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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1910
Page
2
The community mourns the deaths of Hon. William T. Donnell and Charles H. McLellan, Bath’s leading industrial figures, whose long service defined the city’s prosperity. The note calls for responsible stewardship by the remaining business leaders and laments a dangerous wireless misreport that endangered ships.
Ferdinand Small returns to Waltham with his mother Mrs. James W. Small while Walter Hall arrives from the west to visit his parents Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hall amid family illness. Rev. Charles Purinton dies suddenly. funeral at West Bowdoin church. Lobster fishing reports light hauls this week.
Local notes report the ferry Hockomock out of service for a few hours Thursday due to a slight machinery accident. The Nequasset church fair raised about 40 dollars with most of it targeted for church work. Harmony club prepares for a Hallowe en party at the parsonage. Meadow road received light repairs with dirt fill. F W Carlton’s potato plantation yielded about 1 000 bushels, plus several hundred bushels of oats and substantial barley. Dyke land experiments, once questioned for wetness, are described as very successful.
Westport activity reports include H F Knight building a large can nery near his home and visits by Mrs Wendell Stevens of Westport Junction in Portland. Chester Knight and family from Boothbay Center visited. Spinney’s mill at Arrowsie received oak timber from the Foster lot.
A reader adds to Independent coverage of the Reed estate noting Col Andrew Reed's second daughter Angeline wed Flavel Bowker of Phippsburg Center. The couple later moved to Brunswick where Bowker long served as deacon of First Parish church.
News from Phippsburg reports New England Telephone and Telegraph will soon extend service to the Stony Brook district. Allie Wallace plans a 24 by 26 foot store connected to his home, with John Frisbee completing the construction. The town gains new stores on the west side amid rising summer business. Frank Bowker will winter in Augusta while serving in the legislature. Richard C. Morse expands cider production into vinegar powered by a gas engine and dynamo. Dromore Orange attendees at Sagadahoc Pomona included George D. Weston and J. F. Upton. County granite markers set along the Winneganee bridge to Pitch Pine hill route by Civil Engineer Charles A. Coriiss. John G Morse & Sons of Winne wage repairs and alterations planned.
Reader testimony from Josph Vandegriff of Rochester area describes relief after five years of illness, fainting, headaches, swelling, and fatigue following an operation. The letter credits Williams Pink Pills with restoring strength and allowing return to work, noting safe use and availability at 50 cents a box or five dollars for a box bundle.
The town notes Mrs Lucy Purington remains bedbound after a fall. Mr and Mrs A G Fisher plan to rent in Portland and winter there while boats are stored at a navy yard. Neighbors will miss them on the Point. Miss Murch of New York visits Mrs Henry Galt, who just returned from New York and Brooklyn.
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