MAGNOLIA 
Hdgar Prescott Story, formerly 
of Magnolia, was married on Alareh 
8, in Springfield, Mo., to Miss Sarah 
S. Cooper of that city. Rev. John 
kK’. Bacon, pastor of the First Pres- 
byterian church officiated, 
George Till entertained twenty of 
his young friends last Saturday 
afternoon at his home on Coolidge’s 
Point in honor of his 12th birthday. 
There were guests from Beverly 
Farms, Manchester and Magnolia, 
and all who were present enjoyed 
to the fullest extent the games, 
musie and the delicious luncheon, 
which was served by the young 
host’s mother. 
Miss Helen Tracy of Peabody was 
in town over the week-end as the 
‘ouest of her brother-in-law and 
sister, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Uoys- 
radt, Magnolia ave. 
Mrs. Roy C. French and family of 
Everett motored to. Magnolia to 
spend Sunday with Abs. Edward 
Symonds, Magnolia ave. 
Miss Edna Symonds spent the 
week-end at Gloucester with her 
friend, Miss Hazel Spanks. 
John Morrison of Boston was in 
town recently. 
Mrs. Pearl Atherton, who ‘has 
been spending a week or ten days 
with her niece, Mrs. Oscar P. Story, 
at the latter’s home on Magnolia 
ave.. returned to Blue [ill, Maine, 
Sunday. 
Mrs. Gertrude Smith has re- 
turned to Boston after a visit with 
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis C. Ballou. 
Mrs. C. Brown had as her guests 
over Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Arthur 
Cowen of Hast Gloucester. Miss 
Margaret Zine of Boston came 
down to spend Wednesday with 
Miss Elizabeth A. Brown. 
The Ladies’ Aid Society met 
Thursday afternoon at the home ot 
Mrs. E. L. Story for sewing. 
Rev. Dr. Walter S. Eaton will 
deliver the sermon at the morning 
service at the Village ehureh at 
10.45. In the evening, Miss Edith 
Brayton Briggs, who was so well 
received upon her visit here two 
weeks ago, will read the powerful, 
religious play, ‘‘Mary Magdalene.” 
The play itself is so well known as 
to need no comment, and, given by 
such a pleasing reader as Miss 
Briggs, is sure to draw a large at- 
tendanee. The evening service be- 
eins at 7.30. 
H. S. Haskins, the 
Massachusetts Peace was 
the speaker last Sunday evening at 
biology as the science of the human 
the Village church on the subject, 
secretary of 
Society, 
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Magnolia, Massachusetts. 
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Real Estate and Insurance Broker 
Shore Road, Magnolia, Mass. 
Sole Agent for the Gloucester Coal Co. 
Telephone 426R Magnolia. 
~ Notary Public 
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Jobbing Promptly Attended te 
SUMMER ST. MAGNOLIA 
and - 
“The War and the Way Out.” The 
address was interesting, not only 
for the faets it presented, but for 
the clear and concise manner ot 
their presentation. The speaker 
eave three arguments against war; 
the biological, the economic and 
the moral arguments. Considering 
race—i. e., the science of better men 
and women—it ean readily be seen 
that war must of necessity conthict 
with the ideals for bettering the 
human race. Armies are made up 
of the strongest and the bravest of 
the men of the nation, because only 
the strong can endure the hardships 
of a war campaign and only the 
brave volunteer. A large number of 
these men, the flower of their na- 
tion, will be killed off in battle, 
leaving the country weakened and 
in the hands of the weaklings and 
the cowards; instead of the survival 
of the fit, it is the survival of the 
unfit. The effeet upon the next gen- 
eration is that of lowering all 
standards: Myr, Haskins gave ex- 
amples from history to prove that 
this result is inevitable. Rome’s 
decadence was due to the centuries 
of fighting, which had taken away 
the finest of her men, leaving the 
Celestial City to the interior ones; 
Spain lost her old strength and 
power because of her too great de- 
sire to expand and to conquer; 
England, while not in any sense a 
decadent nation, is still not so 
strong as she would have been if she 
had not lved up to her motto, 
‘Send ye forth the best ye breed,” 
for generations and thus taking a 
vital part of the male population 
away from the mother 
even the United States has felt the 
loss of the best blood, particularly 
in the South, from the Civil war; 
in the days of Napoleon, thousands 
of the bravest and, incidentally, the 
tallest men in Franee were killed 
off, with the result that there has 
been a steady decrease in heights 
among the French soldiers until it 
has become necessary to lower the 
required standard in the army, TI e- 
economic argument, or the argu- 
ment of material things, is the ar 
eument whieh appeals to the self-— 
seeking man more than to the moral — 
man. and Mr. Haskins’ endeavor 
was to prove that even the gains of 
country: 
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