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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1915
Page
4
Society notes recount playful verse about My Mary and her bright eyes, followed by a Bath club program with Miss Frances Southard on cello and Miss Margaret Adams on piano. Other items cover weddings, appointments, a minstrel show, and local social happenings.
At the 15th annual meeting of the Western Maine Branch in Portland, Miss Annie F Bailey treasurer reported seven month receipts of 1228.14 and golden anniversary gifts totaling 1250. Officers elected include honorary presidents Mrs William H Fenn and Mrs J W D Carter. Miss Anne M Robinson was chosen vice president for Saga dodge County.
The New York Herald reports Mendelssohn Italian Symphony at Carnegie Hall with Walter Damrosh conducting and Emilio de Gogorza singing in Italy mood, followed by Mephistopheles Serenade and Mozart Serenade. Bowdoin selects Paul J. Koughan for Bradbury Prize debates. Maine Society of the Sons of the American Revolution holds its Feb 22 meeting at Riverton with new members welcomed.
The next illustrated lecture at Pleasant Sunday Evening Services at the Universalist Church will be on February 14 titled Germany in Time of Peace and is expected to draw a large audience. Last Sunday showcased England with 100 lantern slides shown by Allen Spear.
Maine residents living in Worcester Massachusetts plan a February 11 gathering at the State Mutual Restaurant for a large 33rd anniversary reunion. Rev Fenwick L Leavitt will join the program with Dr Frederick Bryant as toastmaster and a slate of speakers and reminiscences including Pehr G Holmes A J Roberts Clarence W Hobbs Maud Dodge Wendell Parker and Linwood M Erskine.
Mrs Hazel Edes Gatcomb of Malden visits relatives in Bath while social circles host luncheons card parties and charity gatherings. The Sans Souci Club meets at Mrs Charles W Clifford’s Chestnut Street home. Winter Street parish ladies visit Middle Street hosts. Mrs Frank H Percy honors Mrs Sewall Percy at Washington Street with bridge and refreshments. Invitations issued for February sixth dance at Elmhurst Bath featuring Madame Emma and Emilio de Gogorza. R H Baxter dies in Augusta. Mrs H W Owen Jr visits Portland. Mrs C H Flood returns to South Paris. A R Chadbourne of Woolworth departs for Rockland to oversee two-week duties.
Mrs Beatrice J Delano widow of Charles N Delano quietly marked her 91st birthday Tuesday at her North and Middle Streets home. Born in Phippsburg she was the daughter of the late Robert Larra bee and the last survivor of a family of thirteen siblings.
Mrs A H Shaw spends days in Boston. Mrs S L Fogg of Augusta visits town Wednesday. Mrs A H Durgin visits Mrs E J Leighton in Wiscasset. Edwin A Potter of Chicago, formerly of this city, leaves for New York to join family and winter in the West Indies. A surprise party honors Miss Lillian Sprague at Harold Bean’s home with music games and refreshments. The 100 views series at Universalist Church draws a large crowd. Feb 14 shows Germany in Time of Peace. Mr and Mrs Frank Jennings depart Charlestown for Charleston NC where he serves as chief engineer on the USS Cassin for two to three years. Joseph Hilton of Yarmouth and Albert W Larrabee of Freeport visit town Thursday.
Reverend E. E. Crockett of Orr's Island was a recent guest of Mr. and Mrs. George Alexander, sharing time and hospitality during the visit.
The Cosmopolitan Club plans the mid-winter play A Virginia Courtship a three act comedy with Colonial costumes hired from a top costuming house. H A Huse directs the production will be staged before Lent at Columbia Theatre with a strong local cast and proceeds benefiting the clubhouse fund.
Thursday night entertainment for Cosmopolitan Club members featured reader Miss Madelyn Hunt with Aussie and the Lie, an encore, and a sailor hornpipe by Dorothy Welch. Scottish lassie Wishart sang Loch Tomond and Bonnie Doon with Carrie Shaw on piano, followed by chafing dishes serving Welsh rarebits.
Rev. C. J. Cassidy, guest of Rev. N. J. Horan at St Marys Church, has retired from active service due to ill health and will take a long rest after serving in Winn.
The Sagadahoc Pomona Grange met with Dirigo Grange Brunswick last Wednesday with 154 on the roll. Members from Bodwell, Dirigo, Dro more, Enterprise, Progressive, Sagadahoc, Topsham, West Bath, Woolwich, Merry Meeting and others attended. Ed ith Prince gave a greeting. lectures featured music and discussions on profitable crops. A 5th degree was conferred for 16 members. treasurer E C Patten installed. a dinner included hot clam stew. Apple culture paper by Charles M White highlighted home seedling cultivation and mulching. 1500 Year Book copies issued. next meeting with Dro more Grange February 34.
Five Bath based officers Major George A. Baker Captain H W Owen Jr and Lieuts Samuel Wakefield Harvey K Erskine and Percy E Barbour visited Portland on Wednesday to participate in a coast artillery war game at the Portland Army Yard They returned on the midnight train The corps plans to assemble as many officers as possible in Portland twice monthly for further war game work.
Mr and Mrs Charles W Walsh attended the funeral services for Mrs Herbert Douglas the sister of Mrs Walsh in Augusta on Thursday. Mrs Douglas died Tuesday after a brief illness and a surgical operation. Interment will be in Dover, her former home.
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