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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1915
Page
4
A reflective verse explores summer fatigue and moral comfort amid heat and work. The rest of the column lists numerous local social notices and weekend visits from Bath readers, including travel, family events, teaching appointments, and an upcoming marriage for Miss Elizabeth Dean to Herbert Mallard.
A romance from a Boston Yacht Club cruise to Squirrel Island Maine culminated in the marriage of Miss Frances B Kammerling to Ralph H Hallet assistant district attorney of Suffolk County. The ceremony occurred Friday September 10.
Mrs J J Keegan describes her travels through the West and Pacific coast and says she is glad to return to Washington and the East with its rain green grass and rivers, preferring it as home.
Right Rev. Robert Codman of Maine hinted to an Argus reporter that the day and date of his marriage to Miss Margaretta Biddle-Porter of Philadelphia and Washington will be forthcoming. He smiled as he noted the details. Codman had just left Bar Harbor for the summer estate Wyandotte where Miss Porter is staying.
Rev and Mrs Sidney J Willis return from a Pacific coast trip. Their daughter Olivia visits grandparents in Vermont. Ruth Marshall, 16, treated for appendicitis at the Bath Institution, left hospital and walks about. She stays with Mr and Mrs Daniel Ridley at 1271 Washington Street until her Maine grandfather arrives to take her home to Malden Massachusetts.
Miss Margaret Foster chairs the Cosmopolitan Club cookbook committee with Miss Ballou and Miss Webber as members. Each member is urged to submit three recipes, with all contributions due at the clubhouse within a day or so to enable swift editing.
Leonard Norsworthy arrived from New York for a visit at Rev. O. W. Folsom's residence where Mrs. Norsworthy and daughter Elizabeth have spent the summer. They will return to New York early next week. Miss Louise S. Fuller enjoyed a town stay before heading to New York for the winter after a vacation at the Exposition and the White Mountains.
Mrs H W R Stafford who has been the summer guest at the Ballou homestead leaves Monday for Queens L I. Miss Novella J Trott was a Tuesday visitor in town returning to Augusta on the morning train. Miss Annie Torrey has been spending the week at the Moses homestead as guest of Miss Lizzie Moses and leaves today for Augusta where she teaches at Cony High School.
Hon and Mrs Harry C McCarty and Miss Reake of Washington visited Wednesday as guests of Bath Iron Works Treasurer McCarty. They enjoyed an outing in Portland, dined in New Meadows, then returned to Bath on the four oclock train.
Miss Charlotte Hallett of Cambridge gave a piano recital at the Cosmopolitan Club on Friday September 17 as guests including Mrs Walter Wiggin of Somerville and Mr and Mrs Arthur Giles of Brookline enjoyed a holiday visit with the Lockerys. Hallett, sister of writer Richard Matthews Hallett, studied at Faelten School and has taught piano for four years. Other news notes include Thomas S Gibbons returning from Hebron Mrs C R Higgins and daughter Dorothy visiting Portland and Margaret Gilbert from Washington DC staying with Mrs J F Murphy. The Marsh and Percy families left Popham Beach homes, Hon Joseph Torrey and family returned from Popham Beach cottage, and Delight Trufant returned to Skowhegan after a month with her grandmother Mrs Frank Weeks.
Mrs M A Haraden returned home from a visit to Prince Edward Island Sunday. M K Harris of Boston visited his mother Mrs Gustava Harris who is ill. Senator Noble Maxwell returned to Boston from Richmond, with Mrs Maxwell remaining there for the fall. William F Briry and daughter Louise and John Briry of Boston traveled by car to spend Labor Day and the weekend in Bath with relatives. H A Nealley and family, summered at Mackinahan Island, left for a White Mountains outing before returning home. Charles I Pierce and son and B C Lawton of Dorchester, in the Lawton touring car, visited aunt Mrs Charles D Clarke in Boston.
Phil Kimball of Boston visits Bath for the holiday. Louise Thompson of South Portland visiting Harriet Johnson. Maurice Owen returns to Boston after weekend with his mother Mrs. M. E. Owen. Mr and Mrs Harry W. Crosman and family attend White Mountains weekend trip. E N Willis of Concord Vermont returns home after visiting Rev S J Willis. George B. Moody and R D Titcomb return from cruise to Bangor and Bar Harbor. Blanche Houston Annie Stewart Lily Cahill Ena Bucknam Margaret Stewart host Labor Day house party at Bryant Cottage New Meadows. Mrs Joseph Noyes and son Hobham return to Portland after visiting Mrs Edward Sewall and at Small Point. E C Stiness returns to Providence on business and to Bath later by auto with Mrs Stiness. Mrs Frank E Southard and Frances return from three months Pacific coast trip eight weeks in Seattle and expositions. Doris Stetson leaves next week for Washington to attend school. Mrs Fred N Sewall of Kansas City visiting Mrs S S Sewall, former Bath belle.
Miss Norma Smith daughter of Chief Carpenter and Mrs Frank M Smith formerly of this city has been returned to Kittery from North Conway where she had been hospitalized for several months her health greatly improved
Little Miss Haskell daughter of Capt. Haskell visits Bath as the Bowker schooner waits at the Center for a fair wind to sea. The white kitten mascot, bound for New York and Charleston, thrives and is happy according to Miss Haskell.
Winfield Miller of the Kittery Navy Yard was at home in this city over Labor Day, enjoying a holiday break and visiting local acquaintances.
West Bath notes cover Labor Day trips and gatherings around New Meadows Sabine and Campbell's Pond. Families, friends, and visiting guests from Portland Lewiston Malden and Bath share cottages camps and motor trips with church activities and community events.
Numerous residents are noted visiting relatives in Boston and elsewhere. The list records stays with friends, returns from trips, newly born child Ethel Hazel, and various short visits by Misses Martin, Green, Gurney, Monhegan, Orr, and others across Bath and neighboring towns.
A Watson-Frye foundry section was saved to remove foot steel lathe condemned and sent to White's horsestone lathe at the Davis Junk store. A recently received lathe was placed in the foundry while the office is being moved to the second floor in this estimate.
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