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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1917
Page
8
The Cosmopolitan Club announces officers for the year including Chairman Miss Webber and Secretary Miss Priscilla Kimball. A meeting featured patriotism, a new flag purchase, and plans for knitting for soldiers and War Relief support.
The Fortnightly Club final entertainment follows next Tuesday evening at Grace Church parish house. Morse High juniors perform The Ambitious Buttercup with two readers assisting. Kelley’s Banjo Orchestra provides music for dancing after the play. Committee chairmen include Miss Katherine Torrey Miss Frances Moses and Miss Dorothy Higgins.
Miss Edith Wynne Matthison appeared in Brunswick on Tuesday evening under Bowdoin College and Saturday Club auspices. President Hyde introduced her, and for two hours she held a large audience. Her readings spanned Shakespeare Browning Herrick Coventry Patmore Masefield Tagore and her husband’s play The Servant in the House with Kipling Recessional as the closing number. The event drew Bath residents including Mrs Emma Duncan Miss Blanche Metcalfe and others and was praised as a milestone for Bowdoin’s literary community. Later a chafing dish party at Morse High School hosted by Domestic Science featured Supt Flood Head Master King and eight guests with a menu of creamed chicken peas rolls pickles olives ice cream cake and coffee.
Mrs Rufus K Jordan of West brook entertained a party of friends at Riverton Monday in honor of Mrs Trafto wife of ex Mayor Trafton who soon leaves to make her home in Bath Luncheon was served in the bed room with eight covers The decorations featured jonquils and hyacinths A social time followed the luncheon by the party members.
The Easter rehearsal at the chapel featured Miss Anne Hall of Brunswick as a soloist. She received a generous array of culinary articles, aiding her future plans for an approaching marriage to Mr. Blackwood.
Four new engagements of MacMahon young belles were announced. The island summer resort appears favored by Cupid.
Miss Dorothy Duncklee hosted eight friends Friday at the Winter Street parsonage. Mr. and Mrs. Walter P. Hilliard return from Exeter, New Hampshire where his mother is improving. Miss Louige Daley visits Kennebunkport for a week with aunt Mrs. H. A. Heckman. brother Frank Daley accompanies. B. M. Plummer to spend a week in Philadelphia with daughter Mrs. Palmer Cobb who will then go to the Carolinas. Miss Miriam Kimball leaves to visit her mother in Newtonville Massachusetts following a gymnasium season in Brunswick and Bath. Mrs. L. B. Swett and Capt. S. R. Percy are seen in Portland. J Houghton McLellan conducts business in Portland. Mrs. H. H. McCarty and Belle Foote spend Saturday in Portland. Mrs. Scott Morse and Mrs. Justin Wold attend the Miss Springtime matinee in Portland. John H. Hyde travels to Boston and returns with Mrs. Hyde from Newton. Carl K. Crosby of Bath, Hudson Navigation Co. purchasing agent, is promoted to general superintendent after five years with the company.
Senator Rupert H. Baxter has remodeled the James T. Patten mansion in Bath. The interior work is nearly finished and a fortnight should complete it. Light distribution is improved and the finish is white, with fireplaces remaining in nearly every room.
The marriage invitation lists Gladys Kinney brush and Joseph Stickney Kimball as the couple. The ceremony is set for Saturday April 14 1917 at Harvard Congregational Church Brookline Massachusetts with a reception at 123 Longwood Avenue. The groom is son of Dr and Mrs Samuel A Kimball of Newbury Street Boston and a Yale graduate.
Arthur Kindred, Mr and Mrs Harry Smith and Miss Ella Johnson passed Monday in Portland leaving friends and relatives to mourn. The brief notice notes the individuals and their local ties without further details.
Miss Millicent Clifford visits Portland on a Saturday. Mr and Mrs Herbert Maxwell return from Boothbay week away during vacation. Edward S Dunton and spouse report home from a wedding trip via New York Philadelphia Atlantic City. Charles S Smith of Saugus Mass guests of Supt C N Flood as Saugus schools enjoy vacation. William H Sewall sends greetings from Alameda California after visits in Chicago Denver and Ogden on coastward trip.
Miss Ena Bucknam hosted the Nikral Club on Shaw Street for a Saturday night event. After business and a spirited suffragist versus non-suffragist debate, salads and other refreshments followed. Attendees left pleased, though some indicated stronger satisfaction among suffragists or opponents, who would not disclose details.
Principal James F. King announces Morse High School graduation honors for 42 seniors. Valedictorian Miss Bessie Brown and salutatorian Miss Anna Trott lead the class, with honors in English awarded to Misses Margaret Hanson Leota Jacobson and Marion Ferguson. Graduation set for June 13.
Philip R. Shorey, long in McAllen Texas with the First New York cavalry since last June, has returned to his Brooklyn residence and resumed work at the New York World. Friends in his hometown note his return from active duty with the troops.
Miss della Altekamp returned to Kents Hill Monday after a week’s visit in town. Miss Miriam Adams and Miss Mollie Teurtelotte returned to Colby University Monday after vacation at home. Miss Frances Southard arrived from Wellesley College to spend Easter with her mother. Miss Agnes Tarbox, former South Primary principal, ill with laryngitis in Topsham. Miss Gretchen Merrill began teaching seventh grade at South Grammar School and stayed at Hotel Phoenix. Miss Zephie Beals weekend in Portland. Virginia Payne visiting Boston briefly. Grace Palmer shopping in Portland Saturday. Ernestine Spencer in Portland Saturday returning by midnight. Fred Humphreys visited Portland Saturday for Miss Springtime production. Mrs. Maurice J. Duncklee and son Richard left to spend weeks with relatives in Alabama. Miss Isabelle Oli returned to Students’ House Boston for kindergarten studies.
