Bath Chronicle Thirty years ago in Bath notes Sept 29 1897
Forty years ago in Bath includes Dennett the sail maker making ship guards for polo boys. Trav ers, a ship carpenter, injured his foot at Percy Small's yard. Local improvements planned on Water Street by Iron Works for William Mason. Many Bath residents with travels, marriages, births, and community notices through Sept 30 1897.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dennett
Polo Boys
Arthur Dunton
Water Street
Bath Iron Works
William Corliss
Two Chimney Fires Call Out Firemen
Sparks from a chimney ignited the roof of the Isaac Rideout double house at 40 Fitts street Saturday morning. En gine 4 firefighters quickly contained the blaze though the roof was destroyed. A separate chimney fire at 795 Middle street spread to adjacent woodwork but was confined to the partition of a two and one half story building after a bell alarm from Box 34. Pony chemicals and booster tank were used by engines 2, 3, and 4. The all out was sounded at eight o'clock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isaac Rideout
Fitts Street
Engine 4
Rideouts
Leonard M. Lord
Edward Pinkham
Middle Street
Walker Street
Central Maine Co Will Build Dam At Solon
Central Maine Power Co announces plans to build a dam and hydroelectric plant at Caratunk Falls near Solon on the Kennebec River. Preliminary engineering begun, no start date set. The project aims to level river flow to aid lower Kennebec industries and add about 20 000 kilowatts by adjusting load at Wyman Station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caratunk Falls
Kennebec
Solon
Central Maine Power Coc
Wyman
Cental Maine
Binghamsbow
Notonous
Power Company
Salon
Bincham
Maine Central Railroad
International Paper Co
Queen Esther Rebekah Lodge Officers Installed in Richmond
Queen Esther Rebekah lodge members and guests gathered in Richmond Friday evening for the installation of Beulah Rebekah lodge officers. A supper preceded the ceremony, with district and lodge officials present including Harriet Huggard Nellie Leeman Jennie Farrin Nellie Lord Sarah Munsey and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Queen Esther Rebekah Lodge
Queen Esther
Richmond
Beulah Rebekah Lodge
Harriet M. Huggard
District No. 10
Nellie B. Leeman
Jennie E. Farrin
Nellie E. Lord
Sarah W. Munsey
Harriet M. Bunker
Costello P. Hall
Woolwich
Rose Jean
Georgia E. Pierce
Noble Grand
Forrest T. Putnam
Vickery
Queen Esther Rebekah
Odd Fellows Hall
Bath Ladies Open Kindergarten Here
Mrs. Charles M. Miller with Miss Mary Ars started a kindergarten at 1037 High Street. Morning sessions nine to eleven include circle rhythm work lunch rest literature and play outdoors if weather allows. The yearly program features months with themes from October to May. A Bangor police log shows 73 traffic collisions in September with no fatalities and 13 injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles M. Miller
Mary Ars
David S. Cogan
High Street
Miller
Boston Public Schools
Arik
Stephens High School
Bangor
Crowley
Judge Glidden Busy in October Probate Court Session
Sagadahoc probate court opened its October term with Judge Walter S. Glidden approving wills and appointing executors and administrators for multiple estates. filings include probate petitions, administrators, guardianships, inventories, and licenses to sell real estate across Bath Topsham Bowdoinham Richmond West Bath Arrowsic Phippsburg and other towns. local notices also mention visitors from Chicago and Rye, N Y.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter S. Glidden
Sagadahoc
Leda Michaud
Topsham
Joseph H. Michaud
Josiah J. Mitchell
West Bath
Charles H. Bates
Martha C. Sanford
Bath
Charles C. Low
Mary P. Reazer
Morristown
N. J
Gertrude Harris Rathburn
Sybil A Briry
Bowdoinham
Daniel Williams
William A. Cameron
Mary A. Cameron
Will
Mary L. Reed
Richmond
Lorena Reed
Protheroe
James S. McFarland
Arrowsie
Catherine M. McFarland
Bernard S. Coombs
Bowdoin
R.G Coombs
William F. Tate
Frank H. Todd
Lucy E. Williams
Edward L. Eaton
Lauretta O'Connor
Wilfred A. Hay
George O. Curtis
Charles FP. Rowley
Clinton C. Newdick
Phippsburg
Emma Newdick
Uriah M. Lancaster
