Director William R Chapman Receives Maine Stone Gift
A box of Maine stones from Turner and Lewiston supporters will adorn the face of Director William R Chapman’s new fireplace in his Bath home. The stones include tourmaline, quartz and feldspar, with donors names inscribed, as the community honors Chapman in a chorus-linked project.
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Maine
William R Chapman
Bettie
Turner
AL T. Kravatiaieh
Lewiston
Chapman
Mis. Awiitista Wark and Visitors Traced in Boston Tour
Mis Awiitista Wark and Nis visiters are noted in Boston with Miss Mirsecht wintering in Allston. Miss Pennie Ato visits in Portland. Edwin Cornish left Mosday for Rovhkland to handle Hyde Windlass business. Mrs darn o F Morin was a Monty visitor in Portland. Miss Alice JK Robbins enjoys days off at Patten Free Library. Miss Louise Johnson acts as substitute.
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Edwin Cornish
Mosday
Rovhkland
Hyde Windlass Company
Maine Teachers Pension Plan Proposed for 1913 Legislature
The article outlines general terms of a forthcoming Maine teachers pension law. Eligibility requires 60 years of age, 30 years as a teacher, five years in Maine, and retirement by a sponsor employer. Pensions cap at 500 dollars annual, or 250 if half the last five years is under 250. After passage, only state certified teachers qualify. The piece also includes local notices and society items.
Local residents keep busy with travels and appointments
Mrs Paul Olm and daughters spent the weekend in Yarmouth while Mrs Thomas W Hyde left midweek for Boston to winter after closing Elmhurst. Arthur Luce and Harold Avery attended the Electrical Show in Boston. Mrs Harry C Webber visited Cambridge with cousin Miss Jeanie Robertson. Leonard H Gibson received congratulations on his new Bowdoin College English assistant appointment. He is a Bath native and Bowdoin Class of 1914.
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Paul Olm
Yarmouth
Thomas W. Hyde
Boston
Elmhurst
Arthur Luce
Harold Avery
Harry C. Webber
Cambridge
Mass
Jeanie Robertson
Leonard H. Gibson
Bowdoin College
Mr. Gibson
Madame Nordica Registers at Congress Square Hotel
Madame Nordica is registered at the Congress Square Hotel in Portland. She occupies a suite of rooms and several of the finest apartments in the hotel, located on the first floor in the new section.
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Madame Nordica
Congress Square Hotel
Portland
Dramatic Club Forms Promising City Group
A Dramatic Club organized Tuesday in Sagadahoc block with about thirty members. Officers elected include President Walter A. Murtaugh and Secretary Harry W. Owen Jr. Members plan standard plays next month and by laws are to be prepared. A Phi Rho dance at Kennebec Yacht Club is noted.
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Sagadahoc
Walter A. Murtaugh
Fred Hill
Harry W. Owen, Jr
Fred D. Hill
Elizabeth P. Dean
Florence Sitnckley
Tom Hodgkins
Albert Kimball
Paul Marcel to Stage Three Act Comedy at Cumberland Theatre
Paul Marcel and his company will appear at the Cumberland Theatre Brunswick next Wednesday evening presenting the three act comedy drama L Abbe Constantin by Halevy of the French Academy. The play is noted for its comedy and charming love interest and is worthy of the best efforts of these artists. A large theatre party from Bath will attend.
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Paul Marcel
Cumberland Theatre
Brunswick
Constantin
Halevy
French Academy
Bath
Miss Hitchcock Visits Glendive Relative on Montana Trip
Miss Ethel Hitchcock left yesterday morning on the early train for Glendive Montana. She will be the guest of her cousin Henry Haskell owner of a large ranch with whom she stayed several years ago.
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Ethel Hitchcock
Glendive
Montana
New Meadows Boat Club Dance Planned for Wednesday
Members of the New Meadows Boat Club and friends will enjoy a dance next Wednesday evening at their clay house. Bath- Ths will provide music. The Woman's World issue features a poem by Jeannette Marks, linked to Bath society as a cousin of Mrs. Henry Douglas Bacon. A shower for Miss Stelle Osgood, fiancé of Harry D. Carpenter of Buffalo, NY, was hosted at the home of Mrs. William R. Donnell with Mrs. Worth Millett coordinating. A seven o'clock supper featured roses and maidenhair fern as gifts flowed to the bride-to-be.
