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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1911
Page
3
Congress convenes in a special session to discuss reciprocity with Canada amid tariff disputes. Maine opinions split, with some farmers opposing and others favoring the plan. Local towns debate motor boat taxes, summer development in Phippsburg and Bath, and calls for a new hotel to attract visitors. A road improvement meeting highlights Maine’s push for better routes and the New Meadows yacht club plans a club house at a suitable site.
The L. F. P. Association staged its first minstrel show on Tuesday night March 28 drawing a crowded audience from town and neighboring villages. With Lermond H. Rowe as grand manager the program featured skits songs dances and original sketches, well received by all, and the evening closed with a dance and refreshments. Receipts exceeded $56 with about $30 expenses boosting the association treasury.
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Capt and Mrs Will Davis and little Melba visited home briefly while the schooner Maria O Tee rests at Portland for discharge. E C Merry shipped 7000 pounds pollock on Wednesday and 10000 pounds on Thursday.
The New Meadows Boat Club, newly formed, held a Brunswick meeting Thursday with over 50 members. A drafting committee to plan a clubhouse was named along with a panel to consult authorities about the unsafe Verretteidge condition threatening navigation. The club now lists 141 members.
Letters at Bowdoinham post office advertised for N 5 Grady Fred W Morse George Reed and Colby Sampson Mrs Irving M Fowles returns from Westport Ladies Aid and Missionary societies meet at Mrs L D Small home Missionary concert by Baptist church children draws large crowd Easter music planned for local churches Miss Bertha Moulton of Orono visits Mrs George F Getchell Farmers report light sap flow and firm river ice sleigh ride after snow storm Deputy Sheriff I H Purington spends week in Bath for Supreme court
Mary Liscomb Nealley, seven, daughter of Mr and Mrs Harry A Nealley of Brookline Massachusetts, died after several weeks with scarlet fever. She leaves her parents a brother Edward and a sister Ellen age three. Interment was in Worcester Massachusetts.
Morse visits Rockland this week while Walter Lilly plans a return to Orono to resume studies at the University of Maine. A survey for the Woodlawn to Wiscasset telephone line progresses beyond Nequasset as engineers finish work. Nequasset Methodist Church plans an Easter concert by church children two weeks from tomorrow evening.
Card of thanks from the undersigned expressing sincere gratitude to kind friends who assisted during the recent sickness and death in the Reed home and to Mr and Mrs Frank Card and family.
In Bath Sagadahoc County on the first Tuesday of May 1911 administrators Elmer F Hayes and James H Cutting seek final account approvals for the estates of Joseph M Hayes of Bath and Saran D Small of Phippsburg. The orders require publication in the Bath Independent for three weeks and appearance in court at nine o clock in the forenoon to show cause why allowances should not be made. James S Lowell, Judge. Attest Cyrus W Longley, Register.
John T. Robinson, longtime agent for the Boston and Kennebec steamship line at Richmond, died yesterday at age 84. A water main break in the New Meadows River prompted repairs Thursday, part of multiple breaks reported this season.
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