Forty Years Ago in Bath 1895 Highlights
In the Bath Daily Times forty years ago, a ten percent dividend was declared on Sagadahock National Bank capital stock payable after January 2 1895. Social notes include a large Armory ball with prize cane winners Mr and Mrs Jerry Sullivan, a wedding of Frank Delano Pike and Ann May Sanford, and community updates from local clubs churches and streets.
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Bath
Bath Daily Times
Sagadahock National Bank
F. I. Jew
Armory Hall
William W. Spvett
Messrs. Dowling
Perkins
Columbia Orchestra
Jerry Sullivan
Thompson Bros
Clothiers
Electric sleigh crash and local council actions in Bath
At ten fifteen this morning Mr Card of Bowdoinham was thrown from a sleigh that struck the electric road at Washington and Linden, the horse fleeing toward Front street. he escaped with slight bruises as rail collisions alarm the season. The Bubb Comedy Co opens at Columbia theatre next week with Stars and Stripes, and A Kentucky Home will follow. Katherine Patten, victim of Monday's dreadful accident, was buried today in a flower-laden service at 10.30 with Rev. Dole officiating. The city meeting discussed highway injuries, incandescent light pricing, and a plan to protect railroad crossings, including a call to Payson Tucker for safer crossing measures. The mayor proposed raising his salary, and a Home for Aged Couples and Old Men meeting is announced for January 10 at Dr Bibber's residence.
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Card
Bowdoinham
Washington
Linden Streets
Front Street
Katherine Patten
Miss Patten
George H. Dole
New Church
Jerusalem
Fred E. Drake
Harry A. Nealley
This City
Alfred Mitchell
F. B. Smith
Bowdoin College
Joint
Standing Committee
R. D. Bibber
Washington Street
Kings Daughters
Kings Sons
State House
Charles Brown
Bath
Charlie
Federal Relief Administration
Sanford L. Fogg
Minnie Brown
Attorney General's
Mary Spear
State Assessor's Office
Frank H. Holley
North Anson
Augusta
Gladys Koughan
State Liquor Commission
Senate
House
Rupert H. Baxter
Frank B. Nichols
Edward N. Hartnett
Capitol
Dunnack
State Library
Henry E. Dunnack
Dugnack
Maine
Edward Arlington Robinson
Kenneth L. Roberts
Captain Caution
Gladys Hasty Carroll
Isabel] Hopesvill Carter
Mary Peters
Mary Ellen Chase
Robert Fetes Tristram Colitis
Bowdoin Ceip
Yea
Laura E. Richards
Lincoln Colcord
Owen Davis
Holman F. Day
Ammen defence ram Katahdin heads to Charlestown yard overhaul
The Ammen defence ram Katahdin will depart in about two weeks for the navy yard at Charlestown where she will be placed in a dry dock for a thorough hull overhaul.
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Boothbay Harbor
Navy Yard
Charlestown
Installations and town updates at Bath 1895 meeting
Jan 5 1895 officers of Tahdin commandery U O G C installed by J H Stantial with Clara B Gilmore and Fred S Curtis in attendance. Reports note water shortages, no fire pressure, and hoped repairs next week. Sagadahoc steamer to be electrified for Bath Boston route with 300 lights and 25 HP engine. foundry work on a new vault proceeds. postal carriers urged residents to provide street and number for faster delivery.
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Katahdin Commandery
John H. Stantial
Clara B. Gilmore
Fred S. Curtis
Grand Herald
Augustus R. Gilmore
N. C
Amanda L. Wright
Lucinda Higgins
W. P
Minnie C. Hathaway
Lou T
Kennebec
Nequasset Lake
Thompson's Brook
Campbell
Moulton
Moore
Sagadahoc
Kennebec Steamboat Company
W. H. Hayden
Wiscasset
Bath
Boston
Winter lessons open as the town resumes schooling
January 7 1895 schools opened while Robert Craig returned home with a fine pacer from Lewiston Saturday. The River Belle steamer was removed from winter quarters for diver work on a water pipe break. City Marshal Kittridge received petitions from 14 tramps for lodging. Janitor Thistle allotted space and treated them. several slept on the floor. Some tramps wandered upriver seeking ice-field work but soon returned nearly frozen. This morning
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River Belle
Kittridge
Thistle
Androscoggin Water Sparks City Hall Row in Bath
Citizens protest newspaper coverage of water works and oppose Androscoggin water. Bath City Council votes to sever Bath water main from Brunswick main, despite Mayor Wakefield’s surprise. Also notes Bath Military and Naval Asylum meeting, bank officer changes, ship sale, and lodge installations.
January Cosmos Club session featured songs and piano pieces
The Cosmos Club January meeting continued with performances of Little Dutch Garden and Valse Bluette by Rigo, and Howard White’s The Robin’s Song sung by Miss O’Hara. Mrs. Albee accompanied both numbers. Afterward, the house committee served cocoa with marshmallows, cookies and crackers. Miss Jane Porteous of Portland visited Bath to see friends.
