Old Time Rivalries Recalled by Bath Fire Department Memories
Arthur G. Staples recalls Bath fire company rivalries between North End and Water Street units over who got first water at fires. He recounts incidents of alleged incendiary fires, community fights, and a corrective front-page blast that halted such boasts. Also notes a Bath auxiliary vessel and local postwar industrial plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Arthur G. Staples
Lewiston Journal
North End
Old City Hall
Water Street
Buffalo
N. Y
Murray
South End
Harry Andrew
America
Savas
Andrews
Mr. Andrews
Dingley
Old Germany subject of an able address before Rotary Club
Rev. Edwin D. Hardin gave a Bath Rotary luncheon talk on Old Germany describing his Leipsic years in Saxony. He painted life in the old city, its parks, order, eating patterns, beer culture, and the contrast with a newer Germany rising in militarism, noting student duelling and university life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin D. Hardin
Winter Street
Bath
Leipsic
University of
Europe
Germany
Numerous surveys planned for Kennebec bridge project
K Allen chief engineer for Dr J A L Waddell led a Bath river borings effort after returning from Boston with a diamond core drill worth 1400 dollars to be shipped from Michigan City. Fall surveys may shift the proposed bridge location especially on Woolwich shore and near the pulpwood barges discharging area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woolwich
Zuth
State Ferry Revenue Tops With Ticket Sales Over Millions
In five years since the Bath State Ferry introduced new tickets on Oct 1 1920, 1 400 000 passenger tickets have been used, 400 000 mobile tickets issued and 4 200 truck tickets sold. These items constitute the ferry system’s principal revenue source.
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Bath State Ferry
Wiscasset Fire Society Hosts Dinner at Montsweag Farm
The Wiscasset Fire Society held its quarterly meeting at Montsweag farm Woolwich with guests of Hon Charles Henry Butler. Officers William G Hubbard treasurer and William D Patterson clerk. Notables include Silas Lee Moses Carleton Jr Abel Wood Francis Cook Orchard Cook Erastus Foote Samuel E Smith Silas G Young Henry Ingalls and Joseph E Tucker. After the business meeting guests enjoyed a farm produced dinner featuring Johnnie cake apple sauce pie and cider. они
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wiscasset
Silas Lee
Congress
Lincoln
Maine
York
Piscataqua River
Kennebec
St. Croix
Lee
Lincoln County
Enterprise
Boxer
Moses Carleton
Ile
Abel Wood, Jr
Francis Cook
George Washington
Adams, Jefferson
Madison
Monroe
John Quincy Adams
Jackson
Orchard Cook
Erastus Foote
Montsweag
Clip Ship Kiva Volume Presented to Maine Historical Society
G B Douglas of Upper Montclair New Jersey donated a 404 page illustrated volume on the clipper ship Kiva 1848 1869 to the Maine Historical Society. Capt Arthur TL Clark authored notes tracing the tea trade rush sparked by China in 1848 and 1851 followed by Suez Canal opening in 1860. Bath built vessels Monson Ariel and Flying Dragon are named among notable clippers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur TL. Clark
Maine Historical Society
G. B. Douglas
Upper Montclair
N. J
China
California
Australia
Suez Canal
Bath
Monson
Evening of Pleasure for Old Ladies at Home
An event hosted Thursday night by the Cosmopolitan club philanthropic committee, with Mrs. Jack Shin and Mrs. Margaret Adams as members, featured vocal selections by the Central church quartet led by Mrs. Laura Appleton and Mrs. Ethel Parks. Jack Shaw accompanied. Charles M. Fitzgerald also played violin with piano by Miss Margaret Adams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Ladies Home
Cosmopolitan Club
Jack Shin
Margaret Adams
Central Church Quartet
Laura Appleton
Ethel Parks
Jack Shaw
Ernest Wood
Charles M. Fitzgerald
Man Confuses Car in W Postoffice Square
A man mistook a sedan for his own at W Postoffice Square on Friday. He entered the unfamiliar car, drove about half an hour, then realized the error when ready to accelerate and returned the vehicle, taking his own car afterward.
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Postoffice Square
Two Widows Battle for Compensation in Maine Case
The Maine Industrial Accident Commission ruled that Eva Prest, widow of Samuel W. Prest, is the dependent for six children, while daughter in law Sarah Prest of Attleboro is not entitled to compensation. The decision hinges on dependency at the time of the accident and whether separation was by mutual consent or desertion, with remedies denied for the Attleboro case and the Bath widow’s award affirmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine Industrial Accident Commission
Accident Commission
Eva Rebecc
Prest
Bath
Samuel W. Prest
Lawrence Plywood Corporation
American Mutual Liability Insurance Co
Sarah CC. Prest
Attleboro
Mass
Crest
Eva Prest
John J. Keegan
Edward W. Bridgham
Rest
Sarah Prest
Lawrence Plywood Corp
Carrabasset
Maine
Tip
Westboro
Nova Scotia
United States
Newman
Wickley
General Baking Co
V Prest
Samuel W. Vrest
Large Day's Work for Judge Lowell in Probate Court
A bustling October term opens in Sagadahoc County Probate Court as Judge James S. Lowell rules on numerous petitions, administrations, guardianships, inventories, and accounts. The docket includes probate of wills, appointing executors and administrators, bonds filed, inventories approved, and various guardianship actions across Bath, Richmond, Woolwich, Topsham, and surrounding towns.
