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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1911
Page
7
A Saturday matinee by Miss Harvey delighted Bath children and adults alike with Lydia Baxter receiving warm praise. The piece notes local outings to Popham, a June Universalist convention, and social updates from Bath residents, schools, and summer plans.
Rev N B Cook was guest of honor at a reception by members and friends of the Reheon Street parish on Wednesday evening. Local pastors attended and the gathering was delightful for all present. The event welcomed him back to his third year as pastor of this denomination.
The Corliss Street Church held its annual paren meeting on Monday night with reports showing prosperous conditions since Rev. W T McGann arrived. Millard Spinney presided, prayers were led by the pastor, and officers were elected including Millard Spinney as chairman Harold Roberts as clerk Sidney Eaton as treasurer and various committee members.
Miss Margaret Laughlin arrived this week from Portland to visit her niece Miss Elizabeth P. Dean. Miss Alice Varney has been substituting in the Ninth Grade for Miss Susan Daley, whose sister Miss Florence Daley, a nurse at the Trust Hospital, was operated on for appendicitis on Tuesday.
Miss Margaret Metcalf enjoyed an auto trip to Poland Spring Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. W Stark Newell arrived home Thursday from a trip to New York and Buffalo. Miss Annie Palmer returned home Saturday from Tyron, North Carolina, where she was the guest of her uncle Gershom Palmer, formerly a Bath resident.
A city party will attend the Lewiston presentation of the musical comedy Jumping Jupiter Monday evening. Richard Carle has scored a big success with the show praised as the season’s best laughing production in Boston. Dainty Edna Wallace Hopper stars among an excellent cast and chorus girls will wear model gowns of the latest fashion.
Dr Francis J Welch of Portland has moved to the former residence of Dr Chelis on Congress Street above Longfellow Square and set up his offices. As a Bowdoin student a decade ago he was a frequent visitor to Portland and is remembered as one of Bowdoin College musical clubs finest violinists.
Dr and Mrs Patch of Montreal sailed Saturday for a trip abroad. Dr Patch will pursue a course in Vienna hospitals. Mrs Patch was formerly Miss Jessie Ramsey, cousin of the Misses Folsom of this city. Mrs Seneca Conley has been visiting in Portland this week.
Mr and Mrs Horatio A Duncan plan to open their Sabine summer home next week. Mr and Mrs George Shorey of Lisbon Falls move into Dr Has Kell house 36 Cumberland Street Brunswick. They will spend Sunday in their former hometown and Monday move to the college town. Their daughter Carolyn bought the millinery store formerly run by Mr Kifin. Isa Emma Shorey teaches elocution at the High School and Ninth Grade.
Clarence Blackington leaves Anderson Pharmacy for Perryville Pharmacy in Auburn. Mrs. Clorence Hagan hosts Dorcas Club gathering on Wednesday, delighting attendees.
The North League of Wesley Church held its annual meeting on Monday evening with reports showing average attendance from 18 to 55. Miss Georgia Duncan surprised as guest of honor at a tin shower. Election of officers announced with A. B. Tedford as president and Ray Chapman secretary. Several members lit up the program with poems and singing, followed by light refreshments.
Mr and Mrs Richard Gackenbach left Tuesday for a month in Pennsylvania. Philip Cole began with the Masque and Gown tour through eastern Brunswick. Frederick Carter of the New York Press visits the Psi U fraternity house as Bowdoin pays tribute to Sweet Legendar. Carter, once a Brunswick resident, has a leave of absence due to ill health after a Adirondack visit. He and Mrs Brown stay at St Pauls Hotel New York. Mrs Carter is in Mayport Florida.
Miss Anne Kimball and Miss Betty Upham of Newtonville Mass depart in August for Italy. They will travel by White Star Line to Naples then Capri before Upham studies under Sebastiani. They return by Thanksgiving with accommodations arranged at Hotel Britannique Bay of Naples.
