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AWEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED-TO-THE: BEST: INTERESTS:-OF THENORTHSHORE 
Vol. Il. No.1 
PRIMARY SCHOOL. 
Sentiment at Hearing in Manches- 
ter Appeared to Be More in Favor 
of a Four Than a Six-Room 
Building to Be Used Exclusively 
for Primary School Purposes. 
A hearing was held in the select- 
men’s room, Manchester Town 
hall, Monday evening, before the 
Finance Committee, in whose hands 
the minority and majority reports 
of the School Committee relative to 
the proposed primary school build- 
ing has been leit, to consider the 
plans presented for the new build- 
ing. The matter was discussed for 
over two hours. 
Some expressed themselves as 
opposed to a small building, while 
others were equally opposed to a 
large building. The general senti- 
ment of the hearing, however, was 
that a large building was undesir- 
able and a structure such as was 
suggested by Superintendent of 
Schools Fish in his annual report, 
for a four-room building to be used 
for primary school purposes, was 
“more in line with the needs of the 
town. 
'. It is proposed to remove the three 
| lower grades, children ranging in 
) ages from five to eight years, from 
the G. A. Priest school to a new 
building, and it was the opinion of 
many that to do anything else but 
follow out this proposition would 
not be in keeping with the best in- 
'terests of the school system. 
Nobody expressd themselves in 
favor of utilizing two rooms in the 
proposed new building for manual 
training and domestic science, but 
some thought that past experience 
should teach the town that plans 
should be made for more than the 
immediate necessities. 
The Finance Committee held an- 
other meeting last night and at the 
adjourned town meeting, Monday, 
night, they will undoubtedly present 
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MANCHESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1905 
OLD MILLS OF MANCHESTER 
By John Baker. 
(The following article by Mr. John Baker 
was read before the Haphazard Club in Man- 
chester, Feb. 27, 1905. Ed.) 
In the early days, there was one 
or more mill on every brook in 
town. In naming them, I will start 
at the eastern part of our town. On 
Clay brook, near Mr. Knowlton’s 
summer hotel, was a mill for grind- 
ing corn, built and owned by the 
Gilbert family; it was finally sold 
to Allen Knowlton. At the mouth 
of this brook, at the southern end 
ot Crescent beach, a man by the 
name of Woodbury built a saw mill, 
but the sand washed in after every 
storm. This had to be shoveled out 
and was so much work that the 
mill was a failure. 
On Wolf Trap brook, just the 
other side of the Cove schoolhouse, 
was a saw mill and blacksmith 
shop, built by Joseph Knight about 
1740. He also owned a large part 
of the Cove, about three hundred 
acres. This mill was running up 
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Three Cents 
CHIEF JAMES HOARE. 
Newly elected President Manchester Fire 
Relief Association. 
Annual Meeting. 
The* Manchester Firemen’s Re- 
lief association held its annual busi- 
FOUR-ROOM PRIMARY SCHOOL BUILDING 
for Manchester, proposed by Chairman E. A. Lane of the School Committee. 
Andrews, Jacques & Rantoul, Architects. 
Cost $33,784. 
