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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1914
Page
4
Local notes from Phippsburg and Bath report business visits, social calls, and retirements. Jurors, ice house work, and lumbering operations fill the week with town meeting talk and preparations for spring. Several residents visit Bath, Port land, and Parker Head while measles and finances affect town life.
The Center Church sets All-go-to-church Sunday for Feb 8 with a sermon on Has the Church Failed in her Mission to Mankind and 7 PM services with preaching and special singing. Recovery from paralysis noted for the pastor, who plans not to return to Westport next conference year.
NEW MEADOWS Miss Mercy Holbrook was at home from Portland for over Sunday. Charles Savage was in Woolwich last week visiting his daughter Mrs Potter. The Merry Club met at Mrs Marion Jordan's last week and planned a sociable for next month with refreshments served. Storer's ice pond work is near finish and ice quality is unusually good. Miss Mabel Jordan visited Dover New Hampshire recently. Mr Brodrick of Waltham was a Sunday guest of Mr and Mrs Charles Snow.
Principal Montgomery recommends the M H S senior class performance of Mrs Compton's Manager saying he saw the Meriden pupils stage the same play last year and found it highly worthy.
The Winnegance Sewing Circle met at Mrs. Anne M. Oliver's home while William Hamacher of Bath led a church gathering. Many residents travel, host visitors, or recover from illness as a string of small-town items fill the week from Bath to Parker Morse and nearby towns.
An advertisement touts Bloods Sarsaparilla as a leading blood purifier and enricher. It asserts impure blood causes many ailments from catarrh to dyspepsia and fatigue and promotes the product as a remedy for scrofula and general weakness, urging families to use it.
A juryman reports 38 muskrat and many skunk skins with prices in Lewiston and Bath so low he has paused trapping. M. A. Haraden travels to Gardiner to discuss cutting vision for the Eastern Steamship Corporation and season planning. About 500 tons are required for the division.
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