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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1911
Page
6
Local notes describe visits and returns among residents, social events, and a death in Phippsburg. Town activities include dances at Parker Head and Society Hall, road work by James W. Davis, a Popham fair for the library, fishermen reporting light lobster yields, and summer guests at Sunset Cottage Bald Head.
The Baptist Sunday school picnic took place at Prince's Point on August 16 with about sixty people in attendance. A noon dinner featured steamed clams. Guests included Charlies Appleby Mrs Nellie Branch and Miss Carmela Appleby staying at Lyndcrest cottage Foster's Point, visiting Mrs Sidney Holbrook. Albert Gowell of Gardiner joined Charles Savage Harvey Jordan and Gowell on a motor dory trip down the river. The Holbrook brothers sold their horse Nixcy and bought a two year old colt. Mrs Harvey Jordan visited relatives in Bath. Mercy Holbrook and Eleanor Conboy of Portland stayed with Mrs Ada Holbrook over Sunday. Mr and Mrs William Pittman Forest Hill recently visited Mrs H J Storer.
Journal records a sequence of visits and social moves across towns from Quaker Point to Augusta. Names include Annie Purington and Raffael guests, Morse and Small families, Williams siblings, Sprague, and many others. Weather and crops mention light apple yield, heavy crabapple harvest, and jelly prospects.
Topsham Grange presents a Saturday evening program on August 26 including piano solos by Irving Alexander and a piano duet by Belle Rackley and Florence Dunklee. Readings by Millward Patten, Sarah Drew, and Eleanor Powers, plus a Boston Maine quartet supplying the remainder. Refreshments of cakes and ices will be served.
At a Dromore grange meeting in Phippsburg on Tuesday evening the group voted to arrange a lecture in support of the prohibitory amendment. Musical features under Mrs Minnie Berry and Miss Bessie Dickinson were discussed and refreshments may be provided. The next meeting will feature a musicale and a pie social with each sister bringing a pie. Tickets for Masonic field day are selling briskly.
An advertisement offers a one hundred dollar reward for an incurable catarrh case and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio. Endorsements from Walding Kinnan Marvin emphasize F J Cheney's trustworthiness. The remedy is taken internally and claims to act on blood and mucous surfaces. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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