Eightieth Birthday of West Bath Resident Charles Bates
In his eightieth year Charles Bates enjoyed a quiet birthday at home in West Bath. A former warden famed for enforcing bass fishing laws, Bates traveled to California during the Civil War era and spent decades at shipyards in Bath and the Deering yard. He remains active on his West Bath farm, with a history of fighting poachers on Winnegance Creek alongside James Baley.
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Charles Bates
West Bath
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Gardiner
Leeds
Phippsburg
White Place
Dromore
Winneganee
Charles Trask
Percy & Small
Bath
Deering Yard
California
West
Winnégunce Creek
James Baley
Bates
Winnegance
Wealth and Beauty Mark Sewall Silver Wedding in Bath
June ninth marked the silver wedding of Mr. and Mrs. William D. Sewall in Bath. Guests from New York Worcester Boston Brunswick Portland Lewiston attended the elegant affair at York Hall with a Boston catering team, Michaelmas daisies, and a menu including timbales salmon and ices.
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William D. Sewall
Ships
Bath
York Hall
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En Mases
Cook
Boston
Sewall
Arthur Sewall
Margaret
Dorothy
Yale
Independent
George Hutchins
Henry Kellett
Worcester
Mass
Joseph Noyes
Philip Deering
Walter Fogg
Harry Virgin
William Bradley
F. D. True
Charles
Lewiston
Arthur Staples
Hartley €. Baxter
Baxter
Tuttle
Haskell
William Houghton
Carmer
W. F Senter
Charles Gilman
Gilman
van Holt
Miss Tuttle
Miss Parmenter
Pischel
Bowdoin College
Arthur and
Algernon Gibson
Stanley W. Pierce
Harold Marchette
William Clifford
Donald Sewall
Notable Bath Anniversary and Georgetown Old-People Feature
The piece recalls a Bath anniversary with family and guests including Yale student Arthur Sewall 2nd and many out of town attendees. It then profiles Georgetown’s senior citizens Capt. Langdon Oliver and Silas Trafton, detailing pilots, ships, and local history, plus a long note on the Swett family and local heritage along the Kennebec.
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Hanover
Kennebec
Oliver
Popham
Parker's Point
Anson M. Oliver
Popham Beach
Georgetown
Silas Trafton
Ado
Mr. Trafton
Robin Hood
Robin Hood Cove
Trafton
First Maine Cavalry
Gen. Sheridan
Phil
Sheridan
St. Paul
Charles Swett
Mnother
Mr. Swett
Bath
Cambridge
Mass
Peter Peterson
Quarry Labor Bustles as Feldspar Shipments Pour Out
The Georgetown feldspar quarry saw heavy activity last month with 46 car loads and one schooner load shipped. One blast yielded enough rock to nearly fill a schooner, with much rock transported to Bath via lighters and cars, the lighter towed by a dedicated gasoline launch.
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Georgetown
The
Independent
Bath
Lucky find in trousers hides a 20 franc coin
A Bowdoinham man bought worn trousers for under a dollar in a city second hand shop and found a 20 franc coin sewn near the waistband. In Bath a fine automobile in Lewiston was scratched with a sharp instrument, requiring a painter to remove the mark on its return.
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the Independent
High Street
Bath
Bowdoinham
Lewiston
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