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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1913
Page
3
The column covers Rev Percial Baseman and Dr Bake man presenting on Chinese life, economics, religion and education in a Maine setting, detailing audience reception and the Bowdoin Christian Association efforts. Also notes on Helen Keller visit plans, club meetings, and local society updates.
Mr. Chapman negotiates with new artists for a December festival chorus series at Ham merstein's opera house. Local support will earn a percentage. He departed for New York Tuesday to finalize tour plans.
The Fortnightly Club opens its fall session next Wednesday afternoon at the Cosmopolitan Club with president Mrs. John A. Morse and her board present from four to six. Tea will be served after a School Orchestra program. Members will receive books and are urged to attend to support the season. Musicians from the Bath School Orchestra visited Bangor for a convention, with Miss Margaret J. Adams and others in the party. The Morse High School seniors will present The Rival Frats in Assembly Hall on November six to raise funds for the spring Washington excursion. A delegation will travel to Lewiston to see Bowdoin play Bates. Marius Page, new assistant secretary at the Waterville Y M C A, is visiting town and will stay until a permanent secretary is appointed.
Grace Church parish house hosted Grace Troop 6 Boy Scouts for an eight o'clock program featuring scout maneuvers, songs, and addresses by Henry Pinkham Mayor Larrabee and Major Kimball. Proceeds of fifteen dollars from a fifteen cent admission supported camping gear for the group.
Sunday dinner at Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Black announced the engagement of Miss Sydnie Potter and Raymond B. Welch. Eighteen guests attended including the Blacks and Potter family, with remarks from local friends. A separate item notes Rev Maurice J Duncklee speaking in Rockland during Rev J Edward Newtons installation. A Quincy couple welcomed a daughter, Mrs Lucy Mitchell Varney, formerly of this city.
Percys clerks will manage a dance suitable for Hallowe en in the Armory on Monday night with Gaudreau s orchestra providing music.
Grace Church unveils memorial windows to Mrs. Mary Shannon Hall and Mrs. Charlotte Bartlett Manchester on All Saints Day. The stained glass depicts Hope and Faith with Saint Dorothea of Cappadocia for Faith and restrained roses from Paradise. The dedicatory inscription appears at the base.
English poet Alfred Noyes will deliver Annie Talbot Cole lectures in Memorial Hall Brunswick on Thursday and Friday evenings at eight. His subject is not announced. The public is cordially invited to attend.
The Maine State Conference of Charities and Corrections convenes in Gardiner at Christ Church Parish House. Notable speakers include Mayor Lamb, Miss Alice E. Barstow, Bishop Codman, BE. P. Wentworth, Hon. M. C. Morill, Rev. Plant, Frederic Knight, Rev. Blanchard, Connolly, Beals, Payson Smith, and others. Topics cover Prison reforms, Jails, Dependent Children, Child Labor, and Tuberculosis. Thanksgiving Day set for November 27 by President Wilson.
A substantial Bath audience attended the Thursday Lincoln reading at Town Hall, enjoying humorous selections from unpublished works and verse. The event featured Cape Cod tales and lighter anecdotes, with a November 17 concert planned in Memorial Hall by Bowdoin faculty.
Reverend Herbert A. Jump of Oakland reports the birth of baby Laurence Atchinson Jump in Oakland on October 17. He will supply the Redlands Congregational Church for one year from holiday time. He praises California and the Redlands church.
News arrives of the death of Miss Cla D Gilbert of Washington DC daughter of the late Judge Washington Gilbert. She lived in Bath until a few years ago when she moved to Washington DC. She is survived by a sister Margaret Gilbert of Washington.
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