Bath Forty Years Ago The Kennebec and Local News
A Bath Chronicle summary notes events from August 27 1901 including a Popham landing anniversary dance led by Charles Donnell William Smith and Fred Humphreys with Hiram T Stevens. Launchings Sewall ship and Cleveland cruiser planned. Saw mill boom vies with high material prices. Local socials at Dow Center street and Washington street with lanterns flowers graphophone and basket supper. Several residents travel visit relatives move between Bath Lewiston Greenfield and New York City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Donnell
William Smith
Fred Humphreys
Bath
Hiram T. Stevens
Popham
George Popham
Mr. Holden
Alice Humphreys
Social life and local notices from Bath and Gloucester August 1901
August 28 1901 Miss Abbie Clark hosts a party and mock marriage on Washington Street in Bath. The Boilermakers and Iron Shipbuilders report strong ticket sales for a Labor Day excursion to Five Islands. A Malta run to Malaga featured Hyde family members aboard E W Hydes launch. Arthur S Stetson opens a law office in Gloucester. A son born to Mr and Mrs H L Hopkins. Steamer William G Small to be finished at Moulton’s wharf for Bath-Portland service. A drunken sailor jumps from a schooner and is rescued after a rowboat intervention. Walter Madden returns from Edgecomb with cousin Miss Marie Foster. Capt J F Dunton and family plan carriage drive to Westport and Wis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abbie Clark
Washington Street
Misses Taylor
Crocker
Moody
Jessie Ramsey
Mae Clark
Agnes
Victoria Hennessey
Carrie Moulton
Mollie Palmer
Lillian Welch
E. J. Marston
Harold Gould
George Payne
Allen Robert
Davis Hatch
Bath and Kennebec items mark social and ship news
The Bath and Kennebec pages report Isaac Stern aboard the steam yacht Virginia off the Kennebec Yacht Club as the sun sets. Notices note Hattie May Stern’s marriage to Earle Leslie Chaney and a clambake at Foster's Point. Local shipping and school board actions, new teachers, and plans for commercial and manual training courses are outlined along with yacht poems and social dances.
Nine New Names on Roster Adds District Teachers
Nine new names appear on the school roster with listings across Center Street and South Street. New teachers include Florence A Hawley Helen Canales Laura Mitchell Eleanor Ferguson and others. visit by Mrs Olive B Guild of Phillips Beach Mass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Center Street
Ethel L. Higgins
Prin
Charlotte Sawyer
Hope S. Hersom
Florence A. Hawley
Helen Canales
South Street
Laura Mitchell
Eleanor M. Ferguson
Dorothy Plummer
Jane Wing
Mary A. Morris
Mitchell
Effie C. Wright
Anne M. Thompson
Helen Frederick
Marjorie Palmer
Sarah E. Coombs
Lillian F. Fisher
Olive B. Guild
Phillips Beach
Mass
John H. Hyde
Elmhurst
Rotary Clambake At Birch Point In Bath
An outdoor clambake was enjoyed Thursday evening at the cottage of Mr. and Mrs. Chester A. Plant at Birch Point by Rotary club and Rotary Anns members. Hosts included Mr. and Mrs. William J. Craft and many city residents from Belfast and nearby areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. C. Tuthill
Norseworthy
New York City
Bath
Harry Mitchell
Frank Harnden
Reed
L. F. Holmes
Grace Westcott
Eda Moulton
Mabel Thwing
Helen Ellis
Sadie Toothaker
Schoonmaker
Hendry
Mr. Chalmers
Mr. Norseworthy
Chester A. Plant
Birch Point
Rotary Club
Rotary Anns
William J. Craft
Harmon Eliason
G. Thomas Murphy
Clyde Holmes
Belfast
Peter Carberry
Carl C. Anderson
J. Edward Drake, Jr
Wallace Plant
Rupert M. Irvine
Edward W. Bridgham
Justus H. Miller
Warren Kershner
Daniel T. Dougherty
Fred Hill
Guest
Walter Spinney
Braintree
Mass
Dominique J. Tardif
Charles B. Doyle
George B. Wolstenholme
Boyd Bailey
Harry Passmore
Georgetown Social Notes Highlight Local Visitors and Vacations
