Forty Years Ago In Bath Chronicle Snippets
Bath Daily Times items from March 15 to 21 1899 note E C Purrington’s railway mail clerk appointment, local politics, Ferry street power issues, steamer Kennebec repairs, shipyard activity at Bath Iron Works, and social events including wife of Hasty Pudding club hostesses and Glynn family travels. Mentions of Bath youths, churches, and local clubs alongside maritime commerce and weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. C. Purrington
Bangor and
Bucksport
E. L. Varney
Bath Iron Works
Washington Street
Wallace & Oliver
Washington and
Center Streets
Frank A. Welch
Margaret Burns
Brother’s Offer to Boston Sailshop Foreman
A man recounts a flattering proposal from his Boston-born brother to become foreman in a sailmaking shop there. The note hints at potential relocation and career change, reflecting familial ties and mid career shifts within craft trades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
That
City
Bath High to Stage Parker Comedy at Columbia Theatre
Bath high school plans an April 7 entertainment at Columbia Theatre featuring the comedy What Happened to Parker. Proceeds will defray the graduating class expenses. The Bath items also note a schooner loading ice at Wiscasset, a sloop yacht being built by Thomas Hagan, and repairs to the Seguin at Portland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath High School
Columbia Theatre
Parker
Carrie A. Norton
Wiscasset
Portland
Demerara
Thomas Hagan
Enthusiasm at Bath Country Club Annual Meeting
Bath Country Club stockholders met at Bath Trust Co to plan the 1939 season. President Edwin R. Andrews outlined events, with Alden G Smith reporting a strong financial year and high membership interest. A grand ball is set for April 18 at the Armory, with a notable 15 piece band. officers and directors were elected and the club prepares for a busy spring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Country Club
Bath Trust Co
Edwin R. Andrews
Alden G Smith
Bath
New Armory
New England
New York
Edward W. Bridgham
William S. Shorey
Alden G. Smith
Harry C. Webber
Cecil E. Paine
George Baer Connard
William M. Adams
Archibald M. Main
James Jenkins
Andrews
Jimmy Jones
Panama Canal Zone
En Route Clambake Cooks For Legislature At State House
Representative Joseph W. Larrabee of West Bath serves a unique clambake cooked in transit to Augusta. On a motor truck, individual bakes of clams lobsters eggs and sweet potatoes are heated with rocks and seaweed in barrels, producing steamed dishes for about 250 legislators and spouses. Also served crab meat sandwiches pickles coffee and doughnuts at 6 p.m. on Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph W. Larrabee
West Bath
State House
Augusta
Scarboro
Larrabee
Colonials and Woodfords deadlock in Wednesday tourney
Journeying to the Woodfords club in Portland last Wednesday 53 Bath colonials clashed with Woodfords in bowling pool billiards contract and cribbage ending 14 all. Woodfords had won prior meeting here by 20 to 7 and led 34 21 overall. Individual honors went to Don Jewett 433 for Colonials, D Bailey 427 and T Forrest tall 423 for Woodfords. Basketball-like supper followed the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodfords
Portland
Bath
Portlanders
Pool Heath
Don Jewett
Colonials
D. Bailey
T. Forrestall
Raymond Parks
Herby Douglas
Colonial Club
Colonia
Morse High Baseball Outlook Sees Dark Spring Ahead
Morse High School faces a bleak baseball outlook as much of the 1938 regular lineup has graduated. Only Earle Brown and Eddie Hamblett return, with new hopefuls to fill key infield and outfield gaps. Coach Johnny Madden will assess several candidates indoors before a 14 game Kennebec Valley League schedule begins in the Southern Division with two games against distant peers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morse High School
Johnny Madden
Morse Baseball Club
Morse
Eddie Brown
Georgie Sarkis
Earle Brown
Eddie Hamblett
Clif Nickerson
Harold Stanton
George Perry
Ken Ja
Owen Locke
Dickie Cummings
Stanton
Perry
Willow
Henry D. Small
Morsemen
Kennebec
Kelley Field
Grammar School
Probate Notices and Foreclosure in Bath Sagadahoc 1939
Probate court in Bath Sagadahoc orders notices to heirs and interested parties for March and April 1939 hearings, with final account by Min Nesta Plaisted and guardianship matter for Reginald Wright Kaufman. Foreclosure notice filed by Bath Savings Institution on Bernice M Drake mortgage dated June 12 1935 on property in Bath West Bath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Sagadahoc
Charles W. Plaisted
Forst
Minnesta J. Plaisted
Andrew J Kaufman
Mary B Kaulfman
Phippsburg
Reginald Wright Kaufman
Bernice M. Drake
Maine
Sagadahee
State of Maine
Winneganee
High Street
Campbell's Pond
West Bath
Hanna A. Frisbee
Bertha RC. Tibbetts
Thomas Smail
Tia
Joshua N. Tibbetts
A. D
Bath Savings Institution
Charles C. Low
Mary G. Metcalf
Haven
Lucretia S. Little
Salem
Massachusetts
Josiah H. Gifford
