Fire strikes Bath store and Old Ladies Home losses
Forty years ago in Bath a disastrous fire damaged Fred C. Scribner's Fashion clothing store with a $15,000 loss though only $6,500 insured. Other items note Capt. Freemont Kimball’s homecoming, cold weather, river ice, dance halls crowded, Storm King fishing schooner loading fish, Old Ladies Home fire leaving ten inmates homeless, and local social notes including installations and club news.
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Bath
Fred C. Scribner
Joseph E. Williams
Banquet and social in Frye's. Bath notes 1903
A party of 20 young men left Avery's stable after seven for Frye's for a banquet and social time arranged by Harry Cornish. They traveled in 50 minutes behind two horses. Landlord Frye welcomed them with speeches and songs by Harry Frye and others. Several incidents and events follow including a coasting accident injuring Miss Bellie Freeman and a 45-person calico carnival at New Meadows Inn with whist prizes.
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Avery
Frye
Harry Cornish
Landlord Frye
Harry Frye
Mr. Frye
Harry C. Cornish
George G. Fitzgerald
E. A. Gaudreau
H. L. Norton
Lewis Dunfinger
Arthur Matheson
J. Jackson
Saddy Forsyth
Ed L. Gaudreau
Berten F. Pierce
H. E. Cook
John Foley
Billy Donnell
Allie Manion
Walter MacDonald
James L. Marshall
Bellie Freeman
Winter Street
Guessing Party at Miss Sadie Toothaker’s Oak Street Home
Miss Sadie Toothaker entertained the Times office ladies with a guessing party at her Oak street home. Miss Carrie Nichols won first prize a pretty book, and Mrs. Annie Hodgdon won a child’s horn booby. Refreshments were served and the evening was pleasant. William T. Donnell Frank A. Small and James W. Hawley traveled to Boston on the 4 p.m. train to attend a hearing on coal and transportation questions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sadie Toothaker
Times Office
Oak Street
Carrie Nichols
Annie Hodgdon
William T. Donnell
Frank A. Small
James W. Hawley
Boston
Local notables and incidents around town now
George H Gould is said to own the fastest bay mare nearby but avoids ice starts. A K Edgecomb narrowly escaped drowning while cutting ice for his shad business. The Em ma C lighter discharged 1200 bushels of sand from Sagadahoc Beach for Read Nichols Co and heads to Phippsburg to fetch hardwood. A youth slipped into the Kennebec at Summer Street but saved himself. Mrs N Gratz Jackson and several children are visiting Boothbay with J O Farnham. George E Thompson and others enjoyed Bowdoinham grange fair night. The Hockomock ferry lost its rudder rope and drifted until repairs after a 4.15 Woolwich trip.
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Emma C
Read Nichols Co
Sagadahoc Beach
Phippsburg
Bath Iron Works builds 24 foot naptha launch model
Ernest Fogg and George Glidden of Bath Iron Works are crafting a 24 foot naptha launch from the original design. The craft is progressing well and expected to show speed. This morning two young men hired a Front Street livery team for a sleigh ride near the Columbia hotel when a car behind forced them to veer, causing damage to the sleigh. J Albert Redlon bought a fine chestnut mare from Captain J B Perry at the Basin, while Edward Gaudreau and L F Holmes will play music for a Hyde Light Guards armory dance tonight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Fogg
George Glidden
Bath Iron Works
Columbia Hotel
Edward Gaudreau
L. F. Holmes
Hyde Light Guards
Hyde Park Terrace Remembers Stork Showers And Births
Neighborhood notes recount multiple stork showers for Mrs. Eldridge Wood of 74 Drayton road and for Mrs. Earle Brown of Portland. Eleanor and Olive Farley celebrate eleventh birthdays with friends on Lark street, and a surprise baby shower honors Mrs. Levesque of Drayton road.
