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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1930
Page
8
From The Bath Daily Times dated March 19 1890 items cover lodge events Capt Kittridge retirement new delivery wagon Hartleb Chestri improvements in Ledyard store displays shipyard sales and river openness with dates and names such as Aubur n Lisbon Falls Corliss Street Bath Public works and social events including suppers dances and concerts.
A large delegation of the Daughters of Rebekah from this city will visit Portland tomorrow night. Workmen arrived from up river to load vessels at the depot by night. Wesley church Ladies aid hosts a musical and sociable with Mrs. H A Duncan on Washington Street this evening. Mrs. Edgar Gerry hosted a card party Thursday evening with refreshments. A Gahan's hall masquerade dance lasted past midnight with Gahan and Clark performing. supper below in the store. In Anderson's window a 1000 year old Peru clay vase relic owned by Dr E F Briro of this city. a large turtle shell is also displayed. Universalist sewing circle met with Mrs Nelson Ham for games and dancing. Montg ery and St Bernard Royal Arch Chapter No 2 annual meeting elected officers: W S Russell H P .
March 24, 1890 reports frame construction for the Iron Works new office progressing this week. The Central church fair and musical entertainment are planned for April 9 in Columbian Hall with the Mystic Quartette as part of the program.
March 28 1890 notice that the Shaw mill will begin operations around the tenth of next month. The Dramatic Club has dropped amateur from their name. Mrs Charles Welch hosted a successful progressive euchre party.
Rev. R. Stanley Povey of the Christian Civic League of Maine argued at Corliss Street Baptist Church that economic pressure will keep the Eighteenth Amendment intact. He said Canadian control plans are impossible in the United States and claimed wets have opposed every regulatory step by the dry movement for a century.
16 couples attended a Phoenix hotel event while a Maine Central freight depot area is noted as muddy. Hanscom plans a residence on Washington street north of Mrs. Greenleaf. Houghton's yard remains closed to Sunday work in 80 years. A Bath company beef car delayed from Portland arrived Sunday morning. J T Donnell & Co rebuilds a rope plant with new machinery and July reopens. Ice cutters push Brewer Company work at Nequasset with two crews and two runs, carpenters extending facilities. Sunday chill improved Monday ice cutting conditions.
Financial snapshot shows Phoenix Insurance Co. assets as of December 31 including real estate 598,121.04 mortgage loans 34,288,844.00 cash in office and bank 3,894,482.01 agents' balances 1,983,744.73 interest and rents 244,307.01 all other assets 99,419.48 total admitted assets 22,094,379.16 losses and other liabilities not fully stated. Surplus balance not specified.
Mrs. Mattie E. Conley wife of John E. Conley of 32 Western avenue died late Thursday after a long illness. A Bath resident since childhood she was born March 9 1861 at Westport. She belonged to Wesley Church for over 40 years and was known as a ministering angel of mercy to friends and neighbors. She leaves her husband a brother Kirvin R. Dunton of Arlington Mass and three sisters Mrs Fred Toothaker Mrs Harry Richardson and Miss Clara Dunton.
Cyrus Albert Moulton a veteran railroad man died Friday in a Brunswick hospital after a long illness. Born in Moultonboro New Hampshire he worked twenty years as an engineman for the Boston and Maine Railroad, later trackman and trackmaster for Somerset Railroad in Norridgewock, then joined Maine Central where an 1918 accident cost him an arm. He had been gateman at the North Street crossing Bath since 1919. Probate notices also appear for the estates of Calvin E Cromwell of Bath and Robert Shea of Bath with administrators appointed and qualified by Sagadahoc County Court.
Edward J Lyons 57 a Portland barber who had lived at 78 Oliver Street for three months died suddenly Wednesday afternoon from heart trouble. Born in England he was the son of William and Myra Lyons and formerly worked as a hairdresser in Brunswick. He is survived by brother Frank W Lyons and sister Mrs Julia Jones. Funeral Saturday at 8 in St Marys Church Rev Alexander Doucet officiating bearers included Walter Millett Thomas Tracy Charles Gauvin Leo Gauvin George Lyons and Edward McCormick Burial was in Calvary Cemetery.
The funeral for Cyrus Albert Moulton, longtime Maine Central crossing tender at North Street, was held Monday at 10 a.m. in the home of Della W. Lampson, 38 Edward Street. Rev. Howard P. Jett officiated with Acadia lodge Pythian rituals led by District Deputy William Mann. Bearers included Mr. Mann and Acadia lodge officers. Body sent to Norridgewock for burial.
The funeral of Mattié A. Conley, wife of John E. Conley, drew a large Bath crowd at 32 Western avenue. Rev. F. L. Littlefield officiated, bearers were Archibald Miller, William B. Shaw, Edward Murphy and Henry P. Healey, with burial at Oak Grove.
Notices document probate proceedings in Bath Sagadahoc Maine including wills estates guardianships and executors with orders for notices to interested persons. Filings include Annie B Dauphin as executrix for Leander Dauphin and Willard S Oldreive as executor for Maria M Leonard plus various trustee and administrator actions and court dates in March and April 1930.
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