Bath 1890 notes sleighing carpentry and city business
Forty years ago Bath reports thaw damages to sleighing at the south end of the city. Acadia lodge to confer second degree tomorrow. Universalist Sunday school sleigh tide to Brunswick postponed by rain. March brings work for carpenters while seamen find it slow. City Council holds final regular meeting. reports to be presented. Bath Uniform Bank plans a grand ball. Botched boiler repairs at Houghton steam house to be replaced for ship readiness. Highways committee to consider Maine Central RR crossing Water street to shipyard. Poverty hall at Gahan's hall a successful dance with 14 dances and clam supper. tions about a testimonial for Gen Hyde and Galen Moses postponed due to William Rogers in New York. Ice yard activities and tug Clara Clarita tops, boxing rooms, and rail yard changes noted. Details on shipyard progress, ice shipments, and depot water issues amid weather impact. Community events include Acadia lodge socials, Polar Star Lodge election, and Knox & Lincoln RR board meeting. Large Bath Iron Works ball at Alameda anticipated for cruiser contract. Bath delegation to Boston Opera, ice shipments, and school events highlighted.
Shoe store to open on Front Street this week
A brief note states a yard store on Front Street plans to open a shoe store in a few days. It also mentions an upcoming appointment of James Bailey as City Marshal being circulated at present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Front Street
James Bailey
City Mar
March 17 1890 incidents note and civic items
Charles Rogers of Whiskeay suffers a severe knee cut after being thrown from a sleigh while driving a young horse. Bond for cruiser construction executed for 190000 by Joseph M. Hayes. Gen Hyde and H W Swanton depart for Washington. Winter Street organ fund gains 500 from Galen C Moses and 100 from Capt J R Kelley. Harward and Moses add 200 each to parsonage debt reduction. Harrington Concert Co conducts service at Winter Street church with choir anthems and hymns. Prayer service for women at Y M C A parlor Wednesday at 2 30 led by Mrs H A Duncan. Bath loses George H Clark as city clerk noted for precise ledgers and neat penmanship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Rogers
Joseph M. Hayes
Gen. Hyde
H. W. Swanton
Washington
Winter Street
Mr. Harward
Galen C. Moses
J. R. Kelley
Major Harward
Mr. Moses
Harrington Concert Co
Y.M.C.A
H. A. Duncan
Care of Spring Lawn and Maine Athletics Chief Resigns
The piece notes soil issues in lawn care recommending a shallow topsoil layer two inches deep for turf and warns against deep fertilization. It also reports Benjamin C. Kent resigning as faculty manager of athletics at the University of Maine effective next Fall, while remaining head of the mechanical drawing department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benjamin C. Kent
University of Maine
Board of
Kent
Maine
Prize-winning terrier run over by Lewiston truck
A valued prize-winning terrier belonging to D. J. Conley was killed last week in Lewiston when it darted into the street under a truck. The dog had earned prizes in Boston and New York shows and had been valued at nearly $300.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewiston
D. J. Conley
Boston
New York
Phoenix Insurance Co Assets and Liabilities December 31 1929
Financial statement shows assets totaling 45 343 900 93 with admitted assets 45 161 480 38 and liabilities and surplus 22 094 379 16. Mortgage loans stocks and bonds cash in office and banks and other items appear among assets. unpaid losses and cash capital contribute to liabilities. D M Humphreys & Co agents Bath Maine provided the figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix Insurance CO
