Contrasts in Life Brighten Daily Joys
Poem by Charles D. Clarke argues storms and sun both shape human feeling. It contrasts gloom and happiness to show how variety fuels emotions.
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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1915
Page
4
Poem by Charles D. Clarke argues storms and sun both shape human feeling. It contrasts gloom and happiness to show how variety fuels emotions.
Mrs Lurs Patten hosted a card party with two tables and a prize won by Mrs McDonald. Numerous visits and arrivals are noted including Miss Catherine McGilli cuddy Lewiston Miss Linda Makanna Bangor Miss Marianna Bath Miss Sydney Warman Wollaston, Mass. plus Barbara name for a new baby and outings at Brushwood Boothbay Camp.
The E. W. Society of the First Baptist Church enjoyed a weeklong trip to Birch Point led by Miss Helen Dunning and Mrs. Grace Goodwin with ten members. Rev. M. J. Duncklee reported arrival in Pasadena to visit Mr. and Mrs. Fred H. Low. Amory M. Houghton hosted a yacht cruise to Boothbay Harbor aboard Juno with a fish dinner served at anchor. The Tuesday Club held a dancing party at Kennebec Yacht Club with Stevens’s orchestra, ice cream, cake, and two step dances lasting about 30 minutes.
Mr and Mrs Walter M Potter and Mr and Mrs Harry Crosman began a ten days automobile journey in Potter s car to New York and Montreal on Saturday. Friends of Mr and Mrs W A Pidgen Lewiston are glad to hear of a comfortable trip to Southport with Mr Pidgin completing the journey and planning a September return to Lewiston in better health. The KPC club broke camp after a ten day outing at King's Point on the New Meadows with a large Brunswick Bath West Bath Woolwich and Bath roster including Marjorie Ring Margaret Peterson Sibyl Holbrook Florence Small Lillian Whittam Ethel Wright Ruth Fuller Sarah Bailey and Althea Strout with Ella J Douglas chaperoning.
Miss Leah Winslow former Keith theater star in Portland debuts a Brooklyn Prospect Theatre vaudeville engagement next Monday. She rose as stock leading woman at Keith’s in Brooklyn for three winters and is a Brooklyn favorite awaiting her first vaudeville appearance. Also notes the Frye family welcomes a nine pound boy and Mrs Trish’s Buckfield visit plus New York business trip.
The Wawenock Camp Fire Girls came home Saturday after a ten day excursion at Birch Point in the Roy Shackford cottage. They dedicated the recently remodelled cottage and enjoyed boating bathing and land sports. A birthday celebration honored Misses Josephine Crosman and Edith Mitchell with a large cake sixteen candles and birch bark place cards. Travel was by J A Redlon's launch due to rough overland roads. Members listed Mildred Curtis Josephine Crosman Ethel Totman Hazel Harrington Marion Ferguson Edith Mitchell and Marion Redlon with Mrs Joanna Hodgkins as chaperone.
Rev. F W O'Brien D D of Somerville, visiting Mrs O'Brien, spent Tuesday greeting old friends with H C Fish of John P Squire Co. They will spend the summer at Old Orchard.
Harold Smith formerly of Bath now residing in Akron, Ohio, and Miss Cecile Ward of Montana announce their engagement. The wedding is planned for August and will be followed by a wedding tour from Buffalo to Portland by touring car. Ward met Smith through a Bath friend who connected them in Montana.
Mr and Mrs Walter Moore of Arlington are guests at Popham Beach with Dr and Mrs T Percy. Tuesday Mr Moore left for a trip to Camden. Miss Arline Colton of Massachusetts is visiting Miss Colter a daughter of Mr and Mrs George A Colton, formerly of this city. Postcards from Miss Louise S Fuller dated Yosemite describe enjoying the Watch and its trees. Miss Cle Coombs stayed at Fort Popham this week as guest of Mrs E M Fuller.
Hon. E. W. Hyde began a ten day business tour visiting Birmingham New Orleans and Mobile to advance plans for the Gulf City Shipbuilding Drydock Co. project. He will consult with potential investors and local officials on site development and financing.
Reverend Omar W Folsom spent Sunday at Rye Beach with family. Clement Holden of Montreal, Mrs Folsom's brother-in-law, is on vacation. Mrs Lyons and Mrs McDonald of Long Island have leased the Webber residence at 900 Washington Street for three months.
Dr. Harrison Hunt of Bangor will return home this summer after serving two years as surgeon on the MacMillan Arctic Expedition. Friends recall his Bowdoin College days when he was a star athlete known as Hal Hunt.
