Forty Years Ago in Bath A Streetcar Collision
Bath Daily Times report recalls William J. Cressey barely escaping a trolley strike on Washington Street as Motorman Gallant and Conductor Austin slow to stop. He suffered a dislocated collar bone and a fractured shoulder blade, then returned home after treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William J. Cressey
South End
William Gallant
Scott Austin
Washington Street
Hyde Windlass Co
Cressey
Federal Street
Gallant
William Cressey
Schooner Eleanor A Percy near sea ready in three weeks
Oct 19 1960 report from Bath Maine describes Schooner Eleanor A Percy being rigged at G G Deering yard with caulking on, Frank A Palmer rushing masts and rigging on the six master. It is expected to sail in about three weeks with coal carrying capacity around 5560 tons. The Kennebec line delayed leaving Bath nearly an hour due to freight. Boothbay boat carried sardines and mackerel to Boston. Ed Devlin signs to play center for Bathpolo. previously with East Weymouth and Brockton teams. Mayor Hyde notes a New England Tel TelCo communication in a city board meeting.
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Bath
Craven
Dahlgren
Newport
R. I
Newport Harbor
T. A. M. Craven
Portsmouth
N. H
William G. Miller
Lieut
Ford H. Brown
Castle Hill
Lieut. Miller
Paar
Lewis Goward
G. G. Deering
Frank A. Palmer
Eleanor A. Percy
Kennebec
Boothbay
Boston
Ed Devlin
Bathpolo
Weymouth
Brockton
Nautical Gazette
Bath Iron Works
Maine
Cleveland
Monitor
Hydes
Birthday tea and garden notes in Bath area society
Yesterday Mr and Mrs Henry Onberg hosted a tea for Mrs Abra McLellan on Washington street to celebrate her 81st birthday with friends including Mrs Dennis Coombs and Mrs Betsy Clark. The Home for Aged Couples garden had a successful year with beets weighing eight pounds each and inmates like Elbridge Parshley sharing large watermelon crops. A morning fire incident at 28 Summer Street caused by smoldering wood was contained to the ell. Other items cover weddings, a Democratic club formation, local fishing, shipyard notes, and regional happenings in Bath and surrounding towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Conley
Spring Street
W. D. Sewall
Fitzgerald Bros
Bath
Freeport
Sewall
Henry Onberg
Washington Street
Sabra McLellan
Dennis Coombs
Betsy Clark
George Dow
Elbridge Parshley
Parshley
Washington and
Cedar Streets
Summer Street
Harry B. Sawyer
Sawyer
Y M C A Boys Conference Set for Bangor November 15–17
The annual State Y M C A Boys conference will be in Bangor from November 15 to 17 with a 600 delegate limit. Bath may see a reduced quota this year. early sign ups determine attendance. Notable speakers include Austin McCormick of New York and Paul Harris Jr of Washington DC.
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Bangor
Bath
Winter Street
Gordon Lake
Forrest Cunningham
Austin McCormick
New York
Bowdoin College
William
Bath Y. M. C. A
Paul Harris, Jr
Washington, D. C
Portland
Lewiston
Busy Bath municipal court handles varied docket
Recorder Harold J. Rubin presided as Judge Deering was away deer hunting. Several defendants faced charges from running a lottery to intoxication and improper vehicle registrations. One defendant got 90 days suspended, another 90 days for intoxication, with fines and costs totaling several dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold J. Rubin
Gardiner R. Deering
Maine
Rubin
Arthur Stinson
Woolwich
Bath Iron Works Corp
Stinson
Raymond E. Ouellette
Peabody
Mass
Bath
Ellery Doyle
Ouellette
Edgar McNeil
Waldo Weston
Augusta
McNeil
Weston
City Hall H
Robert MacDonald
MacDonald
Kennebec
McNéeil
Portland
Joseph Smart
Arthur Young
John P. Crosby
Dissolution of Greenmoors Inn Inc Sought in Maine Equity Suit
