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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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of March 3, 1879. 
Telephones: Manchester 9-13, Beverly 10084. 
SATURDAY, DEC. 38, 1904. 
Selection of Candidates. 
The last day for filing nomination 
papers in Beverly before the coming 
election was last Wednesday. At 
that time four candidates had come 
forward in Ward 6 — one for the office 
of alderman and three for council- 
men’s honors — just the number the 
wardcan elect. There will, therefore, 
be no fight over the office. 
The same condition of affairs holds 
true in Ward 2. 
Whether the voters of Wards 2 and 
6 are so unanimonsly in favor of their 
respective candidates for office that 
they decide on them before election, 
as they have evidently done in this 
case, or whether the method of nom- 
ination is such as to lead to such a 
condition, we are unable to say, but 
from what we have noticed down in 
Beverly Farms the last week or two, 
while city politics have been talked up, 
we are led to think our latter presump- 
tion is correct. 
While we do not find fault with the 
respective candidates from the two 
wards in question, yet we do think 
that more men would step forward 
and be in line for office if some differ- 
ent system than that of applying to 
the city clerk for a paper, and then 
chasing around town in order to find 
enough voters to sign it were in vogue. 
That’s a pretty bad way of doing 
things, in our opinion. And we think 
it is very often the case that the best 
man is not found under such a system. 
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There are a good many men in 
Beverly who would be candidates for 
office if their own true modesty 
allowed them. Many men refuse to 
be urged into office by their friends, 
for no other reason than that they 
have to go around soliciting names on 
their nomination papers. 
While we would not advance the 
idea of primaries, such as are held in 
the big cities, we do think there ought 
to be some system of nominating can- 
didates for the city offices, by meeting, 
other than by the existing condition 
in Beverly. 
A Blunt Surprise. 
The announcement in another col- 
umn of this paper that Rev. J. H. 
Whitaker has resigned the pastorate 
of the Congregational church in Man- 
chester, made public for the first time 
through the columns of the BREEZE 
today, will come as a severe blow to 
the Congregational church and parish 
as well as to the townspeople in general 
It was only the middle of Septem- 
ber that Mr. Whitaker assumed his 
charge in Manchester, coming here 
from Atlantic, Mass., and the an- 
nouncement that he has given up the 
pastorate will strike hard with the 
already somewhat crippled church. 
The announcement did not reach us 
till late last night, and we are there- 
fore unable to make any defined state- 
ment of the matter yet, other than the 
mere facts. 
W hisperings, 
I hear vague whisperings around 
Manchester already about the coming 
March meeting ; whisperings of new 
aspirants for office and lots of other 
things that really won’t amount to 
much till after the Christmas holidays. 
Then — from the first of January on — 
there will undoubtedly be something 
doing. I haven’t heard anything to 
the contrary yet than that the old 
board will run, though there will 
probably be lots of other candidates 
in the field later on. 
* * * * 
Anent the destruction of the brown- 
tail moth by the school children of 
Manchester, Janitor Merrill of the G. 
A. Priest school told me Thursday he 
had burned three bushels of the nests 
on that day, which had been brought 
in by the children. And embryo 
caterpillars make great burning, too. 
Counting 1000 nests to a bushel, and 
300 eggs toa nest, about 1,000,000 of 
the hairy little creatures were sent up 
in smoke that day. And just think 
how Manchester’s shade trees profit 
by the work of the children. Jam told 
they bring in about a bushel a day. 
It’s a good work, and the little fellows 
should be urged on to keep up their 
good work. 
* * * * 
Judge Moore has some fine horse- 
flesh stored in his Pride’s Crossing 
stables. I was walking down the 
Beverly Farms road by his training 
track and paddocks the other day, and 
had to stop to admire a beautiful Rus- 
sian horse out in the paddock. It 
pranced around at a great rate of 
speed, with that same gait and step I 
have often seen the Judge drive it as 
a leader of a tandem. In another 
paddock the Madam’s saddle horse, a 
beautiful chestnut, which the Judge 
paid $10,000 for in England a few 
years ago, was exercising by a lively 
prance around the enclosure. And 
out on the turf track one of the 
stable-men was leading Forest King, 
an imported hackney, which won 
first place in the New York horse 
show a few seasons ago. There 
are two dozen horses at the Pride’s 
stables this winter, and they are 
looked after with as much care as a 
pet lap dog. 
* * * * 
The children have greatly enjoyed 
the skating on the “channel” the 
past few days. Despite the apparent 
Jateness of the season, this fall’s cold 
snap comes just about one week later 
than last year, when the boys were 
skating the day before Thanksgiving. 
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