Bath Chronicle recalls 1899 Fourth of July and local events
Forty years ago Bat historians recapture a day of mishaps and small town doings. Mrs Hattie Rollins fell from a Brunswick car on Front Street, winding up shaken and fearing internal injuries while others mark flag raisings, yacht voyages, and repairs around Winnegance Center. A serious accident to Howard Hunt dampened festivities as cannon powder misfired. The era’s bustle includes boat arrivals, property remodels, engagements, and civic chatter as Bath residents observe summer events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hattie Rollins
Weeks Street
Front Street
Winneganee
Brunswick
Winnegance
Howard Hunt
Hunt
Surprises and fires mark Bath notices in July 1899
July 6 1899 a party for C H Cahill manager of New Meadows Inn featured a loving cup and cakes with local notables and a band. A lightning strike at Oscar W Ring’s Front Street factory damaged a motor while Archie McNeil a worker prevented a blaze. Across town ships, warehousing and market activity continued with new hull work, ship launches and urgent police notes as residents spoke of deer sightings and suspicious post office burglary reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. H. Cahill
New Meadows Inn
Oscar W. Ring
Front Street
Archie McNeil
Salads as the Main Course From a Vintage Kitchen
A recipe list features fresh fruit salad in cantaloupes with fruit dressing, asparagus with bacon, and peanut butter muffins. It moves through clam bisque, mixed vegetable salad, sour cream dressing, Indian pudding, and a ham and egg salad with orange segments, ending with stuffed tomatoes and peas.
Graham Nut Date Muffins and Rhubarb Ice Cock Recipe
A breakfast muffin and dessert snippet shows Graham Nut Date Muffins using 1 2 cup flour 3 teaspoons baking powder 3 4 teaspoon salt 1 4 brown sugar 1 4 cup whole wheat flour 1 3 cup walnuts 8 dates 1 egg 3 4 cup milk 2 12 tablespoons melted shortening baked at 400 for 18 20 minutes. Rhubarb Ice Cock blends rhubarb with water gelatin orange juice lemon juice sugar then cools and freezes.
Bath's Red Cross Annual Banquet Disaster Relief Program
The Bath Red Cross banquet continued with a program themed Disaster Relief. Notables present included Mrs. Palmer and Mrs. Crocker with remarks by John Parker. Films narrated by Lowell Thomas depicted Red Cross rescue efforts and nurse training, plus an amateur radio talk by J Edward Pomeroy on the Pine Tree Network aiding disaster response.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. E. May
W. EF. Palmer
Hermon Crocker
Allan Spear
Cecil E. Paine
Arthur Sewall
Carl C. Anderson
Edward V. Red
Josph O. Purdue
Harry L. Day
W. S. Voorhess
Levi S. Mullin
William H. Small
Clarence W
Carl] Severin
Dominique J. Tardif
George J. Goodwin
Edwin M. Fuller, Jr
John H. Hunt
John Parker
Lowell Thomas
George E. Coleman
Brunswick
America Red Cross
National Red Cross
Washington, D. C
Red Cross
Parker
J. Edward Pomeroy
Morse High School
Pomeroy
Bath
Seth S. Mullin
Donald N. Small
Craven Torpedo Boat Moved for Launch Near Dahlgren
The torpedo boat T. A. M. Craven has been moved to the ways formerly used by her sister Dahlgren and will be ready for launching once the engine completed in the Iron Works machine shop is installed. W. G. Webber and Joseph Torrey arrived this morning from Popham where their families are staying.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dahlgren
Portland
William Rogers
Boston
Minott
Phippsburg
Chesapeake
Bath Iron Works
Charlestown Navy Yard
Enoch Reed
Morse and Co
Seguin
Hathorn
