Forty Years of Bath News 1897 Local Ledger
Bath Daily Times excerpts from April and May 1897 chronicle local life. Notables include John Potter ill. Miss Blanche Sewall on a Columbia wheel. Bowdoinham wedding plans for Dr Charles A Palmer. Bath Iron Works workers and new Hyde Windlass plant activity. ice monopoly expansion led by Charles W Morse. multiple shipyard and livery updates. and sporting, social, and civic notices across Bath and surrounding towns.
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Forester’s Hall
A. M. Gay
Messrs. Denham
Charles Potter
Geo. A. Potter
W. J. O'Brien
John Hughes
Civil Service Reform League backs Maine law
The National Civil Service Reform League endorses Maine's new civil service law in a public letter to Governor Barrows. It says the reform will curb patronage, improve efficiency, and benefit citizens and the state, noting Hor mell's survey showing waste and inefficiency without a merit system. Robert L. Johnson signs for the League.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barrows
National Civil Service Reform League
League
Maine
Orren C. Hormell
Bowdoin College Bulletin
Robert L. Johnson
Time, Inc
Small and Oliver Victory by Seventy Pins in Ten-String Match
In a Park Alleys 10-string match Ralph Small and Pete Oliver beat Ken Morrison and Les Plant by 70 pins. Small and Oliver surged in the 7th string with 205 to Morrison Plant’s 156, then finished 232 to 222. Small totaled 1050 and Oliver 979 as a team. Morrison 936 and Plant 973. A separate note reports a backstreet bungalow collapse in Gardiner, Maine, at 2 a.m., described as a high clay bank sliding the house eight feet from its foundation.
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Park Alleys
Ralph Small
Pete Oliver
Ken Morrison
Les Plant
Small-Oliver
Morrison- Plant
Small
Oliver
Ralph Dick
Minnie Cook
Summer Street
Gardiner
Assessors Notice for Tax Lists in Bath Maine 1937
The Bath Maine Board of Assessors requires residents to file true and complete lists of polls and estates on April 1. Failure to provide the list bars the right to tax abatement unless the resident proves inability to file on time. Signed by Edmund P. Briggs Harry F. Litchfield Earl P. Cahoon May 6, 1937.
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Cine
Edmund P. Briggs
Harry FE. Litchfield
Earl P. Cahoon
Board of Assessors
Bath
Maine
Maine hotel and boarding house owners must file inventories
All proprietors and managers of hotels boarding and rooming houses and other places must furnish to the Assistant Assessors of Taxes on April 1 1937 the names ages birthplaces and legal residences of all residents over twenty one as well as horses automobiles launches and other listed property including talking machines radios and dogs housed in their buildings.
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State of
Maine
Coombs High Defeats Morse 7-3 In Afternoon Baseball
Coombs High of Bowdoinham defeated Morse 7-3 on their home grounds Saturday afternoon avenging an earlier loss. Sedgley pitched well for Bowdoinham, with Millay, Lancaster, and Hart driving in runs while Morse used many reserves. Alkazin and Epocrat John led Morse with multiple hits.
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Coombs
Bowdoinham
Willow
Morse
Bath
Bowdeinham
Douglass
McKellar
Millay
Lancaster
Carl Earlbach
Morse Southpaw
Sedgley
Jacquith
Karlbach
Alkazin
Moise
Nickerson
Stanton
Dave Alkazin
Rihi
Epocrat John
Egular
Season's Averages in Colonial League Report
The Colonial League season averages are released by the committee. Notable entries include Morse Toe, Coombs, Douglass with two base hits, Alkazin John, Sedgley with a three base hit and a stolen.
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Morse
Douglass
Alkazin John
Sedgley
Connecticut spider collection tops 10000 at New Haven station
More than 10 000 spiders were added to the Agricultural Experiment Station in New Haven in 1936. Living specimens include a tarantula and a black widow. Dr B J Kaston led the collecting team with Mrs Easton preparing illustrations. W E Britton requests a spider monograph for state survey.
