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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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VOLUME 1. NUMBER 39. 
SATURDAY, FEB. 11, 1905. 
TOWN MEETING. 
Political Pot in Manchester Beginning to Boil, 
but Enthusiasm not Hgih. 
The political pot is simmering; it 
is not boiling, though it undoubtedly 
will be ere another week shall have 
passed. In fact, politics in Manches- 
ter —town meeting politics —is below 
par this year for some reason or other, 
and enthusiasm doesn’t seem to run 
high. 
Aspirants for the various offices 
begin to appear; papers are being 
taken out; articles to be inserted in 
the town warrant are collecting, but 
politics—the thing that makes us 
chew — seems to be dull. 
True it is there are no great issues 
to come up this year, or at least none 
have appeared thus far. 
We are led to think, however, there 
may be inserted in the town warrant 
an article calling either for an appro- 
priation for the erection of.a_ kinder- 
garten school, or for the appointment 
of a committee to look into this mat- 
ter. This will no doubt be met with 
much favor by a large majority of the 
voters. 
From appearances, however, it 
would seem now that the feature of 
the town meeting this year will be the 
election of town officers. 
For Selectmen. 
As usual, considerable interest will 
centre in the selection of a board of 
selectmen. At present the board 
consists of W. H. Allen, Fred K. 
Swett and W.E. Kitfield. Mr. Swett 
and Mr. Kitfield are candidates for 
the offices this year, but Mr. Allen 
willnot run. This leaves a vacancy 
which must needs be filled, and until 
yesterday no candidates had appeared 
for that office, when T. W. Long and 
T. B. Stone each took out papers. 
Other names have been mentioned, 
among them Alfred S. Jewett. Mr. 
Jewett stated to the BREEZE man 
Wednesday that he was not and will 
not be a candidate for selectman this 
year. 
Mr. Knight May Run. 
Still other candidates may appear 
later, and several names have been 
mentioned. Edward S. Knight, the 
School street florist, has been spoken 
of as a prospective candidate. Mr. 
Knight has served on the board of 
selectmen before, and the fact that he 
might consider running for the office 
now will be met with much favor by 
many voters. To the BREEZE man 
last night Mr. Knight said he had not 
given the matter much thought, and 
he declined to commit himself. 
For Town Clerk. 
There are two candidates for town 
clerk — Alfred S. Jewett, the present 
incumbent, and Town Auditor W.R. 
Bell. 
For Auditor. 
Frank G. Cheever yesterday took 
out papers for town auditor. Allen 
S. Peabody took his papers out Wed- 
nesday, and Howard M. Stanley has 
taken papers out for that office also. 
Leon W. Carter is also a candidate. 
With these four young men there is 
promise of a lively fight for the office. 
Water Board. 
Nathan P. Meldrum, who has been 
chairman and clerk of the Water 
Board for two terms, announces he is 
a candidate for re-election. It is said 
Clarence W. Morgan is also an aspir- 
ant for this office, but last night Mr. 
Morgan refused to commit himself. 
Constables. 
Papers were taken out yesterday for 
the re-election of Leonard Andrews, 
Lewis O. Lations and George E. Hil- 
dreth as constables of the town. 
Tree Warden. 
William S. Spry is a candidate for 
tree warden, and willrun against Wil- 
liam Young, the present incumbent. 
He intends to take out papers today. 
Park Commissioners. 
J. S. Reed, who has served the 
town as tree warden for two years, 
and who ran against G. S. Sinnicks 
last year for Park Commissioner, an- 
nounces that he is a candidate for the 
office this year. He will run against 
C. O. Howe, who is a candidate for 
re-election. 
Pound Keeper. 
_ Raymond C. Allen stated to a 
BREEZE man several days ago that he 
would not bea candidate for re-elec- 
tion to the office of Pound Keeper at 
the coming election. It is understood 
that Alfred C. Hooper is a candidate 
for this office. 
Whisperings, 
A man in a western town on return- 
ing home the other day found his 
neighbor just leaving his home, and 
being of a jealous nature, got his gun 
and filled the man’s legs with fine 
shot. A law suit followed and it was 
learned that the man was there to bor- 
row the local paper. The lawsuit cost 
$75 and the doctor’s bill was $25 and 
$1 would have saved the trouble. 
There is a moral to this which is 
that if you want to avoid trouble sub- 
scribe for your local paper and have it 
left regularly, then you won't have to 
go mousing around as a newspaper 
borrower.—- Ex. 
* * * * 
I hear a story being whispered 
around about a barber who works not 
very far from the Manchester post 
office. It seems he went down to 
Singing Beach last Tuesday with a 
gun under his arm bent on_ bringing 
home a duck for the next days meal. 
All went well. Hesaw a duck, and 
climbed over the icy rocks at the end 
of the beach so as to get nearer his 
bird. He got ready tofire. He fired, 
but the next instant he felt hlmself 
sliding toward the ice cold water. 
The “ jar’? was too much for him. 
He dropped the gun and the last seen 
of it, lam told, it was going out of 
sight between the small cakes of ice 
that edged theshore. And the bird — 
that too disappeared beneath the water, 
but it came up again a few rods away.. 
CYRUS A. CROMBIE. 
Manchester Man Passes Away After Linger- 
ing I{[ness of Three Yeats. 
After a lingering illness covering a 
period of almost three years, Cyrus 
A. Crombie passed away at his late 
home on School street, .Manchester, 
Tuesday evening at the age of 44 
years. Death resulted from valvular 
disease of the heart, more commonly 
called rheumatism of the heart. 
Mr. Crombie was very well and 
popularly known in Manchester. He 
was born in the town April 23, 1860, 
and has always made Manchester his 
home. He leaves a widow and one 
son, Fred, besides a mother and 
father, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Crom- 
bie; a brother, Frank ; and two sis- 
ters, Miss Bertha Crombie of Man- 
chester, and Mrs. Alice Holmes. 
It was almost three years ago that 
Mr. Crombie first complained of heart 
trouble, and more especially the past 