The Wesley Brotherhood hosted its 1st ladies night on the eve of Wednesday drawing 125 members from the Ladies Aid society Sorority and Junior Sorority. Featured readings were by Clara L Pierce Carolyn Parris Lester Pratt Charles Fitzgerald Harry Allan Cameron Alton Avery Percy Marks and George Stewart. Refreshments included chicken salad rolls coffee and cake. The organizing committee comprised Harold Kelley E Whittemore Allan Cameron Myron Gray and Arthur G Oliver.
The ON Ladies' Home inmates were treated to a repeat performance by Miss Whitney's cast of the Mouse Trap. Spectators, long unused to theater, greeted the show with hearty enthusiasm, making the amateur production a clear success for the young performers.
Henry Howard, owner of Thorne’s Head, will reopen the grounds for picnic parties this season as a community act of kindness. The popular spot draws more visitors than any other in the locality and swings are to be added this year to please guests. Miss Hazel Woodbury was in West Bath visiting Mrs. Charles Cahill at the start of the week. Miss Margaret Torrey left Thursday for Boston to stay until Tuesday with her sister Catharine at Simmons College.
Dr. George Percy of Salem is spending days at his Popham summer home with friend Mr. Cross. Mrs. Stephen Bunker hosted a Tuesday bridge party in honor of Mrs. Jack of Portland. The Ladies Aid of Wesley church enjoyed a Thursday afternoon session hosted by Mrs. C. W. Bradlee.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar T. Sewall of New York stayed days on the avenue at his mother Mrs. Edward Sewall's home. They plan a summer at their cottage at Small Point. Mrs. M. E. Owen returned Monday night from Boston where she visited her daughter Mrs. A. H. Stiansen.
At the sixteenth annual session of the Maine State Council Knights of Columbus John J Keegan attended the banquet Tuesday evening and was elected advocate. Mrs Roscoe Ham visited Boston. Miss Lotta S Carr hosted the Aroundabout Club Tuesday evening at her Chestnut street home.
The 92nd annual convention of the diocese of Maine assembles at St. Luke's Cathedral Portland with multiple sessions and services. Activities include missions meetings in the bishop's house cathedral hall and reports by the Maine Episcopal Missionary Society.
A church event at Winneganee Church next Thursday evening features an entertainment program followed by a supper from 5 30 to 8 00. Proceeds support church activities.
Country roads are reported in good condition for automobiling with many machines observed during a broad country trip in various directions.
A group of ten Boothbay Harbor High School students traveled by river boat to Boston and then to Washington D C for a ten day excursion. The party includes Addie Reed Grace Brown Ella Russell Laura Harding Gertrude Blogsom Lulu Foster Addie Pierce Mabel Murray Beatrice Blake and Austin McCormick. The city supper at Winter Street church features officers teachers and adult members of combined Sunday schools with a guest menu and social. Langdon White won class orator, graduation will skip caps and gowns, and plans for the June excursion and annual reception proceed.
The Morse y High School assembly hall hosted the Glee Club’s first appearance under Miss Margaret Bakeman, the public schools music instructor. The program earned encores for harmonious selections, with dancing following the music and the event praised as a standout in the school’s current pupil history.
William H Farrar of this city a Bowdoin freshman has been chosen to compete in trials for the Alexander prize speaking. The fund of 70 supports two prizes of 20 and 40 dollars for declamation with juniors sophomores and women eligible. From trial selections three will be chosen to represent each class at the final on June 19.
Rev. George C. DeMott Rev. O W Folsom and Galen C Moses attended the annual State Conference of Congregational churches in Houston this week. Next season the conference will be held in Brunswick Squiirrel Island reports indicate a busy summer with ten guests already at the farm house.
Rev. A B Hervey is welcomed back to Bath and resides with Mrs. William E Whitmore. He spent the winter in Bermuda studying sea plants. Mr and Mrs Andrew P Foss of Lewiston spend the weekend at their summer home in Squirrel.
Harold M. Sewall was appointed to the state board of the American Red Cross Society by Governor Plaisted. Ridgley F. Hanscom, long-time city resident now in Brunswick, has purchased a touring car with a dark blue dominating color.
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