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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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VOLUME 3: NUMBER 5 
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1906. 
Town election comes four weeks 
from Monday, but thus far there is 
only a bubble or two on the surface 
~ to show that the local political pot has 
begun to simmer. 
Yesterday was the day according 
to the Old Farmer’s Almanac when 
the farmers take account of stock and 
the ground hog comes out of his hole, 
takes an observation, and if not favor- 
able flinks his. tail and crawls back 
again for another snooze. 
Cool evenings! Yes, there was 
actually a frost Tuesday night. 
Wednesday morning the sidewalks 
were covered with congealed dew. 
With a single exception, that of 1889, 
no other January has been so warm as 
the month just closed for the past 34 
years. A normal January day has an 
average. temperature of 27 degrees, 
and this month was 35.5. The record 
January day was Jan. 1, 1876, when 
the mercury touched 70 degrees. 
This month produced the second hot- 
test January day on record, when on 
Sunday, Jan. 21, the temperature was 
68 degrees. 
In the course of the next few weeks 
the annual contest of the automobilists 
and their opponents will be on in 
earnest at the State house, and there 
are indications that the struggle will 
be as strenuous as has been the case 
in the past few years. Seven bills, 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
each of which proposes to change the 
law in one way or another, have been 
introduced and have been referred to 
the Committee on Roads and Bridges. 
Several of the bills are obviously 
based upon the suggestion made by 
Governor Guild in his inaugural, that 
the Highway Commission be given a 
greater measure of control, and that 
fines received from automobilists con- 
victed of breaking the law be devoted 
to the repair of highways. One meas- 
ure, however, requires continuous 
ringing of gongs on all motor vehicles. 
‘Town Meeting Talk 
heressism tosmuch’. In? tacts. the 
waters seem to be quite in keeping 
with the general conditions of the sea- 
son. But then, there yet remains a 
month before town meeting. Only a 
tention of running for office, while 
practically all the present officials 
have said they will be candidates for 
re-election. The present board of se- 
lectmen — F. K. Swett, E. S. Knight 
and Wm. E. Kitfield — will run again, 
but not alone. Several others will be 
in the field. Prominent among these 
is former Auditor Walter R. Bell, 
who can always draw a good vote. 
George Hildreth says he is a candidate 
for the water board, and Jeffrey S. 
Stanley is a candidate for re-election. 
The pot will be boiling before long 
and more names will be brought 
forward as the days advance. 
A Gigantic Industry 
Apropos the position of the North 
Shore as a summer resort, which some 
of our exchanges have been inclined 
to speak despairingly of, the Gloucester 
Daily Times had this to say a few 
days ago : 
“Some people are trying’ to believe 
themselves and are endeavoring to 
make others believe that summer peo- 
ple are not necessary for the welfare 
of Gloucester, and that other North 
Shore places would not give a snap of 
their finger for the traffic so long as 
industries were progressing all right. 
I have always been a firm believer in 
industries, but the summer business 
constitutes a gigantic “industry,” and 
although no stone should be left un- 
turned to bring new manufactures to 
Gloucester, we should also not lose 
sight of what we have, or especially 
to underestimate or speak despairingly 
of our tremendous trade as a summer 
resort. 
“Beverly, with its great plant of the 
United Shoe Machinery company, 
which will. build an addition to the 
plant if tenements can be found for 
some 1200 additional hands, which 
means a weekly payroll of something 
like $40,000, is keeping a watchful eye 
on the summer business, and the city 
is striving to obtain all it can in this 
direction.” 
WHISPERINGS 
I have heard’ whisperings*this week 
/of a°modérn—-Robinson- Crusoe, who 
has made-Manchester-the. scene of his 
: adventures and. 
re 
came, near being 
stranded on a desert island off Dana’s 
_ beach. With a maiden fair he strolled 
- forth one Sunday not long ago, and as 
they strolled along the beach, listen- 
ing attentively to the wild waves, they 
came to the natural bridge of sand 
aS _?.” . that connected the island with the 
few candidates have signified their in- , 
continent. They meandered forth, 
and lo! the tide came in and the afore- 
said bridge of sand was covered; they 
were stranded. But the day was 
warm, and our gallant hero with his 
fair companion held aloof walked knee- 
deep through the brine and reached 
the shore in safety. 
A Communication 
MANCHESTER, Mass., Jan. 31, ’06. 
E-ditor of the North Shore Breeze. 
Dear Sir: Perhaps you have no- 
ticed in our town meetings of late, 
since the appointment of an Appropri- 
ation Committee, how, after the Mod- 
erator has read the articles and the 
motions have been made and remarks 
are called for, the voters, as a rule, 
seem afraid to make any. Then, after 
they have voted, what a great amount 
of talk is carried on outside, all of 
which is of no avail. I wish we might 
see and hear more voters at our town 
meetings, as sometimes an intelligent 
view of mattters of business (and 
there are many important ones) can 
only be secured by asking and answer- 
ing questions in a fair and impartial 
way. The integrity of a committee 
in its report is not harmed a bit by a 
little questioning on the part of the 
voters. 
Very truly yours, 
CITIZEN. 
The secret indictment this week, 
charging the well-known Metcalf Co., 
druggists, with having sold adulterated 
olive oil, brandy and extract of vanilla, 
caused widespread surprise, and was 
received with especial interest by the 
druggists, upon whom the Boston con- 
cern has always looked with scorn, 
recognizing none as being anywhere 
near them in quality of goods. 
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