Forty Years Ago in Bath Local Notes from June 5 1895
W Nichols was in Augusta on business. Arthane went to Boston on the boat. James Hogan works for the Kennebec and Boston Express Co. Samuel Welch will move into the Moses house on Washington Street next week. The Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor toured Popham by steamer Percy V to Rev. Dunnell's cottage Rio Vesta. Others joined the party aboard the Kennebec. G W Russell posted bills for the coming circus on June 15. A model electric car is being built at Bath High School by Hennessey and Williams. Motorman trainee Alex Sprague will soon work on Portland’s new line. Kingsbury to pursue city case over hog bite injuries. Charles M Snow bought a cottage lot at Happy Nook. Archie Dowling and Della Gannon wed at St Mary’s Church. The couple to reside with the groom on Shaw Street. Delegates to the Universalist convention from Bath attend in Dexer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Welch
Moses House
Washington Street
W. G. Kidder
Mr. Welch
Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor of
Central Church
Sone
Popham
Percy V
Popham Beach
A. F. Dunnell
Rio Vesta
Byron Barker
Arthur Brown
M. K. Murray
Mr. Sanglier
William Robinson
Foote
Addie
Jennie Harvey
Harriet Ledyard
Nellie Chadbourne
Grace Humphreys
Edith Rice
Mrs. Pendexter
Hattie Pendexter
Archie Dowling
Della Gannon
St. Mary’s Church
John O'Brien
Bath
Harold Battison
Long Island City
N. Y
Grace Church Parish House
Mr. Trott
Jennie M. Besaw
Edith Berry Horne
Harry L. Horne
Louise Child Watson
Waterville
Galen Watson
John C. Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald
Dora Hathorne Beal
Rowland Beal
Warren F. Hawley
Hawley
Robert H. Haskell
Ida Knowlton Ames
Charles Ox Nard
West Medford
Mass
Marguerite Bullman Cutting
Harold E. Cutting
Ella Rice Jaquith
H. Edward Jaquith
Walter C. Rogers
Katherine Sullivan McDonough
Medford
Dorothy Tarbox
Boston
Clara Williams Oliver
Harry F. Oliver
Ida Kimball
Frank Coleman
Ruth Marion Cahill
Leonard H. Gibson
Margaret Hall
Nellie Stinson
Earle Chandler Daley
Ambrose Clyde Feere
Haskell
Legard
Frank Lightbody
Grace Roberts
Wilmer I. Voorhees
Fred D. Hill
William H. Small
John H. Hunt
Marius H. Page
Ferry L. Thompson
Herman W. Crock
Emma Lowell
Anna Trott
Hubert McCarty
Herbert Calderwood
Paul Mason
Gladys Ginty
Arthur C. Norton
W. Dayton Hill
Wilson
F. Elizabeth Rice
Rosalys D. Desjardins
Margery C. Haskell
Mary B. Hodgkins
Alma E Allen
Rice
Beth Trott
Catherine Shellenbarger
Marguerite Rogers
Cartie Shaw
Trott
Ellen B. Hodgkins
Cecile Veilleux
Miss Rice
Elizabeth J. Butterfield
Bath Notes From June 1895 Local News
A Bath city column reports June 1895 events including visits by Wallace McKay and Mrs. Corliss, numerous social calls, real estate activity, a yacht and steam launch, residents traveling to Bangor Boston and Vermont, council petitions, a high school field day set for June 22, and a thunderbolt striking a church steeple.
Local appeals for street extension and Fourth of July salute
The text notes a proposed new street from Lincoln westward to land owned by Henry T. Ring and others. It mentions a national salute firing on Independence Day and bells rung at sunrise noon and sunset.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry T. Ring
Lincoln
Silver coinage views and local notices in Brunswick session
Joseph Avery was injured at his livery stable on Center street when kicked by a spirited animal. Dr Tukey treated him at home with likely several days confinement and possible internal injuries feared. Officials from Montgomery and St Bernard Royal Arch Chapter attended Brunswick Chapter with a report of good work and a fine banquet. Arthur Sewall discussed silver coinage, favoring 16 to 1, criticizing a single gold basis as unsafe for finances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Avery
Center Street
Dr. Tukey
Maxwell
Supt. Campbell
Water Works
John R. Knowlton
H. B. Johnson
William Mampel
Charles M. Snow
John Webster
Montgomery
St. Bernard Royal Arch
Brunswick
The
Times Today
Arthur Sewall
Alumni Banquet Highlights Long Reach of Class of 1910
The Bath Bathing area alumni banquet celebrated the 25th reunion of the class of 1910 with Frank Lightbody of Quincy and 47 members present. President Wilson noted gifts from 1909 and 1910, welcomed older and younger classes, and honored Dr. Winchenbach for community service. The event featured a banquet, entertainment, and dancing ending at midnight.
