Forty Years Ago in Bath May 25 1882
The Bath Times recalls the May 1882 county convention of the W C U at Winter Street Chapel with strong speakers. Other items include a Chinese cook and a rigger fighting at Sewall’s yard, Sagadahoc prohibition proceedings, and nominations for county offices. Also noted are social events at Mrs. Henry Turner’s Granite Street home, horse excitement, the Hattie Evelyn schooner launch, injuries at Morse shipyard, the sale of yacht Undine, Reform club pledges, Miss Ella Crocker’s Georgia trip, Gen T W Hyde’s repairs at Zina Hyde mansion, copperas for rat control, and coal and pine cargoes at the railroad wharf.
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W.c-7.u
Winter Street Chapel
Memorial Day Observances and Local News Recap
May 26 1882 announces Memorial Day events with parade in front of Grand Army at 2 PM and night services with Charles A. Boutelle as speaker. A Bath high school reunion at William J. Mussenden’s on North Street ends at midnight after a lively dance. Other items: shipyard altercation, injuries from a fall, liquor seizure at American Express, and Samuel Sewall buying the Rideout house for new construction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles A. Boutelle
Bangor Whig
Friends
Grand Army
Bath High School
Wiliam J. Mussenden
North Street
Ubcommmoen
Locomotive mishap and community notes from Bath area
Locomotive Edward Sewall derailed on a steep grade near Nobleboro, engineer Joseph York leaped clear, no injuries. Bath sees James Brown’s restaurant thriving. Augusta Journal reports Conductor Smith’s Portland bound train narrowly missed an intoxicated person at Lowell’s crossing. A man saved a woman from danger near the tracks. Bath Iron Works shipped Hyde patentscrew gear for Capt. Anderson’s schooner. Dudley Gilans slowly recovers from illness. Caledonia loads ice at Heughton works for New Orleans. Center Street building owned by T. W. Clark and B. F. Savage is ruined. Jim Burr of Freeport sent plants for children’s garden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta Journal
Smith
Portland
Lowell's Crossing
Hallowell
Kpot
Charles H H Greenleaf Hosts Guests at Sawall Point Cottage
On May 29 1882 Charles H H Greenleaf entertained SES cones at the new cottage on Sawall Point during an event signaling the aeration of the estate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles HH Greenleaf
Sawall Point
Old Days on the Bath Branch
Retrospective piece recounts a train crew on the Bath Branch teaching a new brakeman to call stations. Mispronunciations at transfer and junction stops trigger laughter and passenger teasing as experienced workers correct him and share station-name blunders. The lasting tone is humorous reminiscence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commercial Street
Boston & Maine
Congress Street
Woodfords
Portland & Rochester
Deering Junction
Deering
Cumberland Junction
West Falmouth
Freeport
Yarmouth
Evidence of Stone Age in British Columbia Unearthed
Victoria May 3 archaeologists report Stone Age traits persisted in British Columbia longer than in Western Europe. Findings from coast and interior sites show three thousand years of continued practice, with neolithic culture evident in district graves and mounds. Premier Oliver aided provincial museum efforts to collect and exhibit artifacts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria
B. C
Europe
British Columbia
Rocky Mountains
Pacific
John Oliver
Stone Age Tools and Customs of Early British Columbia
Scientists note stone and bone tools predominate in early North Pacific villages with scarce metal. Two seated stone figures from Nanaimo and Vancouver Island reveal art. axes, daggers, and war clubs resemble European Neolithic tools. Stone pipes and tobacco use from Nicotiana attenuata hint at preliminary smoking in Thompson River areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Pacific
