Forty Years Ago in Bath 1893 Highlights
A Bath Daily Times column from August 30 1893 notes Prof Emmons leaving for Haverhill, ship frames for Sewall, Leavitt’s hand injury, Haskell leaving for Brunswick, Bailey entering Bates College freshman list, and returning minstrel shows. It also covers Nealley settling in Bath, damages to the Eunice L Crocker in Gardiner, a street accident on Front Street, a Washington Street collision, a postponed moonlight G A R excursion, Dr Savage’s carriage collision injuring a niece, Pollard’s Brunswick team crash with a car near Caproni’s, and general public safety excitement.
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Brunswick
Pollard
Center Street
Caproni's
Lewis’ Restaurant
Large nut crop and city projects mark Aug 31 1893
Aug 31 1893 reports a large nut crop prospect and ongoing street railway work with rails laid. Local price highs at Small Point and Bald Head, a finger injury to James Bartlett, Dr Curtis stitching, and G F Jackson’s Middle Street house nearing finish. Sewer work from Elbridge Soule to the river progresses, a new Front Broad street letter box replaces a smashed old one, and Bath Iron Works hosts a 100 ton planet being set up for work. The City of Lowell rudder lies idle amid preparations while Niles Tool Works built the planer. Spider club represents Bath in the North Conway parade with a chartered buckboard.
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New York
Bath Iron Works
Lowell
Niles Tool Works
Hamilton
Ohio
Fogwill Winner of Shore Acres Final Match
Fogwill of Bath captured the Shore Acres Country club golf title at Sebasco after a tough 20 hole final against David Dallinger of Wakefield Massachusetts. The match featured tight drives and precise putts with Fogwill finally clinching on the 20th hole amid cheering spectators.
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Fogwill
Shore Acres
William “Bill” Fogwill
Bath
Shore Acres Country Club
Sebasco
David Dallinger
Wakefield
Mass
Dallinger
Dave
Fogwell
Bill
Local notices and transport updates from Bath article
Sept 2 1893 Bath Maine items report Marshal Minott returning from Bangor and Bar Harbor trip for city poor dept matters Edward H Turner buys Cahill procery Fred Sawyer returns from Bar Harbor for American Express Co Maine Central adds new freight cars Portland Company built power surge noted on Summer street car track Linden street curve work to start Monday traffic to be diverted while poles and wires are removed Daley boy injured by airgun slug embeds in cheek Bath residents attend Lobard clam bake at Happy Nook Washington street crossing delays due to long freight train
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Linden Street
Pierce
Pierce Construction Co
Maine rotary notes and obituaries in Lewiston Auburn
Prof John Murray Carroll spoke on intangible property tax at the Lewiston Auburn Rotary meeting with Earle Renwick performing. Upcoming events list Sept 15 Mortons Mysterious Movements Sept 22 Sen White Sept 29 Grosvenor Robinson. Mrs Mary Manning of Auburn died Friday at Ste. Marie s General Hospital. She had lived in Auburn 30 years and leaves John and Ethel.
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John Murray Carroll
Bates College
Lewiston-Auburn Rotary Club
Earle Renwick
Auburn
Morton
U. S
Wallace H. White
Grosvenor M. Robinson
Mary E. Manning
James J. Manning
Gamage Avenue
Winthrop Bpw Club
Camp Cobbossee
Lake Cobbossee Contee
Annie Marsons
Edith Tappan
Mrs Hunter Wins Maine Women's Golf Tournament
Mrs George P Hunter of Bath, wife of Lieut Hunter U S N, shot 88 to win the Maine Women's Golf Tournament at Poland Spring last week. She led with 41 and finished 47, beating Mrs George Stobie of Augusta by two strokes. Several Bath players placed high, with Mrs Edwin H Given tying for third and others posting strong scores across the field.
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George P. Hunter
Bath
Hunter
Poland
Maine
George Stobie
Augusta
Water District begins Pleasant street service pipe installation
Brunswick and Topsham Water District workers started laying new service pipes from the main on Pleasant street to homes and businesses. A concrete surface project soon follows and residents are urged to renew pipes to minimize future trouble. The work affects many longtime Pleasant street services.
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Brunswick and Topsham
Gardiner
Municipal Officers’ Association of
Kennebec County
Hazelhurst
Morrison Heights
Wayne
Fred W. Ford Jr
City of
Auburn
Freman F. Burr
Board of Selectmen of
Robert Cony
Augusta
E. W. Campbell
George E. Vergus
Wilbur P. Cummings
Edwin C. Burleigh
Hallowell
Arland J. Wing
R. E. Lindsey
Monmouth
E. M. Lenfest
Earl R. Daggett
Manchester
James J. Butler
F. H. Barnes
Waterville
W. A. Lincoln
L. M. Norris
Bowdoin College
Harpswell Street
Press Gateway
Winthrop
Maine
College Street
Probate Court Session Delivers Diverse Wills and Admin Actions
Sagadahoc probate court enables wills and administrations in a busy session led by Judge Walter S. Glidden with John L. Jack attending as register. The docket includes wills allowed, executors named without bonds, petitions for administration, bonds filed, inventories approved, accounts settled, and licenses to sell real estate across Bath, Phippsburg, Richmond, Westwich, and surrounding towns.
