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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1911
Page
3
The column urges women to try bowling at the Y M C A alleys as a social, healthy pastime with private parties and a Colonial windup. It also reports on engagements, society travel, and local charity events including Allan Ramsay’s benefit recital for the Women’s Exchange to aid finances and public support for the Bath Exchange.
The Murray Club of the Universa list Church met Monday evening in the vestry for a chafing dish party. Menu included tomato rarebit by Mrs Harry Donnell Welsh rarebit creamed chicken by Miss Alice Shorey creamed chicken with cheese by Miss Gertrude Green feaf rolls coffee and cake.
Father Phelan of St Marys church sailed Saturday at ten oclock on the steamer Romanic of the White Star Line. The voyage opened what is expected to be the heaviest European tourist season yet known in Boston with 288 saloon and 600 steerage passengers aboard.
Miss Gertrude Gilman hosted the Wesley Sorority Monday evening. Mrs Henry G. Hodgdon entertained the Universalist Church Ladies Circle yesterday afternoon. Commander George F. Cooper U.S.S. Marietta has been detached from command and ordered home.
Klaw and Erlanger arrange a musical comedy with Ivan Caryll and C M S McLellan based on a new farce by George Berr and Marcel Guillemand who created Le Satyre and Pink Lady. Bowdoin Gallery gains accessions including antique dishes from Harriet Shaw Spade porcelain eighteenth century wares four Italian Ginori Lowestoft carved ivory card case and fan a shell jewel box from Susan Carey and two modern Italian coins including a Confederate bill and old State currency.
Maine writer Major Holman Day of Portland and Mrs Day will sail for the States next Saturday and are due to arrive in their home city on the twenty third. He declares a Maine coast summer as his aim and proves himself a loyal American citizen.
The May Day Pop Concert in Brunswick drew a dressy crowd for the benefit of the town library Curtis Memorial. It cleared between three and four hundred dollars with an evening program by Frank Kendrie led orchestra Bowdoin Glee Club and the Schubert Trio. Refreshments games and dancing followed from 7 30 to midnight at the hall with forty nine tables occupied.
The wedding of John F. Clary and Miss Florence Wallace occurred in Portsmouth on Monday. Mrs. Clary is Captain Charles E. Wallace's daughter and Mr. Clary is a noted confectioner. They returned home at midnight and will reside at 746 Middle Street. many friends extend best wishes.
In Miss Harriet Brown of Bangor, a cousin of Mrs. Harry Tucker, the recent fire leveled her residence in this city. She lost everything except a few clothes and household articles while staying here as a guest.
The Colonial Club's May Ball on Monday evening drew a large Bath crowd for the seventh annual May assembly. Alameda decorations by F L Willis delighted guests as the Columbia Orchestra under Hiram T Stevens played a ten piece program. President Frank Perkins led Dorothy Daley in the nine o clock start with twenty dances and superb music. Ice and cake were served at intermission and the final dance closed at 1 20 am marking a highly enjoyable city social event.
Annual session of the Colonel Dummer Sewall chapter of the D A R held a business meeting with Mrs Lorettus Metcalf as host. Officers were re elected except two posts and a June Pop Concert in Music Hall was approved. Ruth Rebekah Lodge hosted visiting members from multiple towns. supper was served and two candidates received degree work.
Bath residents know the preacher has begun constructing a cottage at Murray Hill. MacQueen arrived at Murray Hill Inn this week after a trip to Mexico and will reside there.
Mrs Aramede Tarbox and Ernest A Allan left Saturday for Boston. Mrs Tarbox then continued to Brooklyn to visit her son and daughter in law Dr and Mrs Harry Tarbox. Mrs Elwell Crosby has been visiting Boston and was joined by Mr Crosby who went with her to New York to visit her son Carl K Crosby.
