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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1915
Page
4
Poetic defense of Woolwich shore contrasts riverine calm with harbor perils as readers note social visits in Portland. The column lists residents visiting, new hires, a bungalow project near South Portland, and a Central Church vesper series praised for its music and leadership. It also reports military postings and detachments affecting Maine units at Fort Williams and Boston Harbor.
Mrs Charles Farnham has arrived home from Lewiston where she visited her mother Mrs Haskell. Mrs Leonard Norsworthy is expected home next month to spend the summer with Rev and Mrs O W Folsom, accompanied by her baby daughter Elizabeth.
Mrs. Joseph Varney and Miss Alice plan to start for home May fourth after spending winter in Tryon North Carolina. Miss Jennie Silsby resumes duties at North Grammar School after a fortnight absence. Local schools close Monday for Patriots Day and on the twenty sixth for the Teachers Convention in Assembly Hall.
Miss Eva Pratt enjoys a two weeks vacation in Boston area while bookkeeper for Scott Frye. Dr Harry F Morin departed for a business trip to Boston. St Marys Guild hosted a delightful spring session with Miss Margaret Metcalfe presiding and chafing dish party helpers. Mrs Daniel T Dougherty returned home Monday night from Lewiston visit.
Capt. Samuel R. Percy returns from a business trip to Norfolk Virginia. Misses Alice and Agnes Humphreys arrive home today from a visit to New York and New Jersey. Miss May Gilman serves as a substitute at the Patten Free Library.
The Children’s Page features two Shipping City pupils, Miss Alice Whalen and Master Austin Holbrook. Alice clutches a Christmas dolly while Austin wears band costume with his cornet, accompanied by a sketch for both images.
Mrs. Allen Irish visited Portland on Thursday. Several tables hosted auctions at the Cosmopolitan clubhouse in the afternoon. Each player paid ten cents, proceeds going to the penny bank to support the clubhouse fund. Members are invited to attend weekly gatherings.
Lieutenant Commander J. K. Taussig is detached from the Bureau of Navigation in April 1915 to Bath for fitting out the torpedo boat destroyer Wadsworth and will command upon commissioning. Taussig, a German native, has served in the Navy since 1895 and has been with the Bureau of Navigation since April 1912.
President J. W. Lane of the E. W. Bliss Co. of Brooklyn Capt. J. H. Metcalf of Providence and Warren L. Hooper of New York arrived in Bath on Saturday for the Emblane steamer launch. They attended a luncheon at Elmhurst received an automobile tour and left expressing pleasure with the new steamer and their visit.
Dr. K. B. Breckenridge of this city tracks evangelist Billy Sunday as a career influence. His Indiana-born parents in Winona Lake are near neighbors of the Sunday family.
Richard Matthews Hallet, wintering in Boothbay Harbor, was called to Cape Cod by the death of his uncle Ansel B. Hallet, brother of Andrews Hallet, formerly of this city.
Mr and Mrs John W Hinds likely will occupy their home on Oak Street in the coming season. Both will gladly welcome both.
About 200 attended last Sunday’s stormy evening lecture at the Universalist church. The talk was deemed the most instructive and beautiful in the series. The final lecture will be in two weeks on the 25th titled The Golden West about wonders of our land.
Ralph Bragg of Bath Iron Works draughting force spent three years at the Naval Academy in Annapolis with Lieut Alfred Edes commander of the submarine F-4 lost in Honolulu Harbor March 5.
The South End Parent-Teachers Association held a sale at Mrs. James Lockery's home last Friday afternoon. Rag rugs made during winter, along with fancy articles, cooked food and candy, sold quickly and the group cleared over $21.
Miss Olive Murray returns Monday to Gorham Normal School to resume studies after Easter at home with Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Murray. She graduates next June. Hyde Guards plan a military play at the Opera House next week inviting the Governor and staff and the Coast Artillery Corps to boxes. the event will feature full dress uniforms and is set to be a notable Bath amateur drama. The editor of the Good Will Record honors Harold M. Sewall of Bath, Mme Emma Eames, Mrs Kate Wiggin Riggs and others who oppose Maine scenery destruction, noting they may not prevail before committees but will influence future State and national views.
