Bath items sketch coastal life and naval visits
Local notes from Bath cover baptisms at Winter Street Church and a 40 pound sturgeon caught on Monday night. Reports include painting at a residence, church services, rock filling on Center Street, a new gas engine for lighter Hattie B, and navy destroyers docking in Bath to recruit. Also announced is Bowdoin College’s Dudley Coe Memorial infirmary gift, the George Popham excursion boat debut, and social events and plant updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winter Street
al Ridley
Charles A. Coombs
Scott Golder
Harold Snowden
Winneganee
Arthur Stevens
Oliver House
Bay View
Popham
Center St
Soldiers’ Monument
Crocker
Hattie B
Texas Yard
Center Hill
Shaw building work begins on Front Street
Brick work has begun on the Shaw building Front St. Reports note lobster shortages in Bath yet ample supply in Lewiston and Augusta. Morris High School Glee Club enjoyed a Squirrel Island outing. Keel plates punched at Texas yard for steamship No 1. Beacons and shaves rise on Sundays. Torpedo boat destroyer Fanning stays in river. Republicans held a lovefeast at New Meadows Inn. Samuel Belanger owns a pure Guernsey heifer calf. Clifford Aitken visits from Beachmont as guest of the Williamses. Two sturgeon caught near Gardiner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shaw
Front St
Bath
Lewiston
Augusta
Frank Wilson
New York Shipbuilding Co
Morse High School
Squirrel Island
Texas Yard
Beacon St. Dorcas Guild
F. A. Bowie
Drummond St
Fanning
New Meadows Inn
Samuel Belanger
Belanger
Clifford Aitken
Beachmont
Mass
Herbert E. Williams
Sabine
Aitken
H. A. Owen
Gardiner
Frank Edgecomb
Wesley Sorority
Richard Marr
Blanche Houston
Boston & Maine R. A
New York
Bar Harbor
Maine Central
Sagadahoe County
Grand Jury
United States District Court
Bangor
Maine
Sagadahoe
Rufus A. Dickinson
Bowdoinham
Harvey P. Hathorne
Woolwich
Samuel E. Meserve
Lincoln Williams
West Bath
Morris McDonald
Ricker and Winslow
Maine Central R. R
Rockland
John 5. Hyde
Congress
Boy Scouts
Bertram Willis
Willis
Perth Amboy
Earle Pinkham
Merritt P. Pinkham
Dublin Point Light
George W. Lynch
Lynch Homestead
Pearl St
Lynch
Coburn Hotel
Skowhegan
Haines
Deermont Co displays renovated by W M Potter
Beacons street church groups meet for social activities while city notes cover renovations at Deermont Clothing Co and wiring of Columbia Chambers. Local events include lawn party planning, river shore visits, and weather across Bath with a Water District flushing schedule. A Bath funeral, a ferry captain's election, and a yacht sale to a Norwegian buyer are also reported along with a missing Waterville youth and a Chelmsford escape during Memorial exercises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deermont Clothing Co
W. M. Potter
R. W. Conforth
Columbia Chambers
Dorcas Guild of
Beacon Street
Fred Bowie
Drummond St
Odd Ladies’ Sewing Circle
Emma Knowlton
Middle St
Bath area notes and maritime items in July 1916 issue
Clintonia blooms as Bath Trust Co building gets black paint. Hyde Windlass Co. men Harrington and Goodwin trip to New York. Bath visitors the Duntons from Portland vacationing at Riggsville. Edgecomb quarterly conference at Corliss St. Church featured several ministers. Freeman Oliver to engineer a Bath yacht with a 10-14 h p engine. commission planned mid June. Phi Rho year end gathering at Morse High with officers elected. Rumor of a secret Japan Germany pact to seek costs from the U S. Feero buys Morse property at Water and Vine streets. Morse grocery business ends after 44 years. Four masted schooner Charles D. Loveland, owned by S. Loveland Co. and C. H. Saunders, arrives in Liverpool after record voyage. Eggemoggin girls camp planned for New Meadows River. 15 girls booked. U S local seamen certificate inspections set for Bath June 13 1916. Maine centennial observances planned with Old Home Week aims. plan seeks statewide events at Augusta Portland and schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clintonia
Bath Trust Co
Charles H. Harrington
Edward Goodwin
Hyde Windlass Co
New York
Ralph Dunton
Portland
Bath
Riggsville
Corliss St
Edgecomb
A. D. Paul
Lewiston
J. A. Hamlen
India
C. A. Baker
