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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1914
Page
4
A historical guide outlines Halloween festivities with games such as The Horse Shoe Fortune and Fate, a doaf of four, and a corn popper contest. It suggests scenes of pumpkin centerpieces, candy pulls, chestnut crafts, fortune papers, and a large spread with pumpkins, apples, popcorn, and autumn décor for a lively, youngster friendly party.
The Bath market reports wholesale prices for this Air Crisp season. Lettuce traded around 20 cents per head, celery 20 cents per stalk, squash 6 to 8 cents per pound, and turnips 60 cents per bushel. Cabbage 1 cent per pound, cauliflower about $1.90 per box, beets 79 cents per bushel, carrots 90 cents, ripe tomatoes $1 per bushel, green tomatoes 50 cents, potatoes 5 to 60 cents per bushel, sweet potatoes $2.75 per barrel, onions 75 cents per bushel, pickling onions $3 per bushel, bell peppers $1.65, parsnips $1 per bushel, pumpkins 1 to 15 cents each, apples 50 cents to $1, cranberries $5 to $4.54 per barrel, grapefruit prices dropped, oranges $5.4 to ?.
Sherman Morse sails to New York to join the tug Nottingham for winter service between that city and eastern ports. Various locals visit, hostesses entertain, and the community reports births, birthdays, and market prices for fruit, vegetables, and dairy products. Obadiah Trask’s 94th birthday celebrated with family. Prices include lemons, bananas, quince, grapes, beef, veal, lamb, fowl, butter, and eggs with regional arrivals and visits noted.
New Meadows items report Miss Merex Holbrook visiting from Portland over the weekend. Mrs Harvey Jordan plans a Dur ham visit for a week. Partridges and a woodcock noted in a hunting item. Miss Dorothy Tarr recovers from knee blood poisoning and school absence. Multiple residents travel or change residences. a pulpit resignation at the Baptist church is noted.
Irving M. Ward of Brunswick married Miss Florence A. Jones of this city last Saturday afternoon in a ring ceremony conducted by Rev. George E. Ackerman. Best man was Lewis C. Ward, groom’s brother, and the bride is daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Jones. The couple will reside in Brunswick and received many presents. A local man found a lean in his well containing two pails a tin can a solder stick a shell back comb and a watch after the water level dropped.
Bath visitor H A Nealley reports a new expansion contract with C W Blaisdell for the Mac Mahan Island clubhouse. The addition adds a 500 square foot dining living area with renovated dining room, old trophies and yacht club flags on walls, and a parlor for breakfast with Maine views.
The Sagadahoc Grange adopts resolutions mourning the death of Elaona A Brown and expresses sympathy to her family. They note her social kindness and the vacancy her passing leaves, and pledge remembrance and fraternal support as they look toward a better land. The message requests publication in the Bath Enterprise.
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