Local Happenings and Notes From the City
Local items report school starting next Tuesday and various civic activities. Notes cover inspectors visiting a tug, a city stable being re shingled, a reception at Nequasset for Pastor Smith, and insurance work on a barber shop. Also listed are street work on North Street, a jail release, yacht movement, a Mount Washington blaze, Bowdoin student Fairclough on war views, a soap club event, Maine Central Railroad July results, a 25th anniversary at a Brunswick home, Richmond Camp Meeting outcomes, and future plans for next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. W. Hyde
Lincoln Hall
U. S
Thompson and
Trevett
Boothbay
Robinson's Lane
M. E. Church
Nequasset
M. J. Smith
E. W. Bonney
H. T. Stevens
North St
Front St
Frances E. Higgins
de Gogorzas
F. B. Nichols
John Pero
Mittimus
Pero
Palaurus
E. W. Hyde
K.Y.C
E. Hunt
Robin Hood's Cove
Georgetown
Boston
Tip Top
Mount Washington
William W. Fairclough
Bowdoin
Redmond
Berli
Germany
Maine Central Railroad
John Ambrose
Brunswick
Footer
Powers
Reed
Shea
George Talbot
Skillen
Mabel Skillen
Ed. Thomas
Joe Groves
Woodward
McKenzie
Fletcher
Tommie
H. L. Simpson
Austin Hopkins
Francis Chamberlin
Bum Summer Happenings and Local Notices
A lively Bath area column reports on summer activities including ducks on the Bay, a gasoline powered handcar over M C R R rails, Revolutionary War graves in Lemont cemetery, and local wildlife. It notes Coast Guard runway work, a chimney fire at Stover house, a Portland furniture scam, open liquor sights in Lewiston, and a Board of Health meeting addressing nuisances and piggery conflicts. A Bath man charged with illegal transport and possession is fined after capture by Deputy Reynolds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M.C.R.R
Portland
Lewiston
Board of Health
Emmons
Maine
Grace A. Wing
Wing
State Board of Charities and Corrections
Reynolds
John Pero
Peto
Bath
John
Pero
Augusta
Cravr
Popham
Riverside
Virginia
Ralph McCoy
United States Infantry
Coast Artillery Corps
Coast Defenses
Fort Williams
Woolwich
Ford
Maxwell
Hockomock
North End
York St
Moses Field
Frasers
Hagan
Rice
Blair
Savage
McFarlan
Plummer
Tabor
Powers
York Streets
Bernard c
Douglas P
Parks
Higgins
Douglas
Flint
A. Stover
Walter If
Rex Stover
Dan Grant
L. F
Atwood
L. F.” Medicine Co
Local Jottings and Summer Happenings in Bath
Local notes report social visits, garden flowers, and park conditions. Mrs Ida Chaney hosts the Odd Ladies Sewing Circle. Druid Park looks well kept despite damp weather. the Bath Opera House hosts the Urban Stock Company opening. and Bath residents attend meetings and sailings while ships and yachts frequent the harbor with notable visitors including James R. Chase and James Drexel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odd
Ida Chaney
Hghland St
Upper Grammar School
John Small
Lower High St
I. N. Spofferd
Lewiston
Druid Park
Board of Health
Bath area seethes with meetings sales and storms
Septembers bring stockholders meet next Tuesday for Bath Cooperative Store while Kennebec Yacht Club bills a clam bake at Clark's Cove Sept 12. A Portland fire destroys the Twitchell Champlin plant at Merrill's wharf. 25 sailors aid local firemen. local notes mention Miss May Conley’s roses and a Lewiston license reversal for Keen Shippy Carnival Co. plus Maine Tourist Bureau travel brochure details and cautionary speed trap anecdotes in Bath and Wiscasset.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennebec
Harry Bradley
Cook
John Bossert
Portland
Maine General Hospital
Bradley
F. P. Whittier
Twitchell-Champlin Co
Merrill
Miss May Conley
Oak St
Miss Conley
Bath
Conley
