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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1915
Page
4
A column from The Independent’s Society Gossip blends genteel local life with wartime sentiment. It notes club by law changes at the Fortnightly Club, ongoing Cosmopolitan clubhouse interior work, guest visits, weddings planned for June, a theater production Are You a Mason, and social events at the K Y C and North Grammar School, with Bath citizens including John W Ballou and Octavia Thompson among those mentioned.
Joseph M. Trott has been on a business trip to Boston and New Haven. Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Hathaway return to Cambridge for a Cottage week at Popham Beach. Friends of Mrs. Fred T. Mayers learn she will move to Bath on May 20, making Bath her summer headquarters at Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Jackson's corner South and Middle Streets. She will devote time to Bath customers in massaging shampooing chiropody and manicuring.
Mrs Ephriam F French of Pine Street badly sprained her ankle Sunday noon on Lower Middle Street while en route to Corliss Street Baptist Church. The sidewalk between Pine and Weeks Streets is rotten and gave way under her foot. she was driven home by automobile.
Commodore and Mrs Richard G Davenport of Davenport Washington left Monday for Rangeley lakes and will stay until month’s end to open their MacMahon Island summer home. Davenport had been in town planning improvements and was joined by Mrs Davenport Monday.
Rev Earle B. Cross PhD pastor of the Dover First Baptist will lecture on Somewheres East of Suez at the church on May 19. Born in Burma he earned a Brown University doctorate and studied at Newton Theological Institution. He has taught Hebrew and Biblical literature at Brown and Newton.
Mr and Mrs E B Smith arrived home from Newfield Tuesday evening after visiting at Mrs Smiths parents Captain and Mrs Falker Capt Falker who recently suffered a paralytic shock is reported quite comfortable.
Mrs. C. W. Fisher returned to Boston Saturday after a visit with relatives in town. Mrs. Mary Gould of Bath plans to move to Cleveland Ohio to reside with a son next week. Miss Ruth B. Merritt of Danvers visited last week as guest of Sub-Master King at Morse High. Frank H. Percy and daughter Carrol Percy spent the weekend in Popham with Dr. George E. Percy.
Mrs Daniel C Gould departed Bath on Tuesday to reside in Cleveland Ohio with one of her sons, planning this as her future home.
Dr George E Perey and Henry Edwards of Salem Mass with Frank H Perey and his daughter Miss Carrol Perey left Popham Beach cottage Monday for Bath with the doctor and Edwards returning to Salem.
The Old Folks Concert at North St Church Thursday drew strong praise as one of the citys best. The Ye Bisse Choir and various ensembles received enthusiastic response with humorous costumes and stage entrances.
The article lists the M H S Glee Club and orchestra performers from Friday night recital under Director Miss Bakeman. It names sopranos altos tenors basses and instrumentalists including Weeks Douglas Vachon Colby Harding Breton Southard Crosman Howard and others. Local notices mention residents arriving restoring Kelton Camp and a D A R card party while Barn construction and school events are noted.
Mr and Mrs George Albert Pike of Winthrop Maine announce the marriage of their daughter Elsie Jeanne to William Henry Bell on Friday May 28 at eight in Winthrop Mrs Pike works as a stenographer at Bath Iron Works and Mr Bell is employed in hull drafting Also noted the wedding of Frank son of Mrs C L O Smith of Bath and Miss Bessie Morse of Salem Massachusetts will take place in Biddeford today
Mrs Della M Fish wife of James E Fish died Friday at her Bath home after seven months illness. A Phillips Mo native, she lived in Bath about 40 years and was blind for twenty years yet skilled in cooking and housework. Survived by husband and brother Henry W Howard. Funeral Sunday at 9:45 from 46 Dummer St.
Deacon Joseph White owns a pair of small butcher knives bought from the late John L. Purington, a veteran dry goods merchant. After thirty five years of use the blades have worn down about half and are now nearly identical. White valued them as fine steel and would require a sizable sum to part with them.
West Bath resident Alonzo Donnell was robbed by a gypsy camp at North Bath, losing fifty dollars. The note highlights local visits, nurse training completion, and ongoing Garnet bridge work with concrete abutments raised to meet war department orders. The article also lists various local visitors and improvements to the Brunswick Harpswell road project with a total cost of 3700 dollars split between Brunswick and Harpswell.
Gouraud's Oriental Dream users are invited to receive a free 11x22 inch panel reproduction titled The Secret of Beauty by Mr. Gilbert. The offer includes the painting calendar and is mailed with wrap and postage paid.
Sheriff Oliver contemplates a day or two of travel by car to Massachusetts after this term of court.
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