Forty Years Ago In Bath Oct 21 1885
Bath items from October 21 1885 note W R Kimball traveling to Boston to buy goods, Samuel Sewall repainting Queen Anne cottage, and demolition of an old ice house. The granite block fire-damaged building sold at auction for 7000, with bids rising from 5500 to 7050. Real estate transfers include several land deals and a shipyard sale. Mayor Wakefield visits Bennington VT, a large party at Deer ing Donnell shipyard hall, and local society news. Also reported are vaccine points, miscelanous maritime activity, a gallows-anchored execution note, ship Willie Rosenfield details, and various local births, engagements, and crimes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David O. Foye & Co
Moses
Filene
Boston
Engagement and weddings highlight 1885 city life
On October 27 1885 Mr and Mrs Henry Lermond celebrated their new union at the High and Marshall residence with about eighty guests including Councilman John McDonald and others. The Amaranth club prepared Music Hall for a later dedication with supper and dance. A separate ceremony united Frank R Mason and Miss Lillie Hill at the bride's home. Polo players Frank Guthrie Holman Dunning and Willie Leydon planned seasons in Massachusetts. An accident sidelined Edward F Dyer at the New England Shipbuilding Co yard with rib fractures and bruises. George W Wristle and Miss Mary Lemont wed in a Saturday ceremony with engine hall festivities that followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Lermond
High
Marshall Streets
Lermond
John McDonald
Capt. Pearson
Wallace Flint
O. W. Folsom
J. O. Fiske
D. D
Frank R. Mason
Miss Lillie
Hill
Mr. Mason
Miss Hill
Frank Guthrie
Holman Dunning
Willie Leydon
Massachusetts
Walthams
Somervilles
Edward F. Dyer
New Vingland Shipbuilding Co
Willow Street
A. J. Fuller
George W. Wristle
Kennejbee Fire Engine Company No. 3
Mary Lemont
Henry Lemont
South Mind
B. Atwood
Mr. Thistle
Willie Rosenfield Passes Cape After Bath to Baltimore Voyage
Telegram received today reports the Willie Rosenfield, a Bath to Baltimore voyage, passed Cape on the route. The ship sailed last Friday from Bath bound for Baltimore and its convoy status is being tracked.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willie Rosenfield
Bath
Baltimore
Cape
Owner Capt. W. H. Besse Leads Local Fleet
The vessel is largely owned in the Ford and Boston regions with Capt. W. H. Besse as managing owner.
Steamers' Chiefs Return. Pask Plans West Vacation
Chief Engineer Williams and Foreman Whitehouse return from Boston Saturday. Edward J. Pask begins a two month November vacation with a West tour. Edward Huse to run Pask's stable. William Olys and Manager Taylor take turns at Sagadahock House. Granite block repair work begins under contractor James E. Haley. roof raised, upper floor extended. completion in about one month. Salvation Army meetings at Advent church draw large crowds with a silver collection. Mrs. Capt. Blandy of London speaks. Captain William F. E. Douglass wed Emma L. Oliver at the bride's Bedford street home. they depart for New York to join the ship St. Steven bound for San Francisco. Ernest and Wallace Hagan and Fred Tibbetts rewarded for returning lost money to H. F. Palmer. Ship Scotia, slowed by shoal water, towed to Thwing's Point to finish loading 1200 tons of ice. loading slow due to ice transfer from Modoc houses. sea passage expected in a day or two.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. E. Palmer & Company
Earnest
Wallace Hagan
Fred Tibbetts
Tibbetts
Salvation Army
Advent Church
Capt. Blandy
London
Eng
Army
United States
England
William FE. Douglass
St. Steven
Emma L. Oliver
Levi Oliver
Fesq
Bedford Street
Mr. Remick
North Street
Modoc
Scotia
Thwing’s Point
Framingham Rotary Sponsors Boys Band Broadcast
Framingham Mass Rotary Club backs a boys band formed two years ago. Under director Theoron Perkins of Boston the group will broadcast Friday at 6 45 PM from station WEEI Boston. Locals hope the program pleases the club and may prompt notes of satisfaction to the secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Framingham
Mass
Theoron Perkins
Boston
WEEI
Framingham Rotary Club
Framingham Club
Morse High Captures Hallowell Game by Narrow Margin
Morse High edged Hallowell 13 to 12 at Kelley Field as Teddy Veilleux booted the deciding goal after a dramatic late surge. Doyle and Greely starred for Morse while A Johnson and Greely paced the visitors with repeated powerful rushes. The crowd swarmed Front Street in celebration after Morse secured its first win of the season.
