03 Aug 1912
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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1912
Page
1
An OCR fragmented letter from a Maine person critiques road work and highway upgrades, mentions a $500 physician offer for smallpox care, and notes demands for wireless steamers on the coast. It also reflects on automobile industry moves, weather impacts, and political races as travel spikes on winter roads.
Bowdoinham residents and visitors fill the week with travels to Brunswick Cambridge Bath Boothbay and Augusta. Notable names include Miss Mdina Moody Miss Gladys Small Miss Carolyn Sparks Miss Bessie Ames and Rev Miles Reed with diverse sightings at farms docks parks and town events.
Westport mourns Q C Hodgdon aged 65 who died of heart trouble after years in the grocery trade. He served as M E church trustee and a leading grange member. Funeral Sunday July 14 at 11 50 was led by Rev J MacAuliffe with grange services at the grave. He leaves a widow, four sons and a daughter.
H. D Grant and M. D Bowdinham are listed as specialists in Bowdoinham Maine focusing on diseases of the eye ear nose and throat. Special attention is noted for these conditions in this practitioner listing.
C E Embree, newly elected Maine Farmers Union manager, seeks to organize local associations to join the state union. petitions from Forest Grange Lee and Baskahegan Grange Springfield for Embree to speak at a big farmers meeting at Springfield between Aug 6 and 20.
The probate filing lists gifts to the Children's Hospital Portland 3000 dollars the Maine Institute for the Blind Portland 2 dollars vaca to Newcastle Maine for cemetery care 1000 dollars bequests to Gardiner residents Eliza Kimball Susan H Pashard and Ella Marston 500 each to Bath residents Mildred McPherson Mary Barker Bessie Gove Marguerite S Larrabee and Melvina Abbott 199 each to North Street Free Will Baptist Society of Bath the remainder to bequest executorship to Arthur J Dunton of Bath as executor
Dance at Society Hall Popham Beach tonight and Beacon Street Ladies' Aid hosts a cooked food sale at the Y M C A this afternoon. Orioles of this city play a Lisbon team. Fall games on Kelley Field this afternoon. The forty first reunion of the 1st Maine Cavalry Association meets in Waterville Maine on Wednesday and Thursday September 11 and 12.
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