Mogl Matates
D. M. Humphreys & Co, Agts
Bath
Maine
Sagadahoc Mutual Fire Insurance Company
Bowdoinham
Cost of advertising state is expensive, Stetson says
Clarence O Stetson chairman of the Maine Development Commission told Caribou Rotary Club that Maine spends about 45 000 on advertising this year plus 30 000 private Maine Publicity Bureau and 30 000 from state chamber and New England Council funding. He compared Maine with California Kansas City Cincinnati and others noting higher budgets and the need for continued, sizable outlays to sustain promotion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Commonwealths
Clarence O Stetson
Maine Development Commission
Caribou Rotary Club
Stetson
Maine Publicity Bureau
Commission
State Chamber of Commerce
New England Council
Bangor
Kittery
California
Cleveland
Chamber of Commerce
Kansas City
Cincinnati
Obituary of Blanche E. Dodge at 754 Middle Street
Blanche E Dodge 47 widow of Eugene Dodge died suddenly Sunday afternoon from a heart attack at her Bath Street home. She had been in poor health for a year. Survived by daughter Evelyn Dodge and her father Captain Elbridge F Wright. Also mentions Willard F Cromwell probate appointment and Charles C Low probate appointment with Sagadahoc records.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blanche E.'Dodge
Eugene Dodge
Middle Street
Mrs. Dodge
Bath
Capt. Elbridge F
Susan McIntire Wright
Evelyn Dodge
Funeral for Capt Leonardo Chaney Held at Home
The funeral for Capt Leonardo B. Chaney was held Friday at two at his Oak Street home with Rev. Dc Myron Tubbs presiding. A large crowd attended. bearers were former Ferdinando Gorges crew members. Burial followed at Oak Grove. Out-of-town attendees included Ellington Chaney of Freeport and Edith Perkins of New Brunswick among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonardo B. Chaney
Oak Street
Dc Myron Tubbs
Grace Church
Chaney
Maine Central
Oak Grove
Ellington Chaney
Freeport
Edith C. Perkins
New Brunswick
N. d
Earle B. Perkins
Rutgers University
Earle L. Chane
Strafford
N. H
Clyde L
James 8. Perkins
Edward Wallace
Portland
Veteran Bath rigger Samuel H. Wade dies at 79
Samuel H. Wade 79 a longtime Bath master rigger died suddenly from pneumonia at his home on upper Washington street after a brief illness. Born in Calais he married Mary E Creamer in 1877 and moved to Bath nearly 50 years ago. He leaves a widow two sons Ernest H Wade John E Wade three daughters Eleanor Munsey Frank Sparks Lis Trainor Philip Trainor and five grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel H. Wade
Upper Washington Street
Calais
Mary E
John D. Creamer
Bath
Mr. Wade
Lincoln Lodge
No. IC
Ernest H. Wade
West Somerville
Mass
John E. Wade
Leonard Munsey
Frank W. Sparks
Brunswick
Willis Holbrook
Cumberland Mills
Eleanor Sparks
William M.sparks
Louise Trainor
Philip Trainor
Death of Mrs Nellie Campbell Briry in Malden Mass
Nellie Campbell Briry 66 wife of John F Briry died suddenly at home 193 Main Street Malden Mass from a heart ailment after breakfast Monday She was born in Bath daughter of Charles Campbell Her husband son of the late Dr Milton S Briry and a sister Mrs Ashton E Wardwell of Bath accompany the body to Bath for burial in Campbell lot Oak Grove today
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nellie Campbell Briry
John F. Briry
Main Street
Malden
Mass
Ashton E. Wardwell
Bath
Campbell Lot
Oak Grove
Probate Court Orders Notices in Sagadahoc Maine
Multiple probate orders from Sagadahoc Maine preside notices for administrators and executors. They require three weeks of publication in the Bath Independent to alert interested parties and set dates in April 1930 for final accounts and inheritance tax determinations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sagadahoc
