 2.5 years ago by a Southern Baptist missionary near Old Town faces closure due to funding gaps. The chapel has grown from a few members to about 60 and continues to expand, but current finances threaten operations.
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Old Town
Southern Baptist Convention
Chapel of
Five Bath Boy Scouts Honored At Father And Son Banquet
Five local Boy Scouts received Eagle awards at the Father and Son Banquet at Brunswick Naval Air Station before 631 attendees. Ceremonies were led by Cecil Goddard of Pine Tree Council Maine with speeches by Captain J Y Yavorsky and others.
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Bath Boy Scouts
Brunswick Naval Air Station
Cecil Goddard
Pine Tree Council of
Boy Scouts of Maine
Merrymeeting
William Potter
Beacon Street Methodist Church
Homer Potter
Donald Nodine
Curtiss Street Baptist Church
Ira D. Nodine
John Haley
James Haley
Robert Chaplin
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Wilfred Chaplin
Richard Lord
Daniel Lord, Jr
Philip S. Wilder
Bowdoin College
Sagadahoc
Pejepscot
Freeport
Wiscasset
J. Y
Board of Review
Court of Honor
Bath
Craig Ayer
Stephen Lee
Gilman Sprague
Walter Gallant
Donald Nadine
Frank Manyon
Walter Upham
Chester Horne
Winter Street Church
Oscar Brackett
Brunswick
Canada
Willard C. Neal
Biddeford
Our Savior Chapel Parish Limits Use on Bath Road
The small Bath road chapel, once a Negro Baptist church, rents by the parish and seats about 50. Rev. Robert Ater, organizer and minister, lives at 27 Beacon Street in Bath with his wife June Gordon von Brunswick and their son.
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Our Savior
Bath Road
Robert Ater
Bath
Beacon Street
June Gordon Vo Brunswick
Central Church League Plans Year At Monday Meeting
Central Congregational church members met Monday at the parish house to outline the year’s activities including multiple Christmas sale circles forming for next December. Chairmen named were Mrs Haggett Mrs Haynes Mrs MacDonald Mrs Cummings and Mrs Preble.
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Miumbers
League of Central Congregational Church
Proeu
League
John Haggett
W. Linwood Haynes
Arthur M. MacDonald
Edward A. Cummings
Donald F. Preble
Craig L. Richards
Linwood Brown
Sweetser
Suco
Zina Eaton
Lawrence Matter
Phyllis Neal
Craig Richards
H. George Moses
E. Lawrence McCurdy
Woolwich Notes and Local People in Winter 1955
Woolwich entries detail scattered local activities from Morse High School in Bath to Air Force service abroad. Bruce Baker in Keester AFB England, Gene Autry show in Portland, illnesses improved at home, Colorado visit by Woolwich residents, and a newborn Lewis Reed Koeppe Jr. Also notes on residents traveling to West Palm Beach and Woolwich Mutual Fire Insurance financial figures for Dec 41 1955 with Forrest A. Daker as secretary.
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Morse High School
Bath
Darrell
Bruce Baker
Air Force
Keester Air Force Base
Miss
England
Elmer Mank
Middle Road
Jesse Munsey
Popham Beach
Harvey Chubbuck
Mountain Road
James F. Dunton
Woolwich
U.S. Air Force
Earl Dow
Albert Humphries
Sagadahoc Ferry
West Palm Beach
Fla
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Cobb
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Howe
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University of Maine
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Southport
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Young Society
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Akron
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Overland Automobile
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Eastport
Lewis J. O’brien
Jamaica Plains
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Center Street
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Arthur W. Purington
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Helsinki
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Charles Chestra
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Wadsworth
Key West
Edward Son
M. W. Sewall
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Middle Street
Alice and
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Cambridge
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Silver Lake
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Parker Head
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Virginia
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High Street
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Central Church League
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Peter and
Jesse Chubbuck
Fred Spinney
Woolwich Mutual Fire Insurance Company
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Forrest A. Dakekr