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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1914
Page
5
A lively society column from Bath captures Christmas socializing, club events, and residents’ movements. Friends and families like the Webbers, Bowdoin College crowd, and local clubs socialize, stage plans unfold, and charity efforts dot the calendar as townsfolk travel, visit, teach, and celebrate the season.
Mr and Mrs Charles Marshall Boyd announce the marriage of their daughter Eleanor to Mr John Holmes Hyde on Wednesday January sixth nineteen fifteen at eight oclock Arlington Street Church Boston Mass with a reception at Hotel Somerset. Home after May first 607 High Street Bath Maine.
At Sunday services the First Baptist Church featured recitations by Miss Irma Temple Miss Laura Mains and Miss Sarah Pratt along with a solo by Miss Evva McLellan. Marie Rowe Mildred D ley Esther White and Vernon Ayer recounted how Christmas is celebrated in European nations. The Central Church interior glowed with evergreen wreaths and trees for a rich musical program ending with Oh Come All Ye Faithful. The vesper service repeated the morning carols with additions and the choir delivered three anthems and solos. A later dancing party hosted by Mrs J Motley fuller drew guests Miss Rachel Olmstead Dor othy Higgins Louise Hill Isabelle Olm Anna Morse Doris Stetson Frances Weeks Frances Moses and young men Lincoln Farrar Charles Fitzgerald Kenneth Weeks Langdon Hill John Totuwan Carl Purington Oliver Moses George Wetherbee.
G Gill HOTS formerly at Bath Tron Works and two years at New York Navy Yard now ordered to Washington for duty connected with the Department of Justice. Also notes a Christmas party for Miss Higgins of Bath and Miss Olmstead of Brookfield, gifts, and holiday greetings.
John H. Hyde travels to Boston on business while Priscilla Kimball and others return to Boston Newton Wenham and New York for the holidays. Miss Sawyer returns from Mt Holyoke College and Bath teachers disperse to New York Chelsea South Portland Wakefield North Haven Providence Westbrook for vacation.
Capt. James W. Hawley returns from Boston for Christmas. George W. Hunt travels to Norway to share Christmas with his daughter. J Harry McLellan and friends send cards from Bradenton Florida. Harry B. Sawyer concludes a business trip. Horace Morse comes home from Powder Point School for holidays. Mrs Margaret Burns heads to Philadelphia to visit her sister. A B Webber, Gordon Bible School student, guests Rev Browne in Bath. Alpha Delta Phi dance hosts Florence Dunton and Edith Cochrane from Bath. Maine University students return for a two week Christmas break. Mrs Arthur E Bishop injures ligaments after a fall on ice. John S Hyde of Bath Iron Works leaves for Washington on business.
Fred Humphreys dies in Portland on business. Prof Morrison of Kents Hill visits town. Qualen and Oliver Moses stop in Portland on business. Mrs T F Laffin returns to Boston after visiting the McFaddens in Middle Street. Mrs S S Sewall leaves for Winchester to spend Christmas with her daughter Mrs Stuart Webb. Miss Marion Keeler guests of the Williamses refuses to Fall River. Miss Pauline Hatch attends a Theta Delta Chi dance in Brunswick. Miss Frances Weeks returns home from Fox-Buonomics School of Music for holidays. Fred Peacock plans to leave Montreal for England to join the English army, formerly of Bath Iron Works. Loyall Sewall returns home from Boston. Miss Esther Jones spends holidays in Christfield Maryland with roommate Miss Vesta Loockerman.
Miss Jennie R Morse Miss Anna Morse Miss Moulton and Mr and Mrs F B Nichols all of Bath left for New York on Christmas afternoon and will sail to Bermuda on the steamship Oceana at 11 this morning. They expect a two week round trip returning to Bath.
Miss Ina Pease visited Bath on Wednesday. John E. Anderson spent Wednesday in Lewiston. Miss Ethelyn Beedy will pass Christmas in Phillips. L. W. Savage of Bangor visited town on Wednesday. Robert M. Silsby returned Thursday for Christmas at home. Miss Nellie Biggins travels to Boston for Christmas with her brother Frank. Herbert Lemont from University of Maine 1918 assists at the Post Office during the rush. Miss Mellie Tourtillotte leaves Wednesday for relatives in New Hampshire and Massachusetts.
Parker Moulton returns from Orono while Hugh T. Madden and son Joseph H. Madden travel to Lynn for Christmas. Caldwell Jacobsen visits from McDonald College near Montreal and Mrs A H Blackington arrives from Rockland to spend winter with relatives. Others head to Winchester Massachusetts and Boston for Christmas visits and work.
Karl Bartlett Cecil Wallace Miss Geal Bartlett and Miss Lillian York walked to Bath for Christmas shopping and stayed overnight due to snow. Elizabeth York returned from Bath for the holidays. Walter Ridley suffered a serious accident in Portland with six stitches after a fall in a ship hold.
The New England Telephone Exchange held a social Thursday evening featuring a Christmas tree celebration as part of its seasonal gathering.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Perkins greet the arrival of Charles Morse Perkins on Wednesday. The article notes Bath shoppers, Christmas plans, and local events from Cox's Head, Parker Head, and surrounding areas, including school activities, visits to relatives, craft sales, and holiday gatherings.
A reader recalls an elderly man using a quirky refrain boots sugar tongs and tinder boxes to swear in a London Bridge anecdote. The old gentleman explains the repetition is his method of swearing while recounting a wartime story of a lame soldier and a wooden leg.
The annual Christmas concert took place Friday evening at People's Church. Local residents and church members enjoyed the seasonal program featuring vocal solos and congregational hymns.
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