Local Jottings on Rains Races and Maritime News
Fireworks dealers report strong business as hay crops may double after heavy weekend rains. Bath residents anticipate Lewiston auto races this Saturday. The E W Society of First Baptist hosted a social at the North Street parsonage. Bath’s Fourth of July unrests earned no complaints. William M. Brown of Bangor began as Public Utilities Maine chief inspector, Bath native and Bowdoin graduate. Monuments company E R Groves expands marble shipments from Vermont. Pleasure trips faced rough seas from Southport to Pemaquid with many seasick. Worcester tourists enjoyed meals at New Meadows Inn under Healy Agency. Thomas Plant of Boston is stocking Ossipee Mountain Park waters for fishing, distributing fingerling trout. The Phippsburg schooner Edward R Smith arrived Boston after 19 days from Turks Island with cargo of salt. Henry O Barrett reached Boston after 24 days from Cuba with 16,300 bags of sugar. A five member party will visit Christmas Cove for Mr Miles summer banquet at New Meadows Inn. The five masted schooner Helen Wartin from Percy & Small was sold to New York buyers. Martin built 1900. Commodore Ledyard led Arab with six Kennebec Yacht Club boats to a Fourth of July outing. Island Yacht Club boats joined Bath club cruises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Larrabee
Lines Island
Bath
Lewiston
E. W. Society of the First Baptist Church
North St
Pattee
E. R. Groves
Vermont Marble Company
Groves
Edwin Barker
Southport
Pemaquid
Worcester
New Meadows Inn
Maine
Healy Ticket Agency
Thomas G. Plant
Boston
Ossippee Mountain Park
Phippsburg
Edward R. Smith
H. P. Lewis
Boston Harbor
Cockburn Harbor
Turks Island
Prison Point
Charlestown
Lewis
Henry O. Barrett
T. W. Wyman
Cienfuegos
Cuba
Barrett
South Boston
Helen Wartin
Percy & Small
New York
Artin
Portland
Martin
Commodore Ledyard
Kennebecacht Club
Fevteen Yachtsmen
Itland Yacht Club
Bath Club
Commore Ledyard
Titcomb
Dennison
Gers
Wishart
New Meadows
Ing
Diana
Glasgow
Drake
New York City
Bath Iron Works
S. R. Percy
Butler
Helen Wheaton
Alma Lemoine
Bessie Hopkins
Rachel Potter
Bessie McKay
Helen Childs
Evelyn Shaughnessy
Bath Telephone Exchange
Exchange
Seguin
Ariel
Manatawny
Togus
Mary E. Olys
Augusta
Henderson Field
Clarence W. Maddell
Lucy E
Lynn
Mass
Moddell
South Street
Clarence
George DeWolf
South St
Joseph S. Smith
Bangor
National Soldiers
Fortress Monroe
Gev. Smith
Woolwich
Bath Lodge of Elks
Rebekahs
Frank Beals
Center St
McCormick
Westport
M.C.R.R
Dupont
E. W. Hyde
Staples
Bath National Bank
Alyena Oliver
Hill
Atherton
Society Hall
Popham
Stevens
Miss Avery
Beacon St. Parsonage
G. G. Stanley
Putnam
Beacon St
Stanley
Thomas McNeil
Dummer St. Court
Women’s Home Missionary Society
Beacon Street Church
Fitzgerald
Front St
Gilbert M. Elliott
Ordnance Department
N.G.S.M
John J. Dooley
Ordnance
Dooly
Post Office Department
Frank D. Johnson
United Sites Railway
New England
Omaha
Neb
Johnon
New
Wiscasset
Jay
Henderson
Bath High School
Pawling, N. J
Old Fort
Moonlit events and local notes from Bath area
Weather glimpses and town items report hay deliveries. hospital admissions. injuries from a penny mine explosion. Native American field day plans. Hyde Windlass game. ships in Bath harbor. a dog's death. summer telephones. cargo moves. a controversial Fourth of July travel talk. nurses fundraising for a new Nurses Home with a lawn party. local officials changing janitors. and Gen. Joseph S. Smith’s amnesty at Fortress Monroe reflecting on veterans’ honor.