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Mr. Sprague
R. Drigo
Howard White
O’hara
Albee
House
Loraine M. Price
Anne K. Quinn
Lucy W. Coombs
Maine legislature notes and storm travel adventures
The article recounts legislative figures in Augusta during a lingering storm. It mentions Councilor F W Carlton of Woolwich moving to a state post, travel ordeals of Rep Sumner Sewall and Rep Wilbur Oliver, and social scenes at the Blaine House with Governor and Mrs Brann. It also covers library plans, local literary figures, and probate notices involving Sagadahoc residents.
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Sewall
Augusta
Sumner Sewall
State House
New Meadows River Bridge
Topsham
Hallowell
House
Eddie Rickenbacker
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Terra Firma
Toledo
Ohio
Probate notice of estate in Sagadahoc County Bath
Alston E. Oliver petitions for administration of George L. Oliver estate intestate who died December 22 1934 in Bath Me. He lists heirs at law Alfie J. Terrill Luihe E Leach William A. Oliver Alston E Oliver Florence Bassett Walter Oliver Lester Oliver Ruby Chase. Court orders publication of notice to interested parties for a hearing February 5 1935 at Bath Pro bate Court Judge Walter S Glidden.
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Maine
Sagadahoc
Mathilda Johnson
Bath
Joseph Johnson
Edna M. Higgins
West Bath
A. D
Agnes M. Humphreys
State OF Maine
Harry F. Farnham
Mary M. Farnham
Ath
Daniel Williams
Ella J. Coffin
Ella J. Temple
Syeem Vail
A.D
Walter S. Glidden
Ruby L. Dunham
Kenneth 8. Harrison
Walter
Glidden
Wiliam W. Harrison
Waid
Miner
Insaki
Elizabeth Hutchins
Henrietta Rebber
Senate
Elizabeth
Hutchins
Miles J. Webber
Phippsburg
Frank Webber
New London
Elizabeth R. Hutchins
H. L
Sagadahoe
Independent
Alter S. Glidden
State OF
Rose E. Johnson
Adowe
Inc
Rela
Mary McQuarrie
Sanford
Florence Hagan
Clara Foote
Portland
Emma J. Higgins
George Rowell
Lucian
Marguerite Fields
Auburn
Milton Jordan
Buffalo
N. Y
Florence Jordan
Doris
Bettef
Tor Said
Alston E. Oliver
George L. Oliver
Alfie J. Terrill
Boston
Mass
Luihe E. Leach
William A. Oliver
Florence Bassett
George Oliver
Th Independent
Probate Notice appoints executrix for Sagadahoc estate
On January 1, 1935, Susan C. Lemont of West Bath was named executrix without bond of the estate of Charles S. Lemont of Wi Bath by the Sagadahoc County Court. Cc. Lemont qualified for and Attest.
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Ralph O
Dale
Jahoc
Annie O
Bath
Balmaneier
Susan C. Lemont
West Bath
Sagadahoc
Charles S. Lemont
Wi Bath
Cc. Lemont
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Ann May Sanford
Charles Berry
Ralph Huston
Mr. Huston
Susie Stinson
Arthur Dunton
Colby University
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Brunswick
Frank Turner
Percy Barbour
Worcester Institute of Technology
Charles McDonald
Hebron
The
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Smith College
Arthur S. Myde
Harvard University
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Jake
Acadia Lodge
Knights of Pythias
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Isaac L. Elder
Deering
Fred M. Robinson
William A. Taylor
George L. Thompson
Wesley G. Smith
Charles A. Morse
Westbrook
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George W. Luce
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George T. Silsby
Seth T. Snipe
James R. Cressey
Charles Burgess
Cyrus W. Longley
Frank E. Pond
Charles Mook
Cressey
Alice Morse
Andover
Miles Standish
George M. Adams
John White
Bath Iron Works
Mr. Skillings
Supt. Phillips
Nellie Jair
Annie Cox
Flora Randall
Miss Simpson
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Augustus Palmer
John McDonald
Bubb Comedy Co
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William Mason
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Lewiston
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John O. Shaw
A. D. Stetson
William B. Palmer
David R. Wylie
Snipe
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Farmington
Hattie E. P. Keyes
Frances A. Packard
E. T. Mitchell
T. H. Rich
Henry Johnson
Z. O. Bragg
Rockland
William H. Watson
Maine Water Co
Brunswick Main
Androscoggin
Wakefield
David O. Foye
Custom House Square
Twenty-Five Cent Savings Bank
Frank W. Weeks
Oscar C. Rogers
John R. Kelley
David T. Percy
Gordon S. Preble
Freeman C. Curtis
Bath National Bank
Arthur Sewall
T. W. Hyde
W. D. Sewall
S. S. Sewall
John O. Patten
Edwin R. Hunt
Lincoln Lodge
P. G
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N. G
Fred L. McFadden
V. G
George D. McLaughlin
R. S
Edward B. Smith
P. S
A. Humphreys
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Frank Shephard
Cosmo Club
Jane Porteous
Main
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Wilbur C. Oliver
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Putnam
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Mr. Oliver
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F. W. Carlton
State Highway Commission
Grant
J. Crosby Hobbs
Camden
Frank A. Peabody
Houston
Hobbs
Ernest A. Allan
Sagadahoc County
Frank R. Bailey
Bailey
Allan
Oliver
Leon Earle Hagan
Georgetown
William Dunn
Bangor
John Bapst High School
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Cember
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Lester Oliver
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