NORTH SHORE -BREHZ 
TO MERGE PARISH 
With CHuRCcCH—ACTION (WILL BE 
TAKEN AS RESULT OF VOTE AT 
ANNUAL MEETING. 
The important item of business in 
connection with the annual meeting 
of the First Parish of Manchester, 
Wednesday evening, was the report 
of a special committee appointed last 
year to look into the advisability of 
doing away with the dual form of 
managing the affairs of the Orthodox 
Congl. church, and merging the two 
societies. 
The report of the committee was 
as follows: ‘The committee believes 
that the time has arrived when the 
business of the church can be man- 
aged more efficiently under a single 
system, than under the dual system 
now existing. The dual form has 
proven itself both cumbersome and 
confusing. 
“The Parish is an organization of 
the earlier days, when the church did 
not have the power to manage its 
temporal affairs. Many of the func- 
tions of the parish no longer exist, or 
have been taken over by the church 
itself. No new churches are being 
organized with the dual form of 
management. Our church is incor- 
porated under the laws of this state, 
and enjoys all the powers granted to 
such corporations.” 
The committee” (D."-T.. Beaten; 
chairman, A. C. Needham, Albert 
Cunningham, R. T. Glendenning and 
Harry W.  Purington, secretary) 
recommended the parish take the 
necessary steps to merge the parish 
and church. 
The parish committee was author- 
ized to call a special meeting at which 
time it will be proposed to convey 
such real estate, personal’ property 
and funds as the Parish may own, to 
the church. H. W. Purington was 
appointed a committee of one to con- 
fer with the deacons of the church 
to see if that body will call a meet- 
ing to receive and acecpt the property 
which the parish proposes to convey 
Cores. 
The meeting Wednesday evening 
elected Oliver T. Roberts, moderator ; 
Chas. C. Dodge, clerk; Edw. A. 
Lane, collector and treasurer: Oliver 
T. Roberts, Wm. Hoare and BE. A. 
Lane, parish committee, and Frank 
P. Knight, trusteé of the Mary C. 
Martin fund for three years. Albert 
Cunningham was elected to serve as 
head usher at the Sunday morning 
service. 
The report of the treasurer and 
collector showed the Parish to have 
tun behind the past year financially. 
The Parish Committee recommended 
April 7, 1916, 
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the church building be repainted out- 
side before the bi-centennial celebra- 
tion this coming summer. 
A meeting of the Parish will be 
held later to take formal and definite 
action as to the merging of the Parish 
and Church societies, both of which 
bodies are incorporated under the 
laws of the state of Mass. 
MANCHESTER 
Mrs. J. H. Skinner and son, James, 
of Milton, N. H., and Mrs. Albert 
Grampsey of Danvers, were guests of 
Misi ie Ras Young; School si. -o0 
Wednesday. 
The police have ‘been appealed to 
to put a stop to the destruction of 
windows and the mutilation of the 
town bath houses at Singing Beach. 
Numerous depredations have gone un- 
punished, but some boys recently 
smashed some of the windows. Chief 
Sullivan has the names of the boys 
and their parents will be called upo. 
to settle for the damage. 
Recent letters from Joseph Floyd 
tell of unusual winter weather condi- 
tions in Colorado, where he is at pres- 
ent. “Ihe past winter has been spent 
by Mr. Floyd and family in a lumber 
camp at Pagosa Springs, Colorado, 
where at times the snow completely 
covered the houses, it being necessary 
for the company to send ‘Mexican 
workmen to their rescue. : 
There have been no developments 
in the investigation of the poisoning 
of two horses belonging to Daniel 
Edgecomb, Forest st., two weeks ago. 
It was found that analysis of the in- 
testines of the animals was impossible 
so far as establishing a trace of the 
poison used, and without something 
as a basis on which to proceed it is 
impossible for the police to make any 
headway toward apprehending the 
guilty party. 
Henry IT. Bingham; Charles “Hi: 
Stone, James H. Rivers and John D. 
Haskell attended the annual encamp- 
ment of the Massachusetts Depart- 
ment, G. A. R., in Boston Tuesday 
and Wednesday of this week, in ad- 
dition to the regularly appointed 
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delegates from Allen Post, who were 
Enoch Crombie and Edwin P. Stan- 
ley. 
Out of the thirteen contractors who — 
_ were asked to bid on the reconstruc- — 
tion of the highway from Priest — 
school, Manchester, to the Beverly ~ 
line only three presented bids to the — 
Board of Selectmen at the office of 
the Mass. Highway Commission’ in 
the State House on Wednesday. Ail 
three bids were close, the lowest be- 
ing by A. G. Tomasello of Dorches- — 
ter, who was awarded the contract. — 
The contract was not let for a lump 
sum, but estimates were submitted 
based on the estimates of the state 
highway engineers made last Novem- 
ber. The contractors quoted prices 
on units of certain material rather 
than on the whole amount. As prices 
of materials and labor have increased 
a great deal since the estimates were 
prepared it is possible that the cost of 
construction will run over the amount 
appropriated by the town. However, 
it may be possible to cut down on the — 
quantity of certain parts of the work — 
and keep within the appropriation. If 
this is not possible it may be neces- 
sary to ask for an additional appro- 
priation. Other bidders on the work 
were the Rowe Construction Co. 
Malden, the next highest bidder, and 
R. F. Hudson of Melrose, the high- 
est bidder. The contract was signed 
with Mr. Tomasello yesterday and to- 
day the work of staking out the road - 
was begun. According to the con- 
tract the work must be started within — 
seven days of the signing of the con- — 
tract and it is expected that the con- 
struction will be begun by the middle 
of next week. The work must be 
finished by the last of June. 
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