Bath Man Visits, Topsham Fair Highlight Weekend
Forties era notes from Bath Maine recount visits and local events. Carl Crosman of Nantasket Beach Steamboat Co. visits Plymouth to Boston route, associations with Justice Philbrick and Portland residents appear. Popham steamer serves Bath Topsham excursionists. Topsham Fair draws large crowds. local figures and theaters feature Go to Church Sunday and Katinka at Empire theater.
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Carl Crosman
Nantasket Beach Steamboat Co
Boston
Plymouth
City
Popham
Bath
Topsham Fair
Bath Opera House
Hockomock
Bath-Woolwich
George Popham
Snipe's Flats
Rice
Indian carvings found as park walk laid from band stand
Oct 12 1916 workers begin a granolithic walk from the band stand to Washington and Linden streets completing a long stretch started at Summera Front streets. They uncover chiseled Indian carvings. Project to finish in two to three weeks includes blasting near a lodge on Washington street. Central church choir plans rehearsal and cantata Sowing and Reaping for vespers in November. Master Walter Morse receives a prize at a private party on Lower Washington Street.
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Washington and
Linden
Washington Street
Central Church Choir
Walter Morse
Lower
Mystery Explores Island Explosion Amid Submarine Rumors
A heavy blast destroys a building on an East Machias island bank. its unaware owner hints at hidden contents amid rumors of a German submarine base on the Maine coast. The era also notes bids opening for 60 new warships to boost U S shipyards. Silk skirts go for 10 cents, Bath seeks more housing, and ex Governor William Tames portrait arrives for display in the State House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Machias
Maine
Miss Rachel Mikelsky to Speak on Social Work at Federation House
Oct 15 1916 Cos metropolitan club invites members to the club house for an 7 30 pm talk by Miss Rachel Mikelsky on social work at Federation Settlement House New York. She is Mt Sinai graduate with experience at Henry Street and Lying-In Hospital. Several friends urged her to share her New York life story. Also notes on a Lewiston Bath car thief capture in Tops ham, John L Hayes hair relic, social visits, weather, and Colonial club smoker plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cosmopolitan Club
Rachel Mikelsky
Federation Settlement House
New York
Mikelsky
Mt. Sinai Social Service Department
Henry Street
Universalist services to be held in South Waterford Bath show tonight
Bowdoin College students have booked seats for the Bob Ott show in Bath tonight, a performance not touring Brunswick this season. George Spicer buys the Strout homestead on Edward Street, and Scott W. Tibbetts acquires the Madden residence on Dummer Street. Mrs. John McKeiver, Mrs. Emma F. Jacobs, and Mrs. Ida L. D. Barton longtime Queen Esther Rebekah Lodge leaders, with Mrs. Frank Knowlton, head to Bangor by noon train for the Rebekah Assembly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowdoin College
Bob Ott
Bath
Brunswick
George Spicer
Strout
Edward Street
Scott W. Tibbetts
Madden
Dummer Street
John McKeiver
Emma F. Jacobs
Ida L. D. Barton
Queen Esther Rebekah Lodge
Frank Knowlton
Queen Esther
Bangor
Rebekah
Barracouta and Coronet Pass Kennebec in October Procession
The Barracouta and Coronet, noted for Holy Ghost and Us Society ties under Rev Elijah Sanford, moved up the Kennebec this morning. The Barracouta is not US registered, Sanford has voyaged aboard, and the pair drew curiosity as part of a strange October procession.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barracouta
Coronet
Holy Ghost
Us Society
Elijah” Sanford
Tabernacle
Lisbon Falls
Kennebec
Sanford
Portland
Casco Bay
No Truth In Report Newbury Store Closing
Marc N. King, local manager of J. J. Newberry Co in Bath, denies a circulating rumor of a store closing. He says the company has never considered closing the Bath store and is not considering it at this time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newbury
Bath
J. J. Newberry Co
Marc N. King
The
Times
King
Newberry Co
Mrs. Carl Anderson Returns From Bath Visit
Mrs. Carl Anderson returns to Bath on Sunday after a week long visit with her daughter Elizabeth Anderson of Bos on.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Anderson
Bath
Ae Elizabeth Anderson
Boson
Shipbuilders break winless skid with 31 0 win over Rockland
Local high school football notes report Shipbuilders finally breaking into the win column with a 31 0 victory over Rockland at Lime Street Field after early-season setbacks to Gardiner and Cony and a 0 0 tie with Biddeford. Junior Highs stay undefeated beating Walton 34 6 at McMann Field. Golf and baseball ended for 1956 with Little League field improvements at Kimball Field. Morse High hoop coach Gene Hunter to run YMCA basketball clinics for 2nd to 6th graders. Waterfowl scarce at Merrymeeting Bay due to Indian Summer. Dr Leon Buck reports four geese sighted, plus two black ducks. Deer plentiful this fall in the area.
