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Water Commissioners Organize. 
The Manchester: Board of Water 
Commissioners met Wednesday and or- 
ganized with the choice of Fred J. 
FREDERICK J. MERRILL 
Chairman Board of Water Commissioners. 
Merrill as chairman. Yesterday after- 
noon the board met again and appointed 
Fred K. Swett as clerk to the board. 
The office hours will be from 10 to 12 
a. m. daily. 
The doard also re-appointed F. M. 
Andrews as superintendent of water 
works. 
The 19th anniversary of the local W. 
R. C. will be observed next Thursday 
evening on which occasion the post, 
association and S. of V. will be guests. 
A musical and literary program will be 
furnished. Refreshments will be served. 
PUBLIC HEARING 
TOWN OF MANCHESTER 
A public hearing will be held at the office of 
the Board of Selectmen on Thursday afternoon, 
March 12, at 4.30 p. m., on petition of Fuller 
A. Andrews of Gloucester for license to con- 
struct a fish weir in the tide water at Grave’s 
Island. 
E. S.» KNIGHT, 
W. Re BEL, 
G. L. ALLEN, 
Selectmen of Manchester. 
INSURANCE 
Any Kind, Anywhere, Any Amount. 
GEO. E. B. STROPLE 
GENERAL MANAGER 
Gloucester or Mancherter 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Mancuester, Mass., March 5, 1908. 
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen, 
‘Town of Manchester, 
Gentlemen: 
We, the undersigned, as citizens, feel- 
ing deeply interested in the welfare of 
our town, and especially in that branch 
thereof known as the Street Department, 
and feeling that the subject of road con- 
struction has grown to be acknowledged 
as one requiring much scientific know- 
ledge and practical. experience, far be- 
yond that possessed by those to whom it 
has not been a subject of long and care- 
ful study, and hearing with much regret 
that your honorable board are seriously 
contemplating a change in the manage- 
ment of said department, do hereby pe- 
tition your honorable board that prior to 
the appointment of any person to the re- 
sponsible position of Superintendent of 
Streets, that you may appoint for the near 
future a place and hour at which your 
petitioners and all others interested may 
appear and be heard in support of our 
firm conviction, to wit: that the best in- 
terests of the Town of Manchester will 
be subserved by the reappointment of 
our present Superintendent of Streets, 
Mr. George Kimball. 
Respectfully submitted, 
FRANKLIN K. Hooper 
Freperick J. MERRILL 
Ottver T. Roperts 
THEODORE C. RowE 
AtFrep E. HERSEY 
Davin A. McKinnon 
James P. READ 
Rospert HOARE 
SAMUEL KNIGHT 
CHARLES HooPER 
Gerorce W. Hooper 
Lyman W. FLoyp 
FRANK G. CHEEVER 
Frep K. Swetr 
RaymonpD C. ALLEN 
Geo. E. WILLMONTON 
Geo. H. Hosss 
James HoaRE 
FRANK P. KNIGHT 
G. A. KNOERR 
Joun W. CarTER 
W. H. Ty er 
ALFRED S. JEWETT 
Ernest R. SARGENT 
Geo. L. Knicutr 
Wma. W. Hoare 
Joun BaKER 
WiLLiAM HOARE 
Sam’L L. WHEATON 
Ernest H. WiLcox 
HoRACE STANDLEY 
Epwarp A. LANE 
It is hereby ordered that a public hear- 
ing will be given on the above petition 
at the Town Hall, on Wednesday even- 
ing, March 11, 1908, at 7.30 o’clock. 
E. S. KNIGHT 
W. R. BELi 
G. L. ALLEN 
Selectmen of Manchester. 
(Signed) 
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TOWN NOTICES 
MANCHESTER 
IN Goin ie 
All bills and claims against the Town 
should be presented to the Selectmen on or 
before Wednesday of each week. After 
approval the bills will be paid by the Town 
Treasurer, at his office, on the following 
Saturday. The regular business meeting 
of the Board, will be held on ‘Thursday 
evening of each week at seven o'clock, al- 
so on the last Saturday afternoon of each 
month from two to four o’clock. 
EDWARD S. KNIGHT, 
WALTER R. BELL. 
GEORGE L. ALLEN, 
Selectmen of Manchester. 
Water Board Notice 
The regular meeting of the WATER 
BOARD will be held at their office, in the 
Town. Hall Building, on the last Wednes- 
day of each month, from 2 to 5 o’clock, 
P. M. All orders for shutting off or letting 
on of water, reports of leaks, and all business 
of the department under the Superintendent 
should: be reported at his office at the 
Pumping Station. 
Per order, 
MANCHESTER WATER BOARD. 
Town Treasurer’s Notice 
The TOWN TREASURER will be at 
his office in the Town Hall Building, on 
Saturdays, for the payment of bills, from 1 
o’clock to 5 and from 7 to 8 o’clock P. M. 
When a holiday comes on Saturday the 
pay day will be Friday previous at the same 
hours. 
EDWIN P. STANLEY, 
Treasurer, 
Notice 
The regular meetings of the SCHOOL 
COMMITTEE will be held the first Mon- 
day evening of each month at which time 
all bills against the school department of 
the town should be presented for approval. 
ALFRED C. NEEDHAM, 
Secretary. 
Notice 
For the convenience of any person hay- 
ing business with the School Committee or 
Supt. of Schools, Mr. Charles E. Fish, 
the Superintendent, will be at the office 
of the School Committee, in the Town Hall 
Building, Thursday afternoon of each week, 
from 3.30 to 4.30 o’cloch. 
SCHOOL COMMITTEE. 