Mrs. Fred T. Mayers arrived home from a business trip to Boston. She operates shampooing and manicuring services at the Cosmopolitan Clubhouse every Wednesday and will serve both the public and club members. Appointments are made by contacting her at Mrs. Charles T. Jackson’s residence.
Arthur S. Bosworth of the Maine Water Co. was in town on a business visit. Mrs. Arthur H. Berry of Newton Massachusetts arrived Wednesday afternoon to visit her friend Mrs. Fred H. Kimball. Miss Marian Bernier, summering at New Meadows, was Esther Mikelsky’s guest Tuesday.
Miss Lyle Turner of Woodstock Vermont and Miss Dorothy Wright of Washington DC, guests of Miss Margaret Torrey at Popham Beach, returned home Thursday. They were classmates at Wellesley College.
Miss Dorothy Nichols stays with Miss Mildred Tuttle on Limerock Street in Rockland. Mrs. Ber nice Sturtevant and Miss Hope Sturtevant visit Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Carver in East Boothbay for a week. Mrs. Merrill and her grandson George Copeland of Quincy plus Miss Catherine Leonard of Bath are visiting from Quincy.
Mrs. E. W. Hyde slipped at her High Street residence on Monday and sprained a ligament in her ankle. The injury will keep her indoors for several days as she recovers at home.
Alonzo A. Morse of Vine Street was brought to City Hospital Monday evening with suspected abdominal surgery. After admission the internal condition improved, and doctors decided no operation was required.
E. Leo Farrell, Morse High alumnus and member of the Citizens' Bureau at the State Department in Washington DC, is at home visiting his father. He notes very hot weather in Washington and plans to begin studying law this fall alongside his current duties.
Mrs Milton H Douglas and her sons Her bert and Carville with Miss Elizabeth Dean are spending the week at the Bonnie View cottage at Sabino.
Mr and Mrs W. Perkins of 52 Elm announce the engagement of their daughter Lillian Frances to Charles Oxnard of West Medford Massachusetts Miss Perkins is Morse High graduate and has taught four years in the State School for Boys She leaves this month from the South Portland teaching department Mr Oxnard Bowdoin graduate Class of 1911 is in the milk business with his father in West Medford
Miss Ruth S Whitney was the Sunday guest of Mrs Edith Ledyard at her houseboat on the Little Sheep Scot Mr and Mrs Mark Burlin have returned to Boston after a visit in this city at the home of her father M B Hodgdon Miss Agnes Tarbox of Bowdoinham was a Saturday visitor in town
Dr. G. A. Robertson of Louisville arrived at Boothbay Camp on Thursday for the rest of the summer. He has been in Chicago for several weeks delivering lectures before a summer medical institute.
Mr and Mrs Charles E Curtis and Mrs Arthur B Stilphen traveled to South Portland Thursday for the funeral of Captain William Richardson a well known local figure in the city.
Mrs Annie Ames of Winthrop Massachusetts is in town with Mrs E M Everard visiting briefly before returning home, while staying with Mr and Mrs J Pooler at Sabine.
Mrs. Aramede Tarbox of Washington D C formerly of this city has purchased the T H Riley cottage at Mere Point.
Miss Gladys Jordan of Forest Hill Hospital Boston arrived Wednesday for a three weeks vacation at her home in this city.
Mrs. F. R. E. Dean and daughter Marion and son Russell left Bath Tuesday for a car ride to Wells Beach with Russell driving. Miss Sarah Coombs left Thursday for Bayonne New Jersey to visit Mrs. Glen Ville Tremaine formerly Miss Arabine Purbish of this city.
Miss Jennie R Morse and her niece Miss Anna Morse arrived in New York to visit Charles W Morse before returning home. They had just gone to San Francisco at the start of the month to see the Exposition.
Mrs. Charles H. McLellan and daughter Mrs Emma McLellan Dun are spending the summer at a cottage on Squirrel Island. Henry M. Hartleb and family have opened their cottage at Popham Beach and he is a popular summer resident. Rev F W O'Brien of Somerville Mass arrived in the city and preached at the People's Baptist Church. He stayed with W D Coombs on Corliss Street.
Rev. F. W. O'Brien of Somerville Massachusetts arrived Monday and preached Tuesday evening in the People's Baptist Church auditorium. He stayed with W. D. Coombs of Corliss Street during his visit.
Dayton Cushing will likely give an organ recital in the second week of August at Winter Street Church. The event benefits the Nurses' Home. Cushing, a noted musician and High School graduate, is a former Green Street boy.
