Fortieth Bath Anniversary Notes and Local Happenings
Forty years ago in Bath the Bath Daily Times reports on Orrin Lindsay owning a four year old Sir Thomas cat, rising egg production, a nine pound birth, Easter plant growth at Kennebec conservatory, new offices for Frank E. Southard, a street grading project on Washington street, a fall for Letter Carrier McAuliffe, and city statistics on deaths births and marriages. A runaway on Front and Center streets excites residents, a Diamonds and Hats performance is announced, Ira W. Robinson joining Fore River yard, and lights at Columbia theatre mark Aubrey Stock Co. debut.
Local Socials and School Note Delights in Lisbon Falls
Last evening the clerks of H L and W E Chase hosted W D Coombs at a banquet in New Meadows as thanks for a party Coombs gave at Small Point last summer. Miss Emma L Shorey returned to teach in the public schools after visiting Fall River with Mrs George Williams. An exciting runaway occurred when P J O Briens horse shied at steam cars before Neagles barber shop. A Mendelssohn club rehearsal drew many members despite the storm with conductor over of Auburn praising the chorus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. L
W. E. Chase
W. D. Coombs
New Meadows
Mr. Coombs
Small Point
Mr. Chase
Emma L. Shorey
Miss Shorey
Fall River
Mass
George Williams
Lisbon Falls
Lizzie Potter
P. J. O'Brien
Neagle
Washington Street
Mendelssohn Club
Conductor Over
Auburn
Bath water company chief buys noted driving mare
Supt. A. S. Merrill of the Bath Water Co. has purchased the black driving mare formerly owned by E. J. Pask. She is one of the prettiest drivers in the city. The engagement of Miss Abbie M. Willis to Sherman L. Morse, both of Winnegance, is announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supt. A. S. Merrill
The
Bath Water Co
E. J. Pask
Abbie M. Willis
Sherman L. Morse
Winnegance
January 1903 notes from Bath with events and incidents
January 8 1903 reports John Shaw to sing at Bowdoin College next Sunday after noon. A new gas arc light installed at Howard's cigar store. Rollin Stevens reports ten rabbits captured with a new dog. A 4800 pound safe moved from Drake office to Y M C A room opened by A Denham. Mason led the job. A veteran sleighing report notes near perfect conditions Winneganee drift-free. Upcoming oats hang for free-for-all trot at Phippsburg Center next Saturday. Mrs. Edward Sewall dislocated left shoulder after ice slip on Washington street. Scott R. Frye receives a 5 hp kerosene engine from International Power Co for trial at Watson Frye Co and for Blaisdell's launch project. A man on Goddard street finds a shoe with a submerged man in snow and rescues him. Manager Kingsbury plans a costly athletic show on the 19th with Belfield Walcott and James Gardner in a 15-round bout. Crimrose Whist Club meets with a lunch. Four new members join.
Pleasant West Dance At Bath Grange Hall
About 100 guests gathered for a winter dance at Bath Grange Hall with round dances and fine music by Meloney and Stacey. Ice cream during intermission, a large committee, and a late departure marked the event. A Bath coal dealer quoted $18 a ton, refused, and kept sales at $10 locally. The San Souci club enjoyed a regular Phoenix meeting with 18 present. A Redlon family reunion took place at New Meadows Inn honoring William Redlon of Philadelphia visiting northbound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath Grange Hall
Meloney and Stacey
Annie Getchell
William F. Pond
Lillian Rogers
Rose Rich
A. H. Donnell
Fred Wright
TF Perk F. Wright
T Perkins
San Souci Club
the Phoenix
Charles W. Welch
Dow Opens Renovated Lunch Room at 131 Front Street
W E Dow opened a renovated lunch room at 131 Front Street last evening and plans to be present in the future. He formerly managed the L B and B waiting lunch room. Sleighing is excellent with harvest for stable keepers and several sleighing parties planned next week. Two dances are scheduled for tomorrow evening with arrangements at the Armory and Hyde Light Guards Armory. Police circles report dull activity as Judge Fogg last sat in court a week ago to sentence a drunken offender.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W.E. Dow
Front Street
Mr. Dow
Fred Campbel
Bernard Wood
William Donnell
Hyde Light Guards
Holmes and
Gaudreau
Royal reception for Lewiston visitors and new local club
Long Beach people recount a January 1902 visit by the S F E No. 2 company from Lewiston with a banquet at the Rockingham hotel and a reception planned for Rev. and Mrs. Aura Sb. Gerrish at North Street church. A new club, the Dont Worry club, forms in King block with polo teams. Fire at Bath historian Parker M Reed's home causes damage but limited by water. Sagadahoc club elects officers. 108 members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Long Beach
