Forty Years Ago in Bath June 1885 Highlights
Bath items from June 1885 report Guthrie and Dunning leaving for Bar Harbor to play in the summer scene. a St Cecelia club musicale features Mrs G F R Patten and others. E C Hyde and wife attend son Charles Hyde’s wedding in Newburg. Se arene Harry Duncan loses his pug Jack in Portland. Bath Iron Works advances with windlasses and holsters. local sailing and fishing news. graduation plans for Bath High School with pink olive and old gold colors. An ice house fire at Nequasset devastates nine houses, with total loss likely. extensive coverage of residents traveling, civic events, and upcoming Bath band concerts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. C. Hyde
Newburg
N. Y
Charles EK. Hyde
Goss Marine Iron- Works
Georgianna Miller
Grace Episcopal Church
That City
Woolwich
Rockland
Arctic Tee Co
Nequasset
SSO
New Orleans
Ira Mason & Sons
Nequasset Lake
Bath
Richmond
Rockport
James H. Meask
Frank O. Moses
Charles M. Larrabee
St Cecelia Club concert crowds Winter Street vestry
The St Cecelia club presented a lengthy program at the Winter Street vestry last evening, with praise for Miss Massenden, Mrs T W Hyde, Miss Low, and Mrs H E Duncan. Mrs Dunnean and Miss Low were featured. a floral token greeted Mrs Duncan after her Flower Song alongside a dispatch about Bath Light Infantry escort duty for the National Encampment in Portland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winter Street
St. Cecelia Club
Miss Massenden
T. W. Hyde
Miss Low
H. E. Duncan
Hyde
Woburns Player Roberts Shines in Pole League Nine Games Played
June 2 1885 report from the Massachusetts Summer polo league notes the Woburns with Roberts as a member have completed nine games and sit among early season standings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woburns
Roberts
Bath built ship now in service on the Pacific
The Atlas, built by A. Sewall & Co. of Bath, Maine, joins the Alaska bound sailing fleet for Standard Oil. The Star of Lapland, flagship of the pack, and twenty-five windjammers prepare for their annual northern voyage with crews swapping from sailors to fishermen during the cannery season, while packing the catch for markets at home and abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BATH
Pacific
State of Laptland
New York Times
Atlas
A. Sewall & Co
Standard Oil Co
Tom White
Oakland
Alameda
Bay
San Francisco
Alaska Packers
New York
Boston
London East Indian
North
Stars
Star of
Peru
Greenland
Chile
Scotland
England
Italy
Star of France
Russia
Centennial
Neptune
Golden Gate
Alaska
Salmon
Bering Sea
Sacadahoc. Ss
A. D
FITHER_L. BRAWN
State OF Maine
Sagadahoc
Sagada
San Francisco Harbor
Lapland
Sitka
Ists
Cutting Packing Company
Arctic Packing Company
Vering Sea
Steam launches near completion at Perkins & Blaisdell shop
On June 16 1885 at the Star of the East wharf two steam launches near completion. the larger, for Boston magnate George Walker of the Conner club, is 40 by 8 by 3 4 1 2 feet with a 6 by 8 1 2 inch engine cylinder built for 400 rpm. the smaller, for Pleasant Cove resident Mr Brier, is 30 by 6 by 3 8 feet with a Payne engine 4 4 1 by 6 inches. A Yale baseball president-elect and street incidents are noted amid busy Bath Brunswick traffic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perkins & Blaisdell
Star of the East
George Walker
Boston
Conner Club
Boothbay Harbor
Local Auto Services and Shipping Fleet Mentioned
The article notes ships listed in Lloyds Register of Shipping and introduces Stanley B. Wallace a car automobile mechanic now affiliated with Daniel Bishop’s plant on lower Washington offering repairs for Dodge cars and general auto repairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lloyd's Register of Shipping
Stanley B. Wallace
Lower
Washington
Daniel Bishop
Dodge
Bishop
Foreclosure Notice by Ora E. Reed on Maine Mortgage
