Society News and Local Events at Bath
A society column covers a church fundraiser play No Cure No Pay at Elm Street Church with Mrs Fred Coombs and Misses Ruth Goodwin and Louise Irish, plus musical numbers and praise for performers. Other items note Emma Eames de Gogorza's National League for Women’s Service chairmanship, a farewell for Mrs Ernest Eaton, Carnegie Corporation gift to clergy pension fund, and local club activities at Cosmopolitan Club and Bath Iron Works connections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Faros
Elm St. Society
Elm Street Church
Ruth Goodwin
Louise Irish
Fred Coombs
Lena King
Zephie Beals
Nathan E. Coffin
Holman F. Day
Esher White
Worrey
Ernest Eaton
Alice Varney
Nellie Wright
Fred Irish
Alice
Edward Haggett
Bridget
Bedford Street
Home, Sweet Home
Eames
Women's League
Emma Eames de Gogorza
National League For Women's Service
Red Cross
National Collegiate Alumnae Association
National Society of the United States
Daughters of 1812
National Society of the Colonial Dames of America
National Council of Jewish Women
Women's Department
The
National Civic Federation
National Preparedness Association
National Security League
Workers of the War Relief Association of Bath
Social Notes From Bath and Portland Circles
Miss M Janet Cutler joins Mac Dowell Club as member while a Tuesday session discusses Romantic Music. Mrs A M Cutler and Miss Cutler of Portland plan a Thursday arrival for several days. Portland Women's Clubhouse reception drew hundreds. host ushers included Mrs Harold Eastman visiting from Portland. George C Frye funded the clubhouse gift. Bath granddaughter Barbara Marston Brokaw was welcomed with a stylish engraved card announcing birth on February 18 1917 in Blackfoot Idaho. John R Houghton of Bath and Bowdoin College sails for France to join the Ambulance corps of the French army. John H Stacy and Charles V Minott attend Casco Bay Islands hearing in Augusta. Gunner Sewall sails from Chicago to Bordeaux to enter the French ambulance service. The Chicago left February 19.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Eaton
Edward H. Hartwell
Mrs. Eaton
California
Pacific Coast
James Lockery
William Small
Charles Carr
Lothair Lowell
Winnie Durgin
Jennie Goodman
M. Janet Cutler
MacDowell Club
A. M. Cutler
Miss Cutler
Portland
Harold Eastman
Charles W. Clifford
George C. Frye
Bath
Barbara Marston Brokaw
James Barton Brokaw
Barbara Marston
Blackfoot
Idaho
T. H. G. Marston
Boston
Mary Marston
John R. Houghton
Bath and Bowdoin College
France
Ambulance Corps
Gunner Sewall
Chicago
Bordeaux
S. E. Austin Improves Health After Hospital Stay
Friends of S. E. Austin manager of the N. E. Tel. and Tel. Ex change Lewiston report his health is gradually improving after a prolonged illness. He was hospitalized at Ste Marie's General Hospital for several weeks with a serious condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. E. Austin
N. E. Tel. & Tel. Exchange
Lewiston
Austin
Ste. Marie's General Hospital
Homeopathic meet and banquet in Portland
Dr. H F Morin attended the Cumberland and York Homeopathic Society meeting and banquet at the Elks Club in Portland Wednesday evening. Dr A G Howard of the Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital spoke on knee diagnosis and treatment procedures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. F. Morin
Cumberland and York Homeopathic Society
Portland
Elks Club
A. G. Howard
Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital
Informal talk planned by Miss Murphy at Cosmopolitan Club
Miss Jane S Murphy will speak Sunday afternoon at four at the Cosmopolitan Club. Her subject is a winter in Honolulu with photographs and souvenirs. The talk follows a recommendation at a local D A R meeting and invites all members to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cosmopolitan Club
Lola Walker
Lunie Hodgkins
Jane S. Murphy
Miss Murphy
Honolulu
D.A.R
Representative Larrabee Defends Open Hearings On Peat Powder Bill
