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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1910
Page
6
A brief report outlines actions and concerns regarding a financial institution named in connection with its depositors and the conduct of its officials. The article notes questions about management, customer impact, and regulatory oversight amid ongoing scrutiny.
Health and right living theme leads to promoting medicines as helpful when timing is proper. The California Fig Syrup Co. claims its Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna offers a perfect laxative and urges buying the genuine product from the company via leading druggists.
Independent will be found on sale at Bath Shaws Book Store 85 Front St L. B. Swett & Co. 160 Front St L.B. Swett & Co. 782 Washington Howard Cigar Co. 166 Front St F Wilbur Brown 780 Washington W.H. Small 484 Washington St John Cook and Perry Bros. Topsham W. W. Good Herbert Mansir Woolwich B. G. Potter Richmond.
Notice identifies L Kllliott as an individual whose current residence is not known. No further details appear in the readable text.
Clara A Hawthorne of Sagadahoc Maine is named as heir in the will of Barziliai Walker of Woolwich who died January 22 1910 with estate to administer. Petition filed February 1 1910 asks probate court in Bath to issue notices by Bath Independent for a March 1 1910 hearing.
Readers of the Independent are asked to send farm and grange news or any matter of interest to country readers to Independent Office in Bath.
A shift to intensive, scientific poultry farming is urged with emphasis on regular feeding, careful care, and market readiness. The article compares poultry with dairy and hog operations, stressing daily feeding, evaluation of hen profitability, and proper processing and shipping to fetch top prices. It cites Journal of Agriculture insights from Prof. E. F. Hitchings on Maine fruit show and warns against using underperforming horses on farms.
Mrs Susan Hodgdon of Westport marked her eighty fourth birthday. One of the town’s oldest residents she taught school for years and remained active in church work. She lives at Hubbard's Point with her brother Stephen Greenleaf, her sole surviving sibling, and has endured the loss of her husband in 1897 and their son at sea. Rev E L Sawyer and daughter Rena joined her for dinner.
WESEPRPORT reports illness and recoveries around town. Residents like A E Geve and Miss Adela Holmes travel to Bath and Wiscasset while Marion Jewett visits Bath and Popham Beach. The community mourns Rachael Greenleaf at 77, buried beside her mother. A Cove party honors Miss Myrtle Trafton with pit and flinch games, and many residents attend meetings, visits and school events.
Enterprise grange held a Saturday night session with new master E R Stewart presiding. Nine membership applications were received and a program featured music readings weekly events a Worth Lecturer discussion on best paying Maine crop with hay favored an exchange on home magazines Eva Hathorne was named to obtain another traveling library for the grange. Members will recount how they earned and spent their first money and an attendance contest drawing is planned, plus a Valentine sociable. Dean's Kidney Pills advertised for kidney cure with testimonial from Mrs W G Brooks of Bath Maine.
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