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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1916
Page
9
Bath and surrounding areas report 60 workers at the Texas yard and an engine startup with a 50 hp motor. Local farming markets list lettuce spinach and berries from the South while a Holstein calf sales for 75 dollars to Unity. Community notes cover Moose lodge officers, ice harvests, civic concerns about city purchasing, and political chatter supporting Edward C. Plummer for Congress.
Mrs. L. S. Mitchell of 292 Center Street Bath endorses Doan's Kidney Pills after their medicine cured a family kidney trouble. She notes the pills are available at Webber's Drug Store for 50 cents and urges others with kidney distress to try the same remedy. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY backs the product.
The tug Ariel returned to Portland to take a new job. The Sheepscat Echo favors a bounty for dogfish to fertilize crops, not for food, an idea started by Hon. Luther Maddocks. A Portland Republican praised the 4000 in attendance singing America as a thrilling moment. Funeral services were held for Mrs. Samuel A. McCutcheon at Winter Street Congregational Chapel with pallbearers listed. Interment was at Oak Grove Cemetery. A relief effort for wounded French soldiers shipped to France this week included numerous medical supplies. School resumed after a ten day vacation. Carl B. Timberlake becomes Morse High sub master to fill the vacancy. James F. King will serve as principal for the year. A Bath dealer showcased a London roses boutonniere device. Mr. and Mrs. Ellard Marr arrived from Boston. Mrs. Marr will stay with the Currier family in Georgetown while Mr. Marr returns to Boston.
Seven maternity cases are booked ahead at Bath City Hospital. The article also notes social and church gatherings in Bath, a court scene with dairy thefts affecting local youth, and reports of thefts from Maine coasters and Bath schooner Sunbeam, with Boston harbor thieves blamed.
Wind and sun melt snow as Bath eyes real estate gains. Clam diggers at Popham number fifteen. 78 attend a Friday dance. Barge Preston loads 1500 tons of coal for Howard Coal Co in Philadelphia. Bath faces road repair costs of 5500 dollars to spur prosperity. Fishermen report bait shortages and missing flounder in Morse's River. White snow birds seen in Bath. a seal rests on an ice floe opposite the city. Overseers of the Poor organize with Walter Russell as chairman and prepare inspections of City Farm in Auburn and Beulah in Richmond. Howard D. Hadley backs William T. Cobb for Republican National Convention chair in Chicago. The Independent highlights a Bath will beneficiary. a Pacific Coast resident receives 1000 dollars. Henry M. Foster, longtime painter, dies. funeral in Everett then Bath. Charles W. Clifford Jr declines agency offers on a West trip. Lemuel Sponagle ill in San Francisco but improving. Willard Moran fight draws crowds. City Editor fielding inquiries to 11 p m. Bath shows sporting zeal. Boston schooner Fred W. Thurlow sails for West Africa with a 40,000 dollar profit forecast. built in Bath in 1901. cargo includes 25,000 gallons New England rum, tobacco, flour, pine boards, Florida water, and bitters. Capt. Allen aims for Sekondi in about six weeks.
New awnings bloom as the Bath built gunboat Machias operates in Tampico. Sedgwick Circle Ladies of the G A R met at 7 30 pm with a parish supper and Beacon Street church conference on Thursday. Portland harbor sees ten days of lighters Kelley Spear der rick waiting for a tug under Capt Kingsbury and Capt Barter. William Hodgkins joins the steamer Massachusetts between Boston and New York as second assistant engineer. Frank Rairden arrives in Batavia Java for a five year homecoming welcomed by the Consul General. Lewiston M C R R lower station gutted by fire from the baggage room prompting talk of a new union station. Hatch shoe store adds a stylish Portland front. Queen Esther Sewing Circle did not meet. lodge marks 35th anniversary hosting clubs and Hon A M Spear speaks on retirement from politics. Spear withdraws from US Senate race and will support the Republican nominee.
Little steamer Anodyne from the Eastward arrived up Saturday morning. Harold Trippe of North Conway visited Sunday as guest of W. E. Hadley. Albert Temple of Bath and Kelvin R. Hanks of Maple Street hosted family guests in the city. George H. Donnell now in Frostproof Florida sent The High News weekly to friends back home. He runs a 200 acre citrus and truck plantation and reports progress and hope for future success.
Nashville woman recounts a tumor misdiagnosed during the Change of Life that vanished after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She credits the remedy for curing the tumor and restoring health and urges others to seek guidance from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. Lynn Mass.
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