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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1918
Page
2
A laboratory visit reveals the making of a renowned remedy for women’s ills. Over 350,000 pounds of herbs are processed at peak season, solvents extract medicinal properties, and every utensil is sterilized. The medicine is pasteurized and sealed, with letters from grateful women supporting its virtue.
Dunlap commandery K T plans a simplified St Johns Day program by car to the Merriconeag at South Harpswell. Auto transport will cover attendees. hotel use, shore dinner, and bathing arrangements planned. Brigade band Lewiston to perform. evening program in preparation.
The United States Civil Service Commission announces an exam for Lincoln County at Bath on July 13 to fill a rural carrier position at Wiscasset and possible future rural routes. Open to citizens domiciled in the county with Form No. 1977 requirements. Apply to the Commission in Washington at earliest practicable date. During wartime women are admitted on the same terms as men.
The Department of State logged a week of registrations from Sagadahoe County listing owners in Bath Woolwich Richmond Corner and Sebasco. Vehicles include touring cars runabouts and roadsters from Ford Buick Overland Chevrolet Maxwell Olds Oakland and others with owners such as Fred Reed Ira Neiley Sherman Peavey G C Fuller Tim Hilton Charles Williams Fred Carleton Maud Jarrabee George Gillepsie Lewis Rideout I D Sheldon Maribel Ford Ernest Davis Harry Comeau John Arsenault Ey Purgon Joseph Hawkes Dennis Gaudett Joseph Begin F H Ward Mae Govel and A W Wallace among many others.
Under club direction a large crowd attended the Cosmopolitan club lawn party at the club house Monday night. Reverend Culbert McGay spoke on food conservation to park listeners as the band played. Club girls sold ice cream cones and about thirty youths gathered to dance in the front room, five cents a dance, enjoyed by all and met with approval for frequent events.
Joseph W. Boyd age 57 died Saturday at City hospital after a fortnight illness. A native of Bathbay son of Joseph Boyd he had worked thirty years as a janitor at Bowdoin College. Odd Fellows from Bath and Brunswick attended the funeral at Curtis undertaking rooms Brunswick Monday night. Rev Samuel A Evans officiated after which Odd Fellows ritual was conducted by Noble Grend Colby and Chaplain Harris. The body was taken to Brunswick for burial.
John G Webster died June 7 in a Bangor hospital after being moved from Stockholm. The body left for Berlin New Hampshire where funeral services were held June 9 at Congregational church with Glen lodge Odd Fellows involvement. He lived in Bath 25 years worked at Shaw's mill and belonged to the Elks. relatives Mrs J P King and James Sumner went to Peabody Massachusetts to stay two weeks with Mr Kings parents.
A new yarn shipment is available at Miss Jennie R. Morse’s home in Washington street with limited quantities for those unable to buy. The knitters face a goal of 120 outfits including 220 pairs of socks, while on hand are 137 socks, 45 sweaters, 11 wrappers, 26 caps, 52 wristers, and 91 helmets. The effort aims to assemble a complete outfit for a destroyer building at an Atlantic port through united local contributions.
The government restricts shoe height for women to eight inches with laces and six and a half inches for buttoned shoes, caps overgaiters to a five inch level, bans new lasts for six months, and limits colors to black white and two browns. Leather linings discouraged.
Rev. Dr. Herbert W. Magoun preached a moving sermon on the war before a large Central church congregation. He, a literary scholar, is visiting his sister Miss Emma Magoun and noted his family’s three generations of worship in the church.
Bath mother Mrs. F. W. Freeman, 12 Charles St., praises Doan’s Kidney Pills for her ten year old daughter’s kidney weakness. After using three boxes from Dougherty’s Drug Store the child’s back pain, headaches, poor appetite and color improved. Price 60c at all dealers. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY Adv.
Edmund P. Briggs of Bath Iron Works hall department received a complimentary banquet at the Colonial cafe on March 20. He was presented an eight day clock inscribed by colleagues, noting his 20 years with the works and his transfer to the Texas Steamship Co as resident inspector for the Emergency Fleet Corporation. His colleagues express regret at his departure and congratulate him on the promotion.
