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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1913
Page
3
Readable notes from the Maine Federation of Women’s event discuss key speakers and exhibits. Mrs. Hannah Loomis and others plan sessions on civics and living standards, with invitations to local clubs and colleges. The Bath scene features weddings, social visits, and campus news across Bowdoin and Colby, plus a Jewish ceremony and Suffrage talks.
Fragmented OCR notes mention Mrs Haries Nichole in Quincy Mrs Arthur Nil pees Mi Jennie Sawyer reehnee and Miss Macel Ducan Bran Vo. details unclear. References to Mrs FE W Appleton Bath and nomes Fred White appear in a jumble of domestic notices.
Miss Ethel Holt and Herbert S. Waterhouse of Forest City were married in Bath in a double ring ceremony conducted by Rev. David B. Holt. The bridal party included Evelyn Oliver as ring bearer and a reception followed. The couple will reside in Portland after a wedding trip and the bride wore a white crepe meteor gown.
On Tuesday afternoon at their Washington Street home the Misses Coombs hosted four tables of cards with autumn flowers in decor. Miss Coombs prepares to join Miss Bristol’s Washington DC boarding school faculty later this month. Mrs David Leroy Black won the highest score and received a pin cushion. Boston’s Mrs Carroll Watson and local Mrs Alfred Tarbox served coffee. Mrs Jane Whitmore helped, with Baltimore’s Mrs Benjamin Morse among the out of town guests.
A Maine wedding joins Marion Douglas Volk of New York and Dr Ezra Ralph Bridge of Brunswick at Hewn Oaks Clovell. The ceremony took place in Cathedral Pines with Percival Chubb officiating. Attendants included Mrs. Emlane Guillou and Bronwin Chubb. The couple will reside in Skowhegan after a reception under pine and balsam decor.
Miss M. Janet Cutler acted as hostess at an afternoon auction party yesterday. A second gathering at her Merrimac Massachusetts home follows this afternoon. She departs in a fortnight to return to teaching at Whittier School after receiving a salary increase.
Miss Ida Caroline Getchell of Wiscasset wed Harold Leighton Troop in Bath with Rev. T. N. Kewley officiating. The couple will live in Wiscasset as William Houghton receives Navy Yard orders to Brooklyn. Houghton, longtime Bath resident, departs with Grace Church ties noted. Charles R. Hanscom, now of New London, tours the White Mountains with son Ridgely Fernald Hanscom. Pearl Thompson travels to Boston on business and Douglas Bacon enrolls at Staunton Military Academy in Staunton Virginia.
The Cosmopolitan Clubhorse hosted a September program with a pullis card poll and games choosing whist bridge or auction at eight. Guests watched, intermission offered coffee and sandwiches, and Miss Helen Moses led the entertainment. Mr. Berry and Mrs. Berry from New York attended a Bath gathering after a recital at Wesley M E Church. Proceeds go to the fund for a smatron.
Friends in Harold P. Marston announce his engagement to Nellie Vinal of Vinalhaven. Marston is Bowdoin College class of 1911 graduate, son of Rev. N. P. Marston of Grinnell. Mrs. Luella Chapman plans to move to Everett Massachusetts. Pauline Hatch will enter Quincy Mansion School. Lincoln Farrar returns from Walpole New Hampshire where he was an assistant clerk at the Walpole Inn. G Tappan Little leaves Bath after summer work to join Wentworth Institute Boston as a laboratory assistant.
The Odd Ladies gave Mrs. Luella Chapman a surprise party on Thursday at the home of Mrs. Mary McIntire on Washington street. The guest of honor received a decorative umbrella and an exquisite embroidered centerpiece as gifts before her move to Everett Massachusetts.
Rev Mr Nash of Wiscasset will conduct the Grace Church service tomorrow morning in the rector Rev Culbert McGay's absence who is supplying at Bar Harbor. Mrs Charles Clifford returned home Thursday from Boston with her daughter Millicent who has entered Bradford Academy.
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