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Vol. I. No. 43 
BEVERLY, MASS., SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 
EF LEP won, 
1905 - Three Cents 
TOWN MEETING 
AT MANCHESTER. 
Unruffled by Fiery Debate, the Annual Meet- 
ing is Held without Least Sign of a Storm. 
With not the least sign of a storm, 
and only an occasional flurry of ex- 
citement as someone _ innocently 
dropped a harmless missle into the 
EDWARD S. KNIGHT, 
e New Member Board of Selectmen. 
quiet waters sending out an inoffensive 
ripple to be lost among the good 
nature of the assembled voters, the 
annual town meeting of the Town of 
Manchester was held al] daysMonday 
and Tuesday evening. . 
The town meetings of five, ten or 
fifteen years ago, when words were 
flung aimlessly about hitting whom 
they may, and when fiery debates- 
were the order of the day, would have 
paled in shame along side of this 
week’s meeting. 
The celerity in the dispatch of bus- 
iness, the easy manner in which every- 
thing was done, and the lack of 
heated arguments were the features 
BRED-K SWE tT, 
Chairman Board of Selectmen. 
ALFRED'S: JEWETT, 
Re-elected Town Clerk. 
of the meeting. This was due, no 
doubt, to the work of the appropria- 
tion committee, which does a great 
deal of the debating before town meet- 
ing is held, and thus does away with 
much of the trivial old time arguing. 
There were no particular issues in 
hand this year, and, save in the elec- 
tion of town officers there was little or 
WILLIAM E. KITFIELD, 
Secretary Board of Selectmen. 
no interest. The meeting opened at 
9 o’clock Monday morning and many 
of the unimportant matters to come 
before the meeting were disposed of. 
The polls opened for the election of 
officers at 12 o’clock and closed at 5.30, 
There were 444 ballots cast. 
One of the most interesting contests 
this year was for the town clerkship, 
between A. S. Jewett and former 
Town Auditor W.R. Bell. But despite 
the interest in this, however, there 
were 85 blank votes cast, and Mr. 
Jewett polled 207 votes to Mr. Bell’s 
150. 
Fred K. Swett polled high vote for 
the office of selectmen, being re-elected 
