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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1919
Page
2
A collage of rural advice urges readers to restart chores and plan for seed catalogs, timber, wood and hogs while supporting war aid. It notes rising stumpage and fuel costs, farm labor needs, ice house prep, barn and tool upkeep, and the value of letters to soldiers. It cites Bath Maine routines and the role of community and coal in winter planning.
A compact guide outlines building a hot bed costing 3.50 using a 16 by 4.5 foot trench. It details wall lining with inch boards, stakes, and pitched roof to provide warmth, with construction steps for a simple, low-cost farm bed.
A column mixes light local notes with wartime concerns. Topics include restaurant coffee prices, German goods demand, maple sap and rhubarb markets, municipal election chatter, porch politics, the penny in Alaska, and a sugar ration struggle. Mentions of a Honolulu banana fiber experiment, a lever ignition thief, and Dead Horse Field baseball tales flank assorted miscellany.
Arrangements near completion for a week long food conservation campaign in Bath and Sagadahoc county from February 18 to 28. Major William R. Kimball of Bath chairs the effort with Mrs Palmer Cobb as vice president replacing Mrs John H Walsh. Two hundred thousand Hoover home cards will be distributed and high school pupils endorsed to help place them in every home.
A Bath market price list shows per dozen fresh eggs at 80¢ and mixed dairy items such as butter and creamery butter by the pound, plus prices for vegetables including cabbage turnips potatoes onions celery and leafy greens. Other items include apples oranges lemons bananas meal and various feeds and flours with substantial price details alongside staple staples and bulk grains.
Donald MacMillan spoke at Winter Street Church under the Fortnightly Club, recounting four years in the Arctic with Esquimaux and white companions. slides showed home, dogs endured hunger without complaint, and harsh journeys north, with funding to Red Cross.
The Bath Bowker shipyard sees lumber hauls by McIntyre Rogers and Small. Wood cutting for Perry, deer spotted on ice near Lee's Island. Bedwell Grange holds an all day session with installation and dinner. Dr. Morin leaves for Fort Oglethorpe as sugar shortages prompt stoic resolve. Temperature drops to 26 below at Minott and a 50 mile gale strikes the region.
Friends greet E and Bacon on return to duty at Dreamland theatre. Miss Bessie Moore resumes work at Morse Bros after visit with parents in Lisbon Falls. William McMullen visits his parents in Gardiner. W H Gould moves to town for winter amid severe cold. Herbert B Williams from Bath Iron Works sails to Detroit on business. Mrs. William Makenzie returns to Waltham after absence for father Cyrus Dungley’s illness and death. Leonard Marston seen off to Akron to resume work with Goodyear Rubber Co. Edith Merrill leaves for New Gloucester during school closure period.
Corine Gaudreau of Rocton reports long battling indigestion and constipation, dizzy spells, and weakness improved after using Fruit-a-tives. She urges sufferers to try the product, noting a doctor’s approval and life-saving effects. Boxes 50 cents to 2.50. available at dealers or by mail from Frist atives Limited, Ogdensburg, N.Y.
Mrs A M Teeling of New York arrived Sunday for a visit in this city with her son Fred B Teeling and in Brunswick with Had ley W Teeling. Herbert M Sawyer former Bath boy and Worcester Telegram city editor heads Worcester lodge of Mason Friends of Allan B Cameron Everett attaches to Office Workers Co No 3 Camp Johnson Jacksonville Fla taking Quartermasters accounting course plans to go abroad Cameron Morse high 1907 graduate worked in Ford Motor Co accounting department
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