How to Raise It and a Co operative Canning Factory
B Walker McKeen writes from Fryeburg Me on selecting seed, testing germination with a rag baby method, field layout, soil and fertility, and cultivation for sweet corn. He notes a cooperative canning plant requires 200 acres, $10,000 capital, one skilled canner, and strong market conditions, with Fryeburg yields averaging 36 lb per hundred ears and high per acre returns.
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Upton
Fryeburg
B. Walker McKeen
Bath Market Sees Sugar Spike Driven by Freight Shortages
Inadequate freight service drives higher costs across Bath markets. Sugar rises to 10 cents a pound with purchase limits, while potatoes, cabbage, onions, and other staples show varied price moves. Farmers report low yields and scarce meat, dairy, and beans as supplies tighten. local pig sales indicate strong demand.
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Bath
Hay market rises with limited sales and high prices
The report notes hay prices climbing from last week with pressed hay at 18 to 22 dollars retail and loose hay around 14 in top offers. Some sales dip to 10 dollars, while farmers struggle with hard roads. Names Almond Oliver Hathorn Wright Footer and Bailey Woolwich appear among sellers. Bailey also sold straw for 10 dollars a ton to Henry White.
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Milford Oliver
Fred Hathorn
Jordan Wright
Joseph Footer
S. R. Bailey
Woolwich
Henry White
Citizens urged to plant gardens to help food supply
War era appeal from the Committee on Home Gardening urges immediate planning for established and potential garden plots. Landowners are asked to allocate unused land, with arrangements to be mutually beneficial, and offers of land or cultivators are welcomed to boost local food supply. The committee commits to cooperate.
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Public Safety Committee
General Committee of Public Safety
William R. Kimball
Llewellyn D. Rogers
Lorin J. Eggleston
Charles C. Low
Walter E. Rowe
Boy Scouts Coast Patrol Preparations Under Way
Scouts serve as messengers at the naval enrollment office and safety committee rooms. Robert Shaw and Duncan McInnes assist Navy electricians installing wireless apparatus, expected to take several days. Seventeen Morse High School boys seek to join for coast patrol work. Parents plan a city meeting at the YMCA Monday at 7 30 p.m. to discuss the patrol. Rev Gould J Brown will travel to Boston Tuesday to consult on patrol expectations.
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Naval Enrollment Office
Committee of Safety
Robert Shaw
Duncan McInnes
Navy
Morse High School
Boy Scouts
Y.M.C.A
Scouts
Court of Honor
Y.M.C
Gould J. Brown
Boston
Adver tised Letters and Club Actions at Brunswick
The Brunswick Club voted to remit dues for members called to the colors during the crisis and invited the Colonial Club of Bath to parade with them at the patriotic demonstration in Brunswick on April 19. A note on a cold snap mentions new codes in de head.
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Brunswick Club
Colonial Club of Bath
Brunswick
Yacht Club proposes clubhouse handover to navy for training station
Kennebec Yacht Club members debated three options to transfer clubhouse property to the United States Government for use as a naval training station. Proposals include donation with conditions, a 40 monthly lease, or outright sale for 6000 with safeguards for return and upkeep.
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Kennebec
Kennebec Yacht Club
Yacht Club
U. S
Schooner M. D. Cressey Abandoned in Gale Off Sandy Hook
The schooner M. D. Cressey sailed April 7 for Havre with general cargo and was sunk in a gale about 200 miles southeast of Sandy Hook. Second Officer George Smith and two seamen drowned. ship's cook died from exposure. Capt B H Nelson, wife, and nine crewmen were rescued after drifting 72 hours in an open boat by a British steamship. Built 1899 at Bath, 2115 tons, owned by American Union Line. A separate note mentions Dr. Harry March, longtime press contact for McKinley and Washington Post critic, and local cedar birds feeding on estate lawns at Lincoln St.
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M. D. Cressey
Havre
Sandy Hook
George Smith
New York
B. H. Nelson
Nelson
Cressey
Cook
Percy & Small
Bath
American Union Line
Woolwich News Highlights Local Church and Community Happenings
The Woolwich column notes Easter services at Day's Ferry Church with 44 participants and awards for student effort. It mentions patriotic plans for April 15, a portable mill on J. S. Bailey lot, a new home telephone for E. A. Blanch, and a sleighing memory from 86 years ago in Kennebec County. Reports of security at the pumping station and a minor accident for Tom Reed are included, plus school delays from bad roads and substitute teaching by Charlotte Buck at No. 6.
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Tience
Day’s Ferry
Willard Trott
J. S. Bailey
E. A. Blanch
Kennebec
Woolwich
Tom Reed
Charlotte Buck
Blinn
Georgetown Center notes and supper for public safety in Maine
Seward E. Emmons returns to Lewiston from West Georgetown as the Working League hosts a storm affected supper with beans meat pies and red tulips. The Sagadahoc Committee of Public Safety meets in Bath to urge food conservation and home food production led by J Everett Jewett of Georgetown Center.
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Georgetown Center
Seward E. Emmons
Lewiston
West Georgetown
Working League
Dayton Hunt
George West
Dorothy Stuart
James Stuart
Paul Locke
Robinhood
Madlyn Berry
Five Islands
Ethelyn Harley
Norman Harley
Alonzo Thibadeau
Seguinland
W. C. Todd
Georgetown
Sagadahoc
Committee of Public Safety
Bath
J. Everett Jewett
Course to guard against foreign-born Austrians and Germans
The article outlines measures for handling aliens, guarding sites using explosives, and detaining suspicious foreigners. It also reports Wendell P. Baker selling his herd, departing with Edward C. Clarey for West Bath, and Charles Mains buying a pig from Clarence Oliver on Wednesday.
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Wendell P. Baker
Mr. Baker
Edward C. Clarey
West Bath
Charles Mains
Clarence Oliver
Weddings and local notes from Cundy's Harbor
Roy Catlin traveled to Portland to obtain a Casco engine for Dennis Levett, acting as agent. Arthur Darling and Mrs Gertie Darling wed in Bath, with a serenade and church ties noted. Community updates include farming plans, visitors, a hospital illness, school openings, and a Bath protective association formation to guard game birds from poachers.
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Roy Catlin
Portland
Dennis Levett
Catlin
Cundy’s Harbor
Arthur Darling
Gertie Darling
Bath
J. Howse
Darling
Pentecostal Church
Elmer Bartlett
Westborok
William Holbrook
Bartlett
Mr. Holbrook
Alice Webster
Henry Doughty
Bert Alexander
Robert Watson
Merton Webber
American Protective Association
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Co-operative Canning Factory
B. W. McKeen
Bath Market
Texas
W. R. Bowker
Phippsburg
Pratt
Farmington
THE
Brewer
Annie
Canady
Lettia
Fernandy
Eileen
Ralin
Lillian
Southard
Estella M. Men
Wood, W. H
Pinkham
Jwddie
Sam
Harry March
March
Merry Makers
Opera House
McKinley
Washington Post
Lincoln St
Everybody's Column
New House Boat
Hull
Snow
R.F.D
Swift Company
Commercial St
Plymouth Rock
V. P. DeCoster
Maine
Springfield
Express
Ames H. Ames & Son
Bowdoinham
Hee
Claire Perkins Hussey
Topsham
Sagadahoe
Jenite Sisley
W .Rix
State OF Maine
Bath National Bank of
Bath Maine
Mary A. McCormick
Michael J. McCormick
James Ss. Lowell
Cyrus W. Longley
Willi Dean
Wagadahoc
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