Forty Years Ago In Bath Highlights And Losses
Forties era Bath items recount Horace Lane’s recovery after a 20 foot fall on a barge at Kelley Spear Co.’s yard with injuries including a broken shoulder collarbone and skull. Other notes cover ship launches Arthur Sewall and Erskine M. Phelps, a Klondike of social events, weddings, and local industry updates in Bath Maine during February 1899.
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Horace Lane
Kelley, Spear & Co
Bath
Arthur Sewall & Co
Arthur Sewall
Sewall Yard
Wilmore
Coal Co
Taunton
Erskine M. Phelps
San Francisco
Kennebec
Kelley, Spear and Co
Staples Coal Co
Mass
John Cummings
Fall River
Herman
Philadelphia
Boston
Prompt hearing in Admiralty Court at Portland
Sung with promptness much enthusiasm and William T. Hall Jr was in Portland yesterday at a hearing in a case before the Admiralty Court.
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William T. Hall, Jr
Portland
Admiralty Court
Local Sailors Return and Depart on Naval Assignments
Popham returned yesterday from New port Rhode Island to visit his son who began an eight month cruise on the U S training ship Alliance. William Klippel and Harry Schottier passed away yesterday in Lewiston. Harold Hunt left for Portland to join the brig bound for South America.
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E. C. Swett
Portland
Popham
Newport
R. I
U. S
Alliance
William Klippel
Harry Schottlier
Lewiston
Harold Hunt
South America
Morse Team Drawn Into Eighteenth Western Maine Tourney
Morse high of this city is one of eight teams selected for the Western Maine Interscholastic Basketball Tournament at Lewiston March 3 and 4. They will meet Deering of Portland in the opening round Friday night, a rematch after a 32-27 Bath win. Morse has twice beaten Edward Little but lost to Lewiston, with four prior semifinals appearances in 18 years.
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Lewiston
Morse High
Deering High
Portland
Bath
Deering
Machine
South Portland
Rumford
Cheverus
Lincoln Academy
Sanford
Edward Little
Morse
Westbrook
Rockland
Portsmouth
Concord
N. H
Brunswick Morse
Rockland Morse
Brunswick
Morse Team Loses Slump Battle to South Portland 42 31
Morse high drops a 42 31 game to South Portland at the Exposition Building in Portland in a Western Maine Tournament tilt. The Morsemen show flashes with Edgar Williams and Hank Gallagher but miss close shots and struggle with turnovers as South Portland’s reserves help widen the gap in the second half.
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Morse High
South Portland
Exposition Building
Portland
Deering
Morse
Shipping City
Capers
Bath Boys
Morsemen
Edgar Williams
Morse Crew
Devine and
McGeehan
Hank Gallagher
Dickie Cummings
Gallagher
Cummings
Williams
Frankie Hinds
Jimmy Morse
Devine
Dyer
Pasr
Christiansen
Madden
Danforth
Carey
Perry
Sullivan
Winter tops Central in YMCA league first half title game
Winter breaks the tie with Central 32 27 to capture the first half crown in the YMCA Church League playoffs. Maurice Puffer leads with 11 points, Clif Nickerson tops Central with 14, and Beacon beats Wesley 42 41 in a consolation bout.
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Y. M. C. A. Church
Central
Courtsters
Winter
Centralites
Centrals
Maurice Puffer
Bobby Clark
Carl Earlbach
Eddie Brown
Clif Nickerson
Gasser
Pratt
Thibodeau
Rf McKellar
Nickerson
Young
Thayer and
Sarkis
Beacon
Kenyon
Hatch
MacFadden
Lord
Peer
Condon
Chaney
Gee Sins
Wade
Wesley
Peasley
Ean Staples
Tee
King
essFher
Pat
McQuarrie
Iron Works Party Succeeds With Dance Show and WPA Support
The Bath event featured a dancing quartet and vaudeville production supervised by Albert L. Hickey with Hallie Flanagan and Blanding Sloan. Scenic backdrops were from the Federal Art Project of Maine and costumes by the WPA sewing project in Portland. A 15 piece Bath band led by Ernie George played for the gym dancing, backed by blues singer Esther Dunham. A telegram from W S Newell of Bath Iron Works praised the effort and extended best wishes to all involved.
