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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1926
Page
3
A Bath page highlights a social event honoring a niece, weddings and birthdays, a bridge prize, and visits from relatives. It notes military and shipping connections, including a nurse at Bath Naval and Military Orphans Home and a quartermaster aboard the Cambrai, with other local residents traveling, visiting, and hosting gatherings in Woolwich and Bath.
Social notes list graduations and visitors from Orono to Bath. Families such as Cahill, Sawyer, Morin, Webb, Robbins, Hall, MacKay, Dunning, Cadigan, Scudder, and Prebie are noted visiting, traveling, or residing with relatives and friends across Maine and nearby states. Several residents attend university events, church services, or frequent Michigan and Chicago connections. A medical discharge and summer relocations are also mentioned.
Mrs. Charles H. Oliver travels to Stoneham Massachusetts to visit cousins Earl Tom bard Irving Bancroft and Earl Bancroft, returning with them from Small Point Beach. Various locals host visitors and plan trips including Reuben Mann in Tel Faste, Mrs. Georgie Sidelinger and Elmer McFarland, and Foamite Co salesman Harry Cook.
Mrs Helen Plummer Mulligan of Winslow street passed away Thursday in Portland surrounded by friends.
Mrs. Scott Morse of Andrews road visits sister Mrs. Morton Young in Roslindale. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel S. Sewall arrive from Redlands, California to their Prout's Neck summer home. Mrs. Samuel R.R. Percy hosts a Washington street supper and four tables of bridge with prizes to Mrs. Frank B. Nichols and Mrs. Jane Spinney. Guest prize goes to Mrs. Aghler of Cleveland. Mrs. Helen Shaughnessy hosts a dinner and two tables of bridge honoring her sister with prizes to Mrs. Currie and Mrs. Shubert. Guests include Liam P. Currie of Montreal and Mrs. William Worden of Belmont. Mrs. Rachel Elwell, wintering in Philadelphia, has arrived to open her Middle street Summer home.
Mrs William and son Frank return to their home after six months traveling Miami Wilmington Charleston and other cities aboard the schooner Josephine McQuestin carrying lumber cargo to Miami Captain Plummer remains in Newport News repairing the Zebedee Cliff and the Joseph E Newson with plans to bring the Newson to Boothbay Harbor.
Mr and Mrs Conrad Olsen of Bridgeport Connecticut with daughters Thelma and Hazel and son Edward are expected to pass the summer at their camp Ledge-o-Rock near Thorne's Head on the Kennebec.
Mr and Mrs K R Parmalee and Mrs Boyd Leavitt of St Petersburg Fla formerly of this city visited Beechwood near Biddeford where they own a cottage and will pass the Summer returning to Florida in the Fall Mrs Parmalee was formerly Miss Irene Owen of this city.
Mrs. Herman Meigs and son Herman Jr of State street Augusta visit Mrs Meigs' parents Mr and Mrs John Burgess Spring street. Mr and Mrs John H Hyde who had been at Elmhurst return to Brookline Mass and plan to return the 15th. Oscar Trott returns to his home on upper Washington street from Fast Deering where he worked for Portland Refining Co for several weeks.
Morton Thibodeau returns to Waterville after several days away at Rhebimhood and Seguinland where he worked for the Lunt Morse Co of Boston.
Mr and Mrs J Henry Melellan arrived in the city after returning from a winter in the Mediterranean. They traveled from November to Greece and Niece then Florence, sailed from Marseilles April 28 visiting Alexandria Jaffa Beirut and Constantinople, meeting old friends. They reported good weather until the Azores and a chilly sea homeward. They later went to MacMahan's Thursday.
Mr and Mrs Frank Flint of Portsmouth New Hampshire have been visiting Mrs Flint mother Mrs Nancy Bucknam of York Street and have now returned home after several days away.
Mrs Samuel Green of Washington street returns from Boston where she visited daughter Lena Green a stenographer in the Chickering Piano Co Otis Smith seven year old son of Mr and Mrs Raymond Smith of Stonington Mass formerly of upper High Street is convalescing after an appendectomy Mrs Stansbury Hagar and children Thomas and Marjorie arrived from New York to spend the summer at Sebasco and will be joined later by Mr Hagar who will drive his car up.
Col James B Morse of Boston with Lunt Morse firm working on water systems at Robinhood and Seguin land was a recent guest of Mr and Mrs Roscoe P McFadden.