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Sagadahoc
John L. Jack
Topsham
Brann
William F. Dunham
Richmond
Register
Walter S. Glidden
Glidden
Sarah H. Percy
Bath
William V. Percy
Peter Robinson
Martha E. Robinson
Edward W. Bridgham
Wavner
Clarence L. Blackman
Bessie M. Barton
William Pierce
Annie A. Lint
Albert W. Lint
Millinseket
Joseph C. Foster
Emma M. Foster
Urial Stover
Lilian E. Stover
Henry M. Heald
Phippsburg
Allan Spear
Eleanor H. Voorhees
Wilmer I. Voorhees
Helen A. Walker
Emma FE. Walker
James M. Pottle
Walter C. Potter
Joseph C. Footer
J. Edward Hughes
Eva B. Gilman
Narcissa S. Potter
Pearson H. Stinson
Woolwich
Albert H. Stinson
Maud H. Larrabee
Mary Low Larrabee
Emma Mabel Palmer
Guy F. Coolen
Harry B. Sawyer
Gertrude F. Sawyer
Eugene McGrath
Clara D. McGrath
Samuel 8. Sewall
Marcia H. Sewall
Maria J. Johnson
George W. Johnson
Charles C. Low
Isabel Hyde
Henry P. Healey
Martha J. Healey
Nicholas Garbarino
Quincy
Mass
Frank S. Walch
Hebron Academy appoints new instructor Herman A Bryant
The Hebron Academy enrollment rise prompts Principal Ralph L Hunt to announce Herman A Bryant as the new instructor. Bryant, son of W O Bryant of South Paris, has 13 years teaching experience, trained at Bates College and Harvard University, with work toward a doctorate. He taught 10 years in Massachusetts and holds a BA from 1919 and an MS from Harvard. He is joined by a 1877 statue photo discovery in Hallowell showing a granite statue carved for the Plymouth monument.
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Sandy River
Rangeley
Hebron Academy
Ralph L. Hunt
Herman A. Bryant
W. O. Bryant
Paris
Bryant
Hebron
Massachusetts
Bates College
Harvard University
Luther F. Gray
Hallowell
Hallowell Granite Works
Plymouth
John Archie
Spain
E. Ralph Anderson
Water Street
Grangers Hear Details On NRA Policy And Grange Talks
The meeting covered National Recovery Act goals to raise consumer purchasing power while regulating prices. Speakers urged grangers to support buy-local policies with Blue Eagle displays and discussed potash lessons, seed purchases, and coalition buying benefits. 66 attended with multiple granges represented and plans for a September boosters’ night noted.
Hutchins Sets New Mark For Season
Bernie Hutchins, pro at Bath Country Club, shot 72 to break the season record of 74. The popular local pro posted two 36s as he prepared for the Maine State Open at Summit Springs, with a pre event round scheduled today. Mrs. John O. Moulton of Middle Street returned from Wakefield, Mass., where she visited over the weekend with her daughter.
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Bernie Hutchins
Bath Country Club
Hutch
Summit Springs
Summit Spring
John O. Moulton
Middle Street
Wakefield
Mass
Wallace Rand
Maine 1933 tax initiative questions vote notice
Statement of Expenditures In Connection With Direct Initiative Questions for a September 11 1933 vote lists two proposed acts an excise tax on electric corporations and a low rate tangible personal property tax. Filing August 30 1933 Haven Sawyer secretary Maine Taxpayers Protection Association printing publication postage vote clerk hire miscellaneous 33. 15 100.07 Robinson C. Tobey secretary of state.
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Haven Sawyer
Maine Taxpayers Protection Association
Obituary of James R. Skaling and daughter Alicia Foose
Mrs Alicia C Foose left for Exeter New Hampshire after her father James R Skaling 85 former Bath resident died there Funeral was held Tuesday in Exeter burial in South Lancaster Massachusetts Skaling born Cambridge Nova Scotia son of George and Caroline came to Bath 30 years ago worked as ship carpenter at Kelley Spear Percy Small Bath Iron Works married Alma Safford 60th anniversary April 10 survived by wife three daughters two sons eight grandchildren five great grandchildren two sisters two brothers in Nova Scotia one in Connecticut
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Alicia C. Foose
Exeter
N. H
James R. Skaling
Bath
John W. Smith
South
Lancaster
Mess
Mr. Skaling
Cambridge
N. S
George and
Caroline Skaling
Kelley, Spear Co
Percy and Small
Bath Iron Works
Alma Safford
Smith
Edward Morine
Avoncourt
Foose
George R. Skaling
Clinton
Mass
Wilfred S. Skaling
Nova Scotia
Connecticut
Alfred S. Oliver 81 dies after long illness in Bath
Alfred S. Oliver, 81, died Friday afternoon in the house where he was born at 60 High Street after an illness of two years and four months following a paralytic shock. He was a Bath ship joiner, survived by his wife Nancy A. Oliver, two sons Raymond T. Oliver and Robert W. Oliver, daughter Leila J. Oliver, granddaughter Eleanor Jones, and his son Everett P. Oliver who died 16 years ago. Funeral at his late home Sunday at two, conducted by Rev. Charles H. Berry. bearers were Capt. Eugene H. Spinney, Walter Perry, Seymour Hayden, and Zina B. Hunt. Interment in Fairview Cemetery, Winnegance.
