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Vol. II. No. 27 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
A-WEEKLY- JOURNAL DEVOTED-TO-THE: BEST: INTERESTS:OFTHENORTHSHORE 
MANCHESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1905 
Three Cents 
Manchester Asks Highway Commis- 
sioners for State Road 
The Manchester board of select- 
men and Supt. of Streets Kimball 
represented Manchester at the annual 
hearing to Essex County people given 
by the state highway commissioners 
last Friday morning. The hearing 
was held in the room of the county 
commissioners in Salem. 
There was quite a gathering of 
‘town officials from various sections of 
the county, each prepared with his 
little speech, and all in quest of more 
roads, as of yore. 
Chairman Swett responded when 
County Comm. Sawyer called Man- 
chester. Mr. Swett said he repre- 
sented a town that paid the past year 
a State tax of $13,680, and which has 
not yet received a cent’s worth of 
roadway from the State Highway com- 
mission. In the eastern part of the 
town, he said, was about 1,000 feet of 
road that was badly in need of repair, 
and it adjoins the State road built for 
Gloucester. This is the only strip of 
uncompleted macadam road between 
Salem and the Gloucester bridge, and 
he asked the State to build this road 
and maintain it. 
Sup’t Kimball emphasized what Mr. 
Swett had said. 
The highway commissioners are in- 
clined to give Manchester the laugh, 
so to speak, when the town calls for 
anything, and this was so Friday. 
They simply smiled and said they 
would look into the matter. They 
have a feeling that the town is well 
able to take care of itself, and do not 
seem to realize that the town ought to 
get something in return for the big 
State tax paid every year. 
The commission now have the mat- 
ter under advisement and there is a 
possibility that they may act favor- 
ably. 
The automobile question was dis- 
cussed. The system employed in 
Manchester, one of them told Mr. 
Swett after the hearing, was the best 
he had seen yet. 
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ASSUMED PASTORATE 
Rey. Fr. Wm. F. Powers Begins His Labors 
as Pastor of Manchester Parish 
Rev. Fr. William F. Powers, the 
newly appointed pastor of the Man- 
chester parish, assumed his pastorate 
over the Sacred Heart church Jast 
Sunday, meeting his parishioners for 
the first time. A large congregation 
was present at both the 8.30 and 10 
o’clock masses to greet the new pastor. 
Fr. Powers preached a strong and 
instructive sermon on the gospel of 
today, taking as his text ‘‘ Render 
unto Caesar, the things that are 
Caesars.” His subject was ‘The 
Love of God.” 
Previous to this, ‘however, he took 
occasion totexpress"his gratitude and 
REV. FR. WM. F. POWERS 
