Karcher Jackson of Bath Guests of Mrs Emma Stinson
Karcher Jackson of Bath were Sunday guests of Mrs Emma Stinson.
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Karcher Jackson
Bath
Emma Stinson
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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1928
Page
3
Wiscasset Town History and Key 18th Century Milestones
Champlain visits the area in 1605 at Wiscasset then a hostile and friendly meeting with local Indians. By 1660 Davie brothers begin a settlement near Water Street, abandoned during King Philip's War. Hooper settles by a river boulder. Groves Foye arrive next. by 1740 thirty families. Wiscasset becomes shire town of Lincoln County in 174. Town renamed from Pownalboro to Wiscasset in 1802. Fires destroy sections south of Middle Street and west of Main. major forest fire with Dresden. Court house moved from Dresden. academy built. Old Hilton House burned. first Sheepscot River bridge in 1847. Jail erected 1811. earliest Maine prison. Lincoln lodge first Masonic lodge in Maine. fire society formed 1860. women's charitable society 1870s, still active. Present court house vault contains oldest deed dated 1625 signed by Samoset.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Champlain
Wiscasset
George Davie
Wiscasset Academy
Robert Hooper
Water Street
William Groves
Robert Foye
Rye Teach
N.hs
Hooper
Col. Kingsbury
Bradbury
Rundlett
Holbrook
Taylor
Thomaston
Maine
Lincoln Lodge
Sos
Daniel Webster
Benjamin Butler
Samoset
Plymouth
Burning of fuses averts catastrophe near Bath and Brunswick
An 11,000 volt high tension line fault between Bath and Brunswick Tuesday night risked lethal fire to Central Maine Power Co. workers and Times Co. staff. Fuses burned out, halting the short circuit, preventing a major blaze. Had the accident occurred in daylight, likely deaths could have occurred to workers and users on the private line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Braunswick Oat Hardings
Central Maine Power Co
Times Co
Brunswick
Washington Street
New England Tel. &Tel
Townsends Laflin dies after two weeks in City hospital
Townsend M Laflin about 70 died Tuesday morning in City hospital where he had been a patient about two weeks. A native of Hallowell he barbered there before buying a Wittston farm ten years ago. Survived by daughter Mrs Corliss and Mrs Reed, two grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Funeral Thursday at 10 from Mrs Corliss home 1 York street. Burial in Ledwell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Townsend M. Laflin
City Hospital
Hallowell
Wittston
Bata
Charles A. Corliss
Augusta
Summer Sewall's daring World War I gas tank blaze escape
Bath Maine pilot Summer Sewall of the 5th squadron survives a flaming gas tank after a Pakker dives, shoots, and ignites his plane. He dives toward home, douses the flames, reaches American lines, and crashes in a shell hole, losing a wheel but walking away alive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Summer Sewall
Boston Globe
John Nex
Knox
Maine
S5th
Pakker
Sewall
Fokker
Ianantine Tiots
Barker Only Man to Place in Meet
George Barker Morse high track captain was the sole high school man to place in the Morse Bowdoin Fresh meet. He won the 660 yard dash in 1 22 flat, giving Morse a scarce consolation from Brunswick. Jack Magee’s Freshmen swept the rest, 65 to 5 rail. A cablegram notes the Empress of Australia with Fred C. Cox aboard was at Hong Kong on Feb 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Barker