Invitations issued for the marriage of Miss Edna Pepper and Hiram Tobey at the home of Miss Pepper's parents Mr and Mrs Arthur J Day on June 26 at 7 p m.
Charles Konghan, once a Bath boy, has spent time in Panama and is expected to arrive in the city soon to visit his mother, Mrs. Mary Konghan, of Winship Street.
Leah Green of Philadelphia daughter of Mrs. Samuel Green graduates from the Philadelphia School of Design for Women with two prizes the John Fartain prize enabling a post graduate year and the John Frederick Lewis prize for portraits and oil She plans further portrait work then a Sesqui Centennial visit before returning home Grace Spaulding has completed her first year at Boston University and returns home for the summer Miss Charlotte Trott a Morse high graduate 1925 resumes hospital duties in Keene N H after visiting Middle Street and Portsmouth with her nephew David Clark
Mr and Mrs William Choate former Bath residents now at the Greenfield club travel from Bath to Dresden where they own property and visit old friends. A wedding invitation is issued for Miss Harriet Crocker Jackson daughter of Charles and Harriet Jackson to Francis Batehelder Hill on Thursday June 24 at eight in the bride’s colonial home 71 South Street Bath. Hill from Augusta now with Portland Press Herald advertising department and a former Bowdoin athlete. Mrs J Rupert Wing dies in Portland with her mother Martha Ross.
Mrs. Orrin F. Frye entertained the card club on Washington street Wednesday. Mrs. N. E. Coffin won the monthly prize, a crystal candy jar, for the highest score. Refreshments followed. The club met yesterday afternoon with Mrs. Ralph Whitehouse on lower High street.
Mrs H O Cunningham of Edgecomb is visiting her daughter Mrs Milton C Trott on High Street.
Mrs. Henry Greenleaf of Westport hosts granddaughter Eunice of Everett Mass and daughter Mrs Albert McFadden. Capt Proctor Hagan of Winship Street and wife return from St Petersburg Fla for summer. Mrs Luke Marr visits Portland for G A B convention. Mrs Harry McGlinchy returns from Nashua N H. Mrs George Greenleaf visits Westport after time with Mercie McFadden. Mr and Mrs William Goldsmith visit Mrs Margaret Flaherty. Mrs Goldsmith is Mary Flaherty class of 1918 Morse High.
Roger Pierce of Boston is ill at the home of Mrs. Herbert Huggard of Washington street. He had recently been discharged from a Boston hospital when he came to Bath and since arrival has suffered a relapse.
Mr. and Mrs. Francis Lee of Quincy arrived last week to visit Mr. Lee’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Lee of Pearl Street, after a White Mountains trip. They resumed their travels Friday.
Everett Brooks, once purser on the Governor King and Hoeko moek ferries, has spent months as a hospital patient after leg amputation. He has recovered enough to sit in a wheelchair, with many friends hoping for a full recovery. Charles and Mrs McKay, formerly of Bath, recently moved from Port Arthur Texas to Chicago with The Texas Steamship Co. and expect to relocate to New York in the fall during another transfer.
A group of about seven pupils and friends gathered Monday evening at the home of Mr and Mrs Herbert Munsey to honor Mrs Georgianna Lilly the Day's Ferry teacher last year. Music plus refreshments of cake and ice cream followed the event.
Capt. J Horace McClure of Battery H 240th A returned Monday night from Portland where he spent four days at an officers training school. Mr and Mrs Walter M Hill and two with his parents Mr and Mrs Fred P Hill High Street
Noted Bath items recount a summer entertainment at McKay Park by a Sanford troupe with five guiding devices and no gambling, delays delaying opening until Tuesday night. The city also reports traffic, road work, new stamps, local wonders, and civic notes from Bath and nearby towns.
Miss Helen Freeman of Bath becomes North Berwick High School principal the first woman to hold the post. A Colby College graduate 1922 she joined North Berwick as an assistant then first assistant before her election. The school will have a male submaster and athletic coach. The Bath community congratulates her on this appointment.
Mrs. Alicia Berry who passed the weekend to Bath with Mr and Mrs Lewis Berry of Washington street returned to Portland Sunday. On the same day Miss Bessie Clark arrived from Woodfords to pass the week with Mrs Berry.
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