Forty Years Ago in Bath May 31 1893 Races at Bath driving park discussed
Bath readers learn of upcoming horse races with Bath horses and entrants from event towns. Plans to move the W S Russell building to make way for a new Y M C A and theatre are explored. A proposed Natick shirt factory, funding by Newell Cooper, and local street sidewalk debates appear, alongside curious incidents on Commercial Street and at the ferry dock.
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Bath
W. S. Russell
Front Street
Y.M.C.A
Boston
Commerce and
Front Streets
Hodgkins
Times
Newell Cooper
Natick
Mass
Cooper
Commercial Street
Ferry Sree
Terra Firma
Evergreen trees beautify Washington Street grounds
On June 1 1893 Arthur Sewall received fine evergreen trees by express to enhance the grounds around his Washington Street home. Rustic seats were added to the park for travelers to rest and admire the surroundings, marking a welcome improvement. Also notes on a superstition about burnt carbon in pockets and local shad fishing, a fountain modification, a fifth birthday party for Miss Gertie Schofield with gifts, and Maine Central conductors organizing gunning parties for Maine shooting grounds.
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Arthur Sewall
Express
Washington Street
Maine Central
Boston
New York
Maine
Bath Gunboat Machias Sets Sail For New London Trials
On June 2 1893 the Machias is to sail from Bath for New London at two pm with definite orders not yet received. It is expected to reach Sunday and conduct preliminary spins over the course Monday Tuesday and Wednesday. The official trial is anticipated Thursday. The ship appears ready with stores aboard and minor work finishing. The Bath warship prepares for its government trial.
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Athough
New London
Bath
Kennebec
June 5 1893 Maine druggists meet in Bangor
The Maine druggists will meet in Bangor on the 21st and 22nd of this month. A special meeting of the water works committee was held at City Hall Friday. The schooner E H Cornell was moved to the railway to be coppered. Canton King P M and S O O F conferred degrees on three candidates. Juno yacht at wharf for summer cruising after renovation. Percy Mitchell supplied complete furniture for steamship King Philip and schooner William Van Brunt. Charles Hooper recovering from a fall and back in town yesterday. Rose whist party hosted by Mr and Mrs Nathaniel Palmer for Miss Grace Sanborn with 50 young guests and prizes awarded.
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Maine Druggists
Bangor
Committee On Water Works
Percy & Mitchell
William van Brunt
Nathaniel Palmer
Grace Sanborn
Great Falls
N. H
Ed Drake
Miss Denham
Harry Owen
Hortense Smith
Electric road work to begin in Bath this week
The Bath project announces arrival of crew to lay rails for a new electric road. Work starts immediately with material arriving early next week. Guests at an event included Mr. Mason of New Hampshire and Messrs. Stetson and Owen of Bowdoin. The project aims to have the line finished and running promptly.
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Bath
Gould Comments Highlight Bath Drum Major Eddie Emmons
Edwin L. Emmons of Bath, famed drum major, is praised by John T. Gould in Gimblings in the Wake. Gould lauds Emmons as a martial figure, riding time’s parade and still swift with his cane, while humorously critiquing electric bills and a maddening CMP bill calculation.
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Edwin L. Emmons
Bath
John T. Gould
Brunswick Record
Mr. Gould
Eddie Emmons
Brunswick
Eddie
Maine
Arthur Staples
Riverside School Graduation Reflects Cony High Ties
At Riverside School in Vassalboro four seniors Dorothy Lizotte Juliet Lizotte Hazel Mitton and Lawrence Cayford attended graduation with Everett Veeon principal of Cony High School. They visited Cony High last Thursday and three of the pupils plan to enter Cony as freshmen next September. Accompanying them was Riverside Principal Scott Lewis.
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Everett V. Eon
Cony High School
Riverside
Vassalboro
Cony High
Dorothy Lizotte
Julliette Lizotte
Hazel Mitton
Lawrence Cayford
Scott Lewis
Bangor Library to mark golden anniversary on June 7
Various civic clubs and literary groups join in commemorating the Bangor Public Library birth with an all day program on Wednesday June 7. Open house will run all day inviting all residents of northeastern Maine to visit and inspect the institution and its contributions to community life.
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Bangor Public Library
Maine
Tomatoes Warrant Much Wider Uses Claims Specialist
How many tomato plants to set out is debated as gardeners prepare transplants. Therese E. Wood advises six to ten plants per person to supply fresh eating and canning for about two servings weekly. She extols tomatoes for flavor, color, variety, and year round availability. The fruit supplies vitamins C, A, and B, aiding growth and appetite, and tomato juice helps infants’ vitamin intake while retaining more vitamin C when cooked or canned.