Morse High
Morse-Bowdoin
Barker
Brunswick
Jack Magee
Darker
Empress of
Australia
Fred C. Cox
A. Hallet Co
Hong Kong
Bath's Fire Society Formed 125 Years Ago
The Independent notes Bath’s first organized fire fighting precursor formed March 3 with members paying small fees. It traces progress from leather buckets to hand engines, steamers, and modern apparatus, marking the 125th anniversary and planning a muster and parade later in summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath’s Fire Society
Bath
I E
Bath Fire Department
Wiscxsset
Bowdoinham
Edward W. Vaughan
Founders Day Observed In Bath By Tarent Teachers
Founders Day will be observed by the Tarent Teacher Associations of Bath on Friday. A program at Bligh school includes Rev Bjorn Johannsen speaking on the Child in Our Midst and the Enemy of Children, moving pictures, and Frances Dunning with the high school orchestra. Mrs William H Smatl chairs the South End committee. Mrs John A Legro chairs the North-Center association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eldridge
Boston
Joseph Erskine
Sumimner
Gardiner Road
Mary Tolland
Lewiston
James Keve
Bath City Hospital
Wilbur Sherman
Priscila
Brunswick
Theodore Donald Young
Janioy
Boothbay Tlarber
Laura Byvins
Charles Bo Cowley
Hattie Crowley
Helen Dpdiy
Helen Cowley
Mary Chase
Chaplin
Mabel Lewis
Green. Pease
Ada
Lulu Kiley
Ruth
Nina Colby
Esther
Jesse Jaskson
Martha
Nellie Blagdon
Mledsa Mars
Angie Rines
Alice Dodge
Sentinel
Adams
McVeer
Mary Marston
Gnaeshall
Riley
John Riley
Ellsworth Holbrook
Stanley Walsh
China
Margaret Dickenson
Reta Lewis
Munice Lewis
Barbara Greensgeod
Jeannette Hagcett
Ruth Thompson
Vera Southard
Johna Cahrrier
Walter Sherman
Morrris Gelder
Ann Damon
Damon
Richmond
White
High Street
Farm Bureau Aet
Walter Leasitt
Lawrence Lord
Naples
Josephine Plumstead
Porthind
Antoinette Plumstead
Blanche Antoinette Plumstead
Charles Plumstead
Birch Point
Dorothy Hilton
Elizabeth Abbott
Davie Tradford
Isabel Lewis
George Abbott
John Abbott
Ellott Abbott
Charles Metcalf
Woman's Club
Maine BE and Bar
Clarence A. Richards
Lowell
Mass
Richard
Bernice Webber
Wo Oal Hiking Club
Meulday
Bernice
George T. Coombs
Augusta
Burroughs Stinson
Laten Jackson
Pegey
Tarent
Bath
Bjorn Johannsen
Frances Dunning
National Congress of Mothers
National Congress of Parent- Teachers
William H. Smatl
South End Association
John A. Legro
North-Ceiter Association
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Daniel M. Colby
Louise Grover
Auburn
Colby
Cassie Nute
A. H. Dodge
Newcastle
Mr. Dodge
Mary Dodge
Elmer Dodge
Canton
Earl Sherman
William Stuart
Portland
George W. Swain
St. Phillips
Varish House
A. W. Weirstead
Womans
St. Philips Vasish
Wolcott Andrews
Stilman Infirmary
Cambridge
Martin Andrews
Nash
Episcopal Diocese of
Wiscasser Conner
Does Hontas
Mars
Florence Sherman
John Maye
Helen Gorham
Mero
A. W. Wilband
Sunder Merning
Nellie Lake
Yale
Louise Flint
Roy Marston
Grace York
Annie Porter
Garrison Hill
B.S
Masonic Hall
Gertrude Bo MeTeer
Damariscotta
J. G. Bailey
Wiscasset Cutt
Augusta Trust Company
Wiscasset, Maine
Ford
Louis XIV
Wikelsky
Victrolas
Everything Musical Tel
Front Street
Bath, Maine
Mikelsky’s Music Store
Nzeme
Emma J. Leonard
E.R. Warren
Woolwich
Miss Leonard
William and
Rebecca Leonard
BE. St Warren
Philathen
Corliss Street
Harold Walker
Highland Street
Bernice Achorn
Marjorie
Ralph
Castine
W. S. Newell
Bath Iron Worss Corp
New York
Sumner Sewall
Big Master
Parent-Teacher Associations
George Hanly
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