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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1911
Page
5
Natick Massachusetts woman recounts severe nervous distress and insomnia during menopause. After two doctors warned of a tumor she tried Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and reports complete relief. She urges others to consider the remedy and offers to write for confidential advice.
Independent readers are invited to share farm and grange news. Bath market voices report light produce, crops advancing, and near July with rain needed. Eggs 20c per dozen, dairy butter 23c or more, potatoes 70c a bushel, best seed potatoes $1, berries promising, onions scarce, beans planted, chickens 20–22c per lb, lamb veal scarce at 12c, hay $16 a ton, strawberries scarce then rising.
Sagadahoc county Pomona grange holds its May session with Dromore grange of Phippsburg. A memorial service honors members who died in the past year. The program includes music addresses, necrology, papers, debates on education versus nature, and entertainment by Dromore Grange.
Enterprise Grange convened with 56 members and 23 visitors from Progressive and Merry for a Saturday night session. Officers led by Florence Burns were applauded as music by Miss Fern Webber accompanied a varied program of solos, readings, dialogues, and a Sousa Band finale performed by twelve sisters.
Leon S Merrill of Orono announces Maine Seed Improvement Association premiums at the annual meeting to promote crops grown by boys 18 and under. Prizes include 5 3 and 2 dollars for best 10 ears of flint corn and 3 2 and 1 dollars for best single ear. Additional prizes offered for judging corn and potatoes. judging by boys was featured at last year's Augusta exhibit.
Town notes show road repairs in lower West Bath and boat service on the New Meadows river. Visitors from Bath and Massachusetts plan summer stays, while farms report good apple blossoms and need for rain. Memorial Day programs and school holidays are announced along with local social visits.
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