Bath Daily Times Chronicle 1907 Local Notes
Bath items report church events, school duties, and civic updates. Elizabeth Dean begins duties as a spelling teacher for primary grades at Bath High. William Herrington leaves his Oakland post and sells his Grove Street home. Mrs. Arthur Sewall returns from summer at Fant. Kn0x transfers six box cars. new lighting equipment arrives at Bath Iron Works to illuminate the city streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Sewall
Fant
Ashington Street
Local Post Office Implements New Weight Recording System
The post office has begun a three part system to track weights of mail, with monthly audits and state-by-state totals for outgoing mail from Bath. The effort, starting July, runs through January and increases revenue accounting for each piece handled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Ares
Percy & Small announce six masted schooner contract
Percy and Small announce a contract for a six masted schooner to be built for J. S. Chi slow Co. of Portland. Work will start as soon as materials are obtained. The report notes various local arrivals and events in Winthrop with names and locations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Percy & Small
Chislow & Co
Portland
Percy i Sri Feg
Percy On
Winter timetable from M W Sewall to arrive soon
October 17 1907 notice announces M W Sewall's winter train timetable going to the press and ready for home use. The item notes a prior clandestine timetable and mentions Bath Medical Club meeting at a hotel with Dr Mabe discussing medicine and quackery. Also lists witnesses in U S District Court cases and ports of travel for Knickerbocker Towage Co and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. W. Sewall
Onc
Bath Medical Club
Wwe Na Tert
Mabe
Betel Pers
Charles W. Dingley
Hog
Pod
Franngley
U. S
Knickerbocker Towage Co
Halloween party and rummage sale highlight local events
A Halloween party with games and refreshments was held at a Washington street home. A secondhand rummage sale at Center streets drew residents, while clubs on both sides of town organized social activities and a stew event at noon.
Fall 1907 Maine notices and maritime brief items
A rough digest of Oct 18 1907 happenings includes weather lore amateurs forecasting a mild winter from hornet activity, a fall moth crusade underway in Maine, a steamer load of herring lobsters and hay from the Kennebec, and engine No 3 testing successfully. Small items note tugs shipping pulpwood, a big supper at Kennebec Yacht Club, the Governor Brooks schooner mast assembly, and visits by H G Hodgdon and G C Greenleaf with Bowdoin College fraternity initiations upcoming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Sonia
Kennebec Yacht Club
Ites Guests of Mr H Kimball and Officials Return Home
Oct 19 1907 couples A L Ites and Mrs Ites visit Mr H Kimball of High ee Capt Charles T Wallace returns from Newport News to Portland aboard the schooner 8 F Ladies meet on a street church for an afternoon at Baker of Upper Wighshee with an apple paring bee and related activities
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A. L
Meet . H. Kimball
Highee
Charles T. Wallace
Newport News
Portland
Con Street
Upper Wighshee
Bath and Navy Ties Highlight Local News and Shipyard Visit
The Bath area features updates on local residents and ships with a five masted schooner Governor Ames tied to harbor delays and a visit by Rear Admiral J A B Smith at Bath Iron Works. Ohio arrivals and letters from service members add military and community ties to the period’s events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. A. B. Smith
U.S. Navy
Chester
Bath Iron Works
Silver service for Chester to be presented to scout cruiser
Oct 21 1907 notices report a silver service to be presented to the scout cruiser Chester by city residents. Other items mention William J Ryan of Portland starting his Maine Almanac sales tour, civic banquets for Edward C Plummer, and local notes on raspberries and a carpentry toller tale involving a fisherman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chester
Tuesday Probate Court Proceedings Hearings and Filings
Probate court in Salem and surrounding towns docket lists estates of Percy Spicer Shaw Moore Roberts Berry Thompson Goodwin Rice and Vamvakias with appointments guardianship filings inventories and licenses to sell real estate detailed by judges executors and trustees across Massachusetts Bath West Bath Topsham Bowdoinham Richmond and Woolwich with multiple administratrices and guardians named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George J . Percy
Salem
Ssachusetts Y
J. Houghton Monlan, Jr
Mass
Olive Spicer
omaAs
William E. E. Herriman
Bette
Sarah A. Shaw
Withhan
Winnie I. Moore
Woolwich
Samuel Moore
Wool
George A. Roberts
Topsham
Florence L. Roberts
Ronehc
Lorence L. R
Charles R. Berry
Bowdeinham
Vina F. Bailey
Jennie D. Thompson
West Bath
Perry L. Thorm
Accon
Susan T. Goodwin
Richmond
Carlton H. Curtis
Wilbur F. Brown
Addison H. Rice
Bath
Earl Rice
Nicholas P. Vamvakias
Katine Vamvakias
Guardian
Richmond Social Roundup Of Visits And Travel
Mr and Mrs Milton Bush of u burn visited at the home of Mr and Mrs Frank Reynolds on Kimball Street Sunday. Esma Hackett of Winchester Mass has been teaching in Germany and is visiting relatives in Richmond. Families and guests include the Ranger, Meader, Hacker, Wheeler, Jer and Roberson households. Local trips span to the White Mountains and Lewiston, with other gatherings at Georgetown and Winthrop. State Deputy Marriner attended Dro More Grange and West Bath grange events. A group of sportsmen enjoyed duck shooting at Gibbs camps with several named companions and guides. Visitors also stop by Dewey Fisher’s and Mrs Clara Bellevance’s homes.
