Forty Years Ago in Bath Era Highlights and Events
Readable note from The Bath Daily Times dated June 8 1887 recounts local life in Bath Maine. Mentions a strawberry festival at Elm Street Baptist church Premi J M Brown selling Maine Central restaurant to M H Shaw Abbie Brackett on telegraph duty vacation Minnie Kilgore in charge Lewis Side added to night watch street grade raise on Center Street Young People’s Literary society entertaining Phat Rascal Pat Shrewsbury steamer voyage to New York and various town affairs including baseball plans river traffic and local incidents
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young People’s Literary Society of the Universalist Church
Town Notes and Civic Happenings in Portland
On June 10 1887 a promised new brick sidewalk would run from Webbers to the Sagadahock along Front street. Wesley M E church prepares extensive Children's Day decorations for next Sunday. Mayor Wakefield and President Twitchell of the Common Council visited Portland yesterday. A Bath Water Works pipe schooner sailed last Tuesday. Portland Commandery K T with Chandler’s band and about one hundred prominent Portians attended as Coeur DeLion Commandery of Charlestown Mass with Boston Cadet band.
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Front Street
Webber's
Sagadahock
Wakefield
Twitchell
Common Council
Portland
Portland Commandery
K. T
Chandler
Coeur DeLion Commandery
Charlestown
Mass
Boston
June 13 1887 local items among wedlock and town works
Capt Foster and Miss Nellie Gibbs to wed tomorrow in Rockland.RB Hathorn to build a house on High street next to Crosbys. Timber for the project hauled to the site. The steamer Jessie Ti of the Kennebec and Portland line visited Bath on its first Kennebec run delivering freight for Bath merchants. About 80 tons for upriver towns. John F. Roberts is Bath agent. Wesley church festively decorated for graduation exercises by the High School class and parish members. Sun day school pastor Rev. Hill preached to children and evening exercises by the children. A large crowd filled the church for the tests of faith. The vote on freeing two bridges in Sagadahoe county failed 385 to 388.
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Foster
Rockland
Nellie Gibbs
South End
Jessie Ti
Kennebec
Portland
City Wharf
Bath
Bath Landing
John F. Roberts
Wesley Church
Wesley
Hill
Temperance Slowdown and Bath Templar Day Plans
June 14 1887 reports temperance interest waning in Bath Lodge of Good Templars but a large meeting kept the club intact and financially sound. Knights Templar Bath prepare for a staged event with Speaker Noyes and Portland guests including J E Sawyer and W E Davis on a special train for the twenty fourth eventful day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Knights Templar of
Noyes
Massachusetts
Portland
J. E. Sawyer
W. E. Davis
Payson Tucker
F. K E. Boothby
Yarmouth Junction
Here
Chandler
Band of
Boston Cadet Band
Dunlap Commandery
Pupil Entertainers Delight Rotarians With Their Program
Ten Bath Center Street sub-primary pupils entertained Bath Rotary Club at Hotel Phoenix with songs, handshakes, and a mini orchestra. Miss Adelaide Boynton led the group, and Harold P. Small performed a Broadway hit on the Brunswick Panatrope. Guests included J. E. Jackson and Mrs. Bradlee.
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Center Street
Bath Rotary Club
Hotel Phoenix
Adelaide Boynton
Fred D. Hill
Rotary
Chester A. Plant
Harold P. Small
Brunswick Panatrope
Lucky Lindy
Lindbergh
Dougherty
Rotary Education
Fred
Full
Read Pitman
Martha Page
Phyllis Darrah
Clinton Child
Barbara Young
Thelma Fogg
Margaret Anderson
Edward Murchie
Ellen Cyr
Willard Merrill
Miss Boynton
Cigers
Thomas J. Keene
TP. Lorillard Co
J. E. Jackson
Waterville
Mr. Keene
Capt
William R. Freeman
James P. Ledyard
City
Massive steel girder lifts bridge height in Kennebec span
A towering steel girder weighing over eighty tons was placed for the Kennebec bridge in Maine on a Monday morning, briefly stayed over the weekend for adjustments. Workers, accustomed to skyscraper work, maneuvered the structure with ease as part of ongoing bridge construction.