Bath
Carrie Hodgkins
Clara W. Smith
Said
Bath Independent
Manfred E. Sidelinger
Herbert L. Sidelinger
Asbury G. Bailey
Theodore M. Getchell
Woolwich
C.t.a
State OF Maine
George L. Tarr
Benton F. Stinson
Arrowsic
A. D
Fred H. Thompson
Odt
Walter
Glidden
Willard S. Oldreive
Edward W. Oun Ij Iotary Iate
Maine
ST. Sagadahogc
Walter S. Glidden
State OF
Henry M. Biggins
James C. Biggins
Agehoc
Ada E. Deering
Harry G. Deering
Probate notices from Sagadahoc Maine heirs and executors
Public notices filed in Sagadahoc Maine probate court list Annie B Dauphin as executrix for Lean Dauphin estate and Willard S Oldreive as executor for Maria M Leonard estate. The records request Letters Testamentary without bond and publish notices in Bath Independent to inform interested parties of April 1 hearing in Bath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sagadahoc
Annie B. Dauphin
Bath
Lean Dauphin
Anna B. Normile
Danebie
Laura B. Walter
Charles R. Dauphin
New Bedford
Mass
Eugene O. Dauphin
Octave L. Dauphin
John M. Dauphin
Cuttyhunk
Coast Guard
A. D
State OF Maine
Sagadahoe
Willard S. Oldreive
Malden
Maria M. Leonard
Woolwich
Said
Mayberry Matin
Rebecca R. Cormack
Beverly, Mass
Clarence G. Brown
Troy
N. Y
Ernest F. Brown
Rockaway Peach
Lillian Jones
Harold Mayberry
Reading
Loring Mayberry
Belmont
Fred Mayberry
Marblehead
Dane
Probate notices in Sagadahoc County court records
Multiple probate notices dated March 4 1850 and March 1930 from Sagadahoc County Maine list individuals such as James A Johnson Elmer Sanford Mark Hennessy Mira Arnold Malcolm and David C Malcolm. Notices note trustees executors and qualification or acceptance of duties in Bath and Sagadahoc.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James A. Johnson
Boston
Mass
James A
Elmer
Mark Hennessy
Bath
County of
A. Sanford
Sagadahoc
Hennessy
Mark W. Pane Se
Saki Trust
Mira FP
Arnold
Malcolm
David C. Malcolm
Burg
Mugen
Also Mentioned on This Page
The
Bath Daily Times
Acadia Lodge
Bath Division Uniform Bank
Houghton
Joint
Standing Committee On
Thomas W. Hyde
Maine Central Railroad Company
Water Street
Houghton Bros
Gahan’s Hall
McIntire
Day
Gahan, Clark and Perry
Gahan
Mr. Gahan
William Rogers
T. W. Hyde
Cheltra
Commercial Street
Southern Division
William D. Sewall
Capt
Carter
Cottage City
School Street
Castle Hall
McQuarrie, Morse and Franks
Brooks
Mount Vernon
Tontine
Nichols
Polar Star Lodge
W.M
A. C. Sprague
S.W
George W. Morse
J.W
F Gallagher
Treas
Frank Brown
George W. Hodgdon
William H. Swett
Fred A. Libby
A. Sewall & Co
New England
William W. Moses
Long Beach
Spinney
Franklin Street
Bath Iron Works
Knox & Lincoln Railroad
Supt. White
Shannon
Columbian Opera House
Clark
Vine Street
Charles Emery
Morse’s
Payson Tucker
the Alameda
William Downing
Kennebec
Wm. Mason
Fred Ingham
Lisbon Ice Co
Carrie Percy
Ed Johnson
Emma Magoun
Ernest Quimby
Henry Palmer
Annie McDonald
Christine Carter
Nellie Hunt
North End
Crescent Hall
North Street Free
Knox & Lincoln
Commercial Union Telegraph Company of
Rockland
Officer Harriman
Pejepscot
George H. Clark
Nature Magazine
Blanche E. Dodge
N. Jordan
Portsmouth
Doris Tasfan Werk Street
Willard F. Cromwell
Sadahoc
Calvin E. Cromwell
William F. Dunham
Charles C. Low
Freds. Curtis
Thomas R. Huston
Mgr
WALTER S._ GLIDDEN
Register
Attes William F. Dunham
Marou Ourounty
Charles H. Oliver
Martha D
Williams
New
Totalia and Surplus Fae
D. M. Humphreys & CO
Bath, Maine
Marion S. Oldreive
Malden, Mass
F. Dunham
Brown
Norway Medicine Co
Citizens Insurance Company of
Missouri
St. Louis, Mo
Liabi
Jugal
Hall
Helen M. Potter
Walter 5
Ntie
Nbamai
Ae Sagadahoc
William F. di
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