Boothbay
Plinette Al_len
Woolwich
Freeman Oliver
Popham
Bethel
C. F. Hathaway
Phi Rho
Morse High
Japan
Germany
America
United States
H. H. Feero
New Method Laundry
A. A. Morse
Water and
Vine Sts
Minneapolis
John H. Morse
Charles D. Loveland
Percy & Small Yard
Liverpool
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Loveland
S. Loveland Co
C. H. Saunders
Orland
E. L. Montgomery
Morse High School
Natick, Mass
Long Island
New Meadows
Wilson
Brunswick
Montgomery
U. S
Bath Custom House
Public Health Service
Boothbay Harbor
Custom House
B. H. Coughlin
Augusta
Maine
Bath area notes and maritime moves in June report
The report covers a Naval recruiting station opening at Custom House, yacht movements from Reuss and a Norfolk coal charter for Rio Janeiro at a record high rate. It notes a Beacon Street Woman's Home Missionary Society meeting, school visiting day, tug operations, and the Willys-Overland motor car combine plan. It also covers Bath film casting news, local travel for Albert Kimball, Sagadahoc Pomona Grange events, and gypsy encampment stock theft around Rockland Bath and Woolwich with missing hens and eggs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Custom House
Cecil E. Paine
High St
Reuss
Winchester
New York
Craw
Beacon Street
Norfolk
Rio Janeiro
Ariel
James Young
Bath
Seguin
Addie P. McFadden
McFadden
Kendalls
Bowdeinham
John N. Willys
Willys-Overland Co
Bath Iron Works
Wil Ilys
Wittys-Overiland
Hudson, Chalmers
Auto-Lite
Webber
The
Opera House
Albert H. Kimball
Kimball
J. S. Temple of Reading
Mass
Woolwich Grange
Five Islands Grange
Sagadahoc
Fulton
Woolwich
John Gonyea
Gonyea
Local clubs update on elections and meetings
Lincoln Lodge I C C F reports voting hours for coming primaries from noon to 9 p m. Beacon Street Church and Unity Guild hold meetings while Tex as highway gates block Front St. Masons confer M M degree with a full orchestra and lunch. Spicer brothers tour to Boston for beaches and Old Orchard. May enrollments boost Gorham Normal School class on track with a long list of new entrants. Glee Club teams Doo Flinkers beat Hinky Dinks 10 to 1 at Squirrel Island with Myrle Strong as umpire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln Lodge
I.C.C.F
Rhodora
Unity Guild
First Baptist Church
Arthur Dunton
Washington St
Men's Club
Beacon Street
Front St
Texas
Masonic Hall
Bertha Crossman
William Crafts
Solar Lodge
F.&a.m
Boston
Bath
Old Orchard
Hampton
York
Bowdoinham Baptist Association
Bowdoin Free Baptist Conference
Joseph White
W. H. White
Auburn Free Baptist Church
Gorham Normal School
Delia S. Bowden
Freeport
Mabel F. Libby
Gorham
Winifred N. Getchell
Dresden Mills
Dorothy Lermond
Doris S. Jones
Woodfords
Lyllian M. Spinney
So. Eliot
Beulah Jewell
M. Alice Niles
Portland
M. H. S. Glee Club
Doo-Flinkers
Hinkey Dinks
Squirrel Island
Walter Hill
Leon Mason
Herbert Douglass
Norman Howard
Hinky Dinks
Marshall MacDonald
Francis McPherson
Otis Card
Percy Low
MacDonald
Hill
Myrle Strong
Miss Bakeman
Squirrel
Boothbay Harbor
Boothbay
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South End
Robinson's Lane
A. W. Flint
Leonard & Mitchell Pharmacy
Marsh Drug Co
Sangerville
John McInnes
Frank A. Small
Cadillac
M. A. Johnson
Sagadahoc County
Wallace H. White, Jr
Knox
Lincoln
Solomon
G. M. Cook
Jenkins
Lieut
A. W. Sears
Paulding
Lieut. Howard
Searsport
Navy
George Popham
Popham Beach Steamboat Co
Bay Point
Down River
Methodist General Conference
Saratoga Springs
N. Y
Edwin H. Hughes
New England
Hamilton
San Francisco
Hughes
Matt
Chestnnut St
California
Oklahoma
Pasadena
Ramona Council
Daughters of Pocahontas
Red Men's Hall
Wesley M. E. Church
Annie Wyllie
Trufant's Crossing
Hardings
Iun
William Thistle
Hampshire
Times
Oak St
Bath Water District
Water District
Front and Center Sts
Flore E. Hathorn
Green St
Gould J. Brown
New Church
William E. Hogan
Capt
Albert Thompson
Albert Hathorn
G. M. Stinson
Oak Grove
Perry Colby
Horkomock
Capt. Colby
Capt. Gray
Charles Dreyfus
Conegress
State of Maine
R. H. White
Norway
David W. Simpson
Charles Moyr
Moyr
Path Iron Works
Kenneth Tullar
Boyden St
Waterville
Middlesex County
Charles Simmons
Thomas Mulhearn
Chelmsford
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