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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1917
Page
7
Miss Leonice Brockway Morse hosts a luncheon where her engagement to Graham Blandy of Greenwich New York is revealed. Blandy enlisted for the Albany Base Hospital unit and may depart for the Russian front in autumn.
Rev. W. R. Calder has resigned from the Woolwich Congregational Church to take a British Government engagement. A meeting of church and parish is called to act. Red Cross services will be held at regular hours in Woolwich and Moatsweag.
Miss Josie Winter visits cousin Miss Gertrude Payson in Concord Massachusetts. Mrs Samuel R Brown spends weeks in Lewiston and Auburn. Rev George K E Noble with Mrs Noble and daughter were Thursday guests of Mrs Eugene Brown Berry's Mills. Berry's Mills school pupils enjoy a Friday picnic in the grove across from New Meadows Inn.
Ruth May Osborn of this city died Saturday night after a two week illness. She was born in South Boston, daughter of William E. Nutter, wife of Stephen R. Osborn, and a member of People's Baptist Church. She leaves a husband, an infant son Charles William, aged two weeks, her father, three sisters Annie Aurburn Margaret and Ivy Nutter, and two brothers George and Phillip Nutter. Funeral Tuesday at 3 30 p.m. from 12 Middle Street.
News from Old Orchard reports the death of Mrs Mary Bailey 71 a native of Poland daughter of the late Capt Sewell Reed and former resident of this city on Corliss Street. She was a close friend of Mrs James Perkins and later lived with her niece Mrs Eliza. Her remains were brought back Tuesday for interment at Maple Grove Cemetery. Cellar excavations continue for two Texas houses on North and High Streets with a third begun.
The Five Islands Grange outlines a busy schedule with a Pomona meeting next week. The community reports a growing hall fund, ongoing construction, weekly dinners, and worker bee turnout despite rain. Locals from nearby towns visit, with new marriages and business updates featured in the progress report.
Community notices recount family moves to Bath and Segninland cottages filling at MaceMahan Club House opening. Obituary for Maria E. Reed notes eight months illness and Bath relatives. Universalist Children's Day program at church features recitations songs and offerings. Also poem to public effort and Bath street views praised as Forest City with autumn foliage. Mercury reports 69 Tuesday evening.
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