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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1912
Page
5
Brunswick town items note the Kuntz Quartet’s Bath concert drawn large crowds and praise from Miss Murphy. Bowdoin readings, a colonial club comedy Are You a Mason? and a minstrel show prep highlight social season with multiple local clubs and notable residents.
Miss Maude Lewis travels to Portland to stay several weeks with Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Blake of Brentwood Street. Ziegfeld Follies will be the Bath shoppers matinee attraction at the Jefferson this afternoon with several local residents plan to attend.
The Central Church League will meet Monday evening at the home of Mrs. Walter E. Chase. The adjourned Winter Street Church parish meeting will be held Monday evening in the chapel to decide on alternate services being held with the Central Church. Miss Alice E. Varney has returned from Malden Mass. Mrs. Charles M. White of Boston arrived Saturday to visit her daughter Mrs. George B. Moody. Rev. Omar W. Folsom was a business visitor in Boston Monday.
The Ladies Aid of the Winter Street Congregational church will host a Washington Birthday supper in the chapel next Wednesday at six. Menu includes chicken pie crab newburg rolls coffee cake and Washington pie with Miss Lina Sewall as committee chair. Mrs William D Sewall returned home earlier in the week.
The New Meadows Boat Club, hindered by not securing land for a clubhouse in 1911, aims to survive with a meeting next month at the Ivon House. Commodore Charles F. Mann Rear Commodore William R. Merrill treasurer Harry Varney and trustee Fred W. Brown are arranging the event and future plans.
Miss Sarah F. Potter of Lisbon Falls spent the weekend there as the guest of her brother Fred C. Potter of Washington street. Miss Ellen Turner has issued invitations for a large bridge to be given this afternoon at her home on High street.
Rev. Louis A. Parsons of Brunswick delivers farewell sermon at St Pauls Church. He accepted a call to St James Church Amesbury MA and will begin March 20. Mrs Parsons lies in a Portland hospital awaiting improvement before a trip to Tennessee for a brief visit.
Captain James Higgins came back to Bangor on Tuesday following a visit to the Murphy homestead. Bowdoin Glee Club plans a concert at Assembly Hall next Wednesday evening under Morse High School Athletic Association sponsorship.
Portland and Morse High met in a basketball game held here last night. Citizens welcomed new lighting on Summer street amid ongoing Independent agitation. The Colonial Club plans a minstrel show immediately after Lent.
The engagement between Miss Marion Berry of Newton Mass and Stewart K Gibson of West Newton is publicized at a luncheon honoring the bride to be. Miss Berry, daughter of Mrs Arthur L Berry, studied at Newton High and Miss Pierces School. Gibson is a Dartmouth graduate from the class of 1911.
Miss Mollie Gibbons visits Philadelphia. Miss Jane S. Murphy sails to Boston for a week. Misses Lydia R. and Elsie M. Folsom host their bridge club last night. Mrs. John A. Morse to visit Boston next week.
St Mary's Guild of Grace Church plans a social at the parish house on Oak Street. The event features silhouettes of church people a guessing contest and a chafing dish supper.
The Monday Club met Thursday afternoon at Mrs. Edward Sewall's home with Miss Swanton as guest. Four tables were played. Miss Marcia Richardson of Garden Street acted as a charming bridge hostess. Mrs. Charles Magoun entertained the Ladies' Aid of Grace Church yesterday afternoon.
Next Thursday and Friday evenings the Universalist vestry will stage A Regiment of Two for the piano fund. Roy Buxton coaches the rehearsing young cast with School Orchestra music. Carl Chapman chairs the committee. three act play features Arthur Sewall Earl Brown Ira Wilton and others in roles including Laura played by Flossie Beals.
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