NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
COACHMEN’S BALL. 
Seventh Annual Event in Manchester Town 
Hall a Grand Success Despite 
the Rain. 
Taxed=to its limit the Manchester 
town hall, Tuesday evening, was the 
scene of one of the largest dancing 
parties of the year, the event being 
the seventh annual Coachmen’s ball. 
M. A. Quinn and Miss Delia Higgins 
of Boston, followed by James Leonard 
and Miss Mary J. Stanford of Jamaica 
Plain; M. J. Bowers and Miss Mar- 
garet Burke of Boston; Michael Tim- 
mins and Miss Nellie Sullivan of Bos- 
ton; J. Twomey and Miss Katherine 
Doherty of Boston; Wm. Tracy and 
Miss Agnes Griffin; T. Twomey and 
Miss Nellie O’Hearn, John Connolly 
From Beverly, Pride’s Crossing, Bev- 
erly Farms, Magnolia, Gloucester, 
Salem and Boston came guests and 
friends of the Manchester grooms, 
having the affair in charge. 
During the intermission a very in- 
teresting concert program was _ fur- 
nished including violin selections by 
James Diviney, Miss Mary Barry, ac- 
companist ; song, “‘ Nobody,” by Wm. 
Porper of Gloucester; French dia- 
logue, ‘‘ Baseball Story’’; and buck 
and wing dancing. 
The grand march was started at 
-10.45, after the Boston and Beverly 
guests had arrived. This.was led by 
Salem 
Commercial 
School 
Admits New Pupils 
Every Monday. 
SALEM COMMERCIAL SCHOOL, 
126 Washington St., Salem. 
M. J. BOWERS, 
Assistant Floor Director. 
M. A. QUINN, 
Floor Marshal. 
(On the left.) 
and Miss Mary Barry, and almost 100 
couples. 
The partners of the floor marshall 
and assistants all carried handsome 
bouquets of roses tied with ribbons 
and the officers wore small lapel 
bouquets. 
M. A. Quinn, who has successfully 
managed the preceding balls, was at 
the head of the affair Tuesday night. 
J. Twomey was floor director and the 
assistants were J. Linane, A. Burgess, 
M. J. Bowers, J. Clayton. 
The aids were: T. Twomey, W. 
Tracy, John Gray, J. Connors and A. 
McFarland. 
The committee of arrangements 
were: J. Twomey, J. Linane and M. 
A. Quinn. 
- One of the features of the event 
this year was the North Shore Busi- 
ness Directory compiled by Mr. Quinn, 
which contained more than 100 adver- 
tisements — including all the leading 
concerns in Manchester, Beverly, Bev- 
erly Farms, Gloucester and Salem. It 
was a seventy-two page affair with a 
handsome cover appropriate to the 
occasion. 
Connolly Bros. have started work 
on the erection of their new stable. 
15 
The School Census. 
The work of taking the school cen- 
sus in Manchester has been completed 
the past week by Harry R. Floyd, and 
the figures show an increase of 46 
children in town between the ages of 
5 and 15 over 1904, but an increase 
of only 16 of the legal school age. 
The figures are: 
1905 
1904 1903 
No. boys between 5 and 15 ...228 211 229 
“girls ay eat e220 LO tae A0O 
Total 228 eteireotaes tenets 454 408 429 
No. boys of school age (7 to 14) 164 164 152 
“ girls S se 155 189 120 
TOtale cus ce pote ee 319: 3038 272 
Registration in the various schools 
the first of this week showed these 
figures : 
GA} Priest School... 168 boys 160 girls 
Oth orad¢eae= ee oc es 15240 9." 
Story High LOR The yearn it 202 as 26 meas 
Totalesa. soe et 2 2086 2-195 ret 
Pupilsrenrolledissewrs saeacccis coe ete 401 
In the entering grade the total en- 
rollment was 20 boys and 26 girls, a 
total of 46, which is much less than 
was anticipated. 
To keep in line with the general 
plan set out by Supt. Fish for raising 
the standard of the schools, a slight 
change has been made in the work of 
the 9th grade, Latin and elementary 
algebra now being taught here, as well 
as a course in Civics, correlated with 
U.S. history. A little physical and a 
little commercial geography is also in- 
troduced here. This is done with a 
view to introducing the pupil to some 
of the high school studies before he 
leaves the grammar school. It is not 
with an aim of changing the course of 
study, but of raising the quality of 
work and the degree of attainment, 
and raising the standard of the schools. 
Gypsy Moth Ege-Clusters. 
The attention of Superintendent 
Kirkland of the state moth-suppres- 
sion work has been called to the 
breaking-up of gypsy moth egg-clus- 
ters on tree trunks and branches while 
farmers and others are picking the 
fall crop of apples. Mr. Kirkland 
suggests that it would be wise for all 
property owners in the infested. dis- 
trict.to send to him for a Bulletin on 
the gypsy moth, by which they may 
learn the appearance of the gypys 
moth egg-clusters. These clusters 
are easily destroyed by soaking them 
with creosote, and Mr. Kirkland says 
that, if the pest is to be suppressed, 
it is highly important that every owner 
of fruit trees should take the necessary 
precautions to prevent scattering of 
the moth eggs. A few ounces of cre- 
osote will destroy millions of eggs, 
and the important thing now is to 
have the right work done in the right 
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