Charles P. Wetherbee arrived home Sunday night from a trip to Old Point Comfort. He represented the B. I. W. on the final acceptance trial trip of the Drayton. Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Coffin have been visitors in Boston this week. Mrs. Charles Staples of Bowdeinham has been a guest of her sister, Mrs. Lorettus S. Metcalf this week. Rev. W. Arthur Stanton of Kurnool India delivered a lecture at the First Baptist Church recounting sixteen years as a missionary and related experiences.
Timothy B. Curtis arrived home Tuesday from a visit in Boston. Hon. and Mrs. John S. Hyde returned this week from a three months stay at Hotel Plaza in New York City. Mrs. E. M. Howard opened her summer cottage on Little Sheepscot, one of the first Bathites to do so.
The clergy of the city issued resolutions bidding Rev. Hibbert Lockhart godspeed as he leaves for a new pastorate in Carolina R. I. This marks the first time a local church has officially honored a resigning pastor. Mrs. Alton Tolman of Hartford Conn arrived to visit her sister Mrs. Ramsay. Rev. Folsom DeMott and Moses plan to attend the Texas Congregational state convention in Houston next week.
Miss Margaret J Adams and Kenneth Weeks attended the Pop concert in Town Hall Brunswick on Monday evening. Roland Cony Carl Crosman and Harold Ward spent Saturday in Lisbon Falls as guests of Miss Emma L Shorey.
Director Chapman attended the Portland union rehearsal of the festival chorus with out of town choruses present. He will conduct May rehearsals statewide and promises a premier list of artists soon, aiming to present a large male section and a famed Metropolitan Opera guest. Subscriptions for course tickets due by May 15 at festival headquarters. The joint chorus rehearsal in Brunswick at 7 30 pm invites musicians from Bath Brunswick Lewiston Yarmouth Freeport and Tops ham.
Mr and Mrs Albert F Mudge announce the engagement of their daughter Beatrice Emerline to Arthur W Rand son of James F Rand They note Miss Mudge is Morse High School class of 1908 stenographer with E S Crosby Company and Mr Rand Morse class of 1905 now book keeper and cashier with the Times Company and treasurer of the Bath Board of Trade He is a Colonial Club member and the Independent joins friends in best wishes.
Mrs Elizabeth Merrill arrived Sunday from Quincy Massachusetts to visit her daughter Mrs E Randall Leonard. Mrs Herbert Spaulding of Waltham Massachusetts left Monday for Waterville after spending the weekend here as guest of Mr and Mrs Ernest Johnson.
Grace Church women spent the forenoon cooking and will open at three o clock this afternoon with a tempting line of delicacies for sale at the home of Mrs Thomas P Gibbons. Proceeds will go to the choir fund.
Mrs Frank B Nichols traveled on yesterday afternoon’s train to New York to join her husband who has lived there for the past two weeks. Mrs Myra Rice returned from Malden Massachusetts where she stayed with relatives and has opened her South Street home. Mrs George Moulton occupies her Washington Street residence which has been closed all winter.
Miss Laura Palmer was reelected treasurer of the local D A R Chapter on Tuesday, a role she has held since the society’s formation. Miss Alice Robbins will mark five years on the board serving as historian registrar and corresponding secretary.
Ralph Stetson returned to Boston after a brief visit at his home. 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, A. C. Staples, Clara Pierce, Lizzie Cahill, Anna Percy, Dr. Robert T. Donnell, William Temple, Robert Hatch, Edward O. Cutler, Oliver Moses, Charles Magoun, Charles W. Clifford and Fred B. Hagegett.
A single donor contributes 25000 dollars to Bowdoin College to erect the General Thomas W. Hyde Athletic Building. The structure will connect with and serve as part of the planned new university symposium facility.
A Brunswick crowd enjoyed Miss Jennie Harvey’s spring ball featuring young dancers Marion Hill Mary Mussenden Bel Bacon and Virginia Shaw among others. The matinee at 2 45 pm showcases Lydian Baxter in a solo highlight and promises high attendance.
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