Edward C. Stiness of Bath sues Greenmoors Inn Inc seeking dissolution of the corporation after stockholders voted to dissolve on September 27, 1940. He requests court dissolution and further relief, with notice by publication in Bath Independent and service on the defendant. The order requires appearance by November first, 1940, and publication fourteen days prior.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State OF Maine
Sagadahoc
Supreme Judicial Court
Edward C. Stiness
Greenmoors Inn, Inc
Bath
Maine
Scoepan
State OF
Harold J. Rubin
Greenmoors Inn. Inc
Edward
Stiness
Sagudahoc
Edward C Siiness
Harold J Rubin
Portland
Cumberland
Bath Independent
Sidney ST. F. Thaxter
BUI
School Band Boosters Form At Morse High
About 50 parents met in Room L at Morse High to organize the School Band Boosters. Rev Louis A Dole is president with Arthur B Lermond as vice president and Mrs Edwin R Andrews as secretary treasurer. Trustees include Principal Horace P Herrick and two others. The group aims to raise funds for uniforms and band instruments. A fundraising committee will report at the next meeting on Nov 4 at 7 30 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morse High School
Louis A. Dole
Arthur B. Lermond
Edwin R. Andrews
Horace P. Herrick
Arthur L. Berry
William W. Dennison
Probate notices from Bath estates listed for November hearing
Court of Probate in Sagadahoc County orders notices for interested parties in seven Bath area estates. Hearings set for the first Tuesday in November at ten o clock. filings include administrator appointment, licenses to sell real estate, and first or final accounts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Sagadahoc
West Bath
Daniel T. Dougherty
L. Eugene Thebeau
Sylvester H. Rowland
Ethel Blanche Rowland
William S. Dow
N. Gratz Jackson
Fred W. May
Ethel A. May
David N. Heald
Alice E. Heald
Arthur J. Dunton
Beth
Arthur H. Sprague
Harold J. Rubin
Alice Randall Fuller
Eliot A. Fuller
Eliot A. Puller
Nellie C Marston
Bath National Bank
Ellis F. Coombs
Gerald E. Tourigny
Probate records show appointed executors and administratrices
John L. Jack registers estates of Sagadahoc County listing Pearl Barter as administratrix for Howard H. Barter and Harry C. Skinner as executor both appointed October 8, 1940. Edith H. Coombs named administratrix with bond for Nellie McCutcheon and Ralph Howard Sherman of Bowdoin deceased with qualification by October.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John L. Jack
Sagadahoc
Howard H. Barter
Bath
Pearl Barter
Nellie McCutcheon
Harry C. Skinner
Beatrice BE. Spragie
Harold J Rubin
Albert A. Babb
Woolwich
Charles T Small Jr
Cora F. Burgess
John Burgess
Winifred G. Morse
James L Morse
Ee Weer Maillate
Maria Savage
James Dunton
Bond
Arthur J. Dunton
Foreclosure Notice for 1940 Maine Mortgage by Colbys
Percy C Bailey claims foreclosure on a Woolwich Maine property described as two parcels totaling about seventy acres, due to breach of mortgage condition on September 10, 1934. The document records the suit date October 3, 1940, and publication 10-17-24.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maurice D. Colby
Marguerite R. Colby
Waverly
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Watertown
Sagadahoe County
Percy R Bailey
Woolwich
Sagadahoc
Maine
Joshua Blinn
John Walker
Montsweag Brook
Town Road
Nathaniel Tibbetts
Bradford Dickinson
William Dickinson, Jr
Tibbetts
Hector McMullen
Silas P. Blinn
Wiscasset
William P. Lennox
A. D
Percy C, Bailey
Parker Head Visitors and Local Travel Notes