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Kennebec
Probate petition for admin of Fowler estate in Sagadahoc
Emma J Andrews of Old Orchard Maine petitions the Sagadahoc Probate Court to appoint an administrator for the estate of Frank J Fowler late of Bath who died intestate on April 22 discovering a $20 personal estate. Heirs at law include cousins Emma Andrews George Wildes Nellie Fall and others. hearing set for July 5 1927 in Bath.
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Bath
Walter S
Glidden
William F. Dunham
State OF
Maine
Sagadahoc
Flora B. Coombs
Leighton M. Coombs
Irene F. Coombs
High Street
Mary Low
William Weeks
R. H. Rich
Susan Lincoln
D. M. Coombs
John W. Weeks
Sagadahoc 5S. S
James W Coombs
Clara W. Cameron
Fred M. Coombs
Eliza S. Coombs
Sagadahve S. S
James W . Coombs
Frank L. Melaughli
Julia P. McLaughlin
Sagadahoe S. S. Registry of Deeds
George H. Knowles
Sagadahoc S. S. Registry of Deeds
John T. Palmer
James W. Coombs
State OF Maine
Emma
Andrews
Old Orchard
County of
York
Frank J. Fowler
Sagadahee
D. Woz
Hkimma J. Andrews
George Wildes
Nellie Fall
Biddeford
Fred Winters
Sagada Hoe
Sai Deceas
Eva KE. Morgan
Said
A. DD
Walter S. Glidden
Register
James Percy
North Bergen
Hudson
New Jersey
Martha E. Percy
Whippsburg
Testate
Mark I. Percy
August Weider
State
Sagadahioc
Sagadahoe
Fridward W. Bridghem
Walter H. Melcher
Kila E. Sprague
Charles H. Melcher
Boston
W. Bridgham
Jyne
A. D
Edward W. Bridgham
Sagedahoe
Fred’ N. Lawrence
James de Lawrenes
Bite
Arrawsie
Sagadaloe
Way Mig
Tate
Bath Independent
Paul County
May
Sagadahogc
Avlelt
Henry Nelson
Ellen Nelson
Insai
Sail
Jennie M. B. Spinney
Clifford Spinney
County
Charles C. Low
Henry Co Standish
Sand
Walter
S. Glidden
Ea Eta
Rose KB. Leydon
Thomas Leydon
Fannie PB. Clement of
Probate
Pears Late
Ralph O. Dale
Center Street
Transat
Sidney L. Eaton
Rural Electrification Surges as 2070 Farms Now Serviced
G C Nef, chair of the Rural Electric Service Committee, told the National Electric Light Association in a report on the Million Dollar Pier that 2070 farms in the states received electricity in the past year, with 175 farm uses identified. He noted a near 50 percent three year rise and projected about 1,000,000 farms served by 1938, reaching roughly 50 percent nationwide. Wiring a farmstead averages about 250 dollars.
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Nationa Electric Light Association
G. Oc Nef
United States
Development links agriculture with electric power reform
The report envisions a new era for agriculture and the electric light and power industry. It suggests power tailored for farmers will unlock previously unseen possibilities and become a major factor in future agricultural development, mirroring its rising influence on urban development.
Creditors Meeting Notified for Mugley Bankruptcy
Referee William T. Hall notifies creditors of Alviere J. Mugley of Waldo about a first meeting on July 6 at 1 00 pm in Lincoln county courthouse Wisconsin setting. Creditors may appoint no trustee prove claims examine Mugley and conduct business as needed.
