Forty Years Ago in Bath Fire Funeral and Local News
A Bath Times chronicle from July 7 1897 recalls the burial of Charles Edward Osborne a Long Reach Engine Co. member, with Bath fire chief Morse in attendance and Rev. F W O'Brien officiating. The column also notes local business moves river crossings and a wedding, shipyard accidents, a hurricane voyage tale from Vigo and community updates across Bath including a July 8 entry on new police helmets and harbor activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maple Grove Cemetery
Charles Edward Osborne
Portland
Long Reach Engine Co., No. 2
Morse
Long Reach Company
F. W. O'Brien
New England Telephone & Telegraph Co
Boothbay Harbor
Wiscasset
Damariscotta
Eight Four Round Bouts Slated At Arcade Friday
Promoter Mihalos lines up eight four round bouts featuring sixteen local boxers at Arcade arena this Friday. Notable matchups include Lou Cooper of Woolwich vs Kisto Deschenes, Jackie Davis vs Eddie Burke, and Farmer Brown facing Elmer Ferguson. Other Portland fighters include Butcher Boy Frenchy vs Bill Caron, Young Guy Wright vs Bill Hogan, Billy Stradakos vs Young Bernard, and Eddie Hudson vs Eddie Adams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Nick Mihalos
Arcade Arena
Glafiro
K. O.” Castillo
Gaby Poulin
Lou Cooper
Woolwich
Kisto Deschenes
Brunswick
Kisto
Cooper
Lou
Derchenes
Jackie Davis
Eddie Burke
Farmer Brown
Elmer Ferguson
Ferguson
Charlie Leighton
Lisbon Falls
Leighton
Boston Garden
Frenchy
Bill Caron
Forest City
Guy Wright
South End
Bill Hogan
Percy King
Morse
Billy Stradakos
Bowdeinham
Biddeford
Bernard
Eddie Hudson
Bath
Eddie Adams
Mihalos
Old Timers to Play Ball at Plant Field Day
Bath Iron Works employees and officials aged 51 to 66 will play in the Oldtimers' ball game at the plant's annual field day and clam bake on Saturday July 24 at Brown's field West Bath. Frank Fortier leads the Reds and John Taylor captains the Blues with 24 players listed including Fortier Neal Donaher Perry King Burgess Newell Skinner Fulton Lemont Temple Sturtevant and others. Officials include umpire Harry Briges bases James Murray time Cy Towne score Benny Stover water boy and batters L Eugene Thebeau Henry O. Trowbridge jeer leaders Roger Pierce Lance Cooper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Iron Works Corp
Brown's Field
West Bath
Frank Fortier
Reds
John Taylor
Blues
Fortier
Everett Neal
George Donaher
al Perry
Barney King
John Burgess
Williams
Newell
Harry Skinner
Ernest Fulton
Arthur Lemont
Arthur Temple
Fred Sturtevant
Capt. Taylor
Charles Thayer
Joe Madden
James Smith
Archie Hall
Harry Farrell
Archie Main
Tom Allen
Tim McCabe
Pearl Dunbar
Roland F. Hill
Harry Cooke
Harry Briges
James Murray
Cy Towne
Benny Stover
Carroll Watson
L. Eugene Thebeau
Henry O. Trowbridge
Roger Pierce
Lance Cooper
Fishing for Tuna Season Opens with Local Fishermen
Fred P. Wilson, a former trolley motorman, joined the Sebasco fishermen as tuna season starts. The season shows growing fish but few large catches. several tuna have been harpooned by commercial crews. Some catches head to Boston via truck routes through Sebasco and West Point. prices slid from 12 to 4 cents per pound. Henry Wallace leads with 21 pounds, Oscar Gilliam and Ernest Wallace total 19 pounds. Typical giants remain absent. most fish run 400 to 500 pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred P. Wilson
Sebasco
Boston
Portland
West Point
Miss Mary Jane Fortin Weds Louis P Masse at St. John's
Miss Mary Jane Geraldine Fortin of 39 Union Brunswick married Louis P Masse Saturday morning at St. John's Church. Fr Girard Menard, uncle of the bride, performed the double ring ceremony. They will reside in Durham where Masse works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julian C. Ring
Washington Street
Emily H
Henry R. White
B. Drummond & Co
O. W. Folsom
Winter Street
Ring
Mary Jane Geraldine Fortin
Union Street
Brunswick
Louis P. Masse
St. John’s Church
Girard Menard
Durham
City council debates annex expansion and tax writeoffs
