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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1911
Page
6
Bath society notes a steady stream of visitors and outings from Portland to Popham. Among the highlights are Mrs Dunton’s stay with Judge Arthur Dunton, a Toy Rum mage Sale fundraiser, and numerous families from Melrose to Cambridge enjoying cottages, picnics, and boating. The Popham library nears sixty volumes as locals plan a summer fair.
Multiple short items note Miss Anna Percy staying in Pottsville Pa with a Mt Ida Rehovot friend. Miss Marion Foote of Perth Amboy N J to visit Hatchin August as guest of her aunts the Misses Foote. Miss Elizabeth Briggs leaves for Bea ton on business then returns to Middle Street. Mrs Walter Larrabee and son return from Small Point. Eugene Aditon moors his houseboat on New Meadows River in front of Fred Brown bungalow. Mr and Mrs Fred Larrabee return from Small Point where he worked weeks. Rev Francis W OBrien and wife sail to New York for summer abroad on Carmania. he preaches July and August at East London and Nottingham Tabernacles. return Sept 5 on Franconia. Rev H G Dockrell to fill Peoples Church pulpit during O Briens absence. Open air service held in City Park with OBrien present. Samuel Dayton Cushing leaves for Toledo Ohio after week with mother Mrs Cushing. David Sprague of Boston vacationing with John Shaw family.
Representative and Mrs Charles IL Farnham visited Popham on Sunday. Rev A Frederick Duniels, vacationing at Popham, will preach at the Congregational Church August twentieth. Mr and Mrs William Dean and daughter Agnes stayed at Sabine with Miss Elizabeth Dean. Festival posters appear in Portland shop windows. Miss Garden completed a June concert tour in Spokane and New York with Arturo Tibaldi and Howard Brockway. she sails to Europe on June 14 and returns for a Portland concert then the Metropolitan New York. Thursday evening Congregational Church prayer meetings will be discontinued in July and August. Mrs William R Chapman returned from six weeks in Europe with Coronation festivities. she was joined by Mrs A H Sandlish and Mrs H C Hallenbeck of New York. Governor Frederick W Plaisted visited from Capitol Island, touring the Day cottage at the island. He noted the scenic beauty and the Eastward Fleet departure at Boothbay Harbor. Mr and Mrs Wilber G G Cahill spent the weekend at Popham with Mr and Mrs Charles W Clifford. The steamer Wirsinia carried about a dozen Bath residents to Phippsburg on a Sunday excursion.
A party of eight Exeter boys, led by Scout master James P. Webber, spent a week at the Webber cottage Popham Maine. Guided by Ernest Thompson Seton and others the scouts cooked for themselves and toured Fort Baldwin the life saving station and Squirrels Island. They joined Mrs Delrymple at Sagadahoe Bay for a house party and later visited Seguin Pond Island and a feldspar quarry. They returned with tanned faces and stories, accompanied by eight Christchurch choristers.
Mrs Walter Stewart and daughter Dorothy arrived from Minneapolis and are being entertained by Mr and Mrs Walter 8S Glidden on Pearl street. Miss Jeanette Clark of Brooklyn arrived Thursday for a visit on Green street hosted by Mrs Charles Magoun.
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