Forty Years Ago in Bath News Mix of Local Happenings
J Albert Isaacson of Boston visits Bath on business tied to Norfolk Rubber Co. The town hosts a flag raising at West Bath Grange Hall with speakers including Sewall Plummer and Kimball. Alameda dance postponed due to hailstorm. next dance planned rain or shine. Lightning strikes home roofs and a sink disconnects from spout. Colonial Club clambake set for Happy Nook. Noyes anniversary celebrated by Everett couple. Bath Iron Works team loses to Dover-Foxcroft 12 3 in Bangor. Captain Lon Fisher ends command on New Meadows. Marion Hodgkins to wed Pennsy engineer Samuel Klein. Coon hunt yields 30-pound catch. Camp reports from San Francisco. Galen Moses elected director of two railroads. LeMont vacationing Bath native now with Fall River line. Nequasset Church concert features Ridley and Searles. Flag raising crowds hear Wylie and Kimball recount war game. Colonial Club September meeting discusses membership changes. Koughan recovering from jaw injuries. San Francisco return, Navy service planned. Bath residents visits to New York, Montreal, and mission to Sherbrooke, Canada. Scholar tickets reinstated on L B & B for school travel.
Strange lodger may have stolen Canadian notes
Sept 9 1903 a stranger stayed overnight at Mr and Mrs McIsaac Washington Bowery residences. He left early and a purse containing two twenty dollar Canadian bills disappeared. Mrs McIsaac did not report it, as she could not identify the man in the dark.
Grand Army Encampment trip and local notices
September 10 1903 reports George F Reed’s return from California and success of the Grand Army Encampment. Overseers change as O F Frye resigns as treasurer of New Meadows Steamboat Co and Charles Brown elected. Maine W C T U to meet in Dover. local officers noted. Community events include social at New Meadows Inn, sailing on the Kennebec, duck hunting reports, school reports, and theatre rehearsals. Various local residents arrive home with relics and announcements of club meetings and excursions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George F. Reed
California
Grand Army
O. F. Frye
The
New Meadows Steamboat Co
Charles Brown
Degree of Honor Car Ride to Lewiston Enjoyed by Members
On September 13, 1903 the Degree of Honor organized a car ride to Lewiston and back, enjoyed by forty five members and friends. The trip benefited from the return journey, and a committee led by Mr and Mrs William Given Mrs Charles Anderson and Mrs Jennie S Jacksia oversaw the event. A rehearsal of Pinafore at Elmhurst drew nearly the full company, with Thomas Henderson of Portland in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewiston
Order
William Given
Charles Anderson
Jennie S. Jacks
Elmhurst
Thomas Henderson
Portland
Bath area scenery and local events September 1903
A Bath weekly notes a new road from West Bath to Rich's Mountain praised for beauty and shade. It covers a Saturday ball game at Harding's Trotting Park, the Sagadahoe club bake on Long Island, and various military families in uniform with letters from overseas. The piece blends local leisure, park closures, and heartfelt Army and Navy updates from Bath residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
West Bath
Rich’s Mountain
Maine
Harding's Station
Bath Iron Works
Dredging Effort and Local Gunning Plans Highlight Day
Seaman George Grant urges government funding to deepen the Kennebec channel for safer passage by larger vessels. Tomorrow sunrise opens a partridge and woodcock season. many gunning parties are organized locally. Guests Mrs Stevens of Bath and Mr Stevens of Boston visit the Oliver home on Union Street amid college plans for J S Hall, Fred Thompson, Houghton Sewall, and others. birds shot include 10 by Lon Fisher and Fred Sturtevant. Mrs Nichols and Miss Zetta Brown of Field & Brown spend Labor Day in Augusta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles H. Stevens
