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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1911
Page
3
Mayor Small and city leaders condemn the local lighting company and urge action to curb its monopoly. Advertisers are urged to place Christmas notices in the Independent as citizens push for better city government reforms and possible commission system.
Maine Grange secretary reports one half of Aroostook County potatoes shipped raising fears of shortage and rising prices. The piece urges producers and consumers to unite or government action to extend markets, reform rail freight, and prevent price manipulation by middlemen and speculators.
The College of Agriculture at Orono announces short winter courses starting January 2 with four weeks in dairying and general agriculture and three weeks for fruit growing and poultry keeping starting February 6. No tuition. only railroad fare, board and room. Reservations available. catalog distributed. write Leon S. Merrill for details.
Dexter packer F H Hayes ships a carload of canned sweet corn to Honolulu as Penobscot county yields set a record. Cumberland Seed Potato Co reports 5490 bushels from 24 25 acres with over 5000 good marketable potatoes. Estabrook digs 4100 4200 bushels from 26 acres. Beals reaps 1500 from twelve acres. Potatoes rise in price as quality remains high. Government spends near a million on contests and agricultural colleges. Merchants meet Monday night.
Townspeople shared a quiet Thanksgiving with visits from Estelle Prince in Boothbay and Eva Cornish returning from Bowdoinham. Various locals moved, social events occurred, and fundraising beans supper at the M E Church raised twenty six dollars and thirty cents for preacher support.
Died notices list Adeline H Hunt aged 4 2 months 6 days daughter of B H Hunt in Bath. Samuel P Hitchcock aged 82 3 months in Bath with funeral Sunday at 2 pm from residence. Albert Morse of Small Point aged 81 6 months in Fast Boston. Fret Orne of Boothbay aged 62.
Notice forbids all persons from cutting wood or trespassing on any part of Morse's Neck property owned by Albert Morse Heirs, Small Point.
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