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New Meadows Boat Club
Bath- Ths
Jeannette Marks
Bath Society
Henry Douslas Bacon
Stelle Osgood
Harry DC. Carpenter
Bufato
Bowdoin College Verse Book Debuts by Rev George Kelley
A bowdoin related verse collection titled An Old Bowdoin Song Book by Rev George William Kelley class of 66 appears. It reflects college life scenes. A wedding occurred Saturday at Rev C Raymond Chappell home. The couple were Miss Nettie M Stafford Sherman and Leslie E Soule Newcastle.
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Bowdoin College
Bowdoin
George William Kelley
C. Raymond Chappell
Portland Shopper Miss Minnie White and Fund for Hodgkins Lot
Miss Minnie White shopped in Portland on Thursday. Miss Lani Sewall and Miss Camilla Sewall gave five dollars to the fund for perpetual care of the late Mrs. Sarah Hodgkins in Bath. The Ever Ready Club started the drive, having donated a drinking fountain to the park and a clock to the Library Children's Room. The fund total now stands at nineteen dollars.
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Minnie White
Portland
Lani
Camilla Sewall
Sarah Hodgkins
Bath
Ever Ready Club
Our Park
Thursday Auction Party Honors Mrs Blaisdell Visit
Mrs Thomas Gibbons hosted a Thursday afternoon auction party in honor of Mrs Fred Blaisdell of Leominster Massachusetts who has been welcomed back to her former home city. Five tables competed and the high score belonged to Mrs John A Morse who received a lemon fork. Out of town guest Mrs Carroll Watson of Boston attended.
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Gertrude Greenleaf
Earle Greenleaf
Boston
George MM. Shepard
Fred Blaisdell
Leominster
Mass
Elwell
Bath
Thomas Gibbons
John A. Morse
Carroll Watson
Local notices and greetings from the Rochester area
Mrs. Martha A. Safford, mother of Percival Safford of Rochester NH, dies. Mrs. Frank Weeks conveys condolences. Mrs. Seneca Conley visits sister Mrs. S Frank Baker in Gardner MA. Ruby Sewall’s Kansas City wedding slated for November. June Rideout visits Esther Jones in Boston. Rideout to see her mother Jennie Rideout. Mark W. Sewall returns from Philadelphia business trip. Barbara named for Webb’s new daughter in Winchester MA. Fred H. Kimball named director of Augusta Gardiner and Boothbay Steamboat Co. Miss Abbie Scott begins dressmaking classes with many members. Charles Hall to spend Sunday in Boston. Mr. and Mrs. J Harry McLellan to winter abroad. Germany will be their Cal. Monday Club to hold pre-Christmas sale for Barth City Hospital.
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W. F. Merrill
Wiscasset
Ort
Ist
Mary Lincoln
Roy Ruggler Marston
Job Morse
Phebe Bowman Sewall
Boston
Brockton
Kabia Watson
Akron
Ohio
Kennebec Yacht Club
Ruby Sewall
Paul Egerton Gardner
Chicago
Miss Sewall
Fred Sewall
Kansas City
Bath
Small Point
Martha“A. Safford
Percival Safford
Rochester
N. H
Frank Weeks
Safford
Evelyn Weeks
Seneca Conley
S. Frank Baker
Gardner
Mass
the Independent
June Rideout
Esther Jones
The
Conservatory of Music
Miss Rideout
Jennie Rideout
Mark W. Sewall
Philadelphia
Barbara
Charles Hall
J. Harry McLellan
Germany
Monday Club
Barth City Hospital
Florence Andrews
Edward Kimball
John Kimball
Rockport
Carter
Jamaica Plain
Carroll Watson
Charles R. Donnell
Bowdoin Art Gallery Exhibits Gifts and Portraits Tower
Miss Florence Andrews hosts the Tuesday Club while residents visit kin across towns. Bowdoin Art Gallery displays gifts and portraits including Whistler and Partridge works, silver from Governor Bowdoin, and portraits of college presidents. several pieces await exhibition.
