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Evelyn F. Allen. 
Mrs. Evelyn Foster Allen, passed 
away at her home on Washington street, 
Manchester, ‘Tuesday night, from heart 
trouble at the age of 60 years, 5 months, 
10 days. 
Mrs. Alien was born in Manchester, 
a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. 
William Hooper. She has spent her 
whole life here, and wasthe wife of 
Captain John Allen. She had been ill 
about six weeks, but not until a week be- 
fore her death was her condition consid- 
ered serious. Last Saturday her two 
sons, Benj. L. and Henry O. Allen 
came on from New York thinking the 
end was near, but she seemed to improve 
and they returned the first of the week, 
only to be summoned back again by her 
death Tuesday night. 
Mrs. Allen was a kind and loving 
mother and was a woman highly respected 
in the community. 
Besides her husband she leaves eight 
children, her eldest son, Benj. L., being 
3d vice president of the Knickerbocker 
Trust Co. of New York city; John [., 
who is in San Francisco, and was unable 
to reach home before the funeral, Henry 
O., also of New York, Everett and 
Bertram of this town, and three daugh- 
ters, Grace, Evelyn and Bessie, who are 
at home. She also leaves four brothers, 
Edward P., Franklin K., George W. 
and Charles Hooper, all of Manchester, 
the latter three in business here. 
Funeral services were held yesterday 
afternoon at her late residence on Wash- 
ington street, at 2 o’clock, the Rev. L. 
Ruge, of the Congregational church of- 
ficiating. Interment was in Rosedale 
cemetery. 
WHISPERINGS 
Friday, the Thirteen! Yesterday was 
notan altogether lucky day for the Man- 
chester school-marms, and others who 
have been in the habit of attending the 
teachers’ lecture course at Gloucester. 
They went as usual yesterday, going on 
the 1.30 train, which meant that there 
was no afternoon session of school. 
Rabbi Fleischer was to have been the 
speaker, but that gentleman started for 
the wrong Cape yesterday,—he went to 
the South station in Boston and started 
for Cape Cod, got as far as Plymouth 
and telegraphed back to Gloucester that 
he was on the wrongtrack. “The mes- 
sage came just a few minutes too late for 
the Manchester delegation to catch the 
next train back, and they waited patient- 
ly another hour. 
Mrs. T. W. Long has been quite se- 
riously ill the past week. 
A private dancing party of fourteen 
couples was held in the “Town hall last 
evening. 
MANCHESTER 
George Northup returned yesterday 
from a fortnight’s visit to the Provinces. 
Supt. Kimball has leased the house 
which he has been occupying, on Union 
street, for a year. 
Mrs. Theo. Fiske of New Boston, N. 
H., is visiting Mrs. William Till, 
Coolidge Point. 
The Republican Town committee will 
hold a meeting in the small caucus room, 
‘Town hall, Monday evening at 7.30. 
The G. A. Priest school is being 
equipped with a system of fire bells that 
are to be used only in case of fire, or in 
practice of the fire drill. 
Spring is coming—robins and blue 
birds being seen at Coolidge’s Point, 
March 12. M. E. Gorman saw arobin 
in West Manchester, Thursday. 
The Republican caucus to elect dele- 
gates to the convention to be held next 
summer to nominate a president will be 
be held on Tuesday evening, March 31. 
Prof. Nathan B. Sargent of Haverhill, 
a former teacher here, gave a delightful 
evening’s entertainment at the Chapel 
Wednesday evening under the auspices 
of the Ladies’ Social circle his subject 
being original songs and sketches. Ice 
cream and cake were served free. 
The percentage of attendance at the 
schools this week was: Primary—Grade 
I, 98.8; I and II, 98.59; II, 96.13; III, 
94.2; IV, 97.22; Advanced IV, 90.63; 
V, 98.07; VI, 94.74; VII, 93.46; VIII, 
98.05; IX, 97.68. 
A pleasant feature of the Rebekahs’ 
meeting last week was the presentation 
of gold jewels to the following twelve 
past noble grands: Mrs. Abbie Allen, 
Mrs. Nellie Dunn, Mrs. Nellie Page, 
Mrs. Flora Hersey, Miss Annabel Har- 
aden, Miss Jennie Sargent, Mrs. Minnie 
Hoare, Mrs. Jessie Rust, Mrs. Susan 
Andrews, Mrs. Annie Sinnicks, and 
Mrs. H. Mabel Johnson. 
Observes its 19th Anniversary. 
Allen Relief corps of Manchesser ob- 
served its nineteenth anniversary Thurs- 
day evening, on which occasion a_ very 
pleasant evening’s entertainment was 
carried out. Members of the post, camp 
and associates were invited guests on this 
occasion. Following was the program 
carried out: 
VocaL SOLo, ‘‘Just for Tonight” 
Miss Emma Pre. t 
READING, ‘‘Papa and the Boy’”’ 
Mrs. R. A. Mitchell 
VocaL SOLO, Mrs J. W. Lee 
READING, Mrs Charles J. Lucas 
Voca. Soto, ‘‘Honey all the Time” 
Mrs. F. G. Cheever 
Mrs. Martin 
All 
Among those who spoke after the con- 
clusion of the above program were E. 
READING, 
SincinG, ‘‘Marching Through Georgia’ ’ 
P. Stanley, Enoch Crombie, T. O. D. 
Urquhart and L. W. Floyd. All spoke 
of the grand work the corps is doing 
and of the necessity that the work be 
continued now in the declining years of 
the post and its fast fading member- 
ship. 
A generous collation was served, con- 
sisting of ice cream, cake, coffee,etc. 
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