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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1912
Page
10
Bath readers track a busy week with elections debates, Labor Day parades, and social events. Postmaster Hyde reports strong mail service on Sundays and a busy bay for duck hunting. Plans surface for a shoe factory, a Shaw Mill box factory, and a Harvard Yale type steamer deal amid local commerce.
Earl Rice returns to Dana's wood yard after a short vacation with his brother in East Boston. Mrs. Fred Hathorn and Miss Carrie Barrows visit kin in Boston and Maine. Nearly fifty Woolwichites attend the Arrowsic convention and look forward to the next.
William F. Donnell of St. Paul visits home with his wife and son after 15 years away. E. W. Haggett attends the State carrier convention in Bangor as a Lincoln county delegate. Mrs. Haggett substitutes on the route during his two week vacation. Florence Farrar and Ernest Farrar attend Mrs. Lucy Purington’s funeral in town. Various residents tour Squirrel Island and plans for water works and cottages on New Meadows river are noted. Vote for Kelley and Good Roads.
Mr and Mrs Edwin Cornish of Bath visited James R Allen's. A Morton Soule led a crew destroying gypsy moths at Brown Field. John Stewart of Whitefield visited G M Stinson's, formerly employed there. Milton Trott recovering from rheumatic fever. John A Thwing of North Woolwich sold the season’s first cauliflower in Bath and priced well for early vegetables. Residents attended a Republican rally in Bath with free ferry trips, Bath band, and drum corps providing music.
Social event marked the tenth birthday of Marion Coward with a afternoon of games ice cream cake and candy. Family and invited guests included Cromwell Rowe Stevens Sheridan White and others as seasonal cottage residents departed and visitors returned to towns and cities around the area.
A sales pitch touts a new Premium Plan offering real value articles in exchange for coupons and certificates. The plan claims prices are unchanged while increased trade covers premiums, noting a Profit Sharing Catalog with more than seven hundred premiums to be given to customers.
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