Franchise Accepted. 
The franchise recently granted the 
New England Telephone and Tele- 
graph Co. by the Manchester select- 
men on petition of the company to lay 
wires under ground on Beach street, 
from Uuion to 120 feet beyond the 
Boston and Maine crossing, has been 
-accepted by the company and has been 
signed by both parties during the past 
week. 
The work of installing fixtures in 
Pulsifer’s block was started Thursday 
rand Manager Leathers says the tele- 
phone exchange will probably be in 
working order in their new quarters 
by the second week in February. 
Selectman Swett stated toa BREEZE 
man this morning that he had the 
assurance of the telephone company 
that when the work of laying the con- 
duits was started, which will probably 
be the early part of next week, only 
town men would be employed to do 
the work. 
To Exhibit in Auto Show. 
Chester H. Dennis of Manchester 
is to have a bouth in the Boston Auto- 
mobile Show this winter to exhibit the 
sparking plug recently patented by 
the young electrician. The call which 
Mr. Dennis is having for the plug al- 
ready from dealers, and the fact that 
one of the big Boston dealers is hand- 
ling the plug speaks well of the patent 
and gives promise of its future success. 
S. of V. Fair. 
No articles received for sale at the 
S. of V. fair in Manchester next week, 
will be appreciated as much as those 
received by Commander Floyd, Thurs- 
day, from Mrs. H. P. Woodbury of 
Beverly. Mrs. Woodbury, now 72 
years old, is widow of Col. H. P. 
Woodbury after whom the Manchester 
camp is named. She has sent some 
very pretty articles of embroidery, 
fancy work, etc., to be placed on sale. 
Many other articles, most of which 
are offered as prizes, have been on 
exhibition in Lee’s window the week 
past, including a beautiful doll, from 
W. G. Webber & Co., Salem ; bath 
robe, A. B. Cook of Gloucester ; lamp, 
Geo. W. Hooper; cake, B.S. Bullock; 
order for a cord of wood, M. E. Gor- 
man; mileage book, M. J. Callahan; 
shoes, Edmund Giles, Beverly; ladies’ 
slippers, Shakelford & Reynolds, 
Gloucester; umbrella, Field & Ken- 
nedy. Two gold watches have been 
‘on exhibition in Cheever’s window. 
An account of each evening’s en- 
tertainment will be found in another 
column. . c 
Mr. George Willmonton was oper- 
ated upon yesterday by Drs. Haddock 
of Beverly and Blaisdell of Manches- 
ter and his ulcerated eye removed. — 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
MANCHESTER. 
While harnessing a horse in Dennis 
& Campbell’s stable, Monday morn- 
ing, Allie Allen had a narrow escape 
from serious accident, the horse hick- 
ing him severely in the knee. Though 
he continued at his work that morning, 
he has been confined to his home most 
of the week. 
Work was started Monday by Rob- 
erts & Hoare on framing the big 
stable at West Manchester for W. D. 
Denegre.. Work on the automobile 
house is already welladvanced. Rob- 
ert Robertson Co. has been awarded 
the contract for plumbing the build- 
ings. 
The last in the series of pow-wows, 
under the auspices of Red Men’s 
tribes of Beverly, Rockport, Glouces- 
ter and Manchester, will be held at 
the wigwam of the Gloucester tribe on 
Thursday evening, January 26. 
Mrs. A. E. Hersey entertained 
seven tables at whist at her Bridge 
street home, Monday evening, the 
party being given under the auspices 
of the Sewing circle of the D. of R. 
The prizes went to Mrs. George P. 
Dole and Andrew J. Orr. 
Thomas A. Baker installed the offi- 
cers of Camp 24, S. of V., Gloucester, 
Wednesday evening. John L. Prest 
acted as his aid. 
Cheever’s window looked very pretty 
last night with its patriotic decora- 
tions. Several of the prizes to be 
offered at the S. of V. fair next week 
were displayed amid the Stars and 
Stripes, which adorned the windows, 
forming a pretty setting. 
Clarence W. Morgan recently at- 
tended the annual reunion of the Bun- 
ker Hill school of Charlestown. While 
there he met S. J. Bullock, who ob- 
served last week his 31st year as head 
master of the school. 
The subject for discussion at the 
meeting of the N.S. H. Society next 
Friday evening will be ‘Apples: 
planting, care and cultivation of the 
trees, picking and storing the fruit.” 
The discussion will be opened by John 
Baker and W. B. Jackson. 
Deputy Hattie Perkins did not 
install the officers of the Salem corps, 
W.R.C., Monday evening, because of 
the recent death of her mother. 
Town Treasurer Edwin P. Stanley 
has been confined to his Summer 
street home all the week with a slight 
attack of grippe. 
Miss Bertha Stone returned Thurs- 
day from a. three weeks’ visit with 
friends in Cambridge. ~ 
The installation.of officers of Co- 
nomo tribe, 113, Red Men, will take, 
place next Monday evening. 
~MAGNOLIA, 
[From our Correspondent.] 
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Dunbar of 
Dorchester were home over Sunday, 
visiting Mrs. Dunbar’s parents, Mr. 
and Mrs, Philip Sanborn, at Coolidge’s 
Point. Mr. Orrin D. Sawyer was also 
the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Sanborn 
over Sunday. 
Miss Elizabeth G. Wilbor and Miss 
Gay of Brookline were in the village 
Tuesday. 
Owing to the serious illness of Mr. 
John Symonds, the Ladies’ Aid society 
postponed their supper, which was to 
be held Wednesday evening. 
Mrs. Lafayette Hunt and Miss Tarr 
were in Boston Wednesday, going to 
see the Rogers Brothers, at the Hollis. 
The Ladies’ Aid society met with 
Mrs. Frank Story, Thursday. 
Misses Clara and Maud Butler of 
Magnolia were two out of the four 
whose penmanship won the gold medal 
for the Salem Commercial school at 
the St. Louis fair. 
John Symonds. 
After a comparatively short illness, 
John Symonds passed away, at his 
home in Magnolia, Thursday morning 
of typhoid fever. The family, of wife 
and three children, who survive him, 
are receiving the sympathy of the 
whole community. 
The State Highway. 
The board of aldermen took their 
initiation step in the matter of a State 
highway at Beverly Farms in their 
meeting Thursday evening, when 
Aldermen Desmond offered an order, 
“That so much of the mayor’s ad- 
dress as related to the new State high- 
way at Beverly Farms be referred to 
the joint standing committee on 
streets, the mayor, and such person 
or persons, as he may request, in re- 
gard to the matter.”’ The order was 
adopted. 
New this Geek. 
NOTICE. 
All Sons of Veterans, and particularly 
such as are on the Committee of Fair Ar- 
rangements, and such ladies of the Relief 
Corps appointed to assist, will please be 
present at the Town hall, Monday evening, 
January 16, after seven o’clock. Sons who 
can do so, come likewise during the day, 
Monday, to assist in general arrangement. 
Articles intended for the fancy tables can be 
brought at this time, while home-made 
candies for the refreshment table should be 
delivered at the store of L..W..Floyd, prior 
to Tuesday evening at six o’clock. 
F. W. BELL, 
Chairman of Fair Committee. » 
MANCHESTER, Jan. 13, 1905. 
