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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1911
Page
8
Bath events include church field day at Merrymeeting park and visits by Visiting Templars. Proliferation of shad in the Kennebec, rising or steady lobster and mackerel prices, and a quiet Fourth of July forecast. Bath Iron Works contracts and streetcar rides for police and firemen are noted alongside local obituaries and naval reserve history.
Sagadahoc County Pomona Grange held its regular monthly meeting at Bedwel Grange hall Small Point with about 60 attendees. Despite light turnout from the northern part of the county a boat party of around 25 arrived led by Fred Willis and Rev Mr Cox. Pro tem officers were appointed and a resolution backing the prohibitory law was adopted unanimously. The day featured a dinner, music, readings, and entertainment by Bodwell Orange with performances by Roland Eaton Mina Oliver Rose Beal and others. The gathering closed with a reflective thought and plans to meet at Enterprise Grange Richmond on August 30.
South Dresden invites all to a July Fourth dinner at Hatch Corner with vestry service at noon and a cool, clean grove for rest. Ice cream confections and lunches sold to support the church. all invited for a neighborly day. A Colonial club meeting is set for Monday night and naval officials bound for Rockland were seen in Bath reviewing the Utah trial trip.
Miss Marion Wyman returns from Foxboro while Bath visitors arrive for outings at Hawley cottage. City of Bangor makes first landing. new walk around the point opens. The Society Hall dance season begins July 3 with Bath musicians. Summer visitors include Rev John Wyman and Mayor Small. a Bath woman jokes with a Portsmouth brakeman about a Bath car.
Community notes list election of officers for the Second Baptist Society at North Bowdoin. Mrs. Harry Pierce returns home after months with the Feenan family in Sabattus. Several local residents host guests and attend visits across Bowdoinham Bath Lisbon Center Lisbon Falls and Brunswick.
Bath readers hear a testimonial from W D Hinkley of 5 Middle St Court Bath Me who suffered backache for two years. After using Doans Kidney Pills from Webbers Drug Store he reports relief from backache and kidney troubles within a box. Doan s sold 50 cents by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sale agents for the United States Remember the name Doan s and take no other.
The E. B. B. Club met at Lou Stinson's with ice cream and games. Ladies' Aid of Nequasset gathered at E. B. Hall's and will meet at Miss Gilmore's next week. Miss Phyllis Hall spent a week at her grandmother Mrs. Gilmore's in Nequasset. George W. Cady, 24, a baggage master on the Boston and Maine, died in Dover New Hampshire after a train accident. Mrs. Tuttle of California hosted bridge for her sister Mrs. Gibson. Mrs. Fred H. Kimball of Bath achieved a high score. The battleship Utah conducted official trial trips off the Maine coast.
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