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Eldridge Wood
Drayton Road
Albert Veilleux
Veilleux
Woods
Ann Duker
Doris Billington
Grace Jones
Bernard Knight
Marcella Jenks
Madeline Marchant
Elizabeth Clark
Madge Perry
Doris Carles
Clinton Child
Bluff Road
Earle Brown
Portland
Ruth Robinson
Edward Brown, Jr
Park Grind
Olive Farley
Janice Pecci
Martha Holmes
Jean Pecci
May Hamlin
Marion Holmes
Rico Gorilla
Shirley Hamlin
Richard Lee
Beverly Fish
Maxine Fish
Teresa Tardiff
Cynthia Dauphin
Gloria Brown
Gladys Armstrong
Eleanora Brooks
Madge Myers
Leonard Fish
Raymond Farley
Brooks
Viola Brooks
Olive
Eleanor
Levesque
George Kelsey
Reed Bartlett
Helen Ames
Louis MacDonald
Joe Fitzgerald
Winslow Mercier
Muriel Fitzgerald
Linscott
Pat Fitzgerald
Weddings in wartime surge across 1942 nation
New York and other major cities show a record rise in marriages in 1942, boosted by service members in uniform and defense industry workers. Metropolitan Life stats indicate about 1.8 million weddings nationwide, an 80 percent rise over 1932, with large gains in Far Western and Southern cities. San Diego leads with 176 percent more licenses than 1941, followed by Tacoma, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. The report notes prosperity from defense industries and military training stations as key factors, while New York City and New England show mixed results. In related notes, remarks by Herbert A. Given address meat shortages and wartime mobilization. Augusta Russian Relief drive reports $1,964.85 raised.
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New York
N. Y.Y
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co
Defense Industries
Pacific Coast
San Diego
Tacoma
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Florida
Tampa
Jacksonville
Miami
San Antonio
Washington, D. C
Baltimore
Chicago
Middle Atlantic
Albany
New York State
Buffalo
Rochester
Syracuse
Utica
Yonkers
New York City
New England
Hartford
Bridgport
Boston
Maine in Washington on fuel and war time strain
Maine faces a winter of scarce coal and rising fuel costs as transportation bottlenecks slow anthracite shipments. The piece notes John L Lewis's wage demands and possible battles with the War Labor Board, warns of oil and coal shortages next winter, and cites federal efforts to boost fuel oil tank car availability while Maine officials press Washington for shipments. It also covers a formal tribute to Thomas B. Reed and a Washington reunion of cousins Captain Charles F. Brewster and Lieutenant Robert Foss amid wartime duties.
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Maine
Pennsylvania
John Lewis
War Labor Board
Washington
New England
House of Representatives
Thomas B. Reed
House
Gutzan Borglum
Margaret C. Smith
Robert Hale
Portland
Reed
Hale
Congress
Reeds
Tom Reed
Lise
Ralph O. Brewster
Charles F. Brewster
Southwest Pacific
Brewster
Robert Foss
North Atlantic
Iceland
Murmansk
Scapa Flow
Casablanca
Maine State Police Weekly Report and Public Safety Messages
The Maine State Police logged 20 accidents from January 11 to 18, including 9 personal injury and 11 property damage cases. Most incidents occurred in daylight, rural areas, with hazardous road surfaces and following too closely as top causes. Chief Henry P. Weaver urges careful driving, lower speeds, especially at night, with a wartime work reminder to drive responsibly. Ada Alpert, daughter of Israel Alpert of Bangor, graduates from the University of Maine and plans to work for the State Department of Public Welfare in Auburn.
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Ada Alpert
Israel Alpert
Bangor
University of Maine
Miss Alpert
State of Maine Department of Public Welfare
Auburn
Probate Notices for Bath District Hearing on January
Notice of probate proceedings listing estates including Bath residents and executors. Dates set for hearings on the second February Monday at ten o'clock, with petitions for letters testamentary and final accounts by executors Andrew Pratt Cyrus Reynolds and others.
