Bath Chronicle highlights from 1901 dances and voyages
Fortnightly Bath notes recount a Knights of Maccabees dance with about 30 couples, visits to Biddeford and Bangor, and the arrival of Bath schooner Cordelia F. Hayes on her maiden voyage. It also covers weddings, church conventions, and local civic events, plus the decked launch of the training ship William P. Frye and other social gatherings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knights of Maccabees
Center Street
John White
Ernest Russell
Fred Roderick
John Cressey
John Burchill
Levi King
Portland
Bath
Cordelia F. Hayes
Death of Hon. John H. Kimball in Boston
The sudden death of Hon. John H. Kimball is reported with details of his heart attack on a train, his Concord birth, and career in Bath. Survived by a widow and five sons including Edward, Fred, Samuel, John M., and Harry W. The article also notes local weddings, anniversaries, and a train-side send off for newlyweds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John H. Kimball
Samuel Kimball
Boston
Samuel A. Kimball
Concord
N. H
Fryeburg
Phillips Andover Academies
Marriage of Percy E Barbour and Annie Holbrook in Massachusetts
Sept 27 1901 marriage of Percy E Barbour formerly of this city now in Bingham Utah to Miss Annie Holbrook at the bride’s home in West Roxbury Mass Rev Merrick of Roxbury officiated Miss Sarthe Barbour sister of the groom maid of honor H W Owen of this city Bath high school classmate was usher Also notes a major Bath history event the launching of the big United States cruiser Cleveland from the yard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. W. Owen, Jr
Boston
May Holbrook
Percy E. Barbour
West Roxbury
Mass
Bingham, Utah
Annie Holbrook
Merrick
Roxbury
Sarthe Barbour
H. W. Owen
Bath High School
Bath Iron Works yard taddan a cousy
Mrs. Margaret Sides wife of Lewis N Sides died Thursday at her Middle street home after a brief illness She was born in Fairfield daughter of Mr and Mrs Joseph Clair resided in Bath about 30 years She survived by her mother husband and one daughter four sisters and one brother She belonged to Peoples Church
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William F. Crocker
Middle Street
Samuel D. Crooker
A.R
David A. Merry
Winneganee
Fred W. Crooker
Fernald D. Crooker
Bath
Margaret Sides
Lewis N. Sides
Fairfield
Joseph Clair
Charles L. Powers
People’s Church
Sunday Departure Drops Maiden Voyage Plans
A coastal vessel will leave commission, then haul up in the city, signaling a pause in its service and awaiting further instructions. Local officials expect full details on the voyage and next steps.
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Kennebec
Funeral and social notices from Bath area September 1961
Funeral services for Mrs. Lewis N. Sides were held at Middle Street with Rev. F W O'Brien officiating. Governor appointed O C Rogers as notary public. Bath hosted a Senator Marcus Hanna reception and launching of the Cleveland with Ruth Hanna. Funeral for John H. Kimball held at High Street with pallbearers named. Various local movements and travels described alongside Pan-American Exposition mentions.
Bath Playschool Opens With Santa Themed Fun
Bath inaugurates a model playschool at the Cosmopolitan club house barn 894 Washington street. Miss Beatrice Bouton and Miss Elizabeth Harris lead 16 children ages two to four driving early learning, crafts and outdoor play as Santa arrives ahead of schedule.
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Santa Claus
Bath
Washington Street
Beatrice Bouton
Elizabeth Harris
Daddy
Miss Harris
Miss Bouton
Georgetown
Maud P. Thayer
Westbrook Junior College
Jonesboro
Santa
Hallimore
Maryland Institute of Fine and Applied Arts
Teachers College
Columbia University
Highland Manor
Tarrytown
N. Y
Orange
Mass
Antioch College
Park Nursery School
Sunnyside
L. C
Ronald
Clyde MacKinnon
Middle Street
John David
Ralph D. Warren
William
Raymond English
North Street
Patseyv
Alvah Morse
Deering Street
David
Wils
Charles F. Rush
Leilani
Charles H. Cahill
Andrews Road
Elizabeth
John P. Carey, Jr
High Street
Gerry
John Parker
Roger
Roger D. Skillings
Ann
Harry L. Day
Green Street
Gail
George Harrington
Martin
William Turpie
Edward
Paul B. Wilson
Peter
Ralph Crocker
Diana
Converse Fenn
Elmhurst Farm
William Kelley
Edward Street
I christen the Kennebec ship Cleveland at launch