Charlestown
Annapolis Naval Academy
T. A. M. Craven
Iron Works
W. G. Webber
Joseph Torrey
Popham
Wiscasset Update of Local People and Visits
Wiscasset chatter lists visitors and residents at Elm Lodge High Street and surrounding households. The notes mention Dr Sarah E. Groves in Philadelphia, Mr and Mrs J E White visiting Brandon, Lilly and Georgian at the White home, Roscoe Hazelwood of New York City at Elm Lodge, Jerry Clements and mother renting in Summer Street, and Donna and Silas Doe visiting from Cheshire. Also noted is New Haven high school grad Miss Dee earning honor diplomas and other local family movements including Puiin, Maass of Woolwich, and Stewart relatives visiting. Edward T Foster and others spent time in Boothbay Harbor and Wolaston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Groves
Sarah E. Groves
Philadelphia
J. E. White
Turner White
White
Brandon
Georgianna Lilly
Roscoe Hazelwood
New York City
Elm Lodge
High Street
Jerry Clements
Wikband
Summer Street
Clments
Philip Cohen
Donna
Silas Doe
Charles T. Dee
Cheshire
Silas
Hamiston Grammar School
New Haven High School
James Puiin
Boston
James Jr
Robert
Walter
Patricia Ann Ma
Wollaston
Mass
Charlotte Quinnam
Doris Quinnam
Cosmopolitan Garden Club Hosts Basket Luncheon Prizes Awarded
Mrs J R Andrews won first for most attractive basket and Mrs George A Churchill was runner up at Monday’s Cosmopolitan Garden Club luncheon. Miss Jennie Perkins reported clubhouse grounds work and the group planned a speaker from out of town for July 24.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. R. Andrews
George A. Churchill
Cosmopolitan Garden Club
John A. Morse
Jane S. Murphy
Roscoe P. McFadden
Escape From Oxford County Jail Sparks Clyde Search
Alphie Lizzotte, 29, of Rumford escaped Oxford County Jail using a wooden stick and a cordwood lasso to pry two bars from a window. He dropped to the yard then scaled a 14 foot fence with barbed wire, leaving footprints in a rear garden as deputies and State Police hunted him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alphie Lizzotte
Rumford
Oxford County
Lizzotte
Lizzette
Probate Notices From Bath Sagadahoc 1939 Estates Heard
Court of Probate in Bath Sagadahoc grants actions on estates including Jack, Totman, Low, Stewart, Scott, Youland, Head, Snowman, Warren. Hearings set for August first 1939 with Letters Testamentary to beneficiaries and trustees named in wills. Notices publish for three weeks in Bath Independent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Sagadahoc
Lord Cone
William A. Jack
Edward W. Bridgham
Frank F. Jack
Flora B. Totman
Benjamin L. Donnell
Portland
Charles C. Low
Annie R. Low
Ida May Stewart
Woolwich
Thomas Long
Bertha K. Scott
Augusta E. Rowe
Dorothy May Youland
Dorothy May Reed
Frank S. Head
Allan Spear
Maine
Clara E. Head
Vionettie Snowman
Georgetown
Mary E. Moore
Ellen R. Warren
Irving L. Jameson
Boston
Mass
Bertha March
Ralph E. Carliste
Probate Executors and Administrators Named in Sagadahoc Estates
I John L. Jack Register of Probate certify several Sagadahoc estates with dates of appointments on July 5 1939. Appointees include Hattie R Evrard Mary D Yule Edward W Bridgham Mary G Gahan Lillian G Hosmer Lawrence S Ryan Mary S Curtis Edward E Bair y William S Berry John P Carey Mary Briry Louise T Burgess Isabella R Bawyer Frances J Cavanaugh Harold F Cook Judge of Probate true copy of original order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John L. Jack
Sagadahoc
Ernest M. Evrard
West Bridgewater
Massachusetts
Hattie R. Evrard
Masa
Mary D. Yule
Bath
Maine
Widnam A. Jack
