Bath Daily Times 1898 Highlights Noise and Notables
Items from the Bath Daily Times describe property moves, fires, accidents, local society news, and industry notes in Bath Maine. John Morse purchases Sprague home. Parker Morse to reside there and build for Winfield Morse. Captain Hanscom in Washington on monitor plans. Local tradesmen work on churches and rails. fires, weddings, and social events pepper the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pieiheneeeen
Sprague Hom
Winnegance
John Morse
Parker Morse
Mr. Morse
Winfield
Charles R. Hanscom
Bath Iron Works
Washington
Iron Works
Milk Industry Hit Hard by Hurricane
Reports from flood regions show heavy losses to dairy plants farms and equipment with New England moving milk by rail and tank trucks despite unsafe roads. Vir tually no pasteurized milk shortages, crews clear highways and customers served.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Milk Industry Foundation
New England
Vermont
New Hampshire
Boston
Montreal
Canada
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Sherman W. Curtis
Groton Long Point Beach
Conn
Oyster Propagation Experiment Underway in Maine
Boothbay Harbor with Southport's William Ray, the Maine Department of Sea and Shore Fisheries undertakes an oyster propagation study. Three acres in Southport Gut plant seed oysters of the English variety under wardens’ supervision. Success could spawn similar efforts along the coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boothbay Harbor
William Ray
Southport
Department of Sea and Shore Fisheries
Arthur Greenleaf
Ray
Maine
Greenleaf
Department of Fisheries
mid-Atlantic
Maine Seaboard
Time and space as impossible concepts debated
In a continuation of a Bath man’s article the speaker questions the reality of time and space. The dialogue argues that time cannot have a beginning or end and that space, like time, may be an impossible word describing an unreal perception.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnnie
Probate notices list executors and admins in Sagadahoc estates
John J. Jack, Register of Probate, Sagadahoc County, states on October 4, 1938 the named executors administrators conservators or guardians for estates including George M. Stinson of Woolwich Ruth W. Holt and others. Names include Marcia M. Stinson Alice K. Robbins Anne L. Read Doris M. Tracy William A. Todd Pauline N. Smith Alice T. Puller and other actions with agent appointments and bonds where noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John J. Jack
Sagadahoc
George M. Stinson
Woolwich
Marcia M. Stinson
Alice K. Robbins
Bath
Ruth
Doris M Tracy
Boston
Massachusetts
Bond
Frank A. Farrington
Augusta
Percy L. Nickerson
Pauline N. Smith
Mahel Jeen
Norma J. Smith
Said Ath
Flora M. Randall
Alice T. Puller
John L Jack
Register
Juvenile Theft Punishments Set by Lewiston Court
In a juvenile session Judge Harris M. Issacson ordered two Lewiston brothers to punishments after admitting stealing money from neighborhood milk bottles. The elder must remain at home after school for two months, while the younger serves one month. Also noted is a giant toadstool found nearby Hallo well, claimed as the largest observed this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. G. Rowe & Co
Five Islands
Harris M. Issacson
Lewiston
London
National Society For the Protection of Children
Peter and Mary Stanovich
Lambeth
W. M. Chitty
Stankovichs
Peter
Probate Court in Bath issues notices for October matters
In Sagadahoc County Bath probate court announces three week publication of notice for estates heard on the first Tuesday of November. The order lists recipients Anna Perey Ada Minott Maude Glidden and others seeking letters testamentary and trustee appointments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Sagadahoc
James E. Percy
Phippsburg
Anna P. Perey
Ada Catherine Minott
Rebecca B Minott
Fannie FE. Minott
Sarah R. Given
Alice T. Fuller
Walter S. Glidden
Maude W Glidden
Said Maude W. Glidden
Harold E. Cook
Ora L. Parks
James H. Thomas
Hannah A. Thomas
Lillian M. King
Alfred L. King
Margaret Jane Pease
Said
Edward W. Bridgham
John H Pease
Said Phippsburg
Lillian M. Passmore
Arthur C Passmore
Bath Trust Company
John W. Brackett
Maine personalities shine in New England Quarterly
The September issue from the University of Maine press features Maine figures and places with essays by Frederic T. Carpenters on Edwin Arlington Robinson born in Head Tide and Gardiner. Joseph W. Hendren surveys Early East epitaphs across Long Island Swan's Island Gott's Island and Mt. Desert area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orone
Maine