Nearby residents and guests are listed with vacation stays at Robinhood Popham Beach and Westport. Notables include Mrs Susie Oliver, Miss Edith Adams, Miss Marylee Riggs, Edwin Adams and the Riggs family. Several families from New York City Bangor and Dorchester visited or stayed at local cottages and summer homes through Labor Day week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Susie Oliver
Popham Beach
Allen Brown
Carroll Powers
Edwin Adams
Edith Adams
Labor Day
New Britain
Marylee Riggs
York Harbor
Riggs
Merrill Bowles
Bangor
Elsie Clapp
Carl Swenson
Campbell
Hourwich Reyher
New York City
Gardner Cook
Louisville
Reyher
Cook
Faith Reyher
Armstrong
Alice
Garden Club
William Bonyun
Frank Thomas
Westport
Bonyun
William Beal
Ralph E. Picket
Ralph
Elizabeth
Scarsdale
N. Y
Frank Arsenault
Arrowsic
Roscoe Todd
Melrose Highlands
Mass
Annie Jones
Phillip Black
William Holley
Robinhood Farm
Lillian Morse
Oakland
Maine
George Jordan
South Portland
Morse Cottage
Robert Jordan
George Laskey
Providence
R. I
Walter Schoepfer
Georgetown
Annie M. Jones
Mrs. Lillian Taft Rites Held in Bath
Mrs. Lillian Taft died suddenly at her Bath home on Monday. Funeral held Wednesday at her sister’s home on Bath Street with Rev. Raymond G. Putnam officiating. Burial planned at Oak Grove cemetery. She was born May 19, 1881 in Bath and is survived by daughter Alice Tracy and others including grandson Phreys, Lorimer Lewis, Russell Kenney, and brother Walter Mosher, all of Bath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillian Taft
Bath Street
John Humphreys
Raymond G. Putnam
Oak Grove Cemetery
Taft
Bath
Alice Tracy
Phreys
Lorimer Lewis
Russell Kenney
Walter Mosher
David E. Mosher
Shackfords Return from Birch Point Cottage Stay
Mr and Mrs Roy Shackford of Turners Court returned Tuesday from Birch Point after a two month stay at their cottage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Shackford
Turners Court
Birch Point
Five Islands Cottage Guests Stirring Summer Social
A string of visitors and seasonal residents flock to Five Islands and surrounding cottages. Names include Katharine Pendergast, John Rowe, C H Sanford, Wilds, Lee, Sorensen family, Pinkham, Rittall, Howard families, Anderson, Chafe, Johnson, Yenawine, Moore, Sewall, Yeo, Highley Preston, Coombs, Ring, Taylor, Gage, Tiffany, Secor, Thomas, Freeman, Currie, Wyman, Rugg, Davis, Walker, Boynton, Rowe, and Pierce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katharine Pendergast
Boston
Warren
Mass
John Rowe
Exeter
N. H
C. H. Sanford
Ledgemere Road
Wilds
Lee
West Acton
Joseph Sorensen
Pauline
Laura
Cambridge
Briggs
Philip Pinkham
Horace Rittall
Bath
Norman Howard
Betty
Glenda Howard
Caroline
Laura Anderson
Malden
Five Islands
William Chafe
William Chafe, Jr
John Blasi
Chafe Cottage
F. M. Johnson
Arthur Johnson
Ann
Sedgemere Road
Philip Yenawine
Los Angeles
Calif
Richard Fellows
Herbert Moore
Herbert
Belmont
Edgar F. Sewall
Sewall
Barbara
Edgar F. Sewall Jr
Somerville
Harpswell
Betty Staffeld
D.W. Staffeld
George Yeo
Yeo
Wakefield
Bob
Ted
Bronson Garner
Mr. Yeo
Nancy P. Highley
Katharine
Emily K. Preston
Morristown
Rockcrest
John W. Coombs
Watertown
Coombs
Everett Hennan
Russell Ring
Canton
Ohio
Albert Taylor
Waltham
Ralph Taylor
Norwood
Lucy Gage
Medford
Grace Tiffany
Austin Secor
Louisa Thomas
Dublin
Robert Freeman
Ipswich
Frank Currie
Camp See See Sea
Currie
George Hennan
Charlotte Wyman
Phyllis Mason
Arthur Rugg
Rugg
Cynthia
Deborah
Malden Island
William H. Davis
Davis
Richard Potter
William McGrath
Dexter Walker
Newton
Mr. Walker
Arthur Walker
Roland
Plainfield
N. J
Richard D. Walker
Arthur
Arthur W. Walker
E. C. Boynton
Charlotte
Mary Louise
Scarsdale
N_Y
Orville Rowe
Augusta
Francis Pierce
Augusta Hospital
Parker Head Continues Social News At Wells Beach
Parker Head and his daughter were guests of his father at Wells Beach Sunday. Beatrice Denningham visited her parents in town Sunday. Frances Libby hosted a shore dinner Friday with John Libby Jr Peggy Wright Henry Murphy Norris Getchell Albert Hirster Jean Hamel Fred Libby and Mrs Bernard Wyman. Evening dance followed at Miss Berenice Allen’s. Blaisdell and Temple residents spent Tuesday at the Temple cottage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wells Beach
