Bath 1885 notes on concerts fairs and local events
A wide scan of Bath items from June 1885 details a night blooming cereus opening at George Moulton Jr.'s residence, canal work by M G Shaw & Son to move logs, real estate sale to May or Wakefield, a Bath Caxdet band concert at the Bath hotel, and a busy street scene with skating rink season opening, festivals, and multiple visits, travels, and local happenings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Moulton, Jr
Bath Hotel
Bath Caxdet
12 Pierces
Plummer
Palmer services set for Mrs. Sarah F. Palmer at Oak Grove
Committal service for 85 year old Mrs. Sarah F. Palmer widow of Gershom H. Palmer, who died October 5, 1924 in Mesa California, will be conducted Saturday at two by Rev. Charles W. Hill. Survived by two daughters and two sons, Asa L Palmer and Sarah Elizabeth Palmer of La Mesa Alden W Palmer of Cleveland and Frank B Palmer of Coronado. Local residents recall the Palmers as former Bathwell church members and neighbors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah F. Palmer
Gershom H. Palmer
Mesa
Cal
Oak Grove
Charles W. Hill
Legion Rest Room Open for Visitors in Bath
The American Legion rest room is open and fully equipped with visitors welcomed. Legion members have MacMillan postcards from views taken at Wiscasset on Saturday for sale, under the supervision of George A. Crockett who will ensure callers are comfortable. The Boston Advertiser noted Bath Legion facilities in a Sunday box report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion
Legion
MacMillan
Wiscasset
George A. Crockett
Boston Advertiser
Bath
Big Game Plent y in the American National Parks
The Forest Service reports 687000 big game animals across 159 National Forests based on a 1924 count. Deer lead numbers, with California, Oregon, Montana, Idaho and Arizona top states. elk rise in western forests while antelope remain scarce. Bears, mice, sheep, and goats show mixed changes. buffaloes are no longer counted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uncle Sants
National Forests
Forest Service
United States Department of Agriculture
Forest Rangers
Trix
California
Oregon
Montana
Idaho
Arizona
Alaska
Teton National Forest
Yellowstone National Park
Nevada
National Forest
Albert B. Plummer dies after long illness at daughter's home
Albert B. Plummer, 2 native of North Vassalboro and Civil War veteran of Co. D, 21st Maine, died Monday at his daughter Mrs. Carrie A. Leon's home in Popham Peach after over a year as an invalid. He leaves daughter Mrs. Leon, nine sons including George F. E. Plummer of New York City, and another daughter Mrs. Warry Oliver of Path. Funeral held in Georgetown Wednesday at two with burial in Oak Cemetery there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert B. Plummer
Vassalboro
Carrie
A. Leon
Popham
Warry Oliver
Path
Georgetown
Oak Cemetery
Phone offices to close Saturdays at 1 p.m.
Harry A. Starbird, Bath-Brunswick district manager for New England Tel. & Tel. Co., announces that starting July 1 Bath and Brunswick offices will close Saturdays at 1 p.m. until further notice. War-time Saturday afternoons were kept for emergencies, but demand for the opening has ended. The change aligns with other company offices in the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry A. Starbird
Bath-Brunswick
New England Tel. & Tel. Co
Bath
Brunswick
Starbird
Brunswick names dominate hall results in Monday event
In a Monday hall gathering, winners were Mrs. Charles Ham, Mrs. Kerwin, Frank Danforth, Morris Warner, and John Bouchard of Brunswick. The booby prizes went to Cora Nickerson of Brunswick and Roger Moulton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Ham
Kerwin
Frank Danforth
Morris Warner
John Bouchard
Brunswick
Cora Nickerson
Roger Moulton
England Praised for School Health Work and Universal Care
The piece cites J F Rogers of the U S Bureau of Education praising England for national scale school health programs. It notes medical inspection, treatment results, and the need for comprehensive care including nutrition fresh air exercise and healthy environments for all children as essential to national well being.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. F. Rogers
United States Bureau of Education
England
Rogers
George Newman
Board of Education
London
Sir George Newman
Grace Church School Awards At Service For Attendants
Grace Church School held a Sunday service with awards for perfect attendance to Eleanor Danforth Doris Waters Eve lyn Middleton and Jean Danforth who received gold chains. Proficiency in prayer book collects earned gold crosses for Eleanor Danforth Doris Waters and Dorothy Smith. Dorothy Smith Evelyn Middleton and Jean Danforth won silver pencils and a silver pen. Mentions went to Miss Ruth Field Nelson Waters Edward DeLong Jennie Middleton. The offertory solo by Leonard Marks of New York highlighted the service. An inquirer asked when the mountain laurel blooms usually after Woolwich Harpswell and Phippsburg. Joseph M. Trott visits Boston on business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Temple
Fred Hill
Matt Sewall
Ned Hyde
Arthur Duncan
Fred Whitmore
Will Willie
Arthur 8
May Francis Field
Georgie Louise Drake
