Forty Years Ago in Bath July 6 1909 Fireworks Blaze
Forty years ago Bath endured a severe fire scare as firecrackers ignited oiled pine in Phippsburg Center and a hot air balloon fire threatened shipyard and stable areas. Police and volunteers prevented spread while local crafts and crews repaired damages. Notable notes include visits, ship launches, circus news, and local hires.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phippsburg Center
Percy & Small
Elwell Pinkham
Joseph Avery
Center Street
Fire in Nichols residence stable on Washington Street
Box 23 sounded at 2 45 pm for a stable fire behind the Nichols residence on Washington Street near Bullmann store. Shavings bedding fed the flames. Prof Jan Jacobs of New York demonstrates the Imperial health brace at D T Percy Sons demo, promising physical culture without exercise. He stays in Bath until Saturday night and shows a 11 inch priest expansion and leather strap breaking. William D Sewall returned from Massachusetts auto trip noting prosperity signs and mill expansions. Captain Heath of the tug Britannia aided summer street fire and Phippsburg response with gear from George r dooker towboat office. The Britannia pump provided crucial support. Frank Pepper went to...
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nichols
Washington Street
Bullmann
Jan Jacobs
New York
D. T. Percy & Sons
Imperial Health Brace
Jacobs
Bath
Priest
Heath
Britannia
Summer Street
Phippsburg
George R
Dooker
Scott
Drowning Victim Found Near Bath Iron Works and Local Events
The body of Nathaniel Place Jr. was recovered near the Bath Iron Works dock after drowning at City Landing. James Sarbell found the body and Coroner Curtis took charge. John Place identified the deceased. The day also featured a successful clam dinner by Small Point Baptist church with races won by William Millard and William Brackett among others, a horse accident injuring William Field Sr. and Jr., and plans for a Bath to Popham encampment drill for Hyde Light Guards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nathaniel Place, Jr
City Landing
James T. Sarbell
Sarbell
Bath Iron Works
Houghton’s Wharf
Fred 8. Curtis
John Place
Baptist Church of
Small Point
Elbridge Wallace
Casco Bay
Henry Brackett
Williams College
Norway Pine Camp
William Millard
William Brackett
Newton
Shuman
New York
Frank Wyman
Bath
William Field
William Field, Jr
West Bath
Mr. Field
Young Field
Electricians
Pipers
Ida Miller
Abraham Miller
Abraham
Annie J. Ham
Lila M. Spinney
Augustus A. Late
Helen Percy
Heleney
Alexander MacDougall
Marcella ‘MacDougall
Nellie Edna White
William F. White
Jennie V. Hayes
John P. Hayes
Paul E. Weston
Woolwich
Ediths. Weston
Guardian
Jessie F. Eaton
Georgetown
Natt F Howe
Bath Iron Works Tender Mayflower Wins Lighthouse Contract
President Hyde announces that the Lighthouse Department awarded repairs and alterations to the engine and hull of the light house tender Mayflower. The Bath Iron Works will execute the contract following the morning good news.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hyde
Bath Iron Works
Lighthouse Department
Mayflower
Bath Iron Works contract awarded amid local notes and curios
The Bath Iron Works secured the $26 754 contract as the lowest bidder with awards announced this morning after bids opened two weeks earlier. The page also covers a ferry mules trick, a mystery for Bath ladies involving a horse and a smashed carriage, Miss Louise Tarbox’s eight month world trip, diver Scott Tibbetts aiding a wreck recovery, and local tradesmen Prout Marr returning from coastal work plus other brief items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Iron Works
Bath Iron Works sponsor named for torpedo boat destroyer launch
Navy Department selects Miss Genevieve S. Gordon of Louisville Kentucky as sponsor for the torpedo boat destroyer Flusser to be launched July 20 at 2 30 in the afternoon Bath civic news notes Mr and Mrs George F Duncan of Portland guests of Bath residents Miss Mildred Palmer resigns teacher post to attend Clarke School for the Deaf at Northampton Massachusetts plus social and local items including a Bath painter narrowly missing a swim in rough tides and several town residents
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott Tibbetts
Christmas Cove
Capt
Pool
George Getchell
Augusta
Laliberte Brothers & Company Wood and
John S. Hyde
Bath Iron Works
Navy Department