Beatrice Denningham
Frances Libby
John Libby, Jr
Peggy Wright
Henry Murphy
Norris Getchell
Albert Hirster
Jean Hamel
Fred Libby
Bernard Wyman
Popham
Berenice Allen
Charles Blaisdell
Charles Blaisdell, Sr
William Temple
Temple Cottage
Mrs Lemont and son tour to New York Washington and Virginia
Mrs. Lemont and her son Joseph O'Brien completed a week long motor trip to New York City to visit her brother Captain J Walter Mac Neill, then to Washington DC and Virginia. Mr O'Brien took his annual vacation from Bath Iron Works Corp duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Lemont
Joseph O'Brien
New York City
Reed to Coach Morse High Teams This School Year
Ray Reed former Fryeburg coach and Springfield College alumnus will take over Morse High School baseball and basketball duties for the upcoming fall season. Reed, 28, played at Springfield and coached in Fryeburg and Bolivia before returning home to prepare for the Bath Iron Works schedule and the Sept. 9 school opening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clyde M. Hatch
Morse High School
John Parker
Raymond Reed
Fryeburg
Morse
Ray Reed
Springfield College
New England
Madison Square Garden
New York
Reed
Springfield
Mr. Reed
Woodsville
N. H
Hanover
Lincoln High School
Lincoln
Bolivia
South America
New Hampshire
Hatch
Bath Iron Works
Bath
Blaisdell Family Returns Home From Visit
Mr and Mrs John E Blaisdell and daughter Virginia return to North Abington Massachusetts after a week visiting the Parks household here Auxiliary to the Community club meets Thursday at the club house Mrs Harry C Williams will be hostess Mr and Mrs Charles E Hewitt Jr and son Charles E Hewitt III return from ten days at Capitol Island Harold Rogers and family move into a new High street house Seymour Hayden makes progress on his new High street house with interior work underway
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John E. Blaisdell
Virginia
North Abington
Mass
Parks
Harry C. Williams
Charles E. Hewitt, Jr
Charles E. Hewitt
Capitol Island
Harold Rogers
High Street
Seymour Hayden
Local Notes From Bath Area Social and Health Update
David Alkazin, patient at Bath Memorial with pneumonia, has returned home on Washington Street and improves daily. Mrs. John A. Greene Jr. of Meadow Way and guest Miss Louise Stewart of Boston attended the Philadelphia Story presentation at Lakewood on Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. George Stephens of Philadelphia have returned home after two weeks vacation with Mrs. Stephens’ sister in Topsham and Bath, Mrs. Williams, formerly Ina Martha Williams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Alkazin
Bath Memorial Hospital
Washington Street
John A. Greene, Jr
Meadow Way
Louise Stewart
Boston
Lakewood
George Stephens
Philadelphia
Stephens
Charles Williams
Topsham
Bath
Ina Martha Williams
Elena Bianchi to Wed Ensign Drake in Framingham
The wedding of Elena Bianchi daughter of the late Carlo and Mrs Bianchi of Framingham Mass takes place Wednesday September 17 at 4 pm in St Bridget’s church Framingham Center. A small reception follows at the home of her brother Peter Martin Bianchi Framingham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elena Bianchi
Carlo Bianchi
Framingham
Mass
Frederick Ellis Drake, Jr
U. S. III
Frederick E. Drake
Washington Street
St. Bridget’s Church
Framingham Center
Peter Martin Bianchi
Roderick Family Moves to Portland from Bath
Mrs Maurice Roderick of North Street returns from a week in South Portland where she stayed with Mr and Mrs G Clifford Madden. The Rodericks and their children Maurine Jane and Donald will relocate to Portland Thursday as Mr Roderick transfers from Bath Iron Works to Todd Bath Iron Shipbuilding in South Port.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maurice Roderick
North Street
South Portland
G. Clifford Madden
Roderick
Maurine and
Jane
Donald
Portland
Bath Iron Works
