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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1909
Page
7
Farm and Home column appeals for reader contributions to improve the department and deliver value to country readers. Readers are urged to send farm and grange news or any items of interest to the Independent Office in Bath.
Market report notes scarce fresh eggs with case eggs dominating sales. Dairy butter sells 32 33 cents a pound. creamery butter from Iowa draws attention. Local produce like potatoes apples cabbage onions beans and celery priced widely. hay at 20 dollars a ton.
Sagadahoc farmers pull up bean poles clear corn stalks and tidy fall gardens. Rain this fall filled meadows wells and cisterns sparking hopes for a warm winter. Meetings note New England Corn Exposition Maine officers and a Maine agriculture push plus a new Maine farmers exchange plan.
An incidental New England corn exposition was organized in Boston to stage a corn and corn products show in fall 1910. A permanent governing board was formed with state governors among its ranks, and a constitution and by laws committee was appointed. The campaign will begin immediately with cooperation from experiment stations and agricultural departments, aiming to rival the 1909 fruit show success in Boston.
It is early to predict prices as fresh turkeys will arrive in Bath in a week. Western high quotes refer only to frozen stock, not prices paid by consumers. Last year there were few locally raised birds and this year fewer. supply overseas from Vermont and New Brunswick is unsettled but the dry season may keep prices down with an initial range of 20 to 25 cents.
Tuesday evening at the hall of Dromore Grange featured a engaging program. Rev. Charles L. Stevens recounted a Bodwell Grange contest between brothers and sisters and suggested a similar event for Dromore. The first and second degrees were conferred on one candidate and the third and fourth are planned for near Tuesday.
About thirty attended Bodwell Grange Saturday with a voluntary program then a supper of claim stew crackers pickles corned beef pies cake and coffee. Sister Totman gave an original poem and led music with Bro Hosmer for an evening of dancing.
The item lists a West Bath grange program for Monday evening November 15 with music recitation and discussions led by Ethel Coombs and Mrs Herbert Harris among others. It also covers a Maine probate court notice in Bath detailing Mary M Tarbox estate with William Mussenden as executor and schedule of heirs and shares, plus a long help wanted classified noting government positions and required exams.
Notice states Frank I Perry claims foreclosure of a mortgage on a Parker's Point parcel in Georgetown Sagadahoc County Maine after breach of condition. The deed chain includes Bergeron transfers to Thomas Libby and a 1900 assignment of mortgage rights, with dates in October 1905.
Edwin Shaw of Bowdoin Maine petitions the Sagadahoc Probate Court to appoint Daniel S Jaques or a suitable person as administrator of Jerusha A Shaw deceased intestate who died September 26 1909 leaving real estate valued at least twenty dollars and listed heirs Addie L Leonard daughter Edwin Shaw son Verona Chadburn daughter Laidley B Shaw daughter David S Shaw son with next of kin. The court to publish notice in Bath and set December 1 1909 as the hearing date.
In Sagadahoe Bath on the first Tuesday of November 1969 administrators Edward L. Reed and David E. Hathorn seek final accounting for Samuel B. Reed estate. They must publish notice in Bath Independent three weeks before a December hearing to show cause why the account should not be allowed. Judge James S. Lowell presides. Cyrus W. Longley, Register, attests.
Samuel Jackson of Jefferson County asks the Maine probate court to determine the actual market value of the decedent’s property and the tax due under Chapter 146. The filing lists heirs and shares in Schedule A and states the Bath court will hear the petition on the first Tuesday of December.
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