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VOR x1 Pebruary 26; 1015: No. 9 
The people of Beverly Farms are now assured ot 
their new library. The efforts of the mayor of the city, 
Hon. Herman A. MacDonald, and the Alderman, Caleb 
Loring, have been rewarded. For many years there 
has been a great need of a suitable building to house 
the library books and to afford reading facilities for 
the people. The appropriation is a modest one and will 
provide for a suitable, permanent building. In addi- 
tion to this a small park will be provided for the people. 
The library will be built upon the two lots now owned 
by the Misses Loring. The city will purchase the two 
lots facing on Hale street and transfer the titles to the 
Misses Loring in exchange for the Vine street lots. It 
is their intension to give the land to the city for a 
park. So at last Beverly Farms is assured a good 
library. 
Miss Katherine Loring in her lecture at Beverly 
Karms brought out some facts concerning local history 
very little known. <A bill of sale of the whole North 
Shore was passed for the sum of thirty dollars! What 
would the aborigines think if they were to return now 
and find it necessary to pay one thousand dollars for 
a handkerchief of land? There have been many changes 
on the North Shore since the days when the early 
settlers sought to have the name changed from Beverly 
because it was suggestive of and euphonious with 
‘‘heggarly.”’ 
Henry S. Dennis, who died last week, was one of 
the few natives of Manchester who ever made any real 
money out of the marvelous advances in real estate 
values here during the past fifty years. Most Man- 
chester people sold on the rising market, and thought 
they got a good price. The story of one old resident, 
now in indigent circumstances, who sold a tract of 
several acres for $1700, which was afterward resold for 
$25,000, is typical. Mr. Dennis always waited and got 
the top price. 
Washington’s Birthday began the season’s search 
for cottages. As the years go by the summer colony 
seek their summer places earher. It was not so many 
years ago that the season was two months longe—July 
and August. Its limits were marked by the school 
year. The times have changed. 
The lecturer before the Manchester Woman’s elub 
knew whereof he spoke when he said that the average 
American family is bankrupt and that the menace of 
the present time is more the cost of high living than the 
high cost of living. 
To make is possible for women to participate in the. 
voting of this state a constitutional amendment wa 
necessary. Nothing daunted, the fight was began. A 
constitutional amendment must pass the legislature for 
two consecutive years, be signed by the Governor, and | 
then go to the people for approval or rejection at the 
regular election. The ardent workers were able to 
poll their vote in last year’s legislature and they have 
again won this year and the bill will be signed by the | 
Governor throwing the issue to the voters at the elee. 
tion in the fall. Whether the voters of Massachusett 
will grant the women their ‘‘rights,’’ so-called, remain 
to be seen. From now until the election in the fall th 
women will force the issue. There is no organized 
foree of men working for women’s suffrage. It is 
woman’s fight. Let them win it. 
No one will defend the Germans in violating th 
neutrality of Belgium, but the protest that has gone 
up the world over has given neutrality a greater weight 
and meaning in international affairs. There has beex =) 
much progress in public opinions and international — 
morals since England under the painful necessity of 
war demanded the Norwegian naval vessels in 1805, and 
their internment being refused, bombarded Copen 
hagen. The same argument was then put up,—that of 
‘‘military necessity.’’ The neutral nations now have 
rights that must be respected. Public opinion has 
developed since 1805. 
The sinking of the Evelyn has given the ‘‘ 
journals’’ an occasion to bellow and roar. i 
of the craft is but an incident of the war. 
risks are great, but the sinking of the craft presented — 
no international cause for a dispute with any of the 
belligerents. As the craft was laden for Germany i 
is unlikely that it was torpedoed by a German sub- 
marine. The owners have a task on their hands to col- 
mine was laid by England or Germany will be no small 
job. ¢ 
The present financial crisis through which America 
is pee is testing the value and advantages of securi- 
of the cooperative and savings banks of Massachusetts _ 
have been undoubted. 
The political pot in Manchester has been bubblin 
furiously of late, but there are no signs of its boilin 
over. The ‘‘oldest settlers’’ say they do not remember 
such a quiet town election campaign. Does the lull 
predict a storm when the meeting is on next Monday? 
that last year the coast experienced a record-breaking 
series of cold days,—nineteen in number. 
Beverly has solved its contagious hospital problem 
by arranging with a neighboring city to care for its 
contagious eases. The solution is wise and safe. 
What a time the ‘‘vellow journals”’ are having! 
There has been nothing like it since the days of the 
Spanish war. 
