Forty Years Ago In Bath May 5 1897
Local Bath notices report Miss Hannah T. Patten visiting Boston Mrs Frank Small in Boston Lewiston visits Mrs Charles Powers and daughter visiting Bath E D Sewall to Brooklyn N Y F F Hand returned from New England Vermont Grand Lodge meeting in Portland Bath Iron Works Captain Reed injured hand with a spike stitches by Dr Fuller City of Bath Hose Co No 1 organized and officers named Various Bath events including weddings church services and club activities May 6 1897 to May 11 1897 appear with multiple ship, social, and civic items including shipyard duties and community notices.
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Enoch Reed
Bath Iron Works
E. M. Fuller
Corset Fitting Event With Miss Ingersoll At D T Percy
Ladies troubled by corsets are invited to D T Percy & Sons this week to have their Ball and Kabo corset fitted by Miss Ingersoll of Chicago at no extra charge. Also note Charles Brooks rents a Bedford street stable for his horses, remaining in the countryside seasonally.
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D. T. Percy & Sons
Ingersoll
Chicago
Charles Brooks
Bedford Street
Morse Named Fire Chief In City Council Ballot
Morse wins promotion to fire chief after a council vote and testimonial support led by Harry E. Stetson. Richard Frates becomes first assistant engineer, with four candidates vying for second assistant engineer including William Parks and Emerson B. Glidden among others. Parks, 22, of Engine 4, is named as second assistant engineer candidate and lives at 852 Middle Street.
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Old Long Beach Engine Co
Scott Morse
Parks
Frank Morse
Mr. Morse
Harry E. Stetson
Richard Frates
Frates
Department
Alderman Fortier
Turner
Fortier
Haskell
Donnell
William Parks
Chief Parks
Edward F. Miller
Smith
Pinkham
James S. Knight
Gay
Harold P. Small
Gediman
Emerson B. Glidden
Savage
Sewall
H. P. Small
Miller
Knight
Glidden
Andrew Flaherty
Frank H. Turner
Engine 4
Middle Street
May City Council Approves Hearing on 31 Vine Street Expansion
The May council denied requests to lay out a street in Cottuce Park avenue and extend Bedford street. A hearing was ordered for May 12 on Harold P Small’s plan to enlarge 31 Vine street to 45 by 90 feet. Other petitions were referred to committees for sewer rights, resurfacing Middle street court, Maple street property, Beacon street sidewalk, and Gahan's bridge lighting. A condolence note for Chief Parks’ death was filed.
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Tral Railroad
Congress Shirt Co
Fred K. Sturtevant
Cottuce Park Avenue
George P. Moody
Bedford Street
Harold P. Small
Vine Street
Gerald S. Atkinson
Court Street
Banks
Lax Committee
William DeWire
Middle Street
Board of High Ways and Sewers
Maple Street
Middle and
Spring Streets
Committee On Public Safety
Charles E. Robbins
Beacon Street
Dummer
High Street
Board of Highways and Sewers
J. I. Winslow
Gahan’s Bridge
Charles E. Parks
Parks
Tie Department
Municipal officer report on fines costs and receipts
Monthly report of Judge Dunton shows totals of fines and costs allocated to county and city at 85.92, state at 27, city at 152.22, county at 55 and witness fees 6.36, overall 240.59. Petitions by Theodosis Vamvakias for electric signs at Crystal restaurant 58 Center Street.
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Dunton
Theodosis Vamvakias
Crystal Restaurant
Center Street
City actions update and new licenses approved
Lillian A. Mahoney and others were sent to the signs committee. Bond for City Treasurer Young was approved. McCabe declined reappointment to the Board of Health. May 28 hearing set on Central Maine Power Co. pole location. East Coast Oil and Transport Co. received a gasoline permit for 56 Vine street. Ramp and highway matters referred. Read Nichols Co. explosives permit at 63 Commercial street. Bowling alleys permit at 227 Front street. Other permits and licenses approved for gas sales, storage, and carnivals. Mayor Sewall and Council members appointed to committees. McCausland invited to qualify. absentees listed.
