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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1911
Page
3
Public notice fragment shows advertising rates and class matter information. It references a period around 1909 with postal post office details and a legal act citation, indicating second class matter designation and a rate entry.
The Bath area notes losing the steamship tax next year but argues past gains can guide recovery. It urges early spring planning for housing, industry, and tidal power prospects, while highlighting local politics, town meeting turnout, and preparations by figures like Merritt and Beal for Sebasco and West Bath developments.
The Dromore Grange night features singing, readings by Worthy Master J. F. Upton and others, a question about canning veggies for winter use with Rebecca Bowker leading a ladies quartet, recitations by Aretha Cutting, Agnes Cutting, and Bessie Dickinson, instrumental by Abbie Minott, and a closing reading by Ney C L Stevens.
Arrowsic residents visit relatives in Bowdoin and Lewiston while Mrs J H Snipe returns from Lewiston and Miss Addie Day visits at the Foreside. Brown tail moth nests spread but removal is slow. wells run dry. Lydia June Clifford dies in Richmond of pneumonia. interment in Hallowell. Harry Day visits M C Drummond with a portable sawing machine. Mrs Henry Lawrence and children to Poland. A town resident plans to move to Topsham next spring.
The Ames couple from Woolwich Maine thank neighbors friends and Yarmouth Academy senior class and affiliated organizations for sympathy aid and floral offerings following their recent bereavement. March 2 1911.
Topsham men Charles Grover Topsham and Alton Graves cut fine pine logs for James Spinney of Bath. Horace Whitney and Charles Rackley haul them to the Cathance river for rafting to Spinney's mill. The steamer Moosehead launch from Bath Iron Works at 8:30 today will be open to the public with Maine Central officials expected to attend.
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