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Gardiner
Cony
Biddeford High
Harry Hallsey
Rockland
Lime City
Merrymeeting Bay
Leon Buck
Reed widow of Roy W Reed dies in South Portland
Mrs Cora F Reed widow of Roy W Reed died Friday Oct 11 at the home of her daughter Mrs Alice R Davis South Portland She was born in Augusta daughter of the late E Fred and Alice Albee Her father remodeled the Stacy House on Middle Street now Wiscasset Inn and for years operated it She graduated from Wiscasset Academy Surviving are her daughter three sisters nine grandchildren sixteen great grandchildren and two nephews Funeral services were held Saturday Oct 13 with interment in Evergreen cemetery Also Miss Mildred Burrage vice president of Lincoln County Cultural and Historical Association spoke at the Newcastle Damariscotta Woman's Club last week Pemaquid Chapter D A R will meet Saturday at the Woman's Club of Wiscasset Hostesses named
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cora F. Reed
Roy W. Reed
Alice R. Davis
South Portland
Augusta
E. Fred
Alice Albee
Stacy
Middle Street
Wiscasset Inn
Reed
Wiscasset Academy
George Nute
Lewis Bickford
Topeka
Kan
Rudolph Roland
Columbus
Ohio
Evergreen Cemetery
Mildred Burrage
Lincoln County Cultural and Historical Association
Newcastle - Damariscotta Woman's Club
Pemaquid
D.A.R
Woman's Club of
Wiscasset
Charles E. Cowley
Harry Bradford
Herbert Steer
Samuel Knowlton
Hudson Vannah
Legion Cadets Seek Funds to Resume Training At Milliken
Legion Cadets and officials outlined plans to raise money through food sales rummage drives and paper drives to pull the unit out of deficit. An account at Bath National Bank shows under thirty dollars with booster club income about one hundred dollars monthly redirected to pay debts. A meeting is set for Oct 23 to explore speedy fundraising so training can resume and six months of music classes are needed to emerge in spring with a viable corps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milliken
Bath National Bank
Aprons Topic At Nequasset Extension Group
Nequasset Extension Group held an all day session at Good Will club house Sagadahoc Ferry with 20 attendees and guests. Mrs. Burnette Wallace and Mrs. Vivian Hunter presented Aprons, Plain and Fancy. patterns were cut from samples and new members Isa Wilband and Hazel Smith joined. A business meeting followed lunch led by Mrs. Ruth Murphy. Next meeting November 14 will cover Your Food, Your Pocketbook, and You by Miss Jean Spearin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nequasset Extension Group
Good Will Club
Sagadahoc Ferry
Burnette Wallace
Vivian Hunter
Isa Wilband
Hazel Smith
Ruth Murphy
Jean Spearin
Lewiston
Gertrude Marston
Albert Bailey
Ethel Bailey
Lillace Galuza
Mary Hall
Florence Hathorne
Ruth Leeman
Ella Robson
Georgie Walker
Marjorie Woerter
Maud Wright
Howe
Bath-Owned Dogs and Trigger Earn Merit at Colonial Field Trial
Bath owned dogs and MeelIntosh's Trigger reached a year old on September 29 as they won a Certificate of Merit in the qualifying stake at the Colonial Retriever Field Trial Club licensed event on the Sudbury marshes in Massachusetts. The trial drew top retrievers from the Eastern States with judges Johan de Besche of Westville New Hampshire and Col. Harry B. Carney of Bath. The Maine club's activities wind down with this trial until the January annual meeting.
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MeelIntosh
Colonial Retriever
Sudbury Marshes
Massachusetts
Johan de Besche
Westville
N. H
Harry B. Carney
Bath
Maine Club
Window Painting for YMCA Halloween Program and Parades
A description notes participation in the YMCA Halloween program with competition, parade appearances, and exhibition work planned to ensure a completely satisfactory showing.