Keen-Shippy Carnival Co
Lewiston
Alderman Wilson
Maine Tourist Bureau of Portland
Boston
Portsmouth
N. H
Newburyport
Rockland
Wiscasset
Boothbay Harbor
Bangor
Bar Harbor
Ellsworth
Castine
Kennebunk
Kennebunkport
Penobscot Bay
Portland Harbor
New England
Busy Bath News Highlights Local Events and Notables
Overseers of the Poor seek additional funds while YMC A directors meet. Sagadahoc Council Knights of Columbus elect officers. The new lobster licensing law takes effect. Local fishing catches include 890 pound shark and tuna totals. Bath social and civic notes record a long married couple, a new Coast Artillery Umpire, and Gen Joseph S Smith gaining local popularity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Y.M.C.A
Sagadahoc Council
Knights of Columbus
Fred Merry
Wiscasset
Opera House
Steamboat War on the Kennebec Gardiner Route
A Gardiner Reporter-Journal reminiscence recalls mid 19th century competition between steamboats on the Boston Gardiner line. The Governor challenged the Eastern Queen with fare cuts, culminating in a 12 1/2 cent to Boston offer, triggering rate wars and lively youth memories of travel to New England's metropolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gardiner Reporter-Journal
J. C.B
Bath Ct
Kennebec
Boston
Gardiner
Kennebec Valley
New England
Y M C A Notes On Lobby Renovations And New Equipment
The Y M C A reports updated lobby and boys room furnishings, new game tables, and a transformed reading room into the men’s area with a billiard table. Industrial updates note 125 steel lockers arriving from Narra gansett Machine Co and praise from Read Nichols on the improvements. Painter Scott Golder and crew completed work, with widespread approval of the refreshed gym and floors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Narragansett Machine Co
Rhode Island
Read Nichols
Scott Golder
Leonard H. Alexander Former Brunswick Fireman Dies
Leonard H. Alexander long served with Brunswick fire department and the Kennebec engine company. He died Monday after a paralytic shock Saturday. He was about 60 and survived by his wife and two sons Charles of Brunswick and Albert of Lewiston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard H. Alexander
Brunswick Fire Department
Kennebec Engine Company
Mr. Alexander
Charles Alexander
Brunswick
Albert Alexander
Lewiston
Also Mentioned on This Page
Richmond
J. T. Johnson
Agan
Recreation Hall
Tabernacle
James Hanson
Hanson
Johnson
Lemont
West Bath
D.A.R
Winnerance Creek
Purington
Damariscové
Coast Guard
Stover House
Hayden Place
Dahlia
Southport
Alice May Douglas
Ity
Quaker Quarterly Meeting
South Norham
Wesley M. E. Church
Fred Armes
New Meadows
Bedford St
Columbia Hotel
Dreamland
Carlton
James R. Chase
Urban Co
Pejepscot
S. T. Co
Mullisan
Bayard Hopkins
C. C. Paul & Co
New York
Venezuela
New England Co
F. S. Bowker & Son
Phippsburg
Smith Forge
Biddeford
George Ed Cotton
Dave Mills
Australia
Sam McVey
California
Langford
Harry B. Butler
Boston Police Force
W. F. Willis
Butler
George Child Drexel
Philadelphia
North Islesboro
Akbar
Bath Iron Works
Ace
Mr. Drexel
United States
Capt. Haskell
Deer Isle
Popham Beach
Bath Cooperative Store
Bonney
Board of Highways and Sewers
Blind Crossing
New Meadows Inn
E. C. Plummer
Charles MecVane
Casco Bay
Wallace
Small Point
The
Water Company
Center St
W. G. Small
Larrabee
Young Men's Christian Association
Warren M. Munsey
New Harbor
Lincoln County Supreme Judicial Court
N. J. Hanna
Munsey
Springfield
Mass
Joseph S. Smith
National Soldiers’ Home
Hampton Roads
Hampton-Phoebus Retail Merchants’ Association
Smith
Marhiner
Olk
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!