William E. Besaw
May J. Besaw
Grace S. Preble
Woolwich
Grace
Preble
Clarence A. Preble
Lucie Marte Jones
Ailee May Lewis
Adelia E. Saunders
Will
Netilion
Marion A Rafnell
Ald Marion A. Rafnell Winnifrrd S. Merry
Will Havine
G. Ronald Smith
Sale
Pora O Lowell
Carleton W. Lowell
M. Elizabeth Burden
John L. Jack
Sagadahece
Belle C Donnell
Earle C Donnell
Said West Bath
Busan E. Lambert
Nellie M. Campbell
Said Bath
Ezra Home
Edward W. Bridgham
John R. MacDonald
Viola M. Childs
J. Everett Mayo
Lillian H. Mayo
William H. Ryan
Martha McAuliffe
Early Spring Birds Draw Crowd At Bath St. High Street
Enticing report of birds arriving for spring, with humans feeding them. House finch and red poll sightings described by local bird lovers, noting tame behavior and preference for oatmeal. Nearby residents Mrs. Dominique Tardif and daughters Patricia and Fern return home after two weeks with a convalescent ankle. Also includes miscellaneous financial and probate notices from Bath Independent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. G. Page
High Street
National Geographic Society
North End
Red
United States
Dominique Tardif
Patricia
Fern
Pine Street
Lewiston
Tardif
Sportsmen May Pay Higher Fees
Sport readers learn proposed fee increases for non residents hunting small game from 5.15 to 8.15 while big game stays 15.15. Junior permits stay 1.15. Class A licenses rise to 6.50 and Class B to 4.50 as part of a statewide fee adjustment. Dennis and Rosie the turtles feature alongside Belfast residents George and Mrs Gardiner and a Florida winter stay with Sarasota circus grounds and animal encounters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dennis
Rosie
George Gardiner
Belfast
Florida
Sarasota
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Oscar Sewall
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Kaighn's Point
Camden
Easton
Stinson
Merrill
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Augustus Percy
Frederick E. Eldridge
Thomas M. Neagle
Maynard Co
Florence Daley
Susie Daley
Gorham Normal School
Brunswick
Bowdoin College
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New Meadows Inn
Miss Brown
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Toole
Barter's Island
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Arthur Sewall
Sewall
Thomas Jeddry
Camp Comfort
Deering Yard
Bricklayers’ Union
L.A.W
Portland Wheel Club
Maine Central
George W. Hunt
Arthur E. McClure
Brown
St. Patrick’s Day
Cyrus Addison
Frank McLellan
Canada
Capt. Scott
Levi Parsons
Waldoboro
George T. Silsby, Jr
Baltimore
Clara McDonald
Springfield
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North Grammar School
Charles W. Dingley
A. F. Dunnels
Fitchburg
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Phi Rho Society
R. D. Bibber
Abram Conklin
Rosenthal
Ess
F. J. Parks
Fred W. Klippel
Eugene Franks
Chesapeake
Annapolis
Portsmouth
Leosaidow
Shannon House
Charles E. Hyde
William H. Mampel
Samuel R. Percy
Charles H. Mason
Albert
J. Grassy
Seth T. Snipe
Charles J. Cain
Charles H. Oliver
Alfred G. Trask
William M. Sparks
Vernon D. Mitchell
Silas H. Duncan
Frank H. Turner
William W. Robinson
James Pedyard
Samuel H. Rogers
Eben R. Brackley
Arthur J. Dunton
Roscoe P. Ham
Edward F. Johnson
Henry R. White
Davis Hatch
Edward TI. Smith
John
Wig
Henry Preble
Thomas W. Hyde
Elmhurst
Samuel Thompson
Hyde Field
Russell Street
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Oliver Payne
Europe
William Besaw
Susie A. Allen
Weeks Street
Galen Moses
Crocker
Porto Rico
Charles E. Balch
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George Dunning
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Cyrus W. Longley
Common Council
Arthur S. Hyde
Washington
Mendelssohn Club
Bran Ves
Center Street
al Ridley
Back River
K.N.V.R
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Minnie Barnes
Bowdoinham
Narrows
Kennebec Yacht Club
Cahill’s Inn
J. Edward Drake
F. W. Moody
E. S. Hutchins
Columbus Club
Jake
Devon
A. F. Duniels
Central Church Vestry
Mr. Duniels
Congregational Church
Russell's
Gardiner Gould
Gardiner
James W. Kelley
A. F. Emery
Hyde Park
Ed Brown
Rockland
Charles A. Blair
Morse and Co
G. G. Deering
David P. Davis
Washington, D. C
Davis
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Charles F. Allen
Dresden
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Malden
Mr. Strout
Elmer W. Rogers
Strout
Chancellor Blagdon
L. M. Price
W. L. Knight
W.M. Adams
P. W. Johnson
Blanchard J. Conley
H. Arsenault
F. Brackett
J. Parker
A. Boothby
F. Cunningham
A. Smith
By. Hensinger
H. Shaw
H. Day M. Fickett
S. Hanson
E. Pierce
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H. Mayo
A. Estes
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M. Soule
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Ce Carborn
E Toothaker
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J Sanborn
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Maxwell Street
University of Vermont
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