Forty Years Ago In Bath March 23 1892
Readable notes from Bath dated March 23 1892 recount local events and people. Dunlap Sonora admitted 33 new members. Miss Nellie D Coombsee hosts whist. American Express Co wagon shafts broken by a horse incident. Odd Fellows from Bath attend degrees at Pejepscot lodge. city council adjourns for sub officer elections. Corliss Street entertainment postponed. prayers and church meetings scheduled.
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Sonora
Corliss Street Sociable Meeting Scheduled
March 25, 1892 notes show the Corliss Street sociable will meet in the evening with Mrs. Willard Hodgkins. Captain Gowell of the ferry Union visits up street noting a kink in his side. William Sprague paints Knickerbocker Towage Co boats. Charles Rogers starts Bedford street residence 28 by 36 feet. Samuel Rich handles the red house painting on Dummer Street. Beacon Street sociable gathering led by Mrs. J C Wednesday evening.
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Corliss Street Sociable
Willard Hodgkins
Marshall Street
William Sprague
The
Knickerbocker Towage Co
Capt. Gowell
Ferry Union
William Cahill
Dummer Street
Samuel Rich
Small
Dyer
John A. Small
Mr. Small
Central Maine Power Co
Robinson's Lane
Morris Povich
Standard Furniture Co
Center Street
Nicholas Mihalos
Special Committee On
Franklin Scarver
Broad Street
Bath Savings Institution
Hartford Accident and Indemnity Figures Revealed
Financial figures show Pariece 31 December totals for Hartford Accident and Indemnity with admitted assets 44.56 million dollars and total liabilities and surplus around 110.73 million. Cash capital listed at 3 million and surplus over liabilities about 4.60 million. Debits include 1.30 million in items not admitted.
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Hartford
D. M
Bath
Bowdoin College Baseball Schedule Opened at Home
Bowdoin’s Polar Bears announce a 14 game spring slate with five at Pickard Field. Home games start at 3 30 p m. The schedule lists dates against Bates Maine Colby Northeastern Mass Aggies Wesleyan Tufts and Bates at Brunswick Lewiston Orono Amherst and Middletown. George Cummings of Lewiston visited the city on Tuesday.
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Bowdoin
Pickard Field
Polar Bears
Patriots
Lewiston
Bates
Brunswick College
Maine
Orono
Colby
Waterville
Northeastern
Boston
Mass
Aggies
Amherst
Weslyan
Middletown
Tufts
Medford
Brunswick
City Council Elects Officials and Sets 1932 Salaries
The city council elected officers including city treasurer and collector Donald D. Young city marshal Walter L. Whitney city engineer Stephen Litchfield and city auditor Emily J. Morgan. They also filled posts as forester shore up salaries and approved per diem payments and a joint committee on finance recommended combining the city treasurer and collector roles and continuing mayor as clerk hire.
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Cemetery
Board of Aldermen
House of Correction
Board of Health
Joint
Standing Committee On Finance
Ellery E. Whittemore
George J. Goodwin
Common Council
Eubra F. Troop
Arthur L. Pratt
Elford A. Stover
Whitney
Pratt
Miller
Small
Bee City Treas
Donald D. Young
Whittemore
Walter L. Whitney
Dyer
Stephen Litchfield
Perry
Emily J. Morgan
Youland
Harold W. Child
Knox & Lincoln Railroad
Arthur K. Purington
Richard Frates
James P. Sutherland
Horace W. Ward
Sutherland
Robert E. Kingsbury
Ralph Pinkham
Dougherty
Litchfield
Jamess. Knight
Joint Committees Named by City Officers for the Year
The aldermen and councilmen appointive lists for all standing and special committees were announced. Chairs are designated with the first alderman in each pairing. Named members include Whittemore Whitney Dyer Billings Perry Youland and many others across Accounts Charities Engrossed ordinances Finance Manufacturing Fire Public streets Taxes Water Water works Athletics Insurance Licenses Police State aid and pensions Public buildings Public lighting Schools and school houses Special Committees Serving Constables and various council members across multiple departments.
