NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
SANTA CLAUS. 
Made Visit to Manchester and Delighted 
Children at Churches. 
_ Santa Claus, with his conventional 
long white beard and shaggy white 
hair, with garments of red, and high 
top leather boots, stopped over at 
Manchester last Saturday evening on 
his way farther south and gladdened 
the hearts of scores of little children at 
both the Congregational and Baptist 
churches. 
The children of the Congregational 
church met in the chapel in the early 
evening and deposited in a big basket 
their gifts to be sent away to the 
Salvation Army. Before their arrival, 
however, Santa had filled a big tree in 
one corner of the room with a load of 
pretty things. And after the children 
had deposited their gifts for the poor 
children, the good saint himself made 
his appearance with his white snow 
bag over his back, and after his arrival 
had been made known to the little 
folk he began to distribute his gener- 
ous load. The children were made 
happy with games, toys, candies,. 
pretty books, cards, etc., and Santa 
departed whence he came. 
The young folk of the Baptist 
church gathered Christmas Eve as 
usual to greet the arrival of Santa 
Claus with his load of presents, and 
prior to his coming gave the following 
very interesting concert : 
Singing, ‘‘ Joy to the World,”. Congregation 
aor BO WEICOMC). 5-500 554% siv's'e o> Pastor 
Chorus, “ The Happiest Time,”.....;.. 
Mrs. James K. Tappan, Harriet Brews- 
ter, Emma Prest, Olive Cook and 
Sadie Noyes. 
Exercise, “ Our Gifts to Jesus,”........ 
Donald Crafts, Ethel Chadwick, Floss 
Stevens. 
Rerauone Can You (ells. .....%%. 
Gladys Hildreth 
@horus;.* Christmas Pictures,”....:... 
Carrie Preston, Mary Perry, Beatrice 
Chadwick, Myrtle Carter and Flossie 
Bradley. p 
Recitation, ‘‘ How Christmas. came to 
DEK CE he sak nc tia Harriet Brewster 
Recitation, ‘‘Are you Poorer for Giving ? ” 
Brenda Cook 
Recitation, ‘‘ Helping Santa Claus,”.... 
Anna McKennon 
Chorus, “ Stockings and Candles.” 
Santa Claus. 
The strains of music had scarcely 
ceased when the loud jingle of bells 
outside announced to the little folk 
the arrival of Santa, who soon ap- 
peared, with his large snow-bag filled 
with presents. The lights were turned 
off, all save a flickering fire in the large 
fire-place in the vestry and the little 
electric lights on the Christmas tree. 
Santa was assisted in unloading the 
tree by Edward S. Bradley. 
Santa Claus was impersonated at 
the Congregational church by Albert 
Cunningham, and at the Baptist by 
Charles Sawyer. 
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Union Meetings. 
Union services will be held in Man- 
chester al] next week, according to 
annual custom. The meeting will be 
held at the Baptist church Monday, 
Wednesday and Friday evenings, and 
at the Congregational church, Tues- 
day and Thursday. Rev. Mr. Brewster 
will conduct the services at the latter. 
Rev. James L. Hill, D.D., of Salem, 
will preach on Tuesday evening and 
Rev. E. H. Byington of Beverly on 
Thursday evening at the Baptist 
church, 
St. Margaret’s Court. 
At the regular semi-monthly meeting 
of St. Margaret’s court, M. C. O. 
Foresters, these officers were elected 
for the ensuing year: Chief ranger, 
Cornelius Murray ; vice-chief ranger, 
Manj. Cadigan’y «rec; aseceafohn’ iC. 
McCarthy ; fin. sec., Jeremiah Collins; 
senior conductor, Patrick I. Dillon ; 
junior conductor, Martin Vigarid; in- 
side sentinel, John Hallisey ; outside 
sentinel, Charles A. Hilgarde; treas- 
urer, Mrs. R. J. Sweeney ; trustees, 
George Wiseman, P.I. Mitchell, F. I. 
Lomasney ; delegate, F. I. Lomasney ; 
proxy, J.I. Bresnahan, J.C. McCarthy. 
A Laughable Creature. 
The politician is a strange creature 
in some respects, although much like 
human bipeds in many ways. For in- 
stance,.the male politician smokes 
cigars. However, he is always careful 
not to mix his own smokes with those 
in the other pocket which he keeps for 
campaign work. The politician must 
think that tobacco has an hypnotic 
effect on voters. Perhaps he doctors 
his cigars with some subtle eastern 
drug to enslave the voter’s mind. 
Who knows? 
Politicians make a study of the art 
of jollying. This latter is a branch of 
the science of diplomacy. _Forsooth, 
the politican is a diplomatist on a small 
scale, something like a bantam com- 
pared with a cochin rooster. 
The politician is noted for the sedu- 
lous manner in which he cultivates his 
moustache, the hearty handclasp, the 
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compelling eye and the acquaintance 
of old and young. He flits about with 
scrutinizing gaze and draws his fea- 
tures into an enigmatic smile, while 
from his mouth issues a steady stream 
of good mornings, good evenings, how 
de do’s, and so on. 
On election day, he speeds about and 
his haggard presence confronts us like 
a ghost ina play. He hurries hither 
and yon, and like the Wizard of Paris 
or Faustus, darts mental lightning 
into voter’s craniums via the eyes. 
He is really a Jaughable creature, 
sometimes honest, sometimes a little 
off color ; warm and genial in manner, 
withal a necessary evil. 
—Gloucester Times. 
G. A. R. Installation. 
Almost a hundred invitations have 
been sent out the past week by Adj. 
Rivers of Post 67, G. A. R., for the in- 
stallation of officers of the post to be 
held in town hall, next Friday even- 
ing. Adj. Charles Newhall of Post 
90, Danvers, will be the installing 
officer. After the business is disposed 
of, the members of the post and their 
friends will sit down to a New Eng- 
land supper. 
Coldest Fall For Twenty Years. 
That this has been the coldest De- 
cember for a great many years in this © 
vicinity is evident from the fact that 
the work of storing the ice-houses has 
already begun. December ice, say 
the ice men, is a rare thing. 
Messrs. Edmunds and Crocker of 
the Manchester Ice Co., had all their 
“first crop”’ of ice stored Wednesday 
night. They started work on the big 
pond last Friday, Dec. 28, and finished 
cutting it Saturday. The other pond 
was cut and housed the first of this 
week, so that now they have filled 
their two sheds and half the big house. 
The ice was 12 inches thick. 
Mr. Crocker stated to a BREEZE 
man yesterday that in all his twenty 
years experience in the ice business, 
he never housed ice before Christmas. 
He says the early “crop ’”’ this year is 
due not so much to any severely cold 
weather, but to the steady cold all of 
December and to the fact that there 
has been few thaws. 
Remembered the Hermit. 
John Hayes Hammond, the million- 
aire South African mining magnate, — 
who spends his summers at Fresh 
Water Cove, remembered Mason A. 
Walton, the Bond’s hill hermit, with a 
beautiful arm chair and a pair of wool- 
en blankets, Christmas. The hermit 
is well known by many of our North 
Shore people who make a visit to his 
den every summer. The hermit and 
Mr. Hammond have always been close 
friends. 
