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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1936
Page
5
From the Bath Daily Times files: local residents engage in pond bathing with a banquet to follow. Bath baseball manager Gilman H. Webber appointed. steamer trips to Boothbay and North End. electric cars shift to 7:45 start. Lipscomb and Hyde works expansion planned. memorial day events and a large public gathering near Squirrel Island. various property and probate notices filed with Sagadahoc County Court.
May 21 1896 a Patten lodge meeting is planned. John Millett returned from Ireland with a load of fine shawl shace hee ones. Workmen repair a city drain near the M C R R crossing on Center street. Express wagons on depot streets carry bicycles. Supt Ramsay of Kennebec Nursery improves grounds around Hon J H Manley's Small Point cottage. Thirty five condemned Company C clothing sent to Adj Gen Conner for replacement. Wheelmen report tack throwers on streets. Kelley Spear Co builds a 300 ton barge due for launching in about three months. A newly built barge sails upriver with ice. New England Ship Building Co yard shows five vessels in progress including a barge framed and cased, another near frame, a ceiled schooner, bilge near completion, and two dump boats partly done. Knights of Pythias Grand Lodge in Portland votes to elect officers statewide every six months. locals Scott R Frye Patten Lodge, Edward Turner, A M Franks, Charles M Snow, Harry Donnell, S Cuyler Green attend Acadia. A Republican caucus in City Hall plans to nominate 13 delegates to the Bangor state convention. large turnout expected.
On May 22 1896 the ferryboat Union resumes service after repainting and repairs at G G Deering’s yard. River traffic increases with five barges and five schooners arriving yesterday and loaded upriver with ice. Memorial day ceremonies unveil the G A R monument from Halle cemetery. A Democratic caucus will meet at City Hall this evening to elect delegates to state and district conventions.
The document presents petitions for administration of estates in Sagadahoc County Maine. John Doyle of Bath seeks appointment as administrator for James Doyle’s estate with listed heirs. Laura E. Lemont and James B. Lemont request letters of trust for Laura’s late husband Joseph M. Lemont’s estate. other notices name executors and administrators for Rosalie Belanger Antoinette Barker and Charles Minott estates, with sale and bond details and publication orders.
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