Aldermen clash over a Junior Chamber request to add space to the Congress Shirt Co annex and to adjust uncollectable taxes. Senior officials authorize retroactive raises for chief engineer Morse and Frates, approve legal fees and tax abatements, and set carnival licenses while adding traffic stop signs and street light petitions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Ledger
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Congress Shirt Co
Emery
Sewall
Haske
Pres Legard
Charles T. Small, Jr
Turner and Gay
Committee On Manufactures and Manufacturing
Scott Morse
Mr. Morse
Charles E. Parks
Alderman Fortier
Edward W. Bridgham
Kelley Athletic Field
Harold W. Child
Cemetery and Park Board
Haskell
Roger D. Skillings
Washington Street
Committee On Water and Water Works
Jennie Comeau
Granite Street
Franklin Street
City Treas
Young
Godsend Tonic praised by Boston woman for health boost
Mrs EB Roberts of 135 West Canton Street Boston credits a physician’s private tonic with easing nervousness headaches and appetite issues. The advertisement claims Dr Reilly’s Tonite tones the body aids convalescence and is used in hospitals. Sold at drug stores or by Dr. Reilly 1079 Boylston St Boston MA.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EB. Roberts
West
Canton Street
Boston
New England
Reilly
Boylston St
Mass
Walker Family History Noted by Historian Ernest Walker
Our historian has produced an outstanding work on the Walker families tracing Colonial and Revolutionary ancestry. The blue bound volume by Ernest George Walker, native of Embden Maine, recounts descendants of Captain Solomon Walker and includes detailed genealogical data and biographies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walker
Solomon Walker
Ernest George Walker
Embden
Maine
Anson Academy
Colby College
Skowhegan High School
Harvard College
Washington, D. C
Embden Town
Yore
Romaine Mannix
Capt
D. Pratt Mannix
United States Marine Corps
Mannix Walker
Foreign Service
Washington
Maine tribute and a nasal bean tale in Old Town
A Maine tribute extols Dirigo and summer diversions while Roy and Mrs. Ferro of Alton visit Old Town to remove a swollen bean from their infant son’s nostril. The doctor, unable to hook from one side, pushed the object and expelled it across the floor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Ferro
Alton
Old Town
Scouts Reviewed by the President at Washington Jamboree
Over 25,000 scouts lined the avenues as President Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt reviewed the procession. Maine delegates attended a luncheon in the Senate building hosted by Senators Hale and White, then toured the Senate and the National Academy of Sciences before packing up. Region 1 scouts returned to Portland late Saturday after a memorable jamboree experience. Charles R. Campbell resigns as Brunswick sub-master to become Richmond high principal. Over 150 Topsham grangers celebrated the Fourth with a picnic at Gun Point, including a lobster dinner and games.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy Building
Pres. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
George E. Allen
District of Columbia
Senate
House
Maden Craig
U.S. A
W. D. Leahy
Naval Operations
James E. West
Daniel Carter Beard
Maine
Frederick Hale
Wallace H. White, Jr
National Academy of Sciences
Supreme Court
Region 1
New England
Washington
Portland
Charles R.campbell
Brunswick High School
Richmond High School
Mr. Campbell
Portland High School
Bowdoin College
Bowdoin
France
Germany
United States
Topsham
Gun Point
Frank Carver
George Potter
William Alexander
Probate Notices From Bath Sagadahoc July 1937 Estates
Court of Probate in Bath Maine issues notices for multiple estates. It lists proceedings for wills, appointments of executors and administrators, consent to bonds, final accounts, trustee actions, and distributions with dates in July 1937. Names include William Wood John W Wood Mary Blanchard Nellie Reid Annie Riley Charles Pratt Mary Woods and Rose F Eydon among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Sagadahoc