Real estate changes in Sagadahoc County list transfers
A Sagadahoc Register of Deeds notice details real estate transfers in multiple towns. Names include G. Stafford, A. Alkazin, B. Barter, E Spinney, C Walsh, J Miller, W Allen Jr, H Thompson, E McCabe, A Veilleux, H Carver, and others transferring land and buildings on streets such as High, Western, Cummings, Washington, Libby court, Middle, and more. The item also notes a weekend visit by Mr and Mrs Harlan Booker and Philip of Pittston to relatives on Highland street.
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Sagadahoc
Consulo Alkazin
Harmon O. Barter
Dike Road
Bernice C. Barter
Emma Spinney
Charles Street
Arthur G. Spear
Clifford D. Walsh
High Street
Samuel McElroy
James A. Miller
Western Avenue
Raymond M. Haley
William H. Allen Jr
Cummings Street
Arthur Sewall
Bertha B
Libby Court
Felix A. Gallant
Henry N. Gallant
Washington Street
Walter J. Norton
Harry L. Thompson
Middle Street
Elna A. McCabe
Harry O. Carlisle
Bowdoin
Harlan Booker
Philip of
Pittston
Highland Street
Estates in Bath and nearby named in probate order
Probate court of Bath addresses multiple estates and petitions. Herbert Maxwell Mildred Stackpole Angie Stinson Pine district entries list administrators executors and requested actions including wills real estate conveyances and bonds. Notices call for appearance February first at ten in the forenoon to contest or support petitions in Segadaho County Maine and surrounding areas.
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Batheats
Poetsom
Bath
Beth
Herbert D. Maxwell
Mildred A. Stackpole
Charles 3. Stackpole
Charlie. Stackpole
Angie G. Stinson
Arrowsie
David C Stimson
David C. Stinson
Plaver
S. Pierce
Pedro Miguel
Canal Zone
Segadaho
Maine
Lavina C. Pierce
Lavina C Pierce
Canal
Irving Barter
Harold J Rubin
John E Olive
Georgetown
Probate Order Recites Appointments in Sagendani Court
The Register of Probate for Sagendani County certifies an estate matters order listing Miriam W Kimbal Bath and Ethel Burn deceased Bath, with Wilbur D Burns named administrator and attorney general dates January 5 1933 and January 3 1943, signed by ARTHUR DUNTON Judge of Probate. A true copy of the original order Attest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur J Dunton
John
Jack
Sagendani
Ted
Miriam W Kimbil
Bath
Anne K
Meinied
Ethel Burn
Ate
Wilbur D Burns
Arthur
Dunton
Ponate
Savadshor
Delta Blais
John P. Carey Sprovnti
Presentoe Ae
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Freemont Kimball
Fred A. Davenport
Ennebec
Sedgwick Relief Corps
Bosworth Circle
Curtis
Powers
Jewell
Marsh
Work
Hagzgett
A. C. Morse
O. E. L. Club
John Parris
Jack McGrath
M. A. Haggett
Colonial Club
Scribner
Old Ladies
W. J. O’brien
J. Begin
Roy Black
Walter Bowker
Frank S. Bowker
Annie Purington
Florence Pepper
Miss Pepper
New Meadows Inn
William H. Nauman
Edward H. MeeLaughlin
John S. Hyde
Fred H. Kimball
H. W. Owen, Jr
Rupert Baxter
Donald Stuart
Blanche Sewall
Florence Donnell