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Whitney
Finance Committee
Board of Highways and Sewers
Youland
Whittemore
Small
Pres
Goodwin
Pres. Goodwin
Whittemore and Whitney
Knight
Pratt and Stover
Dyer
Billings
Blake
Jackson
Troop
Sheldon
Emery
Brierly
Robbins
Kingsbury
Pratt
Perry
Haley
Freeman
McCabe and
Tobey
Miller
Perry and
Smith
Dinances
McCabe
Billings and Whitney
Nichols
Bickle
Woodman
Executrix Applies for Letters Testamentary in 1932 Will
The daughter identified as executrix petitions to prove and allow the will of the deceased and to issue Letters Testamentary to Blanche A. Pease without bond, dated March 8, 1932.
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State OF Maine
Sagadahoc
Blanche A. Pease
Bath
Theodore W. Pease
Cobb Road
Maine
A.D
Che A. Pease
Wilson L. Bailey
J. Gould Bailey
Percy C. Bailey
Woolwich
Said
Abbie E. Bailey
A. D
George M. Stinson
Alice G. Stinson
Marcia M. Stinson
Harry M. Stinson
Louisville
Rachel Farnham
City Names Nearly 150 Constables Led by Mayor Small
Mayor Small announced a nearly 150 strong constable list approved by the board of aldermen on Wednesday night. The roster includes Walter F. Abbott Chester C. Ader ton Edmund A. Arsenault Joseph E. Avery George F. Allen Fred W. Ad erton and many others.
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Small
Board of Aldermen
Walter F. Abbott
Chester C. Aderton
Edmund A. Arsenault
Joseph E. Avery
George F. Allen
Fred W. Aderton
William M. Adams
Frank H. Beal
John W. Biggins
Edward A. Blake
Howard E. Blake
Ralph J. Boardman
Hazen E. Boyle
George A. Bragdon
James E. Brewster
George S. Davis
John T. Dwyer
Walter T. Dingley
Burt M. Dyer
Sidney L. Eaton
Edwin L. Emmons
Richard Frates
Fitz G. Falin
Frank T. Fortier
Harry S. Farrell
John J. Foley
Langdon E. Green
John Gannon
Everett T. Green
John R. Gallagher
Fred N. Gowen
H. A. Gowell
John W. Gillespie
Emerson B. Glidden
Elson E. Harford
Lloyd L. Hooker
William E. Harriman
William O. Hunt
William F. Ham
Peter G. Innes
James M. Jewett
Alfred J. Keene
James S. Knight
John F. King
William R. Kimball
Banjo Blamed In Augusta Car Crash Injures Mother and Infant
Mrs. Doris K. Clark of Augusta loses control of her car near Vassalboro at midnight. A banjo on the seat bounced onto her sleeping baby in the rear, causing a crash into a telephone pole. Both mother and child sustained minor bruises. Officer Merle E. Cole reported the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doris K. Clark
Longwood Avenue
Augusta
Waterville
Samuel Clark
Vassalboro
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Bath Daily Times
Nellie D. Coombsee
American Express Co
Front Street
Epscot Lodge
Corliss Street
W. S. Kenniston
Rockland
Liberty & Lake
Portland and Kennebec Mining Co
Small Point
Ernest Huse
Pront Street
Lundrigan and
Poole
King’s Daughters
Dickey Bird
Woodward
Darien
S. S. Sewall
A. Sewall & Co
Adelia
Dingrey
Mayor Twitchell
Acadia Lodge
M. G. Shaw & Son
Rufus Thomas
Ireland
Knickerbocker
Boothbay
Daylight
New York
North Street