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Alfred S. Oliver
High Street
Mr. Oliver
Parker H. Oliver
Sarah McKenney Oliver
Georgetown
Bath
Nancy A. Oliver
Phippsburg
Raymond T. Oliver
North Weymouth
Mass
Robert W. Oliver
Gorham
Leila J. Oliver
Eleanor
Rodney Jones
Brooklyn
N. Y
Everett P. Oliver
Jace
Charles H. Berry
Eugene H. Spinney
Walter Perry
Seymour Hayden
Zina B. Hunt
Fairview Cemetery
Winnegance
Mrs Flora M Shaw 70 Died at Brightwater Phippsburg
Mrs Flora M Shaw 70 widow of Samuel C Shaw of Auburn died at 6 30 Sunday morning at her daughter's Brightwater home after a five week illness caused by angina pectoris She had lived much of her life in Auburn and was active in Fidelity Rebekah lodge Hyacinth lodge and Lake View grange Survived by son Harry W Goss Auburn a grandson Maurice A Libby Bath a stepson Albert M Shaw Lewiston Funeral held at Auburn with burial in Pine Street Cemetery Also notes on Hon Rupert H Baxter and Philip Paine of Boston travels.
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Flora M. Shaw
Samuel C. Shaw
Auburn
Walter Libby
Brightwater
Phippsburg
Shaw
Fidelity Rebekah Lodge
Hyacinth Lodge
Lake View Grange
Harry W. Goss
Maurice A. Libby
Bath
Albert M. Shaw
Spring Street
Lewiston
Arthur F. Mayo
High Street
Pine Street
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Toll House
John Nocton
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Alderman Taylor
Street Railway Committee
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Mr. Taylor
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Russell’s
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Charles Farrin
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G. F. Jackson
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North Conway
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Iron Works
John Hughes
Seguin
Dr. Fuller
A. Cary Smith
Norwich
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James Boston
Washington Street
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Rune the Arc Lights
Bath Division
Walter Tuttle
Boston Dental College
Moses Foster
Hattie Foster
Florence Shaw
Portland
Henry Melcher
Bicycle Fraternity
Woburn
H. M. White
Bowdoinham
G. C. Moses
Bert
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A. J. Fuller
Owen Ledyard
Harry Neally
Phippsburg Center
Matthews
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Miss Pratt
Supt. Phillips
Davey
Ian
Miss Grant
Marjorie Grant
Alice Eskerson
R. P. Dallinger
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Marshal Minott
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Edward H. Turner
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Fred R. Cahill
Fred Sawyer
American Express Co
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Boothbay
Maine Central
Portland Company
Summer Street Hut
Daley
Beacon Street
Happy Nook
Maine News Notes
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Ann Wheeler
E. H. Given
Carl R. Green
Richard C. Payson
James W. Ricker
Poland Spring
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D. Case
Paris Hill
Frank Lowe
B. Brooks
Thomas Lamey
Martindale
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F. P. Higgins
Leonard Ashton
Charles Atwood
Oakdale
J. Cole
Leon Leighton
P. Gragg
Wm. B
Roy Moore
Gene McHennie
E. Brenner
Mary Folsom
Rae Mills
James O'Kane
F.S. Benjamin
Betsy Baker
Theo Spear
Butts
Henrietta S. Williams
Henry E. Houdlette
Grangers
Carey
Mr. Carey
Guy Williams
Sagadahoc Grange
William H. Gould
Merry Meeting Grange
West Bath
Herbert Adams
E. C. Patten
C. O. Purinton
Merrymeeting
E. Mison Wright
West Bath Grange
Lillian Masse
Flora
Dirigo Grange
Kingston
R. I
Eleanor Ripley
Topsham Grange
E. E. Addison
Grange
Vincent Canham
Pine Tree Grange
Lisbon
Frank Carver
Orchestra
Mr. Carver
Charles R. Berry
Merrymeeting Grange
Jean Ouellette
Walter Robinson
Angie
George Burns
Allison P. Howes
Baxter Canning Co
Hattie Babb
Sagadance Vrange
Albert Henderson
Millward Patten
Bertha Gray
Progressive Grange
Richmond Corner
Florence Merryman
Edwin Cobb
Lakeview Grange
Charles Meade
Androscoggin Grange
Everett Verrill
Mabel Verrill
North Auburn Grange
Charles McPherson
Auburn Grange
Hutchins
Robinson C. Tobey
Exeter, N. H
Alfred
Oliver
Winneyance
Rupert H. Baxter
Essex Junction
Mr. Baxter
H. C. Baxter & Bro
Philip Paine
State OF Maine
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Lester W. Little
Emma F. Harmon
A.D
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Walter
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