Ruth Lancaster Robinson
Elwina E. Stinson
Donald B. Hopkins
Ralph B. Manwarring
Ruth M. Hitchcock
Lily Carroll Roberts
Georgetown
Girard Trust Co
Robert Dechart
J. Houghton McLellan
J. Houghton McLellan, Jr
Joseph B. Thurlow
Elizabeth E. Thurlow
Clara M. Reed
John G. Reed
Woolwich
Edward W. Bridgham
Frances D. Lane
Ernest G. Rogers
George W. Rogers
Edward Drake
Eleanor D. Drake
Williams
Walter L. Whitney
Rose E. Leydon
George A. Ward
Margaret R. Stevens
Richard D Walker
Dexter Stevens
Warwick
R I
Fred J. Rose
Charles Rose
Isabella M. King
John F King
Rebecca B Minott
Ada C. Minott
Wilbur O. Allen
Bowdeinham
Neal A. Donahue
William Wood
John W Wood
Rose F Hodedon
George A Yeaton
Isabella M King
Boundary links Calais and St Stephen across nations
Calais Maine and St Stephen New Brunswick function as one community though in different countries. Fire police and sports cooperation keep fires down and crime minimal. Shared Independence Day parade and Dominion Day celebrations unite residents across the river with cross border participation and activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calais
St. Stephen
N. B
Maine
United States
New Brunswick
Canada
St. Crnix
St Stephen
St. Croix
St. Croixs
Maritime Provinces
Boundary
U. S
Dominion of Canada
Mercantile
St. Croix Club
Youthful Nimrod Gets His Bird Pronto at Thorne's Head
George E. Clough Jr., 10, of Upper Washington Street, returned home with his first partridge on opening day of the brush shooting season. He left after school and 45 minutes later was back with the bird, joined by his cocker spaniel Taddie as they hunted Thorne's Head with his father, an avid gunner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George E. Clough, Jr
Upper Washington Street
George
Georgie
Odpm
Thorne
Taddie
Sotine Grorvie
Augusta group backs Lassell Junior College building fund
Mrs Blaine S Wiles of State street Augusta read a message from Dr Guy M Winslow president of Lassell Junior College at a meeting Thursday afternoon at the Augusta House where plans were discussed for the work in this district for the Lassell Junior College building fund campaign The campaign aims to raise funds for a new auditorium gymnasium building at the college Messages were to be read and the Augusta group represented District No 4 in Mount.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blaine S. Wiles
State Street
Augusta
Guy M. Winslow
Lassell Junior College
Augusta House
Colleg
Auburndale
Mass
Augusta Group
Justice Manser Warns of Supreme Court Threat to Constitution
Justice Harry Manser of Auburn warned at a Lewiston district Masonic meeting that the Supreme Court poses danger that could eventually erase the U S Constitution. The gathering was held Thursday night at Masonic Hall in Lewiston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Manser
Auburn
Supreme Court
United States
Masonic Hall
Lewiston
Hale to Hold Competitive Naval Academy Exams
Senator Frederick Hale announces two Maine nominations to the U S Naval Academy for 1938 via competitive exams on November 6 1937 in Portland Bangor Augusta Bath Lewiston Rockland Calais and Houston. Readiness required state residency US citizenship age 16 to 20 by April 1, 1938.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick Hale
United States Naval Academy
Hale
Naval and
Military Academies
Civil Service Commission
Naval Academy
Portland
Bangor
Augusta
Bath
Lewiston
Rockland
Calais
Houton
Maine
United States
Acade
Monument Square
Military Academy
Manager Gooch Wins Advertising Prize
Francis J. Gooch manager of the Columbia theatre of this city has won first prize of 70 in the New England contest by M. and P. The Bath Daily Times window hype and a painted car through Shipping city streets aided the campaign for Make Way for Tomorrow. Gooch also earned a Quigley certificate of honorable mention in an international campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis J. Gooch
Columbia Theatre
New England
M. & P. Theatres Corp
Theatres of
Columbia
Howard Parker
Newton, Mas
James McManus
Marlboro
Gooch
Bath Daily Times
United States
Quigley
Quigley Publications
Another smash near Red Lantern on Bath Brunswick highway
