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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1915
Page
10
Eggs cheaper and new moon looming. Pond ice cuttings, maple sap, and fat red squirrels signal early spring. Community notes cover dances, charity sewing circles, ship work, fire yard safety, ice shipments, scouts basketball, and upcoming local events in Bath and surrounding towns.
Price of hay is listed at 16 and 17 cents. The piece notes quiet police times, spring feelings with marbles and hoops, and near freezing temperatures. Local events include whist parties, shad preparations, church ladies meetings, and public notices. Obituaries mention Col. Francis Keefe, former Maine public buildings superintendent, who died after years of ill health. Weather memories compare spring to 58 years ago during Buchanan era festivities. A furor of local society, lodge installs, and Coast Artillery Reserve training are summarized alongside the 1915 Boston Automobile Show and railway transfer news.
Town notes report three loads of hay weighed at city scales on Tuesday. Popham dance scheduled for Wednesday in Society Hall. Rockland and Bath both host spring jumps events. The Odd Ladies Sewing Circle met with Mrs Mary MelIntire at 362 Washington St. Bath to host intercity tournament with Waseca Club next Tuesday. Edward E Barry schooner dividend noted and sap harvest from trees on Ham's Hill. The Modern Woodmen and Red Men arrange 54 pitch games with a banquet for losers. Concerns about river ice near season end. Longest cribbage game nears completion in Des Moines.
The smoke from a large brush fire in Arrowsii e was noticeable all Tuesday in Bath. Reports note local firefighting efforts and residents observing the smoky scene from nearby streets and homes.
Lucas County affidavit by Frank J. Cheney of Toledo advertising Hall's Catarrh Cure with a $100 reward per case cured. Affidavit sworn December 6 before Notary A. W. Gleason. Claims internal remedy acts on blood and mucous surfaces. Sells through Sede Y & Co. Toledo and available from druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Bath figures 2623 polls from the 1810 census and local industry and social items include the Shoe Factory resuming activity. Major George A L Baker ill at home, Morse High girls face Cony High in Augusta, and Easter clothes worries. Community meetings, boat trade, and church events appear alongside Augusta mayoral election news and a plan to supply testaments to soldiers via Maine Sunday schools.
Community notices report a Sons of Veterans dance on March 24 and a secret caucus of incoming Democrats in the city government. Also listed are legal seizures of whiskey and wine, a Plymouth Rock prepared for the oven weighing seven and a half pounds, Maine Central dividend details, and brief updates on ships, basketball players, and Masonic lodge elections and officers.
The Life Guards are two regiments of cavalry in the British household troops. The ad urges strengthening the system with Hood's Sarsaparilla to guard against diseases like colds influenza catar rh grip and pneumonia in March, claiming it boosts vitality and blood warmth.
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