General Grant
Rowwell Sherman Harris
Alice May Cobb
Lewis Blackiner Swett
Mary Louise Klippel
David Thomas Percy, Jr
Steadman Fisher
Harriet Louise Whitmore
Cornet Hale
Mr. Clapp
Fred Walter Gatchell
Jennie Delia Cushing
Napoleon Bonaparte
Nehemiah Varnden Campbell
Ereeta Peas
Charlotte Buck Stinken
Frank Lightbody
Ruth Pierce Tarbox
Lillian Euuna Ryder
John Sedgwick Hyde
Sadie Nicholas
Dexter
Grace Church School
Eleanor Danforth
Doris Waters
Evelyn Middleton
Jean Danforth
Albert Douglas
Dorothy Smith
Ruth Field
Nelson Waters
Edward DeLong
Jennie Middleton
Leonard Marks
New York
Grace Church Choir
Hudson Valley prehistory described by Hollick at Botanical Garden
Dr. Arthur Hollick lecture traces Hudson River Valley from early explorers Verazzano and Hudson to geologic evolution. He explains an ancient straight river carved by fault lines, a Storm King siphon, Cat skills aqueduct findings, and how glacial epochs raised land and created the present valley and shoreline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hudson River Valley
Arthur Hollick
New York Botanical Garden
Hollick
Vespucei
John Cabot
Sebastian Cabot
North America
Hudson River
Giovanni di Verazzano
Carolinas
Newfoundland
New York Bay
Henry Hudson
Albany
Europe
New York State
Hudson
Saratoga
Manhattan
Catskill
Storm King Crossing
Storm King
National Honor Society Branch Has Meeting
The Bath branch of the National Honor Society held its annual meeting in Room C at Morse High School. Officers present included President Warren J. Oliver and others. a committee was formed to contact national headquarters and plans were discussed for more activity including initiations, extra meetings, and awards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Mary Curran
Wilfred Rice
Wilhemina Gachenbach
Central
Arthur B. Scott
Elizabeth Coombs
Dorothy Huggard
John Larrabee
Helen Brown
Mary Appleton
Grace Spaulding
Carrie Shaw
Elsie Crocker
Burnham Dunton
Omah Trott
Katherine Trott
Wilhemina Gackenbach
Luella MacDonald
Charles Cummings
Ephrai Pooler
George Wotton
Beatrice Jenkins
Elizabeth Wright
Mary Badalee
Thelma Barbour
Rodney Bailey
Louise Holbrook
Doris Brown
Anna Arik Coghan
Dredging Work Planned on Upper Kennebec
Dredging operations on the upper Kennebec start at once with digger and three scows arrived from Boston. Bay State Dredging Co units moved by tug Augustus and Beatrice, dropped in Bath, Sequin to take them upriver Friday. Augustus returns to Boston for another fleet as the federal appropriation funds the project, extending between Hallowell and Augusta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennebec
Digger
Boston
Bay State Dredging Co
Augustus
Beatrice
Bath
Hallowell
Augusta
Leonard Wetherbee Accepts Auto Business Post in Melrose
Leonard Wetherbee has accepted a position in the automobile business in Melrose Massachusetts and with Mrs Wetherbee will reside there in the future.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard Wetherbee
Melrose
Mass
Mrs. Wetherbee
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bath Daily Times
M. G. Shaw & Son
Robert Goddard
Mample
Mayor Wakefield
Morse
William P. Neally
Clinton
Massachusetts
Ada
W. W. Pendexter
Phi Rlios
Bronewick
Brunswick Wright School
Charles (. Hyde
Seth Rogers
Freeport
Yeacon Street Vestry
James Ro Wood
Carrie Bailey
Marine Railway
Galveston
Frank Guthrie
Bar Harbor
Gallagher
Bath Light Infantry
Portland
Miller & Dixie Opera Company
Alameda
Valience
John Hyde
Arthur Bosworth
Maxent
Gardiner
John TR. Kelley
Belle Haven House
Wiscraxeet
R. PD Bibber
Hoboken
T. D. Bibber
Turkes Ie
Bermuda
St. Louis
Marie Agrap
P . S . Coal
P . S . Coal—Furnice
Lehigh Steve
Franklin
Cumberland
Harry Houghton
Ira Mason
Forrest Smith
Sadie Thompson
Concord, N. We
Mixx
Florence Corliss
Thomase Harward
Helen Adelaide Russell
Wesley Church
Jennie Cushing
New Haven
Fred N. Sewall
Yale
Texeball Exseciation
H. F E. Cole
Torunswick
Langdon T. Snipe
Oliver Moxes
A Natal
George W. Bright
Hox
TW. Park
A. G. Staples
The
Lewiston Journal
Sagadahock House
Bowdoin “82
Bath High School
Mixx Stanley
Mixx Libbey
Richmond
Page
Salem
Whitney
Mixses Susith
Stevenson
Torus
Mixx Percy
Phipax
Parke
Naval School
Syracue
Thomex
Bowdoin
Edward Collins
Oakland
Boothbay
Mouse Island
Squirrel Island
Olmey
Fort Popham
Hunnewell’s Point
Oliver Moses
D. T. Percy, Jr
Fibridge Parshley
Rote Percy
Phippsburg
Emma Small
F. E. Burns
Melville Spinney
Small Point
Charles Maxwell
Annie Theander
Lou Mussenden
Robert Morse
Charles Dennis
Henry Houghton
Washington Street
William Smith
William TI. Smith
Bradman, Dow & Co
Augustus Huse
William M. Seavey
Mr. Seavey
Annie Noeton
Charles Noeton
Haydenville, Mass
City of Philadelphia
New England , Shipbuilding Company
Willian P. Neally
Bowdoin College
Kittredge
Night Watch
Vortland
City Hotel
Varney's Mills
North Bath
Jan
Sarah E. Palmer
Uwy
Nouwat Medicine Co
Woolwich
Harpswell
Joseph M. Trott
Valley OF
Hemisphere
Tife
New York Cay
Staten Island
Verazzano
New Jersey
Long Island
New England
National Honor Society
L.f.’S
L. F
Atwood Medicine
L. F. Medicine Co
Portland, Me
Ora FE. Reed
Sagadahde
Maine
Lucinda
Sagadaoc
Knickerbocker Road
Maine Central Rairoad
Tandin
A. Do
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