Farm and Home Prices and Supplies Steady in Bath Market
The Bath market reports lower eggs and potatoes while demand rises for onions cabbage and beets. Livestock and grain values hold, with beef and lamb modest, oats and flour up, and wood and hay prices stable amid late storms and higher freight costs. Local dealers note scarce ore keeping metal prices elevated and cattle hides firm at 19 cents. Good wool brings 40 cents.
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Brighton
Portland
Drummond Cutting
Phippsburg
Bath
Bath Market
Bath Tallow Co
The Peddler's Bill Raises Outcry From Farmer Readers
A letter from R. D. Peacock of Lisbon Falls Maine protests a peddlers bill to be voted soon. He urges towns to require $25 per town for sellers and asks readers to pressure the Times and Independent and local grange to kill the measure.
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Mr. Upton
Times and Independent
Early pullets and cockerels for profitable markets
Farmers advised to hatch early pullets to supply next fall and early winter markets. Early birds fetch high egg and meat prices. late hatchings suit Christmas roasts. Early pullets and cockerels offer strong returns as prices rise with demand.
Hog Raising Tips From The Farm Journal
Practical guidance for hog care after farrowing, including feeding sparingly, outdoor exercise, and avoiding dusty floors. Advice on piglet feeding, trough placement, and water needs. Emphasizes building a large pasture with a 26 inch woven wire fence, providing green forage like rape or clover, and marketing fat hogs as pork prices rise.
Very Wearing Weather Mirrors a Contentious Woman
A taut proverb links heaviness of rain to a troublesome woman, describing persistent hardship as a continual drop. The saying suggests enduring discomfort tied to a quarrelsome partner, reflecting moralizing weather metaphor common in period pamphlets.
Topsham Grange Holds Regular Meeting with Debates and Degrees
Ninety members and three visitors attended the Topsham Grange meeting. Three membership applications were received. An apron sale was announced for March 17 after the Grange meeting. The program featured a lecturer and a tableau sequence, a mock town meeting, and a debate on whether women in Maine should vote. Past masters night drew 129 attendees with a reception for new living members and a reminiscence by A. A. Jack. An elaborate supper concluded the evening.
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Topsham Grange
Milward G. Patten
Ladies’ Aid
Grange
A. B. Bickford
Alfred Crowe
Arthur Barrett
Marion Ward
Ruth Alexander
Bernice Nickell Tellers
Fred Rackley
Mabel Phinney
William J. White
Charles P. Edgecomb
Constable
Maine
Marion Nickoll
Ralph Mallett
Bernice Nickoll
Millward Patten
Charles Given
Edwin Phinney
A. T. Bickford
A. A. Jack
Dora Trufant
Charles Edgecomb
William Rogers
Jessie Edgecomb
E. C. Patten
William Foster
Lillian Williams
Henry Simpson
Edwin Hildreth
George Wright
Horace Whitney
E. W. Mallett
Fred Cary
Carrie Plant
Harold Hildreth
George Hildreth
Mary Hanson
Pejepscot
Ginen Jameson
Alpheus Graves
Thomas Sprague
Charles Patten
Thomas Simpson
Emery C. Mallett
Good Time for Easterners to Enter Sheep Business
Dr. Sargent F. Snow a western sheep man says you cannot make a sheep profitable with ticks or worms and notes there is room for more sheep on the eastern hillsides. He observes rising prices for meat and wool making it seem like a good time to enter the business.
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Sargent F. Snow
Maine Extension Talks Save Dairymen Thousands
Three day school programs run by the University of Maine extension department draw strong interest across the state. In East Hebron at Grange hall dairymen heard that proper dairy feed selection could save thousands of dollars.
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University of Maine
Grange Hall
East Hebron
Five Islands Grange Hall Fund Nearing Half‑Million
The Five Islands Grange fund to build a hall grows steadily and is nearing $500. Sagadahoc Pomona will meet with this grange in June. The Maine public would benefit from 100,000 more Swedes of Aroostook County, as suggested by ex-Minister W. W. Thomas.
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Five Islands
Sagadahoc
Pomona
W. W. Thomas
Maine
Aroostook County
West Bath Votes on Birch Point Village Matter
Local note: town meeting turnout affected by storm. Birch Point Village Association gains rights to own and build its roads. Town officials elected and measles illness reduce student attendance at North Bath School.
