Bath notes charm and change in 1904 New Meadows city
A January 11 1904 Bath chronicle records A F Williams introducing calendars featuring New Meadows Inn, Obediah Gardiner visiting as State Grange master, and ongoing cargo concerns over the schooner Joseph W Hawthorne. News spans snow cleanup by Supt Bowie, church christening, investigations into lead theft, local social events, and civic appointments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. F. Williams
Center Street
New Meadows Inn
New Meadows Inn Hosts Varied Parties January 12 1904
January 12 1904 New Meadows Inn entertained many parties including 30 young people and a group of young ladies. A six person party celebrated an anniversary while William King council officers held another gathering. Ship owners express interest in Philippine trade with coastwise laws to Archipelago extending July 1. A Columbia theatre crowd of 728 saw 78 attend a later event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Meadows Inn
Charlie Ers
William King Council
Royal Arcanum
Philippine Islands
U. S
Local items mix college news births and a factory fire
Jan 13 1904 a Gloucester grower recalls a biting cold milk froze in a saucer as Arthur H Stetson Bowman bows out for Porto Rico to work with the U S District Attorney. Willie Lane celebrates his birthday with kin, a tenement fire alarms Pleasant Court, and 1904 BHS plans a spring class play while Orphans Home hosts sixty children. Mrs Curtis reports bluejays devouring food in cold weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur H. Stetson
A. D. Stetson
Porto Rico
U. S. District Attorney
New York
Bowdoin College
Gloucester
Boston
Waste of January 14, 1904 News From Washington and Bath
Washington hearing on a merchant marine restoration bill indicated a commission will be appointed. Bath news covers a school lecture, coal prices, Front Street snow slides, an Ernest A. Allan wedding at Longview, the Bath schooner Samuel P. Hitchcock to be auctioned for junk, a local swindle by a gum salesman, and plans for an ice track at Lily Pond for trotting events in New England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
House Committee On Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Samuel S. Sewall
Bath
Samuel P. Hitchcock
Culloden Cove
N. S
Hillsboro
Chester
Digby
Hitchcock
Adams & Hitchcock
Augusta
Rockland
New England
Pleasant Evening at Miss Ruth Thompson’s Pit Party
Last evening Miss Ruth Thompson hosted a pleasant pit party for many friends with nice refreshments. Yesterday afternoon a Phippsburg farmer chased a basket of eggs, sold them, and delivered to a Bath shipbuilder in a brisk exchange noted in local chatter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Thompson
Phippsburg
Bath
Galen Harris
GC. Moses
Portland
Lafayette Hotel
Benjamin Harris
Harris
Dorothea Knight
Ice, sleigh mix-ups and town news from Bath
A farmer misplaced eggs in a retired sea captain s sleigh on Washington street, discovered during payment. Seventeen other local items include a sleigh ride to Idle Park hosted by M J Frye, DAR council notes, chimney fire, Stockholm arrival of Thunbergs, and theater news with Miss Mayo and the Columbia theatre troupe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Street
Idle Park
M. J. Frye
Charles Beals
Gala Night Installations in Sagadahoc Council Knights of Columbus
Jan 17 1904 Sagadahoc Council Knights of Columbus announce a gala night for the installation of officers set for Thursday Jan 28. D D James J Neilen will install assisted by J J Boyle S D of Portland. West Bath Grange hosts a special musical program featuring Perkins Wrights orchestra. Annie F Kimball to study music in Boston. Also notes Bath Iron Works contracts and Alameda boxing card set for Feb 3 with Fred Sidney vs George Phalen among others. Harvey Berry travels from Popham Beach to see a life saver arrive at his Machias home. Enid Mayo booked for a performance in Winchester at an unspecified date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sagadahoe Council
Knights of Columbus
James J. Neilen
J. J. Boyle
S. D. of
Portland
the Alameda
Fred Sidney
Boston
George Phalen
Harvey Berry
Popham Beach
Bath
Popham
Machias
New Electric Lamps Adorn Guest Desk at the Phoenix
The January 18 1904 Portland item notes two movable electric lights with large green shades installed by Ray Welch at the Phoenix guest desk. It also mentions the four masted schooner James B Drake’s launch and initial plunge into the Kennebec, plus a plan to load ties in Brunswick Ga for New York and sea ready the day after launching.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Phoenix
Ray
Welch
James B. Drake
New England Company
Kennebec
Brunswick
New York
Bath to Hold Conference on Incinerator Plan
