Local Jottings from City Council to Spiritualist Meet
City Council meets Wednesday evening. Strawberries 25 cents a box Tuesday. Weather: 50 and cloudy with sprinkles, then more clouds and sun. Polar Star Lodge worked the B A degree Monday. White tulips bloom on A H Shaw lawn. Capt Anson Oliver piloted the Penobscot up river Monday. Summer arrived as apple blossoms appear. Remains of Mrs Charles E Ervine interred at Wiscasset Tuesday. Kimball Bros lay foundation under hay storage on T wharf. Barge at Kelley Spear yard one quarter planked. Lighter No 8 carries treenails to Kelley Spear yard. Bowker yard schooner ceiled up with 15 beams. Fishermen report shad hauls in Eastern River and Woolwich. Ferdinand Gorges delayed due to weather. Capt Gilbert Perry to command summer boat at Boothbay Harbor. Dealer license discussion cites Maine attorney general opinion. City sealer invited to national standards convention May 25–28. Bangor division six trips weekly starts Monday service. Camden and Belfast steamers in service. Colonial Club May meeting holds large attendance. new members elected. Plans for automobile trip and ladies night approved. annual banquet May 25 at New Meadows Inn. Billiard and pool tables to arrive. Apples from Foreman Teeling’s orchard distributed. Maine State Spiritualist Association holds 19th annual meeting in Skowhegan May 15–16 with business sessions and public services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Polar Star Lodge
A. H. Shaw
Anson Oliver
Charles E. Ervine
Wiscasset
Kimball Bros
Kelley-Spear
Lincoln Lumber Co
Bowker Yard
Phippsburg Center
Edgecomb
Eastern River
Woolwich
Maine Central
Ferdinando Gorges
Boston
Gilbert Perry
Sailors
Snug Harbor
Boothbay Haabor
William R. Pattangaly
Waterville
Maine
John E. Bunker
Bar Harbor
John Gilmore
Department of Commerce
Bureau of Standards
Washington, D. C
Bangor
Eastern Steamship Corporation
Camden
Belfast
A. E. Rawley
Brown
Sawyer
Kennebec
Rockland
Colonial Club
R. B. Hatch
James B. Hunter
Eliot A. Fuller
New Meadows Inn
Foreman Teeling
Times
Litchfield
Maine State Spiritualist Association
Skowhegan
Bath and Portland Update From Local Civic and Sea Trade
Local notes report Dunlap Commandery conferring the Red Cross, Ramona Council meeting, and mixed weather by sun and rain. Swift Co received 18 000 pounds of pork by special car while Bath schooner Calumet sails to Barbadoes for Montreal. Ralph Pattee, shot weeks ago, seen downtown, and Leonard Miller returns from Portland to join Annable grocery. Metropolitan Line to run steamers Bunker Hill and Massachusetts Boston to New York May 24. Baltimore visitors in town by Packard car, four days from Baltimore, then Isabel B. Wiley arrives Philadelphia to Turks Island. Bowling League results show Eurekas dropping two to Hyde Windlass. May 3 harbor message reports on Emblane run. Capt. Lincoln W. Jewett re-elected manager of Central Wharf Cold Storage Co. North End PTA plans entertainments to fund school improvements. Tall Stove Club notes a Maine boy who built a $500 000 wood plant in New York and stock in a buyer. Women of Maine call for June exposition in Portland to showcase women in business and work. Collecting names, suggestions, samples, money and help to create a state women’s work exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dunlap Commandery
Red Cross
Ramona Council
Red Men's Hall
Swift Co
Calumet
Barbadoes
Montreal
Ralph Pattee
Leonard Miller
Portland
Annable
Middle St
Metropolitan Line
Bunker Hill
Massachusetts
Boston
New York
W. F. Smith
Baltimore
Bluehill
Isabel B. Wiley
Philadelphia
Turks Island
Capt
Peters
Hudson
Park
Eurekas
Tall Stove Club
Maine
Winterport
Marie
Edmund A. DeGarmo
George L. Crosman
J. M. Strout
John Howard Hill
Charles Dunn Jr
Edward Lawrence Dame
Charles W. LeGrow
Everett J. Tompson
L. M. Leighton
Charles F. Roberts
S. H. Colesworthy
Florence M. Best
Frederick P. Abbott
Saco
Bath News Roundup Delivers Local Events And Incidents
A Maine town reports a front street sign project a new march at Morse High School and a schooner bound for Augusta tugs, with a big Kennebec salmon and school board routine matters. Commencement speaker Samuel McCall noted. Bath residents handle a pocket of quicksilver, funerals, lodge meetings, and harbor shipments. A River side Hotel update and a curious light cat caper close the day with licenses issued and a riding accident impact.
