City News Highlights From Bath Area and Coast
Probate Court sets next Tuesday session. Local market sees blueberries and berries selling for ten cents a box. Lisbon Falls meets Baths at Kelley field. Down river shad sold at ten cents. Taft to cruise Maine coast aboard Mayflower. Roosevelt may speak in Second district before fall campaign. Big prize fight Johnson deflates Jeffries in Reno in 15 rounds. Republican committee to reorganize at New Meadows Inn. Bath iron works crews repair torpedo boats Flusser and Reid. Marie Carool rescued after fall from Boothbay boat. Bath built Yo Ho returns to New York after Bermuda race. School board raises salaries for Magoun and Shorey. new fifth grade teacher Susie Reed. schools open Sept 12. close June 23. No more board meetings until September.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taft
Maine
Haverfield
Bath Iron Works
Harry Washburn
Forepaugh & Sells Brothers
Col
Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas Brewer
Eastern Steamship Company
Boothbay
Nahanada
Johnson-Jeffries
Reno
Nev
Jack Johnson
James J. Jeffries
Republican County Committee
New Meadows Inn
Horace Williams
Chelsea
Mass
Oscar F. Williams
Lewiston
Auburn
Tacoma Lakes
Boston
Bath
Flusser and Reid
Belfast
Marie Carool
Steamboat Wharf
George Gray
Portland
Yo Ho
Bermuda
New York
Magoun
Shorey
Susie Reed
North Grammar School
Goodwin
Margaret Mulligan
Arrowsic
Old Time Circus Days Bring Back Bath Memories
The article recalls early circuses that came by wagon to Bath, Maine, with shows on grounds at North and Lincoln streets and near the Winter Street Church. It notes John Murray’s steamboat visit, Barnum and Forepaugh conjoined shows, elephants at Mill Pond, fierce flyer campaigns, steam calliope cars, and hackmen profiting on circus days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Exige
Bath
Brunswick Road
Winter Street
North
Lincoln Streets
John Murray
Barnum
Bailey & Hutchinson
Great London
Mill Pond
Walter Mains
Maine
Maine Central
High Street
Pine Street
Councilman
Sampson
Ward
Notable Taxpayers and Historic Circus Recollections
The article lists residents and firms paying over 500 dollars in a recent real estate tax revaluation era, led by Sagamore Real Estate Association and Bath Iron Works with large figures. It then recounts faded memories of old time circuses featuring John Murray’s show, Zazel the human cannonball, Mme Doeckerell, Chang, Jumbo, and the first baby elephant born in captivity, ending with a note on Bath Marine Band and the death of Chief Justice Melville Fuller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bailey
Susan J
Bath Iron Works
Bath Savings Institution
Clifford
Chas
Davenport
George P
Deering
Gardiner G
Donnell
William T
Hooker
Charles A
Houghton
John R
Houghton, Amory M
Hyde
John
Annie H
Hyde Windlass Co
Johnson, Bros
Ledyard
William
Heirs
James C
Maine Central R. R. Co
Meeker
Sidney J
Morse
Jennie R
Palmer
Nathaniel T
N. R
Patten
Clara A. K
Charles E
Percy & Small
Percy, D. T. & Sons
Sag. Light & Power Co
Real Est. Assn
Sewall
Harold M. L
William D
Emma D
Shaw
Albert H
Shaw, M. G. Lumber Co
Tarbox
Alamede
Torrey
Zazel
Mme. Doeckerell
Chang
Porepaugh
Bolivar
Barnum Winter Quarters
Bridgeport
Augusta Show Excites Crowds Across Circuits
Forepaugh and Sells Brothers visited Augusta drawing strong crowds for a parade and daytime acts. The exhibition impressed locals with novel performances and refinement. A strawberry festival and dance at Tuessie Hall Monday night headlines community events. The Flusser and Reid crews, noted port visitors, are praised for quality ships and sustaining high standards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forepaugh & Sells Brothers
Augusta
Shaw Field
Tuessie Hall
Columbian Orchestra of
Bath
Probate notices and executorship actions in Sagadahoe Maine
Multiple probate notices from Sagadahoe Maine 1910 appointing administrators and executors. Petitions request appointing John Dauneriggs of Pothie to administer the estate, with court orders to publish notices in the Bath Independent for interested parties to appear. Additional orders require executrix to publish three weeks of notices for allowance and final accounts. Names include James Lowell judge and Cyrus Longley register.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Said
James & Lowell
Cyrus W. Longley
Register
Susadahoe
So Gidahien
Clara AL Hawthorne
Usabl
Boraillal Welker
Late
F Woolwich
Sogadahoe
James 3
Lowell
Sagadahoe
Mary A. Sullivan
Mary KE. Warren
Haverhill
Msasex
Massachusetts
James SS. Lowell
Longley
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France
Lisbon Falls
Kelley Field
Judge Savage
Boston Boys’ Brigade
Woolwich
People’s Church
Tomor
Hea
Bath Marine Band
Melville W. Fuller
The
United States Supreme Court
Bowdoin
Flusser
Reid
Gorge L. Berry
Phippsburg
Ll. W. Berry
Francis M. Hawthorne
Sagadahoc
Oscarc
Rogers
Ellen Harrington
Sagadaciene
J. Obrien
Fletcher
Swett’s
Bug Death
General House
MF Caylor
Harvard St
Upton
Winnegance
Bath Clily Hospital
Corey Hi Hospital
Brookine
Bath City Hospital
Democrat and Concord
Charles H Masey
Dover Business College
Dover
Park & Pollard
Park & Pollard Poultry Almanac
Messrs
Kimball Bros
Whe
EP Kendall
Towdeinham
Alton S Frost
Brunswick
State OF Maine
Sagadalooe
Edward Lundrigan
Margaret M ‘Tobin
Delia
Nellie A. Taindrigan
Edward Lonndrigan
Doin Landrigin Path
Thomas J. Landrigan
John Daaneriggs
Pothie Te
Joun
Sugadahoe
Samile
Thompson Bros
Walter C. Parker CO
Walter O. Parker Co
Center Street
Accident and Health Insurance
ED. E. Bairy
Sazadahock Biock
Sterlingworth
Young’s
Kimball Bros. CO
Park & Pollard Co
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