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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
A COMMUNICATION 
‘Tobias’ has Something to Say on Mr. 
Schofield’s Letter of Acceptance 
To the Editor of the North Shore Breeze: 
No doubt all of your readers have 
had a copy of Mr. Schofield’s letter 
of acceptance pushed in at their front 
door the past week, and in all proba- 
bility many have read that epistle. In 
his letter of acceptance Mr. Schofield 
constitutes himself into what Dr. 
Holmes styled “A Society tor Mutual 
Admiration.”” He stands upon his 
four years’ record in the house. What 
isit? How many of the voters of 
Manchester and of the district know 
what it was? Are you going to take 
JAMES F. SHAW 
of Manchester who ought to receive a strong 
Republican backing at the polls Tuesday. 
his word for it, or are you going to 
look it up before you vote? I say, 
gentlemen, look it up for yourselves 
and see what it was. 
One bill that he claims he has 
pushed through for the benefit of the 
poor soldier was declared unconstitu- 
tional by the Supreme court after its 
passage. Moral: Send a man to the 
Senate who knows how to draw a bill 
that is constitutional. 
He denounces Mr. Shaw as a rail- 
road man and tries to convince us that 
he is not a good mon to put into pub- 
lic office for that reason. I would like 
to know how Mr. Schofield reconciles 
his position with having Whitney on 
his ticket. 
Mr. Schofield also predicts dire 
results from a clam trust. Think of 
it; a combination in clams predicted ! 
Now I won’t contend for one moment 
that Mr. Shaw is in it with him on 
the clam question. Mr. Schofield has 
eaten clams, dug clams and talked 
clams all his life, and I am willing to 
admit that he knows al] about clams. 
But as a qualification as Senator, I 
don’t think we can let the Third Essex 
district swing on the clam question. 
But one thing that the voters can 
depend on is the fact that Mr. Shaw 
can be depended upon to protect the 
interests of his constituents in Essex 
and Ipswich who make a livelihood by 
digging clams. 
He practically says that the voters 
in lunching with Mr. Shaw are selling 
their birthright for a mess of pottage. 
Shall we vote for Mr. Schofield and 
sell out for clam chowder ? 
Come to the polls on November 7 
and have the matter settled in a dig- 
nified manner, and don’t let the clam 
question be an issue ! 
TOBIAS. 
Manchester, Mass., Nov. 3, 1905. 
- George J. Kerr 
George J. Kerr, a former Manches- 
ter man, until recently junior partner 
of the clothing firm of Stover & Kerr, 
in Salem, cut his throat with a razor 
in the bath room of his boarding house 
in Salem yesterday morning and died 
a few hours afterward. Despondency. 
and a weak physical condition, result- 
ing from a long seige of illness some 
three years ago, are ascribed as the 
causes of his rash act. 
He was about 55 years old, being 
born in Ireland and coming to this 
country in infancy. He spent his 
boyhood in Boston and Manchester, 
being employed in the latter place by 
one of the local butchers several 
years. 
He has been connected with the 
dry goods business in Salem about 25 
years. He leaves a son and three 
sisters, one of whom, Mrs. Ricker, 
lives in Lynn, and another lives’ in 
Peabody, while another has, till within 
a few years, made her home in Man- 
chester. He had two brothers, one 
of whom was drowned in youth, and 
the other died in Manchester. His 
father, best known as ‘‘ Sandy ”’ Kerr, 
was caretaker of the Howe estate on 
Smith’s point a great many years. 
Mrs. Delucina L. Knowlton 
Mrs. Mary Knowlton, widow of the 
late Delucina Knowlton, passed away 
yesterday morning at the old stone 
mill, Elm street, Manchester, after a 
lingering illness. She leaves two 
daughters and two sons, one of whom, 
George B. Knowlton, is at the Dan- 
vers hospital, and the other, Edgar 
W. Knowlton, makes his home in 
Manchester. 
William J. Mahan 
William J. Mahan, the 17-year-old 
son of Thomas Mahan of Manchester, 
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passed away in Washington, where he 
went two weeks ago, of typhoid fever, 
last Sunday afternoon. 
The young man has made his home 
in Manchester with his father, until 
two weeks ago when he went to 
Washington where he was taken with 
the fever a week ago Thursday. Word 
was sent to Mr. Mahan when the 
young man was seen to be failing, and 
he started at once for Washington, 
but notin time to find his son alive, 
having passed away at 4 o’clock Sun- 
day. His body was buried in Wash- 
ington. He was born in Pennyslvania 
‘June 21, 1888. 
Society Notes 
Among the departures from Bev- 
erly Farms the past week were the 
Frank B. Bemises, the Misses Hooper, 
the I. R. Thomases and the Dr. Mor- 
ton Princes. 
Mr. and Mrs. L. Carteret Fenno 
are spending a few weeks at Lenox. 
Their Farms cottage has not yet been 
closed. 
Mr. and Mrs. Moore will remain at 
Pride’s probably till after New Year’s. 
Mr. and Mrs. Franklin B. Fay and 
family left Manchester yesterday for 
their town home. 
Mr. Clarence Moore returned from 
a trip to Chicago the first of the week. 
Mr. and Mrs. E. Preble Motley will 
be among next week’s departures 
from Pride’s. 
Francis Bartlett and family will 
close their house at Pride’s today and 
go back to Boston. 
Mrs. Thomas G. Plant, who has 
been at the Hank’s cottage, West 
Manchester, left yesterday for Boston 
where she will be joined shortly by 
Mr. Plant who has been abroad on a 
brief business trip. They will spend 
the winter at the Hotel Somerset. 
The Thornton K. Lothrops closed 
their cottage at West Manchester 
yesterday and returned to town. 
Mr. and Mrs. Prescott Bigelow and 
family have closed their Manchester 
Cove cottage and returned to 82 Bay 
State road for the winter. 
Mr. and Mrs. Washington B. 
Thomas have returned to. their 
Gloucester street home for the win- 
ter, leaving Monday, when the Col. 
C. L. Pearsons also left Pride’s for 
their town home. 
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entire community with all classes of help. If 
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