Representative E W Larrabee urged the House to represent all state residents and allow debated legislation to reach the floor despite a Senate non-concurrence on the Peat Powder Producing Co act. He argued against rigid rules blocking ordinary resolutions. Mrs Frank Nichols departed Tuesday for Augusta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. W. Larrabee
House
Senate
Peat
Birthday Party in Honor of Miss Eaton and Miss Hunt
Wednesday evening at the Washington St schoolhouse a birthday party was held for Eleanor Eaton and Bernice Hunt. Guests arrived at 7 30, enjoyed games and dancing, light refreshments, including ice cream and cake, and the event ended at eleven with chaperones Mrs Eaton and Mrs Hunt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington St
Eleanor Eaton
Bernice Hunt
Alice Deering
Loraine Eggleston
Ruth Hutchins
Hilda Murray
Cynthia Crosman
Laura Kennedy
Gwendolyn Vaughan
Margaret Daley
Annie Bickle
Ruth Eaton
Florence Stevens
Morton Holbrook
Percy Miller
Frank Talbot
Joe
Marjorie Mitchell
Fred Starkey
Charles Neil
Portland Pastors Leave City Churches After Convention
Two prominent Portland pastors are leaving their churches. Dr. Erb of the Free Baptist Church becomes editor of a Teen Age publication for Baptist Publishing Co. in Philadelphia and authored a book on the Young People's Movement. Rev. J. Y. White of Pine Street Methodist Church accepts a call from a South Dakota church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Bath
Dr. Erb
The
Free Baptist Church
Baptist Publishing Co
Philadelphia
Erb
University of Chicago
J. Y. White
Pine Street
Maine ambulance gift aids front lines effort
Acknowledgement from Dean Kenneth C. M. Sills shows a Maine Ambu lance fund gift to the American ambulance corps and news that the Paris headquarters were notified. Bowdoin alumni and undergraduates helped raise funds for a second ambulance and further contributions are being accepted for rapid dispatch. St Augustine hosted Washingtons Birthday events with a ball at the Alcazar Casino and a long list of patronesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Kenneth C. M. Sills
Maine Ambulance Fund
American Ambulance Corps
Paris
Bowdoin
Dean Sills
Carleton Pike
Loyall F. Sewall
Mrs Powers and Daughter Return Home from Brockton Visit
Mrs Max Powers and her daughter Ruth have returned home after a five week visit with relatives in Brockton Massachusetts. They arrived with friend Miss Henrietta Stevenson who will visit at the Powers home on Middle 81.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Max Powers
Ruth
Brockton
Mass
Henrietta Stevenson
Powers
Middle 81
Bath Mannie L Palmer and Bath social notes
Miss Annie L. Palmer in Orlando with Heal sisters family ties to Bath. Bath hosts Washington's Birthday Hohpi Camp Fire party including Marjorie Mitchell Thelma Brown and Harold Fielding among others with prize Washington hatchet and costumes. Bath gains new motion picture and playhouse via Fisher Mulligan property option sold to F G Spencer of St John NB theatre promoter. construction to start soon with design up to date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annie L. Palmer
Orlando
Fla
Bath
Heal Sisters
William Heal
Westport Millman
Court St
Harold Brown
Willard Sprague
Charles Neil
Kenneth Lenox
Washington
Thelma Brown
Clifford Neil
Harold Fielding
Fisher-Mulligan
Front
Oe Sts
F. G. Spencer
St. John
N. B
Spencer
Joseph Charles Footer
New Brunswick
Also Mentioned on This Page
Independent
America
Lincoln
Tiberty
Charles D. Clarke
Miss Alice Marks
J. L. P. Burke
Bath Iron Works
Miss Marks
Bath Marine Construction Co
William Lawrence
Massachusetts
Protestant Episcopal Church
Carnegie Corporation
John Barnes
Houston
Milliken
Augusta
Barrett Nichols
Flora Bella
Down East
Emma Duncan
Mary Pelham Hill
Joseph Sewall
Mark W. Sewall
John H. Stacy
Charles V. Minott
Phippsburg Center
Casco Bay Islands
Frank Nichols
Stetson
Lamson & Hubbard
John J.desmondco
Water Streets
St. Augustine
William Jennings Ormande
A. R. Shepard
George I. Vail
George D. Young
Frank Dudley
J. C. R. Foster
John Hyde
Charles Smith
W. W. Palmer
Thos. H. Ince’s
Bath Opera House
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