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Lowell
Sagadahoc
James S. Lowell
Appleton C. Day
Woolwich
Charles C. Law
Willy
John Fr. Peterson
Bath
Harry LB. Sawyer
Maria Wiliaims
Sidney L. Eaton
Hend
Harriet F. Hussey
Iichmond
Thomas J. Hussey
Harriet A. Deering
Georgetown
William A. Todd
Ida BK
Bagley
John F. Maxwell
Richmond
Edward J. Helier
Annie M. King
William R. Fairclough
Douglas M. Brown
George A. Brown
Marion
Edward Gray
Christine Day
Edward J. Hellier
John HH
Peterson
Harry J, Sawyer
Jessie I
Winifred MM. Colby
Emma
Colby
Melville
Wall
Topsham
Walter S. Hall
Francis B. Torrey, Jr
Agnes H. Torrey
William I. Rankins
Ethel M. Rankins
Ann DD
Spinney
Wilfred C. Trott
William C. Walker
F. I. Patten
Locke Crouse
Clarence LP
Bates
Bowdoinham
Edward W. Wheeler
Priscilla F. Hunter
George A. Ward
Wallace A
Sarah A. Drummond
Lite
Frederic W. Baker
Richard R. Baker
Miner
Beatrice M. Rand
Arthur W. H. Rand
Anna E. Butler
Fred EF. Butler
Lizzie R. Carr
Robert W. Carr
Allan Spear
Ida E. Bagley
Scott Ro Frye
John W. Snow
Lillian M. Wright
Wright
John H. Mayers
Eliza J. Juker
Cora A. Corliss
Fred P. Corliss
Arthur W. Fletcher
Nellie E. Fletcher
Belmont
Mass
William D. Sewall
Sarah M. Wells
Hilmar P. Utecht
Arthur G. Utecht
Harriet J. Fulton
Robert Fulton
John L. P. Burke
Annie
Riggins
Als
F. P. Patten
William F. White
Grace KE. Walker
N. Gratz Jackson
Henry R. Colby
Harriet Lt. Johnson
Howard B. Johnson
Edgar M. Snow
Alphonso J. Snow
Howard Gray
Christopher Day
Jessie Evelyn Colby
Winnifred Myere Colby
Emma Grover Colby
Wallace S. Lawrence
I. Theresa Mosestate
Bath National Bank
Horace W
Mildred W. Pottle
Frances Elizabeth Wottle
Hattie Williams
J. Edwin Ames
Androscoggin River Power Project Assured By CMP President
In a stockholder letter Central Maine Power president Walter S. Wymiun says the 25,000 horsepower Androscoggin hydro plant above Lewiston is nearly a done deal with construction starting after Sept. 25. He notes land purchase, cemetery relocations, and repeopling efforts, and emphasizes using the generated power locally as the Gulf Island station nears completion in two years. He also explains the New England Public Service Co. will own CMP and other Insull properties, reinforcing local control without affecting CMP preferred stock.
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Central Maine Power Co
Walter S. Wymiun
Androscoggin River
Lewiston
Andros- Ccoggin County
Gulf Island
Maine
New England
Androscoggin
New England Public Service Co
Middle West Utilities Co
Augusta
State of Maine
Insull
Chicago
Central Maine
Middle West
New Hampshire
Vermont
Popham Colonists Celebrated In Maine History
A Lincoln County News column recounts Maine’s coastal battles for settlement, detailing the 1607 Popham Colony at Kennebec, Fort Baldwin’s remnants, and Fort Popham’s 19th century reconstruction, noting granite fortifications, a drawbridge, and the historic site’s public memory along the Kennebec shoreline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Kennethev
Popham Beach
Maine
Phippsburg
Old Salem
Gloucester
Popham
New World
Lincoln County News
United States
du Monts
St. Croix
Fernando Gorges
John Popham
Virginia
Kennebec
Strachey
Brittiania
England
Baldwin
Popham Colony
New England
George Popham
Fort Popham
Fort George
Fort Knox
Penobscot
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Albany Concern
Ernest A. Ward
North Bath
American Industrial Co
Albin C. Brown
Everett Cornish
Merrymeeting Bay
Ward
Albany
Federal
Boston Journal
Journal
Newport News
Old Germany
Rotary Club
Edwin Dodge Hardin
Montsweag Farm
Industrial Accident Board
Walter S. Wyman
Harnings
Sherwin-Williams Products
Johnson Bros Co
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