Departure Bay
Nanaimo
Sasdwich
Vancouver Island
Europe
British Columbia
Thompson
Fraser Rivers
Thompson River
Lipstick Wax Sparks Trouble for Couple in Greenport
Dr William Lathrop Love of Brooklyn warned at the New York State Homeopathic Medical Society convention that cosmetics including lipstick threaten youthful appearances. He cited lipstick wax drying lips and cracking skin while lamenting the flamboyant flapper era and urging natural rosiness through fresh air and diet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenport
L. L
William Lathrop Love
Brooklyn
New York State Homeopathic Medical Society
United States
Love
Parker Collegiate Institute
Peck Memorial Hospital
Infants Hospital and Nursery
Cumberland Street Hospital
Dr. Love
Homeopathic State Medical Society
the Commodore
Flapper
L. A
Daugherty Denies Misquoting Morse Case Link
Attorney General Daugherty says he did not tell Senator Watson he had no connection with the Morse pardon. In a May letter he recalls a general Morse discussion, confirms about $4,000 received from Mr. Felder to cover expenses, and denies denying any connection. Senator Caraway says Watson may have misrepresented the issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daugherty
Watson
Inding
Senate
Indiana
Charles W. Morse
Caraway
Arkansas
Morse
Thomas B. Felder
Wickersham
Surgeon General
Army
Fedler
Georgia
Former resident observes birthday at Brookline home
Mrs. Abraham L. Cutler, among Brookline’s oldest residents, celebrated her 99th birthday Sunday at 1 Chestnut Street. Born in Bath to shipbuilder William D. Sewall, she was Arthur Sewall’s sister and lived in Brookline since 1875 after marrying in 1844. two of ten children survive, both living with her.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abraham L. Cutler
Brookline
Chestnut Street
Bath
William D. Sewall
Arthur Sewall
William Jennings Bryan
Boston
Mother's Jewels Party at Wesley Church Vestry
Wesley church mothers' group hosted a party for about 40 children in the vestry on Saturday afternoon from three to five. Activities included prayers, recitations, songs, a flag drill, and a penny exercise, with mite boxes yielding 10.80 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley Church
Arthur G. Oliver
Walter F. Abbott
America
C. E. Brooks
Doris Stanley
Anna Baum
Alice Hamilton
Carl Dearborn
Avis Snow
Ira Abbott
Robert Hatch
Marshall Bunker
Elizabeth Fletcher
Doris Ward
Louise Stewart
Marjorie Dearborn
Alice Hogue
Magdaline Bunker
Jesus
Charlotte King
Wesley Lemont
Marjorie Thompson
Arthur W. H. Rand, Jr
Edna Antworth
Herbert Wing
Merthine Ward
Sargent Stanley
Elizabeth Butterfield
Alice Hogge
Cme Ee Meyers
Harry E. Thompson
Obituary of Edward H. Sampson reveals Bath civic figure
Edward H. Sampson 5 Percent, died Monday night at his home 510 Washington street after a two day illness. Born in Bath to Charles T. and Lydia Small Sampson, he worked as a machinist at Hyde Foundry and later for Bath Iron Works and other firms. A former councilman and president of the common council, he served as a Federal prohibition inspector and remained active in the Democratic Party. He is survived by his wife and a son Edward W. Sampson. Funeral will be Thursday afternoon at BBC at the residence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward H. Sampson
Washington Street
Hinckley Street
Bath
Charles T
Lydia Small Sampson
Hyde Foundry
Water Street
Thomas W. Hyde
Bath Iron Works Ltd
Hyde Windlass Co
Blaisdell, Leeman & Co
McFadden Bros
Sampson
Lincoln Lodge I, O. O. F
First Church of Christ, Scientists
Machinists’ Union
Eoward W. Sampson
Harry W. Cobb
Tougaloo
Miss
BBC
Capt Zina H Webber longtime West Indies master dies at 75
