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Stephen Eldredge. 
Stephen Eldredge, Pride’s Crossing’s 
“sood old man,’’ passed away last 
Monday afternoon, at his late home, 
574 Hale street, Pride’s Crossing, at 
the age of 80 years, 2 months. 
Mr. Eldredge was born in what is 
now Pride’s Crossing in December of 
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| 1827 and he has always made his home 
He was one of the best known 
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residents in this part of the city. 
| early life was spent like many others in 
the older days in following the sea, but 
| he later took up carpentering for a trade. 
| In 1889 he was offered the position of 
flag man at the B. & M. crossing near 
his home, which position he held for a 
number of years. 
When Beverly first became a city he 
was selected as the first representative to 
the upper branch of the city government, 
and upon the death of his brother a few 
years ago he was elected to fill the vac- 
ancy thus caused, as vice president of 
the West Beach Corporation. He was 
an Odd Fellow, Seing a member of 
Magnolia lodge, 149, of Manchester. 
Mr. Eldredge was a man of sterling 
character, faithful and honest and was 
one of the “‘old school.”” He always 
| gave his best efforts toward any cause in 
which he was interested. His sound 
| judgment and good advice was mueh 
sought by many of his fellow citizens. 
He was frank in expressing his opinion, 
especially upon all public matters, in 
| which up to a few years ago he always 
‘a large family. 
| Meat, Poultry and Game. 
Tt All the best grades of Flour always on hand. 
BGasS-A FIRST CLASS BAKERY, equipped with the latest conveniences and in charge of 
| took an active part. 
Mr. Eldredge is the last, but one, of 
The only — surviving 
member of the family is Mrs. Elizabeth 
_ Tappan, who makes her home in Man- 
_ chester with Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Dunn. 
| Mr. Eldredge made his home with Mr. 
and Mrs. Thomas Pierce. 
Funeral services were held Wednes- 
day afternoon, the Rev. E. Hersey 
Brewster, pastor of the Baptist church, 
Manchester, officiating. The Odd Fel- 
lows conducted their service at the ceme- 
tery in Beverly, where the body was _in- 
terred, a delegation from the Manches- 
ter lodge being present. There were 
many floral tributes. 
William H. Ford. 
William H. Ford, a former well 
known resident of Pride’s Crossing, 
passed away last Monday afternoon at 
his home, 28 Barr street, Salem, at the 
age of 87 years. Funeral services were 
held at St. James church, Salem, Wed- 
nesday morning at 10 o'clock. The 
pall bearers were Dr. J. J. Riordan, 
Gregory P. Connolly, Daniel M. Line- 
han, John Quigley, Thomas D. Con- 
nolly and Thomas F. Delaney. 
For thirty years Mr. Ford was super- 
intendent of the late Martin Brimmer 
estate, Pride’s Crossing, now owned by 
Herbert M. Sears, and during his long 
term of faithful service he was one of 
the leading citizens in this section. He 
came here from Newton in the spring of 
1876, and he lived to see many changes 
in the North Shore. 
A record of long life of integrity and 
honesty is left to his widow, seven chil- 
dren and eight grandchildren. His 
children are Charles B. Ford, William 
E. Ford, Dr. J. Francis Ford of Ros- 
lindale, A. Jeannette Ford, Mrs. J. E. 
Daley and Mrs. W. J. Daley. 
Connolly Bros. are building a bunga- 
low on Argilla Road, Ipswich, for 
Arthur A. Shurtleff, from plans by the 
owner, who is a Boston architect. 
| J. AA MAYBERRY 
| CONTRACTOR anp BUILDER 
CARPENTER WORK IN ALL ITS BRANCHES 
| Haskell St., near Hale St. 
Telephone Con. 
Pride’s Crossing, Mass, 
P.O. Box 62 
JOHN DANIELS 
GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS 
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719 Hale Street, Beverly Farms 
Fresh Eggs, Butter and Cheese. All the best quality. 
Our team is in Manchester every morning. 
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Municipal Club Election. 
The annual business meeting of the 
Municipal club was held in Marshall’s 
hall last Monday evening when the: fol- 
lowing officers were elected: James 
B. Dow, president; A. P. Loring, jr., 
and Thomas J. McDonnell, vice _presi- 
dents; Wilbur J. Pierce, secretary; An- 
drew Standley, treasurer; James B. 
Dow, Wilbur J. Pierce, Stephen J. 
Connolly, Frank I. Lamasney, Willard 
B. Publicover, J. Albert Mayberry and 
Eli R. Hodgkins, executive committee. 
The reports of the officers and execu. 
tive committee were read and accepted. 
It was the sense of the members that the 
policy of the club broaden out during the 
present year, now thatthe stage of or- 
ganization and investigation has_practi- 
cally passed. The next meeting will be 
held in about three weeks. 
‘In the Valley of the Mohawk.” 
A crowded house greeted the young 
people of St. Margaret’s Sunday school, 
Beverly Farms, last Monday evening, in 
the presentation by some of its members 
of a musical drama, ‘“‘Inthe Valley of 
the Mohawk,’’ in the assembly hall, in 
the basement of the church. The room 
was decorated with potted plants, flags 
and bunting and presented quite an at- 
tractive appearance. 
The plot dealt with the time when the 
illustrious Jesuit and martyr Fr. Joques, 
labored to convert the Indians to. Chris- 
tianity. The capture of this missionary 
by the Iroquois, the rescue by the Dutch 
of Fort Orange and his subsequent re- 
turn to his beloved Algonquins are vivid- 
ly portrayed. 
In the cast were Misses Nora Mur- 
ray, Agnes Murray, Abbie Williams, 
Prue Connolly, Margaret McCarthy, 
Grace Quirk, Margaret Murray, Eliza 
Denno, Katherine McDonnell, Mary 
Neville, Katherine Murray, Mary Kel- 
leher and Joseph Donovan, Richard 
Graves, James Butler, George Murray, 
Joseph Rourke, and Fred Williams. 
Randolph M. Bainbridge of Wolla- 
ston, a well and popularly known young 
man, and who has many friends here, 
has recently been appointed by the may- 
or of Quincy to the position of Com- 
missioner of Public Works of that city, 
with a'salary of $2400. Mr. Bainbridge 
has been connected with the well known 
concern, Whitman & Howard, civil en- 
gineers, of Boston and has _ practically 
had charge as engineer of the laying out 
and superintending of land improvements 
the past few years upon the H. C. Frick, 
W. H. Moore, W.S. and J. T. Spaul- 
ding, F. I. Amory and other estates 
along the North Shore. 
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