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Show GOVERNOR ENGAGED TO MARRY Robert Perkins Bass, governor of Hampshire, is engaged to be married to Miss Edith Bird, daughter of Charles S. Bird of East Walpole, and a granddaughter of the late Francis W. Bird. She is well known in the Norfolk Hunt club and for her exploits in the hunting field. For the last two or three years she has made her home in New York. She is a brilliant conversationalist con-versationalist and a young woman of striking personality. Mr. Bass Is the first public primary governor of New Hampshire. He was nominated in 1010 over Bertram, Ellis of Keene in a state-wide primary in which the old organization supported Ellis and the so-called Progressives, who had grown up around the Winston Win-ston Churchill candidacy, voted for Bass. He was elected in November, 1910. He was one of the speakers at the recent meeting of Progressive Republicans Re-publicans in Tremont Temple, in Bos- ton, with George L. Record of New Jersey and Gifford PInchot of New York.' It is understood that Governor Bass is likely to represent the east as the vice-presidential nominee on the ticket In the event the Progressives control the next Republican convention. Mr. Bass has long been interested In forestry and is president of the New Hampshire Forestry association. ' Through his efforts in no Bmall part is due the acquisition by the state of the Crawford Notch. He is a brother of John Foster Bass, the celebrated war correspondent. Robert P. Bass whs bori la Chlcngo September 1, 1873; graduated from Harvard in tho cli-s '.-.'6 |