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MANCHESTER 
An election of officers will be held at 
the meeting of Conomo tribe of Red 
Men next Wednesday evening. 
The annual meeting of the Glouces- 
ter-Manchester Musicians association, 
local 32, A. F. & M., was held in Man- 
chester last Sunday, when officers were 
elected. Manchester’s representation 
on the board is as follows: Wm. F. 
Spry, president; IT. W. Long, one of 
trustees; Lagory Wade,  sergeant-at- 
arms, and member of examining board. 
Mr. and Mrs. Adam Chalk are re- 
joicing over the birth of a son last Satur- 
day, Dec. 7. Mrs. Chalk was Miss 
Rebecca Lethbridge. 
Selectman Swett is taking one of the 
principal parts in the cantata of Joseph, 
Prince of Egypt, to be given under the 
auspices of the Gloucester Y. M. C. A., 
next Tuesday and Wednesday evenings 
in the Union Hill theatre. He takes 
the part of Jacob, Joseph’s father. 
**The Little Cherub,’’ at the Em- 
pire theatre, Salem, attracted a large party 
of Manchesterites Monday evening. 
For a Chistmas gift send the BREEZE 
to some friend. It costs you only $1.00 
for the year’s subscription. 
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. P. Dole of Nor- 
wood ave. entertained a party of friends 
from Beverly last Sunday. 
The Store in Town House Square 
Henry H. Parsons, Gloucester’s 
mayor elect, says he would rather run 
for mayor any day than move buildings 
in Manchester if he has to work under 
the same difficulties he worked under 
last Saturday. !n moving the building 
up Summer street from” the railroad 
bridge last Saturday he struck some 
trouble in the nature of a narrow road, 
as he was coming along the stretch over 
the Carsey Brook. But this wasn’t half 
so bothersome as the torrent of indigna- 
tion cast on him when the road,—the 
main highway between Manchester and 
Gloucester, —was blocked so that teams 
couldn’t pass. The superintendent of 
streets was after him, the selectmen, the 
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chief of the fire department, everybody 
was after him,—and the poor man 
thought Manchester was a pretty bad 
sort of a place. But His Honor is no 
quitter; he worked and worked and by 
midnight Saturday the building was 
moved to a point in the road, opposite 
the entrance to the McMillan estate 
where it was wide enough to allow teams 
to pass. Sweat-was rolling down Mr. 
Parsons’ brow in huge drops as he re- 
marked: ‘‘ Well, boys, I’d rather run 
for mayor again than have this - job 
oyer.”’ 
Phonograph Records for Xmas gilts. 
—J. W. Cawthorne, Jr. HS 
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FORESTRY AND 
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