New England Quarterly
University of Maine Press
Milton Ellis
Frederic TI. Carpenters
Tristram
Transcendent
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Head Tide
Alma
Wiscasset
Gardiner
Joseph W. Hendren
Down East
Long Island
Swan's Island
Gott'’s Island
Placentia
Mt. Desert
California
Robert Watertown Lord
Kennebunk
Vold
State House
Senate
York County
William P. Randall
University of Minnesota
Jack Downing
Will Rogers
Seba Smith
Buckfield
New England
North Atlantic
Kenneth B. Murdock
Harvard University
New
George Pierce Baker
New Englad
Edward C. Kirkland
Bowdoin College
Free Extension Service bulletins offer practical farm home guides
The University of Maine Extension Service lists free bulletins on farming and homemaking topics. New titles include Running Water in the Home and a Clothing Construction Primer, with popular items on canning, potatoes, bees, farm woods, and storage. Requests for a full bulletin list or specific titles go to the Extension Service in Orono.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agricultural Extension Service
University of Maine
Maine
Helen Spaulding
Extension Service
College of Agriculture
Orono
The Compleat Dowser and Scientific Skepticism
A. T. Sitwell of Stancombe Farm, Dursley argues dowsing instruments rely on tension and equilibrium. He describes bending a soft iron or copper rod to map water veins and fissures, noting copper fails to work and wells drilled with his method confirm the fissure’s center.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Times of London
A. T. Sitwell
Stancombe Farm
Dursley
Glostershire
State aids Crystal schools after wind storm
The Department of Education received from the state contingency fund 800 to run schools in Crystal, a town that suffered extensive property damage from a recent wind storm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crystal
Department of Education
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Bree
Bath Daily Times
Hallet
Brunswick
Edward Emmons
Cyrus King
Gov. King
High Street
Thomas McGrath
Dr. Rice
al Ridley
Front Street
Charles Jordan
Vine Street
Maine Water Co
Kennebec
Andrews
W. C. Hawes
MCRR
Commercial Street
Kimball Brothers
Waterville Masons
Palmer
New Methodist
Sid Weeds
Hard Chance
City
Mrs
John Footer
Mrs. Footer
E. S. Bacon
Limerick
Mien Pao
Oak Street
Harriet Ellen Reed
John Shaw
A. B. Hervey
Universalist Church
Scott R. Frye and
Son
Mr. Prye
Eegee
Frank McLellan
Bliss Business College
George A. Spinney
Emma Warner
Wesley Parsonage
J. T. Crosby
S S
North End
Armory Hall
Rena
Mabel Franks
Elizabeth Dain
Ethel Paris
Pauline Golder
Bernice Morse
Government Wharf
Randolph
Squirrel Island
Bath High School
Bath-Lewiston
The
Ladies Aid Society of Grace
Church
Roland Fisher
Middle Street
A. W. Ridley
Alameda
Louise
Alfred Tarbox
Palmer Tenement
City Hall
Jessie Lowell
Alfred Alexander
Charlestown
North
Oak Streets
J. Edward Drake
Percy W. Roberts
Ark
John Hyde
Will Carlton
Charles Furber
New Meadows
Bessie Gibson
Bath Electrics
Cabot Mill
Washington and
Water Streets
Union Street
South End
Wesley Church
Frank Wetherbee
Alaska
Klondike
Ella Stover
J. E. Kelley
Boothbay
Sewall Cottage
Bath School
Portland
Thomas Love
Mel Whitlam
Nat Place
E. M. Fuller
Levi Heald
Westport
Dunlap Commandery
Sir Knights
Winter Harbor
Charles Harrington, Jr
Washington Street
Donald Crawford
Herbert E. Williams
Bangor
Prof.Chapman
Bowdoin
O. H. Brown
New Spear & Co
Ecks
Varney
Charles DeWolfe
Morse Bros
Grace Hodgdon
Sergi
Richardson
Popham Beach
Arthur
United States Navy
Newport
Bath Choral Society
Maine Music Festival
Motley Fuller
Charles W. Clifford
Fred H. Klippel
Lily Bay
W. F. Woodbridge
Woodbridge
Sasanoa Bluffs
First Maine Regiment
War Department
Customs House
Harriet Folsom
Omar W. Folsom
George Gould
Nee Game
Walter Higgins
C. Everett Bean
Portland Athletic Club
Sara A
Stephen Sawyer
Granite Street
Philip Owen
Thisie Arc
Brooke
Chicago
Columbia Theatre
Harry B. Sawyer
Hyde Windlass Co
Fred Footer
George W. Colby
Bath Naval Reserves
Water Street
Queen Esther Rebekah Lodge
Miles Ideal Stock Co
Alice Spiett
Happy Nook
Rufus Lombard
Charles R. Higgins
Maggie Mahaney
Mrs. McQuaid
Roxbury, Mass
Oakland
Axe
Havelock Ellis
Ellis
Jesus
Nazareth
Toledo
Johnnie Doe
Ohio
Edward Farrell
Bathman’s
Hallowell
John L. Jack
State
Chain Baby
Canadian Customs
International Boundary Line
Limestone
Compleat Dowser
Congress
Bath Independent
Frank B. Nichols
the Times Company
A Corporation
Harry C Webber
Prank B, Nichols
Bath, Maine
Ella D. Nichols
Dorothy Nichols
Niven
Brunswick, Maine
Barrett C. Nichols
Harry A. Walters
Jeni Notary
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