William Wood
John W. Wood
Auburn
Mary E. Blanchard
William B. Blanchard
Nellie T Reid
Daniel Williams
John D. Gould
Woolwich
Frank R. Batley
Annie B Riley
John Willliam McGuire
Charles W. Pratt
Mary Pratt
Mary A. Woods
Edward W Bridgham
John Jo Keegan
Jane Haggett
City of
Saint Mary's Church of Bath
Maine
D.baeta
Mary A Woods
Harry H Robbins
Phippsboro
Edward J Harriman
Alprfd
R Ames
Isabelle C Ames
Walter S Gilidden
John TL. Jack
Sapudahoe
Mary E Lundrigan
John J .Tracey
Kittery
York
Flora
Cutler
Alexander M
Thomas Gannon
Alice M Gannon
Flora E.bonari
Harvey P. Hathorne
Walter S. Gilidden
Also Mentioned on This Page
The
Bath Daily Times
M. H. Douglas
W. D. Davis
D. W. Lemont
Retta Smith
Fred
Purington
Ledyard
Solett and
Pike
Ed Savage
Lynn
Times
Vigo
Spain
Sen
the Times
New Orleans
Mississippi River
Gulf
Straits
Florida
Carrie A. Lane
Hatteras
G. A. Newdick
Melrose
Georgetown
L. O. Wiley
Brigraine
Messrs. Frost and Bickle
Hyde Windlass Co
G. W. Webber
Kimball Bros
Fort Popham
Percy & Small Yard
John Dean
Arthur B. Stilphen
Chase's
William F. Hooper
Fall River
High Street
T. 8
Gibbons
Kentucky
Charles Harrington
Center Street
A. N. Trask
Cottage City
Lyon Wandless & Co., Tailors of
Charles T. Jackson
Middle Street
Columbia Orchestra
Bull Rock Bridge
Supreme Judicial Court
Mandamus
City of Bath
Little Bull Rock
New Meadows
Board of Common Council
Joint
Standing Committee On
Nequasset
William C. Besselievre
Ultra
Besselievre
C.H. Hayes
Salem, Mass
Win Hagan
J. L. Douglas
Bowdoinham
Eremce
Charles Turner
Foster's Point
Mrs. Gowin Brooks
Barron House
Mrs. Siebert
San Francisco, Cal
Mrs. A. D. Stetson
F. B. Nichols
Cherryfield
Rockland
Ellsworth
Charles Clifford
Millicent Fisher Clifford
Theolon Cottage
Percy Little
Postal Telegraph Co
Bert Dow
Western Union
North Conway
J. T.crosby
Camden
Freeman L. Farnsworth
Oliver’s Point
Arrowsie
E. B. Sutton
Lewes
Del
Honolulu
Cape Horn
Harry McDonald
William Pond
William Plummer
Fred Gilbert
William Gilbert, Jr
Charles B. Furber
Aeae
Herbert E. Williams
S. L. Farrar
Lida Fisher
D. T. Percy’s. TE Oe
William T. Hall
Pleasant Point
Samuel Dillaway
George
Sioux Falls
Dakota
Nellie Rogers
Squirrel Island
Levi C. Wade
Kennebec
Tentor
Ed Brown
Walter
Electra Park
Lewiston Volunteers
Cishes
Popham Beach
Tom Brooks
Richmond
Florence Patten
Fannie D. Totman
Ella Douglas
Orono
Hiram Houston
Beverly
Ralph Houston
Harry McLellan
Bibber Cottage
Birch St
Messrs
EF. W. Hyde
John 8. Hyde
Islands
Pive Islands
Andrew Merrill
the Water Co
Lord
Charles Snow
Myra
Anderson
Mr. Snow
Westport
Mrs. Gratz Jackson
Boothbay
East Waterboro
Mr. Jackson
Miss Jessie Jackson
John McGrath
Louisville
Ann Maria
Seth T. Snipe
Green Street
M. R. McCullum
Bagadahoc
George W. Roderick
James Tobey
Percy & Small
H. E. Thompson
Percy
Chestnut Street
Tommy Scanlon
Scanlon
Howard Chute
W. W. Robinson
Birchwood
Walter Miller
Savage's Fish Market
Carl Hessel
Hyde Windlass
William Kelley
Savannah
Charles Boyd
Edward Cornish
Maggie Sylvester
Fred Curtis
Boyd Cottage
Five Islands
Charles
Mel Boyd
Rufus Motley
Kennebec Yacht Club
A. B. James
E. Brooks
Salacia Wharf
Hallowell
Augusta
Granite City
George Densmore
Darby
Coughlin
Densmore
Fred Robinson
Welchville
Lewiston-Auburn
Lowell Thomas
Commercial Street
Maine Central
Citizens’ Coal Co
Bridgham
North Street
Renaud
Committee On
Townsend Club
Monument
Sagadahoc County Commissioners
Board of Highways and Bowers
George D. Emero
South Street
Ralph K. Wright
W.H. Sanford
Clarence N. Flood
Front Street
Winfred N. Adams
Water Street
Irvine Barter
Dunton
Bragg
Eseley
Herbert R. Morse
Rodick
Rogers
Harold P. Small
Smith
Bath Trust Co
Bath National Bank
First National Bank
DR. Kreilly
State of
Savadahoc
William A Needham
Providence
Rhode Island
Pennsylvania Petroleum Products Company
Sivadahoe
Pontiaylvania Service Company
Chas W. Messenger
State of Maine
Savuidahoc
Louie D Pierce
Warwick
Kent
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