Market Fluctuations Mark New York Egg Prices and Local Fees
Dealers pay 45 to 47 cents for eggs with retail at 55 cents and wholesale reach 60 cents in New York. Chickens 28 to 30 cents, fowl 22-25, no dairy butter, beef 14, lamb 22, veal 13-16, pork 16, Brighton hogs 16 1/2. Potatoes stagnant, demand slackens, Portland 15 carloads awaiting buyers. Market prices vary. some predict drop, others expect strength. Notes on per bushel and per pound prices for produce and grain products follow.
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New York
Brighton
Portland
Orono Farmer Week urged for wider attendance next week
H A Swanton of Bath promotes attending Orono Farmer's Week urging larger turnout than last year. The event runs Tuesday morning to Friday afternoon with lectures demonstrations and meetings by groups such as the Farmers Union Maine Pomological Society Live Stock Breeders Association and Dairymen's Association. Total cost to Swanton was under $10 including railroad fare.
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H. A. Swanton
Bath
Orono
Boothday Register
Farmers’ Union
Maine Pomological Society
Live Stock Breeders’ Association
Dairymen’s Association
Department of Home Economics
Swanton
Enterprise Grange Holds Degree Ceremonies in Richmond
Enterprise Grange Richmond held a Saturday meeting with all officers present. Four candidates received 1st and 2nd degrees, followed by recitations and questions. A potato race and refreshments concluded the program as the order mourned Sister Lucy H. Meserve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enterprise Grange
Richmond
Minnie Stuart
Brothers and Sisters
Bernice Passmore
Frank Ridlon
W.G.K
E. R. Stuart
Annie Skelton
S. S. Libby
Ernest Stuart
Grange
Lucy H. Meserve
West Bath Grange Reschedules Meeting Due to Weather
West Bath Grange did not meet last Monday evening because of bad weather. The special program led by Lizzie Hagcett and Mararget Peterson will be presented next Monday night. Lecturer Elmer Rich, who has been very sick, is improving.
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West Bath
Dromore Grange Plans Pomona Meeting After Harvest Feast
Dromore Grange at Phippsburg held a harvest feast after a degree work Tuesday evening. Some talk focused on preparations for the next Pomona, which meets with this grange on the last Wednesday of the month.
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Dromore Grange
Phippsburg
Thompson couple in Augusta for Judiciary Committee hearing
Mr and Mrs George H Thompson spent Wednesday in Augusta. Mr Thompson attended the hearing before the Committee on Judiciary concerning the act to regulate hawkers and peddlers.
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George H. Thompson
Augusta
Mr. Thompson
Committee On Judiciary
Pomona Grange Meeting Reports Busy Busy Forenoon
Sagadahoc County Pomona Grange held a crowded meeting at Woolwich Hall Montsweag with 59 in attendance. The program featured addresses, songs, papers on patriotism and cost of production, a dairy inspection stance, a farce, and a conference report, with next session planned for March 28 at Dromore Grange Phippsburg.
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Woolwich
Sagadahoc
Pomona Grange
Woolwich Grange
Montsweag
C. M. Toothaker
J. G. Bailey
A. H. Hildreth
Toothaker
Pomona
Angie Hunnewell
Grange
Department of Agriculture
Attorney General’s Office
E. C. Patten
Home Grange
Sister McKenney
Waterville
Joanna Hodgkins
Dromore Grange
Phippsburg
Yoke of Oxen Sells for 400 as Brunswick Market Warms
In Brunswick hay markets show strong demand for fine stock with a Durham yoke brought to Lewiston for beef and reportedly sold for 400. Farmers report scarce vegetables, rising prices, and brisk hog and butter trades as apples and canned goods stay in demand.
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Brunswick
al Hunter
Topsham
Durham
Lewiston
George Fowler
Portland Road
American Can Co
Bath
Woolwich Cemetery Associations In Annual Meetings
The Riverside Cemetery Association of Woolwich held its annual meeting on February 24. Officers elected include Charlotte L. Buck secretary Novella J. Trott treasurer and Maud N. Larrabee auditor with Alton B. Thwing and W. Scott Tibbetts as directors. Treasurer's report lists funds, receipts and expenditures through January 31, 1917, plus notes on balances and indebtedness. The meeting also notes other local cemetery reports and community notices from Woolwich Bath and Day's Ferry.
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Riverside Cemetery Assn
Riverside Cemetery Association of
Woolwich
Charlotte L. Buck
Novella J. Trott
Augusta
Maud N. Larrabee
Bath
F. W. Carltog
Alton B. Thwing
W. Scott Tibbetts
Francis M. Hawthorne
Maud H. Larrabee
Edwin Greble Creer
Everett M. Trott
Augusta Savings Banks
Bath Savings Bank Fy
Gardiner Savings Bank Et Ee
Wiscasset Savings Biailee Ee Tyatte
Pastorder
First Foreign Missionary Society
Christian Endeavor Society
First College
Harvard
First Theological Seminary
Mother’s Meeting
First Temperance Society
Anti- Saloon League
Charlotte Buck
Arthur Larrabee
F. H. Carlton
Johnson
the Ferry
Ossian Dodge
William Reed
Beulah Houdilette
Henna Dana
Frank Head
Million Dollar Spectacle Civilization at Bath Opera House
Thomas Ince's Civilization comes to Bath Opera House for three days with grand claims and a million dollar production. Reviews crown it a monumental achievement surpassing prior feats, backed by a vast studio, thousands of workers, and immense funding. Matinees 2 15, nights 7 30, tickets 15 25 50 cents.