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Therese E. Wood
Extension Service
Miss Wood
Memorial Is Pomona Feature
Flora of the State grange and wife of Harry B Crawford of Houston state master recently died Efforts are underway to raise funds for the Boys and Girls Educational fund and a Good Will farm donation Pomona will host next meeting with Isles grange June 28 and the fifth degree conferred A memorial address by Mrs Sawyer and hymns conclude the event, with grange officers and local dignitaries noted.
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Flora
State Grange
Harry B. Crawford
Houston
Grange
Boys and Girls Educational Fund
Pomona
Good Will
Lyman
Albert Henderson
Sagadahoc Pomona
Emily Rideout
Merrymeeting
Evelyn Nickerson
Topsham
Lizzie Haggett
West Bath
Bessie Dickinson
Dremere
Lillian Smith
Naples
Flora Risteen
Dromore
Marion Plummer
Bath
Brunswick High Defeats Morse 9 To 5 In Final League Game
Brunswick High topped Morse 9 5 at Kelley Field as 11 Brunswick hits and Morse fielding errors helped Brunswick build an early lead. W Marriner and McCrum fueled Brunswick with key hits and strong defense, while Henderson relieved for Morse but could not stop the visitors. Haynes Parks and Huse contributed for Morse, but Brunswick sealed the win behind solid first baseman play and timely scoring in the 3rd through 6th innings.
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Morse High
Kelley Field
Cony
Brunswick High
Brunswick Boys
Bath Lads
Woodward
Leon Buck
Morse
Vin Henderson
Morse Moundsman
Dobransky
Snowdon
Hase
McCrum
Sarkis
Fortin
W. Marriner
Haynes
N. Marriner
Parks
Buck
Brunswick
Huse
Pouliot
Warren
Williams
Henderson
Bath Boys
Harrington
McElman
Willow
Marriner
Eeee Fortin
Eetee Pouliot
P Pee Eeee Warren
C Pee Eeesees Sparks
Rf Williams
Beens
King
Harrington Haynes
N Marriner
C. Coffin
P. Coffin
Bowdoin Com mencement buttons to be given at library desk
Returning alumni will receive black and white celluloid buttons the size of a silver dollar during registrations at Bowdoin College. The discs bear necessary identification marks and lack ribbons.
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Bowdoin
Bath Baseball Team Loses at Lewiston in Pine Tree League
Bath fails to contain Lewiston Auburn in a 18 run rout at Lewiston Athletic Park. Gaudette leads Lewiston with four hits and four RBIs. Hayes and Oliver split pitching duties for Bath, while Bath errors fuel the surge. Monks, Gouger, Wiseman, and Gaudette among top hitters for Lewiston in a high scoring contest.
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Lewiston Buccaneers
Lewiston Athletic Park
Bath
Bucky Gaudett
Bath Boys
Mark Hayes
Cannonball Oliver
Hayes
Alphonse and Gaston
Oliver
Cannonball
Lewiston
Buccaneers
Gaudette
Cutting
Fors Beniston
Gouger
Monk
Poirier
Noel
Edward Little
Aliaio
Callan
Melsten Sgboee
Sheridan
Cloyited
the Whitehouse
Csssbahiee
Lewiston-Au Burn
Juneau
Hachey
Brown
Holland
Eewa Ne
Thigeeitas
Wiseman
Sanborn
Thiayer
Miller
Thayer
Auburn
Goover
Murphy
Park Alley Bowlers Annual Banquet Report
Park Alley Bowling League held its annual banquet at Hotel Phoenix with 25 diners. Ralph Gilchrist presided in Pepper’s absence. Preston Farrar served as toastmaster. William Ketchum and Walter Small spoke for their clubs as did Richard Frates, league star. Frates was elected president for next year with Lothrop as vice president and Small as secretary. Gilchrist received $10 for services. each pin boy gets $2. Flowers donated by Pepper. thanks to him approved.
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Park Alley
Hotel Phoenix
Ralph Gilchrist
Frank Pepper
Preston Poke Farrar
William Ketchum
Baxters
Walter Small
The
Willows
Richard Frates
Shamrocks
Gilchrist
Leroy Lothrop
Secrece
Pepper
Bear sighting on Haines hill baffles Maine residents
Mrs Bernite Morrison and Mrs the Whittaker of Ellsworth slowed for a bear crossing on Haines hill near Bangor. Believing it tame from Ben nock's Goose Pond Rest zoo, they reported seeing a bear back along. Bennock denied ownership, insisting his bears are present. The animal appeared large and wild, offering a missed chance for a scare.