Parker Head column lists Monday visitors at Mrs. George Morong's home from Wallace and Popham. Other calls include Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Woodman visiting relatives, Charles Perkins returning from Cox's Head cottage to Everett, Mass., and guests Maurice Blaisdell and Charles Blaisdell. Miss Helen Cushing visited Winneganee relatives. the Leachs travel through Cleveland to Seattle area. Currey Stiles plans Sebasco visit. Alonzo Fisher and Woods Hole party to stay with Harvey Henderson Jr. in Park Street residence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallace
Popham
George Morong
Gilbert Woodman
Charles C. Perkins
Cox's Head
Everett
Mass
Maurice Blaisdell
West Point
Charles Blaisdell
Charles Dougherty
Brunswick
Helen Cushing
Winneganee
John Leach
Seattle
Wash
Frank Leach
Cleveland
Ohio
Walter McCarty
Currey Stiles
Sebasco
Alonzo G. Fisher
Woods Hole
Harvey Henderson, Jr
Park Street
Divorce Libel in Sagadahoc County Maine
Frank W. Van Patten of Bath sues Elizabeth Reid Van Patten for divorce on grounds of desertion since 1937 and adultery since 1938 with a unnamed partner. They have a minor child Barbara Virginia Van Patten born December 19, 1936. Court orders notice by publication in Bath Independent and sets January 1941 appearance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State OF Maine
Sagadahoc
Bath
Frank W. van Patten
Elizabeth Reid van Patten
New Bedford
Bristol
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Tibet
New York City
Barbara Virginia van Patten
A. D
Albert Beliveau
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Maurice D. Temple
Chicago
Winter Street Church
Adelia
Mary F. Woodbury
Charles DeWolf
Mr. DeWolf
Times Office
H. E. Goddard
Fred Willis
Alameda
Kelley, Spear & Co
Percy W. Means
Kinsman
Mr. Means
A. Hallet & Co
D. Howard Spear
Falker
Darien
Clara Williams
Arthur William Taylor
Edna Maud Hanson
High Street
Beverly
Capt. Gibbons
George A. Tuttle
Gertrude May
John S. Mullin
Center Street
Frederick Roessner
Maine Water Co
Nequasset
Front Street
Swett and Whitmore
George A. Patterson
al Ridley
Ed Bacon
Bath and Lewiston
M.C.R.R
Bacon
Bay
Scott R. Frye
Monarday
Mr. Frye
Beacon Street Epworth League
Annie Campbell
Alfaretta Rolfe
Bessie Clark
Clara Hodgkins
A. H. Shaw
Jewett
John Rose
Maine Central
S. J. Macy
Morse & Co.'s
George A. Hanson
Edna Maud
Carlotta Hanson
Norman Owen
Sasanoa
Iron Works
St. Mary’s Church
Hugh McGinn
Fredericton
N. B
Julia Murray
M. C. McDonough
Maggie
William Donahue
Ladies of the Universalist Church
John A. Lord
Percy & Small
G. F. Barlow
Providence
Benjamin F. Poole
Oakley
Curtis
Reed Yard
St. Mary's Church
James W. Hughes
Oliver S. Barrett
Gould
W. A. Barker
Alna
Edmund C. Robinson
John White
Lizzie Upton
New Forward Movement
Union
King Streets
Phoenix
John S. Jackson, Jr
Stickney
Brook
W. B. Runnells
Nebraska
Board of Aldermen
Hyde
New England Tel., and Tel., Co
Joseph White
Emma Baker White
James Gilman McCarty
City
American Steam Laundry
Boier Makers Hall
Francis B. Torrey
H. V. Crosman
J. H. Jordan
E. J. Murphy
James S. Lowell
Charles W. Larrabee
George E. Hughes
William D. Sewall
William T. Hodgkins
H. D. Maxwell
E. C. Plummer
J. L P
Dick Leydon
Down River
Goose Rock
W. H. Carr
Addison Barker
London
Richard Gibbs
William Gibbs
Walter
Frank Loweston
M. W. Sewall
Iicinity
Lon Fisher
James Marshall
John Nickerson
New Meadows
Charles Davenport
Kelley-Spear Co
Joseph
William Spiett
Maxwell
F. R. Jordan
Central House
Horace A. Withams
Harriett E. McQuarrie
F. W. O'Brien
Whittier
San Francisco
Cape Horn
Jackson
Byron Robbins
Times
Horatio L. Baker
Atkins
Washington
G. G. Deening
Annie Shea
Sacadahoc
Notary Public
Fred H. Thompson
Ernest J. Douglass
Arvida
Quebec
William H. Shea
Beacon Street
John L, Jack
Register
Parker
John P. Carey
Shirley Stinson
Robert W Stinson
Ada Catherine Minott
Phippsburg
Rebecca B Minott
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