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Kelley Field
Hallowell
Morse
Rese Bnt
Teddy” Veilleux
Boothby
Granite City
Morse Field
Veilleux
Doyle
Teddy
Front Street
Center
Thompson's Corner
O'R
A. Johnson
Ballard
Bonney
Reed
Buddy” Hagan
Payson
Oval
Hagan
Carbino
Buddy
Flynn
Gooss
Greely
Thomey
Gunn
McCarty
Greeley
Gannon
Ted
West Palomal Lit
Hallowell Gannon
Teuce
Hayes Mintlien
Payson Towker
Carbine Duprey
Uqce Ron
Poae Ows Ielden
Boothby Hagan
K. Johnson Doyle
Wid
Jesse Ess
Ballard Bonney
Trott
Harrington
Mullen
Veil
False pretenders face charges in county court
A true copy filed by Register William F. Dunham records an official action in county court. The notice, signed by attorney William F. Dunham, confirms document authenticity and archival filing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William F. Dunham
William F
Dunham
Register
Attes William F. Dunham
Attes
Burma driller travels 17500 miles for hot springs baths
From Burma British India Guy Mc Gehee 45 driller for British Burma Oil travels 17500 miles to Hot Springs Arkansas for a course of hot radioactive baths to treat malaria and jungle fever. He left July 16 from Rangoon with routes via Ceylon Marseilles London and New York before reaching Hot Springs. He claims to study Burma oil fields and notes extreme heat and rainy seasons.
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Burma
British India
Guy McGehee
British- Burma Oil Company
Hot Springs
Ark
Arkansas Gazette
William P. Shafer
Ceylon
McGehee
Rangoon
Marseilles
France
Indian Ocean
Red Sea
Suez Canal
London
Liverpool
Atlantic
New York
Pittsburgh
Yenangyoung
United States
MccGehee
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Richard Hanlon
Hanlon
Ice maker to cold German beer and oil derricks
McGehee discusses manufacturing ice to keep German beer cold and plans to travel to California then ride a steamer to British India for his oil derricks. He mentions leaving Hot Springs and returning to distant oil interests.
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Nquor
McGehee
California
Hot Springs
San Francisco
British India
Annual Pep Banquet by Maine Y P C U at Rockland
The Maine State Young People's Christian Union plans its annual Pep Banquet and gathering at the Universalist church in Rockland on Thursday. A six o'clock banquet will be followed by an old fashioned Halloween party with addresses from city officials, state leaders, and local youths. Delegations from across the state will attend, many traveling by automobile supervised by chaperones. Bath Universalist youths will join the event, and arrangements accommodate those unable to return home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine State Young People’s Christian Union
Universalist
Rockland
Rockland Union
Entertaining Union
Robert Smith
Bangor
Y. P
George Upson Sendder
Glenn R. MelIntire
Norway
Stanley Manning
Augusta
H. Eola Mayo
Ruth Owens
Portland
Marguerite Pearman
Bath
Probate Notice appoints executor in Sagadahoc county
