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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Published every Saturday Afternoon. 
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Entered as second-class matter May 23, 1904, at the 
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of March 3, 1879. 
Telephones: Manchester 9-13, Beverly 1008-4. 
VOLUME 1. NUMBER 46. 
SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1905. 
Browntail Moth. 
The Browntail moth commintee of 
the N.S.H.S. working under the di- 
rection of the Manchester board of 
selectmen finished their work for the 
present yesterday. Inthe few weeks 
they have been at work great results 
have been accomplished. A great 
part of the territory from the Beverly 
line to Gloucester, and from Essex 
through the town proper has been 
gone over and thoysands of nests col- 
lected. 
Manchester Rebekahs 
Hold Anniversary. 
Liberty Rebekah lodge, 78, of Man- 
chester celebrated its 16th anniversary 
last evening with a supper and enter- 
tainment. The event was quite suc- 
cessful almost 70 members gathering 
around the board, and the program 
carried out was of a highly pleasing 
order. Deputy Mrs. H. E. Clayton 
of Beverly was a guest of honor. 
The committee in charge was com- 
posed of George Kimball (chairman), 
Mrs. Kimball, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert 
Stanley, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Lee, 
2d,and Mrs. C. L. Hoyt. 
Following is the program: Piano 
solo, Miss Hattie Baker ; vocal solo, 
Fred K. Swett; reading, Miss Anna- 
bel Haraden; mandolin duet, Misses 
Edith Swett and Ethel McDiarmid, 
Mrs. A. E. Hersey, accompanist ; 
vocal solo, Mrs. Jacob W. Lee; read- 
ing, Mrs. Levi A. Dunn; piano 
solo, Mrs A. E. Hersey ; vocal solo, 
Miss McDiarmid; piano solo, Miss 
Baker. 
MANCHESTER. . 
Miss Mary Dodge returned home 
from Mt. Holyoke college Tuesday for 
the holidays. She has as her guest 
her room-mate Miss Florence Keene 
of Peoria, Ill. Miss Keene has never 
before seen the ocean, and she ex- 
pressed herself as delighted with Man- 
chester. 
Hollis Bell, who has for some time 
been night operater at the local tele- 
phone station, has given up the posi- 
tion and started work this morning 
with Walter Flint the Beverly real 
estate man. 
A barge load of stone for the Elm 
street wall, on which Supt. Kimball 
has had men at work the past week, 
arrived TPnursday morning from Rock- 
port. 
Prof. Nathan B. Sargent of West 
Boxford, was in town Thursday and 
Friday renewing acquaintances. Mrs. 
Chas. E. Bell returned to West Box- 
ford with him yesterday for a brief 
visit. 
Rev. E. P. Tenney, was in town 
Thursday on a flying visit. He was 
entertained at lunch by Mr. and Mrs. 
Geo Allen: 
Amos H. Girlder, one of Manches- 
ter’s oldest residents, has been quite 
seriously ill this week, his life being 
despaired of at one time. He is re- 
ported as much improved, this morn- 
ing, however. Mr. Girldler is almost 
90 years old, and has till the past year 
or two, been engaged actively at work. 
Donald Mitchell started to work at 
the Tibbett estate, West Manchester, 
Monday. 
The friends of George Knowlton 
who is at the Danvers hospital, will 
regret to learn his health is rapidly 
failing him and that life is only a mat- 
ter of a few weeks, the doctors say. 
Fenton started work last week on 
the second Sewanhaka cup _ boat. 
This one is for John L. Bremer. 
Miss Helen F. Mason has taken a 
position with Geo. F. Dyer, the Sum- 
mer street machinist, as bookkeeper. 
Miss Sadie Pulsifer of Gloucester, 
was the guest of her cousin, Miss 
Ruth Pulsiser, Wednesday. 
The B. B. B. drilled in the town hall 
Monday evening, quite a number of 
people being present to witness the 
drill. Ernest Howe and Willie Allen, 
the team selected for the prize drill in 
Saugus this month, are working hard 
on the manual of arms. 
Miss Helen Burnham, resumes her- 
former position as assistant at the 
Post office today, for the season. 
George F. Dyer was in Ipswich 
last Saturday evening, at the anniver- 
sary of the Union band of Ipswich. 
BEVERLY FARMS. 
Miss Ann Dyer of San Francisco 
returned with Mr. and Mrs. Thomas 
D. Connolly, Monday, and will spend 
the summer at Beverly Farms. 
Ernest Roberts of Boston, a_phar- 
macist, has taken the position in The 
Marshall Drug store, formerly occu- 
pied by Frederick G. Haynes. 
Grand Army hall was the scene of 
a pretty party Chursday evening, when 
a social was given in honor of Mrs. 
Mary A. Bennett on ‘the occasion of 
her 75th birthday. Musical selections 
were given and a dainty collation added 
to the pleasure of the affair. Mrs. 
Bennett was generously remembered 
by her many friends. 
Charles Martin, the bicycle man, 
arrived at the Farms a few days ago, 
and has removed his goods from the 
store in Neighbors’ hall block to Mar- 
shall’s old blacksmith shop, where he 
will be till the new building on Hale 
street is completed. 
A still alarm was rung in Thursday 
noon for a chimney fire in the house 
of James B. Dow, on Hale street. 
The steamer and wagon responded. 
The apparatus was called to the C. K. 
Cummings estate at Pride’s the first 
of the week ona still alarm. Damage 
slight. 
Some 20 young people from the 
Centreville church attended the mid- 
week prayer Meeting at the Baptist — 
church, Wednesday evening. 
Walter Lowther of Cambridge, one — 
of the victims of the dreaded spotted — 
fever, who died Thursday, was a 
nephew of Station Agent Frank Rand. 
The young man was only 19 years old 
and was strong and healthy in every 
way, being last summer the champion 
swimmer at Quincy beach. 
Patrolman Charles Mitchell has 
been confined to the house this past 
week, and Officer John A. Stone has © 
been covering his route in the mean-— 
while: . 
Miss Ethel Davis, who has for some — 
time been bookkeeper for J. T. Wilson — | 
& Son at their Pride’s Crossing office, 
has resigned her position. a 
Miss Jennette Ford, who has spent — 
the past month at Washington, D.C., _ 
visiting friends, returned to her home ~ 
this week. q 
Neal Murry secured first prize, 
offered for the greatest number of — 
gypsy and brown-tail moth nests col-_ 
lected in Beverly Farms, having a 
total of 8,737. stg" 
Miss Maud E. McClure of the Pros- 
pect Hill school faculty has resigne 
on account of ill health, and will not — 
resume teaching until after the sum 
mer vacation. 
