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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1917
Page
3
Officials of the United States Department of Agriculture urge simple home fermentation to preserve cabbage cucumbers beans and other vegetables. The article notes rain excess and price swings in cabbage and explains advantages of salt brine fermentation for large quantities with minimal cost and labor.
Dairying experts explain profits rise sharply with higher butter fat production. Data from 1,668 cows show income over feed cost grows faster than output, stressing better cows and feeding. Mr. and Mrs. James P. King and son James Sumner left Friday to visit relatives in Lynn.
Community notes from Phippsburg detail visits by Alfred Gould, Ralph Cox, and others to New Meadows Inn and local homes. Residents tour Brunswick, attend church, and participate in dances and camp meetings at Sebasco Estates while weather and moonlight frame seaside life.
The USDA urges producing pork mainly from food wastes rather than grain to feed humans. Wastes from canneries bakeries fisheries packing plants and dairy by products support rapid hog growth and financial return. Windfallen fruit garden wastes and kitchen scraps can supplement feed while reducing waste and boosting manure.
The gypsy moth was found in Maine in August 1906 on John Thaxter’s trees in Kittery. By fall scouts reported infestations across Kittery, Eliot, York, South Berwick, Berwick, Wells, Kennebunk and Piddeford prompting a 30,000 dollar annual appropriation for 1907 and 1908. Field work began under the Agriculture Commissioner with egg clusters painted and no parasites used in early efforts.
An old advisory notes illness worsens when digestion is imperfect and urges early bed and warmth. It promotes a home remedy labeled a2. 7 Medicine and claims quick relief from congestion by drinking two to four teaspoonfuls in hot water, priced 35 cents with a free sample offer from L. F. Medicine Co., Portland, Maine.
Autos fill with baggage as travelers move about town after a heavy shower hit the area. Roads were muddy and washed Thursday, disrupting movement.
Dromore Grange plans a Sept 4 program with Opening Song Grange choir question and discussion on the greatest factor in making a successful farmer money education energy. Reading Sister Purington and Bros Merry and Perry contribute items of interest followed by Closing Song America.
The local W. C. T. U. held a session with Mrs. Lécilia Knight presiding. They reported on Alms House activities and Red Cross work, noting comfort bags and knit items from Corliss Street Church. The union plans to attend the state convention in Calais on Sept. 10.
Popham Beach Aug 29 members of First Company Coast Artillery Fort Baldwin extend congratulations to Corp Elver A Stickney who got leave to marry Hazel S Beal at Beacon Street Church parsonage Bath. Stickney son of Fred A Stickney, bride daughter of Mr and Mrs William N Beal.
Monday kept Dr. C A Peaslee working as he treated multiple patients including rescuing Miss Josephine Oliver from self harm. He assisted Dr H F Morin in an operation on Norman McNeil at City Hospital and attended to Frank Wilkins Earl Barker and Dennis Boudreau injuries while also officiating at a birth. Dorothy Jowett will open a kindergarten on September tenth at Winter Street Chapel for a limited number of children.
Damariscotta Herald reports three First Company members James Conboy Steve Richards and Ned Metcalf from Fort Popham returned on furlough to Damariscotta and missed the Woolwich train after a car rider offered five dollars for a lift. A second man later gave them a ride, prompting editorial condemnation of the initial demand.
John Youngflesh and his son Jerome left Bath for Pottsville Pennsylvania. The elder, a Georgetown visitor, writes for local papers and contributes a pastoral classic to The Independent. He thanks Herman Spinney of Bay Point for help locating historic sites around the island and Three Sisters on the captain's launch.
Miss MacAlarney of Pennsylvania addressed about 100 men at a Tuesday suffrage gathering in Postoffice Square urging thoughtful consideration before the September 10 vote. Introduced by Arthur J. Dunton, she spoke from an automobile with Mrs. Dunton and Mrs. Mullin present. Karcher Jackson acted as bugler and she planned to speak in Rockland that evening.
Bath receives a grand display on the financial page featuring the Samuel W. Fancher ship in a three column cut. The 3600 ton, 275 foot vessel draws 21 feet and is the 192nd built at Kelley Spear Co yard since 1826, touted as Bath’s best advertisement in years.
Bath and Brunswick Light and Power Co. will cut all power and light circuits to upgrade to a new switchboard at the local station starting two o clock Sunday morning. Full service will not resume until noon due to the interruption. An advertisement elsewhere explains the situation.
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