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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1912
Page
7
Independent invites Bath readers to send farm and grange news or any matter of interest to country readers to the Independent Office in Bath.
Local Bath market reports scarce country produce this week as late planting and summer travel reduce supply. Eggs bring 27 to 28 cents a dozen. butter ranges 26 to 30 cents per pound. green corn and peas appear slowly with prices around $1.50 a bushel and five cents per cucumber. Beef remains scarce with native at eight to ten cents per pound and western at 14 cents. apples, blueberries, and raspberries show varied availability and prices.
The Maine State Pomological Society prepares its premium list for the City Hall Portland exhibition on November 14. Special prizes total over one thousand dollars plus silver cups from Maine Central Railroad Edwin C Burleigh and others for best barrels boxes of apples and fruit displays. Send requests to Secretary E L White Bowdoinham for full details.
Real estate transfers filed at the Register of Deeds include James Savage to Roy F. Shackford in West Bath and multiple transfers involving W D Noyes and the Noyes Knowles Lumber Co across Phippsburg Woolwich West Bath Bowdoin Topsham Bath Georgetown and surrounding towns with various buyers and sellers named.
Veal arrives in small amounts at 12 cents per pound. Chicken broilers bring 25 to 30 cents per pound, with limited supply. Fowl valued around 20 cents. Hay at 18 dollars per ton with light arrivals. Apple crop projected lighter than last year in Maine.
Probate Court set for next Tuesday and city government meets Wednesday August. Gardens revived after rains while beaches host bird shooting and boating. The Topaz V and City of Rockland plans progress, Baxter Box plant site readiness, and the Bull Moose convention stirs political talk. Beachtown activity includes fishing, clambakes, and a busy Bath Business Guide.
Capt James T Morse died Wednesday night at his son KE H Morse’s home on High Street in Phippsburg aged 103 years. He was born April 17, 1822 in Phippsburg, son of Frances and Nanes Morse, grandson of Jonathan Morse and linked to Small Point early settlers. He married Margaret Lowell in 1849. they had six children, four living, including Fred J Morse of East...
The obituary recalls Capt. Morse, born in Bath and long based in Phippsburg, who began seafaring in 1840 and commanded vessels including the Tioga. He retired in 1871 to land life, afterward serving as marine superintendent until 1884, and earned recognition from the Royal Humane Society for rescuing the bark Avena crew.
The message thanks friends for kindness during bereavement and tokens of esteem from Augusta V Todd and Alice S Scott of Georgetown Missouri dated August 3 1912. Green corn is in the market not native raised and blueberries are more plentiful after recent rains.
Town notes from Winnegance report a straw ride to Quaker Point with a Vienie dinner and local visits. Many residents, visitors, and modest events fill the hometown page as summer routines begin.
The rainfall last week in Maine saved the central and southern potato crop and aided canneries, with an estimated value of two million dollars. Dry weather would have reduced outputs across oats hay and corn, while Aroostook county fares better. overall potato yield may be 20 percent below 1911 levels unless late rains come.
A Bowdoin neighborhood luncheon honored Ruth Wallace of Norfolk Downs on her 20th birthday hosted by Mrs. W. B. Hervey. Attendees included Miss Ella Waggz Katherine Clark Ruth Wallace Anna Ready Grace Small Robert Wallace and Wallace Rideout.
A classic 19th century medical advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy that cures catarrh by acting on blood and mucous surfaces. It offers $100 to any case it cannot cure and lists F. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo as the manufacturer with druggists selling it for 76 cents. Also mentions Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A testimonial from Hon. John R. Garrett Mayor of Girard Alabama claims Dean's Dint ointment eased his severe itching piles after days of torment. The endorsement underscores the product's claimed lasting relief.
An advertisement touts Burdock Blood Bitters as a remedy for impure blood and sluggish liver. It claims health benefits for a healthy man and unhappiness for an unhealthy man and lists a market presence of 3h years at a price of one dollar per bottle.
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