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Newspaper

Bath Independent

Location

Bath, Maine, United States of America

Date

Dec 22, 1917

Page

3

Farm and Home Conference urged extending sheep husbandry

At a Boston farm conference held in early November, regional representatives from New England and New York discussed expanding sheep husbandry. The groups urged state actions to support breeding, markets, and cooperative clubs, with a committee to study conditions and report back. The session stressed fertilizer supply, farming women’s organizations, and industry cooperation to stabilize markets and promote sheep farming.

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Local Notes from Georgetown and Robinhood Community

Georgetown and Robinhood items recap social visits births sleighing weather and local happenings. Miss Alice Boyd and Miss Belle Heald guests at the Heald farm, a new baby girl to Mr and Mrs Mains, and many residents traveling to Bath or living at Georgetown Center. Notices cover church events, ice trips, storm damage, road and pond work, and the Legal Advisory Board explains associate members including William A Todd.

Alice Boyd Howard G. Heald Miss Boyd Heald Farm Miss Belle Heald Charles H. Mains Wiliam Todd Bath Working League Harold F. Hunt Georgetown Center Ida Belle Rowe Jessie Webber L. WH. Rowe Georgetown Calvin Tarr Robinhood Cove William R. Notle Stearns W. Scott Nat Howe W. Powers Noward. Heald C. W. Billings Burnside A. Powers Lester L. Powers Carroll Powers Ferdinand P. Brilmayer Howard Cushing Levi W. Powers Powers Legal Advisory Board William A. Todd

West Bath Grange notes and local doings

Ida will spend winter in New Hampshire with probable wife joining later. Mrs. Haggett attended State Grange in Lewiston as West Bath delegate. School calls made. John Rideout and Ernest Rose improving. Campbells Pond opened. ice 12 inches. Grange degrees granted to locals. cold weather limited turnout. Tax collection continues. local car stuck in snow. Various residents visiting, illnesses noted. Christmas activities largely modest due to limited time. Milton Loring to return from Boston for holidays. No Grange meeting next Monday. holiday program planned with songs and recitations.

Ida E. W. Haggett State Grange Lewiston West Hath Grange J. Everett Mayo John Rideout Ernest Rose F. I. Haggett Mary Purington Lowell School William Furber Ibrigham's Cove Margarite Bates Topsham William Foster I. B. Neiley Ernest E. Williams Myra Coombs Alfred Coombs Campbell D. A. Merry J . B. Winter Josephine Ae Hined I. Williams West Bath Grange Norman Howard Edward Lemoine Raymond Trott Marshall McDonald Hughes Voorhees Grace Brown Rose Parris Lucretia Darris Emma. Gerrish Marion Robbins W. H. Larrabee Bath Everett Mayo Mayo Florence Neiley Pulsifer Lowell Kenne Wankport Sarah Black Miss Pulsifer Elizabeth Loring Milton Loring Navy Boston West Bath Grange Hall Pond Tole Sokol Santa Claus Rena Clough

Seed corn crisis prompts cautious farming

Frost damaged mucd corn making seed unfit next spring and a world condition limits use. Farmers must guard against losses as every replanted field wastes labor and reduces yield. First Church of Christ, Scientist holds services at Odd Fellows Hall with times, and the Winter Street Men’s Club Minstrels rehearsal was postponed Friday night.

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Retail resh Enrs and prices in a 19th century marketplace

The fragment lists various goods with unit prices such as cabbage, carrots, potatoes, turnips, beans, and fruit items like apples and pears. It also references staples like flour, wheat, oats, cornseed, middlings, hay, and straw, indicating a bustling general store market with per unit costs and bulk bags noted.

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What Pie For Christmas In A Frayed Frontier Menu

An eccentric holiday note extols mince pie as essential to Christmas meals, mocks alternatives, and argues meatless packs and fat crusts hamper tradition. It references cost and waste, suggesting a U S government role in pie quality and recipe tips for festive tables.

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Christmas party songs and recitations at Bath school

A Bath school program features Christina Frye Marguerite Williams John Clough Wendall Williams with songs and recitations including Silent Night and The Birth Song of Jesus. Pupils raise funds for Armenian and Syrian orphans and Salvation Army. Mrs Osmun reports WWI Y M C A work in France. Bath Savings Institution declares January dividend at 4 percent.

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Trust-a-tives praised by family in Scotland ad

In ScoTLand a family touts Trust-a-tives as the only pill they use to treat stomach issues Liver and bowel troubles. They claim dramatic relief and recommend friends try the remedy. Fruitatives Limited sells a box of six for $2.50 or a trial size for 25 cents from Owoensburg New York.

Scotland Jaw Hammond Fruitatives Limited Ovdensburg New York

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