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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Published every Saturday Afternoon. 
J. ALEX. LODGE, Editor and Proprietor. 
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ble to NORTH SHORE BREEZE; Beverly, Mass. 
The BREEZE is for sale at all news stands on the 
North Shore. 
Entered as second-class matter May 23, 1904, at the 
post-office at Beverly, Mass., under the Act of Congress 
of March 3, 1879. 
Telephones: Manchester 9-13, Beverly 1008-4. 
VOLUME 1. 
NUMBER 38. 
SATURDAY, FEB; 4, 1906. 
Preserve Our Beaches. 
Weare glad to publish the following 
communication from a Manchester 
taxpayer, on Singing beach, and the 
necessity of putting a st ip to carting 
sand from the beach There certainly 
should be some action taken on this 
matter by the Park Commissioners. 
The letter follows: 
To the Editor of the North Shore Breeze: 
I read the article in last week’s 
BREEZE On the condition of the bath- 
houses at Singing beach with consid- 
erable interest, and was pleased with 
your suggestions of a public pavillion, 
but at this time, if you will allow me 
I should like to speak of another mat- 
ter in connection with our much- 
talked-of beach. 
At various times during the summer 
and in the spring and fall I have 
noticed teams of sand passing up 
Beach street and to different parts of 
the town. I did not give the matter 
much thought, till one day last Octo- 
ber, while at the beach, I noticed the 
great hollows in the sand where the 
loads had been taken away. On in- 
vestigation I found there are from 
500 to 1000 loads of sand taken from 
the beach yearly. 
So, Mr. Editor, I think you would 
not be far amiss if you would call 
attention to this matter through the 
columns of your paper. The sand at 
Singing beach is growing less every 
year, and if we are to do anything to 
beautify our beach, let us first of all 
take care of what we have. 
Make a law prohibiting sand being 
hauled from the beach, except when 
it is to be used for town purposes. 
Let us not destroy the things which 
Nature has bestowed upon us. Keep 
the sand where it belongs, then turn 
attention to still further improve- 
ments i S. W.M. 
Boston, Feb. 2, 1905. 
W hisperings. 
“There is one way to advertise,”’ 
says one of our exchanges, ‘and that 
is to hammer your name, your loca- 
tion, your business, so constantly, so 
persistently, so thoroughly into the 
people’s heads that if they walked in 
their sleep they would constantly turn 
their faces toward your store. The 
newspaper is your best friend in spite 
of your criticism. It helps to build 
up the community that supports you. 
When the day comes that the news- 
papers are dead, the people are near 
the edge of the grave, with no one to 
write their epitaph.” 
* * * * 
“That looks like old times,”’ said a 
man to me one day this week, as we 
were standing in Central square in 
Manchester. ‘ That’s how they did it 
when I was a boy.” 
It was aman pulling a load of dry 
cedars on an old-fashioned wood-sled, 
to which he referred. The occurrence 
of such a sight fifty years ago was a 
common thing in Manchester when 
most every man pulled his own supply 
of wood, but a rather uncommon sight 
now-a-days. 
* * * * 
My friend “ Jeff’’ Reed informs me 
he is to be a candidate for Park Com- 
missioner of Manchester this year ; 
and I understand Charlie Howe, the 
present incumbent, is to be a candi- 
date for re-election. There will be 
something doing about town meeting 
time, I’m afraid. 
* * * * 
Tuesday evening, at the Manches- 
ter railroad station, a Gloucester 
woman, who had been attending the 
installation of officers of the Degree 
of Honor in Manchester, narrowly 
avoided being run over by the engine 
of the 10.20 train for Gloucester. 
The fact should be a lesson to others 
who try to cross the tracks while a 
train is approaching the station. The 
lady must have thought she could not 
board the train except from the plat- 
form side and risked her life in trying 
to reach the platform. As a rule, 
however, the brakemen on the Glouces- 
ter branch trains are sufficiently 
courteous as to open the gates and let 
one board from the wrong side. 
ee 
To get best results advertise in the 
North Shore BREEZE. 
FOR TOWN CLERK. 
Town Auditor Bell of Manchester Announces 
He is a Candidate for the Office. 
As town meeting time approaches 
in Manchester and matters to come up 
before the voters are discussed pro 
and con, there is considerable interest 
from time to time in the announce- 
ments of the candidates for the various 
town offices. This year in particular 
much interest will center in the office 
of town clerk for which position Town 
Auditor Walter R. Bell has aspira- 
tions, and announces he is a candidate. 
Mr. Bellis one of Manchester’s pop- 
ular young men. He is a prominent 
WALTER R. BELL, 
CANDIDATE FOR TOWN CLERK. 
member of the Winthrop club, of 
Magnolia lodge, 149, I.O.OF., of 
Conomo tribe, 113, IO.R.M. and of 
Col. H. P. Woodbury Camp S. of V. 
He was graduated from the Story high 
school in the class of 1895, and for the 
past seven years he has been in busi- 
ness with his father, at Bell’s Combi- 
nation store, on Beach street. 
In 1902 Mr. Bell was elected town 
auditor by a strong vote and for the 
past two years he has been re-elected 
to that office without opposition. His 
work has been most faithfully carried 
out and now his friends seek to give 
hini higher honors, with the result he 
is this year a candidate for town clerk. 
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On Lincoln and Vine Sts., Manchester. 
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