The Portland daily press., 1899-08-10
AT OCEAN PARK.
a Birshd snrpriss Party One OF ths
Events OF Tuesday.


ESPECIAL TO THE rREss.l
Ocean Park. Aug. o.-The Chautau-
guam program began this morning with
ithc usual devotional. led by Rev. c. X.
Flanders Of Biddeford. The topic was
"The Spirit Of Service"
At nine o'clock Prof. A. w. Anthony
delivered before the Biblical Institute.
the last In his series of lectures on The
Unrecorded Life Of Christ" Histopic
was "The Temptations OF Christ" This
course OF lectures has proved very popu-
lar and interesting MS we'll as instructive
! The ATTENDANCE has been larger than
over before at q similar course.
The children's Bible class was In
charge of Miss Allie G. L!bbey of North
Berwick. The topic was ''The Child
Captive
In the afternoon Prof. William G.
Ward of Cambridge, Mass, delivered a
scholarly and interesting lecture on
"Tennyson's Debt to Environment" He
related many interesting anecdotes of
Tcnnyson's life and spoke especially of
tES influence nature had upon the poet.
He quoted freely from the poems of
Tennyson, and commented upon some
of his poems.
In the evening Edmund Vance Cooke,
the well known poet, humorist and en-
tertainer. gave his recital "Pot Luck
with Poet" before large audience
This proved to be among the most origi-
nal and delightful entertainments pre-
sented here for several years. Mr..
Cooke read from his own poems, imper-
sonating the characters with great
fidelity and vividness; mirth, wit and
humor, the ridiculous and the pathetic
followed in quick succession.
This afternoon a birthday surprise
party was given by the ladies of the Free
Baptist Woman's Missionary Society to
Miss L. A. DeMerritte of Ocean Park,
the treasurer of the society. The party
of about 80 ladies gathered at the Wade
cottage On Temple Ave, Miss Jessie
Waterman of New Hampton, N. H., had
charge Of the affair; greetings and con-
gratnlations were extended to Mrs.
DeMorritte in behalf of the various or
ganizations to which she belongs, by
Mrs. Ella Andrews and Mrs. Metcalf of
Providence, Il. L Miss DeMerritte
responded with appropriate remarks.
Musical selections were rendered by Mrs,
Merriman of Portland and Mrs. r. NJ. F.
Buzzell of Ocean Park. Light refresh
ments were served.
Another pleasant social event of the
day was the informal reception given
this evening at the Cheney cottage to the
Assembly Singers. The hosts were Mr..
o. G. Boothby of Lewiston, and Mr..
Arthur Swan of Boston, and gay COM
pany from Ocean Park were present.
The cottage is one of the finest on the
grounds and was tsstefully decorated for
the occasion with evergreen and ferns.
The wide piazza was festooned with jap
airsse lanterns. Among those present
were, Prof. J. e. Aborn and Miss Aborn,
Mrs. Lowe, Miss Brown, Mr.. and Mrs.
Cole and Miss Louise Morse, all of Lynn,
Mass, Miss Florence Whitman and Miss
Bessie .Templeton of Lewiston, Miss Mary
Buzzell of Newton n. j., Miss Blanche
Cox of Portland, Miss Kicker of Lewis
ton, Miss Flanders of Biddeford, Miss
Smythe and Miss Gertrude Smythe of
New York city, Mr.. Arthur Wallace,
Miss Wallace, and Miss Jennie Wallace
OF Nashua, N. H., Mr.. E. K. Jordan and
Miss Jordan of Lewiston, Prof and Mrs.
E. L. Osgood of Harper's Ferry, West
Virginia. Mr.. Paige of Laconia. N.
H., Mr.. Fritz Bickford of Boston, Mr..
r. S. w. Roberts of Dover, n. H., and
Mr.. Roy burlington of West Bowdoin,
Maine.