Forty Years Ago in Bath A Busy Town Snapshot
Bath Daily Times notes on September 28 1898 include Cyrus W Longley visiting Portland for Knights of Pythias business. Bath high school football practices for Cony of Augusta and a predicted hot contest. Local arts scene features Metzow painting in D T Percy Sons, plus hunting exploits and large peaches from Albert Tibbetts. Fire calls, social events, shipyard updates, and community notices fill the day.
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Cyrus W. Longley
Portland
The
Knights of Pythias
Lumber shipment for Popham water battery work begins
On September 30 1898 a large lot of lumber for the Popham water battery improvements was shipped from Shaw's Mill. Engineering work will start next week under Engineer Robinson. Forty men work in Bath Iron Works blacksmith shop on the practice vessel yacht and Hyde Windlass Co projects. Library directors discuss a two story brick building on Center Street.
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Popham
Shaw's Mill
Robinson
Bath Iron Works
Hyde Windlass Co
The
Patten Library Association
Seals Counted on Ram Island and Bath Petition to Hawaii
Seals observed on Ram Island reach 35 with Captain Perkins noting mornings of up to 50. Arthur Sewall sends a petition from farmers of Bath and Boston to the Hawaiian commission urging US navigation laws apply to Hawaii and exclusive American-flag vessels for trade. Hundreds visit Mer- for Bath Brunswick and Lewiston.
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Popham
Winter Harbor
Ram Island
Perkins
Arthur Sewall
Hawaiian Commission
Armers
Bath
Boston
United States
Hawaii
States
Bath, Brunswick
Lewiston
Mer
Hymns by Pastor Parkin Highlight Rally Day at Grace Methodist
Grace Methodist Church Bangor featured two hymns written by Rev. Charles Parkin for special services. O Young and Valiant Souls was created for the 1936 State Conference of Methodist Youth in Old Town, later sung at youth conferences. Eternal Father, by Whose Power, was written for the Maine Methodist Conference at Grace church in May.
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Grace Methodist Church
Bangor
Charles Parkin
Vermonters Rally Behind Billboard Restriction Leader
Horace Brown of Springfield wins Republican nomination for Vermont State Legislature on a platform to curb outdoor advertising. He heads the Vermont Association for Billboard Restriction and plans a statewide statute empowering towns to approve or deny boards. His campaign signals a national wave as states move to limit billboard growth.
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New York
Vermont
Horace Brown
Springfield
Brown
Montpelier
Vemont Association For
Vermont Association
New Jersey
Maine
Massachusetts
Virginia
Oregon
California
Green Mountain
Morse Gardiner grid game noted by B I W
B I W notes cover Morse money in sight on Saturday's Morse Gardiner grid game. Lanny, son of Lance, is a football tutor at Shoe City, while Lance remains loyal to local schoolboys. The piece also recounts Bath Iron Works history from 1889 to 1927 and a hurricane voyage involving Miss Winifred V. Quinn aboard the Cunard liner Carinthia off Florida.
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Committee On Fire Department
Lower High Street
Lemont Street
Lance
Lanny
Bath Iron Works
Thomas W. Hyde
United State Shipbuilding Co
Charles M. Schwab
Steel
John S. Hyde
Bath Iron Works, Ltd
Theodore Friedelberg
New York City
Bath Iron Works, Corp
William S. Newell
Winifred V. Quinn
Cunard
Carinthia
Florida
Atlantic
Bermuda
Haiti
Jamaica
Havana
Nassau
Red Men Hear Eloquent Plea At Bath Gathering
Ramona council hosts Great Council Fires with speeches by Great Sachem Mr. Seal and leaders including Mr. Ruland and Mr. Hobbs. They discuss Americanism, charity, and the order’s past fifty years as Bath hosts entertainments, dances, and a Hotel Sedgwick reception.
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Blake
Ramona Council
Bath
Herbert B. Seal
Portland
Records
Maine
Toasmaster
Cora M. Libby
Great Pocahontas
Mr. Wright
Board of Great Chiefs
Great Sachems Club
Ruland
Seal
West Coast
California
Exchange Clues
Salt Lake City
New York
United States
Europe
Republic of the United States
Order
Ethiopia
Czechoslovakia
League For Peace and Democracy
Youth Congress
Hobbs
Founders of
the Republic
Deacon Brown
Alf Burnett
Olive Plummer
Dance Academy
Millicent 8. Hecht
Joseph Hecht
Anna May Berry
Alton C. Berry
Wiscasset
Myrna M. Avery
Cunningham
Cliff Leeman
Sedgwick
Florence N. Robinson
Lucelia E. Blake
Sadie Garcelon
Ernest R. Avery
Arthur B. Haggett
Ralph J. Boardman
Estate of Arthur H. Keaton Probate Notice Bath
Court of Probate in Sagadahoc orders notice by publication in Bath Independent for three weeks. First account filed by Evelyn M. Keaton as administratrix. Hearing set for October second, 1938 at ten o clock in Bath to permit objections.