Ora E. Reed of Portland Maine gives notice that Lucinda E Dearborn of Augusta conveyed a lot with buildings by deed dated November 9 1965 to mortgagee under a contract described as a lot of land bounded by Knickerbocker Road Maine Central Railroad and land of William Fardy containing forty square rods The mortgage is claimed foreclosed due to breach of condition on June 5 1925.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State OF Maine
Sagadahoc
John H. Mayers
Wreeden
Lincoln County
Eliza J. Baker
Woolwich
Soradahoc
Wooobineh
Lard
Tanes
Ienese
Milton Carlton
Augustus Perkins
Said
Morris
Steven Blackman
Frank Trott
Trott
Ward
Sail Ward
Gardiner
Sagrilahoc
Anne Kimball
Bath
A. D
E. H. Kimball
F. H. Kimball
J. M. Kimball
John AH. Kimball
John H. Kimball
Milton S. Kimball
Augusta
Kennnebec
Jane
Joseph M. Trott
Sagadahse
Jone
Bath Independent
Saul County
Ora E. Reed
Richmond
Maine
Portland
Cumberland
Lucinda E. Dearborn
Sal Richmond
Knickerbocker Road
Sowallel
Maine Central
Rairoad
William Fardy
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bath Daily Times
Guthrie
Dunning
Bar Harbor
G. FE. R. Patten
Jennie R. Morse
Miriam Newman
Margaret Gilbert
George B. Hughes
H. FE. Duncan
Alamedas
W. H. Thomas
Morse
League
Fred Butler
California
Grover Cleveland
Deering & Donnell
DeButts & Daggett
Loston
Mapt
Leighton
Mrs. Delano
Miss Robinson
Atns Monse
Bath Band
Bath Hotel
Harry Duncan
Jack
Miss May Rolston
William Hogan
Armenia
Houghton
Columbia
Sydney
Cotter
Sedley
Rushing
Bath Iron Works
Thomas Conley
Warren & Co
Pensacola, Fla
Ay Hen
Langdon T. Snipe
Sons of Veterans
Langdon Snipe
Oliver Moses
Yale College
Fred Gatchell
Bowdoin
Jennie Cushing
Smith — College
Northampton
Mass
Snipe
Moses
New Haven
New York City
Bath High School
J. H. Raymond
Cite
Charles T. Russell
Liverpool
Eng
George TH. Nichols
F. FE. Reed
Elbridge-Cornish
Wee Ea
South End
Cole
Lincoln
J. H. McLellan
Samoset
Hattie Walker
Seene
B. HL S
Togus Orchestra
Boothbay
Islands
Bowdoinham
Postoffice
Noble
Max Wwell
Maxwell's
Eete
Charles Humphreys
Elgin, Ill
Perking & Blaisdell
F. H. Percy
New England
New York State
Thomas Dowling
Providence
Goss Marine Iron Works
St. John’s Day
Dunlap Commandery
K.T
G.a.st
I. Barton
L. B. Folsom
Sagadahock House
Neqnasset
Coombs
Williams
Akar
New Jerusalem
S. F. Dike
Hogan
Light Infantry
S. Sawyer
Adjutant General
Winfield Rowe
Waltham, Mass
Fort Popham
Percy V
Mrs. Hughes
Weber Miss Newman
Megans
Reubenstein
Mendelssohn
Morse and Owen
Wimmerstedt
Miss Rogers
Miss Morse
Farfalla
Geili
C. Patten
Tossini
Patten
Duncan
Trughes
Mussenden
Miss Owen
New Kingdon
Far Blue Hills
Nettio
Marston Schubert
Ge Sae Nicode
Drake
Pery
Gonnod
Swanton
Gilbert and Fames
Sevilla
Dessauer
Howland
H. EF. Duncan
Stetson
The
Bath Sae
Bath Light Infantry
Sterling
Bristol Bay
Sacvadahoc
Viola G. Hoean
William EF. Hovan
Viola G Heavan
Rath
Edwin C. Hogan
Travers City
Mich
Freemont L. Hogan
Springfield
Breother
Viola G. Hogan
Ola G. Hogan
Sreadahorss
Fred H. Thompson
Tyne
Helen
James 8S
Lowell
William F. Dunham
State OF
Sagadahoe
John H. Haley
Ann E. Haley
Fred Soule
Charles Soule
Hamilton
Ohio
Samuel Soule
Flin Sole
Peonerall
Bessie Wright
Lynn
Eesco
ALEY
James S. Lowell
Attes William F. Dunham
Register
Guardian
Rathin
Sacadahoc
Atte William F. Dunham
Gister
Alaskan
Sagadatec
Mary A. Sanford
Henry M. Sanford
Mowry
George A. Sanford
Fred W. Sanford
Annie M. Pike
Sneadahoc
Arthur J. Dunton
Pathin
Ames S. Lowell
Dexter W. Baker
Charles Baker
James TH Allen
George Marston
Town Road
Sand Woolwich
One Morris
Lam
DEXTER W_ BAKER
Sagadaher
Caie
Protete
Atte William F. Duntiam
Abbie L. Gage
John H. Gage
Gath
Satip
James 5. Lowell
Attes
William F
William D. Sewall
Melville H. Blackwell
Brunswick
Amos K. Butler
Skowhegan
Albert H. Shaw
William F. Dunstam
Lulu D. Atkins
Sagadahoge
Elisha D. Atkins Late
Trist
Emma L. Dunton
Sagadahag
James F. Dunton
Etta F. Gerbers
Mary A. Brown
William F. Duntlam
Anna E. Butler
Fred F. Butler
Josiah L. Walker
County of
Sagad
Josephine Walker
Mh Shin
Alate
de Frye
Saetashne
Scott R. Frye
Fred N. Sewall
Yale ‘86
Yale Baseball Association
William C. Duncan
Center Streets
H. L. Chase
Washington Street
Center
School Street
Lew
Covel
Augustus Huse
Alden Perkins
Cahill
Huse
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