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Lillian A. Mahoney
Front Street
Drake
Bragg
Bond
City Treas
Young
National Surety Co
Herbert W. McCabe
Board of Health
Sewall
Central Maine Power Co
Drummond Street
East Coast Oil and Transport Co
Vine Street
Board of Highways and Sewers
Read, Nichols Co
Commercial Street
Frank Pepper
Thomas E. McCormick
Water Street
Victualer
Haskell
Pres. Legard
Woodman
Savage
E. Bernard McCausland
North End Rifle Club defeats Auburn team for win
The North End Community Club rifle team beat the Auburn American Legion 1 by 814 to 620 at the local range on Thursday. Christianson and Sturtevant tied for top honors with 166. Sturtevant had 99 prone to Christianson’s 96 with Christianson shooting 70 off hand to Sturtevant’s 67. Jake Crocker and Perleston Pert followed with 162 apiece. Gahagan led the visitors with 152. this was the Community Club’s second win of the season over Auburn.
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North End
Auburn American Legion
Bath
Auburn
Christianson
Sturtevant
Jake” Crocker
Perleston Pert
Gahagan
Auburnites
North End C. C P OH
A. Goss
W. Crocker
Weeds Eeene
R. Christianson
R. Sturtevant
P. Pert
Maine Track Team Wins Intercollegiate Crown
Johnny Murray of the University of Maine edged Stanwood Bowdoin in the final 220 yard dash to clinch the state meet for Maine by two points. Sid Hurwitz topped the race, with Turbyne Colby second. Murray also defended his 100 yard dash title.
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University of Maine
Stanwood
Bowdoin
Waterville
Maine
Pakce
Orono
Johnny Magees
Polar Bears
Bath
Murray
Sid Hurwitz
The
State University
Cod Stanwood
Hurwitz
Turbyne
Colby
Sudden Death of Charles Edwin Fox in North Belgrade
Word arrives of the sudden death of Charles Edwin Fox in North Belgrade. He was a well known summer resident and one of the founders of the Kennebec Camps for boys. An alumni meeting last summer raised funds for a bell tower. He is survived by his widow, a daughter Frances, and a son Charles.
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Belgrade
Charles Edwin Fox
Probate Court session approves numerous wills and executors
In the Sagadahoc May Term probate proceeding Judge Walter S. Glidden approves multiple wills and appoints executors and administrators for estates in Bath Richmond Phippsburg and Des Moines. Petitions for probate and administration are filed and bond requirements noted with inventories and accounts filed for various estates.
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Walter S. Glidden
Sagadahoc
Hattie A Bowie
Phippsboro
William R. Bowie
N. F E. Kendall
Des Moines
Dutton Stahl
Iowa-Des Moines National Bank & Trust Co
Morse High Defeats Wiscasset Academy
Morse High defeated Wiscasset Academy 12 to 3 at Kelley Field led by Harry Thayer and Willie Stanton with a 13 hit attack. Thayer collected three singles while Stanton hit a triple and two singles, and Morse held the visitors to six hits as Brown pitched six innings for the win.
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Earle Brown
Nickerson
Morse
Thayer
John
Stanton
Hamblett
W. Sherman
Williams
Fairservice
Hutchins
Perry
Soule
McKellar
Malcolm
Wiscasset
Meite
Reed
Alkazin
Clif Nickerson
Georgie Perry
Ed Brown
Harry Thayer
Willie Stanton
Brown
North Center PTA Hosts Telephone Bridge Evening
The Mother-Father singers of North Center PTA sponsor a telephone bridge tonight with highest scores to be telephoned to Mrs. W. Percy Marks. The event features 158-W and will play both auction and contract. Part of proceeds support a singer’s bill. rest goes to the association treasury.
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North Center
P.T.A
W. Percy Marks
Treasury of the Association
Notice of Assessors Requirement and Penalty in Bath Maine
Assessors require residents to file true lists of polls and estates by April 1. Noncompliance bars tax abatement rights unless a list is later submitted with a valid reason. Board members Briggs Litchfield Cahoon sign the Bath Maine notice dated May 6 1937. 9-6-ITmo
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Edmund P. Briggs
Harry E. Litchfield
Earl P. Cahoon
Board of Assessors
Bath
Maine
Maine lodging house owners to report residents and property
All proprietors and managers of hotels boarding and rooming houses and all other places are required under the laws of the State of Maine to furnish to the Assistant Assessors of Taxes names ages where born and legal residences of all persons in their respective houses on the first day of April 1937 over twenty one also horses automobiles launches motorcycles victrolas or other talking machines radios dogs owned or stored in their buildings on said date. EDMUND P. BRIGGS HARRY E. LITCHFIELD 64:18
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