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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1919
Page
6
Winnegance and South End students plus teachers and parents held a large picnic at Morse farm near Salmon Cove. More than 200 attended with lunches, enjoyed grove dining, swimming, and games. Randall Coombs photographed the event for later use.
J Austin Wheeler stayed with relatives in Gardiner over the weekend. Harry Gordon of Boston visited Bath on business. Numerous trips to Portland and Poland Spring filled Sunday for several Bath residents including the Deerings and Lowells. Irvin Nash returned to work at Moulton’s after a Nequasset lake vacation. Summers at Montsweag farm Woolwich drew in Washington guests. Yale Harvard races delighted Thomas J. Lynch. The Grant and Butler families traveled between Lewiston Bath and Squirrel Island. Summer guest houses fill rapidly at Poland Springs as locals host relatives and friends.
William Esmond returns from Gardiner weekend. Mrs O'Brien and family arrive at Five Islands for the season. Frank Jones now heads Newark shipyard operations. Ralph Baker back from Portland visit. Beals guests of her parents in Woolwich. Peter Hynes promoted riveter at Newbury yard N Y. Black couple weekend at Five Islands cottage. Hatch families visit Cop ham Beach. Perry L Thompson discharged from service returns from France. Thomas Ingham now general superintendent at Elizabethport yard. Hugheses from New York in Woolwich recovering from auto accident, improving at City hospital. William Melcher, 95 May 9, in Bath, seen walking about for exercise. Coffin and Rogers families visiting Winneganee. Coffin runs Auto Inn Bradford near Haverhill. Smith secretary of Y M C A Camp Devens. Esther J White in Brooklyn for Pratt Institute reunion then Buffalo and back to New York for Columbia summer school.
Sherman Clark visited Augusta and Lewiston while Clinton Harma Farber Davis spent the weekend in Georgetown. Towns from Bath to Portland show residents traveling or visiting friends in Boston New York City and Moosehead with lakes trout fishing and family gatherings noted amid a broad roster of local movements and social calls.
Amanda JP McIntire and Eugene Coleman wed June 18 at the home of Rev. Samuel A. Evans with a single ring service and no attendants. The bride, daughter of Lieut. and Mrs. Irvin McIntire, Morse high school 1912 graduate, and the groom, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Coleman, work as a moulder at Torrey Roller Rushing Works. They stayed at Pop ham Beach then plan to reside at 591 Middle Street.
Mrs. Althea G Quimby Maine state president and Mrs Ruth Walsh of Gardiner will headline the Sagadahoe county W C T U convention Tuesday. The event runs all day with meals provided at no charge and is open to the public. Mrs Walsh speaks in the evening.
Bowdoin College held its 114th commencement in the First Parish Church and the gymnasium dinner. Ten honorary degrees were awarded to notable graduates and affiliates, with 83 degrees given to the class of 1919 including 53 BA, 14 BS, and 16 MD. Names of honored graduates and Rhodes Scholar listed include Orson Leland Berry and Robert V Coffin.
Fire at a wooden building on the Emergency Fleet Corporation grounds west of High street destroyed about 2500 dollars in cash saved by Italian occupants. Spectators recovered small amounts, with one roll of 250 dollars found. The cook house for U S Guards last fall, the fire origin unknown, tarred walls produced copious smoke.
The steamer Norman II carried nearly 100 Pomona Grange members to Vive Islands for the Sagada hoe Pomona Grange meeting. After the session, attendees swam, rowed, and socialized, returning sunburned and happy with a lively afternoon and list of travelers.
Miss Dorothy Nichols entertained at her North street home Tuesday night in honor of friend Miss Mildred Morgan of Hillsboro Ohio. Music by Mrs Mildred Chaney Buck ran ices cake and punch were served as dancing continued until 1130. Guests included Dorothy Higgins Priscilla Kimball Dorothy Jewett Anna Morse Gladys Witherspoon Frances Weeks Frances Cummings Doris Stetson Louise Hill Isabelle Olm Langdon Hill Bowen Torrey Stuart De Mott Herbert Lemont John Jayne Daniel Brierley George Wetherbee Johan son Ilanus Friedrichs Houghton McLellan and others.
Miss Jessie F Ferguson of Bath and Corp Harold G Litchfield of Newport Vermont were married June 12 at Derby Center Vermont. The bride, daughter of Mrs Alexander Ferguson, taught in Newport after Morse High graduation. The groom recently returned from 18 months overseas with the Yankee Division and serves with the 101st ammunition train.
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