Description: Roscoe Salsibury age 66 died in Cambridge.Ma. and was brought home to Somesville to be buried by his daughter Mr. Hollis Hysom Bar Harbor Times
Description: Roscoe Salisbury age 66 died in Cambridge.Ma. and was brought home to Somesville to be buried by his daughter Mr. Hollis Hysom Bar Harbor Times
Description: Republication of Bar Harbor Record news items in Bar Harbor Times, . Compiled by Deborah Dyer of the Bar Harbor Historical Society, 8/19/1999. Details about the visit of the North Atlantic Squadron and all the social events that occured.
Description: Republication of Bar Harbor Record news items in Bar Harbor Times. Compiled by Deborah Dyer of the Bar Harbor Historical Society, 8/26/1999. Annual meeting of the Kebo Valley Club. Plans made to build a new golf club. Fred Savage will design it. Article discussing the need for more building sites for summer residences. Community assured that the area is suitable for summer attraction. Review of the Butler’s Ball
Description: Bar Harbor Record - “Centennial Souvenir Edition, 1796-1896" July 1896. Includes article and photographs of early Bar Harbor, Sullivan, and other places. Pages are brittle and the cover has come detached.
Description: Republication of Bar Harbor Record news items in Bar Harbor Times. Compiled by Deborah Dyer of the Bar Harbor Historical Society, 5/20/1999. Detailed description of Allie Stafford’s livery and announcment that he and his brother have dissolved their partnership and George is building a livery on Cottage Street.
Description: Republication of Bar Harbor Record news items in Bar Harbor Times. Compiled by Deborah Dyer of the Bar Harbor Historical Society, 6/3/1999. General information; graduation exercises, arrival of Mr. and Mrs. John Emery who gave the funds for the Bar Harbor Kindergarten. A recorded oral history as told by Eben Hamor` Account of the routes and settlements along his mailroute in 1836. Describes Tremont, Eden, Town Hill and Somesville.
Description: Republication of Bar Harbor Record news items in Bar Harbor Times, Compiled by Deborah Dyer of the Bar Harbor Historical Society.Subjects of interest include the Bar Harbor Horse Show, agricultural fair, Board of Trade discussion of swimming pool, Schooner Ivanhoe, annual meeting of Village Improvement Society, Otter Creek gorge footpath
Description: Republication of Bar Harbor Record news items in Bar Harbor Times, . Compiled by Deborah Dyer of the Bar Harbor Historical Society, 5/27/1999. Openings of summer hotels; Sanley House, Claremont House. Pure spring water being bottled and sold by the Mt. Desert Spring Water Company, Mr. Doolan manager. Eden Cafe being opened for the summer by owner Dr. E.L. Mason. Memorial Day observed by Grand Army attending church previous Sunday. A detailed description of a Memorial Day in Bar Harbor. [show more]
Description: Bar Harbor Times - Commemorative Issue - “150th Anniversary of the Founding of Seal Harbor in 1809," by LaRue Spiker, Thursday, August 20, 1959.
Description: Bar Harbor Times, “Selects” section. “Historic Houses on View” in Tremont for sesquicentennial. Houses include Bass Harbor LIghthouse Keeper''s Cottage, "Goose Gables," owned by Sam Hamill, and other homes in the Tremont area.
Description: Republication of Bar Harbor Record news items in Bar Harbor Times, . Compiled by Deborah Dyer of the Bar Harbor Historical Society, 5/6/1999. Comments on the arrival of Gardiner Sherman and family for the season. A lengthy section the two-masted schooner, Polly. It had been in the navy in the war of 1812. Also a list of advertisers for that year.
Description: Bar Harbor Times Times Past article by Deborah Dyer , 05/13/1999 A collection of misc. items. The following names were mentioned and a few lines about what they were doing: Julius Kurson, Franklin Pray, A.S. Getchell, M.T. Kavanagh, Beatrix Jones, George Dorr, Edgar Scott. Also information about the steamer, Cimbria and the steam yacht, Ladoga. On the back an article about the history of fish stocking. It goes back to 1882.
Description: Bar Harbor Times. “Birthday bash begins Saturday” - Tremont Sesquicentennial. Includes Selects section with story on historic houses in Tremont. Also a special “Tremont Sesquicentennial”supplement.
Description: Republication of Bar Harbor Record news items in Bar Harbor Times, . Compiled by Deborah Dyer of the Bar Harbor Historical Society, 12/23/1999. Hisotry of the hotels up to 1899. Names some of the old hotels: Agamont, Birch Tree Inn, Exchange. Alpheus Hardy built the first non-resident cottage in Bar Harbor. Includes an anecdote about J. Montgomery Sears. Article also includes a line about the election of Rev. Robert Codman, Jr. as Bishop of Maine. A comment about the Laides Aid Societys apron and necktie ball. [show more]
Description: Republication of Bar Harbor Record news items in Bar Harbor Times, . Compiled by Deborah Dyer of the Bar Harbor Historical Society, 11/25/1999. Proposal for a fire alarm system for Bar Harbor.L.W. Sawyer , lighthouse keeper has been transferred to Bear Is. light. Grand masquerade ball for benefit of Bar Harbor football team at Music HallOn reverse, current date, First National Bank expand to Blue Hill.
Description: Republication of Bar Harbor Record news items in Bar Harbor Times, . Compiled by Deborah Dyer of the Bar Harbor Historical Society, 6/17/1999. A history of the Somesville/Southwest Harbor area as told by Eben Hamor