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.
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Fitchburg Mutual
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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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