City Chat Summary of Bath Maine Local News
Bath items report political caucuses next week and election two weeks away, cold winter with ten below and sleighing praised. Local notices cover the Bath Merchants association February meeting, town meetings, sro wildlife along Kennebec, and social events. naval ship Trippe returns, schooners sail to Cuba, and Brown tail moth nests prompting local complaints.
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Bath Merchants’ Association
Hudson
Kennebec
Mill Pond
Houghtons
Nequasset
Harry Washburn
New York
Hyde
Colonial Club
Rice Durand a Delightful Bath Society Wedding
A Bath society wedding welcomed about 300 guests for Edith Rice and Charles Edward Durand. The ceremony featured Miss Rice, her mother, and Rev. Culbert McGay, with stylish attire, Longyear velvet veil, and a notable Dow next to wedding gifts from Durand’s father. The couple planned a May home in Hutchinson Kansas after a Boston visit and a Longyear-Lythe ceremony in Brookline.
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Edith Rice
Charles Edward Durand
Hack
John C. Phillips, Jr
Wenham
Mass
Frank Dewey
Milwaukee
Wis
Culbert McGay
Grace Episcopal Church
Miss Rice
Nathaniel C. Rice
Londengrin
Bath
Portland
Boston
Longyear-Lythe
Longyear Mansion
Fisher Hill
Brookline
Durand
Hutchinson
Kansas
Lake Forest
William Scheerer
East Orange
N. J
Independent
Fred Hunt
Ithel Hunt
Walter Fuller
Myra Fuller
Malden
George Wallace
Rachel
Fitchburg
J.M. Longyear
Helen
Robert
William Purington
Howard Corning
Bangor
Walter Robinson
Gardiner
Sally Rogers
Gorham Rogers
Roxbury
Maas
Legislative hearers probe budgets amid department deficits
A special committee grilled department heads on January 1 deficits across agencies. Schools owed about £122.08 in unpaid bills. Agriculture showed a $5,000 balance. Highways, Fish and Game, Sea and Shore Fisheries, Public Buildings and the State Librarian reported various payables and balances. Cattle Commission figures ranged to $52,645 owed by Jan 1. salaries continued despite halted livestock payments. A resubmission resolve passed 105 to 40, and notices cite optometrist visits and Grank Trunk rate concerns.
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Department of Schools
Buckley
Fish and Game
Sea and Shore Fisheries
F. O. Beals
Cattle Commission
Trippe to Begin Official Trials After Arrival in Boston
The torpedo boat destroyer Trippe reached Boston at 10:03 after a paint job at Charlestown Navy Yard. She rode the river slowly due to ice, heads to Rockland for standardized trials starting Tuesday with a seven test schedule and a potential April 1 delivery. An inquiry about speed limits on the Kennebec yielded no known laws or regulations.
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Trippe
Charlestown Navy Yard
Robert H. Donnell
Boston
Iron Works
Navy Yard
Bath Iron Works
Rockland
Thomas Snowdon
William Strothier Smith
Robert Stocker
Edward C. Kalbfus
Charles F. Hughes
Bath
Navy Department
Kennebec
United States
Portland
Helen Pink Dominates Society Fashion Hues Across Nation
Society notes report Helen Pink, a shade named after President Taft's daughter, captivating fashion with hats and dresses in pink. Competent judges praise its beauty alongside Alice blue as millinery and dressmakers stock the hue nationwide. Social updates include a Taft-era tea at York Hall hosted by Mrs. Sewall, travels of Mr. and Mrs. Ledyard in Boston, and the Thursday Afternoon Bridge Club where Miss Clare Coombs won a Japanese tray prize.
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Taft
Alice Blue
Longworth
Alice Roosevelt
York Hall
William D. Sewall
Owen J. Ledyard
Boston
Ernest A. Allan
Clare Coombs
Mrs Clifford of Richmond Dies at 69 in Richmond
Mrs John R. Clifford widow of John R. Clifford formerly of Phippsburg died at her Richmond home Thursday aged 69 years 5 months 27 days She was born in Bowdoin daughter of Salmon H Thompson and Jane Goodwin Thompson survived by four siblings Funeral at her Richmond home Sunday at 1 pm with interment in Hallowell Colby College plans noted Governor Plaisted to attend next June. A South Portland physician praises eating dogfish Edison marked his 64th birthday last Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. J. Clifford
John R. Clifford
Phippsburg
Richmond
Wied
Bowdoin
Salmon H
Jane Goodwin Thompson
Forrest
Fred E. Thompson
Leroy 8. Mitchell
West Medford
Mass
Annie Hodgdon
Lynn
Hallowell
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Washington
Portland High
Morse High
Ivon House
Waseca Club
Auburn
Pond & Perkins
Alameda
Adelia Carlton
Cuba
Sagadahoc
Jane Palmer
Percy & Small Yard
John Goff
Velie
The
Augusta
Harry Farnham
Evangelist Browning
Wesley Church
Westerner
Ships
Bath Society
Bonney Balfe Gray
Balfe
Maine
Bathites
John C. Phillips
Pooler of
Mr. Durand Is
Joseph B. Durand
Pasadena, Cal
John Deering
Saco
Beals
Deering
Adams
Lewis J. Sawyer
Hotel Phoenix
Grand Trunk
Fuller
Society Gossto
John KR. Clifford
Frederick W. Plaisted
Colby
South Portland
Thomas A. Edison
Thompson Bros
Cale
Garmen
Chima
Peoples’ Safe Deposit and Savings Bank
People’s Safe Deposit and Savings Bank
Joseph M. Trott
Oscar C. Rogersson
Misioners
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