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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1915
Page
5
In a Christmas reflection a Bath writer defends belief in Santa Claus, recounting joy from stockings and tales, urging kindness to skeptics with a gift. The column shifts to society notes from Bath and nearby towns detailing visits, travels, engagements, relocations, and holiday plans among residents and club events.
Miss Margaret Torrey arrives from Brunswick to spend holidays with Mr and Mrs Joseph Torrey. The Charity Ball at Music Hall, with Stetson's Orchestra, is billed as a premier society event of the winter season.
Mrs Horace Brown of Reading Mass visits her daughter Mrs C P Wetherbee on High Street George B Wetherbee returns home from Phillips Andover for Christmas. Miss Anna Morse comes home from New York Finch School 61 East 77th Street. Miss Charlotte Hall returns from Saratoga Springs to spend holidays with relatives.
Arthur L. Pratt of Goodyear Rubber Co. Akron arrives for Christmas at sister Mrs. Arthur St Pepper’s home. Miss Louise Marson of Boothbay Harbor is also a guest. Marriage notice: Margaret Miller to Dr Ethan Flase Butler on December eighteen nineteen hundred fifteen at St Martins Philadelphia. Butler’s parents are Hon. and Mrs. Charles Henry Butler of Washington, summer residents at Montsweag Farm Woolwich.
Loyal Sewall arrives from Poughkeepsie for Christmas. Emilio de Gogorza, Bath’s baritone, sang in Rochester and at a private Corning party. He visits Bath through Christmas Day and dines at Elmhurst with Mme. James, then heads to Chicago. He plans to return to Bath New Year’s Day and leave Jan 3 for the Pacific coast tour. Katharine Stewart Nealley engaged to William Payson MacKaye of Yonkers. she is a Bath resident and MacMahan visitor.
Bowen Torrey of Dartmouth College arrived home Saturday for the holiday vacation marking the start of the university break.
Thurlow Bartlett of Beyer & Small Portland, investment securities dealers, was in the city on Monday.
Bath residents attended fraternity hops at Brunswick with Delta Upsilon Phi Upsilon and Zeta Psi hosting. Local families welcomed visitors from Boston New York and Maine and prepared for Christmas with concerts music departments and community gatherings at Bowdoin College and Bath institutions.
The Patten Free Library closes for Christmas. Mrs. Lewis Wilson travels to Chester Pennsylvania to visit her former home. Mr Tuttle of Bowdoin College was a weekend guest of Rev Maurice J Duncklee. Mrs Harold M Sewall returns home from Poughkeepsie visit. Mrs Harry Morin returns from Napanee Ontario. Mrs Daniel T Dougherty visits Lewiston.
The Colonial Club and a Cosmopolitan Club committee managed the annual Christmas tree for city children. Ladies made candy bags helped decorate the tree and supervised the matinee. Committee members include Mrs. C P Wetherbee Mrs F A Fuller Mrs R Welch Mrs D Dougherty Mrs H W Owen Jr Miss M R Foote and Miss E E Webber. Won. Herbert D Maxwell has taken the Humphreys homestead at Oak and Middle Streets renovated and moved back to his birth street Oak near Garden Street.
David Sprague of Trinity Church Boston performed solos at a Sunday after noon event inside the Cosmopolitan Club.
Mrs Harold M Sewall and son Arthur and Miss Lani arrived from New York Thursday night. Principal and Mrs Charles L Smith traveled to South Portland Thursday for Christmas. Roland F Hill a draughtsman with Lake Torpedo Boat Co Bridgeport arrived to spend Christmas at home in this city.
Mrs. Joseph Williams visits relatives in Boston. George E. Hughes died in Portland on business. Joseph M. Trott attended the Law Court in Augusta. Mrs. Carter and two children depart for winter in Washington. Mrs. Sadie Wyman of Maryland visits grandfather Obadiah Trask in Bath. Mrs. M. P. Sanborn and daughters go to Portland for a week with relatives. Miss Ruby Farrin returns from City Hospital surgery. Daniel H. Ham and son visit Mislesford after hosting at William F. Ham’s home. DuPont Powder Co. men seek box boards at Sebago Lake. Mrs. William Mann and family spend week in Portland with sister Mrs. James R. Pratt. Frank S. White and David W. Heald leave for New London to join a contractor. Capt. A. B. Chaney of the schooner Lewis H Goward visits, arriving in Boston with lumber from Port Bolivar Texas.
Local residents plan holiday trips and host visitors this Christmas season. Geographically scattered moves include Miss Grace Kateen in Fall River, Leon Farrar visiting Detroit, and Mrs. Charles Miller in New York, with several towns in Maine hosting relatives and colleagues. Local workers from B I W draft rooms and shipyards also spend Christmas at home or with family.
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