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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1911
Page
12
A Maine advertisement promotes free Portland postal cards with colored views and广告 for ordinary correspondence. A separate probate petition from Sagadahoc County seeks letters testamentary for Almina H. Field, deceased Bath resident, with heirs listed and court notices set for September 5, 1911.
The Independent invites farm and grange news to Bath as gardens look unusually strong for September with crops like corn cucumbers beans and squash thriving. Potatoes are scarce and priced high while apples butter and tomatoes show mixed demand amid rain helped pastures and ongoing cultivation lessons encourage moisture conservation and dry farming principles.
The advertisement touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup as a sixty year remedy used by millions of mothers and children for teething pain wind colic and diarrhea. It promises harmlessness and urges buying at twenty five cents a bottle while warning to request the specific product and not another.
The Dunton Holstein herd led by W. F. Dunton captured blue ribbons in all Bangor fair classes and earned the Holstein Frierian Association of America best herd cup with 26 head entered. This marks a second cup after Lewiston last year as the Waterville fair hosts the herd this week before Lewiston.
The Simpson Descendants Association gathered at West Bath Grange In for its twelfth annual reunion. A basket dinner followed a social hour as members and officers were announced including president E P Pennell and vice presidents Richard Simpson and Dr George Mahoney. Two new members Ruth Sprague Simpson and Alice Simpson joined the 290 strong group tracing lineage to William and Agnes Simpson of Simpson's Point since 1735.
Woolwich Grange held its regular meeting on August 25 and planned events for September including a September 9 visit by the State Master and a September 20 reception for Mr. Butler. The September 21 program featured singing, Grange readings, and questions on household and Sunday topics. Lincoln County Field Day was held at the Wiscasset Court House on August 25 with lectures on Good Roads Direct Primaries and Probate records dating back to 1760.
Home of Mrs. J. H. Mayo hosts Miss Ann Trufant with guests Mrs. Milliken and Mrs. Stores of Cliftondile and Miss Susan Avis and Miss Susan Smith of East Boston. Matty Oakledge and others plan to return to Restos Sunday and Monday. Most cottages at Rosedale and King's Paint remain closed this week.
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