MANCHESTER 
‘Town meeting Monday at 9 a. m. 
_ The pulls for election of officers open 
at 12 and will close not Jater than 5.30. 
are running for selectmen and assessors. 
| There are about 600 voters in town 
|and it is hoped that the largest vote ever 
\ recorded at a townelection willturn out. 
| This is the first time there has been 
\five issues of the Breeze in February, 
and if we are rightly informed it will be 
| the last for some 50 years or more. 
’ And tomorrow will be the first time 
\that March 1 has come on Sunday for 
8 years, we are informed by a subscrib- 
ss who was born on Sunday, March 1, 
| 1860. 
- Town Treasurer Stanley .received a 
| check Thursday for $15,937.84, the bal- 
jance of the bank and corporation tax, 
which was discovered by the assessors 
last fall in looking over the bank and cor- 
oration tax books, that amount having 
seen placed to the credit of some other 
place than Manchester. 
Finding lack of suprort Robert A. 
Mitchell withdrew from the field as can- 
didate for tree warden and superintend- 
ent of moth supp‘ession in favor of John 
D. Morrison. Mr. Morrison is making 
‘agood fight for the position and hopes 
9 win at the polls Monday. Wm. 
Young is the other candidate. 
John Baker was one of those to cele- 
brate a “‘birthday’’ last Saturday, the 
‘day marking the half century mile stone 
for Mr. Baker, who celebrates in some 
form or other every year. ‘his year 
‘the celebration of his birthday started 
‘Friday night, when, on returning home 
from the minstrel show he found at his 
‘front door abeautiful morris chair, a gift 
om his mother and his brother Loren- 
zo Another gift which Mr. Baker prizes 
highly is a genealogy of the Baker family, 
which it has taken Miss Lucy Baker ten 
years to prepare. ‘The family tree is 
traced back to Cornelius Baker, a black- 
“smith, who lived in Salem as early as 
1658. And on his great-grandmother’s 
side, the tree goes back to John Annable, 
~ mentioned in Ipswich in 1639, and who 
was born in England in 1606. Mr. 
Baker also has some Allen blood in him. 
His grandmother was a Burnham, being 
a descendant of Thomas Burnham who 
ettled in the Massachusetts colony in the 
1600's. On his mother’s side the family 
tree reaches back to Normandy, 
Nathaniel Merrill being born in 1610. 
Mr. Baker will. prize this book very 
highly. He celebrated his birthday last 
Saturday by entertaining a family gather- 
ing at his home, “‘Fairview.’’ His 
mother, Nancy A. Baker, 74 years old, 
was among those present. 
isiting Miss Mabel Lodge. 
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~ In Rockport, we notice, the same men 
Miss Nellie Russell of Somerville is . 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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Personal Attention Given to all Work. 
EDWARD S. BRADLEY 
PRACTICAL PLUMBER 
HOT WATER HEAsIING. 
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Estimates cheerfully given. 
GAS FIT TING 
Telephone Connection 
44 Central St., Manchester-by-the-Sea. 
Shore Road, Magnolia, Mass. 
Robert Allen of Mt. Hermon school, 
is in town over Sunday visiting his brother, 
Walter Allen, School st. 
H. G. Nichols of the Old Corner 
Store has something in his adv. today 
which will interest the ladies, —something 
free.”’ 
Miss Lydia Lee of Chicago, a student 
of Simons College, Boston, is a guest of 
Miss Mabel Morgan, School street, over 
the week-end, 
The whist party given inthe Town 
hall Thursday evening in aid of the new 
Sacred Heart church was a well attended 
affair. Dancing was enjoyed the latter 
part of the evening. 
Mr. and Mrs. Alex. Robertson were 
over from Wenham last Friday to attend 
the Manchester club minstrels and re- 
mained over the holiday and Sunday, as 
guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Gould, 
School st. 
The invitation dancing party given in 
the Town hall last evening was attended 
by a largé number of young people. 
The hall was prettily decorated with 
colored streamers, and presented quite 
an attractive appearane. 
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36 Central St., Manchester 
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