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Charles W. Ward and family of 
Brookline have arrived at their cot- 
tage on Sea street, Manchester. 
Dr. Franklin Dexter of the Pride’s 
colony has recently been appointed 
director of scholarships in the Har- 
vard Medical and Dental schools. 
John L. Saltonstall of Beverly 
Cove is at Restigouché camp, Mata- 
pedia, Que., for a week or so of 
fishing. 
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Cochrane 
of the North Shore, who have taken 
a castle in Scotland for the summer, 
will have with them a part of the 
season, their daughter, Mrs. Howard 
G. Cushing, and family, who sailed 
on the Cedric last week for Europe. 
Judge and Mrs. ‘William C. Loring 
arrived at their summer home, Pine 
Thll, Pride’s Crossing, the latter 
part of last week. 
President Taft’s brother, Charles 
P. Taft, his wife and daughter, were 
among those that sailed from New 
York last Saturday for Europe. Mr. 
Taft and family will therefore not 
visit the North Shore this summer, 
as they did last year during the 
President’s stay. They will be in 
Kurope until October and will spend 
much of the time motoring on the 
continent, mostly in Spain. 
Fern-Croft Inn at Middleton con- 
tinues to be a popular eating place 
for North Shore people. Seores of 
parties from all along the North 
Shore may be seen motoring there 
during the week, and not infrequent- 
ly large gatherings of fahionable 
North shore people have big dinner 
parties there. Among those who 
have been at the Inn recently were 
the members of the association of 
Theatrical Managers of Boston, who 
met there Thursday of last week for 
their fourth annual dinner. There 
were 28 in the party. John B. Scho- 
effel, who is president, gave notice 
that it was his intention to start 
early this fall on a trip around the 
world, to be gone one year and a 
half, and that it would be impossible 
for him to serve as its president af- 
‘ter that time. Mrs. James M. Morri- 
sin of Boston has arranged to have 
a party of 34 ladies and gentlemen 
at the Inn next Tuesday, June 14, 
Tor the annual banquet of a ladies’ 
club. It was at this banquet last 
year that Mayor Fitzgerald made 
the opening speech of his campaign, 
though it is not generally known. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
s 
HANDICRAFT SHOP FOR THE BLIND 
Begins Third Season at Manches 
ter-by-the-Sea. A New Location. 
The little Handicraft Shop for the - 
Blind, the summer salesroom of the 
Massachusetts Commission for the 
Blind and the Perkins Institution, be- 
gins its third season at 9 Central 
street, Manchester, on Monday, June 
13. New quarters had to be found 
this year, owing to the tearing down 
of the little shop on the Village 
Green, in which the work for the 
blind had been carried on for two 
seasons. The two Manchester young 
women, one with partial sight and 
one wholly without sight, will be 
employed at the salesroom as in the 
two preceding years. Miss Knowl- 
ton will work as weaver on hand 
loom and Miss MeClintock as gener- 
al helper to Miss Cummings. Miss 
L. S. Rand will again have charge of 
the shop. 
The shop will, as in former sea- 
sons, be filled with a large variety of 
both useful and beautiful articles, 
showing what may be accomplished 
by those without sight, such as artis- 
tie hand-woven  materials—bags 
(opera, sewing), bedspreads,  ete., 
belts, card cases, covers (book, 
eouch, pillow, table, ete.). curtains, 
dress patterns, luncheon sets, por- 
tieres, purses, rugs (all kinds), 
searfs (table and bureau); netted, 
knitted and crocheted articles 
bean-bags, baby blankets, bath mats, 
bed shoes aud soeks, gloves, ham- 
mocks, helmets, baby jackets, kin- 
dergarten balls, mittens (all kinds), 
reins, shawls, sweaters, tights; Use- 
ful household supplies—aprons (all 
kinds), bags (ice, laundry, jelly, 
money, etce.), brooms, cases (gown 
and traveling), cloths (dish, glass, 
cleaning, silver, ete.), covers (brooms 
and ironing boards), dusters, face 
cloths, holders, mops, protection 
sleeves, towels (erash, dish, glass, 
linen and roller). Also baskets and 
rush-seat stools, wirework (plant- 
stands, coat-hangers, ete.). 
Rey. William N. McVickar, Epis- 
copal bishop of Rhode Island, and 
his sister, Miss E. C. MeVickar,. ar- 
rived at Pride’s Crossing this week 
for the season. They have again 
taken the Alhambra cottage at Min- 
go beach: 
The ushers at the marriage of Miss 
Joan Child Bird and Louis Agassiz 
Shaw, which is to be solemnized next 
Tuesday, June 14, at 4.80 o’clock at 
Endean, the home of Mr. and Mrs. 
Charles Sumner Bird, the bride- 
elect’s parents, in Kast Walpole, will 
be George West of Chestnut Hill, 
Quincey A. Shaw, 2d, Beverly Farms, 
brother of the bridegroom-elect, 
Charles 8. Bird, jr., of East Walpole, 
brother of the bride-elect, and Fran- 
cis W. Bird of New York. John 
Cutler of Brookline will be best man. 
Miss Edith Harlen Bird, a sister, will 
be the bride’s only attendant. Many 
from the North Shore will attend 
the wedding. 
Mrs. William F. Draper and Miss 
Margaret Preston Draner, her 
daughter, are expected at Manches- 
ter tomorrow. They have hired the 
Bradbury cottage on Smith’s point 
for the season, and the maids have 
been here for several days getting it 
ready for occupancy. This is the 
same cottage the late Gen. Draper 
and family occupied two seasons ago. 
Since that time it has been greatly 
improved and enlarged by its owner, 
Mrs. F. T. Bradbury. 
HK. M. Wheelwright and family of 
Boston are oceupying- Mrs. Samuel 
Foster’s cottage at Beverly Farms 
for the season. Mr. Wheelwright is 
of the firm of Wheelwright & Haven, 
architects. 
Mr. and Mrs. Preston Gibson ar- 
rived at Beverly Farms this week 
from Washington. They are oceu- 
pying the Frank Seabury cottage on 
Hart street, opposite the Baptist 
ehurch. 
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