Genevieve S. Gordon
Louisville
George F. Duncan
Portland
H. McLellan
Washington Street
Duncan
William Hatch
Florida
California
Mildred Palmer
Bath
Miss Palmer
Clarke School For the Deaf
Northampton
Mass
Deputy Ballou recovers whiskey on Front Street
Deputy Sheriff J S Ballou captured a bag containing six pints of whiskey Sunday forenoon on Front Street near the post office as a man fled toward Vine Street and the Maine Central freight house. The reported carry was likely for pocket peddling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. S. Ballou
Ballou
Front Street
Post Office
Vine Street
Maine Central
Community notes on brave firemen and local area's improvements
A fireman’s rescue of a frightened kitten from a tree is highlighted alongside praise for public minded shopkeepers restoring Front and Center streets. The piece also covers bees migration musings by Algernon Eastman, a bee expert, and reports former Governor Horace A. Hildreth’s saddle accident with multiple injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Algernon L. Eastman
Front Street
Earth
Eastman
Hyde Park Terrace social notes record weekend travels
Local residents on Bluff road and Central avenue head to Portland Crescent Beach Boothbay Harbor and Woolwich for picnics fireworks and visits while relatives and friends from Ellsworth Schenectady and New Brunswick drop by. Many hosted dinners weekends travel to Boothbay Harbor and Bar Harbor amid family gatherings and social ties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Tait
William, Jr
Bluff Road
Elgin
Manitou
New Brunswick
Lewis Carter
Gerard Hodgkins
Verner Wells
Schenectady
N. Y
Portland
Carter
Percy Hodgkins
Crescent Beach
Carters
Boothbay Harbor
V. C. Gotte
Bar Harbor
Herbert Gotte
Earl Maines
Atuc
Scarborough
Blair Bailey
Maron Genthner
George Lawrence
Woolwich
Beverly White
Topsham
Joan Ellen Steeves
Munton
Arthur E. Sturtevant
Waterville
Bernard Knight
Central Avenue
Tobey
Knight
LeRoy Powers
Brunswick
Bernard Comeau
Russell Street
Delen Bonsey
Edward Kaiser
M. E. Footer
Edward Jones
Candy
Kathy
Bluff
Paul Lindgren
University of Maine
Harold Fish
Canada
James Caverly
Drayton Road
Foster's Point
Seth A. Thornton
David
Belfast
George Simmons
Ellsworth
Walter C. Davis, Jr
William Ryder
Billy Griffin
Walter Davis Jr
Maurice Goldstein
Betsy
Boston
Agnes Barkeley
Chipper
Ruth Minott
Harold Doak
Rockland
Frank Keiniig
Frank III
Richard
Central Evenue
Massachusetts
Robert Bull
Byron Colters
Bradford
James Doucette
Lebanon
N. H
Stanley Coleman
Pfc
Richard Bull
Fort Meyer
Virginia
Jacqueline Chappell
Chappell
Willis Merrill
Hallowell
Keith Garside
Garsides
Melvin Cox
Augusta
Hope Dennison
Carlton
Mary Eillen
Phillips
Garside
Nancy Garside
Belgrade
James Buzzell
Abbott
Linwood Carter
Judy
Linda
Karl Collins
William Freeman
Ann
Martha
Bailey Island
Ann Freeman
North Windham
Bath NA LCA elects officers at meeting
Joseph McLaughlin was elected head of the Bath branch of the National Association of Letter Carriers. Robert Rice became vice president Raymond Cummings secretary Robert Perry treasurer and Frank Curran sergeant at arms at the same session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph McLaughlin
Bath
National Association of Letter Carriers
Robert
Bob” Rice
Raymond Cummings
Robert Perry
Frank Curran
White Ribboners Meet by Kennebec River Bank
An outdoor gathering of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union was held Tuesday on the Kennebec riverbanks in Winneyanee with President Mrs. Theresa Hill presiding. The event featured songs, prayers, readings, a poem titled A Nation's Greatness, and reports from officers. Sick members were noted and two attendees donated fudge boxes. next session time and place to be announced.
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Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Kennebec
Winneyanee
Theresa Hill
Nellie Brown
Bach
Union
Whiskey Fund
Greek Cook Book Set for Fall Publication
The Dietz Press of Richmond Virginia has contracted to publish a Greek cookbook co authored by Mrs Fanny Venos of Bath and Tarpon Springs Florida and Mrs Lil Burruss of Tarpon Springs. Titled Can The Greeks Cook it will be the first Greek cookbook issued in the United States and is due in the Fall. It will feature over 150 Greek recipes with pen and ink illustrations by Richard Vranian and include notes on Greek cooking customs religion and superstition.