North Street
Aura Sb. Gerrish
Modell
Dowling
King Block
Kingsbury
Rush
Sullivan
Poli
King
West Bath woods rabbits and local travel notes
Bros and Charles Boyd bagged six rabbits in West Bath woods last Friday. Albert Tedford leaves for Waterville to enter Keith's Correspondence schools for Franklin county. Mr and Mrs H G Seymour return from Boston where illness followed a sister's funeral. Ice track at Phippsburg Center drew horsemen from this city for races with no prizes and a tracking purse. Frank R Beede named Windsor Locks office manager. Harold Bibber travels to Monson with a bought team. 135 mile drive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Tedford
Waterville
Keith
Franklin County
Phippsburg Center
S. S. Jordan
Emma Nelson
Mr. Penwarden
Powers
McCarty
Plummer
Rogers
Footer
Frank R. Beede
Federal Stock and Grain Exchange
Windsor Locks
Weekly Report of State Police Week of Dec 28 1942 to Jan 4 1943
For the week there were 53 accidents reported to State Police Headquarters including one fatal, 24 personal injury and 28 property damage cases. daylight 26 and after dark 27. rural 42 and urban 11. Causes included wrong side of road and hazardous surfaces. Henry P. Weaver, Chief, Maine State Police, urges safe driving for wartime transportation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Safety Council
Henry P. Weaver
Maine State Police
Private Johnson Thanks His Friends from Riverside Hospital
Pvt Albion Johnson Jr formerly of Bath in Maine thanks friends for Christmas cards and gifts in a letter to the Independent. He serves with the medical detachment at St Hospital Annex March Field Riverside California writing Jan 5 to say he is busy at the hospital but sends best wishes for a victorious New Year to all. He left Bath in 1942 and had worked as a janitor in the Mitchell and Morse high schools. He asks readers to say hello to his mother and father. Mrs Charles T Henderson of 1322 High Street is ill at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Independent
Albion Johnson, Jr
St. Hospital Annex
March Field
Riverside
Calif
Pvt
Johnson
St. Hospital
Bath
Mitchell
Morse High
Albion H. Johnson
Blind Crossing
Sagadahoc Probate Court 1943 Session Transacts Multiple Estates
Sagadahoc Probate Court held its first 1943 session with Judge Arthur J. Dunton presiding. Administrations filed and granted include Stackpole, Williams, Burns, Judkins, Kimball, and others. Wills, inventories, accounts, bonds, and licenses to sell real estate appear for several Bath Topsham Bowdoinham and surrounding estates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sagadahoc
Arthur J. Dunton
Charles Stackpole
Mildred A. Stackpole
Bath
Lewis T. Williams
Topsham
Retta L
Charles E. Judkins
Miriam W. Kimball
Anne Kimball
Charles B. Randall
Bowdeinham
Stella M. Randall
Herbert Mansir
Richmond
Joseph M. Mansir
John P. Carey
John E. Oliver
Wesley M. Mewer
Charles E. Sanford
Bowdoinham
Wilbur H. Wyman
George M. Wyman
Phippsburg
National Bank of Commerce of Portland
Katherine Gignoux
Cape Elizabeth
Margaret M. Hatch
Charles S. Hatch
Harold O. Crooker
Charles S. Dunning
Allan Spear
Edwin A. Copeland
Woolwich
Wilbur D. Burns
Admr
Ethel M. Burns
Fred C. Scribner
Charles Chestra
Louisa H. Maxwell
Herbert D. Maxwell
Bathan
Charless. Stackpole
Angie G. Stinson
Arrowsie
David C. Stinson
Flavel S. Pierce
Harold J. Rubin
Georgetown
Charles Cheltra
Lincoln Heights Annex
South
Portland County
Cumberland
State of
Maine
Fred C. Seribner
John L. Jack
Dike PTA to Meet in Teachers Room for Father’s Night
Dike P T A will meet in the Dike school teachers room due to cold weather. Rev Joseph O Purdue is set to speak on Father’s Night with hostesses Mrs Francis Holmes Mrs Frank MacDonald and Mrs Water James. A telephone bridge is planned for the week of Jan 19 under Mrs William Hogan’s supervision. Sandra Clancy, ill at her grandmother Mrs Walter Baker’s in Woolwich, is at Memorial hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dike P. T. A
Dike
Edmund Mocklar
North End Community Club
Dike School
Bath
Joseph O. Purdue
Francis Holmes
Frank MacDonald
Water James
William Hogan
Sandra Clancy
Walter Baker
Woolwich
Memorial Hospital
Maine Deer Kill Surpasses Earlier Count in 1942
Maine's 1942 official deer kill reached 22 591, surpassing the earlier 22 301 estimate and topping 1940's 22 209 mark. County tallies include Androscoggin 146, Cumberland 893, Penobscot 3 104, York 960, and Washington 3 543, with notable deer near Portland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Inland Fisheries and Game
