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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1908
Page
8
Local store Bert Jacks Shoe Store at 99 Front Street Bath Maine offers a four week universal cut on all sizes Mens Boys Misses and Children's footwear promising no profit for the period. Community notices include social visits and family updates from Bath Lewiston Lisbon and surrounding areas with health and illness reports.
B Verney remains at home for Poland Springs where he is employed. Ice harvesters report superior quality. Arthur Dunlap from Providence plans to move his family to Massachusetts. Maude Pratt stays a week in Litchfield at the Taylors. Marion Haight visits Frances Small. Howard Bell visits Henry Farley in Richmond. Frank L. Chappelle sells farm stock to move to Connecticut. Stella Metcalf of Topsham visits grandmother Mrs. Juey Small.
Litchfield brief notes Mrs J T Gilman leaves for New York to stay with sister Mrs McDonald. Miss Mary Allen departs again to nurse. Fred Baker returns home Saturday from Noridgewock.
More than usual guests attended the Plains church Sunday. Mrs. Elmer Campbell of Bath and E. M. Lapham sang a morning duet. Rev. E. C. Stover delivered strong sermons to listeners.
In Wiscasset dancing classes led by Miss Louise Jones meet Monday and Thursday evenings and are popular with both older and younger pupils, adding a notable feature to the town’s social life.
The town reports several health events and notices. George F. Mallett shows improvement after four weeks ill. Miss Fannie Purington buried from Elm Street home with Rev. B. F. Turner officiating. Harold Hildreth hosted a Baynard Street birthday supper for his class. Mrs. Angeline Gould of Portland dies after pneumonia. she formerly lived in Topsham. Multiple residents, including Mrs. Fannie Crocker and Mr. Ramsdell, recover from illnesses. several family movements noted with others visiting Portland and Lewiston areas.
Mrs Alonzo Huntington died Monday after a long illness attended by her husband daughter Mrs William Springer and two sons Jarle and Fred The daughter cared for her and the family stayed with her for weeks The community honors her memory Joseph Perry has recovered enough to return to Libby Post duties Edith Earle is visiting in town Wm Baker has finished a Roosevelt school term and is visiting friends
North Dresden notes Joseph Dow and his wife visited their daughter Mrs. John Bodge in Newcastle and have now returned home.
Mr and Mrs Levi Reed welcomed a fine baby boy last Sunday morning. Dick Foye and Sam Lewis of Wiscasset visited this part of town recently. Abbot Lawrence held a bee last Tuesday to shingle part of his barn. Most residents here have the gip or are recovering from it.
A severe blaze tore through a city hall complex destroying the dome and leaving only the framework as embers and debris showered the area. Firefighters battled the flames as county officials rallied, prisoners were released from cells, and out-of-town units aided in protecting and extinguishing nearby structures amid high winds.
Advert says Hood's Sarsaparilla cures impure blood scrofula rheumatism and catarrh with better lasting results than rivals. Testimonials claim long term relief from scrofula and sore leg and a 16 year cure, plus a child’s neck swelling. Manufactured by C I Hood Co Lowell Mass offered in liquid or Sarsatabs 100 doses for one dollar.
Enlistments at the Portland office this year total about a third of 1994 and roughly half of last year, with 225 men joining so far versus 960 in 1904. Officials blame low pay and high living costs, causing many to seek civilian work. Deser tion, discharges, and weak reenlistment weaken the army, now 32 percent under strength nationally. Some urge conscription, though unpopular.
The piece details severe understrength in coast defense and infantry units with examples of slippage to civilian jobs. It highlights pay disparities from $13 to $150 monthly, frequent moves, long separations, harsh personnel practices, and calls for higher pay to recruit up to safety and readiness minimums.
Coal Sch Thomas G Smith 487 tons from Philadelphia to Martinique. Lumber Sch Samuel P Bowers 526 tons from Satilla to New York with piling. Dark Secret-tons from Port Royal to New York at $4.50. Wm H Yerkes 1211 tons from Port Tampa to Baltimore or Carteret with phosphate rock. Salt from New Orleans to Boston at $2.50. Ties from Jacksonville to Portland 17c. Addison Sawyer, inmate at Togus, reported critically ill.
Train times list multiple routes from Bath to Skowhegan Bangor and points west and coast. Services include morning departures to Augusta Waterville and Bar Harbor with midday and evening trains to Portland Lewiston Brunswick and Boston. Sunday schedules note additional trains to Bangor Skowhegan and Lewiston. Morris McDonald and Boothby signatures appear as port officials.
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