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Bernite Morrison
the Whittaker
Ellsworth
Bangor
Haines Hill
Bennock
Goose Pond Rest
Benneck
Plan to Control Turbines From Bridge
Dr. Alexanderson of General Electric proposes vacuum tube control to regulate turbine speed from the bridge for electrically driven ships. Turbines run constant, but impulse frequency to propeller motors is altered, letting captains govern speed like adjusting a radio volume.
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E. F. W. Alexanderson
General Electric Company
Dr. Alexanderson
Alexanderson
Turts
Suspended Sentence for Illegal Fire Set on Estate
A North End resident pleaded guilty in municipal court to starting a bonfire without a permit from the chief of the fire department or the city marshal. Judge John J. Keegan granted a suspended sentence after acknowledging the lack of ability to pay a fine and warned against further fires. The case was unrelated to a nearby woods fire on the Rowe estate.
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North End
John J. Keegan
Rowe Estate
Despondent Woman Triggers Scare Overboard Call
City Marshal Walter L. Whitney handled a quiet noon until a New York line call claimed a wife had jumped into the river. The anonymous telegram prompted an immediate check at the North end address. The despondent wife admitted sending the wire to her husband to create worry.
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Walter L. Whitney
New York
North End
Marshal Whitney
Extensive repairs at Crosman home on High Street under way
Extensive repairs and alterations to the late Mr. and Mrs. John H. Crosman home at 409 High Street are being carried out by their son Harry W. Crosman. When complete, likely in early fall, the Crosmans will move from 433 High Street. The Coombs family of 52 Union Street plans to move into the Crosman home after summer, the Coombs returning from Bay Point.
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John H. Crosman
High Street
Harry W. Crosman
Cony high school adds new student spirit award
Principal Everett V. Perkins announced a new prize at chapel exercises during commencement week. Miss Doris Harvey funded the award with five dollars in gold for the girl who best shows school spirit, as judged by senior Student Council members, class officers, and faculty heads of departments. Doris Harvey joined Cony in 1932 and left for Tren ton New Jersey with her family mid year.
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Cony High School
Everett V. Perkins
Doris Harvey
Cony
Trenton
N. J
Schooner Frederick P. Elkin Arrives After 33 Day Barbados Trip
The schooner Frederick P. Elkin under Captain George A. Horn docked in Bangor Friday at 4 21 PM completing a 33 day voyage from Barbados. It carried a cargo of a thousand puncheons of molasses with about 100 000 gallons of the sweetening bound for the T R Savage Co.
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Frederick P. Elkin
George A. Horn
Bangor
Barbados
T. R. Savage Co
Final account of Edgar C Murphys estate in Bath
In Sagadahoc county Bath probate court on May 17 1933 Rose F Murphy executrix of Edgar Carlton Murphy requests final account for allowance. The court orders notice by publication in the Bath Independent for three weeks and a probate hearing at Bath on the second Tuesday of June 1933 at nine o clock to show cause why the account should not be allowed.
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State OF Maine
Sagadahoc
Bath
Rose F. Murphy
Edgar Carlton Murphy
Sagatahoc
Eppear
Bainsard
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Bath Daily Times
Frank Gardiner
Portland
S. H. Anderon
Popham
Alameda
M. A. Parker
Bowdoin College
Clark
William E. Pond
F. H. Kimball
Simpson’s
George P. Newman
Hallowell
Train
Perry
Adams
Jake
Arthur Pepper
Sydney McPher
Lowell
Charles Kelley
Boston Boat
Volney Streamer
J. S. Deering
Hawley's Yard
Silsby
Massachusetts
Welch
Phoenix
Sagadahock
Holly Tree Inn
Universalist
William H. Smith
Middle Street
Will Oliver
Parker's Head
Phippsburg
Mr. Thompson
Harpswell
Chase House
Squirrel Island
Elmer F. Hayes
Capt. Weaver
Myra B. Weaver
George Eustis
Chicago
Oak Point
Southport
Harold
Jessie Eustis
Philadelphia
the Times
Gertie Schofield
Lincoln Street
Gertie
Bath Iron Works
E. H. Cornell
Canton King P. M., S. O. O. F
Houghton
Juno
Charles Hooper
Yesteray
Gould
College Town
Shipping City Lads
Chadwick Wiggins
John Crosby
Wiggin
Gene Grover
Crosby
Francis Howland
I. H. Holbrook
General Electric
Walter S. Glidden
William F. Dunham
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