Forty Years Ago In Bath Notes From 1888
The Bath Daily Times items recount Bath events from June 1888 with notices of newly ready annexes, social gatherings at residents on Oak Street, Bath base ball club uniforms, a barge project, trips to Dailey's Island, visits from John Best of Denver, and plans for a Chicago nomination celebration. It also covers concerts, parades, yacht and rowing activities, hydrant placements on water works, ship repairs on the M. V. B. Chase, and community events at churches, schools, and theaters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Bath Daily Times
John Best
Denver, Col
Charles T. Trooper
Graduates Prepare as Wesley Church Decorates for Class of '88
June 21 1888 Wesley church is richly decorated for the BHS class of 1888 graduation to be held tomorrow forenoon. Fragments note improvements at lawyer F B Sprague's Telegraph building office, travel plans of Mrs C W Larrabee and Mrs G E R Patten to San Francisco, and a Wesley church society ride to West Bath with supper. Standish homestead on Western avenue burns, destroying the historic two and a half story building dating over a century. Fire alarms sound, but the site is reduced to charred ruins, Gilbert Standish's loss estimated at 500. June 22 items mention steamer Slender to Avesta route and Morse monument delivery to Oak Grove cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley Church
Standish Homestead
Western Avenue
Gilbert Standish
Dunlap Commandery Tours Augusta With Trinity Commandery
About 80 members of Dunlap Commandery K T led by Eminent Commander Seth S Mullin traveled by special train to Augusta to join seven other commanderies as guests of Trinity Commandery. The group, escorted by the Dominican band of Lewiston, marched through Washington Oak Front Center and Water streets to Depot square where a pleasing program was arranged. Dunlap returned to Bath by special train in the evening. Charles MacDonald Jr son of Mr and Mrs Charles MacDonald of High street left for Fabyan New Hampshire to work at Mt Washington hotel for the rest of the summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dunlap
Brunswick
Tunlap
Bath High School
Bath
Grimmer
Orchestra of
Portland
Arthur Percy
Boston
Susie Richardson
Blanche Dockendorff
Deering
Fred Hughes
Naval Academy
Annapolis
T. S. Crocker
Bowdoin College
Spofford
Malden
Mass
Young
Wiscasset
Sander
Dunlap Commandery
K. T
Seth S. Mullin
Augusta
Trinity Commandery
Lewiston
Temple
Washington
Oak
Front
Center
Water Streets
Depot Square
Mom Dunlap
Charles MacDonald, Jr
Charles MacDonald
High Street
Fabyana, N. H
Mt. Washington
Bath Team Defeats Waterville With Terrific Hitting
Bath's baseball club opened its Wiscasset home pageant with a 10 7 win over Waterville. Cannonball Oliver led the attack with two long drives, Nebel and Smart added power, and Bobby Brown was knocked from the mound by a line drive in the sixth. Dorosky relieved and Bath capitalized on Waterville mistakes to seal the victory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Wiscasset
Waterville
Bobby Brown
Colby Hurler
Oliver
Ted Smart
Bates
Nebel
Dorosky
Bill Oliver
Rath
Cutting
Dickinson
Paiement
R. Stover
Smart
Carlton
Rex Stover
Derosby
Brown
Pooler
Miller
Waterville Ab
Renin Sete A
Ok Vettioga Disa
Ea Tcc
Togvold Erie i
Darema
Ore Nebels
Dart Serene Doles
Esther
Pucasom
Batheets
Hannafin
Wallace
Donovan
Bagnall
E. Stover
Nobel
Brewer
Brown Smart
Stover
Dorosby
Morse
Children Matinee Plans and Foreclosures in Bath Maine
Final arrangements for a Friday afternoon children’s matinee at the state pageant were announced with 25 cent child tickets and one dollar for adults. A bridge toll suspension may extend to June 29 to help attendance. Also noted are probate notices for Annie Dean Williams in Sagadahoc and a mortgage foreclosure in Popham Beach. A Bath court schedules a probate trustee account hearing for July 1928.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. H. Harris