Local Families Visit Isle au Haut Over Weekend
Mr and Mrs Lewis Bowen and Mr and Mrs Emerton Gross of this city spent the weekend at Isle au Haut. They were joined by Jim Newman and Jerry Hawkins who are serving with the U S Navy and stationed at Brunswick Naval Air Base.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewis Bowen
Emerton Gross
Jim Newman
Jerry Hawkins
U. S. Navy
Brunswick Naval Air Base
Isle Au Haut
Probate Notices From Bath Sagadahoc Estates October 1956
Court order directs publication in Bath Independent for three weeks. Notices invite heirs and interested parties to attend a probate hearing on November first to hear, contest, and address final administrator and executors for multiple Bath estates including Bremner Howe Mace Tucker Baxter Wetherbee and Kate Baxter. Judge Harold J Rubin presides.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Sagadahoc
Mildred L Hagan
Florence S Mace
Bryan J Mace
Lilian W Tucker
Pauline C Moulton
Rupert H Baxter
Lydia B Gillette
Mary Baxter White
Kate M Baxter
Lillian H. Heal
Michael M. Zoomie
Mike Zoome
Beth
Alice Zoomie
Susan A M Peterson
Harry L Day
Idahoc
Said
Perley Evans Baker
Edward W. Bridgham
Catherine G Dougherty
John F. Dougherty
John F Dougherty
Celia Eaton
Mayo Levenson
Marguerite Manso
John P Carey
Sidney A McPherson
Joseph C
Emma M. Oliver
Woolwich
Freeman
Oliver
Ava Maria Whitney
Verona
Hancock
Edward W . Brideham
John FE Younes
Philipsboro
Joseph A Young
Joseph A. Young
T Lillian H Heal
Mildred M Warren
Frank R Werren
Lynn M Bussey
Maine
Maude M Haynes
W Linwood Haynes
John M Allen
Hernaswell
Harriet F Johnson
Rath
Helen Ro Marr
Administrateix Dbn
Eta
Harold J Ribin
Probate Court Grants Various Admin Actions in Bath Estates
Probate court records from Bath present multiple actions including appointment of executrix for Grace A. Blair and administrator for Bertha Bremner, inventories and first accounts for Melvin H. Pridham and Florence Che ney, and final accounts for Florence S. Mace and Mary White Taylor. Bonds cleared for Mike Zoome and Susan A M Peterson as guardians and bonds.
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William S Blair
Bath
Grace A. Blair
Andrew Bremner
Bertha Bremner
Bertha Louise Soule
Robert H. Haskell
Alvah C. Reynolds
Georgetown
Agnes M. Reynolds
Melvin H. Pridham
Richmond
Harold J. Rubin
Guardian
Margaret L. Luce
Topsham
George E. Melvin
Florence Esther Cheney
Vernard York
Mary White Taylor
Philip W. Odiorne
Natt F. Howe
Mildred L. Hagan
Florence S. Mace
Bryan J. Mace
Harold C. Hart
Gardiner D. Rogers
James J. Landers
Kathleen Gaynor
Mike Zoome
Susan A. M. Peterson
Guardian's Bond
Mr and Mrs Miles B Hagan Travel to West Palm Beach
Mr and Mrs Miles B Hagan of Georgetown depart Wednesday for West Palm Beach Florida to spend the winter season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miles B. Hagan
Georgetown
West Palm Beach, Fla
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Bath Daily Times
Emmons
Warren C. Philbrick
Waterville
Fred L. Rand
King Tavern
Supreme Court
Thomas G. Prant
Joseph Kingsbury
Center Street
William H. Black
Perth Amboy Dry Dock Co
Erma Farrar
Massachusetts General Hospital
E. A. Farrar
George Perry
Arrowsie
Times Office
Portland Express
Colum
Farrar
Emma Eames
Eames
Richard. Quick
Capt. Quick
Edward Sewall
