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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1918
Page
3
A report from New England notes pastures deserted by sheep due to numerous marauding dogs. Farmers urge a dog restraint law to curb wandering canines, holding owners financially responsible for wool and meat losses amid war shortages. Relations between farmers, authorities, and public sentiment are strained as the issue impacts local wool and mutton markets.
The United States Department of Agriculture will show motion pictures in hundreds of theaters across the country. The initial releases, in December through Universal exchanges, highlight national forests and timber, water, grazing, and later pork production via pig clubs.
The Federal Food and Drugs Act over a decade improved milk safety for Canadian imports and interstate shipments, curbed polluted oysters, halted decomposed canned fish and beans, reduced shell egg contamination, and cut waste-based foods. Lead in baking powder and confectionery has diminished, as copper coloring in canned peas and dangerous preservatives were suppressed, with broader health protections expanding.
At the recent State fair in Phoenix an All-Arizona luncheon showcased crops from fourteen counties. The menu featured grapes dates figs potatoes carrots tomatoes peas milk-fed chickens Maricopa butter local wheat bread milk maize olives peanuts and honey with Hawaii coffee as the only non state grown item. Home demonstration agents and the U S Department of Agriculture led a drive to expand home gardens and using kafir corn as a wheat substitute plus corn syrup and honey as cane sugar substitutes.
Brunswick friends learn Myron Atkinson is appointed to the third officers training school at Camp Devens Massachusetts. A Williams College senior, he received war department military training since the war began and passed the physical exam despite eye issues. The Williams faculty voted to confer degrees on students entering war service and Atkinson is one of a few Williams men to receive such an appointment.
At the People's Church Rev. Samuel A. Evans hosted a Delta Alpha Society event for 30 youths. Admission was charged by height, one penny per foot and a one cent per inch over five feet, yielding about five dollars net after games and refreshments.
George Chamberlain Charles Ferris and Clyde Mains of Battery D 54th regiment artillery Fort Levett return home for weekend. The unit, formerly 29th Co C A C, has been converted into part of an artillery regiment. Friends of Capt H H Owen Jr learn he has been detached from the company and may be promoted and reassigned.
About 15 members of Sedgwick Circle Ladies of the G A R left for Auburn on the one o clock train Thursday to become guests of Burn side Circle and attend the installation of officers in the evening.
Market list showing prices for dairy butter creamery butter eggs vegetables such as carrots potatoes onions lettuce oranges lemons and apples along with grains and staples including oats corn seed meal flour and cottonseed meal from various local suppliers in Bath with prices per pound per bag per dozen or per bushel. Some items listed include butter per pound eggs per dozen oranges per dozen apples per pounch.
The Ladies' Aid of Beacon Street Church met at the parsonage with Mrs. T. N. Kewley. Planned hospital shirts were not ready, so the afternoon was spent on other activities. attendance was good.
The Ladies' Aid of Winter Street Church met with Mrs. S R Percy on Washington street. Forty members attended and the group worked on Red Cross hospital shirts. Tea and crackers were served.
The Ladies Aid of Central Church met Friday week with Miss Annie Palmer on North Street. They prepared convalescent robes and body binders for the Red Cross and served tea and crackers. Attendance was unusually good.
Officials at local plants on government work show strong interest in a Shipping Board proposal to address worker housing in congested shipbuilding districts. A government investigator could reveal urgent needs and Bath may see land taken and homes built. A Bath resident suggests commandeering Water Street homes near the Bath Iron Works to house workers, which would remove longstanding district conditions.
Abstracted letter traces Red Cross origin to Camillus de Lillis and the 1541 papal approval for a red cross badge. It notes Saint Camillus as patron of nurses and links the Geneva conferences of 1864 and 1868 to the modern movement. Also reports a failed war stamp registration, Kennebec Handtub Co. meeting rescheduled with officer elections, and 10 inch ice on the L.& W.Ry line between Bath and Lewiston.
Calvin Austin of Eastern Steamship Lines has offered to distribute 150 tons of coal stored at their wharves to areas most in need. The plan, announced after a Boston meeting with M A Haraden, will use a card system via the local fuel committee chaired by Moses. Coal will be sold at its original cost.
The Bath library board lists officers and committees and notes 1917 financials. Treasurer Charles C. Low reports 1917 income from city funds trust incomes fines transfers and a large gift. expenditures cover maintenance repairs roof books and transfers. The year ends with a small balance and a sum carried forward.
Phippsburg residents are listed in a sequence of brief notes. A death occurred at a Court Street home with funeral services Monday attended by pallbearers George D. Weston and Charles Cutting. Other items mention W. R. Dickinson’s Bath trip, Nelson Heald's week at Small Point road, Heald cutting firewood on Bowker lot at Minott Lake, ice work by Hezekiah and Edward Harrington near the Minott Lake dam, Mrs. Philip Lozier visiting Mrs. William Heald, and Roland Eaton's Sunday evening actions.
Soldiers from private to officer praise None Such mince meat as the finest wartime fare. The parrifin lined package promises economy and convenience, with recipes for pies cakes puddings and cookies. Bake a War Pie with no top crust and all the savings benefits to support U S Food Administration.
The first town boy home after months abroad as a France army driver will speak at Phippsburg Center Chapel. Mr Eaton, recently in Boston, will share frontline experiences to the gathered audience with open admission and possible Red Cross collection.
Amid a severe north east snow storm, residents report frozen potatoes and a wood delivery, while stage drivers Edward Thomas and Edgar Pye endure a 20 mile route in tough conditions. The speech notes loneliness of cold and reminders of those serving abroad.
local items report a barge at Kelley Spear Co yard near launch named Osceola. prayers for Mrs Martha A Ross led by Rev S A Evans at her son's home 10 Granite St. burial in Portland. magazine aid to soldiers excludes 1902 vintage. Sedgwick G A R circle to Auburn on one oclock train to visit Burnside Lodge. Morse High basketball to host Portland Feb 8. Myron Sprague leaves Bowdoin for Charlestown navy yard. Funeral of Mrs Charles W Brown held at 492 Middle St with burial in Oak Grove. Harry Morse of Groton Iron Works visiting, company has contracts for six 8800 ton and twelve 9400 ton steamers plus twelve wooden carriers. new yard started at Alexandria near Washington.
A parent from Port Robinson recalls using Fruit-a-tives to treat a child's kidney disease and dropsy, noting rapid swelling reduction and a return to health. The testimonial, attributed to William Warren, promotes the product with pricing and mailing details.
Lincoln Castle Knights of the Golden Eagle voted Tuesday night to send for a warrant to organize a local commandery. Officers elect will be installed next Tuesday night by District Grand Chief L M LeMont. A water pipe break on Front Street was repaired by Bath Water District workers who lime treated the surface. lime penetration measured 16 inches into ice with four feet of frost at the site. Robert Whittier, Central Cash Market Co meat shop manager, 151 Front Street, is praised as a top state meat cutter with a 17 year Lisbon Falls cooperative store tenure and recent road sales for Penley products.
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