Years Ago in Bath 1889 Items From The Bath Daily Times
A long column of Bath news from 1889 recounts local life in Bath Maine including residents Edward Wellington, laborers at the park corner, the Knights of Pythias excursion plan to Boothbay, Bath water works, curb work near the Custom House, and social visits. The report notes dock cargoes, city hall renovations, telegraph pole permissions, and upcoming excursions and events with Bath residents, workers, and businesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Daily Times
Custom House
Post Office
Good Templars meeting moved to Thursday at Pleasant Point
July 15 1889 notes a Good Templars gathering shifting from Wednesday to Thursday next week at Pleasant Point. Frank P Guthrie visited from Waltham and plans a short stay with the Jerry Club on Jerry Island. The Lowell house near Water and Federal is sold to Councilman Deering and is being torn down. A three nozzle hydrant is now in place west of the Southern Division Works, near the shops, improving fire protection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Water Street
Shepard Street Hose House
George Harvey
Frank Morse
Custom House
Kelley & Spear
Popham Lodge of Good Templars
Pleasant Point
North Street
Corliss Street
Squirrel Island
Richmond High School
Islands
Beacon Street
Ladies Relief Corps
Spruce Point
Lowell
Federal
Deering
Southern Division
Memorial for Herbert E. Cole longtime Bath educator
Herbert E. Cole 69 a Bath high school teacher for 30 years and later Bridgton high school principal died Thursday at his Bridgton home. He taught 40 years retiring in 1923 and helped fund a new high school after a 1928 fire. Survived by wife Mary Cass Fogg, two sons Philip and Allan, a sister. Also reported is a city dump fire near the North street extension with wind driving flames but quickly contained.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert E. Cole
Bath
Bridgton High School
Bridgton
Mr. Cole
Sebago
Bowdoin College
Phi Beta Kappa
Bath High School
George E. Hughes
Charles W. Morse
Theta Delta Chi Fraternity
Bowdoin
Solar Lodge of Masons of
Winter Street Church
Mary Cass Fogg
Philip Cole
Louisville
Allan Cole
Montreal
Charles Peabody
South Portland
Probate notices and mortgage foreclosure in Sagadahoc county
In Bath Sagadahoc County probate records show Executrix Mary E Gordon presenting final account for Charles E Gordon’s estate with a notice for interested parties to appear August 5 1929. Brunswick Savings Institution announces mortgage breach on Bowdoin property and Foreclosure claim signed by Thomas H Riley. Isabel Hyde executes inheritance tax petition and final account with notices to appear August 6 1929.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. I. Standish
Bowdoin
Sagadahoc
Maine
Brunswick Savings Institution
Brunswick
Cumberland
Bowdoinham Village
Lisbon
Charles Potter
F. I. Merryman
A. W. Brown
E. E. Baker
George Gillispie
Martha Wheeler
Charles Clough
Woodbury
Frank L. Webber
Thomas H. Riley
A. D
State OF Maine
Bath
Ps Lpem
Isabel Hyde
Edwin P. Hyde
Independent
Obituary of Cutting 65 in Paxboro Mass
A Cutting 65 died Thursday in Paxboro Massachusetts. He was born July 5 1864 in Ippsburg the son of William D. and Elizabeth Cutting. He joined Solar lodge Masons and Samuel Dexter lodge 1 C C F of ani Massachusetts as a charter member and was past master of Dromore Grange Phippsburg. He lived in Dedham early married life as a contractor under Greenlow Cutting. In 1899 he moved to Phippsburg bought the John Rogoe. He later worked for C. T. Reynolds of Augusta then W A Smith & Sons Norwood Massachusetts. Survived by wife Agnes D Cutting two daughters Mrs Raymond Campbell Phippsburg and Mrs Lloyd Banning Foxboro Mass one sister Miss Martha Cutting Phippsburg and three nephews. Funeral was Saturday at 2 30 at Curtis undertaking rooms Center street Rev C L Stevens South Deerfield officiated Masonic ritual conducted by Solar lodge officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A Cutting
Jay H. Daley
Paxboro
Mass
Ippsburg
William D
Elizabeth Cutting
Solar Lodge of Masons
Samuel Dexter Lodge
1.C.C.F
Ani
Dromore Grange
Phippsburg
Solar Lodge
Bath probate petition seeks sale of Lot 77 Clapp Farm
Charles P Biasout owner of Lot 77 in Bath requests license to sell unproductive real estate on Oliver Street. Trustees of Bath trust aim to invest proceeds. Court orders notice published in Bath Independent, with a hearing set for August sixth 1929 to show cause why sale should not be granted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State OF Maine