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Milton Bush
U Burn
Frank Reynolds
Kimball Street
Esma Hackett
Winchester
Mass
Lochat
Germany
Itley Ranger
Pleasant Street
Finn Hot
Feeman Meader
Ahger
Herbert Hack
New Portland
Charles Wheeler
Marriner
Robert Eeler
Barbara Jer
White Mountains
Annie S. Johnson
Lilian A. Johnson
Lewiston
Edwin Millett
Walter Benedict
Albany
N. Y
Carl Roberts
Foster
Leslie Roberts
George Wilson
Winthrop
Richard Strout
Ralph
Richard
Strout
John Strout
Mechanic Falls
L. F. Playse
Georgetown
Leslie F. Roberts
Center Street
St. Petersburg
Arthur Faulkner
Reading
Dewey Fisher
Main Street
Fred Webb
East Weymouth
Joseph Wilson
Thelma Dickinson
Barbara Weeks
Portland
Gibbs
Carpenens
Mervin Bason
Chester
H. Mott
New York City
J. Doyle
Earle Shoemaker
South
Vienna
Ohio
Romeo Bellevance
Mr. Bellevance
Mrs
Clara Bellevance
Girard Defends BIW Golf Title At Bath Country Club
Will Girard repeated as champion in the 1947 BIW Golf Tourney at Bath Country Club. Class A results show 1st Gross Gird, 2nd Gross Parks, 3rd Gross Spear. nets led by Weeks and Mank. Class B and C winners listed. ladies matches won by Parks Parry Higgins and Spear. Seventy-one players participated, noting a highly successful event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will Girard
Bath Country Club
Ramet
Gross
W. Girard
R. Parks
R. Spear
K. Weeks
H. Mank
M. Puffer
R. Tabor
Orate L. Boisvert
Local youths spend weekend at a Maine street home
Atens Lake Quebec notes Norman Farley who attends school in Portland spent the weekend at his aunt's home on Main street. Mrs Margaret Given now at the state hospital in Ryanges spent the weekend in Aetisbaee Gilpatrick of Dresden was a recent visitor in town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atens Lake
Quebec
Norman Farley
Portland
Aca
Main Street
Margaret Given
State Hospital
Ryanges
Aetisbaee
Gilpatrick
Dresden
Librarian Report Highlights Yearly Donations and Thanks
The page lists gifts received by the library including 5 books from Bath Iron Works via William Newell and 24 from Henry C. Wright. Additional donors include Rupert H. Baxter, Congregational Conference of Maine, Irvin Cromwell, National Foreign Trade Council, Robert Hale, Herman Johnson, Charles Scribner's Sons, and Gen. A W Woodcock. Various local groups and individuals contributed newspapers and periodicals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hooper
Lord
Rowe
Bath Iron Works
William Ee Newell
Henry C. Wright
Rupert H. Baxter
Congregational Canference of
Maine
Irvin Cromwell
National Foreign Trade Council
Robert Hale
Herman Johnson
Charles Scribner’s Sons
Teachers Dinner Guests and Foreclosure Notice Mentioned
Teachers and guests at a PTA event gathered in the cafeteria with fall centerpieces and refreshments hosted by several committee members. A foreclosure notice details a Maine land dispute involving transfers from Ez. cPut to Charles L. perrel and later to William Jordan, dated October 10, 1816.