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Bath
Sagadahoc
F& Newspaper
Said
Arthur H. Keaton
Evelyn M. Keaton
Walter
Glidden
Atkins Flour Sifter Attachment Invented by Gardiner Woman
Mrs. Rhoda Atkins of Plaisted street Gardiner has created a aluminum cone device that attaches to a flour sifter to pour flour directly into a measuring cup. She plans to patent the invention after testing by a manufacturer in Boston before moving to Gardiner four years ago. Her husband Louis Atkins works at a Gardiner shoe factory.
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Rhoda Atkins
Plaisted Street
Gardiner
Louis Atkins
Larceny Charge Leads to Assault Allegation in City Case
Frank Winship, former Portland resident, was arrested Tuesday after Henry Brown reported a silverware theft. Brown faced an assault charge by warrant sworn by Mrs Winship. Both pleaded not guilty in municipal court and the judge set recognizances of 200 dollars for Brown and 100 dollars for Winship.
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Frank Winship
Portland
Henry Brown
Franklin Street
Winship
Bath Box Co
Brown
Dunton
Second Auto Crash Victim Dies Here
Graham Churchill of Elizabeth New Jersey a Bowdoin College junior died at Memorial hospital about 10 am Tuesday from a skull fracture suffered Saturday night in a crash on the Bath Brunswick highway near West Bath. His companion Philips Nead of Rutherford New Jersey driver of the Ford roadster was killed instantly. Churchill died after about 60 hours in a coma cerebral embolism set in early Tuesday morning. He is survived by his parents Mr and Mrs Hugo Lehman and a sister Janet of Elizabeth. The wreck occurred when the car side swiped a sedan driven by Foster Hilton of Wiscasset and rolled over several times.
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Graham Churchill
Elizabeth
N. J
Bowdoin College
Memorial Hospital
West Bath
New Bath-Brunswick
Philips T. Nead
Rutherford
Churchill
Hugo Lehman
Janet
Foster Hilton
Wiscasset
Judge Dunton Named County Bar Group Head
Judge Arthur J. Dunton of the municipal court was elected president of the Sagadahoc County Bar Association at Monday noon meeting in City hall. Ed ward W. Bridgham succeeds him as vice president while John P. Carey Jr remains secretary and treasurer.
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Arthur J. Dunton
Sagadahoc County Bar Association
City Hall
Dunton
Edward W. Bridgham
John P. Carey, Jr
Walter S. Glidden
Sagadahoc County Bar
Bridgham
Ellis L. Aldrich
Topsham
John J. Keegan
Charles T. Small, Jr
Sherwood Aldrich
Ralph O. Dele
Gardiner R. Deering
Keegan
Harold J. Rubin
Queen Esther Lodge Officers Installed In Richland
Queen Esther Rebekah Lodge No. 20 installed its officers Tuesday at I. O. O. F. hall with Noble Grand Rose Jean and other officers named. A Beulah Rebekah suite from Richmond conducted the ceremony, and district and assembly officials assisted. Gifts were given to Mina B. Floyd and Rebecca Rogers, with delegates named for upcoming assemblies.
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Queen Esther Rebekah Lodge
I. O. O. F. Hall
Noble Grand
Rose Jean
Lula P. Herbert
Lena S. Shepard
Nellie B. Leeman
Mabel Ansert
Minnie Woodman
Carolyn Thompson
Guardian
Inez Carter
Leonard M. Munsey
May C. Ward
Italy Hatch
Leila Card
Noble Grande
Nellie E. Lord
Eva N. Helah
Eva P. Atwood
Charlotte S. Doyle
Dorcas Lodge
Waterville
Ethel O. Parks
Richmond
Queen Esther Lodge
Mina B. Floyd
Rebecca Rogers
Pearl Ha.] Reed
Rebekah Assembly
Fryehall
Portland
Florida
Georgia E. Pierce
Annette
Round Pond
Otis N. Card
Memorial Hospital
City Hall marshal's quarters moved for efficiency
City Marshal Joseph A. Butler pushes a change moving the marshal's quarters from the street floor to the city messenger’s area in City Hall. The first floor marshal office will become the municipal court judge’s room. Police facilities expand and a night captain will use the marshal’s quarters. The city messenger gains desk space in the new marshal office. Harvey Canders dies after a stairway fall at Bingham facility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Hall
Joseph A. Butler
City Messenger
Probate notices for Bath estates announced
A Bath Probate Court order requires publication of notices for multiple estates including Lina G Sewall Adelaide Delano Mabel Lord George M Stinson Flora Randall Charles E Sidelinger Jennie Morse and others. Hearings set for first Tuesday in October 1938 with letters testamentary to executors named and guardian accounts filed.
