Forty Years Ago in Bath Social and Industrial Notes
Historic Bath items recount openings and visits including Solomon Louis Hern planning a tailor shop near Fitzgerald Brothers, the Lilac buoy boat tied at Maine Central wharf, Captain Sterling's crew visiting for repairs, local parties at New Meadows Inn, a large turnout at a Long Beach ball, and a famed Gaudreau orchestra concert. The Bath Iron Works school hosts a physics talk, and community groups plan more socials, card parties, and charitable contributions. A theft at Dougherty's drug store raises concern as a firemen’s ball draws crowds and local sailmaking and shipbuilding activity continues at Sewall yard and nearby shops.
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United States
Lilac
Portland
Maine Central
J. W. Sterling
Local notices and social events spill from street church supper to ski trips
The community plans a commedium supper and social Friday night at the Street church. Earl Holbrook is pleased by a $56 check from Plorader2 Tag Co for being a lucky cigars number guesser, with December tax paid. George Martin James Delvin and Alvim Gilmore from the B L drafting dept enjoyed two ski trips in the city, then the group traveled to Lewiston to meet a committee of the Ariel club to arrange a series of events.
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Harry W. Dunton
Plorader2 Tag Co
Jersey City
George Martin
James Delvin
Alvim Gilmore
B. L
Saturthis City
New Mea
Cay
Lewiston
Ariel ‘Club
Surprise party marks return of Mrs Bailey to Bath Iron work
Mrs Linwood Blair Bailey nee Barbara Nickerson returned to duties in the Bath Iron Corp production department after a wedding trip. Her desk held gifts and colleagues hosted a post nuptial shower featuring an all glass percolator and a collective gift of 70 dollars.
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Linwood Blair Bailey
Barbara Louise Nickerson
Bath Iron Corp
Miss Nickerson
Novel Valentine Cards Attract Attention In 1903
The article notes Shaw offers a range of valentines from a penny to three dollars with new designs and novelty wording. It mentions a Mendelssohn club banquet in Sagadahoc square for Prof. William R. Chapman at New Meadows Inn and a YMCA rehearsal. Also covers H H Maxwell buying the Matson residence at 428 Middle street and two Bath Iron Works riveters who fell 30 feet on the Georgia but survived with injuries.
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Nouvel
Shaw
Mendelssohn Club
Sagadahoc Square
New Meadows Inn
William R. Chapman
George McAllister
John Macdonald
Bath Iron Works
Georgia
McAllister
Fuller
Central Church Men Host Fine Evening of Photos
Samuel A. Morse of Whiskehag Road entertained the Central church Men's club with amateur photography slides. The program featured color images of familial scenes and air shots including Gaspe peninsula photos by his son Robert. President W. Linwood Haynes led a good attendance. A parish supper was served and a later box social is planned for February 23.
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Samuel A. Morse
Whiskheag Road
Central Church
Mrs Morse
Morse
Gaspe Peninsula
Robert
Pres W. Linwood Haynes
Marius H. Page
Karcher S. Jackson
Fred W Humphreys
Non-Residents Buy Maine Homes Beats One and a Half Million
Maine Development Commission reported that non-residents spent over 1.5 million dollars on residential property in Maine last year. Out-of-state holdings are valued above 120 million. The real estate drive turns summer visitors into year round residents and spurs about 250 thousand dollars in renovations.
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Maine
Maine Development Commission
Everett F. Greaton
Commission
Greaton
Probate Court Session Reports Estates and Administrations
Sagadahoc Probate Court’s February session lists administrations filed and granted, wills filed and allowed, inventories and accounts filed, licenses to sell real estate granted, bonds filed, and guardianships active for residents of Bath Bowdoinham Topsham Georgetown and surrounding towns. Notable entries include estates of Esther Prest Ralph Hall Mildred Stackpole and Marie Blais, executors and trustees named, and securities posted by Caroline Anderson Samuel Belanger and others.
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Arthur J. Dunton
Sagadahoc
Stanley L. Prest
Esther B. Prest
Bath
Lillian M. Johansen
Florence L. Burnham
Lillian M. Hall
Ralph K. Hall
Mildred A. Stackpole
Charles S. Stackpole
Elsie M. Folsom
Omar W. Folsom
Horace Thomas Parkhurst
Richmond
Alice Lillian Parkhurst
Harry C. Knight
Flora C. Bacon
Elmer E. McFarland
Allan M. Howes
John P. Carey
Marie Delia Blais
Charles A. Knight
Sarah E. Whitten
Topsham
Nora Lynch Kingsbury
Andrew Bert Kingsbury
William B. Mussenden
Charles H. Cahill
Horace W. Swett
William B. Kendall
Bowdeinham
Maynard Th
Grace L. Calder
Ina M. D. Tuttle
Boston
Charles E. Judkins
Bessie G. Judkins
Caroline Baker Anderson
Caroline Baker Quinby
Shrewsbury
Samuel Belanger
Clifford A. Belanger
Hartford
Doctor Williams Suffers Ill Turn at Home Visit
Dr. A. F. Williams, staying at 764 High Street, suffered an ill turn recently. He is a patient at Memorial hospital.
