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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1908
Page
6
Bowdoinham and nearby towns enjoy late summer tilled with visitors and seasonal activity. Residents host friends from Somerville and Bath while preparations for next season include new cottages and repairs. Rural life faces dry weather and wells low as families travel, fish, and attend church services.
Miss Locke of Portland teaches in this place. Robert Jordan and John O Randall gather smells this fall. Charles Prince hauls logs for Mr. Merrill to Getehells Mills. Miss Lottle Howard goes to village for winter work. A A Wheeler threshes grain this fall. Mrs Harvey Tarr returns from Orrs Island. Mr and Mrs Peter Cushing and Miss Streat attend church Sunday. Mrs Robert Jordan takes a pleasure trip to the village.
Mrs Emma Hatch visits daughter in Massachusetts while Addie Houndlert of Dresden Bans sews for Mrs Warren Hatch. Mrs Lizzie Cortion visits relatives in Richmond. Mrs Addie Hilton and two children of Wiseasset stay with Mrs Fred Cunningham on Wednesday.
The notice reports Mrs. A. D. Strout seriously ill with Dr. Gilbert attending. Dr Varney returns to Portland after a few days at home. Ethie Davis of Lynn visits Miss Elia Pratt and relatives. Lester Rideout works for W. E. B. Johnson. Thelma Baker guests Ruth Wadsworth. Mrs George Allen visits Lisbon Falls. Mildred Delaware returns home after two weeks in Litchfield.
Public health notice warns against catarrh ointments containing mercury which damages smell and the system. It promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio, claims internal action and blood contact, warns to get genuine product, price 75 cents per bottle. Also advertises Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
After a visit with Mr. Adams parents Capt and Mrs Benjamin Adams Mrs Small residing in the Getchel house near the M C R R is critically ill Dr Saunders has returned from a hunting trip in New Brunswick The doctor reports a pleasant and successful outing The Seco family colored left town this week and in future will reside in Freeport where Mr Seco has a black smith shop Hon J H Ames was in Unity Wednesday and Thursday on business Letters are advertised at the post office for William T Salie and Margaret Bonney Mr and Mrs Henry E Cornish of Saco spent Sunday at the home of Mrs Nancy Cornish Mrs Charles F Staples was a visitor in Lewiston Tuesday Miss Lottie Baker left this week for Gardiner where she will remain for some time Mrs Charles A Newton Misses Flora Newton and Hattie Temple returned Monday from Mooselookmegantic House Haines Landing where they have been for four weeks The W C T A met with Mrs Scott Brown on Thursday afternoon Miss Carrie Sparks was in Augusta Wednesday Miss Sparks is receiving treatment from Dr O W Turner the eye and ear specialist John Denham has been appointed assistant at the M C station
Mrs J Herbert Snipe visits Lewiston while Mrs F H Snipe and Miss Mildred return from Lewis ton and Bath. Eva Gage guests of Mrs Albert Perry in Arrowsic. Marion Snipe stays a few weeks from Boothbay. Albert Heath of Newton Mass visits daughter Mrs Ralph Stinson since last Thursday. Thomas Hagan of Bath visits the Foreside. Mrs Sarah Hawthorne visits her daughter Mrs A G Snipe. Harold Wheelers and Harold Snipe spend Sunday in Bath. Florence Laurence visits Lewiston. John Toothaker plans a Rangeley trip.
Richmond village news notes social visits and relocations include Miss Meme Clark of San Francisco calling on friends. Stowe leaves his summer home for Portland to oversee breakwater work before cold weather. Wells failing in the village prompt calls for better street sprinkling. Frank Blake secures work with the American Tee Co in Iceboro. Two schooners load at Bradstreet mill and shipments rush this season. Noble Maxwell trips to Boston. Mrs. Frank Gould of Portland visits her mother Mrs. Victoria Call. Mrs. Chas Jack ill on Pleasant Street. Florence Maxwell and Sarah Maree dine at New Meadows Inn. Painters work on Capt Alexander house. A M Hayes from Aroostook County rents A E Small house on Pleasant Street and plans to move here next week.
Bodwell grange mourns Brother C. T. Sylvester with a thirty day charter mourning term. The resolutions express deepest sympathy to the bereaved sister and order publication in the Bath Enterprise and entry into the records. W. J. Moore signed.
An old advertisement touts Mott's Nerverine Pills as a tonic for men and women to restore strength vitality and vigor. Sold by druggists or by mail at 1.06 per box six for 5.00, with distribution listed in Cleveland Ohio and local agent L.
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