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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1916
Page
12
Local column covers visits and guests at Sunset View and nearby homes. Activities include a lawn party hosted by Mrs. Edgar B. Hunt with games and a cake containing a ten cent piece. The group includes the Hooker and Harford children and other Georgetown Center residents.
Catarrh is a constitutional disease requiring internal treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, taken internally, targets blood and mucous surfaces and is a non quack prescription from a leading physician. Sold by druggists for 75 cents with testimonials available upon request. Take Hall's Family Pills as a complemento.
Auction notice for the estate of Mrs. Gus Tavus Harris at 89 Union Street. Tuesday August 29 at 9:00 a.m. through the kitchen and five rooms, then 1:30 p.m. through five chambers, bathroom and attic. Everything must be sold, no reserves. Fully furnished with furniture, beds, dishes, books, pictures, work bench and refrigerator. Buyers urged to attend for cottage stock. Chas. T. Jackson, executor.
Long list of town updates includes visits, housing projects, travels, and personal events. Notable items: Miss Lute Thompson returns home from Kennebunk. F G Moore shingles his Georgetown Center house. James Spinney visits town. Frank MacFadden burial at Oak Cemetery. various visits to Woolwich and Popham. Rev. Herbert Tilden's expected departure. Miss Lou Clark hosts whist as thunder threatens. prize winners named for a whist night with Mrs Bertha Avery and others.
Bangor based optometrist and optician Lewis J Sawyer formerly of this city will visit Bath to see patients at the Hotel Phoenix on September 11 and 12.
The Winnegance area hosted a wide array of visitors and locals over the weekend. Residents hosted guests from Thomaston, West Rockport, Newcastle, Everett Massachusetts, Chicago, Boston and Wakefield while others traveled to Long Island, Birch Point and Dresden for weddings and outings. Hints of local activity include haying progress, cottage sales, and new schoolhouse lumber work as families and friends shared trips and social visits.
Grace Church members learn a new pipe organ will be installed this fall as a gift from Arthur S. Hyde of St Bartholomew's NYC. The memorial instrument to his mother Mrs. Worcester Hyde is built by the Moller Organ Co of Havrestown Maryland.
James Allen of Orr's Island reports a high speed automobile struck his stopped car injuring two passengers and causing minor damages. A second hit on Thomas G. Walker’s Ford near a restaurant also caused about 59 dollars in damage. Police seek five to six young men, possibly in a stolen car, who fled during a storm.
A lightning strike during a Wednesday shower destroyed the Ryan farm buildings in Edgecomb. In the panic to save livestock two horses, two cows and several heifers were killed. Firefighters efforts could not stop the spread and insurance covered only part of the loss, which far exceeded coverage.
George Harshner, a Ham's Hill workman, was struck by a falling stone from a crusher and left unconscious. He later regained consciousness, wandered into nearby woods, and was found dazed. A physician diagnosed concussion of the brain after he was brought home.
At the annual Maine County Commissioners convention in Augusta on Wednesday Charles H Mason of Bath was elected to the legislative committee joined by George Pottle Lewiston and others. George Pottle Lewiston was chosen president and Harry E Atwood Lisbon Falls secretary. The group visited Togus Home in the afternoon and the session closed with a brief business meeting.
Hon. Harold M. Sewall was up from Small Point Wednesday for an informal stop in town, meeting local residents and discussing community concerns.
The residence of Mrs. Eliza Drummond at Spinney's Mills was hit by a lightning bolt during a heavy storm on Wednesday evening. The bolt entered through a chimney and exited under a door crack, setting a portiere on fire. Fire was quickly extinguished by neighbors and Mrs. Drummond and her companion received minor shocks.
Cosmopolitan members will entertain gentlemen friends with a dance Monday evening at the Kennebunk Yacht Club. Bath Dance Orchestra engaged for the hop. August committee includes Misses Helen Wheaton, Bessie Mooers and May O'Brien. Capt McIntire and Harry McIntire had an accident near Wyman store when thrown from a wagon. a doctor attended.
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