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Newspaper

Bath Independent

Location

Bath, Maine, United States of America

Date

Feb 24, 1917

Page

11

Prices and markets drift in Sagadahoc County amid tight supply

In Sagadahoc County markets show scarce potatoes with Bath dealers paying 3.25 to 3.50 per bushel and selling at a peck. Cabbage 10 cents wholesale, 12 cents per pound retail. onions jump to wholesale 15 per 100 pounds. Dairy butter scarce 35 to 38 cents. eggs 46 cents a dozen. Grain prices rise with corn 2.60 per bag and hay around 14 to 22 per ton. Junk dealers report lower demand and pay 45 cents per 100 pounds for newspapers, with other scraps prices listed.

Sagadahoc New York Boston Bath Bath Grain Co Gilmore Woolwich Indiana Lumbermen’s Mutual Insurance Peete Eee Esereerseeee Massachusetts Accident Co Oston Atlas Assurance Co., Ltd London England Ewes Alter S. Russel Eastern Casualty Insurance Devonshire St Mass Caer Ees Inc Thea Ween Nnee ST. Paul Hasse & Jah Ne Ins. Co Ul Knaete Fitchburg Mutual Fitchburg Swans New Jersey Het Uni Acco Setae Surus Sete Ee

Pomona Grange Meeting Plans at Woolwich

Sagadahoc Pomona Grange meets with Woolwich Grange on February 28. Members traveling by train will alight at Westport station for transport to the hall about a mile away. The program includes an address of welcome, responses, music, papers on youth needs and Maine products, a discussion on fair prices for produce, a duet, and a farce followed by a closing thought.

Sagadahoc Pomona Grange Woolwich Grange Westport Woolwich Jay Bailey A. H. Hildreth Topsham Music Quartet Carrie Hodgdon Maine Fred Wright Charles M. White F. A. Rackley E. Y. Shaw Herbert Adams Angie Hunnewell J. Edward McKinney Judith Rice Maurice Bailey

Enterprise Grange Enjoys Active Richmond Meeting

Enterprise Grange in Richmond held a full meeting Saturday evening with all officers present except one. An application for membership was discussed as the program featured reading, music, and questions. A lively debate focused on whether the proposed lighting vehicles law benefits farmers.

Enterprise Grange Richmond

Dromore Grange Plans Next Degree Work and Visit

Dromore Grange in Phippsburg completed the first two degrees Tuesday night and will finish the remaining degrees and hold a harvest feast at the next meeting. Members voted to invite West Bath Grange to visit Dromore at a convenient time. Mrs Rebecca Bowker attended the State Conference of Lecturers in Waterville.

Dromore Grange Phippsburg West Bath

West Bath Grange Program Earns Charming Success

The program last Monday night led by Miss Margaret Peterson proved charming. Next Monday's program will be in charge of B. W. Haggett and Mrs. J. B.

Margaret Peterson B. W. Haggett J. B

Thirteen Cent Milk Reflects Clean Freshness Standards

Portland Maine February 15 1917 Clifford J Lovejoy of the Home Dairy Co Woodfords answers a public inquiry about thirteen cents per quart milk. He cites strict bacteria limits a 50 000 per cubic centimeter cap with monthly records and twice weekly tests, plus clean barn and dairy practices. He argues higher prices reflect quality and urges producer and consumer education.

Portland Clifford JL. Lovejoy the Home Dairy Co Woodfords Maine J. F. Upton Winnegance Lewiston Sun C.C Clifford 8S Lovejoy

Farmers' Week at Orono March 5 to 10

Orono hosts Farmers Week from March 5 through 10 featuring lectures demonstrations and hands on labs. More than 70 speakers from federal and state agriculture departments Maine Grange and various associations will participate with programs by Maine Pomological Society Maine Seed Improvement Association and Maine Florists' Association. The event offers free lectures and demonstrations with reduced rail rates and a 16 page bulletin detailing daily programs speakers topics times and costs.

Orono Departments of Agriculture Maine State Grange College of Agriculture and Experiment Station Maine Pomological Society Maine Seed Improvement Association Farmers’ Unions of Maine Maine Florists’ Association Walter Balentine Maine Federation of Agricultural Associations College of Agriculture

Topsham Grange Social Reaches Local Audience

Topsham Grange held a spirited Saturday meeting with patriotic songs, papers on Grange work and mind influenced health, readings by Milward Patten Florence Dunklee and others, a floral contest, and a chicken supper planned with roll call and reception to past masters.