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Connecticut
Agricultural Experiment Station
New Haven
B. J. Kaston
Easton
Federal land banks sell more farms in first quarter 1937
Federal land banks reports 1,000 more farm sales in Q1 1937 than a year earlier. Farm owners and tenants bought 3,625 farms and 637 parcels, versus 2,632 and 402 in 1936. Total yearly sales to March 31 reach 16,241, with inventories down and long term mortgage loans to owners about 36 percent of all U.S. mortgage farms.
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Federal Land Banks
W. S. Myers
Farm Credit Administration
Land Bank
Federal Land Bank and Land Bank
United State
Birthday Observed for 89-Year-Old Community Figure
William W. Vanehen senior member of Hallewell’s oldest family celebrated his 89th birthday at home with friends and relatives. Attendees included Langdon Marvin of New York City and Samuel Vaughan of Beverley Farms Massachusetts, linked to early Hallowell and Harvard alumni lineage. Paul Stewart of Portland named Bates College president. Stewart led debate team this year. Elizabeth Kadjperooni of Lewiston was elected women’s manager with Howard Becker of Yonkers as men’s manager and Grace Jack of Lisbon Falls as secretary.
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Samuel Coykendal
Consolidated Towing Company
John H. Ramsay
North Street
Deering
Oak Grove
Kennebse Nursery
Jessie
Robert
William
Portland
William W. Vanehen
Hallewell
Langdon Marvin
New York City
Samuel Vaughan
Beverley Farms
Mass
Vaughan
Hallowell
America
Vaughans
Harvard University
Paul Stewart
Bates College
Stewart
Elizabeth Kadjperooni
Lewiston
Howard Becker
Yonkers
N. Y
Grace Jack
Lis
Bon Falls
Boys Win at Tennis From Fair Opponents
Morse high tennis squad led by coach Harold E. Brown played at Bath Country Club courts. Results show a 7-0 team victory with singles wins by Bud Plummer Ernest Haskell Baker and others, plus multiple doubles matches concluding 6-1 to 6-3.
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Bath Country Club
Morse High
Harold E. Brown
Roll-off set among Colonial club Eagles and Elks for city title
Joseph Helie 68 longtime Brunswick baker died April 16. Born in S Etienne de Gres PQ he came to the United States 44 years ago settling in Augusta where he married Mary Page. Survived by wife two daughters Mrs Arthur Bisson and Mrs Ovila Martin a son Jerenee Helie and five grandchildren
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Joseph Helie
Brunswick
S. Etienne de Gres
Francis and
Adele St. Pierre Helie
States
Augusta
Mary Page
Arthur Bisson
Ovila Martin
Jerenee Helie
Mill Street
Bowdoin Receives Five Early Manuscripts from Noted Authors
Bowdoin College has received five undergraduate manuscripts by Franklin Pierce Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry W Longfellow. The works were donated to the library through Leon Brooks Leavitt class of 1899.
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Franklin Pierce
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Henry W. Longtfellow
Bowdoin College
Leon Brooks Leavitt
Bulletins available through Congressman Oliver list farm notices
A cooperative notice lists bulletins obtainable from Congressman James C. Oliver through the Department of Agriculture. Readers may request topics on farming, gardening, and household topics by sending a checkable list to the congressman for forwarding.
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James C. Oliver
House
Washington, D. C
Department of Agriculture
Oliver
Planting Aids Growth Of Trees And Local Notices
Extension forester E L Scovell details proper tree planting to protect delicate roots, stressing deep holes and firm soil around roots. Sarasota Anglers Club elects R P Hazzard president, succeeding Eben Gridley. Gold Eagle awards honor East Winthrop Baptists and Girl Scouts. Auburn Library adds a volume of American Girl articles including Miss Mary Percival’s What About Teaching.
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E. L. Scovell
New Jersey College of Agriculture
Rutters University
Glems Richards
Magnetta Mace
East Winthrop
Auburn
Mary Percival Ot Auburn
New York
Hunter College
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