Sandahoc
Charles J. Dain
Jennie Rideout
Bath
Outa Onan
Charles P. Biasout
Oliver Street
Clapp Farm
Bonney and Sidelinger
Charles Fideout
Zena McDougal
Charles F. Rideout
State OF
Maine
Sagadahoc
Wal’ S. Glidden
William.f. Dunham
A. D
Arthur J. Dunton
Walter
Glidden
William F. Dunham
Eer
Attes
Sagadaoc
Lawrence B. Greenwood
Augusta
Susan Jane Perkins
Middle Street
Said Street
Corliss
Chapellot
Eugene Perkins
Warren Stilphen
N. Oliver
Sagadahoctry
Sarah J. Perry
Weaderg RG
Ionae
Lawrence B. Sane
Sade Fon
Ford County
Register
Said
Walter S. Glidden
Probate Notice of Estate Administration in Sagadahoc
John Tanes Jr of Bath petitions as administrator for the estate of John Dowling who died intestate in Bath on June 5 1929. He lists heirs including Harold Dowling Maude Lewis Mary Willis and Sadie Dowling and asks Harold Dowling be appointed administrator without bond. A July 9 1929 order sets August 6 1929 hearing in Bath for interested parties to show cause. Thelma D Kittridge of Bath is appointed administratrix of Sagadahoc county estate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State OF Maine
Sagadahoc
John Tanes Jr
Bath
John T. Dowling
Sarah Dowling
John T. Dowling, Jr
Harold F. Dowling
Maude Lewis
Mary Willis
Sadie Dowling
A. D
Thelma D. Kittridge
County of Sagadahoc
Thelma D. Kittridge Qoshnes
State OF
Maine
Bagadshos
Edith Maernard
Pooner
John Clifford
Fornia
Ruth Wood
California
Minnie Muller
Joseph Chase
Jeasiee Tukey
Wilmington
Del
Crane Ellen C. Hall Easton
Annie B. Litfard
Arlington
Mass
John P
Portsmouth
N. H
M.chase
Wiscasset
George A. Chase
No. Edgecomb
Lizzie Ryan
Portland
Liam T Ryan
Agecom
Albert
Edgecomb
Edith M Ledyard
Edith M. Ledyard
Harry G. Swett
Jennie W. Swett
David B. Hathorn
Woolwich
Reese
Ted
Lizzie A. Haggett
West Bath
Daugh
Harry W. Lemont
Verett
G. Lemont
A.D
Laura E. Lemont
James B. Lemont
Elwell Granby
Ann Marie Cresby
Elwell Groebe
Probate notices and estate actions from Sagadahoc Maine 1929
A collage of probate orders and notices from Bath Sagadahoc Maine in 1929. Executors named include Edith M Ledyard Laura E Lemont James B Lemont Freeman A Stinson George M Stinson and others with petitions for sale of property and inheritance tax hearings.
Bath visitors and relatives from Massachusetts tour area
Miss Ethel Winneberger and Mrs. Winneberger of North Andover Massachusetts tour Bath with Miss Amy Irish of Chestnut Street Beverly visiting her uncle Chester Martin. The brief notes surrounding their movements reflect a social roundup from the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amy Irish
Mrs. Predd. Irish of
Chestnut
Chester Martin Beverly
Mass
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Edward Wellington
Eeee Ay A Bath
Wellington
Bath Division
Uniform Rank
K. of P
Boothbay
Knights
Thompson Brook
T Ien
W. Wakefield
Rebekahs
Winthrop
William Hines
Hines
Order
William Leydon
Dunning
Linzie Hodgkins
Boston
F. E. Wilson
Elm Street Baptists
Christmas Cove
Eva Oliver
South End
M. S. Dunning
Center Street
Oki
Waltham, Mass
Joseph Vaughn
Johnson Bros
Joe
Lewiston
Board of Aldermen
City Hall
City
Varney Mills
Moulton’s
Talofa
Maine Central
Philadelphia
Centre Street
Gardiner
Stellar
Union ‘T
Charles H. Norton
High and
Beacon Streets
Lizzie Bates
Waltham
Eetoes
Kennebec
Center Street House
Shepard Street House
Slaters
Monson
Clark
Baths
Augustas
Provinces
Commercial Union Telegraph Co
Zina H. Smith
Milan Street
North End
Mr. Smith
Eastern Steamboat Co
Fort Popham
Knox & Lincoln
Bath Y. M. C. A
Aew Club
Frank Fox
Ferry Boat Union
Horace Babb
Bath Savings Institution
Charles Davenport
Levi W. Houghton
John H. Kimball
Henry W. Swanton
Milton Barry
Ezekiel B. Drummond
John P. Delano
Nahanada
Maurice Colson
Moulton
Hoogley
Committee On
Frank P. Guthrie
Jerry Island
Jerry Club
Carters
Carter
Fred S. Curtis
Mortici
Thomas R. Huston
Mer
Funeral Home
Tel
Mary E. Gordon
Charles E. Gordon
Bath Independent
G. Allen
George J. Cutting
Paxboro, Mass
Jennie
Rideout
Trustees
Jason A. Merrill
Edwin’ H. P. Lowell
Luther 8. Thompson
Roy P. Siisckford
Oak Grove
Aavwoan
Syltan Poe
Minnesota
Ralph O. Dale
Helen Irvine
Havi
William F. Dun
Register of
Dunham
Pew
John P. Carey
Avila
Valilere
Bsa
Ceased
Mtate
Walter 5
Seoc
Winona T. Stinso
Francis Eaton
Pete
Sarge Y
Savoers
Fulton Coombs
Bagadahos
Jacob L. Coombs
Bate
Elizabeth ’. Coombs
William F. Dynaam
G. Bailey
Theodore M. Getchvll
Woolwten
Alloey
Bern
Bagndanoc
WILLIAM _F. aee