Forty Years Ago in Bath Aug 24 1909 Highlights
Fortnightly Bath items cover cottage sale at Foster's Point to A G Williams Walpole Mass rumored colony growth plans and a possible summer hotel. Milk price hikes to 8 cents a quart on Sept 1 due to costs and drought. Bath Hospital fire scare a near miss sparked by a grass match. Soldiers' monument dedication at the Stinson House site with a granite base and gun from the old fort Popham. George Fisher preserves Bath ships photos including Bombay and Arthur Sewall. Autos from Chicago to Kalamazoo visit Bath Mobile & Gas Engine garage. Bath to join Hudson Fulton naval parade with Chester Salem and Birmingham. River thefts threaten boats. fuel pilferage reported. Local walkers Earle Thompson and Fred Humphreys set a 50 minute Phippsburg Center to Pine Street record. Socials include Charles W Lee sail on New Meadows and Burnt Coat Island. New 20-foot Joseph M Footer launch tested. 6-person cruise to Five Islands in 1h 20m. Pickerel abound. hardy four-pounder cited. Bath Iron Works crew excavating storehouse foundations under foreman Matthew Roose. Dock fill from removed earth. Vice-Commodore Charles W Clifford Jr launches Topaz III for Maine coast to Bar Harbor and Marblehead with a guest list including True, Percy, Madden, Hill, Gallagher, Stewart, and Eastman. three-week cruise planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles W. Clifford, Jr
Kennebeg Yacht Club
Maine
Bar Harbor
Marblehead
Mr. Clifford
Commodore Ross True
Auburn Yacht Club
Sewall W. Percy
Joseph Madden
Roland Hill
Merrill A. Gallagher
Boston
Leonard Stewart
New York
H. B. Eastman
Portland
Maine fair officials and vaudeville figures featured
Major W R Kimball returned from Bangor Fair where he judged agricultural and horticultural displays and plans to judge at Central Maine Fair Waterville and Maine State Fair next. Prof Edward Brown headlines Bangor vaudeville with trained dogs. A dangerous dog dive ended when canvas tore and a police officer withdrew. Also noted are Hyde Block blasting for a new floor, Acushnet lumber barge conversion, Newport sailedale McLellan brothers visit, Bath duck season prep, Bath Iron Works boiler chief Madden travels, launching Mary L Baxter four mast schooner next Tuesday with sponsor Miss Mary L Baxter, and a large bridge party at Sagadahoc Tea Rooms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. R. Kimball
Bangor
Maine
Waterville
Edward Brown
Bangor Fair
Prof. Brown
Mary L. Baxter
G. G. Deering Co
Rupert H. Baxter
W. J. O’brien
Miss Baxter
Night plunderers nabbed by owner in North End
Four boys were caught stealing plums as the owner, who had missed them for nights, hid in nearby grass. One boy was captured and named his retreating companions. The owner warned of prosecution if trouble continues and the group was implicated in another cucumber raid. A. P. Orcutt, Navy weight clerk at Bath Iron Works, had a bicycle accident on the way to the city, suffering a severe shakeup.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugh T. Madden
Bath Iron Works
Pacific Coast
Grand Army of Republic
Maine
San Francisco
Los Angeles
North End
A. P. Orcutt
Navy Department
Sabine
Strik
Flusser Starts Builder’s Trial In Bath On Rockland Course
August 29 1909 the torpedo boat destroyer Flusser under Captain Charles A Blair left Bath Iron Works for its final builder test before the official trial on the Rockland course. The craft will be tested today and depart for Rockland Monday with a trial board arriving Tuesday morning. Speed guesses by Iron Works workers center on the 28 knot contract. Missing men Harry B Sawyer and Howard B Johnson from Dunlap Commandery were found to have joined an excursion to Moosehead Lake from Skowhegan and returned early Friday. State exams at Morse High School were conducted for eight teachers from Boothbay Topsham and this city for state certificates. papers shipped to the State Superintendent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flusser
Charles A. Blair
Bath Iron Works
Rockland
Iron Works
Harry B. Sawyer
Howard B. Johnson
Dunlap Commandery
Skowhegan
Bath
Moosehead Lake
F. W. Freeman
Morse High School
Boothbay
Topsham
Express
Spars Shipment to Waterville Signals Kennebec Fleet Ties
A Bowdoinham built cargo vessel carrying spars to Waterville marks one of the Kennebec fleet’s rare square riggers afloat. Purser Shaw notes ferry auto traffic rose to 1100 this season, with 20 cars in a record day and 739 total last year. The Bay State steamer will be rebuilt, adding about 50 new state rooms, with work to start this Fall and return to service in 1910. Miss Tessie F. Bradlee has returned to Waterville to teach in the city schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Monroe
Hyde Block
War Haly 7
Cary
Bowdoinham
Benjamin Adams
George H. Theobald
Richmond
Kennebec
Purser Shaw
Hockomock
Bay State
Portland
Eastern Steamship Company
Dr Ferguson to Portland and town news in Bath
