Local Jottings From Coastal Maine and Nearby Waters
Rev Gould Brown and family left Birch Point camp. Lewiston Knights of Malta enjoyed a New Meadows outing. Corliss St scouts aided a camp. A A Percy caught a 40 pound cod from Boothbay Harbor trip. Officers share duties during vacation. Catawissa towboat arrived from Fort Point. Hockomock traffic surpasses last year. A boarding house spree cost 7.62 in lower court. Captain Oscar Snowman visited James Young schooner load at South Gardiner. Envoy yacht from Winthrop with notable passengers anchored off Clubhouse. Kennebec Yacht Club arrivals included William Downs and daughters Dorothy and Josephine. C W Rogers's horse hailed a near-runaway before electric car. Bath lost to Lisbon Falls 27 to 7 as pitcher missing. Manager Chase, Bath players fulfilled contract in tough game. McNamara of American Express toured Monhegan for photos.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knights of Malta of
Lewiston
New Meadows
Corliss St. Scouts
A. A. Percy
Boothbay Harbor
Officer Rice
Roy
Philadelphia
Catawissa
Fort Point
Hockomock
Lower Court
Oscar Snowman
James Young
South Gardiner
New York
Winthrop
Mass
Jeffries Yacht Club
Angus McInnis
Boston
Percy Blaisdell
Everett
John Larmon
Charles Brickley
Harvard
Kennebec Yacht Club
William J. Downs
Dorothy
Josephine
C. W. Rogers
Arch St
Bath
Lisbon Falls
Chase
W. L. McNamara
American Express
Thomaston
Monhegan
iHe
Maine
Westport Cabins Boats News and Local Happenings
Francis Eaton keeps the Zenda cabin cruiser in commission at Westport. Boothbay and Southport boast peach orchards and summer crowds while naval officers and families head to East Sumner for a seaside outing. The City of Rockland was delayed by fog, Kenneth Weeks to lead the Southport Casino orchestra with Langdon Hill on piano, and Fred S. Brigham recovers from appendicitis in Bath. Yacht Mistrel from Boston visited City Landing, and Ethel and Emma launches were at the city float. The illness of E S Sellers brings visitors from Plainfield and Wolaston. A five year-old clipping notes Brigadier General brevet awards to Bath men, revenue stamps sold at Money Order, and the Lorimer barge named for a Pennsylvanian town. Mosquito breeding urged, Boy Scouts urged to inspect and oil breeding spots, two Italians await trial in Augusta, and Fort Williams exam board includes H W Owen Jr, E W Niles, H Goodier, and V W Hall. Locomobile agent Guy W Lawrence, with A P Hawes, reports fair roads and a 1916 Locomobile touring the Kennebec route.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis Eaton
Westport
Boothbay
Southport
Bath
John Henry Walsh
U.S.N
Southport Casino
Fred S. Brigham
Sebasco
Bath City Hospital
Mistrel
Boston
City Landing
Ethel
Emma
W. H. Lakin
Plainfield
Penn Gas Coal Co
Kelley, Spear Co
Lorimer
Pennsylvania
Portland
Phippsburg
Augusta
S. J. Court
H. W. Owen, Jr
4Th Co
C.A.C
Fort Williams
E. W. Niles
U.S.A
Harold Goodier
Vernon W. Hall
Guy W
Bath Notes: Moths, Ships, and City Moves In July 1915
Rainy Monday night fails to damp Bath items as browntail moths swarm street lamps and a police cat keeps watch on Front Street. Bath’s souvenirs feature lithographs of local views while barge Wollaston launches with 2582 tons coal for Fall River. Captain Clark recovers from a shock. Captain Wentworth to fill Governor Cobb. West Bath resident Ernest Purington loses a horse and must humanely euthanize it. Bath Chamber of Commerce votes to move to Y M C A rooms, keeping a special chamber for its meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
S. P. Cromwell
Wiscasset
Germany
Wollaston
Kelley, Spear Co
Norfolk
Fall River
Chase
B. L. Clark
Governor Cobb
Boston
Haymarket Square
M. Wentworth
Clark
Cobb
Ernest Purington
West Bath
Lower High St
Purington
Seguin
Tamaqua
Augusta