Mr and Mrs Don L Sawyer of Swampscott wed at Holy Name Church in Swampscott on Wednesday afternoon. Rev Edwin Tillison officiated. The couple, just married, breakfasted with the Wakefields and plan a honeymoon at Cox's Head in the Swampscott bungalow. Sawyer works in his father Edwin S Sawyers painting business. Mrs Sawyer is daughter of Marblehead residents Mrs and Mrs John C Patey. The wedding party included Mrs Esther Russell Harold Jacobs Charles Noyes and Georgia Patey. Sawyer is a Swampscott Fire Department member and received a postnuptial reception from the company.
Mrs Hammond of Brunswick was the Sunday guest of Mrs Charles Greenleaf. Misses Gertrude and Thelma Burke of Lisbon visited their sister Mrs Ralph Cornish. Mrs Mary Curran Miss Curran and Miss Howard, wintering in Boston, arrived at MacMahon for summer.
Miss Helen Lang of Worcester Massachusetts arrived this week as a guest of her schoolmate Miss Millicent Clifford at Bradford Academy.
M Nicholas of Columbus Ohio visiting Bacon family heads to Small Point today to join kin and plans a trip to Rangeley Lakes on Friday. Mrs A J Rogers from Portland will spend weeks in Bath with sister Mrs Walker after visiting sister Mrs Turner in Deering. Rogers, Brush and Thimble Club member, is a Higgins Beach regular with a cottage leased this season.
Alice May Douglas of this city had a Fourth of July story in Lutheran Boys and Girls and a poem in the Christian Work, a leading religious paper. She also contributed an article on The Junior Congregation of a Belfast Maine church in the Teachers' Journal of the Brethren Publishing House in Elgin Illinois.
Mr and Mrs Edward McAuliffe arrived home Saturday night from a vacation to Chicago and St Louis. In St Louis they attended the ordination of Jesuit priest James J Kiely and later at Holy Family Church in Chicago Fr Kiely presided over the first solemn high mass. Mrs McAuliffe is god mother to Fr Kiely. They traveled home via Cleveland Niagara Falls and Albany. He resumed duties as letter carrier on Tuesday.
Mr and Mrs Raymond Rollis of Hallowell married Monday afternoon in Hallo well by Rev F W Stanley. The newlyweds plan a honeymoon trip to Rockland and Camden and will reside in Hallowell. Mrs Rollis was formerly Miss Ethel M Cookson of Augusta.
Reverend J. B. O'Brien of Winn formerly of St. Mary's Church was an out of town guest at the Knights of Columbus banquet Tuesday night and was warmly welcomed with an ovation after being asked to speak. He referenced his pastorate in the Shipping City with a pleasant remark.
Mrs. W A MacLean of Brooklyn was a Thursday guest of the Misses Mikelsky. Miss Mollie Gibbons enjoys an Alliquippa outing as guest of Mrs. Joseph Noyes of Portland. Mrs. G W Pembroke belongs to the Maine Club in New York where Miss Bertha L Soule has served as president.
Charles B. Harrington came back to Bath this week following a trip to Wilton to visit his daughter Mrs. Ella Sampson.
The Wadsworth, newest torpedo boat destroyer, departed Bath Iron Works at 8 30 for Charlestown Navy Yard to join the Navy Department. Captain Charles W. Dingley commanded fifty Bath Iron Works crewmen as President Hyde scheduled the ceremony. Notables aboard included Vice President and Supt. Engineer C. P. Wetherbee and guest H. H. Buffam, naval architects Irving Cox and N. W. Pevear, and Mrs. Hyde, wife of a Bath engineer.
A large party of fashionable guests arrived at Bath by two boats from Hotel Seguinland for the summer. Notable attendees include Jo se William Pierce of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Mr and Mrs William Sanborn Young of San Francisco, and Mrs N W Wiltse of Philadelphia. The week featured three birthday celebrations with elaborate cakes, floral dining rooms, and ornate decorations. New arrivals listed include Edward Durrell Cleveland Miss Margaret S M Brown Ruth M Henry Winchendon Mass and others from New York City Boston Boothbay Harbor and London.
Inquiries have been made to locate Albert E. who disappeared from his car in Portland this week. No trace found. relatives fear he has wandered to a strange place. He is a 37 year old steamfitter, 5 feet 10 inches, dark complexioned with a dark moustache, wearing a gray mixed coat, dark trousers and a gray cap.
Mr and Mrs Harry Cook and Harry Jr return to W am Monday following a visit with relatives in town.
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