Maine Central Railroad
Bath
Maine Central
Annie Dean Williams
West Bath
Sagalahoe
Sagadahoc
Jennie B. Spinney
J. Clifford Spinney
Savadahoe
Walter Glidden Juli
A. D
Joseph M. Trott
John S. Hyde
Walter S. Glidden
Sagadahioc
Arthur A. Brown
David Brown
Sal County
Miner
County
Sagadaloc
John A. Loring
Rachel M. Loring
Harold W. Smith
Cumberland
Maryland
Alice Caroline Smith
Edward B. Smith
Maine
Sapadahoe
Mary EK
Dean Late
State OF Maine
Sagadanoc
Fred P. Emmons
Clara T. Hilton
Wathim
Walter
Glidden
William F. Dunham
State OF
Sagadahos
Sagainghoe
A.D. Weir
John J. Keevan
Coleman Flaherty
C.t.a
Tre Prat
Sawadahoe
J. L. Spinney
Arrowsie
Soul
Westie S. Glidden
Wil. Tam PF. Dunham
Register
L’robate
Marenerite
J. Aley
Danford McDonald
Walter S
Lona C. Trott
Maude M. Cunningham
Sagadahoe
Saul
Walter S., Glidden
de- Aero Ac
William T. Hodgkins
Jane T Hodgkins
Wiliam T. Hodgkins
Sail
Henry G. Tlodgdon
Sai
Said
National Guardsmen Coming Friday for Bath Pageant Camp
Adjutant General J W Hanson inspected Bath on pageant grounds for a planned military camp housing about 135 officers and men plus the 103rd Infantry band. Units from Battery C Brunswick and Battery H Bath, among others, will patrol grounds and participate in the historical pageant opening Saturday night and running through July 4. Tickets and travel details arranged with rail lines and local offices. rehearsals and lighting, costumes arriving from Christie & Co. Also noted are visits by Kenneth Atwood of Miami and his wife to stay with former Atwood family in Washington street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adjt
J. W. Hanson
Bath
North
Lincoln Streets
103Rd Infantry Band
Battery C
240Th C. A
Brunswick
Co. F
103Rd Infantry
Augusta
Gardiner
State Staff
86Th Infantry Brigade
Portland
Communications Department
Battery H
Androscoggin & Kennebec Railway Co
Blaine S. Wiles
James W. Hanson
Tilden
Christiie & Co
New York
Kenneth Atwood
Miami Fla
Wallace Atwood
Washington Street
Buick Motor Mart Co
Miami
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John O. Shaw
Jana
Baker
Oak Street
Bath Baseball Club
John Watt
Dailey's Island
Chicago
Alexander
Nellie Th. Gollander
Nellie Robinson
Ektees
U. S. Ball Club
Lincoln Street
Front Street
T. Donnell
Weeks Street
Committee On Water Works
Pine and
Middle Street
Lower Middle Street
Weeks
William T. Donnell
William F. Marston
Lincoln and
Bedford Street
Center Street
J. K. Huse
North Street
High
Supt. Hon
M. V. B. Chase
Marine Railway
Portland Dry Dock
Willie Ham
Elm Street Baptist Church
Ethel Hyde
Togus
Miss Hyde
Water Street
South Street
Ladies of the Central Church Society
William Rogers
Bath Rowing Club
Fred Whitmore
Bridgton
Boothbay
Islands
Kennebec
Esther Powers
Clarence M Davis
Cummings Street
E. M. Fuller
How
Wesley Church Society
Charles Foster
Freeport
Mayor Wakefield
Bennington, Vt
Water Works
Bowdoin
North End
Wiwurna
Eastern Steamboat Co
Sedgwick Relief Corps
State Relief Corps
Rockland
Sedgwick
Joseph Webber
J. W. Johnson
S. J. Brown
E. T. Mitchell
S. J. Wiggin
J. W. Grassey
F. P. Shepard
State Corps
F. B. Sprague
Telegraph Building
C. W. Larrabee
G. E. R. Patten
San Francisco
John O. Patten
David R. Wylie
Mr. Wylie
Court House
Tslender
Avesta
Roothbayv
Oak Grove Cemetery
Cannonball Oliver
R. O. S. Club
A. E. Wardwell
Woolwich
Kennebec River
Albine Munsey
Viels
Leonard Munsey
W. H. Kimball
Thelma Kimball
Wells
F. C. Stone
Madge Stahl
Ethel Barber
William FF. Dunilam
Ind
Hiram A. Tobey
Popham Beach
Phippsbore
Society Hall
Fort Popham
Society Tall
Edward W. Bridgilam
William FL Dunham
Norway Medic Ins Co
National Guardsmen
William FY Duntevin
Erwin A. Morse
Washington, D.C
Jennie RK. Morse
N. Louise Spinney of
George Dpinney
Arrowsic
N. Louise Spinney
Emma Pf, Ridley
Phippsburg
Addie G. Ridley
Emma WF. Ridley
William F. Dunstam
Nettie L. Peeling
Fred RB. Teeling
William F. Dunnam
William F
Dunham
Henrietta Potter
Bridge-Merrill's
Harold Dolloff
Atte Wil
Liam F. Dunham
Egister
Morgan