Stone and Cooper
Alice May Davenport
Kelley Spear Yard
Ames
Maud Dudley
Long Cove
New York
Oakes Ames
M. W. Sewall
James Young
South Gardiner
Bath Chamber of Commerce
Sagadahoc Square
Chamber of Commerce
Bath area notes and events around a busy Bath week
E S Bacon resumed duties as ticket taker at Bath Opera House after a six weeks vacation. The Bath house and lot at 75 Beacon St. sold at auction last Saturday. Marine band rehearsed and played new selections. Thorne Island Lodge Buoy 8 spar missing July 26 will be replaced soon. Two rows of tame geese marched on White field road headed by two ganders. Electric Company to light Roberts fountain in the frog pond at the Park for summer guests. Kennebec Yacht Club hosted a dance for Miss Beatrice Kirtland of New York with Miss Helen Moses. guests from Lewiston Lisbon Falls and Skowhegan. Central Scout team defeated Paramounts 4 to 1 on Athletic field. Holbrook struck out 12. Curtis yacht Mindoro hosted Cyrus H K Curtis and party with Edward Bok and others. Curtis praised the Blue Kennebec river. A Portland organ presentation and a complimentary concert followed fact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. S. Bacon
Bath Opera House
Beacon St
Marine Band
C. E. Sherman
First Lighthouse District
Thorne Island Lodge
Whitefield Road
Electric Company
Frog Pond
Kennebec Yacht Club
Oliver Moses
Beatrice Kirtland
New York
Helen Moses
Gaudreau
Dorothy Newell
Lewiston
Madeline
Evelyn Plummer
Lisbon Falls
Mr. Jones
Skowhegan
Central
Paramount
Brunswick
C. Holbrook
Centrals
Smith
Paramounts
Curtis
Mindoro
Kennebec
Bath
Cyrus H. K. Curtis
New York City
Portland
McFarlane
Bath shipyard news and local scene from Bath Maine era
Roscoe H Shaw joined the boiler shop crew at Bath Iron Works on Tuesday. Local notices describe residents visiting, road complaints on Washington Street due to a new spur and delayed crushed rock delivery. The Horatio L Baker schooner, built by G G Deering, named after Horatio L Baker, was lost last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roscoe H. Shaw
Bath Iron Works
Gilman
Jackson
New York City
Fred
Coombs
Winnegance
Washington St
Agnes Tuttle
Miss Lundrigan
Los Angeles
D. T. Dougherty
Tuttle
Harry W. Crosman
New York
Walter M. Potter
Thomas Lundrigan
Montreal
Keegan
San Francisco
Portland
Alfred Johnson
Piere H. Lewis
Eastern Steamship Corporation
Lewis
Bath
Horatio L. Baker
Cambridge
Mass
Baker
Monson
Joseph H. Carr
State Highway Commissioners
Sasanoa Bluffs
Woolwich
G. G. Deering
Bath area notes and marine updates from July events
The late Judge Staples safe moved to Squire Glidden’s office this afternoon. McCabe lumber camp team visited North Woolwich on Tuesday for hay. Schooner Lewis B Goward, from Boston, arrived after repairs and will sail tomorrow to load coal at Baltimore for Porto Rico. Bath Iron Works head John S Hyde distributes cigars made from Elmhurst tobacco. Rev. N J Horan returned from Winthrop after assisting in forty hours devotion. J F Lisman overhauled at Bath Iron Works, en route to Boston from London with black chalk and chartered for another trip. Twins Gerald Wison and Vesta Lillian Meader born July 26 in Rumford Falls area. Meaders have Bath connections. A Bath motor party found a Khaki-clad painter sketching an old hulk near Mouse Island at Boothbay with a two-masted fishing schooner nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Staples
Porto Rico
John S. Hyde
Bath Iron Works
Elmhurst
F. J. Parks
N. J. Horan
St. Mary's Church
Winthrop
Henry
Father Horan
J. F. Lisman
Boston
London
South Boston
Marseilles
Genoa
Bath
G. L. Meader
Rumford Falls
Gerald Wison
Meader
Lisbon Falls
Lewiston
Mouse Island
Also Mentioned on This Page
Coats
Center Street
Gould J. Brown
Birch Point
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