J Brooki van Nie
James M. Stevens
Boston
Wilbur C. Oliver
Union Street
Martha N. Nichols
Zetta Brown
Field & Brown
Front Street
Labor Day
Augusta
Navy Seaman Begins Ten Day Leave in City
N., stationed at New York, has completed basic training and is visiting this city for ten days. He stays with Mrs. Catherien Mullaney on Park Street. George grew up here and before enlisting in the Navy worked at Bath Iron Works in defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Berry
USN
Richmond
Washington, D. C
Navy Yard
Alton Berry
Montsweagroid
Woolwich
Morse High
Hyde Windlass Co
New York
Catherien Mullaney
Park
George
Navy
Bath Iron Works
YMCA Board Meets To Discuss Annual Campaign
The YMCA Board of Directors met Monday evening to review the annual campaign and war service fundraising. They expressed hope for sufficient donations to sustain and possibly expand war services, noting some contributions already received and inviting others via stamped envelopes. The group discussed last year’s activities, two way bowling alley progress, and a renovated building awaiting delivery of equipment. A. W. Main presided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
YM. C. A
Y. M.C A
A. W. Main
Canning Program Resumes at Morse High School
Morse High School resumes canning at the center with Home Economics girls and older women aiding. The service accepts vegetables and fruits for canning, with portions for the school lunch program and the remainder to the product providers. Contact Miss Virginia Jewett at 1692 M evenings or at the school during the day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canning Center
Morse High School
di Ils
Virginia Jewett
Hom Economics
Safe opens after 43 years in old church safes tale
The 1900 district safe from Kimball Brothers, a grand iron lock kept in a Sedgwick hotel stable, remained rusted a quarter century until Deacon William F. Robinson and Mr. Hodgdon opened it. Hodgdon, once custodian, remembered the tumblers and dial sequence and with care freed the mechanism. The church now plans to use the opened safe for its records, with probate notes and court references surrounding the tale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Moore
Fienrs G. Hodgdon
Churen Parish
Hodgdon
Kimball Brothers
Aootesafe Grocers
City Landing
Trott Brothers
Kimball
Mont
Kirshall Bros
Aife
Hon AH. Sons
Foe Ritball
Sedgwick Hotel
Central Church Parish
F. H. Kimball
William F. Robinson
Hylzilon
Anmel
Central Church
Varin
oHemisie
Taefa
Farmur
Sears
Aris
Ftrey
Dione
Bithoor
Value of July fish catch tops June in Boothbay Harbor
Maine port fish report shows July catch value surpassing June by about 16000 dollars despite July being weak for prices. Hake boosted totals with a million pound rise from June followed by Jobster gains and haddock small increases. Large cod declined by 200000 pounds and redfish fell over 500000, with herring remaining well below normal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boothbay Harbor
Maine
E. A. McKown
Sea and Shore Fisheries Department
Office of Price Administration
Mce- Kown
Haddock
Probate Notice of Estate Actions in Bath Sagadahoc
Court orders publication of notices for multiple estates in Sagadahoc County Maine. Parties include Beverly Adrienne Gallant, Emma S Morse, Alice M Grindell, William E Webster, Charles H Perkins, Etta C Cahill, Emma W Hathaway, and others. Proceedings cover petitions for name changes, probate, distributions, and appointment of administrators and executors with or without bonds, to be heard in Bath on the first Tuesday of October.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Sagadahoc
Beverly Adrienne Gallant
Woolwich
Beverly Ackenneth
Verna I. Smith
W. Earl Webster
Charles H Perkins
Evla J. Perkins
I Perkins
Etta C Cahill
Edward W. Bridgham
William B Heggett
Edward W Bridgham
William B. Haggett
Emma W Hathaway
Sambridge
Massachusetts
