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Vol. XIV 
SOCIETY NOTES. 
Rentals along the North Shore for the coming sea- 
son are being made—despite the unusual winter weather. 
E. Palmer Gavit and family of Albany, N. Y., will again 
occupy the Stevens house, Smith’s Point. The Gavits 
are just about returning to Albany from a several months’ 
sojourn in California. They will move to the North 
Shore in early June. 
A new family on ihe North Shore last year was that 
‘of George G. Snowden of Indianapolis. They occupied 
“Seacroft,” the Hanks estate at West Manchester. ‘This 
season they will again return to Manchester, having leased 
“Crowhaven,” the summer residence of the Rev. Wm. H. 
Dewarts at Manchester Cove. Mr. Snowden is a member 
of the firm of Snowden Bros. & Co., oil operators, of 
Indianapolis. 
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The John Barry Pcs oiNew York, who were at 
Beverly Cove last year, will again occupy the Amory A. 
Lawrence cottage on Hospital Point, one of the most 
attractive houses in that vicinity. All of the above leases 
were made through the Boardman office of Boston and 
Manchester. 
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Paymaster Director Charles W. Littlefield, U. S. N. 
‘retired, and Mrs. Littlefield arrived at The Greenbrier, 
White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., Thursday of last week 
from Palm Beach, where they have passed the winter. 
After a three weeks’ stay at The Greenbrier, where they 
will take the cure, the Littlefields will go on to New York 
and, in accordance with their usual custom, spend Easter 
at the Plaza. They will arrive at the North Shore di- 
rectly the season opens, to occupy the Bradbury villa 
at Manchester. 
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Miss Eleonora Sears appeared as a “Riding Girl” in 
a living picture in a tableau at the Sport Costume ball at 
Coronado Beach recently. She was quite the hit of the 
affair. While at Coronado Miss Sears will referee many 
of the women’s polo matches. It was due to her that a 
woman’s polo team was eeuee there 
A June wedding on the North Shore will be that of 
Miss Elizabeth Hope Bancroft, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Robert Hale Bancroft of Boston and Beverly, and Alex- 
ander Winson of Boston. June 1 has been selected and 
the ceremony will take place in St. Peter’s Episcopal 
church, in Beverly, where the Bancrofts have a summer 
home. The maid of honor will be Miss Eleanor Ban- 
croft, a sister, and the best man, Robert Winson, Jr., a 
brother of Mr. Winson. The bridesmaids will be Misses 
Marie Agassiz, Natalie Thayer, Harriet Dexter, Frances 
Prescott, Penelope Parkman, Margaret Lyman, Elizabeth 
Coolidge and Miss CES ee me 
Mrs. Gardiner M. Lane was called to Baltimore last 
week by the illness of her father, the venerable Prof. 
Basil Gildersleeve of the Johns Hopkins University. 
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Robert Treat Paine, 2d, and family have moved from 
their Beacon st. residence to their residence on Heath st., 
Brookline, where they will stay until late June, when they 
will open their seashore home on Coolidge’s Point, Man- 
chester. 
Manchester, Mass., Friday, March 24 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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SOCIETY NOTES 
Another sale of seashore property in the West Beach 
section of Beverly Farms is recorded this week, that to 
Geo. A. Dobyne, who has plans for the erection of a 
house and garage to be in readiness for occupancy the 
season of 1917. The two acres which Mr. Dobyne bought 
is part of the Henry Lee estate, but a section of that 
portion of it which George Lee bought from the estate 
last year. It has a frontage on the waterfront. Mr. 
Dobyne was formerly of St. Louis. He now lives in 
Bay State Road, Back Bay. 
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The Philip Sears’ of Common lane, Pride’s Cross- 
ing, left Wednesday for Palm Beach, Fla., for a few 
weeks’ stay. 
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The Gordon Abbotts have been spending the week at 
the Boland cottage, West Manchester. The big changes 
being made this winter on their own house are well along 
toward completion. 
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Miss Louie R. Stanwood, who has been spending tiie 
winter in Manchester, with occasional visits away from 
iiome, went to New York last week to remain through the 
spring. Miss Stanwood, who is staying at 156 East 52d 
street, is engaged in some work in connection with <zhe 
Shakesperian pageant to be given in New York in May. 
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In the sudden death at his home, 44 Cypress street, 
3rookline, Monday, of Edward L. Wood, Manchester 
and the North Shore loses another of its old-time and 
valued summer residents. The Wood cottage on the 
edge of Singing Beach, was one of the first of a group of 
seven or eight houses erected in that section of Manches- 
ter, on Cobb avenue and Blossom lane. Mr. Wood was 
greatly attached to Manchester and the family was accus- 
tomed to come early and stay late every season. Mr. 
Wood was a native of Gardner, where he was born Oct. 
6, 1845. He lived in Fitchburg as a youth, and. was 
graduated from Harvard in 1867. After a term of ser- 
vice with the Fitchburg Rollstone National Bank, he be- 
came identified with several corporations in Lewiston, 
Me. He was president of the Continental Mills, treasurer 
of the Franklin Company of Lewiston, and a director of 
the Androscoggin Mills. He is survived by an only 
daughter, Miss Elizabeth Wood. Mrs. Wood died last 
year. 
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Mrs. Thomas Lindsay of Southboro, who spent last 
summer in Manchester, is planning to entertain her sister, 
Mrs. Algernon Burnaby of England, who has recently re- 
turned from a visit with her mother, Mrs. Page, the wife 
of the American Ambassador in Rome. Major Burnaby 
is at the front in France, and their English home is being 
used for a hospital. Mrs. Burnaby was formerly Mrs. 
Preston Gibson. 
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Miss Katherine Remick, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Jerome H. Remick of Magnolia and Detroit is with De- 
troit friends at Camden, S. C. 
“Every time the baby looks into my face he smiles,” 
said father. 
“Well,” answered his wife, “it may not be exactly 
polite, but it shows he has a sense of humor,” 