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West Bath
Co. W. Lee
Mill Cove
Ernest Rose
Walter Larrabee
Board of Selectmen
Fred Rose
I. B. Neiley
Henry Holden
Addie Purington
Birch Point
500 Pleasure Boats and Civilian Defense Plans
The Massachusetts public safety committee called a conference of towboat men steamship operators fishing fleet representatives and marine unions for the next Wednesday to map naval aid in war. A sub committee will study horse and mule use in war and Major General Leonard Wood advised immediate enrollment of 500 New England pleasure boats with 5000 crews for coast patrols armed with one pounders and machine guns. Capt. Raymond D Rasgrouck chairs the civilian defense committee under the yard commandant.
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Massachusetts Committee On Public Safety
Public Safety Committee
Leonard Wood
U.S. A
New England
Raymond D. Rasgrouck
Naval Reserve
Splinter Burns Eye of Bath Iron Works Sailor
In Bath on Wednesday a rivet splinter punched into Sgt. Robert P. Sturtevant face injuring the left eye after 3:30 pm at Bath Iron Works. He was treated at Bath City Hospital and doctors hope some vision remains.
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Bath Iron Works
Robert P. Sturtevant
4Th Company
M. C. Artillery
Sturtevant
Bath City Hospital
E. M. Fuller
Kershner
Mr. Sturtevant
Woolwich Sadden by Two Deaths and Double Funeral
A double funeral for Charles H. Hathorne and Horace Hathorne was held at their Woolwich home with Rev. James T. Cochran presiding. Survivors include Harvey Hathorne and several daughters. the pair were longtime church deacons. Out-of-town attendees arrived from Richmond and Augusta. The town’s severe storm delayed meetings and events, while news of the deaths dominated the community.
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The
Congregational Church
Winfield Wright
Everson Stinson
Dresden
Lemuel Stinson
Lincoln Bailey
Mt. Desert
O. C. Nutting
Katharine Boyd
South Tamworth
N. H
Ministry
Lincoln Congregational Churches
Woolwich
E. R. Warren
Sunbeams
Graphophone
Wilson Wright
Nequasset
Chester Robbins
Frank Head
Yarmouth
Harry Hayward
Portland
Homer Lindsay
Maude Hayward
Arrowsiee
E. R. Dolloff
D. G. Trott
Bath City
Edgar Bailey
Frank Perkins
William Elliott
Charles H
Horace H. Hawthorne
James T. Cochran
Hallowell
D. J. Hawthorne
John Sheldon
Addison Rice
Albert Hawthorne
Ralph Rice
Laurel Grove Cemetery
Charles Alexander
Richmond
Sarah Bagley
Kents Hill
Luella Palmer
Newcastle
Elizabeth Hawthorne
Augusta
Alice Dodge
Wiscasset
Samuel Moore
S. M. Reed
Arthur Carleton
Roscoe Savage
Bath
Charles Groves
Miss Bean
Harold Walker
Harold Snipe
Cathance
Snipe
Sarah P. BE. Hathorne
Sarah P. E. Hathorne
Robert Reed
Mabel
Gladys Crocker
Bath City Hospital
Imi
Charles Hathorne
Horace
Ernest
Baptist Church
Gilbert
Harvey
Horace Hathorne
Eben Dana
Wilmot Dodge
Eliza
Horace H. Hathorne
Christina
Philip
Hathorne
Willard B. Reed
Fayette
Anna G. Snipe
Arrowsie
Millard Hathorne
Seattle
Wash
Independent
Ellen Warren
Day’s Ferry
Walter Baker
Lizzie Thwing
Jessie Kelley
Small Point
Henry Carlton
Kent’s Hill
Warren
Franklin Warren
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Lynn
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Alonzo Donnell
Larrabee Pond
Gordon Preble
Sebasco
Jane Lemont
Lexington
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Fisher
Foster’s Point
Haggett
North Bath
Maine Central Railroad
Mr. Owen
Blind Crossing
S. L. Grows
Hardings
Fred White
Will Brown
Gage Russell
Jane Gerrish
Nannie Brown
Lewiston Journal
8. R. Brown
Berry’s Mill
Evelyn Brown
Harland Bell
Miss Brown
Allan Brown
State School For Boys
Henry Howard
Bert Lakin
Bell
North Bath School
C. W. Lee
Frank Sprague
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Margaret E
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Texas Office
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Everybody's Column
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BR. F. Sedgley
Steamboat Landing
B. F. Perry
Bessemer
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Herbert Lilly
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Navy Department
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