H. V. B. Nash and daughter Miss Rebecca of Wiscasset visited Monday. Miss Nash belongs to the local class of young ladies in the National League for Women's Service. Mr. Nash is stirring local residents in preparedness efforts.
Mrs. Winona Tilton Stinson state secretary of The National League for Woman's Service left Friday for Washington D C to represent the Maine branch at the national session.
Mrs. Hazel Dixon of Waterville is visiting to spend Easter at her High Street residence. Mrs. Fred H. Kimball of Greenville recently donated 40 volumes to the Greenville Public Library.
Harry A. Nealley spent a day in town on business and plans to return to Boston on Wednesday. He notes that U S Secretary of Commerce Redfield’s daughter will spend the summer at MacMahan.
Miss Dorothy Nichols leaves Tuesday for Poughkeepsie New York to resume studies at Vassar College. Miss Alice Dain travels to Portland to serve as companion in a wealthy family. Charles A Judkins manager of the New Mt Kinee House visits town as guest of Hon. A H Shaw. Miss Carrie Ring from Boston spends Easter with her sister Mrs Henry White. Clifton Page English teacher in Springfield high schools visits parents Mr and Mrs O E Page. Miss Marion Hill returns from Boston where sister Miss Louise studies cello with Prof Carl B Webster.
Mrs. E. J. Marston passes a few days in Boston. Mrs. R. T. Ramsay spends a week in Portland visiting her son Allan Ramsay. Hon Harold M. Sewall of Maine's public safety committee traveled to Augusta on Tuesday morning. Charles W. Fisher of Boston arrived on the Pullman for a week in this city.
The Universalist Ladies Aid raised forty dollars at a Friday afternoon Easter sale in the vestry. The event, directed by Mrs. Frank Southard, involved committees for home cooking fancy table aprons candy and more. Allan H. Ramsay is engaged as Easter Day soloist at Winter Street Church.
News notes Miss Libby daughter of Mr and Mrs J R Libby Portland will marry Merle S Brown on April 12 in a quiet ceremony due to family illness. A handkerchief shower hosted by Miss Anna Shoemaker used daffodils with refreshments led by Mrs J R Libby, Mrs Frank Libby, and Miss Alice Cutter. The couple plan a bungalow near Wildwood for the summer. Miss Libby once spoke at Winter St Chapel about travel adventures.
Miss Millicent Clifford attended a Western Maine Branch Bradford Alumnae coffee in Portland on Saturday hosted by Miss Alice Hussey. Thirty members enjoyed spring flowers in yellow and white. Miss Pond spoke on recent school improvements while coffee and ices were served.
Mrs. W. T. Jones of Norway, daughter of the late George Hunt, has been appointed by Mme. Eames as chairman of the Norway branch of The National League for Woman's Service. She supports the patriotic organization and its work for home and country.
The pupils of Miss Miriam Kim Ball gathered for a morning photo at the YMCA Perry Thompson. the group forms an interesting cluster of buds in a juvenile gym class setting.
Among both people Saturday in Portland to attend the musical comedy Miss Springtime were Mrs John McInnes and son Duncan Mrs W S Newell and Miss Ellen Mrs H H McCarty Miss Belle Foote Mrs Henry W Howard and Miss Dora Howard Mr and Mrs H M Adams Mr and Mrs Walter Murtaugh Misses Cora and Ruth Buchanan Mrs F B Nichols and Miss Dorothy Nichols.
Frank H. Taylor and his children Katharena and Elmer from Winthrop visited in town as guests of Mr. Taylor’s mother. Taylor is a successful local apple grower who produced 1200 barrels last year and shipped some to Europe earning nearly $6 per barrel. Mr. and Mrs. Roberts of Fort Hill Gorham are home from a Southern visit with Miss Annie Palmer.
Barrett Nichols returned home Sunday from a visit in Boston and Providence. Saturday night he attended a reunion of Cobb boys camp members from 1916 held at the Hotel Brunswick in Boston.
Mr and Mrs Alexander M Cutler and Miss M Janet Cutler who have stayed in Portland since mid December will return to their home here for the summer pleasing many friends.
Mrs Henry W Cobb of Augusta and Mrs Edward S Anthoine of Portland will open a suffrage school in Brunswick Monday April 9. Five sessions will be conducted in the Court Room with a committee including Mrs Norman Smith Mrs D W Scribner Miss Carolyn Shorey and Miss Emily Baxter.
Mrs Virgin was introduced Friday to Bath ladies at Mrs Charles W Clifford's home. She read a paper on Anti Suffrage and was greeted by a delegation of women opposed to equal rights.
At a Wednesday meeting at Mrs. Harold M. Sewall’s home the Community League voted to offer the district nurse post to Miss Lida Baker Riddle of East Orange New Jersey currently in Rhode Island. Miss Riddle, trained in New York and Rhode Island, brings tuberculosis nursing and social service experience. She plans to leave Providence on the 12th and will be welcomed at Mrs. Sewall’s residence for a two week stay before starting duties. dates will be announced later. Dr. W. E. Kershner presided.
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