A Pontiac driven by Mrs. Elsie A. Woodward of West Simsbury collided with a Kuick sedan driven by Charles Bleakney near Red Lantern Inn on a midnight curve. Both groups escaped injury though cars were badly damaged. No action was filed as per State Highway Officer John P. Crosby. Nearby, Thomas G. Tobey of Manchester NH was injured when his car left the highway earlier. The Northern Oxford Fish and Game Protective Association began relocating fish to local streams, moving tens of thousands to Upper Richardson lake and Beaver brook area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elsie A. Woodward
West Simsbury
Conn
Bath-Brunswick
Red Lantern Inn
Kuick
Charles Bleakney
North Street
Connecticut
Woodward
Royal L. Woodward
Sherman E
Path
Bleakney
John P. Crosby
Thomas G. Tobey
Manchester
Oxford
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William Mason
Charles Farnham
McKiever
Thompson
West Street
Dr. Savage
Bath High School
Ned Carter
Katherine Hil
Nellie Grinnell
Fred Mitchell
North
J. C. Ledyard
Alfred Trask
Thomas S. Gibbons
Lilly Bay
Charles FE. Ingham
Miss Dickerson
Portsmouth
N. H
D. Howard Spear
John Eagle
Herbert Grinnell
Mel Hodgdon
Birch Point
Alice Humphreys
Boston
Mrs. Forbes
Charles McDonald
Boston Medical School
Edwin Emmons
Lisbon Falls
Warren Carr
Searsport
Charles
Orr
Sarah Barker
Fred Kimball
William Wade
Bowdoin College
E. L. Dunton
Helen
Will Shaw
Hobart
Gilbert
Isaac Rich
Sophie Rich
Swanton & Jameson's
Vicinity
Mrs
A. J. Harriman
Belfast
Son
Charles A. Harriman
Henry G. Turner
W. F. Pond
William Downing
Pythian Sisterhood
E. Toothaker
Will Oliver
Cook Whitmore
R. Shields
George Jacobs
William Gallant
Bath Continental
Henry Parshley
A. R. Parker
Front Street
Glide
E. Brooks
T. P. Gibbons
Thomass. Gibbons
C. R. Donnell
A. H. Shaw
Gibbons
Lewis Kingsbury
Belgrade
Quebec
Capt
Henry
Philip
Joseph
Alexander
Herbert
Fred
Margaret Pero
Emma King
Clara
New York
Charles Kingsbury
Read Nichols
Knowlton
Areree
H. Greenleaf
Mary V. Day
Ai Racee
Levi H. Andrews
Charles Albee
U. S. District Court
Thomas McMann
David Soule
Nannie
Soule
Emily Ames
Jackson College
Jackson
Granville Newcomb
Oak Street
Ira Mason
A. B. Colton
the Times
Beacon Street Epworth League
Milton H. Douglas
Ella J. Douglas
Rodger Hodgkins
D. E. Miller
Minnie E. Barnes
Clara Hodgkins
League
H. L
W. E. Chase
L. F. Brooks
Miss Gay
Summer Street
Weston Bonney
Fire Engine No. 2
Norton
John R. Haley
D. Hatch
Peter Hart
Ewan
O. L. Preble
Henry Villard
Oregon
Charles D. Elmes
Chicago
W. H. Smith
Elmes
Hartleb & Chestra
Thomas Brooks
New England News Syndicate
Harriet Brown
Mr. Lombard
New Meadows
J. H. Manley
Small Point
G. F. Jackson
Alexander James McQuarrie
Dudley
Western Avenue
Cape Breton
N. S
5. D. Bailey
California
Pope
Los Angeles
James
Lowell
John
James L. McQuarrie
Matthew McQuarrie
Maine Central
George Ragan
Ed Hunt
Bald Head
Elizabeth Dain
Agnes Hennessey
Ora Mitchell
Faima Chestra
Ethel Bruce
Annie Purington
Pond
Harris
Virginia Houghton
Daniel Dougherty
Arthur Pepper
Charlestown
Francis B. Torrey, Jr
Walter Barron
Hoyt's Express
Fred Gilbert
Frank Fox
Damariscotta
Elmer Cross
Massachusetts
Brockton
Winthrop
Cecil Paine
Carry Pond
James F. Wetherbee
San Francisco
Klondike
Ned
Charles Brown
McGilvery
Woburn
A.A. Percy
H. A. Bates
William L. Putnam
Nea
Donree
Wesley Epworth League
Abbie T. Auld
M. H. Douglas
Osborne
York Street
Frank Osborrne
Roslindale
Charles W. Clifford
Lily Bay
Enous
City Hall
H. A. Duncan
E. M. Fuller
Dr. Hervey
Mr. Miller
A. F. Dunnels
George P. Davenport
Albert L. Strout
Conley & Crospy
Happy Nook
Rafe” Lombara
Bernice Morse
Bessie Sprague
Herbert McCabe
Walter Barker
Hooper
Catherine Hooper
Sam
Lincoln Street
Newtonville
Mrs. C. P. Nichels
F. B Nichols
Gus Huse
Pudd'nhead Wilson Co
S. H. Duncan
Wesley League
Washington Street
Charles B. Furber
Frye Cottage
Jesse Strong
Thomaston
Charles Orr
Welch's
Central Maine CO
Glidden
Phippshore
Raymond Osier
Lewis G. Nathan
John W. Moorse
Phippsbury
Richard Euprene Sturmer
Richard Eugene Dannals
Bruce"bee-Hart
Barh
Louis C. Orum
Ethel M. Orum
Rye
N. Y
Bruce Lee Orum
R. McKnight
Eunice Pert
Mrs. Perleston Pert
Calais and
Nimrod
Sen. Hale
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