George J. Stobie
Androscoggin
Aroostook
Cumberland
Franklin
Hancock
Kennebec
Knox
Lincoln
Oxford
Penobscot
Piscataquis
Sagadahoc
Somerset
Waldo
Washington
York
Portland
Maine
Verne Black
Sebago Lake
Verne
New Year Resolutions for 1943 by Club Women
A reflective piece urges living up to a club women’s ideal by rejecting petti ness, fault finding, and self seeking. It emphasizes forgiveness, kindness, generous judgment, helping others, and acting on good impulses, with faith guiding calm and steadfast behavior in troubled times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mallce
God
Cosmo Club Meeting Highlights Talks and X-Ray Film
Cosmo Club members heard Mrs Hamblett discuss the clubwomen's collect and New Year resolutions for 1943. Robert Mosher presented x-ray films, with demonstrations of modern uses from factory castings to tire checks. The Swingsters performed Star Dust and a drum display, followed by gingerbread and punch as the event wrapped.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen
Coolidge
Robert Mosher
Morse
Remarkable Bangor Family Of Eleven Children
The Bangor family headed by Ora and Mrs. Ora Black includes eleven children: Patricia four, Joseph five, Madeline 18 months, Elizabeth seven, Marilyn ten, Irene twelve, Frances sixteen, Edward fifteen, Vera thirteen, Martin eleven, and Ora Jr a former BHS football player who recently sought Army entry. Prince, a twelfth child, died in an accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bangor
Ora Black
Black
Mary Hughes
Alice Hughes
Martin H. Hughes
H. ¢. Cunningham
Arrie Black
Ora, Jr
BHS
Patricia
Joseph
Madeline
Elizabeth
Marilyn
Irene
Frances
Edward
Vera
Martin
Bath Bank Annual Meetings Held Tuesday
Bath National Bank and Bath Trust Company held their annual meetings Tuesday afternoon at two. Officers and directors were largely retained with a few new trustees elected and executives reorganized. New appointments include Rupert H. Baxter as Bath Trust pres and Rodney E. Ross as vp, with other officers unchanged. Three new directors joined the First National Bank board: Lewis E. Wilson Daniel Williams and Harrison E. Bowie, while Oliver Moses remains president and J Edward Drake secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Bath Trust Company
Bath National Bank
John G. Morse
Frank B. Nichols
Arthur Sewall II
Langdon T. Snipe
Arthur Sewall
Snipe
The
Henry C. Wright
Rupert H. Baxter
Arthur M. Bowker
Charles H. Cahill
Daniel T. Dougherty
Sidney L. Eaton
Harvey P. Hathorne
Dura L. Howard
Archibald M. Main
James L. Morse
William S. Newell
Calvin W. Rogers
Walter C. Rogers
Rodney E. Ross
Edward Sewar
L. Skelton
L. Eugene Thebeau
Charles B. Cahill
Dora L. Howard
William 8. Newell
William L. Skelton
Albert S. Noyes
Dominique J. Tardif
George J. Nugent
First National Bank
Lewis E. Wilson
Daniel Williams
Harrison E. Bowie
Oliver Moses
Arthur J. Dunton
J. Edward Drake
William S. Shorey
Harry E. Stetson
Frederick E. Drake
Cecil E. Paine
Harry L. Day
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bath Daily Times
Orrin
Lindsay
High Street
Sir Thomas
Louise Tarbox
Quincy
Florida
Kennebec Conservatory
Foreman Olm
James R. McNeil
West Street
James R. McNeil, Jr
E. S. Crosby
Reed Yard
Frank T. Stinson
Oscar Williams
Hunt and
Lemont Streets
Frank E. Southard
Bath Trust
Harry C. Webber
Southard
McAuliffe
Kimball Block
Harvey Erskine
Longley
Center Streets
John Wilson
Swett
Center Street
Parker Head
Ira W. Robinson
Fore River Iron Works
Columbia Theatre
Aubrey Stock Co
Alice Shaw
Union Street
Miss Shaw
F. E. Crossman
John Shaw
Bowdoin College
Howard's
Rollin Stevens
James B. Drake
Y.M.C
Denham
Mason
Winneganee
Edward Sewall
Scott R. Frye
International Power Co
Stamford
Conn
Watson, Frye Co
Inntendee
Blaisdell
New Meadows Steamboat Co
Goddard Street
Belfield Walcott
James Gardner
Harry H. Donnell
William B. Redlon
Philadelphia
A. H. Redlon
J. A. Redson
O. M. Redlon
New Meadows Inn
William
Rockweed Club
New Meadows River
Jacobs
Brown
High Streets
Parker M. Reed
Reed
Harriman's
Sagadahoc Club
E. W. Hyde
Josph M. Hayes
Joseph Torrey
Charles A. Coombs
Albert G. Page
Fred W. Rideout
G. F. Way
C. F. Magoun
E. J. Marston
Albert L. Strout
J. C. Elwell
Spruce Head
Colonial Club
Charles Temple
Charles Wolfe
C. Curtis
George Palmer
Arthur Temple
John Hyde
Ashley
William Hartwell
Mr. Hyde
Levi Thompson
Thompson
H. G. Seymour
Boston
Harold Bibber
Monson
State Police
Private Johnson
California
Charles T. Henderson
John L. Jack Register
Lavinia C. Pierce
Pedro Miguel
Canal Zone
Dike P.T.A
Lolie Powell
Pine Tree State
Tanglefoot
Earle Bradbury
Cosmo Club
Register
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