Sacred Heart Circle June Meeting Notes
Sacred Heart circle of the Daughters of Isabella met in K C hall with good attendance despite rain. Four new members admitted. Plans include a June 19 telephone bridge and whist at Mrs. McLaughlin’s Willow street home, with contract and auction. July picnic set, study clubs paused until Fall. social committee meeting Thursday at 7 30 led by Mrs. Grace Cunningham. list of committee members. One member, Mrs. Frank H. Green, is hospitalized in Portland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacred Heart Circle
Daughters of Isabella
K. C. Hall
Daniel J. Perry
James E. McLaughlin
Willow Street
George Nugent
Grace Cunningham
John McDonald
Ight
Annie Wilson
Arthur Jenkins
Albert G. Lesier
William McGlinchy
Josephine Eastman
Ella ‘Hart
James E. Cameron
Edward J. Murphy
Obituary of Charles A Thorne 83 Portland Bath Native
Charles A Thorne aged 83 died in Portland on Wednesday. He lived in Bath and worked in the brass foundry at Torrey Roller Bushing Works for many years. The funeral is set for Friday at 1 PM at his home 153 Stanford Street South Portland and his body will be taken to Bath for burial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. F. Finley
Bangor
Mr. Finley
Bath Iron Works
Queen City
Charles A. Thorne
Portland
Bath
George Thorne
Thorne
Torrey Roller Bushing Works
Stanford Street
South
Mrs Emma E Brooks Dies After Paralytic Stroke
Mrs Emma Elizabeth Brooks 78 widow of Melvin Brooks died at 12 30 Monday morning from a paralytic stroke suffered late Sunday afternoon. She was born in Westport to William and Lucy Knight and spent most of her life in the island town with winters in Bath. Survived by nephews George C Knight Medford MA Reuel T Knight Bath and Ernest Knight Westport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma Elizabeth Brooks
Melvin Brooks
Bath
Westport
William and
Lucy Hodgdon Knight
George C. Knight
Medford
Mass
Reuel T. Knight
Ernest Knight
Graduation Honors At Kent's School In Monday Exercises
Miss Mary E Perkins of Woolwith and Theodore E Urbanowitz were among fifty graduates at Kent's school. Urbanowitz, formerly of the city, now lives in Cranford New Jersey with his parents. He joined the class day committee and took part in the class prophecy and the play And So It Goes. Miss Perkins joined the class will and served on the wartrobe committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary E. Perkins
Woolwith
Kent
Theodore E.urbanowitz
Cranford
N. J
Urbanowitz
Camden
Bath Iron Works Corp
Miss Perkins
Mr. Urbanowitz
Frederick A. McCue
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Rome
W. Nichols
Augusta
Arthane
James Hogan
Kennebec & Boston Express Company
G. W. Russell
Bath High School
Edward D. Hennessey
Herbert FE. Williams
Alex Sprague
Kingsbury
Happy Nook
Bates
Owen
Charles Maxwell
J. M. Hayes
Charles Blair
Nathaniel Stiles
Universalist Church
Dexter
Wallace McKay
Mrs
George Corliss
Kate Loach
Jessie Owen
Eleanor Denham
Bienwood
Harry Anderson
Exeter
N. H
Woodbury A
Albion M. Potter
Morris
Kennebec
Emma A. Potter
Upton
Charles Plant
High Street
Marshall
Charles
Carl Coombs
J. A. West
Shannon House
Wescott and
Rideout
Charles Pattee
Matt Doyle
S. S. Anderson
Samuel Sewall
Charles Farrell
Frank Edgecomb
George A. Tuttle
Susan Trott
E. Parshiey
B. T. Tarbox
E. J. Ly
William L. Putnam
Mrs. W. G. Webber
John Humphreys
Bennington
Electric Light Co
Gowell
Union
Woolwich
Canton King
Lewiston
Joseph E. Remick
A. Humphries
Fred L. McFadden
David S. Harris