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Bath
Sagadahoc
Portland
Maine
Mabel V. Lord
Margaret E. Mitchell
George M Stinson
Woolwich
Marcia M. Stinson
Flora M. Randall
Alice T. Puller
Alice T. Fuller
Charles E. Sidelinger
Florence I. Sidelinger
Jennie M. Morse
Walter K. Morse
Walter K Morse
Walter S. Glidden
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Bath Daily Times
Cony High School
Augusta
Albert Tibbetts
Upper
Washington Street
Webber’s Drug Store
Ladies of St. Mary's Society
Alameda
Francis W. Weeks
Beatrice Weeks
Miss Frances
Arthur Preney
Navy Department
Department
Harry C. Webber
Portsmouth
Winifred
Hodgkins
Porto Rico
Fr. McGrath
Mass
Bar Harbor
St. Mary's Church
John O'Brien
Levi Wade
Squirrel Island
Harrington’s
Levi
Kennebec
Thomas Neagle
Central Congregational Church
Snms
Epworth League
H. A. Duncan
Sabine
S. H. Duncan
A. G. Page
Moosehead Lake
Craven
Dahlgren
Portsmouth Navy Yard
Cc. C. Low
Edward H. Sampson
Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital
Samuel Welch
Walter E. Chase
Parks’ Cigar Store
Cc. V. Minott
Phippsburg
Frances M
Rival
Mentor
Meron
Percy Willard Roberts
Hannah Thomas Patten
Oe Patten
Myra W. Spear
New England Co
Fred H. Kimball
Lily Bay
D. E. McPhee
Merrymeeting Bay
al Ridley
Elbridge Hagan
C. B. Furber
R. D. Moulton
North End
John Norton
Oliver's Fish Market
Orr
Middle Street
A. P. Denham
Merrymeeting Park
Marshal Henry Wing
Alfred L. Tarbox
North Street
Arthur Sewall & Co
Guy C. Goss
E. Roach
Rockland
Farmington
Capt. Harding
William H. Clifford
William R. Kimball
Mrs. Galen
Moses
Rangeley Lakes
Columbia Orchestra
Bath High School Athletic Association
Westbrook
Armory
Fred Titcomb
Bertha L. Soule
Maine Federation of Women's Clubs
Brunswick
Capt
Mrs
Frank Wyman
Jessie Lowell
Fred Lincoln
Charlestown
Hallet
H. E. Mudgett
John Clayton
Lincoln
Foreman Parks
Topsham Fair
Dewey
Charles Herrington
Ultra
W. C. Besselievre
Reed Nichols
Charles H. Hooper
Squire's
William Ledyard
Walter Murtaugh
Ladies Society of Central Church
Len Parks
Fred Footer
Mr. Parks
Sareen
Nick Haubrick, Jr
Wyandotte
Mich
Annie A
Paul Leavitt
Fr. O'Brien
Elm Street
David Stevens
Eleanor
Madeline Hyde
Miss Hersey
Madeline
Miss Brown
Bowdoin
Harvard Eleven
Cambridge
George A. Rook, Jr
United States Army
Bath Choral Society
Brunswick Choral Society
William Spiett
F. S. Packard
Friend&s
W. G. McPhail
Irving Nash
Machias
Mr. Priest
Burlington
Piscataquis
Milo
Robert O. Lovely
Penobscot
Grindstone
G.O.P
B.I.W
Grace E. Cunningham
Old County Down
Ellery Kidder
Rumford
Mr. Kidder
Edgar C. Murphy
Elizabeth, N. J
I.O.O.F
Harvey Canders
Skowhegan
Hunnewell
Bingham Telephone Exchange
Bingham
John L. Jack
John I. Jack
Eugene A. Youlani
Arline Y. Morse
Hin