Miss Caroline Parris returned from a trip to Quincy Massachusetts and Berlin New Hampshire where she stayed two weeks with Mr and Mrs Forrest C Legard. Legard teaches manual training in Berlin public schools and is noted as an avid mountain climber. The group did some climbing despite poor weather last week.
A large audience enjoyed the Easter Club ball Tuesday night in Music Hall with music by Kenneth Weeks Leo Burke and Miss Ruth Burke. Encores were frequent and refreshments were served at intermission.
Miss Harvey's dancing classes present annual exhibitions at Music Hall on Friday evening May 7 and Saturday afternoon May 8. The event showcases student progress and features multiple dance numbers by the class.
Athur Sewall the Westminster School student, son of Hon and Mrs Harold M Sewall, has been reported out of danger after an operation for appendicitis in Hartford Connecticut last week.
The Mendelssohn Club held its last spring meeting on Tuesday evening in a large gathering. The event combined social and musical elements and marked one of the most satisfactory seasons in the club's history. Conductor Fred E. Drake earned much of the year's success as the membership remained encouraging.
The Patten Free Library adds stacks with capacity for about 5 000 volumes. Trustees funded the upgrade after years of cramped shelves and unusable corners. Miss Foote shelves the latest books as patrons gain a better view and access to works. The stack rooms look more attractive inside.
Dr. Byron F. Barker will start improvements at the Elm Street head property near the Shorey homestead. Mr. Istead and a family occupying the house will move soon, and repairs will begin immediately. A local party has already engaged the home after alterations.
Miss Charlotte I Meeker leaves for a short visit in Boston. Miss Carrie Ring returns to Boston after visiting her sister Mrs Henry R White. Miss Mary Berry hosted a bridge party with a lunch. Allan J H Ramsay leaves Central Church choir after two years. Rev and Mrs B P Browne return from Richmond where they visited Rev and Mrs S W Browne.
Fortnightly Election and Directors Day were held at Music Hall on Wednesday afternoon with a large attendance. High School Orchestra provided music and tea was served by several members. Officers for the next year include President E M Fuller and vice presidents Purington and Baxter. Daughters of the Revolution delegates Baxter Morse and Murphy planned travel to Washington for the congress.
The Bath Teacher's Club will meet Wednesday evening April 21 in Morse High School Assembly Hall. Readings will be by Gladys B. Waterhouse, a senior from Emerson School of Oratory, with music by local talent. Each member may invite three guests.
Howard Day Robert Wagner and Earl Coffin with Principal and Mrs Smith traveled to Rumford Falls for an interscholastic debate against the Rumford Falls High School team last evening. Principal Smith and his wife will stay through Sunday. he once led the Rumford Falls High School.
At the annual meeting of the Fidelity Trust Co. of Portland William D. Sewall was elected a director and executive committee member. Arthur Sewall Bosworth of Portland, a former Bath boy, was also named to the board of directors.
Paul J. Koughan of Bowdoin 1915 served on the committee of arrangements for the Gibbons Club banquet held Monday evening at Hotel Eagle. The club comprises the thirty Catholic students at Bowdoin College.
Wednesday evening at Universa list Church Bath audience filled nearly every pew for the Rawens Family show the last of a winter series started November 26 with Dr S Parker Cadman Rogers and Grilley Katherine Ridgeway and closed with the Rovers. The excellent presentations drew unusually large crowds and kept interest high throughout.
Monday afternoon Mrs C R Donnell of Washington Street hosted a tea party in honor of Mrs John H Hyde.
Harry B. Sawyer arrived back Wednesday evening after a business visit to Baltimore Philadelphia and New York City.
The renowned tenor Emilio de Gogorza performed as soloist at the Wednesday Club May Festival in Richmond Virginia, with the concert held during midweek and the prior two days noted for rehearsals and related events.