Portland resident Capt. Zina H. Webber died at his North Yarmouth farm Sunday after 20 years in Portland. A famed sea master born in Bristol, he sailed Maine to West Indies routes in three and four mast ships. He later led the Munjoy Hill observatory and served as janitor on Munro Hill schools. Survived by his wife Frances Julia Reed and eight children. He was a Mason and Knight of Pythias.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zina H. Webber
Portland
West Indies
North Yarmouth
Maine
Capt. Webber
Munjoy Hill
Munro Hill
Nort Yarmouth
Frances Julia Reed
East Boothbay
Levi
James
Herbert
Frank
Boothbay Harbor
Elizabeth
Julia
Dorothy
Ethel
Pythias
Jast Boothbay
Captain William Patterson Dies at 88 in Wisconsin
North Edgecomb sea captain of the Jefferson Borden and other windjammer ships dies May 24 at Webber's Tavern Wis. Patterson, 88, had been ill a few weeks. He survived a famous mutiny on the Jefferson Borden near Monhegan over 35 years ago and helped quell it. He reportedly left a bequest to the Free Baptist church in Edgecomb.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Patterson
North Edgecomb
Webber's Tavern
Wiscasset
Patterson
Jefferson Borden
Monhegan
Thomaston
Capt. Patterson
Free Baptist Church
Edgecomb
Funeral for Mrs Henry Stevens Brown Held at Kent's Hill
Lloyd G Daley and Miss Eliza F Brown attended the funeral of Mrs Henry Stevens Brown at Kent's Hill after her death on Saturday. She was born in Augusta the daughter of William F and Mary Morrill and lived in Maine and Minnesota before returning to Maine. She and her husband ran a farm at South Chesterville before moving to Kent's Hill in 1888 and she leaves three daughters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lloyd G. Daley
Eliza’ F. Brown
Kents Hill
Henry Stevens Brown
Brown
William F
Mary Brown Morrill
Augusta
Minnesota
Dwight
Ill
Maine
Local Social Notes Mention Several Residents
Mrs Clinton Bailey of Auburn Mrs Lloyd G Duley of Bath and Mrs C R Taylor of Kents Hill are listed with Harold E Brown of Whitingville Mass as a group. Mrs Duley has spent the last ten weeks with her mother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clinton Bailey
Auburn
Lloyd G. Duley
Bath
C. R. Taylor
Kent's Hill
Harold E. Brown
Whitingville
Mass
Duley
Painter and Bath firefighter Charles F. Dinsmore Dies at 57
Charles F. Dinsmore aged 57 died at his home on 2 Elsinore Avenue after a long illness. He was a painter by trade and a longtime worker for the Maine Central Railroad. A Bath fire department member and assistant foreman on Combination No 4, he leaves his wife a sister Mrs Hennicker of Richmond and two grandchildren Isabel and Howard Lewis. Funeral is set for Thursday at 2 p.m. at the residence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles F. Dinsmore
Elsinore Avenue
Aml
Maine Central Railroad
Bath
Hennicker
Richmond
Isabel
Howard Lewis
Lawrence A McNeil Funeral Held After Sudden Illness
Lawrence A. McNeil died Saturday from spinal meningitis after a two day illness. His funeral was Monday at his parents home with Rev. Louis W. West officiating. Bearers were four uncles Thomas Metabe Onar Fullerton Thomas Wilson and William McKay. Burial followed in Oak Grove Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence A. McNeil
Roy H. McNeil
Louis W. West
People’s Baptist Church
Thomas Metabe
Onar Fullerton
Thomas Wilson
Willian McKay
Oak Grove
Education Board Proposes Mixed Class Schedule Plan
The board outlines a shift to larger classes averaging 46 pupils and a mixed full and part time system across grades. Grades I and II would be part time, III and IV partially, V and VI full time, with VII and VIII full time. The North Primary School already tests part time in I and II. Officials affirm cooperation with the Finance committee and aim to minimize cuts to school efficiency.
