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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1916
Page
11
A poem recounts a tree of prosperity sprouting in unused soil, growing into a forest garden that brings commerce, gems, and homes. It ends with a wedding notice for Clarence W. Morse and Miss Grace Coombs and brief society notes on musical, theatrical and social events in Bath.
Mrs. Eugenie Victoria Blewett of Brookline announced at a bridge and tea on Thursday that her daughters Edyth Eugenie Blewett and Bertha Spofford are engaged. Edyth Eugenie will wed Waldemar Edward Crosscup, son of Mr and Mrs Louis Crosscup of Wollaston, while Bertha Spofford will marry Earl Bruce Collins, son of Mr and Mrs William J Collins of this city. Mr Collins works in the State House, Boston.
Rev and Mrs Maurice J Duncklee hosted a large Winter Street Church gathering at the parsonage with flowers cake coffee and ice cream. An orchestra led by Edna Bliss Otis Card and Howard Harding provided music as the year 1916 arrived. Local social events and visits are noted alongside a Bath Goodyear worker’s return to Akron Ohio.
The engagement is announced between Miss Margaret Harding of Wollaston Massachusetts and Leonard H Gibson Jr of this city. Miss Harding is the daughter of the late Captain W F Harding who commanded vessels in the Percy Small fleet. Gibson is the son of Leonard R Gibson of this city a Bowdoin College class of 1914 graduate and a student in a special English course at Harvard.
Mr and Mrs H B Eastman of Portland returned home Monday with their children after spending the holidays with Mrs Eastmans parents Mr and Mrs Charles W Clifford on Washington Street. Eastman joined them for the weekend.
Informal New Year celebration at the Cosmopolitan Club included a box supper Santa Claus white elephant gifts and book donations from the Manleys of Small Point. Fortnightly Club president Mrs E M Fuller contributed Maine in History and Romance and Victrola records and cookbooks for local homes.
Col J R Wolston and his wife Mrs Cora Rouse Wolston depart Bath for Washington D C in February then travel to Miami Cuba and Nassau before returning to Michigan via New York They plan to visit their old state next summer with dwelling and travel details noted.
Friends report Oliver Moses is doing as well as could be expected after Saturday appendicitis surgery at Peter Brigham hospital in Boston. Bronchitis appeared the day after but he otherwise improves slowly as doctors monitor his healing and appendix removal.
The League of Central Church held a supper at the chapel Monday at six, then a white elephant tree in the evening giving away unwanted Christmas gifts. Fred E. Whitmore returned Tuesday to duties in a Springfield pharmacy. William Otis Kimball of Boston visited his cousin Major Kimball. Cora Hilton Tarbox of Avna wintering in Boston at the Priscilla Apartment Hotel.
Miss Dorothy Higgins returns to Abbott School on Wednesday. Marion Dickson and Hope Sturtevant go back to Gorham Normal School after Christmas. Marion Tracy resumes studies at Smith College in Northampton. Arthur and Sumner Sewall depart for Simsbury after holidays. Donald Sewall visits Boston en route. Mr Ralph H Dunton resumes timekeeping duties at Bath Iron Works in Portland after six weeks ill.
Arthur Hyde and John Hyde visit in New York while Jennie Sawyer returns to Simmons College in Boston. Doris Stetson returns to Washington to Bristol School, Milton Kimball back at Yale after vacation, Frances Southard to Wellesley, Louise Hill to Boston for music, Frances Cummings to Martha Washington Seminary, Henry Jobin guest of Judge Keegan in Willow Street, Dorothy Nichols back to Vassar after Christmas break.
Miss Hilaire Sooysmith returned to New York Saturday after a visit with Mme James De Gogorza. Mrs William H Watson marked her eighty third birthday last week Friday receiving many gifts from relatives and friends. Mrs Martin Taylor and her son Edward of Boston came back Saturday after a week in town as guest of Mrs Guy H Crsipby. Neal Daggett of Milo Bowdoin 18 and P K Niven 16 attended a private Parish House dance Friday.
