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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1915
Page
6
Society column notes a literary piece by Charles D. Clarke in the Cosmopolitan reading room and Margaret Widdemer's Why Not. It covers club happenings, new furnishings, openings, and memberships, plus local marriages, relocations, and a golden wedding in Bath during fall.
Arthur Sewall and Miss Lani Sewall, children of Honorable and Mrs H M Sewall, left Tuesday to attend school. Arthur travels to Westminster School in Simsbury Connecticut while Lani attends St Timothy's School in Catonsville Maryland.
Miss Marie Anderson leaves today to spend the winter in Boston. Miss Ethel Hawley resides with Mrs. S. P. Clarenburk for the season. Mrs. Edward W. Hyde and Miss Ballou visited Portland Tuesday and attended the Jefferson Theatre showing of Every Woman featuring Miss Simpson.
Mrs. Henry R. White visits Portland as guest of Miss Sargent. Mr. White joins for the matinee of Every Woman featuring Marion Simpson of Hartford the daughter of Dr. Fred T. Simpson. Local theatre parties attend the Tuesday performance.
Miss Erma Nason of Brooklyn New York has returned home after visiting Mrs Abbie Scott Starkey. Miss Corinne Jackson who has been here for the summer will stay a week then go to Punta Gorda Florida for the winter.
A lively Friday barn dance in the Harriman barn at 73 North St hosted by Alonzo Roger Skillings for Morse High seniors. About score of Morse students attended with senior and junior girls. Pennants autumn flowers fruit punch ice cream and cake served. Dancing started early and ended at twelve with Mr and Mrs Harriman chaperoning.
Mr and Mrs Everett W Dixon visited relatives in Waterville and Clinton. Mrs Richard Quick and companions passed through Lewiston. Dr H F Morin was called to North Anson due to his father's death. Mr and Mrs R P Ham left for a vacation trip to New York. Lorettus Metcalf returned home from Monmouth after four months at a summer home. Mrs Guy H Crosby visited Boston to see her son Alfred at Westinetouser Hieelectric Co. The B M Plummers returned to Camden after visiting Mrs Frederick Drake. At a Tuesday Club party Miss Mildred Clark announced engagement to W Dayton Hill. Erwin Morse to accompany sister Anna Morse to New York for winter school.
Miss M Janet Cutler returns to Whittier School Merrimac Mass after vacation at Boothbay Harbor and Bath Allan H Ramsay to spend rest of week at Falmouth Foreside Miss Agnes Tarbox visits in Portland Grace Church choir resumes tomorrow under Fred Efi Drake singers returning from summer break Several city residents plan to attend the Agricultural Fair at Tuessie Hall in Woolwich Wednesday and Thursday Cosmopolitan Club holds monthly business meeting Wednesday at seven thirty P.M.
Rev. H. A. Corey and family are spending a week at Intervale New Hampshire. John Crosby has traveled to Leominster Massachusetts to visit Mr. and Mrs. Fred F. Blaisdell. Mrs. E. Motley Fuller left Wednesday for New York to visit her brother Captain George O. Hubbard.
Miss Almira Schaubel of this city has entered Colby College. Allan Cole of Bridgton passed Sunday with both friends. H E Miller of the New York office of the Henkel Co was weekend guest of Dr. Breckenridge. Mrs. George F Jackson is on a visit with relatives in Waterville. Arthur S Hyde returned to New York Monday after a visit with his brother Hon John S Hyde. Mr and Mrs F F Blaisdell of Leominster Mass were weekend visitors in town guests of Mr and Mrs H W Tucker.
Miss Louise Hill left Saturday for Boston to study the cello. Paul Wing of Bow doin 1915 left last week for Boston and will enter Harvard Law School. Hon H M Sewall and family will remain at Small Point through the fall into November. Miss Jennie Harvey returned home Friday after 14 weeks away six in Boston and the rest in the mountains.
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Stiness of Providence Rhode Island left Bath Saturday in the Stiness car. Mrs. Stiness has spent the summer in the city while Mr. Stiness has visited as his legal business permits. Miss Frances Weeks returned to Boston Saturday after a summer with her mother on Grove Street and will resume piano study with Mr Carlo Buonamici of the Fox Buonamici School.
Postcards from Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Moses and Mr. and Mrs. E P Briggs report a motor tour starting in New York City. They traveled via the White Mountains Vermont Lake Champlain Montreal Adirondack region to Albany and Poughkeepsie in good health and high spirits.
