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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Society Notes 
Robert C. Winthrop, jr., who is 
connected with the diplomatic corps 
in Spain, arrived home this week and 
came to West Manchester Wednesday 
for a visit with his mother, Mrs. 
R. C. Winthrop, and sister, Miss 
Clara Winthrop, who will remain on 
the shore until sometime next month. 
Mrs. Cyrus Strong, who is remain- 
ing at her cottage in Manchester 
until the middle of November, has her 
sister, Miss Doris Lovell of Boston, 
with her for a short visit. Mrs. 
Strong entertained a small dinner 
party at her home Thursday evening. 
Tucker Lindsay, the little grandson 
of Wm. A. Tucker, had the misfortune 
recently to fall from the steps in front 
of the Tucker cottage, breaking his 
leg. The Tuckers returned to Boston 
for the winter last Saturday. 
The Chas. E. Cottings of West 
Manchester returned to Boston Tues- 
day. 
The J. Harrington Walkers re- 
turned to their home in Detroit, leav- 
ing Magnolia Thursday morning ina 
special Pullman car attached to the 
9.30 train. 
The William McMillans closed their 
cottage on Magnolia Point this week 
and returned to their winter home in 
St. Louis. 
Samuel Carr and family closed their 
cottage at West Manchester Thurs- 
day. 
Mrs. Edward Wigglesworth and 
her daughter, Mrs. A. S. Porter, jr., 
and Mr. Porter, were among the mid- 
week departures from Manchester. 
They are now located at their Boston 
homes for the winter. 
F. M. Whitehouse has recently 
purchased a Stevens-Duryea auto- 
mobile, limousine body. 
Mrs. W. Scott Fitz returned on the 
Republic Thursday from spending the 
summer in Europe and went at once 
to her Beacon street home. 
L. J. Knowles and family left Man- 
chester and returned to Worcester 
Thursday for the winter. 
Have your printing done at The 
Breeze Print, Manchester. 
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MANCHESTER-BY-THE-SEA 
Manchester’s Oldest Merchant 
Retiring from Business 
George Forster Allen, Manches- 
ter’s oldest merchant, is announcing 
in another column, that his successor, 
Harry Nichols of Peabody, takes pos- 
session of the Old Corner Store next 
Monday morning. 
To many this notice is of little im- 
port, but to natives of Manchester, 
those who have lived here the past 25 
or 50 years, the announcement is of 
much interest, for Mr. Allen has been 
in business here for the past half cen- 
tury and for the past 38 years he has 
conducted a dry goods business in the 
store he occupies today,—the Old 
Corner Store. And in this period 
Mr. Allen has been closely identified 
with the progress of the town. 
His first experience in business was 
in 1850-59. Then sickness kept him 
out of business for a year or two. 
For four years he was in business in . 
the building now occupied by Manion’s 
fish market. The next six years he 
carried on business in the building 
where D. T. Beaton’s store now is, 
and in 1869, a few years after the war, 
he moved to the store he now occu- 
pies. 
Manchester has progressed consid- 
erably since he first started in busi- 
ness, though it was a thriving little 
town 60 years ago. The population 
was about 1,800, and cabinet making 
was the industry. That has since 
died out and the town gradually grew 
into a summer resort until it stands 
today among the leaders in that 
respect. 
Mr. Allen’s health has failed con- 
siderably in the past few years and he 
has been compelled to give up his 
work. He will continue to reside for 
the present, at least, in the tenement 
over the store. 
Mr. Nichols who succeeds Mr. 
Allen, is a young man under thirty, 
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who has had much experience in this 
line of work. He has worked at 
Brown, Durrell’s in Boston for some 
years, and more recently he has been 
on the road for a large silk concern. 
Alfen--Allen 
At the home of the bride’s mother, 
Mrs. Susan E. Allen, on Vine street, 
Manchester, Miss Carolyn Edith 
Allen and Raymond Cleveland Allen, 
were united in marriage last Saturday 
evening at 7 o’clock. 
The ceremony was performed by 
Rey. Louis H. Ruge, pastor of the 
Congregational church, in the pres- 
ence of the immediate family connec- 
tions and only a few intimate friends. 
Both young people are well and 
popularly known in Manchester, the 
bride being until the present year 
teacher in one of the primary grades 
of the public schools of the town for 
a number of years. Mr. Allen is well 
known as a surveyor. 
Miss Gertrude B. Goldsmith was 
the bridesmaid and Frank Clark, the 
best man. 
Among those here for the wedding 
were Prof. Ralph W.-Allen, brother 
of the bride, and family, from 
Brooklyn, N.Y. 
After a wedding trip to Montreal 
and points of interest in that section 
they will return to Manchester and 
will make their home on Vine street. 
MANCHESTER 
Last night at a meeting of the 
Manchester club Arthur E. Olson 
was elected secretary to fill out the 
unexpired term, Percy A. Wheaton, 
resigned. A special meeting of the 
club is called for next Friday evening, 
Oct. 25, at 8 o’clock, to take action 
on the report of the piano committee, 
and every member is urgently re- 
quested to be present. 
Mr. and Mrs. Percy A. Wheaton 
have moved to Salem, where they 
have started housekeeping, and will 
make their home in the future. 
The “North Shore Breezes” were 
scheduled to play the “Gloucester 
Juniors” at the playgrounds this morn- 
ing at football. 
Mrs. Daniel Allen closes her cot- 
tage ‘““Woodbine”’ for the season next 
week and returns to Gloucester. 
