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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1911
Page
12
Bath society circles report engagements and travels. Miss Nettie Kathryn Post and Mr. Askew plan a October wedding. Miss Clark hosts winter guests from Upper Montclair and Brooklyn. Regional clubs hold dinners, choir events, and spring tours as residents sail for Europe while local libraries and exchanges seek support.
John F. Clary and Miss Florence Wallace wed in Portsmouth on Monday. Mrs. Clary is Captain Charles Ee Wallace's daughter and Mr. Clary is a well known confectioner. They return home at 746 Middle Street and will reside there. Friends extend many good wishes.
In Bath, Miss Harriet Brown of Bangor mourns the destruction of her residence, saved only a few clothes and household effects. The May Ball by the Colonial Club in Bath drew a large attendance, with decor by F. L. Willis and a ten piece Columbia Orchestra led by Hiram T. Stevens. The event, marking the seventh May assembly, featured new gowns, a full program of twenty dances, superb music, and a late return to the home institution.
The Colonel Dummer Sewall chapter held its monthly business meeting with Mrs Lorettus Metcalf as guest. Officers were mostly re elected. two posts filled elsewhere. Regulars noted a Washington trip by state and local regents and plans for a June Pop Concert at Music Hall.
Mrs Aramede Tarbox and Ernest A Allan left Saturday for Boston. Tarbox will continue to Brooklyn to visit her son Dr Harry Tarbox and his wife. Mrs Elwell60 Crosby has been visiting in Boston and is joined by Mr Crosby who went with her to New York to visit her son Carl K Crosby.
Charles P. Wetherbee returns home from Old Point Comfort after serving as representative of the B I W on the final acceptance trial trip of the Drayton. Mr. and Mrs. O P Coffin visited Boston this week. Mrs. Charles Staples of Bowdeinham stayed with her sister Mrs Lorettus Metcalf. Rev W Arthur Stanton D D spoke at First Baptist Church in Curnool India sharing sixteen years of missionary work and experiences.
Timothy B. Curtis returned Tuesday from Boston while Hon. and Mrs. John S. Hyde came back after a three month stay at the Hotel Plaza in New York City. Mrs. E. M. Howard opens her Bath county summer cottage on Little Sheepscot.
Resolutions praising Rev. Hibbert Lockhart plus notes on his departure to a Carolina, R. I. post mark the first local pastor resignation honored by the clergy. Mrs. Alton Tolman arrives from Hartford to visit her sister in town. O W Folsom, G C DeMott, and G C Moses plan to travel to Houston for a state Congregational convention next week.
Miss Margaret J Adams and Kenneth Weeks attended a Pop Concert in Town Hall Brunswick Monday evening. Roland Cony Carl Crosman and Harold Ward spent Saturday in Lisbon Falls as guests of Miss Emma L Shorey.
Director Chapman attended a Portland union rehearsal for the festival chorus. Out of town choruses joined locals as rehearsals spread across May and part of June. He expects Portland to hear a top chorus, with larger male sections and many choirs up to fifty percent bigger. The artist list is due by May tenth and includes a Metropolitan Opera House star in negotiation. Course ticket blanks reach chorus members and festival headquarters by May fifteenth.
The public is invited to a rehearsal of the combined choruses in the Court Room, Brunswick. William Chapman set the time at 7 30. Singers from Bath Brunswick Lewiston Yarmouth Freeport and Topsham will join the union.
Mrs. Albert F. Mudge announces the engagement of her daughter Beatrice Emerline Mudge to Arthur W. Rand son of James F. Rand They are Morse High School alumni with 1908 and 1905 classes and both hold longtime positions in Bath business life The Independent offers congratulations Also notes visitors and Grace Church food sale planned to benefit the choir fund
Mrs Frank B Nichols was a passenger on the afternoon train yesterday bound for New York to join her husband who has been there the past fortnight. Mrs Myra Rice arrived home from Malden Mass where she has been visiting relatives and has opened her residence on South Street. Mrs George Moulton occupies her home on Washington Street the house closed all winter. Miss Laura Palmer was reelected treasurer of the local D A R Chapter Tuesday and has held the office since the society formed while Miss Alice Robbins has served five years on the board as historian registrar and corresponding secretary.
Ralph Stetson returned to Boston after a brief visit at his home here. The production of Madame Sherry in Lewiston Wednesday evening attracted a large theatre party from Bath. Among those present were Dr. Eben J. Marston, Mrs. Marston, Mr. Staples, Miss Clara Pierce, Miss Lizzie Cahill, Miss Anna Percy, Dr. Robert T. Donnell, William Temple, Robert Hatch, Edward Co. Cutler, Oliver Moses, Charles Magoun, Charles W. Clifford and Fred B.agnett.
A single donor provides $25 000 to erect the General Thomas W Hyde Athletic Building at Bowdoin College. The new structure will connect to and serve as part of the planned gymnasium developed by alumni and friends of the college.
The City of Ships hosts Miss Jennie Harvey's spring ball with Brunswick dancers led by Marion Hill and Mary Mussenden. Performances include The Top of the Morning to You, Josephine and Her Flying Machine, The Highland Fling, and a matinee for youngsters. The afternoon features Lydian Baxter a four year old soloist. Matinee 1:00 to 2:45.
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