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A. F. Williams
High Street
Dr. Williams
Memorial Hospital
Birthday Parties Highlight Terrace Social Week
The article recounts three birthday celebrations at the Terrace last week for Patricia Quinn aged three Joellen Butler aged six and Evelyn Perry aged six with games, gifts, and cakes. Also noted is the Weeyonus club meeting at Marguerite Carlisle's home and local city council actions including fire truck lease and a federal grant for schools.
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Patricia Quinn
Leonard Quinn
Lark Street
Patricia
Bobby Pendleton
Leland Peabody
Freddy Vose
Ronnie
Jeanne Anne Giroux
Skippy Young
Johnny Logan
Evelyn Perry
Lloyd Perry
Central Avenue
Evelyn
Beverly Knight
Sherrill Duker
Marie Angelo
Judy Ward
Elizabeth Butt
Nancy Pendleton
Joellen Butler
Irene Crocker
Shirley Robinson
Betsy Douglas
Violet
N. Y
Roland Tibbetts
Bluff Road
John Trask
Winneganee
Mayor Halves Salary and Advances City Funds Actions
City council votes to authorize temporary tax revenue loans up to 160000 as finance committee prepares details. Water street widening order is tabled amid prop and overpass concerns. Patrolmen appointed. Albee named city foregoer. Gasoline and junk licenses granted. Traffic light hours modified after debate. Special pork barrel fund committee approved with Rep. Deering. Housing light cost issue presented by S M Werner.
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Water Street
Vine
Committee On
Highway and Sewer Board
Rogers
Newell
Philip Barter
Joseph Williams
Mildred Albee
O. M. Redlon
Albert J. Pelletier
Portland
Washington and
Center Street
Elizabeth B. Deering
Andrew M. Butterfield
S. M. Werner
North End Barracks
Mr. Werner
Raymond M. Clark Funeral Held in Bath
The funeral for Raymond M. Clark of Upper Washington Street, an assistant foreman at Bath Iron Works, was held Wednesday at Curtis Funeral Home. The service, led by Rev. Charles L. Kinney and Rev. Frederick P. Moffatt, included a Masonic tribute by Polar Star lodge. Burial followed at Riverside Cemetery, Woolwich.
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Raymond M. Clark
Upper Washington Street
Bath Iron Works Corp
Curtis Funeral Home
Washington Street
Charles L. Kinney
Beacon Street Methodist Church
Frederick P. Moffatt
Corliss Street Baptist Church
Polar Star Lodge
Clark
William A. Furber
Laurence A. Lowell
Donald S. Smith
Ernest R. Freeman
Herbert L. Anderson, Jr
Charles W. Walsh
K. Blair Hodge
Arthur C. Norton
Scott Morse
Henry Powers
Delmar E. Bates
Percy Savage
Leroy Lord
Carl B. Swanton
Bath Iron Work Corp
Riverside Cemetery
Woolwich
Real estate transfers recorded in Sagadahoc County
The Sagadahoc Register of Deeds lists numerous land and building transfers in Bath Bowdoin Topsham and Woolwich including Oliver to Atwood Milliken to Sullivan and others Cummings Gatchell Cameron and others. Bangor High School seeks graduates and former students for a Service Roll and War Scrap Book to send to the U S Treasury with year of graduation service branch and female names requested.
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Sagadahoc
Joseph R. Oliver
John E. Atwood
Washington Street
Timothy B. Sullivan
Ralph E. Milliken
Bedford Street
Imelda M. Tondreau
Omar L. Tondreau
Granite Street
Anne Kimball
Leroy F. Colby
Andrews Road
Bowdoin Bertha Coskery
Lucien Marin
Donald K. Johnson
Arthur M. Johnson
Cyprien Laroche
Bilodeau, Giroux, Inc
Bowdoeinham Willis B. Donnell
Arvill J. Gerow
Phipps Annie M. Pease
Carlton S. Brown
Bangor High School
War Savings Department
U. S. Treasury
Auburn YMCA Father and Son Banquet Success
The annual Father and Son banquet at the Auburn YMCA drew about 310 attendees. Jefferson Smith of Winthrop, former Maine YMCA Secretary, was the speaker, with Hoyt Mahan serving as toastmaster.
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Auburn Ymca
Jefferson Smith
Winthrop
Maine Ymca
Hoyt Mahan
Auburn “Y
Probate Notices From Bath Sagadahoc County 1943
Court of Probate in Bath Sagadahoc County ordered notices for multiple estates dated February 1943. Parties may appear March first to contest petitions or to appoint administrators with or without bond and to handle wills, codicils, sales, and partitions as listed for estates including Prest Hall Burnham Poisom Tuttle King Mor Georgetown Swett and Wilson.
