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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1911
Page
2
Readable items cover West Bath Grange program with readings music and talks, February duties, local ice harvesting, mill activity, new cottages planned along New Meadows, dairy flock details, road ice, barn expansion, and public notices. Community life and commerce mix in February village scene.
Historians debate dates and routes for the New Meadows canal. Prof. George L. Vose argues a 1742 construction with use through 1805, linking the New Meadows to Merrymeeting Bay via Welch's Creek and Stevens River. Early settlements and mills at Mill Cove spurred hopes of a waterway, but shallow depths and tides hindered navigation.
Sarsaparilla cures all humors catarrh and rheumatism relieves tiredness restores appetite cures paleness and nervousness builds up the whole system. Available in liquid form or Sarsatabs chocolate tablets.
A kitchen shower was hosted for Miss Elizabeth Hutchins at the home of Mr and Mrs A J Hildreth Topsham with gifts of kitchen utensils and humorous rhymes. The couple plan a marriage in Norway Maine January 18 and will live on a farm after a short honeymoon. In Brunswick a Sunday fire in the Weeman block caused about 100 in damages to the building and 400 in losses to William E Gordon’s store on the first floor, with no insurance.
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