Edward W. Bridgham
Charles E. Gahan
Mary G Gahan
William W. Hosmer
Lillian G. Hosmer
Elizabeth M. Ryan
Woolwich
Lawrence S. Ryan
Said Woolwich
Marietta Trufant
Mary
Curtis
Edward E. Bairy
Whillam S. Brrry
Melrose
John P. Carey
Milton 8. Briry
William 5S. Brrry
Mass
Iaid Bath
Isabella R. Bawyer
Said
Frances J. Cavanaugh
Herbert
Cavanaugh
Brunswick Malne
Harold F. Cook
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West Bath
Cox's Head
Damariscotta
R. D. Moulton
Auburn
W. W. Jackson
Blaisdell
Middle
Louise
Alfred Tarbox
James M
Tibbetts
Old Orchard
John Klippel
Middle Street
Susie Lermond
Walter Oliver
Gen
T. W. Hyde
R. D. Bibber
Boothbay
Boothbay House
Alexander Kolash
Fitzgerald Bros
Ring Building
Walter Higgins
N. T. Palmer
New York
Ea En All
Oak Island
North Street Baptist Sunday School
Rev
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Rob Harnden
Worrell Carter
Fred Haggett
Arthur Norton
Ned Flint
Bennie Haggett
Horace Norton
Frank Dunning
Charlie Perkins
Eubra Troop
Earl Lightbody
Frank Palmer
Palmer
Bangor
Maine Central
John Desmond
Eugene
Port
Fremont Rowe
MacMahan Island
Aee
W. D. Sewall
Charles E. Hyde
Island Belle
Southport
Percy & Small
H. T. Passmore & Co
O. E. Page
Alderman Oliver
J. O. Lincoln
Henrietta and
Grace Plummer
Mollie Gibbons
Fred Drake
Small Point
John Gilmore
Old South Church
King Dunton
Oliver S. Barrett
Drummond’s
Ed Cornish
John Francis
Sewall
Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary
L. B. Swett
Maine Pharmaceutical Association
Johnson
Eye and Ear Infirmary
M. A. Haggett
L. B. and
B. Road
William and
Levi Wade
Bar Harbor
Center
Carrie Moulton
Bessie Gibson
Hennessy
Popham Beach
Ignus
Kennebec
Rockland
Washington
Wates Streets
Anderson
Cox’s Head
Wiscasset
Union
Ath
L. W. Jewett
Jewett
Gowell
Clarence R. Carleton
Charles P. Notman
J. Walter Higgins
State Board of Dental Examiners
Warner R. Lewis
Center Street
Chandler Wormwell
Waterville
Mr. Lewis
E. S. Walker
Horatio McCarty
W. E. Whitman
Low Parks
East Boothbay
Hamm
Lincoln
Jack
John Burgess
Capt. Morse
William E. Downes
Long Island
Lewiston
A. A. Percy
Kennebec Yacht Club
Katherine Conley
Augusta
Frank Hanscom
Fred D. Andrews
Merrymeeting Park
Smith
Fogg
Robert Pennell
Charlotte Rogers
Ernest B. Heald
Sadie Khppel
Calvin Cromwell
al Ridley
al Edgecomb
Fred Johnson
Old Town
Thomas Ackeroyd
Marjorie
Elton
Ackeroyd Sr
Seguinland
Mary Cliff
Russell Watson
Newton Center
Frank Creedon
Joseph and
Albert
West Roxbury
Leon Davis
Arlington
Joseph Hasenfus
L. W. Fuller
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Laura
Pauline
Cambridge
Briggs
Charles Boucher
Sedgemere Road
George ‘McKinnon
Sandy
Hope Littlefield
Franklin Koehlwetter
Christine McElman
Oaker Thibodeau
Mark Hanna
Ralph Davis
Seguin Lodge
E. Willis Beane
Waltham
Sally Norrish
Watertown
Mildred Branley
Winchester
Stanley Chad
Lloyd Morrell
Weymouth
Evelyn Orleans
Burton W. ‘Morrison Jr
Stuart Downer
Weston
Billy Beane
Merton Gordon
Paul
Webster Wiggin
Christine Carey
Madge O’brien
Madge O’brien. Miss Carey
la Paz
Bolivia
South America
James Connellan
Les
James
Mary Coughlin
Klumm
Stratton
Arthur Baird
Eileen
Hallowell
Ernest Fulton
Dorothea
Norman Howard
A. Maude Noe
Rockcrest Cottage
Joseph Folsom
Folsom
Leon Folsom
Lester Woodward
Norman
C. S. Carlstrom
Somerville
Albert Rasmussen
Olaf Hanson
Everett
George W. Horne
Norway
Lake Pennesseewassee
Delaware
Horne
Florida
Den
Charles E. Doten
Robert Doten
Roy Shackford
Turner Court
Birch Point
Edward T. Foster
Boothbay Harbor
Cosmo Garden Club
Harold E. Cook
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