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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1915
Page
10
Local items report on band rehearsal in Bath and diverse weekly events across Brunswick and Topsham. Activities include fairs, dances, whist parties, millinery jobs, funerals, a Portland music festival opening with Nellie Melba, and a fire prevention placard campaign.
Morse High School football team plans a Saturday trip to Farmington to meet Farmington High in what will be Morse’s first game in Farmington. Local notes also mention D A R meetings in Farmington, fair policing, and various community events and projects.
The column catalogs local happenings from shipments to Dreamland Theatre chairs and new ceilings to a missing girl Mary Modes age thirteen. It notes Coast Guard reassignment, housing sales, a Bath timber purchase, an engagement, and a social gathering at 15 Cherry Street with prizes and a birthday cake.
Bath reports a light school day for Topsham Fair and local yard activity with the schooner and Keelson underway. Real estate and prospects in Bath bloom after a long lull, with maps, renovations, and a dividend on the Alice May Davenport voyage. Bowdoin defeats Boston College. city statistics show September births and deaths.
One man seeks city lodging while Bath Aerie invites members to the Eagles Home opening in Waterville Thursday. The sheriff displays a liquor kit at the Court House for peach brandy whiskey rum or gin. Real estate moves on Center St hill as Charles T. Jackson sells two Snow estate plots to James P. Ledyard and Elvira Trafton.
The Popham and Boothbay steamers brought numerous riders to Topsham Fair this week. A Knox & Lincoln special carried 541 passengers to Woolwich with Bath participants adding a car. Conductor Faton led the run from Portland.
A promotional note urges careful eating to protect digestion and markets L. F. Atwood’s Medicine as a stomach aid. It promises a 35 cent bottle and a free needle book offer in exchange for a yellow wrapper with the reader’s opinion.
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