King’s Daughters and Sons
Alice Archer
Gibbs
Sewall’s
Roanoke
Miles M. Merry
Polar Star Lodge F. & A. M
Ladies Cecelian Quartet
Portland
J. H. Laine
P. 5S
Bath High School Baseball Association
H. E. Cole
Robert Dyer
Fred Drake
Charles Moulton
McLaughlin
Universalist Church
Oliver Moses
Moses
K. P
Patten Lodge
Josie Ham
Odd Fellows
Stunceton
Pejepscot Lodge
Seguin Light
Seguin
Kennebec
Court Sagadahoc A. O. F
the Alameds
Pullen
St. Mary's Church
J. C. Higgins
Sagadaheck
Phoenix
J. B. Drake
Kennebec Steamboat Co
Kennebecs
Della Collins
Frank Jones
Mount Desert Steamboat Co
Stevedore Fisher
Cox’s Head
Augustus Hunt
Fred Davenport
Washington Street
Brooks, Potter
Winneganee Creek
Bailey
B. F. Savage
William Beals
Cornelius Pond Ice Co
Bay
Wilson
Pril 5
Torrey
George Place
Iron Works
E. M. Puller
Afton Lermond
Middle Street
J. W. Kimball
Daisy Farlin
Kelley
Spear
Richard Lundrigan
Long Beach
Thomas Gibbs
Sedgwick Relief Corps
Mrs.Thompson’s
Daughters of Rebekah
Odd Fellows Hall
St. Mary’s Society
Orphans’ Home
Arthur Bosworth
Maine Central
Lineman Reynolds
Western Union Telegraph Co
Mr. Conway
York Street
Wesley M. E
Miss Mary
Charles Rogers
Bedford Street
Beacon Street Sociable
J.C
George Cummings
Arthur F. Mayo
Williams Whitney
Harold P. Small
Cemetery and Park Board
Marius H. Page
Roland
Rolvin H. Bowie
Charles D. Hall
Herbert
Harris
Her
Bert Calderwood
Harold
Neilson
Lewis J. Sanborn
E. Wiliam Mann
Edward Brown
Orth Chandler
Mabelle Whitten
Adams
Edward Roode
Frank W. Kenyon
Stewart McAllister
Charles M. Staples
Arthur W. Brown
Daniel A. Bishop
J. Edward Drake
Charles R. Farnham
Herbert L. Grinnell
Ermmest F. Kelley
William H. White
Arthur C. Lemont
Eugene H. Sprague
Leburton D. Sheldon
Lucy B. Perry
William L. Farrell
Mary C. Golder
William A. Kittridge
Paul A. Gregware
Willis G. Jeffern
John W. Gilmore
Wright
Gilmore
King
Charles W. Kingsbury
Thomas J. Lundrigan
Harry W.lemont
Arthur
Lewis
Francis W. Lycleton
W. Lowell
Alvah F. Lewis
William ©. Lancaster
James N. Lavigne
Joseph R. Melrose
Philip V. Murphy
Lester G. Munssy
George A. McElman
Eugene McGrath
William Scott Morse
Chester H. McCabe
N. Monre2
John R. McDonald
Alexander McDougall
Merritt A. Mitchell
Stewart V. McAbistar
Matthew C. McPherson
George Middleton
Andrew McAllister
Chester W. Nowell
John A. Norris
John
Place
Horate W
Paule
Charles E. Parks
George D. Parshley
Roeland Paro
Erne
Pinkham
Fred W. Parks
Forrest B. Potter
Leland
Plummer
Melville
Colin S. Wakefield
William BE. McLaughlin
Brian M. Jewett
George C. Quicksall
Emily P. Skillings
Bath, Maine
Roger D. Skillings
Sagane
Ccs
Gee Walter
Glidden
William FP. Dunham
Arthur J. Dunton
Sagoe
B Independent
Dunham
Strout
Coun—Try Property
E. A. Strout Realty Agency Inc
Frank S. Walch
Banker St
Esther L. Brawn
State OF
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Rath
Walter S. Glidden
William F. Dunham
Benjamin S. Haggett
Fred B. Haggett
Elizabeth A. Haggett
Walter Seal As
Daniel Williams
William R. Bowker
Phippsburg
Daniel Wila
Sriniea. Rescain
Charles Renaud
Eugen