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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1911
Page
9
Bath items report political caucuses and holidays upcoming, weather and sea conditions, fishing, boating, and social events. Highlights include Bath Merchants Association meeting, Washington's Birthday holiday, local sports scores, and civic activities such as minstrel rehearsals and baptisms at Wesley church.
Miss Edith Rice becomes Mrs Charles Edward Durand in a Bath society wedding attended by about 300 guests. The ceremony at Grace Church featured Rev Culbert McGay and a Longyear veil worn by the bride. The couple planned a home in Hutchinson Kansas after a trip to Boston for further nuptials with the Longyear-Lythe pairing earlier that week.
A special legislative committee convened Monday night to examine department finances uncovering year start deficits across several agencies. Notable gaps include schools about 22000, fish and game 3800, sea fisheries 800 owed, public buildings 3000, with varying clarifications on payments and timing. The cattle commission shows total indebtedness around 52045 as of January 1, 1911, while payrolls and workdays reveal substantial salary and expense claims. The resubmission resolve passed the house 105 to 40 signaling a public vote.
The torpedo boat destroyer Trippe arrived in Boston at 10 03 after a paint job at Charlestown Navy Yard. It sailed to Bath Iron Works in six hours, faces seven four hour tests starting Tuesday in Rockland, with a potential April 1 delivery to the Navy. An inquiry about speed limits on the Kennebec yielded no known law or regulation.
Society gossip notes Helen Pink sweeping the nation as a pink shade named after Taft's daughter. milliners and dressmakers offer hats and dresses in the color praised as ravishing as Alice blue. York Hall hosts a fashion tea next Thursday with Mrs Sewall. Mr and Mrs Owen Ledyard visit Boston. Mrs Ernest Allan led a Thursday Bridge Club gathering. Miss Clare Coombs won a Japanese tray prize.
Mrs L J Clifford widow of John R Clifford formerly of Phippsburg died at her Richmond home Thursday aged 69 years five months and 27 days. She leaves two brothers and two sisters, Forrest and Fred E Thompson and Mrs Leroy S Mitchell and Mrs Annie Hodgdon. Funeral Sunday at one at her Richmond home with interment in Hallowell. Governor Plaisted will attend Colby commencement next June. A South Portland doctor gains notoriety for eating dogfish. Thomas Edison marked his 64th birthday last Saturday.
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