A Bath meeting with Roland Greely from the Boston Federal Works Agency Lt Albert Stevenson of the U S Public Health Service and Walter White of Maine-Bureau of Health discussed plans to fix bad dump conditions The group debated fill type dumps versus an incinerator noting soil and cost issues and the need for a practical rubbish collection system before federal aid could be considered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roland B. Greely
Boston
Federal Works Agency
Albert H. Stevenson
U.S . New York
United States Public Health Service
Walter White
State Bureau of Health of Maine
City Hall
Bath
Walter C Rogers
Arthur R. Avery
Highways and Sewer Department
Philip Oliver
C. Leroy Hutchins
Lt. Stevenson
Mr. White
Avery
Greely
Uncle Sam
Bathman's Name Appears Today On Casualty List
Washington reports four Maine soldiers among 543 missing in action in the Southwest Pacific. Names include Lewis V. Nason and Harry Nason, with next of kin details and Bath and Auburn addresses. Nason is linked to Bath Iron Works and Morse High School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bathman
Casualty
Washington
Maine
United States
War Department
Lewis V. Nason
Harry Nason
Cottage Park
Bath
Southwest Pacific
Richmond Widow Mary J Sheldon Dies at 93 Front Street Home
Mrs Mary J Sheldon widow of Alonzo Sheldon died Sunday morning at 93 South Front street Richmond after fifty years as a resident. Surviving are daughter Mrs Esther Dickey who lived with her, two grandchildren Miss Marion Dickey and Howard Dickey in the armed forces. Pearl Harbor note mentions Feb 1 as reporting for duty at Norfolk Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary J Sheldon
Alonzo Sheldone
South Front Street
Richmond
John
Ann Walker Trussell
Newcastle
Esther Dickey
Marion Dickey
Howard Dickey
Morse High Notes and Club Banquet Plans
Morse High School seniors are compiling a class book and filling papers on academics and activities. The Latin club banquet committee is announced with Norma Drummond chairing and several members listed. An initiating committee is named with Paul Tourtlotte as chairman and a roster of students. The Youth Recreation Council approves Thursday USC hall dances for high school students, with Robert Dolan as chairman and other members named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morse High School
Norma Drummond
Frances Callan
Hilton Libby
Millicent Hecht
Virginia Bowker
Gene Bennet
Paul Tourtlotte
Margaret Rines
Doreen Higgins
William Elliot
Louis Ginsberg
Muriel Pouliot
Betty Ladd
Roger Pinkham
USC Hall
Vic
Robert Dolan
James Bonney
Marguerite Ames
Phillip Ames
Natalie Burditt
Ger
Pony Gift Delights Miss Frances in Greenville
The owner of a pony presented Miss Frances with a three year old iron grey horse raised by W. M. Shaw Esq. of Greenville. The pony has a white breast and feet and is described as a beauty. Miss Frances was surprised and overjoyed when told the pony was hers by Hon. A. H. Shaw.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. H. Shaw
W. M. Shaw Esq
Greenville
Frances
Probate notices from Bath court in Sagadahoc county 1944
Court of Probate in Bath Sagadahoc County on the second Tuesday of January 1944 ordered notices for estates of Alice M Coffie Annie Mae Shepard Sarah H Coby Marie H Calby Houshton McLellan Victor Coombs Myra Metcalf and others. Orders include appointment of administrators and executors, license to sell real estate, and final accounts with dates and hearings to be heard in Bath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Sagadahoc
Toren
Simninis
Alice M Coffie
Annie Mae Shepard
Marie H Ead
Caiby Brother
Tate Sarah H Cmby
Tate
Marie H Calby
Ulster PD
Coby San
Harry Fixe
Poyitien
Edward Wrete
Houshton McLellan
Sant Ta
Harold S Avery Jr Arrives at Fort Knox Kentucky
Harold S Avery Jr, a University of Maine student, has joined his infantry company at Fort Knox, Kentucky. He asks Bath friends to write to him at 11079175 2nd Co Armored OCS Fort Knox KY, after spending holidays with his parents Mr and Mrs Harold S Avery Sr and Mr and Mrs William Double in Bath and Andrews Road.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold S. Avery, Jr
University of Maine
Fort Knox
Avery
Harold S Avery
Western Avenue
William Double
Andrews Road
Bath
2Nd Co
O.C.S
Council formed under Esther Jakes supervision
Maine Bonney Norma Drum mond and Horace Morse are named in a council formed under the supervision of Miss Esther Jakes who worked for the National Council of Federated Churches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine Bonney
Norma Drummond
Horace Morse
Esther Jakes
National Council of Federated Churches
Ex Governor Baxter and His Irish Setter Garry