Topsham Grange Grange Milward Patten Florence Dunklee Tate William Dunning Arthur Utecht Marion Nicoll

Woolwich Boys Enlist in the Coast Artillery Service

Three Woolwich youths Albert Galloupe Ira Rice and Raymond Dexter join the Hyde Light Guards. Dr A A Stott praises Galloupe physique. The Riverside Cemetery Association holds its annual meeting at Day's Ferry schoolhouse to elect officers.

Hyde Light Guards Albert Galloupe Ira Rice Raymond Dexter A. A. Stott Gallowpe Lillian Blair North Woolwich Harold Shaw Sumner Llewellyn Bailey Samuel Moore Richmond F. W. Carlton Augusta Herbert Hall Rockland Sagadahoc Ferry Riverside Cemetery Association Sebenon Hall Perkins West Bath Nelson Rice Russel Sheridan Charles Sheridan Waldo Hathorne Milton Trott Vera Dexter Eva Farrar Jack Currier Boston Post Florence Carlton Ida McCollett Dexter Bleike Reed Ossian Dodge Fred Carlton William Mitchell John Gilmore South Methodist Church Will Blackman George Shaw Bath John Reed Christian Endeavor Baptist Parsonage Plinette Allen H. W. Crocker M. J. Smith The Neyquasset School Richard Robert Stinson H. P. Hathorne Leonard Miss White Edith White Eben Dana White Bath City Carrie Wing Harvey Hathorne Center Baptist Washington Mission Band Treasury Clarence Preble Hyde Windlass Fred Crocker Bath City Hospital Lemuel Preble Hugenia Bartlett Charlotte Helen Jackman Frank Card Capt Flushing L. I Edwin Hathorne

Community Notes From North Woolwich and Arrowsic

Miss Clara Hathorne presides over the Mission Band ninth anniversary as North Woolwich Methodist officials vote to shingle the building and hope Rev Milan J Smith stays. Miss Jessie Robbins returns to Arrowsic after nearly two years with Mrs Frank Head. Frank Head buys a handsome pair of cattle from Mr Robbins of Arrowsic. Elizabeth Day improves enough to sit up aided by a nurse. March 3 parish sale and sociable planned with a tree prizes contests quilt towels and refreshments. rescheduled to March 10 if stormy. Llewellyn Bailey and H A Whittum haul wood to J R Carters yard in Bath. The Knight mill arrives from Monmouth and is set on the Spinney lot.

Clara Hathorne Allen Frank Head Robbins Arrowsic Jessie Robbins Elizabeth Day Methodist North Woolwich Milan J. Smith North Woolwich Methodist Church Treasury Llewellyn Bailey H. A. Whit Tum J. R. Carter Bath Knight Mill Monmouth Mission Band John Rice Ernest Hathorne

Probate Court Orders Final Account in Bath Estate

In Sagadahoc on February 16 1917 Joseph M Trott and Rodney E Ross as Administrators on Jacob R Andrews estate were ordered to publish notice for three weeks in the Bath Independent calling all interested to appear March second at nine o clock in the forenoon to show cause why final account should not be allowed Arthur J Dunton Executor Bath February 6 1917 Also RA A Mallett appointed executor of Alvah Malletts will Topsham Sagadahoc deceased demands against estate to be presented for settlement and debts settled immediately February 18 1917

Sagadahoc Bath Joseph M. Trott Rodney E. Ross Jacob R. Andrews Emma Coombs Alvah Mallett Topsham RA A Mallett State OF Maine Jacob Andrews State OF Maine Margaret R. Dodge Sarah J. McIntire Alvah E. Kelley Faribault Minn Arthur J. Dunton State James Lowell W. Longley Charles F. Dodge J. Dodge Hat Dent Opeal

Funeral rites and local notices in Bath Sagadahoc

A large West Bath and town delegation attends the funeral of Grant Gifford at Grace Church with family members and community groups. Local probate notices include petitions in Sagadahoc County for estate administration and orders for publication in the Bath Independent, with details on heirs and hearings scheduled for March.

May Towle Campbell’s Pond Florence Neiley West Bath Aoree Company Grace Church Grant Gifford Harmony Washington Lowell School Blanche White Abraham Lincoln Dennis Woodrow Stella Higgins Edward Smith George Washington Young Washington Helen Curtis Lincoln

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Pomona Grange West Bath Grange Coast Artillery Service James 8 Longley Lincoln Williams Foster William Dean Henry Galt Foster’s Point Joseph White J. M. Lemont Arthur Lemont Everybody's Column Drummond Cutting Steamboat Landing F. Perry Bessemer Bldg Pittsburgh C. W. Buckley P. O Robinhood Bowdoinham George Preble Yarmouth Joseph M. Trott, Rodney E. Ross Char A. Corliss Notary Public James S. Lowell Cyrus W. Longley R. Dodge A. D John J Psyrus W. Longley
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