Todd-Bath Iron Shipbuilding Corp
Lively Lady by Ken Roberts Featured at Bay Point Library
Bay Point Circulating Library presents The Lively Lady by Ken Roberts. Dr Blanche H Dow of State Teachers College Maryville Missouri, surprised to find herself connected to the book's characters, is among many locals noted in this Bay Point update.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bay Point
Kenneth Roberts
Blanche H. Dow
State Teachers College
Maryville
Missouri
Sir Nason
Dow
Neal Dow
University of New Hampshire
Blue Bell Cottage
Olive S. DeLuce
Maryville State Teachers College
O. W. Sibre
Colorado Springs
Col
L. G. Harvey
David
Durham
N. H
E. W. Dow
Liberty
Everett L. Greaton
Maine Development Commission
Maine
Stones
Deerings
Judson L. Cross
Tougalo College
Miss
New Hampshire
Vermont
South
Fred T. Lornely
Betty Mitchell
Quincy
Mass
Dawn Avery
Beatrice
Island View
First Beach
Walter Quance, Jr
Auburn
Portland
Sam
Bertha Cox
Clayton D. Taylor
Greig Baker
Fred T. Lornery
Arthur
Alice
Mary
Pauline
Massachusetts
Raymond Burns
Maurice Burns
Forest Drake
Edgar Drake
Sylvia Warren
Georgetown
M. W. Burns
George Gates
Littleton
Rachel Mathews
Burns
Daniel Filbrook
Boston
E. D. Davenport
Arlington
Ralph L. Carlisle, Jr
Kennebec Point
Henry S. Keen
Ruth E. Keen
Adelphi College
Ralph Carslisle
Katherine
Labor Day
Mrs Clyde Pinkham Visits Worcester Relative
Mrs Clyde Pinkham of North Bath travels to Worcester Massachusetts to visit Mrs Edward Gilman and other relatives during a brief trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clyde Pinkham
North Bath
Worcester, Mass
Edward Gilman
Also Mentioned on This Page
The
Bath Daily Times
William P. Frye
Cleveland
Kennebec
People’s Church
Mrs. Dow
Weston Bonney
Frank Wakefield
Concord
Elmer Hodgkins
J. Trevett
M. N. Duncan
Beulah Burgess
Louise
Mabel
Dorothy Duncan
Martha Duncan
Mouse Island
J. L. P. Bourke
Ruth
Leo
Stone Bridge
Fall River
Hallet
Sadie Farnham
Annie McKittrick
Charles W. Clifford
Bessie
Madelyn
Millicent
Greenfield
A. V. Havener
Damariscotta
Havener
Casset
Arthur A. Gilmore
Anderson
School of Pharmacy
M. H. Loach
Ella Chase
Unity
C. E. Boyd
Madelyn Hyde
Edith Rice
Eleanor Hyde
Miss Rogers
Arthur S. Stetson
A. D. Stetson
Bowdoin College
Boston University
Gloucester
H. L. Hopkins
William G. Small
W. G. Small
Phippsburg
Moulton’s Wharf
North End
Jack
Walter Madden
Edgecomb
Miss Marie Foster
J. F. Dunton
Court Street
Wis
Isaac Stern
Kennebec Yacht Club
Jeffries
McDenney
Pliny Lyon
Hattie May
Earle Leslie Chaney
J. E. Sewall
Foster's Point
Isabelle Carter
Emma Small
Miss Julia Watson
Sewall Percy
Mrs. Charles Fisher
H.H. Rogers
St. Johns
Sandy Hook
Miller
Ella McCullum
Elsie Folsom
Martha Gould
Bessie Dean
Eleanor Percy
Sabine
Harry Bowie
Phyllis
William Downing
Anna
Harriet Spinney
F. W. Colby
Arline Powers
Lewiston
Anna Randall
Brunswick
Charles W. Morse
Telephone, Telegraph and Cable Co. of America
Seguin
Norton
Lillian Nordica
England
Martha Vineyard Island
Washington, D. C
Ichabod Norton
Charles
George
James
C. H. Norton
Annie Swett
Zach
John and
Herbert Norton
Estelle Norton
Dresden
Robert Bosworth
California
D. T. Percy
Ralph Dyer
Liverpool
J. F. Shea
W. S. Frye and Son
Orrin
Lorenzo Knight
City
Walter Canham
Hallowell
Melvin O. Glass
Wallace Shaw
Roscoe
Nequasset
Kennebec Steamboat Co
New England Co
Kennebec River
Louise Fowler
Winnegance
Annie MacGregor
Mabel Lake
Rockland
Arthur Seitz
Camden
Capt. Crowley
Duncan
McLachlin
Winter Street
Annie Riggs
Mae Hill
Winnie Wiggin
Alma Palmer
Abbie Carter
Henry White
Fred Percy
Paul Dickson
Harold
Edward Cornish
Katherine McNeil
Margaret Sylvester
Boyd Cottage
Mrs. Lillian Taft
Parker
Drake-Bianchi
Marie Merrill
Jason A. Merrill
Staples Drug Store
Waterville
Colby
Miss Merrill
John L. Jack
Sagadthor
Burnside
A Powers
Edith No Powers
Worhout
Margaret A. Crnley
Mark W Hennessy
Testate
Abbie E Morris
Joseph M Footer
Flora B. Footer
Irving Barter
Harold J. Rubin
Arthur J Dunton
Joun
Jack Flegister
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