Harry Foote
B. F. Savage
Miss Huse
Foster's Point
Gus Huse
Foster’s Point
Mabel Palmer
Delia Low
Susie Locke
Edith Palmer
Miss Hooper
Miss Hooper and Miss Lermond
Harry Mason
Charles Fields
Bert Harris
Walter Higgins
Melvin Wright
Leland Mitchell
Fred Huse
Clarence Morse
Katahdin Commandery
No. 356
Golden Cross
Front Street
John A. Cavanaugh
Edward Paris
C. V. Gilmore
Sidelager
Delaney
George Wright
Harriet Johnson
Marcia Sewall
Eunice Ledyard
Ruth Thompson
Carrie Pendexter
Margaret Sewall
Lina Andrews
Maderie Clifford
Natalie
Marjory Roberts
Alfred Kimball
Donald Duncan
Frank Kelley
Donald Sewall
Dunlap Hatch
Jimmie Kelley
Lancelot Stafford
Rufus Lombard, Esq
West Bath
Cox's Head
Edward Brown
A. A. Percy
Joseph Sewall
Phi Rho
E. M. Fuller, Jr
Frank Dingley
George H. Clark
Consolidated Ice Co
Gardiner
Mr. Clark
A. C. Sprague
Henry Shepard
Charles A. Blair
R. ©. Gackenbach
Henry Poli
Italy
Order of Foresters
William J. O’brien
E. J. Murphy
John McMann
M. Sheridan
Albert Gay
George Cressey
Charles W. Clifford, Jr
Herbert Williams
Cyrus Thompson
Southport
City Landing
Walter E. Chase
John Wiggins
Z. B. Auld
John McKeiver
William Heald
Ladies’ Relief Corps
Winnegance
Justin Clifford
Lovell
Charles T. Jackson
Gov. King
Florence Gertrude Emery
Ben Marshall Johnson
Charles D. Emery
Marshall Johnson
Maine Lakes
Charles Ridley
Alna
Wiscasset
Willie Temple
Thomas Harper
George Bright
John Foster
Bert Longley
Harriman
E. B. Nichols
John Hyde
Charles Harrington
Benjamin Frates
Charlestown Navy Yard
J. L. Purington
A. A. Morse
H. L. Spinney
Piano Fund
Blanche M. Harrington
Dr. C. A. Packard
His Handsome
Colt
Morse & Co
Commercial Street
Rockwood Club
Mitchell’s Cove
New Meadows
W. J. Jacobs
Winter Street
B. E. Clark
Albert Page
Moosehead Lake
E. C. Farrington
Lieut. Wakefield
Alderman Rideout
Old Pest House
Hyde Light Guards
Brunswick Road
Mill Pond
Universalist Sunday School
Joseph M. Hayes
Conklin
F. W. Shorey
Victor Richardson
Jennie R. Morse
Alice Robbins
Maria Wiggin
Arthur Pagsmore
Auburn
Frank Perry
Winnegamze
California
Edward McLaughlin
Annie Williams
Maine General Hospital
Miss Williams
Forest City
George Crocker
Virginia
Capt
Paris
Bath High School Alumni Association
Y.M.C.A
Charles W. Taylor
YY Fiver
Edward Fitzgerald
U.S. S
Mississippi
Eas
Quincy
James Q. Lincoln
Georgie Drake
Jane Cushing
Wilber G. Cahill
Aline ‘Colton
Cahill
William P. Hill
Hill
Frostina E. Marston
Charles F. Rideout
Voorhees
Dr. Winchenbach
Calderwood
H. W. Co
State OF Maine
Sagadahoc
Fremont L. Hogan
Springfield
Viola G. Hogan
Alice Hogan
Seabrook
Travers City
Mich
Geraldin Hogan
Travers City, Mich
Viola F. Hogan
A. D
Hampden
Neilson P. Wells
Walter
Glidden
John L. Jack
Edna M. Higgins
Rose E. Johnson
David Small
Bagadahoc
Register
Almira F. 'Burgon
John D. Farrin
Almira F. Burgon
Matthew C. McPherson
Mary A. M. McPherson
Ralph O. Dale
Alice M. Smith
Lillian D. Snowden
Lulu D. Atkins
Alice D. Stacy
Frank M. Deering
Farmington
Gardiner R. Deering
Harold D. Deering
Lilian D
Snowdon
Franklin
Lillian D. Snowdon
Fred H. Thompson
Sara=dahoe
Walter S. Glidden
State OF
Maine
J. Haviland Torrey
Allan Spear
Annie Torrey
Joseph Torrey
Middle St
Stocner
J, Haviland Torrey
Bowen Torrey
Church St
New York City
Margaret T. McKay
West Easton St
Tulsa
Okla
Katherine T. Spear
Pearl St
Dan'l Williams
Seal
Oiece
Josephine M. Marr
Georgetown
Town Road
Moses M. Lennan
Silas C. Trafton
Trafton
John D. Williams
John _D. Williams
Meac
W. Prety Notary
Frank H. Green
Green Street
Eye and Ear Infirmary
Emma E. Brooks