On October 6 1925 the Probate Court for Sagadahoc County appointed Harry B Sawyer of Bath as executor of the estate of John H Peterson late of Bath deceased He qualified and accepted the trust on the same date Attest
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State OF Maine
Sagadahoc
Bath
A. D
Sidney L. Eaton
Maria W. Williams
James S. Lowell
Sagadahoe
Florence L. Main
Thomas, Main
Woolwich
Bath Independent
Dexter W. Baker
Charles Baker
William F. Dunham
Register
Path
Matilda JT. Emery
Margaret R. Morse
Phippsburg
Oriey
K.imsai County
James 8. Lowell
William A. Todd
Georgetown
Harriet A. Deering
Frederick C
Horace B. Woodman
Frances M. Purington
Ames S. Lowell
Sagadahoc. Ss
William D. Sewall
Sarah M. Wells
Ee Sagadahoe
Sagadahne
Edwar M. Snow
Alphonso J. Snow
Sawadahoc
Cora A. Corliss
Fred P. Corliss
Harriet L. Johnson
Howard B. Johnson
Mess
Lowell
Charles C. Ie
Appleton C. “Day
Kip
Edwin O. Day
Flushing
N. Y
Alfred M. Day
Dresden
Maine
Rachel J. Bushard
Asheville
N. C
Charles C. Low
Appleton C. Day
Bat
Said
Pewadshoes
John L. P. Burke
Pete Biggins Et Als
Sai
Nors
Pee Fe
Coxiaty
N. Gratz Jackson
Henry R. Colby
Harry B. Sawyer
John H. Peterson
Bertha Cah
Alizabeth D. Mallard
George W. Dean
Bertha C. Dean
Elizabeth D. Malzard
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Bath Daily Times
W. R. Kimball
R. P. Ham
The
St. Mary’s Society
Samuel S. Sewall
Joseph Eibell
Washington
Middle Street
Bath Hotel
Sarah J. Thompson
Carrie A. Humphreys
Mary J. Haggett
James FE. Dunton
Franklin Reed
Francis W. Weeks
Rufus W. Adams
Oscar BR. Adams
James W. Wakefield
Harry F. Morse
Randall Leonard
Anderson's
Mayor Wakefield
Bennington, Vt
Tiniste Donnell
Emma Deering
Emmi Morse
Deering & Donnell
Brooks’ Orchestra
J. M. Hayes
Bostom
City Hall
J. Frank Hayden
Kittridge and True
Night Watch
Loston
Brookings and
Cullinan
Minnie Kilgore
Skowhegan
Miss Brackett
Lillie C. Hill
George W. Thistle
Mary Ellen Lemont
Adelia
Knickerbocker Towage Co
Daniel Wilkinson
Wilkinson
Sagadahoe County
Dunphy
Rosenfield
Willie
John Rosenfield
W. H. Dunphy
Lewiston
Henry
Barkentine
John Baizley
Philadelphia
T. M. Hagan & Co
Cwharf
B. W
H. F. Morse
Israel Jewell
Bartholomew O'Shaughnessy
Crocker
Union Street
Queen Esther Lodge
Rebekah
West
Stephen A. Penny
C. M. Shepard
Thomas H. Clark
R. P. Wam=s
Supt. Hyde
Goss Marine Tron Works
Willie Southard
North Grammar School
Southard
Eugene Br. Southard
M.S. Barry
John Webster
Shepard Street
Prt Fsi
H. P. Mason
James Purington
Small Point
Squirrel Island
Charles J. Farnham
J. 1. Coburn
Abial Mayers
J. FE. Haley
E. H. Willis
Falcon
Parker’s Head
Willis
Oride Maisin
Chicago Opera Company
Arthur Sewall & Co
G. Bradstreet
L. D. Cooke
Gardiner
Nathan Frank
Star of the East
Bradstreet
Occidental
Francis
Frank N. Stone
Japan
New England Shipbuilding Co
Kennebec
Goss Marine Iron Works
Lloyds
Tter
New Bed
Amaranth Club
William Rogers
Fred Sturtevant
J. W. Kelly
Mary Faxon Duncan
Williams
Whitehouse
Edward J. Pask
Edward Huse
William Olys
Sagadahock House
Taylor
Thomas F. Craven
James E. Haley
Ernest
H. F. Palmer
Rotary’s
Morse High
Jackson
Coyte
Ozarks
Young People's Union
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