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Miss Finnigan
Katheryn Larkin
Lela Lawrence
Miss Oliver
Albert L. Hickey
Federal Theatre Project
Hallie Flanagan
Blanding Sloan
Federal Art Project of
Maine
WPA Sewing Project
Portland
Ernie George
Bath
Esther Dunham
Berlin
N. H
Hickey
Pres. W. S. Newell
Bath Iron Works Corp
Naval Reserves Unit Proposals in Maine Exhibition
The Times window display promotes the largest Maine armory project with anti aircraft guns and asks for enlistees for Marine Corps Reserve, Naval Reserves, and related units. Appeals to unmarried 18 plus aviation cadets and 17 to 35 year olds for other units with four year enrollments and paid camps.
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Maine
Frank Vennett
Bath
Marine Corps Reserve Battalion
William Turgeon
Russell Street
Lewiston
Ernest George, Jr
Brunswick
Marine Band
Frank T. Fortier
Maple Street
Naval Reserve
Boatswain Morris McCrater
Cook's Corner
Naval Reserves
Army
Navy
Larrabee Heads Committee Schedules Farmer's Ball Event
Larrabee chairs a nine o'clock Farmer's Ball with interpretative dances and elderly couple reels from Sagadahoe county residents. Augusta City Hall balconies offer spectators a comfortable view while Larrabee invites all friends to attend in Thursday evening.
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Larrabee
Augusta City
Sagadahoe County
Brown son returns from vacation with family in Wollaston
David Brown son of Walter Brown of Wollaston Massachusetts returned after a vacation spent with his grandmother Mrs. Eugene R. Brown on Deering Street and with his aunt Mrs. Edgar C. Murphy on Washington Street.
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David Brown
Walter Brown
Wollaston
Mass
Eugene R. Brown
Deering Street
Edgar C. Murphy
Washington Street
Probate notices from Bath Maine court February 1939
Court of Probate in Sagadahoc County orders notice by publication for three weeks in Bath Tyranendent. Hearings set for March first 1939 at ten o clock. petitions include administratrix appointment for Martha McAuliffe, guardianship matters for minors, sale of real estate in Bowdoin, and probate of wills for William Ryan Viola Childs and Clara Elliott trust.
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Bath
Sagadahoc
T Cory
Path
Maid
William H. Ryan
Martha McAuliffe
Martha McAulifffe
Eugene W. Freeman
Georgetown
Walter Field
Jesse P. Bailey
West Bath
Bowdoin
William M. Batley
John R MacDonald
Viola M. Childs
Beth, Me
Sid Viola M. Childe
Andrew IO Kauffman
Mary Pargara Kautfman
Phippabore
Petrian
Wioardion
Cald
Welch
Kaurffman
Woolwich
Freeman
Clara R Elliott
Freeman A
Probate records list heirs and executors for Bath county estates
A list of probate filings names administrators, executors, and guardians for decedents in Bath and nearby towns. Entries show names such as James Bath, Jesse Batley, Henry Rose, Lavonta Coombs, Martha Stinson, and others, with dates around February 7 1939 and related bond qualifications or appointments.
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John
Jack
Savadrhor
Waltf
Tames JP
Willer
M_ Batley
West Bath
Carlton
Batley
Santora
York
Bend
Henry Rosf Jate
Rose
Weat Bath
Fillie Bend
Lavonta M “Coombbs
Tate
Bath
DORA
Carteton W Lowell
Flizabeth Burden
Chartes
Rip Ty
Bath Delev
Executrix
Charles EB Platsted
Minnetta II
Plaisted
Fmmons
Ate
Georretown
EK Emmone
Nathaniel Perkins
Phippsburg
William A. Todd
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