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Bath
Sagadahoc
Bath Independents
Esther B. Prest
Stanley L Prest
Stanley L. Prest
Ralph K. Hall
Lillian M. Hall
Lillian M Hall
Florence L. Burnham
Lillian M. Johansen
Omar W. Poisom
Arte of
Thisere
Elsie M. Folsom
Ina M. D. Tuttle
Boston
Massachusetts
West Bath
Grace L. Calder
Fratrix
Andrew Bert King
Iate
Allwance
Noran Lynch Kingsbury
Herbert Frank Mor
Georgetown
Maynard Thebodeau
Horace W Swett
Wiliam B Mussenden
Charlies H Cahill
Horace W. Swett
William B. Mussenden
Charles H Cahill
Fannie F. Wilson
Lewis E. Wilson
Arthur J Dunton
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Uncle Tom
Howard N. Hunt
Billy
Henry Trowbridge
Solomon Louis Hern
Gloucester
Columbia Theatre
Fitzgerald Brothers
Sewall Yard
Bath Iron Works School
William S. Newell
Hall
C. F. Magoun
Jennie Murphy
the Arney
Clare Varney
Dougherty’s
Ieee
Lenagelen Bray Aera O
Long Beach
Alameda
Gaudreau Orchestra
Fred Proctor
John Brechin
Sewall's
Bristol, R. L
Winter Street Society
Herbert E. Cole
James B Drake
Prudential
Langdon T. Snipe
E. H. McLachlin
Harry W. Cobb
James B. Drake
Arthur Noble
Men Blaisdell
Porterang Magoun
HL Duncan
F Southard
A. Percy
George E. Thompson
O F. Williams
Judge Fogg
Dr. Marston
Adelis
Morse’s
Everett Neal
Cahill
New Meadows
S. A. Jones
Waldoboro
Mrr
James
Tim South End
E. S. Crossby
F. H. Kimball
W. D. Sewall
Amima Jewett
F. B. Nichols
Prine
FW Hyde
Secom
McElmam
Conley
Gemnesia
Charles Hodgkins
Om High Street
Donald Stuart
New Meadows Innn
Avery
A. Lakim
Bath From Works
Dr. Puller
Hartwell
Dvrellimg
Oak Street
Sir. Mary's Guild of
Grace Church
Magoun
Rachel Shaw
Cow Street Church
Earl Holbrook
Mrs. Bailey
Bailey
Alyn Jewett
Claire Grainger
Esther Wilson
Ruth Robinson
Jeannette Varney
Vanona A. MacDonald
Beatrice Duprey
Jeanette Roy
Tina Pinkham
Barbara Morse
Mary Tourtillotte
Marguerite V. Brown
Margaret Tourtillotte
Marguerite A. Brown
Dorothy Anliker
Cora Durant
Barbara Pitman
Gladys Wilson
Mary Double
Polly Nickerson
Frances Catan
Frederick A. Lowell, Jr
Burt S. Osgood, Jr
Lynn M. Bussey
Ellery Doyle
John McCole
Casper F. Hartleb
Roxanne C. Merry
Ardena Lawrence
Sarah Craig
Philip Trainor
Carmen Lewis
Helen M. Shaughnessy
Leonard Thombs
Althea French
H. Lawrence Small
George van Wynen
H. H. Maxwell
Matson
Middle Street
A. L. Thompson
Howard M. Steen
Maynard Brown
Raymond Small
James Steen
Central Church League
Ladies’ Aid
John L. Jack Register
C. L. Hutchins
Central Maine Power Co
Opera House
Commercial Street
Edward Brown, Jr
Lemont Street
Edward Brown
Donald N. Small
Dana W. York
Morse High School
Shepard
Libby Court
Edmund A. Rothwell
Harold P. Small
Rothwell
State Highway Department
Aldermen’s Chamber
Knight
Osborne
Green
Stover
Povich
Raymond M. Clark Funeral Services
David B. Soule
Naval Mouth College
Hanover
N. H
Soule
A. M. G. Soule
Augusta and
Bowdoin College
Boston University School of Law
Maine Bar Association
United States Naval Reserve
Sagadahoc County
Benjamin B. Douglass
William Stewart
Topsham Ernest Howland
George H. Williams
Clifton L. Evrard
Walter L. Foster
Omar R. Perry
Raymond C. Brown
Edward A. Cummings
C. B. Metcalf
Sophia B. Gatchell
Carrie L. Gatchell
Albert M. Light
James F. Cameron
Burrell C. Hallett
Elmer E. Mank Jr
Royce E. Howes
Katherine M. Borski
Frank Borski
John
T. A. K. Register
John L. Jack
Sa¢edahoc
Charles S. Stacktoov
Arthur J. Rosas
Jack