August 30 1909 notices announce Dr F A Ferguson moving his practice to Portland locating September 16 at the former Dr Whidden home on Congress street. Dr Ferguson sells to Dr Harry F Morin of Boston and Morin will rent the Bath residence. Walter E Reid of Waterville leaves American Tobacco Co after 19 years incl 15 as state manager. Roy E Chase returns from New York with arm in sling after blood poisoning. Charles E Gahan joins Bath Hardware Co with Swanton Jameson Co experience. store to open soon. Bath girls Gertrude Gilman Eleanor Leydon Mae Conley Florence Dunton enter Gorham Normal next month. Dorothy Murray returns for final Morse High year. Ruth Thompson to Wellesley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. A. Ferguson
Portland
Whiden
Congress Street
Harry F. Morin
Boston
Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital
Morin
Bath
Walter E. Reid
Waterville
American Tobacco Co
Maine
New York
Reid
Uniform Bank
Knights of Pythias
Order
Charles E. Gahan
Bath Hardware Co
Swanton Jameson Co
Gorham Normal School
Gertrude Gilman
Eleanor Leydon
Mae Conley
Florence Dunton
Dorothy Murray
Morse High School
Ruth Thompson
Wellesley
Local Farmers Bemoan Hoppers Damage Crops in Vicinity
Report notes Miss Janet Cutler and Jon Parker returning to Cora and Smith with Miss Audrey Aintiett as a junior. Farmers complain of heavy grasshopper infestations and other pests destroying crops, saying this season has more insects than ever in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Janet Cutler
Cora
Ton
Jon Parker
Audrey Aintiett
Smith
Woodbury E Brosect and Family Ties Highlight Maine Institute
Woodbury E Brosect of Onealicity Ma. HL, awaiting a pending Managers' Institute at the University of Maine. Mr. Preckatt is a fake Bath 7 and the son of James A. Broom of 817 Middle Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodbury E. Brosectonealicity Ma . HL
Estitute
University of Maine
Mr. Preckatt
Bath
James A. Broom
Middle Street
Miss Ruth Thompson Returns From Woolwich Visit
Miss Ruth Thompson, guest of Miss Marcia Stinson of Woolwich, returns to her summer home at Booth Harbor. She plans to leave September first to spend the winter in New York City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Thompson
Marcia Stinson
Woolwich
Booth Harbor
Balance Sheet for Public Service Enterprises and Funds
This balance sheet covers inventories and fixed assets of Public Service Enterprises and Working Capital Funds only. It focuses on the asset categories and excludes other financial elements not pertaining to these entities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Fund
Highway Fund
Erie
Aeaee Eee
Boad
Ieas
Gove
Treasury
Ater
Etree
Maine
Eee Eee
Ubs
Deer Isle-Swick Bridge
Probate Notices From Bath Sagadahoc County 1949
Court of Probate at Bath in Sagadahoc County orders publication of notices for multiple estates. Hearings set for the first Tuesday next at ten o clock. letters testamentary without bond may issue to the named executrix. Estates listed include Wilbur Fletcher Bowie Hathorne Marker and others with first or final accounts filed. ARTHUR J. DUNTON, Registrar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Sagadahoc
Havineen
Sarah Ella Wilbur
Alonzo L. Fletcher
Archie M. Fletcher
Fred A. Bowie
Edith G. Rice
Carrie E. Hathorne
Woolwich
Allan Spear
Annie Marker
Malden
Massachusetts
Richard Dexter Walker
Merritt C. Gackenbach
Edythe L. Gackenbach
Arthur J. Dunton
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The
Bath Daily Times
Robert A. Harmon
the Times
Bath City Hospital
Stinson
Bowdeinham
Popham
William B. Kendall
George Fisher
Bombay
William Rogers
St. Paul
John McDonald
Henry B. Hyde
McDonald
Arthur Sewall
Sewalls
Chicago
Kalamazoo
Mich
Bath Automobile & Gas Engine Garage
Colorado
Frye
Ohio
Squirrel Island
Chester
Salem
Birmingham
Earle Thompson
Fred W. Humphreys
Phippsburg Center
Pine Street
Charles W. Lee
Sabino
New Meadows
Burnt Coat Island
Purington and Williams
C. W. Ruff
Charles Vanderkleed
Collingswood
N. J
B. F. ‘Foote
Daniel Williams
Reuben
Annie Purington
Winneganee
Joseph M. Footer
Houghton’s Pond
Matthew Roose
W. F. Kearns Company
Morse Bros
John Davis
Kelley, Spear Co
Frank S. McLellan
Newport
R. I
Edward McLellan
Front Street
Lisbon Falls
McLellan
McLellan & Heald
Merrymeeting Bay
Willis
Ww. E. Bates
Winnegance
Bates
Mae Clark
Florence Andrews
Sagadahoc Tea Rooms
Oak Street
New England Co
Tessie F. Bradlee
Union Street
Roy E. Chase
Mr. Chase
State OF Maine
Harris
State of Maine Department of Finance Bureau of Accounts and Control
Augusta
Frederick G. Payne
Executive Council
Commission On Pari Mutuels Ouiare le Sts
Tom Cliiex
State of
Neral
Natural Resources
Secio
Wists
General and
Waldo-Hancock
State Controller
Reeves
John L. Jack
Register
J. Herbert Snipe
Otty Steen
Arrowsic
Minnie M. Love
Jessie E. Morrell
John L. Jack Register
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