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North
City
Plan to Protect the Ministers Plan to Protect the Ministers
Atlantic City N J May 31 A new plan to protect ministers from ecclesiastical vexes by offering a sound investment option was outlined by Rev Joseph I Hingeley of Chicago before the Annual Conference of Interdenominational Secretaries of Ministerial Relief. He said the plan could yield a dollar a day from a dollar a week saved, providing disability or old age support. The actuarial scheme would use four percent interest with semi annual compounding, starting at age twenty five until sixty five to secure lifelong income. He noted promoters target denominations with higher salaries and see Methodists and Baptists as easy marks while supplementing current Methodist pensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
N. J
Methodist Board of Conference
Joseph I. Hingeley
Chicago
Interdenominational Secretaries
Hingeley
Trial by Ordeal in Japan Through Writing Ideographs
The piece notes that some regions in Japan still use an ordeal based on all servants writing a word with a shared brush after a household theft. The method aims to reveal guilt through the conscience and the act of writing. It is presented as more humane than the older boiling water ordeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Notice of Foreclosure on Phippsburg Property
John W. Gilliam conveyed land in Phippsburg Sagadahoc County to the undersigned by mortgage dated February 26 1917 and recorded in Book 122 Page 603 at Fish-house Cove West Point. Breach of mortgage condition triggers foreclosure action dated May 22 1922.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John W. Gilliam
Phippsburg
Sagadahoc
Sagadahoe
Fish-house Cove
West Point
Indigestion Relief Claim From Vermont Man
Chas F Hartwell of Soca Vermont reports severe indigestion three years and credits Fruit a tives or Fruit Laxo Tablets with relief after using a dozen boxes. He describes stomach souring belching and heartburn and notes purchased boxes cost two dollars for six plus a trial size. Proitatives Limited Ogdensburg New York ships dealer access.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sourn Rorantor
Vermont
Chas. F. Hartwell
Proitatives Limited
Ogdensburg
N.Y
Veterans Unite In Observances Parade And Thanks
Miss Madeleine Desmond and several volunteers led veterans in city observances while most marching groups gathered at Grand Army hall for baked beans and cold meats. T W Hyde camp thanks Mayor Torrey donors of autos Sedgwick circle auxiliary and other groups for a successful day and Smith post expresses gratitude to Brown Quimby Ward Rines and a private owner for providing transport for Orphans home children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madeleine Desmond
Eva Lemont
Seth
Mullin
Sewall Webster
Esther Pennell
Elliot A. Fuller
Grand Army Hall
Sedgwick Circle
T. W. Auxiliary
T. W. Hyde Camp
Torrey
T. W. Hyde
Smith Post
Brown & Quimby
Ward Rines
Better Enforcement of Traffic Rules
An Independent letter urges stricter traffic law enforcement and new ordinances. It warns drivers ignore rules, calls for police to share enforcement duties, and favors clearways on Ferry Street and improved safety to protect residents and passengers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Independent
Ferry Street
Probate petition in Sagadahoc for Grace Summer estate
In Bath Sagadahoc County Maine probate court petitions Girard Trust Company and Roland L. Taylor as executors to prove the will of Grace Summer who died April 1 1922 in Bath leaving heirs William T. Plummer George C. Plummer Grace H. P. Cobb Henrietta H. P. Drake. Notice to interested parties via Bath newspaper for June 13 1922 hearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State OF Maine
Sagadanoc
Girard Trust Company
Roland L. Taylor
Iagg Om
Bolindsholt
Pennsylvania
Grace Summer
Bath
William T. Plummer
Ardmore
George C. Plummer
Upper Montclair
Ness
Grace H. P. Cobb
Daughee
Henrietta H. P. Drake
Maine
Girard Trust Co
State of Pennsylvania
Poitedelpnia
GI Trust Company
G. L. Bishop
Clayton M. Gray
Sagadahoc
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The
Bath Times
Henry Villard
Sewall
Reform Cub
P. H. Oliver
John F. Shea
B. F. Briggs
Jordan Whipple
Topsham
Calvin
Henry Turner
Granite Street
Bath Orchestra
Thomas FE. Hagan
Hattie Evelyn
J. A. Cromwell
Gloucester
Mase
James Tobey
B. W
H. F. Morse
Frank Powers
Undine
George Rogie
Reform Club
Ane C. Palmer
Ella Crocker
Charles Crooker
Miss Crooker
Alabama
Gen
Zina Hyde
Anthor Sewall & Co
J. G. Baker
San Francisco
BW. & E. F. Morse
William T. Maddocks
Southport
Luther Maddocks
Boothbay
Marehall Gilman
American Express Co
Samuel Sewall
Rideout House
Edward Sewall
Nobleboro
Joseph York
James Brown
Bath Iron Works
Hyde
Capt
Dudley Gilans
Caledonia
Heughton
Ier
New Meadows
New Orleans
Center Street
T. W. Clark
B. F. Savage
Jim Burr
Freeport Florist
Ir Adams
Felder
Ada A. Mentyre
Grand Marion
St. John
Zina ‘Hi
Webber
Lawrence McNeil
Education Board
John J. Keegan
Leland R. Mitchell
William A. Furber
John BE. Burkhardt
Jos. Torrey
Jerome K. Jerome
James S. Lowell
Probaig
Attam F. Dune Register of Probate
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