H. Layton Jackson
Miss Littlefield
Miss White
Eastern Steamship Corporation
Yarmouth
N. S
Governor Cobb
Susan Reed
the North Primary
Emma Magoun
Harold M. Sewall
Loyall
Wilson
Mrs. Crockett
San Francisco
Wesley Church
Dorothy Welch
Wilhelmina Gackenbach
Warren Oliver
George Cahill
Evelyn Oliver
Kenneth Weeks
Lincoln Farrar
Otis Card
Edna Bliss
Harry Thompson
Hertha Weeks
Pearl Moody
Mildred
Marion Robbins
Helen Childs
Stanwood Cutting
Margaret Stewart
Evelyn Colby
Percy Oliver
Elsie Wakefield
Charles Foster
Alice Corliss
Edward Coombs
Annie Stewart
George Brown
Andrew Butterfield
Eva Buckman
Carleton Lowell
Lilie Cahill
Roland Robinson
Thelma Oliver
Harry Cressey
Hagan Lot
Lisbon
Portugal
Rachael W. Stevens
J. O. Hayes
Belfast
Hayes
Stevens
New England Shipbuilding Co
Portland Daughters of 1812
Alexander Scammel
Wadsworth
Longfellow House
Bath Iron Works
Joseph White
West Bath
Jack Frost
Webber
Dreamland
Pullman
Theda Bara
Universal
Liberty
Bara
Roscoe P. Ham
Marion Thayer
Empire Theater
Brunswick Links
Millicent Clifford
Carolyn Percy
North Grammar School
John Moody
Bobby Grace
North Grammar
South Street
South End
Morse
Florence Carlton
Lowell’s Market
Milton Trott
Dr. Maxwell Powers
Arthur J. Dunton
Bandoleer
Don. Sopdie
Great Council of
Bradford E. Redonnet
Cornelia Forbes
Worcester
Mass
Forbes
Meadowbrook
Catherine Berry
Janet Cutler
Vassar College
Ralph Whitehouse
Carl Troop
Orrin Frye
Allie Parris
Mrs. Frye
E. M. Fuller
Owen Ledyard
Katinka
Charles A. Bruce
E. R. Wright
Marshall Avenue
Mary A. Barker
Minnie Martin
Front Street
Sadie Blaisdell
H. S. Walker
Ruth Rines
Edward McKenna
Perkins Ochestra
Jewett
Portland High School
Young
Holbrook
Shipping City
Howard Deering
Adeline Costain
Miss McAllister
Miss Kane
Priscilla Kimball
Son” Mitchell
Frank L. Edgecomb
W. F. Dunton
Horatio G. Foss
Maine Central Railroad
Joseph G. Haines
Foss
Carey
East Brunswick
James Young
Lizzie J. Call
Bridgeport
Seoa
Opera House
Mrs. Ott
Fred Kimball
Priscilla
Miss Kimball
Scott Tibbetts
Bath Water District
Kennebec River
Drayton
Myra Rice
Hutchinson
Durand Plantation
Charles Durand
Malden
Allan H. Ramsay
First
H. A. Plummer
William Tames
Arianna Kelley
Fred
Marshal Wallace
Beaulieu
Spokane
Wash
John L. Hayes
Ethel Hawley
Madelyn Hunt
Ruth Thompson
Ruth Adams
Waldoboro
Colonial Club
Joseph McCole
Edward True
Fred Starkey
Percy Marks
Nashua
Perth Amboy
Jennie Sawyer
Cony High School
Harry B. Sawyer
Allen Brown
Rumford Falls
Universalist Church
Oxford Association
South Waterford
Mrs
D. H. Philbrick
Wakefield, Mass
L. Theresa Moses
W. H. White
Camp Komfort
New Meadows
Beacon Street
William Thistle
Fred P. Shaw
Frank S. Bowker
Phippsburg
Leon Belanger
Huse
Gauvin and Gay
William F. Carrigan
Red Sox
First National Bank of
Auburn
McMann Field
Walton Junior High
Kimball Field
Morse High
Gene Hunter
YMCA
Springfield
Berkshires
White Mountains
Harris
Mason Plant
Legion Cadets
Willard
A. Hallet & CO
Charles P Wetherbee
George B Wetherbee
Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company
Katharine B. Wetherbee
George Boetherbee
Harold J Rubin
Lillian H Heal
Lilian H Hea
Probate
Lilian W. Tucker
Pauline C. Moulton
Rupert H. Baxter
Lydia B. Gillette
Kate M. Baxter
Charles P. Wetherbee
George B. Wetherbee
George B. Wet
Lillian H Real
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