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Hi. E. Waoin
Agadehor
Maine
Charles L. A
Perrel
Voin
Harloweed
Charles uglas m. _Jordan
Boise
William Jordan
Krners Ryker
Brinewick
Tober
Wiscasset Community Notices and Civil Service Reminder
Wiscasset reports a church service at Home for the Aged with Heigham and Beverly attending and notes a Philip Guild gathering. The U S Civil Service announces a substitute clerk carrier exam with $1.04 hourly pay and Boston regional posting. Local items include a Lowelltown brush fire threat, a $23,500 sale of a Judd's Bridge farm Swiss bull and an $11,500 cow, a Beattie-Nelder wedding in Portsmouth, and multiple society notes from Rebekah Assembly and Crystal Chapter of O E S.
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Heigham
Schaeph Mt Accompan
Beverly Fiat
Carolyn
Warner
Lawrence Davis
Philipe Ata
Charles * Madenaoe
Cene
United of Civil Servie Commission
Wiscasset
Post Office
Board of Civil Service Examiners
First
U. S. Civilvice Region
Boston 9
Mass
Lowelltown
Rowe B. Metcalf
Judd’s Bridge Farm
Marshall G. Beattie
Anne L. Nelder
Portsmouth
SpCeaty
Sara Bradford
Wiscasset Academy
Detors Trust Company
Brim
U. S. Navy
Probate notices naming executors administrators in Bath and Woolwich
John L a master of probate certifies that in the Slowing Ss persons named were appointed executors administrators or guardians on dates indicated. Estate Winnie I Moore late of Woolwich deceased Samuel Moore appointed executor without bond October 14 1947. Estate William E Harriman late of Bath deceased Sarah A Shaw appointed executrix without bond September 14 1947. Estate F Alice Acon late of Bath deceased Daniel MacDonald appointed pararen executor without bond October 14 1947. A true copy of the original order Attest 23-30-6.
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John L
Sagdel
Winnie I. Moore
Oolwich
Samuel Moore
Loolwich
William E. Harriman
Bath
Sarah A. Shaw
Alice Acon
Daniel MacDonald
Arthur J.ee Yusge
Probate Appointments for Sagadahoc County Estates
John L. Jack, receiver of probate for Sagadahoc County, lists executors and administrators appointed in several estates. Names include Robert E. Burgon of Bath, Cornelius H. Bassett of Massachusetts, J Cavanaugh of Brighton, Joseph E Jobling of Newton, Catherine Jobot of Newton, Frank B Walker of Chester Vermont, Annie Jane Walker of Chester and Jon H Cross of New York City, all named as executors or administratrices either with or without bond as of October 7 1947.
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John L. Jack
Rcv
Probete
Sagadahoc
Robert E. Burgon
Baecea
Bath
Bond
Cornelius H Bassett
Ilington
Massachusetts
J. Cavanaugh
Brighton
Joseph E. Jobling
Newton
Catherine
Jobot
Frank B. Walker
Chester
Vermont
Annie Jane Walker
Jon H. Cross
New York City
Newark
Phippsburg Community Notes and Weekend Events
Local items mention Mrs Mark Harrington and friends in Lewiston on Saturday. Betty Bowker stayed at a house while away. Miss Maxine Wyman returned to duties at Yarmouth Beach. The Dromore Farm Bureau held a meeting at the hall last Wednesday night as the community enjoyed pleasant weather and social time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sere Page
Ie Cranbe
Maree
Lewis
Minnie Brince
Mark Harrington
Lewiston
Betty Bowker
and Wills Blaisdell
Arthur Yi Morse
Morse
Maxine Wyman
Yarmouth Beach
Sandee
Dromore Farm Bureau
Estate petitions and probate actions in Bath and Massachusetts
The document records petitions for estate matters in Bath and Massachusetts. It names Katine Vaccine as guardian and J Houghton McLellan as executor, with final account submissions by Earl Rice and references to the Proba te judge and quoted orders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. Vamvakias
Bath
Guardian
George E. Percy
J. Houghton McLellan
Snl
J. Houghton
Massachusetts
Aaigoni Rice
Earl Rice
Areror J
Probate Court Notice of Estate Administrations
A court orders notice to interested parties for estates in Bath Maine. Letters testamentary without bond granted to Ward the executrix. Public notice to be published weekly for five weeks in Bath newspaper. Interested persons may challenge actions or apply for appointment of a personal representative.
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Bath
Ap Bath
Asia County
Saar
Neta
Horace W
Ward
E. Cuttier
Jesse Ieing
Phippsburg
Ralph O. Baie
Cork
Sore
Panor Wale L. Blair
Kate Y. Wi
Roland F Mau
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