The iron cruiser in progress at the Iron Works was christened with the phrase I christen thee Cleveland by Miss Ruth Hanna. Capt Sewall, future commander of the steel ship William P Frye launching next Tuesday, attended as a spectator. The Kennebec sailed the placid waters on a perfect day as locals note various social items and local movements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sewall
William P. Frye
Carolyn Frye Briggs
Auburn
Senator Frye
Cleveland
Iron Works
Kennebec
Ruth Hanna
All Pythians Urged to Attend Meeting
Acadia lodge No. 13 Knights of Pythias asks all members to attend Thursday night at 7 30 in the Pythian Temple 810 Washington street. Esquire rank to be conferred on two candidates and plans discussed for Knight rank work at Damariscotta with free transportation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Acadia Lodge No. 13
Knights of Pythias
Pythian Temple
Washington Street
Damariscotta
Acadia Lodge
Pythian Knights
Bath Teachers Club Sale Supports Morse High Scholars
The Bath Teachers' club will hold a rummage sale on October 11 at Gracechurch Parish starting 1.30 p m to fund a yearly scholarship for a Morse high school graduating student. Volunteers and rummage contributions are invited and may contact Mrs George D Field at 868.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Teachers’ Club
Gracechurch
Morse High School
George D. Field
Warren F. Hawley
Charles Bartlett
Marjorie Palmer
Mary Norris
Dorothy D. Plummer
Fred J. Higgins
Fred W. Humphreys
Roberta Hathorne
Theo McNeil
Jean Danforth
Clinton D. Wilson
Bath Dogs Win at Lewiston Show
Cocker spaniels from Lakeview Kennels owned by Mr and Mrs Harold L Miller and Gulder Jan owned by Mrs Converse Fenn won prizes at the Lewiston-Auburn Kennel Club’s first annual show at the State Fair grounds. The AKC sanctioned event drew near 200 entries, with prizes donated by local merchants and proceeds supporting Bundles for Britain. Travel ’Fre Chko, a Miller son of My Own Playfair, and Millers’ Patsy were noted winners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Lewiston-Auburn
Bundles For Britain
Lakeview Kennels
Travel
Playfair
Brucie
Millers
Patsy
Fancy knitting by Phippsburg woman recalled
A Bath group recalls the late Miss Alice M. Minott of Phippsburg as one of the state’s finest knitters. Her works include a Great Grandmother’s counterpane with raised leaf patterns for her sister Abbie Minott, created during the Coolidge era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice Minott
Bath
Alice M. Minott
Phippsburg
Abbie Minott
Coolidge
Plan to Build 30 New Defense Homes in Bath
Washington announces a broad priority plan for privately financed defense housing in Bath with Home Builders Inc. likely to build about 30 new homes by November. Each unit valued under 6000 dollars or rent under 50 dollars monthly and designed for defense workers, locating near defense work sites, is required to meet material use and design standards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Washington
Home Builders, Inc
Home Builders Inc
Olive Plummer to Open Dance Academy Saturday
Mrs Olive Plummer opens her dance academy for the fifth season next Saturday in the G A R hall Middle street next to Lemoines. Classes cover ballet toe tap and acrobatics with training from the Model School of Dancing in Portland and Sonia Serova method for young children. A ballroom class may start if ten boys and ten girls register. Address 150 High street phone 407. Francis S McPherson to be pianist. Schedule lists Advanced Ballet Acrobatics Beginners Tap Advanced Tap Second year Ballet Second year Tap.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olive Plummer
G. A. R. Hall
Middle Street
Lemoine
Plummer
Model School of Dancing
Portland
Martha McCusker
New York City
Harriet Hector
Hector
Anna Pavlova
Storage levels dip in Androscoggin region as rainfall declines
Storage in Androscoggin county sits at about the mid point of capacity while normal year end stocks approach 65 percent. Paul L. Bean, agent for the Union Water Power Co., notes a steady supply decline due to persistent drought and reduced rainfall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul L. Bean
Union Water Power Co
Liberal Response by Iron Workers to Army Appeal
Bath Iron Works backs Salvation Army drive with strong union support in Bath. A department’s $110 gift leads a wave of donations anticipated from other departments as workers rally to the cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iron Workers
Bath
Salvation Army
Shipbuilding
A. M. Main
Bath Iron Workers
Church urged to double efforts in war times report