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Dietz Press
Richmond
Fanny Venos
Bath and
Tarpon Springs
Fla
Lil Buruss
Tarpon
Richard Vranian
The
Residents host gathering for sisters and guests in town
Mrs. Joseph Arsenault of 4 Kennebec Circle entertained Monday for her sister and their children, Mrs. Roland and son Alan and Mrs. Maynard Dawson and daughter Martha Mae, who left today for Yakima Washington. Others present were Mrs. Thomas A Gallagher, Mrs. Winthrop French and Barbara and Carolyn, Mrs. Frank Gallagher and relatives Robert and Rich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Arsenault
Kennebec Circle
Roland
Alan
Maynard ‘Dawson
Martha Mae
Yakima
Washington
Thomas A. Gallagher
Winthrop French
da Barbara
Carolyn
Frank Gallagher
Thomas R. Gallaga
Ae En Robert and
Richt
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Ey Bath Daily Times
John E. Sullivan
Worcester
Bath Lodge
Byth Lodge
Sullivan
Willard H. Sampson
Rangeley
Rangeley Lakes
Portland Shipbuilding Co
G. G. Deering Co
M. G. Dow
Bucksport
Northland
William R. Wilson
Samuel Dukeshire
Dan McNeil
Carrie Leat
Mary Cameron
Thomas Dukeshire
James Leat
John Harrington
Wiscasset
Charles Gibbon
New Meadows Steamboat Co
Bull Rock
Alliquippa
New Meadows
Harry Stover
Elmer Trufant
George LeClaire
Henry Wallace
J. D. Leavitt
Albert Rawstron
Northwest
Camp Brothers Circus
Calgary
Fred MclIntosh
Lincoln
Neb
New Orleans
Mexico
Frank
McIntosh
Maine
Pepper
C. W. Walsh
Bath Steam Dye House
Linden Stewart
Ferdinando Gorges
Union Sulpher Company of
Quincy
Stewart
William D. Sewall
Frank Pepper
George A. Baker
Hyde Light Guards
Combination No. 4
Kennebec No. 3
Ernest Fulton
Neagle
Combination Engine House
Epworth League
Wesley M. E. Church
Locke
Allan Cameron
Middle Street
Louise Tarbox
Miss Tarbox
Tommy Gallagher
James Turner
Gardiner
Gallagher
Turner
Prout & Marr
Old Orchard
Kennebunk
Kennebunkport
Emma Twitchell
D. W. Russell
Brookline
Charles R. Donnell
Emma Duncan
Fred H. Pann
Edward Kimall
Kennebec Baths
Thorne’s Head
Grandpa Adam
Robert Haskell
Ray Triggs
Ohn Klippel
Rupert Wing
Fred
J. L. Coombs
Frontenac
Bangor
Hunter
Houghton
South Street
Eastern Yacht Club
Winneganee Bay
Pemaquid
A. G. Page Co
Times
Horace W. Ward
Bostwick
Upper
Popham Village
Silverlake
White Spot
Broad Street
Coastline Canning Co
Portsmouth
Nova Scotia
Errymeeting Camp
Ge “Hite
Stevens
Tim Wagner
Lew Carter
Tim
Will Guerin
Will
Wilfred
Times Co
Harbor View
Emily Post
Emily
Harold P. Small
Chilton County
Ala
Traverse City
Mich
Fort Fairfield
Ticonderoga
Allentown
Hendersonville
North Carolina
McClure
Cary
Jotting Junction
Jane
Rogers’ Hardware
Morse
Hildreths
Horace A. Hildreth
Saturday Cove
Hildreth
Hyde Park Terrace
Ite
Janice
Erly
Pleasans
Bonsey
Audrey Emmet
Roslindale
Mass., Is A Guest of Mr. Eee Mrs. Paul Marchant, Lark Leah Garvin
Holl
Horatio Carlisle
Beverly Duitolo
Sumner
Constance Carlisle
Kenneth Tice
Orono
J. Dunton
Pinca He Cody
John L. Jack
Register
Yellowing
Oeeraions
George D. Emero
Donald J. Emero
Alexander Ma ‘All
Marce Mactrix
Qual Preenne
Pietcher
Istra
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