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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1912
Page
4
Promotes a healthy happy old age by cleansing the system with Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna. A desert spoonful is claimed to be natural and strengthening, suitable for all ages, and marketed as genuine when bearing the California Fig Syrup Co. name on the package.
Independent readers are invited to send farm and grange news to the Bath Office. Prices remain steady this week with butter scarce at 2 cents, eggs at 35 cents a dozen, potatoes around $1 a bushel, apples $1.50 to $1.75 per barrel, cranberries $2 per bushel, cabbage and turnips $1 per hundred pounds, and meats and fowl varying from 8 to 20 cents per pound. Farmers note sleighing value from snow and hay at $18 to $20 a ton helping market activity.
W. T. Guptill of Topsham was introduced as Maine’s new State Dairy Instructor and spoke at county Farmer’s Institutes and the Portland Dairy Conference. He urged dairy as a steady family support with diversified cash crops and outlined crops and storage practices to maintain yearly income.
The Merrymeeting Grange last night featured a lecturer program including music and a paper on Queer Playthings. Members suggested needs for the year and a dialect recitation was performed. The Bath Merchants Association will meet next Monday at the common council room to appoint committees and discuss a March exposition.
Woodbury S Purinton died in Togus on January 4. Born in Harpswell, Maine, 75 years ago, he lived nearby most of his life and served as a seaman in the Navy from 1862 to 1865 on the Ohio Housatonic and Princeton. He was admitted to the Home from Cundy's Harbor on May 18, 1911. Lincoln Academy basketball visits Morse High in this city next Friday evening.
West Bath reports include 20 degrees below zero, frozen river and ice blocks near Duncan place at Sabine, and schools opening after smallpox concerns. Local residents visit, banking case near Marine National, brown tail moth invasion, and winter preparations with grange meetings and hay concerns. Community updates cover weather, schooling, farming, and travel in the Foster's Point district.
Mrs Alfred Morgan and her two sons return from Medford where Mr Morgan is employed. Families and workers listed include Alonzo Parris cutting lumber for James Wagg, Ellen Taylor in Oak Hill Litchfield, A D Strout helping Arthur Hall cut lumber, George Hickey buying a yoke of steers, and E F Varney family staying in Alna. A severe snow storm halted Route No 2 mail delivery. Andrew Pratt dies aged about 75, leaving a widow and two children. A newborn girl joins Mr and Mrs Norman Curtis. Illnesses include Clara Allen and Albion Ayers. Farmers sledding and general activity noted.
Fort Wayne woman Mabel F Dawkins describes three years of catarrh and blood disease and credits Hood's Sarsaparilla with restoring her health after two bottles. She recommends Hood's to others suffering from similar ailments.
An advertisement promotes True L. F. Avvrood Medicine as a household remedy for headaches liver issues indegestion and constipation. It claims prevention through diet rest exercise and regular bowels with a large bottle at thirty five cents and free sample on request from L. F. Avvrood Medicine Co. Portland Maine.
At the adjourned January term Judge Lowell approves administration for Climena W Rand Bowdoin Victoria Ada M Newhouse administratrix and Elizabeth S Alexander Bath Fannie E Moulton administratrix. Will filed for Josep S Hatch Richmond Geo C Webber executor named. Accounts allowed for Jos E K Sewall Bath Almira H Field and Ada Manson Bath. Inventories filed for John QO Given Bowdoinham. Real estate licensed to D Jaques for Martha C Wheeler Bowdoin.
Miles Hagan Arrowsic has returned from Newport R I and will stay home through winter. Willie McFadden at Bath City Hospital for treatment. James McFarland to spend Christmas at Sunny Side Farm with family. Eugene Cromwell and wife visiting Woolwich. McCollett family moved to Phippsburg for mill work. Anna Snipe improving after illness. Flora Mullen staying with her. Hattie Snipe now able to go out after illness. Annie Rowe confined to house. Dr A D Stott attended. Rowe family visiting her parents Alfred and Mrs. Perry. Oziah Fletcher Mill Island very ill with multiple diseases.
Severe snowstorm blocked roads causing no mail on Saturday in West Bowdoin. Clara Allen, daughter of Chas H. Allen, is ill. Reneau to host a social Saturday evening at his home. A 25 degree temperature drop occurred in under three hours on Tuesday.
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