Stuart
Esther Jodge
Daughters of
Rebekah
Noble Grand
Ethel Albee
R. S
Carrie Andrews
L. S
V. G
Beth Munsey
Clara Cook
Arabine Oliver
Lula Emery
Harriet Richardson
Isabelle Irving
Sarah Dunning
J. G
Lizzie Ward
O. G
Frank Shepard
Kennebec Yacht Club
J. E. Drake
F. B. Torrey, Jr
H. H. McCarty
Old Ladies’ Home
Jane Farnham
Dr. Roberts
Gilman
A. H. Shaw
Miss Weeks
Capt. Gibbon
Tarbox
J. H. Raymond
Hoxie
Bruce
Haggett
F. E. Southard
Crafts
W. H. Nauman
Miss Rouse
D. T. Percy
Miss Lee
Mr. Morse
Walker Hill
Cummings
the Times
Kennebec
Shannon House
Olm
F. H. Whalen
Monitor
Nevada
Ella McKenzie
Salt Lake City
Utah
Mrs
William Oliver
South End
George Roderick
Mill Pond
South Gardiner
Columbia Theatre
Devil's Island
Aubrey Stock Co
Weins
Tennessee
Millard Dunton
Providence
C. E. Ripley
William Wolfe
Culhane
Chase & Weston's Minstrels
L. W. Oliver
New Meadows
Harpswell
Charles B. Harrington
Mr. Harrington
Barnes
Beacon Street Church
Elnora Dain
Mamie Bonney
Alice Savage
Arline Powers
Bessie Dean
Selig and Holbrook
John Fitzgerald
George Breming
Revere
Charles A. Corliss
Bath Loan & Building Association
Maine State League of Loan and Building Associations
Mr. End
Beacon Street
Edward Gove
Summer Street
Weld
A. F. Williams
Center Street
Dennison
California
William Sewall
West Coast
Gove
Philadelphia
Charles O. Sylvester
John H. Bryant
Bedford Street
H. E. Williams
Ralph Dunton
Merrymeeting Grange
Bowdoinham
Elliot Block
Down East
Samuel Anderson
Front Street
Dr. Anderson the Younger
Good Doctor
Anderson Drug Store
T. H. G. Marston
Jameson House
Elisha Clarke
Herbert Grinnell
Bath High School
Westbrook High School
W. H. Fields
William Burdick
George H. Gould
A. K. Edgecomb
North End
George E. Thompson
John Desmond
Levi Thompson
Carl Troop
Woolwich
J. Albert Redlon
J. B. Perry
Hyde Park Terrace
Snooky Rogers
Harry Lait
Augusta
Edmund Ford
Central Avenue
Huse
Ford
Fred Sturtevant
John Hayes
Albert. Veilleux
Clayton Edward
Wittery
James Kaler
U.S. Navy
W. A. McFarland
Bluf Road
H. Lawrence Carlisle
Frederick Dyer
Lee
Norman Cannon
Blut Road
Kenneth R. Ties
Aurora
Ill
Watson H. Clark
Lois Ann Blagdon
Clark
Stephen Coates
Richmond
Orrin Crosby
W. A. Gower
Harry Jones
Gower
Stillman Dyer
Marilyn
Brewer
Newport R. I
Herbert A. Given
Lewiston
Given
The
Armour Co
Rotary Club
John L. Lewis
Lewis
United States
Truman Committee
State Police
Henry P. Weaver
Lockery
Chris
Witheu
Bond
Sd Christine C Cummings
May Douglas
Milton
John B.cke
Jonn Bickle J M Potter
Tate
Thi
Sarah John C Tourtilotte
Anc
Alfred R Pratt
Annie A Prat
Tate Cyrus M Reynolds
Jed F Hallowell
Zarah A Reynold
John L. Jack
Rezicter
Sagadahoc County
Alcide J. Begin
Arthur Veilleux
Bowdeinham Ethel M. Temple
Harold W. Carver
William N. Gray
Clifford W. Gray
Gladys E. Purinton
Donald C. Savage
Lewis M. Mooers
Norman P. Mooers
Hazel Rowe McCosh
Herbert R. Haas
West Bath
Maud E. Bryant
Walter Peyne
Florence Doughty F. Parker
Alden L. Parker
Halbert
John L Jack
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