Henry Biggins and his fellow clerks at David T. Percy & Sons mourn his departure after 17 years with Bath high school graduation. He led the domestic department for 13 years and headed men’s furnishings earlier, earning a large circle of friends. He will join The Texas Steamship Co. in fitting work under William Fields, and received a gold piece from peers as a farewell token.
A collection of short items notes Edith Campbell and sister Mrs Harold Wiswell homecoming after a visit. A E Pushard buys a Chelsea home at 11 Raymond court. Ormande W Lawry returns from Maine to Faireld. Charles A Low joins Central Maine Light & Power and will study at the University of Maine. Waldo E Murray visits Bath and Portland, a shipyard diver. Mrs John Ellsworth returns to Bath from Savannah and plans to locate Maine. the Ellsworth child Evelyn ill. Mrs Harry Cook and children reach Philadelphia to start a new home. Mr Cook, shipyard foreman, formerly with Steamship Co., joins current job. departure details at Kingsbury home.
Two large lighters are under construction for the Kennebec Wharf & Coal Co to support coal movement along the river. Large coal orders have been sent to the Kennebec Soldiers Home in Togug and the State Hospital for the Insane in Augusta. Coal arrives by water at Bath and is transferred to lighters for Augusta, with one barge discharging 1300 tons at the pocket and two more cargoes en route.
A call seeks grammar sch grads and young men with mechanical skill for training at the Franklin Union Institute in Boston. They will be assigned to the spruce production department of the aeroplane service. Enlistments to be received by Chairman Keegan until the adjutant general declares enough or draft necessary.
President signs act June 7 1918 requiring numbering and recording of undocumented motor boats to supervise use on U S waters and identify owners. Owners must apply within a fortnight at the district collector of customs for numbers issued promptly. Sheriff Oliver recently returned from Camp Devens with a deserter and news from Bath boys discharged from a quarantine.
Friends of Ernest A. Alan announce he is confined to a Philadelphia hospital with a broken leg. He suffered the injury while playing with children, jumping a fence and breaking the leg at the knee joint.
Walter F. Bostwick U S A visited the city to arrange recruitment for many army departments at the post office. Branches listed include Infantry Medical Signal Coast Artillery N H Coast Artillery Cavalry Ambulance Veterinary Maine Coast Artillery Engineers Field Artillery Quartermaster Ordnance and 64th Pioneer Regiment. Enlistees for the quartermaster corps may be sent to Fort Slocum after enlistment. Non draft age workers may be accepted if physically qualified and not yet registered.
Miss Mary Paine visits her aunt in Searsport while Miss Mary Ellers pursues solicitation for Hawley employment bureau. Residents and visitors include Mrs. Walter S. Glidden back from Massachusetts, the Wrights and friends in Portland, Lt Harold C. Kelley home briefly before western training, Randall Coombs headed to aviation school near Los Angeles, Gardiner boys Guy Hathaway William McMullen and Austin Wheeler returning to Bath, Ernest Leighton U.S.N.R. moving to Bath Iron Works, Mrs. Frank Purington of Tacoma visiting Bath, Mrs. B. M. Plummer returning from Philadelphia with Jack Whiting as chauffeur, and Harry Bartlett with family guest of Warren A. Lowell with plans to visit Berlin in July.
An advertisement warns that constipation causes auto intoxication harming health including kidneys and skin. It promotes Fruit-a-tives and Trust-a-tives to regularize bowels at 50c per box or 6 for $2.50, with trial size 25c, from Fruit-A-Tives Limited in Ogdensburg New York.
Miss Roxy Campbell visited her mother and sisters in Newcastle while Mrs. Maude McNeil stayed with relatives in Digby. First Lieutenant Christy of the medical reserve corps will depart to Camp Mead Md. Miss Katherine Campbell of The Texas Steamship Co returns to Bath. Milton E Trott family welcomed a daughter Marjorie Camilla Trott born at Bath City Hospital weighing nine pounds.
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