Dr and Mrs Bongartz of Small Point visited Bath Tuesday afternoon hopeful Bath musical talent will stage an opera this fall to be presented in November with proceeds aiding the Nurses' Home fund. Mrs Bongartz recalled Beverly's spring success where an opera drew $1400 on the first night and a large sum on the second.
A large card party at the Dike homestead Wednesday afternoon hosted by Mrs. Kimball and Mrs. Hooper drew many Brunswick residents. Miss Lucy Kimball won first prize and Mrs. Gilmore of Brunswick took second as the house gleamed with decorative touches.
Mrs Thomas Dillon and Miss An na Dillon have gone to Philadelphia for the winter. Miss Dillon will at tend an art school there. Charles Howard left Wednesday for his home in Arkansas after visiting Maine relatives. He has been a guest of his cousin Charles A Corliss here. Mr and Mrs Edward Smith returned Tuesday from an automobile trip to Boston. Mrs Charles W Fisher accompanied them to Boston after a visit here. Miss Margaret Stewart returned Wednesday night from a two weeks vacation in Quincy Mass.
Miss Alice Rich visits Portland several days a week for piano instruction. Judge Fogg of Augusta has been a recent visitor in town.
James Francis Herlihy of Portland visits town as a guest of Allen H. Ramsay. A pupil of Louis H. Chalif, his Bath appearance will be the Cosmopolitan Club monthly entertainment free to members, with date to be announced and a club member assisting.
Mrs E J Marston dies Tuesday in Portland Miss Cordelia Newman of Cambridge Mass visits Miss Annie L Palmer Former Clerk of Courts Sanford L Fogg now of Augusta makes business trip to Bath Tuesday
Miss Annabel Stearns returns from a month in Massachusetts. Mrs. Mountford S. Wilson arrives in Burlingame to visit Hon. and Mrs. H. M. Sewall. Miss Gertrude Feehan back in Portland after visiting her cousin Miss Madeline Desmond. Mr. and Mrs. Carl K. Crosby and daughter Miss Phoebe of Brooklyn visit E. S. Crosby. Arthur S. Hyde leaves for New York for a choir rehearsal. Capt. and Mrs. B. M. Plummer and Mr. and Mrs. Fred E. Drake return from a White Mountains automobile trip.
Miss Ruth Whitney and Mrs. Emerson Gaylord of Chiropee Mass spent September at The Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs W Va and are now in Atlantic City for two weeks. Whitney plans to return to Bath for the Maine Festival. Gaylord and Whitney were Bradford Academy classmates.
Mr and Mrs F H Kimball and daughter Priscilla depart Thursday for six weeks visiting the Pacific Coast and Panama Exposition. They travel via the Mountain Division of the Maine Central to Montreal then Canadian Pacific to Vancouver with stops in Seattle Spokane Portland San Francisco Los Angeles Pasadena and San Diego. Return includes the Grand Canyon Denver Chicago and Niagara.
Wednesday night an informal reception in the Beacon Street vestry honored Mrs. C. C. Sydleman and her family as they plan to move to Freeport. The Beacon Street society regrets their departure after their active service with music games and refreshments.
Miss Mildred Vowell Clark revealed her engagement to William Dayton Hill at a Tuesday Club gathering held at the brides parents home on Washington Street. The event featured a sewing bee, pink dahlias centerpiece, refreshments, and warm felicitations from friends. Miss Clark, a local high school graduate and Dr. Harry F. Morin’s assistant, and Mr Hill, son of Mr. and Mrs. William P. Hill of Middle Street, work as a clerk for the Eastern Steamship Co.
West Bath residents and visitors figure in a lively weekend snapshot. Guests include Mr and Mrs William Jones of Seattle and Mr and Mrs Ed Jones of Lowell visiting Mrs J J Conant, plus local families at summer homes and cottages. Town notes report blasting and road work on state routes, a house party hosted by Miss Annie Trufant, and ongoing improvements near Campbell Pond and King’s Point.
The four o’clock Wednesday funeral for Mrs Harriet Magoun was well attended at Grace Church. Rev Culbert McGaydated led the service as pallbearers H W Owen Jr William S Sho Charles A Harriman and E Ran Leonard carried the casket. Interment followed at Grove Cemetery with abundant floral tributes.
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