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Thomas Ince
Bath Opera House
David Griffith
Bath
Sudden death shocks Georgetown community
The town mourns Eliza A. Dearborn who died quietly in her home after returning from Five Islands. Born September 8, 1835 in Augusta Missouri, she lived in Charles Town and later moved to Georgetown with her son. Survived by two sisters, the obituary notes a long, active life and a family burial at Five Islands.
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Eliza A. Dearborn
Mrs. Dearborn
Augusta
William
Caroline Heath
John F. Dearborn
Charlestown
Mass
William H. Dearborn
Caroline Rogers
Vinalhaven
Sarah Stevens
Five Islands
Mary Stevens
Popham Beach
William Boyd
Whist and Dance at Texaco Club Draw Large Attendance
The Tuesday evening whist and social at the Texaco Club drew the second largest crowd of the winter with eighteen tables in play. Mr. Hern and Mrs. Perkins won first prizes while Miss Grace Brown and Arthur Smith received booby prizes. Nearly 100 couples danced to Perkins's orchestra.
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Texaco Club
Jennie Perkins
Hern
Grace Brown
Arthur Smith
Perkins
Miss Bessié-Todd Guest At Popham Beach Visit
Miss Bessié-Todd stayed with Mr and Mrs Nathaniel Perking of Popham Beach Tuesday night and toured Bath on Wednesday. The Sunday service at 10 30 will present the second talk on Christian Experience on Justification. Attendance at the Thursday evening meeting rises. Byron Rowe cut down the old four foot diameter oak tree near Meadow Bridge with Will Mains assisting. The landmark tree had stood for years and is now gone. George Oliver continued quarry work this week.
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N. Gratz Jackson
Bath
Eliza Dearborn
B. H. Woodside
Owen Marr
Charles Oliver
Dorothy Stuart
James Stuart
W. T. Boyd
Edgar B. Hunt
Harold Hunt
Everett
Howard Trafton
Elmira Trafton
Bertha Russell
Eleanor Hollis
Portland
Byron Rowe
Harry Heald
Henry Todd
Todd
Working League
Jewett
Vestry
A. E. Rowe
West Georgetown Landing
Five Islands
Riggsville
Virginia
Popham Beach
Popham Beach Steamboat Co
Herman Spinney
Fred Spinney
Bay Point
Five Islands Church
Roland Harford
Horace Jordan
Bessié-Todd
Nathaniel Perking
Little Hill
Meadow Bridge
Will Mains
George Oliver
Hearing on Casco Islands annexation to Sagadahoc and Phippsburg
A late afternoon hearing in Augusta before the towns committee considered a measure to annex Casco Bay islands to Sagadahoc and Phippsburg. Attorney W S Glidden of Bath testified for Phippsburg, noting Malaga Island’s history and subsequent state purchase.
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Augusta
Committee On Towns
Casco Bay
Sagadahoc
Phippsburg
W. S. Glidden
Bath
Glidden
Theer
Malaga Island
Maine
Gov. Plaisted
Rep. Rounds
C. V. Minott
Flagg Island
Harpswell
E. G. Wilson
Flagg Mark
Cow Islands
Rideout Witnesses Spine Operation On Son In Portland
Isaac H Rideout traveled to Portland to observe at the Children's Hospital as Carlton W Rideout undergoes a plaster cast procedure after surgeons confirmed a fractured spine from a fall while clearing apple trees on the Moses estate High Street. The 21 year old received treatment outside the hospital.
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Isaac H. Rideout
Portland
Carlton W. Rideout
Children’s Hospital
Rideout
Moses Estate
High St
Carlton
Mr. Rideout
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West Bath Grange
Carrie Hodgdon
Frank S. Adams
J. E. Fullerton
Emma Purington
Charles M. White
Judith Rice
Sister Hodgdon
Independent
Rebecca Bowker
Bros. White
Adams
Sister Bowker
Woolwich Cemetery Associations
E. H. Carlton
C. H. Perkins
Coe
Augusta Savings Br
Oteans Eee
J. Trott
Baptist Ladies’ Aid
Union Bridge
Will Eliott
Clarence Baker
Grip
Frost Bailey
Edgar Bailey
Partridge Cemetery Association
D. W. Blair
G. M. Stinson
Alfred W. Beal
George Tracey
Newton
Herman Perkins
Wilbur Howe
Sebenon Hall
Sagadahoc Pomona Grange
Murphy’s Corner
Robert N. Day
Hazel M. Wright
Dannie Hart
Stephen Dolly
John Savage
Will Downing
North Woolwich
Opera House
West Georgetown
Jesus
Everybody's Column
Drummond Cutting
Steamboat Landing
B. F. Perry
Bessemer
Pittsburgh
Casco Islands
Phippsburgh
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