Bath notices and local events span new repairs to a light and hospital visit
H W Crosman drives a new Ford while the Park claims its first spring haircut. A broken French plate light at Central Garage is replaced. Curtis ambulance carried Capt. Mark Morse with pneumonia to Bath City Hospital. Auxiliary sloops Venetta and Fear Not docked with fish at City landing. Y M C A directors elected for coming term. Banshee yacht arrives at Bath Iron Works for Chicago shipment. Morse High junior class votes May 21 supper to benefit the Athletic Association. Boy Scout League opening postponed by storm. Bath job seekers linger at police lodgings. one man witnesses a machine accident. A Baptist church group honors Miss Elizabeth Williams as she leaves for marriage in Phippsburg with a reception. A peddler spoons incident ends with the mother reclaiming the heirloom spoons from the hall floor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. W. Crosman
Curtis
Phippsburg
City Hospital
Bath
Mark Morse
Venetta
Fear Not
City Landing
B. L. Rie
Kennebec Point
Island Croft
Long Island
George B. Sinclair
Chicago
Virginia
Thc
Banshee
Hodgdon Bros
East Boothbay
Bath Iron Works
Joan Alden
Morse High School
Athletic Association
Helen Haraden
Margaret Conley
Helen Childs
Elizabeth Hayes
Dorothy Totman
Boy Scout Baseball League
Kelley Field
Beacon
Wesley
Central
Corliss
Lincoln Lumber Co
People’s Baptist Church
S. A. Evans
Frank Reed
Oscar Williams
School St
Evans
Elizabeth Williams
Oscar
Miss Williams
Sonia
Spring bloom and harbor updates from Bath scene
The column reports English thorn trees blooming and a destroyer Wadsworth using searchlights at night in Bath. It covers church Ladies Aids raising funds, barge coal discharge, a May basket party, ship repairs and arrivals, a Piedmont College speech, poultry yard hatchings, summer visitor plans, and Bowdoin seniors class marshal selection plus a San Francisco lumber transport discussion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wadsworth
People’s Baptist Church
Sewall Yard
Popham
Bangor
Bath
Wesley
Eva Lemont
School St
Oregon
Pine Tree Circle
George E. Walcott
Hutchinson
J. S. Winslow Co
Percy & Small’s
Newcastle
Dam
Mr. Coleman
Andrew Call, Jr
Brookline
Mr. Call
Rich’s Mountain
C. A. Harriman
Call
Eurekas
Plumbers
Times
Percyy S
Percy
Frates
Bowdoin College
A. Keith Eaton
Calais
H. Alton Lewis
North Haven
Eaton
Lewis
Lithgow family traces amid 18th century Brunswick history
The narrative recounts Trufant's Ledges near Houghton Bros shipyard, land purchases by Alexander Thwait later debt transfer to Richard Patteshall, and wartime scenes from 1722 Brunswick. It notes Col. William Lithgow’s military and civil service, roles at St George Fort and Fort Halifax, his Lincoln County judgeship, and his Long Beach view home. The Lithgow graveyard on Morse farm marks family resting places, with his stone noting death on Dec 20 1798 at age 86, though records suggest birth around 1715 making him about 83.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trufant's
Houghton Bros
Alexander Thwait
Richard Patteshall
Lithgow
Brunswick
St. George
Lieut. Heath
Richmond Fort
Fort Halifax
Lincoln County
Long Beach
Phippsburg
Col. Lithgow
Sarah
Arthur Noble
Grand Pre
Morse
Col
Wm. Lithgow
New Torpedo Boat Tucker Launched At Fore River Yard
The new torpedo boat destroyer Tucker was launched Tuesday for the United States navy by the Fore River Shipbuilding corporation. Mrs William Garry of Brookline christened the craft, a descendant of Commodore Samuel Tucker. Belfast and Northport plan a 20 foot clear bridge over Little River built by United States Construction Co of Albany New York. The bridge will have steel frame granite abutments and concrete floor and replace an inadequate structure on a busy highway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Garage Co
Wadsworth
Kittery Navy Yard
Tucker
United States Navy
Fore River Shipbuilding Corporation
William Garry
Brookline
Samuel Tucker
Belfast
Northport
Little River
United States Construction Co
Albany
N. Y
Knox County
Administrator Named for Arthur W. Murphy Estate
The subscriber announces appointment as administrator of Arthur W. Murphy of Harvey New Brunswick deceased in Sagadahoc County. Creditors urged to present claims and debtors to pay promptly. Scarboro Maine April 6 1915.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur W. Murphy
Harvey
New Brunswick
Sagadahoc
Also Mentioned on This Page
Central Wharf Cold Storage Co
Lincoln W. Jewett
Jewett
Percy & Small Fleet
Eleanor A. Percy
Parent-Teacher Association of
North End
O’hara
Bowery St
Dewey
Front St
Lizzie J. Call
Ariel
Augusta
Alonzo Blair
Merrymeeting Bay
MacCormick
Y.M.C.A
Samuel Walker McCall
United States
University of Maine
Orono
Robert J
Lewis H. Goward
Galveston
Kelley, Spear Co
W. M. Daniel S. Brierley
W.M. Ralph Dunton
Solar Lodge
P.M
John E. Fitzgerald
E. F. Kelley
C. A. Martin
Malcolm Tarbox
Harry W. Ward
David Weinblatt
Joseph M. Footer
George R. Skaling
Gertrude Leonard
Keene & Greene
William Mann
Archie Miller
Charles H. Cahill
Louis Hart
Edward Pepper
Bedford St
West Bath
Bowie Shop
Water St
The
Daily Commercial News of
San Francisco
E. W. Harrison
Baltimore, Md
Atlantic Seaboard
Panama Canal
Pacific Coast
Harrison
Bath Department Store
Center Street
West Bath Grange
Garnet House
Edmund S. Murphy
Adm
Scarboro, Me
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