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Bowdoin Art Gallery
Wiel
Boyd Tdallery
Shaitrar Fears
Heiss Mol Nair
King Chapel
Boyd
Leining
Philip Little
Helen Beal Little
Bowdoin Gallery
Joseph Merrill
Joseph Kahi T
Peleg Chandler
Horace P. Chandler
Chandler
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John, Morse
Clarence Morse
Worcester
S. Abbie Averill
Charles Pay Wetherbee
George Wetherbee
Leonice Morse
Dixville Noteh
Catherine Berry
Wavinbure
New Meadows
Frederick Sewall
Arthur Purington
Boothbay Harbor
Danghters
American Revolutios Ies
HEC
Eunice Parnsworth
Benedict Arnold
Quebec
Levi Weston
Morse
Otherfale
Island
Evie HH. G. Robinson
North Anon
Arttur
Sewall
Dporthitd
Mernsoe
Robert Rirtisis
Cahill
Hardy
Westies Church
Arthur G. Oliver
Louise Child
Lile Cahill
Alice Corliss
Annie Stewart
James Rogers
Farmington
Arthur H. Stetson
Rowe
Mr. Stetson
Alfred D. Stetson
J . Bradlee
Intervale
Charles A. Coombs
Grace Ll. Coombs
Nobleboro
George W. Dean
Edwin Hyde
Maine Woods
Beacon Street
Jones
Isdwin Jones
Fred Armes
Wesley Church Sunday School
Emma
Bernard Sydleman
Christian Sol
Diers
Wm. Thistle
Junior Guild Choir
Show of Bibles
H. K. Erskine
N. B. Cook
M. H. Douglas
Douglas
America
Charles W. Clifford, Jr
Kennebec
Riley
James Whitcomb Riley
Patten Free Library
Bobbs-Merrill Company
Hifex
Indidaniapolis
Old Ait Mary's
Ibel Piper
Columbia Orchestra
Percy
Little Daughter
Stuart Weston Webb
Winchester
Webb
Marcia Sewall
New York
Gyn the Blood
Letty Lennie
Warren Hawley
Shore
Shorth
Mendelssohn
Hon
HW. Focke
Honolulu
Town
Harold M. Sewall
Fockes
Lacmita Urey Ton] Tesa
Viola DeGrys
Somerset
West End
Edward Sewall
Lovers’ Retreat
Frank E. Burns
Arthur Russell
Medford
John Crosby
Maine Wesleyan Seminary
Ladies’ Aid of the Universalist Church
Nordica
Bangor
Central Church League
W. M. Stilphen
Middle Street
John Meclines
Maine Teachers’ Pensions
Lucy Griffin
Freeport
John Rose
Beacon — Street
Ninteen
Foote
James P. Webber
Phillips Exeter
Teachers’ Association
Druid Park
Hodgkins House
Fred Thompson
Nas
Harris
Biddeford
Morse High
Mendelssohn Club
Lucy Patten
Frostina Marston
Bessie Hunt
John Shaw
William R. Kimball
Joseph
Charles Durand
Hutchinson
Kansas
Durand
Edith Rice
Pred Bosworth
Eleanor B. Arnold
Miss
Lewiston Journal
Joseph Anderson
Maine Central
Tdweller
Maine Central Railroad
Rockland
Silas Anderson
Andersons
Anderson
Horse Heaven
Jane Welch
Fall River
Edward Thompson
Rock Street
Thompson
Bathites
Louise Hyde
Dramatic Club
Sadie L. Webster
This City
Harry Couillard
Nathalie Brown
Henry Ss. Brown
Kents Hill
Miss Brown
Congregational
William A. Guild
Henry Palmer
Maude Greenleaf
Maine General Hospital
Frank B. Nichols
Fred H. Kimball
Augusta, Gardiner and Boothbay Steamboat Company
Atgusta
Abbie Scott
Rodney Ross
Kennebunk
Lina Carr Andrews
Benjamin Plummer
Fred 32
Drake
Kitty Paine
Roxbury
Wis
Tier
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