Masachuset
Sawadshee
Maine
Ray Marshon
Lester
G Marster
John P Caz
Searie
Georgetown
Sy H Louise Searle
Kriies
Phippsbug
Loretta K Camh
Hathaway
George Stee
Fite Fee
Sarl
Iant
Hansun
Arthur 1
Denton
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Bath Daily Times
J. Albert Isaacson
Blue
Norfolk Rubber Co
Phoenix
West Bath Grange Hall
David R. Wylie
Harold N. Sewall
E. C. Plummer
William R. Kimball
Alameda
Brunswick
William Conway
York Street
Melville Hodgdon
High Street
Columbia Theatre
Colonial Club
Happy Nook
Edward B. Noyes
Everett
Mass
Oak Street
Ransom B. Fuller
Kennebec
Bangor
Dover-Foxcroft
Lon Fisher
New Meadows
Merrymeeting Bay
Willis Farm
Marion Hodgkins
Manual Training
Samuel R. Klein
Pennsyyvania Railroad
William Brown
John Hart
Frank King
Barley Neck
Gyp
Seth T. Snipe
San Francisco
Calif
Grand Army of the Republic
Galen C. Moses
Rumford Falls
Portland & Rangeley Lakes
Two Roads
Charles G. Lemont
Mr. Lemont
Fall River Line
Nequasset Methodist Church
J. P. Ridley
Rockland
Mary Searles
West Bath Grange
Co.—C
Margaret Rowe
Waltham
Popham
Charles H. Oliver
Charles Koughan
E. M. Fuller
Pines
John Hayes
Sumner Hayes
Sherbrook
Canada
Mr. Hayes
New Hampshire
Arthur B. Stearns
Mansfield
Herbert Huggard
Allen Clark
Son Sherman
Georgie O. Oliver
Zora Willis
Albert
Parris Brothers
Dunn & Elliot
Thomaston
Maine Women’s Christian Temperance Union
People’s Baptist Church
Dover
Helen M. Delano
Sagadohoc County
Alice May Douglass
Boothbay
China
Persia
Egypt
New Meadows Inn
Albert Hirsch & Co
Frank Huckins
Kelley, Spear Company
Cahill
Mr. Hirsch
Marion
Curtis Edwin Ott
C. W. Richardson
D. Howard
Elijah—_Sawyer
H. B. Sawyer
John A. Morse
Charles A. Welch
Charles A. Blair
C. P. Wetherbee
J. W. Ballou
C. A Co
Joseph E. Kingsbury
Uncle Sam
Philip
Fred W. Larrabee
School Street
Lemont
Topsham
Ridley
al Ridley
Edward McLellan
Frank Roderick
Thomas P.gibbons
Lowell Assembly
Pythian
Clara Foote
Lower Middle Street
Wyoming
Union Iron Works
Congress
Florida
Nevada
Arkansas
Phi Rho Society
Cole
James Pinson
Wesley Church
Edward B. Trask
Wallingford
Conn
Alice Smith
Ann McLellan
Charles Greenleaf
Maria Magoun
Alice
Kennebec Yacht Club
Thomas Potter
Potter Creek
Southport
Ralph Rackatraw
Eleanor Hyde
Josephine
Brenda Emery
Hebe
John Shaw
Captain Corcoran
Sprague
Deadeye
Walter Murtaugh
Boatswain
Sir Joseph
Muriel] Stuart
Toronto
Ontario
Buttercup
Back Woods
Togus
Overcomer
Frank W. Sanford
Shiloh
Dewey
William C. Avery
Watson's
Mr. Avery
U. S. Army
Main Street
Washington
States
Walter Johnson
Catherine Rich
Roberta Black
Arthur Spinney
Clarence Johnson
Spider Web
Elmer F. Campbell
Merrymeeting Park
Tuxedo Special Company
Sagadahoe Club
Long Island
Gardiner
Misty
Coolen
Emma Palmer
Cobb Road
Pvt
Guy F. Coolen
Africa
Pvt. Coolen
Co. A
New York City
Bernard Pratt, Jr
Bernard Pratt
Cobbroad
Cpl
Donald L. Harlow
USAAF
Reginald Farnham
Old Brunswick Road
Harlow
Army Air Forces
Eagle Pass
Texas
R. E. Carey
Allen Street
John Robert Carey
M. P. Co
Ava
APO
Care
N. Y
J. A. Bernier
Sgt
Rene Normand
North Africa
Sicily
Rene Sgt. Normand
Alex Normand
Cabot Street
Joseph L. Normand
Sig
Geiger Field
Spokane
Wasiington
Seaman George Grant
U.S
J. S. Hall
Dartmouth College
Fred Thompson
Yale
Houghton Sewall
Concord School
Harold Smith
Harvard
Rev
George H. Dole
Sewall Percy
Tuesy
Exeter
Fred Sturtevant
Board OF Directors
Y.M.C.A
Henry W. Owen, Jr
the Times Co
Henry G. Hodgdon
Kimball Bros
Sagudahoec
Tverathonis
Tts
Petstiel
Fk Opmaget
Mudinck
George HL Hodekisis
Eased Petitian
Eimer
Fata
State of Bath
Annie Skaling
Annie Skal
Arthur Jounton
Mr. Hodgdon
Reeser
Ferret
Fae
Richard Garkenbach
Tee
Arthur J. Dunton
John L. Jack
John L. Jack, Revister
T. John
Jack
Sacadahor
Ida
Zeon
Appreen
Catherine E
Ornish
Herbert
Betate
Thomas W Scott
Watham Mass
Jaceson Cram
Neaton Mass
Peices
Mabimi Shiner
Lillian M Graham
Tate
Micon
Mary Cody
Mil Roun Mass
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