Former Maine Governor Percival P. Baxter appears with his 12 year old Irish Setter Garry in Our Dumb Animals January issue. Garry is a direct descendant of the governor’s first breed, and Baxter kept a dog cemetery on Mackworth Island. He donated Baxter State Park Mount Katahdin wildlife sanctuary where hunting is prohibited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Percival P. Baxter
Garry
Maine
State House
Baxter
Mackworth Island
Portland
Baxter State Park
Mount Katahdin
Pomona Grange Meets at West Bath January Session
Pomona grange will convene at West Bath on January 26 with an afternoon and evening session. Supper at six, followed by conferring of the Pomona degree. Supper and dining room duties assigned to three lady officers and their assistants. At meeting end a social hour with refreshments. Mrs. George J. Engemann travels to Miami for submarine chaser training, visiting relatives en route.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomona Grange
West Bath
Arthur C. Lemont
Courtney Stover
Martha Crocker
Leon Felker
Edward Burns
George J. Engemann
Eleanor Cornish
Relph Cornish
Deering Street
Miami
Fla
McKeesport
Engemann
Edward Engemann
Probate court orders estates in Sagadahoc County Maine
A Bath court, on the first Tuesday of January 1944, orders publication of notices for probate matters involving multiple estates. Proceedings set for February, with hearings and potential issuance of letters testamentary or administration without bond to named executors and administratrices including Ballou, Stevens, Gotte, Moulton, Mains, Burns, Tovier, Fullerton, Congdon, Spence, Percy, Fossett, and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John L Jack
Sagadahoc
Harry Foote
We of
Bath
Edward W Briditham
Sagadahoc County
Maine
John J. Rust
New York
Joseph G. Stevens
Georgetown
Flavilla E. Stevens
Georgia M. Gotte
Mary C. Perry
Vivian C. Gotte
Rogers I. Moulton
Parker N. Moulton
Parker N Moulton
John Mains
Phippsburke
William Gilman
Ethel M Burns
Wilbur D Burns
Ernest B. Tovier
Lucien R. Ames
Charlies W. Fullerton
Woolwich
Ruth‘b Dubar
Susannah B. Congdon
Nellie C D'Arcy
Sarah Spence
Phippsburg
Edward W Bridgham
Frederick Imer Chapman
George W Swain
Margery C Hawkell
Anna P. Percy
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Bath Daily Times
Obediah Gardiner
State Grange
Shannon House
Joseph W. Hawthorne
Jacksonville
Pla
Deering- Winslow Co
Edward Delano
Supt. Bowie
Electric Road
Fogg
Columbia Opera House
Colonial Club
Roonmis
Missionary Society of
Winter Street
Christopher O. Carter
Green Street
St. Mary's Church
Mary
John Pratt
M. C. McDonough
Henry Poli
Frank Pratt
Redbank
N. J
William M. Congdon
U.S. N
Navy Yard
Portsmouth
N. H
Bath Iron Works
Congdon
North End
Linden
George H. Clark
Maine Press Association
Charles R. Cressey
Music Hall
Free Kindergarten Association
Howard Stevens
J. H. Wiegand
Harry Deering
Mr. Wiegand
Lincoln Lodge
No. 10
V. P. Emery
L. M. Munsey
Queen Esther Rebekah Lodge
Capt. Gaudreau
Spring Street
Merrill
Night Watch
Charles Small
George W. Stacy
William H. Davenport
Harry Blaisdell
Lottie
May
Capt. Blaisdell
Rena
Carrie Dunton
Alice Waters
Margaret McQuarrie
Marguerite Young
Gien
Columbia Theatre
Oliver Moses
Gus Lander
Jesse Savage, Jr
Times
Independent and Enterprise
Harry C. Webber
Arline Powers
D. T. Percy & Sons
Willie L. Lane
Richardson Street
Alexander Creed
Lower
Washburn
Pleasant Court
Ole Hanson
Orphans Home
Freeman C. Curtis
Bridgton
McLachlin
Public
Gardiner
Front Street
Ernest A. Allan
Longview
Allan
Hasty Pudding Whist Club
William Adams
M. R. Haley
Council of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Amanda L. Metcalf
Miller House
Gas Works
Drummond Wood Yard
Ernest Thunberg
Stockholm
Sweden
North Atlantic
Sans Souci Club
Charles A. Blair
High Street
Jack McGrath
Jack
Fred C. Cox
Charles Carr
George Fenberg
Fenberg
Bangor
Empire ‘Theatre
Lewiston
Charles W. Clifford
Davis Hatch
Pauline
Governor Dingley
Capt. Blair
Helen Thomas
Thomaston
Townsend Gut
Southport
Perkins & Wright
Grange
Annie F. Kimball
Enid Mayo
Winchester
Portland Argus
Maine Democratic Club
Arrowsic
Charles L. Collins
Thompson Bros
Lincoln W. Jewett
South Portland
Westport
David Owen
Jessie Owen
June Rideout
Charles Shaw
William O'Brien
Annie Hyde
Esther Jones
William McLachlin
May O’brien
Virginia Pingree
Edna McLellan
Hazel Wing
Lina Andrews
William R. Ballou
Anna Percy
Dorothy Stewart
Ruth Parker
Margaret Sewall
Madelyn Clifford
Ruth Shaw
Ralph Stetson
Janet Cutler
Frances M. Southard
Pearl Harbor
Cuty
Norfolk, Va
Mary S. Sheldon
Morse
Arthur J Dunton
John L Jack, Rezist
John Jack
Percy
Alice McDonald
Andrew McDonald
Wintney Tate
George E Whitney
Tate E
Stover Tate
Stover
Juder
John L. Jack
Arrowsite
Harold J. Ruthin
Thomas Male
Hannah M Curtat
Nelilie E. Millett
R Deering
John L Jack Reiater
Pomona
John LT Jack, Register
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