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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1911
Page
5
A Chicago woman testimonials Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound curing female ailments after clerk refused it. The text then shifts to a Maine 1911 foreclosure sale notice in Topsham, detailing property descriptions, boundaries, and mortgages totaling about three thousand four hundred dollars.
Prospectus invites purchases of Porcupine Mohawk Gold Mines Company shares at ten cents each with one dollar par value. 500000 shares issued, half treasury, no debt. Property includes Claim 18 in Deloro Township, fully paid, with Kendall property comparatives and high assay claims. Offers township and claim maps free upon writing.
The Independent notes recent rains raise hopes for a fair hay crop in Sagadahoc. Potatoes sell 50 to 60 cents a bushel, eggs 20 to 21 cents, butter 16 to 25 cents a pound, and hay at 16 dollars a ton. Lamb and peas expected soon with strong prices. hogs and poultry remain limited. The Maine State Grange plans organized boys and girls agricultural clubs with county and state federations, outlining structure, membership and funding.
Woolwich grange June program centers on Prohibition with songs recitations and readings by Sister Marion Troop Sister Marion Soule and other members. Attendance expected high. Local news covers travel, autos, town events and a tuberculosis cattle outbreak.
Miss Mercy Holbrook returns from Portland for the weekend. Ernest Clifford finishes his first year at Orono and will summers with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Clifford. Parish ladies meet at the Baptist church for a thorough cleaning. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Estabrook name their baby Emery Edward.
Mr and Mrs William Davis and Master Scott spent Sunday at Bow doinham as guests of Mrs Davis sister Charles Savage has purchased a driving horse. Mrs Fred Wheeler and daughter Mildred are expected home soon from the Bermudas where they have spent the past three years.
Enterprise Grange met at Skillins hall Friday evening with 26 members and one visitor. The program featured a piano solo by Luana Sylvester, a reading by Edith Small, and discussions sparked by questions on brains vs dollars and the best kind of farming machinery and its make led by William Dingley and Horace Malley.
Progressive Grange held a regular session Saturday evening with 38 members present. After opening exercises the first and second degrees were conferred on four candidates, followed by a short program including a solo by Fern Webber and recitations by Frances Baker. A question on housework was answered by Henry Skelton and another on outdoor work by Sister Shepard.
Tuesday evening June 20 program includes quotations, members readings, George Weston singing, Grange Choir, Campbell Select Reading, Reuben Purington current events, Agnes Cutting reading, Rebecca Bowker music, Lizzie and Abbie Minott stories. The Fighting Ninth Massachusetts regiment marked its 50th departure anniversary with a parade of survivors and a banquet with speeches.
Mrs J M Barclay of Columbus Ohio describes four years of nerve trouble with sleepless nights irritability and weight loss. After two doctors failed a Nova Scotia visit and a trial of Dr Williams Pink Pills she slept well gained flesh and could eat. The Pills are advertised as blood purifying and nerve restoring with no habit forming drugs and priced at 50 cents per box with multi pack offers.
Joseph M. Trott as administrator petitions the Sagadahoc Probate Court in Bath for license to sell the entire real estate of Melville B. Spinney of Small Point Phippsburg to pay debts and admin expenses. Debts exceed 4700 dollars with estimated sale costs totaling 7500 dollars. personal estate is nominal. notice ordered for three weeks in Bath newspapers before the first Tuesday in July.
An old Maine tonic, L. F. Atwood's Medicine or Bitters, is promoted as a safe, speedy remedy for dyspepsia liver trouble and constipation. The ad claims the product has sold for over sixty years, with mothers and grandmothers keeping it on hand. Offer price is thirty five cents at your dealer.
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