Right Reverend Oliver Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Maine told the Maine Branch of the Women's auxiliary that wartime church work must double. The Fall council at Christ church Gardiner heard from Mrs Frank Southard and Miss Margaret I Marston among others about inter racial church aims and wartime missions with sessions, breakfast, and communion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oliver L. Loring
Episcopal Church of
God
Oliver
Episcopal Diocese of
Maine
Women’s Auxiliary
National Council
Christchurch
Gardiner
Frank Southard
Augusta
Episcopal
Bath
Charles M. Tubbs
Grace Church
Arthur Sewall
Frederick E. Drake
Alden H. Anderson
Molly Gibbons
Harold W. DeLong
Walter S. Glidden
Kenneth C. M. Sills
Brunswick
National Woman's Auxiliary
Honolulu
Margaret I. Marston
New York
Women's Auxiliary
Dissolution Sought in Bath Department Store Case
Belle Levin of Bath seeks dissolution of Bath Department Store Inc in Sagadahoc County Superior Court In Equity. Hearing set for third Tuesday in October with notice by attested copy and publication in the Bath Independent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State OF Maine
Bath
A. D
Belle Levin
Superior Court
Equity
Bath Department Store, Inc
Ralph O. Dale
Savadahoc
Bath Independent
George L. Emery
Justice Superior Court
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Anna Palmer
Miriam Newman
Mary Barry
Laura Palmer
Jennie Melcher
Julia Watson
Annie Riggs
Orr's Island
Jordan
Lydia Gilmore
Annie Campbell
Biddeford
Bath Y
Councilman Passmore
W. S. Shorey
Pan American
Niagara Falls
Niagara
Harry MacDonald
John H. Lowell
John J. Kimball
Charlotte McDonald
Eleanor and
Katherine Hooper
Metcalf
E. W. Larrabee
Quebec
Percy Jackson
John L. Purington
Bangor
Maine Baptist Convention
First Baptist Church
United States Army
Thomas
San Francisco
Manila Bay
General Office of the Educational Department
C. E. Baker
P. F. Foss
P. C. Giles
Boothbay
R. E. Whitney
United States Navy
Great Lakes
J. M. Hawley
Chicago
Sagadahoc Light & Power Co
Armory
Columbia Orchestra
William Donnell
William Smith
Eugene Gaudreau
Shiloh
Bessie Webber
A. E. Dunning
North Yarmouth Academy
Free Baptist Convention
Arthur Gibbs
Lowell Assembly Pythian Sisters
Galen C. Moses
David L. Yale
Maine Congregational Conference
Ernest Heald
Justin Clifford
West Bath
Merrymeeting Park
Clifford
N. F. Mitchell
Mark Percy
Parker Head
Herbert Elwell
Port Clyde
Georgie M. Duncan
Mary Pendexter
Lassel College
Auburndale
Georgia Tarr
Alonzo Sheldon
Wiscasset
M. E. Reed
Helen Delano
A. M. Robinson
Alice May Douglas
Frances Moody
Cary
S. P. Montgomery
Lelia Knight
Alexander Mc- Neal
Corliss Street
William Hodgkins
Alpheus Havener
William Mc- Neal
Ray
Arthur Hodgkins
Lucy Mason
Mae McNeal
McNeal
Carpenter
Walter E. Rowe
Lizzie E. Gowell
Thomas S. Gibbons
Vernon D. Mitchell
Pine Street
Robert C. Mitchell
Amelia W. Snow
George Raynes
Freeport
Gertrude Allen
Yarmouth
Frank Dillaway
Lucy Mitchell
Lot Harmon
United States
Bath Iron Works
Taddan
Robert Alexander
Drummond Street
William Crocker
D. B. Holt
Charles T. Hooper
Frank Shepard
Charles H. Greenleaf
Rodney Henderson
Post Sedgwick
Naval Cadet Band
J. N. Maloney
Hyde Windlass Co
New Meadows
Williams
Williams Brothers
Johnaathan S. Oliver
Lewiston
James S. Knight
George Brown
Marcia Street
Richmond
Amy Barden
Malden, Mass
Harold Bibber
Boothbay Harbor
F. W. O'Brien
The
Peoples’ Church
Charles A. Hooker
F. W. Barron
Frank Young
Lewis Pepper
O. C. Rogers
Elmhurst
Marcus Hanna
Ohio
Ruth
T. W. Hyde
Senator Hanna
Hale
John S. Hyde
Eleanor
Madelyn Hyde
Hanna
McCurdy
Phelps
Kimball Homestead
Samuel F. Worcester
New Jerusalem Church
John C. Jameson
James A. McLellan
H. A. Duncan
George Moulton
Winifred Ham
W. F E. S. Whitman
Toby Candor
Times
Horace Gardiner
Brockton and
Lynn
United States Revenue
Levi Woodbury
Union Station
Rosa Brown
Ethel McCarthy
Waldoboro
Baker Palmer
Harvey Erskine
John J. Desmond
Thompson Bros
Marcia Totman
Friendship Club
Orville B. Moses
Moses Homestead
A. B. Hervey
Universalist Church
George E. Hughes
George Fisher
William E Rice
Joseph Small
Oak Grove Cemetery
William R. Melrose
Dora Wyman
Westminster
Mrs. Melrose
Pullman
South Street
George Wiggin
Harrington
Herbert L. Pettingill
Bedros Hagopian
Armenia
Andrew M. Angevie
Ellis Spear
John J._Edson
Washington D.C
George M. Hughes
John B. Wetherbee
Lowell, Mass
Teachers’ Club
SALE
Bath Dogs
F.H.A
Bishoping
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