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. Republican Caucuses Tuesday. 
The republican caucuses for the elec- 
tion of delegates to the Republican State 
and Congressional District conventions, 
will be held next Tuesday. “The caucus 
in Manchester will be in the Town hall 
at 7.30 in the evening. Papers for this 
purpose have been filed as follows: 
Raymond C. Allen and Wm. W. 
Hoare, State convention; and Edwin P. 
Stanley and P. H. Boyle, Congressional 
District convention, both sets of dele- 
gates favorable to Secretary ‘Taft. 
An Unusual Real Estate Issue 
will be the April 4 edition of the Boston 
Evening Transcript. Any one having a 
farm, house, cottage or camp to dispose 
of or which they desire to rent for the 
summer should advertise in that edition 
as it will be widely circulated among 
hundreds of persons who are searching 
for such properties. It is a well known 
fact that the Boston Transcript publishes 
each season more advestisements of sum- 
mer places for rent than any other news- 
paper in America. Hundreds of peo- 
ple rent and sell their places by advertis- 
ing in it each year. 
Telephone Company’s Annual Re-= 
port. 
In the annual report of the American 
Telephone and ‘Telegraph Company, 
which has just been issued, President 
Theodore N. Vail gives some _interest- 
ing figures and discusses at length several 
features of the telephone business. 
The business has shown constant gain 
during the year, and at the close there 
were 3,839,000 stations connected to the 
system, with a total of 8,610,592 miles 
of wire. ‘The total number of exchange 
and toll calls for the year was about 5,- 
997,000,000. During the year $52,- 
921,400 was added to construction, and 
in the past eight years $351,835,655 has 
been so added. 
At the present time there are outstand- 
ing 1,525,280 shares of the stock of the 
company, 1,312,502 of which are held 
by 23,453 stockholders, an average of 
less than 56 shares each, the balance, 
212,778 shares, being held by 16 share- 
holders, each with 5,000 shares or over. 
Attention is called to the universality 
of the Bell system and its occupation of 
the field, first in the urban districts, keep- 
ing pace with the demand, then later in 
the semi-urban and rural districts. 
These smaller communities are being 
developed both directly by the operating 
companies, and indirectly by local com- 
panies connected by tolllines with the 
Bell system. 
The change of policy during the year 
by which the Western Electric Company 
now sells standard Bell telephones to all 
who may desire them has given a fresh 
impetus to this branch of the business. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
D. B. HODGKINS’ SONS, 
Flour, Grain, Hay and Straw, 
MILL FEEDS AND POULTRY SUPPLIES 
30 Pearl Street, 
GLOUCESTER 
Tels. 90 and 91 
Railroad Avenue, 
ROCKPORT 
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Tappan Street, 
MANCHESTER 
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Established 1876. Rosert RoBpeRtTson, Pres’t and Treas. 
Robert Robertson Co. 
CONTRACTORS 
Installation of Complete Plumbing, Gas Lighting, i} 
Heating and Water Supply Plants 
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Haskell St., near Hale St, Pride’s Crossing, Mass, — 
Telephone Con. P.O. Box 62 * by 
J.B. DOW JOHN H. CHEEVER 
JAS. B. DOW & CO. 
Gardener and Florist] Coal and Wood 
noses, Herbaceous and Budding Plants. 
Cut Flowers and Greenhouse Products for 
Decorations andFuneral Work. 
Hale Street, 
JAMES B. DOW 
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We are now prepared to deliver 
coal at short notice to all parts of 
Manchester and Beverly Farms 
Beach Street 
Manchester 
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Hale Street 
Beverly Farms 
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[WINTER and SUMMER BOARD for]. 
LOR SES : 
With Nice Sunny Paddocks Adjoining Stable. 
Horses and Carriage to let by the day or season. : 
Everything given the best of care. Carriages Stored. 
Horses called for and delivered 
JOHN CONNORS, 
Horse Clipping. 
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STABLE SUPPLIES and HORSE FURNISHINGS. 
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