Bath News Roundup of Local Events and Incidents
A Bath city notes concrete garage construction for a new Cadillac arriving for Mr and Mrs Ernest A Allan. Walter S Russell enters flour grain and feed trade in Shaw block near Center Street. County Republicans plan convention in Bath June 9. Local field committee receives wooden foul boards as a gift. Lincoln Congregational churches and ministers gather at Phippsburg Center next Tue and Wed. Open cars emerge as warmer weather returns. not yet daily service. Crows damage crops prompting farmer boy opportunities. County commissioners meet next Tuesday to discuss State road layout in Phippsburg. Oakledge dining hall on New Meadows River to be ready June 15 and double as a dance hall. Hyde Guards to occupy Armory hall with rooftop range finding addition. DeMott to preach Morse High graduation sermon. Children’s Day at Central Church June 19. Veterans debate Memorial Day date. unsure if May 30 or last Sunday in June. Cuban gunboat Harvey at Bath Iron Works for repairs after arriving Saturday. James T Morse steamer sunk at dock and floated by Boston Towboat. Memorial Day street condition blamed on North Street. Shell tests injure ram Katahdin. hole near waterline but vessel to be raised and retargeted. Sheriff Ballon walks cemetery with Acadia lodge Knights of Pythias. peers praise him. Solar lodge Masons hold two special communications to confer degrees on Dr William H Tukey, returning from Philippines as army surgeon captain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hyde Guards
Armory Hall
George C. DeMott
Morse High School
Central Church
Boston Towboat Company
North Street
Bath
FISH WAR AT WINNEGANCE RECALLS BASS DAYS
Old days of bass fishing at Winnegance creek are recalled as a dispute over alewives traps floods marshes near the head of the creek. Marsh owners protest. fishermen claim right to place traps. Possible nav water ruling could force a draw in Winneganee bridge, with Bath and Phippsburg bearing costs. Colonel George A. Zinn may be brought in to decide.
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Winnegance Creek
War Department
Winneganee Creek
Winhneganee Bridge
Bath
Phippsburg
George A. Zinn
Portland
Card of Thanks from Bath residents June 1910
The families of Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Clifford and Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Aitken thank friends and neighbors in Bath for kind assistance during their recent trouble.
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E. D. Clifford
H. H. Aitken
Bath
Fredericks Accepts Fine Position With Boston Construction
Friends of H F Fredericks and family in Bath regret his move after 11 years. He will lead the erection of a reinforced concrete storage building for the Massachusetts Cotton Mills at Lowell, a 100 by 200 foot, 12 story structure, under Aberthaw Construction of Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. F. Fredericks
Bath
Mr. Fredericks
Aberthaw Construction Company
Boston
Massachusetts Cotton Mills
Lowell
Fredericks
West Bath Grange Brother Night Program Affects Members
Monday night at West Bath grange features a program with singing by the male choir readings by Brothers Henry Rose Fred Carey and E W Haggett duets by Wright Ring and others plus a humorous piece by Captain W R Kimball. Afterward sisters will be honored at a banquet and a tucker game. Also notes on local farming repairs and Memorial Day activities followed by a Colonial Club meeting next Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath Grange
Story
Henry Rose
Harry Wright
Quick Time at Bowdoinham Plant With German Cargo
Sagadahoc Fertilizer works in Bowdoinham faced a spring rush with crews working late every night to fill orders. A German steamer delivered 2000 bags of material to Boston, then Bowdoinham, and by 1 PM the fertilizer produced from part of that cargo was on rail to Bangor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sagadahoc Fortiger Company
Bowsoinham
Boston
Bowdoinham
Bowdeinham
Bangor
Death of Miss Lucy Ann Williams L ived and died at Foster's Point
Miss Lucy Ann Williams born March 17 1833 at Foster's Point died June 5 after months of declining health. Daughter of Deacon Joel and Dolly Williams she lived in Brunswick and Bath as a tailoress. A First Baptist Church member and West Bath Grange member she left two nieces and a nephew. Funeral at family home Sunday at two p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucy Ann Williams
Miss Williams
Joel and
Dolly (Bacheloer) Williams
Foster's Point
Brunswick
Bath
Miss Wiliams
First Baptist Church
West Bath Grange
Lfe
Belle D
Annie A. Williams
Elmer B. Williams
John 3. Williams
John 8. Williams
John Williams
Henry R. Reich of West Bath Dead at 77
Henry R. Rich of West Bath died Tuesday after a long illness aged 77. Funeral services were held the next day with a large procession of nearly 25 carriages. He was a West Bath native, a mason by trade, a granger, and highly respected. He leaves his wife, two daughters, and a son.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry R. Rich
West Bath
N. B. Cook
Beacon Street
Mr. Rich
Harry
Miss Odie
Nathaniel Butler
Malden
Card of Thanks for Town Hall prize in Phippsburg
Mrs Walter Small thanks friends for help in winning a prize given by Mr and Mrs Armond at the Town Hall Phippsburg in a voting contest The prize consisted of three pieces of silver Winnegance Me June 3 1910
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Armond
Phippsburg
Walter Small
Winnegance, Me
Lifesaving Crew At Popham Beach Break Ends August
The life saving crew at Popham Beach went off duty Tuesday night at midnight and will not resume until August 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Popham Beach
Also Mentioned on This Page
Cadillac
Ernest A. Allan
Walter S. Russell
Shaw Block
Center Street
Republican County Committee
New Meadows Inn
City Athletic Field Committee
Lincoln Association of Congregational Churches and Ministers
Phippsburg Center
Oakledge
New Meadows
John W. Ballon
Acadia Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Solar Lodge of Masons
William H. Tukey
Philippines
Winnegance
Winnenganee Creek
E. Bairy
Sagadahock Block
Glensalls Insurance
Glens Falls
N.Y
ZOO Ooo
Crosby CO
Maine
Woolwich Mutual Fire Insurance Company
Woolwich
STSR
A. C. Hathorne
West Bate
Reading
Fred Carey
E. W. Haggett
Fulton Durgan
Bros. Wright
Ring
Fred Wright
Capt
W. R. Kimball
Herbert Hodgkins
Fred Willis
Fred. Ring
Lincoln Williams
Wright
A. H. Donnell
C. E. Rogers
Ernest. Rose
G. K
Alvah Higgins
Elmer Rich
Ceres
Thomas — Perkins
David Malcolm
Fred W. Larrabee
Walter Larrabee
Irving Wallace
Ralph Silsby
I. B. Neiley
Lewis H. Curtis
C. F. Dolliver
Arthur Woodhouse
Lisbon Falls
Colonial Club
Sagadahoc
Henry RR. Reich
Swett’s
Lycal
Forterma
Homer N Chase & Co
Nurserymen
Auburn
Plymouth
J. JF Upton
Clover Business College
Dover
Mra FB Nichols
North St. Bathean
Holland
Park & Pollard
Park X& Pollard Poultry Almanac
Messrs Kimball Bros
Wb&e P Kendall
Alton S Frost
Glass Sale
China
Dent
Percy’s
Wve
David
USA
Fred T Carter
Coma B Carter
Johnson
Serge
Thompson Bros
Kimball Bros.co
City Wharf
D. & C. E. Scribner
Brunswick, Maine
Scribner’s
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