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William T. Hall
Alviere J. Mugley
Waldoboro
Lincoln County Court House
Wiscasset
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The
Bath Daily Times
Elm Street Baptist Church
Premi
J. M. Brown
Maine Central
M. H. Shaw
Mr. Brown
Abbie Brackett
Maine Central Telegraph Office
Minnie Kilgore
Lewis Side
Night Watch
Kittridge
Marshal Crocker
Water
Washington Streets
Shrewsbury
Lowe
New York
James Lockery Wen
Frank Wildes
Samoset
Broad Street
Bath Baseball Association
Houghton
Water Works
Commercial Street
William T. Donnell
Bath Young Men’s Business Club
Pond Island
David Wylie
West Bath
James W. Kelley
Eastern Steamboat Co
Bath and Boothbay
Boothbay
Islands
Bowdoinham High School
Lincoln Street
Bath Boys
Merrymeeting
Arrowsie
James Fisk
Chappelle
Thomas Dillon
Rangely
Carlton & Gahan
Eastern Steamboat Company
G. A. Lowe
Stedman Fisher
Roland Fisher
James M. Flannigan
Woodward's Wharf
Young Fisher
Fisher
Washington Street
Ernest G. Curtis
Salem
Wesley M. FE. Church
Marion
Shaw
Kennebec Steamboat Co
Steadman Fisher
Woodward
Bath Lodge of Good Templars
Lodge
North Street
Brooks
Mark Sewall
Poughkeepsie, N. Y
Eastman Business College
T. W. Hyde
G. C. Goss
H. W. Swanton
A. S. Bosworth
J. S. Hyde
Gotham
Alice M. Minott
Phippsbury Center
C. V. Minott
Eaiots
Fese Ee
Topsham
Wesley M. E
Bath’ Water Works
RB. W. Hathorn
FE. S. Crosbys
Tumber
Ante Gracea
Sagadahoe County
Rebekah
Gowell
Committee On Highways
K. of
I's
Committee On Water Works
Mayor
ZU A Alia
Corliss Street Church Society
Popham Hall
Frank Patten
ID. C. Shaw
New Meadows
Aelambake
City of
Shepard Street
Miss Adelaide Boynton
C. W. Bradlee
Providence
R. I
EF. A. Farrar
Bath Street
South Portland
Eleanor Merrill
Bradlee
Alice Johnson
Raymond Court
Boothbay Harbor
NEW Gospel Patrol
Gospet
Arte
Mae Bipes
New “Gospel Patrol
Sapadahoce
Maine Central Railroad Company
John Shaw
Elmer F. Hayes
Emma J. Andrews
Gadahoc
Tarles BR
Attes William F. Dunham
Frederick J. Hinckley
Walter S.lidden
William F. Dunstam
S Shorey
J. Edward Drake
Arthur Dlanton
Lily
George Po Davenport
Hite
Saul Win
S. Shorey
J Iwan Drake
Arthur J. Dunton
William FO Ountlam
John Long
Woolwich
Sagubthoe
Thomas Long
Woolweh
Saggadaloc
Sant
William FL Dunham
Deering
Parry G. Deering
Saul
Willeam FE
Dunham
Etta M. Gaspey
Melrose
Sawadahoe
Annie M. Rideout
Elizabeth G Brown
Allan Spear
Sagaidahoc
Do Ob
William Fb. Dunstam
Adahoc
Angie Clough Morrison
Walter Morrison
Mlanpshuri
Itsail
Attes William F. Dunnam
Hertha C. Dean
George WW. Dean
Y Register
Harriet A. Grows
Brunswick
Sacadahoe
Alice PL Travis
Siuradahoe
Harriet al Grows
William FO Dunilam
Sagadahog
John H. Schottler
John Hh, Hottler, Jr
Miner
Saint County
Walter St. Gliddi
Sidney B. Lermond
Enona Ke, Lermond
Joseph Bates Swift
Suffolk
Gertrude M. Swift
Ralston Rd
Mattapan
Hiddeford