Loyall Sewall returns to Poughkeepsie to work for a large lumber concern. Mrs. Charles W Welch visits Portland. Eugene Allen of New Haven High School faculty returns to New Haven after holidays in Bath. Mr. and Mrs. John Holmes Hyde visit Newton for New Year with Mrs Hyde s parents. Fred E Whitmore returns to Springfield where he assists in a drug store after a holiday. Mrs James Bimson visits Wascasset recently.
John W. Leydon of Philadelphia formerly of Bath marries Miss Theodora Koebig daughter of Dr and Mrs Julius Koebig in Church of the Blessed Sacrament Hollywood California on December 27 at three. Reception at bride’s parents home in Los Angeles. Leydon to reside in Philadelphia after February 1.
Mrs. Thomas Gibbons hosted a two table auction on Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. Edward C. Plummer winning a dainty handkerchief. The Saturday Club session in Brunswick begins at three o'clock in the Baptist Church this afternoon. Travel talks will be given by Mrs. Walter M. Mallett and Miss Mary Gilman. Mrs. Arthur Brown starts a drama class at the Cosmopolitan Club on Tuesday next. The department is led by Miss Priscilla Kimball. A two month course runs weekly on Tuesdays from 2 to 8 o'clock.
The Fortnightly Club meets Wednesday night at the Universalist Church with Grace Sage delivering a dramatic reading of Daddy Long Legs. The Saturday Club of Brunswick will attend as special guests. admission is open to the public. Mrs Sanford L Fogg will stay ten days at Mrs Frank B Nichols home on Linden Street to oversee repairs on the leased Linden Street property to Clarence W Morse.
Warren Mayers returns to Maine State College after holidays with his mother. Dr W Kershner and Mrs J A Redlon named to recommend a district nurse. Applications are being received and the finance committee will continue soliciting funds for at least a fortnight.
Mr and Mrs Harry E Mason spend a few days in Portland Ex Mayor George E Hughes remains housebound with a severe cold Lieut J H Walsh naval constructor Bath Iron Works travels to Boston Mrs H W Stafford joins her father former Sheriff John W Ballou in illness Arthur B Hyde visiting town with his brother Hon John S Hyde and returns to New York Wednesday afternoon
The next Rhodes scholar from Maine is Robert P. Coffin, a Bowdoin graduate of last June. He will be the fourth Brunswick boy from Bowdoin to win Rhodes honors. Coffin is a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity and also belonged to the Deutscher Verein.
The big Indian production of Longfellow's Hiawatha will be staged at Cumberland Theatre Brunswick on February 3 under St Mary's Guild auspices. About 150 adults and children will participate with Miss Eva W Scates directing after two successful shows at Waterville City Opera House.
Frank Torrey has leased the Spin Tey residence on Bedford Street and moved in this week. Miss Dorothy Sewall arrived Thursday from a brief trip to Boston and accompanied her brother Sumner on his return to Westminster School in Simsbury Connecticut.
The Cosmopolitan Club held its regular meeting with Miss Madelyn Hunt presiding in place of the absent officers. Members approved plans to rent a downtown store for tea rooms and a gift shop as part of an industrial union program to boost Maine goods and support nonmembers through commissions and a yearly subscriber fee.
Miss Helen M. Winslow pianist sails Tuesday afternoon for California to serve as accompanist for Maine baritone Emilio de Gogorza on a month long Pacific coast concert tour. Headquarters in Los Angeles and Portland with concerts in San Francisco and Oregon dates, return to Lewiston planned for February.
New Meadows hosted a series of small gatherings. Miss Grace Purinton hosted Forest Jackson in Wis casset lumbering work remained. Lime Kiln Whist Club met with sixteen attendees. prizes went to Mrs Forrest Jackson and Whitman Holbrook. Attic Party featured fortune plates and snowman contests.
The program for next Tuesday January 11 at Dromore Grange includes a Grange Choir song items of interest Bessie Dickinson on success or failure which one learns as the most on the farm Campbell and others song Bessie Dickinson how do the summers ago compare with the present time W A C Rogers and others reading Annie Purington story I C A Merry closing song Grange Choir.
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