Distant Bath News Roundup From Tuesday Evening
Tuesday actions include the committee on accounts meeting, local dances on Rockland Way, and a druggist manufacturing 39 gallons of ice cream. A Boston traveler bought a Metz runabout in Portland for summer trips near Bath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercury
Committee On
Rockland
T. H. G. Marston
Boston
Metz
Portland
Wilbur G. Cahill
West Bath
H. T. Wing
Corliss Street
John Thurlow
Highland St
Davenport
City Hospital
George P. Davenport
Bath
Lisbon
Kelley Field
Kenniston and Stover
Local Notes From Bath Area Highlight Social Life and Ship Activity
Bath area news covers Elks and Rebekahs meetings, a dance at Society Hall, and a Beacon Street Church reception. Maritime movements include Tug Ariel, schooner Horace Stone with pine for the M C R R, and the Rena patrols on the Maine coast. Mentions of marriages, greenery delays, Front Street exhibits, and civic appointments round out the community snapshot.
Church Wrecked by Lightning Strike in East Brunswick
An East Brunswick church near Giveen shipyard was struck by lightning during a Saturday storm. The bolt ripped the spire, damaged the roof, shattered all windows, overturned church seats, and created a hole in the floor leading to the earth. The old building had recently undergone $200 in repairs, leaving members distressed by the catastrophe. The impact scattered shingles across the road in front of the church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vermont
Black Point
N. 3
U. S
East Brunswick
Leonard
Indian Rest. A Touring Party From Bath On the Harpswell Road
Giveen
Bath City Finances and Bond Plan for Weeks Street School
The Bath city council discusses a $20,000 bond issue to finance a six room Weeks St school and other school buildings. A $2,000 portion covers a deficit and unpaid bills from the prior year while an additional $3,000 funds the Weeks St project. The plan involves $18,000 for school construction and $2,000 for sanitary upgrades, with bonds authenticated by the First National Bank of Boston. An executive session is debated as reporters press for openness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Finance Committee
St. Schoolhouse
Board of Aldermen
Common Council
City of
Bath
Dummer St
First National Bank of Boston
Cahill
Weeks St
Barker and
Dain
Kane
Butler, Leyden and Leeman
Morse High School
Charles A. Brown
Artillery Exams Reveal Fourteen Officers Qualified
The War department announced May 1 that fourteen officers passed examinations. Names, ranks, companies, and qualified subjects include Capt Oranter BE Haney of Portland basic. Lt Samuel Wakefield of Bath basic emplacement and range and communication. Lt Frank S Roberts of Brunswick basic. Lt G C Kern of Portland basic. Lt Myrick R Gatchell range and communication. Lt James R Waltman of Westbrook emplacement and range communication. Lt Horace P Bond of Portland emplacement. Lt Charles A Young emplacement. Lt Julian F Ellis of Auburn staff battery commander. Lt Fred T Field searchlight officer fire and fort commander. Lt Fred T Goodridge of Westbrook searchlight officer fire and fort commander. Capt William C Bryant of Lewiston search light officer fire and fort commander. Capt Earle A Reed of Lewiston searchlight officer fire and fort commander. and Electric Sgt Roy A Strout first class electrician sergeant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Department
Myrick R. Gatchell
James R. Waltman
Westbrook
Horace P. Bond
Portland
Charles A. Young
Julian F. Ellis
Auburn
Fred T. Field
Fred T. Goodridge
William C. Bryant
9Th Co
Lewiston
Earle A. Reed
8Th Co
Elec
Roy A. Strout
Hall's Catarrh Cure Claims Universal Cure
Readers are told Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh in all stages. It is described as a constitutional remedy taken internally to affect blood and mucous surfaces. The ad promises a $100 reward if it fails to cure and urges sending for testimonials from F. J. Cheney & Co addresses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Also Mentioned on This Page
William M. Brown
Public Utilities Commission of Maine
Bowdoin, Civil Engineering Department
Arive
Christmas Cove
A. Miles
Ummer
William Work
Eleanor Whittam
M. D. Whittam
Floral Street
Peaslee
Sasanoa Tribe of
Red Men
Orr's Island
Lisbon Falls
Brunswick
Hyde Windlass
Boothbay Harbor
City Landing
BE. E. Morse
Kennebec Yacht Club
Owen J. Ledguard
American Express
Supt. McNamara
Express Company
Bayville
J. McDonald
National Park
Washington, D. C
Looff
New Crescent Park
Riverside
R. I
Belle Isle
Detroit
Sebasco
Black Creek
Perry
Bath City
Aldermen and Common Council
Brown
Ann Alderman
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