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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1914
Page
4
A lively Bath column covers society events including a mixed foursome golf at Brunswick, weddings, and early postwar travel notes. Reports detail cosmopolitan club plans, rest rooms for women travelers, an employment bureau, gift shop, library additions, and upcoming bazaars.
Miss Emma Lincoln Shorey and Andrew E. Greene of Lisbon Falls wed at the Episcopal Church in Brunswick with Rev. E D Johnson and Rev Culbert McGay officiating. The bride wore a blue traveling suit and the couple left for a honeymoon by auto. The bride teaches elocution at Morse High School and is active in clubs and Grace Church. The groom is an overseer at Worombo Mills. The ceremony drew many Bath residents. a later event featured a Winter Street church Ladies' Aid gathering with a vocalist. A Red Cross relief ship departure and a separate bridal shower for Eleanor A. Percy and Allan M. Irish were also noted.
Capt Emerson Glidden of this city took a party of 13 to Popham Beach in his launch Mae Thursday. The group included Mrs Eva Atwood and son Kenneth, Mrs Creamer, Mr Edison, Mrs Horace Ward and daughter, Miss Day, Mary Haines, Mrs Mitchell and son Stanwood.
Mrs. Charles F. Magoun and family will leave about the 18th for Philadelphia and Baltimore to visit relatives. Upon return they will reside with Miss Alice Magoun in the Magoun homestead in Bath. H. A. Magoun of the New York Shipbuilding Co. left for New York after a 10 day visit at Moosehead Lake. Mr. and Mrs. D. T. Dougherty and son returned from Bangor and Bar Harbor after a storm delay in Ellsworth.
The Mendelssohn Club met for the second rehearsal of the season at Grace Church Hall on Oak Street. Despite the storm, attendance was unusually large including a delegation from Brunswick. Prof. Chapman attended and praised the festival features and shared travel experiences with Mrs. Chapman.
A. M. Houghton entertained a party of gentlemen Wednesday on a cruise to Boothbay Harbor aboard his yacht Juno. At anchor, they enjoyed a fish dinner with guests James Hart of Auburn NY Samuel B. Sewall William D. Sewall S. J. Meeker J Houghton McLellan and James A McLellan.
Mr. and Mrs. William S. Shorey enjoy a White Mountains vacation. Mr. and Mrs. John Watson Hinds return to Allston after two months at their summer home. Hon. John S. Hyde flies to Portland for business. Dr. and Mrs. L. Houghton Kimball plan to return to Roxbury as he recovers. Mr. and Mrs. Horace Brown go home to Reading after visiting their daughter Mrs. Charles P. Wetherbee. John H. Hyde makes a brief business visit to Portland and Boston. George F. Jackson returns from a visit to his East Portland boyhood home. Mrs. Annie Hodgdon of South Royalton Vermont visits Mrs. M. E. Owen. Fred W. Swanton of Washington visits his aunts in Middle Street for two weeks.
A sad drowning occurred in West Bath when 17 year old John Williams fell from the Avalon launch during Labor Day travel and could not be recovered. He was a grandson of John C. Rideout and had been living with his guardians.
Sagadahoc County voters are urged to back Wilbur C. Oliver Republican candidate for sheriff. Born in Parker Head 1860 he built Bath galvanizing works and later led shipyard and industrial ventures. He pledges impartial law enforcement and challenges falsified corruption claims.
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