Mr and Mrs Calvin W Rogers attended the funeral of Mrs Harry Robbins in Hingham on Thursday. Mrs Robbins died Tuesday after a sudden illness and is survived by her husband and son Waldo. she frequently visited in the city.
Mr and Mrs Durand and twin daughters Florence and Myra from Hutchinson Kansas arrived this week for a visit with Mrs Durands mother Mrs N C Rice of South Street.
William F. Hodgkins has been appointed third assistant engineer aboard the F. J. Lisman after his papers were received by the Government on Wednesday.
Mrs S R Percy and Mrs Alan Irish visited in Portland Thursday. Miss Carrie Moses plans a Portland visit with Mr and Mrs J Harry McLellan. Miss Cordelia Newman left Friday for a two month visit in Dorchester Mass. Mrs Sewall E Newman and daughter Margaret of Winchester returned home after a visit with Mr and Mrs Charles S Brown. Hon and Mrs H TD Maxwell and family who spent winter in Augusta were in town Thursday returning to Boothbay.
Miss Clara Coombs arrived home this week after visiting friends in Boston and Medford.
Mrs Charles Wetherbee left Wednesday for a brief visit in Boston. The travel detail highlights a short personal trip, with no listed companions or schedule.
Our Own People E A Farrar spent Wednesday in Portland on business. Hiram Potter of Gardiner visited Bath Tuesday. T J Small has recovered enough to leave City Hospital. Alvin Oliver returned to National Home Togus after a furlough in Bath and Phippsburg. Mrs W F Stevens and daughter Charlotte Barr of Boothbay Harbor visited Tuesday. Orderly Sergt N N Pearson went to Portland Thursday and brought back his new car. Ralph Gay and Roscoe H Shaw on a brief vacation to Boston aboard the Ransom B Fuller. Mr and Mrs Lovejoy will move to Popham Beach after season. Mr and Mrs Thomas Pierce left for Portland. Pierce in Eye and Ear Infirmary for operation. James R Jewett left for Chelsea Mass to head painting at Richard T Green Shipbuilding Co. Harvey Hill received notice to report for duty at United Shoe Machinery Co in Lynn. Rear Admiral Parks of Philadelphia visited Bath Iron Works. Catherine N M Smith died Saturday at Hebron Sanatorium and had earlier served Bath City Hospital. Amos B Haggett elected manager of Alpha Delta Phi Society baseball team at Bowdoin. Kenney Edgecomb plans to leave Bath for Seattle then Alaska salmon fisheries.
The chief justice in quo warranto proceedings ruled Mayor John A. Small’s election as city marshal by his own vote in the city council joint convention void. He is said to hold the office illegally, and a new election is likely next week while he suspends marshal powers.
Mrs. Jessie Delano wife of Willard F. Delano was found dead in bed at her Five Islands home Thursday at 1 30 a m She had long suffered fits and this morning ending possibly from one She leaves a husband three sons and a daughter and was about 47 years old.
Mrs Bertha M Hutchins 86 dies at home in Popham Beach after a brief pneumonia illness. She leaves husband William H Hutchins and three children. Born in Phippsburg to George A and Emma L Oliver, she was a Christian mother lawfully living with the late Mrs Lyman Oliver’s family. Her brother Earle Oliver works at Waltham Watch. The husband is very ill beside other sickness in the house.
Mrs Catherine P Swett aged 87 10 months died Thursday at the Home for Aged Couples and Old Men She was a Georgetown native daughter of the late David and Hannah Lee and widow of Charles F Swett who died last August Funeral will be held this morning at 10 15 from the Home for Aged Couples and Old Men
Mrs Walter E Sprague wife of a Coast Guard member at Popham is ill with pneumonia at home on Popham Beach. Miss Lucy Barret formerly a Lewiston Hospital nurse is attending her.
Robert Gordon, who spent the winter in Farmington, has returned to his home in the city.
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